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  1. Dowlphin
    I made this a couple of months ago, but I was today reminded of video-related synchronicities, and compared to some of the relatively well-known stuff on the net (like "The Dark Side of the Rainbow"), this one is quite an intense example.
    I'll copy&paste the video description below, since it explains everything. Feel free to comment on the video and give thumbs up - It would make me very happy. (I could really use a strong positive side to counter the negative influences in my life so that I can shift my focus.)
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCY1w4CTlAw
     
    I was terribly bored, so I started working on a boring/bored/boredom compilation (seemed like the thing to do, LOL), and by accident, when I had opened one episode while still having another episode's audio track loaded and searched for the next piece, I noticed the uncanny degree of sync(hronicity) between the two in vocals, effects, emotions, scene transitions, behavior, so I let it play out for as long as it matched so well.
     
    I love it when I receive help from the Realm of Random.
     
    I consider this my typical life art. When I'm too bored for anything, the only thing left to do is creatively expressing it. Blabla. Some meaningful life lesson in it I'm sure. I'll just do stuff (or not) and see where it leads.
     
    Man, it has been so long since my last pony upload.
    Just an hour before I started doing this, I browsed through my project files and unfinished compilations and felt even less motivated to work on any of them. Life really makes no sense. And I don't care. Meaning trumps sense.
  5. Dowlphin
    It feels good to finally have made something pony again ( always my wish ), after tons of Terraria videos.
     

     
    Video description:
    ------------------------
    This is a brony fan lyrics version of Buddy Stewart's "Sun Shine On Me"
    I had this project on hold for quite a while and now was in the right mood and with decent mic to vocalize it.
    I wrote "karaoke'd" because I have almost no practice in singing or music production but wanted to give it my best shot and make use of my decent mic and DAW. I recorded this a dozen times or so and improved RELATIVELY much over those tries (as I did temporarily during brony conventions, hehe), but eventually didn't see significant improvement anymore and called it a day for this piece.
     
    The lyrics are hinting at how sleep and/or meditative introspection (yin approach) can be a healing influence and are of course inspired by the lovely Princess Luna who visits ponies in their dreams ( a true nightmare ;-D ) to help them with just that.
     
    I am open to collabs. ^^
     
    If you like this, like (duh! ^^), fav, subscribe, comment, share, tell your friends, check out my other web presences, send money. Whichever you feel is appropriate. (My humility demanded I add that.) It all helps a lot.
     
    My lyrics:
    ___________________
    Moon, shine on me tonight.
    Luna, please make things alright.
    How I need your cool embrace
    To shine upon my cryin' face.
    Oh moon, shine on me tonight.
     
    Luna, give me a little night.
    Take me outta this burning light.
    You know what a little night can do.
    You make the sky go black for you.
    Oh moon, shine on me tonight.
     
    Moonshine, come on moonshine.
    Let me have one with no pain.
    Just one, only one
    To get me started on my way.
     
    Moon, shine on me tonight.
    Luna, cleanse me of my fright.
    You make the trees and flowers sleep
    And you can solve my troubles deep.
    Oh moon, shine on me tonight.
     
    Yeah moon, shine on me tonight.
    Luna, please make things alright.
    You know what a little night can do.
    You make the sky go black for you.
    Oh moon, shine on me tonight.
    Oh moon, shine on me tonight.
    Come on moon, shine on me tonight.
    Oh moon, shine on me tonight.
     
     
     
    Original lyrics:
    ___________________
    Sun, shine on me today.
    Sun, dry my tears away.
    How I need your warm embrace
    To shine upon my cryin' face.
    Oh sun, shine on me today.
     
    Sun, give me a little light.
    Take me outta this darkened night.
    You know what a little light can do.
    You change the sky from black to blue.
    Oh sun, shine on me today.
     
    Sunshine, come on sunshine.
    Let me have one with no rain.
    Just one, only one
    To get me started on my way.
     
    Sun, shine on me today.
    Sun, dry my tears away.
    You make the trees and flowers grow
    And you can make my troubles go.
    Oh sun, shine on me today.
     
