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Scootaloo has been eclipsed. I don't know what to say. Even writing this is hard. This is not my Deviantart anymore. This is not Deviantart anymore, PERIOD.

The pony art is still left..... For however long that will be until Deviantart dies because its users and artists flee it..... But the environment has changed, the environment in which I looked at the pony art I love..... And I connect memories with this environment as well, not just with the pony art, but also with the environment that surrounds it..... Deviantart always had that nice classical design that I valued so much, the design of the early public Internet, before the rise of Web 2.0 made everything sleek and modern. Where other sites became modern and ugly and tasteless to look at, Deviantart kept its classical, traditional design. I always valued and treasured that highly. Now that design is gone and so are the memories connected to it..... Now I have to look at the pony art I love in a different setting and environment and this makes looking at the pony art also feel different..... It doesn't look the same and it doesn't FEEL the same..... And I could not archive everything. I screenshotted what I could, I screenshotted my entire account and I screenshotted nearly everything of DinkyUniverse's account. But so much has not been screenshotted, there was not enough time..... This came too quick and at the wrong moment..... King Sombra's curse shall befall you, Team Deviantart and Wix.

So much is not screenshotted; the pages of Edowaado's epic comic with Lyra and Doctor Whooves, Infinitydash's account, CSI--Madmax' account, mysticalpha's account, the uploads of "Story of the Blanks" and "Fluttershy's Bunny Rescue", the ponyfic "Angel Wing", the second ponyfic I ever read, just to name a few and some of the most important ones and ones I can think off the bat. And countless other pages whose layout and environment is just as important to my memories as the pony art itself..... I couldn't save them, I couldn't preserve their original design and layout to have my memories fully preserved and this hurts..... Only groups still look the same, for Luna knows how long, screenshot them while you can, but the rest looks different and I could not save it..... And the worst is, pony plz pictures in journal entries and comments, save for comments in groups, don't work anymore..... I always loved using these so much and now they are essentially gone..... I have to accustom to this and I don't want to, because pigheads in suits force me to.....

I won't say much about these changes..... Everything is horrible, I couldn't find the journal entry submission at first because it's at a completely different place now, journal entries don't have even settings at the bottom while you compose them anymore, everything looks plain and drab, so plain it's frightening, there is just a white background, you can't distinguish the space in which you type from the background at all, it's all the same white, there is not even an option to preview a journal entry before you send it off..... If you want to preview it, you have to save it as a draft, it looks like, but I won't even try it.....

All of this new layout is horrible, and I won't go into it why and how, plenty of others have done this before me, and it doesn't matter, nothing does matter anymore with this horrible design and the force we are exposed to with it..... This is not Deviantart anymore, it is not my Deviantart anymore and I don't care for it. Not much will happen with this account anymore..... I don't even want to go into my notifications and finally answer the favourites and replies to my comments that have popped in the last couple weeks and that I couldn't get to anymore before the change..... I don't feel like saying thank you for favourites and Llamas and such I got anymore, it's not the same anymore..... And I don't feel like doing things with this account anymore.....

I won't leave Deviantart. How could I? The ponies I love are here. And I hope you won't do so either and that the pony artists you watch won't to do so, because we can't purge the pony art that holds so much history and memories because of this forced change, it would be a dumb and wrong reaction, please don't do this. Abandon your accounts, don't use them anymore, but please don't delete them and please don't delete the pony art. Let's not make things more horrible, okay? Please don't delete anything. And please tell the pony artists you watch not to delete anything.

I won't delete anything either. I won't delete any of my pony art pieces or uploads and I won't delete any of my journal entries or anything on my profile and I will not change or remove anything from my account, profile or otherwise. And I will stay here on Deviantart until Eclipse made the ship sink. Because, as I already said, how could I leave it? This is where my ponies are and this is one of my pony homes here in this world, even though I didn't use it as much as I should have used it and sometimes used it for the wrong things, uploads that aren't even art because I was a young and dumb foal and inexperienced with uploading stuff in public, so I will stay and still look at pony art and frequent pony groups and download pony art and write comments under pony art and journal entries and maintain the broken pieces of my favourites and collections. And I will also download as much pony art as I can in the coming future, because Deviantart will get shutdown because of Eclipse in a few years, maybe even a few months already, and we can't lose this pony culture..... Download everything pony art you can, archive as much as possible in the WaybackMachine, tell your friends on here and all the people you know here on Deviantart to do the same. Because soon, the MLP: FiM legacy here on Deviantart will become erased because of a corporation and pigheads in suits. I will do so, as well, look at and save and archive as much pony art as I can. But I won't be using this account for uploads, save for a screenshot of my old profile and maybe a depressing pony meme to express my feelings over this change, anymore and I will neither write any more journal entries here, no future reviews for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, no thoughts about ponies or theories about Equestria anymore, not here on Deviantart. It isn't the same anymore, this is not my pony art home anymore, it feels different and alien, so I can't use this account anymore. It wouldn't be the same. If you want to see uploads and creations and blog entries by me, join me on my FIMFiction.net account, I will always remain active there: https://www.fimfiction.net/user/123313/Fluttercheer Or look at "The Daily Crusade" for Cutie Mark Crusaders art, it looks dead, but isn't, and will return once certain feelings and writing projects allow me to dedicate the intended daily time that I need so much to it: https://the-daily-crusade.tumblr.com/ But this account here, my Deviantart account, the first account I ever made an effort as a creator and uploaded creations of mine in public with, where I did my first, clumsy steps in pony art (they are still clumsy steps even today, I know), will not be updated or see new uploads anymore. It is officially read-only now. Rest in Peace, CMC--Scootaloo Deviantart account, August 16th, 2013 - to May 20th, 2020. One day, Noi will resurrect you on ArtSpacious. <3

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So, I guess it's time..... It's more than a month now and I can finally sit down and write a review for the very Finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic..... I needed a very long time for this. Accustoming to the end, dealing with it that it's over, coping with it..... I am still coping with it. And I am not sure if I am ready to write a review just yet. But it is an entire month now and I have seen the Finale ten times. So it's now or never.
I am not even sure if what will come out here at the end will be a review or if it should be called one..... But here are my thoughts and feelings about the Finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, the last three episodes of the best TV show that ever existed.....

