Sleepless in Ponyville

The evolution of the relationship between Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash was pretty great, very believable, I enjoyed it. People kept going on about killing fanon, but you know what? It didn't. It DID kill several stories about Scootaloo being adopted, but hey, none of these were widely accepted as "the" fanon (as far as I know), so whatever. It certainly didn't make a fic I collaborated with, Hearth's Warming Eve for Scootaloo, Alternate Universe, nor it'll happen with the sequel we're working on.

Now.

Let me talk about Princess Luna.

I LOVED EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF IT.

It has been my understanding that every use of Luna as a character, including Luna Eclipsed has been dumb. I mean, yeah, the episode was fun, but the princess, as a character, evolved little. She was a just-out convict, and in that episode, she is a just-out convict. :P It has also always been kind of nebulous why she'd bother still being awake at night, because even though in this more modern society many ponies do enjoy the night and stuff, they're still day-ponies who live and work at day, and just happen to squeeze a little bit more of night in.

Guarding the dreams is a great role to have, if you ask me. I mean yeah, you'll se some ugly stuff, in more ways than one, but it would make a lot of sense in the context of the goddess diarchs, as in Celestia takes care of the 'outside' and Luna takes care of the 'inside' (and obviously they talk about it). I also went so far as to headcanon her as a Santa Claus of sorts, as in she'd visit several ponies' dreams each night using whichever criteria she has.

Dreaming and lucid dreaming is a pretty fascinating theme for me, actually. So excuse me while I go insane. :)