#but i have nothing of aj

[bixels]

Went to a big swap-meet yesterday with the express intent of finding and purchasing an odd and unusual Applejack thing (toy, figurine, whatever). Walked away empty handed. Shockingly no MLP things at all.

[mister-sol]

if I don’t draw these two for too long I literally burst into flames

[kreepja]

Why do people cannot treat deep and meaningful platonic relationships as they are and enjoy the duo's sincere and beautiful bond as best friends and not make them gay for each other??

Like i get it, really, sometimes it's just fun and games in the fandom and i love it but not when it's taken seriously and to the next level.(for example: 'jemily' from criminal minds and 'satosugu' from jujutsu kaisen. a HARD NO).

In conclusion, we want more pure platonic relationships without the internet making them gay for each other, PLEASE.

[its-stupidhours]

I love drafting fics <3

like to kiss his bald little head. reblog to kiss his bald little head

[spacedlexi]

the way the ericson group were at the outbreak just a bunch of troubled kids who made various mistakes or committed crimes and were judged by a system that punished and abandoned them instead of giving them the support and love they needed, are then nearly a decade later put into a situation where now they must judge a troubled child for the mistakes and crimes hes committed against them. and 5 to 3 vote them out 😭

[lifeonmvrs]

happy apollo justice hd trilogy release day to those who celebrate hehe‼️🎉

[Image Description: a digital drawing of apollo justice from ace attorney. he is visible from his knees up and is playing video games. he is sitting cross-legged with his body bent forward as he is concentrating and clearly struggling. some sweat drops are falling down his forehead and cheek. there’s some text on the top reading “happy apollo justice trilogy release day :3 [cat face emoticon]” and dialogue text reading “i’m fine!”. the background is a blueish light purple gradient. /end ID]

[quantomeno]

I always feel mildly bemused when I read people post about stuff like systemic sexism in fandoms, particularly things like about how people complain more about female characters but ignore male characters with similar faults, or the fandoms loving gay ships but not making as much fanworks for lesbian ones.

Part of this is just because I like female characters (despite being male, I tend to prefer things with female leads etc) and I'm not that involved in a lot of fandom arguments nor do I read a lot of shipfics, so I only hear about a lot of the sexism when people complain about it. Which is kind of funny to me in the fact it must exist, but I'm just conveniently shielded from it.

The other reason is some of my earliest fandoms I got involved in were female-majority casts, so most people do ship the women. Like, I think Equestria Daily once put out an apology after they posted a Braeburn m/m fic (admittedly, the outrage from the bronies back then in 2012 or whenever was probably out of homophobia, which isn't nice either, but the point still stands that they were no issues with w/w shipfics and to this day they are the vast, vast majority of shipping fics (mostly because once you've shipped Braeburn, Sorin' and Big Mac together there aren't that many other guys left to ship, but nonetheless)). Or like Barbie with its vastly superior chemistry between the joint female leads over the threadbare male love interest they've thrown in. Even when the male leads are good, it's popular to ship the girls.

I don't think I have anything substantial to say. I just don't understand the issues other men (or indeed women) have with female characters (and women and femininity in general) (I mean I do understand I just find it bizarre it when like a friend of mine once said he wasn't really interested in stories with female leads. I don't know, maybe read more books with better female protags? I have a bookshelf's worth if you want suggestions) (also like when people suggest there needs to be more talk about good female characters like, most of my favourites are already females and I will gladly talk about them till the cows come home). But also that's just me.

Also I kind of do like m/m ships a fraction more but that's like 90% because I'm bi and so, you know, I like seeing guys together because I kind of would like to get together with a guy if the opportunity arose. But I mean other than that they're just ships. Like sure there can be a different vibe or flavour to w/w or m/m or straight ships, but I mean if they're good characters why should my interest depend on their genders? I read things to experience the lives of others, I don't want to just see stories that match my experience. And sometimes I empathise most with the female characters so like, you need to approach characters with an open mind. I don't know.

OK I'm rambling now. I think I made my point. I'm not sure what it was anymore but I guess it's that women in fiction are cool and I don't know what everyone else's problem is.

[la-principessa-nuova]

i’m definitely going very deeply down rabbit holes this week

this morning i saw a math thing and spent a couple hours trying to solve a complex equation and relearning a bunch of stuff i forgot from college to do that

and then i had this idea of something i wanted to figure out about complex numbers and while looking that up had a thought about chemistry and started looking up properties of certain substances and then wrote up a little thing about that

then I went back to the complex number thing and after a couple more hours got back to the point of it and proved that in fact i had found a much harder way to do multiplication

and then i had therapy and afterwards i went to do an exercise for therapy and ended up having a thought about human vision and looked something up and a couple hours later had an 1,100 word write up with some citations, describing how to take advantage of the way human photoreceptors work to improve your night vision when you get out of bed at night (tl;dr use completely red light if you need to turn one on)

and then i came downstairs to have dinner but thinking about food made me think about my weight and so i started thinking about body fat distribution changes from HRT and came up with an interesting math problem based on that, so I was trying to work through that but i needed a whiteboard

so i went upstairs to the whiteboard and started working on that and after a couple hours i realized i’d missed an obvious thing that meant honestly all of the stuff that mattered to the problem was negligible compared to the effect of a separate variable i didn’t think to include so that was mostly a waste of time

and then i came downstairs to make dinner but i’m very tired from standing at the whiteboard so i’m just laying down for a bit first

