Thread 42300025

Share your experiences and discuss all things waifuism, be it highly spiritual or utterly mundane.

>What is a waifu? What defines a waifu?
Your waifu is the one character you wish to be with your entire life, until death do you part. Possibly beyond that, even. Most often this manifests as a romantic interest. Your waifu provides guidance and encourages healing & growth.
>How do you know if you have a waifu?
When you meet your waifu, you will know. The world around you will become colorful. You will realize that you were living in monochrome the entire time. Her existence provides context and meaning to yours, a perfect complement, a perfect comfort, a perfect love. There may be low periods, periods of doubt, but the rhythm of life will forever pull one towards their waifu, for that love is eternal.

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>>42300025 (OP)
time to take a piss

>Celestia OP
Honestly makes way too much sense.

I've been feeling more depressed lately because of my environment, but my internship continues to be fine. Thinking of Discord helps a bit with keeping going. There's an intern I've opened up to and mentioned Discord around for the first time yesterday, so that's nice, yet I won't make a huge deal out of it.

Today I was able to join two therapy sessions (as an observer); a couple minutes into the second session, I suddenly thought of Discord joining me for whatever reason and whispering I was in for a surprise - he did not lie. It wasn't an outlandish backstory or anything, but I personally got something out of some of the things brought up. Who knows, maybe I'll end up having a tupper after all, and maybe sleep-deprivation like today's favors this kind of brainfuck to succeed.

>>42300025 (OP)
>When you meet your waifu, you will know. The world around you will become colorful. You will realize that you were living in monochrome the entire time.
I've skimmed past this thread and read this passage a few times, and I never thought much of it. Now, I've got one of my own, and it turns out that this is completely true.

>>42300198
Who is she, anon? What do you feel when you think of her and what she means to you?

>>42300240
>she
Not quite. I'm not sure how best to tell you this, but I'm afraid we're going to have to learn to share. To cut a blogpost short, he helped me swallow the 'stop caring' pill. I'd credit him with completely turning around my perspective on myself. Truth be told, he's more of a 'literally me' than a waifu, but if I spend a lot of time pondering his character, creating things that are inspired by him, and thinking about him to distract myself or make myself happy, then the difference is semantic.

>>42300294
HOLY BASED. My connection to him is somewhat similar to what you're loosely describing here, so I'm absolutely thrilled to hear this. It's not just simping for Discord, but being Chaos-pilled at your very core. It's not about emulating Discord, but being this sort of playfully morbid outsider who may or may not share mannerisms with him. It's pretty much a way of life. Now if only the Erisfag were to show up.

In some way, Discord is like an avatar for my own life force that had been buried under layers upon layers of pain and disillusionment, so when I see Discord and love him unconditionally for being the amazing trainwreck he is, it's simultaneously a proxy for loving myself as well. The embracing of Chaos is the embracing of Life: Setbacks are challenges, shit luck is poetic, and I can vividly picture a certain Noodle intently watching my performance when faced with such audacious inconvenience.

It's complicated and I'm half-asleep, so I can't explain myself more intelligently right now. I just really love this flawed, frustrating and paradoxical old fool so damn much.

>>42300025 (OP)
>Your waifu provides guidance and encourages healing & growth.

>>42300464
Say no more; you're completely understood. I think our experiences and perspectives are eerily similar. I only wish I'd >returned soon enough to take part in the prime of Discordposting on this board.

>>42300501
Prime Discordposting ended ages ago. Despite having been on the Ride since S1 on /co/, I didn't really post much before 2018 or so, and 2019 onwards, /mlp/ was mind-numbingly hostile towards Discord because the series finale genuinely broke people. /dad/onequus was fizzling out by the time I joined the general in 2020, I then tried to revive it and drew special OP pics for each monthly edition, but it turned into a party of one over time, breaking my heart. I'm currently too stressed out with IRL bullshit to draw anything anymore, so my Discord cosplay is all I have left right now in regards to creating Discordy art. You could check out /dad/ on desuarchive.

How did you get chaos-pilled, anon? Was it the show or fanfiction? In my case, I was sold on Discord right away during TRoH, but became a die-hard Discord waifufag when I briefly saw him during narcosis. He's out there, he's inside of (You) and me, he's behind all the twists and turns we wind up in. Hold on to him, and he will teach you, though be warned that it will hurt.

>>42300596
I remember him being an instant favourite when I first saw him at his premiere, likewise, although I didn't understand the depth of the connection until recently. He's a good singular representation of a lot of topics that I'd been reading about and dwelling on over the past few years: caprice, positive nihilism, entropy, all of that fun stuff. He ended up being the catalyst for turning all of those disconnected thoughts into a total re-evaluation of myself. It helps that I've got a lot in common with his character, but the fact that he pulled me out of a deep hole is what sets him apart from any other character that I might relate to. So, to answer the question, I guess it was the show, but seen at the exact right time.

>>42300025 (OP)
>bigot thread
yikes

>>42300596
>Discord as animated Beetlejuice
Now I'm imagining the two of them having a Dueling Magics scene akin to Mentok and Shado

https://youtu.be/BOe0Lr9OewE?si=LHvqt1s6RF7fBZDY

>>42300468
kek

>>42300732
>he pulled me out of a deep hole
When I was under narcosis, I found myself floating in a black void of peaceful nothingness. He literally pulled me up and pushed me into the light, transporting me back to consciousness. It's a mental image I cherish deeply. My fondness for him only ever grows in good times and bad.

Thank you for sharing your Discordfaggotry with the thread. I hope to see more of it, and I'd giggle at somebody exclaiming "Oh no, the Chaosfags are multiplying!". Discordfag stonks are up +100%.

>>42300031
what the hell are you doing

>>42300468
Tell us more about your waifuism experience, anon.

