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phone calls are scawy :(

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let's go lesbians let's go 🧡🧡🤍💖❤️

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found my headcanon designs for the mane 6 from last year, thought u guys might wanna see them :)

notes on all of them:

Princess Twilight Helena Sparkle ~ (They/She/Star) bisexual, nonbinary

Dr. Fluttershy ~ (They/It) genderdoe, acespec sapphic, demiromantic

Pinkamena Diane Pie ~ (She/He/They/Sprinkles/Pinkie) pansexual, pangender, demisexual

Apple Jackson ~ (He/Him) transgender stallion, polyamorous, gay (mlm)

Rainbow Dash ~ (He/She) butch lesbian

Rarity Belle ~ (She/They) intersex, lesbian

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~. Day 26's prompt: spectrum .~

HAPPY ACE WEEK !! 🖤🤍💜 decided to celebrate by drawing some of my personally headcanoned ace and/or aro ponies :3

top to bottom, left to right: Flash Sentry - asexual, aromantic, cupioromantic (i'm projecting hard) Sky Stinger - fraysexual Pinkie Pie - demisexual (also hypersexual as a nod to my gf who kins her <33) Gabby - gray asexual Cookie Crumbles - aromantic Fluttershy - gray asexual, demiromantic Cheerilee - aroflux Moondancer - asexual, lithromantic

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more reposts from my deviantart

these are simply concept sketches a bunch of headcanon rambles incoming after this ↓↓↓

!!! TW MENTIONS OF: bullying, grooming, an abusive romantic relationship with a large age-gap, overbearing parenting, parental neglect !!!

~.About the CMC in Novaverse.~

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Sweetie Belle was bullied for having ugly markings and for being fat during her school years. At 16/17 she was picked up by a well known, wayyy older than her modelling agent she met through Rarity. The agent claiming that Sweetie's markings were "for sure a mark (haha) of a famous upcoming model and a great career!" Loving this validation of one of her biggest insecurities Sweetie enters an abusive boss/worker relationship, later turned a romantic relationship, with said agent. Becoming an actress/model/singer and a naive little puppet to be mistreated and used by her agent for most of her early adulthood.

She hits her breaking point and leaves - around the same time Apple Bloom returns to Sweet Apple Acres for the first time in years - making media waves with a publishing of her autobiography that details her life and the abuse she suffered. She surfs the waves of limelight for a few years before deciding to become a music teacher in the very place she grew up in, Ponyville. Now she lives a fairly quiet life, reunited with her besties.

My idea right now is that she's in a polyship with Scootaloo, Spur & Rainbow Harmony later in life. But that's up for change. I'm also not very happy with her mane in this drawing :T I wanted to reference Nightmare Rarity with Sweeties design, not sure how I feel about it.

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Apple Bloom was babied to hell and back by her family, mainly Applejack. Very much overbearing helicopter parent type childhood (Applejack worries too much). She developed an interesting set of issues from this. She feels simultaneously completely lost/directionless in life and inferior to everyone (specifically intelligence wise) AND also the pressure of a thousand ancestors on her shoulders, constantly whispering in her ear about how she needs to take control and be as good, if not better, than what everyone around her expects her to be. Sooooo.. she has to be the best of the best but also has no clue where to start and huge anxiety issues about starting things and about asking for help. Lovely \(^^')/

I'm also toying with giving her some paranoia problems, but I'm still on the fence about that.

In her early adulthood, after the CMC fell apart, she starts job hopping and traveling around. Trying everything she can get her hooves on. Not being perfect at things as fast as she wants to be and subsequently quitting. Never earning her cutie mark ("Crusaders of the Lost Mark" never happens in Novaverse). Always returning home every weekend. Until she doesn't. She starts distancing herself from her family bit by bit after realizing how toxic the environment is for her. Finally ending with her going no/low contact. Applejack is absolutely devastated by this. After a few years of learning to live and learn for herself and coming to terms with the fact that she isn't - and will never be - perfect, she returns to Sweet Apple Acres. her decision comes from something bad happening (not sure what yet, prolly Granny Smith's death but we shall see). Finding the entirety of Sweet Apple Acres barely surviving, Apple Bloom finally decides to reach out to her old friends for help to get Sweet Apple Acres back onto it's hooves. Finally earning her cutie mark in the process. This also kick-starts Applejacks self improvement arc.

I'm still not super pumped about the markings i've given her in this sketch, I feel like they're a bit too saturated in parts.

