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Emotion Nexus


Quills and Sofas Writer, Comment Clubber, Professional Procrastinater, She/Her

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Ponies always said that Spearhead could bring a canvas to life like no other.

Little did they know how right they were.


Thanks to starcoder and Thesmokingguy for helping with the story and TheDriderPony for helping with the cover art!

Entry for the A Thousand Words II contest under the Horror category!

Chapters (1)
Comments ( 4 )

Or at least, he thought it did. He found himself struggling to trust his own judgment. He needed the advice of his newest friend. It had guided him through its own creation, surely it would tell him if he had gotten it right.

can't put put into words how much or why much I love this moment. I think mainly, this is where the madness really set it. :heart:
great read!

I'm a huge fan of The Magic of Art, so this really hit the spot for me! I loved it!

No, he was made for the canvas.

so true

He wasn't an expert on reading a room, but he was certainly an expert on painting.

it is good to know one’s strengths!

Before he hadn't had a clear vision of what he would do, but now he could see every little dab of paint in his mind with vivid clarity. He smiled. It was strange knowing what he was doing. It made him feel powerful; a master of his craft.

ooh that is a wonderful feeling, though perhaps not leading to a good place in this case, given the category

He realized what he was doing was insane, but weren't all great artists insane to some degree?

so true actually

Walking up slowly, he touched his hoof to the canvas. Instead of stopping, his hoof sank into the paint. Not a moment passed before his other hoof met the array of colors, and then his whole body quickly followed suit.

oh that’s different!

He didn't have any regrets.

He'd do anything for the sake of art.

so true! i am so happy for Spearhead here. i might not be the best person to read this story as “Horror”, haha. but that goes to show that you captured something real about getting swept up in the beauty and agony of creation, to the point of one’s own destruction (which SOME people consider “bad”, i guess!). thank you for writing!

It is the fate of many artists to be consumed by their work. Some more literally than others.

It probably says something about me that I didn’t find this descent into madness especially frightening. Fascinating presentation of the creative process taken to an absurd yet ultimately logical conclusion. Thank you for it.

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