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DJShy

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  1. I exclusively use PC.

     

    I actually know someone who uses Macs, and they once had me try to fix and/or find something for them (It's been too long, I don't remember specifics) because they are, to quote the person in question, "computer illiterate". I was very confused and figuratively dizzy at the interface.

  2. "I can't believe it took me so long to get over this hump!" (The hump in question is how awful 'Father Knows Best' makes me feel internally and how it kept me from continuing the show) "The episode isn't even that bad! Why did it take me literal years to continue the show?"

  3. Oh, this episode.

    Oh, this episode.

     

    Let me tell you something about this episode. The story involved has a random lazy bum dragon pretending to be Spike's dad to get stuff and take advantage of him. I have a very neutral opinion of Spike (never really felt much towards or against him), so I can't say much about how I like or dislike this episode on the idea that he hurt Spike alone.

     

    But me, let me tell you a few somethings about me: For starters, I can't stand misunderstandings. Whether they be anything from mind swaps to any kind of miscommunication error, they make we either wanna rip off my skin in discomfort or pause whatever I'm reading/watching etc and escape into my head/music until I calm down.

     

    Now, I can't even begin to tell you why (because not even I fully understand it), but this episode? This episode was truly godawful in that regard. I used to watch these episodes as they air every Saturday with the rest of y'all over on that one live-streaming site we used to watch together on that I can't remember the name of anymore (or find on the site, assuming it's still around). And then this episode aired. It messed with me so hard, I had to take a break, I told myself I'd watch it later that day. Then the discomfort came back when I tried to resume, so I put it off for tomorrow, then 'tomorrow' became 'the next day', then 'next week'.

     

    It took me until yesterday to finally sit down and finish this monstrosity of internal torment. And all the while, the show continued, the fandom continued. And because I am who I am about spoilers, I had no choice (from a certain perspective) but to go dead silent and blind until I finished it and played catch-up.

     

    All because of my issues (which I'm still working on). All because of this. episode.

     

    I still have not caught-up with the show, but I finally finished this... thing that held me back for literal years. And I hope to finish the show and reconnect with all y'all before the fanbase goes from 'died down' to 'died'.

     

    1 out of 10 stars, I usually watch reactions right after each episode, I refuse to do that with this one. The faster I can leave it behind me, the better.

  4. I mean, it's definitely the least flattering view for the ponies, I'll give you that, but I wouldn't say it's ugly.

     

    Lemme put it like this, I've seen both Deadpool movies in theaters, and the second one is definitely much better than the first. But just because I view the 2nd one as a 10, that doesn't really change how the 1st is a 9. It's not bad, just comparatively worse.

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  5. 34 minutes ago, DonMaguz said:

    I have to say, it's definitely fun to come up with these ship names (alias?), but I also find them rather inefficient.

    For example, I recently watched an anime and searched for a pair ships name's just merging the names however best I thought... I immediately found tons of fanart about the ships and it would have been less easy to find them under the RWBY fandom style.

    I mean, that's a fair criticism, but I still see this as a situation of creativity and imagination VS efficiency and simplicity.

    And with that viewpoint, I see the "name mashing" style of naming to be boring, very "cookie cutter"-esque, and lacking a lot of heart, which is very funny and ironic to me considering the topic of relationships, which is the point of shipping. Or at least my point.

     

    Yes, it makes things easier, but you know what else is easier? Not getting out of bed when you're too tired to go in to work. Not showering because you just don't feel like it. Not eating because you're just not in the mood, or eating too much. All these things are technically easier, but they're not necessarily better. And that's exactly how I feel about ship names as they are.

    And besides, when I joined the FNDM, I learned a lot of the main ship names long before I even thought of getting into RWBY shipping myself. If the community is large enough and has enough fanart, it becomes increasingly harder to not find ship art with fancier names, because you already get familiar with it though pattern recognition and familiarity. Now, if a community is too small to make such a thing work, I can understand using the name fusion method. But fanbases like us for example, who are or used to be well known for being very creative, have very little reasoning in my eyes to be lazy.

  6. Reviving this thread with another alt ship name of more effort, Maud X Starlight Glimmer: "Power of Rock", as it references not much Maud's thing with rocks and how Starlight is just straight up super powerful, but also how they first met: Starlight asking about a rock powerful enough to hold a bunch of cutie marks.

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  7. 15 minutes ago, TBD said:

    Okay I think I understand now. So for example Princess cadence and prince shining armor are couple and they defeated Queen chrysalis with love. So their ship name would be the Venus couple. something like that right?  

    Basically, yes.

     

    As I see how I made this thread, there are no wrong answers to ship names, other than mashing character names together, especially with how low my standards are.

     

    As long as the made up ship name has some form of meaning behind it and relates to the characters, I count it as being more creative than the “copy/paste character name fusion” system everyone ever uses.

    9 minutes ago, DonMaguz said:

    Twi - Book. I hope that's self explainable to you.

    Fluttershy - Life. Stretching it a bit with Fluttershy being an animal caretaker meaning she cares about about life?

    I was just trying to understand your concept not really thinking about a good ship name. I think I got it though!

    Yeah, you definitely got my concept down. Because in the end, this isn’t about good or bad ship names. It’s about having some creativity.

     

    As long as it’s not “character name + character name = ship name; wash, rinse, repeat”, it’s what I’m looking for.

     

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    Anyways, I like the logic you had going with “Book of Life” and it fits with what I’m looking for in this thread, so lemme give you an alternative idea with the same general vibe, because discussion of ideas:

    “Zoology” and/or “Zoologist”: It’s the study of animals, which fits with Fluttershy’s love for them and fits with Twilight’s love of learning and studying.

  8. I’m p sure that my high school didn’t have that be a mandatory, considering how I never saw anyone ever use them despite having them.

     

    And because I had (debatably still do) LOTS of issues about my body on of social anxiety and a fear of being “quirky and weird”, I just followed the herd and never used them.

     

    i was totally willing tho.

  9. Just now, DonMaguz said:

    Let me know if I've understood this one...

    For example, for a TwiShy... could we rename it: 'Book of Life'?

    See, now you get what I was going for: Alternative ship names that actually have some significance to the characters being shipped, as apposed to “just slap their names together, it’s fine”.

     

    Altho, and this might be because I never actually got caught up with MLP yet, but I don’t quite understand that ship name for Twilight and Fluttershy. Any chance you could explain it?

    39 minutes ago, TBD said:

     

    Flutter-shyTwi-light. How's this any different....?

    It’s different because “Flutterlight” isn’t the focus of that post. It only got said as a reference for which ship I was creating a more personal name for.

     

    Unless you’re talking about my point of confusing names, in which I’ve got nothing. I can concede that I wasn’t any better.

  10. 5 minutes ago, TBD said:

    Tempestlight which is the only one I can think of right now..

     

    That's... the exact opposite of what I asked.

     

    My whole point is about how FNDM is more creative than to just mush names together. Not to mention that just smashing names together can potentially cause problems (Example: Are you talking Twilight or Starlight? This wouldn't be a thing with actual effort with shipping titles.) I'd give you an example of what I mean, but I haven't seen the movie yet, so I know literally nothing about Tempest, other than 'broken horn".

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