We have Cozy Glow returning to do another attempt at conquering Equestria. Let us start with that, I guess..... I feel saddened that she chose this path. We have seen this before, she tried it before. But she wasn't actually hurting anypony, except for the betrayals of fake friendships. Now she went to new lengths and new lows to gain power. She shot Twilight in the face, knocked her against a wall and knocked her out. She threatened Twilight's friends with their complete destruction, when they were trapped and helpless and weren't a danger for her. And she proceeded to kill them when she had the chance to, with the powerful magic she came to possess.
It's the second item on this list that causes me to ponder..... Why did she want to destroy them, when they were no threat for her anymore? Is my theory about her wrong, is she really a hopeless evil just like Chrysalis is, after all? Or does her trauma go that deep, that she still felt threatened by them even though they were sitting in a cell with their magic blocked?
She shouldn't, really. Even if they would have been free or if they would have managed to escape, she had all that magic from Grogar's Bell, she would have defeated them with ease. If Cozy Glow wants power to protect herself, then she had it already. She had more power than them, there was no way how she could have perceived them as a threat. No reason anymore to destroy them to keep herself safe. Which only leaves one possibility; pure and utter sadism, joy from letting others suffer, from seeing them writhing in pain, from killing them..... That she is evil, pure concentrated evil and nothing else.
But the throne room battle was interesting..... Cozy felt overwhelmed by it. She had all that magic. She took out the guards just fine. She knocked out Twilight. She stole Celestia's and Luna's magic. But when Twilight's friends charged at her, she was suddenly shocked and overwhelmed. She felt visibly threatened by them. She had a hard time battling them. She didn't even attack them, she just dodged, despite all that magic she possessed. Even more than that, she did not cast her shield spell to protect herself from their attacks. She did nothing of that, just dodged, and then they managed to defeat her. Cozy let all of that happen to her, without fighting back, without shielding herself.
Cozy was completely overwhelmed by their group attack, almost paralyzed..... why? Despite all her power, she felt overwhelmed by their attack, why didn't she use it?
They've outnumbered her 7 to 1, but so did the guards before and she had no problems with taking them out, so superior numbers wasn't what overwhelmed her there..... But there was authority. There was something Twilight and her friends had over her that the guards didn't have and that was authority over Cozy.
The guards don't have more authority over Cozy than they have authority over any other citizen of Equestria. Cozy did not have to care about them. She does not even know them. But she knows Twilight and her friends. And they have authority over her, a much closer and more direct authority than the guards have, the authority of teachers. Cozy saw them every day, was under their authority every day, during the time she was taught at Twilight's school. Perhaps, this was the reason she did not attack them and why she did not even defend herself against their attacks. It was their authority that overwhelmed her, the authority she still felt from her time at Twilight's school.
This reaction of Cozy is, considering what we've seen her do in the Finale, surprisingly in line with my abuse theory I have about her. If she was abused and if her abuser was a figure of authority, perhaps even a [i]teacher[/i], this would explain why she was too overwhelmed to fight when being assaulted by Twilight's friends. She took out the guards, but then these close authorities attacked her and this brought flashbacks of the abuse she had to endure and so she felt overwhelmed and couldn't act. Other than trying to flee from their attacks.....
Despite her powerful magic, she felt very much threatened by them. And she was scared when they all attacked her, so scared that she did not even fight back, in a state of almost pure paralyzis. I think this is where it still shows that Cozy Glow is not truly evil. Twilight's friends were still locked up when she threatened to completely destroy them, no threat to her in that moment, but being in their presence, Cozy felt their authority anyway. Authority that brings with it flashes from her troubled past. And if she can make those flashes stop by eliminating the ponies of authority that, just like her abuser, attacked her..... then killing definitely seems like the lesser evil to Cozy.
I struggled with seeing her do those things and that still makes me sad..... but I still don't think that Cozy is actually evil at heart. I'm not even stereotyping her as a weak, scared and innocent foal..... Foals are capable. Children can do horrible things if they choose to, I speak of personal experience that goes very far back for me..... But in Cozy's particular case, I do not think she is truly evil, but rather steered by a traumatic past.
There is still a vulnerable and sensitive filly behind this facade of lust for power and sadism.
And I hate seeing her encased in stone now..... Chrysalis and Tirek deserve it. They had it coming. There is no past trauma that makes them being villains; one an otherworldly, demonic creature born from an evil and equally demonic tree, the other one a power-hungry tyrant who probably even killed his own father to rise to power, they are truly evil. Especially Chrysalis.
But Cozy Glow is not and so I hate it that she is encased in stone now..... Especially because we do not know if she is even still alive in there. Discord survived being encased in stone, but Discord is a chaos entity, while Cozy is just an ordinary pony. Then again, we have seen ponies survive petrification. Twilight became petrified by a cockatrice once and so did Mudbriar just recently. Both of them are still alive. So Cozy can still be alive, too. But at the same time, we don't have a guarantee that the magic used in this case is not lethal or that all petrification magic leaves a pony alive and can be reversed, like it was planned in Rockhoof's case.
Strictly speaking, we have never seen petrification magic that is lethal and there has never been confirmation that lethal petrification magic exists in Equestria. But I'm still not sure that lethal petrification magic doesn't exist in Equestria, there are many spells we don't know, and if it does exist, then it would make sense for Celestia, Luna and Discord to use such a magic considering what threat Tirek, Cozy Glow and Chrysalis posed for Equestria. They have always dealt quite mercilessly with villains.
So, for all we know, Cozy Glow could be dead now, and that bugs me tremendously. All I can do is hope that she isn't, that the spell isn't lethal. And that Twilight lets her out eventually and gives her a proper chance. Cozy deserves it.

