Harebrained

My temper usually sparks up a little and dies down again in no time. Minor irritations and all that. It's when you don't notice I'm angry at all but I'm roiling inside that I'm really, truly, deeply begrudging.

Also, can't stand the guys that act like "girls" being either clingy physically or emotionally, or wishy-washy with your feelings and you had better not be starting drama - that's my job! (JK!!)

(had to point out that one, cuz I have a friend who is never getting past the "friendzone" because of that very thing - and he's probably going to get cut off from me altogether for other reasons. Shankveld would definitely say to cut him off and she has good instincts! so i'll leave it at that)

 

My problem is not so much that they "act like girls," as it is that I'm not very verbally or noticeably affectionate in relationships. Of all the people who really suffer from that, I think the more effeminate or sensitive men are pretty high on the list.

Replaying Legend of Mana. *dreamy sigh*

Worked retail during the holidays in a store that liked to shift things around and where everyone liked to push their work off on other people.

I'm a fan of cats, reptiles, birds, and some fish (mostly bettas). I grew up with everything from cats to iguanas to my sister's ferrets. What I really want is a cockatoo, but I think they require at least a couple hours of attention and socializing daily to be happy. They've been known to imitate people they hear laughing, though, which cracks me up.

Does family count? Three of my cousins are bronies.

Not scared of pools, lakes, etc, but the ocean makes me very uncomfortable, even in video games.

I'm also pretty terrified of eating at Subway. I had a food poisoning incident a few years ago that left me bedridden for almost two days, unable to eat or drink normally for a week, and in pain for another several days. I've declined it free.

I've known a fair few popular kids who were popular because they were socially-oriented and warm, but there's always a side that's intolerably vapid and status-mongering. Why the decent ones were ever seen with them I'll never know.

Nah, there's too much drama associated with being popular.

I just hang out with friends what I know will stick with me. We may not be the popular group, but least we can rely on each other.

 

This was my experience, too. I mostly hung out with the outsider-type people, which worked for us because we understood each other and were happy to have people who cared. Well, most of us, anyway.

In my sophomore year of high school a new kid transferred in, and my friends and I wound up inviting him to our table because we noticed he always sat alone. Chubby, awkward kid who had an intense emotional breakdown prior to the transfer, but we loved him. He wound up ditching us for the worst of the worst when it came to the "popular crowd" after he remodeled himself next year, and didn't have time for us except to show off his new popularity and pictures of his hot new girlfriend to me (knowing I'd liked him). Because, you know, cool people who wouldn't even look at him when he arrived let alone support him through the echoes of his suicide attempt are a much better social ideal to strive for than uncool people who would.

I got a call from him a few years later, but it turned out it was because the chick had dumped him. Heaven help him if he ever needs what he had with us in life again.

League of Legends was my introduction to these games. I was a Warcraft 3 fan, but somehow never wound up getting into DotA. I've considered trying DotA 2, but since I play irregularly due to real life I'll probably wind up sticking to LoL because it has a better casual scene plus teams and tournaments I'm already familiar with for watching.

I wanted to pick it up again, but I'm an old fart who doesn't want to go get an NDS to play the official games with and the communities for simulators don't seem too newbie-friendly. I have my education, work, unpaid work, and other stuff to worry about, so I really can't sit and play these games legit unless I want that to be pretty much all my free time ever.

I've always hated that term. Gaming is my subculture, not some sub-group that differentiates themselves based on an irrelevant factor.

It's even more annoying when chicks use that factor to disrupt groups with sex appeal and play the popularity game.

I miss the days when it was so hard to make discussions forums into popularity contests that nobody really even bothered.

EDIT: To be honest, I kind of hate likes, brohoofs, etc, on forums. I'm against anything that encourages people to post one way or another outside of keeping things functioning, and unless it's on a debate forum where rules would need to be more strict and more effort would need to be put into content.

I feel like it encourages people to seek peer validation not through offering their unimpeded insight and humor when they feel like offering it, but through specifically seeking to gain likes. If people can't gauge via likes how much people are enjoying what they're posting and be tempted to react accordingly, they will continue to post and socialize au naturel - which to me, is the whole point of a discussion forum. Unfortunately, things like funny gifs and other low-content fare tend to get the most, and we wind up encouraging people to keep posting them.

