I Dream of Twilight modblog

I’m sorry but that would be encroaching on the territory of the Genie that already exists in the game. ;)

Completely from scratch actually!

There’s not too many things I’ve done from scratch in Genie Twi although there are certainly others (Ex: Genie Twi’s dress in the Winter Prom). But yes I wanted to make a basic but still recognizable as a Genie bottle. Putting the pixels in just the right shape. Coloring in the bottle in the color of Twi’s coat, making it slightly transparent. Copying and pasting Twi’s cutie mark onto the bottom of it, and then dotting it a bit with the colors in Twilight’s mane and Tail.

I’m also pretty glad you like the design for it ^^

Well after having that moment where I’m absolutely freaking out (In a good way) that I’m seeing my favorite pony right in front of me. (Genie Twi’s still basically like meeting Canon Twi).

Anyway, first of all. I wouldn’t wish for things like lots of money, or anything that would instantly give me a better life. Because she may either think it’s too greedy, or is the only reason I’m seeing her. No, what I’d wish from Twilight. That she would be my friend. The fact I’m even meeting a character I both identify with, and at the same time something I would like to be more like. Is a wish fulfilled in itself. If there was anyway for the meeting to last longer or we could have communication afterwards, it would be the absolute best. I think she’d appreciate a wish like that then me asking in anyway if her magic can improve my life.

Because look at it this way. Say she only allowed me one wish, if I wished for lots of money to the point I’m set for life. That’s all well and good. But there’s more to life then that. And I think my one wish would be to have Twilight as a friend. Having someone like her to talk to on a regular basis would be worth more then anything.

In other words, I’d treat Genie Twi the same as if I had met regular Twi.

Ooh, this is an interesting question. Hmmm, I’m not sure there’s anything I could think on top of my head. I believe that almost everything can be improved in some way. The only thing is of course I had done the updates from October (The first month of the blog’s existence) in better quality. But those were proper tests until I could find a proper niche for the updates which I eventually found with the updates after the Origin story finished. Considering some of the asks are important questions that’s still asked even though they were answered already technically.

It’s why I’m going to eventually make an FAQ. Because obviously when most new people come in asking for wishes/questions. They default to the 3 wishes only, Cannot refuse, and/or something about the 3 Genie Rules from Aladdin. When Genie Twi’s made different from that to fit a Tumblr blog.

During the Summer however, I might remake a certain extra thing I loved working on during when the blog didn’t have the Origin Story up yet part of the blog. Make everything much more improved, and longer.

I wish I could. But internet gifs are the closest we’re going to get right now ^^’

Uh…. no O_O

Well, not alot unfortunately. With how times are tough regarding the economy I can’t really find a job (I graduated from High School in 2010, but I have no solid career I want to pursue that could be found in a nearby college). At least now I get disability benefits (I have a mild case of Asbergers syndrome), I may get some kind of job soon even if it’s a non-paying volunteer work kind of thing. But that’s still a bit unsure at the moment. But before Ponies I was generally just watching stuff like Let’s Plays and such on Youtube at home (This was before Sprint forced a bandwith cap on my family’s internet). Things I were looking forward to were video games or the Playoffs in sports I watch. There was no TV Show I was actively going to see the new episode for before Ponies arrived, though that may be because somehow we’re stuck with only one working Satellite Dish so therefore I don’t get my own TV to watch whatever I want when I want for the day. It’s odd to think that a show about Magical Talking Ponies is the one show I’d be asking my parents if I can have the TV whenever the new episode was close to starting. But that’s how it ended up.

But maybe I should try to see if I can get my own working Satellite Box before Season 4 starts so I wouldn’t HAVE to do that anymore…

(I saw soulsq3 ask this as well, don’t worry I saw your question as well. It’s just too similar to Pirate Dash’s)

I’ll start this off that Genies are one of my favorite Mythical beings. Just something about them that’s intrigued me always. That doesn’t mean it was like one of my hugest obsessions or anything. As for example while I did watch Aladdin as a kid I’m sure, I didn’t really rewatch it as much as say… The Lion King out of all Disney movies. I however occasionally looked for good Genie pics around the internet especially if it had anything to do with another media I liked.

So sometime while I was searching for Pony related Genie pictures on places like dA or Derpibooru (Or Ponibooru back in the day). There were some good Genified ponies already, like a Genie Pinkie (Which made up most of them at the time), Genie Trixie, Genie Rarity, even a Genie Rainbow Dash. But to my rather disappointment, there was not one Genie Twilight picture which kinda surprised me because I kinda consider Twilight is the Element of Magic. And Genies are known for what? Being immensely powerful magic beings. I would of thought there’d be something considering how much the fandom has covered already at that point.

