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I don't know how to reblog posts from communities so ill js paste the link here 😭

https://www.tumblr.com/communities/my-little-pony/post/777914436386242561/old-sketches

Cause i love how rd's wings are drawn here.

And the biological differences between unis, pegas and earth ponies. The more agricultural horse base for earth.

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love when people contemplate fantastical biology. Also the way u draw wings is adorable

Also some thoughts about human mlp designs

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the (temporary) finale!!! Woohoo. They look so goood i love analysing them theyre soooo cute

All of the unfused ponies so far. I think I'm going to take a break from these for a while.

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Dreams 26 March 2025

A prince of a people and culture that does not really exist, is awaiting an important coming-of-age ceremony he will go through. He is in a lounge with his best friend (another prince), and 2 other friends, princesses. During the ritual he will have to choose a partner. They are talking about this. The prince leans in and kisses the other prince, his bsf. The bsf retreats in a sort of disgust or shock, and leaves the room.

On one hand, I feel for the prince. You share your deepest feelings with someone who is very dear to you and have known for nearly all of your life, and they do not reciprocate. He feels utter heartbreak.

On the other hand, I feel for the bsf. You have someone dear to you, someone you see as a brother, and find out they do not feel the same way. They feel a completely different thing. You cannot reciprocate. He feels another kind of heartbreak, named betrayal.

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I am on a ship. We are turning and advancing. There are other ships in the bay, in our vicinity. Of different kingdoms. We are not fighting or at explicit war, but all know there is a power struggle between the leaders, there is tension. We dock and leave the ship. Part of my crew, the more soldiers than sailors, leave with me towards a secret entrance in the back of another kingdom. The kingdom is protected by a magical layer, however, so I announce that only the crew members with magical ability can pass through. There is only one member who cannot do magic, we know. At first, they cannot pass through, but when the rest is through, they pass aswell. (This is my dream logic not being consistent: i got annoyed, reminded my dream companions that this person cannot pass through.) We continue up stairs that lead us to a food court of this kingdom. We hope it is not clear we do not belong here. We ask someone there, "is food still serving?" They answer positively, but with a slight frown. We are not suspect, but she does not recognize us. We arrive at a place where a row of people waiting for their turn leads to a magician behind a curtain, doing idk what. We line up, but people cut the line. We get in first, though. We have now magically disguised ourselves visually or our voice, because the magician is more powerful and would know something is up. Now, the people i am with are no longer my crew. They are a pony (mlp) and i am Twilight Sparkle. The magician, when we walk in, is Queen Chrysalis. She uses magic to do something to my hair/mane?? It's longer, and covers my face and body entirely.

A brief moment of me drawing the last scene of my prev dream. Twilight Sparkle, covered entirely by her mane, Chrysalis in the bg.

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this is amazing. the natural elements in it, from realistically convincing fashion that matches each character to natural elements incorporated beautifully. The colors are yummy and the COMPOSITION. is. scrumptious!!

The sheer energy radiating from these panels is strong enough to run my school laptop.

short glimpses of a deeper story are so intriguing in art, too.

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the suffering never ends

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found notes of 2 old dreams from the same night.

there is a house that is frequented by many. Because there is a hatch in the cellar that opens to the world. Whereas the house is in a regular earth type world, through the cellar hatch there is a world reminiscent of the hallelujah Mountains from avatar. It is a vast sky landscape full of floating islands that are connected: when u go thru the hatch, u are on one of the highest islands. U can go down from there. There's houses and settlements. I can fly. I see other people flying.

I am flying. I feel my entire body (regular human adult size) but know I am in reality muvh smaller, a fairy. I fly across european looking streets. I fly over a child's hand, from my pov they are tiny, but i know that to them i look much smaller, a fairy. I fly past a window where I see a child have their first laugh. (It is said that a fairy is born for every child's first laugh). I am grateful for the birth of my new sister.

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3 Dreams of 23 March 2025

2 classmates flirtingly ask what I am doing after class. One of them is making a series with her brother. The brother leaves down stairs, but comes back. They start playing the series on the big screen. Season 3. It has many references to famous Flemish songs. Meanwhile, there is an elf in the crowd. She is being posessed by an evil spirit, which only she can see. He compels her to go 2 the bathroom where the evil sect has a secret lair. She does. In the bathroom, it first seems as though the evil spirit is trying to rizz her up, but then she uses a key of the sect to open a tile in the wall. But they hear rummaging in the stall where the secret lair is: they hurry up. She uses the same key to get out of the bathroom, leaving right as the sect member leaves the stall. The elf has hurriedly arrived to the crowd again while the sect member leaves the bathroom. The sect member knows some1 was lurking near the lair just now, but not who. She tries to guess who it was, looking around the room. She guesses the elf. Only I, the spectator, know she guessed correctly.

