>>5436 >He stayed a little bit thoughtful and he said: “BlueStar, it´s because Equestrians leave and no highway will bring them back” were hinted in the season 9 thread as well. I acknowledged his music back when the finale was going to air:
>>4790 >this felt like the proper moment to get ready and see all the achievements made before the fanbase leaves the highway and the likelihood of never coming back after the ending. There it is. so this line coming from him isn´t mine but a modified version that you would expect in Equestria and not from an IRL perspective. Here is where the whole meaning are explicitly naked and one could think about it in different ways:
Storywise: Bluestar finds out with that line from the painter that he was supposed to move on and life sooner or later would give him a different route. He ends up working as a guard of Seaquestria instead of staying in Canterlot. This is the canon one that any reader would conclude properly.
Fanbasewise: The finale has aired and this fic was written in January 2020, the ride is over and the fans have no reasons to stay here anymore. Everything that has happened after October 2019 has been a bonus but slowly over time, people will move on, leave this ride behind and look for other purposes because there is nothing else to look forward that made MLP special. The decade is gone and the party ended up there. This is why no highway will bring us back to the franchise because the main reason to stay together has vanished and it´s no longer with us.
/endpone/wise: maybe I have used this fic to channel my thoughts and feeling about the progress of this board. Perhaps this story serves as an allegory of moving on, leaving /mlp/ behind and work with this side project since December 2017, without telling me what to do, going fully independent and having an overwhelming freedom about what could be done here. I still lurk on /mlp/ daily but I didn´t imagine that I would get this far and turning from a lurker to an active user here. The change has been huge and no one has told where to go next.