So I thought one day that I’d fill what I considered a bit of a void. Though it wasn’t going to be a Tumblr blog at first. It was actually going to only be part of an interactive story where Twilight goes to Saddle Arabia. Twilight becoming a Genie was only one of the paths had I taken the effort to pursue it. And the Genie one even had two paths of it’s own, one where it goes close to exactly how this blog’s origin story went the other has Twilight is bottlenapped by Desert Dogs (Saddle Arabian Diamond Dogs basically) and forced to grant their greedy desires. One of the non-genie storylines being Twilight gets invited into the palace where the Prince of Saddle Arabia meets her and falls in love with her, but Twilight doesn’t return the favor and leads to tension where it’d lead to Twilight having to escape the guards of the Palace that are ordered by the Prince to keep Twilight in the Palace at all times.

As you can see, the project was very ambitious and I realized that as I finished the core of the Genie Twilight path that would be the overall inspiration for this blog’s Origin Story. So I scrapped the idea of an interactive story and went on to making it focus on only that particular path. Adding more details and such. But then I kinda starting having self-doubt on the quality because I’ve never been the best at writing in terms of punctuation and grammar. I definitely think if I had sent it in then, it probably would of not gone over well as this Tumblr blog has. In School I almost always got C’s in English. I just never was too good at being consistent on grammar, especially on long essays or in this case fanfics. But I did at least complete an entire first draft that I left sitting on my computer, until eventually I had the idea of making the concept a Tumblr blog.

I however did not want it to be text-only, as that doesn’t really get you alot of hits I’m sure. Luckily there was Urimas’ sprite sheets that he had for the public (And that was before the shut down of MLP Online). I got to making a nice design for Genie Twilight, and in October of 2012, I started up the blog. I have had years working with Pixel Art with editing sprites, while I wouldn’t consider myself a great one. I felt I could do a decent job enough. I must thank Urimas alot for those sprites though, his is really the best I’ve seen. I would have never started it if the only resource I had was the Desktop Ponies, no offense to that style at all but it just wasn’t nearly detailed enough and also doesn’t have the variety of poses Urimas sprite sheets have. The poses of Twilight up in the air work swimmingly for whenever I have Genie Twi in Tail form, it just was too perfect. Using those and the photoshop effects, I could make a decent enough basis for the blog. The first month of October being essentially practice and laying out some of the most important stuff until finally making a more clear improvement as I got to the revamped Origin Story. Some of those early answers are kinda hard to read though, someday I’ll make an FAQ that mentions some of those early but really important questions that were answered then. because sometimes I still get an ask that was answered months ago but because a combination of it being way far back and might be hard to read for some people. Might have to answer it more clearly in a document.

There might be something I’m missing but for now I think that’s what I have to say about that. I’m really happy with the response the blog has got. I never actually expected to get this far so quickly. I have to say everyone that followed me and/or asked a question played a good part on this. And I couldn’t be more thankful if I tried. It’s not even been a full year since I started the blog but it feels like I know some of the friends I’ve met thanks to it for years. And I can’t thank you all enough ^^

I can only answer that with one word: Boredom

You see in February 2011. I was at home with nothing to do and trying to find something on the internet to watch. I don’t exactly remember how, but I heard about this new My Little Pony show. I don’t even remember how I was compelled into seeing it considering all I saw of MLP prior to it was the commercials for the older generations. But I went ahead and watched Friendship is Magic, Part 1 on Youtube. Turns out watching things for the heck of it led to all this, because I was actually really impressed by the first episode and went on to finish the 2nd. It’s hard to explain without going into paragraphs and paragraphs on it, but I felt hooked by the characters shown (Especially Twilight) and then by early March I had caught up to the first 17 episodes before I would watch my first episode live on the TV. Which was Show Stoppers.

I’m really happy I watched it, because I’ve come to love this show so much. And have many friends online because of it now. And not just on Tumblr.

A grey t-shirt and some jeans ^^’

Oh hello there, it’s nice for you to contact me about it. And your concept sounds interesting and I’ll be sure to see how it goes ^^

Anyway, my enlarging actually isn’t any huge clean up process. I actually just zoom up sprites and then use the Print Screen tool to have them enlarged without the blurriness of making them bigger through the transform tool. The normal is 200%, while others that have Twilight closer up like my last Twibrary update is done was zoomed in at 500%

However I recommend that you first make the poses you want to make at normal size and then use zoom and Print Screen because otherwise a twice as large sprite might be a little harder to edit then it should be.

Though if you have any special effects (Like the horn glow), that’s best to save for the enlarged sprites.

I hope that’s helpful enough, if not… feel free to ask me more questions.

(P.S. I don’t know what program you use or if my method works better for my own then others. But I use Photoshop to make mine. Not 100% sure if it works as good if you use say… GIMP, Paint, or SAI)