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    I used to have no irrational fears. But somehow, I picked up my ex's fear of bugs. I had no idea that was a thing fears could do. Fortunately it seems to be slowly fading away on its own now.
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    I definitely have not intentionally crafted separate "personas". AFAIK I have the exact same personality on and offline. The differences that do exist are just due to subject matter. I don't talk ponies with my coworkers, and I don't talk about C++ object lifetime semantics here, so they're going to get a slightly different impression of me than you're getting, and that's probably harmless or maybe even a good thing.
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    Celestia has always felt like a maternal figure to me, so going beyond "polite hug" into "cuddle" territory would just be weird. Chrysalis is, well, actually evil, so no I don't get any affection vibes from her. Tempest would try to kill me even though she clearly needs a hug more than most ponies. So definitely Luna first.
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    Ears are the standout for me. They're just so expressive in a way that human ears aren't, and I love that the show consistently got that right. It probably helps that I went to horse riding summer camps several times as a teenager, plus I'm a cat person and my parents have had cats for most of life, so that kind of animal ear body language is second nature to me. And for some reason, when it comes to Twilight specifically, the wings are also adorable. I have no explanation for this.
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    "Shrine" is an awfully specific term that definitely crosses into "weird" territory, unless we're saying it ironically. I'm definitely not planning on praying to Princess Luna to chase away my nightmares It's even weirder for the Japanese side of my brain, because in that culture when you have a small "shrine" in your house full of objects that remind you of a single, specific non-divine person... that's how you honor a deceased family member, typically one who used to live there. I don't know about you, but I don't think about any of my favorite ponies that way If the actual intent was "would you put all your pony merch in one small cluster, or spread them all over your living space?" then I guess I'd do the former. But I'm not yet sure if I want to get any figures, plushes, etc, as opposed to things like stickers and keychains.
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    The show's given us so many examples of RD secrets that we pretty much know the most likely reasons she'd have yet another one are: she considers it "uncool" she's afraid saying it would hurt a friend Type 2 is pretty rare though since RD tends to be so brutally honest (unlike Applejack, who's usually anything but brutal about it). So it's far more likely to be another "uncool" thing. IMO, the most likely scenario is that her interest in Daring Do leads to her reading more "egghead-y" books about archaeology or ancient pony history. Especially since Twilight no doubt has plenty of those books in the same library as her own Daring Do collection Then she lets it slip when Sunburst shows off just the right kind of antique to Twilight
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    I assume you could tell by looking at it that it's not a rash or infected tissue or anything medically scary like that, but something much closer to a tattoo. And I've never had any interest in tattoos, mind-altering chemicals, or the kinds of parties where that sort of thing just randomly happens to people. So mostly this: Then because I like to overthink MLP:FiM mythos, I'd be puzzled that it appeared while I was asleep, because they're supposed to appear when you discover something about yourself, which is awfully hard to do while asleep (unless you're constantly lucid dreaming, like all fictional characters somehow do by default, but I certainly don't). Nobody ever seems to get one and then have to ask what it means (except in Apple Bloom's nightmares). Rather, knowing what it means is precisely what causes it to appear. So I'd likely write down everything I could remember about any dreams I had last night, or assume human cutie marks follow very different rules and start trying to figure out whether I got any other kind of magic in the process.
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    Depends how well I know each of them in this hypothetical alternate reality. If my pony counterpart was equally close friends with all of the Mane 6, then probably Twilight since we have the most in common.
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    After the initial bafflement, I'd probably do exactly the same stuff I always do, since most of it is on electronic devices and my body doesn't play much of a role anyway. Although if you actually meant gender instead of gonads, then I'd no doubt have a lot more bafflement to deal with upon discovering I'd somehow gone from a man in a man's body to a woman in a man's body. Or maybe I'd just feel vaguely confused all day and never realize what it meant until it was all over, since I have zero direct experience with gender identity issues.
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    I don't have many physical possessions, and the vast majority of them I either never touch or always keep in the same place, so there's simply nothing in my room to clean aside from dust buildup. Thus I vacuum whenever it annoys me, which is maybe once every couple months, and that's it.
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    My first thought was kirin. Seems more practical and cuddly than a dragon at least.
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    Sounds like that's what I should expect to get then. [actually does quiz] Yellow, apparently. Though the description of yellow sounds only about half right (e.g. I am most certainly not "a total flirt"), and that was very few questions for a personality quiz so I kinda suspect that's not the best fit for me.
