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involuntarily age regressing: i'm scared and lost and confused and i need my parents where are my parents i'm just a kid!! i need help from a grown up!!! 😭

voluntarily age regressing: i am going to have fun with my toys an my crayons an my coloring books while i watch my cartoons an drink appley juice from my sippy cup :) yay! yippee!

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someone somewhere 16 years or so ago made mlp pony models for source filmmaker and those fuckers were so prolific. who did those anyways

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i don't really know where to start looking but it's not a great sign that the wiki doesn't seem to credit an author for this model

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Dr Whooves compiled — artwork by Poninnahka on DeviantArt. Published: 2012-04-03 · Likes: 21 · Views: 2836 · Comments: 19

The nightmare night SFM video credits this creator with the "updated" models, presumably the ones that got mega popular, but this deviantart post also credits a DIFFERENT and also DEACTIVATED ACCOUNT with making the base model that this is an edit of. so the true progenitor is just kind of untraceable, maybe

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i'm definitely not equipped to research stuff like this

doctor-nu

Maybe @str8aura-no-not-that-one could help?

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Unfortunately, I've got nothing. These were in use almost right from the get go, and most of the earliest makers of pony sfm probably thought nothing of crediting the original modeler. Whoever is responsible (likely someone on deviantart who never thought their creations would spread this far) is probably the most influential artist in the fandom, as their design became the base for every sfm pony going forward for fifteen years now.

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I was able to find a snapshot of the deleted account credited in the above link on wayback machine in 2012 (the time the model linked above was uploaded) that actually had a surprising amount on the acct.

I was able to get into the gallery of it and find "[Download] Pony Male Model", and while the model itself wasn't cached, the description and comments were.

So this is it. This is a male version of 's pony_body model. It is intended to be used with his stuff. I unwrapped the UVs in that way, that

And the description of this one links to another deviantart that's STILL ALIVE but hasn't posted since 2024 afaik

KP-ShadowSquirrel is an artist on DeviantArt. Hi! I'm an Illustrator who likes to draw cute cartoon creatures. Anthro-logy: The MixtapeFurry

(I can tell this is the same account as well b/c the snapshot of the link in the pony body male above has a specific fluttershy art cached that's still available on kp-shadowsquirrel's live deviantart page to this day)

Searching pony_model (the exact phrase used in the firewarrior cached description) i was able to find this :D

Pony Model Download Center — artwork by KP-ShadowSquirrel on DeviantArt. Published: 2011-06-27 · Likes: 3708 · Views: 432099 · Comments: 160

Which says they were made in maya and zbrush, and credits another user (Mircea Kitsune) with making rigged versions for blender. The blendswap link to download the rigged blender versions is very broken, but taking it back to the wayback machine we do get a comment by MirceaKitsune saying her version was just an updated posable/eye posable version of Cheerilee's version here:

Swap some blends with friends

which DOES credit back to kp-shadowsquirrel's deviantart :D so we know it was probably kp-shadowsquirrel who made the original models from this set that were so prevelant around 2012 and then edited/turned into bases eventually used for other ponies/other creations.

That was fun i wonder if kp-shadowsquirrel knows.

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happy binky monday

kittensnax

you won't begin to believe how much I pace my house going "I like dry food! I like playing with shoelaces!" like I spiritually am this cat

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Elephant had a fun time in Florida with my grandparents. Turns out Elephant LOVES the beach!

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Talking to Ghosts, by Sienna Gonzales.

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dinosaurs are like the coolest thing possible for a child to learn about. it’s like hey i know you were just borned but giant monsters are real and they fought each other in wars for 100000000000 years and then blew up when the sky exploded.

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I remember one time I got INSANELY high off of edibles while playing Among Us, and it quickly became apparent to the other players online. I forget how honestly but literally anything "sus" I did was ignored by everyone because I was so fucking high. I tested this theory by standing in front of a body and the person that actually reported it didn't even mention me. The funniest part was when I was trying to do wires, I kept fucking up over and over again, so I was just standing in front of wires for actual minutes trying to figure it out. A small crowd of players gathered around me to watch and would get mad every time someone reported a body or emergency meeting because "she's never going to get her tasks done if you keep interrupting them." I don't think anyone cared about winning at that point, they just wanted to see the high crew mate succeed in her tasks.

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so happy and free

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this is going to be a silly reblog but i have kind of a fixation on animal qualia and the idea of an animal's umwelt, so i ended up wondering whether pudding was actually "enjoying" this.

which meant i went and read about snail brains.

here's the bad news, at least by human standards:

snails do not have anything like a centralized brain. their nervous system is made up of small clusters of neurons (ganglia) that mostly handle very local tasks. they don't have a cortex, they don't build big integrated models of the world, and they almost certainly don't experience things like appreciation, anticipation, or savoring.

pudding is not looking at the sky and thinking it's beautiful.

snail eyes are basically light sensors - they can tell bright from dark, but not form images. snail "taste" is done through chemoreceptors on their tentacles and around their mouth. those receptors don't produce flavor the way ours do; they just detect chemical compounds and sort them into "approach," "ignore," or "avoid."

so there's no evidence that snails enjoy food, or wind, or views, the way mammals do.

and that does sound kind of sad. but then i thought that maybe we are asking the wrong question.

snails do have valence. they detect aversive things (like salt or dryness) and withdraw from them. they detect non-aversive or beneficial conditions (like moisture) and stay extended. when pudding is stretched out like this, it means his nervous system is basically saying "this is safe; nothing is wrong."

if we define pleasure not as our human experience of dopamine and reward chemicals but instead as "the absence of aversion" - a state where the organism is open to its environment instead of defending itself - then this does count as something positive, even if it's extremely nothing like human enjoyment.

pudding isn't appreciating the wind. but his body is registering humidity, safety, and the ability to keep functioning, and that matters to him in the only way his nervous system can make things matter. he does not think "this is great, this is awesome, i love the weather", because he doesn't think in the way we do at all, but the neurological action in his ganglion tell his body that he is safe, that the moisture is an acceptable level, that it's not too dry or windy, and that there's nothing imminently threatening.

i think a lot of the sadness comes from assuming that a good life has to look like ours: full of enjoyment, meaning, and aesthetic experience. but a snail isn't missing those things. its world just isn't built to include them.

snails don't have a sense of flavor. they don't even have tastebuds. this seems like a gimme, right? but again that might be asking the wrong question about what "taste" is. biologically speaking, it's chemoreception. we taste sweet because it indicates high value, high calorie sugar molecules. we taste salty for salt, umami for proteins. so in what way does pudding's chemoreceptors differ from ours instrumentally? we can say "by our human perspective, pudding can't experience "preference" or "savoring" or "anticipation of delicious food"", but from pudding's perspective we have radically overengineered ourselves for the task at hand. pudding can tell what's salty, what's high value, what has the chemicals he needs. the functional outcome is that he can discriminate food souces based on their composition. is that not taste?

so maybe the point isn't "this is sad because he can't enjoy it," but "this is a reminder that minds come in radically different shapes, and value doesn't have to be rich to be real."