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Re: shipping confession

Post by Aria Genisi (?) » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:20 pm

the secret best ship is actually The Great Gexby
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Re: shipping confession

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Aria Genisi wrote:
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the secret best ship is actually The Great Gexby
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Re: shipping confession

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:23 pm

are there any ships about actual ships. not like, anthropomorphized ships, but like, just literal sentient ships that wanna date, like, a monster truck?
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Re: shipping confession

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:25 pm

that would be cute
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Re: shipping confession

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:27 pm

yeah I agree
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Re: shipping confession

Post by Inkie (?) » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:48 pm

two ships holding hands
two ships holding hands

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Re: shipping confession

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:50 pm

wanna see cuddling ships
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Re: shipping confession

Post by Orange Fluffy Sheep (?) » Tue Oct 15, 2019 7:29 pm

Inkie wrote:
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two ships holding hands
two ships holding hands
makes my big fat heart expand
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Re: shipping confession

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Oct 15, 2019 8:32 pm

Gloomy Rube wrote:
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wanna see cuddling ships
If you’re willing to count moe personifications of ships, I believe Japan’s got you covered
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Re: shipping confession

Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Wed Oct 16, 2019 2:03 pm

The Ghost of Ember wrote:
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there was also a lot of desire to not be seen as 'those bad fans' who were degenerates and whatnot. there was a lot of pearl clutching about men liking girls cartoons in the wider culture and a lot of people here were defensive about it. we were the respectability politics forum, if we just were gosh darn nice and polite enough they'd have to accept us.

which i always made fun of but kept posting here because it was solidly safe for work
hmm, yes, quite. on the other hand,
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and then the rest of the fandom turned into nazis
and also we didn't become a platform for sharing which children's cartoon character you busted a nut to, which I think is a well good thing. I don't think being the non-weird choice location for liking kids shows was a bad thing since it makes this site far more presentable to an outside viewer but also to ourselves
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Re: shipping confession

Post by Bigdog (?) » Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:27 pm

Madeline wrote:
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I was strongly anti shipping, then started shipping while trying to maintain the cover of anti shipping so I wouldn’t be mocked/derided/banned :facehoof: there is no honor in this
This is a pretty predictable outcome whenever ponygoons start protesting too much about anything, fwiw, and you're far from being the "worst" (for one thing, you eventually came around). There are/were a relative shitload of these cases on these forums, and there are some that most folks still don't know about. I know this for a fact, both from personal interactions and from reputable reports.

Some of them were the shipper/furry types who were just trying to lay low and who came out when they could. Others were folks who had a genuine change of heart when they got more familiar with it. The current population of PPPP is pretty self-selecting for these cases, in the sense that if you actually, legitimately hate, e.g., furries you're either probably not around anymore or you are Aramek, who is sui generis in that regard. But there are/were a nonzero number of Ted Haggard-type hateful hypocrites. In one case, a friend of mine said some pretty nasty stuff and then, when I reached out to them privately to let them know that it bothered me and I wasn't sure if I could keep being their friend, revealed that they were actually a closet case. (That one ended up being one of the happy endings, at least in the immediate term.) Then you have ROBOT B9, who wasn't a hypocrite in the particular sense that he was guilty of exactly what he railed against, but had unexamined issues of his own that ended up reflecting more poorly on the community and causing more actual concrete harm than shipping or sexualization or whatever he didn't like.

Anyway, yeah. I can pretty much set my watch by this thing at this point, at least in the general case. :-I

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Re: shipping confession

Post by Skipper (?) » Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:42 pm

ROBOT B9, yeah. I don't remember exactly. Wasn't he fervently anti-shipping and then eventually banned for creepy behavior towards lady ponygoons?

Ah, none of my business, really. I just remember some drama involving him back then.

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Re: shipping confession

Post by Bigdog (?) » Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:51 pm

Generally, yeah. I rightly don't know all the details and they're beside the point, which is that a (not really) surprising number of the pearl clutchers ended up dripping with televangelist-tier levels of hypocrisy and shittiness

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Re: shipping confession

Post by Skipper (?) » Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:56 pm

See also: Aatrek banning people for allegedly being pedos.

