Greetings, bronies and ponies! I know I dropped off the face of the internet for a while, due to a combination of personal issues and a creative slump. Long story short, I am back, which I'm sure comes as a great relief to all two of you who even remember me. In any case, I intend to finish my incomplete fics and write some more that have been nibbling at my cerebellum for far too long now.

Most of you probably know what this is about. To those who don't, my brony twow443 sums up my thoughts pretty well, so I'm not going to repeat his blog post here. Go read his.

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I like Trixie.

I am very, very excited about the upcoming Trixie episode.

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I like the new song. I like it a lot.

It's got a good beat and good lyrics, and of course Babs Seed is just puntastic. I also like the lines "running from a bully, we know it isn't right / but the Cutie Mark Crusaders aren't looking for a fight." It's a nice, subtle way to reinforce that violence is very rarely the answer.

The music video itself was also quite good, with the CMC bouncing around trying to avoid Babs. I like the repeated use of seeds and seed-shaped imagery.

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So Season 3 gave us a new villain, the unicorn King Sombra, and he was pretty flat. Nightmare Moon was darkly majestic, Discord was delightfully twisted, and Chrysalis was flat-out creepy. Sombra was just . . . flat. Evil for evil's sake, or so it seemed.

Being me, I decided to look deeper.

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