#people hate her for being a villain that was turned good..........shut the fuck up discord dickrider i swearrrrr you dorks only hate her

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that worst character bracket is teaching me that people????? hate????? starlight glimmer???? so much??????????? god forbid a horse girl do anything my word??????

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robin era jason, dick, and babs headcanons because there’s too much comedic potential to ignore

- dick and babs were the ultimate gossip buddies. whenever dick was with the titans for long periods of time, babs always filled him in on everything

babs: dick you’ll never believe what hal said to bruce last night, i even have videos. dick, the look on his face please—

dick, immediately locking doors so his teammates don’t hear the mad shit about to be dropped on main: tell me everything

- vice versa too, dick filled babs in on everything going on with the titans and all they can say is thank god those lines are bat secured with no villains being able to listen in, imagine deathstroke hearing through bat gossip that joey’s dating who?!?! 😳

- batkids have been and always will be the holder of superhero gossip. it’s a business, you see, but we’re getting off topic 😡

- lmfao anyways this is literally how dick finds out about jason

babs: anyways, jason—

dick: who the fuck is jason

babs: ....

dick: barbara?!?!

babs: ok promise you won’t freak out

- babs and dick’s first reaction upon meeting jason being “why is he so small i wasnt that small” “dick you were literally nine when you were robin—“ “he’s tiny” it’s like those two share the same braincell

- i’m making it so that dick gave jason his number earlier because i feel like it 😡😡😡 (not that it changes much other than the fact that i want more gossip dropped in dm’s)

- when dick gave jason his number, he went to babs like “give me jason’s number” “didn’t you literally just give him your’s?” “ya but i’m gonna make sure he texts me” “ya ok that’s fair”

- whenever jason didn’t want to be in the manor (fight with bruce, boredom, etc) he went to wherever the fuck babs lived and they would facetime dick and talk mad shit. it was a thing.

- despite them all being able to drive, babs was the only one during this time with an actual, legitimate, legal license (jason was too young to have a license and dick is too lazy/busy/whatever-excuse-he-wants-to-use to take the permit and driving test) so babs drove them around everywhere and it was a mess™ consisting of a bunch of backseat drivers

- “dick omg look at this video i found from the batcave” “omg he said robin gives him magic” “robin gives him magic” they both cry about it for years to come

- babs sometimes kidnapped jason after school after telling the head of wayne manor (alfred) and took him to get ice cream, then to the library while she worked. jason was the greatest kid in the library, he even had his own throne special chair just for him whenever he came provided by library staff who adored this absolute angel.

- jason 🤝 babs 🤝 dick -> i believe in annoying yet endearing nicknames supremacy

- nicknames include (some used by some more than others or just one, or by both equally because they’re annoying pick and choose my good people)

little wing (iconic, we all know this one fellas and who uses it)

red (used for babs, absolutely fantastic, but in the future it gets confusing because some people with their goddamn hero names 😡)

boy wonder (classic, babs calls them both that)

barbie (for babs, jason uses this one and he’s the only one able to get away with it)

dickie (jason just really gets away with everything huh)

dickhead (jason’s lucky he’s cute)

baba black sheep (jeez i’m on a roll with babs’ nicknames she’s so nickname-able and that’s very cool and sexy of her)

jay z

jay allen

jay jay jay (shut up, dickhead—)

big bird

and a bunch more i’m too tired to look for them in canon or make new ones up, but you get the idea

- dick can totally bake, and babs and jason keep bugging him when he’s baking and add more chocolate chips while pretending to not notice that he can see them 😡😡😡

- headcanon that jason had hero worship for babs and dick because they’re so cool in and out of costume and it never really went away when he got older listen his older brother and pseudo sister are so cool and that’s not his fault but he’ll never admit it

- barbie movie marathons because barbie is an iconic legend and they all recognize it. they have the fucking “she’s the queen of the WA-A-A-AVES” song memorized along with all other barbie movie songs, they sing it on patrol.

