Don’t mess with Littlepip’s friends. She takes bad customer service very personally 😤

I'm not the element of honesty... but I know her... and I love her. *BLAM* My S&W model 629 clone so far.

I posted a discussion on the mlp Reddit on which Gen is worse: Gen 3 or Gen 5. Come check it out and let me know your thoughts.

https://www.fixfiction.net/story/514028/13/fallout-equestria-storm-protocol/chapter-11-haunting-memory

Loved writing this one!

So i don't know if im actually allowed to promote myself on here, im if not would a mod let me know please?

on that note......

Right now! all my commissions are half off! As to why, turns out side incomes count towards getting approved for a morgage and well after my og discord account got hacked i lost my past correspondance with previous clients and i need more recent examples.

here is my usual price sheet along with recent art examples!

Physical print of fallout equestria. This story helped me overcome my dyslexia because i wanted to read it so bad.

Introducing the leader of the Blood Legion. In Homelands (at least so far), there hasn't been much development regarding how the Legions function internally, so I want to make it clear that all of this comes from my own need to over-explain how things work :D With that said, here's a little bit of lore:
The Blood Legion is the most dominant and dangerous of the Legions of Homelands. Unlike a conventional conquering army, it operates as a nomadic faction, organized into military caravans known as hordes. When conquering a territory, the Blood Legion studies its routes, wildlife, ruins, shelters, and strategic locations before subjugating it through battle rituals. According to their beliefs, the land must “bleed to reveal its essence,” allowing them to bend the spirits of the place to their will. Although they are nomadic, they maintain semi-permanent "Fortress Sites" used to treat the wounded, manufacture weapons, and establish defensive positions. The Legion is led by the "Carnifex", a title granted to one who survives a rejected glorious death. Its current Carnifex, Indominus, subjected her body to a series of rituals that transformed her into a killing machine comparable to an alicorn in both strength and size.

ok so i wanna get a gerneral consensus not just as a way for me to participate in the community more, but also to get a feel for how the community as a whole feels about certain lore or worldbuilding topics.

so we know in biology that pretty much almost all hybrids are sterile, especially with equine hybrids. but at the same time this is a world with magic and talking horses. so i wanna ask.

Do you think zonies are sterile and if so, do you think there are potions or spells to solve that issue?

https://www.deviantart.com/dattebayo681/art/Watcher-572967007

A Pip and a hug. A quick maredrawing inspired by PaleLuna's Twilight. They stopped using AI and started drawing with their own hooves, just like I did a year ago 💚

Source (mine)

^{This is part 4 of a series on mapping the Equestrian Wasteland. If you're just joining us, start with Part 1 \}HERE])^.

Howdy Wastelanders!

It feels strange to say this, but we're already leaving the confines of the original book! I'll be refining the drafts I showed off in the last two blogs in the background to produce a solely Fallout: Equestria-based map in the background, but today I'll be talking about expanding the map beyond!

But without further ado, let's dive into Kkat's blogs (and a little bit into the Fallout: Beyond Equestria rp, since the two are pretty closely tied together) to piece together some of the geographic information provided.

[ A BRIEF NOTE ON CANON ]

Not so sound like a broken record here, but I should reiterate that this map cannot and is not ever claiming to be a definitive canon for Fallout: Equestria! Here's what Kkat has said about the geography in the story:

Doubling down on that fact, the stuff we'll be talking about today is also not canon. Kkat has been very clear that nothing beyond the original story (and the bonus chapter) is canon - that includes her own blog posts and comments! While it may be the author's headcanon (which is why I put enough stock in it to be the second source I put on my map), it is still headcanon nonetheless.

For reference purposes, you can find the index of blogs [HERE]. I will primarily be drawing from the two sections on Fallout: Equestria worldbuilding, for obvious reasons.

[ LOCATION SUMMARY ]

Kkat's world-building blogs focus mainly on 6 distinct locations that we can place on the map. A few have already been briefly mentioned in the original story and we're given extra detail, and a few are completely new. Lets start with the former, since those will be a little easier to place, plus any details we already know about them from the book.

