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  1. Interesting, people have been calling for a sequel with that very image in mind.
  2. From the album: Regular Cast Pics

    Noticed that many minor characters have little good art of them, and Cheerilee is one of those characters. I guess that is what inspired me to draw this on a lark. Sure you all know what movie cover inspired this for Eighties Cheerilee (hint: it's in the title).

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  3. Cheerilee gave a flat look at Applebloom, raising one eyebrow disbelievingly. “Forgot the paperwork, you don’t say… “ Cheerilee was disappointed, the school wasn’t some sort of byzantine bureaucracy, it was a small town school house with only a couple teachers who reported directly to the town council and the mayor. They didn’t even have a principle, and the council acted as the school board as well, such was life in a town as small as Ponyville. In short, it meant that she knew exactly how the school paper’s resources were spent, as she was directly responsible for its budget. Applebloom’s attempted feint involving guessing how many apples in a bushel only served to display she was hiding something about using the school paper. “Applebloom… All the requests for use of the school paper go to me directly from you students, there is no middle pony , and I can assure you I got no request from you to use the paper’s resources to print flyers for your apple sale, which wouldn’t be approved of anyway as it would be using school resources for a non-school related activity.” Cheerilee held her forehood to her face and sighed, counting to ten in her mind with a look of disappointment. She adored Applebloom, she really did, even with all the mischief the little farm filly and her two besties caused, she adored them all. Usually their hearts were in the right place, and this time is no exception, but it was also patently wrong! “Applebloom…. What you did is essentially stealing from the school. The paper you used, the ink, the printer, that all costs money… That money comes out of the paper’s budget, which in turns comes out of the school’s budget, a budget that has already been set for the year. That means we have to cut the budget for the paper, or somewhere else, do you understand?” Cheerilee hated to be stern like this, especially outside of the school house, even more so on a day off, but she had no choice, this was serious. What was most important though is that little Abby needed to understand why, and also to be given an opportunity to try and set things right as much as she could anyway. “So Applebloom, what do you think should be done about this?”
  4. Cheerilee was glad she showed up when she did as a line of ponies, not to mention a single griffon, quickly formed up behind her. She must have been lucky, arriving during a lull in the storm of apple sales. With luck no pony, er, no one, would have to wait long, after all buying a bushel of apples should be a pretty straight forward affair. Cheerilee may not have known most of those in line, but she was very familiar with the Apple family, especially little Applebloom, who cheerfully bounced up to her with her usual enthusiasm and desire for approval, in this particular case, in relation to her hoofmade advertisement flyers. “Hello Applebloom, I did see the flyers you made, in fact found one placed under the door to my house; I wouldn’t be surprised you went to every single home in Ponyville, you always been a very dedicated and hard working little pony when you put your mind to it.” Cheerilee looked once again at the line, full of ponies and griffons that didn’t hail from their quaint home town before turning her head back to the red headed filly. “How far did you manage to distribute these flyers? There seems to be a good deal of out of town folk here!” Not that was a bad thing at all, quite the opposite, but it would require some clever campaigning which showed innovation on Applebloom’s part, which Cheerilee wanted to encourage, as long as it didn’t involve any recklessness or the little filly exhausting herself needlessly. There was one other nagging question in Cheerilee’s mind in regards to the flyers, which most have cost a lot in paper and ink, hopefully it was all part of the Sweet Apple Acres budget but Cheerilee had been to the local printers press lately and didn’t recall seeing any large orders there, she also recalled the proprietor mentioning that ‘thing had been slow this week’. Cheerilee gave a disarming smile hiding a nagging feeling in the back of her mind, “so Applebloom, how did you manage to make so many flyers? You must have gotten quite the bargain! Or did you perhaps get them printed slowly over time in preparation for this day?.”
  5. Cheerilee stretched her legs as she stepped outside her single floor ranch home near the school house. Since it was a Saturday there were no classes to hold and as luck would have it, no foals to watch for detention. Her day free, it was a prime opportunity to get a few errands done, one of which was a short list of groceries. Although she originally intended to get the apples she needed on that list at the local market, the advertisement she found stuffed under the door changed her plans. If Sweet Apple Acres were going to sell apples wholesale at such a discount, how could any frugal pony not want to take advantage? The mauve colored mare didn’t even think about the kissing part of the advert as she trotted to the nearby orchard, assuming it was hyperbole on the part of a little filly that was known to exaggerate from time to time, especially when it came to her family. Besides discounted apples from the best orchard in the land was more than enough motivation, and when she saw the line outside of the stand, it was obvious to her other ponies thought so too. Cheerilee didn’t recognize several of the ponies in the line, in fact the only one she knew was Fluttershy, who was basically a celebrity in the town due to the adventures she had with her friends, not that you want to inform the shy pegasus of that fact as it always caused her great embarrassment, in fact Fluttershy would even occasionally flee the scene if the situation was awkward enough. The other three, a navy blue pegasus, a brick red earth pony with a two toned green mane, and a brown earth pony who’s mane was also green were complete strangers to the school teacher. Were they new to town or did the ads that were obviously of Applebloom’s creation circulate that far and wide? Regardless , the line was reasonably short, and it give Cheerilee a chance to converse with the Apple family outside of formal situations involving Applebloom’s schooling, or embarrassingly awkward ones involving spell infused drinks.
  6. From the album: Regular Cast Pics

    Probably seen this on the side bar now, but this is a larger image of the same. Enjoyed making this; the challenge was to get as many species as I could without it becoming cluttered when shrunk to sidebar size. For the curious, the reason for no yaks was the picture was completed before Party Pooped came out. Why Cheerilee? I always imagined her as the tourist type, going on trips (mostly in the summer) to various places in Equestria, collecting images and souvenirs for herself and for future school lessons.

