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"Wow, HI! You've reached Pinkie, which is hopefully who you were trying to reach because if it's not who you're trying to reach you've REACHED THE WRONG PONY! And then I just don't know what you're going to do other than maybe try again and this time be very careful about who you're contacting. But if you did want to reach Pinkie, you've reached me! Or at least you will if you leave me a nice little message.

"Bye!"

*beep*

So with the new townies today, I remembered that if you hover over the little person icon in a journal name (depending, I suppose, on your settings/browser/computer set up/etc) it pops up a little bubble with a nice, easy, non-new-page-opening friending link. Since I find this way easier to deal with than lots of clicking, I put together an as-up-to-date-as-I-can-figure-out list of game journal names and popped them into a table for minimal scrolling. And, well, since I figure I may not be alone in my anti-clicking nature, I figured I'd share it with you all, as well.

This won't make the nice friending groups the admins have set up for us work, but it'll at least get the journals showing up on your default view!

eta from the ever lovely upmysleeve:

For those who have the hover menu turned off and thus don't see any pop-ups, it's not dependent on your journal style; it's just a yes/no option that you can set in the admin console.

To turn it on: set opt_ctxpopup Y
To turn it off: set opt_ctxpopup N

So, without further ado:

( Lots of journals )

Also, it may be easiest to start at the bottom of a column and work your way up. That way, it's easy to keep track of where you are, and you don't have to dodge the bubble to get to the next name.

Hiiiiiiii! So Pinkie is terribly disappointed that her plans for the end of the semester were foiled by the Nothing, but that's not going to stop her from making sure that the class goes out with a bang!

Not literally. Well, maybe literally, if she decides to use the party canon.

Anyway.

One of the most important moments in a young pony's life is when he or she gains a cutie mark. You know the tramp stamp balloons on Pinkie's ass flank? That's her cutie mark. It's a symbol that appears spontaneously when a pony realizes his or her special talent, the one thing that makes him/her totally unique from the other ponies. This is so important that ponies have been known to throw "cute-ceanera" parties to celebrate. Yeah.

It has come to Pinkie's attention that humans might not actually have cutie marks. In fact, she's probably decided that the reason they wear pants all the time is to hide this fact. So, in the last class of the semester, Pinkie's going to GIVE her students cutie marks, thanks to the magic of friendship the Danger Shop! And then they get to throw their own classwide cute-ceanera! Because who doesn't like a party?

So here's your official heads up, to start thinking of what your character's cutie mark might be. It can be anything (pictographic)! For instance, if Sam and Claudia were in Pinkie's class, their cutie marks would be a sandwich and gears, respectively. Vincent's would be a cup of Vinspresso, and Priestly's would be . . . also something cooking related. I already figured one out for when everyone turned into a pony, but I can't remember what it was, and I can't access my photobucket account from work. Whatever you choose, it will appear on your character's shirt/dress/hip/forehead/some other visible spot during class.

As this is Danger Shop powered, it will only last as long as the class period does, but Pinkie may well take note of each character's cutie mark and send them all t-shirts with them on there on Friday. ETA This will in fact be happening, and the shirts will be delivered by K. /ETA

Questions? Comments? Brainstorming? Baked goods?

I keep thinking I need to remember to post this and then . . . not remembering to post this. So now I am remembering to post this, yay!

Okay, so. This week in Pinkie's class, she's going to make use of a plant (or a simulation of said plant) called "poison joke". This is a magical plant native to the Everfree Forest, rather a bit like poison ivy or poison oak, but instead of a rash, it causes hilariously personality-appropriate afflictions to make one's life difficult. For instance, when Pinkie ends up in a patch of it in canon, it makes her tongue swell up with blue spots so she can't talk or sing clearly. So, Pinkie being the slightly sadistic teacher she is (or at least not entirely clear on the concept that not everyone is subject to cartoon physics), she's going to program a patch of poison joke into the Danger Shop for all the students to traipse through and get their own fun afflictions.

So here's your heads up, to give you time to think of something fun to do to your characters. Basically, it takes something that the person values, like the power of speech or being big and strong or their beautiful hair and turns it on its head by making their tongue not work or shrinking them down or giving them dreadlocks.

Or it makes you sound like Barry White.

The effects will be Danger Shop powered, and as such, won't last beyond the confines of the class itself.

As you do.

Questions? Comments? Pony videos?

Naaaaturally all of this would get going when I'm mostly afk for the week!

So, Pinkie Pie is looking for a few good men ponies students to serve as TAs for her "Elements of Friendship" class. Duties are pretty much your standard TA-ness duties, with potential for pitching in to play a snooty fashion photographer or some such, should the TA person care to.

Comments are screened [or at least they are now, hahahahaha er.], RNG will be used should more than two people want to do it. Thanks!

( I guess buses CAN be pretty silly. )

( Why does my class have a rooster? Is it to help make sure everyone's awake in time for class? )

I forgot to ask while sign-ups were open, but if anyone is DYING to be a TA for this class, I won't say no.

I totally haven't been impatiently awaiting the friends list update so I could post this, I don't know what you're talking about.

( So you want to know about Pinkie Pie! )

( Yes, my My Little Pony info post comes with footnotes. Shut up. )

Questions? Comments? Cures for non-gendered bronyism? My other characters are infoposted here.