Some ponies need somecreature to be nice to.

A proper pony utopia for uploaded human minds should plan for this...especially if it's run by an AI version of Celestia.

But sometimes, the plan seems to go wrong.

This story is set in the Optimalverse, so some things might be easier to understand if you've read
Friendship Is Optimal.

I wrote this story as a possible entry in the April 2021 Friendship is Optimal Writing Contest.

I thank Bananachips for prereading a draft of this story. I was able to directly address only some of the issues Bananachips raised, but the story is still better than it otherwise would have been.

_{(Cover image source: MockingBirb chose two images from those created (by processing data from a large number of human-created pictures) by the AI system "This Pony Does Not Exist," and edited them into a combination.}

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