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    The answer to this question is in a perpetual state of quantum flux. By which I mean, whenever I notice I've been conspicuously uninterested in one of the Mane 6 for a while, I immediately become interested in them again.
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    Since I'm extremely new to all this, the answer is clearly "not yet" If I keep spending this many hours on it, eventually all of my comic book-reading friends are going to wonder why I've fallen so many issues behind, and there's gonna be that awkward talk about "seeing other fandoms"... but I'll probably cool off a bit before that becomes a problem.
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    Welp, the brony musicians got me again. Here's my latest earworm: And no, it's not because of the amazing RD art. Well okay maybe a little.
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    AFAIK most of the objects and creatures that exist in both our world and theirs (which we might reasonably assume are "the same size in both worlds", whatever that means) are significantly larger relative to an adult pony than they are to a real life human or an EqG adult or teenage human, and pretty much all of them seem to imply something awfully close to waist height as @A French Derpy full of Salt conveniently demonstrated. Real life "ponies" vary by definition a lot, but AFAICT they also seem to typically be about waist height.
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    Not yet. I'm sure it'll come up in casual conversation eventually. Or at the latest, when we see each other in person and they see all the pony stickers on my laptop. They're generally cool with everything so I'm sure they won't be weird about it. Most likely they'll find it amusing because my sibling was a brony ages ago yet the appeal was totally lost on me back then.
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    If you mean the concept of shipping in general, in most fandoms I don't really think about it, or at most I consider it odd if the source material has nothing remotely romantic in it. But with MLP, since the interpersonal relationships between the cast are such a massive focus of the show and get developed so thoroughly (including the occasional canon romance), to me it seems virtually impossible to like the show yet also have no opinions on who'd be a good match for who else. If you mean any specific ships, no not really. There are some pairings whose appeal is simply lost on me, but that's about it. And if the fanfics I've been reading are any indication, I could likely be won over to any pairing by the right author.
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    This isn't even wrong. But seriously, Sunburst for me.
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    Ladybugs. One of the extremely few things where I'm the polar opposite of Twilight.
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    Most of the things I've ever wanted to learn I kinda just did go learn, and then immediately moved on to something else. I'm a bit of a sponge that way. But there are a few things that I only ever learned bits and pieces of, without getting good enough to really "do" anything with it before other things took priority: Spanish Quantum mechanics (seriously: I have a textbook, I've read it, I get the basic concepts, but I never figured out any of the "real" math) even more programming languages: Kotlin, Swift, Idris, F# Okay, that might be the weirdest list I've posted on this forum yet.
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    Never about anything serious, thank Celestia. I kinda figured out Santa and Easter Bunny on my own without ever being told so I'm not sure that even counts. The unique but still harmless lie that I remember bizarrely well is when we were at a koi pond and my dad claimed that koi respond to a noise like "aroo", and I was at that age where making funny noises is its own reward so I just ran with it. In retrospect I don't think the fish were amused.
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    I'm relatively young and have no health issues so the risk to myself from getting infected is virtually nothing (I'm not exactly healthy per se, but I'm still losing weight so I'm probably healthy enough not to be at risk). Although somehow I managed to get an ear infection right when this all started... The joke that "I was social distancing before it was cool" applies to me. Since my social life is entirely online these days, COVID-19 hitting now of all years is weirdly convenient. All it really did was chop commuting out of my daily routine. So I'm not worried about infecting anyone else either.
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    Classical music never did much for me. The oldest stuff I have in my music library would be a handful songs from classic Hollywood musicals, e.g. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and Singing in the Rain (1952). The oldest artists I like, i.e. have entire albums from, are all roughly from my parents' generation, e.g. Judy Collins' Wildflowers (1967), Eagles' Greatest Hits (early 70's), Queen's Greatest Hits (all of the 70's) or Madonna's True Blue and Like a Prayer (late 80's). And go figure, most of those I got from exploring my parents' CD collection (remember when CDs were a thing?). (...I still can't believe Pinkie Pie made multiple song references to Yankee Doodle Dandy of all things )
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    Hobbies: - Standard nerd stuff: reading comics, watching TV, playing video games, basically living on the internet, you get the idea - Programming language design. My day job is actual programming, but language design is what I end up spending all my free time reading about and posting on programming forums about. Special talents: - Pretty much any STEM field (and some of the more abstract humanities like philosophy) comes absurdly naturally to me. I was the kind of teacher's pet that never even needed to study, and just kept reading random stuff for fun whether it was on a test or not. - Fortunately, teaching those subjects to anyone else also comes super naturally. So I did tons of tutoring back when I was in school.
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