I regret nothing. · 1:31am Oct 10th, 2015

So, Ghost and I were chatting and I mentioned how Sethisto dislikes stallion faces because he feels their noses look like trashcans. This is the result.

The door slammed open, crashing into a pile of cushions placed there for that purpose. People only ever entered Dotted's office in two ways. The cushions were there for the first, and for the second, there was a rather cunning array of traps and deadfalls.

"Dotty!"

Dotted paused, his quill a quarter of an inch from a report about that one time the head of Equestria's whistleblower protection agency threatening an employee for whistleblowing[1], and looked at Dr. Spinning Top with a look of utter weariness. He looked like sixty miles of bad road with a gallows at the end of it. He looked like the Visit Scenic Stalingrad brochure from 1944.

He looked like Dotted Line at the end of a long, long day.

"Yes?" It was less a question and more a carefully modulated sigh.

"It's the humans!"

Of course it was. Of course it was.

"Declared war on someone again, haven't they?"

"No! Worse!"

"Declared war on themselves?"

"They don't like stallions!"

"What? What do you mean they don't like... my human liaison doesn't seem to mind. All humans? Really?"

"Well no. Just... uh. Just the one, really. He thinks your nose looks like a trashcan lid."

Dotted Line pinched the bridge of his nose. "So what you are saying is... a single shaved monkey on a world that I can't visit doesn't like the shape of my nose?"

"...broadly speaking, yes. He really doesn't like it."

Dotted Line nodded. "I feel I, and indeed, Equestria, can live with this state of affairs."

[1] Dotted recommended 24-hour Guard protection, and in the box on the form marked 'Clear and present threats' carefully wrote in 'Dotted H. Line'

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