- dick and jason’s sibling dynamic was and is basically “ur a little shit and i hate you but i will literally kill for you”

- dick had tension with bruce while jason was just a little shit who would totally cause drama for the sake of it, and people never take advantage of this absolute power duo for destroying bruce

- dick sending cryptid texts to jason through a burner phone because he’s dramatic jason totally knew it was him about things that drive bruce mad, like leaving the shower turned to the coldest setting before bruce got there, leaving the lights in the batcave on, etc. jason, a wise little child, totally took advantage of this. bruce came to accept his fate

- the gc names, guys the group chat names

- jason crashing into titans tower whenever he wants and dick doesn’t bat (hAH) an eye, occasionally he very sweetly asks babs to come with him and she agrees but only sometimes because some people have jobs, jason—wait dick is being flirted with by who?!?! i’ll leave it up to your imagination ;) and they totally crashed titans missions too

- one time bruce was busy with the league while alfred was on vacation and bruce absolutely could not dip (i’m imagining bruce getting a call from the headmaster during an honest to god fight and bruce just picking up while punching the daylights out of some asshole) (“mr wayne, what is that noise in the background?” “sorry, headmaster, the cat is having a seizure”), so when jason got into a “fight” (read: some jackass picking on jason before he snapped and yelled at him and the bitchass kid tried to punch him and jason’s no quitter) bruce called dick who was an adult and legally family (yes dick is adopted sometime after jason was, stay mad) like “son... son please” and dick was like “oh no need to plead with me, this is too good” but of course this bitchass doesn’t have an actual lisence yet and he was hanging out with babs anyways so he and babs rolled up to gotham academy and the kids stared at them like “holy shit they’re so cool” ya dick and babs are those power couple, whether romantic or not, that turn heads, they’re just that powerful strolled into the office, bailed jason out while intimidating the headmaster because the altercation was the result of school staff negligence of actual bullying like those cliche tropes, said “ayyy you got that brat good” and get him chili dogs or whatever the fandom made robin jason’s favorite food. omg i just made an entire fanfic in rough draft form someone please steal it and write it in full form and send me the link

- jason is very very tiny, you see. babs and dick pick him up and move him for any reason, whether because they want to sit on that chair or to just throw him out of harm’s way and take the bullet for themselves.

- jason and dick both get adorable blushes on their faces it’s genetic yes that’s how genetics work shut up meanwhile babs’ ears turn red when she’s embarrassed and all three of them clown each other for it

- i yelled about this to my mutual (cough cough @littlespaceboii) who also added to this absolute dogshit headcanon and then in the discord full of mutuals, but the basement of wayne manor is haunted. dick found it when he was a little gremlin (i stand by that dick was the original demon child) (“you see damian, before there was you there was me” the real reason he was good with damian lmfao) and was like “omg this is so cool” @littlespaceboii came up with that it was just alfred fucking with bruce and so when jason first came and dick was comfy around him he was like “so have you been in the basement” and jason was like “im literally robin i’ve been in the batcave?!?!” and dick goes “no the basement, the haunted one” and jason’s like “hAUNTED?!?!” cuz jason has at least some self preservations and knows not to fuck with the spookies until he too became a spooky and bruce was like “there’s no ghost it’s not haunted” because he’s a skeptic and a party pooper and babs is like “no go on let him finish” even though she knows full well there are no ghosts or does she? and uhhhh basically they becomes ghostbusters 2.0 but cooler and funnier

- this trio is basically baby pan/bisexual jason and two resident expert pan/bisexuals solidarity but that’s literally canon. they go to pride every year that jason’s alive what who said that?

- they all tease each other for their crushes like all siblings/family friends do, i don’t need to say it but it’s important that’s emphasized for my well being

- yelled about this in the discord to the mutuals who added onto this absolute train wreck too, but jason used to play baseball during his robin days, and dick never showed up to those games with being busy as an excuse, but babs always showed up with bruce and alfred and took pictures for dick so dick could be like “mlb players are jobless now that little wing is on the scene” babs (and sometimes bruce) always shouted loudest for jason whether he was in the field or in the dugout and jason would get this extremely adorable blush on his face (jason finds out in the future why dick never showed up (cough cough ptsd from two face’s massive baseball bat which led to everything that came after including being fired and veangance academy and nearly killing two face and omg that’s a ride) and is like oh my god my childhood is even more ruined—)

- remember when i said dick got adopted after jason did in this new absolutely fabulous canon i just created? bruce did that because “ahhh fuck that’s my kid and i want him to know i love him through every means possible since i have the ability to do so” i believe in good dad bruce supremacy and made a whole thing where he invited dick to dinner for like a week to work up the courage and bonding to ask him and show him the adoption papers and then everyone cried :) bruce decided to finally adopt dick after jason referred to dick as his brother and bruce was like “...oh” and alfred was like 👀