How to continue..... Writing this isn't easy. Tirek and Chrysalis..... Not many surprises there. Chrysalis was always completely irredeemable. Nothing unexpected, especially considering her aforementioned origins. We've never seen a single reaction by her that gave reason to believe that there is a shred of good nature in Chrysalis. Even when Starlight offered her forgiveness, Chrysalis just mocked her. And even when she experienced the feeling of true friendship for a short moment, Chrysalis purposely fought against it and made it fizzle away with a powerful scream. She didn't like the feeling of benignancy when it came over her, so she decided to stay evil. There is no hope for someone who experiences how it feels to be good, but rejects that gift and chooses the dark side by their own free will.
I always said that there is only either eternal imprisonment or death for Chrysalis. The latter could have become true now, for all we know. But for Cozy's sake, I hope that it's not.
There was nothing surprising happening with Chrysalis, however, I love that we got to see a showdown between Chrysalis and Starlight Glimmer! I didn't believe this would happen anymore, since Chrysalis never showed any interest in coming back just for the sake of getting revenge on Starlight, surprisingly. Even when she clearly had the chance to, she didn't go after Starlight or try to kill her. In the end, Chrysalis was more interested in being powerful again and trying to conquer Equestria another time, and revenge on Starlight was more of a side note for her.
But now we got to see this regardless and, wow, was it epic! It was short, sure. Very short. I expected it to be much more elaborate, an encounter akin to Twilight's legendary fight against Tirek, but what we did get was epicness at its finest:





Short, but sweet. And that was all I needed, really. I just wanted to see what happens once Chrysalis and Starlight meet each other again and considering how bad it looked for it that this would ever happen, I am very happy with what we got here. I could watch this short battle the entire day.
Something I was more surprised about was Tirek's role in the Finale. I halfway expected him to get reformed or to at least do a step towards reformation. For Tirek, I can see some hope. Cozy Glow seemed to have warmed him up a bit and it was unexpected to see him saving this bird, instead of ignoring its plight. The latter is what made me think he could turn around one day and join the good side, such a reflex only happens out of care, so he did care a little for this bird's safety, in a way that probably even surprised himself.
But no such thing did happen and Tirek was in on the plan just as much as Cozy and Chrysalis were. But some good in him can be sensed, as minimalistic as it might be, and it's probably just too early right now. Maybe one day he and Cozy can turn their back on the villain life together..... granted they are still alive and that Cozy will get released someday.

And of course we had a fourth villain to meet in the Finale..... or did we? Seeing Grogar revealed to actually be Discord blew my mind. I think I can't even properly put it into words how that makes me feel, still..... Overwhelmed, mind-blown, these are all just words, I don't think they suffice to describe this feeling. It came completely unexpected, it came completely out of nowhere, there were zero hints that gave it away. And yet, knowing this now, a lot of things make more sense suddenly, or rather, a very different sense. I will get more into this, but preserve it for its own journal entry. This is definitely something that needs to be discussed on a broader scale and in an exclusive space for it.
Until then, this development simply amazed me. The best and most brilliantly executed plot twist I have ever seen in all of my TV history. This alone makes the Finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic stand on a very high note.

And then there has been the best thing about it, for me and also in a general sense..... I talked a lot about her already, but it would be unfair to not give her a place here.....




THE BIG HERO MOMENT. Hyper Sonic, formerly known in the fandom as Lemon Crumble, becoming the Greta Thunberg of pegasi and convincing her fellow people to fly into battle against Tirek, Cozy Glow and Chrysalis and to help the other pony tribes. She alone, of all the pegasi, was concerned for the other tribes, so she did what she had to do and made the other pegasi realize that they have to help, fulfilling her duty as the hero she is.
This moment and her deed are remarkable for me. During the entirety of Season 9, after I really got to know to Hyper Sonic while doing research for "Dreamwalker Dash" and planning her role in the story, I hoped she would get a big role every time there was a Friendship School episode. And every time my hopes were shattered. Seeing her having gotten this big role I was hoping for now, in the very Finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and doing such a heroic deed on top of that, this is the one moment that makes the Finale special for me.
It is incredibly hard to let go of this show, to cope with the thought that I might not see all of them ever again very soon..... But Hyper Sonic and what she did makes all of this easier, she gave me a gift on the way into the life after My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and this is making everything so much easier. She has become one of my favourite ponies at the start of Season 9 and I'm probably one of the few who can say of themselves that one of their favourite ponies saves them.
I am eternally grateful for it that Hyper Sonic exists and for what she did for Equestria and what she did for me. Her heroic deed will never be forgotten and the monument I'll be creating for her with "Dreamwalker Dash" is the least I can do for her in return, to give her something back.

