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From what I’ve seen, Pillowfort’s rollout issues have thus far been unremarkable for a project of its scope developed by a team of its size, and the grave-dancing is mostly coming from folks who want to see it fail because they think its userbase consists of Special Snowflakes (whatever that means to them), so their opinion is of very little value.

No, the actual reason that Pillowfort is probably going to crash and burn is because they have no coherent development roadmap and no discernible business plan, not because of the quality of their code.

i've talked about this before i think first and foremost i'd wanna see them build up to the first big villain over time with a bit of a serialized story in the background, as opposed to FiM's first season opening on nightmare moon and THEN doing the slice of life character building stuff. (i wouldn't be surprised if the g5 show does this, especially with it being on netflix. just about every fantasy adventure cartoon these days is structured like this, including the later seasons of FiM)

i would also probably not set it in the FiM continuity, just so you could do new things with it without that baggage. you could introduce new takes on established characters here and there as needed alongside new main characters, and you could reset the worldbuilding without having to worry about tying it in to what the previous writers did across nine seasons, multiple movies, and two spinoff series

beyond that i'm not really sure. i think it'd be fun to mix up the types of ponies more (and the character body types), instead of just having the standard pony body for the whole main cast with optional horns and wings. throw in sea ponies and hippogryphs and breezies and kirin from the start, why not. you could invent some new ones too while you're at it

YOU’RE 100% CORRECT ABOUT THE PROPERTY LAW THING BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE INCORPORATING SUPERHEROES INTO ONES SPIRITUALITY IS KINDA CRINGE THERES A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEURODIVERGENT ENJOYMENT OF A STORY AND ACTIVE SPIRITUALIZATION OF A STORY AND ITS BAD TO CONFLATE THE TWO

SPIRITUALIZING THINGS THAT ARE OR WERE ONCE COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES IS A BAD IDEA, A STATE SHOULD NEVER HAVE SAY OVER WHO DOES OR DOES NOT OWN A GOD

yea i mean it’s one of those jokes that makes you chuckle the first time you see it but becomes progressively less and less funny the next 500 times. and unfortunately i do see it every time in my activity page. so it’s like any popular post you know? I’m just lucky that I haven’t had too many of them during my time on tumblr dot edu.

two additional notes since you did ask for my Thots:

1. it wasn’t just about destiel! and i think it’s fun when people reblog it and tag it with a fandom that i’ve never heard of and i’m like wow yeah those sure sound like character names good for them