@ARchy4288  
Still a better romance than Twilight.

@Background Pony #7543  
Yes I didn’t like the shipping because of something selfish. So what? I’m a waifufag. But I also at least tried to give a counter idea for what the “reflections arc” could’ve been and not the disgusting insulting blame celestia for everything and make it all her fault and ship her with some bland Gary stu just to piss off people bullshit that it was

@Background Pony #7543  
Think wjatever you want.

@ARchy4288  
Translation: “They ruined my waifu!”
 
And the bronies wonder why they have a bad name on the internet.

@Background Pony #7543  
I didn’t say that. I’m saying it’s frustrating to hear people praising it for “highlighting her flaws” and “showing her as imperfect” when she’s never been shown as such.
 
And it’s not really a good writing that you have to highlight someone’s flaws or give them such trite cliche shortcomigs to show them as a character.
 
The reflections arc could’ve been her reflecting on the burden of her position as princess or her having to have made difficult decisions in the past and reliving those events in an alternate world made by her and (the evil alternate celestia being the manifestation of her doubts regrets and fears) and finally making peace with the help of starswirl and her sister making all right in both the mirror world and her world. No contrived selfish “true love” romance crap necessary. No selfish teenager like bs and no having her being shoved aside and made to look horrible selfish brat.
 
But this arc is just disgusting at how she’s the cause of the story’s conflict the cheap romance was forced and insulting because he’s just perfect and flawless and has no character whatsoever and the comic even insinuated that it was Celestia’s fault for Luna’s banishment.

@Background Pony #7543  
She already has made mistakes. But this wasn’t like those other times. It was a blunder that even Twilight probably could’ve avoided pretty easily.
 
But what bothers me is that it clearly contradicts the show and the movies. Celestia managed to screw up another alternate universe just by visiting it? And what does that have to do with her alternate turning evil? The plot is an absolute mess.

@ARchy4288  
Yeah because god forbid a fictional character be depicted as imperfect or capable of making mistakes.

@Background Pony #7543  
She’s never been shown as flawless and to me it was just a lame character assassination. They made her look dumb foolish selfish and weak. When she’s supoosed to be wise and powerful and the shopping was a horrible part to. It was just a bad lazy half hearted excuse of a “celestia arc”. And the worst part is that, that is it… There’s never gonna be another celestia arc, THIS is what we have to go on.

@SeraphimDawn  
Well I liked it. The dark tone, the tragic ending, and Celestia actually getting some depth to her character instead of being depicted as a flawless generic big good character; it exceeded my expectations of what the comic was capable of.

@Millennial Dan  
It’s more about the general poor writing of this issue.  
I think most of this fandom can take canon shippings pretty well, if they are well written. But frankly, none of them are in this series so far.

@Background Pony #7543  
I don’t think the romantic interest is really what made this comic controversial.

Shitstorm tag huh? God imagine the bronies’ reaction if they gave Sonata Dusk a love interest!

Good, anything to get rid of that god-awful Celestiacord ship

When I read this…I knew shit was gonna get real! And did it ever.

@PonyPon  
It’s too bad really. I was optimistic about the comics once upon a time. Now I just want it to stay in its own separate little continuity.

This still isn’t going to stop me from shipping Twilestia and Sombracord~!

@Background Pony #4FA7  
That’s about the least funny thing they could ever do.

@Background Pony #4FA7  
Not to enough people.
 
Not to enough.

@Conred  
would be funny if they canonised somblestia and ship tease toward fluttercord

@Conred  
I’ll be severely disappointed if they pull a stunt like that.

@fifthcru5ader  
Meghan on SDCC said that they want to keep those universes connected and they consider using a character from comics or any kind of reference. She said that characters that exist in the comics exist in FiM Equestria too.  
Basically you can treat them as different universe until they really reference them in tv show. Then it will be one merged universe.

@lunafan22  
So basically the comics are kind of an alternate universe from the show?

@fifthcru5ader  
in comics yes, in show not

So wait. Celestibra is canon in the comics?

Son of a…Blasphemy