/pone/ - World of Equestria

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Now, here it comes the part that unfortunately didn´t happen in the show and I wish we got more material about these two characters. For once, Cadence and Shining Armor manage to get some spotlight for themselves. These are the moments that the fan can warm up with them beyond implying that they were introduced for selling toys. I mean, they´ve got their episodes after all but always with a secondary role. 

So, both Cadence and Shining Armor are the medium and the ones who manage to give Nahmat a chance, especially Cadence because she hadn´t witnessed the jerky moment. So in this moment, one of the messages coming from this whole comic is that ponies are so full of magic that they don´t even realize, hence they use it in a more inconsequential way and they don´t even notice that said excess made them numb at noticing how much quantity the land of Equestria has.  

Then, the magic that cannot be corrupted (by Gralo after revealing himself) is located in the place that ponies feared for so long during the first seasons: the Everfree Forest. That scary mysterious place has been infamous because ponies have been adapting so much their own ecosystem that for them, facing a natural forest looks really menacing for them. In the show, throughout the entire gen, you can see that the more it advances, the more the characters go through it to the Castle of the Two Sisters without being a big deal for them, it slowly becomes a normal forest to cross for them (from season 4 onwards)

So, Nahmat serves as the main character to illustrate to the ponies how Earth´s physics and nature work, teaching both the couple and the two royal sisters the power of Insight. In her planet, as magic is more scarce, Nahmat is capable to see it but ponies don´t because of the overwhelming excess of magic (I digress a little bit here but I suppose that CB anon meant with Earth Ponies having magic, like AJ kicking the apple trees and thus, all the apples fall at once without doing anything else). 

It clearly shows that this comic was written in the early era because of the references of A Canterlot Wedding, The Best Night Ever, the opener (FiM) and the Return of Harmony (among other integrated elements like the stare from the Stare Master, or Pinkie´s sense in Feeling Pinkie Keen)

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So, after convincing the couple, Nahmat displays a more down to earth friendlier attitude after warming up with these two. A couple of highlights occur later that define more her character: her apology to Fluttershy and now, a trickier question, telling the flaws of Celestia right in front of her.

A really harsh move coming from Nahmat but I believe that the author wanted to convey that analysis of Celestia not being a Goddess who knows everything. She washes off her hands of tricky situations, leaving them to Twilight (that and her decision of banishing Luna) and this happens in the show as well, not only until the season 2 finale but also, in the following seasons such as The Crystal Empire or Twilight´s Kingdom (perhaps the biggest offender at messing up). 

These questions of not being a Goddess  and her cowardly manners at facing her flaws is what would open the route for Twilight later. In fact, when this comic ends, Celestia admits that she is interacting with Twilight, not as a teacher but as a friend, intensifying what happened in Lesson Zero (in terms of sending friendship lessons). This gesture foresees partially what would happen in Celestial Advice (Season 7), Celestia displaying a less mystical attitude in later seasons (Horse Play or Between Dusk and Dawn) and opens the door of Twilight being the successor of both sisters at the end of the show, because the purple alicorn was at the end of the day, the one who has canonically changed the timeline (The Last Problem). Just that in this case, the royal sisters and the couple take the protagonism for solving this problem. 

The fears coming from Celestia are also applied to the other when Gralo said that ponies are meant to be fearful. Partially true, except that said attitude of cowardice changes over the course of outsider image (ponies being a girly toy) and an inner one (opening up to new places and willing to interact with other species and new challenges). Gralo is partially right and that statement even applies to the finale but ponies get more used to seeing extraordinary events and not giving a care or simply overlooking it after the first impression, especially the ponies that live in Ponyville (for example the bugbear in Slice of Life).

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For those who read the comic and have watched the entire show, for the time this was written, it might have been impressive and FiM would venture out of its comfort zone.

However, considering that such desperate climaxes have happened  in episodes like both The Beginning and the Ending of the End (Season 9) or Twilight´s Kingdom; the 4th gen could have perfectly gone through this route. In fact, when Rainbow Roadtrip aired, this comic would fit more in 2019 than the 1 hour  special that we´ve actually got (resembling the 3rd gen in a way), so FiM ended up closer towards this direction than the cute innocent one we had in the first seasons, despite its inherent slice of life nature. 

