#skyscraper gods

[shirecorn]

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The brainscrambling god of chaos; ever-shifting, twisting, and churning the laws of reality like some kind of play putty. He does not belong to to this realm, but his own dimension is so twisted that the residents (or at least those few who have kept their sanity) are used to it by now.

And so, he slices spiraling holes in the veils that keep worlds apart, and corkscrews through to torment and amuse his favorite creatures.

With no true form of his own, Discord borrows bits and pieces from the worlds he visits, and puts them on kaleidoscopic display. Just recognizable enough to be familiar, but remixed and reformed for the express purpose of hurting your brain.

[crazyhorses57]

Unexpected sidequest

Soooo... I know I said I was gonna finish Lunoctopus, but I finally caved and subscribed to @shirecorn's patreon and got access to the Secret Arts posted on the discord.

Among those Arts was a drawing of Sky Goddess Celestia that hit me right in the creativity and completely side-tracked me with a NEED to make her.

Progress pics and design thoughts under the break.

Body armature.

Itty bitty eye and body fleshed out.

She did a sit while I attached her wings.

Giant hair.

Finished pics again.

So, she has currents in her hair that the clouds and color streaks follow, and the currents in her tail are more chaotic than in her mane because it starts closer to the ground and definitely not because there was just less room on her tail.

Her body was done with an off-white roving that has some shine to it because it has silk and milk fibers mixed in, and her gold accents have a mix of fibers too.

This project definitely pushed me past my comfort zone, and I learned some useful lessons that can be applied to future projects. But for now, its back to work on Lunoctopus... until I have to start on Christmas felts.

[skyscrapergods]

i don't believe anyone's asked this

considering that twilight is the goddess of friendship and connection and all that, how does her eventually getting to "surrounded by flies" levels of perception affect her? does she just kinda mentally check out after a while?

Twilight is unique in that she stays connected to mortals! She is literally the server they use to communicate with each other / her. So she does become an abstract concept eventually, and stops participating in all the friendships that use her hair as a network, she never checks out like the other gods. The flies are precious and important, and there's MILLIONS of them so she never has to worry about taking up one pony's time. She has so many friends

[h3rb1eherb]

been trying to comprehend @shirecorn's Boabab lately

don't think i hit the mark yet, so i won't be going mad any time soon 😗✌🏽

[mylittleoc-fuse-n-ships]

I am once again obsessed with @skyscrapergods concept of alicorn ascension.

Just thinking about the rest of the mane six as immortal massive deities.

Applejack, goddess of orchards and agriculture, spreading good harvest of each crop as she walks, turning the seasons with her hooffalls

Fluttershy, goddess of the wild lands and animals everywhere. Wherever she steps, biomes explode into being. Her tears can heal the most grievous of wounds. Her mere presence is what drives the mating seasons of various beasts (as an act of preservation and conservation)

Pinkie Pie, goddess of mirth and joy. Where she walks there is no sadness. She also brings comfort to the grieving with soft reminders of happy memories with their loved ones, not taking their sense of loss from them but merely reminding them of the joy that causes the grief to be so profound, and in so doing, easing it.

Rainbow Dash, goddess of storms and weather. She does not walk the earth but rather the reaches of the sky. The most fickle of the goddesses, the weather changes with her mood as much as for the needs of ponies, and just like she can provide rains in a drought, she can bring storms to calm seas.

And Rarity, most unlike all the rest, goddess of gemstones and craft. She slumbers deep beneath the earth. Her dreams form veins of precious stone and metal, and her nightmares form earthquakes and cave-ins. Her spirit runs through the night, accompanying Princess Luna to provide dreams of inspiration to all those who create with their hands.

(Honestly, I'd love to make a sub-AU of your AU with your permission, credit to you ofc, skyscrapergods. I'm genuinely so obsessed with the concept.)

[octahedral-chaos]

Shoutouts to the one time @shirecorn thought that I was going to draw an Alicorn who’s the god of mouths… I ended up drawing this… thing

You heard of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, now get prepared for the Alicorn of the apocalypse! Why does that actually sounds really good?

(Skyscraper Gods AU belong to @shirecorn)

[hills-and-dale]

Drawing both to figure out my aesthetic preferences and to fight art block. This is my attempt at a Changeling as might exist in @shirecorn 's Skyscraper Gods MLP au.

Forgive me in advance for my poor paragraph separation.

The horn is shaped to collect magic rather than to channel it, and a groove runs down the sides to siphon said magic into the body to gain energy. The bodily tears are both from damage due to their lifestyle (vaguely specified by Shire, and I don't want to speculate too hard) and as camouflage among the craggy caves of home. I've also given them a smaller set of midlegs for home construction - this is also what the spinnerets are for. I imagine the Green Stuff in the canon show would be replicated best by webbing here, and in my personal version of this, Changelings pad their homes with webbing for structural integrity, comfort, and possibly to help collect and funnel ambient magic to the Queen's chamber.

EDIT!!! Two things I forgot - A, this changeling is making herself bigger as a threat display, and B, the shredding on the forelimbs also helps to catch small prey for physical sustenance, although I imagine they're capable of eating plants as well

Edit 2 their hindlegs are like that to launch themselves into flight (if they even can fly. I imagine they rely on the jump a lot more than the flying part to move quickly)

[mirabilismayhem]

Day two! This is Lepidoptera, the Goddess of Individuality! She’s an ascended changeling, and works to help people bring out their truest selves! She isn’t super big, and probably never will be, but if she were to stretch out as much as possible, she could theoretically disguise herself as Luna during the first couple decades after her return so long as no one grabbed a really long tape measure. She has zero reason to do that though.

I’ll probably get into more detail on her later :D