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The children yearn for mlp based horror
#my post#i keep getting those mlp infection slideshows on my fyp on tiktok#i have never watched mlp in my life#i have no interest in doing so#you bet your ass I look through those slideshows every time#that shit is so cool
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look i KNOOOOW i should be working on the comic. and to be fair I am. but every part of my body says i should draw dorohedoro characters as ponies.
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FUCK IT. pony-beams your curse of strahd party
#the amount of pony posting i have seen lately has finally gotten to me.#i have never watched mlp in my life but i LOVE seeing artist like#redesign the mane six or draw their favs but as ponies#and it was just as much fun to do it myself as it was to see others doing it#so you should ALSO turn ur favs/ocs into ponies. nothng is stopping you. i encourage it#wtf... art#oc#aescwynn#i wont. um. im not gonna tag dnd. shy
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my brother can make me laugh without moving at all. he can make me laugh on command, just by existing, and there is no physical tell or indication that it is about to happen. it’s like he can will me to laugh and i will. of course we’re not telepathic, but we do speak in unison sometimes. we improvise like no one’s business. we could fool anyone into believing we are psychically linked. when i try to explain it, i sound silly saying it out loud, but i really CAN tell what he’s thinking. we exchange so much information just with a look. he can make me cry laughing and he doesn’t even have to move
#i miss him so much i need him back i need him to live next to me again. i need to mooch off his wifi from my porch and invite him over#i miss him so much.#he’s only 2 minutes younger but he feels years younger. and yet i think we’re two halves of one soul#i’ve always babied him not even in a mean or diminishing way but i felt this need to protect him#because he tends to be so naive and so shy#but. i am so proud of him. i need to show him off to everyone and i need everyone to understand how funny and charming he is#it feels like i grew up and left him where he will remain 11 forever. i miss him more than moving back home can fix#i miss him in ways that have nothing to do with the distance between our locations#but. it would certainly help to be able to see him every day#i keep smelling the carpet in his room and it’s so vivid. i remember the countless hours we spent developing huge wood block cities#and we would drive hot wheels over the wooden raceways we had made. we were actually quite coordinated and autistic about it#we were always building things together#just recently me and him talked on the phone about an old mlp au we came up with. all original characters and shit#it was super extensive and very clever#i STILL think it would make a really cool book series or something#i remember watching him play army men RTS gamecube on the wii. i STILL listen to the soundtrack to that game like…. daily#i remember walking into my room once where he was watching a show. and he was crying#and he NEVER cries over tv#but he was crying because his favorite character had resigned from the organization that the series was based around#and he was so distraught that she was leaving.#i remember when all 3 of us slept in one room. i remember when me and him were in bunk beds across the room#and we would sneak out of bed right as the parents left and stayed up playing by the light of the nightlight#the way we raced back into bed when the parents were approaching 😭#my mom always says she’s sad that i seem to remember so little of my life. like every story of my youth is news to me lmao#but i feel like i remember the most important parts? i think so#i remember how mom woke me up in the night to ask me to roll over because my bro could see my face from where he was sleeping#and he was scared because there was a weird shadow cast on my face that made it look like a skull which was making it hard for him to sleep#it was. so funny. i begrudgingly rolled over#i don’t know. it’s just that there isn’t a single instance i bring up that my brother does not also remember.#no matter how tiny or specific. we shared everything growing up
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*long sigh* y'all are gonna make me rewatch mlpfim, aren't you
#gummy says stuff#mlp#i absolutely LOVED that show when i was a kid#i was absolutely OBSESSED when i was ~11-13#the slice of life episode was my favorite because it was really just there to feed the fandom#but im seeing so many clips and fanarts and aus and stuff#like#i gotta rewatch it#aslo yonow what REALLY sucks??#i never got to finish it#i never watched the last season#because it wasn't on Netflix#and as a literal *child* i didn't really have access to other means of watching it#but yeah maybe ill go back#yipeeee
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Fanny, my sweet, beautiful girl
