#probably not gonna do any more mlp art aside from this one

[bluegekk0]

Talked to my sister who's a big MLP fan and was inspired to do these really quick designs for Luna and Celestia, just for fun.

[saveraedae]

why dont u draw yfm anymore? i saw you used to draw it a lot what happened?

Ok I never answer "Why don't you draw _ anymore?" questions because it just feels like a deja vu of my FNAF days...

But I'll answer just this one because some people probably want to know this one specifically considering one day I just kind of up and abandoned that fandom.

I don't entirely feel welcome there, I made some really stupid drawing as a parody/joke that I posted privately/untagged and people took it seriously and are using that to judge my entire person(??) Like yeah idc if they joke about it and meme on it because it was meant to be a joke anyhow because if someone drew what the art was about with that fandom and was serious then I'm gonna judge them. And like I posted it privately and untagged right??? Creepy imo how they found it. I'm 99% sure I know who 'leaked' (BAD PUN LOL) it, and I have NOTHING against them at all, but like- pls bro it's just a joke i hope you know that. I kinda get annoyed when I see it now because I stopped finding it that funny a while ago but if they still want to joke about it, like i said, i don't care. It was meant to make people laugh anyway.

ALSO before any of you ask NO it is not anything illegal, problematic, offensive, or taboo, in fact it's one of the stupidest things people can get mad about. From what I've seen it's just immature children being assholes to someone who made something they don't like. Like get to know me before you make an assumption about me as a person, seriously.

I can't really entirely leave that community though because of the whole YFM VEVO shit so nah my name is kinda immortalized within the community forever. I probably will never make any more fan art or animations of it. I do still like the characters and listen to some of the songs sometimes but I stopped supporting Ray recently because of his copyright abuse so there's really no point to go back. Like I'm still there but way far on the sidelines just observing. A lurker instead of a content creator if you will. I would be lying if I said that every time I see a YFM fan nowadays I can't shake the lingering thought in the back of my mind that they secretly hate me. :P

And either way, when I join fandoms (aside from MLP since that place has always been my home so to speak) it's usually always a obsessive phase I get into for a couple months that distracts me from working on TMS, which is always my main priority anyhow. I try not to be in fandoms now and just enjoy the media myself.

TLDR - Society.

[phidica]

So, as you can see, my queue ran out last June and all I’ve done since then is reblog a couple of topical posts. But here’s the thing; that did not occur for lack of content that I wanted to reblog -- in fact, quite the opposite! Read on and I shall explain, because truly what is left for me to talk about on this blog besides the act of running the blog itself?

The way that I’ve historically prepared my post queue has been to open posts I intend to reblog in new tabs (whether I encounter them on the dashboard or via RSS feeds) and set them aside for later. At some point, ideally with no more than a few dozen posts in the pile, I would load all the tabs and then go through and manually rearrange them, then I would tag and add the posts to my queue in that very sequence

My reasons for doing this were twofold. Firstly, I wanted each day’s posts to be a fair mix of topics that didn’t put too many posts from the same fandom in a row. This was to avoid, for instance, multiple consecutive days of posts being nothing but MLP art thus giving the wrong impression to passersby about the focus of my blog, or overly annoying followers who weren’t interested in that topic at all (supposing that I even have active followers any more hah). Hence a degree of randomness was called for in the arrangement of posts. But secondly, I did not want to use the “shuffle queue” feature (is this a Tumblr builtin or an XKit extension? all I know is that the button has haunted me for a lifetime) because I preferred my queue to be in semi-chronological order, and I liked to create callforwards and callbacks in the tags. Oh we’re getting deep into my mental thought processes now...

I liked a semi-chronological queue because that way, as the posts were, erm, posted, any references to recent events in shows or fandoms would remain in the appropriate order without anything seemingly getting mixed up or obscuring some context. Then, regards to my tags: this didn’t happen terribly often but for instance there are the cases of me introducing a new tag and offering some commentary on the fact I have introduced that tag right next to it, which only works out if I can be certain which post that tag really does first appear on. Or I might leave commentary about a particular run of posts that I’ve just queued up. And, relatedly though not exactly the same, there are those posts that are best read in a certain sequence because that is key to some particular joke

So at this point I have explained why:

I don’t add posts to my queue immediately upon seeing them (ans: because they need to be at least lightly randomised), and why

I didn’t simply shuffle the entire queue at once to achieve said randomisation (ans: because subsets of the queue needed to be in a particular sequence).