There are only a couple of details that would feel weird, like Fluttershy swearing or the enormous epic intensity in the last part for beating Gralo. As for the rest, the show has covered this in one way or another. Hell, even in pages 87 and 88, when Gralo gets out of Garret´s body, for 2012, that might have been a really edgy moment but if you read this in 2020, you will get exactly the same vibes that one would perceive while watching Shadow Play with the Pony of Shadows (Season 7´s finale). 

I wouldn´t be impressed at all if gen 5 followed the steps of FiM and added another layer of depth or seriousness into the show. Perhaps this comic illustrates what could happen in an hypothetical scenario.

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I have other points to bring up over here as well:

1. I forgot about the reference related to two characters in the same: Starswirl The Bearded (obviously the author didn´t know about his official design, nobody knew back then how he would look from season 7 onwards) and Fausticorn´s homage. A very handy move for cheering up the princesses.
2. Everyone has magic, even earth ponies(page 61)
3.The author presents Garret and the city where he lives with a few suspicious Harry Potter vibes in this comic. Mostly because of the scene looking for the correct magic wand and the fact that said city is named Loondon. Definitely not related to the J.K Rowling franchise. Nope, not at all.
4. If you read Luna´s speech bubble in page 24, she admits that she doesn´t want any other invasion nor any misadventure happening to them. Considering that this was written in 2012, the princess of the night couldn´t be more unfortunate with those lines because the movie and future two parters (among other episodes) would fulfill her worst fears.

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And lastly but not least important, it´s clear that Nahmat holds the closest views that would come from the author. Why do I suspect this? The most insightful moments happen when Nahmat gets to conquer the pages with her words. Not only she displays and points out Celestia´s worst fears in the argument that happened in the middle of the comic but also in the conversation between her and Shining Armor before Cadence shows up.

Namely there are two pages that would work of discussion:

Page 26 approaches the marrying topic, about the meaning behind said action. I wonder if these lines were ironic, meant for comedy  purposes or actual thoughts that would come from the author. 

As for the other page, I am referring to page 31. A certain user who uses this board should read that speech coming from Nahmat. Mostly because those words were said before on /endpone/ and during Derpi´s drama. I am posting the entire page because it holds the haunting feeling of reading something that comes really close to what was mentioned before around here. One could perfectly find reflections of that kind among these threads.


I believe that I have covered pretty much what I wanted to bring up...so,I´ll leave it right here.

 >>/6584/
> Gralo (hidden inside the griffon)
While this is hidden from the viewers until very late in the comic, I do appreciate how it was played out, although a broadly-scifi-read viewer should guess about the fused/possessed nature earlier. But we are seeing this from, largely, Nahmat's viewpoint, who doesn't think of this possibility until the Celly/Nat confrontation near the end.

 >>/6585/
> teaching both the couple and the royal sisters the power of Insight. 
 Watching the newlyweds work through the puzzle was adorable and a little bit amazing.
Also, for some of what Insight offers, I seem to have assumed it was available also -- you'll find in War Of Another World in the nearby thread, a pegasus guard who can identify spells as their magic dissipates, which is a similar idea.

 >>/6586/
> Telling Celesita her flaws to her face
Nahmat is a bit rough around the edges, her youth showing in the form of a self-assured naiveté. Still, I feel that the show either blew through, or skirted around all the very poignant points brought up in that section.
Was it in s6 that the Sisters got bodyswapped? It helped us (me) believe the Sisters were ponies, and still experienced friction as you'd expect but believe too, they'd finally confronted it, and each other, to resolve the matter more fully. Still, before then I was inclined to believe the show didn't properly address the earlier friction that lead to the NMM incident.

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> ">" Yusuke.
...."how, (detective)?"
As if Kira's shikai was so hard to replicate! You may want to check your sock drawer for Lego pieces from now on.

 >>/6586/
> when Gralo said that ponies are meant to be fearful.

As an owner of IRL horses, I can help explain that they're prey species, and their first reaction to anything odd, new, or the slightest bit sketchy is to head for the hills at warp speed.
They can be desensitized, as you point out with their eventual acclimatization to the Everfree, but they're still prey species.
Gralo is a parrot. There aren't any predators that focus on parrots, so far as I know. But birds in general tend to be *flighty* because they're so doggone delicate; hollow bones and everything mean they need to have their share of caution.
So in this wise Gralo is demonstrating no small measure of haughty arrogance. Which on the whole of it, is in keeping with sociopathic genocidal (ego)maniacs.

