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361 weeks
What would Sunset Shimmer listen to?

If she ever encountered it, I think Sunset Shimmer would enjoy the British Folk Revival: old Border and Scottish songs about love, war, rebellion, and heartbreak, performed with a mix of traditional and modern instruments. I've even got a playlist, built up with Pandora's help.
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363 weeks
A humbler, and actually probably less likely, theory about Sunset Shimmer

Remember the Reflections arc in the comics? Princess Celestia went back through the mirror to say a passionate and heartfelt goodbye to Good King Sombra after Starswirl found out; then she went back to say another passionate and heartfelt goodbye, and then to sob her heart out over what just happened to Luna, and then because she was so desperately lonely and had no one at all to talk to,
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363 weeks
So, where's everyone else from Hyrule?

For reasons known only to themselves, Nintendo doesn't really go in for creating new characters; in the Legend of Zelda games at least, once a character's been added, we're stuck with them for the next thirty years...
Except that, when I started working on a list, this turned out not to be true. I've played too much Hyrule Warriors.
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363 weeks
Sunset Shimmer: living the biggest second chance in gaming

(This video is what made me realize the following.)
Once upon a time, there was a magical land with dim-witted bulldog people,
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458 weeks
Why I don't hate Flash Sentry

They say that Top Gun was a two-hour advertisement for itself; Equestria Girls was a one-hour highlights reel of itself. If it had been three hours long, the fandom would have hailed it as a classic of its genre; two hours, and it would have been brisk and engaging, if a little cursory in spots; with the one-hour runtime we actually got, it was a sort of corporate faceplant. You
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