#king sombra my beloved

[sh4dowcrysta1]

My friends honest reaction to human sombra (BY pahatao on TikTok)

honestly their so real for that

[laismoura-art]

Sareena: MY boyfriend is too tall for me to kiss him on the lips, what should I do?

Hanzo: punch him in the stomach, when he doubles over in pain, kiss him :)

Kia: Tackle him!

Jataaka: Kick him in the shin!

Bi-Han: NO TO ALL OF THOSE! JUST ASK ME TO LEAN DOWN!

Later:

Bi-Han: You knew what you were starting when you suggested that.

Hanzo: Don't have the slightest idea of what you're talking about, my dear in-law :)

Bi-Han: >:(

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Again, this works in any scenario, but I had "Be My King" in mind.

[6-and-7]

I can't pick just one fic name, so have a bunch:

World of thorns

Technocolour

U Palindrome U

Rust and frost

Diamonds are unbreakable

Michael and Helen: Superstar Saga

Thirty seconds over Gallifrey

Jonathan Sim's bizarre adventure

World of thorns - Probably some kind of speculative sci-fi Sleeping Beauty AU. My first instinct is NineRose, but that's a bit bland. Fluttercord, maybe. I'd have to switch quite a few roles and motifs around, but that's the fun of playing with fairy tales.

Technocolour - Sixth Doctor cyberpunk adventure.

U Palindrome U - oh god do not put the idea of a fic that is a complete palindrome in my head, that will be how I die. Maybe a pantoum. No idea what it would be about, though.

Rust and frost - Something something Sombra War timeline, something something wildly fucked-up unhealthy Shining Armor x King Sombra relationship/corruption arc, probably featuring heavy amounts of hypnosis.

Diamonds are unbreakable - Rarity has a James Bond-inspired daydream, saves the day, and gets the dragon.

Michael and Helen: Superstar Saga - Complete crackfic in which the Distortwins decide to fuck over Jonah's plans, start an emo band, and make out with the House on Ash Tree Lane.

Thirty seconds over Gallifrey - Thirteen's thoughts on witnessing a freshly annihilated Gallifrey.

Jonathan Sim's bizarre adventure - Jonathan Sims has awoken Somewhere Else. Martin is not with him, but he Knows his beloved is still alive out there, somewhere. He will find his boyfriend. Unfortunately, this world isn't going to make it easy for him... (Presumably a crossover. Not sure with what. Maybe TPOH?)

[alexowillfightu]

Tag 9 People You Want to Get to Know Better.

I have been summoned. Thank you beloved @anyydidi for tagging me. I however do not have moots aside from you 🥲 so I’m going to do this with nobody to tag

Three favorite ships: uuu multi fandom stuff! There’s a whole lot of stuff I ship but if I were to pick my top three, I’d go for my comfort ones- Karlnapity- DSMP (their characters of course) TomTord- EDDSWORLD (I find it ironic how this is the most toxic, unhealthy ship in the EDDSWORLD franchise and yet I still find a sense of joy seeing the two being unhealthily obsessed with each other in the most hateful manner.) and of course- Spicyhoney from Undertale au community. (Basically underswap papyrus and underfell papyrus. Yes undertale messed me up beyond repair and I will not be apologizing because they’re just skeletons.)

First ever ship- WOA this is a hard one.. the first community I fully became a part of (internet wise) was probably MLP… so my very first ship was Princess Luna x King Sombra… um.. I guess I had a thing for the good guy outcast x villain? I dunno I thought they looked cute together. Also now that I’m thinking about it they might’ve been my Bi awakening- they were both datable- oops- (also Luna>>>>Celestia)

Last song- Control by Halsey… is it a bad thing this song is my childhood?

Currently reading- Fnaf- the twisted ones. (Yes I know I’m a little late to the party, no I do not care)

Currently watching- I’m rewatching Sonic Prime if that counts? But aside from that I’ve got like three shows that I started (sonic boom, sonic X and My Hero Academia [that’s sure a mix]).

Currently consuming- nothing. It’s eleven pm. but I am kinda hungry.

Currenty craving- food. /j probably doing art. I’m gonna go create some drawn p0rn after I’m done with this :]

Tagging- no one, I have no mutuals 🥲

[multishipper-baby]

Fred, Joy y Cami para el coso de personajes(?

Amo a Fred, mi querido blorbo extraño de la dimensión de sombras <3 Aunque debo decir que Eddo pudo haber hecho muchísimo más con él. A pesar de todo su tiempo en pantalla, realmente no tuvo la oportunidad de desarrollar dinámicas con el resto de los animatrónicos- ni tampoco se utilizó mucho el hecho de que la banda no supiera de su existencia.

Anyway- he deserves better.

Tbh Joy nunca me gustó particularmente (en realidad la primera vez que ví la serie la odiaba xd). Después de que avanzará la serie le agarre cariño, pero eso fue más que nada por su relación con Bon y Meg que por ella misma como personaje. Siento que merece más, considerando que se supone que sea el interés romántico del prota.

Igual tengo que admitir, en los inicios del fandom... Muchos fans la detestaban hasta un punto absurdo y that's not good. She deserves better x2.

Cami mi hija, Cami my beloved. Cuando apenas la presentaron no me convenció pero rápidamente se volvió mi chica favorita la verdad uwu No tuvo suficiente tiempo para brillar (como muchos personajes de FHS rip) but con lo que llegamos a ver tiene mucho potencial.

Me encanta su dinámica con Eak y Towntrap. Adoro que sea el crush de Freddy y siento que Freddami debería ser canon king. Su canción me dejó mucha intriga acerca de su pasado. El control que tiene sobre la magia y el hecho de que se implica que Owynn la tiene bajo amenaza la vuelve un personaje muy intrigante. 10/10 Best girl.

[sunburstkisser]

King Sombra x Chai Spice | Self Ship Sensory Board for @spookyyships

They did the sketch in the middle and I lined it + added borders and stuff to it ^^

[blisterinballista]

ooughhhh babygirl you can call my ass cringe all you want but hooooooey i be unlocking hot demonic sexymen dudes that you wouldnt even fuckin dream of!

