Cactus Codex

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Posted a big thing on Patreon about @theponyvillediaries. Remember that ol’ thing? :’2

But yeah, I really need to focus on making more content if I want to keep this page alive. And advertising, as much as it pains me.

As Equestria’s youngest and only mortal head of state, Twilight Sparkle has a lot on her plate.

There’s the day-to-day governmental work, opening Parliament sessions, overseeing court, endless paperwork, and bossing ministers around.

There’s also classwork, spells to practice, lessons to complete, a mentor to please, and countless things to study and read up on.

On top of that, as she recently discovered, the nation is on the eve of its biggest crisis yet, a thousand years in the making.

Yet, it feels like no one in Concordia is even remotely concerned of the disaster approaching. Even her good friend in the Ministry of Environment doesn’t seem too swayed by the discovered prophesy.

That won’t stop the tenacious bookworm, however. She knows that something must be done. And if no one will listen, she might as well do it herself. And perhaps drag poor Fluttershy with her.

But first, there’s that previously mentioned political business to attend to. A mission to a Winter’s Moon Festival event. In a tiny village called Ponyville…

Oh look, it’s Diaries stuff! I’ve been working rather extensively on a reboot for the better part of a year, and this is a peek of what’s coming out of it.

Twilight Sparkle, a headstrong magical prodigy, whisked out of the Pegasopolian suburbs to become the princess’s right-hand mare and student.

Fluttershy, the sheepish but candid Ministress of Environment, Twilight’s only real friend in a castle full of bureaucratic nonsense.

More to come, maybe.

My default reaction to shitty political landscapes and their fruits is to dive into my little fantasy world and simulate my own political system that is just as bad (or even worse), but palatable for an audience as a fiction.

I don’t think it’s healthy but it’s super fun, I’ll tell you that.

I got sidetracked.

Drew the Diaries Mane 6 in the same poses as in the old intro.

Ladies and gentlemen. I present to you the official “I’m working on @theponyvillediaries” WIP pic.

As dead as Diaries might seem to be, I still am doing a lot of things with the world internally. One of these things is developing an idea of what the alternate Equestrian towns and cities look like.

[Map of Diaries Equestria]

So yeah. Time for a long post!

Keep reading

I’M GONNA DO IT

I’M GONNA DO IT

I’M GONNA DO IT

ART

(starting soon)

Welp.

chaotic-conundrums:

Meanwhile in another Equestria…

postcrusade-mod made something out of a little joke discussion between me and him, and this was the result! Little Chaos has been made into a Ponyville Diaries version, complete with a morphed cutie mark, and is apparently creeping Dash out. Thanks a lot Cactus!

Tiny Chaos is best stare master. ° - °

@Pegasoponews

Join us on 13 October 3971 for our Tumblog’s launch party! There’ll be chips and soda and multiple assortments of cold cheeses and salad leaves. We’ll tell jokes about politics, the racial tensions at hoof, and all have a laugh until the booze kicks in!

And be sure to tune in to the Pegasopolis News at 12, 5, 6, and 11 PM, only on PTS. Check your local listings for channel number.

PEGASOPONEWS: Equestria’s #1 news resource.

Rawr and Ponk.

theponyvillediaries:

((Map of Equestria if you’re into that sort of thing))

Woo! An update! 8’D

Yep. Being very productive.