It started out as a cruel game where you killed eachother for the prize. but everyone's parents were in a waiting room. 2 people who were bullies got killed around me. i went to the waiting room and told patents what happened. Some of them killed eachother.

I am a superhero fleeing because everyone wants to capture me. i fly across a house with an open window. I perch on the window. Inside i see a playback of the past. Me and my classmates at school. Then people I once heroed around with come up to me. I don't flee immediately, but they act shady. Some1 puts a flashy cape around me and tells me we should get back to hero work. The pressure of suspicion finally gets to me and I start 2 fly away slowly. The person tries to grab onto me to make me stay. I keep flying away more quickly. They grab my cape. I take it off. They grab my long cardigan. I take it off. They grab something else of me, I convince my dream creatures to let me go by saying "hey, i'm the main character here. Let me win." it worked and i got away. i flew up past a church, the bell room inside. Then i get to the edge of the world. It is a corner, like that of a room, and i see the sky is actually a roof with LED lamps on it. I cannot leave further, but to not get captured, I start flying in a circle around the entire world/room: faster and faster. as i woke up i got the sensation i would fly in that same circle forever.

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Do you think “Moon Sailor” was a bit, on the nose?

it was intended to be! i made the pilot while keeping in mind that the magical girl genre is actually somewhat niche

i wanted to make sure people like my parents or my girlfriend's law school peers or people who don't watch anime at all could easily follow and understand what's going on. if i asked my parents to name a magical girl anime, they'd be like "what is that" but if i asked them what sailor moon was, they'd be like "oh yeah i've seen those characters before!" sailor moon undoubtedly iconic and people IMMEDIATELY know what it is upon hearing it. "moon sailor" is VERY OBVIOUSLY a parody of that so it's easy to get in that one second of time i have before moving on.

the tricky thing about doing a pilot is the setup and the trickier thing about doing a SUBVERSIVE pilot is that you have to set up what you're subverting on top of everything else. that's why zira's dialogue and language is also a bit expository and on the nose during the "gasp" part. there are people watching who don't know the magical girl genre and its tropes! like how is someone supposed to know that aika anticlimactically poofing into her magical form was a joke if they didn't even know that a magical girl transformation was SUPPOSED to happen? i thought i spelled out hoshi's whole thing pretty well or didn't really need to go that into it but i saw a lot of people confused about what they were and why they were there at all (until zira tells us that they're a magical mascot).

back to "moon sailor," it's a silly one off joke meant to quickly signal to the audience that zira likes manga/anime and the magical girl genre specifically as well as circumvent copyright. i also personally just like on the nose bits hahaha. like on big city greens whenever we parody a brand we usually just put a "B" in front of it. one of my favorite being "blego blocks"

this turned into unsolicited writing advice and definitely more than what you asked for but i hope its helpful to anyone out there looking to make their own shows!! clarity, spelling stuff out and sometimes handholding is important especially in a pilot. even though it can feel stilted sometimes, it's better than completely losing your audience or leaving them with questions. but now that the pilot's done it's job, any following episodes i might make will be unburdened by too much expository language haha

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something i didn't mention in my reblog of the viral post is how there's play with other design elements.

like if a character has hair with certain attributes, u divided it into the 2 extremities. E.g., Apple Bloom's hair is a bit curly and it lays. So here it is divided into more curly, and into laying flat. Also Sweetie Belle: hair that curls 2 ways, divided into either way. And Cozy Glow: thick curly ringlets, divided into curly and thin ringlets.

The same with accessories. Cozy Glow has a bow in her hair. This is divided into the extremes again, a rlly stereotypical poofy bow, and a regular headband.

And more on cutie marks: here again are somw cutie marks that seem to have more obvious ways to be divided (E.g. CMC cutie marks divided into personal and group, Babs Seed scissors and apple) and then there's the wayy harder to find elements and divide (E.g. Cozy Glow, Diamond Tiara). I think that if this became a common challenge/art trend, these types of cutie marks would vary extremely, as it is more interpretive.

Unfuses your fillies

I'm not really as happy with these, I think I'm running out of steam. I think I'll just do the princesses next then take a break for a while.

I regret making one of the unfused ponies a earth pony when the original one is a pegasus or unicorn, it doesn't really make sense. Wish I would have just made a pegasus split into two pegasuses or a unicorn split into two unicorns. But I've done it this way for all the others ones so I guess I'm not going to change it now.

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apart from looking AMAZING, this is such a cool and creative exercise!! By separating elements of a character design, you automatically have to pay attention at the details and think about which dualities are in the design.

If you look at Rarity's design, the 2 you might make of her are less obvious, as she has just purple hair. but look closer, there is a difference in her inside and outside hair.

