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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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IcyShake Since: Dec, 1969
May 31st 2016 at 9:45:24 PM
  • Yes, I said, its through a hidden spot in the tree line. But only I know where it is, or can see it. It was the truth from a certain roundabout point of view.

So she is Obi Wan now? Why? What is the purpose of covering this up? Or maybe she is just a pathological liar, and there is no reason.

  • Maybe it was paranoia, or the natural empathy I had started to develop as a druidess for living creatures, but a strange feeling surged through me as I saw Scabbers.

Okay, I have an issue here. Should the feelings from paranoia and natural empathy be the same, or be easily confused? I would expect the empathy to be in some sense positive—at least she might think that would be the case, provided she was unable to use her empathy to perceive a reason for it to be distressing—as opposed to what you would get from paranoia.

  • The only way they could get her to take Muggle medicine was in liquid or…pill form.

Why is that ellipsis there? Was that an understated suppository joke?

  • I chuckled at the thought of a tiny Hermione crying and the astonished Doctor staring at his injection.

So this is a crossover now, is it?

  • you should be honoured to be taught by the Druids. In fact one of my cousins, who the family thinks is an accountant, is actually a Druid. He asked me to help him spread some disinformation about himself.

Is there anyone who is not a druid or connected to druids?

  • I have animal empathy down pat,

Which is why you were able to identify Scabbers as a human in animagus form. Granted, this un-self-aware overconfidence is believable from the character, but I have my doubts that it was intended.

  • the lesson I want to teach you is, that the fact that you can do something that is construed by everyone to be dark, destructive and evil, does not mean that you are those things.

So, I might take that as an indication that you do not want to teach this kind of thing to anyone until you have determined they, um, are not Those Things. Which is why you waited until they were . . . eleven. Oh.

  • In short, I dont think the author thought this through.

I kind of took the message of see this is terrible but you never murdered a city. So you are not bad even though you can. Which is a message, but a vapid one.

  • You know, Ginny was all weird around Harry in book two because he was famous and she had a crush on him. Keep in mind how the author of this fic insists theres totes nothing lesbian about Rose.

Point taken, but this is not about Rose; it is about Ginny. What matters more is how Rose reacts . . . which is going to go on to support your point, because of course it will.

  • Then why did you volunteer Ginnys room in the first place you stupid bi

Because you cannot have a mixed-gender sleepover. Never mind the fact that I do not remember any sign of attracton between Ron and Rose (but it has been a while), whereas Ginny has a crush on her. Well fuck. This almost looks like she did not think this through.

  • The author of that book just stuck in a bunch of conceptualized artist drawings? Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird.

But are they geometrically shaped?

  • You... are generally supposed to put a . at the end of Mr and Mrs, right?

Not in the British usage. And I think I saw some superfluous u-s and s-instead-of-z-s.

  • I was so tired I just graced my hand over the amulet and my apparent clothes disappeared. It was only Ginny’s gasp that told me I should have done that under the blankets if I had wanted to hide the amulet. I had no reservations of appearing nude in front of her.

Ahem. Fuck you. What you are comfortable with is somewhat less important than what Ginny is in this situation.

  • Hey, easy there Ginny, were all girls here, we both have the same bits,

The relevance of which is . . . I might go with nonexistent in this case.

  • It took a few minutes for her to get her composure back.

Probably took longer than it should have because, twat that Rose is, she did nothing to make Ginny more comfortable, such as put clothes on
Valikdu Since: Dec, 1969
Jul 17th 2016 at 5:39:35 AM
  • None of this half-assed shit. Give us full-assed shit.

I have to remember this for later use.
Pan_2000 Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 8th 2020 at 1:07:03 PM
She forces herself into a room? Judging from what I heard about this, this is not the first thing she will do that. Oh God.
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