#ask mare

[krisokiii]

made a quick animation HEAVILY inspired by this post by @signanothername , i liked the idea too much, hope u dont mind-

havent drawn skeletons for years now

[cruzadocreacher]

[askthequietdoctorwhooves]

Doctor : Why don't YOU ask her !!?

Asker : @lucajc , @foodielovethealicorn

[allyooops]

A very happy (belated) birthday to @lumiere-angel-90 ! Star and Hemlock appreciate another “light” in this dark place ;D I hope your birthday was a day filled with the same joy you offer the pony community!

[ask-the-mare-in-the-forest]

Star: …

[lilyharvord]

Mare "Please I'm begging you, give me a mission and get me out of this house and away from my toddlers" Molly Barrow gets sent on a mission with Cal "I'm telling you that we are not going to have fun because we are going to be stressed the whole time about the kids" Calore cause eh we haven't had a good relationship/marriage bonding mission since before Cori. The mission is very simple, they will be gone for a maximum of 2 days. Mare insists she will be fine, and that HE is going to be the problem.

1 hour into the flight there Mare turns to him and says "Don't be mad, but we have to turn around. I miss the kids and I don't trust Kilorn to handle them."

And Cal just looks at her like this: 😑

[laurzvahll]

they’re ridiculous

[fox-trot7]

Based on this meme ofc

Me and the homie have an ongoing in-joke that discord loves to bother mayor mare cause like yk Celestia asked her to watch over twilight, and then later is like “so hey I’m thinking about maybe sending discord to live here among a good community-“ and she’s like “oh god why I am not paid enough for this” and discord just constantly files complaints and interrupts meetings dramatically since he’s bored and the only way he can properly contact Celestia like any normal citizen is through formal letter bureaucracy

[lilo-jacos]

What brainrot would they use 😭

Mare - Slay on occasion, had to explain to Cal what gyatt meant once and was dying laughing.

Cal - He'd use "Rizz" as a joke sometimes, I know this isn't technically brainrot but l anytime he heard "21" he'd do the voice. If you know you know.

Kilorn - Everything possible. Mostly to annoy people at first but then it became a habit and he was saying it in his sleep. Regularly texts the Scarlet Guard mission group starting with "chat" ("Chat I'm literally about to die lol can someone come help")

Cameron - Regretting her life decisions after hearing Kilorns brainrot yapping.

Farley - Said "slay" exactly once after Mare said it and has never said anything ever again.

Shade - Got kicked out of the house one night for saying "skibidi"

Gisa - Rizz, delulu, pookie... All the ones that are a little cutesy.

Maven - Caught himself saying "crash out" once and literally had to pause what he was doing and backtrack what he just said.

[ask-whiteblade]

A long sigh. The word "love" returned to her mind. She had felt affection for her former companions and would always remember what she felt for one of them, even if it had only lasted a few months, together, in the same battalion.

But she remembered perfectly well that they had died and she had buried them, letting the love disappear to make way for a hatred that had motivated her for years. This memory didn't affect her.

The mysterious stallion had disappeared, leaving White Blade and One Eyes alone. The smoke was still spreading around them, becoming an increasingly opaque mist with a strange shimmer. The two ponies looked at each other.

A distant echo.

The mare ignores it.

One Eyes crushes his cigar on the table carelessly.

"You should take advantage of this opportunity." He told her with a smirk.

But White refused to listen to the echo, which began again, saying her name, recognizing his voice. As it grew louder and louder, she closed her eyes, unable to put a face to the voice that hurt so much.

"White Blade… White Blade…"

"Be quiet…"

"White Blade! "

"Please shut up!"

"White Blade, are you coming?"

"No, shut up!!!"

"Come White Blade!"

"WHITE BLADE!!!"

"I told you, SHUT UP!"

She turned violently in the direction of the echo, her voice suddenly fluent and immature, her strength diminished along with her size and age.

Suddenly a filly, screaming in frustration at the echo, she looked up at the silhouette looming in the mist, waving his paw, smiling broadly in him direction, happy to see him again.

It took White a moment to realize, but he was there.

"Come play with me, White Blade!"

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[ball-of-butter]

youre like the only account i look at on here for red queen content (specifically maven) so please go full psychological analysis on maven please. i love your posts they itch my brain perfectly

omygosh anon 🤭 tyyyy tyyyy

theres so much to say about maven and its kinda crazy considering he doesn’t get that much actual page time. so keep in mind that many people could have different interpretations of his character, since he is quite elusive. and i may or may notttt be biassed idk.

