A Short Treatment of the Alphabet of the United Colonies
A supplemental educational pamphlet produced by the Equestrian Ministries of Inter-Sentient Affairs, Community Relations and Public Instruction. Copies are to be distributed to all places of public instruction and will be made available at all Ministry offices. This is a means of acquainting the average citizen with the rather complex but beautiful alphabet of the newest citizens of the principality.
(I love worldbuilding. Making an alphabet is pretty good stuff on that front. Especially for the Diamond Dogs. They've been abused and denigrated by most pony fans (oh, the irony...) and by the comic book people. I happen to like them, so I've done some nice things for them. This was most especially spurred by my rancor over the Fall of Equestria items, where Dogs are used as a hyper-racist threat against the pony women, expies of white women found in lurid pulp. They are the blackface of Fall of Equestria. And the yellowface. And redface. And Brownface. They are every racist minstrel show depiction when used as a mere sexual threat, and usually just as a single-gender race of mooks who are always chaotic evil.)
Diamond Dogs, Equestria and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in general (C) Hasbro
The Diamond Dog Alphabet, The United Colonies, Minister Sweet Arpeggio, Minister Peppermint Pinfeather and Minister Ink Scribble are mine
(I love worldbuilding. Making an alphabet is pretty good stuff on that front. Especially for the Diamond Dogs. They've been abused and denigrated by most pony fans (oh, the irony...) and by the comic book people. I happen to like them, so I've done some nice things for them. This was most especially spurred by my rancor over the Fall of Equestria items, where Dogs are used as a hyper-racist threat against the pony women, expies of white women found in lurid pulp. They are the blackface of Fall of Equestria. And the yellowface. And redface. And Brownface. They are every racist minstrel show depiction when used as a mere sexual threat, and usually just as a single-gender race of mooks who are always chaotic evil.)
Diamond Dogs, Equestria and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in general (C) Hasbro
The Diamond Dog Alphabet, The United Colonies, Minister Sweet Arpeggio, Minister Peppermint Pinfeather and Minister Ink Scribble are mine
Category Story / My Little Pony / Brony
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 334.5 kB
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It occurs to me that Fantasy is basically the genre where racist tropes goes to die. Quite a lot of cliches have their roots in old pulp stories about "the wild savages", with the actual races involved replaced by orcs or zombies. Y'see, its not racist if it doesn't specifically mention race, nevermind that it's based on the same old racist thinking that inspired the trope in the first place.
Fianlly, someone else who noticed it! I had a minor rant on a forum that garnered a lot of positive comments and understanding, regarding the sexist/racist division in sexually-slanted fantasy. Beastmen are allowed to look like animals in the face region, though are usually completely stupid and usually the only ones of their kind or part of an all-male race. Beastwomen, if they exist, are non-sexual creatures if they look like animals; if they are sexual targets they look like human women, usually with some idiotic handwave about extreme sexual dimorphism. I want a smart, kind beastman. And a beastwoman who looks like a beast. Trump used to be quite good at that.
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