Me Seeing How Well I Can Draw The Characters Out Of Pure Memory, Referencing A Classic Tumblr Shitpost.

Before Starlight?

sometimes I forget I can draw horses

Sorry more stupid ponies

she's getting too powerful (and great)

horse standing in some type of stable looking back at the camera with a pleasant expression the horses hair has been styled and cut in a way to mimic the character applejack from the animated television show my little pony friendship is magic it even wears a hat similar to that of the character this horse is practicing the art of cosplay and doing a great job of it

you know, I'm initially inclined to agree, many people will agree (or surface level seem to agree) with left wing ideology just out of uncritical following of a crowd, and I do think that that's a real problem. but like. hmmmm hmmmm

and there's a lot more red usernames in the empty reblogs... the thing is, I think a lot of the people in the notes are sorta reading this post and only looking at it surface level, ironically enough. you can criticize the reason for people getting into politics, I think that's fair, but a lot of the people who seem to agree to that... don't seem to be doing that themselves, I don't think. and are just seeing this as "radicalism bad" or "those silly progressives, they're just like the right".

look, I really don't think you can fundamentally compare these two things, wanting to exterminate another race, or advocating for an ethnostate, these things cannot be meaningfully compared with the very basic progressive ideals that most people in this website (or in most progressive circles for that matter) hold.

and, yeah, seeing the kind of people who are reblogging this and what they're saying along with it, I would also like to mention that a lot of them seem to talk about "radicalization" when they actually mean like, just very basic stuff like supporting trans rights, this isn't all of them of course, some people on the reblogs are being a lot more sensitive about it and making actual criticisms of the way many leftists misguidedly shape their ideologies, without actually saying much on the ideologies themselves, which I think is the ideal.

and I think it is important to have all of this stuff in mind. since trying to look at this from some sort of centrist impartial lens is just... sorta silly. right?

so i went to my local dollar store the other day nd found these g4.5 pony blind bag thingies for like $3 each

nd first of all lemme tell u, these are not high quality figures, but fuck if i didnt want a little twilight sparkle figure for my desk. so i was reasonable and got only 2 packs instead of All Of Them and figured it was 2 tries at a 1/4 chance, whatever right? best case scenario i get twi and rarity, worst case i get 2 rainbow dash

well as soon as i thought the worst case into existence i KNEW i fucked up. in that moment i was one with the universe and the universe was in my bones and i had tempted fate herself and was going to pay the price

i went home and opened the bags.

and i got 2 rainbow dash.

okay!! fine!!! we’re going to do it this way, are we? like no flame to rd, it just so happens if u have 6 main characters in a show and rank them, one of them is gonna b at the bottom of my list and thats ok! it’s just id really rather have a twilight sparkle figure please and thank you

so i went back to the store a day later and bought 3 more packs. each one a 1/4 chance for twilight sparkle. and as i was walking home i thought to myself:

“man, it’d b funny if this time i got every other figure except for twilight”

well guess what?

i got a rarity, a pinkie, and another rainbow dash :)

i tempted fate again and yknow what? thats on me! fool me once shame on me and all that, i had it coming. so now im here with my 3 rainbow dashes and 0 twilight sparkles and my crippling gacha addiction gene rearing its head for the first time since i managed to quit spending irl money on pngs of anime girls in 2019

i went back to the store.

i bought all the remaining bags they had.

i had 5 more tries. 5 more 1/4 chances to get a twilight sparkle figure. 5 more 1/4 chances to get a SINGLE figurine of my favourite character, and 5 more 1/4 chances to get yet another one of my least favourite.

i figured this time the odds were in my favour. i may have passed stats on a technicality, but at least i figured i’d given myself the best odds i could. and in my hubris i thought to myself:

“at least there’s no way they’re all rainbow dash”

well :)

i clearly hadnt learned my lesson

i’d tempted fate again, and FUCK if she doesnt know how to commit to the bit because,

i walked home from the dollar store.

i opened the last 5 bags.

and all of them were fucking rainbow dash.

Someone could be dying unconscious on the ground and these three mfs would still pull this shit for who calls 911