Sorry, it's probably not a great idea to respond to me with .gifs because I'm not really accustomed to people using images as a form of communication, so I'm not sure if I miss understood your intentions or you are being a total jerk. For now, I'm going to assume the former.

Let's be real. If you cannot take constructive criticism...writing anything for the general public may not be for you. Its part and parcel with this kind of stuff. Its fine to dislike the criticism, but you have no right to stop people from making honest analysis' of anything you decide to release as a writer.

Much as Devourer can get overly sensitive and unnecessarily emotional about these things at times (you see she got into FiM back during a time where she was contemplating suicide, and the show helped her dig herself out of that pit, so the whole thing's a heavy topic for her. This was before I myself met her), I don't think, Lee, that there's any need to keep pressing the issue after Chao has refused to link her old pony OC's profile. Not that she could if she wanted to considering she long since deleted it, but anyways...

Also, I tend to think that using image macros in forum threads is very poor form too, but that's just a personal taste thing. It just seems like forums should operate on at least a marginally more formal level than an imageboard. But maybe that's just me.

Beyond that, I don't think it's unreasonable that we agree to keep the literary criticism to what's actually contained within the thread. The OC in question was created a number of years ago and whether or not you would consider it a Mary Sue (I personally don't. Most of the criticism leveled at the character was extremely superficial related almost solely to the character's appearance, particularly with those trolls who reposted her character's image to "worst OC evar!" type blogs out of context and without permission, and yes there are MULTIPLE pony blogs on that topic), DoL's creative writing and handle on literary techniques has improved significantly since then, and therefore using that OC as a baseline to judge DoL's competency as a writer now would lead to ill-informed conclusions in any case. Granted, you guys only have my word to take for that...

Back on topic, I'm sorry to hear that your computer screwed you over (or got screwed over? Dunno if it was a virus or the computer's own problems), Lee. Don't sweat the pictures. They're not vital and we should all be perfectly capable of describing our characters' appearances, fancy poses and so forth. :3

I'm not using the character to judge her as a person. Her reaction to the judgements of her character is all that I need in that regard. I just wanted to see the character and see why it would automatically send someone on an irrational tirade.

I have no idea why it happened, but it's unfortunate. I'm recovering all the files that I can from things I've sent people.

I've got my art program, so there's that.

I was by no means doing any of that. I was more pointing out the fallicy that Devourer brought attention to such an issue when no one had critiqued her OC in this thread. Criticism is criticism though. I know thats a bad arguement....but its true. Just accept and move on.

Wilickers there is quite a bit of salt being tossed to and fro here. Chillax dudes and nondudes, we're just here to be fabulous, no need to bring so much drama into this. Why don't you knock it off with those negative waves?

I wasn't really talking about you so much, Musoka, seeing as you only commented once. Point taken, though. The first point, I mean, not the tautology that follows it. X3

Speaking as a line officer, though, for once I tend to agree with the flag officer...

EDIT: I think your previous avatar suited you better, Commodore, if I may be so bold as to say so...

Friday.

Looking forward to this starting.

Im afraid.... This might be late starting... Dads critically ill in hospital, so i dont know what to do... It might take a bit longer to start... Sorry for my pathetic promises no being kept...

John, trust me. Ignore this roleplay, your father is more important.

Ignore us, we are NOT IMPORTANT!

I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, THIS ROLEPLAY IS UNIMPORTANT, BE WITH YOUR FATHER

I MADE THE MISTAKE OF NOT BEING WITH MY MOTHER ENOUGH WHEN SHE WAS CRITICALLY ILL, DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE

Family comes first, man. Take your time

For real dude, take all the time you need.

I dont want to have you all wait so long, so I posted a small little beginning, which you guys can start roleplaying in while im away for a few days.

All our characters will pretty much be around the same busy street (no name, but, you get what I mean) so socialize or rp a little before the big bad shit goes down when i can get it done.

That's fair enough. Take all the time you need.

Sorry for late start. IRL issues. I'll be able to do an intro post later on tonight.