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

Sereg Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 11th 2013 at 11:22:57 AM

I'm odd in that I really like angsty characters as having had deppresion myself, I can identify with it. Especially the self-loathing kind of angst as I personally was emotionally abused to the point that I believed that my existence actively made the world a worse place.

As such, I never had a problem with Littlepip's angsting or "corupted kindness" issue.

Seraphem Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 11th 2013 at 11:51:59 AM

Well, I don't mind SOME angst, as long as it doesn't devolve into Wangst, and all the issues they angst over make sense. I never had an issue with Li'lpip for that reason. And it's not an out of 'verse, dislike the story for doing it, it's a in 'verse, want to slap some sense into her kind of way.

I totally understand why she thinks that way, but kind of aggravating she refuses to see herself as better then she does, and goes out of her way to think badly of herself. but that's from an in 'verse perspective, not as to the writing of the story, since in that regard it makes perfect sense.

My issues are with Li'lpip the pony for thinking that way, not Li'lpip the character for being written that way.

Kkatman Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 12th 2013 at 5:43:48 AM

This chapter includes the only part of the story where a point of impact is (intentionally) lost if you are unfamiliar with the Fallout games: Calamity's line "Jus' get us t' Old Olneigh, an' we'll be fine" invokes a significantly different reaction in the reader if they are familiar with Old Olney.

This chapter is also unique in that it exists largely because of feedback. The story-critical revelations and plot points in the chapter were originally going to be written into the next two. However, feedback revealed that the swift entrance into Maripony left readers feeling like an important setting had been effectively glossed over, and so I needed to give Splendid Valley more of an exploration with the group's exit.

I was more than happy to, as at that time I was looking for the best opportunity to delve more into the characters of Calamity and Xenith, particularly in relation to each other, and expanding the Splendid Valley adventure looked like the perfect vehicle to do so.

Seraphem Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 12th 2013 at 6:52:06 AM

Ah, yeah can tell you were trying to have Calamity and Xenith work off each other.

And yeah I saw nothing odd about Ol Olneigh, though only game I've actually played is New Vegas