My Rise and Fall: How I succumbed to MAGICAL FRIENDSHIP

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Krylo

See this is what I'm talking about.

I mean, first of all, 'serious' and 'cosplayer' should never be in the same sentence together. Ever. Not for My Little Pony, not for Homestuck, not for Cowboy Bebop, or any other thing someone might cosplay for. Same goes for fan art and fan fiction. They are inherently non-serious subjects, because they are done by fans of a thing as an attempt to have fun with other fans of a thing.

I meant more "serious" from a time-dump perspective. The Snake Pony song thing took me all of fifteen minutes to write. It was not intended to be taken seriously, and as evidenced by my response to Robin's comment I did anticipate some ribbing from it, but I wasn't anticipating a series of folks questioning my mental stability in a way I interpreted seriously and malignantly.

By contrast, "cosplaying" and "fanart" and "fanfiction" that is "more serious" would presumably take hours if not days to craft. My point was that many of you treat me as the single most egregious MLP fan out there, but there are guys out there who are wasting entire hours of their lives communicating their love for MLP in the form of lengthy short stories, artistically appealing projects and frequent activity in an actual MLP: FIM message board community. My sincere love for MLP: FIM aside, I am not that person.

This right here is the problem. That wasn't intended as a bash. It was intended as an educational post so that you can maybe understand why people are ribbing you.

Maybe I should specify then that ribbing me would be totally cool if you did so in a way that didn't seem so hostile as to overtly suggesting you were questioning my mental health.

"Go see a Doctor" or "You need help", taken on its own and without even a winking emoticon to specify the joke, doesn't sound like playful ribbing from a friend, it sounds like you're actually suggesting that I need psychiatric help.

That is particularly true on the Interwebs where it is difficult to gauge things like sarcasm or tone of voice. If you said it to me in person and had a goofy smile on your face, I'd know you were joking.