StaryStory

Very important advice for those who like to request art for me for free, I'll be not accepting new requests anymore after 10/31/2024, I'll still be drawing any of them, but starting from November, it'll be over, so this is your chance if you me want to draw something for you for free!

https://mlpforums.com/topic/202073-rafa-stary-makes-free-art/

Hello Hello Hello, I know no one here may really be curious about this, but I would just like to explain why I started making this style of status update, this is basically the kind of post I used to write during my "depressed" months and early "MLP fan" months on my Facebook profile back in 2023, checked out that now abandoned account a month ago and decided to write them again, but now here, it's the only place where I feel comfortable doing them now, it's the only place where I have any friends after all, I can be more open this way, I feel better also writing about my feelings and routine here than in those "how was your day/how are you feeling/what you had for lunch/what you watched?" Threads, this is mostly because I also don't want to "force" other people to read through my posts, there a lot of people in these threads who aren't my friends, or that I don't know or I don't interact with, I don't think they need to read about feelings and stuff, for that reason I prefer to just post these in my profile, so only my friends and the people who care about me here will read them (not that I would reject other people reading them, I don't mind it, just saying that I only expect my friends to see them) 

Anyway, today I had breads with butter and coffee with milk and sugar for breakfast, a weird but tasty meat with beans, sausage, french fries and a natural juice (originated from a fruit with a very hard name, so I refuse to write it), cup noodles for dinner and my usual salty crackers with milk for the end of the night.

I think I'll be starting a new Youtube channel, the one I have just isn't satisfying me anymore, the music edits are good and all, but it's such a...content without personality, I try to put a bit of me into them, such as using my drawings as decorations, but it's just not enough to make me happy anymore, I want to do a content that has more to do with myself, a content where I'll actually be showing my feelings and reactions, not sure if it'll work, but I just want to do something more interesting for myself, edited music will never be about me, and that was the only kind of content that was "helpful" for other people, I really would like to do more things that could help other people, but I can't think of any, and I don't feel strong enough or motivated when I see other people making helpful content, so I just decided that I'll be doing a completely carefree content, take it easy, relax, talk about stuff I like, as Dragon Ball, show me playing some games and the process of my arts, it's all I can do for now, if I can't do any other content that is useful, I already tried in the past, and the result was failure, I'll just take it easy now, just thinking about how I'm going to call it, I don't know if anyone will watch it, if so, great, if not, it happens.

Also, I made several drawings, but I didn't finish any of them, I was watching more gameplay videos of Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, and I saw that they actually put more care into the cutscenes of the what ifs/alternate stories than in the cutscenes of the normal/canon story, and well, I must say that I'm really loving these what ifs, I mean, some of them are just short scenes with no much depth at all, I'm refering to the ones that are actually long, I'm enjoying them so much that makes me wish to see a anime version of them, love the alternate interactions and battles they lead to, some dialogues are beautiful, I really feel a lot of care in these, unfortunately I can't say the same for the main/canon story, yes, I know everyone saw it countless times, I know the previous big Dragon Ball game (Kakarot) does a perfect recreation of these scenes and all, but still, this is just no excuse for such a lazy presentation to a story that is so important, the what ifs are awesome but they wouldn't be possible without the original story, it wasn't good to give such a poor presentation to the original story made by Toriyama in such a important game like this, maybe I'm just nitpicking for being a fan, but I truly feel that making Goku transform into Super Sayajin for the first time in a awesome cutscene in the what if, but in static images in the canon story, was disrespectful, it deserved the same treatment of the what if cutscenes (at least most of them, as What ifs also have lots of static images)

Not going to play any videogame tonight, I want to sleep now, good night ~☆

This new name makes me worried, aren't you afraid of the arrival of a...asteroid ?

Hello Hello Hello, the forum is working normally for me now, not sure what was happening during the daytime that almost nothing was loading for me.

Today I had toasted bread with butter and coffee with milk and sugar for breakfast, for lunch I had a great mix of beef with sausage and beans, for dinner a breaded chicken and to finish the night, I made my banamilk drink and ate some salty crackers 

Made some drawings, but didn't finish any of them, I watched more live streams and videos of Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, I'm going to play the game of course, but I'm truly enjoying watching it, though, I have a few things to say about the game (in a long text, of course :v)

Original comment from Kanzenshuu: https://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1789933#p1789933

"I would just like to say that the opening for me was very disappointing, not the animation, visually it's very good (though, I think they should've put Gogeta and Vegetto), but the music...

Months ago and said that I was hoping for this game to be the first DB game to finally have a opening theme with vocals after a whole decade, it was the final chance, but...no luck, they repeated what they did with Ultimate Blast, Battle of Z and Xenoverse 1, once again used a song from the anime for the opening, yeah, for me, this was the final chance, Kenji Yamamoto's scandal from 2011 truly killed the opportunity of any future DB games post-Raging Blast 2 to have their own theme song with vocals, since then they just refuse to create new ones, they'll keep using the anime opening themes eternally, truly a shame 

As for the game, well, not going to play it, so can't say much really, but as far as I've seen in videos, the visuals look very good, though I think the character animations in some cutscenes look a bit awkward when compared to games like Xenoverse 1/2 cutscenes (not comparing with FighterZ or Kakarot cause it's unfair I think), it feels like the characters are trying to simulate how characters in modern Triple AAA games move to me, and I'm not even going to talk about the mouth animations  other than that, they look very good.