17.11.2012 – 14.04.2019
#my art#artists on tumblr#I cannot accept that it has been 5 years already#I know covid messed with everyone’s sense of time but it simultaneously feels so much longer and so much shorter than that#exactly five years ago I was holding onto my mom for dear life and sobbing as we watched lilo and stitch together#not the best movie to watch when you’ve just lost your first ever pet you know#and then I cried myself to sleep at the next morning we never mentioned her again#I know it’s because it was way too painful for everyone involved. but I do wish I was allowed to process that grief properly#instead of bottling it up and pretending everything was okay until I was reminded of her#feeling like my heart was being shattered over and over again every single time#well anyway. enough of that. I’ve allowed myself a nice long cry today and got most of it out of my system#and once I was feeling okay I decided to draw her#and I can count the number of times I’ve drawn animals on one hand so.. I’m not too sure about the result#but it felt like to commemorate her in some way.#so yeah. here she is. my dear girl. the best dog in existence. she was always so affectionate and kind#which I didn’t always appreciate bc of how young I was. when you’re a kid it feels like pets will live forever#never barked. never bit anyone. her only crime was chewing on my mlp and lps toys that I left out on the floor#but I’m grateful she did that. it taught me not to leave my toys lying around and to clean up after myself#she really was taken from me way too soon. ideally she could still be alive right now. but I’ve been down the road of guilt and regret#there was nothing I could do. I was a child. I can only hope that she knew she was loved right until the very end#even if I didn’t know how to show it properly. and great. now I’m tearing up again#I suppose it’s unavoidable. April 12th will always be a melancholy day. and maybe that’s not such a bad thing#it’s good to have a day when I can freely remember her and cry if I need to. it’s healthy. it’s better than crying every day#she never liked it much when I cried. always tried to comfort me. that’s the kind of dog she was. I miss her so much#when I move apartments and get a dog of my own I’m getting a spaniel. just like she was#well. maybe a different colour so I don’t end up sobbing every time I look at it. but spaniels really are the perfect breed#I mean. cavaliers especially were bred for love and warmth. that’s just what I need. it will be nice to have someone waiting for me at home#and while I don’t necessarily believe in the afterlife… I do hope that Fanny’s watching over me#spiritually comforting me when I feel all alone in the world. it’s a nice thought for sure#and hopefully she won’t mind me getting another spaniel too much. it will be done in her honour after all. to make up for my past mistakes
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like I'm sorry am I missing something cultural with not being american. is there nothing else to discuss but how adults watching kids shows = Bad Grow Up. like how is someone spending their free time watching whatever the dog show is about so offensive that someone writes an article about how hitler was a disney adult and so anyone who watches children's shows is Bad. it's literally nonoffensive media about a dog why is everyone so pressed
#like ive never watched it but i engage in watching kids media now and again#like i dont sexualise the characters i dont engage with kids online i dont groom anyone i go to uni do online work for money#keep my apartment clean cook and take care of plants#have a social life spend time with family and friends#have hobbies#and i sleep with stuffed animals and watch mlp and sometimes small childrens shows#how am i offending you like bro not to go all whataboutism but seriously why is everyone so upset about this am i missing something
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I could headcanon these two as femme trans mlm so hard.....
#hyperfem pink female characters r just like. trans manhood. to me. u wouldn't get it#I literally have never watched mlp in my life. BUT I WILL!!!#🐈
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In Defense of Marinette
I like Marinette. While there are many valid criticisms of her writing, the same can be said for literally every other character and she's actually doing pretty well given that she's the main character. After all, in a show where consistent characterization is an ongoing issue, the one with the most screen time will probably be the one who's the biggest victim of the issue.
This is heavily exacerbated by the rule that supposedly governs Miraculous. Namely that, in each story, Marinette must make a mistake. Or, at least, so says the head writer:
I really do not care what this guy says on Twitter or anywhere else. I only care about what's in the show because, if you have to go outside the text to understand the text, then you have no idea how to tell a good story.