I expect it’s becoming obvious where this is going, not least because of the contrast between past and present tenses, but I might as well cough up another paragraph or five to contextualise this further when I’ve already come so f a  r

I can actually probably trace the start of this system breaking down to the day that I upgraded to Firefox Quantum, the release from which point on you could only use WebExtensions, because at that point I lost access to an important addon, I think it was called like...Tab Groups Plus, or something. The point was that it let you see all your tabs on like a tiled view, showing previews of the content, and you could sort them into groups created and destroyed on-demand which would move them around in your tab list. This was an excellent tool for arranging posts into just the right order prior to queuing them, because I would be able to first sort them by fandom, and then start shuffling them together manually with just the right spacing to make it all work out nicely. With the loss of that extension, I had to start making do with the equivalent procedure with just moving the tabs around in the tab bar (okay, the tab tree, but let’s not go there right now), and with no previews of their content so I had to constantly click into tabs to check which was which. That sucked and was very difficult and time consuming and simply a huge downgrade

As a consequence of these changes to my workflow, I started doing the task of sorting tabs and queuing up posts less often, thus letting more posts pile up at once. Obviously I did cope with this for some time, since Firefox Quantum hit in November 2017 apparently?? fuck it’s been so long oh god and obviously I have still managed to get a lot of posts through my blog since then, though with more stops and starts (this story gets a bit messy because I also had waning investment in Tumblr at times, which also contributes to not actively running the blog, but I think the tabs thing is a bigger factor)

These big stacks of posts waiting for me to load them and sort them and then semi-randomise them have something of an exponential weight. As you might imagine there’s the mental aversion to starting a process when there’s already a lot of stuff to do, and then that just leads to there being more to do, and the nightmare spirals. But in a much more corporeal sense, it appears that the Tree Style Tab (oh fuck now I do have to go there, shit, okay. uh. it’s like if you replaced the tab bar (from the top of the screen) with a bookmarks toolbar (on the side of the screen) and you can sort tabs into folders and new tabs open from a given tab open as “children” of that tab, indented under them. it’s very nice for managing a winding path you might take through Wikipedia or TV Tropes, if you can imagine that. I don’t do that though; I just open a bajillion tabs from Tumblr and stuff them into a single folder that collapses into a single tab and hides them so I can continue to use my web browser despite the fact I have so many fucking tabs open) and really Firefox in general start to respond much slower to the act of loading new tabs or moving tabs around when you already have so many tabs in the tree. Literally, the more tabs I open from Tumblr, the physically harder it is to load those tabs and move them around in order to sort them to queue them to close them and thus allow me to move on to new tabs

That is the situation I find myself in now. As I said at the start, my blog ground to a halt not because of a lack of content, but an excess. I have so many posts that I want to put in my queue to reblog, that they are actively weighing down my web browser to the point that I can hardly start the process of queuing them in the first place

Naturally, something had to give eventually. Here’s what I was looking at a few hours ago

that’s right, I had 230 tabs in the pile. It’s too much. And the idea of closing that parent tab, and killing all 230 of them at once... It’s a solution of sorts, but never the one I wanted to take. I guess it was because I talked about this with Kylie the other week, and she suggested that I just shuffle the queue with the button that shuffles the fucking queue, Violet, that I started considering my way out

So, that’s what I’ve done. Look

And that only took me three hours! As opposed to an actual eternity!

