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Originally Posted by
Titanium Fox
...You know what? On that note. Show of hooves, who has no plans on leaving, no matter what the resolution to this is?
I have no immediate plans of leaving either, regardless of what decisions are made, as long as there's something here for me to be a part of. And I'll do my part to make sure there is.
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Re: My Little Pony XXIX: The Spoilers have been DOUBLED!
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Originally Posted by
Titanium Fox
...:smallfrown:
It's nothing anyone did, and I still like everyone and I intend to keep watching the show. I just don't feel like I deserve to be in here. Everyone else is so creative and awesome, or at least posts new pictures. I feel like I don't contribute anything except annoying people. I'm afraid that if I stay, I'm going to wind up pissing everyone off, or somehow ruin the thread single handed. And I care too much about this thread and everyone in it to want to risk that.
No, it doesn't make much sense and I'm probably just being paranoid. Doesn't change how I feel.
I really don't want to leave, but I'm afraid to stay. I'm honestly surprised I made it this long without reaching this point.
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Originally Posted by
EsperDerek
Rarity's Night
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Midnight wrapped her hooves tightly against Sweetie Belle, as the slightly older mare hugged her so tightly. The purple unicorn kept blinking, for tears were starting to well in her eyes. To pass the memories onto Sweetie, she had had to relive them herself...
She buried her head against Sweetie's neck, taking deep breaths, trying not to break down crying in an odd combination of joy of what had happened, and sorrow that it was now gone. But she was Midnight, a pony who was forever cursed-and blessed-to follow the beating of her heart. It did not take long for her to let out shuddering sobs, pressing her head tightly against Sweetie's neck, lest she awaken the two still slumbering so deeply.
It took a few moments, but Sweetie could feel the warm drips of Midnight's tears against her start to slow, as the young mare slowly recomposed herself. She lifted her head up, to look Sweetie in the eye.
"Thank you...about taking care of Spike." She started, wiping her eyes, which were puffy and red. "I'm really sorry about the trouble that I've caused you. I-I tried to be quiet about this, I knew it would be hard to explain..."
Well, that was incorrect. It would be easy to explain, now that she knew. She could summon forth that same spell, and give those memories to everypony. But..
"Now you know, you know why...those memories aren't for everypony." She continued. "I-I'm sorry that you've become our secret keeper. I'll...I'll find a way to make this up to you, Sweetie."
She bit her lip, looking downstairs.
"I-I'll collect Spike, our Mommas are probably worried sick about us..."
Rarity's Night
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She couldn't stop the tears from flowing as she clutched Midnight close against her. So much raw emotion, so much power. She truly understood why Midnight had done what she did; and for the first time she gained a little insight into the way Midnight worked. Why she thought with her heart first and foremost; her emotions were so intense, every little one an irresistible spark.
She had seen through Midnight's eyes. Heard Midnight's thoughts.
Nothing she could say to denounce what had occurred that evening could compare to the things that had run through Midnight's mind in the moment. Her worries, fears, guilt, every little pang, although drown out by the romance and happiness in the air, had been there. Yet she had done it anyways, for she felt that Rarity deserved that one special night with her Prince, a royal to sweep her off her feet as she had dreamed since before Sweetie herself had even been born. All because it had been the right thing to do.
It was easily the most touching thing she had ever had the privilege to see.
"I understand Midnight..." She pulled herself away from the contact with her friend, setting herself gently on the floor on all four hooves. "You don't have to make it up to me. I promise. I... I wasn't happy to do it, but you're my friend."
She paused, and took a deep breath in, attempting to quell the tears which just wouldn't stop, no matter her will.
"...And you're a good pony Midnight. An incredibly good pony." No more needed to be said, all was understood between the lifelong friends was sealed with a quick, affectionate nuzzle.
She watched as Midnight slowly turned to leave, and with a final thought, called out for her.
"Midnight... Don't ever change. You hear me?"
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Re: My Little Pony XXIX: The Spoilers have been DOUBLED!
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Originally Posted by
Kris Strife
It's nothing anyone did, and I still like everyone and I intend to keep watching the show. I just don't feel like I deserve to be in here. Everyone else is so creative and awesome, or at least posts new pictures. I feel like I don't contribute anything except annoying people. I'm afraid that if I stay, I'm going to wind up pissing everyone off, or somehow ruin the thread single handed. And I care too much about this thread and everyone in it to want to risk that.