[the-literata-letters]

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T. A. – The Devil's Exilir ☐  HOFFMANN, E. T. A. – The Entail ☐  HOFFMANN, E. T. A. – Gambler's Luck ☐  HOGG, James – The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner ☐  HOLT, Victoria – Mistress of Mellyn ☐  HOLT, Victoria – Kirkland Revels ☐  HUGO, Victor – Notre-Dame de Paris ☐  HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl – Là-bas ☐  INGOLDSBY, Thomas – The Ingoldsby Legends ☐  IRVING, Washington – The Adventure of the German Student ☐  IRVING, Washington – "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – The Lottery ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – A Visit ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – The Haunting of Hill House ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – We Have Always Lived in the Castle ☐  JACOBS, W. W. – The Monkey's Paw ☐  JAMES, Henry – The Turn of the Screw ☐  JELINEK, Elfriede – Die Kinder der Toten ☐  LATHOM, Francis – The Midnight Bell ☐  le FANU, SHERIDAN – Uncle Silas ☐  le FANU, SHERIDAN – In a Glass Darkly ☐  le FANU, SHERIDAN – Carmilla ☐  LEE, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird ☐  LEIGH, Julia – The Hunger ☐  LEROUX, Gaston – Le Fantôme de l'Opéra ☐  LEVIN, Ira – The Stepford Wives ☐  LEWIS, Matthew Gregory – The Monk ☐  LEWIS, Matthew Gregory – The Castle Spectre ☐  MACHEN, Arthur – The Great God Pan ☐  MARRYAT, Florence – The Blood of the Vampire ☐  MARRYAT, Florence – The Phantom Ship ☐  MATURIN, Charles – Melmoth the Wanderer ☐  MEANEY, John – Bone Song ☐  MÉRIMÉE, PROSPER – La Vénus d'Ille ☐  MOORE, John – Zeluco ☐  MORRISON, Toni – Beloved ☐  NERVAL, Gérard de – Les Filles du feu ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – Bellefleur ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – Night-Side ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – A Bloodsmoor Romance ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – Mysteries of Winterthum ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – My Heart Laid Bare ☐  O'CONNER, Flannery – Wise Blood ☐  ODOEVSKY, Vladimir – Russian Nights ☐  PARKER, Gilbert – The Lane that Had No Turning, and Other Tales ☐  PARSONS, Eliza – The Castle of Wolfenbach ☐  PARSONS, Eliza – The Mysterious Warning ☐  PEACOCK, Thomas Love – Nightmare Abbey ☐  PEAKE, Mervyn – Gormenghast ☐  PHILLIPS, Arthur – Angelica ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "Berenice" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "Ligeia" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Fall of the House of Usher" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Masque of the Read Death" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Oval Portrait" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Pit and the Pendulum" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Black Cat" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Tell-Tale Heart" ☐  POTOCKI, Jan – The Manuscript Found in Saragossa ☐  PUSHKIN, Alexander – The Bridegroom ☐  PUSHKIN, Alexander – The Undertaker ☐  PUSHKIN, Alexander – The Queen of Spades ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – A Sicilian Romance ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – The Romance of the Forest ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – The Mysteries of Udolpho ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – The Italian ☐  RAY, Jean – Malpertuis ☐  ROCHE, Regina Maria – Clermont ☐  ROCHE, Regina Maria – The Children of the Abbey ☐  ROSTOPCHINA, Yevdokia Petrovna – Poedinok ☐  SETTERFIELD, Diane – The Thirteenth Tale ☐  SHELLEY, Mary – Frankenstein ☐  SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe – Zastrozzi ☐  SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe – St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian ☐  SLEATH, Eleanor – The Orphan of the Rhine ☐  STEVENSON, Robert Louis – Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ☐  STEWART, Mary – Nine Coaches Waiting ☐  STOKER, Bram – Dracula ☐  STOKER, Bram – The Lair of the White Worm ☐  STORM, Theodor – Der Schimmelreiter ☐  TARTT, Donna – The Secret History ☐  TARTT, Donna – The Little Friend ☐  THOMAS, Elisabeth – Catherine House ☐  URBAN, Miloš – Sedmikostelí ☐  WALPOLE, Horace – The Castle of Otranto ☐  WILDE, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray ☐  ZAFÓN, Carlos Ruiz – La sombra del viento

[miguelmarias]

TOP 2020

25/12/2020

 A)    Great movies made since 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Buoyancy(Freedom;Rodd Rathjen, 2019)

Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait(Emmanuel Mouret, 2020)

L’Île au trésor(Guillaume Brac, 2018)

Le Sel des larmes(Philippe Garrel, 2019/20)

Ghawre Bairey Aaj(Home and the World;Aparna Sen, 2019)

Undine(Christian Petzold, 2020)

Happī awā(Happy Hour;Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, 2015)

Netemo Sametemo(Asako I & II;Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, 2018)

Adolescentes(Sébastien Lifshitz, 2013-9/20)

Family Romance, LLC.(Werner Herzog, 2019)

Demain et tous les autres jours(Noémie Lvovsky, 2017)

Gamak Ghar(Achal Mishra, 2019)

Lunana:A Yak in the Classroom(Pawo Choyning Dorji, 2019)

Semina il vento(Sow the Wind;Danilo Caputo, 2020)

Objector(Molly Stuart, 2019)

La France contre les robots(Jean-Marie Straub, 2020)

Paris Calligrammes(Ulrike Ottinger, 2019/20)

Un film dramatique(Éric Baudelaire, 2019)

 B)    Great movies made before 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Là-Haut, un Roi au-dessus des nuages(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 2003)

Pangarap ng Puso(Demons/Whispers of the Demon/Hope of the Heart;Mario O’Hara, 2000)

Les Films rêvés(Eric Pauwels, 2009)

La vida en rojo(Andrés Linares, 2007/8)

Come Next Spring(R.G. Springsteen, 1955/6)

Song of Surrender(Mitchell Leisen, 1948/9)

Adventure in Manhattan(Edward Ludwig, 1936)

Strannaia zhenshchina(A Strange Woman;Iuli Raízman, 1978)

Chastnaia zhízn(Private Life;Iuli Raízman, 1982)

