#sort of......

I've been working on a design

For reasons

LOWKEY I DON'T HAVE THEM YET :(( I wanted to add some characters from other stuff before my next batch of Winx, mostly because it isn't a Winx-only island-- BUT I was gonna get to it eventually anyway because tbh?? The hairstyle options already had me excited! So um.

The three of them. Speedran rn.

tumblr gets to see it first YAYYY .... redraw of this piece from like . 2019? 2020? idfk.... its MEEEE ^-^ on burn pygmalion

(original + album reference + no text version below)

457 KEROBEROS ICONS / CCS

Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve waited for

Searching in the dark, your sweat soaking through the floor

And buried in your bones there’s a need that you can’t ignore

Taking a breath, steeling your mind, and all that was real is left behind......

*****

Welp - what a busy day we had here in Symphony Hill! Today was a charity fair the town organised to raise money for our local farmers (we’re only small, it was a start!). And boy was it a success!

There were food stalls filled with cupcakes and biscuits and all sorts of disgustingly sweet goodies - some made by the local high school Home Ec classes, others by primary school kids, and even a few grannies in there too; there were jewelry stores full of homemade bangles, necklaces and earrings; there were clothes stalls, woodworking shows, dog shows, a Fancy Dress contest for the kids (and kids at heart.....I’ll never forget the sight of Richard and Oliver dressed up as B1 and B2....where they even GOT those costumes from is beyond me).

The organisers also asked if we could put on a show of some sort about horsemanship and even host a little competition for the local pony club. We agreed instantly, but then came the challenge of actually coming up with something to show off.....

The competition for the kiddies was easy - kids love a gymkhana, and so I left the kids here at Winyard to organise that (which they loved!). But as for something for one of us adults to do, that was going to take a bit more thinking.

Until Christina caught me pondering it one day and she piped up that she had an idea for something we could do. Having no luck myself, I pounced on the idea....except she hadn’t told me the idea, and every time I tried to ask her, she just gave me this really sly grin and told me I’d find out soon enough.

(I ended up finding out later that afternoon when I walked past the all-purpose arena to see her trying out some bareback dressage on a very bemused and confused Ris.....poor boy).

Flash forward three weeks later, and I’m waiting at the side of the arena for Christina to enter on Ris. The time for the show to start was edging closer and closer, and they were nowhere to be seen.

Then, suddenly, the opening notes of ‘The Greatest Show’ began blaring out of the speakers around the arena, making everyone start and then gasp in awe as Christina rode in - bareback - on a perfectly groomed and shining (literally, the sun was so bright on his grey coat that I reckon it nearly blinded some poor sod standing on the wrong side of him) Ris. In perfect time to the beat of the song, they pranced around the arena in a routine that appeared almost flawless.

It certainly worked - people were frozen in place with looks of awe and excitement on their faces, some of the kids were dancing along and when the final chorus came along, there were a bunch of people joining in with the singing.

I swear I saw Christina try to hide a smile under her top hat, and I couldn’t help but grin too.

When I cornered her afterwards, she confessed that she’d been working on this routine for a while - a couple of months now - but this was the first time she’d done it in full costume and she’d only tried it bareback for the first time a few days ago.

Well, if anyone wants to know where the real Greatest Show(wo)man is, I’ll be sure to direct you straight to the barn where she’s probably mucking out one very smug and proud grey stallion’s stall.