#showponies

[voxsremotec0ck]

I know we're calling Vox x Blitzø, Blox, but I like to call this ship, ShowPonies.

~🎠

YESSSSSSS YOUR BRAIN IS SO BIG

Blox is the main ship name and ShowPonies is the fun ship name 😤

[lazypapers]

Hey! You said you wanted someone to write O’Driscoll Arthur right? I’ll do it for ya, but I need for info.

🤔 Well, I guess I can give you the base of what the AU is about. But I would like people's interpretation of it. Cause first I don't want to restrict anyone and people can write whatever they like. Second, I already have my own thing I'm thinking of doing.

Calling this ShowPony AU

Basically Arthur was on a job with Dutch. Things don't go as plan and it gets really bad (similar to that one mission at the oil place) Dutch witnessing Arthur's "death" (the scar on his neck) he felt he had no choice but to leave him. Arthur is still conscious and witnesses his mentor leaving him. He feels absolutely betrayed.

Later Colm and the gang will find injured Arthur and nurse him back to health. Like a snake, he will plant ideas and really push that Dutch never appreciated him (which he did). He was once a Showpony and now he was nothing but workhorse. A workhorse that ran it's course. Colm will definitely utilize Arthur's low self-esteem and feed into the negative aspect thus creating a low-honor Arthur.

With John, Arthur felt jealous of him. He felt that Dutch was a bit easier with him. He was the new model, the younger Golden Boy. He left and abandoned his family and Arthur was the one that stepped up. And when John comes back, Dutch forgives him and welcomes him back with open arms for his prodigal son. Arthur will be conflicted because he knows it's not John's fault for Dutch's shitty personality. But he gets so resentful.

[hyenagurl]

before i got braces when i was 18, my dad always made such a big deal about my (granted very crooked teeth) when i was young. whenever i grinned, he would sadly lament about how i could be a model if only i got my teeth fixed. it got to the point where he would demand me to open my mouth so he could look at them, and after i got my braces off he sometimes STILL asks me to open up so he can see if theyre still straight. so anyway yeah i have really bad issues with setting boundaries and being too passive in my life as well as being extremely obsessed with my appearance as an adult lol

[arthursfuckinghat]

Here's our audition to be showjumpers <3

💐🏆🐴😌🫶

[moss-sheep]

more food and a new fandom lol, doing danger days art because my partner got me interested in it through a lot of yapping lol

show pony is our mutual favorite little meow meow so here's them!

@m1dnight-rains TAGGING YOU TO BULLY YOU >:[

[screambirdscreaming]

Much could be said interrogating the concept of "gifted kid burnout" or "smart kid syndrome" or whatever you call it, and much of it's been said better than I can

But what gets to me about it sometimes is that.... I feel like people have described a reasonable concept and then related themselves to it backwards. Or taken a real problem and constructed their concept of it backwards.

Like yeah, it does kind of fuck a person up to be highly rewarded in this extremely arbitrary constructed environment, which incidentally is where you spend most of your waking hours, while being told that it's all deeply related to your excellence and worth as a person. And then when you leave that constructed environment, you fall apart and fail to function in all sorts of ways, because you've built your skills to so completely rely on that environment (while being told this is the best most excellent thing you could do and the best most valuable way to be).

And it basically leaves a person with several options:

1) cling tighter to the structure that validates you. Dedicate yourself to reaffirming that the structure itself is meaningful to reinforce it's ability to impart meaning back to you. Spend your whole life running from failure.

2) realize that you can't keep up with the demands, but construct this as either a personal failing or a failing of the system to train you well enough. Keep seeking sources of validation to replace the hole in your sense of self-worth where being special used to go.

3) realize that the whole thing was kind of a scam from the start. Being ranked is bad. Proving value is bad. Learn to do things and enjoy things without having to be good at them or prove something.

And the thing is that I think option 3 is necessary to actually be at peace with yourself as a person. (And also, it's necessary to find true solidarity with people who were fucked up by the same system on the opposite end, being told they *weren't* good enough. Which is worse. The fact that that's worse doesn't mean I can't or won't talk about how this one sucks, but if you can't acknowledge that that one's worse, I think that's a problem.)

Anyway. Probably I'm barking up entirely the wrong tree, because the whole concept of "gifted burnout" is basically the domain of people who are stuck on option 2. And it's not like I don't see tons of stuff aimed at "it's ok to be bad at things! Enjoy it anyway!" Like that message is very much out there and in ways that I can infer to mean other people are also wrangling with this same stuff.

