8.4 out 10.
The more I read it, the more I get it but still, there are only two downsides over here. Nor cringe nor edge are over these problems as you would fear, in fact, the descriptions fix everything and that´s what makes me think that what I saw the Bat Cadence fic wasn´t just an illusion.

I have a hard time praising things, even in real life,I need time for that and much more when I have had to reread it 4 times in order to get completely what you have covered behind with the backstories (it´s like there are several things going on and it´s an utter chaos, but that´s how real life and news works over here too).

One potential turn off could be the setting at first: it could drive people away because they don´t want to be absolutely reminded of their lives are sucked in, when they come for FiM for happiness and desire for improving themselves. This setting is highly unlikely and you admit it,yet it could sadly happen if power blinded the princesses. In fact, there are no technical problems in this fic but the sudden contextualization of having a developed mass media.

You have acquired all the schemes made over here, the discussions from September, the influence of music for creating a story and quoting lines from them and recontextualize what you want to write for your purpose with images supporting your vision (using the perfect trifecta of art, music and writing), an introduction of two posts. All of that by reaching descriptions that could come from a 1984 novel style instead of the typical edgy fanwork.

Yet I still feel that you wrote this for wish fulfillment and relief of your fears and constant propaganda coming into your head all the time. That rating may be high but it compiles a lot of influences from the /end. I still feel that your descriptions can take you in a higher place but the core base is already there. I am surprised this fic doesn´t have a title yet.

If you wanted to end the year with a cohesive note, there it is. Taking off like this with patience and silently waiting for the ideas to spark and apply them in a really short time…

Not the most ideal fic for Christmas but for sure it pays off for the skills and care brought into it.

I am fixing that with the fireworks in the end of this fic. The fear of the unknown is over and whenever that chaos end, you put yourself in the front line to defend that system you promised and then you can have a party while that peace remains.