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@cheezedoodle  

Given that her cutie mark and name are a reference to someone who has unearned prosperity due to inheritance, it’s kind of hard to say. We don’t even know what she even has a talent for, really. Still, assuming she doesn’t turn out like some of our idle rich and go the “famous for being famous” route, maybe she’ll devote herself and her family money to a worthy cause. She could be a charity organizer, or something along those lines.
 
Barring that… I don’t know. One of the many other things people with too much money and time do. Make her own line of cosmetics or luxury products. Write books on how to be successful. Buy an acting or singing career.
 
And if all that fails, there’s always politics.

@Anonycat
 
Wasn’t that episode about the Golden Horseshoe Gals bringing up that AJ’s so boring that even trying to imagine how she’d think turns one into a complete killjoy? “AJ is boring” hasn’t been brought up all that much, but it certainly had potential… until it was shut down in favor of character deconstruction/demolition instead.
 
The very origin of “AJ is a background pony” came from how episodes that didn’t feature her portrayed her way better than otherwise. Her IQ quite literally burned under the spotlight.

@Poison Trail  
Applejack’s character decay coud have been avoided by making her the team’s mom and voice of reason (who, as a running gag, is never listened) and lampshading the fact she’s a boring mare, so her friends would try to find ways to make her less boring, with the predictable backfiring because AJ was already fine the way she was.

@Jarkes  
It’s creative, but it’s more of a leap than chef/baker, which was about the only thing she was ever shown to be doing aside from being a rich kid and DT’s lackey.

@Red-Supernova  
I probably won’t

@cheezedoodle
 
What do you think of my idea of Silver Spoon being a silversmith?

@Wiimeiser  
How would it be abusable?
 
@ILoveMyoozik  
Guess you won’t like one of my friends then.
 
@cheezedoodle  
Thanks!

@Red-Supernova  
There’s a chrome extension that blocks channels.

@Red-Supernova  
It’s not a healthy mindset at all and I worry if that’s how they act in real life.

@Red-Supernova  

 
Because it would be too abusable.

@cheezedoodle  
Those people were the reason I had to watch the finale and epilogue right away. Fuck em.
 
@ILoveMyoozik  
And that can’t be a big concern to some people because?….
 
@LeoNero  
Why hasn’t YouTube invented an option to hide certain channels from showing up in our recommendations?

@cheezedoodle
 
I figured she’d be a silversmith.

@cheezedoodle  
Either a cook or an antiques collector of fine silverware

@cheezedoodle  
I’d imagine she’s be a cook or a taste tester.

Since the topic of silver sppoon came up, what do you guys think she would be as an adult, aside from trophy wife socialiate? What kind of job would she have?
 
This may or not go on my vector to-do list.
 
Back to Steven Universe movie I go…

@ILoveMyoozik
 
When is he ever NOT?

@Poison Trail  
I think you’re being too harsh there

@ILoveMyoozik  
Yeah, it would have, especially since it would give something to her.

@LeoNero
 
The writers hate Applejack.
 
Wait, no.
 
The writers ran out of ideas with what to do with Applejack since season 2.
 
There we go.
 
Her character arc “decay”, this point where writers start to run out of stuff to do with a character and just starts blowing holes into their personality to try and find some scraps to use has been going on for a long, long time. It very rapidly stopped being “How can we add to this character”? and became “How can we introduce a new flaw to her so that she’s less stale?”. It certainly didn’t help that her entire personality is based off stability and spitting in the face of learning something new, instead embracing stagnation and outright refusal to change.
 
How do you advance a character like that? Why, by making them seem bigoted, ignorant, obsolete and intolerant! By adding in deep-seated flaws that surfaces and becomes problematic all overnight (the main indicator that a character is in it’s “decay” state) and by undoing them from within.
 
The entire mane 6 eventually reached that point, but AJ? AJs been essentially living with a deteriorating brain disease close to the start of the series, and hasn’t gotten any better since.

@The Equestrian Zodiac  
A Silver Spoon episode would’ve been really great

@Beau Skunky  
Yeah, I also feel particularly bad for Silver Spoon, who got nothing even after that episode.

@The Equestrian Zodiac  
I like that it finally addressed Scootaloo’s flight issues, and in the end Scootaloo did come out on top.  
Only bad thing about it was Tiara & Spoon didn’t get much comeuppance, (aside from losing to Scootaloo, and looking angry about it) but I guess if we take later episodes into account, it’s possible her obnoxious Mother chewed her out for “not being perfect” off-screen.
 
Though. honestly after Tiara’s humiliation-conga, adorable sad song, and heel-face-turn it’s hard for me to still hold a grudge against her. In fact, it’s kinda a shame she hasn’t had a speaking role sense.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Same can be said for Flight to the Finish too, out of all the CMC episodes out there, that one still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

@LeoNero  
I’ve seen them get accused of hating almost every character, and sometimes fans accuse them of favoring, or being biased torwards characters they hate. Like those whom accused the show of being the “Twilight Show,” or “Starlight Show.”
 
And AJ is not a BG PONE, but best PONE. :P

@Beau Skunky  
Man fuck Princess Spike, that episode was a massive mistake and should’ve been discarded when the idea was presented.
 
Like I said, they say this when they become really attached to the characters, which was the main point of my original argument.
 
@LeoNero  
She IS a background pony, you know? /s