#Flutterholly

[lalypipi]

Drawing random ponies : flutter holly

[fluttershy-cottage]

🎄🌸𓂃 εϊз Flutterholly εϊз 𓂃🌸🎄

[lykoi-licks]

Flutterhollycharic / MLPFlutterhollycharic

MLP meaning My Little Pony, Flutterholly, charic meaning a gender suffix related to (a) character(s)

[LEFT ID: A six striped horizontal flag. The colours (top-down) are kelp green, lime green, minty-green, light yellow, light pink, and dark pink. On the top half of the flag there are falling snowflakes of three varying sizes and two different colours. There are dark green snowflakes over a layer of white snowflakes. In the middle of the flag there’s an outlined icon of Fluttershy dressed as Flutterholly. Fluttershy is a yellow Pegasus with blue-green eyes and pink hair. Her hairdo is half-down with a braided bun in the back. She’s wearing a white dress that has a simple tulip pattern. The dress is long-flowing, and has dark pink cuffs with lime green scalloped edges. She’s wearing a kelp green ribbon bow tie has lime green scalloped edges. This icon is outlined in dark green. END ID.]

[MIDDLE ID: A six striped horizontal flag. The colours (top-down) are kelp green, lime green, minty-green, light yellow, light pink, and dark pink. In the middle of the flag there’s an outlined icon of Fluttershy dressed as Flutterholly. Fluttershy is a yellow Pegasus with blue-green eyes and pink hair. Her hairdo is half-down with a braided bun in the back. She’s wearing a white dress that has a simple tulip pattern. The dress is long-flowing, and has dark pink cuffs with lime green scalloped edges. She’s wearing a kelp green ribbon bow tie lime green scalloped edges. This icon is outlined in dark green. END ID.]

[RIGHT ID: A six striped horizontal flag. The colours (top-down) are kelp green, lime green, minty-green, light yellow, light pink, and dark pink. END ID.]

A gender related to the character Flutterholly (from MLP:FIM/My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic), or, more specifically, a gender related to Fluttershy’s portrayal of Flutterholly. This may be related to (a) winter holiday(s) (such as Hearth’s Warming, Christmas, Yule, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, etc.), snow, the act(s) of making, gifting and/or receiving presents, kindness, sharing love (non type-specific, can be any kind of love), theatre/theatrics as a whole, plays, and Fluttershy, but none of these associations are necessary!

Flutterholly is from season six, episode eight, titled “A Hearth’s Warming Tail” (from MLP:FIM/My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic)

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A Hearth's Warming Tale by PointDelta

https://www.redbubble.com/people/KabbiieV2/shop

, fluttershy, pinkie pie, princess luna, rainbow dash, rarity, , , , ,

[herasocdesigns]

Flutterholly

[lunashy21]

Flutterholly

[rszealot]

Also, Merry and Flutterholly in the story are clearly a married couple.

I was rewatching one of the holiday specials and I want to say thank you to whoever included this moment

[toughbluff]

Flutterholly sketch..maybe I should vector this instead of using the tablet.

[diamond-song42]

Card Shark 98: Backup Racer, Substitute Flier

Hey, Card Sharkers! Apologies for the extended Shark drought. Card Shark is back up and running again!

Before I start this Shark, I wanted to give y'all a quick life update. As we all know, COVID-19 has been making its way through the world and as such, things are being cancelled and postponed left and right. If you follow me on Twitter @diamondsong42, you may have gathered that I live very close to one of the hot zones (as in, within a few miles) and even have some personal connections to it. Thus, I’ve needed a few weeks to get my new schedule in order. My university’s Winter Quarter was completed entirely online for its last week, my upcoming Spring Quarter will be entirely online, many businesses have been forced to close for now, and a bunch of cons have been cancelled, forcing guests we would have hosted to stay home and refund their flights. It’s been frustrating, to say the least, especially when you’re used to being the panicky one, not the rest of the world. (Hooray for anxiety disorders!) I’m gonna try my best to get up to speed on Sharks soon, so I greatly appreciate your patience as my germaphobic flank and the rest of the world deals with this tough time.

For now, I think it’s time to focus on my planned Derpy Day Card Shark, starring an Ultra Rare from the Crystal Games! Let’s take a look at “Backup Racer, Substitute Flier!”