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  7. You are now in the future! happy Thirty Year Anniversary to Back To The Future!

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    2. tacobob

      tacobob

      And my Jaws 19

    3. stormchaser1991

      stormchaser1991

      and season 20 of mlp

    4. Corsair

      Corsair

      *sits Stormchaser down and makes him watch Back to the Future to get the joke.*

  8. From the album: Regular Cast Pics

    The squeal to this image. It is June 28th, which is the far less known Tau Day (as Tau equals 2π or 6.28). Well twilight is a devotee of the Tau Manifesto and feel the need to explain to (a very bored) Pinkie Pie why she feels Tau is superior when it comes to the geometry of circles and other math. Thus another silly math joke.

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  9. Finally saw mad Max: Fury Road. It was everything I hoped it would be. 5 out of 5 stars.

    1. Pretzelparty

      Pretzelparty

      What a film! WHAT A LOVELY FILM!

    2. CanvasMayHogany

      CanvasMayHogany

      It confused me. It has a good plot line but it should explain some

      things a bit more. I liked it though

    3. Dunder

      Dunder

      I'm glad my friend didn't let me drive home from the theater.

  10. Still haven't gotten to see episode. I wonder how many headcanons were given fuel and how many were blown up!

    1. Corsair

      Corsair

      All of them, BBB, all of them.

    2. moonshineTheleocat

      moonshineTheleocat

      ALL OF THEM! They weren't just given fuel! THEY BECAME CANON

    3. stormchaser1991

      stormchaser1991

      so lyra and bonbon are a couple and derpy love doctor whooves aka time tuner

  11. From the album: OC Requests & Trades

    This is a commission by Bramble Rose - he wanted a picture of his superhero being trained in the sword by another superhero. Based on a thread of his and some of his friends on FFA (although non-anthro). He also requested that it be specifically cell shaded as such rather than my usual shading techniques. Not a real fan of cell shading, but I should practice it more. The alicorn is Bramble's character "Morning Glory" - which is supposed to be a popular superhero comic in Equestria set immediately following the fall of Luna into Nightmare Moon. She has only recently been given the powers of an alicorn, along with a mythic sword, but doesn't really know how to use the powers or the sword yet. The pegasus is Azal's character "Captain Nightguard" - an unpowered superhero who was one of Luna's Nightguard before she became Nightmare Moon, and had been part of the group that helped her defend the night from monsters. He now wears a steampunk jetpack and a metal wing that allows him to fly again.

    © © Bramble Rose

  12. Hey folks! Remember: No pony generator or game/whos screenshots in the gallery, you can have them in your RPs linked from another site, but the Gallery is for *Original Works* only.

  13. Finally back! Sorry I was gone a week; will work to catch up on everything! Let me know if an RP needs immediate attention please!

  14. Sorry I have been so quiet and AWOL these last couple days. Been out of town since Thursday and won't be back in until Monday.

  15. Only supposed to be a stallion in the last one.
  16. From the album: Regular Cast Pics

    The image the April banner is based on, time for planting new seeds! As you can see, when I do a banner image, I draw the whole bodies, even though the banner is too thin to have a whole body in there, but it allows for better management of proportion and movement of characters.

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  17. From the album: OC Requests & Trades

    An eight panel expression's post of Pressy, or her full name, Presteza; Mad, sad, surprised, flat look, scared, happy, sneeze, and stallion.

    © © Presteza 2015

  18. From the album: Regular Cast Pics

    Well it is St. Patty's Day, so why not celebrate it with one of the very few green colored characters from MLP (seriously, Lyra and Granny Smith are it for named ones); she even brought out the special cider!

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  19. From the album: Regular Cast Pics

    Today is the fourteenth of March, the third month of the year. What does that mean? 3.14, that's what, thus Pie day! Pinkie of course loves the idea but Twilight believes another mathematical symbol is superior when it comes being a math constant when measuring the circumference of circles. In short, this is a math joke.

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  20. Are you all ready for the Season 5 HYPE?! Only 29 days to go!!!

    1. ShadowWalking18

      ShadowWalking18

      *Watches the screen* O.O

  21. Today is Darwin Day! It is also Lincoln's birthday! It is also Tara Strong's birthday! All in a ll it is a good day. I am lucky as it also happens to be mine too.

    1. Blueblood

      Blueblood

      Oh, happy birthday!

    2. stormchaser1991

      stormchaser1991

      haapy birth then and have this

    3. Bellosh

      Bellosh

      Have a good one!

  22. Aww, if I knew you were into the Pats, I would have made something for you too.
  23. From the album: Regular Cast Pics

    Threw something together for the Superbowl last night. Why Twilight Sparkle and why Seahawks? Well because Twilight is cute as a cheerleader and SteelEagle, who plays Twilight in WoE here is a huge Seahwaks fan, and well I didn't know any Patriot ones. So I guess this doubles as gift art.

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  24. From the album: Regular Cast Pics

    Time for my annual Hearth's Warming Eve pic, and this time I decided it should be the CMC caroling. Why? Because the CMC are adorable, that's why! Applebloom had to borrow her sister's earmuffs to cover one ear to carol though, Enjoy!

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