Things that you see in about 99% of HIE stories:

- Unicorn levitates something, the human is all shocked, and they spend the next few minutes arguing about the existence of magic.

- The human is all shocked when told Celestia raises the Sun.

- The human works as either a handyman, masseuse, of farmhand at SAA.

- The human is unnecessarily surly and pissy about everything.

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Racism is an incredibly lazy way to write an antagonist - I want to read about a villain who has more personality than "fuck humans/griffons/zebras lol." Beyond the inherent troubles that come with simplifying something as horrible and insane as race relations, it removes any and all complexity and depth from their motivations, and turns them into some generically evil prick who has no purpose in life beyond being rude to people.

it's gonna be a human to alicorn oc self insert. he's gonna be all snarky and sarcastic and rude, and he's gonna make friends with changelings, and the main antagonist is gonna be blueblood who's bad because he's rich and also a racist who says the n-word.

This work is incredibly offensive, hardly subtle in its political themes, and features many scenes of horrific, senseless violence. It's essentially a cross between Heart of Darkness, a Tucker Carlson segment, and one of those racist anthropology textbooks from the 1800's. I cannot recommend it enough.

The Missionaries by Owen Stanley

Imagine being English lol

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335924797_Ethnic_Diversity_and_Social_Trust_A_Narrative_and_Meta-Analytical_Review

Like, holy shit, I've never watched something so soulless in my life. Everything from Season 6 onwards just feels like they reanimated a loved one's corpse in order to take part in schoolyard drama and spread some hamfisted diversity message (which itself is ironic, considering how badly multiracialism affects social cohesion and sense of community). Hasbro turned a mysterious fantasy into some meaningless expression of modernity, and it's awful. I miss the ethos that brought us stuff like

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