However, unlike many of the tweets that I've seen, this one isn't some BS bit of lore. It's a writing rule and it has substantial backing in the text. It's extremely rare to have an episode where Marinette comes out smelling like roses and that's a problem because Miraculous has over 100 episodes. In other words, to follow this rule, the writers have to come up with over 100 ways for Marinette to be wrong so of course she's going to come across poorly. Why would you do this to your main character?
It's extremely common for kids shows to have a "lesson of the day" element to them. Someone always needs to learn something, but I've never seen a show misunderstand the assignment so badly. Learning a lesson is not the same as doing something wrong.
It's been a while since I watched the 2010 version of My Little Pony, but it really leaned into that whole "lesson of the day" thing and it actually knew what it was doing, so I'm going to talk about it briefly to discuss things that Miraculous should have done.
The first thing to note is that MLP had an unambiguous main character - Twilight Sparkle - but Twilight was not the one who learned all of the lessons. She had a pet dragon and a crew of five friends who would, occasionally, be the ones to learn the lesson because there were lots of lessons that simply didn't fit Twilight's character. Instead of warping Twilight to make the idea work (cough cough Ikari Gozen cough), the writers just let someone else have the spotlight for a bit.
This is an excellent way to build out your cast and Miraculous had plenty of opportunities to do it. For example, Lila should not have been Marinette's issue. The fact that Lila hates Marinette could have certainly stuck around, but the one who takes her down and learns to investigate her sources? That should have been Alya. A liar is the perfect enemy for an investigative journalist, but a poor enemy for someone who shines as a battlefield commander and overthinks when she's given too much time.
Another way that MLP would teach lessons was to have someone other than Twilight or the main crew cause the issue that they then had to deal with. This leads to one of the best moments in children's television:
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And, frankly? Marinette deserves a moment like this. That poor girl has been through hell and is never allowed to make the right call when it really matters. The show will even completely rewrite its lore to make her fail (see: Strike Back). That is such an awful thing to do to your lead! Shows about female empowerment should include women feeling powerful and, no, Lila and Chloe don't count!
Also, the show is literally about Gabriel taking advantage of people who are upset. You don't need to have Marinette make a mistake to shoehorn in a life lesson. Akumas are life lesson fodder and season 1 actually seemed to get this. I'm not sure why they switched gears to "Marinette is the star and, therefore, must always be wrong."
The final way that MLP taught lessons was to have Twilight do something wrong because having your main character do something wrong is a totally valid way to teach lessons. It just shouldn't be your only way because you know who is always wrong in children's media?
Villains.
They wrote Marinette like a villain.
And a large part of the fandom hates her for it because of course they do.
You're not supposed to like villains.
#ml writing salt#ml writing critical#marinette deserves better#Youtube#justice for my poor girl#she legitimately has a good base character and she's fun to write if you keep her consistent#The applejack thing crossed my dash a bit ago and I keep thinking about it and feeling sad for Marinette
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To celebrate new monkeys, how would the Wukongs’ react to a mate who is basically like Discord? You know, teases them, has chaotic magic, probably some clingy behavior since they didn’t really have someone who cared about them. Just heaven’s nightmare meets self proclaimed god or goddess of chaos.
MY LITTLE PONY!!!!!!! DISCORD IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MLP CHARACTERS!!!!!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩
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(Lmk Wukong) You are his dream girl. The chaos, the anarchy, the pranks he wouldn't be able to come up with in a million years. He just had to have you, especially when learning how sweet and caring you actually are when you're not being a bad girl🤤. Wukong wasted know time wooing you over after another day of you never making sense, he cooed and flirted all while you flirted and teased him. It wasn't hours before you were making out as exploding peaches cobblers rained down on heaven and earth.
