They had the Ugly duckling angle right there and they still fumbled the ball. Damn shame what they did to Twist, should have made her a pretty mare.

@Badumsquish
Frazzle Rock looks mid

@Zubirus
I honestly would have been happy if her adult shape had been congruent with her kid shape. Other than an overbite and a rounder muzzle she really doesn’t have a different body type, so it’s strange that she ends up so scrawny and malformed. If, as a filly, she looked like a female Snails, I’d have had no problem with the design they used. If she grew up to be ugly, but looked like an older version of her filly self, that would have been fine as well. Even if they wanted to just reuse a character model, they weren’t hurting for options. Here’s three ponies with atypical faces that are similar to Twist’s different muzzle: it would have been just as easy to take one of them instead of Frazzle Rock and t swap their manes and colors :P

I just looked that up and almost choked on my water lmao jfc

Wow! Love the idea of Twist being like the actor who played Neville Longbottom - dorky-looking as a kid, but grew up to be gorgeous~

@Background Pony #91F9
I didn’t think they were possible as it now uses philomena

This also includes some blank tags… You can’t even find links to them.

lmao yeah, almost 1800 edits

@mulbmerl
Someone really prepared a notepad for that. The list extends like 10+ pages worth.

Fallout Equestria Twist will always be my head cannon for her :3

Cutest filly ever. Love her so much. Great art!

#justicefortwist

@mulbmerl
If nominating this image for feature sparks a trend of drawing Twist like this, it will have been the greatest achievement of my life.

oh lol someone raided it

@mulbmerl
Check its history.

what do you mean

what happened to the tags

@Background Pony #951D
That’s why entertainment is whittling pretty girls down. Results from consumers aren’t pretty.

yeah, it would’ve been amazing to see that kind of divine justice lol

Perhaps I didn’t specify myself clearly… when I meant “prettier” or “the ugly duckling treatment” I didn’t mean that the team had to do a story for her where she becomes a model or whatever. I didn’t even mention that they had to do a whole story in that direction for her. I simply meant that they could have done another design for her to show in the end, after all, the character didn’t appear throughout the entire series after season 1, since the V.A. left Vancouver back at the beginning of the show.
In addition, knowing that we only had a few seconds to show her in a “before and after” scenario, it could have been good just to show that she came out prettier than DT and SS, who may have peaked in school while Twist gets to outshine them both, not just by the information that we had prior to this reveal, but also confirming that she’s a pretty and hard-working mare with a good heart, who gets to be prized by who she is, not by what she is.”
Then again, sorry if it came out the wrong way. It was not my intention to be superficial on that matter, but Twist, at least in my own opinion, deserved better. And as I stated before too, Nicely done, because you’re making her justice.

some people are just ugly

people shouldn’t be taught that their worth is based on whether or not they’re ugly, but I don’t think it would be possible to magically make people no longer ugly just because “muh standards” have shifted

but yes, I also detest the idea that the prettiest girl in your class is just magically worth more than you

@Zubirus
I’m glad they didn’t storyline her that way because that would have just been playing into the idea of a girl’s worth being determined by fitting into conventional beauty standards and treating Twist like she’s not going to be seen as valuable or treated with respect until she miraculously does a (realistically impossible for most girls) turnaround and suddenly fits into the physical mold she’s being pressured to fit.
That kind of crap gives so many IRL girls body image issues that screw them up as it is. Why do we need to validate the myth that pressuring someone to “just stop being ugly lol” works out well for people by having yet another fictional character present the lie that the “ugly duckling” treatment ends up having a happy ending instead of usually just being traumatic and a really shitty experience?

Maybe I’m overthinking it, I don’t know, but MLP was a great show because it didn’t push a narrative of normalizing the toxicity of a lot of those conventional tropes. It was great because it was a world where Twist could be valuable just because she exists as the person she is, without having to be traumatized by cruel rejection by society generally for not fitting a standard desirable “look” and having to transform herself to conform to that demand.

Twist didn’t need a “get pretty” storyline to make her happy, because she lived somewhere where she could already just be happy. That was a not an oversight on the part of the writers. That was a decision they made about showing us a healthier world than the one we live in. So many people just missed it because it’s too easy to get so used to the ways the real world is toxic that we become blinded to how it could be better and we don’t always believe it when we see it.

This is where fanfic writers come in!

Anypony around?