Jul
5th
2019
Meanwhile, on a street in Canterlot.... · 2:26am Jul 5th, 2019
“I really don’t like this,” Sepia Byrd said aloud.
“Look, Pia, we agreed to this,” Gladys Gammon, her best friend, replied.
“No, I agreed to it, Gladys. You didn’t have to come.”
“Well, Richard is taking your kids out to look around and someone had to come with you before you eviscerated what’s her name.”
“Rarity.”
“Yeah, whatever. Look, I might have been raised Equestriani, but I was never a Royal watcher. Hell, I can barely name the ruling princesses, much less any of the rest of the major members of the Royal Family,” the gryphoness laughed. “And don’t get me started on having to remember the names of the cadet branches, either.”
“We had to know that in school,” Sepia noted.
“I never said I was a good student,” was Gladys’ response.
Oh, this is gonna be gooooood!
I must ask this question, Does our author enjoy making Equestria into just some backwaters 3rd world tin pot nation who just got lucky by having three Demi-Goddess who can make a good case for dropping that demi part? With how the last few chapters and this preview have been I am feeling that Celestia really needs a massive wake up call and I doubt Equestria is gong to like it or emerge without serious wounds when it happens.
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Just making an interesting observation and seeing a land that usually has prided itself on friendship being so hypocritical being very jarring.
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There are always contradictions between how someone or something presents itself and how it is.
Indeed.
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Oh yes, a land that prides itself on friendship...that had a whole town once hide from a zebra because she looked different. Whose primary educational administration is run by xenophobe. Whose capital is half filled with snobs who look down on everyone. A land that doesn't pay attention to the outside world to the point where longtime allies are forgotten except by its immortal rulers, and doesn't know/care anything about the warlord slowly conquering everything until his forces are literally at their doorstep. Not to mention that everywhere not Equestria seems to be a shithole, with the sole exception of Mt. Aris/Seaquestria, minus that time the Storm King invaded.
Canon Equestria has plenty of black marks, and given the rest of the world we've seen, it's anything but 3rd world. In story, It might have been, in comparison to the modern USA at the time of first contact, but I would hesitate to call it such now. Despite our propaganda, countries not run via democracy aren't 'third world' by default.
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To refute the part about Ponyville it is more a hick town in the stereotypical Deep South more then anything else. Then again the citizens of Equestria are a lot like the average American. Most of my problem sits squarely at the hooves of Celestia and Luna. Celestia has clearly been smothering her ponies and they often operate as if she will just take care of everything.
In this story it took that first contact to advance the ponies and it sounds like they did it begrudgingly because they clearly where not as advanced as they claimed they where. Really Celestia, Luna, and Cadence need to set up a government for the good of their subjects but all of their advisors don’t want this as they would loose power.