#Tirac

[heckyeahponyscans]

The cover of the 1986 "My Little Pony 'n Friends" press kit, go hard or go home

[celestite-caroline]

a familiar face

[posting-from-midnight-castle]

Okay hear me out:

Scorpan from "Rescue at Midnight Castle" is the same prince from "Glory the Magic Unicorn".

[sivatherium]

[yanchamisc]

My Little Pony Rescue At Midnight Castle Size Comparison Chart

Things of interest include spellings (Tee-Jay, Tirac, Scorpan) and Twinkles mentioned by name, though no sign of either First Born or Peachy

[abearthatwrites]

The Murals in Misty's Room (because what the heck)

1) Cadance and Shining Armor's wedding (G4 - A Canterlot Wedding)

2) The Fall of Nightmare Moon / The Return of Luna (G4 - Friendship is Magic)

3) The Fall of Tirac (G1 - Rescue at Midnight Castle)

4) The Fall of the Smooze (G1 - My Little Pony: The Movie)

5) Sunny's blanket / The Return of Magic (G5 - Starscout Code)

6) The Fall of Discord (G4 - Princess Twilight Sparkle, Part 2)

[erictmason]

April (80’s Villains) Week Four: “The Master of Midnight Castle”

"O Rainbow of Darkness, the Darkness sends! Now begin the Night that never ends!"

Wandering a bit off the beaten path with this one, it's Tirac, the very first "My Little Pony" villain from 1986's "Rescue At Midnight Castle"! I've always been very enamored of the idea of a Centaur as a Satanic Villain for Horses, it's the kind of conceptual play I wish we saw more of in the franchise.

[yourpreciousrose]

Stranger Thing theory:

(its supposed to say Things, it won't let me edit it)

My Little Pony/Rainbow of Light theory

so I did some research about the my little pony episode Dustin was talking about in s3 and found something interesting.

like Dustin said Tirac was turning ponies into dragons, what was failed to be mentioned is how he's defeated. it was with a red heart shaped locket with a rainbow coming out of it, the rainbow of light.

interestingly we learned that Mikes the heart, Wills in love with Mike, Mike basically locks his feelings away, the lock on the clock is at 9 which is the west (blue meets yellow on the clock in s3 at 9 in the west), Will draws a red heart on Mikes shield which he has fighting a dragon, Mikes pocket is over his heart with an arrow pointing to Will often. I cant help but think that in order to defeat Vecna that byler may be the key, which all ties back to love being the overall key to defeating Vecna.

fun fact: Megan's last name is Williams

[madwheelerz]

Blink and don’t ask me about my knowledge of the MLP generations thanks. Anyway quick elaboration on me thinking that Max will be turned into a dragon. So, we see dragons throughout the show. One of the times we see the dragon is at the arcade while the boys are playing “Dragon Lair”.

The boys are attempting to save the princess in the game. The princess might represent Max in this case as we see both Dustin and Lucas arguing over her, but Lucas wins in the end, and we see the sword imagery which we also later see in the painting.

Now this is Applejack from g1, the first my little pony generation.

The latest iteration of her seems to keep the idea of having her hair, tail, or even both tied up, something we also see with Max. It’s also notable, to me at least, that she’s an earth pony. She lives on land and she’s a farmer. Max’s last name is May-field which means “strong one’s field”. So yeah.

We also have the color red being very symbolic of Applejack since it’s the main color of her cutie mark. This color is also one of Max’s main colors. We get her introduced in these colors and Max’s backpack is also this color. (The special she appears in is in 1984 btw). She also has five apples as her cutie mark so that might be of significance, but I’m unsure.

Dustin tells to recall the ponies’ latest adventure at the time so why don’t we with a focus on our dear Lady Applejack, who Erica seems so incredibly fond of despite only appearing in one special - I mean she even named her DnD character after her.

Here’s what Dustin tells us. Now what does the wiki tell us about Applejack in the special? Well according to the wiki she joined the rescue team to go to Midnight Castle. After the group infiltrated the castle, Applejack gets captured by Tirac’s guards, and transformed into the last creature needed to pull the Chariot of Midnight by the Rainbow of Darkness similar to how Max was the last death needed to merge the gates and begin the Upside-Down’s invasion of Hawkins. The Rainbow of Light destroys it and Tirac freeing Applejack and the other victims.

