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OK ... Well ... I wasn't originally going to do this, but it looks like the joke for my last comic got lost in translation. Maybe the reference was a little too obscure giving that it's based on a 16 year old movie, or maybe it was just a little too left field. Or maybe my comic\script wasn't good enough to pull it of.
So here goes, here's my explanation of the Red pill\Blue Pill joke from Page 64.
In 1999, a movie was released called The Matrix. In it, the lead character (Neo) met with a mysterious stranger calling himself Morpheus. Morpheus tells Neo that the world that he is living in isn't real. It's an artificial construct called the Matrix, that is being used to enslave mankind to the whims of a overlords.
Morpheus offers Neo the chance to see leave the Matrix, and to see the world how it really is. The mechanism that he uses is the eponymous Red Pill\Blue Pill.
If Neo takes the Red Pill, he will wake up and experience the real world. If he takes the Blue Pill, he will stay asleep inside the Matrix, and will live inside the artificial world for the rest of his life.
In the movie, Neo takes the Red Pill, and finds himself in the nightmarish real world, outside of the Matrix.
In my comic, Pinkie took the Red Pill. Taking her out of the Matrix. She saw the world the way that it really was, and in doing so became Pinkamina. She then took the Blue Pill. Which put her back into the Matrix. So she became regular Pinkie again.
Thus Pinkamina either wasn't crazy at all. She was the only sane pony and it was everypony else that was crazy. Or she saw the real world and it made her crazy.
Which one it is largely depends on your own personal head canon, and your own interpretation of MLP\this comic.
The Blue Pill reversed the process.
Either way, the pills are a metaphor for seeing Equestria the way that it really is V seeing an idealized version of it. While Celestia (who maintains Equestria by raising the sun and the moon) is a proxy for the machines that maintained the Matrix.
Some of this was inspired by the fact that the show's creator put multiple subversive messages into it that turned traditional children's cartoons on their head. Particularly those aimed at girls. As emphasized by the season 1 finale, where the Grand Galloping Gala reversed many of the ideas that are promoted by companies like Disney, in order to sell pink dolls to little girls, while telling them that if they wear a petty enough dress they meet the handsome prince at the ball, get married, and live happily ever after.
Disney's version is possibly not the best message to try to sell to somebody who grew in a small town that doesn't have handsome princes, or glittering balls. Where the only thing pink that you own probably belonged to two of your older sisters first, and where the closet they you're going to get to the Grand galloping Gala will be your high school prom. Where at least one of your friends is going to get pregnant, and which has a good chance of ending early after somebody gets drunk and starts a fight.
Not that I'm bitter, of course.
So here goes, here's my explanation of the Red pill\Blue Pill joke from Page 64.
In 1999, a movie was released called The Matrix. In it, the lead character (Neo) met with a mysterious stranger calling himself Morpheus. Morpheus tells Neo that the world that he is living in isn't real. It's an artificial construct called the Matrix, that is being used to enslave mankind to the whims of a overlords.
Morpheus offers Neo the chance to see leave the Matrix, and to see the world how it really is. The mechanism that he uses is the eponymous Red Pill\Blue Pill.
If Neo takes the Red Pill, he will wake up and experience the real world. If he takes the Blue Pill, he will stay asleep inside the Matrix, and will live inside the artificial world for the rest of his life.
In the movie, Neo takes the Red Pill, and finds himself in the nightmarish real world, outside of the Matrix.
In my comic, Pinkie took the Red Pill. Taking her out of the Matrix. She saw the world the way that it really was, and in doing so became Pinkamina. She then took the Blue Pill. Which put her back into the Matrix. So she became regular Pinkie again.
Thus Pinkamina either wasn't crazy at all. She was the only sane pony and it was everypony else that was crazy. Or she saw the real world and it made her crazy.
Which one it is largely depends on your own personal head canon, and your own interpretation of MLP\this comic.
The Blue Pill reversed the process.