And, for fairness' sake, she was not the only one. Another background pony stepped up to the task with an unexpected speaking role and heroic deed:




Raspberry Dazzle, formerly known as Candy Grapes in the fandom. Everyone talks about the Grogar Twist, but let us talk about this a little, too..... One surprising thing about the Finale is the sheer number of background ponies who got speaking roles. Hyper Sonic and Raspberry Dazzle and then also Dandy Dispatch, Tender Brush, Berry Sweet, Cotton Sky and Berry Punch.
We rarely hear a background pony speaking and if we do, not counting "Slice of Life", then it's one or two at most. But here we have seven background ponies with speaking roles, all in just one episode! This is unprecedented in the entire show's history, that an episode not centered around background ponies has that many background ponies speaking in it and I am glad this happened.
Obviously, not every background pony could get that chance, but this was the last time ever we could have a background pony getting an unexpected speaking role and the number of background ponies with speaking roles is staggering here. I'm so glad this was possible before the show ended.

And with the mention of background ponies, we come to what makes this episode the most epic Finale a season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has ever gotten..... Everyone has come together to save Equestria. All ponies, thanks to Hyper Sonic, Raspberry Dazzle and Sandbar, but also the griffons, the dragons, the changelings, the yaks and the hippogriffs, thanks to Gallus, Smolder, Ocellus, Yona and Silverstream, as well as the kirin and even the buffalos!
So many were there, coming together and coming to the rescue..... Tempest Shadow, Gilda, Sparkler, Ember, Flim & Flam, Prince Rutherford, Party Favor, Twilight's mom and her dad, Moondancer, Lyra, Minuette, Twinkleshine, Lemon Hearts, even Garble, Sunburst, his mom, Starlight's dad, Grandpa Gruff, Thorax, Terramar, Trixie, Chancellor Neighsay, Autumn Blaze, Rain Shine, Spitfire, Soarin', Fleetfoot, Surprise, all the other Wonderbolts, Pharynx, White Lightning, Big Mac, Zecora, Gabby, Derpy, Night Glider, even Little Strongheart and Chief Thunderhooves, Scarlet Heart (and that even as the only one of the crystal ponies who came to help, we have seen many heroes in this showdown), Snowflake (Bulk Biceps), November Rain, they all came and fought for the safety of Equestria.....
Griffonstone, the Dragon Lands, the Changeling Hive, Yakyakistan, Seaquestria, Mount Aris and the Peaks of Peril coming together to save Equestria in a large showdown, the ultimate proof for it that Twilight had just the right idea and that her Friendship School works, all the nations standing and fighting united just like Twilight envisioned it..... That was an epic moment of the likes that I can't even find words to describe it, of such an intensity that I'm almost speechless..... There was no way for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic to end on a more epic scale than it did with this display of unity and friendship.

And after this, right after this, it was when the emotions started..... Seeing Twilight and her friends sitting in Donut Joe's donut shop and eating donuts together to celebrate their victory and spend some more time with each other, that almost cracked me. Any longtime fans here who still remember this place and what meaning it holds? You better be, because it would be a shame if you don't.
Donut Joe's, it's where they have all gathered after the Grand Galloping Gala that we saw in the Season 1 Finale, the first big event they have spent together as friends..... The place they've retreated to after the Gala has gone so nervewreckingly wrong for each of them, where they realized that it would have been better to enjoy the Gala together instead of chasing their dreams and ambitions there individually. One of the very first lessons they've learned together as friends.....
This place holds so much significance and that was where the first two thirds of the Finale ended..... The symbolism there, the memories this brings up..... This moment alone can make you cry. And it almost did for me.
And then Fluttershy had to say this sentence, "It's like the end of an era"..... Like she knows everything..... This cut into my heart like the strong metaphoric blade it is..... Coincidence? I don't know, but hearing this sentence was searing hot. And yet, this was just the beginning.....