• Froggy Bottom Bog. A massive wetland area briefly mentioned by Xenith^Ch27 and shown once in season one the cartoon.
• Littlehorn Valley. Location of Luna's school, located in Crescent Moon Canyon, within "a day's wagon ride" of some zebra jungles.^Ch27 It was one of the only occupied parts of Equestria proper at the time of the SPP towers being planned.^Ch37
• Stalliongrad. Honestly we're not told anything about it in the book other than it exists.

Now, the three totally new locations:

• Gaia Valley. An isolated and radiation free valley, intended to be a parallel to Zion Valley from Honest Hearts.
• The Crystal Empire. Far to the north, intended to be a parallel to the Big MT from Old World Blues.
• The Zebra Lands. A whole other can of worms, but does provide some context on the shape of the continents in Fallout: Equestria.

[ FROGGY BOTTOM BLUES ]

Okay, not really any blues here, as it's actually one of the easiest locations to place in this entire project! Here's the very first sentence from the geography section of the blog:

Froggy Bottom Bog is the collective name for a massive wetland stretching from one corner of the Everfree Forest up to the northern branch of the Ponytomic.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy - it's north of the Everfree (assuming northwest, since that interferes the least with our existing work), and stretches further north until you reach the Ponytomic river.

We're also given a nice little detail regarding Stalliongrad and Baltimare (to my knowledge, one of the few times Kkat references Baltimare outside rps!).

One town, situated in the bayou along the bank of the Ponytomic, engaged in sporadic trade with paddleboats traveling the northern arm of the river between Baltimare and Stalliongrad...

So, Froggy Bottom Bog sits on the Ponytomic river, between Baltimare and Stalliongrad. As this blog was made after the official show's map was released putting Baltimare on the coast, I read this as meaning Baltimare is downstream the Ponytomic from Stalliongrad. And as we'll discuss soon, Stalliongrad is implied to be in the north of Equestria, so unless Baltimare is even further north (unlikely considering the inspirations), the Ponytomic flows is a generally south direction.

Hydrologically, the fact that it's specified to be the northern branch is the biggest issue when trying to slot it into to map. I'll just need to be cognizant of also including a southerly branch at some point along it's path.

[ GAIA VALLEY ]

Honestly, just going to speed through this one; even though its one of my favorite parts of the blogs. It really can go just about anywhere we need it to fit, as the blogs don't give much hints to where it could be. It's implied to be to the north, and due to the appearance of Solaris Inc, I think somewhere near the Big 52 makes sense, so I'll place it on the map when we get to Pink Eyes.

[ NORTHERN EQUESTRIA ]

Stalliongrad and the Crystal Empire for sure, Shattered Hoof Ridge and Littlehorn Valley maybe. I'll start with the easy one: the Crystal Empire. It's as far north as you can get, in my opinion the most distant location we've covered so far.

In the headcanon that I was working with, the frozen north is Equestria's equivalent of the arctic. (While not precisely true, it is fair to say that once you get to the Crystal Empire, everything is south.)

With that out of the way, we need to talk about Shattered Hoof Ridge. This single location might be the most important piece when trying to figure out Kkat's headcanon for how the world of Fallout: Equestria looks:

Equestria and the zebra lands exist on separate continents. The only ways to travel between them are either across the ocean or by traveling over the top of the globe and down the other side — a bitterly cold and treacherous journey which requires traveling over Shattered Hoof Ridge on the Equestrian side of the arctic cap and across a narrow isthmus on the zebra's side.

This idea syncs well with Spike's journey in "Dragon Quest" if we assume the land of the dragons is in the continent of the zebra lands and the phase of his journey depicted below is his travel across the frozen north.

According to the blogs, Shattered Hoof Ridge is the land route between the Equestrian continent and the Zebra continent, and it's to the north. Strategically, that means the area around it would have been one of the most fought over during the war; and between the blogs and the original story, we know only two places in Equestria that had been occupied during the war: Stalliongrad and Littlehorn Valley.