    Yeah sun, shine on me today.
    Sun, dry my tears away.
    You know what a little light can do.
    You change that sky from black to blue.
    Oh sun, shine on me today.
    Oh sun, shine on me today.
    Come on sun, shine on me today.
    Oh sun, shine on me today.
     

    UPDATE: This video was targeted by a mobbing campaign by antisocial scum, that's why it received tons of downvotes.
  6. Dowlphin
    So much for living Equestria.
    I notice that especially convention reps and such aren't quite in the brony spirit. It's kind of an irony, because you know how sometimes people wish "happy holidays" because they don't want to exclude non-christians from the celebration/adress (that to a good degree isn't even christian but was annexed by christianity - a religion which fought the pagan faith it annexed)? That's for political correctness, something that people in official representative function seem especially concerned about. Yet especially from such sources you see greetings directed specifically at bronies that are adressing christian bronies.
     
    Take a look at what happens in the brony community during, say, muslim or jewish celebrations.
     
    Not that this spoils my mood or anything. After all, it is something that fits into a picture I see anyway, and I am a deep thinker. But I want to point this out as an incentive to ponder, maybe discuss, and maybe get enlightened a bit.
     

    The beautiful, harmonic solution is staring right in people's faces, offered by the very show they say they celebrate.
     

    Have a pleasant Hearth's Warming.
  7. Dowlphin
    Referring to https://mlpforums.com/blog/819/entry-14983-living-tombstone-and-shadyvox-dishonor-their-and-my-charity-commitment/
     
    I added a little update with some new info and clarification to my blog article http://dowlphin.blogspot.de/2015/01/living-tombstone-and-shadyvox-dishonor.html
  8. Dowlphin

    S5E21 brief commentary

    By Dowlphin,

    Hm, now that was odd. A Halloween episode was perfect timing, but a Christmas episode right before that, that's kinda odd.
     
    What Fluttershy said in the end is roughly how I feel, too. I don't like to play any kind of prank on people that causes bad feelings and discomfort, unless it's to a trivial degree. Just like Fluttershy said: Seeing others in such a state, caused by me, that would make me feel very bad, regardless of prank or not. The feelings are the same. A certain sensitivity combined with empathy prevents enjoyment of that.
    Of course they could have told her to just be afraid, to accept the experience; that it's just one night and the whole point, but why should Fluttershy condition herself like that? It would change who she is, and with good, accepting friends, she is in the lovely position of not needing to. She can overcome her fears when it is really required, when it's serious. That's good enough.
    They also could have told her that her many worries of being attacked are unfounded and that there's nothing to really be scared of, but that would have defeated the whole purpose of Nightmare Night. ( No, I don't mean candy. )
     
    Speaking of which... Pinkie's candy bag art made me laugh so hard! Like soul images.
    The episode generally had a lot of fun little details.
    As mentioned in my tweet https://twitter.com/Dowlphin/status/660491881525153796 I must say though, they should really cut back on the ... Wilhelm squeaks ^^, haha. Gets as annoying as the screams can become. Funnily, this was a Halloween episode and as far as I can tell there was actually no Wilhelm SCREAM in it. (Not saying there should have been.)
     
    Apparently they know how to make colored contact lenses in Equestria. Or what other means could Fluttershy have used to change her eye color?
     
    Here are two more spontaneous thoughts I had while watching:
     
    http://dowlphin.tumblr.com/post/132474652747/nightmare-night-dlc
     
    http://dowlphin.tumblr.com/post/132474660237/angel-punny-that-moment-was-so-rich-in-pun-how
  9. Dowlphin
    I have been writing a lot about the pain of abundant spoilers. :okiedokielokie:
     
    Can you see where this is going?
     

    No, not gonna say it. You say it!
     
     
     
    Let the star of the episode be your hero and do your best to become a hero, too.
     
    Just the usual lesson, actually. But damn, this one is dear to me.
     
     
     
    Side note: When you are really making a sincere effort and your intention is pure, but you eventually still falter, life might have your back. The universe appreciates sincerity, action from the heart, and doesn't punish without purpose. Punishment always takes two.
  10. Dowlphin
    So as I talked about in my previous entry, because I already knew the format of the episode beforehand it took away a good bit of the potentially pleasant surprise. It was still a remarkable episode to watch though (took me a while to get into the mood), because the bright spirit of the show has its own power. And because it is such a change to the lore.
    Did you notice? It started with a theme of change, but it ended up being not the kind of change you'd have expected, but much more.
     
