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RE: Tempest and Glitter Drops, I love how the “Nightmare Knights” mini-series confirmed that they’re still living together by the end of the main show.

Actual, unironic“and they were roommates!” moment

Also, “YOURE FREQUENTLY IN ONE ANOTHERS DREAMS”?!?

I didn’t even catch that the first time, that’s amaaazing.

They’re both head-over-hooves for each other and neither one knows how to make the first move, it’s perfect.

Yep!! I've read this, it's really peak. Generally the fact that they had a happily ever after is so damn precious. "Anything you say to me you better say to her too" is so awesome, heh. And the cute nicknames... So good.

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I've been reading @dapper-lil-arts's story The Great Tartarus Heist and this scene was so cool!!! Tempest Shadow makes me explode she is so cool and well adjusted and she does not need to talk to anyone about her past at all <3

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5x7 Tempest!

Link to Buy

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Yay, old hyperfixations resurfacing

My girl deserved her own damn wings

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Since poly stuff is okay, I'd like to request Starlight x Sunset x Trixie... They're all I can think about ever since I watched The Forgotten Friendship and the EQG series.

It’s been a little while since I’ve drawn any requests!! I haven’t been feeling too good lately, the weather change always makes me sick and sleepy

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merry crisis

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How To Train Your Spike

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ok horsey 🧡

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Is there any MLP fanfic that you really like?

Unfortunately, no. I didn't spend much time looking up fanfic, though I always wanted to write my own.

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Princess Celestia by byefella

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Whatever Happened to Eurobeat Brony?

…and what's up with this Vtuber girl on the bottom of the picture?

I'll explain in a moment, though be forewarned: It's less climactic than you may think it is! (Warning: Contains pre-transition photos and footage of me!)

TL;DR

I never really left! I just started making more originals, got really into streaming and Vtubing, and came out as a woman. I've even still made a few Eurobeat Brony tracks in all of that— like I said, I never really left! I've even got a 2025 version of an old track lined up to release TOMORROW! And if the show re-inspires me, I'll release tracks as Eurobeat Brony again.

NOW FOR EXCRUCIATING DETAIL

It's me! I'm Eurobeat Brony!

...or, rather, I should explain how we got there from here, right?

BRONY BEGINNINGS

I've been making eurobeat music and releasing it on the internet for many years— some of the earliest instances of my work specifically in the genre are still up from 2006. So, I've been active as Odyssey Eurobeat for FAR longer than I've been Ken Blast (short for Kendra btw!), and longer still than Eurobeat Brony.

In 2010, my family lost my grandfather on my mom's side to pretty severe malpractice, and I turned towards cartoons and animation to cope during my first semester of classes at SJSU. In that time, I discovered some of the early threads floating around about the first few episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Curious due to the inclusion of Lauren Faust's name on the series, I explored it a bit. In early 2011, I created a remix of "Evil Enchantress" from the episode introducing Zecora, which (to my understanding) is the first documented "brony music" song on the internet in terms of publication date! The rest was history— several remixes of the show's songs, a handful of originals (Luna, Diamond Dogs, Batty, Fly... and, of course, DISCORD!), performances all around the world... dare I say it, I had the tiniest taste of the rockstar lifestyle!

I'd go so far as to say, it felt like the mid-late 2010s were some of the highlights of my career! Performing for huge crowds, collaborating with folks, traveling the world, and all focused on a show that made dark days brighter when I needed that the most.

During this time, for BronyCon 2018 and 2019, I wanted to make a gesture of love and gratitude for folks still supporting my work and shows— in 2018 I created a new version of Luna, and in 2019 I created my best version of Discord to this day, the one I think encompasses my original intentions for the first version… Discord 2019.

Keep that in mind going forward, it'll be important later.

So, where did I go after all that? Did I dramatically depart from the fandom? Did I get bought out by another scene? Did my music interest drastically change?

...no! Honestly, I never left!

FROM 2019 ON

After Discord 2019, my focus shifted back to original works for a while. 2019 in particular was the year I began to work full-time as a musician instead of pursuing digital marketing positions, or driving for DoorDash. It was not for lack of love of the show, but I did feel like I could do a lot more creative work if I wrote about more ideas and concepts than MLP tended to focus on. Besides, these newfangled Vtubers seem to be really cool, perhaps I could get into that!

