#pippsqueaks

[cupute]

MLP G5 Comic! "One Chip Challenge" ep.3

While i binged watched TYT i noticed a lack of ponies in Hitch's jail and realized this was a opportunity for a funny comic, enjoy! ^^

[clovariia]

i'm starting 2025 off with designs for more g5 characters for the elaborate au that i've been cooking in my evil mind...expect to see another year's worth of niche pony content!

[gosupermarinespitfire]

For Inktober/Ponytober/Unitober Day 7 ("Starfish", "Creepypasta", "Pippsqueaks"). I guess the starfish showed up in a creepypasta or something; not sure how else to connect that prompt to this.

Tools used:

rOtring 800 (0.5 mm and 0.7mm): pencil sketch.

Lamy CP-1 (M) with De Atramentis Document Dark Blue: ink sketch.

Lamy 2000 (B) with De Atramentis Document Dark Blue: emphasis.

Montblanc Meisterstück 149 (M) with Montblanc Lavender Purple: accent colour.

Also posted to Bluesky here.

[onebadpunspoilsabunch]

I think out of the G5 counterparts to the G4 characters, I hate Pipp, Sparky, and the Pippsqueaks the most. They're just dumbed down versions of Rarity, Spike, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders :/

This may be a controversial opinion, but I actually hate Pipp more than I hate Sparky. Sparky is… not great, but Pipp is just downright insulting to me.

Rarity vs Pipp Petals

In G4, Rarity is a businesswoman that came from a normal background. She had to work her way up into becoming famous and successful. 

There are episodes that show the struggle of her craft, such as dealing with upset customers, or opening up another store in a different city, or not forgetting her roots and where she came from, and it's pretty interesting. 

Pipp Petals is… a social media influencer. And pop artist I guess. They focus more on the social media thing than the pop artist thing.

They could have used Pipps character to focus on the struggles that pop artists go through (even if that's still unoriginal), but they focus on her being a social media influencer instead… but it's not interesting. 

The majority of it is really just an excuse to pander to younger kids by having these goddamn ponies use goddamn social media. 

Also, instead of Pipp coming from a normal background like Rarity and working for her success, because Pipp is a goddamn princess she basically had her fame, fortune, and fans handed to her. That's not as inspiring as Rarity's character. That's just insulting. And bland.

Spike vs Sparky

Although Sparky is… not great, he doesn't offend me in the way Pipp does. Even though he is a dumbed down version of Spike.

The writers of G4 didn't really start doing anything noteworthy with Spike until season 4, but even prior to that he still has an actual character and a personality. They give him a more important role in season 6, where he becomes friends with Ember and Thorax, helping to make (reluctant) peace between ponies and dragons, and him helping Thorax make friends with ponies causes Thorax to become the new peaceful leader of the Changelings. So, anyway, he became an ambassador because he showed that he knows how to bring peace between different creatures and kingdoms.

And the comedy that comes from him is actually funny. And he's not hard to look at.

The comedy that comes from Sparky...

Sparky doesn't have a recognizable personality. Or a character arc. He's more of a plot device than an actual character. There's nothing about his character that the audience can latch onto. 

The most interesting thing about Sparky's character is his god-like powers, and the father-son relationship he has with Hitch. But the majority of his relationship with Hitch is just a bunch of repetitive jokes about how tough it is for Hitch to be a “dragon dad” and take care of this annoying little bugger.

There are only a few sweet genuine moments between them.

CMC vs Pippsqueaks

There's not much to say on the Pippsqueaks, because they're just such non-characters.

Unlike the CMC who are individual characters that formed a group together, the Pippsqueaks all exist together. The CMC have individual characters, personalities, backgrounds, goals, struggles, etc. The Pippsqueaks pretty much all have the same personality and character. 

Well, if they do have individual personalities then I probably didn't notice, because they're just so uninteresting and unimportant. 

The CMC are adventurers who did many different activities to get their cutie marks. Once they got their cutie marks, they helped other ponies (and a griffon) discover their special talents.