Backup Racer knows what it takes to get through hard times: Teamwork. No, literally. Backup Racer has the Teamwork keyword, which means every other Pegasus Friend present at her Problem automatically gains her printed ability! But is it a good ability, what with her costing a hefty 4 AT and 3 Yellow req to play and get you an extra 2 Yellow power? (Costs like this are the norm for pre-Core sets, so I won’t elaborate too much on this.) Well, when you play her to a Problem, you can immediately... move her home. Okay then. If you do that, you can bounce an opponent’s Friend there back to its owner’s hand! The Friend has to cost less than or be equal to Backup Racer’s cost, but that’s hardly anything to worry about in Backup Racer’s case with her 4 cost (Friends that gain her ability through Teamwork, well, that’s another story). It’s quite the unconventional way to bounce. And unconventional is this bubbly mare’s way of doing things. She’s far from the only Friend that activates something by going home - The Rarity, Truly Outrageous stans know what I’m talking about. ;) Regardless, even if you do have to move her back to a Problem to repeat her Teamwork, it isn’t necessarily a costly way to bounce. There aren’t many cards that allow repeated bouncing - it’s usually a one and done deal. And to be honest, I think repetitive free bouncing that almost doesn’t have any control (the less to equal cost requirement opens a lot of doors here) can get unfairly uneven very fast. One of these days, I hope to see a niche deck with this card that works way too well.

There are a select few Crystal Games URs that I believe aged well in the current metagame. Backup Racer... is not one of them. I don’t blame this on her needing to be sent home as soon as she hits the field - as I’ve mentioned, Rarity, Truly Outrageous does a similar thing and she has been pretty successful. Nor do I blame it on her needing to be moved back to a Problem to get the most out of her Teamwork - that’s easy enough. No, it’s because there are so many cheap cards that allow opposing Friends to be bounced back to the hand, and without the need to move anything, either. Yona, Friendship or Else can be played once and bounce at least once a turn if the conditions are right. Fluttershy, Kind Pony can bounce low-power Friends without the need for any preexisting Yellow req! On the Event side, cards like Lie Low and Unsatisfactory Work allow bouncing potentially without the worry of the bounced Friend’s power. No moving necessary. As awesome as I can see that Teamwork ability being with cheap Pegasus Friends, it just doesn’t pay out in the end. Pegasus Friend Tokens don’t exactly work with this, either, since they’re often played as a free effect of cards like Spitfire, Wing Leader and Close Air Support. Sorry, Backup Racer. At least you make us happy as a Muffin Mare.

Here’s a few more cards to have backed up:

*Fluttershy, Flutterholly. Your main goal will likely be keeping Backup Racer at Problems as much as you can to maximize her Teamwork. But what about the secondary Friends you play to use Teamwork? If they have certain abilities, maybe you don’t want to keep them at Problems, or maybe you just have no use for their power. Whatever the case, you can capitalize on both Teamwork and having lots of Friends at home with Flutterholly. To start, Flutterholly costs 3 AT to play, potentially giving you a lot of bouncing options when she gets the Teamwork ability. She also gains +1 power for each of your characters at home (including herself if she is seated there), so that’s a lot of power you could possibly add up. Use her power or not, she can certainly be an annoying, adorable power source.

*Bedtime. I’ve probably said this several times already, but if you’re running a bouncing deck and are open to having more than one color, this Resource should absolutely not be excluded. As long as Bedtime is in play, Friends that would return to their owner’s hand are banished instead. Banishing Friends instead of just returning them to their owner’s hand shuts down any chance of that Friend being replayed, which can be useful if the Friend is especially powerful or has a recurrent ability. It’s my favorite Equestrian Odysseys Resource because it can hit that hard. You’ll have to watch out for opponents bouncing your Friends, though: Bedtime goes both ways!

*Pegasus Chariot. Even if Twilight doesn’t have her horn on this card, this is still a great Resource to have. One Pegasus Chariot essentially gives all your characters Swift, giving you the option to pay 1 AT to move a character. Unlike its colorless cousin Pirate Ship, Chariot doesn’t have to be exhausted to get that move discount, removing the limit Pirate Ship imposes. And after you’ve bounced your first Friend with Backup Racer, you’re gonna want to get her (and possibly any other Pegasus Friends you play) back to the Problem as soon as possible to use their power effectively and bounce again. Pirate Ship could work in this scenario, yes, but I like the freedom Pegasus Chariot grants, so it is my primary suggestion.

And there you have another Ultra Rare Card Shark! The next Shark will be coming soon, and I wish you and yours all the health in the world. Wash your hands! Diamond out!

[askcriticalthought]

I review a lot of cards that I don’t have too much to say about.

[lunashy21]

Flutterholly

[lunashy21]

Flutterholly