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It’s only fair to ask for a ship that any of the mods would like to see. You deserve it guys, your blog is incredible!
Thank you!! Here’s a Applebloom/Tender Taps/Lily Longsocks poly foal! Foxglove is an apprentice potion maker with a mischievous streak. I’m going to keep them for my own next gen c: (~ Mod Ace ♥️)

thank you so much for the opportunity, this was a lot of fun to do!! here's a couple of rarity x princess cadence kiddos for you! fraternal twins marquise & princess cut are both jewelers, though their specialties slightly differ— marquise does engagement rings while princess does the actual wedding bands. i will also be keeping these two! <3 (~ mod honey 🍯)
i chose to do muffindash !! im honestly surprised they havent been requested yet. i would be keeping dribble drop if they werent so similar to my muffins redesign. theyre a free spirit, hopping from job to job trying to find their purpose. — mod bog 🌿
#mlp#mlp request blog#mlp fim#my little pony#mlp next gen#mlp art#next gen#next gen oc#apple bloom#mlp apple bloom#tender taps#lily longsocks#mlp tender taps#mlp lily longsocks#rarity#mlp rarity#princess cadance#princess mi amore cadenza#mlp cadance#rainbow dash#muffins#mlp muffins#mod ace#mod honey#mod bog
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“A’hm not that little any more! Okay, I’m still pretty little, just not as little as three apples tall. I can balance three whole apples on my nose when I’m a pony though, I’ve been practicing!”
By the way, Honey is a finalist on a poll on Twitter and if you want to see her win, which you oughta, go vote for her (#10) here!!
#my little pony#mlp#equestria girls#eqg#honeycrisp blossom#honeycrisp tales#Someone gave me money and said ‘DRAW MORE HONEY’ and I think more people should do that… 👀#Sweet Apple Acres
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Which 2 of your ship kids would be mortal enemies?
Hard to choose since not all of them are done... But
Appleshy (her name is Honeycider I just haven't drawn her yet) and Chiffon would NOT get along on either sides. Honeycider is a laidback stoner and tries to do good by everyone if they're kind, and chiffon is very self centered and sassy. Their personalities CLASH hard.
Another paring that wouldn't get along is Cosmic Crisp and ZapApple, but zapple wouldn't hate crisp as much as crisp hates him! Zapple would tease Crisp who's probably cooking up a murder plot.
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Because I love them 💖 and I’ve been listening to too many country songs 🤣💖
@sweet-cake-double-love
#mlp#digital art#mlp oc#fantasy#ask blog#my little pony friendship is magic#mlp ask blog#ask#my little pony#my little pony oc#apple flight#charlotte honey berry#anthro#pony anthro#mlp anthro#lineart#wip
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Happy St. Patrick Day!
Top 14 Green Characters
14. Jackie Knones 13. Apple Honey 12. Pico 11. Kuki/Numbah 3 10. Skiploom 9. Mouse "Fitz" Fitzgerald 8. Smoliv 7. Duo 6. Spritgatito 5. Bellibolt 4. Chara 3. Shaggy 2. Tatsumaki 1. Kaz
#shaggy rogers#chara#tatsumaki#sprigatito#jackie knones#bellibolt#smoliv#kuki sanban#numbah 3#skiploom#apple honey (mlp)#pico (pico school)#kaz (chaotic)#duo (duolingo)#mouse fitzgerald#codename kids next door#chaotic cartoon#my little pony friendship is magic#one punch man#fosters home for imaginary friends#pokemon#scooby doo#12 oz mouse#undertale#friday night funkin#pico school#duolingo#St. Patrick's Day#CrossOver#my art
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do you have any hcs about what hughs childhood was like
I imagine Hugh grew up not in a rural area but like. On a farm near a village. If that makes sense. Like Sweet Apple Acres in MLP
Hugh said he discovered his peculiarity when he was five, and that his parents sent him to a workhouse to make rope when he was old enough by presumably-1830s/40s standards to start working, and given the general trend of all nonpeculiar parents of peculiar children in this series being absolute assholes all the time I can't imagine he had a great relationship with his
Knowing he discovered his peculiarity so young though and also knowing that bees don't typically do a whole lot in the winter (some hibernate, some migrate, honeybees specifically huddle together all winter to keep themselves warm and eat all the honey they stored) gives me the image of teeny tiny Hugh running distraught to his mother because the bees that live in his belly aren't talking to him anymore/flew away and she's just like. Are you saying this because you're five years old and playing pretend or is there something wrong with you. Either way why are you around the beehive in the shed I told you not to play near it
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So I had the thought of Desmond becoming a MLP: fim changeling queen. Why a changeling? You may ask, because they are very cool.
