Reeka has a unending appetite but is shown to have a decent grasp on magic despite the sisters' collective bumbling.
Fed up with her daughters' lazy incompetence, Hydia tasks her daughters with collecting the ingredients for The Smooze in The Movie and joins forces with a warrior bee race in The End of Flutter Valley. Hydia laments that Dream Valley used to be a gloomy haven for evil before the ponies came along. All three have a strong dislike of sweets and traditionally "nice" things like sunny days. The mother is named Hydia and her daughters are Reeka and Draggle. The Witches from the Volcano of Gloom are one of the few recurring enemies in the franchise, first appearing in My Little Pony: The Movie and later returning for the movie length My Little Pony 'n Friends story arc, The End of Flutter Valley. Since Hydia, Reeka and Draggle live in the volcano, the place is trashed and messy seeing as they like things to be dirty and disorganized. The witches house is dangerously located at the top of the volcano. Get trolling with your own subversive posters and break the cycle, once and for all.The Witches from the Volcano of Gloom in My Little Pony: The Movie It serves as home to Hydia and her daughters Reeka and Draggle, as well as the point of origin for the Smooze. Originally built to replace babies with bacon, Rather is rather good.ģ) Channel your inner Bianca del Rio.
Hit refresh and whenever a friend gushes over a poster, up will pop R2D2, Po or that mud-wrestling bit out of the ‘Whenever, Wherever” video. with picture of robots, pandas, Shakira - anything you like.
If the flood of motivational quotes and posters is actively wearing you down, but you don’t want to mute, block or unfriend the friend in question, I recommend the following three-step plan:ġ) Cleanse your palate by googling a topic of your choice and ‘demotivational’ for some top visual snark.Ģ) Install the plugin Rather on your browser and replace a kill list of “inspirational” “beautiful”, “so true” etc. The basic feeling of being talked down to. Instead of, y’know, less social stigma and better accessibility options.ĥ. Using people with disabilities to illustrate a quote about trying hard by a non-disabled person as if being disabled is something that can be overcome with faith, trust and pixie dust. The queasy discomfort of disability porn. Seeing 25 Likes on a post like this only serves to remind you that you’re the only person in the world for whom some bus passenger’s tinnily blaring headphones aren’t just Nature’s way of telling us to dance more.ģ. I mean, say you’ve missed your train, your kid’s thrown up on you and someone just shoved you into a railing in their commuting rush. How, then, in Niflheim, does this hunk of stale cheese help? And yet you feel like the emperor is standing there before the lot of you, shaking his stark naked behind while everyone comments on the trim of his cloak. A vague sense of despair that other people find comfort in platitudes. Nothing guaranteed to make you feel more broken and alienated than a message telling you that this injured dog making friends with a wingless duckling has it together than you so pull yourself together.Ģ. But if you’re really low, or having a rough time for whatever reason, they’re the social media equivalent of rubbing ginger in your eyes. On the face of it, all good messages to receive. Similarly, motivational posters are cloaked orders enforcing a norm of smiley happy joy joy: get on with it be positive stop worrying believe in yourself stop crying because this person climbed a mountain etc. Honest, it took until Inside Out for a kids’ movie to right this wrong. When one of the baby ponies was Smoozed, she was greeted with horror and treated like damaged goods until restored to the default Pony state of delirious sunniness. The Smooze made anyone it touched gloomy and grumpy - a normal pre-teen, in other words. The main enemy was a purple flood called The Smooze, cooked up by cackling witches sick of the ponies’ happy smiling faces. But the MLP movie had some seriously unhealthy messages for children regarding happiness. When I was little I loved My Little Pony (bear with me). Why I and others feel wearied by them, and why low moods are not soothed but exacerbated by their messages.Īfter all, it’s just a lovely picture and a kindly-meant sentiment. In 2015, a study linked such posts to low intelligence scores, in addition to discreet unfriendings. I’m not convinced by the correlation between IQ and sharing pictures of sunsets and silhouetted climbers captioned “See people not for who they are, but who they can become.” But I am interested in why, certainly for me, such motivational posters do not just fail to motivate but actively dispirit and sadden me. They’re usually lovely people who genuinely wish others well, but they sure post a lot of inspirational stuff. We all know people who post motivational quotes. Lost, not profound - the tyranny of the motivational quote