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I consider myself very lucky to have found those last two screencaps. I specifically wanted a “facepalm -> double facepalm” with those characters, and I wasn’t sure I would get it. One of those screencaps is from Season 9, making it the latest one yet!

In more somber news, it’s my birthday today. It’s been a challenging year, and I feel like y’all deserve to know what’s been going on lately in my life.

DM: I know I left room for your reactions to be pretty open, but you don’t sound concerned… at ALL.
Ocellus / Chrysalis (TS): Why should I be? Has my mind been changed?
DM: No, mentally you’re still you. But physically…
Ocellus / Chrysalis (TS): I’ve never been that worried about my appearance before. Why start now?
DM: I see…
Yona (FS): I’m a little curious now… How was this “supposed” to work?
DM: Used to be that all changelings had this true form: Starving, incomplete, born and raised for evil purposes. There’s a lot of prejudice towards their people even after they reformed. So the thought of turning back and being stuck that way, like there’s no escaping one’s evil origin, is supposed to be… horrifying. But not to you, apparently!
Ocellus / Chrysalis (TS): You said “more powerful.” What kinds of new abilities do I get in this Evil Changeling Queen form?
DM: Um… You… may need to roll an Insight check. Because I could certainly give you a long list of cool powers, but there’s a high chance that they only exist in your head.
Ocellus / Chrysalis (TS): They may be illusory, but if they work in this space long enough to help us deal with Cozy Glow…!
DM: …Interesting point. Hold that thought. Silverstream? Got a plan yet to deal with the Storm King and his squadron?
Silverstream (PP): Yeah! It’s called “Hope that backup arrives before I try to take on this thing.”
DM: Do you have any reason to believe, in-character, that backup will arrive?
Silverstream (PP): Wishful thinking.
DM: Fair enough. Sandbar, how’s your “friendship adventure” with Rarity and Rainbow Dash going?
Sandbar (AJ): I don’t know, how IS it going?
DM: You’re mostly just charging heroically down a hallway with no end in sight.
Sandbar (AJ): That’s okay! I’m with my idols! If I do what they say, maybe they’ll be MY friends too!
Gallus (RD): Good grief.
Smolder (RT): Unbelievable.
DM: Even though they’ve given you absolutely NO details whatsoever as to what this mysterious “friendship problem” seems to be?
Sandbar (AJ): But my dude! I’m with the two-faced rogue and the fight-happy barbarian! When have they EVER steered anypony wrong?!
Smolder (RT): (facepalm)
Gallus (RD): (double facepalm)