Also the way of dividing the cutie marks up is so cool?? The way u divide them in multiple ways: some cutie marks have way different parts/components, that u just separate to have multiple. (E.g. Twilight, Starlight, Rainbow) Sunset's cutie mark is also divided in this way, but since the 2 suns r originally meshed together, it seems less obvious. I'm just obsessed with how u worked it out. Then there's the ones that have 3 of the same shape (Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack), that here are divided into 1 and 2. Makes sense. U kinda only have to decide which design gets 1 and which 2. The difference in separation styles in cutie marks is also close to the difference of how abstract the cutie mark originally is.

I also love how Twilight is 3 ponies. 1 for earth, 1 for pegasus, 1 for unicorn. And that also makes 1 per each color in her hair. Neat.

And the way eye components are divided too.. muah

Unfuses Your Ponies

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My 4 dreams of 21 March 2025

i am with my family in a chinatown. we had finished visiting something, were almost on our way back home. we pass a see-through elevator where a japanese mafia leader and a chinese mafia leader are being blocked by their bodyguards to prevent fighting. me n my dad have to run an errand before going home: my dad needed something, and i wanted to buy cute trinkets. we pass a sushi shop. we also pass a store that looks cute from the outside. i feel there mught be trinkets inside, so i near it. i realize it's a tech shop. we keep walking.

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i am a group of magical girls. color coded, obviously. we are taking selfies before a mission. we are a group of about 6 or 8 girls. The group is divided into duos. Not for missions or anything, it's romantic couples.

I am with my family visiting a place in south Korea. it is a museum but also attraction park, completely underground. We go from a winding hall that is the rock museum (full of rocks behind glass on the walls with descriptions) to a crossroads. there are stairs that go up and down. downstairs is the bathroom. upstairs is the exit. we go up. after a few steps we get to a point where u take a ticket and then get picked up by a conveyor belt of seats: every once in a while ur ticket gets stamped so u get a shape in the end. when i enter, smt goes wrong. I do not have a ticket. So at the exit the ticket guy tells me I have to go back down and do it again. He points me the way down. It is a scary mechanical slide. It looks rlly steep and dangerous. I hesitate to go in. I do see that right before the bend ouy of sight, it gets less steep, so I decide to go in. Cue wacky slide montage. The end.

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Why making the bed matters

A while ago, I used to not make my bed. I would leave my blanket on a pile, however it was when I woke up. I thought "what is the point of making it if I'll sleep in it this evening anyways?", "It'll get messy again", "I don't care what anyone might think about my room".

Then my mom told me to make the bed. I did it for her, but soon found myself doing it for me. I found that making the bed in the morning helps to separate day and night. It is a signal to the mind that sleeping is over and you may begin your day without any lingering. Other routines may help, too. In the night, a neat bed might make you more prepared to lie down. Instead of positioning yourself in a pile of fabric you call blankets, there is already space for you. You know your bed awaits you ready. Other than that, it just makes your living space look and feel more organized. Even better, it makes you feel more organized. Your mind put together. Cleaning and organizing does that in general. It's like a physical manifestation of your mind becoming tidy. Less overthinking, more cleaning. So make your bed. And open your curtains.

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Dreams 15 March 2025

In this dream I cant remember where it was in the night chronologically, but my dad was letting unknown guests into the room. I can't see the other side, but telling from their reactions, I know it's a second hand trampoline park.

Me and someone else are walking on a path. The landscape is full of wild alien nature. We wall off the path. Suddenly we have to kill a creature? I see further. There are more spots where I can tell someone will attack us if we go on it. It is a video game. On the path we were on landscape lvl 0, when we fell we stumbled into lvl 1, but we would soon be on much harder levels.

I am on a mountain w ppl. We are staying there temporarily. Theres a housey. I sense a bear approaching. I see it. We r all alert. As it nears us, I fly high to avoid it, but i get tired from flying so I perch on a flag pole. The bear sees it, targets me and begins to shake it. I fly over to perch on a tree. The bear begins to climb it. I fly away from it. End dream.

I am with my family traveling back from a trip by car. The landscape changes a lot. From jungle landscape, to pines, to acacias and cacti... we take a stop at an athletics club. We are in my mother's country. Its very full of ppl and noise. Theyre preparing for a competition day. My family wants to do stuff inside & ask me if i want to, too. I walk away, overwhelmed from the noise & commotion, but send a picture in the family groupchat of the "goodbye, till next time" sign at the exit of the building. It implies i want 2 leave. They understood and r glad i let them know. On our way out, i see ppl sorting trash between greens and meats. Because i had a panic attack in my dream, i woke up breating heavily and crying.

there is a group of ppl im traveling with. We leave our mall-looking hotel and go on a plane. Theyre all inside the plane, but as it takes off i cling onto the plane outside. After a while of hanging I go inside. (I think i teleported but maybe i js opened the airplane door) The ppl i was traveling with were not surprised when I clung onto the plane, nor when I appeared inside.

