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Good evening, lovely watchers. I trust the night finds you well, or if you happen to be reading this during daylight hours, I hope your hangover is not that bad. Good on you.
So, this is something I've been building to for a long time... Looooong time. Years ago, a... similar notion came to mind.
I know many people who'll read this will over-react or not understand it. I've kind of come to expect that over the years. Seems that no matter how plainly you word things, some people will just... I dunno, outright refuse to understand what you say. Some folkes read just far enough to get bored and make a decision based on that. Some read far enough to get to something they don't like or aren't comfortable with and make a decision based on that. *moves her head side to side in a sing-song motion* Some may just read the whole thing and interject too much of their own baggage to it to understand what was actually said...
Good verbal exercise for you all- BONUS- *smiles* Next time you're in an argument with someone, listen to the other person, then, before you say a thing, repeat back the exact words they just said, OUT LOUD to yourself, Far too often in communication, we reply to others based not on what they actually said but what we felt they meant. *Points* I said "we", don't be pissy now, I do it, too.
But I digress... If you're wanting me to explain exactly what it was I saw in the show which I disliked so much,*rolls her eyes* not the fanbase, not the toys, not the media frenzy surrounding the show... *claps her hands* We're not going there. That's another discussion for another time for a much more personal setting.
Besides, beautiful watchers *head tilts* didn't you read all that? *smiles* We've got bigger fish to fry, don't we? Politicians attempting to install theocratic laws in our "free" country, people murdering people in the street over race, sexuality, ethnicity, rights and privileges being removed all in the name of outdated mores and superstitious nonsense... and through it all... ARBY'S HASN'T BROUGHT BACK THE BACON-BROWN SUGAR BLT YET!!!
I can't believe that bullshit... Ugh...
So,*raises her arms wide, smiling* ponies, bronies, monie-monies... macaronies.... Marconi's... good on yer. I hoped you enjoyed reading this little slice of psyche as much as I did writing it for you. *removes her hat and bows* Can any of us ever truly be forgiven? If you could meet your god, what would you say? Can a creation ever truly love their creator? What is free will...? Maybe we'll all find out together... *smiles* One world. One love, beautiful watchers.
So, this is something I've been building to for a long time... Looooong time. Years ago, a... similar notion came to mind.
I know many people who'll read this will over-react or not understand it. I've kind of come to expect that over the years. Seems that no matter how plainly you word things, some people will just... I dunno, outright refuse to understand what you say. Some folkes read just far enough to get bored and make a decision based on that. Some read far enough to get to something they don't like or aren't comfortable with and make a decision based on that. *moves her head side to side in a sing-song motion* Some may just read the whole thing and interject too much of their own baggage to it to understand what was actually said...
Good verbal exercise for you all- BONUS- *smiles* Next time you're in an argument with someone, listen to the other person, then, before you say a thing, repeat back the exact words they just said, OUT LOUD to yourself, Far too often in communication, we reply to others based not on what they actually said but what we felt they meant. *Points* I said "we", don't be pissy now, I do it, too.
But I digress... If you're wanting me to explain exactly what it was I saw in the show which I disliked so much,*rolls her eyes* not the fanbase, not the toys, not the media frenzy surrounding the show... *claps her hands* We're not going there. That's another discussion for another time for a much more personal setting.
Besides, beautiful watchers *head tilts* didn't you read all that? *smiles* We've got bigger fish to fry, don't we? Politicians attempting to install theocratic laws in our "free" country, people murdering people in the street over race, sexuality, ethnicity, rights and privileges being removed all in the name of outdated mores and superstitious nonsense... and through it all... ARBY'S HASN'T BROUGHT BACK THE BACON-BROWN SUGAR BLT YET!!!
I can't believe that bullshit... Ugh...
So,*raises her arms wide, smiling* ponies, bronies, monie-monies... macaronies.... Marconi's... good on yer. I hoped you enjoyed reading this little slice of psyche as much as I did writing it for you. *removes her hat and bows* Can any of us ever truly be forgiven? If you could meet your god, what would you say? Can a creation ever truly love their creator? What is free will...? Maybe we'll all find out together... *smiles* One world. One love, beautiful watchers.
