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I FINALLY got around to drawing the diva and her pathetic son 😭💖💖💖
• Thorax enters the School of Friendship mid-season Six (that's season One of my fic!) to learn how to Make Friends™. He's such a nice addition to the roster! Even Tirek and Discord refrain from being too mean towards him (because he has EXTREME "poor little meow meow" energy and they're not cruel to the point of bullying a guy who looks like a kicked puppy 24/7. Also, it'd be too easy.)
• Thorax is a young Queen in the hive. He was created by Chrysalis to become the next brood Queen, because she reluctantly conceded that she was growing old and needed someone else to handle the eggs of the Hive. Chrysalis never intended to pass the throne on to Thorax; he was alright with that.
• Pharynx is an average drone (soldier), assigned to protect Thorax. Pharynx is the changeling equivalent of 38yo right now.
• By the time Thorax joined the School, he was still too young to create new brood !!! He's "23" and still "immature" by changeling standards. (Changelings can breed asexually, provided that they have at least one queen that has a sufficient supply of Love Energy stored inside her.)
• Thorax has both male and female anatomy, and is genderfluid! He likes he/him pronouns but frankly would not mind being referred to as anything else.
• Thorax had no idea that "sharing love" was a possibility. (Ehehe... Backstory...)
• Chrysalis joined the School in S7 and she is VERY upset about it. Thorax on the other hoof is just scared out of his mind... He has a kingdom to lead and his mother (who never hid her contempt for him) is way too close to his friends...
Anyway hehahhee.
Chrissy was assigned to Rarity to be looked after (cough, parole officer), and hates every second of it; but since she can't escape, Rarity makes a point of "making sure she's useful", then turns her into something of a living mannequin. Just because she can shapeshift doesn't mean she wants to be used! Hrrr!!
... Chrysalis won't deny that she rather likes getting clothes made for her, in her liking. But she won't TELL RARITY THAT
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“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”
What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
the online identity and gimmick-ifying of autism is so odd. I'm diagnosed with autism and yet I barely identify with any stuff I see about it anymore. It feels like autism is being rebranded as the Silly Guy Disorder that gives you smart and beautiful hyperspecific interests. it's not that I mind silly jokes or being lighthearted about being autistic- but when the entire social movement is based around marketing us this way, I just can't help but feel isolated from it. it feels like I'm not the right kind of autistic. I'm not marketable and digestible to common audiences, and therefore I am discarded by the movement in the name of progress and acceptance. it feels foul.
getting scambot messages from random accounts that clearly used to be normal active blogs is sad enough. you know that there used to be a real person on that blog until they were tricked into handing their password to the digital fae.
but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.
and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.
RIP to the blog that used to DM me to tell me they liked my new chapters. Their last known words spoken before being turned, 17 hours ago: "Ggs!" They were praising someone's deadlift.
the message they tried to get me with is probably the same message that got them, so for anybody who hasn't already been warned about the signs of a zombie account:
if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."
whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,
it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.
they got one of my treasured followers, and they can get you too. don't fall for their tricks. know the signs.
i wonder if this whole Calling Typical Misogyny "Porn Addiction" thing wasn't just a successful psyop to shift feminist critique into a right wing framework i.e. trying to make it about "modern degeneracy" and thus paralyzing discourse on the root issue
everything these people claim is "porn addiction" is literally just misogyny. porn could be dismantled globally and men will still view and treat women as sexual property because surprise! turns out men have expected sexual subservience from women loooong before porn ever existed
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i DO believe that a good writer can make mischaracterization work. oh there's a character who doesn't normally cry? figure it out!! disect the character. make the situation cryable for them. make that character cry ugly tears even if it goes against their very nature. YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK!!!
had a dream that there was this new tiktok trend called "scrubbing" where people would take images of fictional characters and put them in images of bathtubs and drag around transparent pngs of soap and brushes with their tiktok art tablets and like liquify tool their hair down to mimic giving them a shower. and people would get into flamewars in the comments of every single video over the types of soap they picked and if the images had decently removed backgrounds and if they got soap in their eyes. and it got onto the news because it turned out everyone doing the trend was doing it compulsively like they physically couldn't stop and each video was a solid few minutes long because they were just collectively obsessively recording themselves fake-showering these fictional characters and arguing about it online
for the record I have never used tiktok and like explicitly in the dream I learned about it secondhand from a discord server so there's that also which is funny I think
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You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.
Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.
When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.
and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.
Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.
we seriously need to stop conceding to the personhood trap when it comes to abortion rights. is a fetus a person? thats a spiritual question. i dont care about the answer. should another person dictate what someone can do with their body? simple answer: no.
like if a fetus isnt a person it has no right to my body and if a fetus IS a peson it also has no right to my body because there is no other context in which we are required to put ourselves at risk of physical harm to preserve another persons safety or even life.
you dont have to save someone from drowning even if youre a strong swimmer. even in death youre not required to donate organs and that could save several people. you can kill someone if you truly believe your safety is at risk. we dont mandate preservation of life over autonomy in any of these circumstances.
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Discord seems fine. So how are you really doing, Mr. Chaos?
"Why, what-ever are you talking about? I'm ecstatic! I'm out of stone, again, and got a brand new roomie to boot! One with a sense of humor, too! Ohoho!"
"Sunny Meadow" and "Starlit Shores" are Rarity Original™ gowns commissioned for the Semestral Spring Summit (followed in September in the Semestral Fall Summit), when a horde of dragons comes to Equestria to trade their goods with ponies and reassure their trading agreement.
Dragonfire can transform sand, dirt, gravel, rock and lava(1) into other materials, such as ceramics, glass, mirrored glass, obsidian, and most importantly, metals. Even the cheapest hunk of rock can be turned to iron if heated enough by a skilled dragon smith. Plus, volcanic soil is incredibly interesting for crop farming (which does not interest dragons in the slightest, seeing as they only eat gems), so they export it to ponies.
In turn, ponies trade gems in bulk (anything from cheap quartz to rubies and sapphires to literal painite), since they are the only species who can farm gemstones like humans grow potatoes—such is the role of rock farmers—among other merchandise.
The ruling Princess and the Dragon Lord both agree on a number of goods to be traded between countries to keep the trade agreement standing (a couple tons of metal, a couple tons of gems...) and the leftovers are used in a market square that opens up in Canterlot for the express purpose of pony-dragon trade.
I kinda want to hear more about LLT students. I really would love to see proper "redemption" arc for Flim&Flam brothers bcs even tho I see how often people are putting them in "redeemed" category it is very clear as day that they are NOT, they're still scamming people come on! And it's kinda sad bcs they have pretty good engineering and business skills, they can do better than that, y'know.
Funny you should ask...
[Part 01] // [PART 02, FINAL]
“Well I doubt YOU'D be of great assistance,” Flim snorts.
“Unless of course you'd like to offer your cheap performances!” Flam adds.
“How dare you!” Trixie scoffs. “My performances would be SPECTACULAR in an Empire that thrives on love and admiration! I'd make ponies so dazzled, the Crystal Heart would grow TENFOLD in power! While YOU’D spindle even a starving crystal foal for their lunch bits in exchange for your junk—”
“Ha, ha!” laughs Flim. “Funny you should say, Miss Lul-a-crook—”
“Because my brother and I have already revised a spellbinding, spectacular—”
“And might I add stupendous plan to bring Crystal Ponies exactly what they need! See, everypony knows Equestria has been exporting products to the Empire like pots on sale—”
“—of course they would, to secure trade for the rare crystals only they produce—”
“Where did they get that board?” Starlight mumbles.
“—but everything Equestrian is designed for unicorns!”
“What?” Twilight asks.
“Why, Princess, haven't you noticed? Everything around you is made by and for unicorns! From quills to books to doorknobs! Dexterity is a powerful thing, I say, I say-”
“And I assure you, dear Princess, that if the average crystal pony has any semblance of a spine-”
“-they’ll be furious to have their homes and buildings made with items for unicorns-only! And that's when my dear brother and I can swoop in and help them, with our patented, Flim-Flam-Brothers trademarked items, ranging from attachable doorknob modifiers for ease of door-opening,” they present a lever-like contraption to be attached to a round doorknob allowing anyone to open it by pushing the lever down, and closing it by pushing it up.
“To custom quill holders for the comfort of writing,” they offer Twilight a tube-like thing with a quill’s nib attached to a bracelet fit for any hoof, and she looked pleasantly surprised to see it work as well as any quill.
“All the way to paintbrushes, toothbrushes, mane brushes, pots and pan holders—”
“Oh my goodness that's genius!” Starlight exclaims, messing with the doorknob contraption. “I'd love one of those for my room! I'd have loved to have those things in my- er, in my old village…”
Trixie was rolling her eyes. “Yeah, yeah, they're nifty little gadgets. Big deal! They'll be trashed like the tacky things they are in a week…”
“No, no,” Twilight shakes her head, still impressed with the hoof-held quill. “These are ingenious! It could help so many ponies, from Earth Ponies to Pegasi to disabled unicorns or elders with low dental dexterity… how can something this useful not be all over Equestria by now?”
