>join ride in early 2011 >cant draw >cant write >cant

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>>29973682
Hey man,

I became a clinically depressed alcoholic.
I fucking hate my life, but I can enjoy the ride... So, I just... ride it out.

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>>29973682
>>29966375
>>29965966
>>29905444
pick something and get started faggot.

>>29973693
Fuck man, I have no skills

>>29973682
>>29973686
>another woe is me pity me edge thread
Please stop

>>29973701
you think all the drawfags and writefags were shat out of their mothers with skills?

get to work.

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>>29973703
>>29973709
Fuck you.

I practice and practice, but it will take years to get gud.

>>29973718
indeed, and youll hate yourself every single time you something. everyone else will love you for it and youll slowly get better.

>>29973718
>but it will take years to get gud.
Yeah you fucking impatient retard, that's why you start now

Don't forget to sage this shitty thread. /mlp/ is not your blog

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>>29973722
>this is mlp
>You will understand on day...

>>29973682
I think you give brony artists too much credit
While this fandom has inspired an amazing amount of talent and pieces of work, let's be a little objective here

No brony fanfiction is worthy of being printed and sold in book shops, most of the music is a bit contrived, and the art is extremely hit or miss....I love every last bit of it with few exceptions, but come on man, don't set the bar that low

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>>29973724
>yea...
>Dude for sure...

>>29973733
Are you unironically retarded? No one cares about your problems. How is this mlp related too, do tell.

>>29973728
Excuse me for stifling all the stagnant meme/bait/prompt threads that have been fermenting here for weeks

>>29973742
meant for
>>29973724

>>29973728
>>29973733
you dont understand how greentext works.

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>>29973739
>>29973742
>>29973743
ugh whatever I'm falling asleep. Believe whatever you want too. I'm getting a 9mm in my face for my birthday tomorrow.

>>29973756
Good riddance you edgy fuck

>>29973682
>joined in 2013
>can write
>can draw
>can sing
>could learn how to animate
>see smooth flow of content come out from people who regularly do these things for fun
>try my hand at stuff but never get anything done due to motivational issues

Different circumstances but ultimately the same result. The sum of my contributions have been a few minor edits, some memes, a story that was well received but never really received critical acclaim because of my own novice mistakes, and a bunch of meta content that nobody actually gives a fuck about.

>>29973786
If you're going to brag, put your money where your mouth is

>>29973800
What do you want from me?

>>29973828
Nudes

>>29973877
No u

>>29973682
Nope, infact i learned how to draw Vector art thanks to ponies, hah.

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>>29973682
>spent literal years writing and refining proper stories
>don't trust technicians
>HDD crashes

>>29973935
>Not backing up your data on a flash drive and a google drive to make sure you'll always have access to it
baka desu senpai

>>29973682
Its not to late.
go learn to art or something.

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>>29973682
>join the ride in summer 2011
>can't write music and barely play guitar, still write and record pone music
>can't write stories for shit, still write fanfics
>can't draw for shit, still do it
>never even tried to become popular and never wanted it, sometimes you HAVE to create no matter what even if you have zero skill, just for your own sake
>2017
>the raw inspiration is long gone
>stopped recording pony-related music, now do it once a year to remember the feel, but record shitton of my own non-pony music for myself and for a band I'm in
>stopped writing, feel like I'm not good at all, but started to learn how to write properly
>stopped drawing but started learning drawing properly back from the very basics, making slow progress but getting there

I came for the ponies and stayed for the joy of creating. I don't even care if it won't reach a wide audience, it wasn't even that good but I had so much fun and continue to do so. I feel like no matter what becomes of this fandom I'll still be drawing my favourite horse and playing my tunes for her. That's ultimately what matters for me.

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>>29974003
>I don't even care if it won't reach a wide audience, it wasn't even that good but I had so much fun and continue to do so. I feel like no matter what becomes of this fandom I'll still be drawing my favourite horse and playing my tunes for her. That's ultimately what matters for me.

All I did for this fandom was a few dozens of reaction faces and gifs since 2012... I still see them once every few days, makes me a bit proud.

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>>29974003

This guy gets it.
It's never was about the talent.
It was all about doing it because you wanted to and enjoying it.
I write green, started writing green not because i'm particularly good at it, in fact proper writefags do it better and more consistently than I, but I still got a nice share of positive (You)s out of it.
It's okay that you aren't musically inclined, you learn.
It's okay that you can't draw, you practice if you want.
Put complaining you can't write green?
Brother, let me tell you what, to write green all you need is a proper grasp of the English language and you're done.

>>29974041
Give us some examples.

