#pony ramblings

[chimchiri]

Scrunchy Nose Collection! ♥

[bitchvania]

One of tbe brilliant things about mlp:fim is that the main cast aren't wayward children or highschool students they're just a bunch of young adults. Like. Twilight is a postgrad forced by her supervisor to go find friends. Apple Jack has responsibility of gaurdianship of her little sister. They're all employed. They pay rent and taxes. Fluttershy has to deal with her deadbeat underachiever older brother who can't seem to move out by himself when she visits her parents. She also has anxiety she hasnt grown out of since high school. Rainbow Dash spends most days getting high and goofing off on her minimum wage job. Pinkie Pie has a culinary apprenticeship and lives with an older couple after she left her small mining town when nobody there was as into psychadelics as her. Rarity balances running her slowly growing etsy fashion bussiness with going on tinder dates with the worst men you've ever seen. They all vote. They have to pick up their own medical perscriptions. These are 26 year old girlies going through first quarter life crisises. So, yea, that fanart of Fluttershy smoking forever weed is highly accurate.

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[foldingfittedsheets]

We had the most egregiously evil little pony horse when I was growing up. I know everyone says that. Ponies are one of the animals that truly understand how to commit crimes but she was really deeply atrocious. One time she tried to murder me. Her name was Fancy.

I feel I should slightly explain here. See, my parents bought two acres with a house and a barn and pasturage and went “We’re farmers now!” They had absolutely no idea what they were doing. And at a certain point along that journey my mom got her hands on a horse. Technically she was half pony half horse so she was this weird middle size.

Fancy belonged to a friend of hers and he showed her how to saddle Fancy. And that was it. That was all we knew about this horse. So my mom brings her home and saddles her and we decide to go for a ride on this new creature in our lives. But Fancy, being the savvy bitch she was, was far too canny for our dumb asses.

Her maiden ride went to my older brother and ended rather abruptly when the saddle slid completely sideways and my brother toppled off her, miraculously unharmed but unwilling to ever try again. This made me like Fancy somewhat, because I hated my brother.

Those familiar with horse trickery would have caught her ruse but Fancy had deliberately held her breath to make the saddle seem tight enough. But in stride she let the breath out, the saddle loosened, and my brother came toppling down. She planned that fuckup.

I was a bit more game, being a dedicated horse girl. I wanted to succeed where my loathsome brother had failed. Keep in mind: none of us had ever ridden. We had no idea what we were doing, and in the only defense I’ll ever make of that hoofed demon it was probably not pleasant to have a human flopping on her back like a sack of potatoes. But I paraded around in a circle until she scraped my leg against a fence post. I lasted longer than my brother but had to admit riding an animal radiating malice at you is not comfortable.

We didn’t really ride Fancy much after that. She was a decorative aspect to the fields. Sometimes I’d sit on her bare back while she was eating. Every so often she’d buck me off for assuming familiarity with her.

But Fany's coup de grâce took several months. Most of the pasturage had electric fence running along it to keep the livestock from testing the fences or getting a taste for freedom. My parents were constantly moving fence posts and reallocating land to different purposes which is how one of the major gates ended up with electric fence running over top. During a move the wire got left up from the last border and now it was strung over what should have been an open passage.

I was taking a ride on Fancy, living in a fantasy that I had any idea what I was doing. My mom was out working in the yard, and as she passed through she left the gate open, forgetting the wire hazard. You know who didn't forget?

Fancy.

She beelined for the open gate and I realized a second too late what her plan was. I hauled back on the reins with all my strength but she powered through, charging at the wire. If I'd caught on sooner I could have tipped forward and probably cleared it.

It was roughly chest height. But she was too savvy, keeping a slow pace right up until the passage, and I didn't have time to react. The thought of getting electrocuted sent me down into a terrified backward limbo, desperately trying to flatten myself along her back.

Her assassination almost worked. But instead of beheading me the wire caught under my chin, pressing back into my neck like a garrote. The only good news was that the wire wasn't live, but I was still in terrible danger. I squealed and wiggled and managed to twist my neck enough that the wire scraped over my face instead of pressing deeper. Once we were through Fancy stopped and turned to regard me, disappointed that her murder had failed. My neck was bleeding but my head remained attached.

My mother was absolutely terrified and I was pretty shaken myself. We unsaddled Fancy for the last time, as full on attempts on my life were a bit more than I was willing to bear for the sake of pretending to be a fantasy hero on an epic journey. My neck still has a faint scar from her homicidal tendencies.

Fancy got to remain a decorative horse for many years after that, free of our attempts to ride her. Her last torment was when my mother decided to try to breed her to achieve an animal that was less interested in murder.

But Fancy, true to form, brutally attacked the stallion sent to service her, even when hopped up on horny hormones. There would be no foals from Fancy, and her saga ended when we sold her to another unlucky soul.

[karda]

making christmas cards and i got immediately distracted and made this

[arimabari]

me and the party pony I pulled by being autistic

[cami-cosmos]

I'm glad self-inserts and mary sues have been (for the most part) accepted by fandom. Or, at the very least, they aren't as hated on and attacked as they were in the past.

In the ye olde days™, 12-year-old me was absolutely terrified of making a "mary sue," to the point that I wouldn't post anything I made. Even worse, the characters I did make were dull and boring to achieve "realism." God forbid would I even THINK of making a character that was anywhere close to me as a person. Luckily, I was able to grow past this and started making art that made me happy, no matter what others might think. But what about the other 12 year olds who saw that their OCs were "bad" and got discouraged? There's so many people out there who stopped engaging in art simply because they made an OP character.