(MKR Wukong) Ohhhhhhhhhh, you two are a match, and he totally feels it's meant to be, just as much as you do😉. You are so beautiful, so powerful, so Chaotic he just wants to take you home so bad🤤🤤🤤. It's safe to say that he will adore you, and you're a chaotic magic, especially when it's really sticking it to heaven and its stupid forced organization. It all started when he wasn't invited to the celestial banquet and therefore he robbed them blind but surprise surprise you weren't invited either. So you both met up and came up with a plan to get back at everyone😈. Then, hours of watching your magic at work was when he knew he was in love with you. He took full advantage of your clingy nature as he would demand unpresided cuddles from you personally.
(HIB Wukong) Your chaos actually scares him😳. the way you torture the 3 realms, specifically heaven with your Chaos magic, especially when it's supposed to be out of control. You tease him on a daily basis and perform cutesy fun party tricks for Luier and Silly Girl. Not to mention your pranks on pigsy make him laugh sometimes, which he hates how he let's that happen. The one thing that touches him is how caring and concern you would be for him, which is honestly sweet of you. Wukong may find your magic to be chaotic and unpredictable, but knowing your personality as someone who actually considers him and his emotions, it really feels nice.😊
(NR Wukong) Oh my god, this, this can't happen. Everyone would forbid you from ever meeting him because the chaos would be talked about for the rest of everybody else's life🫢🫢🫢😧😧😧. Not to mention, he can be quite clingy himself, so cuddles and hugs are a must he even except hands holding from you. He fell madly in love with you and your chaos, and especially with how caring and sweet you are to him. You've been his other half ever since you made it rain alcohol🥰🥰🥰
(Netflix Wukong) People have literally cowarded upon seeing you both together. I mean we saw the chaos that he can reign especially in a fit of rage but once he meets you it's over😨. Wukong is very fun to tease and play little pranks on because his reactions and Whines are priceless and adorable. He himself is also the clingy type so the cuddles are very Frequent as they are intimate, when he finds out that nobody cares for you either he had made a Vow to always be there for you as you started to be there for him.
(BMW Wukong) Heaven will totally sh*t themselves so hard they would actively lose weight if you both ever were to meet. You both will always be on the drawing board when it comes to planning pranks and acts of chaos. Although he would be a target to pranks and teasing as long as he does it to you, which is always fair on your part. Not to mention, your clinginess would always be something for him to poke at jokingly, even though he secretly liked that to you as he's always touching you in some way. The point is you guys will be a match made in hell for heaven and everybody else that knows you personally!!!😈😈😈
(Destined one) Ahhh, clingyness is the one thing he will never mind from you. The Destined one definitely tends to get bamboozled by you and your magic, but he definitely never minds it. It comes to be quite useful in the journey, and he loves your creativity and enthusiasm for it. Not to mention, the way you would carefully look over him and make sure your prank didn't upset him is very heartwarming to him. But you should know he can have bouts of mischief as well😉😉😉
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#monkey king netflix#monkey king reborn#monkey king x reader#nezha reborn#lmk monkey king#monkey king hero is back#black myth wukong#the destined one x reader#mlp discord
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a perfectly normal everyday pony!
[ID: A recolor of Rarity the unicorn from My Little Pony to look like Light Yagami from Death Note. Light's mane is the same brunette colors of his regular hair, and his eyes are brown. His "cutie mark" is a nondescript black notebook and pen on his flank. There are some very faint white specks on his chest to suggest he has painted over that area. A spiky halo is positioned behind his head, and a MLP-style apple lies before his hooves. End ID]
(inspired by @corviiids's death note x my little pony crossover. some Thoughts under the cut)
i know the original post says light is just painting a fake cutie mark over the real one (which showed up when he became pony kira) but consider: he's been painting one on his blank flank since he was like. fourteen. and then the real one showed up on his chest for some reason so now he has to paint over that too ughhh his life is so difficult
the real one is either a scythe or an anatomical heart by the way
his name is light turner (but it's light yagami in canterlot it's okay) and he's painting over his cutie mark. he is quite literally whitewashing himself.
pinkie pie is the only pony who can see the halo behind his head and also ryuk and also the latin chanting
she thinks it's super cool though
i have never watched mlp in my life why did i do this
[ @deathnotetober day 11: animal AU ]
#light yagami#death note#hiii tumblr user corviiids if you see this i hope you dont mind.#incidentally your blog title would be a great title for this AU
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How Finite is Love?