If you don't know changelings are these horse-like bugs that can shape shift into pretty much anything even inanimate objects (or many that one is an illusion). They use this ability to collect love from other creatures since that's their main source of energy, seems like they need to eat normal stuff but in smaller quantities.
But for the sake of this Au let's say they can feed on the other emotions as well but the closer to love the emotion (example: happiness) the more energy they get. With love giving out the most energy.
So Desmond wakes up at Solomon's temple and sees he is some kind horse-bug and cause he is a queen changeling he is really big. Like draft horse big, even bigger than the Clydesdale. But still thin and spindly cause you know, bug. He wouldn't be like Chrysalis starved hive but also he wouldn't be rainbow colored like Thorax's. I see Desmond being desert colored for camouflage (dark red, brown, pale, black, sand) while having some white and red mixed in for the colours of the brotherhood.
Desmond curses his luck and wanders around trying to get used to his new body until Altaïr and company come for the apple. He discovers that he is completely armored and his carapace is really resistant and though, he is really strong capable of shatter stone with a kick, he is very flexible and can climb on surfaces like Spiderman, he can lift things with telekinesis through his horn (solves the issue of no hands), has this big bug mandibles that can come from his snout, his fleshy tail is very flexible and has a pair of stingers with a paralyzing venom, he has wings under his carapace like a beetle open it and fly, and he is pretty much an omnivore but absolutely loves flower nectar, honey, bee wax, and other insects.
One night while sneaking in a city he complains about not being at least a normal horse to not catch so much attention and then fiuussh he transforms into one of the smaller horses he saw in the stables he passed, smaller size and everything. He practices his new shape shifting ability and even figures out how to change color and become invisible. For now he can only shape shift into other quadrupeds, horses, dogs and even something as small as a cat. And that's how he discovers his new emotion based diet. Now that he can spend more time in the cities he doesn't feel as hungry and when some kids tried to pet him and play with him while disguised as a dog he felt an energy boost from feeding off the affection they were giving him.
So to kick off plot once the general date of the expedition to the temple comes Desmond comes back to the temple and waits. He turns invisible and when the fight for the apple comes he drops the invisibility and everyone sees his him in his big insect glory, they think Desmond is some Demon/guardian of the apple.
He manages to run off the templars, save Malik and Kadar and with his telekinesis gives Altaïr the apple.
From here I must clarify that Desmond can speak human languages perfectly he just chooses not to at the moment. And mainly uses this bug language of clicking, chittering, buzzing, crooning and hissing.
From here Desmond either goes back to being invisible and sneaks to Masyaf or just follows outright along with them outside the cave and transforms into a normal horse in front of them to travel back to Masyaf. With the second it allows for more interactions, Al Muslim gets to see Desmond at the beginning and they think the guardian of the apple is following them around and chose their faction as worthy of the treasure.
Al Muslim tries to order him around but Desmond just gives him the stink eye and follows Altaïr around. Using his shape shifting ability to help sneak around and get information, eventually learning how to transform into non-quadrupeds, humans and even inanimate objects. Every once in a while Desmond speaks like a human in public but everyone thinks he is just a very clever parrot except Altaïr who spends the more time with Desmond whose Desmond speaks more and more to everyday.
After Al Mualim is defeated Desmond makes Masyaf the place to put his hive without knowing, at this point everyone knows Desmond can speak and it's fully sapient.