Really dislike how most of the story is told throughout static images, that was very underwhelming in my opinion, truly disappointing how all of the anime games are following this formula nowadays in order to cut costs and time, I'm not asking for them to make super complex and awesome looking cutscenes like the ones from Kakarot, but just do the basics, all of the games released before tried their best to make animated cutscenes, if Burst Limit, released 16 years ago, could do it, why wouldn't this one be able to do too?

The Custom mode looks interesting, though I feel it looks like to overcomplicated to create your own stories, not sure if it's going to work for the community for too long, I know it's hard to moderate what is written in the titles and dialogue, but I think they could've done a better way to choose them, these menus are too weird, also, speaking of them, the menus are very uninteresting, not the ones with animations of course, those look awesome, but the ones where you customize your character and where you choose your characters, the art direction for this game surely is something odd, also, speaking of art, It's been a few months since I already saw the character selection screen, but only now I can say that for me it's really lackluster, r.i.p Character Selection with Individual Characters and Transformations Arts 

Now, for a fan like me, who already know the entire canon story, and is only going to watch others playing, surely the "What Ifs" may be the most interesting part of this game, and I have to say that I'm truly surprised, I only saw one of Goku's what ifs in full and some of the Goku Black what ifs so far, and while the Goku Black what ifs were pretty meh for me (nothing really interesting happens, some cutscenes are really cool to see actually, such as Goku's defeat, but story-wise there's nothing surprising going on, but I didn't see all of his alternate stories, so there may be a surprise for me), but now Goku's what if was truly a huge surprise for me, I was really expecting that these what ifs would only last a few battles and end very fast, but no, they are very long! I loved this, event though it doesn't cover up the entire story, it still covers a big part of it, I'm truly amazed, feels like I'm really following a alternate version of the anime/manga and not just a specific story point, I can say they put a lot of care here, thrilled to see the other what ifs!

In the end, when it comes to the gameplay and content, from what I saw in the reactions from those who played it, this may be indeed the best Dragon Ball game released in the last 10-15 years, feels very fun and flown, there are a lot of things to do, but when it comes to the artistic choices, like the way the story is told with its countless static frames and images or the generic menus, unfortunately it has to be one of the weakest if not the weakest DB game released in the past few years, even The Breakers had a better work in its artistic part, yeah, the Graphics and character models are good, but I'm talking about the overall art direction of the game, something just went wrong here, I can at least say that...well..it's kinda accurate to the original Sparking Trilogy when it comes to the cutscenes being "lazy", this is called production level and quality, and we can tell that the Budokai games, released before the Sparking Trilogy, had a bigger production (better and more complex character animations), they spent more resources in them, the 3 Budokais are all differente games, while Sparking 1, Sparking Neo and Sparking Meteor are all pretty much the same game, with each sequel just improving the gameplay, changing a few things and adding more characters/content, so that makes SM feel very complete.

Here they had to do everything from scratch, so you can clearly see how there are multiple notable quality and low production cost issues in the game, hope they improve these in the future, but they at least spent their resources very well in the most important part for the players, that must be enough."

a extra, I saw how a lot people who speak in my native language comllained about the game only having voices available in Enlgish and Japanese, I'm truly surprised by the number of people who complain about the lack of different dubs in videogames nowadays, I'm not saying that's bad, it's just not that I'm not used to it yet, and of course, I only like to hear Dragon Ball in japanese, so I don't really care about not having other dubs in the game, but I do think the other nationalities deserve to receive the game in their own language, The Naruto games already do that, why can't Bandai do the same with DB? Very unfair, even though this will probably prevent me from watching a lot of gameplay videos, as very few people who don't speak japanese will be playing in japanese if that happens, but the need of the many outweighs that of the few.

Anyway, I will be watching more videos of the game, play Touhou and then go sleep, good night ~☆

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/erinartista/art/Goku-and-Chichi-but-pony-1050899928

Happy Birthday Winter Storm! Hope you have a beautiful future with bright nights 

Hello Hello Hello, I was supposed to enter here yesterday, but after hours trying to emulate Touhou 6 in a decent framerate (worked, though not completely, but it was enough to make me satisfied), I was buried by several videos and live streams of early access to Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, I thought the early access was only going to be today (October 8), so I spent a lot of time watching videos of the games, and I'll still be doing that in the next days, anyway, I'm facing a issue here right now, my internet is fine and everything else is working fine for me (Youtube, etc), but the forum is just taking a long time to load for me, is anyone else facing the same problem? I can't even open my profile ('m writing this throughout the "+ Create > Status" button on the upper part of the forum main page, I always write the staus updates throughout my profile, it's being annoying for me here, I'll try to visit again tonight, hope it'll be working for me.