    Also this episode, too, featured the common uplifting/refreshing theme of people being able to change to the better so relatively easily, compared to what is often the case in our world. That is a point I appreciate greatly, and equally so I am troubled by it in our realm. People here tend to be such vicious agents of their inner demons. I could assume that villainesque characters change for the better so easily in MLP because of the energy that (mainly) the main cast radiates. They are champions, not by being perfect, but by being willing to work towards it, by making an effort, and through their understanding of what moral support means; to not mess things up too much with the mind, but have an open heart and support each other that way.
    These are two of three points in which this episode is especially close to me. The third point is how the CMC eventually figured out that their tedious quest for their cutie marks led to that path being the aim, that their struggle was turned into a blessing, thus positively affecting their whole past efforts. ( You cannot change the future, only the past. ) I wish this worked for me in this realm as it did there in Ponyville, because I more and more find myself in the same situation; that my path of peril is the opportunity for helping others, yet as I said, the fulfillment through that fails in the face of vicious, stone-carved resistance of those who could benefit from the insights I gained out of personal necessity on my journey.
     
    So I watched this episode at a very fitting time.
     
    The musical-style reminded me a lot of Magical Mystery Cure. In both episodes I enjoy how the practiced solution gains celebratory momentum instead of indulging in drama all the time. It has that sweet 'ownage feeling', haha. Also, again, very close to my heart in pain and passion, this approach.
     
    P.S.: This is what came to my mind during the beginning of the episode. ^^
    http://dowlphin.tumblr.com/post/131572380787/couldnt-help-but-notice-the-theme-and-its-timing
  11. Dowlphin
    A review of the episode concerned will follow this entry. Life isn't all pleasantry, and grievances need to be talked about, only then can pleasant experiences be put on a solid foundation.
     
    Lately I have been on an unfollow extravaganza on Twitter and deviantART, because the wave of spoilers is hard to counter, and I'm getting increasingly pissed at how people throw them around left and right.
    Once I'm done building a relaxing internet silence, the season will probably be over.
     
    The most recent incident was especially vexing because of the feeling of righteousness of the perpetrator.
     
    -- THE FOLLOWING SPOILER-TAGGED SEGMENT CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS ABOUT MLP S5E18 --
    (Although since I have waited until I found the right mood to watch the episode myself, by now sufficient time has passed not to tag anymore. Still, when feasible, it is decent to in general give the opportunity to see what's coming and decide whether it is a spoiler or not.)
     
     

    It's no secret that the MLP fandom shares many negative traits with many other fandoms, and this is just more unempathic, uncaring ego-focus, and it might be pissing me off less if this wasn't just one of so many examples where people don't really think about fellow fans, but let their actions be ruled by personal convenience. I encountered this stuff ever since I was active in the fandom, with the first plenty cases on Cheezburger.
     
    This is a widespread phenomenon that is even propagated by the networks. To me it is appalling that these days they continue to assault us with summaries of following episodes right after the current one aired; sometimes not even with so much as a black screen in-between. In that case, there is also a fear involved that people might not watch their programming if they didn't show what's coming, which sends a message of lack of confidence in their product, which is in almost all cases baseless.
    (I refuse to call it an improvement, but I remember times when the networks would even give you a summary of the FOLLOWING episode RIGHT BEFORE IT AIRED.)
     
    There are people so messed up and self-unaware that they bemourn the loss of past childlike wonder and amazement and wish they could get that feeling back, yet at the same time are the ones contributing to ruining every chance for that happening. And when I give them the benefit of the doubt and explain it to them, they actively refuse to understand and cling to the problem-creation. This is not too uncommon to me either. The bemourning (or in a different form the dramatic "Why?!") is a technique for rejecting personal responsibility, for externalizing/projecting the problem to a feigned-unknown cause.
     