 >>/6587/
>  for the time this was written
I'm actually really impressed how close to the lore / feeling of the show, even after it was done, this stayed. If Arofa Nahmat had utterly replaced Discord as the author suggests, it needn't actually run a different course.

> really weird
> like Fluttershy swearing.
Well, she did swear in the show. Swore so loud and objectively some parents covered up their foals' ears, as I recall.

> enourmous epic intensity [..] beating Gralo
I think that's more just in keeping with the comic book medium. Another FiM piece, by Metal Kitty (who changed through three hosting sites because fans kept following him! The nerve of his fans!) had quite a bit more epic mountain-splitting laser-blasting-horns for quite a few pages; enough that a few fans called shennanigans for how off the rails over-9000 it all was.
(that one I dont have any archives of)

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 >>/6589/
> Why do I suspect this?

Going on the author's FA page and finding they both have the same family name wasn't enough?
On DA when Nahmat reveals herself, the author admits that his loyal fans will recognize the overall design of the canine-derived law officer. It was no less than an established OC that was introduced.

> I believe that I have covered pretty much what I wanted to bring up

All that I'd add, is that I'd read discussions that Equestria probably was in a universe that was at, or past its heat-death; the pilot double-ep showed us *that* the sun was artificial, but that makes no sense until, as here, you introduce a how (and / or why)

Also, I find it interesting that the shear preponderance of magical energy is *also* used by the CB universe, with the caveat that magic is a form of radiation which explains why your choices are ponify or die in that AU.
Fallout plays it a little straighter, with pegasi only using magic to cloudwalk, and earth ponies being more determined but not in the least bit magical.
Lastly, POCKET DIMENSIONS! Always a neat way to get an idea across to viewer and character simultaneously.

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 >>/6596/
> Going on the author's FA page and finding they both have the same family name wasn't enough?
well, keep in mind that not everything I say is complete,much less if it´s correct. But yeah, I left out the context behind the scenes of this story and only tried to raise those suspicions by just using the content itself. 

But if one has to remind and bring that up, I am all for it.


> the author admits that his loyal fans will recognize the overall design of the canine-derived law officer. It was no less than an established OC that was introduced.
huh, very interesting because you can notice that the design looks certainly off,not in the wrong sense, but more like one would notice that she would indeed come from Earth. 

> I'd read discussions that Equestria probably was in a universe that was at, or past its heat-death; the pilot double-ep showed us *that* the sun was artificial,
wow that approach took things way too far.  I mean, sure the concept was left unclear at the time but considering that alternate universe in which humans exist by going through a magical portal (EQG), you can perfectly deny that theory because the sun still holds the same long lifetime before said star stops shining.

> Lastly, POCKET DIMENSIONS!
oh my goodness,get ready for your pills, folks. We are about to get lightheaded here!

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 >>/6593/
> I do appreciate how it was played out, although a broadly-scifi-read viewer should guess about the fused/possessed nature earlier.
yeah, there was a little moment in which a hidden voice made him turn around and change the words that he was going to say. 

> But we are seeing this from, largely, Nahmat's viewpoint, who doesn't think of this possibility until the Celly/Nat confrontation near the end.
if the comic didn´t display at all the other side that was simultaneously happening, then the comic does have its merits  (although for obvious reasons, those parts had to be displayed in order to not make that twist all that sudden).

> Watching the newlyweds work through the puzzle was adorable and a little bit amazing.
Indeed. 

> Still, I feel that the show either blew through, or skirted around all the very poignant points brought up in that section.
about Celestia´s flaws, in the past discussion threads, this board has discussed a little bit about Celestia. Namely I want to link these two posts: from  >>/1295/ to  >>/1302/ related to the discussion of Horse Play (Season 8 Episode 7). 

To me, the show never fully dived into these matters and I had considered her as some sort of archetype or a glorified active plotline until she managed to get more prominence from season 7 onwards. You could pull out a few minor details from her (her trolling skills, the mistakes that she made towards her sister...) but I never could judge her with any real depth in order to display her entire character and how she interacts, not only in her duties, but also in a daily routine. Celestial Advice kind of worked as a reset button with a view to bring  good enough material in order to judge her character. 

