cultr1

perhaps you drove him to second insanity?

Your pony antics are negatively influencing our younger members.
See: RoyalTyler

whats a ryuotatan

god what is that terrifying avatar

no NO man you're MAKING me fall ASLEEP. to death BRO. Okay the LINE is:
BAOowhAIWHb

I think you NEED more CAPITALIZATION for INCORRECT emphasis ON words

You gotta come here!

;-;

i wanna talk about it but dude i've just been sitting on my pc talking to /everyone/ about it for hours as it is. I need to get up and move around!

add me on steam stat, though!

are you up yet
have you seen the glory of canon luna yet

OK LIL BUDDY HAVE A GOOD NIGHT HURRY UP AND GET TO SLEEP LUNA'LL BE ON IN 8 HOURS WHICH IS EXACTLY ENOUGH TIME TO GET A FULL NIGHT'S REST SDLFKJSDALFKJSDLAKFJ

POOOOONIIIEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZ <333333AOJF

well my stemid is http://steamcommunity.com/id/loveandpeace

add me tomorrow! i'm on steam like 24/7
only reason to ever use skype would be voicechat

wellll my main im program by far is steam
but i have aim/msn and skype, though i use skype the least, i could hop on there

my handle on it is breakmandx

CULTURE ONE i'm starting to think we're talking enough that we should start using an instant messenger rather than bombarding each other's profiles

Hiiiiiiii~
Please come on skype? :c

oh, it's okay, no editting necessary, i just left you *two* mountain-sized posts. for you to read. every single word of. and love it.

also there's no official plushies that are any good i know of, but there's always loads of excellent fan ones on eqd and stuff. fluttershy would be an amazing plushie, but pinkie pie would be best of the best -- she's my favorite and oh so fluffy~

Okay, so to reply to Part 2 of the adventure:

Lmao, that's weird about your friend. I'm 24 and have never had absolutely any "luck with the ladies" but I love the show to death and would have no matter what my age, I know it. I've just always been that kind of sensitive guy that would never act too 'manly' for something or something like that and would quite enjoy anything even very 'wussy' if it's well-done or whatever. I guess some guys try too hard to be manly, especially in their teen years -- my older step bro who was my best friend back in the day being a prime example. I guarantee you he's into ponies now if he knows about them, though.

When you talk about "cool guys but who have nerdy tastes and are into all the best music and get along with everyone" it sounds exactly like my older brother. Blood brother, not step brother. He was so cool and popular and loved by everyone and so many older kids and teachers would tell me stories about him and all this, yet he was always so into nerdy things and still is, like rpgs, epsecially stuff like Final Fantasy, and all that kind of stuff. It's weird, we couldn't be more different in most ways, especially physically, and had such diifferent school experiences, but now in post-highschool we seem to be exactly the same and both have life-crushingly severe social anxiety, though he won't even admit it (it's obvious he has it, though). I think we have it in different ways, though, and would be able to succeed if we worked together --- but I'm getting off on a whole 'nother tangent here. Long story short, I was always a huge sensitive brainiac growing up but I had loads of friends until highschool, then suddenly and severely was ostracized and had zero friends and life sucked. So!

Yeah, I dunno, I've hardly roleplayed in years, and mostly when I did in the past it was battle stuff, or like dragons and crap when I was younger (non-furry stuff), robots fighting, megaman characters in this amazing strict-to-join-but-so-laid-back-once-you-were-in rp thing, roleplaying in games like everquest and eq2 with my step bros and their friends who were huge on rp, etc. I have done some furry rp and crap but it's few and far between, and that's getting to the point of stuff I'd rather not have on shoutboards lmao. It's been awhile since I've done anything like that except kind of as a joke and stuff anyway. But ponies offer a unique and fun opportunity, I think the idea of making your own character and picking the race and ability/mark etc would be so sososo fun and neat and then you could go on adventures with others or just rp living in a town or something and aldkfsjflkj it'd be SO COOL if it was in a mature enough community that wouldn't have horrible unipeg OCs with 209428 powers and all that. I dunno, you might enjoy something like that if you had a GOOD rp with kind and mature people to rp with, and feel less sheepish around, but yeah. I dunno, though, the creepy stuff messes with me, I don't mind even the 'creepiest' pony art or this or that but the actual RP tends to be so silly, and so out of character and out-of-universe feeling and lafksfdj i dunno. Espeeeeecially when it's done publically lol. But /shrug.

Oh god, so young! Every single time i meet someone and even if they're mature and give me no reason to think they're younger than 18 or so, they're younger. Then it ends up they're EVEN younger than that, every time. Man, it sucks. I know I'm probably making you feel bad, but it's really mostly me being pissed I'm so old. I wish so bad I could just freeze my age. I don't want to be some old fart compared to all the people who're into things i'm into, and damned if it makes me sound like peter pan or something, I'm always gonna be a kid at heart. I'm always going to be into crap like video games and especially animation more than anything. It's just who I am, who I'll always be. I'm not going to become the "generic man" society wants me to be no matter how bad it wants it -- yet I'm not going to do some stupid shit like actuallly want to ever be labelled a manchild or seriously want to be a kid forever or w/e, just a kid at heart. The kinda guy who'd make toys or cartoons for a living for his adult life, y'know. And I know age shouldn't matter much, but... damn, lol. Hopefully you're at least able to take in all the stuff I'm saying and none of it is boring or stupid or anything, at least.

