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Fubarman
#576114
9 months ago
this is now
MaroonBunyip
#576117
9 months ago
Wheezie_Moonflower
#576119
9 months ago
Cue the "Twilight Sparkle Zone" music...
Anonymous
#576120
9 months ago
Humm, I thought discord was just upset about being turned to stone, not actually referring to ponies that turned to stone....
Anonymous
#576132
9 months ago
Whaaaaaaaat
Sandman
#576135
9 months ago
It's a good thing it's morning because I no longer feel the urge or desire to sleep.
Ever.
Atiarotias
#576156
9 months ago
That would be freaky as heck.
Didn't someone say Season2 looks into History or background story of Equestria? (I might be completely wrong)
Hakar
#576164
9 months ago
I bet that scroll contains the first draft of a suggested Equestian constitution.
Kooner
#576169
9 months ago
Make sense , Celestia turned them into stone.
Deceptive_Trixter
#576171
9 months ago
So let me guess. Twi lost it again.
Anonymous
#576176
9 months ago
whoa... That'll be crazy if all those statues in the garden some of them are good and some are bad, and the baddies and Discord will join forces..
Vicron
#576201
9 months ago
Well... If you need me I'll be under my bed.
Uroobinop
#576236
9 months ago
Nice i liked so much!!
Anonymous
#576297
9 months ago
And then Twilight was sent to the moon.
Anonymous
#576396
9 months ago
Best idea I've heard. Is this going to be a running comic or a fanfic? I'd love to see more.
Anonymous
#576440
9 months ago
Yes this idea is fucking bad ass. FUND IT!
Anonymous
#576494
9 months ago
www.pumpkinhiphop.deviantart.com The artist! If you want to encourage more of this.
cthulhlu
#576584
9 months ago
while i dont much like the idea of tyrant celestia, this has potential, these were the ponies sentanced to death fro crimes long forgoten, celestia couldnt bear to kill them having just lost her sister to NNM, she thought it was more humane to seal them as statues.
the one twilight almost unfroze was stealing massivley powerful magical artifacts then selling them on the black market, least thats what im going to think to stave of the horror of the whole i have no mouth but i must scream scenario here..
Anonymous
#576682
9 months ago
There were certainly a lot of statues in that garden. Love this comic.
Anonymous
#576687
9 months ago
This makes somewhat less sense when you realize that there are duplicate statues.
TBTabby
#576721
9 months ago
Taking the idea further: what if some anti-Celestia group finds out about it and frees them, unwitting unleashing a swarm of villainy on Equestria?
Anonymous
#576761
9 months ago
Dude. Seriously. This comic gave me chills up my spine.
JP
#576777
9 months ago
Soon: a Twilight-shaped statue...
WhirlyWillow
#576783
9 months ago
This was one of the first things I thought of when I realized Discord had been turned to stone and put on display in the garden.....
StinkomanFan
#576864
9 months ago
She had won, she took it all.
I have no mouth, and I must scream
Anonymous
#576900
9 months ago
Twilight Sparkle went mad from the revelation.
HeinousActsZX
#576907
9 months ago
Geez, Twilight. Y'ever play DnD? Bringin' a statue to life only nets you a corpse.
Anonymous
#576996
9 months ago
I... am fucking terrified. This fits too well with Tyrant fanon.
Anonymous
#577100
9 months ago
@TBTabby I like that idea.
d715
#577227
9 months ago
Fun Fact: Discord comment was really him just being pissed off that he got turned to stone, remember he only things its funny if it happens to others

As for Tia pulling him in a graden, think of it as hiddening in plan sight
Yggdra
#577560
9 months ago
....oh my gosh..i cant believe i never thought of this when Discord that said! ..wow o_o; freaky
Anonymous
#577576
9 months ago
^That's what you want to believe.

Seriously, that's just something we'd take on faith. She's a goddess, anything could be possible, when you're dealing with the divine there's realistically no way you can know for certain that it isn't an illusion.

That's why Twilight snaps here at the end. Imagine the fundamental shift in worldvie - the uttery metaphysical revolution - that the single sight before her represents. Her teacher, her literal goddess, suddenly is responsible for imprisoning mortals like her in eternal torment (even a sleep neverending is a sort of hell).

Imprisoning a fellow god? Normal activity of the divine. Eternal punishment of mortals? Implies such a complex system of morality and metaphysics that I don't know if the peaceful, idyllic society of Equestria even has words for it. Do they have murder? Do they have oppression? Do they understand these ideas, and can they parse the very idea that their progenitor could be anything less than the literal idea of justice and fairness?

That momentary sight shatteres the framework of Twilight's universe. Literally, how she sees the universe has been destroyed.
dzamie
#577680
9 months ago
@anon576
Of course they have oppression; look at Zecora's episode, where the mane six all avoided her for the longest time.
They probably understand murder ("Maybe she exploded!" [although it came from Pinkie, so that's kind of a gray area]).
Anonymous
#578304
9 months ago
@d715

Yeah except there's all those stone ponies in the garden. Who's to say they hadn't been trapped by Celestia as well? ALSO hiding them in plain sight.
RealityCheck
#578453
9 months ago
What the hell is wrong with you people?
Anonymous
#578490
9 months ago
Actually...this isn't so bad. As an inclusion in fandom, I mean. It's obviously terrifying.

But really, it's just more fantastical. In the most generous reading, even when Equestria is threatened to the core Celestia cannot bring herself to kill. And the world is dangerous; but for Her protection, ponies would have to change, harden. So she hardens herself for them, imprisons the disastrous forever. She preserves their world at her own cost.
Anonymous
#581185
9 months ago
But who is she to make such decisions? By what right does she exercise that sort of power?

By the right of a Goddess? The gods are divine - ideal. To be a god is to be the root of all values. A god requires no justification for their actions, no rationalization for why they rule, by their very nature they simply do. When we are confronted with the crimes of a divine, then, we must either accept that we are broken creatures who cannot understand the values they have presented us or accept that values like mercy and justice are higher than the gods, and if we accept that then the gods lose their divine right to rule.

"The only excuse for God is that he does not exist." If Celestia is not a purveyor of ideals, and Twilight's horror shows there is nothing ideal in her punishment, then she becomes simply another person endowed with much too much power.
TBTabby
#581541
9 months ago
Not the right of a goddess. The responsibility. Celestia follows the Gospel of Saint Benjamin.
Anonymous
#649881
8 months ago
>The gods are divine - ideal. To be a god is to be the root of all values. A god requires no justification for their actions, no rationalization for why they rule, by their very nature they simply do

Social engineering of Abrahamic religions has gotten into you anon.

Animistic and pagan gods where only "idealised" like some sort of super-pimps. In Greek mythos even the most powerful Gods had objective moral flaws that they felt shame of. For example Zeus often described as more powerful than all the Olympian gods combined was always trying to hide his extramarital affairs from plain sight. Hera even used moral justification to try and kill Hercules for being the product of such an affair.
thunderdaniel618
#694594
8 months ago
<h1>HOLY SHIT.</h1>
Anonymous
#694644
8 months ago
Damn, idea made...

well plan B, BUT HOW DO I DRAW
okami6969
#704510
8 months ago
Remember what Discord said refering to Celestia: "I don't turn ponies to stone."

Discord is not a pony. He's a draconequus.
Anonymous
#743181
7 months ago
There is a story on FIM fiction that uses this very premise. I long forgot the name of it though.
Anonymous
#748297
7 months ago
"What have I done!?" I think they might be criminals and this is life imprisonment.
Anonymous
#839292
6 months ago
I have no mouth, and I must scream.