Málva(Vladimir Braun, 1956/7)

Zhila-byla devochka(Once There Was a Girl;Viktor Eisimont, 1944)

The Unknown Man(Richard Thorpe, 1951)

Aisai Monogatari(Story of a Beloved Wife;Shindō Kaneto, 1951)

Practically Yours(Mitchell Leisen, 1944)

A Summer Storm(Robert Wise, 1999/2000)

Lettre d’un cinéaste à sa fille(Eric Pauwels, 2000)

Sombra verde(Untouched;Roberto Gavaldón, 1954)

Fantasma d’amore(Dino Risi, 1981)

Adieu, Mascotte(Das Modell vom Montparnasse;Wilhelm Thiele, 1929)

Mori no kajiya(The Blacksmith of the Forest;Shimizu Hiroshi, 1928/9;fragment)

Zwischen Gestern und Morgen(Between Yesterday and Tomorrow;Harald Braun, 1947)

Last Holiday(Henry Cass, 1950)

Dialogue d’ombres(Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 1954-2013)

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man(Jonas Mekas, 2012)

Nice Time(Claude Goretta & Alain Tanner, 1957)

Aloma of the South Seas(Alfred Santell, 1941)

A Feather in Her Hat(Alfred Santell, 1935)

La Danseuse Orchidée(Léonce Perret, 1928)

Underground(Vincent Sherman, 1941)

Time Out(in Twilight Zone-The Movie)(John Landis, 1983)

Lackawanna Blues(George C. Wolfe, 2005)

Janie(Michael Curtiz, 1944)

Dernier Amour(Léonce Perret, 2016)

Jeunes Filles en détresse(Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1939)

Kisapmata(Blink of an Eye;Mike De Leon, 1981)

La Dernière Lettre(Frederick Wiseman, 2002)

The Lady of the Dig-Out(W.S. Van Dyke II, 1918)

Their Own Desire(E.Mason Hopper, 1929)

 C)    Very good movies made since 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Zumiriki(Oskar Alegria, 2019)

Atlantique(Mati Diop, 2019)

J’accuse(An Officier and A Spy;Roman Polanski, 2019)

Richard Jewell(Clint Eastwood, 2019)

Alice et le Maire(Nicolas Pariser, 2019)

Contes de Juillet(July Tales;Guillaume Brac, 2017)

Dark Waters(Todd Haynes, 2019)

Ofrenda a la tormenta(Fernando González Molina, 2020)

Nomad:In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin(Werner Herzog, 2019)

Into the Inferno(Werner Herzog, 2016)

The Zookeeper’s Wife(Niki Caro, 2017)

Journal de septembre(Eric Pauwels, 2019)

La Deuxième Nuit(Eric Pauwels, 2016)

Kaze no denwa(Voices in the Wind;Suwa Nobuhiro, 2019/20)

Da 5 Bloods(Spike Lee, 2020)

Izaokas(Isaac;Jurgis Matulevičius, 2019)

A Metamorfose dos Pássaros(Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020)

Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari(To the Ends of the Earth;Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 2019)

La Nuit d’avant(Pablo García Canga, 2019)

My Mexican Bretzel(Nuria Giménez, 2018-9)

Domangchin yeoja(The Woman Who Ran;Hong Sang-soo, 2019/20)

Öndög(Wang Quanan, 2019)

Hatsukoi(First Love;Miike Takashi, 1959)

Million raz pogivaet odin Cheloviek(One man dies a million times;Jessica Oreck, 2018/9)

The Two Popes(Fernando Meirelles, 2019)

Félicité(Alain Gomis, 2016/7)

Salt and Fire(Werner Herzog, 2016)

Ni de lian(Your Face;Tsai Ming-liang, 2018)

Qi qiu(Balloon;Pema Tseden, 2019)

River Silence(Rogério Soares, 2019)

Charlie’s Angels(Elizabeth Banks, 2019)

La boda de Rosa(Iciar Bollain, 2020)

Guerra(War;José Oliveira & Marta Ramos, 2020)

My Thoughts Are Silent/Moyi dumky tykhi(Antonio Lukich, 2019)

Namo(The Alien;Nader Saeivar;co-script-Jafar Panahi, 2020)

Los silencios(The Silences;Beatriz Seigner, 2018)

Terminal Sud(Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, 2019)

Tu mérites un amour(You Deserve a Lover;Hafsia Herzi, 2019)

Les Misérables(Ladj Ly, 2019)

Padre no hay más que uno(Santiago Segura, 2019)

Honeyland(Tamara Kotovska & Ljubomir Stefanov, 2019)

Izbrisana(Erased;Miha Mazzini & Dusan Joksimovic, 2018)

This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection(Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2019)

Primero Enero(Darío Mascambroni, 2016)

Lahi, Hayop(Pan, Genus/Genus Pan;Lav Diaz, 2020)

 D)    Very good movies made before 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Topaze(Marcel Pagnol, 1936)

The SIGN OF THE RAM(John Sturges, 1947/8)

Abandoned(Joseph M. Newman, 1949)

Bewitched(Arch Oboler, 1944/5)

La Femme du Bout du Monde((Jean Epstein, 1937)

The Outcast(William Witney, 1954)

Saadia(Albert Lewin, 1953)

Un monde sans femmes(Guillaume Brac, 2011)

Dishonored Lady(Robert Stevenson, 1947)

Always Goodbye(Signey Lanfield, 1938)

A Blueprint for Murder(Andrew L. Stone, 1953)

Bedevilled(Mitchell Leisen, 1955)

That Forsyte Woman(Compton Bennett, 1949)

The Miracle(Irving Rapper, 1959)

The Madonna’s Secret(Wilhelm Thiele, 1946)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown(Charles B. Pierce, 1976)

Grayeagle(Charles B. Pierce, 1977)

Barricade(Peter Godfrey, 1949/50)

Tomorrow is Forever(Irving Pichel, 1945/6)

David Harum(James Cruze, 1934)

The Vanquished(Edward Ludwig, 1953)

Keisatsukan(Uchida Tomu, 1933)

...Enfants des courants d’air(Édouard Luntz, 1959, short)

The Winds of Autumn(Charles B. Pierce, 1976)

