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Work in progress. Prototyping "Rosedust" using a modified Metamorphosis vector. Still really iffy on the shell colors.

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Relevant to my interests.

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Once this trip is over and I am home, I need to do some sort of art.

*future Shiftermod gets home from trip in June and then proceeds to make small revisions to the now five-year-old Metamorphosis In Profile Facing Left vector*

Aw yiss, minor changes to a now five-year-old Metamorphosis In Profile Facing Left vector.

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Testing something

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Let's see if this works now:

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Poll

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Tumblr has broken my links. Or at least some of my links. Or at least any links with URLs tied to New York City.

washingtonpost.com - no redirect latimes.com - no redirect nytimes.com - redirect, breaks, takes me to Tumblr Explore Page newyorker.com - redirect, breaks, takes me to Tumblr Explore Page

Anyway, there was an article in the New Yorker about whether insects feel pain (it is beginning to look like they do, actually) and I felt that it was relevant.

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T E S T I N G

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“So… am I to believe that this isn't actually a universe of morally inverted beings… but just a universe where everything is prefaced by the adjective ‘evil’?” “Correct. Including their names. And they all have Spock Goatees. And capes.”

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@allyooops and @whirlwindflux got me one of the best gifts I have received and I am overjoyed and have lots of Dustcatcher and Dreamorph and it is a (now desperately needed) source of comfort.

Thank you both, you are the best.

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Thinking about some stuff.

In the Equality Village, Starlight took pony's special talents away and made everything equally mediocre.

Dust's anti-magic situation deprives earth ponies of the use of their magical super-strength, and (some) pegasus flight and weather control, and unicorn magic... but not their talents.

This situation would potentially goad pony employees on the property to find new, non-magical ways to leverage their talents, and Dust would encourage it.

I think the one thing that concerns me at the moment is I presently don't remember what my headcanon was for how ponies hold objects, just that I definitely had one.

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Update: Dust Jacket does not sleep with a cork on the end of his horn, but a tennis ball.

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Sketch 2 workspace with the current draft of Morph in profile. I should rename the group one of these days; he's not blushing, although I think the blush gradients are just hidden.

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The more I mess with Morph's color scheme, the more he starts to looks like Chrysalis. O.o An experiment with his belly plate color resulted in reviews affirming that it should be more blue. Now, my desire to make his ostensibly dark green backplate look "shiny and metallic" has resulted in a color that is starting to look really familiar...

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Something old, something new.

Now to fiddle with his back, which is somehow even more complicated.

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Them: "Why don't you post more often, Shifter?"

Me: *fiddling with a dozen semi-transparent gradients to approximate a chrome effect on Metamorphosis' shell*