Dreams do come true!

sideblog for @the-snadger for any and all things pony related. | he/him | 24 lover of all gens! G3 is especially close to my heart. | always sfw but a little PG-13 SFW interaction only

[horse-time-babey]

🌙 Princess of the Night 🌌

There is no pony as dark and regal as the magnificent Princess Luna. A dreamwalking alicorn with the power to move celestial bodies, a troubled past, and a heart full of guilt and resolve to do better, she is mystifying and enchanting all the same. She feels more real than a cartoon character, like you might meet her dreamwalking in your own dreamscape. The lessons she brings to us are very tangibly real, and perhaps this is part of why she feels so real herself.

I love forboding, brooding ponies, as they take this cute, safe medium and use it to explore life’s harder emotions, while maintaining the pony design philosophy. I would like to see all manners of ponies designed around the trials and tribulations various people go through, personified. One reason I love My Little Pony is the morals— having a lesson given to you is a gift, so that you are more armed to combat mistakes and problems than you may otherwise find yourself. Sometimes we can only learn through experience, but it helps having fables in our heads to guide our moral compasses.

[horse-time-babey]

Two generations, two Art Fight attacks, one piece of paper cut in two💖

for @pandaren and @artofhaileyd respectively :)

[horse-time-babey]

a compilation of my short pony videos :) more are coming in the future!

[wyvilleijelli]

island delight

[pink-sharkz]

Consider. Skywishes and Star Catcher as Cadance's parents

[horse-time-babey]

What should this pony’s name be? I imagine the other ponies view her as rather morbid.

I considered trying to repaint the eyes but the socket is sculpted, so to look right they’d need to be equally tiny and I didn’t wanna do all that. Maybe I’ll change the eye color though 🤔

I wish I could have recorded the rooting process! But unfortunately that’s a two-handed job and I only got my phone holder yesterday, so most of this video is recorded by hand like all my previous videos. If I do more reroots though, I should be able to include rooting footage next time :) I only have a few hair colors to choose from for now though, so I’ve gotta work with what I’ve got.

[horse-time-babey]

My art may have changed a lot in the past 14 years, but the subject matter has certainly stayed consistent!

When I was just six or seven, I decided it was part of my life’s dream to work officially on My Little Pony. At the time, I wanted to animate for G3– but my mom realistically informed me that G3 wasn’t likely to continue into my adulthood. I still wish Hasbro would go back to it, the same way it goes back to G4 and G1 for nostalgia merch. Plus, imagine if we got remasters or continuations of G3’s stories! That world still feels so full of fun to share.

These days, I’m not thrilled with how Hasbro’s been moving. We’ve seen them dip their toe into AI usage for packaging, and I haven’t heard good reports from their employees, current and former. They also seem to just kinda be tossing the MLP IP around without much of a plan, or at least that’s what it looks like. I have hopes for this upcoming SDCC panel with Lauren Faust— even if they stick with G4, which isn’t what I want, if Lauren has anything to do with it we’re in much better hands. Hasbro’s best decision was putting the showrunning in the hands of a woman who grew up giving her ponies adventures. The best thing they could possibly do for the brand going forward is try that again. Even if I’m less antsy to get a job at Hasbro given their poor management, I still love My Little Pony and it’s still my dream to be an official part of the team someday.

[hellspawnsparks]

that's some hat trick, Magic Marigold!

[horse-time-babey]

Rainbow Dash THINKS she’s being subtle.

Ok but honestly I love fangirl Rainbow Dash. Sonic Rainboom is one of my top favorite MLP episodes ever, in part due to Rainbow’s adorable squealing over the Wonderbolts combined with her over-arrogance turned stage fright. I just can’t help but feel that S1 RD is a great representation of a young person who believes a show of confidence will get them where they want to be, only to find themself in over their head. I’ve definitely been in that situation when I was younger, and I love to see a pony going through a Relatable Situation.

I kind of wish Rainbow Dash spent more time as a fangirl and less time as a trainee/wonderbolt. I still want her to get into the academt, I still want her to achieve her goals, but I feel like it happened too early in the show. A common critique of G4 is that all the mane six’s arcs seem to complete long before the show itself ends, lending to a feeling of aimlessness. I think Rainbow’s induction into the Wonderbolts would have held more weight if they had gone about it differently. Plus, I mean… her first episode as a Wonderbolt is pretty painful. Poor pacing, jokes that don’t hit, and lots if intentional cringe-humor which… is not very widely palatable, at least not to the kind of audiences that watch MLP. I get that they were trying to show that just because you achieve your goals, doesn’t mean you won’t still have problems, but it just has the same problem of lots of mid-late show does in that it’s just not fun to watch. Compare that to Sonic Rainboom, where both Rainbow and Rarity are making poor, even cringeworthy decisions, but the pacing and cause-&-effects from it are all so gratifying in response. Yeah Rarity looks awful in her gaudy outfit, and she’s acting selfishly, but it feels good then to watch her pull an Icarus and plummet to the ground. But then of course since we don’t want to watch Rarity actually get hurt, it was extra satisfying to watch Rainbow Dash overcome her fears and go straight into superhero mode to save her friend, also winning her the Best Young Fliers competition. I think Lauren Faust and her season 1 team really GOT what made Rainbow Dash and her flaws so interesting. I view the progresion of FiM’s writing sort of as an unfortunate game of telephone as the years wear on.

