Usual OP is still at vacation editionThe pic that started it all: https://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37443253/https://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37447036/Previous Thread: >>40939160Alternative thread: https://nhnb.org/fim/res/2295.htmlArchive of snowpony thread art: https://mega.nz/folder/0okEHKxS#8FIy3EQUHM-XluGvV7knIgArchive of snowpony-related musics: https://ponepaste.org/5819On the boorus, the snowpony tag ended up being "snowpony (species)" or "taiga pony">What is a snowpity?https://snowpity.com/>What are snowponies?Lore dumps for the newfagshttps://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1646/33/1646333439218.pnghttps://www.fimfiction.net/blog/981051/snowpony-lore-dumpThe Great Snowpony Expeditionhttps://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37474157/https://desuarchive.org/mlp/37750570#37767390https://ponepaste.org/5843Reading material:>Anon and Frosty Flakeshttps://ponepaste.org/5609https://ponepaste.org/5640>Comfy lore snippetshttps://ponepaste.org/5652https://ponepaste.org/5650https://ponepaste.org/5664>Cirrus Wisp and Fillyhttps://ponepaste.org/5662>Lichen greenshttps://ponepaste.org/7273>Bury Me in Whitehttps://ponepaste.org/5648>Surehoof's First Ice Stephttps://ponepaste.org/5689>A cute (hopefully) snow pone shorthttps://ponepaste.org/5682>Frost Fringed Letters [WIP]https://ponepaste.org/5678>My Winter Stormhttps://ponepaste.org/5713Kinderquestria Greenshttps://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37475222/https://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37475226/>Poetryhttps://ponepaste.org/8220https://ponepaste.org/5857https://ponepaste.org/5885>Agate's vigil is no longer WIP, finished story now.https://www.fimfiction.net/story/507146/agates-vigil>The First Fishhttps://ponepaste.org/7283>New Life with Frosty Flakes (Lewd)https://ponepaste.org/6225>[WIP] Cultural Exchange at Spahttps://ponepaste.org/7063>Snowfall Frost's seach for Windigoshttps://ponepaste.org/7147>The first step northhttps://ponepaste.org/7468>Pine Ponder and the Lost Scarfhttps://ponepaste.org/8037>A Crystal Forest Rescuehttps://ponepaste.org/8082A Snowpitt vignettehttps://ponepaste.org/8361>Russian snwowpone fics (use google translate or something similar)https://ponyfiction.org/story/16611/https://ponyfiction.org/story/16645/>Comet Chaser and a Windigo Hunterhttps://ponepaste.org/8843>Lights Going Outhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/543593/lights-going-out>Granite and Fireweedhttps://ponepaste.org/9917https://desuarchive.org/mlp/40648409#40695973https://desuarchive.org/mlp/40798618#40829500>MerchPine Ponder approved tea:https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/blend.html?blend=191237Snowpone patches:https://neighsayerpatches.com/products/the-great-snowpone-expedition-patchhttps://neighsayerpatches.com/products/visit-snowpitt-patch
>OP imageKek
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/896846e4-c36a-4760-89b3-db5c9a037727
>>41078757Do snowpony boops work the same way?
>>41078830I can see Lichen doing that, somehow
Gonna be a snowpony horsemas card this year.
>>41079207that is one big foal...
>>41079207Cute! I see Lichen wants Dickmas
>>41079292Wait that, s supposed to be a foal. Damn I know Abominables are big but I always figured a foal would've been similar to an adult Snowpone mare.
>>41079207I can already spot Frosty and Cold. That might be Pine on the end of the log. Kinda looks like she has a bread roll in her mouth.
Might as well share something I left dormant a year ago. No floof layer were applied to this yet.>>41079300It's in a file name.>>41079304Based on letters we have Lichen > Pine Ponder > *Don't recognize her* > Cold Shoulder > Winter Wonder > Frosty Flakes
>>41079406Also found original wip from 2022.
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>>41079207Oooh, looking wonderful!>>41079406>>41079411Gorgeous! You really have a talent for manes.
Arctic Ink!made with MLP oil pastels
Can I get a QRD on all of the main snowponies and what they're like?
>>41079968Cute filly
>>41079406>>41079411>prettied up snowmaresNow that's definitely a unique sight.
>>41079968I do like the inky filly.