the first thing i believe: he's a character that, for all his supposed motivations, had no ambition or dream of his own. he was a complete vessel of his mother’s spite, so he makes for a pretty interesting paradox. mare was haunted by a ‘false’ maven that didn't exist (debatable). cal was haunted by an ‘erased’ maven that used to exist. what is maven haunted by? everything and everyone? he’s a ghost himself, he’s the one who usually did the haunting, but even when you get his POV in the books, there’s a tragedy in the negative space you find. there are clear holes in his psyche that he also subconsciously attempts to fill (his memories always fight to bubble to the surface, but they invoke feelings he can’t feel anymore) and never can. despite how pissed off he is at everyone and everything, he so very clearly yearns for love and approval, to the point where he is absolutely delusional about it. there he was, shocked that mare would reject him after he imprisoned and betrayed her and the scarlet guard. here’s him outraged that anabel lerolan would side with cal after he plotted her son’s murder.

elara basically sculpted a monster, and i don’t think that can be debated since its pretty clearly stated in text. even maven knew what she took from him and the extent of the abuse— but he didn't care because she gave him the love he craved. she couldn’t fill it all, if maven’s obsession with mare was anything to go by. i do think elara genuinely loved and adored him, but i don’t know if i would use the word ‘enabler’ for her because it seems too soft a word. maven is elara. elara dies and maven can’t survive on his own for long without her. he was her iron fist in a way, but neither had much interest in norta as a country like most scheming for the throne usually do– which i find so interesting. it wasn’t political, only personal.

now then there lies the debate of choice— some maven fans are completely comfortable heaping all of the blame onto elara and calling it a day. but i think even elara was failed in a similar way maven was. red queen is cool because it shows how evil is encouraged and nurtured in oppressive societies, how certain individuals even in privileged positions will be abused and neglected, how vices are taught to be hidden rather than treated and how violence is perpetuated as the surest, most permanent decree. every character is affected by this system in some way, and i could talk about it for years but i’ll save you the time. my point is that this would apply to maven, but that doesn’t make him void of choice. it’s sort of predictable that he would make the terrible choices he did in the series considering he never had the chance to escape what predestined narrative was already planned for him, but no one was physically forcing him to burn his initial into mare. no one was physically forcing him to try slaughter a whole race of people. no one physically forced him to blow up naercey, or taunt cal after forcing him to murder his dad, or psychologically torture mare when he kept her as prisoner. yes, there’s nuance but maven is also much too comfortable with being a terrible person, because thats what ultimately earns him love, respect and approval.

i don’t think maven could’ve been saved, not because 'the damage was too bad,' but because he had no desire to be saved, and no one but cal had wanted to put in the effort to save him. i always find it interesting how cal secretly resented mare for killing maven, even though it was such a longtime coming, and he would never voice it because considering all maven had done to her, she had more than the right. but i don’t want to yap so much about maven’s relationship with cal because i’ll be here forever. nor do i want to talk too much about his relationship with mare. i'll only say that when i was talking about his death scene i did mention how much of an impact both of them had on each other, how maven was so scary to mare because he was a viable twisted path that represented the worst of her. i think mare could’ve been (my biassed interpretation) a path for him too, but he was so far gone by the second book and especially after elara’s death that he never considered it (would’ve been too late for him then anyway). i have some thoughts on the chances of maven rehabilitating if he had the tools and will to. some thoughts. they won’t go here though.

lastly i just want to link this post which had super interesting additions by @lucy-the-cat that delves into maven from a psychological perspective. its sooooo well written and i still think about it to this day.

last thing i wanna do is glaze a bit so im just gonna 😭 its refreshing to see this sort of villain be portrayed as an mmc who isn’t attractively suave and super misunderstood and depressed and supremely intelligent for what he does– maven is intelligent and sad, but he's presented as a floundering, insecure, delusional brat that the fmc understands entirely. something so refreshing in how he can only either be hated, and at best, pitied.

[askthequietdoctorwhooves]

Doctor : Bad girl, Doctor ! Bad girl !

[Mod : I wonder where are they heading to.]

Asker : @foodielovethealicorn @the-starry-traveller

[ask-the-mare-in-the-forest]

2/2

[not-poignant]

Assumption: You have never ridden a horse.

Oooo, this is a fun one, salkfjas

I have! I've ridden more than one horse, more than once.

(Actual storytime) (This is from the Assumptions meme!)

In late highschool and in the few years after I had a close friend who owned a horse (Billy) and agisted him, and was responsible for him. She basically was allowed to get him when she got her driver's license.

I was the kind of friend (and still kind of am, energy willing) that you could drag around to all your chores and I'd just be there. So I'd be there when she went shopping. I would be there when she went to get horse food. I would be there when she did homework. I would be there when she went to visit her horse and brush him down and feed him etc.

I helped with basic chores and watched from the sidelines and mostly hung out with her dog, Huskee, who was not a husky, but a borderline collie x corgi who barked nonstop at that horse, who she alas, could not herd.

Through this friend I actually learned about Natural Horsemanship, to the point where I actually went to a couple of Pat Parelli seminars (run by Pat) in like 2000/2001. It was the thing that really sparked my interest in animal training, especially humane, fear free animal training (and clicker training specifically, since Pat was teaching marker training at the time, and said friend started using it on their dog, Huskee).

