No.1178840
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i imagine... for now perhaps, it is a more anxious time for many.
let us have then, a nice, relaxing thread, for sharing feelings. it will be good to have some place to rest, won't it?
No.1178844
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remember that even when bad things happen, there are still good things out there and the world will keep on spinning regardless
No.1178846
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>>1178844like you! You are good thing <3
No.1178849
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>>1178846Like me, and you, and ice cream!
No.1178853
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>>1178849i do like ice cream ... but it is too late at night for treats c:
No.1178855
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>>1178853in my opinion, it is never too late for treats.
No.1178865
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>>1178860Water can be a treat!
>>1178861At the moment, I'm not really feeling all that hungry. But I like to have ice cream for a treat most of the time.
No.1178871
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No.1178878
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>>1178865have you ever had, soviet ice cream? c: it is a special treat! you can still buy it!
>>1178871ohhhh hello nonny! how are you? c:
>>1178864that's a very appropriate feeling song today!
No.1178879
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>>1178878Not bad. Just did an 8 hour shift and about to walk into the gym. Today is shoulders and back, then the rowing machine
No.1178881
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pls rember that wen u feel scare or frigten
never forget ttimes wen u feeled happy
wen day is dark alway rember happy day
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No.1178882
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>>1178879oh? do you work nights, nonny? c: it is a good day for the gym! maybe i should also do weights today!
>>1178881alway rember happy day c:
No.1178883
>>1178881Well I just spent most of my day editing some previewcideo clips for the latest podcast episode, and writing a draft for a gMe design Doc for a lil game I hope to finally arse myself to make.
Membering happy day in progress
No.1178887
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>>1178882Yeah, I work the graveyard shift and then I go to the gym right after in the morning. I'm pretty satisfied with the routine so far. My arm veins have been returning pretty well. Forearms are looking nice, and I got some showing up that run from my cephalic vein has been popping out in my arms and my axillary vein has been becoming more visible from shoulder to chest region. It's kind of cool.
I've also noticed that the inner thigh is wanting to pop out a little more. Not the femoral artery (arteries are too deep within tissue to see from working out), but the veins. I can feel them with my finger when I run it over the skin. It's probably from that hip adductor machine.
No.1178894
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>>1178887ohhh... gosh, i have never thought so hard about it, the gym. i can bench 220 lbs right now... but i am really out of practice. i have trouble even stabilizing. i need to go to the gym more often. :c
No.1178895
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>>1178894220 is good. It's not a contest; at the end of the day, it's all about self-improvement. You can always get back into it.
How many reps do you do?
No.1178896
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>>1178894You can bench 220? That's the same as Fred from Scooby Doo!
No.1178897
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>>1178894220 is decent. I think my best ever was somewhere around 200. I've never had a strong chest or arms. For me it was always my legs.
I've been a runner most of my life, and I really enjoy letting people underestimate me, so I used to love challenging people to squat or deadlift competitions when they got mouthy. They always looked at my small arms and laughed, as though it had anything to do with the competition. My best deadlift was when I was 18 and a parkour instructor, I topped out at 465. Today I would probably struggle with half that.
No.1178900
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>>1178895i do 8-10 reps and 4 sets usually... Though i am also really out of practice. i already feel tired today and it is only 3 :c
>>1178896>>1178897It is only because i am naturally pretty strong and tall... despite my general demeanor c:
given my stature, it is not an impressive number: it is something probably one could achieve in less than two months of consistent practice.
No.1178903
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>>1178840>it will be good to have some place to rest, won't it?I can't
No.1178905
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>>1178903...i understand. but why cannot you rest, andrea?
No.1178911
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>>1178905I won't get into details that aren't my own, but I think right now she could really use some love from her friends. Be nice to Andrea
No.1178916
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>>1178914It feels more like people are accepting of LGBT stuff these days than ever before.
I say "Take it easy." We're all gonna be alright, but then again most people mistake me for being completely straight. It's odd, everyone I've talked to have been a lot more supportive as understanding grows between people.
I have friends that have been in prison (and come from older generations) and at this point they're like "Who cares? Gay people are pretty cool." (They clump everything LGBT as 'gay' lol) They don't harass me over it. They just make some dumb jokes about it and ask questions if they get curious about it.
I'm not too worried about it. And I live in an extremely homophobic town. That's how much this country has changed in the last 5 years alone.
