Talk:Alicorns/@comment-15629929-20150713203529/@comment-7345250-20150729095414

Jonny's right about freedom of expression being a double-edged sword, but something you said also strikes me as interesting. You're defending Alicorn OCs on the premise of it being artistic expression.

N.B. Not all art is good.

That kind of talk—"It's not your work, so nuts to what you think!"—is exactly why the modern art industry is a joke. Though I cannot speak for everyone, I daresay patting someone on the back for a crummy work of art is fundamentally tantamount to abandoning one's own standard. Would you laud an archer for missing a target? Or a pianist for flopping madly all over the keys?

An Alicorn OC who succeeds at everything is a form of personal expression. An Earth pony OC who is interesting for character rather than achievement is also a form of personal expression. They may even be equal in this regard. However, they cannot be held equal as artistic expression.

Good art should be celebrated. Bad art should not be celebrated.

Alicorn OCs are all about power over personality, aesthetic uniqueness at the expense of true depth; and therefore, they are contemptible and poor in terms of artistic expression.