what are the lore implications of this

Fluttershy waited until Rainbow Dash had shut the door behind her to speak up again. "You're a very talented artist, Sunset. I never actually knew that about you before."

Sunset smiled. "Yeah, well. I'd be even better if I still had magic. Hands are great, but they lack the precision of levitation."

I was going through an old notebook (for non-horsewords purposes, sadly), and I stumbled upon some Deep Eyeball Lore: the original handwritten outline I did for Eyeball as prep for the writeoff last December.

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...but I think I've found one that really works for me.

...or its revised form, specifically, which I refer to as "Sunset Shimmer is Lonely and Depressed and Sometimes There's an Eyeball."

Incidentally, I finally published the original story to FiMfic, as a bonus chapter, if anybody's interested in reading through it and comparing.

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Which would probably preclude Eyeball from being canon-compliant.

Easy come, easy go, I guess.

So for a little while now, the discourse on the Eyeball comments page has shifted into a critical discussion of Shimsham v. Glimglam (Dawn of Friendship), with opinions being split over whether Glimmy is a dime store knock-off of Shimmy who isn't fit to hold her merkin, if there's nothing wrong with her and she's Just Alright With Me, or if she's a decent character who's been poorly handled, and is also Just Alright With Me. Personally, I fall into the latter camp, but whatever.

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And if you participate in the Writeoff Association's... uh... writeoffs... it's one you may have been waiting on for quite some time.

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