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This is one powerful read. Lots of emotion in here and... it's very humbling. You had been doing these comics for such a long time, and I admit I've never been the largest fan of the series, but I was always so confused as to the sheer unrestrained hatred you showed the MLP franchise. I avoided the comics for a while because of that notion of animosity. Such negative emotions never really seemed to fit your personality without purpose, it felt as though you hated it simply for the sake of doing so in my opinion. But I understand the reason now, at least how it all began. I'm glad you shared this with us.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, love. Thank you for sharing your candid honesty, kind appraisal of my work... and for actually comprehending! *laughs and removes her hat*
A side point... many people have -very incorrectly- thought over the years that I made the comics to somehow slight the fans of the show. *brow furrows* This has always struck me as bizarre, as often as I re-stated that I wanted the opposite, for fans of the show to NOT look at the MLP comics if they might be so very bothered by them. *shrugs, exasperated* It's why I actually made the whole warning icon and everything... I'unno...
Though... I will be continuing the world of the characters involved, actually re-tooling many of the comics I never posted to fit into a new world for the ponies, the prinnies, Frosty, the Terror Bears, Ron Jack... even Tulip.
I should say, "especially" Tulip.
A side point... many people have -very incorrectly- thought over the years that I made the comics to somehow slight the fans of the show. *brow furrows* This has always struck me as bizarre, as often as I re-stated that I wanted the opposite, for fans of the show to NOT look at the MLP comics if they might be so very bothered by them. *shrugs, exasperated* It's why I actually made the whole warning icon and everything... I'unno...
Though... I will be continuing the world of the characters involved, actually re-tooling many of the comics I never posted to fit into a new world for the ponies, the prinnies, Frosty, the Terror Bears, Ron Jack... even Tulip.
I should say, "especially" Tulip.
...I didn't know you could write this good!
...I really don't understand. Much less because I came to know you as someone who hated ponies first and... other things second. but I liked everything else you did, so dislike of a TV show I like, was the smallest of sticking points, so I let it go. But you seem to need this, to forgive, and to ask for forgiveness from, these characters.
...I really don't understand. Much less because I came to know you as someone who hated ponies first and... other things second. but I liked everything else you did, so dislike of a TV show I like, was the smallest of sticking points, so I let it go. But you seem to need this, to forgive, and to ask for forgiveness from, these characters.
*smiles, blushing a lil'* Thank you very much, love. I appreciate your appreciation. I do a great deal of writing, truth be told. I just haven't ever bothered doing much with it...
Want a true story? *smirks, rubbing her temples*
"One Last Caress" is something I've wanted to express in a way for some time, about the point ever since I was just sitting at work one night, scripting outloud to myself as I'm want to do at my desk and that thought occurred to me which I had a prinny, Corey, I believe, bring up in a previous comic...
"I know you have your reasons, boss, but given purely the logic of OUR world, how does your world view of 'the only reward of virtue is virtue' apply to what we do?"
Up until that moment, I'd had little pangs of unease from time to time but nothing solid, chalked it up to insecurity or somesuch. It was at that point when I honestly felt that I had spent... I have no idea how many hours, days of solid time in my life... working on things with a false premise, a flawed understanding, which was celebrating EVERYTHING I, personally, am against. I've had plenty of people praise my comics for reasons which I didn't really care for. "I hate those things too"(I never hated anything except apathy and resent anyone acquainting themselves to me in such a manner), "I hate bronies too"(though I've had some appalling run-ins with unbelievably rude bronies, see previous point), they enjoyed the gore for gores sake, they got off on it because they were just annoyed... *sighs*... up until that point I had basically choked it back and placed such unpleasantness and misunderstanding in the same camp as the people who said some very hateful things, personal attacks and such, towards me across multiple websites. *shrugs* None of them seemed to understand what it was I did or why I did it but if it made them happy, I just let it go OR if they wanted fume and fight I just let them be as well... But at that point, everything changed and I was done. I can't do those any further.