- dick, as the first child hero and one of the first heroes period like at least a year or two before babs, holds the “back in my day” card over literally everyone in the hero community in general and pulls it out to annoy babs and jason even tho babs literally joined the scene only a year or two after dick

jason, shaking in his panties: it’s so fucking cold

dick, standing strong in his tits out outfit, who had to wear the panties on his own decision: oh, you’re cold? back in my day—

babs, throwing her boot at his face: god shut the fuck up—

and then dick doesn’t give back her boot and it becomes a whole thing with lots of tackling and play fighting and someone nearly gets thrown off they rooftop for funsies but anyways

also on a side note, babs would take off her cape and wrap it around jason whenever she noticed his discomfort with the weather, or use the weather as an excuse whenever she saw him uneasy for whatever reason and they never mention it to each other

- yelled about this in the discord to the mutuals at some point too holy shit i have friends, but those three are team rocket. they went out as team rocket for halloween one year after bullying bruce to let jason out only jason because he can’t tell dick and babs what to do and jason is under his care and when they do convince him, dick and babs bully jason into being meowth. manifesting jason in a meowth onesie ARTISTS PLEASE—

- dick finally took his license seriously and took his driver’s test after babs became paralyzed.

- those were a rough few months for those three. and then another rough few months for those two

- yikes, sorry to throw angst at you (sorry (unfeeling)) anyways, in the future alfred finds those old photos and shows the rest of the fam, so dick and babs bully jason, 6’2 jason that towers way above both of them, and once again bullies him into being meowth “for tradition, little wing!” “shut up, dickhead” the rest of the batkids lose their shit over this, naturally. bruce and alfred stand in the back teary eyed reminiscing the old days when things were a little more simple.

- discowing walked so terrifying handsome squidward red hood helmet could run (even tho the ugly helmet tripped and fell and missed the mark because discowing wasn’t ugly and will always remain superior, i feel i have committed a terrible crime comparing the two)

dick: jason what the fuck is that

jason: it’s fashion

dick: it’s terrifying

jason: i’m only following in my older brother’s footsteps 😔

dick: listen here, you little shit strangles him haha just kidding that illegal wait theyre vigilantes they don’t follow the law—

- these three and cass refer to the rest of the batkids as “the kids” (if she’s older than jason, sometimes she is and sometimes she isn’t and i’m really confused but whatever)

- babs and dick’s relationship with jason pre death literally shaped how jason treats his siblings post pit madness like he literally goes “what would red and big bird do?!??” when he needs to go into big brother mode over the “little ones” (“little” because tim and steph are adults and duke is nearly an adult himself oh my god he’ll graduate from high school soon and jason never got to do that himself he’s totally going to the ceremony legally dead or not) 🥺

- holy trinity continue hanging out with each other, whether lunch or games or whatever, and just enjoy each other’s company after long, rough years

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N3H: Chapter 3

Fandom: My Hero Academia Rating: T Relationships: A lot…. a lot. Main Characters: Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, Shoto Todoroki and Hitoshi Shinso. Warning: Good father Enji Todoroki, Shitty Father Hisashi Midoriya, Implied/Reference of drug use, implied/reference child abuse, Summary: Number3Hero!Au, in this Alternate Universe Izuku grew up with his father, Hisashi Midoriya, being Japan’s Number Three Hero. Izuku hates it. Growing resentment as the hero mistreated him as time goes by. Hisashi never liked his first son after he had divorced Inko. More so after finding out that Izuku is quirkless…. got accepted into U.A. and becoming the Number One Hero’s protégé. Izuku grew to become someone his shitty father never thought he’d be… a hero.

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22828801/chapters/54559486

Discord: La Red(Mesh Mash of... stuff.): https://discord.gg/KYjmVAb BNHA-N3H(This au discord.): https://discord.gg/D4aJzzE

“I… I think Izuku is quirkless.”

Rei, Enji, Mitsuki and Masaru glanced at each other, as they took in Inko’s words. She has called them that she needed their advice on something that has been on her mind. Warning bells started to go off in all their heads at the reason she needed advice.

Hisashi Midoriya had made an appointment with a doctor. To confirm whether or not Izuku has a quirk. None of them are surprised really. They knew at the age of eight was the caught off to see if a child has a quirk or quirkless.

