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Ok uh.... Sorry my dudes I'm probably not gonna update again until Christmas. I'm very tired and I'm doing my best, but I've got presents to draw and secret Santas to work on

#sigh I'm sorry #I'm mad at myself for not #being able to do it #next year I'll have the updates done beforehand

He put my hair in his mouth

thank you @askspades for this deeply uncomfortable reply to my kiss meme!

After the new year Storm, Marble, Nitpick, and the others are moving to a new blog, here! [link]

Reblog this post and follow the new blog for a chance to win a full piece of art by me! I’m posting a new update every day until Christmas, which will likely be the last post at this particular blog. To New Beginnings!

#mlp #my little pony #mlp fim #my little pony friendship is magic #mlp ask blog #nitpick

I think it was confirmed by (Lauren Faust?) writers that all ungulates (hoofed mammals) are supposed to be sentient, although there's a lot of continuity issues between different writers that seem to forget this. It seems to be a thing however that anything non-pony seems to be viewed as lower life forms (ex. jokes/comments about donkeys and mules, the buffalo episode, hoofed farm animals being farmed like animals, Spike being treated like a borderline slave even though he's an "assistant").

So uh three things on this whole meat discourse because i feel like people take way more issue with this than there needs to be and i’m kinda tired of talking about it after i’ve made my point lol

1) Lauren Faust left the show more than five years ago, so i genuinely could not care less about anything she had to say about the show ever.

2) death of the author

3) these characters live in an MLP alternate universe of my own creation. I explained why I think ponies should eat meat, and I used evidence from the show AND REAL LIFE to support my point. I’m not asking you all to change ur vegan horses, just leave me alone about this alright? i dont..... i dont care. Like this isnt aimed just at you tumblr user equestrian-paranormal-society, but if anyone else is thinking of sending me messages relating to this topic sorry i dont really care.

please leave me alone about this now, i know why people think the ponies are vegetarians, i just really do not care

#i made my point several posts ago #leave me alone #prostitution is legal in my universe #why doesnt anyone care about that #again i'm not mad at anyone or anything #just leave me alone about the meat thing #i made my point #i dont care #sorry if this sounds mean #equestrian-paranormal-society

I think the problem many people have with ponies eating meat, is that the mlp universe is really bad at making it clear if any animals are strictly non-sentient. Eating baby back ribs, in their world, would be the same thing as... frankly the same as eating a child and excusing it by saying they were of a different race.. which somehow makes it even worse. I guess the Lion King gets away with it...

I actually did have this in mind which is why I didn’t go with my original thought: instead of a roast turkey, the main dish of nitpick’s childhood was a ham with cranberry sauce. I decided this was too far into the iffy territory.

We know that cows are sentient in the show. Cows have been shown to speak and communicate, as well as have names. They do however seem to be cared for by ponies and treated as a resource. We have no indication that they have houses or towns (though that would be very interesting)

Another creature we KNOW to be sentient are buffalo, who even have their own culture.

We have seen goats acting intelligently, though they seem incapable of speech. However they do appear to have agency and have jobs, even if they seem pretty dumb.

We see sheep, who are very similar to cows in the sense that they can speak and are intelligent, though they are still cared for by ponies and treated as livestock.

In the Crystal Empire, they also seem to lack agency and personal space as they appear in a petting zoo. Its entirely possible that they were asked beforehand but something about that seems unlikely, especially since it wasnt shown or ever implied.

Chickens dont talk or anything. One might say that they’ve got personalities and such, but all animals have personalities so I feel like that’s not much of a good example. The same goes for turkeys, birds seem to have no “higher intelligence” if you will. They’re just as smart as regular ol birds.

Another creature we never really see display any sort of sentience or smarts are pigs. They, interestingly, are drawn with the same sort of black dot eyes that farm birds in the show are.

in short i’d just like to say that we have no reason to believe that pigs or birds are sentient, and while i’m at it we have no evidence that FISH are sentient either.

