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Vapor Trail!

This tiny, round puffball might not seem like much, but she’s actually one of the strongest flyers in Cloudsdale! Or at least she will be, once she breaks out of her codependency issues.

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Kirin are omnivores

the iridescent “scales” on their backs and faces are actually articulated scutes, which can be raised to release magical gasses that ignite as part of their hunting form. Kirins utilize fire in hunting and agriculture/forest management, and love both their meat and vegetables cooked.
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A drawing of Mr. and Mrs. Cake from my little pony in a style that is more realistic than the show, but still cartoony. Mr. cake is a lanky buckskin horse with an underbite and a swayback, while Mrs cake is a short, round, shetland bony with bright blue fur and pink mane and tail. Between them are two young foals. Poundcake is a chubby, pale buckskin pegasus with cloven hooves and feathers for mane. Pumpkin Cake is a gangling deer-like fawn with a pael yellow coat and orange hair. She has cloven hooves and a very small pink horn bud on her forehead.ALT
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Normal horses naturally come in a variety of earth tones, with a single hoof on each foot, and bodies covered with fur and mane and tail made of long hair.

Physical characteristics such as cloven hooves, horns, wings, feathers in place of hair, lion tails, and such are locked to their respective species. A unicorn cannot be born with wings, nor an earth pony born with feathery mane.

Color, however, has been spread from ancestral pegasus hybridization to every species of horse in the world. Bright hues pass down from parent to child as easily as long legs or curly mane. Behind the scenes, genes to conceive a foal that is a member of another species are carried through many ponies’ lineage; you can never tell when they will manifest.

The one constant is that a foal will be born as either an earth pony, unicorn, or pegasus. Something with multiple traits would be… a different creature entirely.

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Fluttershy as a bat pony in a semirealistic style. She has large bat wings with pink webbing, a beak-shaped mouth full of sharp teeth, and red eyes. Her coat is yellow with pink and brown thylacine markings. She is surrounded by shriveled apples.ALT
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La chupamanzana!

Uh oh, looks like something strange happened to Fluttershy!
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And Fluttershy isn’t the only one. Strange transformations overtook several ponies, affecting them in different ways depending on their species.

The unicorn brothers Flim and Flam. They are yellow unicorns with red manes, and have straw boater hats on their heads. Flim is a deer-like unicorn with green eyes and a singe spiraling horn. He smiles nervously while side-eying his brother Flam Flam is nearly twice Flim\'s size, with red eyes, fangs, and a mutated horn that splits in two. The two parts of the horn are jagged and point downward on either side of the face, like smilodon fangs.ALT

A pair of unicorns, once identical twins, one half afflicted by the same malady. While the pegasus’ bird wings warped and shifted, the unicorn’s swirled antlers regrew into a fanglike shape.

Meanwhile, a young horse found herself with sharpened canines, shaggy fur - and just like the others - a hearty appetite for apple juice.

The unicorn brothers Flim and Flam. They are yellow unicorns with red manes, and have straw boater hats on their heads. Flim is a deer-like unicorn with green eyes and a singe spiraling horn. He smiles nervously while side-eying his brother Flam Flam is nearly twice Flim\'s size, with red eyes, fangs, and a mutated horn that splits in two. The two parts of the horn are jagged and point downward on either side of the face, like smilodon fangs.ALT

So what do these three have in common to undergo such drastic changes? Was it being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or perhaps getting a little too close to nature during cider season.

The Flimflam brothers tried ripping up entire trees to press into substandard cider, earning the ire of wildlife nesting in the branches. Apple Bloom decided to try out “pest wranglin’” as her life’s calling.

And Fluttershy… Poor Fluttershy.

The unicorn brothers Flim and Flam. They are yellow unicorns with red manes, and have straw boater hats on their heads. Flim is a deer-like unicorn with green eyes and a singe spiraling horn. He smiles nervously while side-eying his brother Flam Flam is nearly twice Flim\'s size, with red eyes, fangs, and a mutated horn that splits in two. The two parts of the horn are jagged and point downward on either side of the face, like smilodon fangs.ALT

She didn’t want to do this. But her friend insisted she help get rid of the unusual feral bats in the orchard using her animal skills. But the most important part of animal handling is knowing when to leave them alone.

One shouldn’t tamper with nature.

Nature is a balancing act, a beautiful dance of give and take. Millions of years of evolution have crafted systems and relationships more complex than ponies can begin to understand.

One such system is that of the Vampire Fruit Bat, its target species of tree, the seeds, and a symbiotic relationship between all these plus a gene-altering virus that makes them what they are.

You see, millenia ago these bats were simple fruit eaters, munching through small fruits and spreading the seeds through their digestion. But over time, they acquired a virus that changed their physiology, making them grow bigger, with piercing fangs and a unique gut biome that thrived off the juices of larger fruits.

The unicorn brothers Flim and Flam. They are yellow unicorns with red manes, and have straw boater hats on their heads. Flim is a deer-like unicorn with green eyes and a singe spiraling horn. He smiles nervously while side-eying his brother Flam Flam is nearly twice Flim\'s size, with red eyes, fangs, and a mutated horn that splits in two. The two parts of the horn are jagged and point downward on either side of the face, like smilodon fangs.ALT

Large fruited trees like apples and pears evolved to be eaten by megafauna such as horses, but certain tree species benefited from a relationship with strange new bats. The trees changed their reproductive cycles to depend on Fruitvam interference in order to grow into healthy trees. Apples typically have a certain amount of moisture in them, but Pire Apples have an extremely high juice content due to their relationship with Fruitvam bats.