As well, I had spent a large portion of the 2010s silently battling gender dysphoria, planning multiple times to come out and begin HRT, each time finding excuses or losing my nerve or just plain failing to do so. It took the lockdowns of 2020 and getting Covid in early 2021 to finally impart the fact that I am not owed tomorrow, and that I'd need to fight for it. Once I recovered, I began the work towards starting my medical and social transitions, and on May 26 2021, I came out as a woman live on my Twitch stream (since, well, this would be where I'd be the most visible... they'd see the transformation one way or another)!

SO, EUROBEAT PEGASISTER THEN?

Naw. "Eurobeat Brony" still feels right, somehow.

AH, OKAY. PLEASE DO GO ON.

At any rate, my focus shifted away from MLP for a while, focusing on streaming on Twitch and producing original works. However, this wouldn't last— after a while, I was reached by Step 2 Harmony, the My Little Pony Cover & Cosplay group, about creating an updated version of my remix of Mirai Start (the opening theme for the show in Japan). We worked on the remix... then got to chat further, until I had the honor of joining them on stage to perform the choreography live at Ponyville Ciderfest 2021!

In the next year, TanMansManTan, a long-time host of my earliest brony work, decided to revamp his YouTube channel, which meant delisting the earliest versions of my work. He sent me the video files as best he could, and I hosted the new versions of those videos on my YouTube channel, as well as a new remix of Vylet Pony's incredible anthem "Antonymph", which I designed to contain the spirit of old Super Ponybeat work in the lens of recent production knowledge. If I was going to keep being invited to brony conventions, it felt like the least I could do was throw some love to the scene and its innovators.

(In fact, during this time of fewer releases, I often sought out new releases from other musicians active in the scene to play in my sets!)

OKAY SO... WHY TALK ABOUT THIS NOW?

So.

Remember when I mentioned creating updated versions of my work for BronyCon 2018 and 2019?

This year, I was scheduled to perform at Babscon 2025, but the convention maliciously fired its concert lead three weeks before the convention. In solidarity, every single musician on the lineup withdrew from the convention. Most of that lineup joined her for her amazing Neighhem concert held in nearby Redwood City, and I was honored to be the final act of that show.

...and a little song of mine I had been working on for Babscon up to that point, made it into the show. And now, it's finally fully ready.

At 12:30PM PDT on May 30, 2025, I will release the 2025 version of Batty. I would be honored for you to enjoy this new version of the song, a gesture of love to a scene in which I grew tremendously, and to which I owe a tremendous amount of gratitude.

This song will be available on platforms like iTunes, Spotify, TIDAL, etc... but in traditional Super Ponybeat fashion, the song will be available for free/name-your-price on Bandcamp. Please enjoy the song as much as you want, and support it if you can!

THE FUTURE OF EUROBEAT BRONY

...it sounds so official typing it out, right? 😅

It's here that I make a confession�� I never did finish the show. I had a handful of remixes I cancelled or never really got around to, an original idea or two I never built out... and while I was further along in the series than I thought, I still don't have everything from the show. When I have a moment to do so, I'd like to finish the series, and remix any songs that particularly stick out to me

At the very least, I'd like to remix the ending song, "The Magic Of Friendship Grows". However, I don't want to start that until I've watched the series up to that point. I'd like the other songs in the show to catch my interest first so, if I do decided to take a crack at them, I can. I'd like to give the show room to inspire me one more time, y'know?

That said, finding the time for that may be difficult. I've never been busier in my life than I've been lately, and time for consuming media has been a little limited (when I do, it tends to be other Vtubers lately). The possibility of me never getting around to it is nonzero.

But I tell you what gives me hope.

I mentioned Neighhem earlier, yeah?

It was here, not at the final BABSCon, where I reconnected with so many brony musicians, modern and legacy, that I remembered what drew me here in the first place. Spending time with everyone, some I hadn't seen in years, others I hadn't met yet, sparked something in me I hadn't felt quite the same since the early 2010s. It felt like a home away from home.

There's something to this horse business that disarms, that gives us a second to pause and hear others out, to become interested in their lives for a second. It's a feeling I've lacked in the 2020s, and one I've direly missed.

