Songs play an essential part of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and don't let anyone convince you otherwise. After all, they've been part of the show since the second episode gave us "Giggle at the Ghosty." Some have been great ("Raise This Barn"), some have been fun ("Winter Wrap-Up"), and some are merely okay ("Big Brother Best Friend Forever"). However, it's undeniable that music is vital to what gives FiM its charm.

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At this point in Besides the Will of Evil, it's fair to start wondering why Reiziger continues to keep Trixie around. After all, it can be argued that she's outlived her usefulness. She did just get named his High Priestess, but realistically, that's a duty that could have fallen to one of his new changeling servants. Why persist in allowing her beside him?

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Those of you who have been reading Besides the Will of Evil may perhaps have noticed a shift of the style in which the story is written, starting around Chapter 13 and continuing through "A Note on Power Levels" and Chapter 14. This has come out somewhat in the vocabulary used, as well as in the structure of the sentences, and further still in the sort of rhythm of the writing as a whole.

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Hello, everyone! I've been made aware that the new chapter alert for Besides the Will of Evil didn't go off for everyone, so just to let you know: Chapter 12 is up!

Besides the Will of Evil

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