Suddenly It’s Spring(Mitchell Leisen, 1946)

Uchūjin Tōkyō ni arawaru(Warning from Space;Shima Kōji, 1956)

Swiss Family Robinson(Edward Ludwig, 1940)

Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern(Wilhelm Dieterle, 1930)

Faithless(Harry Beaumont, 1932)

Botan-dorō(Peony Lanterns;Yamamoto Satsuo, 1968)

Ginza 24 chou(Tales of Ginza;Kawashima Yūzō, 1955)

Goodbye Again(Michael Curtiz, 1933)

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea(D.W. Griffith, 1909)

You Gotta Stay Happy(H.C. Potter, 1948)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams(Werner Herzog, 2010)

Riff-Raff(Ted Tetzlaff, 1947)

The Moon is Down(Irving Pichel, 1943)

The Bride Wore Boots(Irving Pichel, 1946)

Adventures in Silverado(Phil Karlson, 1948)

The Stolen Ranch(William Wyler, 1926)

Congo Maisie(H.C. Potter, 1940)

Marcides(Mercedes;Yousry Nasrallah, 1993)

Hell’s Five Hours(Jack L. Copeland, 1958)

Daniel(in Stimulantia;Ingmar Bergman, 1967)

Diên Biên Phú(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1992)

Canyon River(Cattle King;Harmon Jones, 1956)

Dos Basuras(Kurt Land, 1958)

Smart Girls Don’t Talk(Richard L. Bare, 1948)

The Big Shakedown(John Francis Dillon, 1933/4)

Corvette K-225(Richard Rosson;p.,collab.Howard Hawks, 1943)

The Gay Deception(William Wyler, 1935)

The Invisible Woman(A.Edward Sutherland, 1940)

Rage in Heaven(W.S. Van Dyke II;collab.Robert B. Sinclair,Richard Thorpe, 1941)

Wild Side(Sébastien Lifshitz, 2004)

I bambini e noi(Luigi Comencini, 1970//7)

The House Across The Street(Richard L. Bare, 1948/9)

The Doughgirls(James V. Kern, 1944)

The Love Trap(William Wyler, 1929)

Torch Song(Charles Walters, 1953)

The Meanest Man in the World(Sidney Lanfield, 1942/3)

Cole Younger, Gunfighter(R.G. Springsteen, 1958)

Ballerine(Gustav Machatý, 1936)

Via Mala(Josef von Báky, 1945//8)

Sky Giant(Lew Landers, 1938)

Les Invisibles(Sébastien Lifshitz, 2012)

Promène toi donc tout nu(Emmanuel Mouret, 1998)

A Story for the Modlins(Una historia para los Modlin;Sergio Oksman, 2012)

Something in the Wind(Irving Pichel, 1947)

Spoveď(Confession;Pavol Skýkova, 1968)

Guilty Hands(W.S. Van Dyke II;collab.Lionel Barrymore, 1931)

Atto di accusa(Giacomo Gentilomo, 1950)

Suspense(Frank Tuttle, 1956)

This Is The Night(Frank Tuttle, 1932)

Escape in the Fog(Oscar ‘Budd’ Boetticher,Jr., 1945)

The Price of Fear(Abner Biberman, 1956)

Happy People:A Year in the Taiga(Werner Herzog, 2010)

Urok(The Lesson;Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov, 2014)

Le Naufragé(Guillaume Brac, 2009)

Lili Marlen(Peter Mihálik;script.Dušan Hanák, 1970;short)

Deseo(Antonio Zavala Kugler, 2013)

  E)     Great movies that improved by new watchings: 

Shanghai Express(Josef von Sternberg, 1932)

The Best Years of Our Lives(William Wyler, 1946)

Till We Meet Again(Frank Borzage, 1944)

Man’s Favorite Sport?(Howard Hawks, 1963/4)

Along The Great Divide(Raoul Walsh, 1951)

Hondo(John V. Farrow, 1953)

Where The Sidewalk Ends(Otto Preminger, 1950)

Mrs. Miniver(William Wyler, 1942)

Driftwood(Allan Dwan, 1947)

‘Good-bye, My Lady’(William A. Wellman, 1956)

Touch of Evil(Preview version, 1975;not later ‘improvements’)(Orson Welles, 1958)

Le Crabe-Tambour(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1977)

Unfinished Business(Gregory LaCava, 1941)

Madigan(Don Siegel, 1968)

Big Business(James Wesley Horne;s.Leo McCarey, 1929)

Putting Pants on Philip(Clyde A. Bruckman;s.Leo McCarey, 1927)

The Runner Stumbles(Stanley Kramer, 1979)

Yushima no Shiraume(Romance at Yushima;Kinugasa Teinosukē, 1955)

David Harum(Allan Dwan, 1915)

The Virginian(Cecil B. DeMille, 1914)

Island in the Sky(William A. Wellman, 1953)

All About Eve(Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

L’Eclisse(Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)

The Roaring Twenties(Raoul Walsh, 1939)

The Plainsman(Cecil B. DeMille, 1936)

JLG/JLG-Autoportrait de décembre(Jean-Luc Godard, 1994)

‘Je vous salue, Marie’(Hail Mary;Jean-Luc Godard, 1984)

La Roue(Abel Gance, 1923)

They All Laughed(Peter Bogdanovich, 1981)

Innocent Blood(John Landis, 1992)

An American Werewolf in London(John Landis, 1981)

The Thing Called Love(Peter Bogdanovich, 1993)

Into the Night(John Landis, 1985)

The File On Thelma Jordon(Thelma Jordon;Robert Siodmak, 1949)

The Little American(Cecil B. DeMille, 1917)

In Our Time(Vincent Sherman, 1944)

The Hunters(Dick Powell, 1958)

Phase IV(Saul Bass, 1974)

L’Honneur d’un Capitaine(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1982)

Backfire(Vincent Sherman, 1948//50)

Five(Arch Oboler, 1951)

Somewhere in the Night(Joseph L. Mankiewiz, 1946)

A Man Alone(Ray Milland, 1955)

Die Geiger von Florez(Paul Czinner, 1926)

Living on Velvet(Frank Borzage, 1934/5)

