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Published: 2012-04-06 04:32:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 10552; Favourites: 282; Downloads: 366
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Somebody had to do it.I wanted to really jam Spike's arm all the way in there right up to the hilt, but couldn't push him any closer without either making his neck look broken or blocking Dash's face too much. Even this is blocking her face more than I'd like.
[edit] Spike's arm has been bugging the crap out of me, so I lowered Dash's head so Spike's arm wouldn't be broken anymore. It's still made of rubber, considering how long it has to stretch to reach her stomach, but that's okay. Although now I can't decide if I should remove the lump in her throat, or if her neck is too short.
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This happened mostly off-screen about halfway into Ponyville Confidential.
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Pinkie Pie, Discord and Spike are Reality Benders/Fourth Wall Breakers!
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i love how he has the farmer brown expression. like he has stuck his hand inside of a pony before.
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wait...
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If Spike can eat out of trash, then I could eat out of Rainbow Dash's mouth no problem. All that extra saliva for digestion is very efficient.
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A dash of extra flavor too, I'd imagine.
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Your avatar icon is creepy -3-
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Thank you. I just recently changed it.
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NOt sure whats wrong here dude, it looks fine to me.
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Yeah, I think this version looks better than it did before, so I'm glad I switched in the altered one.
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Kinda seems like she should be, huh? Didn't hear her throwing up off screen in the episode, though, so I guess not. She just seemed slightly surprised, then 30 seconds later acted like nothing had happened.
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That's why i said it. I am saying that she will be throwing up our screen, lol.
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So he pulled the cucumber out... after it was already swallowed.
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Spike is unconcerned about such trivial details.
What makes it even stranger/funnier is that no one said a single word about it, not even Rainbow Dash herself, like it was totally normal. It's like Spike nonchalantly invading their guts happens so often that they're all completely used to it and don't even mind.
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Not to mention the fact that from the looks of it, he managed to bent his arm in completely absurd ways while doing it. Lengthening it to impossible lengths no longer surprises me, as it seems to be completely normal there, even for Spike .
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What do you think, does this look better? [link]
More of Dash's face is blocked, and Spike's arm is still stretched, of course, but at least it isn't bent weird anymore. I wonder if her neck is too short.
(I hope you don't mind me asking, but you're the only one who pointed out the detail that was bothering me, so you seem like a good one to ask.)
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Well, that definitely looks more believable. 
BTW, as far as I can tell, there should be no such line on the wing on the back, only on the one on the front.
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Oh, right, the wing thing was just copy-pasting without thinking about the different perspective on the back wing. Easy to fix.
Other problem is a bit trickier, but maybe it's good enough to just pull them apart slightly more, like this [link] Although that kinda looks like weird mouth pincers instead of his hand, hmm...
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It seems a bit better now, but I think his fingers should be thinner; you could also try adding a visible tip of one of his other fingers, since he's probably holding her nose like this: [link]
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Probably not hard to tell that most of this was constructed from a combination of various screenshot traces that I then altered to suit my purposes. So it's kinda funny that the hand is creating trouble, because that's one of the few details I didn't adjust in the slightest after the initial trace. But then maybe that's part of the problem. Almost every part of Spike's body was tweaked in one way or another to fit my needs, so leaving one detail alone makes it stand out. Or else its just due to its position behind his head now.
Anyway, I tried having another finger visible behind him earlier, but it just looks weird, some random pointy thing poking out of his face, so I deliberately kept it out of sight.
Ah well, at this point maybe I should just leave it, since I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the altered version anyway. Are the changes I'm making too much modification to replace this original entirely? It's a larger change than the little edits I typically make. Does it bother people to make significant modifications after they've already favorited a picture?
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I believe it's best to just keep it as an alternate version available through a link to Sta.sh, since replacing the original could upset some people, and uploading it as a separate deviation would be obnoxious in my opinion. (Says someone who did it himself a few times in the past, lol.)
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Yeah, I usually don't like uploading multiple versions of the same picture. Although there are a few people I know of who have a bunch of slightly different versions of practically everything in their gallery, and people don't seem to complain. The thing is that hardly anyone clicks links to Sta.sh'ed alternates, so I pretty much might as well not even bother.
Maybe I should make a journal and see if anyone else has an opinion on whether altering a picture is annoying. Or maybe I should just put it in my scraps.
Anyway, thanks for your input with all this. I'm kinda surprised how much this turned into an ongoing conversation.
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Yeah, that's been bugging me since I started this picture. It's half of why I wished I could get his arm in completely, but I just couldn't get their heads to look right if I put them any closer together. So that's why I made that comment about FiM limbs being made of rubber.
Hmm, maybe I should have lowered her head even more, so there's no bend in her neck at all. I've actually been considering making a 2nd version that looks a little less impossible for Spike's arm, so maybe I should.
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I, uhh, hmm... I find it surprisingly difficult to disagree with you there, and I don't know why.
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Hah, the scene was funny enough but this picture kills me.
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HA! I saw this in the episode and loved it, thanks for vectoring it so I didn't have to!
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WTF Was this in an episode? (which one was it in, if it was?)
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It happened (mostly off screen) in the most recent episode, Ponyville Confidential. They were a bit more subtle about it than I was.
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LOL, that so reminds me of Stitch when he pulled the cherry out of his mouth.
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I've seen some shit, son. I wouldn't be surprised :3
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We don't know where Spike's hands have been.
I was hoping someone would do a vector of that. Nice one!
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