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>>29973682
Participating in the fandom, I'd say, is giving back. Every time you share some art, recommend some music, reply to someone requesting fics/greens, or comment on an animation you are making it that much more popular. Doing all these things has the potential to inspire the creation of new work, new art, new music. All the positive sharing of content helps the people who create that which you love so much. Just because you never directly produced anything doesn't mean you didn't give back. All I've created was shitty fanfic when I was younger, but even though it was totally dogshit, people loved it (for some reason). Recently I made a green that was really well received and those 2 things are pretty much all I've done, but that doesn't matter. All these years worth of you doing what I listed above, even if you didn't do all of them, has contributed to the fandom, it's growth, and the creation of more content.

Only thing I've contributed to this fandom is shitty green text stories.
Gave that up pretty quick

>>29973682

What really sucks is feeling like you can get good at drawing if you practice enough, but not having the physical energy to actually do it.

It doesn't matter what you are able to do.

The only thing that matters is how much you love doing it.

>>29974226
So Chris-Chan is Michelangelo in that case?

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>>29973732
>No brony fanfiction is worthy of being printed and sold in book shops

>>29974247
Just because it's been done, doesn't mean it should've been.

>>29974250
You can say that about a lot of things, Anon. The point is that there are plenty of people who would disagree with you.

There are quite a few fics that would be perfectly at home in print. I can't speak for Past Sins since I haven't ever gotten around to it myself, but I can think of quite a few fics that, barring the fact that they're fan fiction, would be perfectly at home in print.

Hell, there are a few fics that could be best sellers if they were original works and not fan fiction.

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>>29974180
this nigga knows what's up

now if OP or some lurkers want to contribute on something,make it to the 30 million post if that make you happier for doing something

hell or give some (You) to anons that want to have some and they are not baiting at all
just because you are in the fucking background,it doesnt mean you are nobodies because creators need supporters or someone behind giving bumps or making a thread alive

I havent made any OC during these 2 and half years I've been here and I gave quite a few posts on the Trixie Book thread for anybody to read it
a pretty slow thread but it was a nice small part of my own

if you only have in mind the content creators and not counting the faggots behind,we wouldnt be here in 2017 because they wouldnt find support or any kind of ironic or unironic interest about their content

>pic not related but I had to put something

>>29973682
You still can fag.
Or is it that you just want validation?

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>>29973682
You can still practice a skill now OP.
Even if the fandom dies it may be fun to have afterwards. FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS

>>29973682
Any idiot can write. My shitty greens got me laid with two different people IRL. No, I'm not kidding. Only one was female

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>>29973885
Noudes

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>>29974012
>>29974085
Doing it "for yourself" can become a crutch at some point though. People who are just starting out can feel uncomfortable sharing their stuff but this attitude can remain for a long time for various different reasons, long outliving the need for it.
Don't fall for it because one day you'll stop giving a fuck and then wonder if you could've done better, if your creations could've brought joy to the people. Don't repeat my mistakes.

>>29974377
Well, duh. Do it for you, but if you're going to go through the trouble of doing it you might as well share and while your sharing take what critisim you might get and pay it forward to make the next thing you do just that much better.

>>29974377
Listen to this anon. Don't live for yourself. Live for others. Living for yourself is a cold, lonely existence. I think it was summed up quite nicely in a porn fic: Making you feel good makes me feel good.

>>29974299
storytime

>>29974422
It actually is a thing that varies from person to person.

Some people are perfectly fine with living for themselves with minimal social interactions, and there are plenty of people who don't need other people to validate themselves.

Most people do, of course, but it's to varying degrees of being able to self validate and being dependent on others to find validation.

>>29974377
>>29974402
>>29974422
>>29974495

I just write because I have a need to and enjoy venting that need through greentext, it's fun seeing anons enjoy my stuff too but that's not why I do greentext.
It's not about validation, from others or from myself, it's about wanting to do something and then doing it.
Seeing people wallowing in self pity here because they never "contributed" and wanted to is kind of annoying, especially when contributing is something as easy as a single post of green for people like me who can't draw or edit or do anything else.
You don't really need much imagination, the rest of the anons basically do the job for you, all you have to do is type english words and punctuate them.
You don't even need to write an entire story over the course of months; just a simple oneshot is already good enough.

>>29975954
What about people who make animation or music? It's not that easy and it requires at least some skill to even be considered good, not to mention not everyone is interested in it. Animation is time-consuming, music comes down to people not even liking certain genres. Writing and even drawing something can be done easily for a specific thread theme but it's different for other artforms.

How do you start doing the things you know should be doing? I've thought and thought endlessly about my situation, weighted in all my options, written out all I want to do, what I can actually do within my means, and what I should be doing so I can start progressing. I've mapped out everything. And yet I've not done a single thing about all of it, I have it all there, but I do nothing with it or about it.

