"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying."
Well, it finally happened: I got all three The Sister Sidestep fics onto Equestria Daily. Huzzah! 🎉
Now to figure out what to send next. 
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Yeah, remember when COVID-19 was a thing? I'm fine if we don't get a sequel, of course.
Alternatively, what's the real-world version of Cutie Pox?
Because I am That Kind Of Person, I typed "Friendship" into the search bar on Wikipedia and immediately looked at the dropdown menu of suggestions. And I see this:
There's some weird random stuff here.
Because writers feed on flaws and conflict, and because a great way to make some is to have a character go in cockeyed, I was looking up cognitive biases. This one caught my eye:
So I was reading the debut Fiendship is Magic issue for the first time, and:
Holy hell. How does the most generic villain in the show get the most awesome tragic backstory? This should have been a TV episode.
Also...
Young Sombra and Radiant Hope are freaking adorable.
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Because he's the most generic villain in the show. Everyone loves a blank canvas.
Of course there weren't a whole lot of contenders in MLP and that sort of thing tends to be largely subjective anyways.
Fiendship is Magic has some legitimately great stuff. And then there's the siren issue...
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*Gestures proudly to the rest of the site.*
True, that!
Honestly, with the exception of Nightmare Moon and maybe Starlight, the major villains in the first half of the show don't have much in the way of backstory. So that seems like a lot of blank slates to work with.
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I have been forewarned about the Siren issue. Sirens have gone off around the Siren issue.
Told you so.
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You sure did!
Also, I'm really slow to follow things up, aren't I?
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Yes. But I've got no room to talk on that.
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Indeed. There's a lot of interesting stuff done with villain backstories on this site.
True. In the case of Sombra however, they were told that the character was never coming back, so they probably felt free to go whole hog with him.
And then Hasbro went back on their word, because of course they did.
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Of course:
It wasn't really Sombra in the Season Nine premiere. It was just an illusion Discord conjured to serve as an object lesson to the other villains...
Mike
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It makes for good fan fiction, and it would make more sense than the alternative, but they were clearly trying to pass this off as Sombra. Somehow.
It's so good to see someone talk nice about the official comics. 90% of the time you see someone talk about them, it's either vitriolic, religious hatred or denial of the fact that the official comics show events that are part of the same continuity as the events seen in the show. You can't tell how tired I am of hearing "The official comics are only B canon.", "They are alternate universe.", "The official comics aren't canon." or "They aren't the show, DHX hasn't made them, they are just the terrible fanfics of the IDW writers, so screw them.".
The over-glorification of the show and DHX to the point that the official comics by IDW are seen as inferior is sickening and a thorn in my eye. I'm glad you bring some fresh wind into all this.
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Thank goodness. I'm not the only one who realized that the Season 9 Opener DOES NOT render Sombra's reformation alternate canon/universe.
Discord's clone is a strong possibility, but I am leaning towards that it was Sombra himself and that he aided in a certain plan and pretended to be evil again. I explained that prediction here:
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/852899/the-beginning-of-the-end-review-analysis-prediction-why-season-9-will-have-the-greatest-ruse-in-equestrian-history
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I've long suspected that Season 9 Sombra was an illusion of Discord's.
The reality is that it fills in the plot holes a lot more if he was a derivative of Discord since Discord knew things in advance about what Sombra would do, that he couldn't possibly have known otherwise.
But with how wonky the writers were in the final seasons; we may never know for sure.
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I have problems following your comment after this sentence. How were the writers "wonky" in the last two seasons? And, more importantly, if you already noticed that Sombra didn't become evil again and that the official comics weren't contradicted, why are you talking about "plotholes"? The writers did everything right and made it obvious enough what's going on for those who really look and they couldn't have written the episode so that it's spelled out what's going on or else they would have given away the plot twist in the Season 9 Finale, so why are you assuming a writing flaw?
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Character wise the protagonists go off the rails in the last two seasons. Funny that you yourself knew the exact number I was referring to, even though I didn't mention it.
Except they were and it's only through a after the fact explanation first posited by the fans that the sequence makes any sense whatsoever.
Because they never clarified it or gave any obvious signs to the assumed explanation, and MLP has been a mess of continuity errors for several seasons now?
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Not an effort. The fandom complains about Season 8 left and right. You can't miss it.
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An "after the fact explanation" can only explain what is already included in the episode. All that my blog entry did was analyzing the episode and pointing out what happened to those who didn't notice. Not noticing something that is there is an issue of the audience, not the episode. The scene, obviousy, made already sense when the episode aired.
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Like I said, having it spelled out would have meant to give away the plot twist of the Season 9 Finale, so they couldn't do that. And even after the plot twist happened, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has always been a show that rather lets the audience figure out things on their own than explaining everything. Which is a strength, not a weakness, because that type of writing is more engaging for the audience.
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Signs have been there plenty, you just didn't notice them. That doesn't constitute a flaw of the writing, however.
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I wonder what these continuity errors are. The fandom always talks about continuity errors, but I never see any. Care to give an example?
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Because fan fiction twisted what was already established and bent over backwards to make it make sense, not because there was any special effort on the part of the writers.
Sombra was supposed to be summoned for a second meeting with Grogar. Yet the Trio never mention that second meeting or Grogar promising him a second chance to join the group. Almost like the writers forget that Grogar promised him another chance.
More like they always threw whatever flashy sensational stuff they felt would stick at the wall, without questioning or caring whether it made sense or not.
Up until you start flubbing your continuity beyond what your audience is willing to tolerate.
Tirek. We very clearly see him using Discord's powers in Season 4. Yet now all of a sudden, in Season 9 he can't channel them.
Applejack is getting letters from Shady Hollows early on during Apple Family Reunion, and now her family there just never existed during Shadow Play.
And the Pony of Shadows is supposedly tied to the Castle of the Two Sisters, and Luna in Castle Mania, yet for some reason it turns out to be totally unrelated to either of those things.