No, it doesn't make much sense and I'm probably just being paranoid. Doesn't change how I feel.
I really don't want to leave, but I'm afraid to stay. I'm honestly surprised I made it this long without reaching this point.
I can easily help with your dilemma, as I have here an mega-industrial giant stapler.
Let's see you leave once I've stapled your feet to the floor!
Muahahahaha!
Wait, wouldn't you need something a bit more, I dunno durable, because isn't he like a-
Hush, Hopereaver!
Yes, chief.
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Re: My Little Pony XXIX: The Spoilers have been DOUBLED!
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Originally Posted by
Kris Strife
It's nothing anyone did, and I still like everyone and I intend to keep watching the show. I just don't feel like I deserve to be in here. Everyone else is so creative and awesome, or at least posts new pictures. I feel like I don't contribute anything except annoying people. I'm afraid that if I stay, I'm going to wind up pissing everyone off, or somehow ruin the thread single handed. And I care too much about this thread and everyone in it to want to risk that.
No, it doesn't make much sense and I'm probably just being paranoid. Doesn't change how I feel.
I really don't want to leave, but I'm afraid to stay. I'm honestly surprised I made it this long without reaching this point.
*Prods Kris in the back of the head with a hoof*
You silly pony. You are not, have not, and will not annoy anypony. Regardless of what you contribute creatively, in terms of art, discussion, what have you, you are still our friend, and we care about you. You are just being paranoid. (Take it from me. I'm the element of Paranoia.) We all care about you here, and you shouldn't feel any bit of animosity from anypony.
You're always welcome here. *Hugs*
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Originally Posted by
Titanium Fox
*NEW POSTERS AND LURKERS give your input! A lot of the decisions we are making are so that you feel welcome. What would make you feel welcome in the thread, and comfortable in diving in?
I suppose the "lurker" part applies to me, so for whatever it's worth, I'm fine whatever we do with the whole RP thing. I mostly don't read it, but it's not getting in the way of anything - ponythread moves so fast that I skim or skip a lot of it anyway (I've only read part of even this discussion), and it's the variety of topics you guys discuss that I don't really have anything to say about (RP is just one of many of those) that keep me from posting more often, which isn't going to change by moving the RP to another thread. I suppose it might make it a little easier to find a topic I have something to say about, but I doubt it'll have a significant impact.
Zevox
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Newcomers digression:
I find it annoying when others or my own posts are drowned away by floods of posts but not to the point where I want to see them gone.
The speed in which Ponythread moves is something I really like about it.
It helps create that crazy feeling, and you guys are all crazy so it just feels right.
IMO, if Ponythread were to have it's own forum, complete with however many topics or threads, it wouldn't be the same.
One of the things that makes Ponythread ponythread is the sheer ludicrous-y of its speed.
With another thread they will all slow down. Thus, losing the frenzy.
Disclaimer: I realize I'm not always coherent and I don't even fully understand what I just wrote, but I know it was suppose to be something positive. So just replace my post with happy thoughts and you have the feeling I was aiming for. :D
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Re: My Little Pony XXIX: The Spoilers have been DOUBLED!
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Originally Posted by
Kris Strife
It's nothing anyone did, and I still like everyone and I intend to keep watching the show. I just don't feel like I deserve to be in here. Everyone else is so creative and awesome, or at least posts new pictures. I feel like I don't contribute anything except annoying people. I'm afraid that if I stay, I'm going to wind up pissing everyone off, or somehow ruin the thread single handed. And I care too much about this thread and everyone in it to want to risk that.
No, it doesn't make much sense and I'm probably just being paranoid. Doesn't change how I feel.
I really don't want to leave, but I'm afraid to stay. I'm honestly surprised I made it this long without reaching this point.
What? Seriously, what?
I don't get this self-conscious attitude of yours. Relax. If you made it this far without invoking the ire of anypony in this thread, chances are you won't for the rest of your life. Just hang around and enjoy the view. Hell, I don't contribute much to this thread, apart from the occasional poorly written fics and maybe banter with one or two posters with invariably drop after a page or so.
Do you want me to use these drugged cupcakes on him?
Hush, don't spoil our ace in the hole yet.