    Bringing good into the world requires effort, i.e. inconvenience. That effort is worth it because it creates win-win situations, while the at the root fear-based course of self-serving action harms everybody on some level. And effort here must not be confused with action. The whole point is that the fear-motivated mind tries to actively control. In that state, it requires effort in the form of having courage to not try to control things, prepare for the future, know everything in advance.
     
    I will continue to remind people of that, because apparently it needs repeating.
     

    P.S.: Little warning: Don't visit mlp.wikia.com if you hate spoilers. They're frickin' doing it too! Synopsis of upcoming episodes, right on their front page.
  12. Dowlphin
    Lately I have watched some music videos from MLP Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks and realized how skillfully and beautifully the makers depicted a theme with it. The villains are three sirens, putting people under their spell using music in order to take their magic, or more generally, benefit personally.
    People keep saying that the sirens got the best musical parts in the movie. Crucial word here: "best". It is a mind judgment. Their music has a different vibe than the music of the mane 6, which moves, too, but in a very different way. It is a less intellectually stimulating way. But the way that speaks to the heart.
    The makers of the movie managed to have the sirens extend their influence beyond the movie universe and affect viewers in a very similar way. That is amazing work. People find themselves unable to stop listening to it, and I have to include myself in that to a degree. Which is no surprise, since my mind is still very active and easy to capture in that way. But I also realize that salvation lies in focusing on the mane 6 instead, so I don't consider myself in real danger when dabbling in siren music, haha.
     
    I might not have vast personal experience with various musicians, but the experience I have is interesting to examine, because there tend to be electronic musicians who find the right sound effects and such to excite the masses, and they might be the ones who stand on a stage and 'lead' the crowd with various techniques. The typical dance club DJ maybe. Then you have musicians who get you less excited, but more heart-open, maybe also warm and fuzzy, calm, serene. Those will cause less of a unified ritualistic environment.
    The more you practice something, the better you get at it, and the more you observe with an open mind that doesn't obsess over absolutes and total certainty, you can discover some intriguing bits and see how much is going on behind the curtains, beyond the realm of shapes and things.
     
    The Dazzlings could be seen as (among related things) a metaphor for the shallow pop music business with all its artificialty and trickery and ulterior motives and its effects on people.
     
    So to come back to the title message: The Dazzlings' reach extends into our world, but so does the magic of friendship of the mane 6. Especially Pinkie Pie isn't inhibiting herself in that regards, but more recently Twilight has learned to think with portals and has joined the club of interdimensional relations, so to speak.
     
    If you are still skeptical, maybe you need to have a fresh experience of the underlying theme. Watch these three videos in succession and try not to repeat-play... hahahaha!
    Pay close attention to the lyrics.
    And don't hold me accountable for any results. ^^
     

     

     

     
    P.S.: Unless you'd like to warch/rewatch the whole movie anyway, check out the two sides of this based on the lyrics. Examine what the protagonists say in response to the sirens:
    http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Show
  13. Dowlphin
    I often look at deep themes that connect MLP episodes to my life experience, and I will do that here, too:
     
    THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
     
    This is one of those episodes that trigger my cynical side due to related experiences. In the end they say they got inspired by the play, but really? Charity Kindheart did a big thing before and people were willing to help there, too, despite it being so big. She left and all spirit vanished.
    I.e. people love bullshit. The obvious point is that inspiration is exactly what did not happen. Inspiration doesn't mean to follow a strong leader when prompted to. It means becoming one yourself. Living what you witness. They proved that they weren't inspired through their inaction after Charity left. But of course people are always eager to state their bogus beliefs about themselves. And in the case of the moustached pony it's not even a surprise: He had shown how full of shit he is before when he mentioned how 'busy' he allegedly is, with not a moment to spare, while lazily enjoying the sun on a float. (Hm, where have I heard stuff like that before? ... Oh right! Galacon 2014 charity song collab project, from The Living Tombstone.)
     
    It's only a happy end in the sense that they found a replacement leader figure and gave her an initial boost. Give it a couple more events like that and then imagine what happens if Coco Pommel leaves. She'd better find a successor in time. ... But what's the point of doing all that if it doesn't really inspire people anyway? How should it be uplifting for the ones making the effort?
    That gives this episode an unspoken grim afterthought, a sister-message that is overlooked in the limelight of the star.
     