I am in an office or animal shelter looking building. Theres a few guys. Im a guy too. I go with another guy to have sex in a room. I am now a guy from a series I am watching that is straight but questioning and experimenting, so as I am that character now, who hasnt had sex with a guy before, I forget guys only have a butthole and a penis.

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Dreams 13 March 2025

It is a television show. A small girl (who looks smaller than the rest of her class) is bullied by 1 boy. In class the teacher explains that everyone can do [a particular historical practice], even bullies (directed at the bully as she turned to him). The bully is annoyed he got called out as bully. Later he attacks 2 other girls on a picnic table in outside class. The table snaps, 1 girl ends up on the floor. It seems her leg got broken, but under the table debris where they laid, I see a broken wheelchair. Was her leg already like that? Is she paralysed? Then her friend and bully start running away, they leave the beguinage where they have school, running towards the street. The bully is attatched to debris, the girl that was under the debris is forced along. She also starts running to not be dragged on the floor. She has ambulatory movement.. But she quickly wears down running. She falls to the floor and then gets dragged along across the street.

The scene changes. It is no longer a show and I am no longer a spectator, i am me. I am with a friend and her classmates and my brother's friend. We are in a forest. I meet my friend's 2 classmates. 1 of them is a girl i know, another is a guy, he is charming but a bit off putting? We walk past a ruin/remains of and ancient egyptian thing. It is a slope. It goes down from the forest to just above the riverbed, and is more than 20m wide and 3m tall. It has ridges. There are many geese everywhere. I hear many goose sounds. In the slope and on the forest floor are white geese, looking up i see black/white/brown geese on the tree branches. There is goose honking all around. Me, my brother's friend and my friend's guy friend go down the slope. My brother's friend explains the slopes were used as desks, to put paper on the slope and write. We try to leave up the slopes, but fail. So we have to resort to the remedy: special berries that allow u to go up(?) In the middle of the dock beside the slope and above the river is the berry tree. in the middle i see my friend's male classmate that i met. He has curly long hair and is charming but slightly off putting. It is suddenly a day ago i last saw him(?) & i do not recognise who he is immediately. I go "Oh, hi" (recognising him, but not who he is)"... oh wait.. do i know u??" He says hi back, and then reminds me we met. Im a bit embarrassed. I pick a berry. They are like raspberries, but larger, have less sacks/seed pouches, and are harder. We had to pick well as many berries were not ripe, or just dirty and insect ridden. One of them had an insect egg sack.

I woke up briefly.

Me and my mother walk in a neighborhood. In a nice soft grassy garden is a pretty house covered in paintings of unicorns. I go closer to take pictures. (In a later dream I briefly try to draw this house)

I entered an anime shop. I am looking around. I come across the most gorgeous figure of a lady and a wolf titled "persephone and hades"

I move the moon magically. I ascend to outer space. I see the moon. I see another moon!? I see infinite moons. It gives me fear. I spin and keep looking around, to more and more moons. I then see an empty patch, with faraway stars that calm me down.

I'm in a game show? We go up stairs and slopes to get to the game room. There is a vr game where we race (?) And a game to catch something. A ball is thrown. The ball bounces. Me and sm1 else get it, our wristbands record our movement. I was a bit earlier and caught the ball with both hands. I win. I tell the other person who got near the ball sorry a bunch of times. The games are over, we leave the room. I tell the host, satan, goodbye.

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Dream 16 March 2025

I am a child. The group of children I am with leave the building we were in. We run through a field of long plants towards an elevated train station by the mountain. Our world is corrupt. My group is supernatural children. We are going somewhere. We hide on the train to go. I have a 3rd eye. I see normally thru my 2 lower eyes. When I close them and open my 3rd eye, I see the vision of my soul/ghost. It is not as close to me as a soul, but important enough so I am connected to it, control it, and get harmed if it does so, too. As I enter the train with the other children, my soul/ghost is in an important room of a corrupt executive of the evil world. I fear he will sense I am there. I imagine what could happen: he would eat the energy I have sent there. When he has eaten it I would bleed from my 3rd eye, a part of me is lost.

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dreams i once had

I had a dream a while back where i visited a mermaid museum/library that hung on the side wall of a city river. They had a part with museum like stuff, like pictures with explanations. And a part with bookshelves and magazines and dvds, with couches in the middle. 2 mermaid girls arrived as i looked at info or books.

Another dream i remembered was about an aquarium zoo thingy. Where u walk inbetween the aquarium. Where the walls r aquarium, u know. This one had a very rounded design. It was also quite low. One part was walk-in. U swam. I dont remember more

I do remember one where i was also among fish. I was swimming. I cant remember if i was fish or smt else.