Bevendre

It might just be depression talking, but I think I’m going to put Papi on indefinite hiatus and move on to other things.

ask-rye-dimar-dragon replied to your post: I often find myself wondering “Why do I still work…

I say keep pushing on, even ignore trying to stay “updated” to the current cannon of the series. Just look at “ask pun pony” and myself. We stuck to our current canons and did not change much just because the cannon on the show changed a bit. Heck, if it helps stick to season 6 and leave it in that time period, regardless where the show goes from here. This way you your written story is not so reliant on what the new season brings. “Ask pun pony” Cannon is set in the season 2 and 3 period…

The changes in the show itself is but a small part of it.  I’ve been rolling with the changes to changelings without issue.  The problem is that there’s not the interaction that I want or hope for, I don’t have a written story despite working myself into having one, and the fun and passion is not there as it used to be.

I don’t know what I’m doing with Papi, and it’s not fun like it should be.

shadow539 replied to your post: I often find myself wondering “Why do I still work…

Don’t give up. you have to think and then relax, and then the idea will just come to you

The idea coming to me isn’t the problem.  It’s translating it into an update and keeping things consistent that’s the problem.  This happens with all of the blogs I start, ideas are prevalent, but the order, execution and cohesion of the ideas never lasts for very long.  

I can’t seem to do an ask blog with just random answers, I always end up shoehorning a story into it.  I can’t seem to do a story ask blog, because I don’t plan anything out and just wing it, which means as soon as something else comes up or I hit a hurdle I lose interest.

The problem isn’t a lack of ideas, or needing to relax.  There’s so little point in continuing an ask blog in Tumblrpon at this point as the community has moved on to other things and interest in ask blogs for MLP has all but died out.  A huge part of the allure and fun of it was the interaction with other blogs, and followers who were interested in what was going to happen, instead of just random people asking for their character to be drawn which is the bulk of what I get in the inbox.  I’m one of the few MLP ask blogs I know of that’s still running, and one of the only ones that updates on a regular basis, but what’s the point?

I often find myself wondering “Why do I still work on Papi?”  Yes I still love the characters, but the blog’s at maybe 1/3rd the followers that it used to have, participation and response is way down, and I never know what to update it with until I start because I’ve never had a full plan for what to do with the blog, especially now that things have changed in the series, which is a large part of why there have been so many retcons.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, Tumblrpon is a shadow of what it once was, and that was always something that I knew was going to happen.  I’m not sure what I’m going to do with Papi at the moment, but the drive to update it every week fades more every week, and I know that if I stop updating regularly then it’ll stop updating all together.

switch-up-snowfox:

bevendre:

switch-up-snowfox:

bevendre:

“The electoral college is necessary!  If the popular vote decided everything then it would always be liberal because urban areas trend liberal!”

Really?  You don’t say?  The areas with the highest population density tend to swing more liberal?  That’s weird.  It’s almost like being around other people makes people more sympathetic to others, and understanding that different people are still people.

It’s almost like conservative areas tend to be more isolated and insulated in their ways rather than allowing ideas to mix, since that could contradict their ideals.  How strange that those areas tend to vote one way regardless of sense because it’s as much or more tradition than it does reason.

Yeah, it really makes sense that the votes of thousands of urban dwellers should count equal to a single rural voter because of no apparent reason.

@bevendre

you may wanna watch this.

The video raises some good points, but it doesn’t discredit my point.  Yes the majority of the population lives in metropolitan areas, and those areas are predominantly liberal, and yes that in itself tips policy and campaigning towards appealing to those areas due to easier access to voters.  That’s how it is and that’s how it’s going to stay regardless of whether the electoral college is abolished or remains as is.

However, the video never tackles the point that I made, the absolute discrepancy of how votes are tallied through the electoral college.  The idea that one’s vote doesn’t matter comes to look more believable when 1 vote in my home state of Nebraska is equivalent to 3 votes from California despite California being MUCH more culturally and economically important to the country as a whole.  California made up about 11% of the US population, but in the electoral college they represent maybe 9% of all votes.

The electoral college wasn’t made to make it balanced between urban and rural areas, it was established to make the vote for president easier in the early days of the country.  It gave the vote for president to a number of electors equal to the number of representatives in Congress, which in itself is set by population.  That hasn’t changed, but now there are more people in America than there were in existence when the electoral college was established, and a cap was put on the amount of representatives any one state can possibly have.  With that affecting areas of higher population density, it tends to impact liberal leaning states more than it does conservative.

