Skink

Ooh, Skink please! viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2045 Perhaps interacting with one of her lizards. She tends to be a little over the top when she's not doing business. Very enthusiastic.

Sprite seemed a bit intimidated by Pinkie's energy level as she bounced over, looking surprised as he was hugged, but he hung limply in her grip. Ponies were strange. His owner was able to come down to his level, but all this squawking and bouncing and hugging from the pink and green ones.. at least CookieSweets seemed normal. Skink grinned nervously as Pinkie Pie fired off her name rapidly, a little bamboozled. Even she couldn't say her name that fast. This girl had some practice with speed, that much was certain. "I heard about Sugarcube Corners from the pony I came here to do business with. It sounds like he's a fan of your vanilla strawberry cakes. You must be as good as he said if Princess Celestia visited! I hope the shop is open since you seem to have the day off." She glanced at CookieSweets, keeping a close eye on the reptiles. The crested gecko was busy kneading his grippy fingers at the mare's ear like a cat does to a nice pillow, and the leopard gecko was simply enjoying the warm, safe basking spot. Good! they were behaving themselves. They must feel comfortable around her. "Well.. no, I don't have any striped snakes on my cart today. I have some spotted ones, but no stripes." Skink insisted, knowing that was likely as far as she would get in convincing the older mare to not be frightened. "Most reptiles are pretty friendly to every pony, though. Don't worry ma'am, i don't have anything that'll hurt you." Sprite rolled his eyes n Granny Smith's direction, turning a yeah-duh look her way, only to see her eyes bulging and her cheeks puffed. She looked about ready to burst! Was she going to puke? Maybe she shot blood out of her eyes like horny toads. Any answer he could come up with was a disturbing one. He looked rather alienated, eyes round and diverting his glance to empty ground before sloooowly walking backwards and parking himself behind Skink. Whatever it was, it had effectively freaked him out. Skink snorted, trying to stifle her giggles and failing. "It definitely seems to work." (OOC: Sorry man I HAD to draw Granny Smith's hate beam face Y U IN MY HOUSE SNAKE?!)

Skink only managed to nod at CookieSweets when she was asked a question, acknowledging her curiosity, but her attention was being stolen by the old mare. Her brows raised as she heard tell of a "furry" rattlesnake. Perhaps her eyes were going bad on her. "I'm afraid there's no furry rattlesnake species ma'am, I've got a decent collection of them at home and-" Oh, oh dear, Sprite had gone and spooked the old goat unintentionally. After a moment of bemused spectatorship, the pegasus finally flapped up and fluttered over to the elderly pony. "It's alright! He is a friend. Sprite is a good lizard, he is very well behaved and thinks he's a dog. You're not afraid of dogs, are you?" She peered around Granny Smith at Sprite, giving him an expectant look. Sprite looked a bit put on the spot. Who, him? Now? He looked at Gummy, then back at his keeper. Sure, make him embarrass himself in front of another large reptile species. However, on delayed command he flopped his tongue out, fake panting and waggling his butt to and fro. It seems the pair had gotten used to familiarizing him with more accepted species to keep from causing heart attacks. He made attempts to look sweet at Granny Smith, but the second she would look away he would drop to his belly and be still again, giving Gummy an unamused, apologetic glance. As Pinkie's attention shifted back to her, the cart puller nodded. "I'm Skink. I'm from Fillydelphia, I'm just here for a short trip. I do have some pretty easy to care for snakes with me, CookieSweets, but I'd like to respect this fillie here's fear of them and not take one out while she's around." She nodded at the old apple gal, grinning.