When things calm down Desmond gets the surprise of his life when he lays his first clutch of eggs, he is not a Changeling Queen for nothing. And when the eggs hatch among the grubs is Clay (once Altaïr dies he will be reborn like this too).
The other changelings (changeling workers/soldiers) are also sapient and can do everything Desmond can but Clay becomes a sub-queen of sorts. Clay is a changeling whose function is to be the main Queen (Desmond) right hand, therefore Sub-Queen (princess). While the workers are regular horse sized Clay as Sub-Queen is somewhere in the middle is bigger than the workers but smaller than Desmond. Also Clay doesn't lay eggs (to Desmond's complains).
So now the brotherhood is composed of humans and changelings, who can infiltrate pretty much everywhere, their venom is widely used by the assassins and they make the templars incredibly paranoid of everything even their own pot plants.
If anyone in the brotherhood dares to even look at any of Desmond's hundred children wrong both Altaïr and Desmond will make their lives miserable.
(Now I see Altaïr with a handful of grubs who crawl all over him)
Masyaf becomes the main changeling hive and Clay goes on to make a second one in the nearest assassin headquarters (then he begins to lay eggs).
When Altaïr dies he is reborn as a grub that becomes another Sub-Queen. A lot of brotherhoods around now have a changeling hive with a Sub-Queen and all respond to Desmond (the main Queen).
Changelings feed on surrounding emotions and when they go infiltrate but they mostly feed on the affection of each other's and their fellow brotherhood members.
So when it's Ezio's turn he is just surrounded

By this three giant bug-horses and their million children/niblings.
There was a man who visits their home often. He would always be accompanied by a strange bunch. People in hoods and animals of various sizes…
All of them would call him ‘mother’.
Ezio swears the people with hoods and the animals would change at times, even when they had already entered their home.
It was strange.
Sometimes they would visit with one brown dog but leave with no dogs at all but the number of people would rise.
Other times, he would visit with butterflies on his hair and leave with no butterflies at all but cats walking behind him.
He never stays long, talking to Ezio’s father the longest then taking the time to talk to everyone else for a bit.
Ezio liked it when he visited.
He always gave them new toys they had never seen before. Sometimes, he would bring books that sounded interesting and would be read and borrowed between the siblings.
As Ezio grew older, the more he understood who the man he only knew as ‘Desmond’ was.
He was royalty.
The mother queen.
Ezio still didn’t know what that was supposed to mean and why he was called 'mother queen' instead of 'father king'. All he knew was that Desmond was the ruling matriarch of a kingdom they do not know about.
And House Auditore was part of that kingdom.
Ezio always thought they were nobles of Firenze.
But no.
They were spies.
He still remembered the conversation he had unintentionally eavesdropped on while Desmond was visiting them.
“I’ve warned you about being too close to Lorenzo de’ Medici, Giovanni.”
“I am loyal to the Brotherhood.”
“I do not doubt your loyalty. Just as I know that Clay is loyal to me, I also know Clay will do what he believes is right. The same can be said to you.”
“I am honored to be compared to the princess-”
“Clay would tell you that it’s meant to be an insult. But it’s not. I’m just telling you this to make you understand that just because you are loyal to the Brotherhood, it does not mean you are not compromised.”
“I can assure you-”
“If I order you to return to Monteriggioni with your family and to not return to Monteriggioni even if Lorenzo de’ Medici begged you to, would you do it?”
“Ezio Auditore.”
Ezio stepped back from the door and turned to face the unfamiliar voice who called out to him.
He looked a lot like Desmond but with golden eyes.
“I didn’t mean to-”
“It’s fine.” The golden-eyed man said, “You will hear what Desmond has ordered your father to do later anyway. Walk with me.”
“Uuuhh…” Ezio didn’t really have any reason to say no so he began to follow the strange man.
As they exited the hallway and made their way to the main room, a cat meowed and nuzzled the man’s legs before following after him, glancing at Ezio curiously only once.
By the time they reached the inner courtyard, five cats were following the man.
“Uuhhh…”
“Altaïr.”
