My Little Pony LIII: Stashing Ponythreads Around in Case of Ponymergency!

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Good to know.

It's not nearly as bad as the "Don't you dare ****ing insult Red by calling him Ash" GB, but it's notable. Mewtwo even jokes about their names and games when they borrow each other's Starter during the Deoxys arc, but the joke gets ruined if they keep the random name switch that isn't even that consistent. FireRed and LeafBlue?

Ruby is a good match for Rarity. But something about him makes me think he isn't. I think it's that when it comes down to it he doesn't have the same style that Rarity does and Blue shares.

I dunno.. considering how crazy fun she is, I feel like Blue makes for a better Pinkie Pie than Rarity. A stepford smiler silly cute sly girl who helps keep everyone on their toes... which one am I refering to?

And then there's the prissy primadona that goes about everything with a flair of stye and perfect, graceful precision... again, who am I talking about?

Read it and Weep is one of the best Rainbow Dash episodes IMO. Still I suppose you should finish Season 1 first...do what you want.

Wednesday, if I can avoid needing to do anything else, I'm gonna go all out and watch both seasons, once and for all, and see how much I can take in one sitting.

I write on a computer!

Like this?

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Okay okay. More seriously I think about a situation and day dream about it. Eventually I start to write it down which changes how I think about it. That and getting feedback from other people really helps.

See, that's the thing. I dream about both of these worlds, and several others, almost all the time. The Clinically Depressed and Anxiety prone part of me tries to make me forget them and ignore it because they're cliche as -****-. But the elements of the scenes and the various settings are consistent enough that I'm starting to see some of the stories... and I can't quite shake them... I'm not sure what to do...

I had the most delicious lollipop ever (Maple Bacon flavor, awesome I know)

.... Maple, as in the Syrup. + Bacon, like the meat?

Witchcraft!

Teach me!

I'm the Ponythread Element of Quotes.

Element of Denial, Element of Quotes, Element of Airships, you guys are handing these things out more than Keyblades!

My personal best clocks in at needing to be six posts because the first five exceeded the 50,000 character limit. Almost broke that with a whopping 13 post-er, but after the first three folks asked I not dredge up stuff they didn't Want to rehash.

Damn....

Seeing large posts which are all rather relevant is nice. It usually prompts discussion, aside from those few who are too lazy to read the whole thing. Admittedly it's more fun when the post covers a range of topics, but eh.

I'm almost as messed up as Peanut. Cut me some sla-OH! I did find a random thing on the news I wanted to show you guys!

Aw, thanks!

But I don't have a- oh...

.... You need a Swagneto Avatar. Then, you too, can be Pringles. MAHVEL BAYBE!

But, you'd be wrong.

Amen.

Second item of note: I've learned my lesson from last year's planning fiasco. The everfree NW ticket is reserved, bought, and paid for. Hecho y ya.

.... I spent an entire 3 days trying not to think about Canterlot Gardens and that Tournament... thank you for reminding me.

Third item of note is that I got the scholarship, so I'll be able to eat this semester!

Aww snap! I know that! Congrats!

Right.

Time to settle this, Carnage Team style!

Hurricane! Wingfight! Teratorn! Incinerate! Go!

Staaaar!

Pidgeeeot!

Aaaaarch!

Chaaaaaar!

Sic 'im! Group fly attack!

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Uh, that image has a swear in it by the way.

Ah, sorry about that. I'll try to find another one that doesn't have it. You still understand my point, though, right?

I should point out that I have never once fought a human opponent and am pretty poor at remembering type advantages. Assume that Twilight would pick a better team than me, okay?

Fair enough.

Don't quite see what that has to do with anything.

Mainly that so many people like to typecast, in fan art, comics, and fics, Gardevoir and it's kin as the beauty type, and as a predominately female species, when neither are necesarally true. I believe you infact disagreed with my remark about Gardevoir before.

Also, for the record, I'm not taking game mechanics into account here. This was more of a "If pokemon are real, Rarity goes for the pretty ones" kinda thought.

Fair enough. I still think it's hilarious that you can outclass Milotic with this in terms of beauty in game.

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Looks good, but correct me if I'm wrong, but Thundurus is a legendary, isn't it? Or was it demoted in BW2?

Indeed he is. However, he's a member of a Legendary Trio, held in the same vein as, for example, the Birds (Articuno, Moltres, and Zapdos), and it's not usually as taboo for such a creature to be used.

Count me as one of the people who disagrees.

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I can't see this pick from the playground, but I did search for it. (Wow that site you got it from is so NSFW.) Cool, but only because of Gary Mother Freaking Oak. Bananaheaded Chicken is still hating being left behind. And for lacking the ORA! And for being a freaking Pidgeon instead of a Badass Bird of Prey.

Post them all together like an epic flash mob?

Just the fact that I was given pause is enough. I've never actually been in a flash mob... I want to be in one.

