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New G1 ponies for the herd, wow!! TheNewGrayMare had a big sale earlier this year, and I was lucky enough to snag some awesome new ponies for my collection! I got the Perfume Puff Dainty Dahlia, Baby Crumpet, and Teeny Tiny Baby Snookums! I had Snookums in my childhood herd, but she spent a lot of time in the tub and she got quite frizzy! 🛁 And I even got a sweet note and some candy!

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🌈💜💛one of my all time grails arrived the other day! this is g1 merriweather, from the second twice as fancy set 💜💛

i just love her design and this pose, her rainbows are so adorable 🌈💜💛

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Yesterday's pony mail !

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Pony mail!

i have been desperate to get my hands on all of the hot topic jewelry. so far, i have all of them except the celestia and luna bracelets, and those seem to escape me. i can't find them anywhere, not even when they were still being sold in stores. i got this necklace set on ebay. paid more than i would have liked to, but it is what it is.

the clip was from an accessory lot! i'm really happy to have pinkie's boutique pinkie and her clip now. next up is to find wysteria's clip.

and they each join their respective displays.

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Hellooo, I'm also writing a story in a setting inspired by late 1800s America but quite different and a bit escapist in some aspects.

I wanted to ask, how do you handle the issue of colonialism in such a story, even when the story itself doesn't strive to be historically realistic. I want to write some decent rep for some indigenous characters but what Im concerned with is..is it an alright to make my setting resemble an American environment of that time but with colonialism missing from that universe..or is it irresponsible and erasure? If I add an equivalent, how do I go about acknowledging it?

I'm sorry,.I'm aware you're not indigenous but I still wanted to ask for your general thoughts on the topic considering you're working with the same genre with a fresh inclusive perspective. Also if you know any indigenous writers/individuals who happen to be into westerns I would love to know!

ooo hi! it’s always really fun to hear about other people’s works-in-progress :’)

to start, I want to plug @writingwithcolor as a total gem of a resource !! it is run by a panel of bipoc writers. I really recommend taking the time to explore their blog: they have research guides, resource recommendations, break downs of sterotypes and tropes + very meaningful answers to many writers sending asks.

one of their moderators, Lesya, is of the Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) and Wyandot (Huron) in Canada. they’ve acknowledged that since they are not from territories that have been historically associated with the “old west” (more southwestern and plains), they can’t give specifics. still, they speak as an Indigenous person and writer:

together with the other moderators, Lesya has written many posts that made me re-think a lot of things (quite literally helping reorient myself on the questions of what exactly am I trying to write, why in this setting/time period, and with whom in mind)

Is the Western genre dead?

Destroying imperialism to avoid discussing racism?

On addressing native issues in a cowboy story

Tragedy exploitation and characters of colour

Guide on Cowboys: Cowboys of Colour in the West

Alternate History and Historical Accuracy

(1800s western) non-racist White characters interacting with Black and Native people

Highlighting points from the last linked post (above) that I very much agree with + and adding some notes onto them:

consider the setting of the world, even if it is fictional, where is it inspired by?

Lesya: “the western front is a catchall and has a collection of tropes akin to Fantasy World 29, but if you want to have some grounding in history, pick a state whose history you feel you can work with and do research roughly in that geographic area (e.g what Nation or tribe you are discussing, what the state policies [of genocide] at the time were…)”

I was exited to take this as an opportunity for me to really learn more about Plains and Southwestern Indigenous history since I from the Great Lakes region of North America! I believe a foundational resource is: https://www.whose.land/en/ that gives you a starting point of whose traditional territory is the land you’re on, and/or what region and then subsequently, whose land is inspiring your story. “Indigenous” is not a monolith. Each geographical region has its own peoples, culture, history!

what is your comfort level with writing about colonialism? Is the goal historical accuracy or alternative history?

Lesya: “the 1800s was a period of pure, unadulterated racism”

Yeah 1800s is synonymous with racism. Racism was necessary to justify colonialism. It justified slavery. It justified genocide. Sciences developing “studies” and “proof” in biology and psychology at this time even helped reaffirm the idea that Black and Indigenous peoples were indeed subhuman. This was codified in laws and policies around the world. Meanwhile, industrialization and “development” was paid for with the blood and labour of marginalized peoples (the working class, migrants, and most especially, black and brown people).

Lesya: “If you’re looking for any sort of grounding in historical reality, you’re dealing with that climate. There is absolutely, positively, no way around it. There is no way to make modern anti-racism and modern levels of ignorance fit in anything grounded historically.”

that said, historical fantasy and fluffy escapism is ok, too! again, depends on your goals, capacities, intentions.

Lesya: “It’s okay if you’re not comfortable. But, you’re going to need to start looking at essentially creating a historical AU where the racism at the time was a lot less, which means colonialism at the time would be a lot less, which means ‘The Western Front’ is going to look a lot different.”

After all, the “wildness” of the “west” had in part been defined by the belief that all of this unsettled, traditional Indigenous territory was dangerous. These Lands and its inhabitants were “wild”—savage—and ought to be “tamed”.

Lesya: “If you’d rather write fluffy escapism, make Black and Native people equal for literally no reason other than you want the story to be safe for those groups to read. Pick a rough geographic area just to give your Indigenous peoples around this Western Front town a culture (or three, because the Western front is full of nomadic groups), and you’ll be fine. But it will be historical fantasy, and should really be treated as such”

finally, something I’d keep in mind is that anything you write will be biased because it came from you! After all, you are an individual with beliefs and experiences and ideas. They all impact how you carry yourself and see the world everyday, and these will impact how you interact with a fictional world too. This isn’t inherently “bad”—this should be something to keep in mind especially if you’re writing about a character with a different race, class, health, gender than you. For example, if you hold prejudice in your own life, it will probably be read in how you write certain characters, storylines, etc.

I apologize how long this took me to answer, I really had to sit down and think about this too. I hope you find this of use to you! and on the last part of the ask: I know of James Welch (Blackfoot and A'aninin), an author whose written many books set in 19th century America from the perspective of an Indigenous protagonist. Does anyone else have recommendations? In other revisionist-western/anti-western media, Los Colonos (2023) has been on my to-watch list for sometime!

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