Manat

on survival

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

Hand sculpted and casted resin statue of Discord reimagined as a G1 My Little Pony: Pony Friends toy.

I love the G1 toys and Pony friends are so cute, when I got into G4 I thought it would be fun to redesign Discord as if he'd been in G1.

He was very tricky to design, as G1 never had a character this complex in it's toy line, but if I took away too much, he'd stop feeling like Discord and more like an original character I'd made up. Which to be fair, happens a lot in toy reboots, look at the difference between G1 and G3 Apple Jack for example, but I wanted to toe the line, not cross it.

Deciding on colors alone took me ages. Brown was not a color G1 used much, if at all, but Discord's main color IS brown, and he didn't look like himself without those muted tones. I did want to simplify his color scheme though, as G1 ponies usually only used a few colors in their paint jobs. The more colorful ponies got their color from the use of different hair colors, not in the paint job itself. A paint job like this would have been expensive to manufacture in the 80's as it is.

I finally settled on this look, as least for this casting. I might make more in the future and play around with different colors.

Across humanity there are some things most known cultures have celebrations for and can be used well as an easy way to expand on the lore of your world without info dumping. here are some of them:

Independence / Foundation / Unity / National / Freedom Day: the day used to commemorate when a nation, kingdom, or faction came together as one. This may be the day a treaty was signed, the day the former regime was overthrown, the day a new ruler was sworn in...

Ruler's Birthday: if there is a single or a few rulers, their birthdays might be celebrated with large festivities

End & Beginning of a year: regardless which calendar is used, most societies had some way to measure the length of one cycle (lunar cycle, every ___ amount of days, the beginning of a particular season, maybe something more abstract like the first day the flowers bloom or the day of the first snowfall...) and celebrate accordingly

Celebrating a Season: celebrating summer with festivities outside, spring with a flower market, autumn with a harvest festival, winter with a bonfire...

Day of Mourning/Remembrance: either in general or a day for remembering the dead from a certain event, tragedy, war...

Religious Festivals: depending on your type of belief system there could be many celebrations or only one or two

Historic Memorial Days: the day a war ended, the day of a massacre, the day of a revolution, the day of any grand and influential type of event that is remembered years later

No, I shan't. This is a job for @were--ralph

People whose musings and antics we're invested in.

But they're not influencers. They're not celebrities.

And, more importantly, and actually reaching the broader scope of the redditor's question, tumblr is a site where you control your own engagement. You have to actively find the content you want, it's not going to be spoonfed to you by an algorithm.