This is a short little piece set in @shirecorn‘s super cool mlp AU! This is just a first pass at it, I’ll definitely refine it if I post it to a fic site. I just HAD to get this out though, the au hits all my sweet spots!
Shining Armor considers the ponies he loves, and how a mortal pony can love goddesses.
Shining Armor held no resentment towards his two favourite mares. It wasn't their fault. They had no choice. Shining wasn't certain he believed in destiny, but whatever happened to his wife and baby sister sure was close.
First it was his wife, and that he could handle. She was an adult. They had fallen in love in highschool, they had grown together, Shining knew how strong Cadance was. If anypony deserved ascension, it was her.
If anypony could weather this, it was them.
He loved his wife with every bone in his body, every fiber of his being, every ounce of magic he could channel. And he knew she felt the same. If she didn't... this never would have happened.
Can love be a curse? Can loving somepony too much damn your soul? Can it save it?
About a month after Cadance gained her horn, Shining Armor decided dwelling on these questions wasn't helpful, and the answers didn't matter. He loved Cadance, and Cadance loved him. He couldn't change the past, wasn't sure if he even would -- but he was dead set on building a happy future.
At least as happy as he could give her. He couldn't guarantee that the love his mortal body held would last into her infinity, but he was determined to try.
He hoped it wouldn't destroy her to leave him behind, when the time came.
He loved her too much for that.
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He had celebrated when The Sun took notice of Twilight.
The young stallion was oblivious to the looks of quiet worry on his parents' faces, the body language that said they were resigned to a cautious optimism. How could the attention of the source of Equestrian life bring anything but fortune?
He wasn't yet old enough to have heard the whispers. The old fables weren't circulated in school for fear of divine retribution, and Shining Armor was not as studious as his sibling.
Now?
Had he the power, he would have torn The Sun from the sky.
His baby sister, the sweetest and most sensitive mare he had ever known, damned to an eternity of watching her friends die.
She was a child (she was older than Cadance had been) she needed protection (she had brought down false gods) she wasn't ready (The Sun had learned from its mistakes, this new goddess was more than prepared).
She needed him.
Didn't she?
(She did, once.)
He was proud of her, of course. And if he had been watching for the signs, he wouldn't have been surprised.
Twilight Sparkle had always had an innate love for those around her. Before she had locked herself away in that tower amongst the tomes, she had been a kind filly. And even then, she had never quite managed to harden her heart.
She was still openly affectionate with him, with Cadance, with Twilight Velvet and Night Light. She shared her knowledge with them because it was how she said 'I love you.'
Leave it to a goddess to exploit that trait.
When Shining managed to find time to talk with his Twily after she had earned her wings, she had said her job as goddess was 'to spread the knowledge of friendship' and to teach others what friendship truly meant. She sounded excited, happy. She had found a purpose for her research.
Shining Armor wasn't sure if his baby sister hadn't yet considered the consequences of eternal life, or if it simply didn't bother her. He didn't ask.
He realized that while she was still his Twily, and would be until the day he died, she was more. She was Ponyville's friend. She was Celestia's Twilight Sparkle.
She was Equestria's new goddess.
He renewed his vow to remain her BBBFF forever, to keep her safe from turmoil and danger.
He swallowed down his anger and despair that night, in favour of his inevitable role as protector. He had his cutie mark, and he knew what it meant.
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Shining Armor loved the mares in his life, and he would go to the ends of Equestria to keep them safe and happy, whether they needed him or not.
