I never let myself get fully immersed in the fanbase. I just wanted to deal with things on my own time, and the show on its own merits. I got in at around the start of Season 5, about a year (give or take) after the whole controversy with Twilight becoming feather-brained, but I never really dwelt on any of it. Minor things like that are, in my experience, incredibly silly things to get worked up over. Ditto with everything else that people found negative about that time period.
I was never really a fan of the show. Certain characters I liked, but the show in general wasn't my cup of tea. The whole reason I joined this site was for the Role playing.
I was a pretty hardcore fan of the show back in the day. Used to be a lot more active in the fandom spaces too. Granted fandom spaces used to be more than just discord and reddit. I'd probably say MLP was one of the last things that got to enjoy individual community spaces
Kind of makes me miss the times when I was more heavily into the Samurai Pizza Cats, thinking about it. Edited on 8-26-2026 at 12:44p.m.: - I've given in and started using ChatGPT for image generation; I'd used the basic package for a few days, I got an offer to try a higher tier for a month for free, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I'm not going to be posting anything at DeviantArt or what have you, but I'll occasionally toss an image or two that I particularly like here.
Why don't you want to post them on Deviant Art? Did it ask for card information. I'm always wary of free trials because they tend to auto charge you when the trial is done rather than ask if you want to continue.
Because I don't want to. All the reason I need, Popebot. >^_^< The key phrase in that second sentence is "tend to". When the website made the offer, it was made clear off the bat that it would notify me ahead of time when the automatic payments would kick in, and I can opt out of the subscription at any time before that point if I want to save my money.
Sadly even when they say they will warn you they don't always. PixverseAI decided to give credits to free users again.
Well, I finally have a generated image to share. This one's of a character I created within the past few months, Rilon Balansko. She's a Kittenoan like the majority of my other characters (though unlike most of them she doesn't have any superpowers to speak of). Her backstory was that she was abused by her parents for years--which in that society is considered one of the worst things you can possibly do, as Kittenoan society is largely communal. Not helping matters is that her health isn't the greatest, in that she has an autoimmune illness (specifically lupus), forcing her to deal with such things as rashes, joint pain and constant fatigue, and requiring her to need an umbrella to have some protection against the sun. On Kittenoa, there have been random dimensional portals opening up that connect with Earth for a little over half a century by this point. By the time she was 13-14 or so she couldn't stand her parents' treatment of her anymore, so when a portal opened up in her neighborhood late one night, she ran away from home in the hopes of finding a safe sanctuary. On the whole, I think I'm pleased with how this went.