Creating characters is about expressing your creativity and feeling a connection to your art. It's going to be a different, unique experience for everyone. For one person, that might mean making a gritty, realistic OC. For another, it could be making a perfect version of themself to ship with a character they like. If making that "bad" mary sue is what makes someone happy, let them do it! Focus on what makes you happy and thats what matters. (live and let live basically).

Basically, if you want to make a character, DO IT!! Make that Undertale self-insert that dates Sans! Draw your neon pink alicorn princess pony! Feed your inner-child and create what makes you HAPPY!!!

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

sometimes a pony gets depressed!

[fizpup]

valentine, you're a horse ❤️

[chimchiri]

Watched the MLP movie. Insta-crushing on Tempest. Also, I don't know what this is but it is not straight.

[tulliok]

What would be Sunburst's role in the AU, if any at all?

So I actually designed Sunburst already and made up a backstory for him and Starlight! Here’s the first explorations I did of him. I did try drawing him with the cute wizard beard, but a mustache was just more period appropriate and I had to take some liberties. The inspiration board included Harvey from Stardew Valley, Milo Thatch from Atlantis, and Newt Scamander from Fantastic Beasts.

I rewatched “The Parent Map”, and was disappointed by the way that the show failed to explore how Starlight and Sunburst’s parental figures affected their trauma and future relationships. (In general I think Starlight and Sunburst are severely underutilized.) Instead of their families being well-meaning socialites like in the series, they’re members of the Italian-American mob. Starlight and Sunburst have a lot more baggage in the AU as a result.

For Starlight’s father, instead of him being just a silly dad that coddles her too much, I figured it would make more sense if he was far more controlling of her life. It would explain her obsessive need for control and why she has so much trouble handling friendships in the future. Rather than the cutie mark cult, I made her an innkeeper that operates an underground speakeasy. @bixels suggested making her a loan shark as well.

Sunburst is still magically and intellectually gifted, but I scrapped the magic school dropout thing. My idea for his backstory is that he was a golden child that couldn’t take the pressure of being in the mob, so he was disowned by his mother. Him having to leave without a choice makes more sense to me as to why the event was so traumatic to Starlight, as Sunburst was her only friend. In the AU he works as a linguist and magical historian.

I sorta just made these up as my own responses to what I don’t like about their arcs and backstories in the series, while also taking the era into account. Starlight’s motive for her villainous actions in the show is honestly too ridiculous for me and it needs more details, and Sunburst is given practically no backstory.

[inquisimail]

veilguard ask game

now that i've finished the game i'd like to share with you some questions that my friends and i asked each other during our respective playhtroughs, along with other things that i'm curious to know about other people's experience with the game. feel free to play this if you want (the questions themselves don't contain any major story spoilers)

most & least favorite: 1. ost 2. location 3. banter 4. voiceline delivery 5. part of the crossroads 6. npc (excluding companions) 7. armor 8. weapon 9. codex entry 10. environment detail 11. lighthouse decor 12. side quest 13. room in the lighthouse 14. fraction 15. enemy/boss to fight about rook: 16. what animal would your rook be? 17. very serious question, what type of pony would your rook be? what's their cutiemark? 18. is your rook more diplomatic, humorous, or harsh? a mix of all three? 19. who did you romance? would you want to romance more than one companion? 20. is rook best friends with any of the companions? if yes, who? 21. does your rook's in-game appearance perfectly match the one you have in your head? is the game version lacking any attributes that aren't possible to add in the character creator? gray hairs, piercings, etc? 22. would your rook be part of the book club? 23. would rook and inquisitor be on good terms? would they like or not be able to stand each other? secret third thing? 24. does your rook have any hobbies? 25. is rook religious? 26. it's your rook's turn to cook for the team. what will they make? 27. is there a song you associate with your rook / their romance with a companion? 28. can your rook actually swim or is the game accurate on that front? 29. can rook handle their gingerwort tea? general: 30. favorite / funniest / most cursed screenshot? 31. any bugs you've encountered? were they funny or annoying? 32. did you use transmog on your armor / weapons? 33. did you pick different companions throughout the game or stuck with the same ones? was it for tactical reasons or because you (or your rook) liked them most? 34. did you use the default casual outfit or did you pick a different appearance for hanging around the lighthouse? 35. is your powerful tingle properly contained?

[carolina-reaper]

Me when I'm just chilling and scrolling Tumblr and someone puts the most devastating, heart-breaking, gut-wrenching headcanon on my dash at 7am

[nikonautic]

mane six fusions, part 6 - pinkie pie

(final and possibly favorite part, im definetely keeping three of those :Dc)

[cosmicriff]

babe wake up new canon appledash just dropped

[lionacuty]

PONY HMSW (+ Darrell as a cockatrice :3)

WOOHOO!!! ITS DONE!!! :3 what's done? oh it's me being done designing mlp designs for Heart, Mind, Soul and Whole (+ Darrel) with the help of @gracebeth3604 who helped me design them!!! (especially on Mind, they are a godsend) and it came up with the pony names too!!! so here they are + a couple of doodles I did n the coat colour test thing I did while coming up with hmsw coat designs + some thoughts!! :3 (under the cut tho since the post is big) it's for a currently unamed mlp au that has cccc and cotl in it!!!

lil test idea that isn't canon the au but sprung about ideas!! :3

also a get along party that didn't turned out well

so here comes the thoughts!! :3

also a silly comment from when Grace was comming up with pony names for Mind and one of those names were Mechanical Hooves which I respond like any normal human being :3