The bats are attracted to fruit with the highest juice content, which their virus-evolved bodies demand. The seeds pass through the bats’ gut and are then laid in nutrient-rich guano (bat manure), which exponentially increases the seeds’ growing capacity. While the juicy fruit attracts the bats, it is not as good for nourishing the seeds, so the apple tree depends as much on the bats as they do the tree.


The unicorn brothers Flim and Flam. They are yellow unicorns with red manes, and have straw boater hats on their heads. Flim is a deer-like unicorn with green eyes and a singe spiraling horn. He smiles nervously while side-eying his brother Flam Flam is nearly twice Flim\'s size, with red eyes, fangs, and a mutated horn that splits in two. The two parts of the horn are jagged and point downward on either side of the face, like smilodon fangs.ALT

The trip through the bat digestive system changes the seeds into more robust, high-yield trees that produce extremely juicy apples. The best cider is pressed from an orchard with a healthy bat population, even though they intimidate farmers at first by devouring their crops. If juices and cider products are a staple export, it’s worth it to establish the bats as part of your land management.

Unfortunately, not everyone understands or cares about the balance of nature. You can try to eradicate them, but you must be very careful when doing so.

Bats carry many diseases, but Vampire Fruit Bats carry a particularly virulent condition that defines their life and environment. To the bats, the Vamprus is part of them, and they would not exist without it. They are not mere hosts to a virus, but invaluable partners with mutual benefit.

The unicorn brothers Flim and Flam. They are yellow unicorns with red manes, and have straw boater hats on their heads. Flim is a deer-like unicorn with green eyes and a singe spiraling horn. He smiles nervously while side-eying his brother Flam Flam is nearly twice Flim\'s size, with red eyes, fangs, and a mutated horn that splits in two. The two parts of the horn are jagged and point downward on either side of the face, like smilodon fangs.ALT

Fruitvams are born with vamprus, but they still secrete it in their saliva. This is a holdover from when it was a harmful, rabies-like virus that spread through bats biting each other. It does have some effect on their mind, drawing them to seek out juice-rich fruits at the height of ripeness, but this is what the food chain needs, so it is no longer a harmful behavior. They are not aggressive, and have no desire to bite living creatures, bats or otherwise.

However, if one handles a Vampire Fruit Bat with bare hooves, or harasses a nest, they will fight back. Ponies who have been bitten usually escape unscathed, as they are not the definitive host of the Vamprus virus. Those who do develop symptoms, however, need swift treatment or changes become permanent. After the virus leaves their systems, afflicted ponies will no longer be controlled by their desire to drink from apples’ flesh, but they will always have a hunger for it.

Some ponies who tangled with bats can be so mildly affected they never even realized they were infected, with no indication save for minor changes… and an insatiable desire for cider.

The unicorn brothers Flim and Flam. They are yellow unicorns with red manes, and have straw boater hats on their heads. Flim is a deer-like unicorn with green eyes and a singe spiraling horn. He smiles nervously while side-eying his brother Flam Flam is nearly twice Flim\'s size, with red eyes, fangs, and a mutated horn that splits in two. The two parts of the horn are jagged and point downward on either side of the face, like smilodon fangs.ALT

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An illustration of two characters from My Little Pony, Generation 3, in a semi-realistic style. Skywishes is a pink and purple horse with bows braided into her mane and tail to look like the string of a kite. She is gazing in awe at Starcatcher. Starcatcher is a glamorous white pegasus with pink markings, blue and white hair glittery hair, giant blue and pink wings, and a red heart marking in the middle of her chest. She is smiling at Skywishes in a hopefully coy and confident look, but her wiggly mouth betrays that she's actually a little bit giddy.ALT
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When you meet the girl who has been listening whenever you wish for something and then doing her best to secretly grant them for you because she’s so smitten, you have no idea. She’s made you so many kites because you Love Kites and she Knows.

Here’s ponies from my childhood for a change! I used to watch this video cassette (My little pony: Dancing in the Clouds) religiously as soon as I took Starcatcher out of her box. If only I had Skywishes too…

In the middle of my drawing, a friend informed me that there’s official pride merchandise of these two from Hasbro! So I added the flowers to reference that.

Happy Pride!

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Dragons are one of the most variable creatures in the world. Individuals are shaped not by genetics, but by their environment and what they want out of life.

Baby dragons can remain in their young form for decades, if the environment isn’t right for them to mature. Intense competition, lack of resources, or uncertain emotional development are all reasons for a baby dragon to delay their adult molt.

Once circumstances are right, an intense period of growth begins, and a dragon can multiply its size and sprout new features such as wings in just a few short years.

Pubescent dragons need a huge amount of food (including gem minerals) to sustain their growth. In the dragon lands, this can lead to competition, toughening up a young dragon to face a world of challenges.

Not everything is about fighting tooth and nail. Dragons raised in more cooperative societies are often softer, with less need to develop armor and weaponry. However, if their society faces constant threats, even the softest, kindest dragons will bulk up into formidable creatures in order to defend the ones they love. These individuals are difficult to provoke, easy to make peace with, but impossible to beat once you’ve threatened their family.

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A pigeon pegasus flying downward with wings spread and legs bucking up over her back. Her feet have long feathers the completely obscure her hooves. She is a lavender-gray color, with piebald colors making her head, feet and wingtips white.ALT
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ko-fi commission of a very special pony. They asked for a pigeon, and I thought tumbling pigeon would suit her quite well. These breeds are prized for their aerobatics and backflips when flying and taking off.

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