Well… that would be the norm, but that was put into question on the age limit. All things considering there, Rei and Enji had taken Toya to check his pinky toes under his own request. It was indeed found out that Toya had the typical feature of someone that is quirkless, the two joints in the pinky toe. Toya waited eight years to see if he’ll ever get a quirk, spent two years believing he’s quirkless and then finding out he does indeed have a quirk that is completely incompatible with his body. The only thing they could do now is train him as much as they could and using the right support items.

“Does Izuku know about it?” Masaru asked worriedly.

“He does and he’s terrified. Not so much on whether he has a quirk, it’s his father’s reaction that has us worried.”

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Hitoshi could only feel terror run through himself as he used his quirk against his parents. He had just forced his parent’s dealer to believe his parents paid off their debt for this month. Right when the two were going to put that horrid muzzle back on him. He asked them a question, in anger, they responded.

That’s all it took for the eight-year-old to quickly get out of the rundown apartment. Hitoshi doesn’t know where he is running to, all he knows is that he needs to get away. The fear of getting caught by them and the very possible beating has him keep running.

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Izuku did his best to swallow down his nerves as he sat in between his parents in the waiting room. Today, he’s going to figure out is he has one or two joins in his pinky toes. He already knows what the doc is going to say to him. He’s quirkless.

His dad calls him quirkless.

His stepmom calls him quirkless.

His brothers, Ichirou and Kichirou, call him quirkless.

It wouldn’t be so farfetched if he is indeed… quirkless. A deku in their eyes. He knows that his mom believes he’s quirkless too but is more worried about his own reaction to the news. Right now, it’s just a confirmation to something he wants to avoid all together. Does he want to be quirkless? No. He wants to become a hero! A better hero than… him.

“Why don’t you go play?” Inko motioned over at the empty play area.

Izuku didn’t hesitate for a moment to go over to the play area while they waited for his turn to see the doctor. So much tension in the room and he hopes that will go away soon.

“Izuchan!”

“Huh?” Izuku turned to suddenly see Katsuki running up to him. He smiled widely at the sight of his best friend. “Why are you doing here?”

Katsuki shrugged, before motioning over to his parents. Izuku looked over just in time to see Auntie Mitsuki glaring at his father before sitting next to now visibly relaxed mom. Uncle Masaru only spared a glance at his former high school classmate before sitting down next to his own wife. It seems for the most part, the tension did go down a bit, but it’s still there.

“His teacher started to take notice that he might need reading glasses.” Mitsuki explained to Inko, seeing her friend’s concerned expression. “How are you holding up?”

Inko couldn’t help but let out a heavy sigh. Stress. Just so much stress that it took a toll on her entire appearance. “Stressed. Stressed beyond measure for Izuku.”

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“I’m home!” Fuyumi called out as she stepped foot into her home. She took off the hat that’s part of her Shiketsu High School uniform with an audible sigh. A long day at school and training, the only thing she wants is ice cream and to watch her soap operas. Walking into her home, she took note of all the pictures hung all over the walls of the entry way. One picture in particular caught her interest.

It’s a picture of the day that Toya got out of the hospital, everyone was there for that day. It has been around a year since Toya came back home, and so much has changed since then. It was during that time; she made a choice. That she’s going to become a hero, no matter what. Her brothers quickly followed suit once they caught wind of her plans. All with plans on becoming heroes. This resulted with her joining Shiketsu and Toya has just recently took the entrance exam to Ketsubutsu. Natsuo and Shoto are training with their parents to get ready. Fuyumi couldn’t help but let out a chuckle.

A superhero family of fire and ice.

Fuyumi chuckled to herself at the thought.

“Mom and dad are patrolling today.”

Fuyumi looked around in confusion as she didn’t see anyone around her.

“Down here.”

Fuyumi slowly looked down to see Toya laying on the ground, face down. “Toya…? You okay? Do you need help?”

“I’m the villain, Shoto is the hero and he’s hunting down Natsuo.” Toya answered. “You might want to go hide before he starts looking for you.”

“Right…”

“GET BACK HERE, NATSUO!” Shoto’s yelled out from the other side of the home.

“NEVER!” Natsuo yelled back, before he let out a loud crackle.

Fuyumi let out another sigh. “I’m going to make sure Shoto doesn’t burn Natsuo’s hair off…. Again.”

