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Puri ([personal profile] shamanicshaymin) wrote2025-07-02 06:40 am

GIP and a Spamtis rant

Been a while since I ranted about antis on this journal huh? HERE WE GO BABY

TW: discussion of noncon and the antis' favorite subject pedophilia )
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Zarla ([personal profile] zarla) wrote2025-07-01 02:37 am
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~By all accounts a waste of time

This is just going to be a short post but it's been bugging me and it's not worth actually posting on Twitter since getting into any kind of disagreement on Twitter is stupid lol. But anyway there's a tendency in fandoms for things to lean a lot towards one intepretation of a character situation (Spamton is a poor little meowmeow) then whip to the other extreme as a backlash to the first trend (Spamton is Satan incarnate). Another one I've seen is Sans being devastated by Papyrus dying turning into Sans making flippant jokes about how he doesn't care about his death at all. The overcorrection doesn't fix anything and isn't any more accurate, it's just too far in the other direction to feel superior to the people from the first one. It's annoying! Flattening someone into black isn't any better than flattening them into white, except at least white feels less vindictive.

I think there's also an element of defensiveness for going to black-flattening to try and ward off criticism of being "too soft" on characters ahead of time by painting them as much worse than they are. I'm not one of those dumb fans who ignores their faults! I'm OBJECTIVE!

Anyway as you can probably guess this is about Spamton, who I've mostly seen on the demonized side lately (seen him called the most irredeemable, vicious, evil, unspeakably cruel character in the entire game) particularly given what happened in Chapter 3 of Deltarune. Someone posted a list of his crimes from the Villain Wiki as a kind of "gotcha" about what a bad person he is and half of these aren't accurate or don't even apply to him. >:| If you want to accuse him of crimes at least accuse him of ones he actually did! It bothers me so much I'm just going to go through them here because doing it on Twitter would just start pointless arguing that'd be an even bigger waste of time.

Overstatement is the name of the game )

The way people talk about Snowgrave lately you'd think Spamton shows up right when you get Noelle, puts a gun in her hands, and tells you to start blasting. :/

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frith ([personal profile] frith) wrote in [community profile] ponyville_trot2025-07-01 06:26 am

Artist Training Grounds XV, Final Day: Makeup

It's the day reserved to turn in those assignments that missed even the two day extensions (I have one!) and there's a bonus task: "(Draw any prompts you missed) // Bonus: Combine and draw 2 or more prompts of your choice". I should have guessed this would happen! =8^O

As always, draw (or sculpt or do a photo-montage), host the image of what you made in an online gallery and drop the URL into the submission form here, it's live. King Grimlock does not specifying the prompt in the submitter, but otherwise it's the usual: you can enter five different images per prompt. The maximum resolution is 2000x2000 pixels, so chose a link from your gallery that points to a version of your image that does not exceed 2,000 pixels on either side. Also, don't exceed 4 Mb per picture or the poniloader will plotz and choke on your picture. MLPforums and Discord work as image hosts in a pinch, although I think that there's an expiry date on those options. Xitter works somehow, it looks like Mastodon does, probably Bluesky as well, if you're savvy and Imgur apparently works too. I use Flickr. The pictures will be visible on EqD along with the last task at 9 PM (MST) on July 3rd. KG has stopped trying to make bespoke URLs so I'll paste the gallery URL when it appears. Like, now: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/07/newbie-artist-training-grounds-xv-final.html

So be sure to get your drawings in well before 9 PM Mountain Standard Time (or midnight Eastern Daylight Savings Time and 5 AM UTC). King Grimlock is _not_ waiting until the cutoff time to prep and queue the gallery. The grace period should give you at least two extra days and KG goes back to edit in the late submissions, usually around the same time he posts the next prompt. This time the close date is July 6th but KG can and does change the close date on the submitter and keeps just two active at any given moment. This is the end.

Off topic submissions, more than was usual in past years, are showing up in the gallery. That's because King Grimlock is also posting what Calpain is prompting on Bluesky in his fringe NATG and people have been hybridizing this NATG with it. Calpain's prompts today are as many previous prompts in a single picture as you can / a pony stretched thin.
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alierak ([personal profile] alierak) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2025-06-30 03:18 pm

Rebuilding journal search again

We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
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frith ([personal profile] frith) wrote in [community profile] ponyville_trot2025-06-29 06:47 am

Artist Training Grounds XV, 15th Prompt Pair

For the 15th and final task: "Draw a pony graduating // Draw a pony who just hit the jackpot". I already did a graduated cylinder gag a few years ago. Perhaps I can do something with taking a hit of Cranky Jack's pot? Ugh! I can almost smell the stuff! X^p Maybe it's the wildfire smoke in the air this morning. Confound this NATG! It keeps driving me to pot!

The good news is that there _will_ be a Makeup day on July 1st.

As always, draw (or sculpt or do a photo-montage), host the image of what you made in an online gallery and drop the URL into the submission form here, it's live. King Grimlock does not specifying the prompt in the submitter, but otherwise it's the usual: you can enter five different images per prompt. The maximum resolution is 2000x2000 pixels, so chose a link from your gallery that points to a version of your image that does not exceed 2,000 pixels on either side. Also, don't exceed 4 Mb per picture or the poniloader will plotz and choke on your picture. MLPforums and Discord work as image hosts in a pinch, although I think that there's an expiry date on those options. Xitter works somehow, it looks like Mastodon does, probably Bluesky as well, if you're savvy and Imgur apparently works too. I use Flickr. The pictures will be visible on EqD along with the last task at 9 PM (MST) on July 1st. KG has stopped trying to make bespoke URLs so I'll paste the gallery URL when it appears. Voilà: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/06/newbie-artist-training-grounds-xv-bonus.html

So be sure to get your drawings in well before 9 PM Mountain Standard Time (or midnight Eastern Daylight Savings Time and 5 AM UTC). King Grimlock is _not_ waiting until the cutoff time to prep and queue the gallery. The grace period should give you at least two extra days and KG goes back to edit in the late submissions, usually around the same time he posts the next prompt. KG can and does change the close date on the submitter and keeps just two active at any given moment. I don't think there will be any late submission catch-up days in this NATG.

Off topic submissions, more than was usual in past years, are showing up in the gallery. That's because King Grimlock is also posting what Calpain is prompting on Bluesky in his fringe NATG and people have been hybridizing this NATG with it. Calpain's prompts today are pony feeling the heat / pony with their eye on the clock.