I don’t like the FIM episode “Slice of Life”
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A very pandery episode. Maybe it could've worked if they weren't three years late with some of the references... and a lot of people found the Gummy part funny but to me it was kind of... tryhard? Like, "How do you do fellow kids? Existential crises are cool, right? We're hip. We're funny. Be sure to gif this and put it on social media. 'Top Ten Moments When MLP Got Too Real', amirite?"

I was thinking about the 35th Anniversary release scented rainbow ponies and wondered if Hasbro had done that with the original 6 - what would they smell like?

Butterscotch and Cotton Candy - would probably smell just like their names.

Minty would likely be some kind of mint - maybe spearmint

Blossom would probably smell like a flower - I was thinking lavender would be nice.

But then I got to Snuzzle and Bluebelle and there wasn't anything obvious to me about how they should smell. So I thought about it (for much longer than I should have) and decided...

It would be nice if Snuzzle smelled like bubblegum and Bluebelle smelled like blue raspberry.

What do you think they'd smell like?

I agree with all your scents except for Snuzzle, she looks like she would be "fresh linen"-scented 

I'd definitely buy Bluebelle if she was blue raspberry!!!!

Does anyone else have a "weird affinity pony"? Like for me I'm just drawn to Sew-and-So. I love the colour orange but I'm indifferent to Sew-and-So design-wise. But I'm SO attracted to her. Another one is Summer Bloom. She's a very plain, kind of boring pony, but there's Just Something About Her. My taste in ponies is otherwise predictable, I know what I like (yellow ponies with bright green in their hair, please!! I LOVE Guava Lava), so Sew-and-So and Summer Bloom are just. Weird.

Also Muse and Romperooni are some of my favourites. Purple and orange look really good on a pony! I can't think of a lot of ponies that are purple with orange hair. Probably because whoever's designing ponies are more gravitated towards saturated colours? Which admittedly orange on purple look kind of bad, unless you're designing something for Halloween. If you desaturate them, I love it!! It reminds me of a really late summer sunset or something.

I like the second set of G1 rainbow ponies better than the first set, and Confetti is on the top of my most wanted list. Pink/yellow/green/blue is common on ponies, but orange/pink/yellow/blue is unique. The body colours and symbols are unique too. The only rainbow pony I got out of the repros was Moonstone because I don't have much interest in the others, but I'd be more inclined to buy them all if they released this set instead

Star Catcher is a bit of a...............Normie Pony. Like anyone who's asked who their favourite G3 is, she's usually in the top spot. Tbf I was ALL over her as a kid when she first came out, because of her goddess-like presence and the fact she wasn't an earth pony As an adult I don't find her to be as special. However, the SC toy used in the little pamphlet that came Friendship Ball ponies? Beautiful. Maybe it's the lighting, maybe it really is coloured differently but I love the darker colours. She looks more ethereal. STILL on the topic of SC I prefer the one with the foil wings to the regular pegasus release. Giving her normal wings and no body patterns definitely makes her even LESS special.

G3 pegasuses in general I don't like. It's not because of the wings (I think they're cute) or the designs of the pegasuses released, it's the pose, or lack thereof. It's only one pose!!!! You could say, "Oh there's two poses" but no, there is not!!! It's the same pose, just mirrored!! And it's not very interesting either.

The Fizzy Pop pose is underrated. She's so playful and pouncy!!! I like the walking (Pinkie Pie) pose too, because of how small it makes the pony look.

This kinda goes back to "I like the dark SC better than the official release", and it's not really an unpopular opinion probably, but I wish there were more ponies with muted or darker colourschemes. There's a lot you can do with black, brown, and grey! I'd especially love to see grey ponies, since I think grey is an underrated colour in general. It looks good with all sorts of colours! And black and brown have a lot of design potential too ofc. I'm hoping we get brushables of the longma in the G5 concept arts, I LOVE the idea of having glowing optic fiber dragon ponies (dragon ponies I'd love, period, but them being neon is the best possible outcome). And they all have dark bodies with bright glowing horns and features, they're so pretty!!!

Finally, I'm surprised it's taken Hasbro this long to give us ponies with markings. Ponies like Bubbles have stars and I know the first prototypes were more realistically coloured but I love seeing ponies with face markings, spots, whatever!! It adds more design choices. I can see why maybe they would avoid doing this, it might get in the way of the cutie mark, it might be hard to mass-produce, whatever. Especially with how lazy Hasbro has been lately. :/ G4s don't have their eye gradients anymore ever since Rainbow Power, Spike doesn't have any eyelashes/lines around his eyes, and his teeth are never even coloured in. Zecora has her bangles painted only halfway on her legs, and that carries on to the ponies with painted features like the Power Ponies or the new school uniform ponies. It makes me kinda "ehh" at the reality of ponies with markings as toys, but as a concept, I like it.

I've been practicing drawing in each generation's style and am confident enough to start commissions ;) I'm not sure what to charge yet, maybe ~$30-40 base price for something with G3's amount of detail, and $15-20 for G1 ("retro", like the merch that's coming out nowadays) and G4. I could do sketches in any style for ~$5-7 too

I'll do ponysonas, canon ponies, or OCs

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