Whatever you write it should first and foremost be something you want to write, and something you enjoy writing. It may be hard as hell to get those words down, you may be tearing your hair out trying to write the story, but ultimately you need to derive some sort of pleasure from the story. If, at the end, all you can say is "God dammmit, it's done! And good riddance! Never more shall I lay my eyes on this piece of horseapples! Praise Celestia, I'm done!" then obviously you did something wrong and should have stopped long ago. If instead you can breathe a sigh of relief and lean back with a satisfied smile, looking back at all the sweat, tears and blood you poured into it and be happy about what you have made and kinda sad that it's all over, then you've won!

I've got mixed feelings about the ideas in my head. It's made of a lot of the different kinds of things I enjoy, but at the same time, I'm ashamed of even remotely thinking of putting them down in written form because they're so bloody cliche, and I feel like I should feel bad if I can't be origonal. Which is a bit of a paradox, since the one thing I've learned most from my lit teachers is that no one's origonal anymore. Everything gets spawned from what we know, what we hear, and what we like.

I have a TON of story ideas, way more than I could find the time to write. Currently I have nine ponyfics sitting on my desktop that one day I'd like to write (or is currently writing, in the case of II). Some of them have a few pages written, others are just a synopsis or even just a line or two to stir my memory. I have some more stashed away somewhere that I have kinda put off indefinitely, until hell freezes over or some strange inspiration hits. And then I have my non-pony stories, which are also piling up.

I know what you mean...

The point is, ideas are important. If you only have one idea, then unless that idea totally dominates your mind and is so amazing awesome you just can't stop writing it even if you tried, then you need to get more ideas. More, and more and more! Stupid ideas, good ideas, little ideas, big ideas, sad ideas, happy ideas, all the ideas! They're good for ya! The more you have the more you can throw out, and the greater the chance that an awesome one will grab you and drag you along for the ride.

NO! I AM ADHD! I DO NOT NEED MORE IDEAS IN MY HEAD! I HAVE TOO MANY IDEAS IN MY HEAD! I NEED TO FOCUS! I NEED TO FILTER -OUT- IDEAS IN MY HEAD, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY KEEP ME FROM BEING ABLE TO FIGURE OUT THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE, LIKE RESEARCH PAPERS AND STUDYING FOR A TEST! GRAAAAH!

Otherwise, I understand.

Sometimes that's what happens. A story just pops up in your head and writes itself. It's a living thing taking over your mind and body in order to escape its mental prison and enter the world, you're just a means to an end, a word-spewing puppet. Sometimes you have to force yourself to write, other times you can't stop, it just flows freely from the tips of your fingers at the whims of some distant muse. The latter moments are the most fun, and the more ideas you come up with the better the chance one will be just that kind of idea. To hell with all the other ideas, then.

Hmm....

As for how to write, you have to actually sit down and just do it. The hardest part is getting started, once you get going it's usually much easier. All you have to do then is make sure you don't stop, even for a second, because then you have to start again, and getting started is the hard part.

You sound like my Mom... and my Therapist.... and my Minister... and my Friend-Who-I-Want-To-Be-In-A-Relationship-With... and my Birth-Mom... and my Teacher. I'm starting to think you guys have a point.

But that's always the hardest part of anything: I still have a test and a research paper I'm supposed to be making signifigant progress on. I've spent 2 hours instead writing this big-ass post to you guys, just because I'm not sure where and how to put the first bit of effort for the others. I'll be fixing that since I'm going to school once I put this up.

Distractions like the Internet are the bane of writing, try to shut them out. Personally I'm starting to think I need to have a few hours every day where I simply cut the power and turn off the cellphone to sit down and just write. Or even take a week off from the Internet now and then, that's something I've also thought of. A vacation from the Internet. It may sound drastic, but lately I think that's the kind of thing you need sometimes in this modern world.

I agree with you, and I'd consider it, but I'm practically a cyborg at this point. I am the bone of my cpu. Games are my Body, and Memes are my Blood. I have created over a thousand posts. Unknown to trolls, nor known to moderators. Have withstood sleep-deprivation to create many comments. Yet these hands will never hold a tweet. So as I lurk, Unlimited Internets!

.... that was terrible and I should feel bad for it. You get the point. Between school and my personal time burners being found soley on the internet, and having a history of addiction, it's hard for me to even think of detatching myself from it.

There are people who don't do this? I chose my laptop's model specifically because it was too simple to run anything more complex than Microsoft Word.

.... Well dang. I should have done that when I wanted to actually get stuff done. I always get distracted by my assortment of toys...

I must admit I find it hard to do something like that. Often I do sit down for hours to focus on a single task, and don't need to turn everything off to do so, but sometimes my mind keeps reminding me of all the things that might be going on, and that in itself is distracting. This especially happens when I'm engaged in some big discussion, or something important is going down in one of the games I'm in, or I just posted a piece of art, and I can't quite stop worrying that I might miss something or end up with a HUGE massive number of posts to respond to because things went crazy while I was gone.

We aren't so different in this regard...

Later, Ponies! Gotta get some work done!