Yoooo, guess who’s been gone for an unacceptably long time? Yep, it’s me!  
But real talk here, I am genuinely sorry that I haven’t been able to produce anything. I don’t even know if I’m gonna be able to continue with drawing? I’m trying my best, guys. I’ve been doing better, but for a while, my life was a giant fustercluck of dieting, losing 25 pounds in a month, spending about two weeks in the hospital in march, and then bedridden to the point where I only graduated out of using a walker on the 30th of May, so… uh, I’ve been doing my best to not explode from sheer goddamn misery and boredom from being trapped in my house for so long. I’ve been walking normally for a while now, but I’m still not normal, I guess?  
I’ll try to get back to the Miracleverse when I can, but for right now, I’m just happy to have drawn anything. I think the reason that I haven’t been able to draw is directly connected to my lack of activity, so I’m thinking of taking classes at the local college when schooltime comes. I think I’ll know by September what’s been going on with me and if it’s just a shift in my life interests or something I can get over.So, now to actually talk about the drawing.  
This is dumb and self indulgent, but you know what? I’m gonna fucking own it. It’s 2019, people! Everything in this country has gone to shit and I’m not gonna be embarrassed over liking cartoon ponies that other cartoon pony fans find annoying. And I’m gonna ship myself with him because whatever.  
So, I know a lot of people are at the very least bothered by Maud dating Mudbriar, and while I’m not bothered by him, I can absolutely understand why people are. But something that I noticed was that Mudbriar reminds me a lot of a kid who was probably my very best friend throughout middle school, someone who I had a massive dumb crush on that never went anywhere, even though we were so close people assumed we were dating. It never happened, and we eventually parted ways, but, hey, what is fiction except for living vicariously through?  
So introducing a new ship to your ears, mouths, and general face directions! Mudbriar/Star Splatter, my ponysona! Star Splatter is/would be a pony who knew Mudbriar as a foal, and either you can headcanon he and Maud never got together, or that Star comforted him after the breakup and worked up the courage to admit ‘oh hey, I’ve had a massive crush on you for years and just kind of never brought it up? surprise???’ and dumb cuteness ensues.  
Just something that gets me about Mudbriar is that he puts up with Pinkie being a rude, passive aggressive bitch to him for the entire episode and still apologizes for not being polite enough to her, when considering that being at most, kind of clinical and stuffy and technical, is not actually a valid reason to call someone impossible to like. She never once says absolutely anything to the effect of ‘please stop that, could you not do that?’ or ‘you’re annoying me’ or anything.  
It’s fairly obvious Mudbriar is a bit dense and probably autistic, and yet Pinkie never once just honestly communicates with him and I think Mudbriar gets too much shit. Yeah, he’s mildly annoying, but that’s absolutely not an excuse to behave the way Pinkie does to him. The world doesn’t work like that, like, yeah, don’t be annoying… but god damn, it’s not acceptable to act the way Pinkie does. If she wasn’t the protagonist and we weren’t already predisposed to think her way, she’d be the villain of the story. Nobody has to like him or anything, I just feel like people are just… IDK, sorry. I don’t know, I’m getting scared and I’m gonna post this before I can lose my nerve. I’m not even sure I fully like this drawing, but it’s better than nothing.