It took a moment before Ezio realized that the man had introduced himself. He was unsure if he could just call ‘Altaïr’ or if he was a noble of higher standing than them so he just asked, “These cats…”
“My children.” Altaïr answered.
Oh.
He was one of those people.
“Sef.” Altaïr called out and a white cat with black fur on his legs and paws meowed as he sat in front of Altaïr, “Stay with Desmond and tell him that I’ll be training Ezio Auditore until he’s done with Giovanni Auditore.”
Ezio opened his mouth to speak but the cat’s meow was loud enough to stop him. Ezio watched the cat quietly make his way back inside before he turned to face Altaïr as he asked, “Training?”
A hooded man that Ezio swore was not there before handed Altaïr two blunt swords used for training and Altaïr threw the other sword to Ezio who caught it easily.
“Uh- merda!” Ezio shouted as Altaïr suddenly charged him, easily disarming him with enough force to stagger him off his feet.
“Get up faster. You’d be dead if I had followed up on my first attack. Again.” Altaïr ordered as he took a few steps back.
Ezio growled and stood. As soon as he grabbed the sword, Altaïr charged once more. Ezio managed to keep hold of his sword but fell on his ass when Altaïr smacked his cheek with the back of his hand.
“You’re too focused on my sword. If I had a hidden weapon on my left hand, you’d be dead. Again.”
Ezio growled once more.
This bastardo was asking for it.
.
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Training only ended when a hooded man who looked too much like Desmond and Altaïr that Ezio had to take a doubletake, giving Altaïr an opening to hit him on the side with the pommel of his sword, announced that lunch was ready and Desmond would like Altaïr to eat with him and the rest of the Auditore.
As Ezio wheezed as he held his poor bruised side, Altaïr handed the sword to the hooded man who could have been mistaken as Altaïr and Desmond’s son as he said, “Very well. Check the perimeter before scheduling everyone’s meal time, Sef.”
“Darim is already on it, father.”
Wait.
Sef?
Did Altaïr named a cat after his son???
#desmond as a mlp changeling queen#i like the idea that desmond does not exactly have his own 'hive'#he just flits from hive to hive#he usually spends his time in the hive that has altaïr as the sub-queen#and that's where he usually stays#so altaïr sometimes comes with him whenever he visits other places#monteriggioni's hive has clay#assassin's creed#desmond miles#ezio auditore#altaïr ibn la'ahad#fic idea: assassin's creed#teecup writes/has a plot#ask and answer
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hey can we have a apple bloom alter from mlp? preferably a little ^^
Names: Apple or AppleBloom / Honeycrisp / Daisy / Junebug / Dottie Pronouns: She/her Neos: Apple/bloom/sunny/honey/petal/candy Gender: Feminine Orientation: N/A (little)
Age: 6 Birthday: July 22nd Species: Pony Roles: Little, Artist, Uplifter
Personality: Curious. Kind. Energetic. Brave. Sensitive to others. Imaginative. Likes: Crafts, Drawing, Exploring, Helping others, Playing pretend, Sweet things, Apples Dislikes: Being bored, Conflict, Plain or dry foods, Waiting, The dark, Loud noises, Cold weather
Faceclaim:

#build a headmate#headmate pack#build an alter#endogenic safe#endo safe#pro endo#pro endogenic#alter pack#willogenic#bah blog#traumaendo#endo friendly
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**✿❀ Intro Post! ❀✿**
Hi!! Welcome to Honey's playground! This is a safe place for people who do pet regression,agere, petplay,bdsm, and all of that! But I will say my age regression is only sfw, but I don't mind or judge others on what they do! All I ask is that you respect others here. And because this is a +18 and agere blog mix, I want to warn other littles! So if you don't feel comfortable seeing things that are +18 please do not come here! I want this to be a place that doesn't make you uncomfortable to be here.
🌸if you want to get to know me more message me and ask or if you want to talk! DM is always open🌸
(All +18 stuff will have a warning at the top so that if you don't want to see them you can keep scrolling)
DNI IF HOMOPHOBIC, TRANSPHOBIC, RACIST, SEXIST,UNDER 18,ANTI-AGERE, ETC.