Maybe this is only how I’ll swing things until this pile clears, or maybe it will be the way I work going forward. For now, I am making adjustments to the way that I tag posts in order to generally try and avoid that context-dependent commentary which has previously demanded that I keep things in a curated order. And fortunately, at the moment, I have been out of the active reblog scene for so long that there are no fandom chronologies I need to match step with, so shuffling everything is fine in that regard as well. And I haven’t yet encountered any posts that work best with the one-two punch in just the right order, but if I do, my plan is to just schedule them, for some random day in the future, with only a minute’s difference between them. I have done that before in certain circumstances anyway. So I have, with relatively little effort in the end, I suppose, (big thanks to my wife for letting me sequence-break my brain), allowed myself to click the magic “Shuffle Queue” button... And we’re gonna see if this lets me actually clear the whole backlog in the end, and perhaps regain control of my life web browser life

But rn I need to go to sleep because I just stayed up like an extra two hours beyond the point I needed to be asleep writing this all out in one stream of thought whoops

[kokoinupi]

sort of not really tagged by @josukelovemail but i love these so im gonna do it anyway

1. Your favorite season and why

toss up between spring and summer honestly, i love being warm and hot and feeling the sun on my skin but while summer was my favorite in mn, spring in oregon is SUPER pretty and nice!! sakura babeeeyy

2. You get a chance to meet a celebrity. Who would they be? What would you do together?

fuck man uhhhhh can ono daisuke count cause i just wanna chat with him he seems like such a fun dude kfmwme

3. What's your dream job, if you have one?

Mangaka, character designer, or voice actor. Goin to school for character design tho so that's probably what'll win out.

4. Do you have any regrets?

bruh right now i regret visiting my family... i wanna be home playin animal crossing all cozy but now my flight is delayed for another daaayyy

5. Who's your favorite artist?

uhhhhhhh i'm not sure if i have one in particular, but @ all of the animators at bones i love you so much muah

6. If you could live in another place, which one would you choose?

copenhagen! or tokyo! one of those two there's no in between.

7. Your favorite school subject and what you like the most about it

uhhh obviously art (in high school it was specifically printmaking) but a more classic subject was language arts, i was way above my grade level with reading and i always loved english teachers so much

8. Do you have a hobby?

many! obviously i draw (tho that's sort of an academic/career thing at this point), but i also collect things (anime merch, stuffed animals, mlp toys, ramune bottles, etc), and i cosplay, and when it's nice outside i bike!

9. How are you spending these days?

wishing i was at hooome, just sorta reading manga and watching tv and taking a lot of showers and wasting away in my bed UGH

10. Are you happy?

eh, aside from the major waves of stress that come from thinking about my school tuition payments, sure, i'm alright. would be happier playing animal crossing tho.

11. A random fact

i'm reading the hanako-kun manga rn and it's like one of the only manga ive ever read and will probably be the second ive ever finished/caught up with because adhd makes it hard to read things 😔

tagging @urieli-olio @kilkaz @todorokicest @trender-sollux @pastelbluberri @hizentadahiro

[earthnashes]

Do you have any headcanons for the MLP Movie characters? (p.s.: Just found your blog and I love your art already, it's just great)

Thank you! :3 As for your question, I have a few headcanons for some of the characters, but I honestly hadn’t put too much thought into them as of yet aside from Tempest. So here’s some small ones until I get a bit more elaborate ideas to share:

-Tempest Shadow has horrid scars across both of her flanks, hiding away what was once her cutie mark. These wounds were self-inflicted: Tempest hated her cutie mark after the incident that left her without a horn, and at some point she had the idea that she should just... get rid of it. So she took to whatever she could get a hold up, and cut and cut and cut until she could no longer see the cutie mark under the lacerations.

Now, she’s afraid of showing what she’s done during one of her hardest moments in life, and always wears something to cover the scars on her flanks. This is typically armor or a cloak.

-I’m personally not too into the idea of how the sea ponies came to be in the movie so I’m ignoring that for my own headcanon. I’m not mentioning what it is here just in case of spoilers; the movie’s been out for a while, sure, but still.

-Capper’s species is a Crystal Cat! They’re a lot like Diamond Dogs, but are feline instead. I have special headcanon for Diamond Dogs and Crystal Cats, of which you can read HERE. Given his smooth-talking skills and adaptability to any given situation, I’m considering either making him an undercover spy for Equestria or he begins his own shop, where he and Rarity collaborate sometimes. 