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I can't help but feel that we're nearly at the point in this drama where someone needs to write a letter to Princess Celestia on what we all learned about friendship. :smallsmile:
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Originally Posted by
Tiki Snakes
I can't help but feel that we're nearly at the point in this drama where someone needs to write a letter to Princess Celestia on what we all learned about friendship. :smallsmile:
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Originally Posted by
Dirtbag
Already did! :D
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Originally Posted by
Tiki Snakes
I can't help but feel that we're nearly at the point in this drama where someone needs to write a letter to Princess Celestia on what we all learned about friendship. :smallsmile:
Ooh, ooh! Me, me!
I have genuinely insightful and important points to make on what we've learned today.
Ahem.
Dear Princess Celestia:
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Muahahahaha!
Muhahahahahaha!!
Muhahahahahahaha!!!
Muha-haaaa-hahahahahaha!!!!
Unsigned
So, I hope everypony, including the Princess, bears that in mind, as we continue to post in Ponythread.
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Guys I just wanted that i've loved the show for quite some time and would like to join in but you guys are so far into stuff already. I don't know whether I should just read all the previous threads or just jump right in and act like I know what the current subject is.
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Re: My Little Pony XXIX: The Spoilers have been DOUBLED!
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Originally Posted by
Kris Strife
It's nothing anyone did, and I still like everyone and I intend to keep watching the show. I just don't feel like I deserve to be in here. Everyone else is so creative and awesome, or at least posts new pictures. I feel like I don't contribute anything except annoying people. I'm afraid that if I stay, I'm going to wind up pissing everyone off, or somehow ruin the thread single handed. And I care too much about this thread and everyone in it to want to risk that.
No, it doesn't make much sense and I'm probably just being paranoid. Doesn't change how I feel.
I really don't want to leave, but I'm afraid to stay. I'm honestly surprised I made it this long without reaching this point.
Oh, for heavens sakes. We're an all inclusive club, if ponies want to be a part of it, than they're welcome. You're not a jerk and you're not pissing ponies off, and it'll take more than one pony to 'ruin the thread'.
A lot of ponies right now seem to be feeling a little self-conscious. I'm going to state this now, as straight and simple as I can:
Everypony deserves to be here.
Full stop. End of sentence.
As a corollary to that:
You don't need to feel guilty about things you can or can't do.
Seriously, if you can't post here all the time, don't feel guilty about it. If you don't write long stories or draw or whatever, don't feel guilty about it. Ponies come and go, ponies contribute when they can. Just because somepony is leaving now doesn't mean they're gone for good, we've seen it before. But if they do go, then we'll show them off with a smile, and wave them into the wider world, and the grand adventure that is their life.
So, c'mon, everypony. Let's chill with the doom and gloom, eh?
EDIT: One final statement:
If you're new, don't be scared.
Seriously, a lot of ponies seem to think that they need to read every single thread or so that comes before, or are scared that they're not going to 'get' everything we say. You don't have to worry. It's not a library, it's a pool. Jump in, the water is fine.
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Originally Posted by
irenicObserver
Guys I just wanted that i've loved the show for quite some time and would like to join in but you guys are so far into stuff already. I don't know whether I should just read all the previous threads or just jump right in and act like I know what the current subject is.
I joined in thread 14, and even I didn't read all the way back. We have 43,500 posts behind us.
In all honesty, when we get off of the gloom and doom stuff, just jump in on whatever topic pops up next. You really don't need to get what's gone on in the past to join us in the present.
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Originally Posted by
Kris Strife
It's nothing anyone did, and I still like everyone and I intend to keep watching the show. I just don't feel like I deserve to be in here. Everyone else is so creative and awesome, or at least posts new pictures. I feel like I don't contribute anything except annoying people. I'm afraid that if I stay, I'm going to wind up pissing everyone off, or somehow ruin the thread single handed. And I care too much about this thread and everyone in it to want to risk that.
No, it doesn't make much sense and I'm probably just being paranoid. Doesn't change how I feel.
I really don't want to leave, but I'm afraid to stay. I'm honestly surprised I made it this long without reaching this point.
...WHAT? No man, you got it all wrong?
Look at me! I have litterally added nothing to ponythread but an rp charcter, and if... I don't know where I'm going with this. BOTTOM LINE IS YOU'RE COOL, NOT ANNOYING, AND EVEN IF YOU WERE I'D STILL ASK YOU TO STAY.
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Re: My Little Pony XXIX: The Spoilers have been DOUBLED!
