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My entry for midnite-melodie.deviantart.comβ¦Name: Pastel Starfire
Gender: Female
Talent: Reading Other's Emotions
Personality: Pastel is very quiet and reserved. She rarely shows much emotion, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have feelings. Actually, Pastel is very sensitive both to her own and other's emotions, she simply has trouble expressing it. She can usually tell what other ponies and animals are feeling, and each common emotion corresponds to a color in her stripes. Red is anger or hatred, orange is happiness, yellow is fear, green is jealousy, blue is sadness, and purple is love. If someone could break through her shell and teach her how to express herself, it's likely that she would freely open up to them and eventually others as well. She can often be found in the rainforest where she lives peacefully with her pet butterfly Brightie.
History: Pastel was born in her rainforest home, but grew up all alone. She spent a lot of time exploring until she could walk anywhere in the rainforest without getting lost. Despite being without Pony company, Pastel wasn't completely alone. Plenty of small, kind animals live in the rainforest and were more than happy to keep her company and entertain her when she was little. Gradually, Pastel began leaving the rainforest to explore the world around her. She soon met other ponies, and learned many new things. The foals taught her all kinds of games and the adults taught her to speak. Try as she might, Pastel just couldn't express her emotions very much. Everyone always treated her nicely, but she was never really accepted. It wasn't because of her appearance or perceived lack of feelings, she just couldn't relate to the ponies living on the outskirts of the rainforest. Pastel doesn't mind much though, since she always has her animal friends and Brightie.
Art and Brightie (C) me
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Comments: 49
What? How can you not win? I'm a new watcher of yours cuz I just passed by and I really enjoy your art and style, I find it fascinating! *O* And I don't understand how you couldn't win, this was truly beautiful! Look at the details! You just annoyed yourself by drawing a whole drawing of an adopt WITH background with a pretty nice picture of it, and you get nothing in the end. When I see something really unfair I get irrated easily.
all I'm saying is that, you did a really good job, and you deserve better. ^^Β
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I know right? I'm the only one who even gave her a cutie mark like the rules said AND I'm the only one who gave her a pet too! ^^ Thanks, I appreciate it!
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My pleasure! ^^ I mean c'mon! Even the leaves and grass are detailed! *o*
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Oh wow! LOve traditional art, and.. whoa.. that other one that entered that won? It is a cute style, but.. ugh!Β
I like this much better, but I am a lil biased! (I cannot do digital art...)
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Thank you! 
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I think it was what ever one that win this contest you entered. Still, not to be mean, only to say your drawing was much better
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I thought so too. I put in more effort too. For those people who know how to work Photoshop, the computer does all the work for them. I lost just because my picture wasn't pristine because it was Traditional instead of Digital.
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To be fair, I don't use photoshop when drawing. I draw most of my drawings in hand first (thus traditional), then I draw it up on the computer.Β I use a program called SAI, which is purely a drawing program and is basically like drawing the picture all over again.
Also I can see that you put a whole lot of effort in yours, which I absolutely love. I appreciate effort from the competition.
On a side note.. Saying that you put most effort in drawing your part, compared to the rest of the competition is kind of an arrogant assumption. You don't know your competition's struggles when drawing their parts, thus you can not say you put the most effort in your drawing. Just saying
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Doesn't matter one way or the other. Colored pencil is grainy and no one likes grainy looking art. Bottom line. I lost because it was traditional. If it had been digital with pristine coloring and lines it would have won. Plus no one else followed one of the rules: Give her a Cutie Mark. I was the only one who followed that rule. So it's not really fair anyway.
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Actually grainy art is kind of cool if you ask me.Β And you didn't loose because it was traditional.
I've lost in a contest before to traditional art, so saying you lost because yours is traditional is absolute bollocks.
Also, assuming that you'd have won if yours had been digital is once again arrogant. You don't know that.
Sexy-Hunter was judging with 2 other judges, when selecting the winner. So it basically could have been anyone who had won.
And for the cutie mark thing? I actually asked her personally if it was an utmost requirement. She said it wasn't, it was more of an extra thing.
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It was still in the rules! What's the point of even posting them if you don't care about them at all? Why even hold the stupid contest if you aren't even going to follow your own rules?
And I have really never won a single contest where digital art was entered, even if it was crappy and disproportionate. I don't even think I one once.
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Now you're being a bit unfair.
Sexy-Hunter's native language isn't English, so there were some language barriers back then, which is hardly her fault.
She's better today, yes. But back then, not so much. (I know for a fact that she had her sister to help her out with writing..)
Once again, how is that anyone's fault if you haven't won a single contest where digital art was entered?