That feeling hasn't left me yet, either. Somehow, I still have that little spark in me from that night. And while it's still here, I want to try.

For some of you, Eurobeat Brony was your introduction to eurobeat (still wild to me to think that!!!); for others, EbB was a fun association with the show or fandom. For a surprising many of you, that name still holds quite a bit of value. It has some for me, too.

So... yeah. That's where I've been. And I'd love to have you with me from here, too. If you're down to see the Vtuber stuff, if you're down to hear my new original work (I just did a hyper techno track with a fantastic rapper friend!), then my central hub (you can choose which socials or other things to check out from here, at least!) would be odysseyeurobeat.com! Or you can check out my Twitch, Twitter, Bluesky, or even the very same YouTube channel I used for Super Ponybeat material all these years.

Whether you're a modern Oddity (Oddities are Odyssey fans!), an old MLP fan, or someone else entirely, I cannot thank you enough for having enjoyed my work for even a portion of your day, week, month, year, life. I genuinely never thought I'd be this far along, that music would be a full-time endeavor that's actually working. I am immensely grateful to you all. 💖

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GVH dinogang as ponies

Recently I played Goodbye Volcano High and I realized that colorful queer dinosaurs translate well into colorful ponies. So... I give you this

Below is every character seperately and additional comments on their designs.

Fang was the first I redesigned. For their slim body and 'da snoot' I decided to go with 'a tall mlp unicorn' body type, kind of what Fleur de Lis and Sassy Saddles have, only instead of a horn I gave Fang wings. I enlarged the wings a bit since dino-Fang's wings are... large and added a gradient similar to what Cadence has on her wings. 

The whole 'goth clothing' had to be toned down a bit since ponies don't normally wear too many clothes. I left their choker and moved the spiky headpiece to their tail. I also wanted Fang's hooves to stand out a little bit and I remembered that in one of MLP's season 2 episodes, Twilight gets her hooves painted. It's weird we don't get to see it in the show more often, but I decided to do that with Fang.

Their cutie mark was inspired by one of Worm Drama logo variants that we are given during one of the minigames - it's a dino skull embraced in flames like a meteor. There're a few ways to interpret this cutie mark. Maybe Fang's talent is in their band. Maybe it's something related to it or to music in general. Maybe it's a cruel joke from life itself and Fang's cutie mark is the very same asteroid that's going to kill everyone. Could add to the existential crisis Fang goes through in GVH.

I know that Trish is black coded in the game, so I thought about how I could show it in my pony redesign. The first two thoughts were 'zebras' and 'Pinkie Pie'. A lot of fans headcanon Pinkie as black coded thanks to her hair, and with Trish I decided it could help me adapt her hair to MLP FiM style. Also, many suggest that Zecora and zebras in general are the closest thing MLP has to black characters. That and the fact that Trish had these stripe-like markings on her face led me to the idea of adding a bit of zebra to her design. She's... not one, she's a unicorn, but she definitely has zabras as her close relatives. Maybe one of her grandparents is one...

Her cutie mark is Mango ^_^ I headcanon that she received them both during the last summer break and that was the start of her taking entomology as her career path.

Reed... was my first stumble. No 'zebra' bs this time, this won't do. I tried to make him a regular earth pony at first - didn't turn out how I wanted it. The tail would always come out the wrong way, so I took a step back and thought... maybe, for such a diverse cast of characters, I could look elsewhere? I looked at what other pony-like creatures MLP had and stopped on kirin. 

Reed is part-kirin, how much exactly is unknown, I lean towards 50/50. From his kirin parent he got the tail shape, the back scales, the snout uhm... thingy, and hooves. From his earth pony parent he got his colors (kirins are usually greenish or brownish as they are very close to nature), his short mane, coat markings on his muzzle and ears, and his lack of horn, which all kirins have. It is unknown if he's capable of turning into a nirik as he's VERY chill, and you'll probably never see him get mad. It's also unknown if he'll ever get his cutie mark. Kirins don't get one, so him being blank flank as a senior is either another kirin thing or a very depressing sign...

Also, don't ask me about the stripes on his legs, he looked naked without them. Maybe he applies them every day, like make-up, maybe it's tattooed, maybe a secret third thing.