And now, let's go to the place where the magic happens..... Ponyville. The very last episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic..... Writing about this one is the hardest.
It was like I imagined it. Not the exact events that transpired, but the feelings. I always imagined that the very last episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic will be a very emotional one, feeling exactly the same how "The Last Problem" felt. And that's what happened. It felt exactly as I always imagined it.
The most tragic about it, aside from the obvious feelings we as fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic have while watching it, is that Twilight had to move away..... Go and imagine this for a moment.....
Years ago, she moved to Ponyville so she could stay with her newfound friends. That's a big thing she did, moving into an entirely different town, even moving away from her own family, because she found just the right friends in that town and because she never wanted to be separate from them ever again. She decided to live in Ponyville after they had defeated Nightmare Moon together because being away from them again was unimaginable for her.
She moved to Ponyville just for them..... and now she had to move away again, back to Canterlot, because she is meant to rule Equestria after Celestia and Luna stepped down from the throne, had to leave them again..... This is exactly as sad and tragic as their tears showed, in that moment when they all broke down crying in Twilight's castle shortly before they left for Canterlot. Even Applejack cried and we know how serious it is if Applejack, who usually bottles up her sadness, starts to actually cry. Seeing them getting so forcefully separated, it made it even harder to watch this..... Now they cannot see each other very often anymore, living away from each other with their lives happening in two different towns..... This makes for the second-saddest ending of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic imaginable, seeing them getting separated after watching them as friends and all the things they had to go through in their friendships; drama, joy, sadness, even saving the world countless times, for years.
They are still friends. When I saw "The Last Problem" for the first time on the livestream more than four weeks ago, I was thinking they all broke up because their friendship couldn't handle this separation; because Twilight was mad at them for seemingly not caring about her move to Canterlot and that she has to leave them and because a fight about this started that teared them apart, a fight their friendship never recovered from again. The episode made you think this, until the last few minutes of it.
This wasn't what happened, so it turned out as the second-saddest ending imaginable, but second-saddest still means an amount of emotion that is almost not manageable for me. It got even sadder when Celestia and Luna announced their leave from Canterlot..... That they leave for Silver Shoals, to live there from now on. This is a decision by them that feels a little weird, that they don't just stay in Canterlot in a house inside the city somewhere, instead of moving into a retirement home, they aren't that weak and, by alicorn standards, not even that old yet, are they? It pours a bit more salty tear water on the mills of the possibility that their time has come and that this is why they have retired now..... Which is speculation and mostly it teared me apart to hear that they leave Canterlot.....
The second big tear-jerker moment of the episode. They lived in Canterlot for more than a thousand years, at least, and ruled Equestria from there that entire time. And we've seen only a few years of their rulership, a mere glimpse compared to the generations they have seen come and go, but this is such a fundamental and drastic change, that they retired and left Canterlot. Something that was there for more than a thousand years suddenly changed..... This is a feeling I can't even comprehend. Rarity was still right when she said that the ponies of Equestria are on edge because it's the first shift in royal power in over a millennium. She knew exactly what she was talking about. I can completely feel it.
And then the very end of the episode..... Seeing Ponyville again, one last time, in the future..... With so many ponies I know being older or grown-up..... This was when the floodgates fully opened for me. Seeing Ponyville in the future and this song accompanying it..... I already cried six times during the Finale, five of which during "The Last Problem" and I know I will cry a couple more times.
This entire episode has so many details..... And especially the end in Ponyville has so many..... I could not even discover it all yet. So this is far from the last time that I will talk about this episode here.
Pinkie Pie now has a foal and is in a romantic relationship with Cheese Sandwich..... Wow, this came unexpected..... The same goes for Rainbow Dash and Applejack and for Fluttershy and Discord. The latter is not too surprising, at least Discord always had a crush on Fluttershy. But the former, Rainbow Dash and Applejack..... That is even more unexpected than Pinkie and Cheese. They're doing chores on Sweet Apple Acres together, I've already seen fans say that this is vague and that everyone can make up their mind about that in whichever way they want, but really, this is more than obvious, them doing chores on Sweet Apple Acres together makes more than clear that they live together and if they live together..... you can make the math.
Then there are Big Mac and Sugar Belle, who live together on Sweet Apple Acres now and have a colt together..... And Sandbar and Yona who have taken over Rarity's boutique in Ponyville it looks like..... We've seen Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake as adults and I could spot Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon and Twist as adults, even Peach Fuzz! It makes me happy she is one of the fillies I could see in the future, I feel very connected to her.
And then Silverstream and Smolder and Ocellus in Twilight's Friendship School..... It looks like they stayed as teachers there. While Gallus became a royal guard in Canterlot, the first griffon in Canterlot's royal guard, and Yona and Sandbar stayed in Ponyville to take care of Rarity's boutique. Rarity also implied she had business to do in Yakyakistan, I wonder what this means, has she moved there at some time during the decades that passed?
And I'm not surprised that Gallus never returned to Griffonstone, there is nothing for him there and no one who waits for him there, so he went and made Equestria his new home.
Starlight and Sunburst were there, too, still running Twilight's school together..... as well as Trixie who is probably still student counselor.
And, the best was saved for last, my Crusaders were there, as well..... Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle have become friendship teachers at Twilight's school. This made me the most happy, seeing them one last time and finding out what the future holds for them.^^ :heart:
An unexpected future for them, I felt, I was thinking they would have enough to do with helping ponies with their cutie marks. But now that I write this review, I suddenly realized what they are teaching there..... When we saw Scootaloo in the classroom, there was a cutie mark drawn on the blackboard, that looked like their cutie marks. They teach how beneficial it is for a friendship if a group of friends has a common profession or goal, like they have a common profession with helping ponies with their cutie marks, a profession that deeply connects them, even since before they have gotten their cutie marks. This is why they became teachers there. Their future seems to be a bright one and that is soothing to know at the end.
I have also spotted new windows in Canterlot Castle. The Student Six saving Equestria from a beast and one with Flurry Heart and the Crystal Heart, perhaps her coronation? Did Cadance and Shining Armor retire, too, at some time during these decades? I have to examine these windows closer, especially the second one..... And the same goes for other details, there is a lot I yet have to discover for myself before I can talk more about it.
Who I'm missing in the very last episode is Cozy Glow..... Has Twilight never let her out? Is she still sitting in a stone prison? I hope she is not..... It is a possibility, that Twilight has set her free at some point, even though Cozy wasn't seen anywhere in "The Last Problem". A lot happens in a few decades, Cozy could be anywhere in Equestria after all this time..... I hope she is free.

I guess this brings me to the end, for now. Interesting, how this review of the Finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic ends the same way as I started it, with Cozy Glow. I really care a lot about her..... I hope that I'm going to see her again eventually and that I can find out what became of her and what the future holds for her. Or, what it held for her?
One thing the last episode does is confusing me a lot, what is the current point in time in Equestria now? Is it the present right after Twilight's coronation or is it the future a couple decades later? It would have to be the future, as the last episode was essentially a timeskip..... unless somepony used a spell and took a look into the future and that is how we could see Twilight together with Luster Dawn. But how likely is that?
This is something I can't wrap my head and brain around right now..... It will have to wait.
For now, this is over. This still doesn't feel like a review, more like me mourning the end of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic..... But this has to do, it's what I could muster up after one month of coping. It also won't be the last thing.....