No.1178920
>>1178916It's interesting that a)you're saying that you avoid being the victim of anti-LGBT hatred and violence due to your looking, sounding, and acting like a straight man [which very obviously isn't equally true for many other people who aren't you, including me] and also b)you completely ignored the matter of antisemitic hatred and violence without saying a word.
This isn't an argument thread, though, so I won't say anything else.
No.1178922
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Vent post. Click at your peril.
Good god I'm so tired.
A president runs for a second term. He runs for a second term for the second time. He's lost the popular vote both times before, he was really unpopular and bad last time, and this time they think he's going to do this thing called Project 2025, which is a list of basically every bad thing he could possibly do. But they can stop it. All they have to do is vote for the other person.
And they don't. He wins the fucking popular vote and gets elected again. The people had a choice and they went with the one that was very specifically going to be very bad for everyone. A lot of people didn't even bother to show up.
I wake up the next day and because I'm trans and I've surrounded myself with trans-positive people every other post on social media is the same shit. 'We've survived worse'. 'Don't kill yourselves, spite these people by continuing to exist'. 'Organise and fight back'. 'We care about you'.
First of all, it's a bad sign that so many people thought these were things they needed to say to their followers on social media. Second of all, am I really supposed to believe any of these people are going to cry themselves to sleep at night over my continued existence? They all either don't care or think I'm subhuman and not worth worrying about. This wouldn't be a fucking problem if they cared.
So like, to be clear, I'm not going to kill myself, at least not yet, but I'm so fucking tired of waking up every morning to more and more signs that the entirety of society is either hostile or apathetic to anything that might make me happy. I wake up every morning and I try the best I can every day (which isn't trying very hard because this shit's been getting to me for years now) and it never gets me anywhere. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of people imploring me to keep going, tired of all their baseless positivity, tired of everything always getting worse and not better. How fucking dark does it have to get before the dawn? Is my luck ever going to change? Do I ever get to be happy? The truth hurts and the lies are obvious and none of it gives me comfort. All I can do is stare into the void and wait.
And the best part is I'm not even American. I'm fucking British. So I'm not even really mad about Donald Trump, I'm just mad that things are going to keep getting worse and take their sweet time getting better, if they ever do.
No.1178923
>>1178922I came really close to committing suicide yesterday.
I'm still here, though.
If even two singular people think that you shouldn't have been aborted or euthanized, then that's enough. I'd even say that it's enough if it's just one. Even the one.
No matter how badly the masses may claim that certain classifications of humanity shouldn't exist. Or if individual people think that their own family should be sexually molested. Beaten up. Starved. Ordered to kill themselves. Whatever else.
There's still hope. If even one person thinks that you should be alive. There's still hope.
I swear to God that we can live to the day in which parents wanting their children gotten rid of due to their perceived inferiority isn't normal, natural, and standard anymore.
We can live to the day in which things like sexual abuse isn't normal, natural, and standard anymore.
That day WILL come.
No.1178925
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>>1178920I don't actively avoid anything. I just don't make being bisexual my entire personality, so most people don't really pick up on it. I also don't hide it from people either. Everyone who has ever found out about what I like has been accepting, even if they don't agree with whether or not it's 'right'. In the past 10 years out of everyone I've ever met who has found out that I enjoy both men and women, only ONE PERSON has ever called me a fag in anger and disgust. (And they were extremely drunk and apologized about it the following morning.)
My point was that even in those who express their homosexuality, transgendered, or otherwise LGBT tendencies tend to face a higher level of acceptance and love than they have within the past 100 years alone, much greater within the past 5.
>you completely ignored the matter of antisemitic hatred and violence without saying a word.Criticizing groups of semitic people (Jewish, Arabic, Palestinian, ect; because people forget that the word includes those other people) isn't a form of violence. If
anything within the past 10 years I've seen white people clumped together under the word of "White" and attacked both within the media and physically within the streets.
Unfortunately for professional victims, big bad whitey is actually a victim their self these days.
No.1178929
>>1178924/pony/is technically safe. At least in appearance there's plenty of LGTBQ people and there's probably a reason why so many Ponychan/Ponyvillians have been openly trans.
I don't know who rsides on /townhall/ though.
That's honestly a place to avoid or this.
There's honestly a good reason why we don't discuss politics here.
No.1178930
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>>1178924Except there really aren't. Most people who post here have been nothing but kind and accepting, wonderful people.
This is why I actually do not like talking about politics and social issues; because it makes people emotionally charges and turns the entire conversation into an "Us vs them" narrative rather than just coming together as people despite our political differences and saying "Alright. Let's figure this out."