*smiles* Besides that, there's that whole "One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason." thing...
I still see the same issues with the show. It's not like that's changed *laughs* but I see no reason to waste so much vitriol on something so minor when there are REAL fucking monsters in the REAL world hurting people everyday, millions of people in horrible, de-humanizing ways.
This is not the end for these characters or their world, just a very big changing point for them.
Want a true story? *smirks, rubbing her temples*
"One Last Caress" is something I've wanted to express in a way for some time, about the point ever since I was just sitting at work one night, scripting outloud to myself as I'm want to do at my desk and that thought occurred to me which I had a prinny, Corey, I believe, bring up in a previous comic...
"I know you have your reasons, boss, but given purely the logic of OUR world, how does your world view of 'the only reward of virtue is virtue' apply to what we do?"
Up until that moment, I'd had little pangs of unease from time to time but nothing solid, chalked it up to insecurity or somesuch. It was at that point when I honestly felt that I had spent... I have no idea how many hours, days of solid time in my life... working on things with a false premise, a flawed understanding, which was celebrating EVERYTHING I, personally, am against. I've had plenty of people praise my comics for reasons which I didn't really care for. "I hate those things too"(I never hated anything except apathy and resent anyone acquainting themselves to me in such a manner), "I hate bronies too"(though I've had some appalling run-ins with unbelievably rude bronies, see previous point), they enjoyed the gore for gores sake, they got off on it because they were just annoyed... *sighs*... up until that point I had basically choked it back and placed such unpleasantness and misunderstanding in the same camp as the people who said some very hateful things, personal attacks and such, towards me across multiple websites. *shrugs* None of them seemed to understand what it was I did or why I did it but if it made them happy, I just let it go OR if they wanted fume and fight I just let them be as well... But at that point, everything changed and I was done. I can't do those any further.
*smiles* Besides that, there's that whole "One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason." thing...
I still see the same issues with the show. It's not like that's changed *laughs* but I see no reason to waste so much vitriol on something so minor when there are REAL fucking monsters in the REAL world hurting people everyday, millions of people in horrible, de-humanizing ways.
This is not the end for these characters or their world, just a very big changing point for them.
Thanks for giving such a large thoughtful answer! I had to think about it, probably because I've not created something to make a statement to other people, at least not on a day-by-day ongoing basis like your comics... to do something like this without agreeing with it, or at least enjoying it, would get old fast!
I think I get it. There have been times when I believed something, but thought twice when I saw the kinds of people saying the same thing, and how gods-awful their reasons were. When you see who agrees with you...
There is a law of arguments that the most hateful disputes occur over the most trivial things, precisely because the stakes are so low.
I think I get it. There have been times when I believed something, but thought twice when I saw the kinds of people saying the same thing, and how gods-awful their reasons were. When you see who agrees with you...
There is a law of arguments that the most hateful disputes occur over the most trivial things, precisely because the stakes are so low.
There is definitely some truth to what you're settin' down, love. *sighs* You reminded me of Penn Gillette's "Ten Commandments for Atheists"... something about "We can all yell and shout at each other till we're blue in the face over the latest iphone design but when it comes to the important things we need to learn to drop it..." or something like that.
Sometimes, I'd get notes from people who enjoyed what I did. Whether they disliked the show or loved it, it felt good to make someone out there happy with my Looney Tunes meets Johnny The Homicidal Maniac displays. Sometimes though, it felt a bit weird when someone would send me a link to some gore porn image of one Pony or t'other. I mean... *head tilts* Is THIS what they thought I was... all about? I wasn't so much disturbed by the subject matter or the art as the notion that somehow I'd possibly presented myself in this manner, that I was just enjoying seeing things suffer...*winces* Thinking back, as I said in this story, I think, in a way, I kinda did. That's embarrassing.
