On Quiet Shipping · 8:01pm Feb 6th, 2021
As I said, I got two comics at once due to questionable shipping schedules, so here's the second.
So let's talk about issue #94 before I lose my nerve.
The moral here is . . . I can't help but be tempted to give relationship advice—weird though it may be coming from me—as the moral here, but of course we're not there yet. I'm sure there will be fertile ground for that to come, but this is the set-up, not the resolution. We haven't yet made any statements about relationships, or for that matter about our main mares getting so anxious when they've got nothing to worry about. That's later.
So perhaps the moral is simply that it's good to have friends in high places who can issue summons for whoever you really want to see. It may not be necessary for those who like you enough to be worth really wanting to see, but sometimes it's nice to have a third party involved.
And also the moral is that what you're doing and how you're doing it is less important than who you're doing it with. We shouldn't forget that moral, since it's Discord's only contribution to the story so far
Fine, I admit it. Pinkie's balloon-shaped reading glasses are cute.
Sometimes it's a bit dissonant how Pinkie tends to plan parties as the target audience—i.e. children 4-12—understands them for characters who are probably in something like their early twenties.
Planning a festival is not one of those times. Festivals should absolutely have street performers handing out candy and stands for gaudy knick-knacks.
The "Most Clearly Flirting" award for this issue goes to Cheese Sandwich for his comments that Pinkie is both strange and magical and that their reflections are two amazingly good-looking ponies.
The prize is not having your intentions recognized.
If I were present (and now that we're well away from discussing the morals of the story) I would of course assure Pinkie that it'll be alright if she says what she does and doesn't want to say. Not because I know how it ends, of course; that's spoilers. Mostly because it's pretty clear to an outside observer how Cheese feels. But also because I know that even if he didn't feel the same way, rejection need not be the end. No matter how it goes, things will change and there will be no going back, it's true, but it's better to go forward than to be stuck in one place anyway.
I mean, I used to be kind of like Pinkie. I never should have let the shippers plant the idea of dating my best friend to begin with, but frankly it was inevitable that they would get into my head and make me wonder what might happen. And of course I was held back by worry of what might happen, by fear of ruining our friendship, but as it turns out that was completely the wrong thing to be afraid of. A strong bond is not so easily broken. A failed attempt to date can't break a friendship unless those involved choose to allow it to do so, and that's definitely more of a strain than a simple rejection.
I can't help but be reminded of a certain story by the end of this issue.
The resemblance is definitely coincidental.