He was glad, at least, that they would have each other.
#my writing#mlp#fanfiction#shining armor#princess mi amore cadenza#twilight sparkle#dude it took me half as long to get the formatting to work as it did to write what the HECK#i don't know why sometimes i get the text editor with colour and sometimes I don't#anywayyyyyy#i am considering a follow up where he ascends and becomes the god-prince of protection#and the three of them become considered a trifecta#they are the abstractions as opposed to the sun and moon's concretes#i'm usually not into happy endings i'm very into bittersweet stuff#but the tantalizing concept of creating a god. a mythos. well that's something i'm very into#silly shining! just because they don't*need* you doesn't mean they don't *want* you!#and that's why he's not the god of love
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i find this situation really interesting and since it indirectly involves you i thought it would be funny to share it with you: ever since you posted your first "now what" doodles, even before the first chapter in your fic dropped, i've been having a series of dreams involving gravity falls. they would occur randomly and without warning, usually i will be having normal dreams and suddenly they would cut to a gravity falls scene that my brain would make up. they didn't happen every night but i would dream of one at least once every week, to the point where i slowly became lucid during them and was aware i was asleep.
they were just random scenes at first, the characters doing whatever, sometimes tied to me irl and my issues. i don't remember what most of them were about, but i do remember the characters had your designs (or at least they vaguely resembled your designs). some weird details like ford having a collection of mlp toys and mabel always eating waffles with bugs for breakfast were reoccuring in most dreams, i have no idea why or how my brain even came up with these things.
then as you released more chapters the random dreams started having a plot that tied them together. mabel found a stray cat that was dying outside the front porch and took it home to take care of it. she successfully nursed it back to life but when it opened its eyes they were yellow. everyone was instantly suspicious of the cat being bill but for some reason they didn't try to get rid of it (fear of hurting mabel cause she was attached ? i guess ??). the plot twist was that the cat wasn't bill, nor was it sent by him as a spy, it was a normal cat that just happened to have yellow eyes. as the spectator i was aware of that fact (dream logic, idk) but the characters weren't and they were constantly afraid/cautious around it. the next set of dreams were just random scenes of the cat slowly making its way in every character's heart and everyone getting attached to it. it was really sweet to watch, especially how it stubbornly tried to get ford's attention.
the funny part is that i know nothing about gravity falls. i've never watched it and all my knowledge comes from your doodles for your fic and the occassional edits that came up on my tiktok fyp. i know the charcters' names and a little bit about them but that's it, i have no idea who bill is, what his book is about, why he and ford are a popular ship, nothing. i got attached to a bunch of characters from a story i know nothing about just because my autism won't let me rest even in my dreams.
WHAT
well, first of all, go watch gravity falls. You knowing nothing about gravity falls was the biggest plot twist ever, my jaw literally dropped XD
second of all, this is confirmation that bill is indeed just a cat
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Through a bunch of digging, Reddit posts from years ago, and the MLP wiki, I have made a watch list of all canon content from all generations, including movies, series, specials and shorts! I can’t guarantee it’s flawless, but it exists. Feedback is appreciated 🙏
I also have lists of the special episode titles I might post at some point. I am filling my brain to the BRIM with cartoon horses.
