redraw of an old piece! they are still besties

please reblog my art!

i can barely stand to look at this anymore but showing it to compare with the new piece </3 drawn in Ye Olde Times of 2021

Stygian might be my favorite of the Pillars of Equestria and it's always made me sad that he wasn't used more in the show. So I decided to team up with my new friend Orin who's taken the time to make a bunch of amazing Pillar redesigns (same person I made this Starswirl animation rig for as a gift) that i'll be incorporating into my future animation project simply titled the "Tree of Harmony AU" at the moment until I can come up with a better name. The Pillars are very important characters to Harmony's story so I wanna do them justice. Listed below is some context for these sketches provided by my friend Orin and some written bits from myself. This is a Stygian who's been separated from the Pony of Shadows for some time, but is now dealing with the consequences of dark magic. I've had so much fun throwing ideas back and forth for this AU and I can't wait to share more in the near future.

The Pony of Shadows is not so easily purged, even with the combined strength of the past and present Elements of Harmony. A fragment of the shadow lives on in Stygian, inextricably bound to him, but small enough that it can no longer influence him. He has abilities superficially similar to King Sombra's, albeit on a much smaller scale, and definitely needs practice before he can comfortably wield this new strength.

The lingering dark magic corruption from Stygian's time with the shadow is visible on different parts of his body, mainly his eyes when using magic, some discoloration on the inside of his mouth and tongue, and his magic color.

As Stygian exerts better control of the fragment of shadow still attached to him, he eventually gains the ability to "Shadow Walk" or travel between shadows. This temporary form makes him look eerily similar to the Pony of Shadows. Pretty spooky.

Princess Luna ends up becoming Stygian's new mentor to help him gain better control of his magic corruption since she has direct experience with dark magic when she turned into Nightmare Moon.

Stygian's special talent is writing. His autobiography, Me and My Shadow, was an instant hit not just because he's a pony from a time long passed, but because he's a genuine wordsmith.  Stygian redesign by Orin331

Stygian and Starswirl redesigns for my AU/rewrite thing!! Cloakless Stygian under cut!

Little man has a black blotch on his back....

Not me making my first post abt posting gay ponies on here

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all doing. If you all didn’t know (well, it’s because I forgot-) I’ll not be active on this account anymore for my art. I have a separate to post my art so please take a look! I wanted to start fresh anyways

-> @girl-of-stupidology <-

For this account however…For my silly lil reblogs✌️ Don’t worry yall, there will still be niche MLP content and dead Shape of Water dudes on that blog.

4/4 first - prev

The pillars are a legendary hypothetical group of heroes. A few old files dating from before the sisters reign have been found on the group but were heavily redacted from before the separation of Equus and Equestria. Only hypothesis can be done on its role and members. From what scholars have deciphered, Starswirl the Bearded seems to have been involved in a way or another as most redacting have been registered as being of his doing. Princess Celestia has indicated her lack of knowledge about any group her old mentor could have been a part off aside from the solar mages. --------------------------- Originally I tried another style soooo, little bonus !

not a hero

Literally don’t even know how I did this I haven’t really painted in like 2 years

An AU where the Elements of Harmony as physical objects never existed. It was just a title and gift/curse given by the Deity that is the tree of harmony. An Element bearer is one chosen by the Tree to be one of the many possible heroes of their time, and the possibility of becoming a demigod to keep the universe in balance is on the table.

Celestia and Luna were chosen to bear the burden of the day and night for the rest of time, Elements and Demigods of Day and Night.

Discord is the Tree of Harmony's opposite and equal. Although he is much more mobile than the Tree. He is the God of Chaos/Disharmony and the Tree God of Harmony/Order.

Starswirl was the Element of Wisdom. Fkash Magnus the Element of Courage. Mist Mane the Element of sacrifice. Somnambula the Element of Patience. Rockhoof the Element of Persistence. Mage Meadowbrook the Element of Healing. And Stygian the Element of Guidance. No one really remembers Stygian and how he guided the others together, to threats that needed stopped, or how he discovered and guided the others to the Tree of Harmony.

Both the tree of harmony and Discord can seem rather uncaring to mortals. They are gods and hold no allegiances to anyone but themselves and to keeping the universe intact. They may seem cold and heartless and are morally grey and a neutral party. But someone has to do the not so fun job of keeping the universe in balance, and the tree and Discord were literally born into that job. They know nothing else but their duties as gods of harmony and disharmony.

