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My Little Pony comic #26, “Happy Harvest!”Story Title: A Worrying Time, Part 3. (See also Part 1 [>>1344920] and Part 2 [>>1344922] of this story.)Summary: Cotton Candy unwittingly gave Applejack a magic apple as a birthday present … but now Applejack will sleep for a hundred years unless the ponies can get into the Garden of Herbs to cure her!Comments: Poor Cotton Candy, I feel sorry for her as her friends knock her away from the secret passage. Anyway, this is how she becomes the Ponyland nurse, although “herbalist” seems like a more apt name. I’m interested to see the phrase “earth ponies” appear in this comic, I thought that was mostly a show thing.
Also, after this, Cotton Candy becomes, like, the most famous medic in pony history. You’ll have non-ponies coming from far away because they’ve heard of this pony who can cure anything. I loved that a character as silly as she is could show such unexpected depth, and that the comic remembered and used what happened in this story later.
The old adventure-fantasy ‘my little pony n friends’ series was vaguely surreal and dreamy at times too,
due to sheer fantastic and magical ridiculousness.
However, it tended to stay somewhat more consistent with its own internal world logic, more D&D driven,
than old fairy tales and folklore.
At their best, I get a weird hauntological vibe from them. Like I’m remembering something I’ve never actually experienced. You can see where the writers have been huffing folklore and old Rupert the Bear annuals to meet a deadline too. Weird shit like mysterious paths not taken in forests, shadows being stolen by evil sorcerers, quests into the underworld to retrieve them, and ponies being blinded until their eyes get replaced with gemstones.
Glossed over with a veneer of pretty sparkly ponies. There are some who see beneath the surface, however…
your current filter.“I must get the Herbs I’ll jump over the pit!”
“No Cotton Candy, you are the herbs!”
And then Cotton Candy was a herb.
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