Reminds me of final destination

Just imagine what their faces when they see twilight sparkle dead in the water

She can hold her breath longer than me? O__O

@Hebbocake  
Well, consider how people happily laugh and have fun exterminating the entire galaxy or doing other evil things, and the fact that I feel for any fictional lives puts me above that average (if not caring for fictional humans as easily as fictional ponies disturbs you).
 
I think it’s because it doesn’t actually effect humans, but fiction is as real as ponies get so fictional them is kind of the “actual” them if that makes sense.
 
To varying degrees. If it’s just one picture, meh. But the whole context of a history and lives and empires kind of makes the ponies more care-for-able. Like if you read “This is Joe, Joe died” it’s a lot less emotional than a fully fledged story.
 
That, and there’s enough pictures of terrible things happening to the mane 6 and all that you kinda learn to let it roll off of you. Mostly.
 
But I think you might be saying that to something else. Or just general cringiness. Once you start seeing cringe, though, there’s very little that will stop it.

@Hebbocake  
:D

My god this discussion.

@SuperSupermario24  
At least I care IRL, though. I’m able to kinda sense the person inside the body, so to speak, instead of getting caught up on the body. It’s like I go one step beyond physical.
 
But in fiction, apparently I’ve already taken that step to get in the setting.

@Cirrus Light  
It’s not quite to that extent for me, but I’m definitely sort of the same way. I usually care more about stuff like ponies and animals than actual human people.
 
It’s mostly just when it comes to sexual stuff that I straight-up don’t care about humans whatsoever, though.

@SuperSupermario24  
I have a hard time caring about humans in fiction. If I meet someone IRL, it’s good and I like them and all, but when I’m playing, say, Stellaris, the only time I can really like the little population icons, or feel really sad when a scientist or admiral dies, is if they’re ponies.
 
Also if I’m playing ponies I tend to care a lot more about my empire.
 
They’re just so lovable!
 

 
Oh, or that time I imagined the president of the International Space Initiative was my great-great-great grandson. Then I cared a lot about him :P
 

 
But anyways, it kind of extends to art and books. But I think I’m starting to learn to care more?

@SeraphimDawn  
If it mostly involves humans or generally anything that resembles humans more than animals I’m probably not interested.

@SuperSupermario24  
The Japanese RPG Maker indie horror game, Mermaid Swamp, is centered around that fetish.

@Background Pony #5BA9  
Maybe she needs proper concentration in order to do it? What if she started panicking immediately after she realized she was stuck and couldn’t pull the teleportation off?
 
_{Also it’s a fetish image, if you’ve seen as many aquaphilia images as I have you’d know that common sense and logic rarely play a role in them.}

You can teleport you stupid horse…

@Cirrus Light  
One thing that I meant to portray in my last comment but I guess ended up getting lost in revision was that a large part of why I’m confused is that my zoophilia is exclusive, as in I’m not attracted to humans whatsoever (in fact, I’m more often than not actively turned off by human features).
 
I suppose a good sample of the stuff I’m into is my e621 faves (warning: very NSFW), in case you’re curious.

@SuperSupermario24  
Association; you’ve associated that - tails, I guess - with attraction, so now when the neurons for tails fire, it fires the neurons for attraction.
 
Or some aspect of tails.
 
Ehhh, I don’t have a more in-depth answer here, though. But there’s probably some similar network of associations as what I mentioned earlier for asphyxiation. Probably.
 
~I’m not really a psychologist or neurologist, though, I just read about these things…

@Cirrus Light  
The brain is indeed weird.
 
I really can’t pinpoint any particular reasons why I’m into drowning, especially since I’m definitely not into snuff in general (example: one time I saw an animation of someone being drowned by a giant Digimon, which I liked, but then the person got straight-up crushed, and I immediately wished I could unsee it); it’s just asphyxiation (drowning in particular, but other forms sometimes work too) that does it for me. Maybe it has something to do with the sensation of fear, or the way you’re suddenly without something that you’ve depended on and taken for granted all your life… there’s definitely more to it than that, but I really can’t pin anything down.
 
While we’re talking about weird things your brain does, I want to also mention how zoophilia makes absolutely no sense to me. It’d make more sense if I was just into one particular type or even class of animals, but my brain is basically indiscriminate: dogs, horses, birds, dolphins, reptiles; it feels like I’m into practically every type of vertebrate animal that has a tail. Why is my brain turned on by such a wide class of body types that have almost nothing to do with each other, anatomy-wise?

@Cirrus Light  
The feeling of desperation…

@SeraphimDawn  
@SuperSupermario24  
From what I gather, adrenaline rush, intense feelings, and hypoxia induces a “high”. Also some submission aspect from BDSM / the “relax, it’s all over now” thing.
 
Interestingly enough, people like to feel more than anything. Sad plays like Romeo and Juliet, scary movies like Alien, those elicit bad feelings, but people still like them because they’re strong feelings. And there’s very few feelings stronger than needing air.
 
That’s a lot of different reasons. All of the above come into play at various levels, I think.
 
…I ask a lot of questions and I end up learning a lot of things :p
 
The brain is weird. It forms associations, not necessarily in a logical way. So maybe you could apply all that reasoning to, say, burning, but those people aren’t into burning because you picture much more horrifying things so there’s repulsion to it.
 
But other people don’t have the “I’m horrified by that” association, and… Yeah. They’re then into that.
 
Fwiw, at least you can resuscitate someone who’s asphyxiated, and they’re only slightly miscolored, not horrifically, well, other things.

@SuperSupermario24  
It’s similar to one who doesn’t fully understand tickling asking one who does about its appeal. As far as I’ve heard, fetishes are seemingly a brain thing. X3

@SeraphimDawn  
That’s a question I’ve been trying to figure out, with little success, for the past several years.

@SuperSupermario24  
What is so graceful about people getting asphyxiated?

@SeraphimDawn  
I can confirm firsthand that it is definitely a thing.

@SeraphimDawn  
If you have to ask if something is a thing, it probably is.
 
If it exists, it is someone’s fetish.

This artist’s gallery is full of drowning pics….
 
Is this a thing?

There are probably countless studies detailing which land animals can and cannot swim from the past century or so, maybe earlier, considering how freakishly far ahead of their times the ancients were. ^3^