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And finally, Scootaloo, who I honestly have absolutely no idea what to do with-

Important note before I start rambling: Scootaloo is a transman in Novaverse and goes by he/him, so those are the pronouns I will be using in the paragraphs following.

Starting off, I absolutely despise how his parents are introduced and characterized in the show. How they managed to make his aunties the sweetest of the sweet but rush his parents out the door so horribly? I'll never know. But I sure as hell am mad about it and will rewrite them >:T So his aunties stay the exact same for Novaverse...however his parentsssss... well-

The current idea is that his mom is sort of like a more extroverted Daring Do type adventurer. Instead of being """the hero""" tho, she's just a botanist who is very excited about her work and sharing her research. She's definitely a mom who didn't want to be a mom and so has turned to ignoring her problems - Scootaloo - and diving head first into her work, dumping her problems on her sister.

Scootaloo's father I have less ideas for. I know for sure I want him to be Māori and also the stern, loving fatherfigure for most younger than him type (think Massimo Marcovaldo from Luca). But that's literally it? The two probably met while Scoot's mom was on one of her work trips but how he is with Scoots, if he's involved or not, if he even knows his son exists - no idea.

The reason I'm rambling off about his parents, is because with Scoots specifically, I imagine he wishes to be like what he imagines his parents to be like. In his head, he most likely imagines his mom as a rebel researcher. Researching things she's not supposed to and publishing findings she's told not to. Being super duper totally punk!! All of this being the complete opposite of who his mother actually is of course. In contrast, his daydream of his father is probably very close to what his father is actually like.

Scoots has a huge rebellious phase when the CMC separate. He's the youngest of the group and takes it the hardest. Rainbow Dash, his second mother, being too absorbed into making her newborn daughter a mini-her, to offer any form of support to Scoots, which also fucks with him a lot. Becoming a complete forest fire of a character for a while. He struggles with becoming attached too quickly to strangers and with keeping relationships - both romantic and platonic. Once the CMC reunite later on in life, he has the hardest time trusting them again and letting them back into his heart.

I definitely need to do more research for + clean up Scootaloo's design a lot. I am however very happy with the general direction of the current concept.

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-✮´- artober day 9 (shipped + costume) -✮´-

my fav aroace x grayaro fraysexual shippppp well i actually don't know how much of a ship they are cuz they're just besties living together but still :P they met when Flash was still a rookie royal guard in the Crystal Kingdom and they've been buddies ever since. Stinger is actually the reason Flash figured out he's aroace :)

as an aroace who craves companionship in my life, i really appreciate it when aroace charas have actual deep meaningful queer relationships with each other and aren't always shown as the "ew i hate people" stereotype (my fellow repulsed folk are valid asf ofc <3 love ya'll, i just have beef with the stereotype)

oh and if it's not clear Flash is a parasprite and Sky Stinger is a fruitbat

ponyville night background by Background Pony #DBD4 on derpibooru

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just a heads up, they're approx the same age in novaverse since the au doesn't obey the canon timeline 👍

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~. Day 3 prompts: old school + pleased/thankful .~

they're both trans and in love

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~. day 14's prompts: obscure + in love .~

rambles incoming !!

The two met when Lightning was sent to do community service at The Rockfarm after it was found out that the Washouts didn't have any of their safety documentation in order. Not to mention they didn't even have any qualified EMTs on sight when performing stunts. The work was tartarus, the color palette even worse. Celestia damnit.. why couldn't she have just pestered her ex nurse Redheart to at least show up at the latest stunt show… the discomfort of that would've been leagues better than the constant rootrock soup and the odd family she's currently with.

I mean really, c'mon, Lightnings Family is a tad weird sure, everyone's family is, but this is a whole 'nother level. Limestone with her completely irrational anger issues at everything. Maud with the blank stares and… pet… rock?? Cloudy and Igneous acting more like company owners to their family than parents. And Marble. Marble flanking Pie. She literally doesn't speak and never stands up for herself. How does a pony even survive in this world with that kind of an attitude?

But as Lightning continues her community service, the absolutely marbles family starts slowly growing on her. All of their quirks start making more and more sense as the days go by. Apparently they're all autistic? Well that explains a lot. And to be fair, Lightning never really minded any of their differences, she was more so just angry at her own fuckups and took her frustrations out on the family. For which she's extremely sorry. In fact, she's so sorry, she opts to stay an extra month after her community service hours are finished to help out with the upcoming north-east rock turning season. Well.. that's what she says, she actually just feels like she belongs somewhere for the first time in a long time.

