babymoondust

Err... lol, no? I was referring to the end of the episode when Celestia is present - so many times I was just screaming "Just reassure them already! Stop playing this out so long!" XD But yeah, I still find it generally kind of weird / suspect that ponies tend to have so much anxiety around her. Yeah sure I know, she's a princess, but she could be waaaaay warmer as a character, IMHO.

I don't hate her, but yeah I dislike her. I look upon her as a great source of stress and anxiety in the ponies; Lesson Zero was a good example of that. Sure that could have been Twilights own personal difficulties with deadline anxiety, but I don't actually feel like Princess Celestia handles difficulties very compassionately. She's a lot icier than she could be for a Princess, and she will typically "put off" from reassuring a pony that "you don't need to worry about this at all! :)" until the VERY end of the show, dragging out the ponies fear and anxiety for longer than need be. I do realize though, that such difficulties are there to form a substantial story to begin with, so...

It's funny, she started out being my absolute favorite character of the show. - She's ballsy, confident, ambitious, tomboyish, sporty and has a way less stereotypically feminine voice. But there was more to it than that when it came to my love for her. I was initially fixated on her Sonic Rainbooms especially because I found it pretty incredible that a friggin' "My Little Pony" character (this is back when I was in the process of going from intense doubt that the show would be any good, onto being a brony/pegasis), did such a thing. I remember finding it incredible how her facial expression was animated: She's gritting her teeth, her face is contorted in ferocious determination, and freaking tears were flying off her eyelashes were animated as she's pushing through the air, whipping up a Sonic Rainboom. - She has this particular kind of "grittiness" about her that was just unheard of not only in young female target audience shows, but MY LITTLE PONY of all things. I suppose you could say that she went some way in "converting" me to FIM, I guess. It was that moment of, "Okay, this is NOT what I expected at all... Holy wow.." However, since I've become a lot more familiarized with the show, I go through stages of different characters being my favorite. I think it has a lot to do with which personal strength I am deficient in. When I started watching FIM, I was lacking in confidence, so Rainbow Dash was like the antidote to this; I'd be inspired by her. Right now, I'm lacking in happiness, and so Pinkie Pie is my drug of choice! XD

Uhh.. It tackles burn-out from working yourself too hard (Applebuck Season), severe anxiety from meeting deadlines (Lesson Zero); and favors causality-based thinking when it comes to handling people who "do bad" (Bad Seed)... Pretty sure there are many more, but these have been my favorite lately. I don't know about anyone else, but to me these are complex and mature issues.. it's just a matter of if you catch it or not, or if it's the "type" of mature (or type of subject matter), you want.

Oh man Sonic hooves down, lol! If he can take down Robotnik in all his various boss forms and vehicles such, he can take down Applejack.

THAT IS SO BEAUTIFUL! *swoon* Uh, yes, that counts in a major way.

Okay so I've spent some time here now, I am going to come out about this:

I love her voice for it's cracks and general "huskiness", I too really wish she had a song.

Woah wait.. There are people who do that? Glad I've not yet encountered them! Maybe they are still closeted and still feel uneasy about liking the show. Wow.

I loved the "Bats" song so much I, no joke, replayed it like 15 times.......

I don't watch FIM all the time, in fact I took like a year or so hiatus (not deliberately) from both watching it and being an active part of the fandom, but it wouldn't stop me from considering myself a part of the fandom. And honestly, I feel like this fandom is so incredibly diverse, and people grativtate toward it for so many reasons, I wouldn't think it strange if someone wasn't watching FIM as frequently.

Okay this is way easier if you know how to meditate already, and it basically seems like the exact same procedure as mediation too, with a lot of similar sorts of words and manner of talking employed by the speakers in many instructional meditation videos. The main difference of course, is that this is encouraging you to visualize the physicality and mentalities of ponies rather than, say, envisioning a ball of white light surrounding you. IMHO, this is no more dangerous than meditation (which actually has a ton load of wonderful health benefits rather than risks) It is just, instead of visualizing yourself on a beach, you are visualizing yourself as a pony! I think it's fairly safe to say most people - after a relaxing meditation - have no difficulty pulling themselves out of the beach they were "on" during a meditation unless they had existing problems to begin with. I think this could possibly be beneficial to people who are treating this like meditation rather than something that is going to transform them into a pony. I know how to meditate, so I would really love to harness the power of my mind to entice my brain to produce feelings that I attribute to particular personalities. I guess it's good "practise" for applying such character traits such as personal strength, kindness, honesty, generosity, fun, when you've already felt them during such a session.