If it bothers you that much, then don't enter the contests in the first place. It seems like a mighty waste of time, if you're
just going to complain about it. People who continuously complain about this kind of thing are sore losers.
Which you're sadly being right now. Instead be happy for the people who win and then celebrate like crazy when you win yourself.
That's the way forward.
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You have no idea the kind of luck I have. I rarely win anything, so forgive me if it's a little hard for me to be happy for complete strangers who all seem to do better in life than me.
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Dude, you don't know what kind of luck I have..
I have struggled my whole life, just to stay alive. Having to take care of myself without anyone's help.
Classmates, teachers, people I thought were my friends and even my own family have bullied me my whole life.
Physical bullying, where people would drag me some place to kick, hit and stab me until I barely moved.
Mental bullying, where people enjoyed breaking me down to a wreck of exposed nerves.
Years upon years of going to psychologists and hypnotherapy against my own will, coming up with sick ideas
of how to either put me out of my misery (They almost got a go for to perform a lobotomy on me, which is illegal)
or they would find a way to break me even more. I only recently (1-2 years ago) recovered from most of the shit I've been through.
So don't you dare say you have a bad life
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I never said I had a bad life. You didn't even read what I wrote. I said I had bad luck. Nearly everyone seems to have better luck than me, at least in things like contests and drawings anyway.
And do you think you're the only one who's been bullied before? You may have it WAY worse than I did, but I've been mentally bullied for my entire life and now some fat ass bitch is trying to take all of my friends away. People hated me, maybe it was because I was skinnier than they'll ever be in their lifetime and I ate mostly junk food. Maybe it was because I was smart and payed attention. Maybe they just didn't like my attitude. Whatever the reason, I now have a subconscious defense mechanism that I'm aware of, but have no control over. It activates without my knowledge and makes me seem like a heartless bitch with an abrasive personality when you first meet me. And I've had a small bout with a physical bully before too, again nothing like what happened to you. He used to punch me in the shoulder and things all the time and then poke at the bruises for a laugh. His mom nearly pushed me out a window, but I hit an endtable in front of it and stopped beforehand, all because I didn't have a pencil to do my homework. I thought he wanted to kill me. He tried to trick me into coming to the edge of an old wooden bridge once, before I could swim, so he could push me off into the river. I was only in 4th grade, but I wasn't that much of a dumbass that's for sure.
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I don't think you remember what you wrote..
"strangers who all seem to do better in life than me" that's the same as saying you've had a bad life, although indirectly.
No, I don't. I know a ton of people who has been bullied throughout some or most of their life.
But it pisses me off when people think they've had a "bad life" (not pointing towards you, now that I've read your story)
because they think they've been through shit. While there are people who actually suffer.
I suffer from severe ADD which I'm born with, making my whole life a royal mess when trying to socially interact with people.
Which just adds to the boiling pot of crap I've been through.Β
And trust me, I know how it is being hated like that. I've had 3 whole schools against me for no apparent reason, besides themΒ
needing a bully target. I didn't have one single friend for the first 14-15 years of my life. Only people who pretended, only to use my friendship.
Also, I kind of envy that you're thin and don't really take on any weight, however it doesn't mean I hate you. Because I know that people's bodies
are different. That's how I learned to appreciate my own body. I'm not fat or anything, but I'm certainly not thin.
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I had friends, but only about 1 or 2, and something always seemed to happen to separate us. I had a friend in 1st-2nd grade and then I moved 2 states away. I had what I thought was a friend in 3rd-4th grade but then transferred schools and she rarely talked to me after that even though we saw each other at track meets (and her parents hated me because my mom smokes cigarettes). I had a friend, a true friend, in 6th grade, but she transferred schools but managed to stay close. We were like sisters, but then her mom (who couldn't stand to be alone) married some control freak dude who moved them to Maine and I never heard from her again. I had another friend in the same grade who's parents used to baby sit me. They treated me like family, but then the parents separated and the whole family broke apart.
I don't have anything like ADD, but I have discovered that I'm an empath. In other words, I can feel what other people feel without needing to go through what they go through. Sometimes I pick up on their emotions or tension without realizing it and I get real nasty because I magnify it and then spit it back out without knowing why.
Frankly, I kind of hate being so thin. You can see all the ribs in my ribcage, and if I don't eat enough through the day I get very tired and sometimes start shaking. It also means I'm not very busty. And when I go somewhere (like the pool) where I were something that shows lots of skin women always give me these stupid looks like "What's wrong with you? Can't you eat enough?" and I glare at them because people seem to always think I'm anorexic. Fortunately no snobby women have offered to "help me" with a problem the THINK I have.