La Recta provincia(Raúl Ruiz, 2007//15)

La Noche de enfrente(Raúl Ruiz, 2012)

Carrie(Sister Carrie;William Wyler, 1951/2)

The Spiral Staircase(Robert Siodmak, 1945/6)

The Paradine Case(Alfred Hitchcock, 1947)

L’Amore(Una voce umana+Il Miracolo)(Roberto Rossellini, 1947/8)

The Heiress(William Wyler, 1949)

 F)     Very good movies watched again 

Bluebeard’s 10 Honeymoons(W.Lee Wilder, 1960)

The Five Pennies(Melville Shavelson, 1958)

Take a Letter, Darling(Mitchell Leisen, 1942)

Escape(Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1948)

Appassionatamente(Giacomo Gentilomo, 1954)

Así como habían sido(Trío)(Andrés Linares, 1986/7)

San Antone(Joseph Kane, 1953)

The High and the Mighty(William A. Wellman, 1954)

Taki no Shiraito(The Water Magician;Mizoguchi Kenji, 1933)

The Web(Michael Gordon, 1947)

The Buccaneer(Anthony Quinn;s.Cecil B. DeMille, 1958)

The Buccaneer(Cecil B. DeMille, 1938)

Desire Me(uncredited:George Cukor/Jack Conway/Mervyn LeRoy/Victor Saville, 1946)

Flaxy Martin(Richard L. Bare, 1948/9)

Swing High, Swing Low(Mitchell Leien, 1937)

Death Takes A Holiday(Mitchell Leisen, 1934)

Irene(Herbert Wilcox, 1940)

Beloved Enemy(H.C. Potter, 1936)

The Cowboy and the Lady(H.C. Potter, 1938)

Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam(Paul Wegener, 1920)

Mia madre(Nanni Moretti, 2015)

Hell On Frisco Bay(Frank Tuttle, 1955)

Stormy Weather(Andrew L. Stone, 1943)

The Milky Way(Leo McCarey;w.Harold Lloyd, 1936)

Pietà per chi cade(Mario Costa, 1954)

Repeat Performance(Alfred L. Werker, 1947)

Das indische Grabmal:1.Die Sendung des Yoghi,2.Der Tiger von Eschnapur(Joe May, 1921)

Julie(Andrew L. Stone, 1956)

The Member of the Wedding(Fred Zinnemann, 1953)

Winterset(Alfred Santell, 1936)

The Right to Romance(Alfred Santell, 1933)

As Young as You Feel(Harmon Jones, 1951)

You’ll Never Get Rich(Sidney Lanfield, 1941)

The Woman Accused(Paul Sloane, 1933)

Foma Gordeiev(Mark Donskoí, 1959)

The Parent Trap(David Swift, 1961)

High Wall(Curtis Bernhardt, 1947)

Mr. Lucky(H.C. Potter, 1943)

Un Marido de Ida y Vuelta(Luis Lucia, 1957)

The Safecracker(Ray Milland, 1957/8)

She’s Funny That Way(Peter Bogdanovich, 2014)

Oh...Rosalinda!!(Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1955)

Caribbean(Edward Ludwig, 1952)

Harper(The Moving Target;Jack Smight, 1966)

For You I Die(John Reinhardt, 1947)

Crashing Hollywood(Lew Landers, 1937/8)

Le Souvenir d’un avenir(Chris. Marker & Yannick Bellon, 2001)

Susan Slept Here(Frank Tashlin, 1954)

Bishkanyar Deshot(In the Land of Poison Women;Manju Borah, 2019)

Pollyanna(David Swift, 1960)

A Tale of Two Cities(Jack Conway;collab.Val Lewton & Jacques Tourneur, 1935)

Café Society(Woody Allen, 2016)

Shadow on the Wall(Patrick Jackson, 1949/50)

Tonnerre(Guillaume Brac, 2013)

Le Jouet criminel(Adolfo G. Arrieta, 1969)

‘Once more, with feeling!’(Stanley Donen, 1959)

The Shopworn Angel(H.C. Potter, 1938)

The Absent Minded Professor(Robert Stevenson, 1961)

Gavaznha(The Deer;Masud Kimiai, 1974)

[sh4dowcrysta1]

Darkrose AU - Pt 2 - The Shadow Realm & the Umbra Empire

[Image above depicting the old Umbra empire flag]

The shadow realm

The shadow realm is accessible by ice diving, the practice of going deep beneath the ice. Ice diving isn't the safest option, since when you break the barrier between the current realm and shadow realm you'll instantly be falling through the sky. The best or most efficient way to travel in the shadow realm is with alicorn magic or protective magic.

The shadow realm carries the blizzardous conditions of the Arctic permanently. Once every 5-7 years, a lunar eclipse prevents a blizzard for about 30 minutes during totality, before the snow begins to pick up again.

The constant blizzardous conditions sometimes create Snownadoes, snow-iccanes, and even snow lightning storms. it's quite bizarre for newcomers, but it makes conditions dangerous for pegasi to fly around in, and particularly heinous to earth ponies without the endurance to such conditions.

The shadow realm also has an extremely powerful magic presence, causing dark clouds and many cracks in the ice of the Arctic above, some say it influenced the size of Mount ever-hoof.

The Umbra Empire

Originally, the occupants of the shadow realm were horrifying abstract faces, originally just called the umbra. one day, one of these abstract figures trailed out of the shadow realm, and turned to stone in fear of the light. This abstract shape gained wings in their statue.

written in Umbrian history books alone, the story goes that a pure-hearted unicorn took the scared statue from its place in the cold Arctic, and took it back home with her. The statue couldn't hold its form, so the unicorn cast a strong spell to give this umbra a pegasus form. The two eventually fell in love, and by miracle, both had a queen umbra, which took the shape of a powerful alicorn.

The child was named Crimson, later to be known as Queen Crimson. Queen Crimson is known for giving the realm's citizens their shape and giving the realm such a strong magic presence that it changes the ponies who enter.

Queen Crimson grew tired of the crystal ponies living above them in the light, and when the crystal ponies did not let them share the light, not only was the crystal heart created, but a war sparked between the two species. The crystal ponies came out victorious, and sealed Queen Crimson away inside a red crystal, but not before she could plant the seeds for the Umbra's new leader, who would later be known as King Sombra.