Gen 1
Special: Rescue at Midnight Castle
Special: Escape From Catrina
G1 The Movie
My Little Pony n’ Friends Season 1
My Little Pony n’ Friends Season 2
Gen 2
No official G2 content
My Little Pony Tales Series (technically not G2 but kinda)
Gen 3
Early Releases:
A Charming Birthday
Dancing in The Clouds
Friends Are Never Far Away
My Little Pony: a very minty Christmas
My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade
My Little Pony Crystal Princess: The Runaway Rainbow
My Little Pony: a Very Pony Place
Revamps:
My Little Pony: Pinkie Pie’s Special Day
My Little Pony: Meet The Ponies
My Little Pony: Starsong and the Magic Dance Shoes
My Little Pony: Rainbow Dash’s Special Day
My Little Pony: Twinkle Wish Adventure
Once Upon a My Little Pony Time (2 eps)
Over Two Rainbows
So many Different ways to Play
Gen 4:
[includes both Friendship is Magic and Equestria Girls]
[In Timeline order]
season 1-3
Equestria Girls movie
season 4
EQG rainbow rocks prequel shorts
EQG rainbow rocks movie
EQG rainbow rocks encore shorts
season 5
EQG friendship games prequel shorts
EQG friendship games movie
season 6
my little pony baby flurry heart's heartfelt scrapbook shorts
EQG legend of everfree movie
my little pony rarity's peek behind the boutique
season 7
EQG special Dance Magic
EQG special Movie Magic
EQG special Mirror Magic
EQG summertime shorts
my little pony the movie
EQG forgotten friendship movie
EQG better together season 1
EQG choose your own ending Season 1
EQG Forgotten Friendship
season 8
EQG rollercoaster of friendship
my little pony the best gift ever
my little pony the best gift ever shorts
EQG spring breakdown
EQG sunset's backstage pass
EQGbetter together (season 2)
my little pony shorts
my little pony: rainbow road trip
season 9 (end of FiM)
MLP Hello, Pinkie Pie! Series
EQG choose your own ending season 2
equestria girls holidays unwrapped
Friendship is Forever
Pony Life eps and Stop Motion Shorts
My Little Pony: Pony Life
[Pony Life is a side-series, it doesn't follow the FiM timeline]
Gen 5:
MLP: A New Generation movie
MLP: Make Your Mark series
MLP: Tell Your Tale series
#mlp gen 4#mlp g3#mlp g5#mlp g1#mlp fandom#my little pony friendship is magic#my little pony#equestria girls#mlp fim#twilight sparkle#mlp mane 6#mlp mane six#fandom
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On Cringe Culture, Kids' Shows, and Elitism
i'M nOt rEaDiNg aLl tHaT" Ok, scroll down for the TL:DR. (Also on SpaceHey and Blogspot)
The now ex-CEO of Disney, Bob Chapek, has stated the animation is only for children. Never mind that this is the same company that owns The Simpsons, and was founded by a guy who said, and I quote "You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway."
Naturally, this has caused universal backlash within the animation community, with many people defending animation as a medium for everyone, not just kids. However, the animation community was also mocked by outsiders for using kids' shows, such as Gravity Falls, to prove that animation is for everyone. In fact, the animation community (more specifically the western animation community) has always been cruelly harassed by outsiders for watching cartoons, especially ones aimed at children.
There is nothing wrong with watching children's shows AT ALL. Watching kids' shows doesn't make you immature, a pedophile, or whatever bullshit that outsiders want to spew. Remember the Walt Disney quote above; many kids' shows are designed to be appealing to multiple audiences, including adults. Kids' shows with adult appeal (or ones that don't annoy the living daylights out of parents, or are legitimately good for kids) are more likely to be praised and recommended by said parents than, say, Cocomelon.
However, because of the stigma attached to kids' shows, many animation fans feel the need to hate on/ignore slice-of-life or comedy cartoons, while only praising plot-driven or "dark" ones like Gravity Falls, The Owl House, and Avatar, and say that they are "not for kids." Again, there is NOTHING wrong with liking kids' shows (these shows do feel more YA-ish though, but that's another subject for another blog). All three of these shows are very high quality, and you don't need to justify your enjoyment of them to outsiders. The constant prioritization of dramatic cartoons over lighthearted ones in the cartoon fandom creates a sense of snobby elitism, and leads to...
...fans of lighthearted shows like Big City Greens and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic being bullied for liking said shows because they are "childish." Which, in turn, leads to fans of lighthearted kids' shows trying to make their shows seem dark in order to make the elitists like them. Back in the day, many bronies made dark fan works based on MLP such as "Cupcakes," "Smile HD," and "Rainbow Factory" and put them out in public with no age restriction, resulting in a bunch of traumatized children. The bronies also acted like they were the target audience and not children.