As far as people hating me, they never seem to understand that I'm an empath. They just don't get that I can't help being overly emotional, or that I can't help being skinny. I try to put on weight sometimes, and I gained 4 pounds since entering college, but I'm also not physically strong. I have almost no muscle because most exercise just seems to hurt. I also have slightly weak joints, and my bones have a tendency to go out of place so I have to make regular chiropractor visits. My whole senior class seemed to hate me except 2 girls. One was my only consistent friend in highschool, and the other had moderate to severe autism so she just loves everyone. I've gotten used to constantly being called stupid and ugly at this point, and to never being noticed. The teacher even got mad at me when I yelled in the middle of a Yearbook meeting because the girl organizing things seemed to be listening to everyone but me. That same teacher also got mad at me for getting pissed at another girl who took all of my designated shops when we went out to ask people to but advertising spaces to fund said Yearbook. I literally considered suicide at one point and then realized that it would only mean that all the bullies had won.
But now I have good friends. Friends who are real, and who listen to me. They even come to me to vent or ask for advice, though they sometimes decide not to take it. And then realize later that I was right all along. XD But they've realized that underneath all that sandpapery exterior I'm actually a really good person, just a little scarred and emotional, and loyal as a dog.
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I know how that is. Such a pain in the fucking ass.
And trust me, you don't want ADD. Unless you'd like to have a quadrillion thoughts tumbling around your head, like an intercity highway.
Not being able to calm it down ever. Then when you try to socially interact with people, your mind seems to wander and find small things
that you have either seen out of the corner of your eye, part of a sentence your counterpart said, something you heard from another conversation orΒ
an entirely random thought and include it into the conversation. You being the only one who actually sees the connection, which just starts a whole scenarioΒ
of jumping from subject to subject. Impossible to stop yourself, because your brain is having an information spasm, while still taking in new stuff from outside.
Meanwhile not being able to sort through the information, sorting important from less important details, because you don't have the sorting filter which is important for your
brain to function normally when it comes to taking in information.
At the same time, you'll suffer from amnesia that takes chunks out of your memory which are usually very important things.
Leaving the less important information looming around in you brain like a bad headache.
You can't always concentrate (ADD = Attention Deficit Disorder), again due to the quadrillion of thoughts kicking you mentally in butt.. So yeah..
As for the suicide part.. Been there 3 times at a minimum.
I know how it feels.
I also have slight OCD and severe asthma, a bad back due to a missing disc which is supposed to be between two of my lower vertebrae (born with it),
two bad knees due to accidents. One being when I fell off a mountain when I was 11 and the other when I was 17 due to a bad fall and a swimming pool...
So yeah... hurrah.... -_-"
Also if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?Β
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Wow, you do have quite a bit of stuff to handle.
I actually have a teacher who has ADD, and he medicates. The mere thought of him off his medication scares me because of his unpredictability. While I don't have ADD, I can relate to how people can't follow your thought process. People can't seem to see how things in my brain are connected either, I usually have to literally verbally plot out how the things are connected for them before they get it. I also have a friend who has ADHD and when he doesn't take his medication he starts to ramble, and bounces on the couch a lot. We've gotten used to managing it because his medication comes by mail and doesn't always arrive on time.
I understand the OCD thing. People always tell me I'm a slob but then this very slight OCD thing kicks in when I see certain things and I can't stand to have them different from how I want them. It drives me nuts.
My friend has put on some serious weight, to the point where I'm concerned for her health, because she has a floating kneecap and can't walk long distances or up/down stairs according to her doctors because it might get worse. Some douche in highschool tripped her and she went flying and landed on her knee. She didn't know there was a problem until years later when nothing could be done, and I don't think her family can afford the medical bills that would come with fixing it.
As for my own physical injuries, the most I suffer from is horrible knots in my muscles and the bones going out of place. Though that can be enough sometimes. I had to have my friend literally help me walk to my room one night because my hips when out. They went one direction, and my back went the other. I could barely move. It's a little terrifying when your chiropractor says "That was impressive". I've never broken a bone though. I have had this weird muscle thing a couple times as a result of tension as well. The first time it happened I was in 8th grade and my mother picked me up and drove me to the doctor. He gave me some muscle relaxers and told me it was like whiplash but with muscle instead of bone. It's happened 3 times since and each time I can't turn my head or move very much because of the intense pain, also it leaves my head stuck at this funny angle. It lasts for like 3 days. Now I have hot/cold packs for it.
I just turned 20 in December.
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Meds? I fucking envy him.. I'm not allowed medication for my ADD.
The doctors told me it could either cause my ADD to worsen or cause brain damage since mine is as severe as it is.