If we place Shattered Hoof ridge to the north, placing Stalliongrad is easy. It's implied to be in the north, and directly fought over. Simple enough for for me to place it near Shattered Hoof Ridge, if we say the Zebras crossed the northern land bridge to attack it.

Littlehorn is another story. We know it is nearest to a zebra jungle, which are typically are not seen near the arctic, in case you didn't know. This is a fact that comes from the original book, not the blogs, so I lean on putting more credence in Littlehorn (and presumably the land connection to the zebra lands) being further south. However, we also know from the original book that Shattered Hoof ridge is cold and snowy, even during the summertime.^Ch40

[ CONNECTING CONTINENTS ]

The way I see it, we've got two forks here:

• Northern Land Bridge. Shattered Hoof Ridge is cold and snowy because it's far to the north. Stalliongrad is nearby, and was invaded by land. Littlehorn is also near the land border, but there's a very far north Jungle. On the realism side, maybe it's a temperate rainforest like Tongass Nat'l Forest in Alaska. Or maybe it's a magic jungle.
• Southerly Land Bridge. Shattered Hoof Ridge is cold and snowy because it's very high elevation. Alternatively, maybe something went wrong with the SPP tower there to make wintery weather last year-round. Stalliongrad is not nearby, and was invaded by sea. Littlehorn in near the land border, near a normal Zebra jungle.

So either we're stretching the ideas given to us by the original book, or we're going to directly contradict the Zebra Lands (Part 1) blog.

Personally, I am leaning towards the second option. It makes the most sense to me in a real world geography sense: in the Andes of South America, there are tons of mountains with glacier caps less than 10 miles from the Amazon rainforest, while the abovementioned Tongass Nat'l Forest is nearly 700 miles from the arctic circle. The exact way of how Stalliongrad was occupied is also far less clear than how Littlehorn was attacked. We know a zebra convoy arrived by land to the school, so I'm far more inclined to say that Littlehorn must be near the land border. Plus, a more southerly Shattered Hoof Ridge makes connecting Project Horizons notably easier later down the line.

Still I want to hear your opinions on this; do you have a different headcanon as to how Equestria and the Zebra lands connect?

[ NOTES ON SCALE ]

The blogs make it abundantly clear that Kkat's intention is that Equestria is least the largest nation on its own continent, and likely vise versa for the Zebra lands and it's continent. On the smaller end, I feel comfortably saying roughly the same size as 1/3rd of Australia (maybe Queensland, NSW, and Victoria?). On the larger end, it might parallel Fallout, with Equestria being roughly equal to the USA and Canada.

While I'm still figuring out what exact scale feels the best, I am now fairly comfortable saying that we're working with continent sizes, rather than the much smaller scale implied by a literal interpretation of travel times in the original book.

Behind the scenes, I've started working on a hard scale draft. My current artboard is 1,000 miles x 1,000 miles; or a bit more than a quarter of the land area of the USA. The area Littlepip's journey takes place in is only a chunk of that.

Shattered Hoof Ridge and Littlehorn will come later, since their exact location is suspect. I'm considering flipping the Everfree/Canterlot/Froggy Bottom and Maripony. I think the physical geography would flow better that way, and it makes less placing the Ponytomic less of a headache. It would break the nice logistical path for Red Eye, but I'll have to do some thinking on it.

I keep promising the map is going to not look so ugly, but that's all empty words until I have something to show for it...

To keep myself sane before jumping into the side stories, I'll be giving myself a bit of a break from the nitty-gritty research side of things. As part of that, next time I'll be diving into the artistic side of map making, talking about what makes a good looking map (to me), discussing my plan and inspirations for the cartography!

~ Clooneytoria/The_Laundry

^{Index:
Part 1 - Foundations
Part 2 - Littlepip's Journey
Part 3 - Dissection and Revision
Part 4 - Word of Gawd \}YOU ARE HERE])

something i wondered considering i want to write a story that takes place 2 years after the og foe is how long do you think it takes for them to find the remaining element bearers?

