Pony Venting Thread

I still have a hard time accepting Cozy Glow as a legitimate canon pony. She really messed up a years long perception that ponies are generally good in nature and peaceful.

Aww fuck it, Sombra was never all that interesting to begin with.

not everyone needs to have some sort of deep/tragic backstory as to why they act the way they do.

some people are just assholes.

• The Crystal Empire was built over this fount of crystal energy.
• This fount was used to create powerful relics, and it played a role in the creation of The Elements of Harmony.
• King Sombra took control. The Crystal Ponies are the results of him experimenting with crystal magic; trying to re-create The Crystal Heart. This lets Sombra be a foil to Twilight and Cadence: he represents a corrupted version of Twilight’s pursuit of knowledge, and he sacrifices others, which contrasts the “self-sacrifice” idea.
• We never see Sombra in person. There are statues and stained glass pictures of him, which establishes his castle as a dark reflection of Celestia’s castle, but he never makes an appearance outside of flashbacks. Replace the cloud thing with some of his failed experiments.

As for Sombra… as much as I disliked how shallow he was in his first appearance originally, I did eventually come to appreciate him being kept at a distance and depersonalised - it and various implications likely formed from plot holes let me imagine that he was worse than the show’s rating could directly support, a true Pony Hitler.

MLP would have been better if Discord stated stoned