https://thehorse.com/164973/study-horses-can-smell-human-fear-happiness/
What do ya think... precursor of unicorn intuition?
 

Pizza... which should come as no surprise as a diabetic friend gave me half a pie to eat yesterday and it's gone.

You are welcome to start a thread like that, but it would need to be in WYP (not fitting for the Off Topic forum), and it would be closely monitored to make sure it was just general venting and no member attacking.

With all respect, it may not be trivial what people had been discussing but due to the way the forum works not everyone can post to WYP either.

Warning to skip it if you want:
We meanwhile have many members who have daily life problems created by trivial politicians not themselves that aren't so trivial for forum members when we examine them. Meanwhile the mods risk non-minorities making it seem better than it is by telling us all to post about in the trivial so long as we can just keep it light because some cant WYP anyway. UMM everypony, those border/trade-wars lately are much more dire for many forum members than the access to a nirvana pony. The good news sounds like bad news and the bad news I can’t properly inform nor does the arena feel the place.

The good news (at least in the US):
If there is a delay in new benefits I know that usually there is sometimes financial help before approval depending on the situation: https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-expedite-ussi.htm can’t hurt to ask. Those who’s USA disability Social Security benefits had been approved can in all likelihood continue to receive some partial amount while homeless https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-homeless.htm until at least Sept. even without housing as SSA luckily was funded through Sept. before the shutdown occurred from what I have heard https://www.kiplinger.com/article/retirement/T051-C000-S003-government-shutdown-delay-social-security-benefits.html .
Even if no one fixes mysteriously poorly prepared HUD https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/house-democrats-investigate-hud-s-failure-act-shutdown-threatens-affordable-n956521
and we start receiving our eviction notices we should have a roof over our heads until at least March or April as we have to legally get 30 days https://realestate.findlaw.com/landlord-tenant-law/rules-for-landlords-and-property-managers-when-evicting-a-tenant.html which gets us through winter in most parts but FYI saving for an emergency ticket south if winters are harsh http://dignityrollerpod.blogspot.com/p/how-to-build-your-own.html may be worth the cost of late fines later over some of your bills. (Don't judge yourselves.)

The censored bad news:
If you are a disabled American (I am one and also rely on HUD housing) who knows much about the hate that is still out here the wall ought scare you more than homelessness (yes I've also been homeless). The first budget war of their indifference at best was about the expense of our healthcare citizens included… (many not able to avoid stressing over that one who have more distaste for politics than those who avoided the topic at the time will ever be able to comprehend) I’m seeing historical intersections. I would rather think of unicorns only but know that light political discussions are a luxury to the few whom complain about those who cannot afford the luxury along with them. What are we to do? I am in solidarity with every forum member regardless of your documentation. Just don't PM me about stuff you should keep private because I DO think more than the Mods monitor folk online esp. around people who care like me.
Peace and eventual prosperity all. I'd rather everyone feel safe here whether your daily lives have been 'politicized' without your sayso... or you happen to still live in the happy bliss of the ignorant and well.
Otherwise, again thank you Mods for getting us back on ponies. I do need some rainbow in my sky. 

 

I’m also a little hesitant about the new show. I tried to get in to the last show “Adventures in Care a Lot” (the one with Wonderheart wanting to get her “belly badge” ) but it didn’t hold my interest for very long.   

I know but... I found myself strangely fixated by the animated breathing fur itself... anyone else? Aw, I hope that much doesn't go to the studio's scrap heap...

Loving all the photos & stories!

Quote from: Loreofyore on January 09, 2019, 09:35:04 AM

since the early 90s what it meant to be an American adult as new gens will continue to do with or without Hasbro.

I feel the need with this to clarify that it's not an American forum, and MLP is an American creation, but no longer just impacting on America. It's a global forum and many of us from overseas have been here a long time, so I like to think we've all shared cultural elements with each other as well. Rather than feeling separated, we're more united by our love of ponies while still living in different places and having different experiences. With Brexit so much in the news here at the moment, it really makes me reflect on how much I love this place being global and have always loved that aspect. I think one of the strengths of G1 that helped make this community is the fact that different countries had different pony lines and we needed to interact to get stuff not sold in our countries. I always liked trading for ponies I'd never seen, and sending ponies to people that they'd never seen as well


I think some FIM fans will stay, because they're actual fans. But I think goddessofpeep is probably right that there's a natural lull. The forum did lose some people when the FIM section disappeared as well. But the thing is that there were people who stuck around at the end of G1 (even if not immediately online due to tech not being quite there at that point), through g2, through G3...and there will be this time, too. People who genuinely love G4 and who have contributed to our community because of it.

We are in our thirties and forties now...but it doesn't follow that all the G3 collectors are. In fact, a lot of them have begun to rediscover their childhood ponies in their late teens and early twenties, just as some of us did. I think with G4 kids it will take ten years or so - but if they came into it as adults, and genuinely love it - there's no reason not to stay, even if the generation ends.