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Originally Posted by
Kris Strife
It's nothing anyone did, and I still like everyone and I intend to keep watching the show. I just don't feel like I deserve to be in here. Everyone else is so creative and awesome, or at least posts new pictures. I feel like I don't contribute anything except annoying people. I'm afraid that if I stay, I'm going to wind up pissing everyone off, or somehow ruin the thread single handed. And I care too much about this thread and everyone in it to want to risk that.
No, it doesn't make much sense and I'm probably just being paranoid. Doesn't change how I feel.
I really don't want to leave, but I'm afraid to stay. I'm honestly surprised I made it this long without reaching this point.
This is a very silly response. Still you can't really control what you feel can you? But this time I feel confidant in saying choose the selfish option and stay.
Really don't go anywhere. We are a bit tougher then you think and can handle anything you dish out.
EDIT: On the subject of thread split I think we should see what effect the IRC has. Also Esper's italic quotes should be put somewhere. Like a book or something.
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Re: IRC, RP, Thread, Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh my!
First off, my gut vote is to vote for things not to change. Oh sure, I think we should strive to do better about the RP + content rule, but I am attached to the zaniness of the current thread. Heck, back when I was just a lurker and a wee little poster, that was the sort of thing that drew me in!
That said, even if things do change, I'm not leaving (Thought you'd be rid of me, didn't you! Well HA!). I like this community, and the people and ponies in it, so no matter what form it takes, I'm going to carry on, and I'm going to drag as many others of you with me as possible!
As a note to hopefully encourage some of you that are feeling down, I'll say that despite potentially looming changes, I've felt remarkably calm about the future of our thread and our little community here on the boards. I just feel fairly confident that a group that has weathered storms in the past, a group that does genuinely seem to care about its members, is going to make it through this rough patch as well, even if we have a few bumps and bruises to show for it.
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Originally Posted by
Thanqol
Get used to me. I'ma throw whatever nonsense pops into my head out into this thread for as long as people are around to listen to it. And if no one is, then
I shall talk to my self.
On that topic, I've just written 2500 words of a completely unponyrelated full-length novel
thing I've been
working on stalled on for months and months, starring Jayden, and I'm feeling good. Link's
here if anyone's curious.
Back on the upswing. Gonna get a good nights sleep tonight and enjoy my day off tomorrow. Goodnight, Ponythread.
Quoted for future reading. Also glad the terror-insomnia seems to have passed!
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Originally Posted by
Titanium Fox
Glad to hear you'll still be around.
...You know what? On that note. Show of hooves, who has no plans on leaving, no matter what the resolution to this is?
As I mentioned last night in the chat, you can have my Ponythread when you take a hacksaw to my cold, rust-frozen hands!
Even if we have to take it to IRC, or some other thread, or whatever happens. My big secret is that not only do I like ponies, I like you guys.
Yes, all of you.
Yes, you there too!
Yes, even the lich. :smallwink:
And because I like all of you, no matter what changes, I'm going to find a way to hang out with you, even if I have to Internet-stalk you to the far corners of the Earth!
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Originally Posted by
Dexam
On the topic of leaving... well, I won't be really leaving, but my involvement is soon likely to be diminished somewhat for reasons you probably all know about by now.
Be sure to introduce the little one to the ways of friendship early, y'hear? :smallbiggrin:
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Originally Posted by
Kris Strife
It's nothing anyone did, and I still like everyone and I intend to keep watching the show. I just don't feel like I deserve to be in here. Everyone else is so creative and awesome, or at least posts new pictures. I feel like I don't contribute anything except annoying people. I'm afraid that if I stay, I'm going to wind up pissing everyone off, or somehow ruin the thread single handed. And I care too much about this thread and everyone in it to want to risk that.
No, it doesn't make much sense and I'm probably just being paranoid. Doesn't change how I feel.
I really don't want to leave, but I'm afraid to stay. I'm honestly surprised I made it this long without reaching this point.
Don't be silly! Remember what I just said about liking all of you?
That includes you, Kris! I, for one, don't think you should go anywhere.
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Originally Posted by
Aotrs Commander
Ooh, ooh! Me, me!
I have genuinely insightful and important points to make on what we've learned today.
Ahem.
Dear Princess Celestia:
Spoiler
Show
Muahahahaha!
Muhahahahahaha!!
Muhahahahahahaha!!!
Muha-haaaa-hahahahahaha!!!!
