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Rarity in Slumberland

by Botched Lobotomy
Rarity is a disillusioned fashion designer. At night, she dreams of dinosaurs.

Rarity is a successful fashion designer slowly growing to hate what she's doing.

Gertie the Dinosaur is one of the first cartoon characters ever animated.

Winsor McCay is her creator, a pioneer of early animation.

...At night, the three of them dream together.


Click here to see Gertie the Dinosaur! (watch it, it's fun!)


A crossover with Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur, considered by some wikipedia editors to be the first proper “character” brought to life by animation. McCay, a newspaper cartoonist, pioneered for the film several techniques that remain essential to animation today – including keyframes, registration marks, and animation loops. McCay's animations were variously successful, but as time went on he became increasingly disillusioned with the burgeoning industry, and in 1921 was forced by his editor to give up animation almost entirely. In 1934, he woke to discover his drawing hand completely paralysed, and was pronounced dead later that afternoon.


Winner (!) of Estee's Who Crossed Over My Little Pony? contest. Check out the other entries here!

Teen
Complete
Slice of Life
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Drama
Crossover
 
OR

6516 words: Estimated 33 minutes to read

6 Chapters:

  1. In the Land of Wonderful Dreams 2022-04-02 01:01:26 UTC
    1030
  2. Gertie the Dinosaur 2022-04-02 01:02:46 UTC
    1062
  3. How a Mosquito Operates 2022-04-02 01:03:03 UTC
    1073
  4. Gertie on Tour 2022-04-02 01:03:13 UTC
    927
  5. Rarebit Reveries 2022-04-02 01:03:31 UTC
    1100
  6. Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald, and His Moving Comics 2022-04-02 01:59:19 UTC
    1324