>>41079968I love your cute and sincere art!>>41080332Here's a QRD as I best recall it:>MainWell the core 3 are Frosty Flakes, Winter Wonder, and Cold Shoulder.Frosty seems to generally be the "poster pony" of snowpones as a whole, and if I'm remembering correctly is the cute every-mare who embodies snowpity and general snowponishness as a whole.Winter Wonder "ooo"s at most things, and is a curious snowmare who if an anon visited would be the one asking all the questions and wanting to know everything about humans.Cold Shoulder is brave and a little standoffish, she is a bit more cautious than WW and cares deeply about snowpones and their safety.>OthersPine Ponder loves pinecones and collects them, she is a gentle and sweet soul.Lichen is...Lichen, boxing her isn't easy. The village shid pretty much.Cirrus is a wise and mystical snowmare who guides and helps out across all the lands of Snowpony. Is she a shamare, or something more? Its hard to say.Puffins is a small snowmare but big personality, and doesn't like being confused for a filly!Ice Elation is generally taken as Cold Shoulder's elder sister, she explores the icy wastes alone for long periods.>FilliesArctic Ink is a cheerful little artist filly!Niveous is a bit of a cheeky and prankster snowfilly.I freely admit I could be getting some of these wrong or misremembering important factoids. If so, I apologise, it isn't intentional and I welcome corrections or differing ideas that better fit.
>>41081481>Lichen is...Lichen, boxing her isn't easy.Pretend-autistic shitposter extraordinaire.
>>41079207That is one heavy foal.
I completely forgot these threads existed.
>>41082045How so? They were on the board the whole time.
>>41081481Thank you. Wait, Puffins isn't a filly?
>>41082708Shes a mare!Very petite.
>>41082708She's even a mother!
Did Marbo ever make a reappearance?
>>41083157Very sadly, no.
>>41081255>InkWhere does she get the ink? Suggestion: They harvest it from their underwater octopus farms.
>>41083848>underwater octopus farmshow would this work, it sounds fun
>>41083827Introduce this pone to mushroom pizza.
>>41084337>>41083827>pizza be basin fur fur snowcap
>>41084401Introduce this shid to fidget spinners
>>41050464I noticed some errant pixels that strayed from the 5-color palette.
Cold Shoulder art from April
>>41085481Ooh, thank you! It is a firm favorite of mine.>>41085799Forgive the question seeming perhaps a bit stupid, but is this temp or permanent? Either way, it is cute and awesome.
>>41085800Very permanent, and mostly settled in.
>>41085820Kickass, props to the tattooist, really good on model job, the snowpity shines through!
>>41085827Nice image choice. I made the pony and the fish, my tattooist made the pumpkin.
>>41085799This is the tattoofags mindset, enjoy paying 5 grand for laser removal when you get tired of it.
>>41085827>>41085837>image>41085840Will do.
>>41085844The soul-levels are sky high. The cute wooden canoe!Did you make>pic
>>41085854No, I didn't make the canoe. Was made by the anon who made your pic, though. I have a few things from him around here.>pic reminding me how impossible it is to keep cat hair off of literally everything this time of year
>>41082708>>41080332Puffins is big mare.https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/38097338/#38225652To add some stuff...As usual, a lot of the pone's characters can be at least partially inferred from their names.Pine Ponder is quiet, reserved, but not a Fluttershy-type doormat. She's a mostly solitary forager, and her habits come from having to be quiet and sneaky while in the woods. Highly knowledgeable about the woods around her village, has some herbal knowledge and the like.Bundle Up and Boreal Blanket are two cloth makers, though with completely different styles. Boreal tries to make fancy stuff, while the eternally cold Bundle Up just makes the most brutally effective, warm clothes.Bundle Up has a younger sister, Arctic Ink, an aspiring lorekeeper that's insatiably curious, perhaps too much even for her own good.Ice Elation is a solo explorer, a very dangerous occupation for a pony, which means she's quite good to survive so far. She too is quiet, given all the horrible predators that prowl the wilds, though she's not averse to telling the stories of her adventures and doing some well-earned bragging once she's back in the safety of a village. She puts up a tough exterior, but she's easier to fluster than you'd expect.Tell you what, anon, why don't you make a wiki like this, and I'll help to fill it in a bit?https://moth-ponies.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Moth_Ponies>>41083848Octopi are super smart even IRL, I think they'd be too smart to farm in the MLP world.
>>41086422>Bundle Up has a younger sister, Arctic InkIsn't Bundle Up Artic's mother?>Fandom wikiNot him, but aren't there better and still free alternatives like Miraheze?
>>41086560>mother?Opinions are slightly divided. But artist originally didn't intend for her to be the mother.https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/37540522/#37549300
>>41086588Huh, I guess she could be either a godmother or a mother figure. That is if she is that old.
>>41086422>>41086560>wikia/fandomNo. No. Absolutely fucking not. See this image? This is what they will do with ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING you upload there. Terraria's wikis moved to wiki.gg because of possessive/corpo-takes-your-content bullshit of fandom, on top of the page being over 50% advertisements, including shoehorning "related" (not related) advert-video links into the text of the page.>mirahezeIIRC they've been doing something stupid.
