No.1193395
File: 1749843952309.jpg (105.34 KB, 800x896, 25:28, symbiotestudiosplushiestri….jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
Hello ponies,
What's your relationship with your pony plushie and/or pony plushies like? Do you have any tips for healthy plushie relationships?
No.1193396
File: 1749844602193.png (140.36 KB, 507x454, 507:454, swingy.png) ImgOps Google
If you smooch them too much, your saliva might leave trails that get really stinky after a while!
Remember to brush too!
No.1193398
File: 1749846040418.jpg (174.28 KB, 1000x1084, 250:271, symbioteplushiesraritystoc….jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
>>1193396Ah yes, that's a classic one of course. Plushies do seem to like being clean (as they can be). But how do you know if a plushie even wants to be, eh.. smooched, as it were?
No.1193399
File: 1749846216632.png (165.01 KB, 384x383, 384:383, I guess it's weird.png) ImgOps Google
>>1193398Hmmm
You can always ask if they object.
No.1193402
File: 1749846737338.jpg (70.67 KB, 700x702, 350:351, symbiotestudiospinkiepiepl….jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
>>1193399That's true. It can be difficult to tell from just their facial expression and body language alone, I think. Yet, they are (perhaps innately) cute, cuddleable plushies, so it's quite the conundrum, it seems.
No.1193403
File: 1749848739541.jpg (86.74 KB, 888x768, 37:32, twithx.jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
>>1193399>>1193402OK, I asked Applejack plushie and Twilight Sparkle Bookhorse plushie while I was passing by them. Applejack plushie said no and Twilight Sparkle Bookhorse plushie just wanted her ears scritched. Then I asked Fluttershy plushie, and she said she was fine just relaxing cutely. I was going to ask Pinkie Pie plushie, but I didn't want to deal with her antics right now. Great advice.
No.1193416
File: 1749875825547.png (47.2 KB, 457x507, 457:507, 74582__safe_rule%2B63_arti….png) ImgOps Google
I treat my plushies exactly how I treat myself.
Which is to say that we mostly sit here and gather dust. Together!
No.1193421
File: 1749876053621.jpg (2.85 MB, 4032x3024, 4:3, plushie.jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
i hug my loona plush when i go to bed <3 (alongside a daki i have)
and half of my bed has been taken over by plushies!
No.1193429
File: 1749876910952.png (533.48 KB, 1024x1024, 1:1, softfloof.png) ImgOps Google
>>1193421wat's a loona?
>half of my bed has been taken over by plushiesplushies do seem to be attracted to anything soft and floofy for some reason
No.1193435
File: 1749877629120.jpg (100.63 KB, 850x1275, 2:3, pretty.jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
>>1193429this is a Loona
>pic relatedshe's a hell hound from the show Helluva Boss
she is also one of my obsession characters, so anything with loona on it something i want
No.1193443
File: 1749879844148.gif (686.05 KB, 318x216, 53:36, dash420.gif) ImgOps Google
>>1193416Sounds like me an my pony plushs.
No.1193449
File: 1749886325521.jpg (187.31 KB, 707x1111, 7:11, Husky.jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
>>1193395I don't actually have a photograph of the stuffed husky that I've currently got, I think, housed in a grocery store bag right now (alongside some various other things that I'm trying to double-check), but this picture from Google Shopping is pretty close. And it's a great image, regardless.
I don't have tips. Though. Just be happy with your life as best you can. I suppose.
No.1193464
File: 1749918967016.jpg (6.77 KB, 300x168, 25:14, yeshoof.jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
>>1193435oh, mai
>>1193443...at least they r not just being stored in a box somewhere forever
i think :flutterbutter:>>1193449yeshoof
No.1193473
>>1193472HALT
>Inspection>Comma detectedYou may proceed, but I am watching you
No.1193476
File: 1749945648154.png (32.26 KB, 476x476, 1:1, 131032__safe_rule-63_artis….png) ImgOps Google
>>1193473The only thing the comma implies is that they're talking to Rainbow Dash directly.
No.1193478
File: 1749949131058.png (1.06 MB, 1920x1080, 16:9, cap2.png) ImgOps Google
I just display mine.