I had totally forgotten the kids who might as adults collect G3… would be great if there is not a wide generation gap… we have so few G2 collectors for instance, and most of the G3 people I know of today are from the earlier gens. There is also the half-gen 3.5.

International shipping restrictions need not be Brexit related, though I’m sure that’s affecting some in the EU, we all see things that don’t ship, many people are just not wanting to figure out how to ship internationally due to the regulations being unfamiliar. And (since that is wider than one country or collection of them) there are also those blocking a few places for reasons of apartheid divestment campaigns which is pretty far from Brexit in ideals. 

I enjoy we are international. I also mean to remark only from my localized experiences in this case... rather not assume the social conventions regarding maturity being contrary to toy-play closer to home are global because for all I know they may not be (I hope they aren’t actually, that somewhere out there it’s always been less restricted). Did you know there were seriously once tribal governments on what is now known as Puerto Rico that actually held official ball games in lieu of anybody going to war? You might otherwise assume some conventions are universal everywhere only to find out it’s not been the case that better conditions predates somewhere else. The willingness of adults to just play seems like it might vary greatly around the globe. Thus restricting my comment about social trends to my nationality was meant to leave open for other members from own home countries to remark as regards maturity, toys, & the internet, rather than try an speak for us all.

Somehow I do not suspect even the FIM fans who spent time trying to fix problems during the crises would mostly want a sudden influx of unknowns coming back to flood us. The FIM series it was called out for using symbolic racism internationally and the bigoted bullying became so intense that infiltration of bronies in attempt by organized hate to subvert the counter-culture was deemed worth its mention in the Anti-Fascist Handbook by historian Mark Bray. I am not kidding.

Hasbro rather than addressing the insensitive things they put in the series and apologizing properly they skirted and mocked it’s seriousness after being called out which left fans including targeted minorities and young children vulnerable to the sort of people that these errors subsequently may have attracted… Hasbro’s abandonment made these FIM fans have to fight the bullies totally on their own, fighting cannon. As there were already minority members among before Hasbro put symbolic racism and ableism into the series, already LGBTQA bronies before the cis-centric bronies appeared, its wonderful some FIM fans stuck through together and hashed it out fighting these bigots online, that they practiced community in a way that eventually may have made MLP a safer more inclusive space to be online, though this was all in no way thanks to Hasbro which ignored trouble it had likely sparked whilst profiting.

So people’s comments about looking forward to the series conclusion reflect some of the burnout in FIM I think.

 It wasn’t always easy and we are seeing more scary stuff like Brexit out there. If trolls in mid-life get nostalgic they’ll time to when today’s little kiddies who have FIM toys to play with go to college, look back on childhood, and are poised to challenge and confront the whole adult political world. The thought of a future online PC clash en mass over what it means for adults to love colorful little toy horses… without Hasbro growing the courage to own to and take responsibility in it’s mistakes that do obviously affect the fan-community socially… I’m not sure everyone will find it worth it to stick with Hasbro if they decide they can’t change. Not everyone is up to go round two fighting organized hate to support an unresponsive toy company in the midst of another identity crises as fans of ponies. Some are gonna go with... fool me once… shame on you… fool me twice… shame on me.

But some people may give up on Hasbro without giving up on unbranded because they do love the fan community/ or keep some MLP because they want to actively help along the next gen that were kids in FIM stand up to hate from inside fan forums. So I don’t think you have to worry that Brexit or even Hasbro itself is going to be able to harm what’s at the core of what today is here.  I am not worried such forums are dying or that the bullied adults of today are going to be suddenly silent about their love of all kinds of pretty little horses. I remember offsite the bullies attacking MLP arena by name in a biased way… well infiltrators... arena still here! I think any friends who faced down the bigots together and dealt with the bullies side by side in that way are not going to be pushed aside by Brexit et all. It is a highly creative fan community that may well even reinvent itself away from brands entirely, but as to that, everything in life, it changes!

Despite the views looks like everyone is too far away. Sigh will have to take the time to break boxes of stuff and sell to different people on some platform or other. Thanks for looking and hope you all have lots of fun!

I can't find the courage to apply for a new job. I thought I'd lessen the pressure by simply offering to volunteer at a nonprofit thrift store for a while, but even that leaves me paralyzed with fear, just thinking about it. At least I might be able to solve this with even more fear, since I'm even more terrified of becoming a deadbeat
I wish I could be not useless and not scared at the same time...

Yeah?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xp22IYL2uU
Have you tried being a tad gentler with yourself? Kicking ourselves when down isn't something we really have to do these days when we are a bit different than others and need it understood or to explain to family... leaking in are some gentler ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eee7h7uVbiY
Man I struggle with it too so good luck, some days though the most productive thing left to do is to give yourself a break and sleep it off if you need to.