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In the event that you just clicked this more or less at random and have pretty much no idea what this is, allow me to explain:

Fallout: Equestria is a fanfiction, a crossover between the Fallout series of video games and the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It may be the single most popular fanfiction in the entire fandom of the latter. The story is 45 chapters long plus an epilogue and an afterwards, clocks in at a word count higher than War and Peace (unless I'm mistaken one tragically misguided fan put the story on Wikipedia's "list of the longest books ever" page. Obviously it was removed), and has a large fanbase of its own, spawning fan art, fan adaptations, music, and even fanfiction of its own.

Fans have praised it for worldbuilding: the story actually does not go for the usual "character from video game meets ponies" premise a lot of lazy crossovers opt for, and instead works it into the backstory how we get from the universe in the show to the post-apocalyptic radioactive wasteland that we recognize from the Fallout games. Or I would recognize it if I'd played the games. As it is, I am waiting for a sale on Steam or GOG. The main characters of the story are all original characters, and they have been praised as "OC ponies done right" and "the best OC ponies in the fandom." In any case, the protagonist Littlepip is fairly instantly recognizable to many in the fandom, whether or not they've read the story. The story's length also qualifies it as something of an "epic." In any case, it has had praise heaped on it and is considered by many to be the best fanfic in the FiM fandom.

At this point, I have cleared chapter 13. I do not think the story deserves the praise it receives. I view it as horrendously overrated. As I go through the story, I will detail my problems with the story, along with general mockery.

The general Fallout: Equestria thread did not approve of my incessant riffing on the story and suggested I take it to a liveblog. Well, that's what I'll do.

A note that for the parts I have already read (the first thirteen chapters), I will be largely dealing from memory. As such, they will most likely not be as detailed as when I return to the stuff I haven't read. In any case, let's get started. Hopefully this isn't redundant as Perpetual Lurker is also doing a liveblog.

EDIT: It seems my complaining cannot be confined to a single fanfic. As such, I have decided to turn this into a multi-story liveblog!

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Seraphem Since: Dec, 1969
Aug 13th 2012 at 5:17:43 PM
Again, the 'abusive' parts are mostly do to the drugs and addiction, which will be over soon.

Bag Of Holding and they know she likes to look nice. Plus there has already been occasions where Velvet looking the part of a performer/singer came in handy.

Practicality, they know having that might be the only thing that saves them at some point. And she gets less horrified as it goes, the initial shock was more that, shock, she simply wasn't expecting that effect, now that she knows what it can do she'll be ready for it and know what's going to happen if she uses it.

Yeah you can't really blame the radiation thing JUST on video games here, it's pretty much a stable of ALL media that anything made by radiation is healed/powered up by it, Godzilla, The Hulk, Super mutants, Ghouls, Nuclear Man. Yeah can't really lay that as a complaint against this story in particular when it's a standard of nearly all media.

And Steelhooves was never really actively trying to hide the fact he wasn't a ghoul from anypony except the guards in Tenpony Tower. He just avoided making a point of it.

That's just your opinion, it's an action story, that stuff is to be expected. Complaining about having action scenes in this kind of story is like complaining because you sat down to watch a horror movie and it had gore. Nothing about the scenes is a detriment to the story itself, it's simply not the type of scenes you personally like reading. Doens't make the story or the scenes bad or wrong.

Umm yeah I never had hooves reach out of the screen and hold me down, force my eyes open and read it, so, WTF are you talking about?

No more vindictive then average. You make it sound like she'll spend her life hunting and killing some pony that flipped her off once.

Except your going ahead and assuming that what you see as crossing a line is the same as the narrator/lil'pip

Self-appointed, cause yeah there's really somepony in charge that can appointed somepony to deal with all this crap. Everyone in the wastelands pretty much is "self-appointed" whatever the hell they do becuase there is no one higher then any other pony unless your a slave

Avenger, that's bad cause yeah there's really nothing that needs fixing. and as fucked up as the wasteland is, you cant chop down a tree without avenging SOMETHING, that happened at some point

The message that I have no idea how you getting? Yes it is portrayed as bad that the wasteland does this to ponies, breaks them, makes them do stuff ponies never should be forced to. but it's on the Wasteland and the circumstances that cuased it, not the ponies that end up that way out of neccesity.

because your reading the thoughts of a confused, scared, out of her element, still fairly young pony that had a sheltered isolated upbringing. Everything here is lil'pips thoughts, her experiences her perspective. It's what she is thinking, not a third person impartial narrative of what happened.

theonebutcher Since: Dec, 1969
Dec 19th 2012 at 3:55:14 PM
Because beautiful dresses are worth a fuckton of money due to scarcity? Because they boost her seduction&perform skills? Also the "Radiation" is not Nuclear radiation. Its necromancy designed to "Send Ponies Straight to Hell allá Spikes Letter-Sending Breath" and in lower doses "Turn Ponies into Flesh eating Zombies" who seems to be a recurring theme in Zebra-Attack-Spells. So: It's Dark Magic, not gamma rays. The Narrator is Littlepip After Character Development and LP is Unlikable, because she is a druggy.
RN452 Since: Dec, 1969
Jan 10th 2013 at 12:19:08 PM
"And thus, we have passed the point where the main character " the sentence ends here, I guess you let it pass.
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