There is more to analyze in the Finale, in all three episodes. Especially in the last one. And there is more to analyze in the show in general, there are lots of things I haven't talked about yet. As well as reviews. I still have more reviews to write, I have not yet written any reviews for the episodes of the first three seasons.
These won't be reviews for a new episode and maybe no one will read them since I'm only talking about episodes that everyone knows for years already. But more reviews for the show will come. And I will very likely also review new official comics once Season 10 starts in them. There is more material for many future reviews.
And there will be stories, of course. Do I even have to clarify that? I have ponyfic ideas for a lifetime and there is no way I will ever stop writing stories for Equestria. Not even if the worst case should happen and Generation 5 does turn out to be a reboot..... not even then I will stop with G4 ponyfics.

The book has closed for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic now..... But mine hasn't. I'm merely flipping over to a new page. You will hear much more from me.



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The Season 9 Finale is a two-parter, with one epilogue afterwards. So, to avoid having to make a new journal entry after "The Ending of the End", I will write my reactions for all three episodes into the same journal entry and make dedicated spaces for the two-parter and the epilogue below.




The Ending of the End


- Chrysalis already starts with bringing them up against each other..... This will go bad very quick.

- What has the belll done with them?! Have they gotten stronger?!

- OOOOOOH! Cozy Glow became an alicorn!!!!!!!

- This is getting good.

- WHAT?! Discord?! What happened there?!

- WHAAAAAAAAT?! Discord was Grogar?! I said it was a plan! All along!

- Lemon Hearts! She is reserved..... Chrysalis' influence.....

- Wow, things start to go bad really quick..... This is not going to end well. I'm scared.

- Discord pretended to be an ancient villain called Grogar..... That is the biggest plot twist I've ever seen after being a TV foal for 33 years now. I'm impressed. I'm so impressed.

- What happens there is nothing we could have ever expected..... This show is going out in such a high note.

- What? Hey, does that mean..... Discord has faked every single villain that they ever fought?! Nah, wait, that can't be..... Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy Glow ARE real, after all. But he faked the entire Sombra attack, I knew it was a plan.

- I just didn't know that it was Discord who planned it all. I thought that it were Celestia and Luna.

- Starswirl!!!!!!! And finally we saw Flurry Heart this season!!!! YES! :D

- The bell has absorbed Discord's chaos magic?! Damn it..... Equestria is doomed. Oh, no.....

- That bell can turn a pony into an alicorn instantly..... And it sucked up the chaos magic of THE draconequus, Discord. This is one unholy magical artifact. I wonder who would make such a thing and for what?!

- Cozy Glow knocked out the guards?! Wow, she IS strong now! That bell scares me.

- And how she shot Twilight there..... That looked so brutal. You know, for kids.

- Tirek already defeated the Pillars?! Wow..... This is not good. Discord without powers, the Pillars without magic.....

- Starslight, Trixie..... Please take care of the foals in Twilight's school. Please protect Lemon Crumble.

- Starlight and Chrysalis Showdown!!!!!!!!

- And now Starlight is out, too..... And Twilight knocked out by Cozy Glow. They do an extremely effective job at eliminating Equestria's defenses. A TOO GOOD job.

- Shit and now she has  Celestia's and Luna's magic..... That escalated so quickly.

- Oh, wow..... Cozy..... What are you doing..... Please don't do anything you will regret. :(

- Rarity, YES! This was awesome!

- I called it! I called it that Twilight teleports herself away there! Just the reason is a different one. But I called the teleport!

- Damn, the alliance between Cozy Glow, Tirek and Chrysalis really did not promise too much..... That bell needs to shot into space, onto a planet with no lifeforms.

- I really hope Cozy isn't doing something she will have to regret..... I mean, she already did things she will regret one day. But..... You know..... Hopefully she doesn't kill anypony. That would never stop haunting her.

- Starlight is back! She got free! YES! :D

- I wonder where Twilight is..... If she went to get help from the changelings, the hippogriffs or the kirin? Or maybe all of them at once?

- Where are Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle? Are they safe? Oh, there's Applebloom!

- Tender Brush is seriously pissed off. But I'm happy she got a speaking role.

- I wonder how they can get out of THIS mess..... I think their best is trying to get through to Cozy Glow. She is the most salvageable and reformable of that villainous trio. And I know she has that in her. They should try that.

- But they need to be careful...... Because whatever kind of abuse made Cozy so wicked and insane, could trigger more of that behavior in her if they aren't careful in their approach.

- LEMON CRUMBLE!!!!!!!! SHE has a speaking role!!!!!!!!! :D LEMON CRUMBLE! LEMON CRUMBLE! LEMON CRUMBLE! :D

- I can't believe it..... Lemon Crumble, best Friendship Student in Twilight's school and the filly I will soon write about in "Dreamwalker Dash" has a speaking role. I'm tearing up ;( This is so great..... I'm starting to cry.

- Flurry Heart, the last hope of Equestria? That is spot-on. Flurry Heart has so much raw power, she could give them a very hard time.

- Oh, wow..... I thought they are goners now for a moment.

- Now they're trying to get the bell..... The Battle for the Bell starts.....

- I wish Cozy would see the error of her ways and stop being a villain. But so far, there is nothing indicating that.

- But Lemon Crumble got a speaking role, so I'm already very much pleased.