Apart from the bronies' fan works, MLP also suffered from exaggerated darkness on TV Tropes subpages. Speaking of TV Tropes, there was a very infamous incident regarding the kids' show "Ready Jet Go!" Aside from the stigma surrounding general kids' programs, you also have the stigma attached to preschool shows that they are dumb and for babies (never mind that babies/infants are too young to watch TV, and if they watch it before they turn 2, it would really hurt their brain. Look up the Baby Einstein controversy for more info), especially with GoAnimate users making it hip to hate on Dora and Barney. Not every preschool/elementary show is the same as Cocomelon. There are many high-quality programs for the little ones such as Arthur, Cyberchase, Sesame Street, Bluey, Mister Rogers, VeggieTales, Oswald, Blue's Clues, LazyTown, Bear in the Big Blue House, and WordGirl. Can you really blame fans for liking them when they’re just so good?
With all this in mind, someone once made a Nightmare Fuel page for Ready Jet Go on TV Tropes in order to make it more popular, because the user felt alone in liking the show and it was a big comfort for them. They also cited the snobbery of the cartoon community as a reason for their making the page on the Nightmare Fuel cleanup thread. The page was eventually deleted because it was mocked cruelly by 4chan. It didn't make the show more popular, it gave it a bad reputation.
The user shouldn't have to had made that stupid page with examples exaggerating the show's supposed scariness. If it weren't for the cartoon community being a bunch of elitists, as well as the kids/preschool show stigma, this wouldn't have happened. The sad part is, even though the page is long gone, the page STILL gets brought up by RJG haters to mock the show, its' fans, and TV Tropes for "pissing their pants over Ready Jet Go" which is beating a dead horse at this point. Seriously, make like Elsa and LET IT GO. Please stop bringing it up, and if you’re reading this blog, please don’t look it up. Please have sympathy for Ready Jet Go fans. We’re actually a very nice fandom.
The 4chan bullying also ties into cringe culture. On sites such as DeviantArt, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and 4chan, many people are considered "cringe" and cyberbullied for "crimes" like making a colorful character or watching cartoons. The cyberbullies in question are just a bunch of pathetic lowlives who bully people for being happy, because they think that bullying happy people will make them feel better about their disgusting selves.
As noted here, cringe culture affects autistic people the most. Autistic people tend to get really passionate about their favorite things, or "special interests," and like to talk about them all the time and make their own characters. But according to some unwritten rule of society, your OCs have to be as deep as Shakespeare, and you're not allowed to like 'childish' things even a little bit. (I think it's worth mentioning that the Nightmare Fuel person was autistic themselves). Many proponents of cringe culture participate in concern trolling, acting like they don't want so-called "cringe" people to be bullied and want them to be good artists/writers. Cringe culture doesn't make people become better creators, it makes them become boring creators and repressing their true passions.
Every autistic person is different, which is why it's called the autism spectrum. However, it is true that a lot of autistic people enjoy children's media, likely because of how calming and simple they tend to be. For example, Thomas the Tank Engine is very popular with autistics because the engines' emotions are easy to tell, and the show has a chill atmosphere (by the way, the Thomas fandom is a frequent victim of cringe culture). Plus, it legitimately has Tolkien-level lore dating back to the 1940s. I'm not even kidding, look up "The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways." It always pisses me off when outsiders act surprised that "tHOmAs tHe tRaIn hAs A fAnDoM?!?1!" It's based on a book series that's existed since 1945, of fucking course it has a fandom, dumbass.
TL;DR - 'Animation is for everyone' and 'it's okay to like kids' cartoons/lighthearted cartoons' are statements that can and should co-exist. Also, autistic people can like whatever they want and those who harass them are the scum of the earth.
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