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thekitfox <3
To everyone: Please stop with the bong and drug references, that's not what this picture is about or has in it at all. Please research "hookah" before you make stupid comments.
Nestled underneath the bowling alley in Ponyville, lies a little shop called Arcadia's Arcade. It is owned by the Equestrian Video Game Championship Winner Arcadia Anne Fevõre, also known as Arcade Fever.
As a teenager Arcadia was a founding member of and participant in the first ever video game tournament that was to be held in her hometown of Ponyville. She won the competition hooves down against the then local reigning champ Short Fuse and gained some small amount of notoriety in the blossoming gaming circuit. After a few long years of touring cities and gaming conventions, Arcadia longed to settle down. So she bought a small building in a strip-mall connected to the bowling alley and there is where she set up her dream, her arcade.
Shortly before the arcade's grand opening, Short Fuse found the place and raided the high scores because she had a bad day and wanted somepony else to have one too. She had gotten all but one of the high scores set in the Challenge Corner of the arcade, Arcadia saw this as a slap to the face and issued a challenge to the pegusass (one part mule, one part pegasus, all sass.). The battle was intense, but in the end, they emerged newly forged friends.
Here, in the aftermath of a Pinkie fueled grand opening party we find them tucked away into Arcadia's back office, the two friends enjoying some simple magic.
I got a lot of weird assumptions about the hookah stuff over the course of streaming this pic, so I'd like to go ahead and answer a couple of the questions I get about hookah.
Smoking hookah is like a cigar, the taste of the smoke is the focus, not inhaling smoke.
The stuff they're smoking is flavored tobacco, referred to as shisha. It's surprisingly good. (take this from someone that only started smoking hookah in 2012) The smell isn't of anything you'd expect from the idea of smoking anything. The only lingering smell of the hookah comes from the coals that burn on top. Which is just charcoal, basically.
Shisha is not pot. You don't get high off of smoking hookah.
The smoke is cold, because it's cooled by water. Sometimes in the hose you got a spot to put a frozen plastic thing there that makes it even colder.
The reason I do it is because I like the flavors. For me it's a snack of some sort, but when you have other people around it becomes a social thing. And I had folks tell me that the only way to “get it” would be to sit around and participate. It's not for everyone.
Lots of hours in Paint Tool SAI.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro.
Arcade Fever belongs to Gabby <3
Short Fuse is ... ahem.. my own original character thing.. Yeah. I made one. I guess.. okay... Look, I'm a furry first but I guess at this point I'll admit to have gone into the realm of brony.. She's pretty much modeled completely after me, only cute. (she's even transgender, that's why the hoofy fluff) =-p
thekitfox <3To everyone: Please stop with the bong and drug references, that's not what this picture is about or has in it at all. Please research "hookah" before you make stupid comments.
Nestled underneath the bowling alley in Ponyville, lies a little shop called Arcadia's Arcade. It is owned by the Equestrian Video Game Championship Winner Arcadia Anne Fevõre, also known as Arcade Fever.
As a teenager Arcadia was a founding member of and participant in the first ever video game tournament that was to be held in her hometown of Ponyville. She won the competition hooves down against the then local reigning champ Short Fuse and gained some small amount of notoriety in the blossoming gaming circuit. After a few long years of touring cities and gaming conventions, Arcadia longed to settle down. So she bought a small building in a strip-mall connected to the bowling alley and there is where she set up her dream, her arcade.
Shortly before the arcade's grand opening, Short Fuse found the place and raided the high scores because she had a bad day and wanted somepony else to have one too. She had gotten all but one of the high scores set in the Challenge Corner of the arcade, Arcadia saw this as a slap to the face and issued a challenge to the pegusass (one part mule, one part pegasus, all sass.). The battle was intense, but in the end, they emerged newly forged friends.
Here, in the aftermath of a Pinkie fueled grand opening party we find them tucked away into Arcadia's back office, the two friends enjoying some simple magic.
I got a lot of weird assumptions about the hookah stuff over the course of streaming this pic, so I'd like to go ahead and answer a couple of the questions I get about hookah.
Smoking hookah is like a cigar, the taste of the smoke is the focus, not inhaling smoke.