Unsigned
So, I hope everypony, including the Princess, bears that in mind, as we continue to post in Ponythread.
And this is why you are my favorite lich...that, and the fact that you don't try and disintegrate me on sight...
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Originally Posted by
irenicObserver
Guys I just wanted that i've loved the show for quite some time and would like to join in but you guys are so far into stuff already. I don't know whether I should just read all the previous threads or just jump right in and act like I know what the current subject is.
Just jump right in and join us. Go crazy, ponythread-style. The easiest way is just watch the thread until you see something you want to reply to or comment on; or if you've found something pony-related you want to share, go ahead and post it. Like this:
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I shall be remaining on the thread too! I am idle, and quiet, but I am also artsy, and having the thread to show my stuff to gives me some good feedback, when I do get feedback...
And there is a rather strong sense of community as well. In that sense, I don't think we have to worry about the thread's integrity with the IRC channel existing as well. Some people function better in a Thread manner, some in IRC, but I think that both will continue to function.
And personally, I feel this thread needs to slow itself down a bit. Sheesh, it was nice having only three pages to slog through when I got up this morning. And I think the drama is as much to blame as the mIRC room for the slowdown over the evening. Nothing kills the chat as much as Llamas.
Yes. I'm looking at you Llamas. I'm a Drama Llama Racist. >.@
So stop dramaing. You're killing the pony-mood.
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Originally Posted by
Tectonic Robot
Is... is it ok to answer rp's while talking about how rp's are ruining the thread? Can you do that?
The Thread-Ruining Fort!
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"Er, kind of. It absorbs spells too, which most unicorns find off putting. And uh, it can hear you. Yeah.
Just quoting this to save it for later, so I won't need to dig for it. Ran out of time and didn't get to finish my response.
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Originally Posted by
Zevox
I suppose the "lurker" part applies to me, so for whatever it's worth, I'm fine whatever we do with the whole RP thing. I mostly don't read it, but it's not getting in the way of anything - ponythread moves so fast that I skim or skip a lot of it anyway (I've only read part of even this discussion), and it's the variety of topics you guys discuss that I don't really have anything to say about (RP is just one of many of those) that keep me from posting more often, which isn't going to change by moving the RP to another thread. I suppose it might make it a little easier to find a topic I have something to say about, but I doubt it'll have a significant impact.
Zevox
A friend was asking me about the show, and how I would compare it to Avatar: The Last Airbender... I didn't really know what to tell him, besides that it was different but still good.
That's something you probably have something to say about, eh? Eh?
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Originally Posted by
irenicObserver
Guys I just wanted that i've loved the show for quite some time and would like to join in but you guys are so far into stuff already. I don't know whether I should just read all the previous threads or just jump right in and act like I know what the current subject is.
Welcome!
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Originally Posted by
Kris Strife
It's nothing anyone did, and I still like everyone and I intend to keep watching the show. I just don't feel like I deserve to be in here. Everyone else is so creative and awesome, or at least posts new pictures. I feel like I don't contribute anything except annoying people. I'm afraid that if I stay, I'm going to wind up pissing everyone off, or somehow ruin the thread single handed. And I care too much about this thread and everyone in it to want to risk that.
No, it doesn't make much sense and I'm probably just being paranoid. Doesn't change how I feel.
I really don't want to leave, but I'm afraid to stay. I'm honestly surprised I made it this long without reaching this point.
*hugs*
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Originally Posted by
byaku rai
I sleep, and sad happens. =/ this is not how it's supposed to work, ponythread!
... I know I'm new to the ponysanity... And I keep quiet most of the time... And I'm a bit of a downer when I do talk... But those are my two cents. I just joined this group. I don't want to see it break.
The sad is temporary. Give it a few days, and everything will be back to normal. It won't break.
*hugs also*
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Originally Posted by
Thanqol
Get used to me. I'ma throw whatever nonsense pops into my head out into this thread for as long as people are around to listen to it. And if no one is, then
I shall talk to my self.
On that topic, I've just written 2500 words of a completely unponyrelated full-length novel
thing I've been
working on stalled on for months and months, starring Jayden, and I'm feeling good. Link's
here if anyone's curious.
Back on the upswing. Gonna get a good nights sleep tonight and enjoy my day off tomorrow. Goodnight, Ponythread.
Ooh, does like. Please post links here as you update!