> Was it in s6 that the Sisters got bodyswapped? It helped us (me) believe the Sisters were ponies, and still experienced friction as you'd expect but believe too, they'd finally confronted it, and each other, to resolve the matter more fully.
Season 7 Episode 10: A Royal Problem. Exactly in the same season where Celestia started to shine. They shared the same fears as soon as they saw the menace and they went through a slice of life conflict like any other character, with the viewer finding out the responsibilities that they have to face each day. 

Did it imply a wasted opportunity of not snatching them for introducing more lore? Sure, but honestly, seeing them going through these mundane conflicts without having to go that far (I mean, the fan interpretations of Luna taking revenge among other early headcanons) was quite satisfying to watch as well. I mean, Between Dusk and Dawn ended up being one of my favorites and it consisted in them wandering around as tourists traveling all over Equestria,arguing  against each other for having some frictions about what they should do next.

> Still, before then I was inclined to believe the show didn't properly address the earlier friction that lead to the NMM incident.
Princess Twilight Sparkle (Season 4 opener) "kind of" did that ("kind of" because that incident was solved in order to beat Discord later) and the comics related to the pillars of Equestria showed that they were both Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon (in fact, Nightmare Knights in this thread also covered it  for the purpose to introduce an actual Daybreaker  with  >>/2210/, >>/2212/,  >>/2213/,  >>/3241/ and  >>/3242/). However, IDW should be taken as the expanded universe of Star Wars, a "what if" case for those stories.

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 >>/6595/
> I can help explain that they're prey species, and their first reaction to anything odd, new, or the slightest bit sketchy is to head for the hills at warp speed.
> They can be desensitized, as you point out with their eventual acclimatization to the Everfree, but they're still prey species.
I was referring with that phrase that their evolution throughout the show would make psychologically stronger while facing menaces of a considerable amount of power level. But by going with the IRL approach, they would reasonably behave in that manner of looking away because of their own nature. 
Even though I will admit that ponies wouldn´t be the only species in this world that would be scared while seeing Gralo for the first time. His size is overwhelming enough for anyone to,at the very least, shiver because of his presentation. 

> Another FiM piece, by Metal Kitty (who changed through three hosting sites because fans kept following him! The nerve of his fans!)
*opens up his eyes with amazement after reading this.


> had quite a bit more epic mountain-splitting laser-blasting-horns for quite a few pages; enough that a few fans called shennanigans for how off the rails over-9000 it all was.
around what year we are talking about? Because I would have liked to see those people faces when Twilight´s Kingdom aired in 2014. 
I love seeing how the standards set around made other things sound ridiculous yet they would actually happen in the show in later seasons. If you want comedy, just by reading comments of that kind, you´ll get a few guaranteed laughs.

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 >>/6603/
> Another FiM piece, by Metal Kitty (who changed through three hosting sites
< opens his eyes with amazement

https://www.deviantart.com/metal-kitty/art/MLP-Project-Page-01-326914414

I could go looking, you know.
DA seems to have the whole 380-ish page run, however.

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 >>/6965/
Read the first 15 pages and I must say that I dig it so far. In spite of the primitive  art style the artist has a pretty good grasp on movement and action. 

One quip is not all the pages have navigation links there though usually someone has been kind enough to link in the comments. 

It was supposedly uploaded on Derpibooru in order which means it  ought to be for Ponerpics as well.
https://ponerpics.org/images/126316?q=comic%3Amlp+project
> Notes
> Later pages will be in color.
>  Character deaths will occur.
> This comic is LONG. As of right now, it is just over 200 pages.
————-
> I will be uploading the pages in order. Use the tag 'mlp project' to navigate.
Judging from that and your picture you have there I imagine it could get pretty intense at some points.

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 >>/6965/
So far I'm seeing a pretty nice so feel from it. Pinkie in pic related got me to chuckle.

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 >>/6965/
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> 380
How many long comic epics exist with the fandom anyway? Seems like a lot from what I've seen.

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According to /b/ this crossover proceeds apace. Only covers in that thread, and salt & bile as is appropriate for that board.

 anybody gone looking for the .cbz files online or anything?

 >>/7653/
> first Pic
Is that even real? A part of me thinks thats a photoshop job.

 >>/1642/
Indeed.

 >>/7654/
I know a power rangers one exists:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OfyBVm8LFKA
https://invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=OfyBVm8LFKA
http://w6ijuptxiku4xpnnaetxvnkc5vqcdu7mgns2u77qefoixi63vbvnpnqd.onion/watch?v=OfyBVm8LFKA

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 >>/7654/
 >>/7664/
And here's a canuck fondling Prime

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Not even the weirdest crossover happening right now.

