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Northern wildlife photography edition
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>>42801666
The pic that started it all: https://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37443253/ https://desuarchive.org/mlp/post/37 447036/
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 snowpone 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-p atch
https://neighsayerpatches.com/products/visit-snowpitt-patch
Metal pins:
https://ko-fi.com/s/525876a3f6
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Thanks for not fucking up the thread this time
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Fwoosh!
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Is there going to be crafting? If so fish oil should be an item to make both the torch and lantern.
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>>42978624
Whoops, I just realized I never actually explained the gameplay
It's a comfy fishing / village life game with movement as the hook.
Instead of waiting for fish to bite, you search for and chase after fish across Snowpitt's rivers, catching them with your fishnet using movement skills
>>42978850
>>42979405
I really like picrel so I based it off that. You will be able to barter for a lantern later. I'm hesitant to add a crafting mechanic, but I do want resources to matter, so helping the locals and trading catches for upgrades is the plan
>>42979209
>fishnets?
Yes, she throws her fishnets with a spin kick to catch fish
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Love my snow horse
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I don't know if we ever decided as a community if Snow Ponies have money or not but if you put money in the game it would give the players some flexibility on what upgrades they get instead of getting whatever upgrade the quest gives them. You could go with the standard copper, silver and gold but a more interesting take would be hard wood, ivory and soap stone coins.
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I know the image you speak of.
I just don't agree that it makes sense for them to standardize on pine cones as a currency (or any currency), when bartering (plus a general sense of "the community provides") makes much more sense for their society.
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Currency is best for gameplay, but bartering fits better
Maybe you dump resources in the village stockpile and earn "goodwill". It works just like currency, they're helping you because you fed them
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>>42986634
>The mare bounces excitedly at the start line in anticipation for the race
holy hnnng
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>picrel tagged artist:imalou on booru
>search imalou + snowpony
>only this image pops up
did imalou draw snowpone?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwc6jYsc4Ho
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Firs of pine cones are far too common to work as money. Money only works if it's scarce.
Secondly a society without money of some kind becomes stagnant and can not advance because of the limitations of a barter based society. Money is just far more convenient.
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Give mare a scarfy!
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>>42990868
What about pine cones with particular paint markings on them? Using paints that are hard to replicate to make counterfeits difficult? Red cone is worth "one", blue is worth two, gold is worth ten, and so on.....
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I'm imagining a snowpony bank which is just an old grandma mare who manages all of the pinecones and is the only one who knows how to mix the paints and paint the cones
And every so often somepony will bring her a few equestrian bits and be like "what are these someone visited and gave them to me they said it's money"
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>>42992668
She's just very excited for the prize (it's a fish).
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This is the only real problem I can see other then the space they would take up compared to coins. A thick layer of varnish would protect both the pinecone and the paint
>>42991013
A group of ponies in Snowpity would likely be in charge of the finances on what would be the equivalent of the federal level of there government.
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>That time Pine Ponder stumbled upon Abominables
>A group of young Northern colts first time on night watch. Suddenly floewolves
>Lichen tries it: Icicle in the cooch
>A young Southern filly and her father tend to crops, as they slowly grow massive in the long northern sun
>That time Agate carelessly drifted through a wall and stumbled on foalmaking
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I know Lichen ain't exactly the smartest cookie, but surely even she wouldn't do something like that.
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Snow changelings are fucking back bros
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They evolved to survive on very limited love
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