>>36789549
You're right that I am underplaying Baby Cakes contribution to pony sexuality a bit. You could fairly say we've as much confirmation ponies get pregnant and birth just like people as we could reasonably expect, short of full on rule 34 (which we ain't gonna get, canonically speaking, or the censors would have their heads).

But I will never agree that Mrs. Cake is canonically screwing around behind Mr. Cake's back because it can make complete sense that a pegasi and unicorn can come from two earth ponies if pony genetics really do work that way, and the show is blantently stating they absolutely do. Mr. Cake wasn't nervous in that seen, he was just exhausted from caring for the twins.

>>36789550
Confirmed by the creators or not, I still don't see any real romance. The scenes in question were tacked-on at the end of the series and quite vague.

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>>36789550
Y'now... why doesn't somebody just bite the bullet and make a character in a kids show gay already?

I mean, pretty much everybody in the US is okay with homosexuals these days, and the people who have a problem with gay characters are mocked. Just quit pussyfooting around and do it already dickheads.

And I mean full-on gay. "Bisexual" in media to me means "we're too pussy to make a gay character in fear of reprisal from coffin dodgers that will be dead within the next two decades".

Outside of Zecora the magical negro Zebra, I'm not too interested in social commentary in a show targeted towards such a young age. Korra is for an older audience, so it was more acceptable.

>>36789554
>Y'now... why doesn't somebody just bite the bullet and make a character in a kids show gay already?
I know that Disney had a sitcom called Good Luck Charlie which featured a gay couple in one episode near the end of its run. Following that episode's airing, they naturally got conservative groups riled up, but some people also were sending the five year old star of the show death threats and pictures of her being killed.

I suppose it's just a matter of how a lot of shows either don't have plans to introduce a LGBT character, or someone or some people in the production don't feel comfortable taking such a big step, at least not openly having them be gay, most likely the networks since they're the ones funding the show and can censor what's shown, and are the ones who can have the most to lose if things go bad.

>And I mean full-on gay. "Bisexual" in media to me means "we're too pussy to make a gay character in fear of reprisal from coffin dodgers that will be dead within the next two decades".
Bisexual just means that a character swings both ways, and is actually the rarest representation of a LGBT demographic. Seriously, no one thinks bisexual is a watered down version of being gay. Watered down gay is watered down version of gay, like I believe American Dad has a gay couple but they haven't done much that's explicit other than hold hands and say some innuendo despite all the other stuff it could get away with (though that's probably less of the networks interfering and more the writers just thought about showing much).

>>36789554
>Y'now... why doesn't somebody just bite the bullet and make a character in a kids show gay already?

Because social/political issues have no place in a childrens' cartoon? "Gay rights", "Gay marriage" and other such things are still hot-button issues in the US.

Funny enough, LPS kinda already did this. I can't remember which episode it was, but they strongly hinted at two male characters being attracted to each other.

>>36789557
Vinnie and Sunil?

>>36789553
>>36789556

Dee is noticing a trend here, these shows are only comfortable introducing gay characters when they're at or near the end of the series anyway, what's the worst that can be done to them, cancel the series that's already ended?

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>>36789558
No, it was two background/1-shot characters, dogs I think. I don't remember the exact details of it, but people in /co/ threads talked about it.

>>36789559
>near the end of their series
Pretty sure the character I'm referring to is in either S1 or S2 of LPS, and LPS is still airing its 3rd season, with a 4th already in production.

Going to ask here: Why?

What would this benefit the show? this isn't a show about society and changing social dynamics or anything and any romantic relationships are very low key and secondary, with spike and rarity probably being the only one with any real focus (and even THAT'S not very focused on).


So... why? what would this benefit the show.
the fact is, I just don't think FIM is the kind of show to need or benefit from such a thing.

A background joke here or there but nothing concrete is where it should stay imo.

>>36789560

Dee isn't counting background ponies, we've already had Lyra-Bon ship teasing in the background. Dee means actual characters that are confirmed to be gay.

>>36789560
Oh, this?

...Are you still sure Vinnie and Sunil don't also apply?

>>36789563
Yeah, those two.

Vinnie and Sunil are just super bros. I don't wear shipping goggles.

>>36789561
"LGBTs in a girl toy ad are only good for memes"

  why is this a thing?

i mean, good for Korra.

but what it have to do with ponies at all?

is like saying "why ponies dont have more giant testicles like that other kids movie"

>>36789568
Because bronies need to feel self-important for liking a children's cartoon

>>36789568
>is like saying "why ponies dont have more giant testicles like that other kids movie"
No, see, it's the tanukis specifically that have big balls in Japan. It's part of their folklore where they portray some tanuki as monsters, though the portrayal has softened so they give them comical things like big balls, like how they also have folklore about some foxes being demons with nine tails only the tanuki are not as seriously taken.

>>36789570
>It's part of their folklore where they portray some tanuki as monsters, though the portrayal has softened so they give them comical things like big balls

Eh? I was under the impression that Japanese culture portrays the Tanuki with comically huge balls as a sign of financial prosperity.

According to GaijinGoomba, it goes way back to when gold coins were still being used as currency; Tanuki skins were apparently very useful in the process of creating those coins, and thus Tanukis became associated with wealth.

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>>36789571
That could also be part of the reason. Checking the site I read, it also mentions that, how golden balls can also mean testicles, so it creates sort of a pun.

The folklore says that while most yokai were monsters, within the past few centuries, tanuki shed that frightening reputation and became more harmless and represented jovial times and good fortune. So they ended up being depicted with goofy expressions and fat bellies, in addition to the golden balls pun. So it works as both a way to make it goofy and a way of linking it to the idea of prosperity, similarly to what the big belly represents.