And so the extra month turns into months, and the no conversations with Marble turn into occasional sunset watches and early morning tea blabbering sessions with Marble (Lightning is still doing most of the speaking, but still). They bond, albeit slowly, but they do and over time decide that "friendship" really isn't the label for them.

Anthro Lightning's pose is referenced off a funny Pinterest doodle.

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Husbands <33

Blue Moon and Briquette are an older married couple that live in Canterlot. Blue Moon, born and raised in Canterlot, is a big name in the city's activist circles - organizing workers strikes, pressuring local politicians to push for lgbtqia+ protection laws, advocating for rehabilitation resources to be more widely available, and an ongoing project to construct more housing in Canterlot (among other things). Safe to say, he's got a lot on his hooves. Between all this tiring work he enjoys snuggling up with his husband and a good cup of chamomile tea. I also have a headcanon that ponies specifically from Hope Hollow are more likely to have monochrome color palettes. In the "Rainbow Roadtrip" special we see a lot of ponies who have monochrome palettes, of course in reality it's simply to save budget and time while animating, but I found it interesting enough to make a little lorepiece out of :3 So Blue Moon here is an example of a pony who has distant Hope Hollow genes!

Briquette is the owner of one of Equestria's largest saw mills, which he inherited from his father after his death...much to B's surprise since daddy-dearest didn't approve much of his "deviant behavior". Once B does become the owner of the famous ForesTree, he finds the place in less than good shape, and while looking into options for major improvements, finds that the company is deep in the red. And so begins his multi-year road to bettering his father's old company, getting it back in the green, and unraveling the many family secrets and mysteries the place holds along the way.

notes on the images:

Blue Moon he/him ○ Gilbert Baker's gay flag ○ married to Briquette - monochrome colors come from his Hope Hollow genetics - watch- & locksmith - a gay rights activist in Canterlot - very passionate about tea

Briquette they/he ○ mlm gay flag ○ married to Blue Moon - often wears make up (when not working) - inherited his father's saw mill - owns way too many flannels

eye shadow is always slanted

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having trouble getting back into artober so have an older sketch of some gamer girlfriends 💜

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decided to start uploading oc refs+basic bios here too for archival purposes since my usual place to post them, refsheet.net, is barely staying afloat rn :/

Name: Scarlet Species: sharkpony Gender: cisgender mare (he/him) Physical appearance: Very tall, athletic (think pro wrestler Rhea Ripley) Orientation: butch lesbian Special talent: none Headcanon voice: Beidou (Allegra Clark) from Genshin Impact.

Name: Jake Species: pegasus*/changeling Gender: cisgender stallion (he/him) Physical appearance: Thin, average height Orientation: gay (mlm) Special talent: astrology*/none Headcanon voice: Jay Walker (Michael Adamthwaite) from Lego Ninjago. * represents info about his go-to disguise

Also jotted down some headcanon info about changelings:

A changeling's physical body depends on the environment in which they were hatched. Jake for an example is a river changeling. He has some fish-like bodybits, like his tail, and head frill. He also has pointier bits on his hooves/legs for better traction when walking on slick river rocks and also for digging in sand (the Queen lays her eggs in sandy/clay rich areas along river bottoms, and the shallow pits to house those eggs are dug by her subjects).

All changelings, except the Queen, are genderless. Because of that they don't follow common pony gender roles and if asked, they'd say their concept of gender is "Queen and subject". Subjects also being sub-categorized into workers, guards, and nurturers. All subjects can also reproduce asexually, similar to some earthworms.

Changelings were near extinction right before/during the Canterlot wedding episodes. It's why all the subjects look so deathly ill and why Queen Chrysalis resorted to such drastic measures to feed the changelings.

In my mlp hc universe! changelings were never thrown out of Canterlot during the wedding nor were they friendship-ified by Starlight later on. Instead Celestia and Cadence teamed up to subdue Queen Chrysalis during the wedding takeover and after a bunch of negotiating and legal back-and-forth, it was controversially agreed that Chrys and Celly would arrange a political marriage. The Queen getting enough love from Equestria to feed her and all of her subjects, and Celestia establishing peace with the changelings.

Overtime, when the changelings start recovering from love starvation, they start gradually taking on more colors and become more healthy looking overall. Turns out well loved changelings are absolutely gorgeous creatures and don't look like they wanna suck your soul straight out of your body. Changelings that were hatched when the Queen wasn't love starved anymore already hatch as these new era colorful changelings. They molt once a year. Changelings hatched when the Queen was love starved molt more often, taking on more and more elements of the new era changelings with every molt. Jake has molted once.

that should be all- might update later w/ more info :3

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