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Halcyon - The Land Of Friendship

So much of the commentary I see online about Starlight Glimmer and Twilight Sparkle seems to revel in missing the whole point.

Yes, these two characters had an arc.

That arc led them somewhere, somewhere good.

Without Twilight Sparkle, Starlight Glimmer would have remained nothing more than a small town tyrant of a cult leader.

And without Starlight Glimmer?

All would have been lost.

The Changelings would have won.

Trixie Lulamoon might have died, that "Moonshot Manticore Mouth Dive" was basically a suicide attempt.

Stygian would have been wrongly banished, again.

Equestria needed some pony to remind them that even good ponies can have bad days.

Starlight Glimmer needed one good day, she couldn't give that to herself, she needed to learn how to receive gracefully.

In checking each other, Starlight Glimmer and Twilight Sparkle checked themselves.

What followed on, what did they achieve together?

Maybe it can't quite be summed up in words.

Yes, we can talk about the defeat of Queen Chrysalis' evil plans, or the fact that the School Of Friendship was saved, but maybe all of those things don't quite capture the entirety of it.

I've tried to capture something of it in the image above.

Whatever it is, we need it in the worst sort of way, here in this human world.

We don't check ourselves, and we're never going to be able to check each other correctly until we do.

We don't do that, we should do that.

It's a shame that so many ponies only like to fixate on the fact that Starlight Glimmer and Trixie can be foils for Twilight Sparkle some of the time.

That part of the relationship is based upon something else.

Something good.

I won't presume to name it, but so help me, I will point to it.

TUMBLR 100+ FOLLOWERS SPECIAL! 

THIS IS THE BIGGEST PROJECT AND MOST PROCRASTINATED ITEM.

Thank you so much for being such loyal followers even if I ghosted y’all for like 5 years. I love you and I still very much love my Dudsy. I started this project back in 2014, being ambitious to try to include everyone. Which, I might, later on, just draw small chibis which are way easier. Anyways, congratulations to all who made this. It is still the biggest art piece I ever made with 300+ layers hhh. 

So, this project literally took 2014 - 2019. 5 years of procrastination. Congratulations to me.

Ponies in the picture (Still following me):

@ask-potluck

@meetnombre 

@showtimeandcoal

@asksweetpaw

@ask-twilight-and-derpy

@ask-sunset-shimmer

Gravire - @manehattansunderground-blog

@ask-zephyr-wing

@asknigel

@pwnytrain

@ask-googlechrome

@ask-ritsuka-pony

@ask-blueflame

@ask-moon-dust

@bigrednpastahead-blog

@strawberryicey (I drew this pair back in 2015 so sorry for the different designs fnvvnnm) 

@scythemaster892 http://scythemaster892.tumblr.com

@curiousponpon 

@ask-ghostwriter

@ask-aerosalt

@ask-hazelnut-swift

Ponies in the picture (Not following me. LMAO ITS BECAUSE I GHOSTED SORRY BUBS): 

Nursery-rhyme

Music Box

Darkpony

Emerald Pony

Xenon

Thundella

(I can’t find their blogs :( )

My IRLs:

Cherrychime

@bramblemocl

Lavender Mallow 

Cookie Beam

@nana-dashie-blog

@baybyfire 

@askchocolatesunshine-blog

My Other OC’s:

@ask-golden-crust