[mbat]

every day i wonder what happened during the design process of equestria girls for them to all come out the way they did. i can see where the skirts thing came from cause they wanted them to be undeniably girly i guess or whatever but. every other weird decision is just confusing

like fluttershys whole outfit, the shortish skirt but especially the tank top. maybe its meant to indicate that shes outdoors a lot with animals, but it completely betrays her shyness and tendency to try and hide herself

they kinda messed up big mac and shining armor? mostly shining armor. his jaw could slice metal. why he look like that

also i only realized while looking at the characters that. okay i was just going to say 'lol cheerilees hair is stupid its like 1 foot taller than her head, why didnt they just give her normal bangs wtf' and i still mean that but then i realized... they swapped her mane and fur colors for her human counterpart ??? so now her usually darker coat and light hair became dark hair and light skin ??

which leads me to the point about the skin colors being weird. like. i dont like how they lightened them up, i dont like how aj and big mac have human skin colors (i have to assume maybe they thought for them that the colors looked bad, or possibly even close to caricature territory, especially with big mac), and the way they outright lightened up the colors of at least 2 normally darker ponies? like i said, cheerilee, but also

luna. even back when i first saw the movie and adored it, i DID NOT like the princesses designs. how did they fuck up some of the best characters in the show, especially the ones that are the prettiest (imo).

i would say that of the 3, cadence is the most okay design (i know we dont see her in the first movie just roll with me here). its clearly her, she looks like her and has her vibe (visually), all around not bad. not necessarily my favorite, theres still something slightly off? but it doesnt rub me the wrong way

celestia... i dont like her vibe. who is she. shes light pink and she has hair spikeys that are meant to look like a crown but just made it look like she didnt brush her hair properly. she has celestias hair but her face does not read like celestia to me. she looks like an imposter. where is my mother

and finally. the pinnacle of the issues with the designs. luna.

WHO IS SHE. THAT OUTFIT? NOT LUNA. THAT HAIR? YOU WOULDVE BEEN BETTER OFF JUST DOING A GRADIENT. OR PUTTING IN LITTLE STAR HAIR CLIPS. THAT FACE? THATS SOMEONES WINE MOM WHO SINGS EXTRA LOUD AT CHURCH. same critique about the hair spikeys as before. AND THE SKIN??? HELLO??? THE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT GOT TURNED INTO PRINCESS OF MIDDAY. WHY.

the design of the show vs the movies is, i guess now literally, night and day. pony luna is so inspired and pretty and meant to invoke such regality, its very clear what her theme is, and she very much sticks out amongst the others, both in shape and details!

but the human version feels generic, she could easily be a background character (and she basically was), she feels unfinished, the colors on their own arent the worst but moreso feel insulting when compared to the original (i like the addition of pink/pinkish purple to the palette, but not so much to luna as a character. it just isnt her imo), she doesnt even look like an authority figure aside from obviously looking older than the other characters, let alone being someone meant to be somewhat equivalent to royalty. also again she was a minor character here but its like... her pony version has such a stone strong personality, both when shes freshly back from the moon and later on when shes more grounded and princess-like. human luna is just... generic teacher person. did human luna even ever experience significant isolation and feeling completely unseen by everyone she cared about? doubt it.

and yeah, they significantly lightened her skin ?? why ?? theres literally no reason to do that? she wouldnt look like a caricature unless you somehow chose the wrong colors (how possibly would you), and its not exactly impossible to draw characters with darker skin, again her pony form literally has a dark coat !! but also plenty of people have redesigned her human form to have the right skin color and they look great!! and in general obviously theres plenty of characters with dark skin, like... what was the reason they did that. it just feels gross.

dont cross me when it comes to luna dude i love her so much

anyway yeah its been over 10 years since EG first aired and i loved it back then and i still love it but i think a lot more about character designs now. mlp g4 is known for having these really pleasant and well put together designs with lovely colors (for the most part), its so weird how that gets easily messed up, like in g5, but also still in g4 itself(in the spinoffs and the main show lol)? wish i had the motivation to redesign them all lol, i probably will someday. please go look at redesigns theyre very lovely

[normalcannibalism]

i feel weird and self conscious about my art again. sigh

the entire post ended up in thw tags ohb my god

[me-myself-and-eyes]

boy do i hope daphne isnt another theo situation

i love daphne already, and NEED her to continue to be good

[paeinovis]

ough I wish dual destinies and spirit of justice (esp the latter) didnt have some of the popping-est music of the aa series when the games themselves are . well.

[thedeadthree]

teehee <3

[gutsfics]

trying to figure out if it makes sense canonically for Harper's deadbeat biodad to be Frank Powell

[imtheiliad]

@ abc bury grey's anatomy and give us that 911 rookie crossover

Like these things can all coexist

[dosshie]

woah gay people!?

in order:

Nicholas, he/him, former vampire hunter and current vampire fucker (dude unironically uses a sword in 2023...)

Wolfgang, he/they, works as a personal secretary for his childhood friend, but acts more like a bodyguard (they aren't used to wearing formal clothes so that's why he looks so awkward, such a mipy...)

(he/him for both) both of them have no name, and they do not need names because they already have a mansion in my head where they live rent free. i still haven't fully decided on what they do yet (i've thought about them being detectives of some sort but i've haven't developed it more because i spent all that time thinking about their relationship dynamic lol) but they're work buddies