Ask the mods anything

@Cyan Lightning  

 
I mean, usually I’d say “if someone says something completely crazy it’s a safe bet they’re joking”, but yeah, nowadays that’s becoming harder and harder to differentiate. The dubstep thing is just a reference to Deadpool 2 btw, I don’t mind it.
 
Now pop? Fuck pop and whoever listens to it.  
^%:3%

@ArmadilloEater  
<–––– Listens to pop… :(

@ILoveMyoozik  

@ArmadilloEater
 
it’s better than the shit people listen to in our ’hoods, tho.

I can enjoy just about any kind of music, but prefer progressive trance. And I’m a (late) Gen X-er. All you whippersnapper millenials and Gen Z-ers can get off my lawn.

Where would I go to request spoiler thumbnails to be changed?

@ArmadilloEater  
;)

Allow me to ask my question in the form of an image.
 

@pixel
 
There are even cuter ponies:
 

@pixel  
@Mildgyth  
Plz, get on my level:  
 
Now THIS is a cute pony!

I hear mods have psychic powers
 
what am I thinking now?

@nerfherder  
You are not thinking of a Pinkie Pie.
 

 
And now you are.

This is a bit too much to ask, but can you wish me a happy birthday?

@ILoveMyoozik
 
Happy birthday.
 

@Ciaran  
O_O

@Mildgyth  
Thanks :D

@ILoveMyoozik  
Happy Birthday!
 

@Ciaran  
Thank you

Rarity’s not cute? 😞🔫

@Badheart  

@pixel  

 
@pixel  
I think that Rarity is very beautiful.

Have any of you ever been stuck in times where you’re just bored of life? Like, the things that you enjoy aren’t really as enjoyable as they once were, and you don’t really have anything else that you’re looking forward too?
 
If you have, what exactly did you do to push past that feeling? Or did it just eventually go away naturally?

@Background Pony #902A  
Yes. Everything lost meaning for me and I had persistent idealization of suicide for years. I tried everything to push through it, short of getting professional help, and nothing worked. It just got worse to the point where I couldn’t even recognize my symptoms any more or remember what being ok felt like.
 
I got through it by getting therapy and with the help of some prescription drugs for a couple years, until I was able to make the changes to my lifestyle that were necessary for me to be able to live the life that I wanted to live.
 
Weirdly, MLP-FIM came out at just the right time for me. Like others I’m sure you’ve heard of, watching the show dramatically reduced my need for meds. It’s hard to explain, but just watching the show flipped some switch in my head that fixed whatever had been broken.
 
I still watch one episode a week, whether that’s a new episode or a rerun doesn’t seem to matter, or I draw ponies if that isn’t enough, and now only need meds in the fall when the seasonal stuff happens. I still see a therapist a few times a year, but most of the time now it’s just to make sure I’m still on track and to see if I need to tweak anything.
 
I think if I hadn’t already had therapy and the meds, the show wouldn’t have worked as well as it did for me - I needed the tools that therapy provided recognize that the show was “doing something”.
 
The really weird thing for me is that back when I was fucked up I thought I was doing brilliant stuff, but now when I look back at it I can see I was just stumbling from thing to thing without purpose. Yeah, some of that stuff I did was cool, but it I hadn’t been fucked up in the head I could have done so much more.
 
I still have persistent idealization of suicide - it’s just the way my head is wired, and that’s probably going to always be with me. And that “nothing means anything” is still with me, too - but now it’s just a tool that I can put away when it’s not needed or appropriate, which is almost never.
 
2LDR: turns out friendship is magic, but only if you learn how to use it, and practice it daily. It’s a pain in the ass, but if it becomes your practice then over time it works.
 
@pixel  
Fashion hoers is amazing.
 

@Ciaran
 
Thank you for responding with such detailed description. I’m sorry that you had to go through all of that, and I hope that things are going better for you now than they had been before.
 
Thankfully, suicide has never been an option that has sounded good in my mind. Sure, I’ve had it occasionally pop up from time to time, but nothing that made me actually think that it was worth going through with.
 
I vaguely recall going to a monthly therapist back in High School, but I never took any medication. I guess that I’m in this predicament where I’m not even sure if I necessarily need medication. Like, I wonder if there’s some sort of unspoken scale which therapists use that can determine whether or not someone needs antidepressants.
 
Maybe going back to a therapist is something that I should consider. Also, thank you again for taking time out of your life to try and help a stranger from across the internet. :)

Where were you…
 
on that fateful day…
 
when the Squid totally beefed it?