Optional addition- Discord has an equivalent to the Trees Element roles it gifts/curses. Although he's not so fancy with naming, in fact he just calls them the Discorded. Let them give themselves their own fancy titles and get dramatic with it, Discord loves dramatics! Sombra and Tirek would be possible examples of a Discorded.

Hi hi hii!!

Got some drawings

Stygian and the pony of shadow having silly talks

Also a new remake of shadow being a horse 😄

I been loving flim and flam so much

And like

I now head canon babs seed and cheese sandwich has their Step siblings

(The dad cheated a lot 💀)

The DEMIAROACE and DEMIBOY flags color-picked from STYGIAN [MLP]

More of my selfship

May I see more of that Friendship Games/Twibra/Frankengroup of Friends AU? PLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE????!!!!!!!!!!

ignore the cropping but HELLO MLP REDESIGN/AU COMMUNITY

It’s still February It’s still February It’s still February It’s still February It’s still Valentines Day It’s still February It’s still February It’s still February It’s still February 😊❤️

(Yippee MORE Sun n’ Shade)

(Omg me? Actually posting MY ART on Tumblr?? It’s more likely than you think.)

Styg from MLP pride icons! Apparently there’s more Stygian content on here than Instagram so Im posting this in hopes of sparking… conversation🫣

✨My headcanon: Stygian is asexual and bi-romantic,,,He can get pretty touch starved though,,,surprisingly good kisser,,,Styg and Sunburst are roommates

Pride may be over but…

Of Ponies and Their Shadows

Equestria is a place of many creatures, most of them living during the day but there are some creatures of dark. Some simply preferring to live under the shine of the moon and other unable to wander under the brightness of the sun. Here we are going to talk about three types of shadow-creatures which can link themselves to daydwellers. --------------------------- Umbra Pony

Umbra ponies are named this way due to the possession of an Umbra. Umbras are creatures generally living in the depth of the earth inside of natural caves. Those shadows links themselves to weaken individuals (unicorns having lost their horn, immuno-compromised ponies, every-so-often another kind of creatures but ponies are the most commonly touched) and uses their bodies as puppets to do their binding. Umbras tends to darken the coat of their host. Sometimes the host can make some resistance to the parasite but the longer the possession last, the harder it is to save the possessed. A bath of purifying water is generally the best remedy but can be unsufficient. Numerous alternative treatments have been thought of by different scholars but few are the umbra ponies which are captured alive as the parasite prefer to take its host with it despite the bath not killing nor damaging the Umbra from what the few studies found. -------------------- Shade

Shades are also shadow creature using an host but, contrary to Umbras, they have a symbiotic relation to their host. The host and the creature talks together and the host stays in control of their body. Shades are also far rarer and what little is known about them has been told by shades making their veracity doubted in some circles. Shades are extremely possessive and protective of their host, for a long time the host and their creatures were chased by Shadow Hunters. Those people generally considering the shades and umbras as the same creature with just one being more manipulative than the other. The hunt of shades and of umbras has been forbidden only six centuries ago. Shades pretends they link themselves to creatures which are as lonely as them and which lack the strength to live on their own. No host has ever been registered as having survived a forced separation. Report indicates than shades can separate themselves from their host if they wish to. --------------------- Tantabus

The Tantabus is a very different kind of creature from the previous two due to its uniqueness and deniable existence. Tantabus isn't a specie but an individual creature. It's living space is also very different due to its origin being the dream realm. The Tantabus is thought to be the ruler and bender of nightmares and its presence was discovered by the young princess of the Moon about a thousand years ago. Some theories on the old tale of the two sisters pretends than Tantabus could be what changed the younger sister, possibly an umbra, making her believe than people didn't appreciate her nights. Some pretends it could be a leftover from her, a monster made to force ponies out of their dreams to see her nights and than the report is a falsified document. Some, refusing to admit the existence of the younger princess due to Princess Celestia only talking about having had a younger sister and not than there was a second princess, think it is just another tale to scare foals with. Another threat for unruly filly and colt. When asked about the subject, Princess Celestia refused to comment.