Yeah I hear ya there. And yes, season 5 is pretty damned good. Haven't been able to keep up to pace with the latest episodes as of late however, due to 1. my iTunes currently being utterly unusable, which is generally where I get my episodes from, and 2. A recent string of traumatic-ish exposure to humans vs. ponies war scenarios where the ponies are evil and humanity nukes Equestria to save themselves from pony oppression. Given past experiences with MLP's therapeutic effects on me, and my admittedly virulent misanthropy, my psychological reaction to that was overwhelmingly negative.



I couldn't look at or hear a pony without getting mental images of Ponyville going out like Los Angeles in Terminator 2. These scenarios being written not by your average-Joe antibrony (who I am really kinda apathetic to nowadays,) but instead by the rabid edge-meister bronies was just the last straw. Though the Discord apologists, the same old butthurt over Twilicorn and EqG that's still lingering after almost three years, the angry manchildren and the overly-vocal cloppers (do still like some of that stuff too, but I try to keep it to myself and close friends as much as possible) certainly weren't helping. Though thankfully after over two weeks things are finally changing, been kinda weaning myself back onto ponies, and will probably buy and watch the latest episodes as soon as iTunes is back up. One silver lining to this cloud is the trauma's kinda made me love ponies more than ever, right when I feared I was losing interest in the show.



And I didn't notice Coloratura 's resemblance to Lady Gaga, though now that you mentioned it I can kind of see it now. I almost thought she was one of your OCs at first until I realized she's actually from an episode I haven't seen yet haha. Your OCs are pretty creative design-wise and mane-wise without going into over-the-top Sue territory in terms of intricacy (which I'm kinda a little guilty of myself, considering Stargazer's relatively elaborate design.)



I too will probably be doing more pony art again, though honestly Stargie's one of the only ponies I've found myself drawing much at all over the past year. Hoping to draw my other OCs again in the near-future. Though more recently (as in just the past month or two) I've been sorta back into drawing an original race of mine called the Safhirim, who nonetheless draw much of their influence from MLP design-wise. They're the longest-running fictional race of mine (predating MLP by almost a decade,) and are basically flying, magically-animated dolls with sort of angel/fairy wings, scene-ish color streaked hair, and big eyes inspired mostly by Disney. Nowadays sorta influenced by EqG too in their hairstyles and outfits, though Kingdom Hearts is the bigger influence clothing-wise. Drawing the streaks in Safhira hair has been a good exercise for me in color theory and visual balance, attempting to avert a lot of the pitfalls people fall into when making their own OCs a little *too* elaborate. After giving my longest-running female character a redesign a couple weeks ago that many of my friends and family instantly fell in love with has really boosted my interest in drawing cute Safhira girls as well as cute ponies.