- Celaeno’s species in my headcanon are called Harpies. I’m also probably gonna add wings to them too that they probably can’t fly with, but they can glide with them. Ooooor I’ll just leave that to Gargoyles and say Harpies can indeed fly, we’ll see! Not too sure what Calaeno and her crew would do, exactly. I’ll get back to you on that.

-The Storm King was a much bigger threat than what was said in the movie. I’m think he may have been the face of a brewing world war or somethin’, something where he was causing trouble for a few years before he was eventually dealt with in the movie, but I’ll need to think on that too before I launch into headcanon ramblings. o3o

[kayclau]

In so many! Bronies are so scared of being labeled pedophiles that in multiple occasions the ones running sections of the community have hidden and protected actual pedophiles and they fail to learn their lesson every time.

Whenever a humanoid fanart gained traction where any character that wasn't Applejack had a slightly darker skin, racist would get free way to bitch, complain and spread their racism all over the art piece, but... you know... Love and tolerate. So you can't cast them away, or they'll victim blame and cast you away.

Tons of fan takes and theories are just shit. Like, with zero basis in the show. Like Twilight being socially awkward and Pinkie Pie being annoying pre-flanderization. I was guilty of this too. Trying to make sense to the world, I came up with crazy shit. Which would not be a problem if it weren't for the fact that bronies are crazy defensive towards their theories. It's not just fun for them, it has to be that deep and complex because:

Bronies are fucking insecure about their own taste. They want to feel justified in liking this little girl's show so badly they'll do mental gymnastics to deflect anything that would make some made up entity judge their maturity, masculinity, sexuality, mental health, and whatnot; to the point they would rather see the show they like get worse than to just accept that they like a cute, happy, innocent, friendly, funny show about tiny, magical, talking equines.

Bronies might indirectly have made the show worse. So, season 1 and 2 are mostly slice of life with little lasting impact in the overall show. Some stuff from previous episodes might show up again later, but nothing world changing. Sometimes we would get a glance of the lore, sometimes stories would be more epic and adventurous. But those were more treats than the main focus of the show. This show was about these 6+1 characters interacting and learning about interpersonal relationships. But when hasbro learned that there was an entire unintentional group with disposable income also watching, they started to pay attention to what they wanted to see more in the show. So they started to demand the production team to make more epic episodes, more lore, more adventures, more villains, more cool™ characters, more redemptions, more songs. And the team just wasn't capable of handling that. They ran out of ideas by season 4. They still made some jewels, but there were more misses than hits. This stuff is the reason the one bad guy that isn't redeemed after the fandom got bored of whiplash turnarounds is a literal child and there's a suicide episode.

Bronies are the reason Equestria Girls exists. Which is awesome, because Sunset Shimmer and Rainbow Rocks; and it's actually quite fine. But getting there was a shit show the whole way through. At every point, bronies were mad because Equestria Girls was gonna ruin the lore, the continuity or something else they cared way too much. And also, before the second movie came out, it was impossible to even mention EG without someone whining about how no want wanted this, despite the fact that hasbro rolled with it because they assumed we would like it based on how much humanized fanart is out there. Sure, compiting with Monster High was probably a huge factor as well, but they made it this big movie series because the fanart said we'd like it. Otherwise they would've probably just make some shorts or a little promotional series, not seven or so movies.

When MLP stopped being my hyperfixation, I rapidly stood aside for so many parts of the fandom that I eventually ended up forgetting which artists I followed were bronies too because, just like me, they moved on.

