the egg is now in a nest made of shitty swords and soft puppet ass

Would you believe, the 5th prompt requests: "Draw a pony sprinting // Draw a pony running for their lives". We're still stuck at prompt 2, pony on the move and walking the walk! The record is skipping something fierce. Run to the hills, it's Iron Maiden!

As always, draw (or sculpt or do a photo-montage), host the image of what you made in an online gallery and drop the URL into the submission form here, it's live. King Grimlock does not specifying the prompt in the submitter, but otherwise it's the usual: you can enter five different images per prompt. The maximum resolution is 2000x2000 pixels, so chose a link from your gallery that points to a version of your image that does not exceed 2,000 pixels on either side. Also, don't exceed 4 Mb per picture or the poniloader will plotz and choke on your picture. MLPforums and Discord work as image hosts in a pinch, although I think that there's an expiry date on those options. Xitter works somehow, it looks like Mastodon does, probably Bluesky as well, if you're savvy. I use Flickr and Imgur apparently works too. The pictures will be visible on EqD along with the next task at 9 PM (MST) on June 10th. The URL pattern is changing each time but since I'm keen to guess, I think that it will be this: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/06/newbie-artist-training-grounds-xv_10.html . I think KG isn't taking notes, he's back to using the calendar date. I wouldn't put any money on my guess.

So be sure to get your drawings in well before 9 PM Mountain Standard Time (or midnight Eastern Daylight Savings Time and 5 AM UTC). The time before last King Grimlock was at least an hour early taking what had been submitted so far and compiling it into the gallery posted with the next prompt announcement. I missed that deadline. But the grace period is at least two extra days and KG goes back to edit in the late submissions, usually around the same time he posts the next prompt. This time the submitter isn't set to close for prompt 5 until June 13th, so this time the grace period could be 5 days past the deadline, but don't bet on it. The funny/brave face prompt submitter got closed suddenly last night, KG switched the close date from June 15 to June 7, causing it to close (but not dump my 'brave face' submission). I don't think there will be any late submission catch-up days in this NATG.

Off topic submissions, more than was usual in past years, are showing up in the gallery. That's because King Grimlock is also posting what Calpain is prompting on Bluesky in his fringe NATG and people have been hybridizing this NATG with it. So look out for ponies: "watching time fly by" or "stuck in the past".