**✿❀About Me! ❀✿**
My hobbies:
reading!! I love to read, and I can often be found in my cozy nest of blankets and stuffies on my bed, reading or curled up on the ground with some blankets in a corner of a room just enjoying a book.
Drawing is another hobbie of mine! I draw all the time when I am big or If I am little and I love trying new and fun types of art and love to be as creative as possible! I also draw when I am feeling sad or depressed as it helps me put things down in a drawing if I can't find the right words or I am to upset to speak and also helps me vent too. I also Journal.
Watching cartoons and anime is also something I do often too. My favorite cartoons to watch when little are wild kratts,mlp,bluey,pokemon,Danny Phantom,winx,carebears, the cuphead show,httyd, mighty magiswords and a bunch of others but those are my favorite!
As for anime I love to watch one piece,naruto,demon slayer,bleach,heaven's official blessing,bnha,black butler,blue exorcist,fairy tail,soul eater,assassination classroom,kuroko no basket and a bunch more but then I would be putting a lot of anime!
**✿❀About my petplay and age regression❀✿**
My age regression:
For my age regression I do regress from my past trauma that I experienced when I was younger and couldn't really have the best childhood. And I do sometimes regress non-voluntary but that Is when I am overwhelmed or verrrrry stressed.
My little ages are 1-6 and but I am usually on the younger side. So I usually enjoy watching cartoons, art and crafts!,playing with stuffies and toys,fun games and playing on my switch.
My favorite games on my switch are animal crossing,slime rancher,minecraft and sky: children of light! I have other ones I really like too and if curious you can ask.
Things that make me feel small! : drinking from sippy cups and bottles and using my paci! Cuddling my stuffies and using my agere dishes and utensils.
Favorite food and drink: hot chocolate,apple juice and angel milk are my favorite drinks and Mac & cheese with chicken nuggets or Mashed potatoes with corn and hot dogs are my favorite meals! Also love snacks! :3
I am always happy to be friends with other littles but I am kinda shy but I would love to talk of anyone wanted 😊
If you aren’t a fan of age regression as a whole just block me, no need to be rude about anything! I’m not hurting anyone and neither are you if you just block me and if you are mean then I will block you.
And finally my petplay!!! :
I'll make it simple because this is already really long 😆
I love petplay!! Anything and everything about it, and tbh I would be willing to do anything and everything with/about petplay. To put it, I do everything with petplay and love to try new things! And I love being a puppy too! (If you want to know more you can just ask me)
One thing I will be doing for fun a lot is making stimboards! so you will most likely be seeing a lot of them, and i hope you enjoy them too :3
♡Thank You So Much For Taking The Time To Read This and sorry it was so long! But now i hope you enjoy your stay at Honey's playground!!♡
#ab/dl#agere community#agere introduction#agere#age regression#agere blog#puppy sub#petpl@y#petpl4y#agere little#little space#sfw littlespace
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Hello there, i am hunter and i am new here. Well, i am a student also an artist. Here some of about me ヾ(^-^)ノ
Here are some OC i made from many fandom:
MLP:
BATIM:
TTTE: Mikado, Boni and Bobo, Sun, Jaladara, Mak Itam.
Countryhuman:
Creepypasta:
Sonic:
Among Us: Azure, Bourbon, Mango, Grape, Olivine, Rose, Seafoam.
Happy Tree Friend:
Stumble Guy:
Welcome Home:
Cookie Run: Lemon Tart Cookie, Red Currant Cookie, Juniper Berry Cookie, Canistel Cookie, Sugar Apple Cookie, Sea Salt Cookie, Sarsaparilla Cookie, Gaharu Tea Cookie, Lavender Honey Cookie, Olong Tea Cookie, The Commander Gang (Bourbon Vanilla Cookie, Rum Maple Cookie, Salted Caramel Cookie, and Blue Wine Cookie).
And here some of my account with some of my OC i have made:
@mysticblogs0942 : For my main story, The Mystical Trains.