Source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/122793458

Hello Hello Hello! I'm doing fine but I'm kinda pissed off too because in a few hours I'll need to go vote early in the morning, man, that's so annoying, I mean, if you want to vote, go and be happy, i don't care about this, but I don't like being forced to do it, I don't want to vote in anyone, such a waste of my time, I didn't sleep in order to compesate the time I'll waste there, the last time I had to go there was in 2022 and I remember it took quite a time to do it, so I don't expect for it to be different now 

Anyway, I was going to visit here after my status update saying that I'm no more a MLP fan (also, thanks for the messages in that post, it shows how I shouldn't leave and I indeed don't want to), but I spent a lot of time in these last two days trying to do something kinda trivial, I tried to emulate PC-98 and Windows emulators in my Stary Square (mobile device) in order to play my favorite game series, It was very complex and long process to do it, the last time I tried to do a complex emulation process for gaming was in 2022, and I usually always fail to do it, so I expected that the same would happen, I almost gave up in the middle of the process, it's easy for me to think that it's not worth to go so far and spend so much time just to play a few silly games, but nowadays I'm so much more patient, mentally and spiritually stable when compared to myself in 2022 that I somehow decided to continue, after watching & reading multiple tutorials, and doing my own moves, I could finally...make it work? It was really hard and confusing but I fortunately got it, it's still not exactly how I would like it to be though, but at least apparently it was a sucess with the PC-98 games, the windows ones I still have to continue testing, some work well but others don't, I think I still need to make some adjustments to make them run better, but the way it is it's already enough to make me happy, after so many failed attempts at complex emulation as a kid and teenager  I could finally accomplish two almostly perfectly years later as an adult ^^ if anyone knows about these emulators, I accept help, I'll give them below (though I believe I really only need help for the windows emulator).

Also, today I could complete two drawings, one I show below and the other one was a request, you can make your own here: Rafa Stary Makes Free Art  (please read rules in the first comment)

Anyway, I'll prepare the coffee and do some stuff before the hour for voting comes, good morning to everyone ~☆

Hello Hello Hello, so as I said in my previous status update, I was going to talk more about me and My Little Pony, today it's October 3, 2024, holy damn, 1 year ago I joined the forum, though I wouldn't count it since I only started to post here in late October 2023, but still, today it also makes 1 year and 3 months since I became a Brony / MLP Fan, I think it was a fair run, at the same time I feel it was quite short too, so, what I'm going to say here is going to be very long, it can be important, or maybe not, it's so long that I tried to make some parts shorter, and they still feel long, so I separated this text in 4 chapters, if you want to read this but the length is too much for you, you can skip the “how and “why” parts and go straight to Chapter 4 to see how it's going to be my future in this forum and etc.

But to say it simply, you might have noticed that I've been referring to you as "MLP fans" but not me for a while, well, yes, I lost interest in My Little Pony, I'm not a fan of it anymore, my hype for the franchise has been completely nonexistent for a few months and I don't believe I'm going to recover it anytime soon, I'll start.

Chapter 1: How and Why I Stopped being a Fan of MLP

Yeah, you can think and say “You're only saying this because the franchise is in a bad time, you didn't like Tell your Tale and G5 was canceled, but when G6 arrives and be good, you'll recover your interest and become a fan again”, it's fair and I understand if someone says that, and well, that could be the case, but no, that's not the reality, it's not G5 or Tell your Tale's fault that I stopped being a fan of the franchise, well, yes, my disappointment with TyT and G5 contributed to me losing interest in it, I can't pretend that it didn't, but the reason I'm no more a fan of MLP now has more to do with the franchise as a whole and not just the fact that I'm disappointed by the current state of the franchise.

I Think this started back in June, when I stopped watching Tell your Tale, I said that there was no reason for me to keep watching the show, as it wasn't entertaining me, not exciting me, nor keeping my interest, and most importantly, I said that “the show isn't for me” , keep this phrase in your mind, it's going to be important later in this text.

So after I dropped TyT, I thought “well, I don't want to watch this anymore, but there is still a lot of MLP content for me to enjoy and check, and there's FiM for me to rewatch as well”, so after this I expected for me to go through more MLP content, including fan content etc, but nearly 3 months passed and that still didn't happen, actually, after I gave up on TyT, I discovered others franchises, and so I started following them, that made me think “hmmm I think I'm enjoying this as much as MLP, or even more than MLP”, so I spent a time “ignoring” MLP, I thought about trying to go back to MLP again, but I just couldn't do it unless I forced myself, I was more interested in other stuff, even in Sonic content again, and then that made me think “hmmm maybe I'm more interested in these other franchises, and not in MLP anymore”

So I spent a good time of July and August seeing stuff from these other franchises (this is one of the reasons for my random long weeks of absence in the forum) and barely stuff from MLP, which for me was really weird. If I was a fan of MLP, then why wasn't I feeling excited about the franchise, wanting to see more content about it? For example, I'm a fan of Dragon Ball, I always check out content of the franchise every day or week, I'm always excited about it even when they aren't releasing new content, the same used to be with Sonic when I was a fan of that franchise.