I never rode, for a long time, because I was happy on the sidelines, and also I went there so my friend could ride her horse, not so I could like, steal her horse out from under her lol. I don't think her horse liked me very much anyway (later I'd find out that was pretty much true, it was a zero respect relationship, maybe he knew I was a doormat lmao).

Anyway, said friend had another friend who was extremely horse intense, and she got her own horse (Coda) , that she then never really took the time to ride. Coda was kind of nuts. Billy was the kind of horse who walked so slow you felt like you were going backwards, Coda had one speed: gallop. Coda and Billy got on great.

But Coda was pretty neglected, and so I often spent time with him while my friend did her chores with Billy. I was used to bringing out food, or changing water etc. so I did that for Coda sometimes. And after a while, friend was like 'it would be cool if we could trail ride together, how about you learn on Billy first since he's so slow and sedate.' And friend was like 'I'll ride Coda because I have more experience.' This made sense! She wanted me to stay safe!! But...

Billy was slow, sedate, and did not give a shit about me. This is a horse that stepped on my feet (on purpose), who deliberately angled towards low-hanging branches to scrape me off the saddle (hilarious, but also not really), and made it clear how much he wasn't interested in anyone else riding him in the most passive aggressive way a horse possibly can.

Coda, on the other hand, had a reputation for being wild and unstable. He'd tossed multiple riders more than once, hadn't been trained with Natural Horsemanship (like...kind of? But not really) and was not halter-broke by the time friend-of-friend got him, so just getting him to accept a halter and a saddle at all was huge, and anything beyond that was like 'welp, good luck.'

However, it was obvious trying to do anything with me and Billy was not going to work out. So...Coda it was.

And idk how to explain it, but Coda and I just got along. It was on the other hand terrifying, because his default movement was 'canter' and all he wanted to do, all he wanted to do, was gallop up and down granite hills as quickly as possible and spook at fucking everything. It wasn't his fault, he wasn't taken out much and he had that kind of personality. He once saw a kangaroo in the distance and spun a full 360 degrees, and I ended up half off him, hanging on for dear life, while friend just stared at me and said: 'how did you not fall off, that was insane. You might actually be good at this.'

Well. No, I wasn't, I just had a good grip, lmao.

So we went on extremely stressful trail rides together. Billy thankfully curbed some of Coda's GOTTA GO FAST instincts but only to a point, so I had to be pretty hypervigilant nonstop because that dude bunched his hindquarters what felt like every ten seconds, and I can't really blame him, it's what he loved to do most. He was just a terrible horse to learn to ride on, lmao, even if we did get along.

I haven't ridden since and honestly haven't felt much of an inclination to. I'd be too heavy now anyway. And I'm pretty certain I'd be bad at it. When your first experience is 'placid horse who generally accepts everyone but stares at you in a desultory manner and makes sure you know - while feeding him / brushing him / watering him etc. - that you do not matter in the grand scheme of things' followed by 'I like you! NOW I WILL FLING MYSELF DOWN THIS GRANITE HILL WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WE ARE ALL SCREAMING IN EXCITEMENT AND NOT FEAR' you think 'actually I don't need to ride the murder ponies, it's fine.'

Anyway, yeah, I have ridden a horse.

[bruised-punk]

Red Queen Characters as

Evangeline Samos:

Maven Calore

Mare Barrow:

Cal Calore:

Kilorn Warren:

[lilo-jacos]

What was marecal wedding like

Marecal Wedding! 🌌🔥

- It seems like a big event but really they only have the least traitory family there and friends, some coworkers and people from the Guard.

- Forest/Nature theme

- Mare definitely gave him a dirty Polaroid picture in the middle of dinner and he choked on his food.

- Cal joked about getting a bouncy house for reception entertainment (it was Ruth's wedding present to him)

- Clara was their flower girl

- Gisa was the maid of honor, the best man spot was left empty for Maven. Kilorn was right after it.

- As well as Daniel getting them a wedding gift, Cal surprised him with a gift as well since he knew how hard it was for Mares father to give her away.

- LATE afterparty...

- They had a burn-away entrance where there was a barrier covering the reception area and they lit it to make the entrance appear (think burn away cake but for a party entrance)

- For the group songs/dances they picked up their dog and danced with her

- Instead of writing notes each guest recorded a voice message on an old-fashioned phone so they can listen to it whenever they want and not just have to imagine their voices saying it

- Mare still doesn't love big dresses after being Mareena but of course she'll be happy about her wedding dress

- Their last dance was private after everyone had left... It was the same song they danced to in the ballroom. (Victoria confirmed the song was Poison & Wine)

Pictures ⬇️

Ceremony:

Reception/Decorations:

Mare's wedding dress and reception dress!