[mysteriathealicorn]

”Sombra!” Spirit shouted as the mist began to settle around them, all Spirit needed was a little cover up...cover up to take out the soldiers that protected their so called leader. Spirit once lead these people into battle...but he would have never guess the cause behind it. His holden hues eyed Sombra from a distance, he didn’t need his armor at this time...all he needed were his blades and his wings.

”Is that the voice of one of my most beloved generals?” The king said with a smirk as he turned to face the silver winged stallion.

”Oh wait...I forgot...you abandoned these people...I really should be thanking you, the crystal ponies had too much hope...but as soon as you left...their hope was shattered and their souls were too easy to break!” Sombra laughed wickedly, he didn’t budge...Spirit was ready to strike and Sombra seemed as though he knew that Spirit was planning this...

So many thoughts ran through Spirit’s mind, but the only emotion that could be seen was anger and hatred toward a man he once considered a brother.

”I have not abandoned the crystal ponies! You were the one who decided to tell them I left them! You tarnished my name so you could destroy what little hope they had left!” Spirit barked out, quickly lifting his wings in the air as he rushed toward Sombra who stood there with a smirk on his lips.

[omegaimperium]

Discord was killed by King Sombra in the “Beginning of the end” events.

Princess Eris: Alright, i must search a bat to enjoy this!

Baast: Finally i will be be with my beloved. 

Cosmos: His body is still hot, so I have a chance-

Princess Eris and Baast: ... 

Cosmos: What?

Princess Eris: Stay away of my cousin!

Discord actually faked his death.

Princess Eris and Baast: Goddammit!

Cosmos: Well, i must follow my plan to kill Fluttershy, so... goodbye.

Baast: Wait, don´t leave me behind. 

[kingsombrasbride]

Reddit isn’t working

I don’t know why, but I can’t access my subreddit or the waifuism subreddit. I think it’s a problem with the system. Ah well, I’ll just post here. 

Anyway, one thing I’m looking forward to is the MLP G5 special that’s coming up. I liked the movie quite a bit, so I’m excited to see what adventures the new characters will go on next. But I’m also hoping for the return of my beloved Sombra, and I have some evidence that makes me think he could actually be appearing in G5.

First, in the ANG movie, we see that there are lots of crystals in the forest that is now the unicorns’ homeland. The movie gives us no reason for this, but I feel like it may at least be a reference to the Crystal Empire of G4, which of course was ruled by Sombra. 

Second, we got a leak a few months back of an online description for a Sunny Starscout toy that mentioned King Sombra. What was interesting was that the listing for the toy was removed a day after it was discovered by Equestria Daily, which leads me to believe that this was information we weren’t meant to see yet.

Finally, something definitely happened to Equestria that caused the old civilization to fall and the three pony tribes to be driven apart. King Sombra was able to break the spirits of the crystal ponies in G4, and wipe their memories. It is very likely that he would be capable of doing this to Equestria again if he was given another chance. 

Because G5 is in the same universe as G4, and because it would be easier for Hasbro to use an already trademarked character than to trademark a new one, I don’t think it’s unlikely at all that Sombra might come back. The G5 tie in comic series has been revealed to feature Discord’s return in its upcoming issues, so this could even pave the way for a future appearance of Sombra.

Probably just wishful thinking on my part, but either way I’m excited for the upcoming special.

[duckyfruitbat]

Why Redeem Them?

Years ago, I used to be a brony.  I loved the show, the characters, the cute little stories and just the plain fun I had watching.  My favorite character was Pinkie Pie, I identified with Fluttershy, with me also being a social introvert who would rather stay inside my cottage and have some tea with close friends.  I was just fine with the end seasons big episodes that would introduce a big bad, mostly because at that point the series was 90% mundane slice of life issues.  That is until season five introduced us to the map and Starlight Glimmer.  I was fine with the map, cause throughout season five the issues still remained confined to family feuds, and small things like bringing the community together by putting on a play open to the public.  At first I didn’t mind Starlight Glimmer, because she was introduced to us as the final boss of the season.  She was still a villain, and a pretty vile one.  The season finale is what began the downfall for me.  

I watched the episode seeing Twilight trying to reason with Starlight, and failing several times.  What I thought was gonna happen was that Starlight would be defeated and given one million years dungeon for crimes against the whole dang world.  That didn’t happen, what did happen was that twilight managed to talk her down and we got her villain back story.  That being she lost contact with one friend, that’s it.  The episode ended with her being “redeemed” and I was disappointed, but hey at that point we already had sunset shimmer and she was much beloved so I decided to give Starlight a chance.  

She then became the base breaking character of the series who would lash out for small reasons, nearly throwing the kingdom into turmoil, trying to kill Discord, and creepily turning her childhood friend into a child.  Oh yeah, and selling Trixie’s home without permission.

I decided to take a break from the show because I found Starlight exhausting and then I heard that the show did it again by redeeming the boring villain in the movie, and by redeeming a goddamn eldritch being.

So I just stopped, I closed my laptop and later just unsubscribed from anything pony, I was simply done with the show.  Then it happened in another show I was watching, Steven Universe, which I did a deeper analysis of White Diamond on a previous post.

So with that long ass intro out of the way I gotta ask, why did cartoons of the 2010′s decide it was best to redeem the villains.  I’ve heard that it was because these were kids shows and that they can’t kill the villains.  I call bull on that, The Powerpuff Girls regularly killed the monster of the week and yes they were sentient some of who had conversations with the girls and referred to each other by name.  Teen Titans had Slade burn in a lava pit, Star Wars may be rated for an older audience but kids watch those movies all the time.  These kids saw Anakin burn alive after his limbs got chopped off, and they saw Darth Vader die after his life support failed.  The wicked witches from The Wizard of Oz got crushed and dissolved, there is also nearly every Disney villain in the mainline movies, kids can handle villains dying.  

Even My Little Pony killed off a couple of villains, King Sombra, and the fun villain from the movie, we later see other ponies dancing on his corpse in the credits.  