I guess I'm still a brony in some regard. The symbol I made that I have stamped everywhere (the sun/cressent moon eclipse), I design it originally as a cutie mark. Which, according to the lore™ of the show, is an abstract representation of myself and I did it with that in mind. Which is why I never changed it. I still feel like I hit the mark (or rather the cutie mark?! ) with it. But being a brony is just not my defining characteristic. I had my fun, I learned a lot about myself and proper social media behavior... And I don't know... Maybe one day I'll visit the show again. I still remember it fondly and I'm willing to talk about it with a mutual and remember the good times. But I just won't engage with bronies in a brony only space anymore. I don't belong there anymore.

i see your death of the author and raise you: death of the fandom, for when other fans and the content they produce are so unbearably bad that you divorce yourself entirely from the fanbase except for one or two Trusted Mutuals™️

[shuicheese]

Okay so- It’s going to be a new year real soon. And I haven’t done anything for my pals during Christmas and I really, really wanted to do something to show how thankful I am towards my friends. So here’s a small ‘follow-forever’ thingie! ^^

I will put them under read more since it’s a long list hehe. This isn’t in any order, btw, I appreciate all of you and if I somehow, somehow, forgot to add you then- Im so sorry! ;;;

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@diligencekit - We’ve been pals for a reaallly long time now, and I really enjoy your company, bro! I consider you a really close friend of mine and a broski. ^^ You’re possibly my first close pal on the net, and I’m glad that we’re still buddies! Your art has always been a huge inspo to me and it’s probably the main reason to why I got a drawing tablet. qwq; 

@valskya - Another close net pal/broski! I’m happy that we’re close friends and we started talking again! You and Jen always seem to make me really happy, your art has also been an inspo to me and I’m always happy to see your art! You also got me into Juuni Taisen which honestly made me really happy, we had lots of fun watching the episodes and such! You’re also another really close friend of mine, and a broski as well! I’m just really happy we started to talk to each other again~

@zingospinning - I completely adore you. I really don’t know where to start with this- Okay, so when I first saw you in school, I instantly wanted to befriend you. But I was so god damn nervous because I wanted to impress you and such,  but then we became friends in an after-school club and that was both the best thing and the most nervous thing because I still really wanted to impress you. Looking back at it, I sort of find it amusing. I think when I befriended you, I started to become slightly more social with others and had a bit more friends? I only had one friend and if I haven’t met you, then holy shit where would I be now? You’re funny, a huge sweetheart to me, and I enjoy your company so much! I wish I can see you every day in school again but ey, I do hope you’re doing well and I love you! You also introduced me to many things, such as BNHA, Teen Titans, etc etc. Thank you so much for the great stuff in life, Zingo! <33

@hasikon - Where do I begin. Okay, fIRST OF ALL! Thank you for making sure I was doing well this month, and thank you for everything too. You have wonderful OC’s and a wonderful humor, and whenever we have a Skype call, it honestly makes me laugh and it’s so chill. Playing games with you is so fun, even though I may have ‘ruin’ the experience for ya. xp Btw we need to play TableTop Simulator sometime again hoho. 

@nikolas-is-gay - BROTHER!! Nikolas is my sweet n satanic baby brother!! I love him so much and I’m so glad we started talking! Has a great humor, I adore his OC’s, and his creativity! We hurt each other on a daily basis by talking about angst about our OC’s and we love it. Honestly, I don’t know what I would do without him, he’s there to cheer me up whenever I’m feeling down and the things he says always seem to make me laugh and/or smile. It’s nice to have him around tbh~

@maginpui - Oh gosh- My sweet and adorable P.Wife! She’s so adorable and I honestly love, looove her humor! She never fails to make me laugh and I also really appreciate her kindness! I’m so sorry that I never really got the chance to properly talk to you in school though,,, But I do hope the gifts I got you are fine! And I love you so much, I hope you’re well, P.Wife! I also returned all of the gifts you gave me- I love them all so so much and I am extremely sentimental of em! Especially the Pusheen gifts!

@dettouo - East or West, Dett is the best! I really need to start talking to you again! You’re such a sweetheart and you’re adorable! I really enjoy talking to you and you seem really fun to talk to! I do hope you’re well too~ Honestly just talking to her makes me feel really happy.

@turtleofrage & @killualluka99  - AH YES, THE BUNDLE I GOT WHEN BEFRIENDING ZINGAY! Also a great birthday gift, considering I met them on my 16th birthday? These are my adopted children, I love them both so much! Seeing them whenever I visit Zingo makes me happy! I love their humor and I also enjoy their memes and company~

@dylanhack - Another old pal of mine, and an older brother! We haven’t been talking a lot lately but I really want to change that. You’re really fun to talk to and I was looking back at my old posts yesterday, and I honestly really miss you heh,, I do hope we can talk again! Because you’re a really fun buddy and I enjoy your company!

