The Price of Fame is Often Misfortune. Just Ask Your Local Paparazzi.
Dear Twilight Sparkle,
I’ve got a copy of your friendship journal sitting on my desk bound in plastic, and more or less ready for a respectable level of preservation within my castle. I never planned on opening this book, if only because I’m already intimately aware of its contents and intend to preserve it for history, not as some for-profit resale piece.
Besides, I already offered my own personal criticisms on the contents of this book and all of your other writings within the privacy of our personal correspondence… with one small exception that’s ultimately not important right now. What IS important is all of the ramifications and consequences of publishing the journal to a wider audience, which I have no doubt you and your friends are experiencing right now in Ponyville. They’ve spread to many of the other major cities and towns by now, but here in Canterlot the nobles are having such a field day verbally thrashing this book like it’s a pauper begging for their money.
On one side, it’s fairly disrespectful and wholly missing the point of the journal. But on the other, they have no obligation to learn that point in any way and are free to choose how they interpret the value of your journal, which in this case is nothing but aimless mocking and belittling like it’s some pauper that stumbled on their doorstep asking for money. In other words, typical noble pricks in peak condition.
However, it’s equally as important to never conflate valid criticism with that and treat all criticism as just being hateful and nonproductive. I get that being swamped with so much negativity can give that impression, but that doesn’t change the fact that if you hear a critique that is or has been true of you before and you have the self-reflective capability to recognize that as a flaw, then perhaps that criticism is worth taking into consideration for the future if you have not yet done so already.
It is worth correcting others on flaws you’ve already fixed, however. There are few things more annoying than hearing somepony hammer you for something you’ve done in your past that you’ve moved on from, and I get the feeling Fluttershy is acutely aware of this.
Actually, in more recent terms, I’m pretty sure Starlight Glimmer is aware too. I hope she’s helping you with this right now in lieu of Spike. I do appreciate you sending him over on such short notice for helping my sister and I with our annual sorting of the archives, and I intend to send him back as soon as possible so that he can help with what must be the mother of all damage control.
Wishing you luck with that massive angry mob that’s definitely outside your castle right now (seriously, this is why you should invest in at least a few royal guards to disperse the riffraff),
Princess Celestia
P.S. Spike wants to know exactly how much ice cream Rarity wants to drown herself in. Would you please get an estimate on how many gallon buckets she wants?
Sunny, you got a copy of the book? My goodness! I didn’t think you’d try to learn about friendship like… what do you mean you don’t plan on reading it?
Look, just because you overheard me saying I wouldn’t open mine doesn’t mean there’s nothing of value in it at all. That’s not at all how you should take this—
More. You bought more. Okay, why? Just why did you get fifty or so copies of this book?!
Book Jenga. Book… Jenga. Haaaaaaaaaaannnngh… You know what? I think I will open up my book.
No, it’s so I can bury my head in it.
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Confession: I imagined so much inappropriate laughter at Pinkie during the song.
I'm terrible.
I noticed that Celestia has never said what royal business Spike was on during Look Before You Sleep.
This was certainly a bit of a strange episode with how INSANE people were.
Also, the best way Applejack could have gotten rid of all those "Family" members, or at least gotten them to be more reasonable would be to treat them exactly as that: FAMILY. Instead, they were all treated like GUESTS. FAMILY would have been sent to go help with the chores! As soon as they have to put up with a few hours of Farm Work at least, I am sure many of them would have quickly shifted...
Honestly I think that AJ needs to kick those fan ponies off the farm. They are disruptive to the farm work and I can imagine that they Apple family haven't gotten much done. This is a bad thing because as I'd like to point out Sweet Apple Acres is a FARM not a resort. Not only that, but it's probably a farm that provides a significant portion of Ponyville's food supply.
If they want to start calling themselves part of the Apple family, then they need to get off their rumps and either help or get out. Either that or the Apples start charging them for their stay and I honestly can't see AJ doing that.
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True... And it is probably never mentioned for a very good reason. Which we can endlessly speculate on. WE HAVE OPTIONS FOLKS!
1) Spike is a Secret Agent of the Princess (S.A.P.)
2) Spike is getting additional lessons in being a royal assistant. Had to learn to cook from somewhere/pony!
3) Spike is letting Celestia/Luna use him as a stress-relieving-cuddle-dragon. Just the perfect size to act as a teddy bear for the royal sisters.
4) Spike is giving lessons on being a royal assistant!
5) Spike is needed to occasionally relight the pilot light of the castle's aging boiler.
6) Spike is being used for his AMAZING SECRET DRAGON ACCOUNTANT POWERS to monitor the current wealth of the royal treasury.
If Applejack insist on treating her fanclub as the family at least she could do is to treat the whole thing as a business. ''But the Family!" Thank you random Dom Torreto pony. Clearly nor the Apple Bloom , nor Granny Smith enjoy any of this.
I was surprised they didn't do any editing to the book before publishing. No censoring names or anything. I wouldn't expected Fluttershy, at least, to be a little reistant to the idea of letting the entire world see inside her personal life from the past few years.
I noticed that Rarity was stress sewing instead of comfort eating in the episode. Guess she ran out of ice creams to eat.
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that's the danger with magically copied.... manifestos...
you make a 1:1 copy of the thing... that's why I tried suggesting my Twilight to open her own "School of Friendship", and use the diary as the mandatory textbook (She didn't approve)
Oh well, at the very least I had her magically insert a Disclaimer page:
Needless to say, The mob is still Outside Friendship Castle... And the People in Sweet Apple Acres went away after they were offered "Authentic Apple Clan Hospitality"
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1.Rarity doesn't have a last name, and if she did, it would not be Belle. It would be Rarity Flanks, or Rarity Crumbles.
2.It's not Flutter Shy. I'm 99.9% certain that Mr. and Mrs. Shy referred to themselves in that fashion for convenience sake, because ponies tend to not use the first name of an older pony. Her mom's name is Posey, at the very least, but it's not easy to refer to her as 'Mrs. Ey'.
3.These are insanely pointless nickpicks.
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yes, yes they are... and now a word from the version of me trapped in the Ponyverse...
Well, the ones from the current center of the Pony Multiverse might adhere to your nitpicks, but in this Pony Universe (Sometimes, for convenience's sake referred as Ponyverse) I'm trapped into I did ask to my friends, and yes, Rarity confirmed me her full name is Rarity Belle, but she goes only by Rarity because it makes a better impact on ponies to only get a design by Rarity...
Fluttershy, on the other hoof... she insisted to have her name written like that... Why? I don't know, I don't ask that kind of questions...
I believe the word you're looking for is "pallet".
I'm still concerned about Daring Do getting outted as nonfictional. Especially if her activity is crown-endorsed. I just hope the journal didn't include A. K. Yearling's address.
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I'm glad someone else caught that. Actually, isn't there another Daring Do episode coming up? Who wants to bet this will be relevant.
Hasbro should read this. I honestly wasn't sure how to respond to that episode--it felt like being bashed over the head, honestly. I think this letter addresses it quite nicely.
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Now that I think of it. Only we the audience saw the full extend of each lession. As far as I know, equestira only got the endings so is it any wonder they don’t understand and stuff. If you only watched the last 3 minute of every episode you be just as confused without context.