YMMV / Twilight's Bureaucracy

• Awesome Moments: Izzy knocking a corrupted Celestia out with a Twilicane without her noticing.
• Catharsis Factor: Twilight telling Blueblood, Sod, and the other ponies that conspired a Military Coup against her to eat shit. Especially since they've proved themselves to be annoyingly arrogant.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Celestia pulverizing Twilight? Not funny. The narration repeatedly saying Celestia was beating the shit out of Twilight? Hilarious.
• Fridge Horror: As pointed out by a few readers, and implied in the story itself, it's entirely possible that Twilight's new tax policy will result in her and public services such as the Royal Guard running out of money anyway.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Twilight telling Sod in the second story "Did I ever ask to be an alicorn? Or for the likely possibility that I might outlive my friends even though Celestia told me I won’t?". Given how later stories revealed Twilight inevitably outlived her friends and that Celestia was manipulating her to be her successor, this becomes a little harder to read.
• Heartwarming Moments: Luna comforting Twilight in the third story while the latter was having a nervous breakdown.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Because the first story was E-rated, Leondude wasn't allowed to include a video he made detailing why he didn't make it an animation like he originally intended in the Author's Notes because it contained swearing. Considering the stories after that were T-rated and contained Obligatory Swearing up the wazoo, this no longer seems to be a problem.
• Nightmare Fuel: Daybreaker in 'Celestia Goes Crazy And Stuff'. The fact that Celestia became so disillusioned with her former subjects that she planned to burn them all alive is in of itself disturbing.
• Strawman Has a Point: Even though Sod and his co-conspirators are a bunch of haughty hate sinks, they do bring up that Starlight and Discord should have been punished for nearly endangering Equestria instead of being given special treatment. They also point out how unfair it is that a child (Cozy Glow) wasn't given a second chance while two fully-grown adults (Starlight and Tempest) were.
  • As the above-mentioned Fridge Horror points out, they are right in saying Twilight isn't really fit to rule a country if her new tax policy is anything to go by.
• The Woobie: Poor Twilight really goes through the wringer in these fics. Between being in charge of an entire country that she has no idea how to run, to having several military coups attempted against her, to her friends inevitably passing away and her subjects being in a state of disharmony come My Little Pony: A New Generation, to finding out her former mentor had been lying to and manipulating her into being successor from the moment they first met. And then that former mentor beats the shit out of her.