Some side info on the Rainbow of Darkness; it is a powerful magic once possessed by Tirac, master of Midnight Castle. Tirac used it primarily to effect evil transformations upon other beings.

Sound familiar?

If Tirac is Vecna and Midnight Castle is Tirac’s home then Midnight Castle is meant to be the Creel house, which is where Max is taken. Midnight Castle is where Applejack is taken and transformed while the Creel house is where Max is taken.

So, what does that mean for Max? Max isn’t in her body. She is elsewhere, most likely with Vecna since the gate opens due to a psychic connection. I believe that Vecna just straight up nabs the soul because eyes are windows to the soul and all that, but also what better way to fight against the party than by having them battle one of their own? My guess is Vecna turns Max into a dragon and uses her to fight against the party.

Thanks to whoever asked for clarification this was fun.

[infectedpaul]

i personally like idea that in some way all the mlp generations are linked together but also i do like the idea that tirac and tirek are seperate entities cause it means my little pony killed satan with rainbows twice 

[heckyeahponyscans]

These are from the G1 My Little Pony 'n Friends presskit. However, there are some oddities! Megan is in a different outfit, Spike has wings, Sparkler and Tirac don't appear in MLP 'n Friends, and Flutterbye isn't in any animated show.

But most intriguing to me is Danny, who has a totally different design and is older than the version we got.

This also confirms that this kid on the cover of Escape from Catrina is Danny:

[celestite-caroline]

and so shall they go adventuring

[perenlop]

g1 mlp’s rescue at midnight castle came up in my youtube recs since ive been checking out g1 trivia and erm. kinda wanna incorporate spike originally belonging to tirac into twibatverse

[moddeydhoo]

Incredipony important Homestuck lore dump

“We know that Dirk has a genuine fondness towards Rainbow Dash. What are your thoughts on Friendship is Magic? Do you enjoy the show, or did you only include the cyan pegasus for the sake of humor?”

I’ve seen like one episode. It’s nicely done, but it’s a damn show for kids. I do some silly shit with my spare time but I am not a child. Some people think this makes Dirk a “brony.” I think it’s more that he really does watch it and evaluate it for whatever studious purposes he has, but just happens to like that one pony unironically. A brony does not this a dude make.

Sure, Hussie, sure. (x)

Anyway Dirk G1 Firefly stan -- and I can prove that G1 Firefly is intrinsic to Homestuck, and that Dirk is right to admire her, and that Hussie is definitely wrong about his own comic.

Firefly's Dirk connection/Firefly as symbolising the entirety of Homestuck

This is Firefly. She appears only in the MLP G1 pilot. Fittingly for a pilot episode, she’s a daredevil flyer.

Firefly’s function in the story is, motivated by nothing more than her hope, to be the first to fly “over the rainbow” to the fabled human world and bring back a human champion to help the ponies. In other words, she’s the first to breach the barrier between worlds and essentially the prime mover of all the G1 plot.

Firefly’s signature move, the thing she’s attempting in that gif (and an equivalent of G4 Dash's sonic rainboom), is called the "double inside-out loop".

HOLD ON. A DOUBLE “INSIDE-OUT LOOP”? SOUND FUCKING FAMILIAR???

My thesis:

Most Important Horse

Firefly IS the Möbius double reacharound, the breacher of barriers, which is the same as the joiner of the two worlds (sessions).

As such, and with her heroism presented as a less corrupted version of AR and Dirk’s badass plan in Unite Synchronise, Firefly is an absolutely indisputable -- and, I’d argue, a deliberate -- homage to Homestuck.

I mean, Homestuck features a literal firefly. And that firefly is not, as we all thought, a Joss Whedon reference.

The pony Firefly, pink* and blue, combined with the clouds that in Homestuck generally symbolise the Light of prophecy and/or the power of Hope, forms the colours of the trans flag. Joss Whedon who? Serenity, the transfeminine symbol, is G1 Firefly. With the addition of the rainbow connection, Firefly as an obvious queer symbol gels too well with Homestuck’s deeply queer themes to be a coincidence.