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Izuku shook uncontrollably, holding for dear life to his mom as his parents yelled at each other. He just got the news that many grew to dread in today’s age. Quirkless. He’s quirkless and there was nothing he could do about it. That… that wasn’t even the worst part. The worst part is seeing his father in complete rage. It got so bad that the nurse had ran out in terror and the doctor is in the corner of the room, phone in hand.

Pathetic!

Useless!

What’s wrong with you?

You’ll never amount to anything!

You’ll never be any different!

Stop crying, this instant!

Izuku couldn’t stop crying, if anything, his wails grew louder. If he was back in his father’s home, he would have been dragged over to his room and left there to cry. Right now, he has no place to run and hide from the man. His mom is doing his best to defend him, but he could tell she’s reaching her tipping point.

I’m pathetic!

I’m useless!

I’m sorry!

Please stop yelling at me!

It’s not my fault!

Please!!!

“You are no son of mine, Deku.” Hisashi backed out down to his so… no, he no longer considers Izuku his blood. Nothing more than a pawn to use against the brat’s mother. “Why do I even bother with you anymore? I should have cleaned my hands of you from the beginning.”

The sound of the door being slammed shut caused the blistering tirade temporarily stilled. Everyone turned to see Masaru Bakugo has entered the room and had slammed the door behind himself.

“Are you done?” Masaru remarked in a low tone. One could sense the tension and anger that seems to roll off himself.

“This doesn’t concern you, Bakugo.” Hisashi growled out, turning around completely to face his old school friend.

“You disowning your son because he’s quirkless, doesn’t concern him? You verbally attacking him and Inko, doesn’t concern me? Saying all those horrid things to them… is none of my concern? It is my concern!” Masaru snapped, there were some sparks started to go off from the palms of his hands.

“And what are you going to do about it?” Hisashi sneered, he crossed his arms over his chest, not even worried. ‘Far as we all know, you can’t do shit against me.”

“Oh… can’t I?” Masaru’s chuckle made Hisashi take pause. “I have connections everywhere, Midoriya. From heroes, news stations, and everyone you hate dealing with. Don’t forget… Izuku is my and Rei’s godchild. Like hell she or Enji are going to let this slide. Neither would I and Mitsuki. One more word, I will ruin you… it wouldn’t be all that hard. Who would they believe… me or you?”

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Katsuki kept a tight grip on his best friend as his old man drove them all to his home. All he knows is that Auntie Inko and Izuchan are going to be staying at his home for the night and that Izuchan’s bastard of a father called his best-friend quirkless.

Katsuki knew the word held a great distaste to many. He had heard the world mix around multiple times and had witnessed so much discrimination against those without a quirk. His parent’s support company employ people who are quirkless, and he had watched other employees harass them. Along with witnessing said people on longer working at Ground Zero after his parents found out about said fucking behavior.

His best friend is quirkless. Katsuki just witnessed best friend being yelled and cursed at for something he has no control over. He wanted to scream, yell, plead to help Izuchan when he overheard the bastard father yell all those…things to Izuchan when they walked by the room and getting a full blast of it when a nurse ran out of the room. Mitsuki had to drag her son away, for his father to take care of everything.

Katsuki doesn’t know what his old man said to the bastard, but it was enough for Auntie Inko to talk about blackmail, full custody, and some other crap to keep Izuchan away from the shitty bastard. Good.

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Of course, they couldn’t let him go…

Hitoshi tried to do his best to get the dealer’s hand off his neck. Just one week out in the streets, and he got found by one of his blasted parent’s dealers. One of which he had used his quirk against to forget about a debt. The sight of a knife caused Hitoshi to panic and is now frantically doing anything to get away.

“Hey! What do you call a group of unorganized cats? A cat-astrophe! Get it, Eraser?”

Hitoshi’s eyes widen when he suddenly saw cloth being wrapped around the man’s arm, yanking it away from him. The dealer dropped him when he was flung away due to the cloth. Awe fell over the eight-year-old at the sight of Eraserhead and Ms. Joke take on the lowlife.

In all the times Hitoshi had witnessed the two heroes on the news, daydreaming these two will save him from his parents. From that life, a life of villainy.