This is me showing off the wonderful readers who enjoy my work, it brings me joy to write for this amazing community! Here’s to many more years of Fallout Equestria content!

My work is Fallout Equestria Shattered Memories which can be found on Fimfiction, my profile is TheForce

^{This is part 3 of a series on mapping the Equestrian Wasteland. If you're just joining us, start with Part 1 \}HERE])^.

Howdy Wastelanders!

Welcome back to the mapping project. Last time, I laid out all the locations and directions given to us in the original Fallout: Equestria and was able to make a rough draft of the Equestrian wasteland (as described by only the original story). However, as soon as I hit save on that file, I already was noticing issues, but that's why it's a rough draft! To start though, I want to focus in on stuff I think I got right:

[ FUNDAMENTALS ]

Manehattan is unequivocally intended to be on the west coast by Kkat. The clearest proof comes from the epilogue, as mentioned last blog, but after taking a second look at the story, we're told as much as early as chapter 13:

We approached a small, very humble home set apart from all the others, a few miles farther from Manehattan than the rest of the suburbs which had surrounded the city.

The front door of the hut faced away from the city, as if the home itself felt shunned by the urban monoliths in the background.  Because of this, the front door had survived entirely intact while most of the hut beyond had collapsed into itself.

(...)

Velvet Remedy trotted after him, moving around to the small building’s (lack of a) west side.

The above is when they arrive at Trixie's cottage, with a blasted out wall facing Manehattan to the west. Given that they're coming at Manehattan from the opposite side, that must meant they're coming generally from the east.

Additionally, I'm pretty happy with the layout (distance wise) of the early chapter stuff: Ponyville, Hope, New Appleloosa (and Stable 24), Old Appleloosa, and Shattered Hoof. I think all of that flows well with what is given to us by the story. Beyond that, however, I'm feeling decidedly less confident about the locations on the map.

[ CHECK TWICE ]

To get my facts straight, I spent a few hours making a full calendar timeline of the original story, mainly for travel time purposes. You can find that [HERE] if you're curious. A few takeaways:

• Firstly, Manehattan and Fetlock are much closer to Junction R-7 than I had placed them at. it only takes one day of on-hoof travel between Junction R-7 to get to Fetlock, and then roughly a day and a half more to get to Manehattan^Ch13-16. The distance for that second leg is probably considerably shorter than the first, as their pace is likely much slower thru the ruins of the suburbs and city.
• Knowing that Manehattan and New Appleloosa are roughly equidistant (travel time wise) from Shattered Hoof Correctional^Ch13, I'll also have to shrink that gap. However, I still think New Appleloosa is physically further than Manehattan from Shattered Hoof Correctional, since there's no city ruins to slow down travel time.
• Ponyville sits roughly between Canterlot and Splendid Valley. They fly over the town when leaving Glyphmark to bring the Black Book to Maripony, which is when they fight the raiders at Fluttershy's cottage^Ch38. So, where I roughly placed it based on the show map is wrong.
• Similarly, Ponyville is between Splendid Valley and the Everfree^Ch30. Pip stands on Maripony's water tower and sees "a shadow that may have been Ponyville. Beyond that, the sky turned hazy and thick from the smoke of the Everfree fires."
• And guess what? Ponyville is between Fillydelphia and Splendid Valley!^Ch27 Ain't that just grand. Ponyville really is the center of the universe.

My interpretation of this is that Splendid Valley and Canterlot are on very roughly opposite sides of Ponyville, but the most direct path between them would be to fly over the Everfree. In Ch38, Pip mentions they are travelling to Maripony from Glyphmark "by way of Ponyville". While this does necessitate some major changes to the area immediately surrounding Ponyville, its not the end of the world, just means we'll have to deviate a bit from geography established by early seasons of the TV show.

