Praise be the feesh! edition

The pic that started it all: https://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37443253/ https://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37447036/
Previous Thread:
>>42272056
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/42096774

Alternative thread: https://nhnb.org/fim/res/2295.html
Archive of snowpony thread art: https://mega.nz/folder/0okEHKxS#8FIy3EQUHM-XluGvV7knIg
Archive of snowpony-related musics: https://ponepaste.org/5819
On 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 newfags
https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1646/33/1646333439218.png
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/981051/snowpony-lore-dump


The Great Snowpony Expedition
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37474157/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/37750570#37767390
https://ponepaste.org/5843

Reading material:
>Anon and Frosty Flakes
https://ponepaste.org/5609
https://ponepaste.org/5640
https://ponepaste.org/7611
>Comfy lore snippets
https://ponepaste.org/5652
https://ponepaste.org/5650
https://ponepaste.org/5664
>Cirrus Wisp and Filly
https://ponepaste.org/5662
>Lichen greens
https://ponepaste.org/7273
>Bury Me in White
https://ponepaste.org/5648
>Surehoof's First Ice Step
https://ponepaste.org/5689
>A cute (hopefully) snow pone short
https://ponepaste.org/5682
>Frost Fringed Letters [WIP]
https://ponepaste.org/5678
>My Winter Storm
https://ponepaste.org/5713
Kinderquestria Greens
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37475222/
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37475226/
>Poetry
https://ponepaste.org/8220
https://ponepaste.org/5857
https://ponepaste.org/5885
>Agate's Vigil
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/507146/agates-vigil
>The First Fish
https://ponepaste.org/7283
>New Life with Frosty Flakes (Lewd)
https://ponepaste.org/6225
>[WIP] Cultural Exchange at Spa
https://ponepaste.org/7063
>Snowfall Frost's seach for Windigos
https://ponepaste.org/7147
>The first step north
https://ponepaste.org/7468
>Pine Ponder and the Lost Scarf
https://ponepaste.org/8037
>A Crystal Forest Rescue
https://ponepaste.org/8082
A Snowpitt vignette
https://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 Hunter
https://ponepaste.org/8843
>Lights Going Out
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/543593/lights-going-out
>Granite and Fireweed (Lewd)
https://ponepaste.org/9917
>The Journey
https://ponepaste.org/10541

>Merch
Pine Ponder approved tea:
https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/blend.html?blend=191237

Snowpone patches:
https://neighsayerpatches.com/products/the-great-snowpone-expedition-patch
https://neighsayerpatches.com/products/visit-snowpitt-patch
Metal pins:
https://ko-fi.com/s/525876a3f6

Hello!

The snow poners needed a nap

I think you put the thread title in the username box lul

>>42313450
kek lets see

Hurray! Return of the snow. Thank you OP!

>>42313315 (OP)
>triptranny edition

Kek yup, I did that before too... Once or twice.

bump

>>42313453
Yup, you tucked up.

Wild Anon.

What even is he? How did he end up among the Abominables? Did Ice Elation smash?

>>42315326
>spoiler

>>42315326
He's clearly of gigachad proportions, hence the abominables being not so little ponies to him. His bizarre rough and ready shenanigans appeal to their boisterous and simple natures.
She's probably given it more thought than she'd admit to.

Alternate nutrition sources

>>42316192
Cute booty.

>>42316192
Wings?????¿??

>>42316192
That's not Frosty...

>>42316192
>wings
Not a snowpony.

>>42319668
Is this new? I don't think I've seen this one

>>42319927
Its not new, but still oozes soul. Has children’s book vibes.

>>42320546
What the FUCK, Puffin!?
At least season the fish before eating it!

>>42317033
How do you react to a snowmare just stealing your boot right off your foot?

>>42321760

>>42321760
Booping.

>>42319021
fluffy boys...

>>42318157
You're telling me there are no snownicorns? Or snegasi?

>>42325423
Maybe further in the future with more Equestrian contact but typically no. They're offshoot Earth Ponies

>>42325423
No. They even use shamanic magic and rituals in place of unicorn arcane magic

>>42323783
I've seen enough snowpony and kirin pictures that I've been convinced the two species would get along very well if they ever met. I imagine kirins would be welcome both as guests with stories of far off lands and as bringers of warmth and the snowponies' plain pure hearted joy and atunement with nature is admired by the kirin. Plus, kirin probably wouldn't be effected by the snowpony-fication that happens to normal ponies

>>42325423
Nope. kind of spoils things.
>>42326436
They would get along extremely well, it would be adorable.