On another forum I'm on people tend to be very close-minded and quickly try to shut down topics that don't fit into the view of the majority. The first few posts on any such thread are always low-content ones stating the popular opinion with no real explanation, followed by maybe a hundred or so likes from people who want to hop on but don't actually want to participate or expand when they can just piggyback. It also potentially overwhelms the fresh meat to be arguing with someone in such a situation.

T-shirt and maybe boxers, then cocoon myself in blankets and squirm around in that all night. Perhaps someday I will wake up to beautiful wings.

Craving pizza with ranch dressing. It's two a.m. and I need it in a way and to an extent that I can't possibly verbalize.

Plain green onions and ranch dressing on pizza rolls or even pizza?

It's actually a reference to the song What Is Love.

 

It's an old song now, but it's also a meme and on some parts of the Internet you cannot ask what love is without it being quoted.

Human beings have enough trouble managing interpersonal relationships and empathizing with others as it is, please stop world. v_v

Romance and sex is interesting. Ponies are interesting. Ponies then partake in fictional romance and sex for the delight of fans.

Drinking mango black tea, watching a LoL stream, and getting a little bit of work done.

I moderate my boyfriend's gaming stream chat, and used to moderate a furry forum. I think on an MLP forum like this things might be fairly calm, but my experience has been a little grating.

When my boy was part of a charity streaming event, some people came into the chat and started spamming inappropriate links and just generally being lewd and disruptive. It's not too uncommon to find people who think ruining the chat for everyone is funny. I'll be the last person to say mischief isn't wonderful, but sometimes I'm not sure if the perpetrator is an 11-year-old who just discovered the word "dicks" or not. When people show up looking to troll or otherwise be a tawdry little deviant, it's the moderator's job to clean up - and sometimes there can be quite a few of them.

On the forum, we had a very loose set of rules and it was mostly self-governing except for when it came to things like genuine harassment, underage porn, etc. Most anything went, and if you didn't like how someone was talking to you then the suggestion was to block them or simply stop participating in discussion with them. However, one guy would send in maybe dozen or more reports a week every time someone so much as called him an idiot. He wildly derailed over 30 threads in the time I was on staff, and our moderator team of 3-4 had to wade through his weekly deluge of reports to get to what could potentially be real problems (we did have a few).

I've also known people to take issues with moderators and complain about favoritism, bias, etc. It's enjoyable enough if you really like working for your community, I guess, but it's not a power position or anything (at least not off of sites that have a horrible reputation for their crazy moderation).

Tape this to the backs of his eyelids.

I agree that there's similarities between ponies and furry, but they're not the same thing. MLP is a show with anthropomorphic characters that fans tend to like for the cuteness or the humor more than the talking animals factor, and while fans do sometimes take part in creating "ponysonas" and roleplaying (and yes, pony porn) it's really not comparable to the furry fandom, which is a general interest in enjoying the anthropomorphic characters themselves and of a fantasy world where a fan can be one of them. One community tends to look down on adult content, while in the other one the same type of content is so central to the communities and the experience that you're hard-pressed to even go on a PG website without receiving solicitations for cyber sex or finding porn that the moderators can't remove fast enough some days. The focus is different even if some of the content is found in both communities.

/7 years of furry before leaving

Don't usually like fanfics, but curiosity is getting the better of me... If it's written at a high school+ level, I suppose I can manage.

What is a forum

Oh baby, don't troll me

Don't troll me

no more

Hahaha... Forums are just a place for discussion and wasting time, and perhaps to make online friends if you really get along with someone. Sometimes there's a real community aspect, too. If you're totally unfamiliar with online discussion, expect to run into a lot of inside jokes and strange humor. Don't take anything too seriously.

Someone on another forum shared this blog full of captioned images and positive posts meant to cheer people up. I thought you guys might enjoy browsing some of these, especially from this section.

It’s not the answers you get from others that will help you, but the questions you ask of yourself. Here are 40 thought-provoking questions to help you refresh and refocus your thinking:

For discussion, which ones are your favorites and why? What do you think of motivational and self-help images, phrases, etc? Do they do anything for anyone? Have there been any that particularly inspired you?