#starlight-and-skies

[maureen2musings]

itsmeekubra

[bullyapologist]

no i didnt forget about my ski racing au.

[theskiesthatshimmer]

sky-colored starlight ☆

[neons-library]

Familiar Skies - Official Announcement

(An MLP FIM Alternate Universe Fanfiction)

SUMMARY:

"Isn't it fascinating how even the smallest decisions can effect a ponies' life?

When one small pegasus doesn't win a race, the lives and destiny's of so many other ponies are effected.

One, singular act, and yet an entire world is seemingly turned upside down.

How many other paths have been changed? How many familiar faces have become new?"

The time of Nightmare Moon's return draws ever closer, and Celestia knows it's only a matter of time before she'll have to confront her sister again. After loosing touch with the elements, and the many years spent apart weighing on her, Celestia isn't entirely sure she can handle Nightmare Moon's return on her own. So, with the help of her most trusted student: Sunset Shimmer, and her adopted daughter: Cadence, Celestia is determined to bring up a new generation of magical scholars and warriors. Hoping to be her best bet against Nightmare Moon's return.

Many things are different in this world, and many lives have changed from one incident not happening the way it did in other worlds. Despite that set-back, ponies lives continue and flourish, and change in un-expected ways.

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The Prologue will be up later today!

[groupalpha]

Amalgamation's End

Warning! This comic has topics of death!

Comic under cut!

TA: It's... so pretty up here.

...

TA: I think it's time to do what they wanted.

[LIVE BROADCAST] - [ANNOUNCEMENT] COMMUNICATIONS MANIFEST TO ALL MEMBERS OF GROUP ALPHA

[######### ADDED TO LOCAL GROUP??&%]

################### ######### ############# #### ################ #############################

PRIME ADMINISTRATOR KEY?

...

PROCESSING

PRIME ADMINISTRATOR KEY OVERRULED

[SUNRISE SOLAR STARLIGHT LUNAR ADDED TO GROUP ALPHA]

[ERROR]

[FUNCTIONS NOT PROPER]

[ATTEMPTING TO RESTORE VIA COMMUNICATION TOWERS...]

[REPAIR SUCCESSFUL, BLOCKS REMOVED]

[DISPLAYING RECORDINGS TO LOCAL GROUP]

TA: ... I... guess that's it?

Sunrise Solar Starlight Lunar are now available for asks Amalgamation is no longer available for asks

[lembowe]

8 of my oc iterators finally have a proper ref !! my god i never want to touch a refsheet again after this this took FOUR MONTHS to finish

i have lore behind them all but i will spill later because i am tired (its only like 9 am as of writing this but shhhh) closeups below cut

[dustballdrawsartwork]

I finished putting up the toyhouse character pages, but I still gotta add the last few references and edit the text. Regardless, here's the last batch of dream images of my iterator ocs!

Enjoy!

[akirakirxaa]

[worldbuildingwanderlust]

How sad it is

A wish requires

Starlight tears

[the-cricket-chirps]

Gerhard Richter

Sternbild (Star Picture)

1969

[kidlit-queen-competition]

The bracket is done!

Now, this is literally impossible to read because it's so busy, so matchups are under the cut! Polls will be up tommorrow!

the train from Animal Crossing vs Casey Jr from Dumbo

the Red Zephyr from Friends At The Tavle vs the Mirage Express

the Beast from Girl Genius vs the Supertrain from Supertrain

Old Puffer Pete from Chuggington vs the Mighty Hooterville Cannonball

Rusty the Steam Engine from Starlight Express vs the Phantom Express from Cuphead

the Mystery Train from Adventure Time vs The Mede from Railsea

the Metro from Pikuniuk vs the Train from Unrailed

the Friendship Express from My Little Pony vs the Runaway Express from Soul Eater

The Celestial Spear from Drawtectives vs Emma from Jim Button

Lemon Demon's Trains from My Trains vs the Sea Train from Spirited away

the "I Like Trains" train from asdfmovie vs the eponymous Stardew Valley train

Ivor The Engine vs the Deep Sea Metro from splatoon 2

the Polar Express vs the Monorail from the Simpsons

the Old Black Train from Over the Garden Wall vs the Accordion Train from Jack and the Cuckoo-clock Heart

the Magnet Train from Pokemon vs the Limitless line from Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Snowpeircer from Snowpeircer vs the Infinity Train from Infinity Train

the Ratatosk Express from the Bifrost Incident vs Big One from the Galaxy Railways

the Mugen Train from Demon Slayer vs Blaine the Mono from the Dark Tower

Chargeman from Mega Man vs the fallout 3 train head npc

Lil Chew Chew from TF2 vs the train from Kirby

the Ghost Train from Monster High vs the Owl Express from A Hat in Time

the train from Inception vs the Ghost Train from Paranatural

The Little Engine that Could vs the Molentary Express

the Phantom Train from Final Fantasy vs Every Single Troublesome Truck from Thomas the Tank engine

the train from Spider-Man 2 vs The Excess Express from Paper Mario: the Thousand Year Door

the Spirit Train from Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks vs 401 from Mark of the Dragonfly

Thomas from Thomas the Tank Engine vs Steam Tank Obsidion from Octopath Traveller 2

The Starflight Express from Dragon Quest IX vs Your Locomotive from Sunless Skies

the snail train from precure vs the blind train from Malorie

Iron Girder from Discworld vs the Taffy Train from Toonkind DND

Senca from unprepared Casters vs Titipo from Titipo Titipo

The Dinosaur Train from Dinosaur Train vs the Train to Busan from Train to Busan

[poet-of-a-new-world2025]

Luminescent Sky

                  Heaven’s beauty is shown with a vivid diamond night sky. A sky for guessing, for wondering, for wishing.