“Oh, Princess, you flatter us,” Flam smirks, though there's an edge to his tone. “Not that it'll matter much.”
“We've tried the whole “inventors who change the world!” thing, but… the world doesn't want to be changed!”
“You've no idea how many things we've built, from better engines to ingenious quality-of-life contraptions—”
“—but it's no use! Firstly because the average pony wants to be like nobility. Everything is made for that purpose! How many nobles, celebrities, princesses would use a Hoof-Quill? Not-a-one! And thus, our brilliant inventions are looked at in disdain—”
“Oh, so tacky, so ugly, so ridiculous! Why would anypony use such a preposterous little thing when quills, traditional and beautiful quills, do the same thing with far more finesse?”
Both twins pouted dramatically.
“And then, of course, is the classic ever-running mill of the bits…” they spin their board to show more of their writing. “Every entrepreneur with a brain knows how the world works, and sells ponies what they want accordingly. Why would any doctor, dentist or potion brewer approve of lever-knobs instead of round doorknobs? They'd lose over 80 percent of their clientele if they tried! Don't you know how many Earth ponies get mouth infections from opening doorknobs with their mouths?”
“Or inhaling chalk?”
“Or how many break their backs trying to use a single shovel?”
“Honestly, I see your point,” Starlight hums. “It is really hard to get ponies to change their mindset. Why do you think I had, er, extra strong coercive methods back in… ahem.” She looks away abashed.
Twilight hums, thoughtful. “Is that why you started selling scams?" Her gaze is sharp. "I remember your first time here in Ponyville. The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy, despite its misleading name—"
"Excuse us?"
"—was quite impressive. The fake Curative Tonic, not so much. In fact that's part of the reason why you're here..."
"Ahaha," they laugh awkwardly, remembering their fat criminal record for "endangering and exploiting vulnerable individuals", and rush to change the subject. "Why, Highness. Whatever do you mean misleading? The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy—"
"Makes APPLE JUICE, not cider." She raises her eyebrows. "It's a self-propelled, apple-picking, sorting, and crushing machine that would be invaluable on its own, but doesn't make cider. It can't channel Earth Pony magic and therefore can't speed through months of fermentation..."
"Well yes," Flam concedes with a sigh. "But Super Speedy APPLE JUICE Squeezy 6000 doesn't sound as catchy, does it?"
She snorts.
"Besides. Even a machine as ingenious as that wasn't able to impress anypony in the end! We couldn't even sell it to a good farmer—"
"—You know how prideful they are about making eeeeverything with their bare hooves!” Flim scoffs. “Plus, if they had a machine doing their work for 'em, they'd be out of a job... Ah. Brother, it appears we've made a bit of an oversight..."
"Hm?"
"We should've tried selling it to UNICORN land owners instead..."
"Hi, sorry," Starlight waves a hoof, interrupting them. "Are you saying you want to sell these things to crystal ponies?"
"Of course!"
"Indeed!"
"Well, why not sell the patents instead? You have a princess right here, and I'm sure she and Princesses Celestia and Cadance would kill to be able to distribute something like these across Equestria and the Crystal Empire, I mean, think of how accessible everything could become! Anypony would be able to write a book or, or bake more efficiently, or even..." Both twins laugh. Starlight stares at them. "What?"
"Why my dear, sweet mare.” They get close enough for her to smell their cologne. Eugh. “Why-EVER would we do that?”
“Sell the patent and you only make ONE cash-in of bits!”
“Sell the items and you make hundreds!”
“Well yeah?” Trixie snorts. “How's that working out for you? Heaven knows the only names the bankers know by heart are the Flim-Flam-BROKE-ers!” She giggles.
“Don’t you laugh at us! Anypony could have some bits of debt!!” Flam splutters.
“Making fun of poor vendors trying to make a living, huh?” Flim pouts. “Shame on you!”
“Starlight has a point,” Twilight intervenes. “I can definitely get the princesses, plus a few court ponies, economists, mayors, to take a look at these,” she raises the hoof-quill to show them. “And if they approve it, the Crown would be happy to buy a patent from you!”
One could practically HEAR the “ka-ching!” in the Twins’ eyes.
“Aannnnd you'd cover the cost of manufacturing?”
“Of course!”
“Aaaaaand we could get a cut of the profits from sold items?”
“To be discussed.” She rolls her eyes.
“Well then no deal!”
“Why not?” Starlight argues. “You'd keep things like these away from ponies in need for- for bits??”
“We'd keep our products from being given away like we didn't put hard sweat into making them!”
“She JUST SAID she'd cover the manufacturing costs! You'd be paying nothing!! You wouldn't be sweating at all!!”
