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  1. Dowlphin
    A while ago I added a lot of favorites from the MLP Vector gallery at deviantART, one character at a time.
    Just now I browsed through my favorites - endless Fluttershy pictures - when I saw this:
     
     

     
    I just love it!
  2. Dowlphin
    Witnessing excellence causes amazement and joy. But this would not be if it weren't for mediocrity ( and outright failure, haha ) to provide the necessary contrast.
    So these things are a necessity in order to make excellence and success have a massive impact.
     
    And I thought, these things being a necessity, it would be best to create them through the least motivating means.
     
    What I'm trying to say is: If your or someone else's creative output isn't consistently excellent, rejoice! It means that there is a person regularly putting out mediocrity without being demotivated by it, since they have occasional excellence to pull them through.
    Also, learning is great! If you achieved excellence in a certain profession right away, you would not create all the failure and unimpressive material that's so necessary for the contrast to even your own future excellence. When you are learning, you have your progress as a motivating force, making this an example of another type of mediocrity relatively easy to create.
     
    This is why I tend to put out there whatever comes to my mind. Even if I become better at something, I won't pressure myself into becoming overly selective. When some idea reflects who I am, I will go with it. This is art. Not worrying about what people expect to get, but expressing yourself.
     
    The greatest admiration though should go to those people who manage to provide a consistent supply of mediocrity without having the lack of excellence crush the force that drives them. There are those who aspire to greater heights and torture themselves with those aspirations until they can fulfill them (if ever), and those who go through a life of mediocrity with the serenity of a buddhist sage.
     
    Thus we are all contributing necessary parts to this shared experience.
     
     
     
    P.S.: I'm the self-torture type.
  3. Dowlphin
    Imagine it is night. You are sleeping in your bed.
    Suddenly, you are woken up by a loud noise.
    You see a bright energy swirl in the room, a kind of portal.
     
    How would you react if this really happened? Very likely you'll totally freak out, jump up, cower in a corner, leap out of the room, arm yourself or some other kneejerk self-defense reaction.
     
    But now imagine out of that otherworldly thing Pinkie Pie poked her head and said: "NO TIME TO EXPLAIN! YOU HAVE TO COME WITH ME NOW!"
     
    How would you react?
     
     
    ...
     
     
    And there you see the relevance of trust!
  4. Dowlphin
    In a way, reflecting on the dreams I recently had led me to a realization. Not something new, but more like a confirmation, a reminder, and also something that the show conveys. I keep pointing out the richness of guiding wisdom in MLP, and in a minute I will give another example.
     
    When I was still playing World of Warcraft, there were people who were willing to help me, to lend a hand with things I couldn't do alone. People who I considered game buddies.
    One day, they, plus some other players, overall a small group, were fighting a raid boss in old content that gave them a hard time; they failed multiple times from what I've got.
    They asked me to help by reinforcing the group.
    I somewhat remembered what was so special about that boss, had done him before, so to the best of my abilities I explained to them that knowing the fight tactics for this one was crucial for success. If you don't know what is going on, you will fail, but if you read up on the tactics, it's easy. I explained that and, because I was kinda busy at the time and didn't remember the exact tactics myself, didn't join the group.
    They read up on the tactics and succeeded right away.
     
    People are different, have different skills, and MLP demonstrates very much a working relationship of friends of very different couleur; how it can be used as a strength.
     
    I knew what I was doing; I knew my strengths. I helped my buddies to the best of my abilities. Reinforcing the team, while we don't know the tactics, would only have furthered the frustration.
     
     
    In S2E21 Dragon Quest, Rainbow Dash told Fluttershy that since she accompanied her to watch that boring butterfly migration, now was her turn to accompany her to watch the scary-as-hell dragon migration. And Dashie was given clear feedback by Fluttershy that friendship isn't always a synchronous thing; that one should respect differences.
    While it might have been kinda boring for Dashie, I'm sure it was Fluttershy's charm and kindness that warmed her up to the idea, and loyalty is Dashie's strength.
    Dashie's reasoning though was pressuring Fluttershy into it based on synchronous reciprocity. And obviously she overdid it - OUCH.
    They were right when they did everything to bring her to the mountain in S1E7 Dragonshy, because they were aware of her skills in animal communication, and THAT strength of hers was the driving force back then. In Dragon Quest, it was merely a cheap trick. Dashie tried to impose his own qualities onto her friend, instead of nourishing Fluttershy's qualities.
     
     
     
    To sum this up... As I mentioned before, there might be way more to take from the show than what you are currently aware of. Keep using MLP as a guide for your life. It will bring people in general and specifically bronies closer together in mutual understanding.
     
     
    I myself will have to cultivate awareness of this latest realization, too, and that is part of why I'm writing this down.
  5. Dowlphin
    Might change later depending on how things go, but right now I'm quite content with it.
    The glasses were not done with perfection in mind. I just went with the flow and wanted to get it done. I'm still learning this stuff and didn't have that much patience.
    The base pony was made with the Pony Creator. The cutie mark was manually added by me. (The dolphin is a heavily modified clipart.) It represents the high frequency transmission of Dolphin characteristics like playfulness, sensitivity and zest for life. (I drew the sound waves freehand and they turned out so well!)
     

  7. Dowlphin
    I'm a little kooky. But at least I'm not Spock. That would be spooky.
     
    Take a dolphin. Now add a "w" (U-U) and - naturally - you have an owl there, too.
     
    If you like owling, don't be stingy with the bees, then you can do bowling. It's just like owling, but more fun.(If you try to throwl an owl, it will make you run!)
  8. Dowlphin
    This is how Pinkie Pie will drive you crazy:
     
    Pinkie Pie is awesome and fun, so you can't stop thinking of her.
    When you think of her, you can't stop smiling.
    One cannot fall asleep while still smiling.
    If you can't sleep, you will eventually go crazy.
     
    That's why crazy people tend to smile and laugh so much.
     
     
    Have fun!
     
     
    ...While you can!
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