>>42326436
>the snowpony-fication that happens to normal ponies
An interesting idea but I don't recall seeing that before

Frosty on ma leg

>>42327281
Yeah, it's something from their early days that fell to the wayside for the most part, but I still believe it. I choose to think it's more caused by the environment than the ponies themselves.

>>42327732
Frosty part 2

And a back tattoo

>>42327732
>>42327966
>>42328503
Can't wait to see it finished anon

>>42328503
Someone's dedicated.

Feesh!

>>42330661
Lichen.

>>42331381
Cirrus!

Showcase.

Maor

>>42333035
Cutie!

>>42317033
>>42334412
They can't keep getting away with it!

>SnowMareCar Anon
I suppose I owe you guys an update, I actually did get that vinyl ripped off and painted, but literally everyone I talked to told me that dark brown would look awful, so I ended up getting it painted gray...
I'll spare you the stories of all the issues I've been having with it this year, but I'm not going to give it the satisfaction of winning, current issue is fuel, I've got a fuel pump that's going in, and once it has that, there won't be anything old left to stop working.
I'm just sad to report that I guess Frosty car won't be happening :(
I guess there's got to be at least one snowpony who's tan/brown, but frosty is the one everyone knows...

>>42317033
ohey, who's this? Looks like there's still a snowmare who fits the colors...

>>42335945
Has a pretty good cutie mark to decal on the car

>>42336087
I can't find an image of her mark, thought about just sticking her on the hood, idk if amazon is really the ideal source though

Wonder how hard it would be to just paint on there myself and spray it with clearcoat...

Fairly new to these snowponies. I see that some have names. Is there a list of which are named what?

>>42336543

>>42335945
Her name's Current Seeker.

>>42337087
Yes... good....

>>42335939
Frosty is over-rated. Poster pony.

>>42337319
Clearly the solution is to get two big decals of current seeker's cutie mark to put on the ass of the car and I only drive it while wearing boots

>>42337351
it would seem that I cannot find standalone images of the cutie mark, I might have to try to photoshop them somehow

Long time since coming onto mlp, wish I was not 2drunk4lichen story

Been ages since I wrote anything

>>42337652
What is there to write about snowponies anyway? I'm still a newfag when it comes to them but I love them. I've been struggling to find anything to make a green about though.

>>42337948
They lend themselves more to wistful or folktale like stories, I think. Harder to write on average

>>42337948
Funny, other threads have a bunch of proompters that write prompts that writefags never pick up, meanwhile here we have a chap asking for prompts.
There's things to explore. I'll post more tomorrow after a good sleep.

>>42337948
>What is there to write about snowponies anyway?
Well, the longest snowpony story has 496k words... Just shy of half a million, so I'd say there's something to write about them.
If you want the easy route, write something to do with meeting other cultures, somewhere around the time they just make contact with Equestria. It could be either snowpony or Equestrian/Crystal pony POV, and it gives you a reason to talk about snowpony life.

Write about a cocky pegasus that thinks he's going to be fine in the northern weather because pegasi are cold resistant and have their cities in high altitutes already, and then have him experience a whiteout. Either forcing him to land and seek shelter, or camp out on top of the clouds, shivering from the cold and looking down in horror and wondering how do snowponies manage to survive down there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrVnWJ1iAlg
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jU00jzqxF04
Write a snowpony POV about having a half-frozen pegasus suddenly drop into their village after a blizzard. Now he needs to be nursed back to health, while also being told in no uncertain means what an idiot he is for underestimating the northern weather. (Possible extra quest to track down his companions from his flock if he wasn't travelling alone.)

Write about purely snowpony things. A young stallion coming of age. Tracking down his first yeti with a few other young stallions. Or perhaps an older stallion on a mission of revenge after a beast attacked and possibly killed a foal from his village.

Write about evil spirits and magical monster shenanigans, if you think you can pull that off. There's a lot of Inuit and other myths out there about all kinds of northern creatures, including malevolent shapeshifters that steal children and can take any form, but can be recognized by their red eyes and sideways mouths. Story could have a bad end just as easily as good. Though the snowponies have adapted to the north, it is not a nice place. Danger lurks around every corner, and a single misstep could mean your end. Could be a painful victory kind of story, where the settlers of a new village get hunted by a local cryptid and eventually manage to figure out how to kill it, though not without losses.

