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TheBadFaerie — MLP:FiM - Shadows of the Past #21
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Published: 2018-04-14 11:12:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 10573; Favourites: 94; Downloads: 109
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Please do NOT post errors or corrections to this page, please post them to my profile page instead.Shadows of the Past is a continuation of my previous web Comic "Without Magic ", in which Twilight was tasked with finding out out "what makes her special as a pony" outside of magic. You do not need to have read Without Magic in order to enjoy Shadows of the past, though some scenes will make more sense if you have.
I was supposed to have uploaded this last week, but adding in the extra detail just took SOOOOOO LONG, so you're got it today instead.
If you're not sure which order to read the text in, the text with the black borders and the Pinkie Pie heads is the important text. Read the balloons in the order that they overlap. If one balloon is touching another, the one that overlaps is the one that should be read first. Read the ones on the left side of the page before the ones on the right.
As a quick summary of what's going on, Pinkie knows WAY more about the foalnappings than anypony else, and everypony is aghast as to how much information she has. Hence the WUT at the end.
Trigger Warning
Please see my disclaimer before reading\commenting, and be aware that this comic contains some darker or more political content that might be not be appropriate for Snowflakes\Millennial, people who are easily triggered, or those who cannot deal with ideas that conflict with their own.
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Comments: 76
Why is there a shadow around Rainbow Dash, and why do some of the ponies have censor bars? If you're gonna say "To cover their genitalia, silly!", why do they do they have otherwise visible genitalia? Other drawings have nothing there unless they're porn, so what is the point of establishing that they are there? It's distracting.
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The shadow around rainbow dash is because she's closer to the wall than the other ponies. Their shadows are cast on the floor.
The censorship bars are because I thought that it would be funny to "cover up" characters who are essentially naked all the time. The bars draw the reader's attention to the parts that aren't drawn in.
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Aside from the monstrous confusion, Pinkie actually found a lot of clues, and Hair Trigger was often on the background of the disappearances.
I do not say it could be her, but it comes to my mind that the culprit can take advantage of the confusion she makes to act undisturbed.
Anyway ... what Pinkie was saying about Miss Cheerilee?
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That she had a good reason to have the whipped cream and the gag.
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Jejeje este cómic ya me encanto demasiado, ya te ganaste un nuevo watcher :3
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Siiiii!!!!! XD
(No se por que no te puse watch si llevo viendo este cómic hace tiempo... *Face palm*)
Pero bueno, así soy xD
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Yeah, you heard her right. You're all getting an all-expenses-paid trip to the moon for knowing, and in some cases saying, too much.
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Ok, Pinkie's rant has traces of what we already know, yet there's some new clues...
hmm... i have to act fast if i want to dissect Pinkie's info.... >tempus Impedimentia!< FWASH!
* * POOF!
.... : wait; how?
Twilight, was that spell derived from how you exposed Svengallop? Agile thinking, dearie!
Now that I have your clues, it's time for some deductive flowcharting! Casebooks at the ready!
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I think that it's more of a Ramble than a Rant.
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Now we need a Pinkie in centre panel gif with spinning censor bar.... (I'm a bad Boulder)
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I considered putting in "Nipple stars" but decided against it.
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Too much on one page! I've brained my damage!
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And nopony's come to the theory of a changeling being the one responsible for these disappearances yet? Or even a foal-napping cult? With this many different stories, it has to be a shape-shifter.
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Would a changeling leave feather's behind?
Isn't it more likely that none of these ponies has anything to do with the foal nappings, and that the town is just paraniod and blaming anypony and everypony?
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That's a good question.
Perhaps. But something weird's happening in town. But what?
As for this Trigger mare, she needs to learn to stop point accusations at innocent folks before all the facts are in.
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This is often how things happen in real life.
You can live next door to people for years and years, and everybody gets on with each other, and then something happens and people start pointing fingers, and suddenly you have a witch hunt on your hands.
Back in the 1970s somebody started cutting up cows in my town. They snuck onto farms in the middle of the night, drained them of blood, and cut them up in a really creepy way. Back then nobody knew that this was happening all over the country. They thought that it was either some local psychopath or somebody with a vendetta. People started pointing fingers at each other and making all kinds of accusations about who might be doing it or why they might be doing it. Somebody even got shot (but no fatally) because one of their neighbors thought that it was them.
