It seems there's been a bit of an incident with the Derpy episode. I've still got no idea what went down, but people are flipping shit.
Apperantly, a few loud people were complaining about Derpy being offensive to mentally disabled people. Even her name was supposedly offensive. Some even sent hate mail / complaints to Hasbro.
That is terrible enough on it's own. Hasbro puts in a huge (Huge as in unprecedentedly big) shout out to the fandom. A part of the minority promptly complains. The first complaints, I believe, were about her voice sounding boyish.
That was confirmed to be because Tabitha herself wrote that she did not know that Derpy was female at the time of the recording.
Then all shit went down. Suddenly, without any explanation that I know of, the entire episode was pulled down from iTunes. Later, shirts that featured Derpy were renamed so that none of them had the name Derpy in it. From the way I gather it, all the explanations for what was going on was purely speculative. Either the episode was pulled because of the complaints, or it was pulled so they would re-do the voice of Derpy, or it was pulled for some copyright reasons concerning her name. Or it might be nothing like that at all.
Later, Tabitha makes a blog post where she, for some reason, blanks out the name "Derpy" in every instance. Make My Day - www.tabithastgermain.com
Eventually the shirts came back, and the episode is still on Hasbro's own episode, with Derpy in it.
I still have no friggin idea what's going on, but it has made the brony community go crazy, going all "Save Derpy!" and stuff like that. But from the way I see it, it isn't even sure that this has anything to do with her at all? So what in the hell?
In any case! The newest episode was awesome! It was so full of action and Rainbow Dash!
Other stuff; the guy who's been making those wacky parodies is at it again.
Shed.mov (This one is worse than the others, so, uh, beware)
And once again, ponies drive me to discover incredibly awesome music.
Caravan Palace is classy as shit.
These are a bit older, but I don't think I ever linked them in here.
This isn't how I learned of this music, but these videos also caused a bunch of bronies to flood over and make tons of pony related comments on the song.
And I screencapped this because my mind is dirty. I mean, no wait, it's just Rainbow Dash being cute, fantasizing about adventures, after she totally embraces her newfound love for reading, right?
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