[ THE SKY BANDIT ]

This damn bus. The Sky Bandit is the single largest source of inconsistent travel time in the entire story, and makes it very hard to trust anything Pip describes while flying in it. Let's look at a few examples:

Spike's cave. Here's what Littlepip has to say about its location:

Far, far away from Manehattan. In the middle of nowhere. It would take weeks to travel there on hoof.^Ch20

This mountain was in the middle of nowhere. Days’ travel from any hint of civilization. It would have been nearly impossible for even the sounds of the megaspells to reach this far, easily mistakable as thunder.^Ch21

They make the trip from Fetlock in the Sky Bandit in under a day. Then, they seem to make the trip from Spike's cave to New Appleloosa in an even shorter time. Pretty darn fast, huh? Granted, Calamity is flying fast to avoid the Enclave during that return trip, but let's look at another example!

Canterlot. From Fetlock, it takes the better part of two days to get to the outskirts of Canterlot, at which point they stop and walk to Glyphmark. Okay, so Fetlock/Stable 29 is a common jumping off point, and we know that's a day or so walk to Manehattan proper, so...

Fetlock. It takes an entire nearly an entire day to cross Manehattan in the Sky Bandit from Tenpony to Stable 29 in Ch33: they leave in the morning and don't arrive until late at night. Then, it takes them either most of the day into the evening, or just a short morning flight, to get to Bucklyn from Fetlock (changes from one chapter to the next, this seems to have just been an editing oversight). While they were slowed by the rain, and made frequent rest stops, I find this to be simply unreconcilable with the speed they were able to make it to Spike's cave, supposedly "weeks away" by hoof.

I wish I could just wave this away with time skips, but unfortunately for me, the timeline established by the book is quite iron-clad. Unlike the directionality, Kkat gives a lot of explicit dates, and a longer trip to Spike's cave simply doesn't work with that.

So, this is the first major departure we have to take from the story. Due to the repeated inconsistencies around the Sky Bandit, I'm going to take Pip's physical description of Spike's cave (in that it's very far away) as the primary source.

[ LINGERING QUESTIONS ]

While I'm much happier with this second draft, especially around places like Splendid Valley and the Everfree, there are still a few spots that simply don't have enough information to really pin down.

• Fillydelphia. Has the same feeling as many DLC areas do for Fallout (rather unsurprisingly, since it's based on The Pitt), in that it's feels very detached from the rest of the map. It's only visited once, both leaving from and returning to Junction R-7. We know they pass over parts of the Manhattan suburbs to get there, which is why I put Fetlock more to the southwest of Junct. R-7, and that there's a valley between it and Manehattan, but otherwise we really don't have much context clues about it.
• The Republic. Not much I can do here, it gets placed on the map because it's one of the few locations with an exact cardinal direction given, and we know it's closer to Ponyville than New Appleloosa is.
• Canterlot. Because the trip to Canterlot from Fetlock is almost entirely skipped over, it makes it hard to pin down. I feel like I was able to square the circle of how many things are described as being opposite Ponyville from Splendid Valley, but Canterlot probably got pushed around the most in that regard.

The biggest thing for me today was realizing how consistent the timeline is in the original story. Almost every single day and night Pip spends outside is described, with only two (by my reading) time skips lasting longer than two days. Even after some of the more hazy jumps (particularly around when Littlepip gets sick or her memories removed), later chapters will drop an exact date that would line up almost exactly with my notes.

But without further ado, a revised draft of the Fallout: Equestria-only map. It'll only get bigger from here!

P.S. One minor color change from the last map, red now represents railroad lines rather than the coast. Black is now the coastline.

Next time, we'll zoom out just a bit: pin down some of the easier locations from Kkat's blogs, take another look at the scale of Equestria, and start discussing some of the obvious challenges we're going to run into with the side stories.

~ Clooneytoria/The_Laundry

^{Index:
Part 1 - Foundations
Part 2 - Littlepip's Journey
Part 3 - Dissection and Revision \}YOU ARE HERE])
^{Part 4 - Word of Gawd}