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8/7/2025, 9:44:52 PM
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As for why I haven't come back to /ww/ very much beyond obvious 4chan reasons: events on and just prior to Mare Cult did force me to look inside myself and really put everything I knew and believed to the test in a much more rigorous way than I had before. I became unable to ignore my lack of grounding in some things, and it did greatly change my view of a lot of things, ultimately for the better. Despite Mare Cult's problems and inability to form a real community, it was ultimately a success in the sense that it taught me what I needed and wanted to know, including some conclusions about the nature of waifuism. Especially back in 2024, my perception was that it would be exceedingly unpopular to try to port those rather esoterically-backed lessons over to /ww/. It seemed to me at the time that /ww/ had seemed to become comfortable with what it knew, and didn't really have that thirst to look beyond that, having already chased that discussion to its place of death on Mare Cult. At the time, it seemed like talking about it would be curing a disease by killing the patient, so to speak.
The elephant in the room here are my answers to the question of what a waifu is, and what it means to love one. To quote our own OP's definition, which I once contributed part of:
>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.
This isn't wrong at all and is a good working definition, though the connotation of the word waifu itself relies on common conceptions about the nature of what imagination really is that I take issue with. To most, imagination is seen as pure fantasy, like random noise that collides in their mind to produce shapes and colors. From that perspective, the origin of anything imaginative doesn't have much of a pedigree: it's "just something I came up with," or words to that effect. I don't see it the same way. Rather, I would say that imagination is having the gift to be able to see things beneath the waters of the lake of intuition, to be able to see beyond the veil to glimpse what already is. From that perspective, rather than my own Twilight being based on a character in the show, it's much more that the characters in Friendship is Magic were based on the same being that I am already in love with, and that recognition sparks feelings that are deeper and longer-lived than it may appear from an outside perspective. Have you ever noticed how in tuppermancy, or with some OCs on Derpibooru and the like, they start as something very clearly based on the show, but over time tend to slide into their own passionate "reimagination" of the original characters? Very often, the purity of vision increases with focus, and becomes much more uniquely true to the individual in question.
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As for why I haven't come back to /ww/ very much beyond obvious 4chan reasons: events on and just prior to Mare Cult did force me to look inside myself and really put everything I knew and believed to the test in a much more rigorous way than I had before. I became unable to ignore my lack of grounding in some things, and it did greatly change my view of a lot of things, ultimately for the better. Despite Mare Cult's problems and inability to form a real community, it was ultimately a success in the sense that it taught me what I needed and wanted to know, including some conclusions about the nature of waifuism. Especially back in 2024, my perception was that it would be exceedingly unpopular to try to port those rather esoterically-backed lessons over to /ww/. It seemed to me at the time that /ww/ had seemed to become comfortable with what it knew, and didn't really have that thirst to look beyond that, having already chased that discussion to its place of death on Mare Cult. At the time, it seemed like talking about it would be curing a disease by killing the patient, so to speak.
The elephant in the room here are my answers to the question of what a waifu is, and what it means to love one. To quote our own OP's definition, which I once contributed part of:
>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.
This isn't wrong at all and is a good working definition, though the connotation of the word waifu itself relies on common conceptions about the nature of what imagination really is that I take issue with. To most, imagination is seen as pure fantasy, like random noise that collides in their mind to produce shapes and colors. From that perspective, the origin of anything imaginative doesn't have much of a pedigree: it's "just something I came up with," or words to that effect. I don't see it the same way. Rather, I would say that imagination is having the gift to be able to see things beneath the waters of the lake of intuition, to be able to see beyond the veil to glimpse what already is. From that perspective, rather than my own Twilight being based on a character in the show, it's much more that the characters in Friendship is Magic were based on the same being that I am already in love with, and that recognition sparks feelings that are deeper and longer-lived than it may appear from an outside perspective. Have you ever noticed how in tuppermancy, or with some OCs on Derpibooru and the like, they start as something very clearly based on the show, but over time tend to slide into their own passionate "reimagination" of the original characters? Very often, the purity of vision increases with focus, and becomes much more uniquely true to the individual in question.
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