  >>36789570
my point being that just because another show do it, it doesnt mean ponies have to do it, or even should even care on a pony related manner,

If Korra like to do tortillas with her girlfriend, good for her. but that doesnt have to involve on any way ponies.

The same for the testicles on ponies.

and if you wonder why i said making tortillas, well, a "slang" for lesbians here is "Tortilleras", why?

i guess because of how this sound
>vid 1:40

  >>36789576

>>36789584

I still can't believe they got away with that in a kids movie XD
Okay, its fun for adults too, but it seems very much like it was counting on kids for a good portion of it sales.

Damn... why don't they make movies like that anymore? classic.

>>36789576

Eh, I don't like flour tortillas much. I'm a corn tortilla guy. Fresh grilled, not those shitty factory made ones.

>>36789543

>>36789557
>Because social/political issues have no place in a childrens' cartoon
All of my this.

Keep the controversy away from the shows that I like.

Sure whatever, hint at a couple, but don't freaking go and say "Oh yeah, this meant that they're totally bi" and bring a world of annoying controversy down upon a good series.

I love the Legend of Korra, and involving it in this just made talking about the show with others annoying cause it's usually the only part about it that gets brought up.

I don't want to see that happen with MLP.

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>>36789596
but she is making the tortilla on the video with "corn dough"
She is making corn tortillas, but is thiker and hand made

the flour tortillas are the one on the burritos, like this picture

The video even say "Tortilla de MAIZ a MANO"

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>>36789599

I don't speak spanish sadly and only lightly viewed it >.< XD

  >>36789600
Just the title could have help.
and this video.

bi? how passe!
WE have a trans


In seriousness this is a show where we had to ask the creator whether ponies reproduced sexually or by budding.
It's a kids show and sexuality has no place in it. I don't get why LGBT advocates have such a hard time understanding that there are places where people's (or pony's) sexuality is simply not brought up.

gays always be having sex, keep them away from children

>>36789688
I think that's the exact problem that we need to get rid of: The association of homosexuality with sex. We can show couples to kids, why not a couple of two men, or two girls? It's not right to think "Oh, two guys, they must be fucking" immediately when you see a gay couple, and that's an image we need to get rid of if we want to move forward in this society.

>>36789556
>I know that Disney had a sitcom called Good Luck Charlie which featured a gay couple in one episode near the end of its run. Following that episode's airing, they naturally got conservative groups riled up, but some people also were sending the five year old star of the show death threats and pictures of her being killed.
Was this before or after Disney nixed LGBT references on Gravity Falls?

>>36789556
>Following that episode's airing, they naturally got conservative groups riled up
FUCK 'EM! It's the shrill shrieks of a group that is losing power and influence, don't run away from those bitches, move in for to kill and show just how little their worthless existences matters for society as a whole.

Stop being such fucking cowards already, American television. Suck it up, and double fucking down. It's about time you stand up to those fascists.

>>36789692
You can't divorce homosexually from sex because it is a sexuality.
Not unless you want to resort to hinting at it with stereotypes which is worse then not showing it at all.

If you want to show homosexuality you need to treat it as you would any other sexuality, which means we've already gone as far as we can with the same sex nuzzles in H&H

>>36789694
It was in the first half of 2014 while Love God was the latter half. Though Love God, along with most of season 2, has been premiering on Disney XD first, to the point where I think it's Gravity Falls' new home (GF isn't even on Disney Channel's website). So maybe it's different standards.

>>36789699
>If you want to show homosexuality you need to treat it as you would any other sexuality, which means we've already gone as far as we can with the same sex nuzzles in H&H
Exactly, HHD. You know how to add a gay couple? Just make both of them male. It's that fucking simple.

You may call me weird, I'm calling you all weird, and pussies.

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I'm fine with children's cartoons having openly gay characters, but why does MLP have to be first? That feels about as right as Archie being the first children's comic with an openly gay character.

>>36789705
I'm not saying MLP, I'm saying any cartoon.

Just bite the fucking bullet already and do it. Everybody agrees that the Conservtards aren't worth listening to, so just fucking do it.

>>36789709
http://www.avclub.com/article/cartoon-network-censored-its-first-gay-kiss-211216

>>36789709
It's been done!

>>36789710
It's a start. Now uncensor it.

And kill everybody who voices dissent. With flamethrowers.

>>36789710
>>36789728
One of the main characters also has two mothers.

>>36789710

Dee will happily convert to the religion of whatever deity motivates the soccermoms to riot and have that shitty show yanked from the airwaves forever.

>>36789848
in the future they will censor fatness

>>36789856

Pft, they already do that.

>>36789848
They would have a problem with your relationship with Blazing.

>>36789858

They have problems with lots of things, like walking and breathing at the same time, doesn't mean the power of stupid people in large numbers can't be pointed in a direction where they do something useful for a change.

>>36789859
The show also has fans. What if people mobilized to take down MLP because it's mysoginistic or whatever bullshit pious excuse they come up with?

>>36789858

You called?
better late than never...

>>36790209
Nah, just pointing out to Dee that the people he wants to support would look down on you two bumming eachother.

>>36790212

I'm fine with that, our love is more pure than physical lust or repressed homosexual desires.

On the other hand, wasn't this thread about discussing how Korra turned out to be a fucking dyke? A nigga one at that!

To be fair I don't think MLP is the show to force in sexuality issues and the likes.

It doesn't have the depth Korra has to get away with it.