It happened. Against all odds, Princess Celestia installed as her prime minister a stallion who, while undeniably popular with some segments of Equestrian society, leaves other ponies cold. This includes Mayor Mare, who has an audience with him but first wants to ask her occasional drinking buddy one question: Why?
Written for my 2nd anniversary of publishing stories on this site.
Interesting times indeed.
Well, your predictions about civic engagement seem to be coming true.
Now we just have to hope people learn something come 2018 and 2020.
It's always funny to read a bored Celestia.
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One thing such leaders are good for is getting the apathetic to start standing up again.
This could have been good. But then it got dumb. Too much straw I think.
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Hey, I had a deadline by which I had to write this. Dumb things can happen. As I say at the end of this story:
And for its sequel produced a year and a half later (with, I believe, significant writing improvement on my part):
hehe i see what you did there ;)