@twistedandgore : For my gore and twisted account.
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1. Pink Sour Berry (got from @interstellar-quartz)
2. Coloratura (mlp)
3. Franken Shock
4. Mouscedes King (Monster High)
5. Book Horse
6. Dazzle (Hazbin hotel)
7. Ruby Honey
8. Apple Strudel (mlp)
9. Layla
10. Booster Gold
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Luster Dawn felt kind of bad about blowing up at her dads that night. It was true that she DID need to set some boundaries, she wasn’t a little filly after all. But even she had to admit that yelling at them was a little much. At least she’d get to apologize and talk to them about it when they got back from their business trip.
For now, though, her grandparents had come over to spend time with her for the weekend. She mostly only saw her Nana, Gramma, and Grampa on holidays and special occasions only, but “just because” seemed to be the occasion for now. Not that she minded too much.
Her Nana Stellar Flare leaned over her shoulder as she studied.
“I heard you’ve been learning some new spells in school! Do you mind telling me about them?”
“We heard from the grapevine that you’re studying under Queen Twilight! That’s a really big honor!”
Gramma Honey Bee chimed in from across the room.
“Put in a good word for us, will you?”
Honey nudged her husband, Ironwing, playfully as he said this.
“You’re just looking to get pardoned!”
This was the same overbearing behavior that Luster had gotten angry at her dads for, so she was a little peeved that her grandparents were doing it too. But she didn’t have to deal with them very often so for now the least she could do was entertain them.
“I’m not studying under her yet, I still have a couple years to go and more exams to prepare for. But hopefully I will. Right now I’m just learning basic transformation spells, like turning apples into oranges.”
But her grandparents still acted like she was already studying under royalty.
“That’s wonderful dear! You were always such a smart cookie!”
Stellar pinched her cheek.
Luster tried to play along.
“Well thanks, I’m going to try to perfect the apples-to-oranges spell so I can show my dads when they get home.”
There was a sudden shift in the room as she said this, the faces of all three of her grandparents dimming as if their smiles were masks falling off.
Stellar put on another smile which seemed a lot more forced.
“I’m sure they’ll love it...!”
Honey suddenly broke out into sobbing.
“Oh, I can’t take this anymore! Your parents aren’t coming back, Luster! They’re dead!”
“Honey, you weren’t supposed to tell her that!”
Stellar’s own eyes filled with tears as she pulled Luster into a desperate embrace.
“I’m so sorry, baby.”
Luster’s eyes were still dry. She was shocked. Was she hearing this right? Were they really...?
“W-what? How? When?”
Ironwing cleared his throat, delivering an explanation through his own tears.
“We found out last night. There...there was an accident. An avalanche. It took out the whole crew, including...”
He stopped, unable to go on.
Stellar shot a tearful glare at Honey and Iron.
“You two should be ashamed of yourselves! She wasn’t ready! WE weren’t ready!”
Luster barely listened to this exchange, she barely felt their attempts to comfort her. Instead those two horrible words kept ringing in her ears.
They’re dead.
They’re dead.
They’re dead.
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Previous: Braveface Next: Snowballing
Background from the MLP Wiki
#KindsArt#auraverse#child management#luster dawn#stellar flare#honey bee#ironwing#story piece#next generation#my little pony#mlp fim#mlp g4
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Apple Jack (Mane 6 + Spike 4/7)
🍎 🍂 🍎 🍂 🍎 🍂 🍎 🍂 🍎
#stimboard#stim#mlp#mlp stimboard#apple jack#apple jack Stimboard#apple stim#baking stim#yellow stim#orange stim#brown stim#grass stim#nature stim#leather stim#honey stim#pie stim#gummy-stimboards
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🍃Apple Jack Board,, 2/6 in Mane 6 series🍎
(i take no credit for any gifs/images used)
#buns stimmies#buns bloggies#stim#stimboard#stimmies#red#orange#yellow#apple jack#mlp#slime#honey#crunch#requests open
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"First snowfall"
❄🍰❤🍎❄
@mysteriathealicorn
#mlp oc#mlp ask blog#mlp oc ask blog#mlp ask oc#ask blog#charlotte honey berry#mlp oc pony#mlp#mlp oc blog#mlp art#Apple Flight#honey chisp
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Fictober 2020 12: “Watch me”
“Hey dad, DAD!” Honey Crisp trotteded excitedly behind his proud papa's legs. The little lavender colt with the strawberry blonde mane seemed to have limitless energy as he picked up speed and started racing around his giant of a father.