>>41087353>mirahezeit's actually alright, not sure if there's been any drama recently about it but it's pretty solid. Still no better than self-hosting one though.
>>41086422Snowpones are so small in number you could probably make a text file, or even a pdf or rtf to describe them. Probably wouldn't take more than a page for each snowpone, if that.
>>41086560>>41087353>>41087457Can't say I see any ads, Brave blocks them pretty thoroughly. And how are derpitards a problem, if the very first sentence quite specifically says >Welcome to the Moth Ponies Wiki, courtesy of /mlp/!Batpony wiki says the same. /mlp/. And the retard faction of derpi tries to avoid anything associated with /mlp/ these days.>>41087483I guess, maybe? I was thinking of making a ponepaste, but a wiki page has more stuff, like images and more ways to format info. Unless you can also embed images on paste, I think I heard about that feature... Everything then depends on that single person maintaining that paste, though.
>>41087770It's not about derpitards, it's about fandom trying to take your content for theirs. Dummy.>>41087457Yeah, that was less "don't use it" and more "be wary and keep backups".
>>41088042Ah, so it was a metaphor for it in general, not specifically derpi.>Dummy.Rude.
Process update>colors are just for masking>I think I've gotta thicken the legsTrying to also make the coat look cleaner with smoothness and little to no strands, but not sure if should even bother with that at this point.
>>41088483>make the coat look cleaner with smoothness and little to no strands, but not sure if should even bother with that at this point.Hard to say, crystallizing and long fur seem an impossible combination. Only way my mind goes when I think about that is long crystallized strands that end up looking like a hedgehog's needles and making the snowmare unexpectedly pointy.
>>41088483Braided Frosty looks cute. I want to help her braid her tail. I realize they've been crystalized here, but I wonder if snowpones have an tribal or inter-tribal celebrations where she and other snowpones would 'gussy up' in a similar way?
>>41088483Cold looks just amazing like this. All three rock it, but Cold, wow.
>>41088562>rock it>rockBecause they're crystals?
>>41088483I wonder how that works with long hair.
>>41088491>making a snowmare unexpectedly pointy
>>41088483Their leg anatomy looks pretty scuffed.>Winter Wonder's hindlegs are stuck on the sides like a toy>>remember, buttcheeks in actual anatomy are part of the leg, not part of the body>horizontal shin bone too>she has the bump on the back but the actual leg is moved massively downwards>Cold Shoulder has the raised leg rotated around what is drawn as the TOP END OF THE SHOULDERBLADERemember, the hoof is the NAIL, not the hand. The elbow goes right next to the body, not halfway down the leg. The forward bump (that isn't drawn on show accurate ponies, and should not be anywhere this distinct on snowponies with their fur - alongside all other muscles) is the shoulder, not the "backwards elbow".
>>41089574Damn, I never realized that the bones go so damn far into the tail.
>>41090055
>>41090059Finally. Skinhorse.
>>41088881Oh god I hadn't noticed, sorry>>41090370Snowmare takes care to carve
>>41090059>https://akhal-teke.org/the-breed/naked-foal-syndrome-akhal-teke-association-of-america/This horse is very sick sadly
>>41090933Looks very vulnerable to flies and other irritants. Poor thing.
As time goes on I've noticed there's a lot of WIPs and crops in the art archive. The WIPs I'm mostly fine with, but I may go through and remove all the crops since the original images already exist in the archive. Thoughts?
>>41091373Seems fair.
>>41091373Go for it, I guess. It's not too relevant for me since I use the boorus to look up snowhorses anyway.
>>41078388Cool. Now where's the nsfw version?
>>41091647That is the NSFW version.
>>41091373Unless there's some sort of problem or concern, I'd prefer everything to be kept, as it's not a proper archive unless everything is.
*bonk*
>>41092902Nice! Is this new or just something I missed somehow?
>>41093234Brand new, yes.
>>41092902Kek, embrace the bear Frosty
>>41092902Heheh cute.
>>41093738Floofy hoof draped over your face probably feels pretty nice. Not so much floofy hoof pushing your face back into your skull.
>>41092902That's one way to catch fish for sure.
>>41095335How would Lichen catch fish?
>>41095715With her rear?Somehow.
>>41095962>>41095715Lichen is capable of fitting an entire person in her ass
>>41095715Based on one of the earliest bits of green for Lichen, she intends to let a stallion catch fish for her.
>>41096271Why? So that she can lewd him?
>>41096471Pretty much. https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/37877395/#37898555
>>41096959My liddle shid can't be this cute.
