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You’ve come such a long, long way,
and I’ve watched you from that very first day.
To see how you might grow,
to see what you might do,
to see what you’ve been through
and all the ways you’ve made me proud of you.

At long last, a new change has come.

You’ve grown up and your new lives have begun.

So go where you will go,

and see what you will see.

Decide what you will be, because now, you’re free

to make your own destiny.

And with that, I think it’s over. Two years, thirteen days in the making, and it’s finally over. Thank you all for sticking with this as long as you have, for enjoying my work, and putting up with my salty remarks in the descriptions.

With that in mind, if you’ll pardon me, I wish to make one last statement.

Over the past two years, some of my opinions on the show have wavered. Things that I mocked or balked at I’ve come to gladly accept, cringing at the ignorance of my past self. Others, that I at first liked or tolerated, I’ve grown to find distasteful or questionable. I will not go into any of them, because I have a request for the writers that overrides all that I have said before.

Stop writing the show for us fans.

Every time a season has ended, on Equestria Daily and, I imagine, other MLP fan sites, a poll would be put up for various prominent ideas in the fandom that they’d like to see realized in the show, and sometimes, in tiny little ways, those wishes would come true. Stop doing that.

I can’t speak for the other fans out there, but I didn’t come to love the show for any of its fan-pandering, I came to love it because I saw a show that, had I children of my own, I would be overjoyed to find them watching. A show that wasn’t good for little kids, but great for little kids. That taught what I would like to teach them myself, rather than being a source of shallow drivel at best, or toxic garbage that they’d have to unpack later in life at worst.

I can already hear some of you mocking me, saying that it’s up to parents to arm kids against bad ideals that our culture may throw at them, but I say that when you make something for kids, you are a parent. So the first step lies with you.

I would also ask you to stop writing for the corporate execs at Hasbro, but sadly, we live in a society were mass-reaching entertainment is driven by profit, and good content and profit do not always coincide as far as business folks are concerned. So do what you can.

Just write for the kids. Write for the kids who need to learn that Good does NOT mean Dumb, that the “gender boxes” are far larger and overlaping than what past generations would like us to think, that there are many, many ways to be a girl, and that none need be held as “better” than any other. Because in a society where the sexist undermining of the importance and respectability of women in comparison to men is still prevalent, we need works like this to drive such rotten, old-fashioned notions out.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a show for little girls. Please, make it the show they deserve, AND need. Lord knows this comic probably isn’t.

Thank you.

• * * My Little Pony © Hasbro, Friendship is Magic was created by http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/ and assistants.

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