Black as shadows on a sunny day, lit up with an uncountable number of flickering candles settled at different distances in time and space.

Heaven’s grace has transcended from above to show light even in the blackness of darkness. Knowing even the smallest illumination can fan a fire in a blaze set in the heart of the nation of souls.

[poligraf]

« Starlight Sower » by Hai Knafo

[thecodeveronica]

3, 8, 22, and 27 for the ask game :3

Hi, thanks for the numbers!!

3. 1-3 games you’ve played in the past 12 months that you really enjoyed Ooo I'll keep this to games I only played for the first time:

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth A wild ride to the end, but that's what I've enjoyed about Remake and Rebirth and the excitement of seeing the differences from the original FFVII, and seeing how the games toy with the concept of a "remake." I demand playable Rufus in part 3, I looooove him and the little adjustments they've made to his character.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (remake) I played the original (several times actually, years ago) but I think the remake does almost everything better. Just a fantastic remake all around. Gorgeous visuals, fantastic redone soundtrack with only a few stumbles, the same classic Paper Mario battle system and exploration that I love so much... No joke, I finished this two-ish weeks ago and I've been empty ever since, I miss it already. Koops is my ride-or-die partner, and I feel like the fanbase doesn't talk about TEC enough? I adore him and always have, I kinda love his feelings for Peach and how he wanted to protect her 😭 8. A series you haven’t played but are interested in trying The Red Dead series has always intrigued me, and I'm always so close to picking up RDR1 and RDR2 when they go on sale. Look like fun to play and I think I'd enjoy the plot in both, I'm just afraid of the time commitment to play them and can't bring myself to play 2 without 1 first lol.

22. A game ending that’s really stuck with you Can't say much about this because it really is a game that deserves to be seen as blind as possible for the full effect, but lets just say SOMA's ending is ingrained in my mind forever and... yeah. Wow. Highly recommend that game to any horror fans btw. Had no expectations for it going in and only played it since it was a PS+ monthly game a few years ago and was blown away.

27. A game you love the atmosphere of Gonna list more than one because I'm a cheater and I have Chronic Rambler Disease: Resident Evil: CODE: Veronica Aesthetically my favorite Resi game and favorite overall and I actually like the non-prerendered backgrounds a lot! I know they may not have aged as well as in some of the other games in an objective sense, but I LOOOOOOVE Dreamcast-era visuals and the game has a perfect mix of being colorful but also dreariness. The Ashford Residence is the big standout! A dimly lit, creepy old house with a half-finished large doll hanging from the ceiling, bats everywhere, all the antiques... *chef's kiss* delicious

Paper Mario The N64 one!! The only one that was more of a crayon and storybook-themed aesthetic over the more overt "paper" of later games. It's so comforting, it's literally like video game chicken noodle soup to me. Everything is so cute, even the enemies. Charming as charming can be.

And thanks again, hope this wasn't too long lol

[groupalpha]

i completely forgor to show this the whole set

[the-owl-tree]

Honestly, considering we know ponies like Troubleshoes where they see their cutiemark as a burden and can even lead to trouble for them (at least until the CMC helped him anyway), it really is a missed opportunity to not have more ponies like him in Our Town. Like yeah, Party Favor and Sugarbelle are nice and all, but what about say, a unicorn with a cutiemark in being a gardener coming to resent it because they were mocked for having an "earth pony" profession? An earth pony with a fashion related cutiemark who struggled because they couldn't make new designs as fast as their unicorn peers? Idk, it'd just be nice for her to use ponies actual insecurities against them- correct me if I'm wrong but we never learn the why of how the Our Town ponies joined, do we?

Maybe in the comics? i definitely know the show didn't touch on it. Which is a shame, might've made an interesting Starlight-townsfolk reconciliation episode if we got a glimpse of why they came.

I think the whole thing about "equality" was what the show tried to push as the key factor. but like. cutie marks don't automatically make you good at something. It's shown in the show that it requires work (and personal enjoyment in your mark) to really get the most of it. But the show makes it clear that this ideology is hypocritical and incorrect, and so is Starlight.

I definitely like the idea of it being compromised of ponies who are unhappy at their marks or confused by them. I think the tiny town was compromised of unhappy ponies who Starlight managed to isolate and preach to. Would be very interesting if we got some backstory on them, but I wonder if that might be too depressing or "dark" (for lack of a better word) for the generation. For now, hc's ahoy!