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Friendship is tough…
 
I’ll be honest, when I watched ‘Wonderbolts Academy’ I felt pretty bad for Lightning Dust near the end. Sure, she was mean, inconsiderate and had done some wrong things that nearly got everypony killed…but it could have had an ending that didn’t leave most of us bronies and MLP fans with bitter feelings. :(
 
Not only do I feel total sympathy for that striking golden-haired pegasus, I also feel bad for the situation Rainbow Dash had been trapped in. And although she did the right thing…she lost a friend because of it. :sniff: And let’s be honest that in reality we had experienced this sort of thing some point in our lives. ^^;
 
I don’t want to call Lightning Dust a bad pony, and I think she would have made an excellent Wonderbolt if she wasn’t so competitive and harsh…she’s like Rainbow Dash only 20% more egotistic. :XD: She may have mostly been seen as just some annoying rival to Rainbow Dash, but competitive natures aside, they did seem to have such a good time together before that all ended. :( But other than that, I really hope we see her again in the series, because, like Trixie and Discord, she could somewhat reform. :worry:
 
Anyone remember Gilda? :icongildaplz: Yeah, I really hope we see HER again as well, because it was REALLY sad how her friendship with Rainbow Dash had ended in “Griffon the Brush-Off”. She could have changed for the better in that one episode, but I guess we’ll just have to keep waiting for that ‘reform episode’. :(
 
And anyone who recalls my MLP FIM and Robot and Monster :iconrobot-and-monster: crossover comics ‘Honest Words’ [link] and ‘Best is All’ [link], some would consider Rainbow Dash and Ogo quite the crossover duo in terms of playful banter about shows like Littlest Pet Shop and breaking the fourth wall. :D
 
Well, for any RnM fan, Ogo is much more than this clingy, desperate stalker who really wants friends, he’s a sweetheart who can be quite sensitive and empathetic even to others, which is why I thought he would be BEST CHARACTER to comfort Lightning Dust of her loss because of her huge ego and selfish mistakes and encourage her to keep going and not let the past repeat itself, possibly insisting another episode featuring her in a more positive light and she makes up for the wrong she had done. :)
 
Talk about a true, true friend. :aww:
 
 
 
Ogo from Robot and Monster (c) Dave Pressler  
Lightning Dust and Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (c) Lauren Faust

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Background Pony #9C43
I am never going to understand this woman’s fascination with this cartoon. At least it’s better than the Fanboy and Chum Chum crossovers.
 
Silly Cartunes doesn’t even know what the TRUE best cartoon ever is.  
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I HAVE A MULLET JEN
genervt
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DUSTY IS BEST CAPTAIN
@warc9  
Just like AJ and Dashie in Non-Compete Clause (or Newbie Dash or Tanks for the Memories).  
Lightning is also not the only one to blame for the unfortunate tornado accident. Spitfire, Rainbow and her friends are not guiltless.
 
 
@warc9  
Because she never got the chance. What happened to Dusty is an injustice that must be corrected.
 
 
@Exceptionally Average Individual And Lurker  
The answer is not realism but hypocrisy and double standards.
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@warc9  
Honestly, the if the mane six can forgive a deity who mind-raped them and tried to plunge Equestria into eternal chaos, and a unicorn who brainwashed an entire village and later almost destroyed the time stream, then I see no reason why they can’t give Lightning Dust a second chance too.
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“ done some wrong things that nearly got everypony killed”
 
Yeah that’s really bad.
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you know something cartunes; your stuff would make a lot more sense if you created your own series with all of the personalities you assign these characters assigned to OCs and built your own world with its own mythos and its own locations and its own design completely, because you’re taking things that people have preconceptions of, and throwing them together randomly in ways that challenge those preconceptions, and not in a good way.
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Udpate from Source: EDIT OF DIALOGUE: I’d like to give credit to my good friend Angerfish, for her critique in regards to my original dialogue and how it contradicted to what exactly my summary was suppose to expresses about Lightning Dust hopefully ‘redeeming’ herself. We had discussed at school and she pointed me at the best route, and I thank her for that because even I seemed a little questionable on my piece before having edited it. And I especially like to thank Aeon-Borealis for being helpful in suggesting the right kind of dialogue that would actually fit the entire image itself and completely relates to a ‘considerably bad character hopefully never going to repeat the same mistakes again’ vibe. Thanks, guys.
 
IrieMangaStudios, looks like CL16 took your advice and accepted criticism.
Background Pony #385F
AAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDD she’s back.  
Damn, she really had a good thing going for her with her last few pics.
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@Sonichu666
 
if it’s a one shot OOC moment AND it’s used as a comedic way, cool…
 
but used consistently as a OOC vehicle to express one’s own feelings about the show, the fandom or disregarding the original creators’ own characteristics for their ideas, then no…
IrieMangaStudios
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I just really REALLY dislike her handling of the characters. Art can improve but it’s like she has a hatred for the other mane six characters and out to make them be the bad guys or just annoying outside of Twilight Sparkle. I couldn’t even bother reading the description because it is just her own justification of sympathizing with anatagonists that goes past logic.
 
Her crossovers just plainly leave a bad taste in other people’s mouths because she is place herself and her opinions into the fan art with the characters be her mouthpiece rather than allowing the characters be themselves and allow the crossover to feel naturally.
 
It’s done waaaay too many times that frankly, her work doesn’t surprise me anymore. Not raging or swearing about but it’s something that is in a majority in her work that turns a lot of fans off.
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I’m still wainting to cartuneslover16 to do a collab wiht rei-moonveil.
 
Can you imagine it? Warrior-princess Twilight Sparkle meets blonde toupee Mordekai. It would be the definitive spin-off.
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The Fluffiest
The crossovers are nonsensical, the shipping is the crackiest, the characters completely OOC, the writing is long-winded and self-congratulatory and of course, Mordetwi.
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And can I remind people that using multiple accounts to give yourself extra weight in the votes is bannable, I’ve just banned a user who decided to use multiple accounts on this image.