Most people that I know didn't vote for Trump because they hated LGBT people, or Mexicans, or wanted to "OWN THE LIBS! XDDXDD" It's because they were tired of the Biden Administration, the inflation that came with it, the joke that it made America present itself to the rest of the world, (Like it or not Trump was respected by many and feared by others,) and the lies that they were spreading that were actively turning people against one another.
More than half of the population voted for him. He won the popular and electoral vote, winning in a fucking land slide. You don't think minorities, women, and LGBT+ folk didn't vote for the guy? You guys really think more than half of the population is stupid? Fuck outta here. lol. People as a group can be stupid, but a lot of those people invested time and effort into actually attempting to understand the ramifications of both sides within this election. I've talked to so many people with both well thought out, and more vapid thoughts about the pros and cons of each side; and it's insulting to have groups of people like disconnected celebrities and brainwashed college students who think a degree actually makes you intelligent think that the majority of the working class is too stupid to think for their selves. The truth is that people are finally sick of being told they are oppressors in one way or another, and they are sick of having to work harder for less money in relevance to the cost of living. The overall levels of satisfaction and quality of life have been plummeting under the Biden administration. You can blame Covid, you can blame white people, and you can blame it on men; but at the end of the day just like parenting, it boils down to an oppressive group of people that have poor leadership skills and no interest for the well being of the people.
I should run for president No.1178935
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>>1178840Hey Moon
I have to wonder, watching a youtuber announce their sponsor, do they really take time to test out and fully believe the stuff they're peddling?
Or is it like a neat sort of contract to earn something?
No.1178939
>>1178925Saying that victims deserve more violence and more hatred, or just engaging in gaslighting mixed in with denialism, are really shit takes, and that really isn't the sort of thing anybody would come to /pony/ for.
I also can't begin to understand why harming other religious people and other ethnicities for some reason makes one form of hurt less by comparison. If more people get diagnosed with skin cancer in a certain town, then that won't make you happy by comparison if you've got, say, breast cancer. That just makes you sadder by comparison. Bad things are bad. More bad things are more bad things.
And like why the hell would something like hatred and violence against, like, Roman Catholics in the U.S. make me personally feel less bad than hatred and violence against Jews, if one family member is going to get hurt compared to another? How does that make any logical sense at all?
Somebody trying to hurt my step-dad and somebody trying to hurt my biological grandparents are both just going to make them and me suffer. I can't rank one evil above or below another. They're both wrong.
Honestly, the more I try to mentally process all this, the less I get it either ethically or rationally. It's morally wrong to try to destroy somebody based on their religious faith or skin color or whatever else. It's just inherently wrong. By itself.
There's no such thing as constructive child abuse. Or whatever else if we're talking about adults. It's just a bad thing.
No.1178940
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>>1178930>You guys really think more than half of the population is stupid?Yes, but that isn't really related to the election.
No.1178941
>>1178930Buy seriously why is it okay to molest children, or adults, or otherwise engage in sexually based hurt just because they somehow "deserve it"?
How does any of that shit even remotely make sense?
No.1178944
>>1178943It's not "airing grivences".
I just think that being sad or mad about something that's obviously bad, such as child abuse or sexual assault, shouldn't be a political issue in which people disagree but instead should just be a matter of feeling empathy for those who hurt and helping them.
It's hard for me to get that that's not the normal way of things.
The response to a post like "child abuse makes them sad" should be a post like "I'm sorry to hear that, and we'll work it all out okay".
No.1178946
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>>1178941As a person with autism, there's increasingly something appealing about living in your own little coccoon.
Don't even bother seeking out interaction with the vast majority of the world.
Humanity is a shitfest, you focus on staying alive and marching to your own tune.
Don't count on others to pick things up for you and don't give anyone an inch either.
No.1178949
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>>1178946I think that's always the lesson to remember in situations where you feel powerless on a national or global stage. Focus on yourself, on where you're at, on your friends and family. Begrudging a situation you had no power over is understandable, it sucks that you have to go through whatever it is, but it's not a solution. It's not even a band-aid. It's only making things worse.
Even, or especially, if you think there isn't much you can do, try to do what you can. Make things as good as you can for yourself, and just...accept that it's all you can do.
No.1178951
>>1178946I don't really agree that one should be in a cocoon.