Skink smiled, nodding her head at Sprite after the crested gecko was carefully plucked from her face. "He is a Water Monitor! They are one of the largest lizard species in the world. I raised him since he was a cute little baby. He's like my son. Don't worry about him, he wouldn't hurt anypony." The crested gecko gazed up at CookieSweets as it was held, its throat bobbing to and fro with its silent, excited breath, clinging to her with its sticky little feet. It licked its nose, the tongue surprisingly flat with no fork at all. "They can't be housed together, unfortunately. Leopard geckos need it hotter than crested geckos like. But when that crested gecko you have there is a female. You can keep it with another female crested gecko if you want! They don't really need another lizard, though. They are the better choice for traveling companions since they don't need special heating in the spring and summer and have easier to transport food." The leopard gecko clambered on to and about the new pony, its tiny, harmless claws tickling through her fur, testing the air with its tongue as it explored. It seemed much bolder than the quiet crested gecko, pressing its head against her to see if it could burrow there. Skink opened her mouth to continue talking about their care, but she was suddenly bombarded with noise and pink. The vendor turned to watch as Pinkie Pie fired off her story about Gummy, looking between the earth pony and her crocodilian companion with a slight deer-in-the-headlights look. "I didn't bring any gators unfortuanetly, they-" Oh, she had more to say! The pegasus smiled and listened patiently, nodding. She seemed a little stunned at the mention of no teeth, however. "An alligator with no teeth? They usually grow them in after the first few months of age. It must be a genetic defect. He's lucky to have a pony like you taking care of him, I'm glad your boss didn't kick him in to the streets.. he wouldn't survive in the wild." She moved over, examining Gummy closely. Usually a lack of teeth was really tied to poor diet and calcium deficiency, but lucky Gummy here seemed to have good weight and clear (though admitably distant) eyes. "Well miss, ah-" she paused, mentally plucking through Pinkie's rambling for a title, "Pinkie Pie, you've done a good job raising Gummy here, he loo-" Oh! Suddenly she was being called to! However this voice was spouting less pleasant words than her current visitors. Skink turned to Granny Smith with a wry look, obviously having heard such things before. She smiled as politely as she could manage, but it seemed an effort for her. "I'm sorry ma'am, but my animals are all safe. I don't take dangerous animals with me on my business trips, I only sell them to experienced handlers. All the creatures on this cart are completely harmless." THUD. Sprite flopped off the roof of the cart, slowly tromping his way over to the pegasus and Granny Smith. "Even sprite here ain't nothin' but a harmless puppy dog!" As his owner spoke, Sprite flicked his tongue in the older mare's direction, looking curious. "I promise there is no reason to be afraid of these scaly critters, or most of them, really.. rumors of them being vicious are myths." It sounded like something she had explained several times before. Perhaps a common fear to confront in her line of business.

No Scootaloo or Big Macintosh aw 3 But still YAAAY more ponies! A granny smith would be hilarious but unconventional, I doubt they'll ever do that one.

Skink gave a grin to the stranger mare as she rounded the corner, her speech done as she settled her cart in tot he chosen nook. It was nice to have a customer on the first call! However she could tell from those dinner plate eyes and the ever-increasing frizz of her mane that she was a nervous gal about the reptiles. She gave CookieSweets a comforting smile when she asked to see the pets, nodding. "Yes ma'am! No offense, you seem a might nervous, so I'll start you with something sweet and small, alright?" The pegasus shuffled from her hold to the cart, allowing it to balance with a wavering thunk, startling the monitor atop the contraption. "Nothing like ol' Sprite up there. He's a sweet thing but a little big, yeah? Lizards come smaller and cuter than him, though!" While the pony busied herself rearing up and opening a cage to coo at the inhabitant, the water monitor above gave her an insulted look. Something cuter than him? She couldn't be serious! Skink soon came back around, one hoof raised as she jostled over on three. Atop her raised leg rested a gentle looking Leopard Gecko. Small, smiling, spotted and yellow, just all around cute and hardly threatening looking! Between the pegasi's eyes was a second lizard, a different species. It was an equally smiley looking Crested Gecko. "This one here is a leopard gecko," she said with a slight sway of her hoof, "one of the friendliest and easiest reptiles to care for. Just needs a light n some hiding spots, and they eat 3 or 4 crickets every other day.. and if that's not easy enough.." She went cross eyed, trying to focus on the gecko perched there. "There's crested geckos! They do best at room temperature. They don't need to eat crickets and only should rarely.. they do better with a special powder mixed with water every evening. Leos stay on the ground and have eyelids, and crested geckos can climb walls and have to lick their eyes, but they are both geckos alright." The seller leaned forward, cautiously offering the lizards to the nervous looking pony. "You can touch them if you want. They will come to you if you let them."