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Originally Posted by
Titanium Fox
Glad to hear you'll still be around.
...You know what? On that note. Show of hooves, who has no plans on leaving, no matter what the resolution to this is?
[/color]
*raises hoof* I'm not going anywhere. Maybe just because I'm too stubborn to give up on something like this, but that counts for something, right?
EDIT: *returns Neoseanster's hugs*
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Right forgot to mention that I'm not going anywhere and you can't make me!
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Originally Posted by
Dexam
HAH! I told ya! :smallbiggrin:
Awesome
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Originally Posted by
Neoseanster
A friend was asking me about the show, and how I would compare it to Avatar: The Last Airbender... I didn't really know what to tell him, besides that it was different but still good.
That's something you probably have something to say about, eh? Eh?
I'm not sure the two shows can be compared, they're almost entirely different beasts.
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Originally Posted by
EsperDerek
Oh, for heavens sakes. We're an all inclusive club, if ponies want to be a part of it, than they're welcome. You're not a jerk and you're not pissing ponies off, and it'll take more than one pony to 'ruin the thread'.
A lot of ponies right now seem to be feeling a little self-conscious. I'm going to state this now, as straight and simple as I can:
Everypony deserves to be here.
Full stop. End of sentence.
As a corollary to that:
You don't need to feel guilty about things you can or can't do.
Seriously, if you can't post here all the time, don't feel guilty about it. If you don't write long stories or draw or whatever, don't feel guilty about it. Ponies come and go, ponies contribute when they can. Just because somepony is leaving now doesn't mean they're gone for good, we've seen it before. But if they do go, then we'll show them off with a smile, and wave them into the wider world, and the grand adventure that is their life.
So, c'mon, everypony. Let's chill with the doom and gloom, eh?
EDIT: One final statement:
If you're new, don't be scared.
Seriously, a lot of ponies seem to think that they need to read every single thread or so that comes before, or are scared that they're not going to 'get' everything we say. You don't have to worry. It's not a library, it's a pool. Jump in, the water is fine.
But I do feel guilty about not being able to write well, or draw well, or be funny, or actually contribute to any meaningful discussion of the show, or... http://i.imgur.com/twJKI.png
But seriously, if these ponies will accept me here even though I contribute next to nothing except to gush about how awesome everypony else is, they'll certainly accept anypony here!
Besides, I'll still be here to tell everypony how awesome they are!:smalltongue:
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On a completely unrelated topic, I've been commissioned to go through the backlog of the WH vs. ST vs. SW thread and pick out the relevant posts.
All three threads of it.
Please kill me. Death by cuteness overload is preferable.
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Originally Posted by
Titanium Fox
...You know what? On that note. Show of hooves, who has no plans on leaving, no matter what the resolution to this is?
Screw it. I've tried and failed twice now to write a big speech.
*Raises hand*
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Originally Posted by
Aotrs Commander
It's Lich Lecture/rant time again... (You may run for cover...)
Spoiler
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[Lich Lecture]Warning: Uncharacteristically serious and somewhat bleak.
I am afraid, that in all likeihood, the very fact this discussion has appeared means it is already too late.
Notice how the mere presence of this discussion has slowed ponythread to a crawl.
Whatever happens - regulation, deregulation, mass hypnosis, omnicide, etc etc somepony is going to end up getting put off. Ponythread's very nature, being full of agressively nice and often overly-modest ponies will be it's downfall, since it cannot possibly accomodate everypony's sometmes contradictory desires and whoever is ends up leaving, it will make most of the rest feel horribly guilty, will it not? And how many of those remaining are going to recuse themselves from the thread, because they feel they have spoiled someone else's fun, whatever happens? (How many of you now, just reading this and knowing who it comes from (i.e. an Evil Lich), are now feeling slightly guilty for merely speaking up in the first place, thus proving my point?)
Leave the RP and assorted chaos in, and it discourages those who are uninterested and with limited time to find the bits they are interested in and, despite the ludicrously welcoming nature of the thread (seriously, in how many other fandom threads do people make it a mandatory point to welcome you with pictures?), it remains a discouraging and confusing enigma for newcomers.
Take all the RP and assorted chaos out of the thread - and leaving aside the question of whether it is sustainable away from Ponythread for any length of time - not everypony will follow (or have time and inclination to follow both). Someponies may not stay in the main thread much after that (due to spending their time in the RP thread etc, or merely the aformentioned self-recursion because they misguidedly think that they might slip up and wind everypony up - or feeling a bit like they've been very politely exiled). The upside side is it would be easier to keep up with the awesome -but the down side is there may be far less awesome to keep up with.
