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Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

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my son hua

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pei ming died later that day

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expanding my “let hua cheng be held” agenda to include WU MING!!!!!! HE DESERVES IT TOO!!!!!

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Asking out of curiosity, do you think you'll ever draw anyone else from TGCF in the MLP au? Such as Black Water, Quan Yizhen, etc

I absolutely love all your designs for them by the way, they're always so nice to look at!

OH yes!! I've read more of TGCF to know more characters that become relevant later in the series (Quan Yizhen, Yin Yu, Pei Ming, Ling Wen, etc) so I'm excited to pop back into my MLP AU for them! (that reminds me, I need to do more SVSSS MLP designs, too lol)

I did do all of the Calamities, though, you can find them here!

Thank you very much for enjoying them!!

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What pony type were the ghosts in your tgcf MLP au before becoming ghosts? Like with mu qing being a unicorn (I know he's a god, I'm just using him as a comparison because I'm guessing hua Cheng wasn't an alicorn pre calamity ). Additionally can other species like hippogriffs etc become gods and if so do they gain other features? May be overthinking this but I love your au and your designs!

OH excellent question!! and thank you for enjoying my AU!

Hua Cheng/Crimson Flower was a bat pony

He Xuan/Black Water was a hippogriff

Qi Rong/Ghost Lantern was a pegasus

White No-Face/Calamity Diamond was born an Alicorn like Xie Lian/Mercy's Sake ;)

Other non-equine species, like hippogriffs, do indeed have 'ascended' forms! Hippogriffs gain a horn in their land form/anglerfish-like 'lures' in their sea form; Kirin grow antlers, tusks, and long whiskers; changelings gain a large rhinoceros beetle-like horn and butterfly wings; and dragons grow tremendously in size and gain a second set of wings.

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IMPORTANT HEAVEN MISSIVE

new abomination discovered / Danger level: CALAMITY

Do not engage.

was anyone else sad that the Calamities didn’t have crazy monster forms?? No?? Just me??? 🫢

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Rarijack MLP Exileverse AU…nuff said 🤷🏻

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MLP Exileverse AU page 4! Twilight makes a great first impression 😬

Transcript:

Twilight: It would be laughable if it wasn’t so miserable. In a place like this, I’ll be lucky not to die of tetanus before the Queen calls me back from exile!

Spike: !!! (Seeing Applejack)

Twilight, cont.: Honestly, I’ve never seen such a pitiful dump of a town—if you can even call it that!

I saw better living conditions in the wastes of the Dragon Lands! I would pity the creatures who live here if they weren’t so ignorant as to make such a—

(Sees Applejack)

A…nightmarish place…their home…

Applejack: …

Twilight: And who are you meant to be?

Applejack: Applejack. Mayor of this so-called ‘nightmarish place’.

PREVIOUS PAGE / FIRST PAGE

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there's a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like

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Random late night thought: Every time I read "But asexuals CAN and DO have sex", I shrink a little bit. I understand it's a spectrum. But as someone who doesn't have sex and hasn't for fifteen years, it brings me back to the shame of feeling like a freak. I'm new to the community but I'm wondering if there's a better way to discuss the spectrum without making sex the "norm"?

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consider this: bees with flower crowns. are the bees huge or are the flowers tiny? we may never know but at least they're cute.

( EDIT : turns out this ask was based on this text post ! )

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Okay okay we all know Johnny cash did his cover of Hurt and we were all like “ok he owns that now” but I watched the music video he made and I’m like “oh he OWNS it owns it”

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radical statement here but people in red states aren’t subhuman and they don’t deserve to suffer and die because they have shitty state governments

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I was trying to think of a way to explain why this is stupid and also ghoulish. I think I came up with something.

Imagine you are an engineer designing body armor. You are tasked with making sure the body armor can stop 10 different types of bullets. In your first attempt, you create body armor that stops 6 of the 10 bullets. You start selling those because that's pretty good protection. You can save some lives while you continue to improve things.

You already know how to stop 6 bullets, but you really want to figure out how to stop the last 4. So you do exactly what you did before, but add a few more layers of Kevlar and a steel plate.

Your boss, RFK Jr., says he wants a test of the new and improved body armor. But he says you have to give one test subject the real thing and the other test subject fake body armor that does nothing.

And you're like, "Hey, can I at least give them the body armor that stops 6 bullets? We already know that gives some protection. We only need to compare the new armor to what we already accomplished."

And RFK says, "No, please shoot a person dead. It's science."

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day 1 at the communal puzzle club: i see a puzzle with a sign next to it that says "please help with our communal puzzle" and i say to myself "don't mind if I do" and did the whole thing