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Totally Legit Recap: "Going to Seed" Season 9 Episode 10

This one's weird. I've always thought that Applejack is weirdly normal considering both her parents died and she's spent her entire life working on a farm that always seems to be on the edge of one disaster or another. Fortunately, she's a magical pony, so she's grateful for what she has and satisfied with her life, but if I were in her situation, I'd be bitter and emotionally stunted. I just took that idea and ran with it. I'm not sure what these are anymore. I think I'm just making fanfics....

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Totally Legit Recap: "Student Counsel" Season 9 Episode 11

Jesus christ, this one almost killed me. Happy Halloween!

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Totally Legit Recap: "She's All Yak" Season 9 Episode 7

Aaaaand I'm back. Sorry for the break, but I got to that point where I was like "either I take a month off or I quit," and I didn't want to quit, so that only left one option. I try to take 3-5 days off at the beginning of each month before starting work on the next video, but I'd barely been doing that. I'd more or less been working on videos nonstop since the beginning of december, and after the last one it started to feel a little crazy. So I just kinda fucked off in August, watched a bunc...

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Totally Legit Recap: "Common Ground" Season 9 Episode 6

Right before the buzzer yet again. I'm really glad Quibble came back; I love that guy. GF's daughter was kind of a brat, but I guess that's understandable when your dad is dead and mommy's sleeping with a fat nerd.

For some reason I got a ton of new people throwing down money this month, as well as a bunch of you regulars increasing your amounts, so thank you guys for that. We're approaching the home stretch here, and then I'll have to figure out what to do with my life once the show's ...

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Totally Legit Recap: "Sparkle's Seven" Season 9 Episode 4

Right before the buzzer.  I told myself I'd get two videos out in a month for once, and I did it (west coast best coast). Not much to say on this one, because I'm friggin' exhausted. I've been working on this every waking second for the past three weeks, and I'm looking forward to a couple days of downtime before the cycle begins anew.

I spent a lot of time on the script for this one because I wanted to do our 200th episode justice, and I also think it has the best lip-syncing and ...

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Totally Legit Recap: The Beginning of the End (Part 2) Season 9 Episode 2

Super late post here, but I had to wait for all of last month's charges to finish processing before putting this up or I'd get paid less. It's weird, but that's just how the site works.

Anyway, I think I'm done bitching about Celestia for a while. I really do like her, I just don't think she's that bright. Celestia - in my mind - is what would happen if you took that really cute, really nice, but very ditzy and airheaded blond chick you knew in high school, and made her the immortal que...

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Totally Legit Recap: The Beginning of the End (Part 1) Season 9 Episode 1

I wrote out the scripts for both parts of this before I started making this video, so part two is loaded and ready to go. I'm gonna take a day off here and rest, then start working on that tomorrow.

The end of the ride is on the horizon, but despite all the jokes, I'm actually not depressed about it, I'm just glad it happened. Or maybe I'm in denial; that's possible too. Either way, soon there won't be any more new pones, but the pones we have aren't going anywhere, and we can carry the...

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Totally Legit Recap: "School Raze" (Part 2) Season 8 Episode 26

I think I mentioned in the last post that I wrote both parts of this at once, so this one came out a little faster than usual.

I am retarded for deciding to do this whole lip-syncing thing; it's like 10x more work. However, at the same time, I like the finished product so much more than anything I've made before. I think this is the final form of this series: some chaotic, meme-riddled combination of an abridged series, a recap, and a commentary. I mean, that's always what it was, but n...

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Totally Legit Recap: "School Raze" (Part 1) Season 8 Episode 25

I actually wrote out both parts of the finale video back in November, but by the time they were done, the holiday special had come out and I set them aside and started working on that so I could get it up by Christmas. That video and the last two parts of RR changed my view on how to do these. Most of the videos I put out in 2018 were shit, and I finally realized it's because I had gotten bored of my own shtick - ranting about how drunk and depressed I am with memes constantly flying at the s...

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Totally Legit Recap: Rainbow Rocks (Part 3)

It's finally done. I had no idea what to do for the climactic battle scene in this one. I went through 10+ versions of the script; everything from rap battles to long-ass speeches. The problem is I take this movie pretty seriously and the lesson means a lot to me, so I didn't want to do my typical raunchy bullshit, but when I tried doing it sincerely, it just ended up being a shittier version of the real thing.

Fortunately, I'd been creating the solution the entire time without even rea...