I've never been too keen on the christian proverb of "avoiding the appearance of evil" as you can't control how others will perceive you. Seems the best of actions and the most clearly explained of motivations will still be misinterpreted by some people. Still... it bothered me a bit when some truly hateful and mean people tried to drag me into their feuds and pettiness. *shakes her head*
I've never wanted to see people treated as less than others.
Sometimes, I'd get notes from people who enjoyed what I did. Whether they disliked the show or loved it, it felt good to make someone out there happy with my Looney Tunes meets Johnny The Homicidal Maniac displays. Sometimes though, it felt a bit weird when someone would send me a link to some gore porn image of one Pony or t'other. I mean... *head tilts* Is THIS what they thought I was... all about? I wasn't so much disturbed by the subject matter or the art as the notion that somehow I'd possibly presented myself in this manner, that I was just enjoying seeing things suffer...*winces* Thinking back, as I said in this story, I think, in a way, I kinda did. That's embarrassing.
I've never been too keen on the christian proverb of "avoiding the appearance of evil" as you can't control how others will perceive you. Seems the best of actions and the most clearly explained of motivations will still be misinterpreted by some people. Still... it bothered me a bit when some truly hateful and mean people tried to drag me into their feuds and pettiness. *shakes her head*
I've never wanted to see people treated as less than others.
Huh, based on my experiences, I'd have expected people into Pony gore to like that sort of thing. Some might be as literal minded as the computer-selected "If you enjoyed this, you might also like..." and mean it in an innocent sort of way. But some take it a step further... I myself wrote a story involving radiation poisoning and a guy liked it because he was a hardcore masochist. IE you may encounter people who want to be the Pony.
But I don't judge, after all the fetishes I've seen (and sometimes liked!) around Furry, we all have somethings we like that seem natural to us, but would weird out somebody...
If your art was used as ammunition in some Brony vs. Troll war, that's low, and you have my sympathies. *offers hug*
PS - I'm not familiar with that Christian proverb, and wouldn't actual evil be thing to be avoided, rather than, keeping up appearances? Though keeping up appearances wormed its way into the Gospels, like the one about praying in secret and appearing humble instead of openly trying to seem more religious and devout than those around you (funny how that one got completely ignored, even though it's the J-Man himself who said it...)
But I don't judge, after all the fetishes I've seen (and sometimes liked!) around Furry, we all have somethings we like that seem natural to us, but would weird out somebody...
If your art was used as ammunition in some Brony vs. Troll war, that's low, and you have my sympathies. *offers hug*
PS - I'm not familiar with that Christian proverb, and wouldn't actual evil be thing to be avoided, rather than, keeping up appearances? Though keeping up appearances wormed its way into the Gospels, like the one about praying in secret and appearing humble instead of openly trying to seem more religious and devout than those around you (funny how that one got completely ignored, even though it's the J-Man himself who said it...)
Read. Huh....wish i could have spoken to you at the start of this mess. "What ever a human thinks on what is wrong or right depends on their point of view and the forces around them" apprently some rome guy made half of that back in the day. Humans tend to strongly defend their points. With a world so cold, is it not a escape to wish for a world that is like a childs hopes and dreams. Working together, talking, figurine problems.
Our world is dark. But humans should like or dislike things freely. With out muder intent from others. sadly many humans of even such a world seem to want to force it onto others. Unlogical byt the flaws of humans.
And now a quote. "We will love and tolerate the ever loveing friendship out of you" whats the real quote? Huh, something with pain death lots of bad fucking and so forth i guess. Eh...i forgot.
Our world is dark. But humans should like or dislike things freely. With out muder intent from others. sadly many humans of even such a world seem to want to force it onto others. Unlogical byt the flaws of humans.
And now a quote. "We will love and tolerate the ever loveing friendship out of you" whats the real quote? Huh, something with pain death lots of bad fucking and so forth i guess. Eh...i forgot.
Thank you, darling... I know you wanted to avoid filling my comment section with your thought processes on this and I respect that but I think what you had to say outside of this little box was very helpful to me and rather humbling in many ways. I kid of wish you'd gone ahead and typed that all out here. You know the lengths I can go on. S'not like I'd mind seeing you do so, darling.
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