    I would tag-line the episode: "Doing free energy giveaways in vampire town".
     
    All talk, no walk. The usual. It's everywhere. Deviations from it are a rarity.
  14. Dowlphin
    Also blogged here: http://dowlphin.blogspot.de/2015/09/spoilers-mind-illness-not-kept-in-check.html
     
    In the past I had my anger and frustration in the MLP fandom with people posting spoilers and just not caring whether others might not want that, despite it being common knowledge that spoilers are unpopular. I can understand when the sickos in TV programming feel the need to post episode previews right after an episode - it's tradition because they're afraid people might not watch it otherwise if they don't get a teaser.
    But from fans of MLP I would have expected better. And this can't just be explained away with autism. I know that that manifest as an inability to put oneself in someone else's shoes, but that alone can't be it. It's good old non-caring about others; low social intelligence. One of the many aspects in which the MLP fandom is just like any other fandom or society in general.
     
    A person who doesn't appreciate being surprised by a new episode, who doesn't enjoy the mystery and wait, but has so little discipline that impatience and own wants determine their decisions, has a mind imbalance. A mind that wants to control and accumulate. A tendency that also seeks to subdue the show to their will instead of respectfully bowing to its greatness and making an effort to live up to it. This issue is not limited to the MLP fandom, but manifests in many areas of society; it's a general problem.
     
    So I had taken my personal consequences from experiences in this area, distancing myself from people and platforms where that common decency wasn't obeyed. Battle-hardened so to speak.
    But guess what: It's not enough.
     
    Apparently there was a panel at a convention where they catered to that issue and published a preview. I'm quite sure they unmistakably did label it as containing spoilers (because the makers of the show are relatively mature people), but that measure ends at the fans. So what is now reality is that a song from 8 episodes from now (currently the show has summer halftime), melody and lyrics, is being covered by fans. It will likely spread. And you cannot expect spoiler warnings. Because apparently a panel being labeled "spoilers" is not enough of a hint.
    I do blame the panelists, too, though, because they had to know what would happen.
     
    I remember when I was at a panel where M.A. Larson showed some writing process documents that were not for free publication, only for the panel. Filming and photos forbidden, and that clearly stated.
    They still had staff closely watching and enforcing that rule. Insulting demonstration of a lack of trust?
    Nope, smartest decision ever. Because without watchers you'd have to expect there to be jerks calling themselves bronies who would disrespect M.A. Larson himself and try to capture the document anyway. Because, you know, he's just some dude and MLP is just a damn TV show. Heard stuff like this from 'fans'.
     
    They should have run the same rule for the panel where the song was played.
     
    Furthermore, I was at a panel where an interview was to be done and they said no questions about the coming season would be answered in order to avoid spoilers for those who don't want that. There was moaning all throughout the audience! Many people there only cared about their own wants and didn't care about whether that would spoil things for 'their fellow bronies'.
     
    I absolutely worship the show, but the fandom keeps disappointing me. And there's no indication for a change, because there aren't really agreed-on standards for the fandom and not enough people with the courage and/or energy to set them.
     
    This comes shortly after an animator spoke about another aspect of the same problem complex in the fandom, about denial, and as expected people demonstrating that denial in the comment section.

     
    And thus I am still on a quest for a healthy environment, because the sickness around me keeps making ME sick, too. Same result, but two totally opposite causes.
  15. Dowlphin
    The sixth chakra is the mind and/or the third eye or mind's eye, associated with the intellect and situated (at its energetic activity point if you will) roughly between the eyebrows.
    The seventh chakra is the crown, at the top of the head. It is the connection to what lies above, beyond the egoic mind, the higher or divine realm, where anything is possible.
     
    Between those two points lies the 'unicorn point'. It is where a unicorn horn is located. Halfway between intellect and divine connection to the realm of infinite possibilities. The merging of those two forces can potentially make anything possible, depending on how well the 'software' is adapted to that mode of operation.
     
    Beautifully poetical.
     
    Magical.
     
    All of Equestria is filled with magic. Its nature is channeling, embodying it.
     
