#unicorns and pegasi

[shiftythrifting]

My roommate found this incredible dish set today! It was immediately purchased our guest will be eating from the finest china

[cracklewink]

Part 4/5 of my MLP Infection AU!!

This was the part I was most excited for, I literally drew this whole thing just to explain my fan pony species lol

[proxycrit]

(Creaturefies your ponies)

((Refuses to explain))

(((Leaves)))

[thebluelittlewitch2-thesequel]

Nah twilight you are short

[eggo-tistical]

they go neigh now

[arealtrashact]

I just LOVE your interpretation of Homelander so much. It's freaking genius, and all the ideas just what! awesome! God I'll pray you'll draw more The Boys fan art because it's breathtaking. So-so-so good. As the rest of your beautiful art. Thank you so much for the food.

Thank you ! I don't know that I'll draw new fan art for it (considering my luke-warm feelings towards season 3 and all it entailed) but I appreciate your kind words and I'm happy you like my pre-existing work ! I do have a surplus of WIPs from a few years ago, rotting on my old computer.

For now, here's something mildly cursed from fall of 2020

[junebugtwin]

*intro to My Little Pony Friendship is Magic starts playing except it gets more distorted every time a main character dies*

[palettepainter]

I could make the most random Muppet AU ever

[ablatheringblatherskite]

For me, it's a dragon 🥹

As always, reblog for more votes!!!

[papasmistakeria]

MLP Mane Six Elements of Harmony except it's the members of Tally Hall

[shiftythrifting]

Diamond art, a curious hoodie, and two very questionable figurines. British Heart Foundation, Derbyshire.

[a-h-li]

I saw some Alastor pony designs floating around and NEEDED to indulge my silly little obsession

[wall-e-gorl]

directly inspired by this tweet, except when i sat down to do it ponies came out instead of people. oops! enjoy!

[crownofbegonias]

listen if i enjoy something rest assured it will be pony-ified eventually

[amingethia]

I’m dooming you all to feast your eyes upon not just my MLP OC, but my ponysona. My true pony self.

Behold TJ as a pony.

Her special talent is animal training. Usually dogs but she’s branched out. Her tail is a mess because who has time to comb it when there are chores to do. Animals to feed. Treats to be given.

Anyway I love her

[the-owl-tree]

pbelase talk more abt mlp the idea of actually delving into stuff like what u posted is so interesting to me. sits with my chin in my hands and kicking my feet like we're at a sleepover. if u ever wanna infodump I'm Here

giggling twirling my hair and then taking out a massive binder of thoughts i've had since 2012

idk if you mean my thoughts on magic as a whole or on starlight but ur getting BOTH. big warning, i'm going to take this neon cartoon very seriously.

magic in g4 is wildly overpowered and there's this huge underlying inequality between the pegasi and earth ponies compared to the unicorns - which is reinforced in how the show portrays class, wealth, and nobility. The upperclass Canterlot consists mostly of unicorns, and nobility that hasn't earned their status and instead inherited it (Duke Blueblood). honestly, you could make the case that the unicorn's old role of raising the sun and moon (and therefor the crops) allowed them to maintain control over the earth ponies. In the few earth ponies we do see in Canterlot, they're mainly put in typically lower class associated physical intensive labor work. Notably, we see a group of earth ponies striking in one episode, implying that unions exist in order to prevent exploitation of these groups (notably, fancy pants speaks negatively about them because they're delaying a swan thing, a superfluous ceremony that is purely for fun and not at all necessary).

But back to magic! magic TRUMPS the other ponies' abilities. we see it can turn back time, control weather, give ponies super speed and strength, help them FLY?? anything a pegasi or earth can do, a unicorn with enough magic and training could arguably come in and do (perhaps even better than them!). When i used the example of the bakery in canterlot, i was drawing from the show. there's a scene where Starlight is able to ice a cake in seconds and Mrs. Cake asks if she's trying to put her out of business to which...yeah! could an earth pony be able to match that level of output in a unicorn dominated city? sure, someone brought up the idea of artisanal goods, but could that really compete with fast well crafted baked goods that take a fraction of the time an earth pony product would take? the answer is no. the artisanal goods would be the exception, not the norm.

Unicorns in general have a huge advantage in coordination, we see that they dominate the arts scene. They're capable of doing precise stitching for clothing, something that a pegasus or an earth pony would need to do by mouth and wouldn't be able to match the fine motor skills that magic can do. An earth pony can only sew by mouth, a unicorn without any magical training can sew multiple at once. They're at a huge disadvantage comparatively!

That leads us to Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, just unicorns. Earth ponies and pegasi are completely blocked out from attending a prestige academy headed by the queen of Equestria herself on the basis that they can't do magic. We know that Celestia uses the school to scope out proteges...but that means only unicorns are considered.

now this is where Starlight comes in and look. listen. i love a good hypocritical villain but if you want to claim that she has a point in the show, ur wrong. Cutie marks don't automatically make you good at something, they don't disqualify you from other talents, and they definitely aren't limited to talents (some are personality traits!). Most importantly, they're what makes you feel fulfilled and happy. Starlight's ideology is flawed and in the show, this is how it's portrayed, and that's good.

But gotdamn. her backstory suuuuuucckkss. you can't write your friend a letter? can't be a penpal? come on starlight try a little harder. I mean they hardly stay unequal, writer's pet- i mean starlight can little outpower an alicorn princess.

so like. if you want her to have a point, she should've been an earth pony against magic. Starburst goes to an academy she's barred from tending, letters that she has to write are cumbersome and difficult because she has to do it by mouth, a lot of her labor options are limited by her capabilities - i mean come on! listen to me people, the enemy isn't cutie marks, the enemy of g4 inequality is magic.