It's Pride Month Time! - mlp AU Speedpaint

I'm very happy with the shading, this entire piece just looks very bright and happy! There's a lot of prideflags and I swear I wanted to make at least one of them cishet, but that's the curse of being queer. It's just too hard to make cis straight characters anymore when you have so many options! sparkles Some of the identites are more general, some more niche, I just went with the vibes wherever I wasn't quite sure. I'm honestly sorta jealous of this fictional friend group, like I wanna have one just like that too! First time drawing the gang all together interacting, I definitely gotta do that more (or at least do some sketches because it's fun!) I also didn't want to have any concrete ships here because 1. I respect all ships among the mane six 2. I'm not sure myself what, if anything, i ship here and 3. I just headcanon that if there are any relationships in this AU, they'd be very casual and probably pretty open too. This might surprise some people, but my OTP in mlp is Starlight x Trixie. both of them are definitely in at least my top 5 fave ponies so...
Anyways, here's the specific pride flags and meanings:
Twilight: Bisexual (Attracted to more than one gender) Demisexual (Only sexually attracted to someone after relationship is established) Disability Pride (She's a wheelchair user, but this flag is for everyone with disabilities, visible or not!)
Rarity: Lesbian (Non-Men loving Non-Men, most often WLW) Progress Pride Flag (Everyone under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella, putting emphasis on how PoC, Trans and Intersex identities are a part of the community)
Applejack: Nonbinary (Umbrella term for people who are neither Men nor Women) Lesbian (Non-Men loving Non-Men), Neptunic (Attracted to Non-Men)
Pinkie Pie: Pansexual (Attracted to people regardless of gender) Cis (Not a queer identity, I just wanted to put emphasis on the fact that pronouns =/= Gender, since He uses any pronouns)
Fluttershy: Aromantic (Little to no romantic attraction), Disability Pride (They're Neurodivergent), Autistic Symbol (Obvious Reasons I think), Trans (Gender doesn't match the one assigned at birth, in her case she's a Demigirl)
Rainbow Dash: Demi-Bigender (Falls under Nonbinary umbrella, Demigender means partly not having a gender (Agender),Bigender means feeling like both a man and a woman), Queer (Umbrella term (don't use for people unless they tell you to, since it's a reclaimed slur) for everyone under the LGBTQIA+ Umbrella, or for people who don't want to elaborate on specifics)
I pulled those descriptions out of my butt so correct me in the comments if my phrasing comes off weird or I got something wrong :)
Music:
JJD & Division One - Somebody Like Me (feat. Halvorsen)
Time To Talk - Bittersweet (feat. Roses)
Elliot Kings, Riggs - Paper Walls (with Mykyl)
Jim Yosef - Firefly Part II (ft. STARLYTE)
Tobu - Lost
#art #au #alternateuniverse #mlpspeedpaint #speedpaint #mlp #pride #speedpaint #pridemonth #prideart #queer

[@raineclipse1542]

Awesome piece! Love the rainbow from Dash' wings!

[@LougaRocia]

Happy pride month ^°^

[@Shepherdale.Official]

PAN PINKIE :D

[@XeanotahDraco]

Cool!
Anyways...I'm just going to do my own thing and draw horror. 🤍

[@nobodishere]

Yes, do that ;)