    Pinkie Pie is utilizing magic, too, but because her governor facility - the intellect - is not optimized for control and focus, she practices what I (without claiming to understand it troroughly) tend to associate with "Miao Tong Dao", Lao Tzu's no-method path of enlightenment, where you simply wish things or states into existence. Since Pinkie Pie very much surrenders herself lovingly/passionately to happiness and thus an open and strongly radiating heart, that becomes the driving force for her magic. The governor that doesn't govern.
     
    It might sound ironical, but as powerful as Twilight Sparkle's magic is, if there was a danger of Equestria's magic being weakened, hers would be more of a risk factor for that than Pinkie's. Twilight's magic is closest to our habits of generating electricity and other forces through machines, built by applying our intellect with very little use of divine connection. (We mostly work with what's already manifest in our realm and we build machines because we tend to externalize in the impatient pursuit of more power instead of focusing on personal growth by looking inwards.)
     
    -----
     
    I embody various traits, but I definitely have a lot from a unicorn.
    My Mayan birth horoscope is interesting in this regard. It describes me as a "flint", the divine spark of intelligence, mirror of reality, discriminating emotion from fact, cutting falsehoods away, tirelessly standing to protect, defend or cure others by personal sacrifice.
    Flints can receive information on inter-personal troubles or the evil plots of others by reflecting in an obsidian mirror. (Socio-political research and personal life guidance in front of a computer monitor? ^^)
     
    I'm kind of in a troubled relation with my galactic tone "10" though, the number of physical manifestation of intentions, ideas, hopes, fears, a powerful energy carrying great responsibility.
  16. Dowlphin
    I realize that now that I mention it, it reduces the chances of it appearing even more, but it would kinda spoil it a bit anyway, and since I'm not a show writer (wink-wink ^^), it very likely wouldn't have occured anyway, sooo...
     
    Pinkie Pie: (knocks on Rarity's door)
    Rarity: (being busy) "Who is it?"
    Pinkie Pie: ("I am) the one who knocks." ^^
     
    Also works great as a knock-knock joke.
     
    Would definitely feel less forced-in than that clumsy Game of Thrones reference we saw.
  20. Dowlphin
    0:00
    Why didn't Fluttershy try to help Discord get a ticket? She just ignored the matter. Nobody knew the mail had delay. This is like Ticket Master again.
    Also, I was surprised at first that he supposedly hadn't been invited, since we know Celestia's attitude towards giving the Grand Galloping Gala an interesting touch. I simply couldn't believe she would not invite Discord. (Twilight should know better by now, too. But that's an ongoing issue in general. So hard to get rid of old habits and ways of thinking.)
    It generally lowers my enjoyment a bit when problems build up solely due to miscommunication. I know that it is one of the great challenges in the world, but still, it's a lazy technique and effectively made Fluttershy be uncaring. ... Couldn't keep the episode from being quite the enjoyable one though.
     
     
    2:15

    Anybody who thinks about shipping now needs to be put down.
     
     
    2:57

    At least she's not biting it anymore.
     
     
    3:39

    Elegantly implemented Metal Gear reference. (Although the perspective seems a bit off.)
    Pinkie knowing it's Discord. Shaking the camera. OMG, so much highlevel pinkieness in one scene!
     
     
    12:54

    Shame is all about norms and contrast, isn't it?
     
     
    13:11

    And this closet is the jewelry wardrobe. Unguarded of course. Who needs guards in a royal castle? ... Oh wait.
     
     
    14:52

    Dear Discord... when the critics say that Maud Pie is funnier than you, then you really need to... ah, forget it, there's nothing you can do.
    Pinkie's dress is lovely.
     
     
     
    17:58

    Dimensional portal: Now this is a somewhat more appropriate, not-so-much-immersion-breaking use of that technique. Apparently it's intended to be clashing. I'm just surprised it didn't cause lovecraftian mental distress. I guess they simply cannot fully perceive the otherness of that dimension.
     
     
     
    P.S.: Tree Hugger has attained mastery in clichée. ^^
  22. Dowlphin
    This means a lot to me.
    Recently someone liked my style of drawing, and so I was invited by BountyHunter to participate in a contest to design a background wallpaper for the OUYA gaming console. How could I not honor a personal invitation?
    I kinda had to push myself to get it finished in time though. Motivation is still an issue, and any encouragement makes a difference. It would be like medicine for my soul to win this thing.
    The last time I won (and participated in) an art competition was in my childhood.
     