@philosopher-rachel-wolf - I’ve known Rachel since...I guess 2013? But we’ve properly started talking in early 2014 and ever since then, I wanted to improve myself because inspired me so much! You’re probably the main and only reason to why I write better now, and still roleplay in the RP community. Well I mean- I try to roleplay but writers' block,,,heh h-- But I’m not kidding when I say your writing has influenced me. I’m so happy that we became friends and I’m even more happier that we still are! You always have that jolly personality that really makes me smile ^^ And your art! Where do I begin- you always seem to be improving it , and I’m always so happy to see your improvement. It’s seriously makes me smile too- I love it! Keep up the wonderful work, Rachel! <33

@chibinel - Listen-- We got ‘banned’ in a Cuphead server for confessing out love for Beppi the clown, we have a role called “EXTRA BANNED” because of it. I’m proud of myself- Okay but jokes aside, I love Gaster! I love their art so much, it’s so adorable and it’s just- it’s really good! They’re nice to talk to and I’m glad we got along well! ^^

@valf-xx - Listen- Valf is a huge sweetheart when I first met her. I really love her Dangan Ronpa imagines blog ( @komaedas-trash cHECK IT OUT BLEASE-- ) and I love talking to her! I like screeching about Eraserhead with her and I also love her art~ She’s just- She makes me feel so calm, I really appreciate that !

@puddingskitty - Fun and adorable buddy! I enjoy seeing her art and seeing her on my dashboard in general. I love her Toy Bonnie’s design, and whenever I see a rabbit, I can’t help but get reminded of her~ Honestly I enjoy her company even though I was quiet for sometime- And you’re probably the first person who drew my OC, Zerum, as a small gift and I still really appreciate it! Thank you! 

@kamukuraprojects - Another buddy I consider a brother!! Listen- his cosplaying is so?? It’s so beautiful?? I love it so so much! You’re a gorgeous boy and I simply adore your generosity, I do hope things are gonna be better for you since I heard you’re having a bit of a hard time I think? But I hope you’ll have a great and wonderful new year and hope that next year will be better for you! ^^

@imperial-dork - My spirit animal. Literally my spirit animal- his humor is honestly my favourite and I look up to this man even though a certain goat told me not to. Either way, I think Magnus is a cool dood, and I enjoy hearing about the wacky things he’s done~

@fluzeh - I love Lazy’s art so so soooooooo much! I want to draw just like her one day! She’s so sweet and I love to mess around with her~ I also enjoy watching stuff with her- we watched the MLP movie on rabbit and honestly it was a nice experience~ I love it! I hope we can do more things like that! She’s also the person who designed my main fursona, honestly I just- I adore my sona so much because it’s from you, and I will forever treasure it!Thank you so so much again for the design! <33

Okay I’m one tired idiot atm but I just want to say that for those I haven’t wrote a small description thingie for, please try not to get upset! I’m sorry in advance that I couldn’t say something for you, but I hope you all are alright with this!!

Here are some people that I enjoy talking to/admire and/or people I would love to talk to/get to know better!

@ciel-beehive, @pikabrightheart, @plantsarehardcore, @frizzbutt, @his-pall-mugman, @rottenmilkyarts, @tvvy, @darkshadowsnake, @garnetarmstrong,  @flareon, @raphadelialovesyou, @cheinsaw, @official-akamatsu, @crowstainedred, @ryoumahoshi, @ellsworld, @korekiyo--shinguuji, @btal, @infinitypixel, @askmoonburst, @ask-evil-rainbow-dash, @zyrdrake, @radhalla, @rubberhoseartist, @wolfex126, @miss-bribri, @ladykailolu, @rosealinathefox, @rexieh, @johntheslothblog, and @spacescarf

That being said, I hope all of you had a great year, and if it wasn’t a great year, then I hope next year will be better for all of you! 

I love you all, thank you so much for everything, and have a happy new year!! <33