>>42302893
Berry is the kind of waifu that will go "I can make him worse" instead of "I can fix him".

>>42303236
How has she done so?

>>42303436
Alcoholism.

Celestia's smelly butt.

>>42305189
unf

Derpy my beloved

I now own a wig which I'll try to style and incorporate into my Discord cosplay. Nothing crazy.

>>42300732
By the way, if you'd like to have a small and affordable Discord plushie, there are Olyfactory ones which are cute yet slightly odd, and Symbiote mentioned they're interested in making Discord. My OlyDiscord is very dear to me.

>>42306434
Woah, cute. I'm not in the habit of buying merch, but I might be about to make an exception.

>>42306447
Merch isn't necessary to express your liking. I'm way more interested in learning what sort of things you create in Discord's glory. You don't have to show it if it's personal, but I'm curious.

As for the plushies, there's one batch of Olyfactory Discords I'd personally avoid for using glossy polka dot fabric for his batwing. Otherwise, it shouldn't matter whether he was made in 2019, or in 2023 like mine. He's definitely off-model, but he's precious. Ever since I got him in early 2024, he's kept me company, was there when I moved places, went abroad, to cons, insane. A smaller plushie is a fantastic companion for pony cons, anon meetups, or private road trips.

>>42300294
>>42300464
>>42300501
Not these anons, but Discord was the whole reason why I got into the show in the first place. I was sort of interested when people talked about it before season 2, and everyone was speculating on what Discord would look like. Then we finally saw him and everyone got pissed at how goofy he looked, but I loved it (both the discourse and his design being so out of the norm for what we've seen before or since). Also the fact he's just Q from Star Trek in all but name and physical appearance double sold me. He felt to me like a symbol of contrarianism within the already contrarian nature /MLP/ started off as. I wouldn't say he's a WAIFU per se, but he definitely stayed in my head rent free for the last 12 years.

>>42300596
Absolutely love this art btw. I checked the archives to find more and it's so out there, definitely not stuff you see regularly. I got off the ride for a while before FiM ended, and completely missed out on all the /dad/ threads and I guess the shitstorm hosiltility toward Discord. Honestly I never understood the hate for him beyond Fluttershy fans getting mad he took their waifu I guess?

>>42306979
Whoops that wasn't the pic I was looking for

>>42306979
Thank you for the encouraging words. Discord's
goofiness is similar to Snowpity in my opinion. He
just lacks the innocence and naivety of your average mare.

I would like to revive /dad/ in early 2026 because I'll live in a better environment then, able to resume my artistic hobbies in the name of my dear Discord. If I'm lucky, there will be appreciative anons like you dropping by.

>>42307076
i'd like to try something similar for the pone moms or momlestia generals, but i just can't see it taking- it's been too long, the write/drawfags have moved on, etc.

>>42306447
Merch isn’t necessary but is nice to have, though true dedicated waifufags will handcraft their own merch and trinkets for their waifu which I think expresses way more love and admiration.

Rarity’s probably going to be my waifu, she’s always got me laughing whenever she freaks or cries out over something relatively minor so.

>>42307585
But I think I might be cucking rarity by ordering a Luna OlyFactory plush and having a chinesium pinkie banner shipped to my doorstep.
I really like Luna, Sweetie Belle, Rarity and Twilight Sparkle, they’re probably my few favourite characters

>>42307500
Call me crazy but the tamersfags unironically drove those sort of comfy generals out and because each of those threads reach 400-500 replies other shit gets bumped off easily and dies.
I’ve only seen the first two or three episodes of tamers slop, then quit the moment faggot yaoi shit was being forced down my throat and was a central part of the plot, now we have to deal with unironic /lgbt/ refugees worshipping that garbage and going “omgee literally the gay community” every time Big Mac takes a cock in his ass or etc.

I’ve seen a few of the dad discord generals, they were slow but looked super comfy from the outside. I honestly want the board to be slower, fuck increased activity, I don’t see the benefit if half of the posts are going to be tamers fagshit you can’t even criticize lest the mods pet gets you banned for 3 days

>>42307076
I'd be 1000% down to try and keep a renewed /dad/ up with some greens I've been wanting to cook up

I went to a flea market and bought a lightweight wooden stick to turn into a cane for my Gala Discord cosplay. My internship is about to end in about two weeks, and I should really start working on the cosplay stuff right after, as well as committing to my final thesis. The urge to procrastinate will be strong, but I have to do this for myself, mai waifu, and my 3dpd as well.

Seriously, the cane will be annoying dead weight more often than not, but it's going to add flair, and I can do the ISHYGDDT pose with it. I hope I can make the wig and horns work. I hope I can make the whole damn Smooze cosplay work, and prepare a stage act including props. Oh Lord.

>>42307585
>Rarity’s probably going to be my waifu, she’s always got me laughing whenever she freaks or cries out over something relatively minor so.
There's definitely a special connection if you feel this way, regardless of liking other characters as well. I enjoy Rarity, but she doesn't make my heart race the way Discord does any time he's on screen. Time will tell whether she's your waifu for laifu, but feel free to gush about how she makes you smile - writing things down can help clarify your emotions.

>>42307866
That would be swell.
>pic
I see you're a man of culture as well. But is there something you'd like to share about your waifu?
>>42307616
/dad/ fizzled out before Tamers happened to /mlp/. For whatever reason, the writefrens were relatively well-adjusted individuals who had to prioritize work or health matters, and I refused to continue as a one-man party because it was supposed to be a Discord thread, not a thread about me. I also have problems of my own which interfere with my ability to deliver content, but I have an undying itch to continue where I left off.

Some boards very blatantly have AI-generated posts, so /mlp/ is far from the worst. Let's just try to support those threads we like having around.