The problem is. Sometimes I have a problem and this type of framing is the only way I have to get at it. Sometimes I take a class where I accidentally fall into the role of being the Whizz Kid, and it's a weird sort of adrenaline hit, where being Good At The Thing feels really good and important but it takes up too much of my brainspace and I find myself more easily frustrated and it's harder to find contentment. And then I have to unpick that whole thing and walk it back and remind myself that it literally doesn't matter to be good at the thing. It's just a thing and you're just some guy and you can engage with the actual world rather than the abstract field of Showing Off Land. Like it's this whole other plane of social interaction, which may or may not exist - as in, no one else in the room is necessarily there with you, sending or receiving any signals on that frequency - but you can get stuck there. And it feels bad to be stuck there, constantly sending out "look aren't I special?" and getting upset if you don't recieve back enough pings of "wow you're so special." What is this bullshit? I don't want to be that guy. I don't like that it runs so deeply in me that it can be activated by accident.

Sometimes I do something that turns out pretty well and I want to be regular proud of it but I find myself ping-ponging between thinking I'm amazing and unprecedented and thinking that actually it's probably stupid and all sorts of people can do it - and what sort of fucked up value scale is that? It turned out pretty good and that's neat. It doesn't matter how *common* it is, that isn't anything. If it's worth doing it's worth there being plenty of it.

Like it's fine. It's fine. I've learned to recognize it and I know how to combat it so I walk myself back out of it. It just also kind of sucks. And sometimes, I wish I had an easy way to vent about it, without falling into the whole circlejerk of people coming up with backhanded ways to tell each other they're still special enough. Rather than actually deeply accepting that it's ok that you're not any better than other people.

You are just some guy! Huzzah!

[jrueships]

im still so sick over that haha email ...

[outismm]

OUTIS send help, Doctor Who is the gift that keeps on giving 😭😭😭 i thought the Toymaker would be the end of it but folks in my Toymaker server made a few jokes about Six. and i had -no idea- about what kind of character Six is. holy FUCK i am in LOVE with this pompous, arrogant asshole 😖💖💖💖💖 he's so cute!!!!! so abrasive!!!! so......PASSIONATE!!!!!! i didn't know he was such a freak!!!! yes yes yes please do rewatch his era because i'm doing it for the first time and having a blast 😂💖

yes,,,, YYYYEEESSSSS. This is perhaps the best development that could have happened. I need you to know how quickly I scrambled downstairs like some sort of Ghoul to try and find the old boxsets and AUGHE!!!!

I FORGOT WHAT AN ABSOLUTE CHARACTER HE IS!!!

He's got such an incredible amount of drama and charisma and wild-eyed charm inside of him, I can't believe how this man has slipped to the back of my mind for so long. Even outside of his borderline regeneration-induced-mania during his first storyline, he's just. such a delight. Colin Baker is having the time of his life delivering every line, and you can TELL

Look at him - what's not to love?

Also, this isn't directly related to our dear multicoloured man, but - thank you for giving me an excuse to Stare Affectionately at Classic Who! There are so many of those delightful quirks and silly set-pieces you can only really find in early 70s-80s sci-fi, sprinkled all throughout, I just,,, ah <3333 it has been so long

OKIE IM RAMBLING BUT >:) EHEHE I cannot wait to see you slip further and further into Doctor Who Fevers. Come yell with/at me anytime, I love seeing ppl experience Classic Who and all the wonderfully wild things it has to offer

[vivirrins]

Guy are my favourite women.

[skippylynn]

"Showpony"

My oc, Avery 💙

[arthurmorganson]

Read Dead Redemption 2 [High/Low Honor Endings] // Gagging Order by Radiohead

[commisionofhumanrightsapparently]

showpony is from texas. no, i will not elaborate

[riotdyke]

love the new icon what an amazing sketch of such a cool character

Omg thank youuuuu, Showpony is very quickly becoming very close to my heart and her flaky scoundrel ass has some fun game mechanics hidden up his sleeve!! ( this lil sketch done by my lovely partner @mixedmessaging )

[coralsgrimes]

Sooooo been wrong lol it's been weeks and not even a great to see bestie perform live and support MY UNION mention

WoW he really did nothing and it's been like almost two months overall xd

[midnightiscool]

I don't wanna go to the walk-in tomorrow, man...

[manawatu-renaissance]

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