Naomi is pretty plain in terms of the cast we have so far. She's probably the only one with a design that wouldn't be a pain to animate. Though it fits her character - she's shy, a face in the crowd, a good student, a person who doesn't exactly scream 'main character vibes'. I left her snout spot and her collar and bow tie as a way to make her design stand out a little bit, but overall she looks like somepony you could see in the actual MLP series. 

When thinking of Naomi's cutie mark, I thought of what her actual talent might be. She's apparently good with electronics... and organizing... oh, and suing!... and wants to be a physician... That's many things that she's good at, but what can be stated as her true calling? For that I thought maybe her talent isn't any of these things, maybe her true talent is that she's good at learning new things. Her two colored pens (which I took inspiration from her concept art sheet) are supposed to represent exactly that - she's passionate about learning and thus good at many things that she's learned.

Naser was my second stumble. His headpiece (whatever this thing pterosaurs have is called) isn't easy to adapt into hair. I knew from the start that I would have to go with something similar to Doctor Whooves' or Wonderbolts' mane, but MAN finding balance between pony hairstyle and Naser's head shape was tough. 

For the body type I chose 'tall male pony body type', like Zephyr Breeze's or Flim and Flam's. Also, though pegasi don't usually have their hooves exposed like some earth ponies or unicorns do, I figured it could work for pega-Naser as an alternative to his orange fingertips. And of course, we keep the iconic shirt.

The wings... from the concept art I learned that his wing is atrophied, thus I made one of them way smaller and impossible to fly with. Both Naser's wings had scars on them, and I tried to translate it into his pony form to my and the show's art style best ability. 

Naser doesn't have a cutie mark YET! He's still got some time... He'll find something... definitely.

Rosa was a breath of fresh air. The most difficult part with her was to decide how to place different colored streaks in her hair and how to get her tail through her skirt (MLP doesn't like having tail holes in their pony dresses, so I had to break the rules a little and do what GVH did - make holes in clothes). I made her a bit chubbier than your typical pony, tho it's hard to tell with my art style. Also, really wanted to keep her head shape as in the game and for that I left her top spikes. Just think of them as hair accessories.

Rosa's cutie mark is the flower we see on her dress in the game, and her talent is gardening. Pretty obvious.

Stella's too a bit chubbier than your average pony and her muzzle is shaped a bit differently, closer to her stego-form. The biggest act of creativity with her was in deciding on what her tail should look like. I really wanted to make it similar to her dino tail, but with all the double spikes this would be difficult. Ponies' tail style often mirrors their mane style, so here's what I did: I took her little hair buns on her head and placed similar ones in pairs along her tail in place of the spikes. Added some ribbons for color diversity. Whether that design would work in real life is a mystery to me, but hey, would Crysalis's hair holes work? If MLP can make strange unrealistic design choices, so can I!

Stella's cutie mark did the heavy lifting in giving pony-Stella back all the colors she had in her clothes. The rainbow band ties together three tarot cards. Could be a metaphor for something? Is Stella's talent bringing people together? Or is it just fortune reading? ;)

And finally, we have Sage. TBH, as soon as I came up with kirin Reed, I wanted to experiment with mlp creatures a bit more. The primary goal was to make them all into ponies, sure. But why stop at primary three (four) races? Stella and Sage always struck me as the most colorful of the dinogang. And what better way to make one of them a pony than to make them into the most colorful pony race there is - a reformed changeling?

Sage is a changeling that experiments with his pony/changeling appearance. For some reason, I thought that Sage being a GNC character and having an interesting take on his gender connects well with changelings and their origin as gender-neutral creatures who, after being reformed, adapted gender norms into their society. What would it mean for a creature whose whole shtick is shapeshifting to transition?

In his design I mixed some pony and changeling elements. Unlike Reed and Trish, in Sage's case this mix is purely his choice as a 100% changeling. He can look however he wants, he doesn't own anyone 'normal'. He even decided on what cutie mark he would get if he could have one, and it's, of course, a fork with pink ribbon - symbolizing his talent for cooking.

Why did I do it? I dunno, I always liked turning random things into ponies, it's fun

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yay

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My illustration for the Music MLP zine from last year 🎶

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i miss the parts of you that i never got to see

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Almost annual Rarity redraw let's gooooooo

First one is this year, 2023, next three is 2022/2020/2016!