[*She appears purple in some grabs, and while it’s tempting to make something out of that as positioning her as equinedistant between red and blue, that’s just the sucky 80s cartoon colour grading. The toys make it clear she’s intended to be pink. (x)]

Basically:

Hussie doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Firefly, in many senses, IS Homestuck.

And Firefly’s G4 reincarnation courtesy of Lauren Faust (Faustus = LE/demiurge symbolism? Look into), because Hasbro had lost the rights to Firefly’s original name and design, is Rainbow Dash. (x)

Case closed. Moving on.

A note about the villain of the G1 pilot:

Tirac is an obvious LE stand-in but he’s rather bland, though his Gnostic themes of the (heterosexual) corruption of the pure (queer) rainbow world are still present. There’s not much to say about G1 Tirac. He’s a fairly forgettable monster of the week, unlike his inspiration; though he’s a LE homage, he’s not a very well-executed one.

It’s worth noting that he’s more fleshed out in G4 as Lord Tirek*, but G4 doesn’t strictly adhere to Homestuck canon due to being canon within Homestuck, so there’s not much there except his theme of age being an obvious callout to Time powers, and his use of a power similar to Dirk’s (LE being Dirk through the linking factor of Lil Cal -- who is cleverly presented in G1 as the baby ponies en masse, but I don’t have time to get into that -- and Doc Scratch).

[*Yes, the spelling changed.]

G4 Tirek’s apparent age and physical fitness fluctuate in both directions, through several forms, in accordance with his pwr lvl. This is of course a clear allusion to Caliborn, in both the general Time theme and, in specific, Caliborn’s non-linear appearances within Homestuck.

It’s clear they wanted to take Tirek’s redesigned G4 form in a different direction, but some influence still seeped in. It’s no coincidence that he’s a Timey-wimey red colour, nor that his powered-up form has a distinctly musclebeast flavour (ARquius, again with Doc Scratch as the linking factor).

(Seen here with Cozy Glow, another conspicuously trans-coloured pony, as if we needed more evidence.)

(I could write another post on Grogar’s Hope symbolism centred on his bell, but this shitpost has already got way too in-depth.) (Anyway, Egg Friend, this one’s all for you. Happy Homestuck lore-hunting.)

(YES, THIS IS A SHITPOST)

[yanchamisc]

My Little Pony The Movie Auditions #1

Available on the below link. There are two non-Hasbro songs and there is also an odd line missing from the final movie referencing Tirac.

Contents:

0:00-7:30 Patti Paris: Fizzy, Wind Whistler, Baby Lickety-Split, Shady, Gusty 07:47-17:18 Jonna Lee: Magic Star, Shady, Wind Whistler 17:30-27:41 Diane Pershing: Shady, Gusty, Fizzy (including singing), Baby Lickety-Split (including singing) 28:04-31:51 Deena Freeman: Baby Lickety-Split, Gusty, 32:04-36:37 Patty Dworkin: Bushwhoolie #1, Baby Sundance, Fizzy, Sweet Stuff

Link:

[danbensen]

Lexember 6 stealing

#Lexember day 6

harcis = stealing, becoming good loot, being good loot

But you're probably wondering about verb conjugation!

hirrac dius dium = he steals it hirrca diu dium = they two (m) steal it hirrco ni dium = they (m) steal it

dirac dius dium = he stole it dirca diu dium = they two (m) stole it dirco ni dium = they (m) stole it

(second person present masculine forms distinguished only by the pronoun) Tirac anus dium = you (m) stole it Tirca anu dium = you two (m) stole it Tirco anni dium = you (m plur) stole it

(1st person present masculine forms distinguished only by the pronoun) Harrca acu dium = We two steal it Nirrac nini dium = We steal it. Irac acus dium = I stole it. Arca acu dium = We two stole it. Nirac nini dium = We stole it.

Whew!

s'Dabra is the language of my fantasy novel Third Realm, now in its first draft. You can find more here https://www.patreon.com/danielmbensen/posts?filters%5Btag%5D=Third+Realm