- Tempest Shadow!!!!!!! The kirin! Derpy! So many background ponies! THe yaks! They are all here! :D :') The changelins, too! :D And the hippogriffs! :D

- Another background pony with a speaking role! And Lemon Crumble with another one! And she called the Friendship Students to fight! Lemon Crumble is a hero! I love her so much! <3

- This is so epic..... All of Equestria has gotten together to help. All of them help, the big heroes and the ordinary citizens. This is so grand. I'm tearing up by this. Everypony helps..... This is SO wonderful. <3 :')

- Pinkie Pie?! She has Discord's chaos magic?! Now she will become the Chaos Princess again! :D

- No, what..... They encase them to stone? Please not permanently! Leave Chrysalis and Tirek in there, but let Cozy Glow out again! She is not evil! Please let her out after a while!

- I hope they don't let Cozy Glow in stone forever..... That would be too cruel. It would be wrong.



The Last Problem


- Is that, "The Last Problem"? Wait, what..... What happened to Spike? Oh, crap..... Future episode?!

- This IS a future episode!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL DIE! :D I am dying here, what are they doing to me..... My heart can't take this.....

- Wait, how long into the future is this..... Is it just a few decades, or..... Hundreds of years? Judging by Spike's size, it is..... Are they all dead? :(

- Oh, right, Gallus..... Good. Then it can't be that long. I mean, we know that griffons don't live that long..... right?

- So, Twilight completely moved to Ponyville after the she ascended the throne. Moved out of her castle and everything.

- So, if I understood this right so far, Twilight tells a friendship student of hers in the future a story from the past, from after they defeated Tirek, Cozy Glow and Chrysalis, to make her realize the importance of friendship.

- Wait, I have a theory..... And I need to voice that before we see it, to have proof I said that prior to the reveal.....

- Is the entire show, everything we've seen it since Season 1, something that Twilight told a friendship student of hers in the future to teach her about how important friendship really is? I feel that right now. Like that's it.

- Has everything we've seen been told as stories from the past in the future? All the events we've seen since Season 1 all happened looooong ago and we saw them while Twilight told them to her friendship student in the future?

- I'm not sure what I'm going to do if that's the case..... That would be..... kind of horrible? Surprising, but horrible. Suddenly knowing that everything we've seen actually happened a long time ago in the past, not in the actual present.

- What we see in this episode in the future (I really hope it's the future, not the actual present), IS Generation 5. I hope.

- Oh, wow, she really tells a story from the past in the future! I mean, not all of the events seen in the show..... But what we see in this episode. I was right with that.

- Twilight moves away from Ponyville again..... OH SHIT. The feels. ;_; She moved to POnyville for her friends and now, years later, she moves away again..... I can't take this. ;_;

- The coronation happens..... More feelings will come.

- Flurry Heart! <3

- OH, damn..... That is the most embarrassing thing.

- They merged their crowns to make another crown for Twilight..... Wow..... This episode is full of so many feelings. ;_;

- Babs! Babs Seed! Oh my god, Babs..... We see Babs again..... Feelings, all the feelings.....

- Twilight's friends drifted away? So they are still alive..... So it's really not hundreds of years into the future, just a few decades at most. Good. That means my Crusaders, and Lemon Crumble and all the foals and fillies I love are adult, but not dead. Good.

- I wonder what become of Cozy Glow..... Still in stone in the future? Decades later? I hope not. :(

- There's Pinkie Pie! And let me guess who that filly is..... Her daughter?!

- Discord?! Fluttershy and Discord are..... together?! Like, a couple?! Fluttershy has become his marefriend?! Discord got what he always wanted!: D

- And Pinkie Pie has an adorable filly, oh my god..... I love her. I wanna know her name. And see her home. And know her life. I want to know everything about that filly!

- They leave? Oh, they go into a retirement home? Oh, come on, Celestia and Luna, you aren't THAT weak.

- Wow, they look really old..... Must be quite a few decades into the future.

- Can I see my Crusaders too? :) As REAL adults? :)

- Oh, wow, and now a song! This is going to be so emotional!

- There was Derpy! And Lyra and Bon Bon!

- Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake, OH MY GOD!

- Silverstream! AND MY CRUSADERS!!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEES! THEY HAVE BECOME FRIENDSHIP TEACHERS! :D :D :D :D :D :D

- Oh, wow, son of Big Mac and Sugar Belle! Wow..... You weren'T kidding about so much stuff.....

- I saw Wind Sprint!!!!! WInd Sprint!

- Kirin! AND THE BOOK CLOSES!!!!!! I said it! I wondered if that would happen! ANd it did! MLP: FiM ended with a book getting closed, just how it began with a book getting opened! YES! :D <3

- FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC! :D :D :D :D

- I don't know what to say..... I'm so speechless.....

- You know something has gotten to me when I shut up..... I'm crying on the inside.

- NEVER FORGET THE MAGIC OF FRIENDSHIP! NEVER FORGET FRIENDSHIP! FRIENDSHIP IS FOREVER! NEVER FORGET THAT LEMON CRUMBLE IS A HERO! NEVER FORGET THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS! NEVER FORGET EQUESTRIA!!!!!!!/10
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It is time. Time to reveal what I hinted at in my review for "Growing Up is Hard to Do", the last Cutie Mark Crusaders episode. My review for "The Big Mac Question" will come later, because first, I will talk about something far more important.