    So would you kindly help a fellow brony out? If you have a Facebook account, please vote daily for my art:
     
    https://contest.bhuntr.com/en/OUYA/vote/15362
     
    and spread the message among your friends and fellow bronies.
     
    There's also a chance to win some merchandise for early voters. It's not much, but in case you are struggling with motivation, too, maybe that helps a little.
     
    Thank you! Yay!
  23. Dowlphin
    This is a brief followup thought to my earlier musings - http://mlpforums.com/blog/819/entry-11579-what-are-your-mane-3/
    for clarifying why the focus on the six main characters for the show was such a smart idea regarding writing skill.
    The point should be pretty much self-explanatory, so I won't comment on it.
     
    Rarity = intellect - right brain hemisphere (synthetic, emotional, creative, imaginative, radiant)
    Twilight Sparkle = intellect - left brain hemisphere (analytical, logical, scientific, rational, inquisitive)
     
    Fluttershy = kind heart
    Rainbow Dash = brave heart
     
    Pinkie Pie = driving purpose - spiritual
    Applejack = driving purpose - material
  24. Dowlphin
    Greetings my loyal minio... I mean subj... NO I mean peasa... GAAAAAH - DEAD READER!
     
     
    The need for expansion of my various activities is a big theme in my life, and in an attempt to find more driving purpose for my creative output, I have decided to extend my web presence to some more platforms,
    namely Twitter, Tumblr and Wordpress (and Reddit, but since it's a mere content aggregator, this might only be useful to you if you can't follow me on the other sites).
     
    I cannot guarantee when or how much content will appear, but once I have that avenue available, it might help me get some more momentum. I'm pretty sure I'll be quite active especially on Twitter once I have a certain subscriber base.
     
    So if you like what I do on deviantART and YouTube and the web in general, please consider subscribing to my new Tumblr, Twitter and Wordpress (and maybe Reddit), too and sharing it with others when content appears.
     
    The worst that can happen is that nothing happens and you forgot you even subscribed, so nothing lost. ^^ But I think it's gonna be much better than that.
     
    The general purpose of this move is the realization that I have entertainment (as well as sharing ideas and insights) at heart, living it in most of what I do, and since I almost always try to make even things like mere comments interesting, subscribing to the 'whole package' makes sense.
     
    Audience makes a huge difference!
     
    I'll probably share many things that I find noteworthy. I'll have to figure out how much over time, getting used to those new avenues. Especially I'm not sure yet whether I will post things wherever they fit, or only on the one platform where they fit best. Probably the latter, to avoid administration overhead, since there will be increasing overlap with each new service I join.
     
    My idea at this time is to use it this way:
    Wordpress: Proper, tendentially lenghty text-based blogging, like essays or thoughts of the day
    Tumblr: Visual commentary, sharing, drawn art that doesn't fit well on deviantART
    Twitter: Brief thoughts, very likely to be rich in puns ^^. Maybe also upload notifications and such, not sure at this point.
    Reddit: Notifications about noteworthy new works for people who don't follow me on my other sites
     
    So basically I invite you to subscribe in part because I won't use these to document my daily life's every move or boring stuff like that, but to entertain, inspire and enlighten; Being my usual self, communicating and sharing.
    My Wordpress blog could contain all kinds of themes, and also the occasional rant. No holding back if I deem it important/relevant/interesting.
    (Google+ by the way has very little priority for me at this time. I still haven't forgiven what Google did to Youtube there.)
     
     
    So... here are all the subscribable links I can currently offer:
     
    http://dowlphin.deviantart.com
    http://www.youtube.com/user/Dowlphin
    http://dowlphin.tumblr.com
    http://twitter.com/Dowlphin
    http://dowlphinblog.wordpress.com
    http://mlpforums.com/blog/819-dowlphins-blog ⇐You are here
    http://www.reddit.com/r/Dowlphin
    (Technically there's also Cheezburger, but I'm not active there anymore. I'll publish my caption pictures on deviantART and/or Tumblr.)
     
    Thank you!
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