>>42425013
>made her a shit character I don't care about.
Yep, unfortunately. Character wiped twice and resolved just as quickly.

>>42425099
>Celestia is also a pretty weak character
I thought so too, for a 700+ year old magic creature that doesn't need to sleep (effectively doubling her life experience), she was rather pathetic (intellectually). She did redeem herself a bit this week.
>>42425874
>Sacrilege!
You didn't crack a smidge of a smile? But really, between smarmy the quips, gutter-stomping foals, griffon onions green, an impromptu trial, and casually bricking the local sheriff, I don't know what was supposed to be a deliberate joke or not. Must be autism.
>parallels between him and Genevieve, as well as Jenny and her father, were going to form an interesting B-plot
It's a shame something like that didn't come about, would have been sweet. Gordon was truly the fool and ass-end of this fic (sorry!).
>a mudpony or hornhead is born and immediately falls through
Kek, may explain why most ponies are so entranced by the mediocre frog parable (beyond its meaning). You see, the vicious crane of the story is reflecting the unseen horror of their eternal arch-enemy, the stork, who has been dropping foals to their death and slapping unlucky wanderers with placentas ever since the pegasi unified and founded Cloudsdale, all coincidence.

>>42448106
Early bookclub or are my clocks wrong? You've fucked it all up. You're too damn kind and optimistic, it's sickening (and hard to argue with).
>this is a *Voltaire* fanfic, set in the world of FiM.
Yeah, that's precisely the issue I think I'm having with it.
>but I was shocked how accurate this portrayal was to his actual beliefs.
That's good to know.