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Totally Legit Recap: Rainbow Rocks (Part 2)

Wew lad. This is the most work I've ever put into a video. When I did part 1, I also wrote out scripts for parts 2 and 3, but when I came back and looked at them after all this time I immediately realized they were garbage. Not just my usual brand of meme garbage, I mean a no-holds-barred trashfire that I wouldn't enjoy making and nobody would enjoy watching, so I nuked it all and started from scratch.

Thanks to everyone who waited patiently for this, I know it was a long-ass time. Part...

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Totally Legit Recap: "Best Gift Ever"

For those of you wondering: yes, I actually quit drinking. This is the first one of these I've made entirely sober, and I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Or at least it's a lot less shit than I anticipated.

Anyway, while I didn't post anything in November, I actually wasn't dicking off the whole time. I was working on two videos simultaneously for most of the month until I decided to quit the sauce, for which I gave myself a week off. When December rolled around I just set them asi...

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Totally Legit Recap: "Sounds of Silence" Season 8 Episode 23

Little by little, I'm picking up momentum with these.

This episode was so fucking good that there wasn't anything obvious to make fun of. I just had to go with the "retell the story but make it retarded" method. I think it worked, because watching this video back, it's definitely fucking retarded.

Also hey, Happy Halloween guys! It's my favorite holiday because I like spooky scary skeletons, but last year I did something stupid and I was too badly injured to really enjoy it. Luna nobis p...

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Totally Legit Recap: "A Rockhoof and a Hard Place" Season 8 Episode 21

This episode was about suicide. I'm not crazy, right? I had a friend try to tell me that it wasn't, because being turned to stone is a process that can be reversed, so technically Rockhoof wouldn't actually be dead, but to me that's missing the point. Yeah, sure, a little girl's horse cartoon can' t have a character /actually/ hang himself, but the metaphor feels so obvious that they're practically bludgeoning you over the head with it.

On a more serious note, these videos have gotten out of h...

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Totally Legit Recap: "On the Road to Friendship" Season 8 Episode 19

A welcome opportunity to return to my favorite lesbian horse couple. All memes aside, where the fuck was Trixie for the first half of this season? I really missed her and I hope she shows up more in the final season before the ride ends and our lovable horse friends are forever committed to the void. There's so many things I want out of S9 - another solo episode and song for Rarity, more Glimmy and Trixie, and a resolution to Chryssy's arc being the major ones - but who knows what the fuck will ...

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Totally Legit Recap: "A Matter of Principals" Season 8 Episode 14

Oh yeah, I had a lot to say about this episode. Man, seeing Glimmer nuke Discord into oblivion was one of the happiest moments of my life. Now, you may think that's pathetic, and it probably is, but it's not because my life is devoid of joy and this little moment in a cartoon was the only good thing that happened to me this month. No, it's because I have been /waiting/ for /years/ to see Discord get his shit kicked in. He's such a belligerent, manipulative asshole but everyone just lets him off ...

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Totally Legit Recap: "Horse Play" Season 8 Episode 7 / Celestia, We Love You

Man, this was both fun and exhausting to make. I had actually thought about doing a musical recap for the S7 finale, but then I figured starting out with a two-parter might be an overwhelming way to cut my teeth on that front. And yeah, just doing a single episode this way was enough.

Anyway, I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Might even do it again sometime. It was a pain in the ass, but it felt good to do something different, even if the difference was just yelling into a microphone over...

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Totally Legit Recap: "The Mean 6" Season 8 Episode 13

Finally got to do this one. Poor Chryssy - she's the only one who doesn't understand what a loser she is. I can very directly sympathize because I spent too many years of my life like that; everything was everyone else's fault, not mine. The only way I escaped that mindset was through a series of catastrophic failures - each worse than the last - that finally beat reality into my skull, and I /still/ fucking struggle with the concept of personal responsibility and this reflexive tendency to blam...

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Totally Legit Recap: "The Parent Map" Season 8 Episode 8

I really had fun doing the intro music for this one; I'm a bass/guitar fag, so I'm only comfortable when it comes to rock music, and when I try other genres I still tend to use my instruments as much as possible. This was a fun first shot at creating some completely electronic shit, minor though it was.

I liked this episode, and I hope we get to see more of Glimmy and Sunburst's parents in the future. I'd really like to see some kind of acknowledgement between Starlight and her dad of her horr...

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Totally Legit Recap: "Fake It 'Til You Make It" Season 8 Episode 4

I promised myself I'd get two videos out this month, and I did, right before the buzzer.

This was my attempt to construct a situation in which Fluttershy having to run Rarity's shop would actually make sense. I don't think it worked.

Anyway, there are two episodes I'm extremely amped about doing videos for in May, and I'm sure those of you who've been around a while can guess what at least one of them is.

