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

Jul 5th 2013 at 11:07:46 AM

Thank you. I may not have commented on every update, I may not have always agreed with you, I may have judged certain aspects of the story a bit more harshly than you did, but I really enjoyed reading your opinions and look forward to your next entry.

Of those listed, I'm most interested in your liveblog of CRISIS Equestria, though I STILL would love to see you do Harmony Theory, especially with the fact that their are some sinificant similarities at the premise level, though they are executed differently and the fact that you have yet to discover its awesomeness.

Seraphem Since: Dec, 1969

Jul 5th 2013 at 11:46:48 AM

Thank you as well. And, differing opinions are fun, it's what leads to discussion. Most of your views, yeah it's just YMMV. And discussing them is great and half the fun of doing his.

As to Harmony Theory, I rather thought you'd say that. And I would be interested. The one huge things those three over that, is that they are complete. I just get leary about reading stories and getting into them before they are done. in case they end up like PH and just never end but keep going and going. OR even worse Through The Eyes Of Another Pony and simply stop, never actually finishing and giving you the end of the story.

Sereg Since: Dec, 1969

Jul 6th 2013 at 3:51:51 AM

Well, CRISIS Equestri isn't actually completed yet and Harmony Theory updates reasonably frequently, so I doubt it'd be a problem.

Seraphem Since: Dec, 1969

Jul 6th 2013 at 5:26:47 AM

Yeah forgot about that, since it's been so long since the damn thing updated.

Unknownlight Since: Dec, 1969

Jul 6th 2013 at 8:04:09 PM

Well done.

Thank you.

DeathCloud Since: Dec, 1969

Jul 30th 2013 at 5:34:02 PM

So finished reading this.

Good Job.

I wish you would consider reading and live bloging Heroes. It's unfished but PH is too. And this one would fit more in your tastes. (And this story need more love).

Rainbowraptor Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 10th 2014 at 1:36:41 PM

I think I owe you an apology for not being here to read through your liveblog as originally intended. Big things happened to me in the past year or so that left me, well, no energy to do nothing but cope with day to day life. Won't go into detail but I'll just say, again, sorry.

At somepoint I'll be going back so I can comment on some of my favorite chapters, if anything just to relive the story again. FOE is actually my favorite fanfic, I think for the reasons you stated above and more.

Yeah, FOE is dark as hell but, at the risk of being sappy, the moments where the characters dealt with the dark helped me cope with the Wasteland in my own life.