Idk why you think you're a weird age for a meetup, though. I guarantee if you went to one no one'd care.

Aaaand I dunno what you mean by leaving the forums or w/e, I don't come here enough to really know what goes on, but cool, I guess!!!!!! you making the >:3 face at that one comment earlier made me feel like i can probably be comfortable about talking about "horrible things" like that, though, so lol (but considering the age difference, I'd probably feel kinda bad to too much)

dslfdalfj you tell me not to read it then i make a big bomb-ass reply already what are you doing to me

Haha, oh man. Lots of more interesting stuff about you every time you post!

So I guess the furry thing with me is weird. Partly I was on the defensive when I described it to you because I wanted to be honest about who I am but I didn't wanna come off as "creepy"; that's something I've always had trouble with, I know I'm not creepy at all but i have some interests and things that are almost always very creepy and then you have the people who just think immediately that if someone's remotely into anything furryish or bronyish they're creepy and lafkjsdflj I just don't wanna come off that way. Really though, I still "really really like" furry stuff too, but it's very much on the down-low, and it's something i know I could just dump tomorrow if I had a good reason to. Like, it's something that's fun to me, to look at that art or whatever, but it's not important in any way, it's just a thing.

As far as brony inter-warring and stuff, yeah, that sucks, but i totally predicted it. I honestly very strongly predicted every crappy thing that's happened within the pony community so none of it's been surprising to me, but it's still been distressing -- I expected it to happen 'in the future' but not so soon, so quickly, and it feels like no time AT ALL ago I was first falling in love with this. It feels like it started off and was just the most amazing thing in the world, and then a few weeks happened that were funky but had lots of cool pony, now all of a sudden it's... months later. But so much has happened this year, but... man, the ponies. God, the ponies. So much pony. I could seriously talk to you for hours, on voice or text, about just the ponies, what they did for me, what the community's been like for me, the people i've met from it, the victories and heartbreaks i've had because of it, the fanart and fics, the things i've participated in, the things i've wished i participated in, just all the ins and outs and just SO MANY STORIES TO TELL, it's incredible, it's unreal. Such a thing, like the most intense "internet adventure" I've ever had ever, even spending as long as I have for 12 years online, this just has no match. It's been such a ride.

But in the end, no matter what, no matter how weird the community gets, no matter how much people fight, no matter how 'creepy' outsiders may consider it, no matter how 'over-popular' it gets, I'm always, always going to love this show. It's meaningful to me in many ways now, but aside form that, it's just a damn good show. And even though I might sound like one of the 'woefully obsessed bronies' talking about it like that, I really mean it, I don't care-- maybe I am woefully obsessed. But I mean, no one but me's experienced exactly what I've experienced, so how can they know I don't have good reason to be? You sound like you know a lot, though, but still, if only I could tell you these stories, you'd just be shocked and amazed at how much even further the ponies go and how amazing and crazy the community's been than what you know. It's just... man. It's like being there when the Beatles first started coming to popularity and being a part of the fanbase, except in internet nerd form, or something.

But yeah, all in all, I think the community is still largely great. Like, as you said, you avoided furry community stuff, which is a wise decision, but you were spot-on about how the pony community just has a natural magnetism. A lot of people get mad at how much of a 'circlejerk' it is but they're just mad they're not a part of it, or are scared to join in -- it's so damn fun, it's just people having a good time, so why not enjoy it? But yeah, really, if you look at it from the outside it looks horrible, even if you go to ponychan or other big communities at large and try to be a part of them it seems pretty bad, but you join a small chat or small forum community, or make specific friends and talk to them 1-on-1 about ponies, it's still the most warm, wonderful community I've ever had the pleasure of being a part of. And that's one of the big reasons I love the artist training ground so much, people are so supportive, and there's also plenty of people who will maturely criticize you if need be, and it's just full of love and friendship and growth. Well, the whole community's still got a lot of love and friendship and growth. I just think a large part of the internet's still dumbfounded by the concepts of "love and friendship" and want to just denounce them, and so many new kids coming in don't really get it, but i agree, they should be welcomed and shown how cool it all is rather than immediately ostracized. But some will always be trolls and dummies and all that, but no matter how much that happens, I think the core community and cool individuals within it will always be rad.

And yeah, those look good, especially the Rarity and Dash ones. I dunno if I'll be doing it anytime soon, but I might just get me a good Pinkie toy eventually, I'd love a good quality Pinkie plush more than anything. Or if they EVER make ANYTHING that has to do with Discord. Or Derpy. As far as 'all the ponies' I still think I'd like the mcd's toys best because they're very adorable and very small and discrete, but maybe someday I'll have the guts to get some full-size ones like you.