The only MLP stuff I saw during this time was rewatching FiM (some episodes, not entire show, I also rewatched Equestria Girls movies), and my thoughts were…well..first I want to say something first. Back in 2022, 2023, I remember I was very critical regarding some aspects of Dragon Ball, I remember saying that some things in it were really bad, but as the years passed, and I grew older, I don't agree with those critics anymore, or they don't bother me anymore, and I actually feel that I started to enjoy and love the franchise even more than before (and the death of the creator just made me start to love it even more), so I used to think the franchise was amazing, now I think it's even more, and I don't change my opinion everytime I rewatch the anime or read the manga.

Now, with My Little Pony, the opposite happened, I used to think in 2023 that the franchise was amazing, my second favorite thing after Dragon Ball, but after rewatching these episodes, the only thing I thought was “hmm…this series isn't as amazing as I thought when watched it for the first time” yeah, and no, these episodes weren't some random episodes, these were some episodes that I considered to be veeeery good, awesome, of course, I still get surprised with stories like the 2017 Movie, Twilight's Kingdom, etc, but in general, rewatching the show was underwhelming to me, not in the sense that it was a bad experience rewatching it, it wasn't, I mean in the sense that rewatching it wasn't as fun as it was the first time I watched it, and that's why I was disappointed, I noticed stuff and details that for me weren't as good as I thought and that I just didn't notice during my first watch, in short, rewatching the show made me realize that it wasn't that impressive for me, and this is not a case of “when you rewatch, you have no more surprises”, no, something can still be surprising for me even after rewatching it, this happens to me with Dragon Ball and other movies and shows as well, with MLP this only happened with few episodes and scenes.

Chapter 2: How and Why I Became a Fan of MLP

So now I want to explain, how the hell from 2023 to 2024 my opinion regarding the series went from “my second favorite series after Dragon Ball” to “not amazing”? Well, I think it's very simple, and I think some here already know the story that explains it. Back in early 2023, I was very depressed, I was losing interest in Sonic, a franchise I was a fan for so many years, and even though I was still a fan of Dragon Ball at the time, that franchise alone wasn't being enough to make me happy (though that could be because 2023 was just a very dry year for DB), I didn't have any friends and was very unsatisfied with my arts, it was terrible. But almost around the same time, I met that friend from Facebook, who brought me a lot of joy, and was a fan of the Sonic and Love Live franchises, I really liked how he used to talk about the two and how he compared them, so that gave me the idea of watching a “cute and girlish” show too, as I already a fan of a “boyish” show, and at the time, random posts about MLP started to show up in my feed, and them made me remember how I used to love the ponies back in 2012 as a kid, so that gave me strong nostalgia, so I started to watch the show and I fell in love with it, the colorful, cute and friendly aesthetic just made me feel so happy, and I loved the ponies, it was very exciting to watch it and making random crazy comparisons with Dragon Ball just made it even more fun for me, and the “Dragon Ball” moments in a few episode just made me go crazy, so I enjoyed everything in it.

But time passed, in early 2024 there was only TyT for me to follow, and I wasn't enjoying that show, so I was just dropped it, but since then, I didn't continue watching G1, Pony Life, nor reading the G4 comics, and I also didn't watch the rest of the Equestria Girls content (Better Together, the latter Specials…), all I did was rewatch some episodes of FiM and this was the moment where I noticed that the show wasn't that magical for me anymore, I believe what made me love it in 2023 was that its light-hearted and my unexpected interested for it just made me blind and surpass my depression, MLP was the only series I followed from July 2023 to June 2024, the only other show I watched at the time was Dragon Ball, and of course DB for me was better, but for me comparing DB to MLP was unfair for obvious reasons, so MLP just made me amazed because there was nothing else that I was watching at the moment other than Dragon Ball, and I also wasn't expecting to love the Ponies so much and specially, a show made for very little girls, so all of this surprised me.

So consider all this + the fact that I was depressed at the time, and there are the reasons for why I became a fan of MLP, it helped me during my depression, I loved the ponies, the stories surprised me for a show made for little girls, and the only other series I had to compare with it at the time was Dragon Ball, all of this made me go through a true “Pony Mania” time during the latter part of 2023.

But as 2024 arrived, my hype cooled down, I finished FiM and Make Your Mark, there was only Tell your Tale, and that was already a show that I wasn't enjoying very much, but since it was my “second favorite franchise" I really tried to give it a chance, but after many episodes the show just wasn't pleasing me (as you may remember when I was very positive in the first episodes of Season 2, but I started to become very critical about them every time a new episode was released), that was very underwhelming for me and I even made a thread saying how G5 for me was a lost cause, but, I couldn't be a fool again, as in a very similar time, in 2023, I was also very underwhelmed by Sonic, I was losing my interest in the franchise due to the latest releases, and that just made me very frustrated, angry, I even deleted all of my posts from the Sonic forum, I remembered this, and I didn't make the same mistake with MLP, I continued posting here normally throughout July and August even though I was losing my interest in MLP and underwhelmed by it.

Chapter 3: Why I'm sure I won't be a fan again

For me, it was much easier and calmer to accept that I should move on from the franchise, when compared to Sonic, which for me was quite hard to accept.

