This is such a beautiful picture the details are just incredible. It’s good to see some good Philomena art too! Especially when Celestia is in the pic also lol.

@Swegmeiser  
The beginning of season 8 has the characters directly talking the movie  
 
the storm king is directly mentioned as well as the in universe reason why tempest is not in the show  
 
Also silverstream is Queen novo’s niece

@redweasel  
Fun fact, there are people irl who watch shows like CSI think that real life crimes can get solved in under 30 minutes.

the movie is totally canon to the show.
 
it’s a highly lauded reenactment of the famous battle between equestria and the storm king, that gets shown some time in season 17. in the episode, twilight learns that fun movies don’t have to be historically accurate and accepts that the producers did their best to condense a very complex international crisis down into an hour or so. she still thinks that the pony playing her is way too chubby.
 
yup totally canon

@Background Pony #8609  
Swegmeiser says “Celestia knows, but she won’t spill the beans” on an alternative universe. Pinkie Pie readily breaks the fourth wall and in a one-off Equestria Girls blooper joke is shown to use the Canterlot High horse statue to move between her world and Equestria, and mystic Zecora gets esoteric on the nature of time during the Queen Chrysalis timeline of “The Cutie Re-mark”. So, if we are to half-jokingly believe Swegmeiser’s wager, all three ponies may be keeping a tight lid the nature of MLP reality.

@Thorned Rose Ninja  
What?

@Swegmeiser  
Something tells me there is a secret pact of silence among Princess Celestia, Pinkie Pie, and Zecora.

@Swegmeiser  
None of what you said makes any sense…

Amazying

@Ping_chan
 
@Fibriel
 
You guys aren’t seeing the bigger picture here. The movie occurred in an alternate universe. Did you ever think to question why our beloved characters look so different in the movie when compared to the show? Exactly. Their minds are linked by the bonds of the fourth dimension. Thoughts, experiences, emotions are all shared between their worlds and yet they lack the sheer complexity to grasp that very reality. Celestia knows, but she won’t spill the beans. Saying the movie is canon is like saying that creatures can see two universes at once. It is impossible. Allspark had to break and bend the alternate realities just to bring us a film. In that respect, those animators are indeed, 4th dimensional beings. Think outside the reality box, guys.

@Swegmeiser  
Yes I did, that’s why I accept the events of the movie to be canon to the show.

@Swegmeiser
 
Uh, yes, actually, the movie is canon to the show.
 
Considering that the show
 
explicitly mentions
 
all of the events of the movie.
 
The very next premiere opens up immediately with “yeah so after that Storm King thing, Tempest said she didn’t want to stick around, so heh.”

@Ping_chan  
From the mountains to the sea. Didn’t you watch the movie?

@Swegmeiser  
It’s not? Then where did the Silverstream and her home come from?

@Fibriel  
The movie is not canon anyway, we only have the show to go off of.

@rannius
 
The 2017 movie begins with a 3D fly-through of Canterlot that’s considerably more filled-out than in the show.

Lovely

I wish I can have a carrier Phoenix deliver my message.

@Eroraf86  
I would draw her and post the drawing on Derpibooru if I knew exactly how in the world to draw her.

Nice painterly style. Philomena needs more love.

that’s sweet

nothing quite like the sight of an alicorn & her phoenix :D

@c.a.m.e.l.l.i.a  
Me too.

I hope to see Philomena in season 9

@redweasel  
Exactly