Sure man, if that’s what you’re into.

Anyone complaining about the theme of the image, or attempting to stir up any drama, from this point forward is getting a time out. That includes anyone commenting about OTHER people stirring up drama or complaining about the theme of the image.

@Beau Skunky  
It’s already here.

Abandon thread! Drama incoming!  

This is why we can’t have nice things.
 
Not the image. The drama, I mean.

@Cirrus Light  
Aaaand you completely ignored the examples of Sapphire Shores and Trenderhoof.

@Ciaran  
Ah. To be honest, I was asking out of curiosity more than a desire to use it.

@Meanlucario  
From what I’ve seen so far, most people who want to avoid images that do not conform to their preconceptions about “all the characters in MLP are caucasian except the zebras” use the dark skin tag.
 
And as you can see someone has already helpfully added the headcanon tag, which some of those same folks use to refine the filter.
 
Sorry if I sound tired of all of this arguing about what color people’s skin should be based on people’s accents or where they were born - I just spent most of the day trying to resolve a problem with someone who specializes in “fixing” the colors of characters when artists (quoting here) “get it wrong”.

@Ciaran  
What would a tag like that be called?

@Cirrus Light  
If you don’t like artists depicting “zebras” outside of “africa”, then filter it.

@T-mizzle49  
Sure, not a perfect argument, but seeing as those exceptions are few and far between (number of voice roles in the entire show vs. Silver Spoon and Moondancer), and there’s no reason those two can’t be Asian.
 
In fact, you seem to be presupposing that I’m somehow against other ethnicities, since you cited Silver Spoon and Moondancer having Asian voice actors as though that made my comment with respect to Twilight wrong. But you’d be mistaken if you made that supposition. I’ve got no issue with them being Asian.
 
As for singing voice actors - that’s specifically for singing, not their normal voice. That’s a kind of silly counter argument. If they alternated voice actresses every week, then you’d have a real argument.
 
And as for other shows, you have the actual character to make their ethnicity, then. Here, we don’t know.
 
Which would go to show that they could be whatever. I’m not arguing that. I’m just saying that matching their voice and cultural characteristics makes the most sense. There’s plenty of exceptions, yes - South African blacks sound identical to whites - but as a whole, exceptions are called “exceptions” for a reason, and don’t necessarily represent the most likely outcome. If you bet money on exceptions you’ll be broke very fast.
 
And of course I know there’s blacks in Vegas. I got to know quite a few of them. My point is there’s a place that’s very distinctively “Africa” and Zebras live there (even to the point that the Journal of the Two Sisters describes the place as a Savannah).
 
And the only reason there’s so many blacks in the U.S. Is ancient slavery. If the ponies never practiced it, then they’d be about as rare in Equestria as Zebras are.
 

 
@Ciaran  
Topic of ethnicities and humanizations of the ponies.
 

 

 
Eh, at the end of the day, people just pick what they prefer. Some things make more sense than others, but really her race isn’t black, white, Asian, or whatever. It’s alicorn. And her skin color isn’t black, white, Brown, tan - It’s lavender.

@T-mizzle49  
Well, obviously, Pinkie and Rarity are Asian when singing, white otherwise.

@Cirrus Light  

 
(presuming you were correct) what does that have to do with this image?

I think this could work pretty well, but the hair color needs to stay purple or a lighter shade. Purely on a color scheme sort of way I don’t like how similar it is to her skin color.

@Cirrus Light
 
Except there’s a problem with that argument.
 

@Background Pony #68CC  
Except that creators clearly draw inspiration from the real world. Humans see, mentally modify, and replicate their modified form. In mlp, the modifications aren’t that great with regards to Africa in particular, and geographic locations. Las Pegasus - a gleaming city of attractions. Manehatten with a statue of liberty. The only black voice actor-character is an African equine - a zebra. The patterns are painfully obvious.

@Cirrus Light  
The problem with that is that Equestria is a FICTIONAL world and it’s a world of talking magical horses. Equestria itself is a hodge pudge of different cultures.  
Even through the pic is an alternative of the EqG character, it still applies because it’s an alien world.  
Trying to assign our cultures and races to fictional creatures never works, and it’s a big example of anthropocentrism when we try to decipher everything in a human perspective. These depiction of the characters are never right or wrong.

Voice actresses are all white, except for Zecora, who canonically came from a “distant land” with culture very much reflecting tribal Africa, and Zebras themselves are African equines. So I think if she were black, she’d be a zebra, and have a black voice actress.
 
AUs, though, are a whole different matter since they’re explicitly alternate universes.

@T-mizzle49  
The comments could have been worst, so don’t worry about it. The piece itself was worth it.

@Beau Skunky  
Thank you. I appreciate the comment. And I’m sorry you have to deal with all of that.

@Meanlucario  
He made Applejack white. So that doesn’t seem to be the case.
 
@T-mizzle49  
Don’t worry about it too much. I apologize if we were prejudging you. (As unrortunately, we do get extremists on both sides here.)  
Your Twilight design is actually not bad. :)  
Just draw the characters however you see fit, don’t let others decide for you.

@Meanlucario  
Then, when that actually happens, something can be done about it. But in the absence of someone else doing it, now you’re the advocate and lone spokesperson for a drama you claim to not want. Please stop it.

@T-mizzle49  
@Ciaran  
I was just saying in general. I get annoyed when people boo at one extreme, but cheer at the other. I’m not saying anyone is on or the other, I’m just saying the possibility of it.