Isn't it pretty?

I was poking around and I noticed something. There aren't really species tags.

Under "Background Ponies" we have "changelings," and under side characters we have "Diamond Dogs" and "Breezies," but there is a lack of other general known species - no generic Zebra, Griffon, Minotaur, Buffalo, Saddle Arabian, Dragon tag.

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Today's installment: accidentally setting the end of the world on fire.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/343684/1/expanded-apotheverse/chiaroscuro

All this Thorax stuff makes me want to sit down and chew on Chiaroscuro a bit so I have some Apotheverse Changeling stuff to counter it.

...though some scholars have tried to argue that the hippogryphs represent a fourth pony tribe, it’s clear they are a distinct species. While pony thaumoploid structure allows for inheritance of tribal type, hippogriffs only sire other hippogriffs.[1] Furthermore, they can do so with either ponies or gryphons. There are no recorded instances of any pony-griffin couples siring hippogriffs, ponies, or gryphons without a heavy suggestion of surrogacy.[2,3,4] This is not even mentioning the

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Suddenly it was in front of him. There was the vague suggestion of a human form, superimposed on a massive beast made from solid stone, somehow squeezed into the tiny street between buildings. He didn’t know what it was, exactly, something long-fanged and long-legged with eyes of hazy quartz and pricked, attentive ears. It snarled at him, peering down from roof height, crouched and poised to spring.

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A shadow leapt from the eaves of a passing taphouse to his shoulder. “Amir,” the cat purred in his ear, sinking its claws into the folds of his cloak. “That didn’t take you long. One wonders what on the other side of Mechanist is so simple and yet, interesting enough for Her.”

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The God of Terrible Beauty flirts with you.

While slow, I am still writing. Various bits and pieces are starting to cohere, even. And some turn out really well, like Ai Sul, the God of Terrible Beauty, who manifests as a graceful, shrouded figure with talon-tipped fingers and an oversized ivory-carved mask for a face, a mask that never changes expression when you're looking at it, but changes nonetheless...

Anyone familiar with Thirty Six Views Of Mount Fuji?

Someone should do a "Thirty Six Views Of Canterlot" in the same vein.