“Well, making up the concept was very hard on us, Miss!” They scoff, noses up. “Plenty o’ nights spent awake developing every little detail! We want compensation for those!”
“And that's the price of the patent,” Twilight argues. “I'm sure we can find some agreement!”
“To be discussed.” They mock.
Starlight is outright scowling now. “How can you be so selfish?!”
“Nopony can blame us for looking out for ourselves—”
“So greedy!”
Trixie gulps. “Um, Starlight…?”
Starlight paces. “Can't you imagine how many Pegasi can't get a graduation or- or- or a higher degree, just because they can't write a thesis on time or cramp up their jaws trying? Or how many Earth Ponies can't get jobs because they can't float things with their minds? Or how much this could help earth pony scholars—?!”
“Oh you condescending JERKS-!” She shouts, magic swirling and popping on her horn… only for it to fizzle out in a second. She looked at it in shock, then at her horn, and scowled in distress when the twins sneered.
“Starlight,” Twilight’s tone is of disappointment. Starlight shrinks in just from hearing it. “Maybe you and I should focus a bit on anger management classes?” She lowers her head in shame. The twins look at her with gleefully gloating smiles, that drop as soon as Twilight points at them: “And YOU TWO could stand to focus on a little empathy! We can talk about patents another time, okay? Go take a break.” She shakes her head. “You too, girls. You've all been arguing all day…”
“Oh… yeah, of course…” Starlight face-hoofs as Twilight walks away. “Ough.”
“Tch. Don't get too attached, teacher's pet.”
“Don't YOU get too attached to your TONGUE, you vile duo of- of- dirt worms!” Trixie argues, standing in front of Starlight. “Say another mean thing to my friend and you'll see just what kinds of magic the Great and Powerful Trixie can really pull…”
They laugh, and both mares look disgusted.
“Sure thing, Tricks!”
“We're terrified! Maybe she'll wrap us up on magician's rope!”
“Or pull a murder rabbit out of her hat!”
Sneers.
“Ugh! Come on, Starlight, don't grace those crooks with your presence!” Trixie scoffs, nose high up in the air, and begins to walk away.
Starlight looks hesitant for a moment, but follows suit, allowing their laughter to fade away…
“I can't believe Twilight took in those two,” Trixie sneers. “Really, was she desperate or did THEY beg her to join? Either way, it's pathetic! Those two are obviously playing her to spindle bits out of her purse, and her fancy dorm room, and fancy cafeteria lunch…”
“They really aren't the nicest,” Starlight carefully agrees, following close behind. “But I don't know, I guess it makes sense why Twilight would take in… not-so-nice ponies.” She looks down, and Trixie notes it with an eyebrow raise.
“Perhaps,” Trixie hums, thinking her words. “Truth be told, even I wasn't always the nicest of ponies. Indeed, the Great and Powerful Trixie had her own mean streak back in the day… but who could blame her? Which unicorn wouldn't jump at the chance to be respected, beloved?” Her tone was dramatic, but Starlight could see a bit of an edge to it.
“What happened?”
“Ah… tis a dark tale, of evil amulets and trickery…” Trixie shakes her head. “But tell me about YOU, Starlight. Who are you, anyway? And why do you have a magic suppression spell?”
“AHA-ha!” She stops in her tracks. Then clears her throat. “Well, um, funny story…”
—---
In her office, Twilight Sparkle removed her glasses, waited five seconds after closing the door, and SQUEALED. Spike looked over to see her giggling and kicking her feet and jumping up and down…
“SPIKE! Spikespikespike, c'mon get over here I need parchment and ink and I GOTTA TALK TO CELESTIA AND CADANCE!! YOU'RE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS!! IT'S A GAME CHANGER FOR ALL ACADEMIA!!”
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Since we’ve had Discord and Tirek, maybe it’s time for Starlight Glimmer? Is Twilight teaching her about friendship? Does Starlight want to change on her own, or is it like Tirek’s forced rehabilitation?
She is extremely eager-to-please since the identity she built herself around was apparently WRONG and OBJECTIVELY AWFUL. So she's trying to clear her mind, become a blank page to receive the Correct™ personality (which is Whatever Twilight Sparkle Says It Should Be!).
But sometimes her "original" self shines through... She's trying to push that down. It's BAD and SINFUL and and and-
I will be discussing mature themes such as: classism; racism; xenophobia; (non-explicit + consensual) sexual relationships; slavery; (implied) torture; (implied) SA; genocide; child death; drug use ... more warnings to be added as I see fit, but those are the major ones!
I shall tag this "beloathed princess twilight" so it's easy to find art for it, but I intend to keep this blog free of anything that isn't related to the AU, haha.
