i love your sketches BC the sheep are so cute. i also liked the sheep figurines you posted a while back.

the people with the money to buy politicians want to criminalize being poor. so cities install spikes do keep unhoused people from being able to rest. removing benches to punish unhoused people also punishes everyone else who uses those spaces. but what do they care. more important for billionaires to not have to see the "poors" in San Francisco. the incentives aren't in place to make the world better for those of us who can't afford to buy politicians. as long as people with the most money make the rules we'll never get mass transit or real protections for disabled people. or any of us really. if it doesn't build "shareholder value" it won't happen under the current status quo. it can be done. we just need the will as a society to make it happen. i do believe a better world is possible. it's why i complain so much

i think tech can be made to help people. but not under the current tech leadership. most of that is scams lately. maybe tech designed for and by disabled people would be a better solution?

Worried about my husb. He’s been having a lot of negative self talk lately, and at my request, he brought it up to his therapist, and his therapist basically said that it makes sense. He listens to him but doesn’t give him the TOOLS to deal with it. So I asked him to bring it up again, and ask if he has any tools to help him, and nothing really came of it.

I’m worried about it. I’ve told him to challenge those negative thoughts in the past, but I don’t think he has ever understood HOW to do that. So now I’m over here giving advice that I’m not a professional in. I told him to imagine that someone he loves is saying those negative things about themselves, and asked him what he would say to reassure them. He isn’t in the right head space to see beyond the negative fog right now, but I’m hoping it’ll at least plant a seed. Because obviously, years of me telling him I don’t think those negative things about him does nothing. He needs to change his internal narration. Easier said than done.

Quote from: Ponybookworm on April 23, 2024, 11:51:21 AM

Even G1's Tales didn't have every character made. The most common G1 Customs are of Teddy, Lancer, Ace, & Miss Hackney, so what does that tell you???

YES!!!! I can't believe this has never been rectified!!!

My mother saw Sunny Starscout for the first time today. She is still struggling to understand a: how that is the core key pony character, and b: how there is literally no variety. Her response I think was actually, "ew!". And this is the person who bought me my first pony when I was a kid because she thought they were so pretty.

G5 suffers badly from variety and a bad choice of colour schemes for the main cast.

As for the Tales ponies, 100% agree.

There's also Lady Lessons who I feel was going to exist but then didn't.

Yeah, I'm one of those "locked away from society" but it's not really by choice. I don't drive, never have. There is no public transport here. There is a bus of sorts, but you need to call 48 hours ahead and it costs money. I live day to day because my pain and mental function vary day to day. I don't know how I'll feel in 48 hours, so why book a trip?

When they cut down the buses here, the Council's argument was that kind of dial and book service, and we gave them the exact same reply you just said. How do you know how you are going to be in 2 days? It was particularly for an elderly complex that the issues were arising. They were amazing, though. They went to war with the Council and they won and the Council rerouted the bus back past their estate. There's one woman who is on it literally every day. It's a matter of a 5 minute detour that transformed her quality of life.

It sucks that your buses are so bad

Also, on the sheep. I meant to mention this before, but it's so much easier for people to insult someone else's stuff than it is to contribute anything positive to society. Ignore them. You're being creative and the sheep are cute

@LBS - my navigational thing is I think officially developmental topographical disorientation, which means parts of my brain don't link up stuff properly. Unfortunately getting an official diagnosis and scan is not possible on the NHS at the moment (I think Canada is the only place that actually does it, in case you're interested, LOL) but it means that I can be somewhere familiar and my brain will reset where I am, and I will completely lose my bearings. Forget left and right, I can't always remember how to get from work to the bus station. I have to remember which stores are near it and hope I see the sign to them/the logo.

This is why it's a bad idea for me to have a car. I am all for self-driving cars when they are safe, but I think that's a long way off. Human driven cars are maybe the bigger problem, since a lot of people drive badly here.
Tech could probably make my life a lot easier, if the tech I needed existed.

Being able to drive would transform my life completely. But I spent six years trying to learn. And I could do the mechanics of it, so long as there was someone there to navigate. And in my tests I made bad decisions because I navigated worse under stress and misread traffic signals. I never did anything dangerous but I realised that I would probably end up killing someone and I would never be able to drive independently because of my navigation and the ease with which I lost orientation on roundabouts and such.

So yeah. I am as independent with public transport and such as I can be. I am the only person who goes to London for a walking holiday because there are lots of buses, and the bus stops are quite distinctive. I can follow bus routes to walk and the buses are frequent enough that I can watch where they go to help me find the way. And if I get lost I can always grab a bus and get back to safety. I can't do any of that at home :/ But I can't afford to live in London, so this is how it is.

The new LPS are definitely wider spread than the BF ponies. I've always had a hard time finding the ponies, but the LPS I've found tons of stock of in every toy/"nerdy" shop I've been into in the past few months.

I know the BF line won't last forever... but I hope it lasts at least a little bit longer