"Did you really think love could break the spell on your brother? You've watched one too many romcoms, Twilight Sparkle. Love had nothing to do with it. I did things to him that broke his mind, and the slime is going to give you a little taste of it..."

Corruption Pod YCH for Shadowdath.

Boy do I have a lot to say about this, because from day one, this animation felt like it was alive and fighting me. I would like to state clearly, for the record, that this was NOT the fault of the commissioner, but rather my own inexperience with animation and POSSIBLY a spiteful machine-spirit (Maybe even a gremlin, gnome, imp, boggart, fairy, demonic entity, or some other cryptid or paranormal entity)

At first everything seemed peachy. Parts were being made. The background was ready to go. All I had to do is string them together. Easy peasy? Haha NO! I'd move a certain peg, and it would pull a cell out of place. So I'd try to put that piece back in place, and the peg would move it out again. So I'd go put it back... etcetera. For those who do not understand the terminology, imagine this: Say you have twilight's head. Now say you have to move twilight's head to the right in one frame. Now you go back to the previous frame, and the head is like an inch off the neck. Yeah, this happened over and over. If I was quiet, I could almost hear the program laughing at me. This caused me many many ragequits over the months.

That's when I learned... Pegs are for *characters* not *character parts.* So I had to rip all the pegs out and reposition the parts manually. So basically I had to do it all over, and even then it was prone to popping out of place. If that sounds like fun to you, might I suggest you return to the hellraiser dimension you came forth from.

Then... came the exporting. If I ever needed proof that this thing was alive and fighting me, this was it. So I had my animation all ready to go. I click export... then "video settings" and... nothing. I click "ok" and then... nothing. I did this maybe five times, even REINSTALLED THE WHOLE THING (google was ZERO help) and I could feel a headache building. Then I tried exporting as a PNG sequence... that worked. So I figured I could just get it made into a video, right? I'll just google a way to do that and... yeah, Google is about as useful as an AI Artist when their power grid goes down. Blender had video editing software, but to my horror it exported this 500 frame, 16 second, 700 x 935 video... as a 1.18 gigabyte video. Something that I could never share over discord, or even e-mail to shadowdath.

All hope seemed lost, but then I found OpenShot, a free video editor. It let me make the video into something that was a paltry 27mb but with a catch: It had to be 1080p. VeryWell.jpeg.

Even now at the time of posting, it feels like it tries to resist (making the description permanently buffer with "saving?" What a grand and intoxicating innocence!) I'll even bet that this whole description will surpass the character limit and I will be forced to make a journal. But if you are reading this, I have persevered and uploaded. And I'm like a hundred bux richer. Suck it!

tl;dr: I've been to hell and worse with this animation. But I have conquered it. Because I am *man.* I am Machine's *god!*

More trivia with this animation:

-Chrysalis' appearance, and the Changeling Prod, were free of charge. I felt the animation would be better with both of them. The prod would explain how Twilight cannot leave the pod circle.

-This will be the last time in one of these animations that I use separated legs, because they are just awkward.

-The geiger-esque hive is how I always viewed the Changeling Home, and I still prefer it over the canon changeling caves.

-I have plans to draw Twilight Sparkle in her new "bad girl" outfit.

-Yes, I do intend to post the frames separate on my usual spots, if you are reading this on Newgrounds, you will find them below.