What Do You Mean It Wasn'tMadeOnDrugs: Not well equipped at this moment to go over the fic again to check, but didn't the narrator at one point admit she did get a lot of her insights through regular joint-smoking (and interrupted her narration at least once for her regular light-up)? I believe it was around the point where she was describing how in order for Celestia to use Discord's second release to help convince the Main 6 that friendship worked (instead of dark magic) she had to negotiate with Discord, which meant getting seriously stoned, and thus secretly assembling and smoking the world's biggest joint, hidden behind one of the castle towers.
What Do You Mean It Wasn'tMadeOnDrugs: Not well equipped at this moment to go over the fic again to check, but didn't the narrator at one point admit she did get a lot of her insights through regular joint-smoking (and interrupted her narration at least once for her regular light-up)? I believe it was around the point where she was describing how in order for Celestia to use Discord's second release to help convince the Main 6 that friendship worked (instead of dark magic) she had to negotiate with Discord, which meant getting seriously stoned, and thus secretly assembling and smoking the world's biggest joint, hidden behind one of the castle towers.