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Season 8 Retrospective

This... Okay, Season 8’s final W-L-T score was 0-11-15, which means that, quantitatively, it should have been the worst season yet. But...I dunno, this season just kind of...came and went. It might partially have to do with the fact that this is the eighth season of a show that should have ended with Season 3, but I think there’s a bigger factor at play here. Yes, it’s that most baffling of poor decisions, the School of Friendship!

I still cannot figure out why they thought this was such a good idea to build the entire season around. Maybe the voice actors for the Mane 6 are trying to move on from the show and are minimizing their future commitments? If it’s just trying to sell toys of the New Mane 6, they wouldn’t need to focus on them so heavily (people will buy figurines of background characters, for god’s sake), but phasing out the original Mane 6′s toyline also seems like a dumb idea. I think it’s just that corporations still haven’t gotten over the collective concept that they all seemed to have in the 1980s that kids love school and will watch anything set at a school. You know which cartoons I watched the least (or just flat out never watched) as a kid? Recess! Teacher’s Pet! Braceface! You know, the ones that spent a large chunk of time at school! School is by far the least interesting part of any child’s life! If the characters were school-age, you maybe showed a scene or two an episode just to establish that, but that’s it! A good example is Kim Possible; sure, she went to school every episode, but the majority of each episode was all the spy shit. Because no duh! (For the record, as a kid, I was also incredibly bored by any show that was just about kids doing normal shit all the time, school-related or otherwise: Doug, Rocket Power, The Weekenders, Hey Arnold!, Pepper Ann, As Told by Ginger, every single live-action laugh-track Disney sitcom...come to think of it, is that all that late-’90s to early-2000s Disney Channel and Nickelodeon shows were? Jesus Christ, I miss when Cartoon Network was fun.)

Anyway, I don’t know what kids watch these days. Maybe they don’t even watch this show; I have no idea. I haven’t kept up. Why am I even still talking about this? On with the list!

#1. “Road to Friendship”: Like I said, this one was the closest to “good” we got this season. Starlight and Trixie tend to have good dialogue together, and this was no exception. Did anyone notice that Starlight was barely in this season at all, though? They really need to deal with their constant problem of adding characters to the main cast and then not knowing what to do with them in future episodes.

#2. “Sounds of Silence”: If not for Autumn Blaze being so goddamn annoying (and the moral being fairly lame), this episode might have been better. At least I now know why I’ve been seeing kirin fanart for a few months now.

#3. “What Lies Beneath”: This was probably the only halfway decent episode involving the New Mane 6 because it actually gave us a bit of insight into their characters besides “like the Mane 6, but children”. The Tree of Harmony’s way of thinking is still super fucked-up, though.

#4. “Molt Down”: Puberty episode? Sure, why not. Still better than Big Mouth.

#5. “Father Knows Beast”: This one goes right next to the other Spike one because, like all Spike episodes, it really left little to no impact. The fact that Spike is still being written to be dumb enough to fall for some random dragon showing up and saying that he’s his father is pretty grating, though.

#6. “The Break Up Break Down”: Miscommunication storylines annoy the shit out of me, especially since Modern Family became 90% “I heard a thing and I’m going to assume the worst instead of just confirming it with the person I heard it from” episodes. At least Discord finally got a couple funny lines again.

#7. “Non-Compete Clause”: I don’t know why Applejack and Rainbow Dash thought a rehash of “Fall Weather Friends” would be a good idea if they mixed in a bit of child endangerment. Thank god the kids turned out to be smarter than them.

#8. “A Rockhoof and a Hard Place”: Still hard to believe they couldn’t find Rockhoof any digging or demolition jobs anywhere in Equestria. I do like that the ending basically acknowledged that they still don’t know exactly what the point of making Twilight a princess was or what she even does anymore.

#9 & #10. “School Daze”: I was technically right. Neighsay did return to be a villain in the season finale; he just wasn’t the real villain. The fact that they could have arrived at the solution at any time and just chose not to was really annoying. Remember, kids love storylines about legal loopholes and technicalities!

#11 & #12. “School Raze”: Yet another episode that required everyone involved to be as stupid as possible to get the plot going. Nothing like going with your first assumptions and ignoring all evidence to the contrary, eh, Twilight?

#13: “Marks for Effort”: This was just dumb. Twilight wouldn’t let the CMC into the school because they already knew enough about friendship? Yeah, sure. If anything, the episode proved just the opposite. Cozy Glow intentionally failed the test because she thought it would get them in? Uh-huh. Given her secret ultimate evil goal was to make everyone friends with her, I can only assume that she did in fact think that that plan would work, since getting them kicked out definitely wouldn’t endear her to them.

