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Luna: Why me?
Twi: You have the darkest coat of anypony I know. Now hold still.
Twi: You have the darkest coat of anypony I know. Now hold still.
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One solution I’ve seen is the upper half of the first few ribs fused into an extra shoulder socket. The flight mechanics are almost entirely magical, given how small their wings are and how slowly they flap in proportion. There’s not a whole lot of load on the wings’ muscle and bone structure.
Yep. All vertebrae have two pairs of limbs, and in flying animals like birds or bats, their wings are actually modified legs, with the associated anatomical modification. With these pegasi with two pairs of legs and one pair of wings, they’d really have two front leg regions. So, it’s common for the anatomical depictions to just juxtapose actual bird bone structure over horse, which works I suppose.
Looking back that would actually make more sense than if the joint just kinda floated there on the ribcage.
Based Arvak, you don’t need to worry about running off a cliff with him because you can just summon him again.
More or less, yeah, that’s how their necks are.
Actual equine skeleton illustration
Woah, wait, is the neck part accurate?
Mechanically, I guess the difference in neck musculature between horses and humans that that image suggests makes sense, but I’d never really thought of it before.
That could explain a lot about some of my difficulties drawing certain poses in the past, if so.
Brilliant!
An, Luna’s grilled cheese is a rather obscure meme.
“I’m never doing this again, Twilight.”
The part that Twilight is pointing at (which is the knee)?
Or the part that sticks out back from the joint below, which is the hockbone?
The hockbone is, together with the musculature that runs towards/around it, required for the back/downwars movement of the leg. You can compare it to the movement when you try to stand on your toes.
That’s the knee cap (patella). It’s serves the same purpose ours does.
Muscle attachment point, probably.
I actually got the idea to draw this from something very similar to that. That is a cool gif though… steals
Perfect anatomy reference :D