The stuff they're smoking is flavored tobacco, referred to as shisha. It's surprisingly good. (take this from someone that only started smoking hookah in 2012) The smell isn't of anything you'd expect from the idea of smoking anything. The only lingering smell of the hookah comes from the coals that burn on top. Which is just charcoal, basically.
Shisha is not pot. You don't get high off of smoking hookah.
The smoke is cold, because it's cooled by water. Sometimes in the hose you got a spot to put a frozen plastic thing there that makes it even colder.
The reason I do it is because I like the flavors. For me it's a snack of some sort, but when you have other people around it becomes a social thing. And I had folks tell me that the only way to “get it” would be to sit around and participate. It's not for everyone.
Lots of hours in Paint Tool SAI.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro.
Arcade Fever belongs to Gabby <3
Short Fuse is ... ahem.. my own original character thing.. Yeah. I made one. I guess.. okay... Look, I'm a furry first but I guess at this point I'll admit to have gone into the realm of brony.. She's pretty much modeled completely after me, only cute. (she's even transgender, that's why the hoofy fluff) =-p
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I remember when you showed me this as a work in progress. It's still as beautiful now as it was as a simple sketch.
And thanks for the information on the hookah stuff. I know a bit, especially that the illegal substances are a stupid maneuver to use in a proper hooka because they can actually DAMAGE the unit.
And thanks for the information on the hookah stuff. I know a bit, especially that the illegal substances are a stupid maneuver to use in a proper hooka because they can actually DAMAGE the unit.
A question rgarding this... if someone does not KNOW a person is trans, and the trans person appears, dresses and acts male, would it not be appropriate to refer to that person as "he" until and unless another form of address is requested? Not a troll, I truly wish to know this. All these new and sometimes conflicting gender pronouns sometimes confuse the hell out of me, especially when I'm still confused as to why they're needed. I just thought that if someone was born one gender, but identified as the other, they'd simply use the gender pronouns of the gender they identify with.
What you thought is correct. People that identify as a gender, do just that. We DO use the pronouns we identify with, it really is that simple. It just gets a little frustrating when people miss, and at other times intentionally so. In this instance, (and even though it's just a fictional character, it's also a representation) all the info is laid out there in the description. After dealing with people missing the point a lot, and then after laying out the info and it still doesn't work to get the point across on this pic, it becomes a frustration and a discouragement to have the same patience as before, and it's hard for me not to go a place of "You have to be doing this on purpose." more and more often.
I've never been in a tournament but am the reigning champion of fighting games in my house, and this is recognized.
I've never been in a tournament but I was the best artist in my class at school, and that was well known at the school.
I've never been in a contest for it, but I'm the fastest typist I and my friends know.
This isn't a hard concept to grasp, I assumed people would put it together themselves instead of mock me over it..
I've never been in a tournament but I was the best artist in my class at school, and that was well known at the school.
I've never been in a contest for it, but I'm the fastest typist I and my friends know.
This isn't a hard concept to grasp, I assumed people would put it together themselves instead of mock me over it..
I'm- I'm not mocking you...
*sigh* I'm sorry. I meant no offence by my question. I thought it was just a slip of editing, and I was trying to point it out using a bit of levity. In no way was it meant as a slight against you, your opinions, your identity, your work, or anything else. You already know my opinion of your work in-general, and I'd be foolish to intentionally alienate one of my favourite artists of any genre. Please accept my apology.
I'll just go now.
*sigh* I'm sorry. I meant no offence by my question. I thought it was just a slip of editing, and I was trying to point it out using a bit of levity. In no way was it meant as a slight against you, your opinions, your identity, your work, or anything else. You already know my opinion of your work in-general, and I'd be foolish to intentionally alienate one of my favourite artists of any genre. Please accept my apology.
I'll just go now.
This is very cute. Amazing color and lighting as usual with all your work ^_^. I love the pac-man chasing the bubbles. I was wondering a bit more about your OC's story (if you have one thought up), as I have not seen a transgendered gamer pony before. It makes be curious (and wondering about changing some things on my own OC I am still coming up with, not ripping off, just more things I didn't think were..... acceptable for pony OCs).
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