#14. “The End in Friend”: I don’t think this episode accomplished what it was attempting to. No, Rarity and Rainbow Dash don’t have anything in common. No, they don’t have to hang out together if they don’t have any activities they both enjoy. No, that doesn’t make them enemies, nor does it mean they can’t still hang out with their other friends. Sheesh.

#15. “The Washouts”: More child endangerment! Why a dangerous stunt team was able to hire Scootaloo I still don’t know, but apparently no one in the audience had a problem with that. If the lesson was to teach children not to be so fickle about picking their role models, that’s probably a good idea.

I’m not sure there’s all that much difference between these two parts of the list, but whatever.

#16. “Fake It ‘Til You Make It”: Seriously, though, Fluttershy’s only mistake was not telling those raccoons ahead of time that she was going to be using different personae. It was working!

#17. “Grannies Gone Wild”: This episode beat out Book Club by a whole month for its message of, “Old people are people too!” The Wonderbolts are assholes, Applejack is an asshole, and everypony loses! Hooray!

#18. “The Mean 6”: At least Chrysalis was still kind of intimidating in “To Where and Back Again”. This episode just made her look like a joke who had no clue what she was doing (more than “A Canterlot Wedding” already did, I mean).

#19. “The Parent Map”: Remember “Parental Glideance”? That was last year’s, “God, my parents are so embarrassing!” episode. This is this year’s. Joy.

#20. “Friendship University”: Someone was confused that I complained about Twilight apparently hating competition, even though she was trying to shut down the Friendship University because she clearly knew that Flim and Flam were untrustworthy. This person apparently missed the fact that Twilight was upset that somepony was opening a competing friendship school BEFORE she found out it was Flim and Flam who were running it, and she in fact went to the Friendship University specifically to find something wrong with it. That’s the part I was objecting to: the fact that Twilight is still so neurotic that she can’t handle not being in control of everything. In fact, that raises an interesting point. Has there ever been an episode where Twilight has had to learn the lesson of, “Other people are capable of things, too. Not everything has to be run by you first”? It certainly wasn’t this one.

#21. “Surf and/or Turf”: Hey, another episode where the conflict made no sense! And, as an added bonus, another one where just talking to the other people involved would have resolved it instantly! Huzzah! Old El Paso managed to make “Why not both?” the lesson of a 30-second commercial. I don’t know why this took so much longer.

#22. “Horse Play”: COM-MU-NI-CA-TION. “You’re a bad actress. You can have a surprise cameo at the end of our play to make the crowd happy, but that’s it.” Jesus.

#23. “The Hearth’s Warming Club”: What exactly was the message of this episode? “Don’t lie”? No, because they never told Twilight the truth; she just happened to be standing behind them when Gallus told the other kids. “Don’t wreck shit”? No, because Gallus never faced any consequences for that. Honestly, the lesson should have been directed at teachers, and it should have been, “Don’t try this shit. It never works; it just pisses everyone off, including you.”

#24. “The Maud Couple”: Worst new character of the season. Hands down. I hope we never see him again, especially if the only way we get more Maud is if he comes along for the ride. What a prick.

#25. “A Matter of Principals”: Speaking of episodes that teach the lesson to the wrong person... Remind me again why Discord wasn’t the one who learned the lesson here? Because he’s unteachable? Because he’s “reformed” and therefore has already learned all the lessons he needs to? Also, this is a rare episode where the characters do actually communicate properly (Starlight does tell Discord to knock his shit off), and they try to pretend they didn’t! Twilight gets mad at Starlight for not talking to Discord, even though she did! You can’t do this, writers! You just can’t!

#26. “Yakity-Sax”: Talk about not knowing what fucking lesson they were trying to teach. You know what? I bet this actually happened. I bet Michael P. and/or Wil Fox were practicing their electric guitar or drums or bagpipes or whatever for days on end at all hours of the night, and all their neighbors called the cops on them. This was their way of sticking it to everyone. “No! You should let me do whatever the hell I want! It doesn’t matter if it disturbs you! Fuck the system! It’s my passion! You can’t stop me from living my dream!”

There’s a holiday special next week, and near as I can figure, it hasn’t been aired in another country ahead of time! We’ll actually get to watch this one together! Yay!