Ohhhh shit. Is X gone give to ’em?

And finally I reach the panel that got me to look into this series further.
 
Praise the sun, bitches. [T]/

Uh oh. That can’t be good.

Welp, I am starting to see the relevance of all those pages of babbling. (Starting.)

Damn he looks so scary to fight with

@redweasel  
no idea

@redweasel
 
The context’s there, she’s still questioning in the next page.

@BarryFromMars  
yeah, it’s a “shitshitshit this isn’t working why is she frowning at me” face

@Pagan
 
I had a face like that one but it wasn’t evil intent, it was an “I’m stressed beyond sanity right here” face.
 
Considering the new page this is probably just Padlock going nuts trying to “hold things together” as well as she thinks the scripture claims; she’s a devout follower but doesn’t know what she’s saying here. The strain on a person believing in a religious lie or misconception is enormous.

@Kamazeustra  
Some ancient part of Celestia’s church scripture, and one that she apparently forgot to mention…  
Part of the whole “giant bald humans must be bound in magical mind control” dogma she also forgot to mention…

@Background Pony #718A  
What does “He must also be bound in holy words” mean to you?

@Pagan  
Looks like she’s nervously trying to backpedal on the “purge the heretics” stuff while trying to put on a smile.  
Not so much a maniacal fundamentalist about to go allahu akbar and more akin to a kid in school trying to make it seem like his homework agrees with whatever his teacher just told him.

@Background Pony #718A  
Her face man look at it, it practically screams villain. Which is funny considering the next page shows they are just assuming things, which makes the face in the 5th panel not make much sense other than to be a red herring and throw the reader off.

@zippysqrl  
Almost like midwife medicine women tend to make short-sighted decisions with disastrous consequences when the luck gods aren’t blessing them or something. Seriously, she and Papyra can get swallowed up by Tartarus, it can only make Masacara’s life better in the long run.

@Background Pony #718A
 
I was assuming as much because of her eyes in that second to last panel. That does not look like the face of mercy.

@Background Pony #718A  
“ She didn’t give him those magical mind controlling bracers. Celestia did.”  
No, Celestia didn’t, Mrs Talltail gave them to him.  
This is just an instance of a dumb pony jumping to conclusions.

Why is everyone here assuming the priestess did anything but recite an old prayer, let alone was planning of taking control over Anon? She didn’t give him those magical mind controlling bracers. Celestia did. Nor would I assume she has any experience with using said bracers on humans by using ancient rituals, on account of Anon being the first in Equestria in centuries if not millennia. And lastly, since the priestess knew neither nothing of Anon or the princess’s intent to go join her congregation, let alone her willingness to drop the “purge the heretics and xeno’s” subject when celestia told her to, asking instead for protection, I seriously doubt she’s intending to launch a war with anon as a weapon.

@Lost Marbles  
He is wearing a T-shirt. It is very tight but you can see the sleeves.

What is going on with Anon’s stomach? Looks like he has a severe hernia.

@zippysqrl  
I already did but just in case because the last time I private message him, he did’t text back.

@Haruka Takahashi  
*Private Messages exist, you know.

@redweasel  
I made this for you:3 https://twitter.com/HarukaTakahash3 the link is right here, you will see your Weasel wearing a Christmas hat for this month and next month:3

@Amethyst_Crystal
 
oh, actually I think her intentions might be more than just “not malicious”…
 
remember it was the choosing stone that was plotting to ruin the sacrifice celestia’s parents made, and take celestia’s heart. who would you call the “cult of stone” besides the worship of the choosing stone? if she sends anon out to destroy “the cult of stone” then… padlock might be completely in the right, and about to save all their asses from destruction, until the heroes ruin everything by stopping her. if she succeeds, then the choosing stone might be fucked.

@Amethyst_Crystal
 
Well… Maybe so if she has no idea of what she’s doing. Maybe she’s just being manipulated without realizing it, I’ve met someone who was saying (in effect and in all caps, posted in a PSA video about a funeral of a husband and father on Youtube) “she’s husbandless so let’s pray for this widow to rot in hell” which is nearly a direct word for word quote. I tried correcting her, I really attempted to correct her and other people in the whole comments section did the same then she blocked me and said “god hates liars like you, ur weak im strong” even after I directly quoted scripture saying she shouldn’t pray for people to burn in hell. Her comments have since disappeared from my Y.T. page so maybe she’s been suspended. I’m not sure whether to laugh or what to think.
 
The night afterwards I dreamed I was in a basement with a girl who may have been her; a young teenager or preteen who then got her hands sprayed with battery acid. I moved her to the sink to clean it off immediately but she literally dissolved before I knew what was happening. The funny thing is the word “Vitriol” which means “sulfuric acid” or “bitter or harsh criticism” can describe the words that were coming out of her by the hands she used to type with to perfection! It’s no coincidence in my mind, I think my dreams give far better detail to important things than I may have realized.

@Amethyst_Crystal  
It sure sounds like a religious war curbstomp she wants.
 
also, since the show is done for now, this comic is what I desperately hope I don’t miss when I’m at work.