Write about a snowpony explorer, looking for new lands to settle. Don't need to go overboard with monsters, either. Could have something unusual as a hook, such as having a partner with him that helps him out a lot, only to have a twist at the end that reveals that the partner is a spirit and has been dead for years (except now it won't be a twist since everyone can see the prompt).

Write about a stallion desperately trying to find a rare plant that's needed to make a cure for his ill wife, only to fail again and again, with his memories blurry and confused. When he finally makes it back to his village (or is brought there by a shamare that hunted him down), it is revealed that he died a long time ago, as did his wife...

>>42339617
I love Podzol, the little grump

>>42339774
...And he became one of the lost spirits, losing his mind and memories, wandering the plains and wailing in vain for his wife, looking for a plant he can't even touch any more with his ethereal hooves. When they are finally reunited, they either move on, or remain as guardian spirits to watch over their now young adult children.

Write a romance story about two young snowpones getting together and getting married, the tribal snowpone life happening in the background while they do their courting rituals. No need for huge adventures and life-and-death stakes in every story.

Write about a cold and freezing pony getting a hug from a floofy snowpone to keep them warm.
Write about a cold and freezing pony getting hugs from two floofy snowmares to keep them warm.
Write about a cold and freezing pony travelling with a group of snowponies, getting hit by sudden cold weather and getting shoved into a pile of a dozen snowmares to keep them warm.

Write about weird psychedelic mushroom trips and visions young shamares experience as they wrestle with their newfound abilities, doing their best to discern what is real and what is not, and what might be a genuine premonition or important information and what is just weird nonsense.

Write about a fisherpone catching a BIG FISH.

Write about a fisherpone roasting a REALLY BIG FISH while the rest of their tribe watches in a mix of pride and envy.

Write... Things.

>>42339791
>Write about a cold and freezing pony getting a hug from a floofy snowpone to keep them warm.
I did one kind of like that, if I remember right I was going to post it in a snowpone thread but it got way too far past the character limit and I hadn't yet started using ponepaste at that time https://www.fimfiction.net/story/565138/snowpony-for-an-evening

What's the half a million snowmare story? That would be a great one to put on my Kindle.

>>42339949
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/507146/agates-vigil

>>42339986
>story has an abandoned sequel
It hurts, anon

>>42340058
>abandoned
Not quite. I just don't have much time, though I actually wrote a little bit a week or two ago.
>sequel
Not really a sequel. Maybe I shouldn't have added it as such. Oh well.
Either way, Agate's story is self-contained and fully finished. The other story is a (planned) anthology from the pov of various earth/snow ponies

>>42340135
It hurts no more and instead I am excited for what the future may bring, thank you anon
I do wish the site had a way to mark stories as being related while not directly a sequel, but I guess sequels are as close as we can get right now

>>42339791
>Write about a fisherpone catching a BIG FISH
I now have an idea and already have both an ending, a conflict, reasons for said conflict, and OCs for it. Thank you anon, now I just have to feel like writing it. :^)

>>42340848
Hell yeah

>>42340848
I am excited.

>>42340848

>>42341326
Snowponies have two sides

>>42339791
Once I finish the writing project I already have on my plate I'll make a small snowpone story.

If any art guys happen upon this thread, I'd like to have a standalone image of Current Seeker's cutie mark

>>42341326
F

>>42340848
>and OCs for it
There are already plenty to pick from but if you're sure fine

>>42342942
Woa.... So pretty...

>>42344194
Oh won't you share,
Oh pinecone mare,

>>42344199
One pinecone, one fish

>>42321760

>>42345271
Bootcuck, not like this
>>42319021
Honestly, there's so little art of stallion snowponies that you could tell someone new to them that they have a 20:1 female to male ratio and there would not be enough evidence to refute that claim

>>42345271
>The boot cuck

>>42345271
>Picrel
That is terrible, anon. I love it.
>>42345517
The first threads insisted that there were no stallions at all. They weren't snowpones, only snowmares.

>>42345844
>The first threads insisted that there were no stallions at all.
How the hell do they reproduce then? Fur based mitosis?

>>42346313
Clearly that aspect doesn't remain. people just like snowmares more.

>>42346313
They either "imported" their males or any visiting the snowpony-fication would get any visitors that stuck around too long

>>42346313
>How the hell do they reproduce then?
The only response that I remember was that the snowmares form
>rape
Gangs that wander south to partake in the local stallions before returning north.
Those kinds of discussions petered out once more serious worldbuilding took over.