The Pippsqueaks are just fans of Pipp. That's it.

There is one moment where one of them was reading a book on the Tree of Harmony, but it was just another reference to G4. 

If G5 were a show like G4 where it was more in the business of developing their characters in a meaningful way, than I could see these G5 characters actually becoming interesting. But the way that Make Your Mark was structured was making it a Netflix show with "chapters" instead of seasons. The entirety of MYM equates to one season of MLP:FIM.

And since that show wasn't doing well, they canceled it so the only G5 show is the godawful YouTube Kids show Tell Your Tale, where each episode is, like, 5 minutes long. So whatever character/story arcs they're attempting to make now are going incredibly slowly, that it's not worth watching and nobody seems to care anymore.

Alright, I'm done…

[g5mlp]

Tee Franklin, the writer of the upcoming IDW comic My Little Pony: Black, White & Blue, has shared some panels from the comic on the social media site commonly known as Twitter.

This comic will be released on October 11, 2023.

Synopsis: "Sorry, everypony, it seems our printer ran out of pink, purple, yellow, green, red—uh, well, all the colors except black, white, and blue! What to do with all this blue? Hmm… OH! Drumroll please…In Misty’s first comic appearance, everypony’s favorite blue pony is in Maretime Bay for a sleepover with the Mane 5! But when everypony wakes up…all the color is gone! It kinda looks like Violette and Skye’s favorite old TV show, Betwitched—at least the years it was in black and white—but everypony can still see blue for some reason. Determined to make the best of a gloomy situation, Vi and Skye put together a plan to spread cheer. Meanwhile, Izzy helps the distraught Misty see the beauty in messy situations using the power of unicycling! Join us for a magical one-shot of color calamity before returning to your regularly scheduled programs."

Writer: Tee Franklin Artist: Agnes Garbowska

Cover A: Agnes Garbowska Cover B: Syd Hall Cover RI (1:10): Shauna Grant Cover RI (1:25): Casey Coller

[theangellies]

Location: Faux Folie Status: Closed, Pip ( @pippsqueaks )

"Amanita muscaria? I hardly know 'uh!" Val is laughing, enough to snort, as a hand stays wrapped around one of Pip's arms. It's always at events that Val lets their femme side explode - a beautiful opalescent dress and its long kimono-like matching cover. The giant mushroom head sits almost like its meant to be perched on their head - the balancing act is so effortless, even as Val sips at a straw in their Halloween-themed cocktail. "But no, it's poisonous and psychoactive, don't eat them ever, yeah? Pretty, but scary." Val grins. "Are you dressed as a basketball player? Just a lucky guess."

[suspicioushospitality]

Location: Faux Folie Status: Closed, Pip ( @pippsqueaks )

"Are you gonna do shots with me, or just keep standing there making a face, pretending you don't think I look hot as a weird undead poltergeist?" Syd asks with arms crossed over his black-and-white striped chest. He could've easily found a 'sexy Beetlejuice' costume, but he'd gone for authenticity, and his hair was even dyed a greenish hue. Plus, layers. The jacket was gonna come off soon enough, either for dancing, fighting, or something else.

[bcysdontcry]

CLOSED STARTER for @pippsqueaks. SETTING / LOCATION: Halloween event at Faux Folie, outside.

It's about damn time that Silas gets to step outside of the nightclub and into the night air, having gone at least a solid two hours without a cigarette in his mouth and that just isn't acceptable to him.  A moment to himself and to drop his façade as less high-strung than he actually is, it doesn't actually last that long.  Soon enough, he realizes his smoke is blowing into someone's face, and he's instantly apologetic.

"Shit, mate, I'm so sorry.  I hadn't realized you were that close and getting lungfuls of my secondhand smoke," he says it with a sheepish expression and the hint of a smile, furthering his attempt at appearing friendly and as sorry as he feels.

"...Your costume isn't what I think it is, is it?" As if the man dressed as a jazzercise instructor has any business judging a Tedros costume.