I don't think my love for MLP will come back some day, and I don't think it has to, as I said, when I used to love it, I was In a very bad situation, and the positive energy of the show just made me blind, I couldn't see in it the aspects that for me weren't good, and this is where I would like to talk about that “the show is not for me” line, I mean, not the show, but the franchise, a major thing that made me underwhelmed when rewatching FiM, was the franchise's focus on little kids, being a TV-Y show, a preschool show, for me, the series has so much potential to do so much more, but I feel that the focus on little kids just holds it too much, and I think that is really annoying, not being able to work with its concepts and world more like Transformers do, with high budget productions, awesome videogames, something that MLP lacks completely (sorry but MLP games are mostly just bad), for me it was wasted potential.

But then, I just had to go through another acceptance, is the Franchise really for me? My favorite series is Dragon Ball, which is very different from MLP, and I don't have much interest in stuff that is similar to MLP, but I have interest in lots of stuff that are similar to Dragon Ball.

So I realized that, and for that reason, my complaints regarding TyT went from “story is bad, characters are bad, too short, dumb and childish, it was a bad decision to finish MyM, a much better show, and continue its story in TyT, a shorter and worse show” to only “it was a bad decision to finish MyM, a longer show with high budget, and continue its story in TyT, a shorter and cheaper show” (I don't have any post to show here as example, but if you go to my post history, you'll see how this was exactly the evolution of my criticism), this happened because I realized that there was no need for me to complain about TyT not doing stuff that it was never going to do, there's nothing wrong about TyT considering its idea and target audience, and so is G4 and the whole franchise, as a Dragon Ball fan, I expected a lot more from the show, and I had in my memory that FiM was amazing like Dragon Ball, so when I rewatched it, my expectation was broken, but it was never the franchise's purpose to offer that much that I expected from it, that's why I had to accept that it just might not be for me, if Hasbro wants it to be targeted amongst little kids, so be it, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Does that mean that I dislike MLP now?...well, not exactly, even if I admit that the franchise is not for me, and even if I dislike TyT in particular, I still like G4, I still like FiM and Equestria Girls, despite the flaws I see in them now, and some aspects that annoy me, for me they aren't unwatchable, I still enjoy them, Make Your Mark I still kinda like it, despite the show being much worse than I remembered (again, not the show's fault, I'm not the target audience, I'm not here to talk about execution and quality).

I just stopped enjoying MLP as a “franchise”, I just enjoy specific productions now, and I don't love them anymore, I don't think they're amazing like Dragon Ball anymore, for me they're just good and that's it, I enjoy them now as much as I enjoy a western cartoon like Spongebob Squarepants, for me that show is nothing amazing nor something that would make me super engaged into, but it's definitely a fun watch to spare time.

Of course adults like me can think the show is amazing, I'm not dictating any rules, I’m just saying that for this specific adult, Rafa Stary, the series is just good, he would recommend it to someone who wants to watch a fun silly show, but he don't think it's amazing (though, I do think the show may be indeed amazing for its genre, probably the best preschool show ever made, I highly doubt something like Bluey is any better than it)

I wouldn't deny rewatching it, I would definitely have fun with it, but for now, I'm more interested in other stuff, like Dragon Ball and those other franchises, that's why I said in some posts before that I'm not looking forward into G6 or whatever they are going to release after TyT/G5 ends, I have no hype or interest and I'm sure they aren't going to make something that is more interesting than the best parts of G4, I actually believe that the franchise will never be a hit again, and that Hasbro is going to forget the older audiences and just focus in the little kids, MLP will go back to its day of the first 3 generations and be popular only amongst little kids again, and hey, that's a belief I already shared back in 2023 when I still was a fan!

Chapter 4: My Future in this Forum and my Pony arts

And now finally, the most important part of this gigantic status update, first of all, I want to talk about the Ponies.

While I don't love MLP anymore…I still love Ponies, yes, I still love these little creatures, I think they are just my favorite fictional animals/creatures, if not my #1, for me they are way too cute, beautiful and cool (at least in G4/Lauren Faust-ish style), I still enjoy drawing them, I still plan to make a lot of arts of ponies and share the ones I see on Derpibooru, I love the official pony designs too, so I'll draw them as well, even Equestria Girls too, I really like the EQG designs, so that definitely had almost no effects in my drawings, I'll continue making MLP fanart and pony art.

And now, finally, the most important part, Am I going to quit the forum? 

Of course not, I actually already commented about this multiple times during this year, I only joined the forum a year ago because I wanted to talk about MLP, but as time passed, the friends I made here started to be the main reason for my stay, so that means, MLP is no more the reason for me to stay here, I'm still here because I have friends here.

Though, I know a few months ago I said “I'm here because of the forum”, well, no more, as I said in a previous status update, I don't have interest in the art contest anymore, nor in the events, and I also don't feel motivated to open myself for new friends here (yeah I have that problem, sorry) so it's unlikely that I'm going to make any more friends here than the ones I already have (but I'll always accept new ones).

