Live Blogs A (positive) Re-Read of Fallout Equestria and Side Stories.

Seraphem2014-04-04 05:57:45

Yes yet ANOTHER liveblog of Fallout: Equestria. Though this one is slightly different, since well i've already read it once. And also I loved it. So why make this you might ask. "Oh yay mindless gushing about this from a fanboy" you might think. Well, no. Yes there are already two liveblogs of this story, one that's been pretty much abandoned, and another that is now a mash up of various MLP fics. And while I do like both the people doing them, they have a very negative view on the fic, more so then the vast majority who have read this. And I'm sure that anyone whose read Pannic's blog of it recognizes me and knows how much a disagree with his views on the story. I simply want to give another opinion on it.

Also it's been about a year or so since I read the fic, I want to go through, re-read it and see how time/Season2&3/seeing the various criticism, discussions, debates about the fic have change the way I see it.

And there is yet ANOTHER purpose to this, to work myself up to a fic I have been dreading reading, that I have been both interested, and repelled by from everything I've heard. And finally worked out a way to read it, via making it about the liveblog not me reading it myself (and yes it makes sense in my head, that's what matters.) So this is both a test run of working out how to do a liveblog, and directly related to the next fic since that one is Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons.

Hope that you all enjoy, feel free to comment once I start (will be soon, though going will be slow for the first month I work retail so this is a VERY busy time for me.) but I'll get it going as soon as I can and, well hope someone reads and enjoys this.

Comments

Seraphem Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 7th 2012 at 9:27:43 PM

Hmmm think I might have made this one to long, would love to hear if i should trim these a bit more. And Thank you everyone for your support, glad you all are enjoying this and feel free to comment on anything you might want to. plan on not stopping as long as anyone is reading, though progress will be fairly slow until after the holidays, except on the few days off work I get. Thanks again.

Sereg Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 8th 2012 at 1:00:11 AM

I don't have a problem with Littlepip being slightly hypocritical and sexist. It's not like she's TOO bad about it.

I actually like Calamity a lot. We normally agree with each other.

Seraphem Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 8th 2012 at 6:18:03 AM

I agree, they are flaws of hers, but they never really get over played, their just minor things. lets face it EVERYONE has a few hypocritical "do is I say not as I do" moments now and then. And the sexism isn't really there much and it's not personal, it's societal. She doens't think mares should be in charge because they are mares and better then stallions (she didn't think twice about Railright being in charge of New Appleloosa.) But simply because Stables had always been ruled by mares.

Pannic Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 8th 2012 at 7:37:31 AM

The problem is that this is something that was never brought up before and is never, to the best of my knowledge, brought up again. In other words, it's kinda pointless.

It also doesn't help that the chapter seems to make a big deal about gender roles here, but afterwards it falls into extraordinarily typical cliches (Oh, look, the females are in positions of sympathy while the baddies are overwhelmingly male) that don't seem to even get remotely close to being evened out for another twenty chapters.

Kkatman Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 8th 2012 at 8:04:49 AM

Pannic: If you haven't noticed it being brought up again, then you are misreading the character flaw. Littlepip's flaw on display here isn't sexism (although that is how it appears to manifest on shallow observation), but rather it is her difficulty accepting things that go against her mental framework of "how things should be". And this is a flaw that comes up repeatedly and frequently.

The Wasteland is new, and so she has little difficulty accepting that she has a lot to learn about it, but Stables? Keep in mind, it's not just the male-dominated society that she's reacting to. Even the Stable's architecture is bothering her because it doesn't conform to her expectations.

As for the observation about gender role cliches, you are simply incorrect. Positive and sympathetic characters of both genders are equally common. And the idea that the baddies are "overwhelmingly male" is just ridiculous (especially once you factor in the alicorns).

Perhaps you should read the story more closely. You have, after all, admitted a tendency to skim and skip stuff.

Pannic Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 8th 2012 at 1:27:55 PM

Okay, fair enough.

Seraphem Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 8th 2012 at 8:06:48 PM

Like I said in the review, it wasn't waht the change was, it was the fact that it was any change. She just didn't see how that could be seen as sexist till Calamity pointed it out.

Rainbowraptor Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 15th 2012 at 11:43:27 AM

I enjoyed this chapter a lot. World building and all that but I really like how Calamity and Lil'pip bonded. The bit about the jumping around bothered me but only because I'm listening to the audio version and, for some reason, there is no notice when there is a line break or even a chapter change.

DeathCloud Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 12th 2013 at 4:41:42 AM

""What the hell happened to Equestria!?" The sun and moon no longer being guided by the Princesses, a sarcastic quip from Calamity about them being in pony heaven, pegasi no longer running the weather?"

I don't like explanation for that - Sun and Moon move because Princesses are dead.