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My roommate has more ponies than I do. She collects mostly G1, but comes with me on my shopping trips. My dad doesn't know I like ponies, but buys me Pokemon cards and Transformers sometimes (bestdad!). I had an old friend over yesterday and he told me he's jealous of my toy collection. I've yet to come across somebody that has a problem with it, save for the odd looks I get from cashiers when I tell them the toys are for myself.
My parents, and my sis-in-law are my biggest supporters. My spouse, gives me some AMAZING creative ingenuity advice on mechanics of my customizing. He also does leather work, and donates strips and scraps of his leather to me for my customs, lol. There are haters, though. And it's hard. Art groups on deviantArt; the staff of the groups shun my work every now and then because they think "ponifications aren't art". They think I just slap paint on a pony and call it art, and they refuse to listen when I explain the craft I put in- I don't BUY them looking the way they are, I do the expressionism paint textures, hair plugs and styling, hand-sewn outfits, metal craft and leather craft and resculpt body and face features...they either go "LALALALALA" with their ears plugged by their fingers, or they simply tell me they can't assist me any further. I point out that they're discriminating and in a way, censoring my art by doing that just because I don't use a human doll base for my custom dolls, but because they hate ponies, I still have to leave the art groups. I really wish there was a rule against staff members of groups behaving that way.
I suppose it's best to stick with pony-based art groups on DA, huh? That's the safest bet... it's nice to just take risks and bite the bullet now and then and join groups based around the subject matter of your customs. A lot of those groups send me invites anyways, it's only been 2 groups that have been completely biased over the fact my doll bases are ponies. Quote from: zettamomoI don't really think my Aunts and Uncles really know too much about my collections, but I had my one Aunt say to me before that she didn't really care to see my "kiddy stuff". My Aunts and Uncles has thought I was a little weird my whole life and I have been slightly ridiculed about it for my whole life by them, so it's nothing new. Thankfully I don't have to see them that often.lol, I think we all can relate with that. After my grandma died, I've pretty much lost touch with all my aunts and uncles... if you're not a millionaire, you're automatically "odd" to them. A way you can think of it, is people who are comfortable with themselves (and are happy with who they are) aren't afraid to support their friends and family members in what ever it is that makes them happiest. A person can harp on you about liking ponies, while they turn around and run into their closet squealing over Legos and Yu Gi Oh! cards. It's all about insecurity...
I don't really think my Aunts and Uncles really know too much about my collections, but I had my one Aunt say to me before that she didn't really care to see my "kiddy stuff". My Aunts and Uncles has thought I was a little weird my whole life and I have been slightly ridiculed about it for my whole life by them, so it's nothing new. Thankfully I don't have to see them that often.