All of that aside, the video still doesn’t address my point: urban areas lean liberal because of a heavier mix of peoples and cultures, which tends to lead to an understanding that people are people and efforts to understand people other than oneself.  Meanwhile conservative areas tend to be more rural with people split up and separated, only mingling with people who share their ideals in perpetuity, thereby making it easier to look at things that are different as other and by extension wrong.

“urban areas lean liberal because of a heavier mix of peoples and cultures, which tends to lead to an understanding that people are people and efforts to understand people other than oneself.  Meanwhile conservative areas tend to be more rural with people split up and separated, only mingling with people who share their ideals in perpetuity, thereby making it easier to look at things that are different as other and by extension wrong.”

i think i’ll qoute JC denton and ask “do you have a single fact to back that up?”

i guess i should say that yeah, your right in that the video doesn’t debunk your point. but now that i look at it, your point is loaded and junk to begin with. it REEKS of ignorance, willful or not i don’t know, two major presuppositions, and your last point of “Yeah, it really makes sense that the votes of thousands of urban dwellers should count equal to a single rural voter because of no apparent reason.” is really fucking stupid when you take into account that the electoral college is to make sure that 3 or 4 cities don’t make all the voting decisions of 318.9 million people in 50 fucking states.

think of it this way bev, would you prefer the individual vote counting system if most the voting population in the big cities was conservative instead of liberal? would you want those cities deciding most, if not all of the voting decisions?

Considering the only major decision made by the electoral college is the presidency, yes, because it would still be representative of America as a whole with every vote counting equally.

If you want facts to back up the idea that urban areas lean liberal due to a mixing of ideology, culture, color, etc. and rural areas lean conservative due to separation and perpetuation of preestablished ideas look into the voting habits around not just location, but race, education, etc. and you’ll find that liberal voters tend to be more multi-cultural, more often educated beyond high school and more varied than their conservatively voting counterparts which fall into more clear cut demographics.

The electoral college isn’t meant to prevent a handful of cities from controlling all votes.  The electoral college was meant to ease the burden of electing a president by equating the votes allotted to each state to the number of representatives in Congress, which in itself isn’t accurate to the population of larger states now, though it may have been then.  If you think that 3 or 4 cities could dominate the popular vote as a whole, then check the 2015 census, where the top 16 most populous cities equate to around 10% of the total population.

The electoral college doesn’t protect the rural voter by better representing them, it merely offers an inaccurate estimate of the popular vote based off of congressional representation.  

switch-up-snowfox:

bevendre:

“The electoral college is necessary!  If the popular vote decided everything then it would always be liberal because urban areas trend liberal!”

Really?  You don’t say?  The areas with the highest population density tend to swing more liberal?  That’s weird.  It’s almost like being around other people makes people more sympathetic to others, and understanding that different people are still people.

It’s almost like conservative areas tend to be more isolated and insulated in their ways rather than allowing ideas to mix, since that could contradict their ideals.  How strange that those areas tend to vote one way regardless of sense because it’s as much or more tradition than it does reason.

Yeah, it really makes sense that the votes of thousands of urban dwellers should count equal to a single rural voter because of no apparent reason.

@bevendre

you may wanna watch this.

The video raises some good points, but it doesn’t discredit my point.  Yes the majority of the population lives in metropolitan areas, and those areas are predominantly liberal, and yes that in itself tips policy and campaigning towards appealing to those areas due to easier access to voters.  That’s how it is and that’s how it’s going to stay regardless of whether the electoral college is abolished or remains as is.

However, the video never tackles the point that I made, the absolute discrepancy of how votes are tallied through the electoral college.  The idea that one’s vote doesn’t matter comes to look more believable when 1 vote in my home state of Nebraska is equivalent to 3 votes from California despite California being MUCH more culturally and economically important to the country as a whole.  California made up about 11% of the US population, but in the electoral college they represent maybe 9% of all votes.

The electoral college wasn’t made to make it balanced between urban and rural areas, it was established to make the vote for president easier in the early days of the country.  It gave the vote for president to a number of electors equal to the number of representatives in Congress, which in itself is set by population.  That hasn’t changed, but now there are more people in America than there were in existence when the electoral college was established, and a cap was put on the amount of representatives any one state can possibly have.  With that affecting areas of higher population density, it tends to impact liberal leaning states more than it does conservative.

All of that aside, the video still doesn’t address my point: urban areas lean liberal because of a heavier mix of peoples and cultures, which tends to lead to an understanding that people are people and efforts to understand people other than oneself.  Meanwhile conservative areas tend to be more rural with people split up and separated, only mingling with people who share their ideals in perpetuity, thereby making it easier to look at things that are different as other and by extension wrong.