But do you think differently? Perhaps you love the late-show episodes and see them in a different light than I do. I’d love to hear differing thoughts!

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Important conversations at Sugarcube Corner

All the ponies love Pinkie, but she’s definitely got some qualities that the other ponies can’t quite relate to. They don’t MEAN to disparage her interests, of course, they just don’t realize while they’re saying it that it’s something she cares about.

I can imagine after this conversation, Pinkie Pie would be determined to give their friends a good clown time— probably by BEING the clown herself! You can’t get scared if you know it’s just Pinkie, right? I bet she’d put on five or six different clown routines, for each of the mane six and Spike, each with a unique makeup look and silly gags specifically catered to the humor of the pony she’s performing for. By the end of it, she’d surely get her friends to admit the entertainment value of clowning!

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We’ve all either GOT that one friend who will write our messages for us with no filter, or we ARE that friend.

I’m glad there are no cell phones in G4 Equestria. We see how it plays out in Pony Life and in G5, and it’s just not entertaining, it feels immediately dated, very “how do you do fellow kids?” and overall poor messaging to give children. I never want to see a canon internet influencer pony again— at least not a MAIN character, good grief!! Because what we need MORE of these days is to encourage kids to go public online 🙄 honestly I’m extremely disappointed Hasbro didn’t take Pipp’s opportunity to be a ROLE MODEL, and to actually teach children about internet SAFETY. Instead it encourages children to become parasocially obsessed with internet personalities via the Pippsqueaks… just really horroble decisions overall for that. But hey at least I have a tiny MLP smartphone now! I may hate it in canon, but boy it’s fun for play. So I’ll take it.

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It’s stated that Pinkie Pie from Friendship is Magic has the power to break the fourth wall; she’s aware of the fans, and aware of previous generations’ existence.

We know Pinkie doesn’t always feel like she’s taken seriously by her friends, and for good reason— she often isn’t. G3 Pinkie Pie, however, never had to deal with this worry. All the ponies in her version of Ponyville are about as frivolous with parties as her— and that’s just the way she likes it! So one could reason that, G4 Pinkie, the one who keeps written records on everypony she knows just to throw them perfectly-tailored parties, finds herself missing the camraderie of G3 Ponyville. I’m sure G4 Pinkie wouldn’t trade her life for anything, but everyone has the right to wonder. Wouldn’t it be nice for Pinkie to feel less othered by her pony peers?

This isn’t filmed as smoothly as I’d like but eh consider it proof of concept 😅 I’d rather make it shaky than not at all!

[artofhaileyd]

It wouldn’t be Artfight without me drawing some ponies! These pretty ponies belong to @sketchtablet, @grunesdragon, and @horse-time-babey!

[horse-time-babey]

average Brighthouse activities

I feel like this is the kind of thing they’d get up to on a random Tuesday. I’m sure Sunny’s behind the camera trying desperately not to laugh

G5 is cute! It certainly struggled for many reasons, one of which being the unexpected studio change for Make Your Mark and Tell Your Tale, but I would be a flat out liar if I said I wasn’t entertained by it. I might not want ponies to always have modern tech, but for what it’s worth, it’s unique and a funny situation to think about a horse using computers.

What do you think of G5? If you’re someone who dislikes it, can you think of a part of it you like? If you love it, what’s a critique you might have?

[brentraptor]

sorry for all the pony, it’s what i draw in between comics

[lezzlesdrawsponies]

💕G3 x3 Rarity!🦄

[horse-time-babey]

she’s the element of Loyalty, not Generosity.

hey side note why’d they put pepperoni on a my little pony pizza? I know it’s like, The Pizza Topping™, a timeless classic, but like……. these ponies are at least mostly vegetarian. And yet I have MLP pizzas from G3, G4, and G5– and ALL of them have pepperoni on them. Girl???? Why are these horses suddenly carnivorous???? Or do we think it’s a round, flat slice of some other red food? But what could it be, otherwise?? Maybe pizza just awakens the bloodlust in all ponies. I know it has that effect on me