>>42346282

I do like how snowponies are depicted with a pretty wide range of cultural influences (the original yakut horses, but also some eskimo, northern european, and various high north american indigenous influences). It's pretty consistent with how earth ponies have a wide pool of influences as well. Makes me wish the other species had that kind of clear variance as well. The kirin in particular being effectively mono cultural felt like a big misses opportunity

there's got to be a better way to do this

>>42348158
you know what? I think there is. I think I'm just gonna paint the damn cutie mark on the car myself, and spray it over with glossy sealer, it would look a thousand times more authentic that way, and only a hundred or so times autistic.

>>42348162
>a hundred or so times autistic.
Now that's the 4chan way!

>>42347913
The Kirin were barely in the show, and arrived too late to have any significant impact on the fandom.
Had they been present in season 1 or 2, they would probably have been explored more, in fan-material and the like.
Although, you could say the same about crystal ponies, and they were introduced in season 3...

>>42348838
To reinforce your statement, I actually forgot crystal ponies were their own thing. Was it ever stated what their special 'thing' even is?

>>42345271
lel

>>42348854
They have a vaguely defined emotion based magic. When they're highly charged with positive emotion they get super shiny and translucent. Also they're somehow tied to the crystal heart. The crystal visual effect can be temporarily be cast onto non-crystal ponies by major magical releases by the magic of [s]marketing buy our toys[/s] the crystal heart.

I kinda wonder how a crystalled snow poner would look. Also, crystal ponies were criminally underdeveloped and underused but it's still nothing compared to bats getting the shaft.

>>42349451
>it's still nothing compared to bats getting the shaft.
And yet, the bats are the ones that got a shitton of fanfics and headcanons

>>42349462
IIRC the first bats we see are Luna's guards in Luna Eclipsed and so they were easy to tie to Luna/NMM/the old New Lunar Republic headcanon and go nuts from there, then Hollow Shades was shown on that official map.

I heard this years ago and don't recall the exact source. So basically "Dude, trust me bro" but I recall hearing that Hollow Shades being a ruin and just window dressing in the show when it was clearly a town in the official map was Hasbro making cuts. It was going to be a bat town and the bats would have a speech quirk like Zecora's rhyming. I don't remember what it was going to be though. We got fucking robbed.

>>42348854
>Was it ever stated what their special 'thing' even is?
No, but some things can be inferred from the show and Crystal Empire's existence. At the absolute minimum, crystal ponies are able to fuse crystals together into solid masses, otherwise they couldn't get things like the huge royal palace/spire in the middle of the city, as well as those continuous crystal roads, or even the houses they live in..
Potentially, they can grow them (it'd be quite a lot of work to mine out that much crystal, and we've seen Cadance magic up crystals in the show).
My guess would be that crystal craftsponies/builders are able to use their magic to briefly manipulate a crystal like clay, where it hardens again once they stop their magic.
They also have that Crystal Heart binding ceremony thing (The Crystalling), so it's also not a huge leap of logic to assume that every foal, when they reach the right years, gets taught how to channel their magic into the Heart via those crystal roads, like when we see all the crystal ponies collectively do and blow up Sombra.
It's hard to say whether it'd be a law or not, but it's definitely a massive cultural expectation to tithe some of your magic every day to the Heart to keep it, and therefore the shield, running.
Hard to say what an elite, powerful wizard-tier crystal pony could do, though. Slam a hoof into the ground and have massive crystal spikes explode around them? Supercharge crystals and toss them like bombs? Craft amazingly powerful enchantments?

Why are boots so enticing?

>>42350508
Boot leather makes for a great snack

Can love bloom between a snowmare and a desert stallion?

>>42349451
I just viewed the "bats" as Nightmare Night costumes. Not even real.

>>42349491
>It was going to be a bat town and the bats would have a speech quirk like Zecora's rhyming. I don't remember what it was going to be though. We got fucking robbed.
Hm, I remember some other anon being super pissed at it being a ruin, but it's the first time I hear that it was actually supposed to be a bat town.

>>42349462
I feel that's mainly because of their design. JUST that little bit of edge that acts as a beacon for certain types

>>42349772
bootcuck

>>42313315 (OP)
Why do you need a trip for this? Are you gay?

Dose anyone have pics of warrior or hunter snow ponies? these would be helpful for a project.