It's clear to me that, after "Growing Up is Hard to Do", I will probably never see Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle again (even though "The Big Mac Question" has thankfully proven me wrong, but it is unavoidable) and that I'll need something to keep feeling close to them, even though I can't see new events from their lives anymore. And it was immediately clear to me what that thing I need is.
You mostly know me as a dedicated writer of ponyfics. Pony art by me has happened only very rarely, so far, and I have never published or presented any of it here on FIMFiction.net. But every time I drew a pony, I noticed that I felt very close to them, like they are right next to my side. With that, it was very simple to find what I need. I made the decision that I will draw one Cutie Mark Crusaders picture each day, in a daily, recurring drawing experience with them. And I thought of more than that.
With the end of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic approaching us fast, a time will come when the Cutie Mark Crusaders are less well-known and, eventually, even completely unknown. Maybe not quite in a literal sense. Because how would it ever be possible to forget them, with all the great things they did? But eventually, people will talk less about them, get caught up in different things and activities than watching their episodes and think much less frequently about them than they used to do. Them only remembered on special occasions or maybe even just as afterthought anymore..... Can I let that happen? No, I can't.

For the Cutie Mark Crusaders, for their Greatness, their achievements and successes, for their deeds and their adventures, their lives and the great things they contribute to the society of Equestria as its only Cutie Mark Counselors, I present to you.....








On this artblog for them, I will upload each Cutie Mark Crusaders picture that I will draw on every single day from now on; to store them, to present them and, most importantly, to keep their memory alive by having a dedicated monument that will always receive new Cutie Mark Crusaders art and by spreading it everywhere!
If you are like me and can't get enough of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, if you miss them and need Cutie Mark Crusaders pictures to lift your spirits or simply if Cutie Mark Crusaders art gets sparse one day and you have a hard time finding new art for them, come to this place and you will always find what you need.
This artblog will feature a piece of Cutie Mark Crusaders art each day, until I have done my last breath in this world and life. The pictures might not be up to your quality expectations at the start, but if you come back regularly, you can see the art grow and represent the Cutie Mark Crusaders better and better with each passing day!
The first picture is already uploaded on their blog and you can go and check it out and read the first post right now! Use the tags at the bottom of each post to conveniently sort all pictures by Crusader in the future and have fun with the best fillies of all time!





The Cutie Mark Crusaders live forever!

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- Spike? The episode starts with Spike? How unusual..... I wonder what that means.

- And my Crusaders! :D <3 <3 <3 What they talking about? Tell me, girls!

- Octavia dated Snowflake?! Wow, that is an odd couple..... This episode will be big. I already said so, that it will be big, after Big JIm's tweet from yesterday, but now I say it even more. This episode will be big. I have a feeling it will.

- Big Mac wants to marry Sugar Belle? Wooh..... Big. As I said. And Discord shouted it all over Ponyville. After we've seen several ponies and Spike talking about how bad it all was after the events had already happened, so everything's a

- flashback, which means all went down in horrible way. Yeah, this is going to be very big.

- Mrs. Cake is baking secret desserts? But they aren't for the proposal, since she can't know about it and even if she were, Spike already knows, so she could tell him. I wonder what that's about..... I wonder if it has to do with two certain ponies..... Very certain ones.

- There is Millie! I saw Millie again. I wonder what she's up to these days? Still patronizing Dinky, MIllie?

- He brought the apples to life! LIke in the "Night of the Living Apples"! Wow, wonder what they say at the farm about this happening again, thanks to Discord.....

- I'm surprised that Discord has such a large role in this episode. I just recently realized we haven't seen him again since the Opener and that he doesn't seem to have a dedicated episode this season.

- It's good this changed.

- What was THAT?! A monster is looking for Sugar Belle? With such a voice? Has she played with unholy forces?

- And I saw my Crusaders again! They seem to have a lot of incidental spotlight in this episode. I'm so glad to see them a little more.

- Yes, A LOT of screentime! :D :D :D :D :D My Crusaders! Stay with me, please! :( <3 <3 <3

- Oh, Sugar Belle wants to propose to Big Mac at the same time? There's going to be pure chaos. Even without Discord.

- Each word of her proposal goes into a different pie? Is he going to eat all of them? It's going to be a while until he knows about her proposal. Hopefully, he doesn't throw away the first few papers.

- Trouble?! But you helped them, don't think you did something bad when you did something good! Why are they thinking they screwed up there? Twilight and their big sisters really affect their minds with their overprotection.

- Sweetie Belle interrupted a private moment in the spa. :3 Maybe she should have stayed there. xD

- Wow, we get to see all the events in a completely messed-up order. That will be exciting to figure out!

- A gigantic apple abomination, caused by Discord's magic?! Wow, that is some nightmare fuel right there. Just fitting for this month. This thing looks so creepy. Sometimes, Discord scares me.

- Discord has reacted swift there. Nice distraction.

- Discord called Spike "Drama Dragon" earlier. I'll remember that. That's what I'm gong to call bronies, who cause drama by complaining about episodes, like that from now on.

- Oh, his parents..... Will we now.....?

- They proposed in front of the trees their parents planted after they married..... This is wonderful and so sad.

- Oh, wow, and we even get to see the wedding at the end of the episode?!

- And, wow, that music there..... I'm going to cry so much very soon.

- And this was it. No mention of how their parents died, no flashback. Big Jim said this episode would be the conclusion of an arc that started in Season 6. And the only episode Big Mac stars in, in that season is "Where the Apple Lies", so I

- thought we'll see more from their past and how their parents died..... The arc about Big Mac and Sugar Belle only started in Season 7. I'm happy to not get more tragicness, but still a little disappointed,

- At least no changeling invasion happened during Big Mac's and Sugar Belle's wedding..... And they married at the same spot their parents got married to each other. This is almost more than I can handle right now.

- Never forget the past/10
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