Miku maybe the weirdest official crossover to exist.  Though Hasbro licensed RD lingerie is the weirdest thing Hasbro ever gave its stamp of approval too  

 >>/7653/
 https://yayponies.no/books/book.php 

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Who is in for a comfy adventure? Well, let's see how comfy this adventure is (or how much it isn't). 

Storytime G5 issue 1. Let's see if I can still remember how to do this...

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 >>/8342/
To Be Continued...

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Now, this is where things actually get kind of interesting.

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 >>/8344/
> They have been aged like a hundred years.

Also Donut Joe's.

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 >>/8345/
Surprise!

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 >>/8346/
And a surprisingly large though still vague lore dump.

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 >>/8347/
So much I could point out here too. Though I am tired and I fear repeating myself in further thoughts later, so I just say that Sunny is learning she is not a fan of puppteers. Like so many before her.

That's it for now. This is actually the current issue and there is nothing else for me to post at this time.  but plenty of other stuff that could be posted I suppose... 

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Review of sorts. I am still trying to digest this. All and all, the first comic was just okay. I don't love it or hate it, perhaps was a little lackluster but I like taking time if it is going somewhere and can give comfy feeling to the setting. 

The second comic though, I have a million things I could point out. Discord's appearance this early was unexpected. The Canterlot lore dump that occurred answers a few questions but raises many more. Twilight Sparkle putting all of pony magic into crystals almost makes sense in a move that  I could see her do but not so soon or easily. Especially when she was still a new ruler. It seems like a choice that might be justifiable under some sort of desperation but one that would take some really really big stuff that would have to be occur over a longer period than in the era when the mane 5 were still alive. Especially when you consider that Equestria already faced tensions related to the pony races in its multiple times and the fact that taking away such magic feels kind of like a violation of basic rights in a very fundamental way. Let's not forget Tirek is in recent memory.

All and all, I am mixed to negative on the lore that was established here. I will say that I consider Discord to be potentially well written. If the cataclysm is ever further justified, him being afraid of magic like that. Him acting in what he believes the good of pony kind while being in a antagonist 
is actually really interesting and I like some hints of what I see with it here (though depending on where they take it I imagine I could servey dislike it), Though a larger question is:

 >>/8347/
> And a surprisingly large though still vague lore dump.
This seems a lot to just be confined to a comic like this so I question how seriously I should take it as canon but it feels more than playing around with concepts and secondary lore that usually happened in the comics. 

Anyway, on other stuff I consider the comic to be okay, somewhere between above average to meh on stuff like art, jokes, and such. A lot of stuff I don't like is more of personal taste over quality. (like some of the facial expressions). I am not sure I can give a rating till I see more and know more.

 >>/8348/ 
> Fluttershy getting pushed aside and Discord just being a shocked bystander.

> Earth Pony being racist to Fluttershy for not having unicorn powers. 

These moments feel rather stupid. Even if I could sort of forgive the latter for being  a mistake. Which I assume it is.

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 >>/8352/
> the latter for being a mistake.
No, there was no mistake. This is the start of the segregation of the tribes; there are no mulattos in Equestria, either you're an earth pony, or a pegasus, or a unicorn.

Imagine that filly growing up, absorbing all the insults hurled at Earth ponies by her parents, and their acquaintances. This generation would grow up firmly believing there was only one way not to put their old foals through that hell -- and that would be to UTTERLY ELIMINATE CROSSBREEDING so there would never be a throwback.

And the only way, really, to prevent mixed genes is to make sure colts and fillies grow up with their own kind. Foals being what they are, they might fall in love with the neighbor.

If this world's magic could support flying earth ponies, or simply had more flightless pegasi like Scootaloo, the foals could direct their parents hate at their own infirmities. But with nothing wrong aside from being born to the wrong parents, they would have to hate their own tribe, or those of their parents' tribe(s).
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 >>/8352/
Also, Discord is, as Sunny points out, something of an unreliable narrator.

 >>/8350/
> All and all, I am mixed to negative on the lore that was established here. 

TBH I think the correct solution IS to destroy the crystals; they're containers not an actual source.
Based on the tale given here, breaking all the containers should return magic as a whole to the world. Which means if the tribes want to retreat again there's no downside BUT neither can any malign actor hold magic hostage.