No.1193492
File: 1749966960304.png (417.24 KB, 500x663, 500:663, There is more pain than pl….png) ImgOps Google
>>1193473>>1193476I would never have unconsensual sex with Rainbow Dash.
No.1193514
>>1193476But ti also doesn't specify that they are talking ABOUT her specifically. So there's wriggle room to still interpret it innocently.
>>1193492Oh phew that's good to heWAIT A MINUTE
No.1193534
File: 1750030140020.gif (7.15 MB, 498x280, 249:140, Dancing coffin men.gif) ImgOps Google
>>1193528That's because it would be completely consensual
No.1193538
File: 1750041289501.jpg (210.65 KB, 1080x1511, 1080:1511, 20250612_230832.jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
This is not a photograph of a plush bird. Since it's a real bird. Like... though...
Doesn't this look so much like a stuffed bird, though?
No.1193540
File: 1750041783526.jpg (8.1 KB, 231x218, 231:218, twistand.jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
>>1193538...nah, the environmental context clues, the bird's detailing, as well as a lack of an overall cute aesthetic (esp. common in modern plushies) give it away
No.1193700
File: 1750178939539.jpg (119.46 KB, 889x1001, 127:143, starlightglimmerplushsymbi….jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
>>1193478That's good, too.
>>1193695...a religion or a cult?
No.1193726
File: 1750213072548.jpg (37.78 KB, 973x499, 973:499, 53fa61_fe37ee6c030f4e40bab….jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
>>1193700Occult, it depends on your perspective.
No.1193836
File: 1750274539382.jpg (7.38 KB, 220x229, 220:229, twilightsparkleprincess.jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
>>1193726Ah, so just little-known spiritual knowledge. The term "cult" is typically derogatory and rarely used in academic circles, except in the few cases where it applies. Many so-called cults have all the requirements needed to meet the definition of a religion. In fact, if a pony wanted to, they could just go down the checklist of formal requirements for a religion to make a new one, and academically-speaking, it would be indistinguishable from a more well-established one.
No.1193847
File: 1750280447328.png (807.29 KB, 3420x3288, 285:274, correct.png) ImgOps Google
>>1193839Oh, no no no... Cults will have charismatic leaders who isolate and exploit their members. A new religious movement, however, just has to meet the general guidelines for a religion. These include:
1. Sacred ritual, rites, sacrament, and scripture
2. Divine beings or conceptualizations of the divine
3. Social formation around the religion
4. Cosmogony (explanation of the origin of the universe)
5. Diagnosis of the human problem (what is the core human flaw?)
6. Theodicy (i.e.: why is there evil or suffering in the world?) (supported by morality and ethics)
7. Soteriology (how do you achieve salvation?)
8. Eschatology (what's the ultimate fate of individuals?)
So, as long as a belief system has some form of the above and is absent the indicators of a cult, then it can be considered a legit religion, regardless of how popular it is or what established religious authorities say. It's quite simple, really.
No.1193848
File: 1750280911929.gif (1.11 MB, 320x203, 320:203, Bruh....gif) ImgOps Google
>>1193421i hug
my homies when i go to bed <3
No.1193852
>>1193847A carefully CULT-ivated list of requirements?
Ahah! Busted! You ARE running a cult!
No.1193853
File: 1750288482826.jpg (65.65 KB, 1280x720, 16:9, probably.jpg) ImgOps Exif Google
>>1193848plushies do seem to like to be hugged <3, especially before going to bed
>>1193852Of course not. But if I were, I would know exactly how to do it -- minus the charisma ...and the lack of moral and ethical consideration needed in order to comfortably isolate and exploit my members ...so, I probably wouldn't do a very good job even if I were. I am flattered you think I would be able to do, though.
Now, if I were to make a pony religion, however, I might start with some basic answers such as...
1. pony watching, pony cons, pony raves, canon pony episodes, pony plushies
2. celestia, luna, mane 6, a few other ponies
3. social media, pony video games, pony cons
4. (need to work on this one)
5. the problem is not being friends with everypony
6. why is there disharmony even though we have a princess of friendship? (need to work on this one -- maybe something to do with the tree of harmony and/or everfree forest?)
7. by making some friends
8. to become an alicorn pony princess
