@Badumsquish
👍!

…This simultaneously was excellent satire and makes me feel a decent shard of insecurity about the postulation of done and commented with on some of the art around here.

Great job!  :D

@Garden Tinker
Thanks! :D

@Background Pony #9E89
XD

You’re wrong, her braid represents the fight between the capitalists and communists worldwide, with the braid part asphyxiating the people which is the hair, and the purple color represents both lack of air duh and, in a more ample sense, antidisestablishmentarianism put in the context of politics instead of church, ‘dividing’ the people with the braid.

Also, the red eyes represent the fervor and fight for freedom in her eyes, whether that’s a capitalistic daydream (The red in the USA flag) or a socialist wonderland (Red in the USSR flag). Red is a great color since it appears in both flags with markedly different, and even oxymoronic, politics, an antithesis to each other. Her nervous expression is fear for the oppression seen everywhere when your opinions don’t agree with the current political system you’re stuck into.

The tilted picture frame also represents the shaky ground that represents our Earth, with all these conflicts and politics going on, the COVID, and economic crisis, it’s no surprise the natural Statu Quo is tilted in an awkward way, where figuratively speaking, the slowest ones slide downwards.

And the whole picture is a cute pony. Of course.

@Badumsquish
Well, that explains it. Her and the effect each. It even seems to affect her headband more than her eyes. Neat! Also, yeah, they really do - they stay bright and sharp while the rest of her becomes a muddled, more middle-tone. Looks pretty sweet!

@Clever Clovers
@Background Pony #D500
It definitely is my most used reaction XD

@Clever Clovers
It really is.

@Badumsquish
You just love using that “Nopony Knows” GIF, don’t you?

Eh, I’ve grown used to seeing it by now. In all honesty, I think it’s an adorable pic of AJ.

@Garden Tinker
She does like the spookiness and peace and quiet of the castle. Alive or not she IS a painting so she appreciates stillness and quiet and all that stuff. She also likes company though; she’s an introvert, not anti-social :D

Yep! It’s an oil paint texture, a default one that comes with Adobe Fireworks CS6, blurred and applied over a dark gradient blue using the Overlay filter. That’s actually why I gave her such bright red eyes: the red barely changes when that texture is overlayed on it, unlike everything else that becomes duller and loses detail. Like I said on my other picture about eyes, it gives her a supernatural air and makes the eyes stick out even when she’s being just a painting :D

@Background Pony #D500
She does appreciate company. She’s let herself get stolen a few times and hung in museums and the like, but gets annoyed by art critics who theorize pretentious stuff like how her braid symbolizes the struggle of the proletariat, and so she’ll make her way back to her castle to be claimed by someone else. How she gets back?

@Garden Tinker
I’m sure she’d be quite pleased being hung up in a house where people live, and where she might be appreciated.

I want this pony on my wall.

She doesn’t even have to do anything explicit, or this, or that, I just want to hang her up somewhere she can be nice and cozy and regularly dusted. And where I can appreciate the fact that she exists, like any good art piece. That’s gotta be better than some dingy old castle hall, right? Even better if she wants to pose with her wings again, #PegasaiMasterRace.

Really neat ‘painting’ texture, here, too… Oil painting motif, I presume.

Pull me in and give me a hug!

Hey, Badumsquish, I have some object pony ideas!! I’ll also leave (NSFW) if it’s an object pony that I’d like to be sexual, plus gender and oc name listed as well…

Lastly, as for some of your already-made Object Ponies, a couple of them I was wanting some NSFW art involving the human Anon, those are Molla Lesto the Portrageist (intercourse or where she comes completely out of her frame), Poink the beach ball, Ginger-Bread the Toaster, Farah the Cactus, The Sandbag Pony (should be named **Sandy Bag****), and also the water filter, nuke, or pillow, sheet, and blanket!

@Just Wayne
She’s been doing this for a very long time. Ponies are VERY weirdly skeptical of magic and curses and such things, despite living in a world where all these things are quantifiably true. She knows the whole dancing frog from Looney Tunes routine is the best way to do it XD

@Background Pony #4E22

@Background Pony #D500
I’m sure just asking that is fine. My gauge for such things is if a topic appears in the show it’s likely safe, and while the show has never dealt with pregnancy itself as a concept it’s certainly had children be born :D

@Jaredking779
@Background Pony #D500
Normally the surface feels a bit like a water bed, where it feels solid and rubbery, but you can push through it with relative effort. She can also make the surface solid, so the whole painting feels like an actual painting. The drawback is, is it works both ways and she can no longer see or hear through the painting when she does it XD

nice portrait

@Background Pony #D500
Wait, no. Don’t take me with you. You’ll have to go in that other similar portrait yourself!

@Jaredking779
Well there’s only one way to find out now, isn’t there?

Let’s-a go!

This portrait is nothing but a portrait. I bet if I put my hand and touch it, nothing would happen, or the pony in the portrait.

@Background Pony #4E22
I feel that would be more appropriate to ask on this explicit pic rather than on this safe one.

If she gets pregnant, how would she give birth? Would there be another painting in her painting?

@Badumsquish
That’s not fun. I thought she will drag me in the painting to silence me. :P

@WanderingHolyKnight
It would absolutely work, but the drawback is it takes an absurd amount of magical power to create one of these things. Even Princess Celestia would struggle to create one. Creating pocket dimensions isn’t easy :D

@Just Wayne
Smirk and say “Go ahead, tell someone. They won’t believe you” :P

@Clever Clovers
It’s force of habit at this point. They habitually pretend that they’re just paintings, like that’s their norm :D

@Power-Up&Sky-Blue
She’s trustworthy enough. Just, she’s a prankster at heart XD

@Badumsquish
Good point.
Maybe I could adjust the frame from a few feet away with my unicorn magic..?

We already know you’re a portrageist, Molla. You don’t have to pretend you aren’t one.

@Badumsquish
What is she going to do if I keep insisting I saw everything? >:D

@Badumsquish
Glad you think so! The username is because 1) I tend to wander somewhat on this site and 2) I just love the holy warrior archetype that much!

Also, if the dimensions are that heavy inside the painting, then someone needs to enchant her frame to act as a Bag of Holding, which is a magic item that holds a lot of stuff in it while the weight is the same, no matter how much stuff is actually inside it. Though, I imagine she would be leery of anyone fiddling with her frame.