Either way, the pills are a metaphor for seeing Equestria the way that it really is V seeing an idealized version of it. While Celestia (who maintains Equestria by raising the sun and the moon) is a proxy for the machines that maintained the Matrix.
Some of this was inspired by the fact that the show's creator put multiple subversive messages into it that turned traditional children's cartoons on their head. Particularly those aimed at girls. As emphasized by the season 1 finale, where the Grand Galloping Gala reversed many of the ideas that are promoted by companies like Disney, in order to sell pink dolls to little girls, while telling them that if they wear a petty enough dress they meet the handsome prince at the ball, get married, and live happily ever after.
Disney's version is possibly not the best message to try to sell to somebody who grew in a small town that doesn't have handsome princes, or glittering balls. Where the only thing pink that you own probably belonged to two of your older sisters first, and where the closet they you're going to get to the Grand galloping Gala will be your high school prom. Where at least one of your friends is going to get pregnant, and which has a good chance of ending early after somebody gets drunk and starts a fight.
Not that I'm bitter, of course.
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Mystery Model Build
If you’ve been regularly following my art posts on Deviant Art you probably know me best as someone whose into the MLP fandom. I post MLP comic, and MLP models and MLP sculptures, and if you’re a haytreon backer I do a fair amount of MLP erotica. If you read my journals, you will also that I produce a lot of non-MLP content through other sites, mostly in the cosplay or sewing spheres, that I can’t really post it here because it’s too recognizable, and I’d rather not invite the hassle that I get on my other channels here by cross posting. Intrinsically, there's nothing wrong with posting mostly MLP content, it's still a show that I love and I'm still an active member of the fandom, but I can't help but feel that this channel has become a little stale and a little predictable, so after all of these years of doing mostly the same thing, I’m going to do something a little different. Namely, branching out. To get things started I'm I’m going to post some non-MLP related craft content
How I made it (Mining at Night
I was going through some of my old pictures and I came across a couple from when I was making Mining at Night Mining at Night. I originally took them for my Haytreon subscribers, but it's been a couple of years since I made the original model, so it's probably OK to post them up here for free. This is just the quick version, with mostly raw pictures, if you want to see a detailed breakdown of each part of the build please subscribe (and ignore the terrible virtual avatar, this was from before I had mocap and lipsync set up properly). Anywho. Like most of my Diorama, this one started out as a block of blue HD crafting foam. I used a resin cast of one of my existing models to gauge the size for the base and then cut it out with a hot wire. This one was a book nook so there wasn't much room for maneuver but I needed something to help me visualize how much space I had for the details of the diorama. After I'd marked out the base and cut it to size I did the same for the back and
Griffonstone - Behind the Scenes.
Normally I only make my behind the scenes content available to Haytreon members, but since I've not been uploading much lately I thought that I'd give everyone a sneak peek at how I went about making my latest model. Here are the bird houses from Griffonstone from first principles to complete. They're mostly just coffee stirrers stuck to card stock with some filament form a 3D pen to make the roofs. The paint is just regular modeling contrast paint.
So, I asked an Shodan to write my next MLP comic
Hey, Shodan: "write me a conversation between Princess Celestia and Twilight sparkle in which Princess Celestia explains to Twilight why children shouldn't study dark magic" Princess Celestia: Twilight, I need to talk to you about something important. Twilight Sparkle: What is it, Princess? Princess Celestia: It's about dark magic. Twilight Sparkle: Dark magic? But I thought that was forbidden in Equestria. Princess Celestia: It is, but I've been hearing rumors that some ponies are practicing it in secret. Twilight Sparkle: That's terrible! Why would anyone want to study dark magic? Princess Celestia: There are many reasons. Some ponies are drawn to its power, while others are simply curious about it. But whatever the reason, dark magic is dangerous. It can corrupt the user and lead to terrible things. Twilight Sparkle: But what if someone wants to study dark magic for good? Princess Celestia: There is no such thing as good dark magic. It is all inherently evil. Twilight
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I only had to read this cause I forgot which pill did what. Not bad since the movie came out when I was 1.