I feel like there was some sort of internal shift in the industry towards the idea that kids can’t handle death without any evidence.  All the redemptions came at a cost to the story, mlp only got frustrating for me as time went on and Steven Universe made me turn on the series in the last few episodes.   I can only imagine the backlash if the most diabolical and disgusting villains in Star Wars got redeemed, but that would never happen, it would be even worse if say that villain was then paired with a character he actively antagonized torture and tried to kill several times and has successfully killed her friends, allies, and his own dad.  Now that would be ridiculous and aren’t we glad that that has never happened...

[shiroe-is-my-baby]

♡ Ship Names - Masterpost ♡

Just my long list of ship names that I had to remake because I hadn’t touched the other in a while and I needed to clean it up. Anyway, here we go! IT will also include their tags as well, in case you were curious! Some of them don’t have ship names or tags yet, but it’s only a few.

Romantic

♡ Shirey - my husband (Shiroe)

♡ Ashuna - my wife (Asuna)

♡ Stitched souls - my mad scientist (Stein)

♡ Hacked my heart - hacker husband (Saeyoung)

♡ Juley - my juju (Jumin)

♡ Spellbound - my beloved wizard (Strange)

♡ Raider of my soul - my goddess (Lara)

♡ Blooming love - sweet teddy bear (Maes)

♡ Ashuki - smol bean wife (Akatsuki)

♡ Food for the soul - chef husband (Kojiro)

♡ Imaginative souls - my knight (Satoru)

♡ Trust in me - victor baby (Victor Frankenstein)

♡ Stand by your side - van (Abraham Van Helsing)

♡ Love in the wrong time - lee (Lee Everett)

♡ Queen of games - pharaoh husband (Atem)

♡ Pearls and shotgun shells - my rugged husband (Booker)

♡ ship for riza to be decided

♡ Gothic moonlight - goth dad(dy) graves (Graves)

♡ Fight for us - snarky scientist (Mitch)

♡ From blood to lust and love - sexy demon boyfriend (Claude)

♡ Monstrous love - monster prom bois

♡ Light of my universe - my kamina, my simon (Kamina & Simon)

♡ Silver & Amethyst - my iggy (Ignis)

♡ Forbidden love - enforcer husband (Kogami)

♡ Ginley - my ginny (Ginoza)

♡ We’re a team - my big bad wolf (Bigby)

♡ Kyanley - tag (Kyanna)

♡ Interstellar dreams - stellar gf (Celeste)

♡ My lucky clover - kent

♡ Unbreakable bond - toma

♡ ship for ron to be decided - reaper boyfriend (Ronald)

♡ Need to have you - Bard (Baldroy)

♡ Battle of hearts - my king (Reisi)

♡ Queen of megane - harem bois (my ocs)

♡ Love beneath the sea - mermaid girlfriend (my oc)

♡ Violet hearts - hacker girlfriend (Sombra)

♡ Pierce my soul - sniper bae (Widowmaker)

♡ Follow your lead - ragna

♡ Supreme romance - delia (Cordelia)

♡ Give me hope - my foxy (Foxy)

♡ Expresso lovers - my coffee (Coffee)

♡ Love like poison - vampire boyfriend (Reiji)

♡ Heroine of my dreams (Midnight)

♡ Crimson pining - calista (oc)

♡ Hunter and prey - cain (oc)

♡ Summoning your love - arael (oc)

OT3

♡ Shirashuki (Shiroe & Akatsuki)

♡ Jumaeley (Jumin & Saeyoung)

♡ Kogashoza (Kogami & Ginoza)

♡ Light of my universe (Kamina & Simon)

Platonic

✩ Big sis marielle

✩ Idiot bud naotsugu

✩ Buncha nerds (all log horizon platonics) or log horizon fam

✩ Yoosungie (Yoosung)

✩ Snark dad (Tony)

✩ Friend the death scythe (Spirit)

✩ Best friend yoko

✩ Stud muffin yug (Yugi)

✩ Prompto

✩ Chlo (Chloe)

✩ Buddy jacks (Jackson)

✩ Ant friend (Scott)

✩ My bestie deadpool (Wade)

[marvelandponder]

Yes, I Mean Aside From the Fact that She Doesn’t Exist

Before you say it, you observant fans you, Daybreaker is just a product of Starlight’s nightmares. Not even Celestia’s herself, which could arguably reveal some deep perception of her greatest faults, but in fact Starlight’s imagination run wild.

I chose the title knowing I’d get that sass (and people who comment before reading), and I’ve made my peace with that.

What I really wanted to examine this summer solstice was, as FimFiction’s Dusk Raven put it, how to break the day (by the way, the topic of the editorial was definitely heavily inspired *cough cough* by the premise of that story, and while I’m going to avoid just straight up ripping off Dusk’s idea for how it could happen, I suggest you check it out if you’d like a good read).

What would break Princess Celestia? How has she stayed strong for so many years in the face of tragedy, heartbreak, and was there ever a temptation to give into those feelings?

Celestia’s a Loser

I of course mean that in the Guardians of the Galaxy sense: a character whose lost a lot.

Only Luna’s isolation could rival Celestia for just how tragic she is. I said in this editorial that in a show called Friendship is Magic, exile is the worst punishment imaginable, but the sheer number of ponies Celestia’s had to lose that were important to her is heartbreaking.

Her mentor, Starswirl the Bearded. Her sister, Luna. Her lover, the Good King Sombra (in the Reflections arc, which I seriously need to stop bringing up...). Her (unfaithful) student, Sunset Shimmer. 

And, to a smaller but still meaningful degree, her most faithful student, Twilight.

And lest we forget the fact that being immortal and/or having a long lifespan inevitably means the loss of thousands of friends.

I think more than anything else, these losses are what taught Celestia the value of friendship. 

She first seemed to know friendship in The Journal of the Two Sisters, during the time when she and Luna first became princesses and came under Starswirl’s tutelegde. Here, we the see the emergence of her sense of duty to her subjects, something that sticks with her throughout her entire life.

Later, the first issue of Legends of Magic depicts a young (seemingly teenage) Celestia: arrogant, insensitive, and hesitant to show the love and respect for her sister and mentor that’s really there. Quite the jump, but then again, teenagers have a lot on their plates and usually develop quite a lot from when they were younger.

