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Well, whichever one gets chosen to be a mascot, I can’t wait to draw it. Needed an excuse to plug my tablet back in (and reinstall Krita) anyways. As long as mascot pone has the site color scheme, because I like these colors… and robo-ponies :D
 
_{…and no I’m not creative enough to come up with anything outside of generic cute horse that is why I’m waiting shut up}

@Parallel Black  
Looks alright to me.

Another design:  

 
What if our pony is a former worker within the bolews of Derpibooru’s servers, and this is her gathering a few things to copy over onto a new booru right before the censorship calamity hit?
 
Some subtle robo parts because I still like that idea and think it would fit given her former role.

@omeggga  
I am not here to spoonfeed offtopic. DNP thread. Same forum.
 
I’m going to go torture myself with mouse art now.

 
Whut?
 

 
LMAO seriously? What a bunch of cunts.

@omeggga  
I mean, nips drew an archival horse that had an original version as a robot that was basically site color scheme colors.
 
Whatever, this is going in circles, Zizzy has options once he gets out of the pit of Philo Code Sanitization, DNP spammers, and artists bitching about having a year to earn money off art.

@Boxless  
Yeah I second this, maybe a cute robot of some sort, has the potential to stand out.

@Parallel Black  
Twibot.

@Parallel Black  
Yah, a lot if cute characters Are nice but kinda falls into unmemorable, just generic friendly personality, I just forget they exist after five miNotes or think it’s not worth drawing. It’s why so many of my designs are purposefully janky or clunky or something.

Whatever we go with I feel it shouldn’t be just a normal cute pone. As others have said the idea of her being a librarian is something I’m a fan of, both because glasses are cute as fuck and because Twilight was always the main character of the show (and this site happens to be her favourite colour hint hint). How to incorporate the floppy disk into that idea is something that still needs testing, though.

@ArchiveAnon  
She has my vote

@Cammera  
She’s cool. Sort of has a Cyberlestia thing going on.

@Anonymous #7930  
@ZizzyDizzyMC  
Why not both?  
 
This is such a good excuse to keep making new character designs.

@Crazieman  
No good. Not enough chins.

@Officer Hotpants  

@Anonymous #94BA  
I could lose myself in those chins.
 
Sexually.

@Anonymous #94BA  
pretty mare pretty mare

I think the only true option we really have is

I think we need to gather up the options and put it to a poll.

Robopones are nice though.

If it’s an archival theme we’re going for, why not a librarian pone? While a roboponer is all well and good, an organic “show style” librarian pone would be cuter to a wider audience. We could name her something like “Archive File” or “Archy” for short, and give her a cute bowtie and a file cutie mark.

@YourPalContrail  
mod here
 
There has been talk of having a discord server amongst the Admin and Mod team, however; it is still only under consideration. We have not confirmed whether or not an official discord will be supported at this time.
 
There does seem to be some push back from the community on this topic and their opinions are under consideration as well.

Referencing archival in the OC design could take the form of various nods to resistance to previous censorship/slander pushes and putting bits in that reference other cases around that starting point, like having the floppy disk have a title bit referencing some 70s-90s case. Maybe Discord or something in classic Doom or Diablo text, to poke at the Satanic Panic as a whole, and in Doom’s case it could have a 1/3 to refer to the shareware version.
 
I’m also partial to the robo-pony thing, though in fitting with the retro aesthetic I’d suggest an animatronic core appearance, in the sense of all the joints being seams, with some exposed wires spliced to more advanced-looking robotics at puppet string points for some of the body parts (lower legs, maybe go for a pinto look with it covering some of the face and back). Possibly have those animatronics be mostly Nips’ robo-pony design to nod at the design process itself, with the “stocking” look kept for the mid-leg joints or neck and torso.

@Anonymous #143F  
Perhaps. Personally more inclined towards the robot edition of her myself, noisy as it may be.

@Boxless  
Still early days. I’ll try my own attempt at a non-robo horse either tonight or tomorrow.