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mandydax — The Founding of This Land
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Published: 2012-01-16 14:14:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 19758; Favourites: 338; Downloads: 539
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I've had this one in the works for quite a while. A computer died bringing this to fruition!I've been putting up the individual text-free panels, and they're all available in this gallery: [link]
I've also recorded the vectoring on the last four panels (6-9) and time-lapsed them with brony music. Watch a time lapse of me vectoring these panels:
Panel 6: [link] 03:38
Panel 7: [link] 05:51
Panel 8: [link] 07:47
Panel 9: [link] 10:14
Done in Inkscape: [link]
Font is Anime Ace: [link]
Reference: [link]
MLP:FiM © Hasbro
Firefly © Mutant Enemy Productions
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Comments: 175
How Long Did This Take?
Oh By the Way, Nice Job! I Love It!
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I don't remember exactly. The background probably took 2-3 hours, and then each panel took anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours.
Thanks.
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OH!That Took You Lot Of Time!
No Problem!
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fireflyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yesssssssssssssssss
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Someone call up Ashleigh and Andrea and pay them to re-enact this bit.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAH!
I was wondering if anyone still remembered Firefly.
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I do! I do!
I remember It! I remember them!
I also remember.....
Fox.....
curse you Fox.....curse you.....
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Best 30 seconds of television in the 'verse.
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Don't worry,Pinkie,I will save you!
*prepare the Party Cannon*
Hooves upon,Applejack-ass!You're under arrest:stay quite or I will cupcake you.
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You know who we should curse for their sudden, but inevitable betrayal? Fox.
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Evil Fox Executive is pleased by your pain.
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This is why I don't watch anymore
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Pinkie Pie: Oh, DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN!!!
NightShade (my pony): There is no God, only Luna.
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Oh, Loonie, you nut, now c'mon. Just relax, c'mon. I want to talk to God. God, God. Can I talk to God?
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Now every time I see your profile picture I will be forced to recite this entire scene in my head.
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Not when she aims to misbehave.
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This scene was in firefly? How does anypony take that show seriously?
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Wash was playing with his toy dinosaurs.
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That just intensifies my point.
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Firefly is not meant to be taken seriously, it's meant to be enjoyed. Immensely.
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...well, I saw the movie and I can't say I enjoyed it, so...there you go.
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Aw, the Firefly movie is pretty good, but it's kind of impossible to get if you haven't watched the show. Just try watching an episode or two...if you don't like it, that's fine, but it would be like watching the last Harry Potter movie without reading any of the books or seeing any of the other movies.
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...Well that's shitty. You'd think they'd at least try to make the motion picture stand alone.
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Oh, I dunno...the story's fairly stand-alone, but you can't expect to pick up the last book in a series and instantly get all the character relationships, and what makes the series special. 
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Nothing anyone has said makes me interested. The premise is the same over-done space opera that has been reused over and over since Star Trek, and the characters are completely without charm (at least, in the movie).
If you don't mind. Do me a favour: Sell it to me.
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Hmm...sell it to you? That's a new one, I'll give it a shot. 
First off, Firefly is not like Star Trek...pretty much at all. I actually love both (TNG being my favorite), but they really have nothing in common besides being set in space. Stylistically, Firefly is "cowboys in space," but the rationale behind that is really clever. In the (future? maybe?), in an alternate solar system full of habitable planets and moons, residents of the "inner planets" live in a shiny, luxurious futuristic society with highly advanced medicine and whatnot. The outer planets and moons are populated by, well, settlers--people who go outward looking for land or trying to get away from the reach of the (apparently generally benevolent but heavy-handed) government. Thus, you have super sci-fi gadgets and rich people on the inner planets, and wild-west-type frontier towns trying to scrape by on the outer edges of the solar system. Kind of like "The Hunger Games," I guess, if you're into that. So it makes for a bizarre, but really fun, contrast.
I'm sure you know this already, but the story follows captain Malcolm Reynolds and his ship Serenity, full of a ragtag bunch of misfits. Mal and his first mate Zoe fought on the losing side of a war against "unification," the global merging of America and China into a single superpower. Thus, they're bitter about the current government (and everybody swears in Chinese), perpetually poor, and always just a day away from completely falling apart. But somehow they keep scraping by. And then a pretty-boy surgeon fugitive from the inner planets shows up, along with a girl-inna-box, and things get dangerous really fast...
The story is good, but it's not the story that makes Firefly special. It's the characters and the writing. First off, this show is funny. Like, "I really need to stop quoting literally every single thing that comes out of any character's mouth" funny. Joss Whedon is well-known for several things that show up in almost everything he does (strong female characters, killing off the cute ones, and amazingly clever dialogue are the big ones). He's also one of the only writers I know of who can invent slang and have it sound natural instead of ridiculous. And then make you quote it. Shiny. 