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Re: shipping confession

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:57 pm

Skipper wrote:
Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:56 pm
See also: Aatrek banning people for allegedly being pedos.
yeah

yeah ....... :yikes:
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Re: shipping confession

Post by Bigdog (?) » Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:07 pm

The sad thing is that a lot of the shitty hypocrites here were not nearly that bad, in the sense that they weren't actually victimizing anyone except via their intolerance and hostility, which is still shitty but usually not on the order of ruining people's lives. B9 was an exception, but even he was not (as far as I know) an actual rapist, let alone of children.

e: to clarify because the phrasing might sound odd, I say it's a sad thing in the sense that it's sad these people can't just take the giant stick out of their butts, even though it's a much, much lower bar to cross than "make amends for Doing Actual Rapes"

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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:19 pm

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Re: shipping confession

Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:09 pm

I have a shipping confession: I don't get the point of paying for express delivery
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Re: shipping confession

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:11 pm

it's faster, i guess
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Re: shipping confession

Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:13 pm

is your life really that hectic that you need all that speed? leave some for the rest of us, you jerk!
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Re: shipping confession

Post by The Ghost of Ember (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:14 pm

im in a hurry damn it
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Re: shipping confession

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:14 pm

i have a need

for speeed
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Re: shipping confession

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RIP Syndrome wrote:
Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:09 pm
I have a shipping confession: I don't get the point of paying for express delivery
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Re: shipping confession

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RIP Syndrome wrote:
Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:13 pm
is your life really that hectic that you need all that speed? leave some for the rest of us, you jerk!
Ugh, speed. :bluh:

The poor man's coke.

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Re: shipping confession

Post by Bigdog (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:34 pm

Skipper wrote:
Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:29 pm
Ugh, speed. :bluh:

The poor man's coke.
no, that's pepsi :amazing:

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Re: shipping confession

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:34 pm

what would happen if you mixed coke and pepsi
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Re: shipping confession

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:35 pm

is this a sin
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Re: shipping confession

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:36 pm

Let's be honest, Pepsi is a sin.
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Re: shipping confession

Post by Skipper (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:38 pm

DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
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what would happen if you mixed coke and pepsi
You'd get cepsi.

Or poke.

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Re: shipping confession

Post by Skipper (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:39 pm

Not to be confused with "ceke" or "popsi" which is something else entirely.

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Re: shipping confession

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:41 pm

Skipper wrote:
Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:38 pm
You'd get cepsi.
I'd get sepsis? :nnngh:
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Re: shipping confession

Post by Demeh (?) » Fri Oct 18, 2019 3:44 am

Mechanical Ape wrote:
Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:41 pm
I'd get sepsis? :nnngh:
Pepsi really went down the gutter once they started salmonnelae to their recipe

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Re: shipping confession

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Dec 12, 2019 4:01 am

Mr. Big wrote:
Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:31 pm
I'm not into shipping, even today, but it's cute I guess :pinkieshrug:
Want to update on this. I like shipping now, but mostly between OCs (whether my own or my artist friends' OCs) :-I

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Re: shipping confession

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Dec 12, 2019 5:47 am

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Re: shipping confession

Post by Dal (?) » Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:38 am

I was feverently against it back in 2013. I didn’t want to be one of those weirdos I told myself. Yet as the years passed I came to enjoy it mainly thanks to some incredible fanfics where romance was included.

I don’t really have a “ship” however, I mainly like the what if’s and the story a pairing can bring out. I’m still disappointed we didn’t get any stories close to that in the series. Seeing Shining Armor being a tremendous dork while winning Cadance over, or even Pinkie and Cheese’s first date would’ve been fun.
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Re: shipping confession

Post by !saak (?) » Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:33 am

you're welcome

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Re: shipping confession

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Re: shipping confession

Post by !saak (?) » Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:35 am

also isn't this canon now?

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Re: shipping confession

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:51 am

!saak wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:35 am
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Re: shipping confession

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:52 am

Dal wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:38 am
I don’t really have a “ship” however, I mainly like the what if’s and the story a pairing can bring out. I’m still disappointed we didn’t get any stories close to that in the series. Seeing Shining Armor being a tremendous dork while winning Cadance over, or even Pinkie and Cheese’s first date would’ve been fun.
This is about how I feel regarding shipping as well. I always thought of it in terms of what would make a good story for the show, not so much out of a sense of personal attachment.
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also isn't this canon now?
It's as heavily implied to be canon as the show's crew could make it be without making the cowards at Hasbro panic.
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