But for me, because of this, it's important to continue here, I'll continue posting, though, of course, I'm not that much interested in posting in a lot of threads anymore, I'll mostly use the status updates to share my feelings and adventures, also, don't worry, I'll, continue with the requests, drawing for free, you can still ask me to do drawings, and actually, I won't deny to talk about MLP here, I'll still talk about the franchise whenever I feel doing so (I actually even really enjoyed trying to debunk the TyT cancellation rumors), you can still ask or talk about it with me if you want, of course, I'll answer based on what I know about it and everything I saw in the 12 months. 

Now, if I'm going to stay here for a long time, well, I can't guarantee anything, for now, I really have no plans of leaving, I really don't want to, but no one can tell how the future is going to be like, so if my plans end up changing, I promise that I'll stay here with you at least for Christmas 2024 and first weeks of 2025, but I really don't think it's going to happen, I see no reason for me to quit the forum just to be alone again, but just saying in case it happens (and yes, I'll send my contacts to those who ask for it)

Well, I think that's it, me and My Little Pony may not be together anymore, but I’ll always owe one to the series, it truly helped me in a very complicated chapter of my life, it's definitely not its fault that I lost interest in it, I changed, I’m in a new part of my journey now, and there are things we need to say goodbye to during our life journey, but we should never forget them, MLP may not be in my heart anymore, but it will remain in my memory, it was truly important for my spirit, if it wasn't for it, I would've never joined the forum, I would continue alone.

I know this can sound repetitive, but even though I'll probably not be looking forward into the future of the franchise, I truly hope G6 (or whatever comes next after Tell your Tale in the series’ animation sector) will be as amazing as G4 was in its golden years, the fandom is giving me a bit of sad vibes, I feel sorry for that, and I really have no hopes that the franchise will ever shine again (as I already said early in the text), but if you still trust the potential of MLP, continue supporting, don't lose your hopes, a miracle may happen in the future and the fandom may see a new golden time again, just wait and see, only time will tell it (though I really wouldn't count on Hasbro for it, for me, fuck them, in my opinion they should sell MLP and their other IPs), for now, remember that MLP is a entertainment, before putting any of your feelings into it, think, entertaining you always comes in first place, and the G4 of MLP still offers that for me, it just doesn't stir up strong feelings in me like Dragon Ball and certain other productions do anymore, but the first, “entertainment”, is always the most important, and that can lead to incredible things, such as the amazing fandom that still exists to this day, please continue supporting the ponies and their content creators.

Anyway. Damn, this took a long time to write, sorry for the text being so huge, yeah I know that for this subject, it could've been much shorter, but I really had to open myself for this, and when it comes to these things I really link to write a lot (and there was still a bit more to talk about, but it wasn't that important for this subject, so I'll save it for another time), it was a fun ride, a important one, I had to say all this already because October is going to be a crazy month for me (I don't think I need to explain it hehe)

Anyway, thanks for reading (regardless of whether you skipped parts of the text or not), below, my favorite song from the franchise, after “Open Up Your Eyes” from the 2017 Movie of course, but I had to choose another one because I don't think Tempest Shadow's song fits the mood of this post very much, so I choose “A Friend for Life” from Equestria Girls 2013 (still my favorite EQG movie, some things don't change hehe), also because I don't have many others, only a few MLP songs are remarkable for me actually, I'm quite boring haha.

Anyway, thanks to My Little Pony, and you people for being my friends, good night! ~☆

Happy Birthday Plonkett! Hope you have a beautiful future! 

Hello Hello Hello! Does anyone here remember this green cup with Derpy's head drawn on it? I showed it in some post a while ago here in the forum, but in case you don't remember it, this used to be a cup with a generic happy face on it, in August 2023, I removed that face and replaced it with two Derpy heads in both sides

Images from September 7, 2023.

Well, I've been using that cup for a year, you can see Derpy doesn't look...very good anymore, images from tonight

yeah, Derpy slightly invisible now, and aside from that, you may have noticed something weird in the cup in these two images above, well...yeah, today, the worst happened to this cup

Yeah, the cup broke, and it was out of nowhere, I don't know when this happened, I was simply going to fill with it some juice, then I saw it leaking, I really have no idea how it happened, but, well...the time comes for everything (poor Derpy), can't use it anymore, and for me this was the last nail in the coffin, ohh..what coffin? I'll talk about this later, it's a long story, I still plan to tell it tonight, but I don't, I promise I'll do it tomorrow, to finish this month! 

But for now, may you rest in peace, inanimate soul of Green Derpy ~☆

Happy birthday Longhaul! Hope you have a beautiful night and future !

Hello Hello Hello! Today (and Yesterday) fortunately were much better than that other day where everything went wrong, and I fixed the glitches on my mobile device too (guess I just had to reinstall Play Services...), I've completed a drawing and i just drank bananamilk drink to finish this night, satisfied. Anyway, today I was going to write another post talking about MLP, but since today is Rainbow Rocks's 10th anniversary (my tribute drawing below), I'll save that for tomorrow, I'll talk about something else now, which is my....hmm, how can I call it, well, I think I've failed, once again, to communicate with other artists.