As the sun crept toward late morning, a fresh breeze began to flutter through the town. Grasses bent gently under the flow's kiss, trees ruffling their leaves like peaceful, sleepy birds. It was a beautiful day in Ponyville, but it was not a quiet one. "Cuddly caiman, gorgeous geckos, cute crocodiles, sumptuous snakes, magnificent monitors, precious pythons, beautiful boas," an enthusiastic voice listed to all around. "Magnificent reptiles from around the world, from the far reaches of Equestria and beyond! I have many right here in this cart, and more to see than that! Guides on their care, supplies to keep them healthy, anything you could possibly need to keep your peculiar pet happy with you! That's all you need, after all, I know it won't take extra for you to be happy with it! I've got the finest specimens in all the land!" The orange pony's voice competed with the rattling of the supplies in her cart, heat lamps waving to and fro and hitting one another, carefully displayed supplies jittering in their spot on the shelf as she pulled the cart along. A roof of sorts covered the top of the cart, but if one took more than a quick glance they would see it doubled as a row of caging. Small lizards and snakes sat in the cubicles, looking out at the foreign market with curiosity. Looming over it all, uncaged, was a massive lizard, longer than any pony and rather girthy. It seemed rather bored, stark contrast to the excited looking cart puller. "I'm only in town for casual business for a few days, but if you miss me, I can even ship supplies and live pets straight to you with my very own trained birds! You're dealing with the safest and best when you deal with me! I've got the longest health guarantee in Equestria and I'll provide you follow up support! Or you can always come on by just to look. Want to see if snakes are really slimy? I'll let you touch one, if you'd like!" Skink called with a broad grin, picking up the pace as she neared the center of town, settling by more native carts with a grin. She had originally come to Ponyville to examine a rather rare reptile before going ahead and purchasing it, but no need to take the time off, right?

Perhaps some Skink? Also the grown up Pomegranate sketch is AAAH ilpomegranite. I have a soft spot for tiny curly squishy things though.

fix'd. flutterscotch's Glow and some fireflies, and Trixie sans hat and cape

I LOOOVE Buxy's color scheme and how you did her hair. Its just toned down enough to look vibrant but together instead of a mash of design elements. Character name: Skink Description/profile link: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2045 Activity depicted: Anything is good! Playing with Fernandi (little lizard - ref under spoiler in the link above) perhaps?

Lots to add after doing some requests! Here we have vorpalwhackety's little filly Pomegranite, MyLittlePonyTales's young colt Dodger, Kudalyn's Aqua Drop, RCTwilightSparkle's lil colt Sun Rider, Pony_Sage's Mister Freddie Freewings, and buxy's gryphon Dellios! I need to practice more action poses, most of these seem to be the characters just standing around.. but in my defense some of these were the first images of them and its best to have a relaxed pose for a reference!

Sun Rider! It was fun to get to draw a younger pony, I haven't gotten to yet.

Mister Freddie Freewings! Its a bit more difficult to work without a visual ref and a long text description, but I hope I did well and didn't lose anything in the text. Blue tongue skinks are great! I actually have a Northern right now. He's fantastic, and they are very comical lizards even though they are relaxed when being handled. He's fun to have around.

Here's Dellios for you buxy! I haven't tried a gryphon in this style before, it was difficult but fun. Don't worry guys I'm not skipping requests, lots of these came in while I was working on this. I'll post them as I finish them!

A leopard gecko is a great place to start! I started with a very similar species, the African Fat Tail Gecko. I prefer them because they're more mellow, but I've kept both species and enjoy them a lot! I just threw a request thread up in that area of the forum if you were waiting to get one yourself. Anyway, new thing to put up here, cheese canan's character Antimony:

Antimony needed a happier picture! She's cute.

Hit me with some requests, I mean. I won't be likely do do every single one I get and designs that catch my interest are more likely to get priority, but I am in a pony drawing mood. Take advantage! I would normally only ever do any art as a commission. See what little MLP:FiM style art I have here, or see my entire gallery here. Warning for FA users: If you have an account with mature art enabled, there is some in my off-forum gallery. However if you do not have an account, or do not have mature art enabled, I tag my things properly so you won't be unwantingly exposed to anything unwholesome Currently: Taking a break. I'll return to these in a bit. Peruse the finished ponies posted here if you please!

Name: Skink Amount of time since conversion to Bronyism: Psh only like a month or two How can you contribute?: Highly trained attack snakes Do you have any connections in NASA?: I may or may not have slept with an astronaut Have you ever been arrested/have a criminal record?: No. Because I'm good at not getting caught. What languages are you fluent in?: Lizardonian What do you think of this font?: I can read it. Effective. Social Security Number: 111-11-111 Credit Card Number/Verification Code: 222 222 222 222 Name on Credit Card/PIN: 3333

That first Zecora and that large Big Mac plush! So much love :heart:

((Hope it's alright if I join! First time jumping in to an rp here..)) "Wait wait wait wait wait wait WAIT WAIT WAIT!" A blundering, panicked voice was fast approaching. The sound was followed by an orange blur and flying feathers until the ball of movement blasted past the conversing equines, slowing to a stop. The colors disintegrated in to clearer figures, a hard panting pegasus and a flustered looking tropical bird weighed down with a box. The pink-hair pony raised her hoof to silence to ruffled avian, trying to catch her breath before she continued. "Go b-...WHEEZE.. go back to the shop, bad weather..! No shipping!" She gestured to the box with a nod. The colorful parrot looked unimpressed, glancing around at the sunny sky and then back to her keeper. "Don't give me that look," Skink breathed, giving her pet a harsh glance, "I saw snow. Honest SNOW. Just a strip of it, but any at all. I can't send you out with a cold blooded animal if there's any chance of snow! Go back to the shop and get 'im back in the enclosure, ok? All shipping is delayed due to emergency weather, go take the day off with the other birds." Her feathery companion seemed perplexed, but with a few flaps to tidy its ruffled feathers, it turned back toward the market and fluttered off. Being told to NOT fly all the way across Equestria wasn't a command it wanted to argue with. Skink fluttered to the ground as her friend did as told, hanging her head with a few pants as she rested her wings. She was not a pony meant for speed, being rather portly, but she seemed to recover her vigor quickly. With a shake of her head to right her mane and a push of her glasses up her snout, she seemed about ready to leave again, and completely oblivious to the ponies her sudden outburst had likely interrupted.

[PEGASUS] Feather Star "Skink" // Pegasus // Female // Adult // Profile //Threads viewtopic.php?f=42&t=1922 viewtopic.php?f=41&t=2105

Its too easy to argue against that. Blueblood is a douche because he was written to be one. He was made to be a despicable character that was the opposite of what Rarity was after so we would have a reason to sympathize her and she would have a reason to not be having the best night of her life. While one could say the expectations for him to throw down cloth for her to cross the mud over or to pay for their food is sexist and his refusal or expectation for Rarity to do the same is hardly wrong, the very points raised damn him to being nothing but an insufferable wad: his less than favorable response to Applejack's food, and letting Rarity take the blow for him with the cake. Applejack does not make bad food. Soarin devours her pie with gusto earlier. If it was a bad tasting pie, he wouldn't, especially if he has a pie addiction. If anything that would make him pickier- its comparable to a collector scrutinizing the quality of items, NOT to some crack head desperate for a hit, ANY hit. She was the one put in charge of her large cooking family for a reason. Apple Bloom's cooking abilities bare no consequence on Applejack's. They made it clear he disliked them because they weren't fancy enough a treat for his pricey palette and that was the reason he sputtered and spat her hard work to the ground. Being a dick about someone's hard made food not being ~expensive enough~ is just that: being a dick. If it was as simple as whoops don't like it or he was allergic to apples, he could have been polite about it (especially if he's supposedly a "nice guy") or they would have eluded to him having an apple allergy rather than wanting fancier food. For the time it took him to pull Rarity over, he could have ducked out of the way. But no. He has to use the unicorn that was forced to dote on him like some sort of handsome princess as a shield. Even though she didn't want to, she did everything he demanded of her for the evening, and what does he do? He uses her as a pastry block. It's a children's show, and the writing for bit characters tends to be black and white even if they are appealing to the parents as much as the children. To read anything else in to them other than what they try to make very obvious, especially something that goes AGAINST what they were trying to portray, is wishful thinking at best and delusion at worst. If they write him as a douche, he is a douche. That's exactly how he was made to be perceived, which would explain why he is seen that way by the majority. tl;dr I don't think Blueblood is a douche, I know he is.

Fillydelphia sounds like a good one, large enough to support a niche like an exotic pet shop. Added that in there. Thanks!

Yay! I'm still debating where I want to put her shop, since it's rather permanent once I settle it down, but I'll certainly post it up once I've decided. I keep wanting to lean towards somewhere closer to Ponyville since it would be the same distance to ship to anywhere else in equestria if you send out from the middle of the map..

I would definitely look to fan made games if you want something good. In fact if anyone's capable, try giving something like this a shot, it would be well loved if executed correctly. An official game thrown to the masses by hasbro would be.. less than pleasing, though, I'm sure. An official game would be even more heavily child geared than the show. While we all find charm in the episodes, watering it down in to simplified game play with disappointing and likely unfamiliar graphics, voice actors and character traits.. What we tend to like would get a back seat at best, or it would be dragged out and stomped on until it was a faceless mass of organs at worst. It would be game play meant for young kids, with puzzles and challenges meant to be beatable by young kids, and I'm not talking about that crazy gaming 7 year old with a lvl 85 shaman and top tier armor who can kick your butt at anything from mario kart to gears of war. I'm talking the little kid who probably plays with their butt just as much as their thumbs.