Geez, this took way longer than I thought –it seems life decided to happen all at once this month. It wasn’t all bad, just… a lot of it at once. But I still finished this! And pride month’s not over! Yay! :D Though I could have incuded more semi-canon/word-of-god characters (I think Sunset was stated to be bi by someone?) but I just… there was already enough characters for this I feel.
So, in case your curious about the flags/flag-colors they’re wearing: We don’t actually know their sexualities, aside from them loving their partner –so I gave them what
this wiki tells me is the sapphic and achillean flags. (Please excuse me if I get something wrong with any of these flags/orientations, internet seem to be conflicted regarding many of them) I.e. from my understanding, women who loves women and men who loves men respectively, regardless of any possible attraction to other genders as well. For ex. I don’t know if Bonbon is lesbian, bi, pan or etc, but I do know she loves Lyra, so she’s got the sapphic flag painted on her back :)
I also gave them the rainbow flag a lot, since it’s for all lgbt+ people, and thus for them too! Rainbow pride I put some variations of it though; Bonbon, Lyra and Scoots have the
six-colored one we often see today, made in ‘79 when some colors were removed and replaced. Wizkid has the “progress” pride flag (
by Daniel Quasar) painted on his cheek, and just the rainbow colors on his wings. And last, Auntie Lofty is wearing the colors of the
original original rainbow flag (
by Gilbert Baker in ’78); for some reason, I feel like that she and Aunt Holiday are on the slightly older side, so I’d like to imagine she made and wore that sweater for one of their first parades, and has since worn it for each one they go to as a tradition <3
And lastly; rather than just picking colors that look good together for the background ponies, as I usually do, I based both their, and the balloons’, colors on various pride flags I could find :) I had to lighten/desaturate a few of them, since they still needed to be kept in the background, but I still think this all turned out very nice and cute :D
As I said, I can’t go in a parade this pride month, and I assume the same holds true for many of you. I made myself happier by drawing cute ponies in a parade, and I hope some of you got just a bit happier by seeing cute ponies in a parade :)
Regardless, please stay safe out there, and I hope you have a wonderful pride month everyone