Big Mac, being a pony of few words just smiled at his son and waited patiently for the question to come out of his eager mouth. The giant of a horse had actually gotten even larger and more sturdy of build as he continued to work on the farm for years.
“I told Auntie AJ that you were so strong, you could buck a whole tree with one leg, but she told me no. You were plenty strong, but you never could get all the apples with one leg.”
Letting out a snort, the big stallion walked over to the nearest tree, “Watch me.” Raising one heavy rear hoof from the dirt, he lashed back with a kick that shook the ground under the little colt enough to make him stumble around. Apples came tumbling down into the bushel baskets that circled the base of the tree until every last one fell, except for one.
Mac stared up at the apple on that low-hanging branch and gave out a hearty laugh, reaching up to pluck it from the branch and toss it to his young son.
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A teenage Honey Crisp trotted up to the orchard, a song in his heart until he saw his father out among the trees again, bucking apples as always. Big Mac was a little older now, going gray along the edges of his mane but he still looked like he was made of steel. “Dad! Hey dad, stop that! Ya know the doc told ya to take it easy for a while! Yer heart can't take the strain!”
The huge stallion gave a grunt of annoyance. Both he and AJ were getting on in years, and Apple Bloom had moved off to Manehattan with Sweetie and Scoots. Honey was a big help on the farm, but he couldn't do it all by himself. He just walked over to the next tree and gave it a hard buck with both legs, every apple raining down except one as the big stallion paused to catch his breath, sweat pouring down his brow.
Face twisting in a mix of anger and worry, HC stomped a hoof in front of his father. “I swear't you're even more stubborn than Auntie AJ. If ya keep this up, you're gonna be UNDER the trees instead of buckin' 'em, then what's the family gonna do? Ya can't just keep goin' like this.”
His great barrel chest heaving like some kind of over stressed steam engine, Mac wiped the sweat from his brow as he frowned at his son. “Watch me.”
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Now living on the family farm with colts of his own, HC was shaken out of sleep by his wife, a look of worry on her face. “Hmm? Wha... what is it, Peachy?” The big stallion shook off his drowsiness quickly at the sight of her concern. She placed a yellow hoof on his mouth, “Shhh... listen...” His ears twitched as he could hear a soft thunk and the sound of falling apples, then a few moments later he heard it again. He hopped out of bed, set the heavy yoke his father had left him over his neck, settling it in front of his broad barrel and put on his hat. “You stay here and keep an eye on the foals. I'll be right back. I promise.”
Planting a light kiss on her forehead and picking up a lantern, he tromped down the stairs and out into the orchard.
Just a few moments later, he saw just what he was afraid of. The lantern's light fell on a huge skeletal horse, bones held together by tree roots as it moved from tree to tree at a shuffling pace. It would then stop, lift a back hoof, then slam it into the tree, knocking every apple down but one, filling the bushels that were left out for the next days work. The big stallion wanted to be surprised, but he had known how stubborn his papa was. He wanted to tell him off but he knew that wouldn't do any good. Should he call a doctor, a priest, Princess Twilight?
He followed his skeletal father around for a few more trees until finally, a bit of old Granny Smith's common sense finally sparked in his brain. “Ya know, Auntie AJ always said you'd never be able to rest like her...” The skeletal horse paused, turning towards his son. Those empty sockets seemed to bore into his soul as it leaned forwards before slowly opening its mouth, a gravelly voice saying. “watch.... meeee...” A chill running down his spine, HC watched the remains of his papa slowly turn and start shuffling back towards the Apple Family burial plot at the back of the orchard.
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