As usual, thanks for paying my bills guys. I wish I could say something more ...

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Totally Legit Recap "The Maud Couple" Season 8 Episode 3

Welp, here we are, diving right the fuck into season 8. Once again, my condolences to the Maudfriends; shitposting aside, please don't chop your wieners off.

I let this one run longer than a normal video, but there was a lot of shit I wanted to say and I also figured that after being gone for over a month I'd come back with a little more content than usual. I'm not doing the whole "crank out a video every week" thing this season, but expect another one within the next couple weeks. Not sure wh...

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Totally Legit Recap: "Daring Done?" Season 7 Episode 18

Another one down. This has been one of the roughest months I've had in a while - far, far from the worst of my life, believe you fucking me, but definitely some of the darker days in the past couple years. I know these videos are coming out slow, but there's some things I'm in the middle of sorting out that must be sorted.

Fortunately, I got through the first big hurdle, and I fucking /hope/ now I can start doing more than one video a month. I think next I'm gonna do the season 7 finale.

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Totally Legit Recap: "Secrets and Pies" Season 7 Episode 23

I had a good time making this one. A very good time. I know krusty kunt is a dead meme, but the setup here was too perfect.

I'd write more, but I always end up saying the same shit in these blurbs and I have a terrible hangover.

Don't trust the crust.

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Totally Legit Recap: "Uncommon Bond" Season 7 Episode 24

This'll probably be the last one of the year, unless I can throw another video together in the next couple hours.

Anyway, I know those of you who actually read the shit I write here know my life has been a dumpsterfire the past couple months, and these past few videos have been rough to do because the fucking meds they've got me on make my brainium feel like scrambled dragon dicks half the time, but I hope you all feel like you're getting your money's worth. I think it's definitely made for so...

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Totally Legit Recap: "To Change a Changeling" MLP Season 7 Episode 17

Jesus fucking christ. I guess it's fun doing really bizarre shit like this, but sometimes I'm afraid these things have gotten so far up their own ass that it's barely about the show anymore. I want to try and get back to a slightly simpler style with these, because the last two videos have just felt too fucking crazy.

Anyway, I know patreon did some weird shit this month with fees or whatever and then changed it back because so many people got pissed, but thank you guys for sticking with me. L...

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Totally Legit Recap: "It Isn't the Mane Thing About You" Season 7 Episode 19

Waifufaggotry, philosophical pontification, and penises on heads.

You know, originally when I started doing these videos, I decided that if there was ever another Rarity feature episode, I wouldn't do it out of respect for my waifu. Then some shit went down. I know most of you guys follow me on twitter, so you probably know the deal, but in case any of you don't, I'll recap it real quick - I woke up on Halloween in the icu with no fucking idea why I was there, and found out that I'd had five c...

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Totally Legit Recap: "Discordant Harmony" Season 7 Episode 12

I have to admit, this episode softened me to Discord a little bit. I still think he's an annoying faggot, but at least I know there's more to him than that. Still, I'm not gonna go sounding the bells and declaring him redeemed anywhere close to just yet; we'll have to wait and see if this relatable side goes somewhere or if he just goes back to being an obnoxious knobgoblin.

At this point I give him a 5/10.

Anyway, thanks for sticking with me guys, I'm still settling back into this. I'm ...

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Totally Legit Recap: "A Health of Information" MLP Season 7 Episode 20

Welp, I'm finally back in the game. Hope you guys didn't forget about me. I'm just doing the episodes completely out of order now because fuck it; gotta do what's fun or I'll go crazy. Next up I'll be tackling that Discord episode from earlier this season, then I'll probably do the season finale because I have a looooooooot to say about that, but I'm definitely going to finish Rainbow Rocks before the end of the year. We need some more Dazzling ass and Sunnybuns.


As always, thank yo...

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Just a little update post

Hey guys, I thought I'd just let you all know what's going on since, you know, you *lovely* people are the ones giving me money~<3

First off, just in case anyone didn't see that video I posted the other day, I took a little vacation, but I'm back now and working on new videos. I kinda burnt myself out because trying to do a video every week and keep up with the airing episodes is fucking hard. These things have gotten too complex to crank one out every single week for months on end, so I ne...

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Totally Legit Recap: "Triple Threat" Season 7 Episode 15

Man, these videos are getting too complicated to make in just a week. I am fucking exhausted. I wish I had something interesting to say here, but I'm just sitting here drooling into my coffee and scratching my balls. Hope you guys enjoy, and as always, thank you for literally paying for my life <3

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