So, while earlier depictions in The Journal of the Two Sisters actually heavily imply she was more like Twilight when she first took the throne (a worrier by nature, yet excited to take on the responsibility with a reverence), here we see an older Celestia whose perhaps a bit too used to her tiny crown and little shoes.

Would it be too on the nose to make comparisons to Icarus? ... Probably.

Next in the order of events, Discord takes over, and I think given the timing, it was Luna and Celestia’s love of their subjects and their kingdom that gave them enough to bond over to use the Elements. 

Discord may have initially taken advantage of the fact that at this time, the sisters would’ve been drifting apart---after all, it can’t be long after that Luna becomes Nightmare Moon (both were banished/trapped in stone for one thousand years). So even if their sisterly bond wasn’t as strong as we know it to be, they still managed to come together thanks to a love of how Equestria used to be before their lives got flipped, turned upside down.

Speaking of Nightmare Moon, I know some fans prefer to believe Nightmare Moon is 100% Luna’s fault, no nightmare forces or environmental factors about it. And while I think the choice and the blame should ultimately fall on her, there was a part of the original myth in episode one that was left out. How much Celestia noticed to growing bitterness and depression before it was too late.

Her Legends of Magic depiction implies that even if that teenage arrogance was a just a phase, Celestia’s inability to support her sister only contributed to her eventual downfall. That doesn’t mean she wasn’t supportive or kind at all, just that she couldn’t/didn’t help when Luna needed her.

Most of the blame absolutely still falls on Luna, but given the usual themes of the show, this makes sense as a cautionary tale of what can happen when love and friendship aren’t offered in someone’s time of need.

It’s still my thought that Celestia was able to use the Elements of Harmony by herself because she was acting for what was best for her sisters and her subjects (not just that she’s a one-pony friendship god who doesn’t need others to use the elements). The act of using the Elements of Harmony completely alone makes me think her reasons for using them were why she could pull that off.

And if that’s the case, it seems the biggest lessons she’s had to learn in friendship are how to let somepony go for their own or the greater good.

Just thinking about how many of her loved ones she’s lost or said goodbye to out of a sense of duty, you start to wonder what more could be done to break her spirit (or maybe that’s just me).

Humanize that Horse!

It took us 7 years to get a proper Celestia episode... 7 long years...

For the vast majority of the show, we’ve known Celestia as Twilight knows her. The wise, mysterious, kind, (if mischievous and cake-obsessed) mentor and leader to all Equestria. Because of that, we’ve relied mostly on her backstory and the hints scattered about in her appearances to infer the depths of her character.

She’s played such a nurturing role as a teacher that she’s become quite beloved in the fandom, but the demand for an episode always went hand in hand with the demand to further develop her character.

So, this season we began from a familiar place: her student-teacher relationship with Twilight. But for the first time since Celestia’s Ballad, we got to flip the perspective, and it was so refreshing! 

We’re so used to seeing Celestia put trust in Twilight to handle dire situations that it can be easy to assume she never worried about her or their relationship, but it’s heartwarming to know just how much Celestia loves her student. And that she even can get that worried, even if she knows Twilight (whose cutie mark is on the Tree of Harmony) could ultimately be somebody she places a lot of faith in.

In the past, I’ve felt that the IDW comics have often captured more emotion behind the royal sisters than the show has, but with this move, it’s starting to feel like a better balance.

Especially given her next appearance, in A Royal Problem. Here, the sisters have fallen back into the habit of unknowingly neglecting each other’s feelings because of their duties, but this time on a much smaller, less serious scale. 

Their sibling rivalry bond elevates it into a fight when it’s brought to their attention, but the solution of A Royal Problem is quite excellent in addressing the flaws fans are fed up with, and the true strengths of both of the royal sisters.

Celestia and Luna not doing enough has been a complaint in the fandom for a while. Even though they’re the countries leaders who by all means should be protected (the vast majority of world leaders aren’t on the battlefield), since they seem really powerful, we want to see them kick ass! Be heroes themselves! If they have the ability to help, it’d be a nice way to show they care at the very least.

But not being the focus of most of those types of stories... well, you’ve watched the show. Finding roles for them can be exceedingly difficult without either taking their power away to prove the severity of the threat.

But here, even when they can’t rely on their powers, Celestia and Luna prove a love for their subjects and for each other gives them the strength to fight on until the day is won. That, more than anything else, is Celestia’s greatest strength. As I’ve said in past editorials, she’ll do what’s right for her subjects and loved ones even at great cost to herself.

So, they’re proactive, capable, and ultimately extremely caring. Throw in a few kick ass show of power (which were illustrated by the dreamscape counterparts at least) and you have exactly what fans have been dying for for years!

Perhaps even more importantly, Celestia and Luna are given the freedom to be characters. They’re allowed to be a little bitter, they’re allowed to be a little anxious, and have minor, silly problems that they need perspective on. They’re both self-centered in their approach to connect with the other, which causes the conflict. Even immortal princesses are still ponies.

So, pardon the phrasing, these two episodes this season have been extremely humanizing. So, coming back to our question at the top, we now know very well that Celestia isn’t a perfect, untouchable goddess, and that things---whether they’re as big as losing a student or as small as her sister not having pancakes with her---can hurt her. She can feel broken.

But unlike the imaginary Daybreaker, Celestia’s managed to keep focus on what would really be best for her subjects by putting them before herself. Because of the sacrifices she’s had to make again and again, Celestia’s learned what it means to be a truly great leader.

What? Editorials? Pony editorials? Oh yeah, I’ve got those! I also have episode reviews (though they’re a biiit behind), and to split the difference, here, have the latest three things I’ve done:

Starswirl Theory, Dr. Wolf Reading of Theory, and Parental Glideance Review

Year of the Pony

Header Image Would Not Be Possible Without...

Daybreaker by Light262

Extremely talented artist right here! Known best for the kickass comic Timey Wimey, Light has got well composed, well-shaded art to spare. So if you’re in the mood to appreciate good pony art, go check out Light’s gallery!

Your Princess is in Another Castle: Canterlot Castle