It was long before my time, but apparently it was really messed up. It was like something out of a movie.
Things only calmed down when somebody from the DA\LM said that he'd heard about cases like this from out of state, and that it was happening all over the country.
It stopped the local feuding, but it pretty much caused the entire town to pull up the drawbridge when it came to outsiders.
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Yikes. And the culprit was never caught?
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Nobody ever figured out who was doing it, or why they were doing it, but they are still at it.
We've not had a case in quite a while, it coincidentally stopped after the town brought a wide area network to connect the outlying farms together, which included putting up networked CCTV, but other towns report new attacks every year up and down the country.
Given how many cows have been attacked, and the fact that it's still going on, it's got to be some organized group rather than just one or two sickos.
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An organised group of people who spend their spare time trespassing on private land and killing innocent livestock in the middle of the night. I knew America was all kinds of fucked up, but this is just straight up insanity.
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I don't think that they're doing it for fun.
The ones that we have had here looked like they were cut up with a purpose.
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How so? I'm now intrigued.
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vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilat…
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So specific organs were removed and left to the foxes and other wildlife to mess with the evidence? That is very strange.
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The cases that I saw, no scavengers would touch the carcasses. Not even flies would go near them.
It was really creepy.
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Wow. Not even animals touching them? No wonder there were newspaper reports saying that the culprits could've been extraterrestrial in origin. This definitely sounds otherworldly now.
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No way it's aliens, it's gotta be people.
If an alien can fly half way across the galaxy you'd think that they'd simply beam the whole cow away and do whatever it is that they are doing in space.
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I'm not saying it was, just that it does elude to it. Or some otherworldly creature. Who knows.
To quote Charlie Sheen in Scary Movie 3, "They've mastered space flight, but they can't get through a wooden door?"
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Yeah... I'd have to go with everypony else Pinkie. Wat?
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BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH.
WUT?!! WUT?!! WUT?!!
Uh.......Wut they said.
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Based on those icons.
Applejack has snuck up behind Twilight, and has done something distinctly inappropriate to her, and Rainbow Dash witnessed it.
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Looks like Hair Trigger is conveniently getting in the way of the guard's investigation./ Any bets she's the one that's stealing the foals? Either she's going to "find" the missing foals and make Twilight look like a fool, or it's the work of Chrysalis, who is trying to discredit Twilight Sparkle.
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Her foal was one of the ones that went missing.
She was too busy protesting to pick him up from school and he was snatched when he tried to walk home alone.
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What better way to deflect attention from her than to have her own foal kidnapped? But I'm only guessing, you obviously know what's really happening as you're making the comic. Excellent job, btw.
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Writing the ending is the easy part, it's figuring out how to get past the middle and still have a compelling story that's hard.
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No wonder why it took you so long to make this part.
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Total coincidence. I just picked a random color.
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It feel like the work of several persons either all working alone, being a group or a first kidnapper with copycats in actions. It could be also someone planting false informations and evidences to confuse the investigators. Also, will Pinkie Pie will go to this condo in the moon? Maybe she could share a bunk bed with Luna. We didn't see her in a while. I could imagine her be "forced" to work as a warden by your princess Celestia.
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This chapter comes out the day after Art Bell of Coast to Coast passes away.
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Where I come from, Art Bell is considered to be a liberal skeptic.
I literally grew up with things like crop circles, cattle mutilation and unmarked military helicopters being a regular part of life.
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ok i did it . i read all of it. even the pink lined ones. man that was a misch masch of information
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Ironically, the comically placed censorship bar earned this page a NSFW tag. Dammit robots! That wasn't actually censoring anything! It was placed (brilliantly) for comedic effect! I noticed that when it wouldn't post the preview in a SFW discord channel, and started trying to figure out why. DA bot's see the censor block and they get truggered. (not mispelled, I *meant* to spell "truggered" that way)
(edit) Also, needless censorship can be made lewder and more funny if you turn the needless censorship block 90%... just sayin'...
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They have a bot that looks for a censorship bar?
Seriously?
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