Since the events that happened to me on Facebook in 2022, I've just been struggling a lot to befriend or to have any good communication with other artists, I failed in the entirety of 2023, and then 2024 arrived, this forum gave me very good hopes and it worked for a while, I talked to multiple artists here, I participed in two Art Contests, it was a unique experience, but then after a time, everything just started to go downhill again, I stepped away from the Art Contests, I don't even vote anymore, and I also don't interact with other artists' here, nor I talk about their works, I still do actually but it's super rare, I mostly I just see them without saying anything.

Now, it's just me again, I don't know why, it was working, but now...not sure if it's because I'm too shy, if it's because I feel that talking to artists is just too different from talking to "normal people", if the 2022 events still gives me a trauma or something like that, or because I just don't like that at all, if I'm a coward, if I'm lost, I really have no idea, all I know is that I failed again in doing this, I guess for now my artistic journey is really meant to be a lonely journey.

I at least still love drawing, this is much better than how it was in early 2023, where I nearly stopped posting my arts in the internet because I was hating too much what I was doing, I wasn't satified with anything I did. Fortunately, I feel happy drawing again, I love what I do, if I can't learn how to get used to the "from artist to artist" experience, I at least still love the art I make, and that is much better than nothing, and that is enough to make me feel better, and I'll always keep trying getting better and better 

Good night~☆

Copied from Derpibooru: 

Glad you decided to change your profile pic, you have no idea how profile pic with food can make others hungry 

Happy Birthday Music Chart Fan! Hope you have a beautiful future with awesome songs !

Hello, the evil spirits of bad luck attacked me today, I'm very pissed off. One of the most annoying things, running out of water, happened for the entire day and part of the night. It had been a while since this had happened for the last tome, so I wasn't expecting it, couldn't use water for 90% of the day, which sucks.

But to make it worse, more annoying things happened, first, after months, it's finally raining again, which is good, but because of this none of the clothes could dry. Then the only thing I had to eat today was a meat that for me didn't taste that good, so I barely ate today compared to other days, there were at least beans.

Then there are also the problems in my Mobile Device, for some reason it just started to show strange glitches today, they say google play services and I really don't understand it, apps crashing, then there is Youtube just loading multiple times for no reason, and not playing videos even if my internet is normal, also, speaking of my Internet, something that never happened before just happened with it, there was a moment where suddenly all the internet networks just disappeared, I swear, this never happens, even when my internet network is offline, there are still multiple networks available, so that just makes no sense, I never saw this happening, and it took a while for it return to normal, it was very annoying too, and it's not auto-reactivating anymore, at least not as usual, I don't know why this is happening.

And to finish, I couldn't conclude any drawing today, but there was the problem that one of them simply got corrupted, I fortunately could recover it, but it just takes a lot of time for my drawing app to recover corrupted drawings, so that was also annoying as well.

Well, around 1 to 2 hours ago things magically returned to normal, the water is back, so I could end my night with a shower and milk with salt cookies, the weird glitches in my mobile device and YouTube stopped too (I think), only the new bizarre Internet problem continues, though I found a way to activate it, but it's still annoying.

I think when it comes to these things, It's just too easy for me to lose my patience, I’m probably an idiot for letting these things get so easily into me, and there were worse days (there were times where I ran out of water for nearly 2 entire straight days, it's very annoying)

Anyway, the crisis passed and things are back to normal for Stary, but the day was already stressful enough for me, so I'm in my way to use this night to calm and relax my heart, soul and mind, sorry for acting this way, I wanted to write about something “important” related to MLP, I saw about the G% cancellation, I wanted to spend more time here now too, but I don't think I can't, sorry, hopefully tomorrow will be a better day, so I'll try to do that tomorrow, thank you, I'll pray for all of you to have a peaceful night, Starlight Serenade too, who's fortunately back to the forums after a crisis that happened a few days ago 

Don't know how to exactly feel about the cancellation of Tell your Tale and possibly of G5 as a whole, I'm actually surprised, not sad about it, though, I do feel bad for the fans, and I mean, bad in the long term, I honestly have no hopes for the future of the franchise, and I think this goes beyond than just Hasbro managing things poorly, I think the franchise is doomed, I don't think it's going to shine any time again, you can call me a pessimistic but that's just how I feel about it, I have more to talk about this feeling, but I'll do it another time, maybe tonight, I don't know, I'll see.

Hello Hello Hello! Yesterday I fortunately could sleep well, though I think I ended up sleeping more than I wanted

For that reason I wake up late, so I had no breakfast, but I had chicken with beans for lunch and dinner, with guava juice and banana milk drink, also salty cookies for the night final meal.

Today I made drawings and finished one of them (can see below), I watched videos and the new trailer for Dragon Ball Sparking Zero (Video below), showing all the characters that are coming in the base game, 181 is a absurd number, a very good awesome roster indeed, though I'm really disappointed by the Original Dragon Ball representation in this game, only Kid Goku is coming, not even Piccolo Daimao or Tao Pai Pai, Original Dragon Ball never gets luck in these ganes, that's sad  but the character list for the other 3 shows is really good, including the Z movies! Seeing Garlic Jr. and Dr. Willow made me really happy for some reason  really good to see them, the only villain from the movies that is not going to be included is Bio Broly, I guess why  (lie), this game is going to blow, everything looks awesome, not going to play it because I can't, but I hope everyone really enjoy it, can't wait to watch gameplays videos 

Tomorrow I'll resume my edits of DB music and activity in my Youtube channel, so I'll make more posts in my blog as well, also, I'l try to use Pixiv, let's see how it's going to be.

