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Subjects of Equestria! We are pleased to kick off the Nightmare Night Festivities and the 14th anniversary of the return of our beloved Princess Luna! Join us in celebration!
I just wasn’t aware if there was some broader category he fit in, fr example, Japanese myth has a number of weird monster things that are categorized as “yokai”, I didn’t know if there was some Aztec equivalent to that.
Probably not.
His name is his own species.
Heh. Mentally Advanced Series.
This. She’s not perfect, but she’s also not evil or insane.
my view on it is celestia isnt perfect, but i lean more toward good troll than anything assholish.
the thought that someone over 1000 years old isn’t going to have some boredom issues that she gets rid of through her job would be stupid
The United States government is not a monarchy, yet it is dangerously, irreparably corrupt.
Congressmen actually advise one another to promise constituents vague heroics in a nebulous future, rather than take a stand for anything in reality, for fear of isolating wealthy lobbyists or party handlers.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has engineered the reintroduction of the political machine.
Why, then, do we assume a monarchy is corrupt simply because it’s a monarchy? Seems to me, the difference is only that in Monarchy, the nation put all their eggs in one basket: the heir to the throne. Democracy is meant to safeguard against that particular risk by dividing power amidst a wider group- but that safeguard falls apart completely if 90% of those who are commissioned to wield are all themselves corrupt anyway.
@Background Pony #910A
No offense, but that comment seems overly cynical- as fostering goodwill between peoples has gotten many statesmen credited for being successful.
That’s a naive approach.
Politicans aren’t measured in goodwill. They are measured in success.
Absolute power tends to lead to absolute fuckups.
And I believe in neither objective good nor objective evil.
This act not only cut off communications with the higher-ups at home, but when the griffon armies returned from the front, they found themselves without food or family. The effects of Celestia’s strategy were so devastating, the griffons are now an endangered species, facing the threat of extinction.
Exactly.
Dang, I need that on, like, a needlepoint or something.
“There’s a difference between not being perfect and being a fucking dick!”
There’s a difference between not being perfect and being a fucking dick.
Does she make mistakes? Sure, everybody fucks up, she probably did morally dubious things or stuff that didn’t end very well for all parties involved. But you can do that without being a bloodthirsty tyrant. It’s called being human. Or Pony. Or whatever.
And honestly, people who think that there is no such thing as good, only slightly less evil, are way too jaded for their own good. It’s good to not be overly optimistic and be on guard for the harsh realities of life, but going all the opposite way is bad too, because it makes you lazy to rise to action, and too miserable to properly enjoy life.
A healthy balance is the real way to go man, you can be a realist without being a complete party pooper.
But people have trouble accepting “Celestia is the opposite of a prick” because hey, nobody’s perfect, right?
Unfortunately, the Tyrantlestia people take that and run all the way to “Not only is nobody perfect, everybody is an asshole; the people we call “good guys” are simply less assholish than the people we call “bad guys”!
I think the problem is less the hereditary part and more “if a prick gets there, you’re screwed”.
Celestia is the opposite of a prick, and is never getting out of power due to lack of public revolt and immunity to entropy. SO really, it’s a perfect system there.
Because corrupt is the natural state of all monarchy eventually. Oh sure every now and then you get a good egg, but in the long run heredity is a terrible way to distribute power.
The show does circumvent this though by removing the question of heredity. Celestia and Luna can totally claim divine right to rule because they are pretty much the closest thing the show has to gods.
While this may be true, the healing process doesn’t begin for them until they accept what’s occurred to them. They’ll never accept it if they feel threatened by it, and they’ll continue feeling threatened by it if people keep spouting negativity in the direction of the negativities they constantly spew in every direction.
They’re not pathetic creatures, they’re ordinary people with potential to be something heroic, that have very sadly worked very hard in the past (and presently, depending) to be seen as vile, pitiful monsters.
Er…so you’re saying he’s wrong? How so? BP may very well be one of the “swarming masses of losers” he speaks of, but that doesn’t make it any less true.
Well, not true (with fanon things like this, it’s damn near impossible to say what is or isn’t “true”)…it doesn’t make it any less logical, let’s go with that.
Whatever helps you sleep.
It has nothing to do with anything so sensible as that.
It is pureply because Celestia, and the show itself, represents a shining example of hope and joy.
There are swarming masses of losers in the world who feel need to grind such things away with cynicism in order to assuage the guilt and pain they feel over what sad, pathetic creatures they themselves are.
I have the same problem with people who still take “Tyrantlestia” and the more extreme forms of “Trollestia” seriously.
Are these people so utterly jaded that any form of monarchy MUST be despotic simply because it’s a monarchy and therefore hopelessly corrupt?
Oh…oh…
Is this love I feel…blooming in my bosom?