>>42356006
Few actual "warriors" or hunters, as in big game hunters like yetis. Mostly fishermares.
Also, people don't really have secret stashes of snowpony art, it's all on the boorus.
https://twibooru.org/3312899
https://twibooru.org/2557297
https://twibooru.org/2557286
https://twibooru.org/2549758
https://twibooru.org/2538654

>>42357745
I always found it interesting that more than a few pieces of snowpony art give them somewhat thinner and more pointed snouts. I wondered if it was just coincidences in artstyle or if that was meant to be an intentional design choice for them for a time

>>42352754
Distant relative of Pinkie Pie

>>42357879
That's just Marbo's artstyle, may Celestia rest his soul.

Beeg Doog

>>42349451
I want to say they'd have a sort of shifting turquoise stone texture effect to go along with some of their native influence

>>42362803
It's full of yellow snow, isn't it?

>>42314072
She's a practical mare.

>>42363073
Not quite.

>>42336543
>>42336819
Old chart. Most recent chart is this one.

>>42364178
Didn't know, thanks.

>>42357316
Could a pony ever club something into submission?

>>42365821
Ask the seals.

>>42364178
Can someone post that pic of Fall Frost? I can't find it on any of the pony image sites.

>>42366996
No you didn't
https://twibooru.org/tags/oc-colon-fall+frost
https://ponerpics.org/search?q=oc%3Afall+frost
https://derpibooru.org/search?q=oc%3Afall+frost
All of them have it (unless you have selenofaggot filtered as an artist, which might be the reason)

>>42313315 (OP)
I can't explain it but feesh.gif is a spiritual salve for me. A daily affirmation of a cute mare admiring a rotating fish.

>>42360087
Niveous a brave filly

Big seal

>>42368445
Snuggles with Comfy Cozy!

FEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH

>>42340848
Sorry about no update, snowfrens. It's meant to be a poem which I'd blitz halfway thru on the first day until the summer heat fucked me over. I might also be hooked on Kenshi and the EquestrAI game from the CHAG thread. I know what the rest of its story is though so hopefully it won't take too long!!

>>42370139
oooh, mare supervision

Horse shoes with studs are good for ice and snow so I'd love to see them in some snow pony art.

>>42369671
>until the summer heat fucked me over.

>>42371392
Oh god no, someone pour some liquid nitrogen on those mares, and fast!

>>42373325

>>42374361
>Trixie will have to spend her lunch to get anything

>>42374941
You know what they say. It costs lunch to catch lunch.

>>42376580
Now she's hungy

>>42339791

>got a new job that is entirely outside
>am literally dying with the heat
>buy some fish
>it has nematoads in the guts
I'm so far from snowpone inspiration it's not even funny

A lifesize snowmare plush with thick fur would be so immensely snugglable

Do you guys think the snowpones have discovered fermentation yet?

>>42378515
The ones more based on north european societies for sure have. Snowmare vodka probably has a serious kick

>>42379085
>vodka
Ehhh. Doesn't that also require distillation?

>>42378515
Snowmare kumis

>>42379860
this

>>42381084
cheerup emo horse!

>>42380711
The foal hasn't learned the proper methods for efficient snowwalking yet, I see.

>>42385813
What kind of music do you think she listens to? I imagine she listens to pale folk like Agalloch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n0va4524fI&list=RD6n0va4524fI&start_radio=1

>>42377774
I'd love a Cirrus with long soft mane and tail to snuggle into.

>>42381511
She's not emo, she's beautiful!

Snowpone far in the north, and summer midnight sun

>>42388873
Pretty. Drawfags, get on it.

>>42388873
Beautiful!

>>42388873
Lovely. Very picturesque.

>You want to do WHAT with Winter Wonder?

>>42387231
Yes!!!!!!!!

The only thing stopping me from buying this besides the actual price is the knowledge that I just know I'm going to completely screw it up trying to get it on the hood of the car :(
It would have like a gigantic bubble dead center or it would get some sort of weird Ripple in it or it wouldn't be centered....
Same reason I haven't tried to tint the windows, it would drive me insane if I screwed up getting the film on.

>>42392079
Based fellow long long appreciator!

>>42393245
Couldn't you buy it and then pay a pro to fit it? Another expense granted but then you'd know the money was well spent on concept and execution.

>>42393812
I don't think I have enough autism in me to roll up to a body shop and ask them to put a big pony sticker on the hood of my car for me

>>42394641
Like they'd care, money is money. If you're going to rock a mare on your car, and go places, do things in it, etc, who gives a fuck what the body shop guys think?