Still no sigh of what happened to my friend mentioned in my previous status update though, still worried about it 

Happy Birthday Ragland Tiger! Hope you have a beautiful future with your feline friends! Rawwwr 

Happy Birthday SparklingSquirrels! I hope you have a beautiful future! 

Hello Hello Hello, coff coff coff  smoke everywhere, my region is covered in smoke, I open the doors or windows, I feel and smell it, fortunately it doesn't enter in my home, but damn, this is being a problem for a lot of people, hope things get better as fast as possible.

Well, now there is all this talk about AI in the site, well, the only thing I can say is, I don't like AI, I already avoided generating texts and images with AI since this thing started, so that doesn't affect me any bit, but I also don't condemn anyone who likes to uses it (for non-"evil" purposes of course)

But well, recently, one of my friends in the forum, was "caught" using AI, but he quickly apologized, from what I witnessed, I didn't see much problem in it, he was just using AI to help in his texts, yet, he apparently received severe punishment? Not sure, didn't see the entire story, but now I'm worried because some of his content disappeared and there was no comment about it, I don't know what happened, not sure what should I do

Anyway, I'm in a good state, but there is something disturbing me, I feel that there's something's wrong, off, I feel like this is making my spirit uneasy, I couldn't sleep yesterday, I had to sleep at another time, and I feel like this might happen again tonight, it could be related to my presence here or something else, I really don't know, please stay good and healthy my friends, good night.

Hmmmmm whaeee...what happened? Your latest blog post disappeared, and your posts disappeared from the pinned as well 

Something's wrong here

Hello Hello Hello, my mission was a success! well at least for now 💦 i'll need to wait some time to see if I'll get any results from it, sorry for not informing it yesterday, I was too tired (and lazy), I'll relax and enjoy the time I have for now until the moment

I got toasted bread and coffe with milk for breakfast, toasted beef with macaroni in the lunch and meal, french fries in the mid lunch, with grape soda, and banana milk drink in the end of the day, but I couldn't hold myself from eating at least one normal banana before sleep 💦

I made several drawings but I didn't finish any of them, watched gameplays of multiple NES games, and the recently released Sonic Rumble and Funko Fusion, Funko Fusion seemed pretty bad to me, but I'm not the best person to say this since I really dislike Pop Funkos  Sonic Rumble didn't look very interesting to me, and I don't really get why they borrowed so much audiovisual content from Sonic Lost World for it, that game was released a decade ago (holy shit ), I bet it's because the visuals of that game resembles Fall Guys a lot, and Sonic Rumble was probably inspired by Fall Guys, well it's available for me to play on my Stary Device but it's really not my thing.

I'm feeling at peace but my lack of communication with the people of this place has been disturbing, I need to fix that or else it can be bad for me and you people, specially for me, I need to get less messy, also, stop posting here so late in the night.

Artist: minoru maeda

Happy Birthday Sarabi! I wish a Beautiful future for you !

Hello Hello Hello! Oh no... Rafa Stary disappeared for several days again... I don't even know what to say anymore, I just hope I didn't worry anyone too much, I'm fine, today I ate fried bread with coffee with milk for breakfast, lunch and dinner were pig meat with beans and guava juice, for my snack I had French fries and for the evening snack I had salty crackers with milk. I watched videos and a bit of gameplay from the game Black Myth Wukong, I'm finding it quite interesting, I also made some drawings, one of them I managed to finish (the drawing of Mary below) I think I'll use it as a profile picture somewhere, probably my Youtube Channel, but I haven't decided yet, and I finally finished updsting all of the links on my blog! 

Anyway, overall, I'm feeling peaceful and healthy, however, I've been feeling strange these days, it can't be "loneliness" because when you make people care about you, you can always expect that person to be waiting for you, but it's something similar, for 2 months now I've felt like one of my "powers" has been weakening in free fall, but I can't say anything until I'm sure, to compensate for this, I've been training my mind and spirit more and more, to feel more relaxed, comfortable, and I feel like it's working, so it helped me a lot, however it's not very comforting to say that you're back to your friends and then disappear again without any advice, sorry for that, I've just entered a new decade of my life journey and that can bring worries for me, tomorrow can be a day that will change the course for me, and I don't know if I'm spiritually and mentally prepared for this new challenge, I don't know if I'm still strong enough to deal with it, but I can try my best, however, you are reading the message of a person who doesn't take risks and who doesn't leave his comfort zone, so don't expect too much, but I can pray that my wish to the Stary Stars comes true, and that it works out and doesn't affect me too much, it's very important, I really don't like to ask for anything, and you deserve more, I shouldn't be so inactive in the only place where I have friends nowadays, please wish me luck, thank you my friends, you are the best, good night ☆^^☆

Happy Birthday CiBP! Hope you have a beautiful future! Cheerilee is best pony!