>>41097218I's more likely than you think.
>>41098051So green! What would Boreal Blanket suggest to color complement this mare?
>>41098051At first I thought this was a stack of gargantuan dollar bills.
>>41099217Dunno about BB, but I think some brown decal on the scarf would not be amiss.
>>41099821Would brown leaves be too obvious?
>>41099826>grower>brown leavesDon't.Just slap a brown zigzag over it and call it a day.KISS, and all that.
>>41099524*loadsamoney starts playing*
>>41085799Damn, need this but with Frosty
Snow poner bump.
>Page 10
>>41100701The artwork was done by the tattooist, so in theory you could acquire said thing.
>>41103747Imagine the hugs.Bone breaking at first, but so soft and warm.
>>41104358The weight alone could be a problem for hugs.
>>41101543Regal.
>>41106348unimaginably cute
>>41105799Cirrus is truly special. I love her design and look so so much.
>>41105145Perhaps if they lay on their back and were cuddled from on top?
>>41104358>at firstOnly at first?
>>41097638>>41101543>>41106801I like to think that these frosty ponies are of a different species altogether
>>41107525Well, once broken they're already broken!
>>41108043I'd rather think they're a subset of earth ponies and Cirrus is the closest thing they have to a princess/alicorn among their peers.
>>41109252filly zoomin'
any anons know if the pine ponder tea tastes good? me and another anon will be having a plushie tea party at marefair and feel its only fair we drink tea from the snowpittea collection.
>>41110589Yeah it's pretty good if you enjoy tea, worth it in my opinion
page 10 is snowpone over?
>>41112144I hope not.
>>41106348Imagine. Your face, her chest.
>>41112144Been busy with other things, but I won't abandon snowpones.
>>41112144No, it better not be. I have ideas for two greens I want to get to. Can't at the moment 'cuz I'm renovating my home and I've got a deadline.
>So hey, it's pretty horrible how those ponies eat fish, right?
>>41109252Snowpony is on her way to the underwater ice caverns. Transportation by seal is the only way to get there.
>>41114015but you eat fish
>>41114087Gotta hold her breath pretty well then.
>>41112144Its never over, you gotta believe!
>>41116043This. 100% this.
>>41114910Snowpone arts and crafts are cute.
>>41109746six hoofy rolls!
>>41114910present her the pic related.
>>41117339Is that from that super toxic tree, or is it actually safe?I remember some tree with cones that could kill people, and its juices being so poisonous that it's not advised to stand under it when it rains. Can't remember the name, though.
>>41117715No, those produce fruit, not cones.
>>41117715That's a cone from an Australian bunya pine, and it is actually edible and nutritious. The only deadly part of the cone is that it can crush your head if it falls on you.
Have snowpones seen griffons?
>>41118375Generally, snowpones haven't seen anything but other snowpones and abominables. Any knowledge of other species, even pegasi and unicorns, depends on how well old earth pony history was kept. Given the amount of time passed, it may practicality come down to legends told by shamares and village elders. Combine some less-than-true preunification earth pony beliefs about other species with a multi-century game of telephone and I'm sure they have some interesting beliefs of their own.
>>41096959Lichen is the only snowpone who doesn't have earthy, close to realistic horse colors. But I'm not entirely convinced she's not just as white as Niveous or Cirrus, just stained from all the time spent lying in patches of lichen.
>>41118952>close to realistic horse colorsIt's not too far off. If the fetlocks and the hair were a bit lighter, she could pass a grey coated mare.
>>41117766>The only deadly part of the cone is that it can crush your head if it falls on you.I am now picturing Pine Ponder wearing an extremely sturdy helmet.
>>41120184cute
>>41120184>Cold pulling Winter WonderIs Winter Wonder injured or just tired?
>>41121032amputee
>>41121032Probably just out having fun in the snow. Getting pulled in the sled by someone else was the highlight of my day back when I was a kid and winter storms would knock out the power constantly, and snowpones haven't been spoiled by the choice of entertainment TV and the internet brought.
>>41119707Pine is a safe mare. She knows to protect her ponderer.
>>41121758she prurty
>>41121758
>>41121962
>>41122379Cold no! You'll get booped too!
>>41122381Oh no, what a horrible fate.
>>41122381As if that isn't the goal.
>>41122381>Hey, what's going on here?
>>41124044No! Pine! The booping! No snowmare is safe!
>>41124044>Hey Anon! Here to boop my caverns?
>>41124339>nervous sweating
>>41124044Why is she so pretty bros?
>>41124774Varied and pretty color scheme, yet one that's made of natural, attractive colors?Also, frosted eyelashes are pretty.[Spoiler]and blue eyes[/spoiler]