As for the characters themselves, I could stereotype them for you--"cute engineer girl," "warrior woman," "funny pilot," "psychotic thug," "mysterious preacher," "classy prostitute," etc--but that's kind of like calling Jean Valjean a "nice criminal dude." It's the way they interact with each other, and the nuances they show that make them special. The characters are just so much fun, and they are all lovable...but they each also have a very dark side, and they'll snap if they're pushed too far. You find everybody's breaking point at some point during the show, and that's fascinating.
The effects are good--since a lot of the show is very gritty and real, there isn't too much trouble with CGI, and things look very natural and earthy, even the spaceships. It's a cool dynamic. The music is great...a little bizarre, but it really fits the show and it grows on you like wow.
The villains are super...their styles vary, but most of them are honestly scary in a real-person kind of way; not in a mad-scientist sense, but in a holy-crap-these-are-the-things-I-have-nightmares-about kind of way. The storylines are a lot of fun too, and juggle suspense and action and "I am actually going to die laughing, I can't actually breathe" funny really well.
And, well...dude, there are like 12 episodes. You can get the complete series out of the library and watch them all over a weekend. Just give the show a shot. If you hate the first episode (and you might, I had no idea what to think of it when I first saw it), just watch one more. I suspect it'll win you over, it gets good pretty much immediately. I've never seen a show that just "gelled" so fast, there's this immediate sense of history and rapport. It's cool to watch.
SO YEAH, I SOLD IT, I HOPE.
...>.>
...If I can make another suggestion, give "Farscape" a shot too. If you hate the "space opera" thing...well. I guess you could call Farscape that, but it's about the strangest, grossest, and most creative show you will ever watch. It ran for four seasons and got a miniseries for a finale. It was made in Australia and produced by the Jim Henson Company...so two of the main characters are muppets. And by "muppets," I mean "hyper-realistic, amazingly detailed, bizarre aliens that are a feat of artistry to watch." Seriously. Just watch how fast you forget these guys aren't actors. (If you've ever seen "The Dark Crystal" or "Labyrinth," you'll have an idea of what I mean). That's one of the best things about the show...no rubber forehead ridges for these guys. You want aliens? We'll give you three-headed blobs, seven-foot lizard men, and skeksis. (Seriously, the skeksis show up for an episode, it's hilarious) XD
The show itself follows astronaut John HottyMcTightPants Crichton, who is sucked through a wormhole into a distant part of the galaxy and winds up on a living ship (a biomechanoid creature named Moya) full of escaping (creepy, bizarre, insane) prisoners, along with a very ticked-off cop deemed "irreversibly contaminated" by her commander. Said commander proceeds to chase them all over the galaxy until he's usurped by a terrifying entity named Scorpious, one of the flat-out BEST villains I have EVER seen in television. He's terrifying and impressive and pitiable and horrible all at the same time, and his character arc is phenomenal. So is everyone else's. Firefly never got its chance to become a full story, a full arc--but Farscape had its arc in mind from the very beginning, even if it's not initially clear. There is a story that spans five seasons here, and the stakes just keep rising until you can't even believe how far everybody's come, and how much they've changed since you first met them.
Farscape is hilarious, amazing, creative, disgusting (the Henson company loves their goo), bizarre, and wonderful, and I really urge you to give it a shot if you're looking for something that is completely different from anything else you've seen. I will urge you to muscle past any gag reflex you may have for the first season...Farscape is very much an acquired taste. It took me a full season to decide whether I loved it, or it made me want to barf.
...I went with "love it," and boy am I glad I did. The first season is good in hindsight (it sets up a LOT of plot points that are important later in the story) but it's nothing compared to what comes later. There are a lot of "must-watch episodes" lists out there for the first season, and I'd suggest checking out one of those if you decide to watch the show. Do stick around until at least Season 2, though...when it picks up, boy does it pick up.
Also, it has bar-none some of the very best cliffhangers out there. Season 1-2? Eh. Season 2-3? HOSNAP. Season 3-4? OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD. Season 4-PK Wars? AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.
...Ok, I just wrote you TWO--count 'em, two!--novels...haha, sorry. You asked for it, remember? Hope you give the show(s) a shot, they really are worth watching. Even if you hate them, at least you can hate them in an informed manner, right?
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I don't know, you said Labyrinth was good.
But I'll give it a shot.
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Haha, yay!
And hey, no matter what you think of Labyrinth (campy as hell? soooo 80s? DAVID BOWIE'S HAIR? ALL YES 
Let me know what you think! I want to know if my spiel paid off!
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It was staring me right in the facell this time and I never saw it. Bravo, good sir.
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