Almost Missed Today Catching Up On College Work. Have Sky Writer, Another Classmate And My Partner @sol-red-rose's

I experimented with eh consequences of last drawing. Kind of feel like this is too... subdued for what I was going for though.

Old account, new at engagement

How do you get started with actually interacting with people on this website, aside from just looking at other people's posts?

I know I've been absent but I've started work on a fanfiction version of the silly little story all my art is inspired by! May as well shamelessly promote it here. Gonna be a while before some of my art makes sense but I hope people give it a shot. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/563433/school-of-restoring-harmony

Today's Inner conflict: I want to relentlessly lore-dump to people on the internet but don't know if I have the artistic ability or consistent enough output to start an ask-blog.

I just really need to find a way to get my silly horse-puns out into the world.

Fanfiction?

I’ve been considering adapting the text-based RPG adventure I’ve been doing with my partner where Azure and the other horses I've drawn here into a proper "fanfiction" for a while, complete with cleaning things up for consistency and snazzing up the language a bit.

But there’s still a few things I don’t really know for certain. Would it be better to keep the script-style dialogue tags and lean into that as a format, or do I need to put in the hours to adapt it to more literary “he said, she exclaimed”?

Would it be better to be honest and include uncomfortable and not entirely safe for work implications in it from the outset, or should those bits be separated as optional content in side stories?

I suppose I’m really just looking for advice on how to get the full story out there without alienating the few people that might be following along with it already.

Adore this take, and strongly agree with it. If Discord had ever actually proven himself capable of half-functioning independently I'd have accepted his "redemption" more but as it went he was always more of a problem than he was worth.

I'm invested now, why don't you like fluttercord?

Okay, here we go then, why don't I like one of the most famous and prolific ships on the fandom?

First of all, there's a major power imbalance at play, you know, chaos god that can reshape mind and reality with a snap of his fingers matched with a regular pegasus girl, and an drastic age difference (which could be discarded cause Fluttershy's an adult, just worth a mention.)

But the primary issue comes from the canon itself, especially with how they came together. Fluttershy was just shafted for her full responsibility to be to make sure Discord gets better; Something that already was a strange choice of Celestia (like girl why are you throwing a random mortal you dont know that well onto a godlike chaos being even you struggled with? It reeks of writers already having come up a solution and not wanting to build a foundation to lead there.) and canon proves again and again that if discord doesnt have fluttershy around, he will make bad choices and hurt people, something that gets proven again and again all the way to gen fucking five. That's textbook codependency and it makes it even more weird by the incredible, terrifying power imbalance. Discord isnt just an alicorn, hes the only one of his kind because of how powerful he is, and his powers are insanely dangerous to have on a relationship with a mortal. Like, you saw how he was when he was jealous of Fluttershy for having a diffrent friend. Can you imagine what he'd do if somebody flirted with her? (even if they weren't dating, if Fluttershy said she got a girlfriend or whatever, Discord would straight up throw rainbow dash on a labyrinth of infinite agony)

I think my primary issues come from the canon because he is always abusing his powers, never using them wisely, and always causing trouble (WHICH WAS THE ORIGINAL POINT OF EVEN BRINGING HIM BACK TOO)-- And the ratio of slaps on the wrist lower dramatically by the end (the final conflict is entirely his fault purely because he thought having a conflict would be cool)-- All of which just makes him untrustworthy to be on a relationship with a mortal hes obssesed with. He'd be like a yandere boyfriend exept a chaos god, which, yikes!

Srsly the fact that cozy glow the toddler gets sent to hell and turned to stone instead of the chaos god that sponsored her is just plain WEIRD. It's a writers problem.

There's a reasons why Alicorns have to ascend, earn their power-- And why they tend to abuse it less. Being born with power just begets a diffrent attitude towards it; Which is smth that the writers do interpret quite well, with how Discord acts. he has no empathy, he doesnt need to care, because reality is his to shape, and then boom, teaching someone to be better just became a lot harder. Good character! Very funny, very well designed and voiced-- But goddamn he's weirdly written as a ""Good"" guy.

Now lets finally turn to the woman in the relationship. because Fluttershy is a normal mortal gal with a normal mortal life with her own needs, which generally shouldn't have to involve her entire life or routine on making sure a godlike manbaby does the right thing with his powers. it doesn't feel like the kind of thing that has any consent to it, after all, discord doesnt need to ask for anything, he can just do. (THANKS FOR THE IDEA CELESTIA) It just reeks of a kind of misoginy-ass writing where the woman has to bend over backwards for the man.

Its like the shy pegasus was just. Set up for LIFE on this strange relationship. Its kind of creepy.

And Fluttershy just deserves better than him in my opinion; And she can do better, too. Also it doesnt help that you know-- 99% other ship with fluttershy dont have any of these issues lmao. Even canon Rainbow Dash would treat her better, so i dont bother with Fluttercord ever!

Another Week another Practice. Not a fan of how the tail came out with the Highlights. This time with variants!

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Steam Workshop::Magical Horse Mod

I've had horrible artist's block for a while... but I do know how to tweak video games for fun! Here's a silly horse mod to add them to a context they have no business getting involved with. I'll even let you put me in charge of (almost) any country!

My Mane 6 Redesigns all together! I was going to post them separately but ended up finishing them all before I got around to it lol

Nightmare Night is a way out but it's never too early for costume ideas, and Azure has been reading way too many comics and has lofty costume ideas. Maybe Super-filly would have been more accurate with the whole clone thing, but that's not what she *wants* to be like