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Does this connect to any of the other stories you have posted here. I lurk and read some but it has been awhile sense I glanced at them. 

> Basically I was trying to recreate the good-magic parts of MLP in a way that would, if I were to pursue actual publication, clearly mark it as "totally an unrelated universe"

Hey, that is certainly more interesting than 99% of the attempts of that. It seems like most attempts to copy MLP post FiM era just copy a lot of G1 through 3 tropes and not get how FiM was different. I have even seen fan spin off works fail into this trap or just be stripped to the point of being generic settings.