I feel like if you've the opportunity to prevent somebody in your direct life, such as a family member or a neighbor, from suffering terrible things, especially anything like sexual abuse or the like, then you should stop it. At bare minimum, you should care.
Frankly, the feeling that I'm helpless and that I should just go through my life not doing and not caring if those besides me get hurt or even die... like I think not just is this wrong but nobody should be like that.
No.1178952
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>>1178951That's not really what anyone meant.
No.1178953
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I'm gonna say it.
I DO think God also stays in Heaven because he, too, fears what he has created.
No.1178956
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Someone mentioned it earlier but I DO wonder what the FUCK is up with townhall. Do all those people there with their shitty ass opinions really use this site? are people on /pony/ hiding their shitty takes from all of us, or is /townhall/ full of people who only ever use /townhall/?
No.1178958
>>1178956Wll, Nonnie is thre, likely to get a kick out of getting others upset.
Though I think it has its political posters that stay off of /pony/.
And most people on /pony/ avoid the board altogether.
No.1178960
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>>1178939You're putting words into my mouth. I'm not gaslighting anyone or engaging in any form of denial. I'm sharing my own experiences and comparing the present to the past. To say that life isn't a lot more lenient and comfortable for the LGBT+ community today even when compared to as recently as less than a decade ago would be ridiculous. Believe it or not, most people are pretty accepting of those that are trans and homosexual. If the majority felt otherwise, we certainly wouldn't have their rights protected just like every other American in this country.
I think you need to relax and take a breath. There's no need to let anger cloud your mind.
>>1178941>>1178945Where did I say anything even remotely close to it being okay to sexually assault other people? I think you need to reread some posts.
>>1178940Gottem!
>>1178958I don't really use townhall all that often, and I'm not currently trying to get a rise out of any of you at the moment.
No.1178967
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>>1178960"To say that life isn't a lot more lenient and comfortable for the LGBT+ community today even when compared to as recently as less than a decade ago would be ridiculous"
May I remind us all that Obama ran for and won the presidency while being publicly anti gay marriage
No.1178968
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>>1178967Which was changed. There was also a time in recent history where some states could still fire someone for being gay. Marriage for homosexual couples was completely legalized in 2015. Pretty radical, eh?
No.1178970
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>>1178915...i see... :c
>hugs>>1178935sometimes we get to test it out! like they will send free products, or trial codes, or food c:
it is a contract, but never a commission: i don't get any percentage of sales made. but the more sales made, the more the sponsor will want to come back
i am slowly getting a bit more strict about the sponsors too.
No.1178971
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um... please be nice, everyone. i know that current events has us all seeking a place to vent and express, so i am not being too picky about it.
but while we express and vent, i ask that we also treat each other with dignity and respect. we are all friends here <3
No.1178978
>>1178970>>1178970Sounds like the right approach to sponsors.
Not that I'd know. I've (quite obviously) never been approached by anyone that wasn't a scam.
Occasionally someone sends me their game, though, which is nice. Especially considering my Let's Plays don't really get views. But yanno. Shotgun marketing, I guess.
No.1178982
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>>1178967I don't know if it's a being terminally online thing, but if you'd deny there's been some pretty nasty movements on social media and legislation in some states that target LGBTQ , then you must have been asleep in the last few years.
Book bans, book burnings, educational restrictions, threats of CPS involvement for kids that peddle in LGBTQ, trans people equated to rapists, LGBTQ community accused of being pedophiles by the same people who claim that they should be able to shoot pedophiles on sight...
Back in the day it felt like being outspoken hateul to any minority just made you an asshole. But in the booming of the social media, it now seems to be a badge of honour.
No.1178987
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>>1178986I feel like everyone is still very confused as to why you brought up child abuse.
No.1178988
>>1178987Because when you guys and others claim that it's not such a bad thing because of how natural, normal, and standard such actions are, with America just being America, you're all just plain wrong.
Especially thinking that it's a matter of jokes and jibes, like harming kids is a clowning thing the same as somebody getting hit in the face with a pie or whatever else.
No.1179001
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I'm clapping my ass as I'm typing this post out!
*Huff.. Huff* Is.. This.. Helping?
No.1179004
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>>1178983...i am sorry, andrea. i know... it has been a very, very hard fifteen years. and that even harder times... maybe be upon you. i am very sorry, dear friend.... if there is something we can do, if i can do... you let me know.
No.1179016
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>>1178840I miss you Moony
>huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugsI have so much to tell you (especially on Discord)