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"In my stories superior beings - truly superior beings - can do things that if a lesser being, like a human, were to do, it would indeed be evil."
—on why the the Ponies are fully in the right for wiping out the Human race for absolutely no reason.

"I just don't like downer endings. I can't make myself do them. I don't see the appeal; life itself has the ultimate downer ending, and since we are all scheduled for that without escape, I want my fantasy to always have a happy ending. Doom is real, physical, physiological life, so at least let fiction have the protagonists win in the end, in some fashion! Realistic endings suck."

''"I am sooooo weary of the 'ponies are superior' thing. Listen: My schtick, my core premise is that Equestria is paradise, and ponies are angelic. That's the deal. That is what I saw in Season One, and it is what made me love MLP:FIM. The innocent kind, sweet, friendship literally is magic, better than life, lovely - but still exciting - Equestria is the one that caught my heart and soul. That is the only Equestria I write about. Equestria Prime, original Equestria, where the ponies only know love and kindness, and Celestia and Luna are deities that brought order to Discord's Chaos. THAT IS MY ANGLE.
Just accept it. That is my vision of Equestria - a world that would be worth being an afterlife. A world better and sweeter and kinder than our own in every way. There is no use complaining about it - it is the entire basis of any love I have for the show, for the characters, or for anything at all about these cartoon ponies. The second that dies in me, that is the day I stop writing here."''
—taken from fimfiction forums, represents the vision of Chatoyance

A Verb Called Self
I am the playing, but not the pause.
I am the effect, but not the cause.
I am the living, but not the cells.
I am the ringing, but not the bells.
I am the animal, but not the meat.
I am the walking, but not the feet.
I am the pattern, but not the clothes.
I am the smelling, but not the rose.
I am the waves, but not the sea.
Whatever my substrate, my me is still me.
I am the sparks in the dark that exist as a dream -
I am the process, but not the machine.
— From Cælum est Conterrens

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