Either way, the loss of ponies (new and/or old) and their unique perspectives and ideas - now matter how small or infequent - is deterimental to the community as a whole.
And it has already begun.
So what is the solution?
Tragically, I do not believe there is one. Whatever we do from here, even with the very best of intentions, there will be a slowly developing schism, and ponies will slowly drift away - there may still be a thread about MLP:FiM, but the essense of the all-encompassing community - what made Ponythread special - will gradually fade and be lost.[/Lich Lecture]
You've summed up (better than I could have, I might add) exactly why I've been sick to my stomach today.
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Kris Strife
It's nothing anyone did, and I still like everyone and I intend to keep watching the show. I just don't feel like I deserve to be in here. Everyone else is so creative and awesome, or at least posts new pictures. I feel like I don't contribute anything except annoying people. I'm afraid that if I stay, I'm going to wind up pissing everyone off, or somehow ruin the thread single handed. And I care too much about this thread and everyone in it to want to risk that.
No, it doesn't make much sense and I'm probably just being paranoid. Doesn't change how I feel.
I really don't want to leave, but I'm afraid to stay. I'm honestly surprised I made it this long without reaching this point.
I... I don't know what to say. You deserve to be here. Everyone deserves to be here.
Directed specifically at you now, not anything general about your post- this is me speaking directly to you:Spoiler
Show
I like you. I like your posts, and I feel that the thread will be lessened if you leave. I won't say don't go, for that is your decision to make, but know that if you go, you will be missed.
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irenicObserver
Guys I just wanted that i've loved the show for quite some time and would like to join in but you guys are so far into stuff already. I don't know whether I should just read all the previous threads or just jump right in and act like I know what the current subject is.
Jumping in seems to be the way to go. Heck, a lot of the regulars just skim at this point.
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Titanium Fox
Glad to hear you'll still be around.
...You know what? On that note. Show of hooves, who has no plans on leaving, no matter what the resolution to this is?
I'll be sticking around whatever is decided.
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Originally Posted by
Kris Strife
It's nothing anyone did, and I still like everyone and I intend to keep watching the show. I just don't feel like I deserve to be in here. Everyone else is so creative and awesome, or at least posts new pictures. I feel like I don't contribute anything except annoying people. I'm afraid that if I stay, I'm going to wind up pissing everyone off, or somehow ruin the thread single handed. And I care too much about this thread and everyone in it to want to risk that.
No, it doesn't make much sense and I'm probably just being paranoid. Doesn't change how I feel.
I really don't want to leave, but I'm afraid to stay. I'm honestly surprised I made it this long without reaching this point.
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Vent Reynolt
But I
do feel guilty about not being able to write well, or draw well, or be funny, or actually contribute to any meaningful discussion of the show, or...
http://i.imgur.com/twJKI.png
But seriously, if these ponies will accept me here even though I contribute next to nothing except to gush about how awesome everypony else is, they'll certainly accept anypony here!
Besides, I'll still be here to tell everypony how awesome they are!:smalltongue:
It's so wierd seeing active posters talking about having the same insecurities that drive me to lurk rather than post. We uncreative types may not be able to generate much in the way of original content ourselves but we can still stay here and offer our opinions and support to those who can. I like ponythread, it's probably the nicest place I've ever found on the internet. I'm going to stay here and I'm going to try to be more active. It's so easy to fall into just lurking and letting the smart ponies talk because you're too scared to speak up yourself.
The first forum I discovered was Spacebattles.com, I lurked there for about a year before I made an account. That was about 3 years ago, I only broke 150 posts around this time last year with the start of a Dnd game that I joined. Funny enough it was ponies and Dnd that opened me up from my lurker shell. The vast majority of anything I've ever posted on the internet was posted after I discovered MLP in early March. I don't know exactly where I'm going with this line of thought but I don't want people to do what I've been doing for so long. Let's just have fun and talk ponies.
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Titanium Fox
Glad to hear you'll still be around.
...You know what? On that note. Show of hooves, who has no plans on leaving, no matter what the resolution to this is?
I Didn't know anything was going on, and I don't post very much, but...
*Raises hoof*