They literally had me in for a brain activity test. The results where kind of scary. They told me that my brain is so overly active thatΒ
it breaks the limit for what the human brain can manage. So they kept during some tests which ended with the same results.
Just sending me home. It has nothing to do with my intellect that my brain is this active. But something they couldn't explain to me.
Ah. Then we're not that far apart in age. I turn 20 in approx. 3 months
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Hmm...well, not gonna lie, that kind of sucks (did I mention I'm also really blunt?). Have you tried some herbal remedies? I know that Chamomile can really help to calm your brain function, it also makes you just a tad sleepy though so sometimes they combine it with things like Catnip or Mint. Maybe drinking teas with these herbs in them, or perhaps vitamin forms of these herbs could help you out? There aren't any bad side effects to my knowledge. Actually they're mostly good for your body.
Oh wow. That's actually kind of cool. I don't meet a lot of people who are my age on here who actually talk to people for more than 5 minutes.
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Tried it. I have Chamomile (though it's more used for when I have a cold),
I have different Chinese, Japanese and Thai herbal teas I use. Nothing works, other than make me a tad bit sleepy.
Catnip isn't purchasable here and Mint is freaking expensive where I live -_-"
Same here. I either find people who are older or younger than me. Hardly anyone my own age to talk to whenever.
But at least I have some luck keeping a conversation afloat between 30 minutes to 6 days, depending on subject and how fast people are at answering.
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Hm. Well I know that the Celestial Seasonings teas have a blend that has catnip in it, along with lemon grass it's very calming, but it won't make you sleepy. I don't remember off hand what it's called though, but the box is yellow and blue. It's odd that herbs don't really help though, but I guess they have different effects on different people. Do you live in the city, or the country?
I can keep a conversation going for a while until I run out of things to respond with. It gets kinda awkward at that point. XD
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Well, I'm not from USA. I live in a smaller town in Denmark. (Yes, I'm a viking) But go to school in one of the major cities.
Never heard of Celestial Seasonings tea. But no nothing seems to work. I've even been on hypnotherapy (as I mentioned earlier)
which didn't help either. Especially since it was against my own will.
Haha, oh do I know how that is xD
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I see. Well, my bloodline is from Norway so I'm a viking too! ^^ Define "Town". Because Town here is like 300 - 1000 people, most of whom are ranchers who don't actually live in said town. So Town for me is SUPER small. Anyways, I asked because I was thinking that if you live in/spend lots of time in a city that it might help if you occasionally took trips to a quieter, country place that the fresh air and calm atmosphere might help in some way. From what I understand it helps mounds for people with all kinds of medical conditions. Smog really isn't good for your health.
I know right? At some points I end up just typing a row of dots because I don't know what to do.
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Town is about right. And ranchers like you say, don't really exists over here.
Trust me, I've lived on a farm in the countryside for the last 9 years. I hasn't helped one bit.
Also I don't live in an area where there's a lot of industrial firms. There's plenty of fresh air here.
Same, same indeed xD
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Well I suppose that's that then. XD In all honesty though, I wish I could be more help. My mom has countless books on herbal remedies and could probably have recommended something new to try. Alas, she's at home right now and probably asleep. Poked my head into your gallery btw. Your dev ID is SUPER cute! ^^ Watch given. I noticed that Twili Oc thing, which is also cute. I keep seeing those around, but I don't really know what they are. XD
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Hahaha xD
And thanks c:
Also, you should definitely check out the animated music video for Mystery Skulls - Ghost
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You're welcome! And I will if this crappy College wifi will let me. XDDD
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Sadly it's true. It doesn't even support the college's OWN Website. It's just sad and hilarious. XD
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I am SO tired right now. I got NO SLEEP AT ALL last night. I need a nap. T.T
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Awww D:
Then go take a nap c:
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I did take one. Felt better afterward, thanks. :3
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Well don't worry about it. I think your work is very beautiful, and was amazing to look at when I saw your page!
*hugs* you are a great artist
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Oh I don't worry about it much. ^^ I entered it in my local fair and it won a blue ribbon.
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*accepts hug* Thank you.
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Aww, very awesome!!!
And you are welcome, hugs always help me
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I did and left some comments
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I feel SOOOOOO BAD that you didn't win! This was the BEST thing EVER!! (Stupid digital art.. It makes everything look better...)
But even thought you didn't win, you did an AMAZING job trying!! so for that I give you a double rainboom! 
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Aw, thanks Altimos. ^^ Yeah, it sucks that I didn't win. People never realize that it's so much harder to do things traditionally. Just because it isn't perfectly crisp and clear that means I didn't work hard on it, which isn't true.
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very nice composition here. good detailing
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Thank you. I worked very hard on it. ^^
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