So, I read the first chapter of that sequel to Romance Reports whose name I honestly can't remember.
Unfortunately there isn't a whole lot to say about it. Starts with Big Macintosh ploughing the field, and narration and thoughts are giving the impression that he wishes he weren't. Somehow I don't think I approve of this characterization, the idea that Big Macintosh somehow resents his farm work.
He sees Fluttershy flying overhead and the narration informs us that he always likes to watch her fly overhead, even though he's never really spoken to her (oh aren't we clever, poking fun at this ship despite the lack of interaction in the actual show). He's got a crush on her, but he'd never actually be forward with her because she's too sweet for a guy like him to act like that to her.
Then the narration switches to Fluttershy, who hides in a tree, watches him work for a while, and then goes off to do her thing. Feeds a squirrel, gently shoos him off, and then proceeds to think about Big Macintosh and that one time he said "Hello" to her. Then she masturbates to him, all the while fantasizing about having a family with him.
Honestly not a lot to say here, so to pad for length I invite you to look at this
for five minutes before you continue to read.
Five minutes done, then? Sure is a cute picture, isn't it? It's fan art I got for one of my stories. Well, a line of dialogue from one of my stories.
Anyway, moving on to an old one-shot - My Little Dashie. Probably the most popular sadfic in the fandom, and a simple search into Fimfiction will yield an utterly nauseating amount of spinoffs and sequels and crap. Now, a bit of background - for a while there was a "ponies in real life" fad, which involved photoshopping pictures of ponies into photos of rooms and stuff. In particular, a series of pictures involved a picture of a smiling filly Rainbow Dash in a cardboard box, with the words "to a good home" written on it, and an unidentified human taking care of her. This became the basis for My Little Dashie, and the story is as follows.
There's this sadsack with no life who, one day, finds a cardboard box with a filly Rainbow Dash in it. He takes the filly home and proceeds to raise her like a daughter for the next fourteen years of his life. This proves not to be much of a problem, as the guy has absolutely nothing going on in his life that would interfere or lead to her being discovered. No friends, no commitments, none of that.
Anyway, we follow that amount of time, she grows up, his parents die, blah blah blah, until one day, Twilight Sparkle, her friends, and Princess Celestia show up in his living room, reveal that she's in the human world as a result of some weather experiment gone wrong, and there's a tearful goodbye as Celestia erases everything of her from the world, save for a scrapbook and a letter. Guy is then inspired to go out and get a life.
Many people have praised this story to absurd heights, but I honestly don't think it's very good. Here's the root problem with this story: it's honestly kind of creepy.
So this guy, this rather pathetic individual, has absolutely nothing going on in his life for fourteen years. Nothing except for a brightly-colored pony. I mean, I'm a pretty pathetic brony, I spend an uncomfortable amount of time reading and writing terrible fan fiction, but at least I have a job and peers and things that go on outside my front door and shit. If I were to relate to this protagonist I'd find myself rather scared at myself. It's like a self-indulgent tribute to the most embarrassing excesses of the fandom.
Here's a better sadfic: Pretty in Pink. Unlike MLD it's actually about the freaking ponies.