#so anyway ye my pones eat meat #ask-lightning-n-dusk

I know i said i was gonna update every day until christmas but i’m gonna take tomorrow off bc i’m so fucking tired lol

To mod: your ponies eat meat?

mhm! Horses irl can eat meat, and honestly i think the insistence upon 100% pure herbivore ponies is kinda dumb? The idea that animals cleanly fit into binaries of “carnivore” and “herbivore” are uh.. again dumb and entirely based on humans trying to order everything. Horses have been known to kill and eat small animals, as well as eat all sorts of meat products. In the far north of europe fish are fed to horses for extra protein. The only reason irl horses shouldnt eat meat is really because their digestive systems are delicate and mold and stuff can be a problem, since horses cant vomit if they get sick.

I personally think that ponies eating meat is perhaps taboo, or looked down on. Especially red meat. In my universe ponies do eat meat, though in big cities and stuff its only on rare occasions. Storm comes from a seaside village where meats like mussels and fish are a staple of their diet.

#ponies in the show eat all sorts of animal products like cheese and milk and eggs #so them eating meat isnt really that far out of the realm of possibility.#Anonymous

After the new year Storm, Marble, Nitpick, and the others are moving to a new blog, here! [link]

Reblog this post and follow the new blog for a chance to win a full piece of art by me! I’m posting a new update every day until Christmas, which will likely be the last post at this particular blog. To New Beginnings!

#mlp #mlp: fim #my little pony #my little pony guard #mlp guard

view part 1 of this update here! [link]

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Twelve Days of Christmas Contest! Askaguardstallion is moving to a main account from a side account! There will be Three winners, and each winner will get a fully colored image of an oc of their choice.

The winners will get:

1. A full body pose, as complex as they want. Fully colored and shaded with simple background.

2. A full body simple pose, fully colored and shaded, no background

3. Simple bust, flat colors.

How to enter:

1. Follow askaguardstallion’s new location, which i will be moving to after the new year, here! [link]

2. Reblog any of the 12 days of christmas contest posts, I will be updating every day until Christmas, and ALL of these updates being reblogged count as a separate entry!

Happy Holidays, and Merry Hearthswarming!

#mlp #my little pony #mlp fim #my little pony friendship is magic #mlp guard #marble mix #12 days of christmas

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Twelve Days of Christmas Contest! Askaguardstallion is moving to a main account from a side account! There will be Three winners, and each winner will get a fully colored image of an oc of their choice.

The winners will get:

1. A full body pose, as complex as they want. Fully colored and shaded with simple background.

2. A full body simple pose, fully colored and shaded, no background

3. Simple bust, flat colors.

How to enter:

1. Follow askaguardstallion’s new location, which i will be moving to after the new year, here! [link]

2. Reblog any of the 12 days of christmas contest posts, I will be updating every day until Christmas, and ALL of these updates being reblogged count as a separate entry!

Happy Holidays, and Merry Hearthswarming!

#mlp #my little pony #mlp friendship is magic #my little pony guard #mlp guard #marble mix #this one is part 1 of this update

Fabulous, of course!

thank you @ask-treats-sweets for the ask<3

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Twelve Days of Christmas Contest! Askaguardstallion is moving to a main account from a side account! There will be Three winners, and each winner will get a fully colored image of an oc of their choice.

The winners will get:

1. A full body pose, as complex as they want. Fully colored and shaded with simple background.

2. A full body simple pose, fully colored and shaded, no background

3. Simple bust, flat colors.

How to enter:

1. Follow askaguardstallion’s new location, which i will be moving to after the new year, here! [link]

2. Reblog any of the 12 days of christmas contest posts, I will be updating every day until Christmas, and ALL of these updates being reblogged count as a separate entry!

Happy Holidays, and Merry Hearthswarming!

#mlp #mlp blog #my little pony blog #hearthswarming #christmas #nitpick #stormside #marble mix