 >>/8355/ 
Fascinating theory, though that is probably giving the comic writers too much credit. Till confirmation if it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. 

 >>/8356/
> TBH I think the correct solution IS to destroy the crystals; they're containers not an actual source.

This.

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 >>/8360/
> if it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. 

...?

 >>/8352/
> Earth Pony
I would lean in that direction too. Though I am going to come up with lore related explanations anyway! 

> Discord.
Agree here though. 

 >>/8364/
Probably referring to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test

 >>/8355/
I like this logic. If I understand you correctly. The Earth Pony has unicorn parents (or at least a parent) and has to live with the same prejudices. 

I wonder if ponies born of wrong races for their tribes would try to rationalize themselves as being part of the bigger tribe. I assume naturally this would not have lasted if I go by what we see in the future. Though, far too much interbreeding existed for anything sort of a ruthless genocide to have wiped it from the population. Remanent populations I imagine would survive somewhere. 

 >>/8356/
> Also, Discord is, as Sunny points out, something of an unreliable narrator.
Also a good point.

> TBH I think the correct solution IS to destroy the crystals; they're containers not an actual source.
That would be a interesting take to turn the plot. Though, it leave it that Twilight Sparkle made a major mistake...

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> Probably referring to this:
The filename though: is it a mistake to be a duck? Regardless of how deeply the writers considered it, there's no reason to assume making the filly be an earth pony, passing along a slur from the unicorn tribe, is a "mistake"

> the earth pony has to ... live with the same prejudices
Right. This will drive the tribes to stop interbreeding because nopony wants to have stupid foals ... especially if the prospective parent remembering BEING one of the "stupid" foals.

> Twilight Sparkle made a major mistake...
Cue "We're not flawless" singalong.
Preferably in dubstep because I just got around to watching Deadpool2 and was amused that "is dubstep still around" made itself into a plot point.

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Glad to hear that pony still ponies.

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Time for another storytime. A somewhat belated one...

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Considering where we last left off this caught me off guard with them just back home chatting on how to find Discord. Though he did technically leave them in last issue.

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 >>/8375/ 
I think it's funny that the most obvious ship that we can discern in G5 right now, especially considering the meta politics of our world and posturing of factions of the fandom on G5, is Zipp and Hitch.

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 >>/8377/
And that's a wrap.

Another review I guess. 

This comic was rather meh. It is serviceable as a kids comic but compared to similar slice of life in G4 I found it a bit lacking in... something. I am not sure if this was merely simple and predictable after coming off a somewhat lore heavy story with a major G4 character or if it is G5 more modern setting making such a story feel rather mundane compared to what would occur in G4. I am someone who does not object to slice of life or view them as "filler" but this just left a bit to be desired.

 >>/8375/ 
> Considering where we last left off this caught me off guard with them just back home chatting on how to find Discord.

Speaking of that, supposedly the search for Discord is going to be more of a "season" arc a normal comic story arc lasting a handful of issues. At least that is what I have seen speculated. 

Unfortunately have to go before I can reply to anything else. See you around /endpone/.

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Am I somehow to understand IDW actually ran so dry of material we have a comic after the fashion of the Hearthswarming Pageant episode but retelling the wizard of oz but in Equestria, which is Odd ?

I guess so.
Also there may be a new build of FiM-the-game in the works. Get your C&Ds ready colts, we're summoning Scootermina, who looks like Pinkamena but with a palette swap

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FiM comics has entered its Disney phase of recycling stuff from a limited pool of public domain works? I mean, something like this I could see as a "for fun" side project, but I am not in tune with the comics (I need to get back to it though...) and I can easily imagine, from the angle of FiM G4, them both running out of ideas and trying to not do anything big to contradict whatever is going on in G5's comics/show. Such a thing would be stupid, considering G4's own comics contradicted FiM all the time and were ignored, but with cases like Star Trek's old "novelverse" being literally destroyed to not confuse people with new tie in novels I can't put it past some corporate marketing logic going on in there.

Speaking of comics:
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The Amulet of Shades, I can't fully vouch for the "different" feeling that anon feels but I dig the art style of the early pages. Other than some slightly misshapen proportions some of the shading and detail in here is very well executed.

 >>/9570/ 
Oh, I agree some parts look sick, but, it also gives off...

how do I say it? A otherworldly and surrealness that caught me off guard. I need to dig through to find an example.