How do I start? How can I start? Why do I just do nothing instead of doing what I know what I should be doing? Why I am so scared of doing something for myself? Why I am so scared of failing at doing those things when I am a failure already it would be just one more drop of water in the ocean? Why do I fear change when it would be a positive one where I end up changing myself for the better?

I hate myself for knowing and yet not doing anything and just wallowing in self-hate and self-pity at my own uselessness.

>>29976206
>Why I am so scared of doing something for myself? Why I am so scared of failing at doing those things when I am a failure already it would be just one more drop of water in the ocean
Fear of success, research it. It's a real thing.
>How do I start
Depends on what you want to do. What kind of things you wanna do, art, music, writing?

>>29976206
You sound like think more about having made stuff instead of just making stuff

>when I am a failure already
>it would be just one more drop of water in the ocean
>I hate myself
>I fear change
>self-hate
>self-pity
>my own uselessness.
See all this? Notice how this got nothing to do with making content?

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>>29974112
Not the most posted one by far, but my favourite.

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>>29973756
I'd seriously recommend you don't... but should you decide to, at least carve the name of your waifu into the bullet so she's the last thing going through your mind.

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>>29973682
Same here OP.
Even worse, I never made any friends I could talk to about pony.
I thought about writing fanfiction but it turns out it's very time consuming and every time I review my work I hate it.
So I figure why torture myself?
I'll just drink and watch ponies alone like I have been for the last half-decade.

>>29973682
I kinda know that feel
But recently I started to do some artsy things. It's so hard to find inspiration though And I'm lazy, too

>>29973682
>>2017
>>fandumb dying

If you were really here since 2011 you would know that people have been bitching about the "fandom dying" since at least 2013. If you keep saying it eventually you'll be right, but it's become such a meaningless buzzphrase I just laugh at anyone who actually thinks the fandom is dying. They've been wrong every time.

>>29973682

>cant draw

Me either. Didn't stop me from drawing about 100 pones over the years though.

>>29978204
>If you were really here since 2011 you would know that people have been bitching about the "fandom dying" since at least 2013.
>I-tt's still twitching, i-it's not dead.

>>29973756
>9mm
Have fun waking up in the hospital after your anemic cartridge fails to kill you.

>>29973682
I can sing i just have shit anxiety and think everyone will think it's bad even though those who have heard it are amazed. It's shittier having a talent but being to afraid to ever use it on the stuff you love. So much wasted... I feel you anon.

Used to write, used to draw a bit. Got good comments and reviews most of the time. No reason I shouldn't have kept going, but it turns out whatever causes severe anxiety is malfunctioning in my head because I had to stop.
I hated it all. Everything.
At this point, I can only write about three sentences in a story before every inch of my soul sees it as the worst trash ever put to paper and I should be shot dead for even trying.
The feeling is the same for everything in my life. I'd really, really like to write the comfy story about my waifu that is sitting in my head, but the self-hate just won't stop.

>>29979190
>even though those who have heard it are amazed
They're just saying that, anon. Everyone is secretly judging you and rolling their eyes.

>>29979275
Anon, you just admitted that it's in your head. By extension, you just admitted that you KNOW your writing is good. It's in your mind, you admit it, but you don't seem to fully realize it.

>>29979415
That's the paradox of anxiety hell, man.
I've been getting help and working on it, but its a slow process and parts of it are really goddamn stubborn.

>>29973682
Literally just do something.
Quit being a fucking faggot.

Writefags and Drawfags aren't magically just chosen people or fucking natural. There ARE naturals, but writing, drawing, singing, and animation is all skills, and skills are things you have to fucking work with.

Some people have the ability to progress a little bit faster in skills than others, but those are people who are at the top 1% of humanity.

I fucking bought a notebook and a book called "How to Draw in 30 Days" and I just fucking practiced drawing shapes and shit and filled it up, and now I can draw basic shit from cartoons.

I drew Jinx from Teen Titans as a pirate in about a month of practicing.

Unfortunately, I am too lazy to buy another notebook, and I have no time to practice, so I am probably way out of practice now. But I bet I'll be able to get back into it once I sit and pick up a pencil.

Just fucking try.
Quit being a baby and feeling sorry for yourself. That won't get you any closer to your goals.

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>>29979520
Not the guy you were responding to, but if nothing else you've made me feel inspired to try to create. Thanks senpai

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>>29974299
>tfw this fandom provided me with my so far only chance to lose my virginity
>It was a guy Trap to be precise

God can only pray for my forgiveness.

>>29979892
I'd love to fuck a good looking trap. So hard their man voice comes out.

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>>29973703

THIS

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