A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.
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apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.
Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
I actually enjoyed it for being so slice-of-lifey. Plot device premise plus no overly high stakes may not make for great literature, but I found it harmless enough (aside from making me wonder what I was doing with my life after seeing "I" move forward in his
).
Past Sins is my best guess now. "Emotionally empty, self-awaringly smug, and downright exploitative" and "semi-pretentious dark tripe" jive pretty well with most of the criticisms I hear of it and the Alternate Character Interpretation could be in reference to Nightmare Moon or Celestia.
Though, again, I found it harmless enough.
edited 12th Nov '15 12:10:54 PM by YamiVizziniX
There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.Depends what kind of preachers, I'd say. If they're fairly harmless, I'd say leave them alone.
Oh God! Natural light!It's definitely Fallout Equestria. The only time people in the fandom talk like that, they're talking about FOE. It could be Project Horizons, which is even worse on the Alternate Character Interpretation, except that post was made before it completed.
That reminds me, I need to go back and finish PH now it's complete.
Edit: Actually, it might really be Snowdrop. He says he saw it "last night" and FOE isn't something you get through in a night. You don't even get to the parts where insulting Alternate Character Interpretation comes up in the beginning of the book.
edited 12th Nov '15 12:23:44 PM by CDRW
@CDRW: That's the main reason I didn't think FOE. It's too long. MLD is short enough that it could fit. Then again, if the dates are wrong, maybe not. I don't remember when most of that stuff came out. I guess it could be Past Sins, but while it's a bit of a case of "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny I've never seen it get that kind of response from anybody in this thread.
When Story is up to it, we'll have to have him look up the surrounding posts.
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I don't think we have a hard date; it could be anywhere in a range. Also, the "long finished" thing is a bit weird, but it could be parsed to mean "in production for a long time", which could still fit. I.e. people got hyped about Snowdrop and then once it released the hype died off.
edited 12th Nov '15 12:27:53 PM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image RepositoryMLD was really early, so that's a good contender, but it never seemed very Alternate Character Interpretation to me. Out of character yeah, but nothing in it is really a twist on canon characterization.
Well, maybe when everybody else shows up at the end. I don't remember that part too well.
They're that kind of "fire and brimstone", "you're all terrible people" kinds of preachers. Though the last time this happened the guy didn't get a very positive response.
As an example, one of the students offered them a ticket to one of my university's events and got told they were going to hell. Nice gratitude.
edited 12th Nov '15 12:30:27 PM by theLibrarian
Okay so I think that the fic they're mentioning had to be popular sometime around mid 2011 based on how long it took this thread to reach 4116 pages versus the old thread. This thread took about 1 and a half years to reach that number, so from the rumors I've heard about the old page, it should have moved much faster in that time.
The means that it must have been less than a year and a half since the old thread began that the person made their post, but enough time that the fandom had an obscenely popular fan fiction/series of media with known issues that isn't FO:E.
maybe.. though that ended in 2013 from a quick look, which makes it a few years late for my theory. Though my theory could be wrong.
edited 12th Nov '15 12:39:23 PM by EpicBleye
"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-MaeI don't think we have a hard date; it could be anywhere in a range.
Yeah, but the sheer volume of posts during Spring 2012 makes it easy to date things to approximately then. IIRC, the thread went from something like 70k to 240k posts during that period. So the post number falls well within that range.
Actually, that's like a third of the combined post count for old and new thread. So in general, it's a good guess that any random post happened during that time.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayWell, they probably had the Necronom book built in them but they're using it wrong.
https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615qOkay I'm breaking it down:
- "saw a pony fanwork". This definitely implies an animation or comic. You wouldn't use "saw" for read, and they specifically don't say fanfiction. Now this doesn't techincally mean a fanfic is ruled out, but it's unlikely that it is a fanfiction.
- "quite popular and used to get praised regularly (no longer since it has long since completed)". Okay so this is the most important bit. Obviously it was popular, but this also implies that this used to not just be popular, but also potentially raved about. But the important bit is "used to", as well as the "long since completed" bit. This means that (based on what story had just said) the fanwork had to have been completed, posted, and raved about 'long before spring 2012. This puts the fanwork as having been released late 2011.
- "alternate character interpretation". Clearly, this was a controversial (if you will) work that had been praised. Again, doubtfully fanfiction, which cuts down on the amount that could possibly be it.
- "semi-pretentious dark tripe". Another important clue. While simple, when combined with the above clue, it means that it must have been a dark fanwork that people very much liked.
So, in conclusion: This work was an animation (or comic) released late 2011 that either had a long production time and multiple parts that was very dark and interpreted at least one character in such a manner.
edited 12th Nov '15 1:03:07 PM by EpicBleye
"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-MaeWell, did a quick skim of Fanfic Recs and on the assumption we haven't totally ruled out fanfics yet, The Empty Room seems to fit within both time frame and the type of content that might provoke such a response.
EDIT: Wait a second. If it's more likely to be a visual thing, what about that old Ask Pinkamina blog? IIRC, it was based on Cupcakes!Pinkie that apparently had a whole boatload of extra sadism and sexual abuse thrown in.
edited 12th Nov '15 1:11:35 PM by KuroiTsubasaTenshi
FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshiThis definitely implies an animation or comic. You wouldn't use "saw" for read, and they specifically don't say fanfiction
Not really. People say saw for fanfics all the time. I'd say the difference between saw and read in this context is "came across" vs "actively perused". Of course, natural language is always a bit fuzzy.
This puts the fanwork as having been released late 2011.
Or any time before that.
Again, doubtfully fanfiction
Not sure where you're getting that from.
Re MLD: I never read it, but I found the Rainbow Dash Presents version pretty funny. From what I've heard, the original fic isn't very good anyway. A lot of the early fandom classics became popular because of the novelty and small size of the fandom rather than actual quality.
Edit: Wait a second. If it's more likely to be a visual thing, what about that old Ask Pinkamina blog? IIRC, it was based on Cupcakes!Pinkie that apparently had a whole boatload of extra sadism and sexual abuse thrown in.
I do recall that being discussed in the thread at one point. I even remember 3 or 4 people switching avatars to it. On the other hand, wasn't the blog taken down eventually? I don't remember the timeline there.
edited 12th Nov '15 1:16:18 PM by storyyeller
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This one?
NSFW.
This could work. It fits perfectly within the timeline. Though, it was all posted in one day.
Nope. Definitely not taken down, as evidenced by my post.
edited 12th Nov '15 1:17:04 PM by EpicBleye
"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-MaeYou sure about it? Given the way people here talked about it, it sounded like it went for a while.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play

Hmmm, saw does make it seem like it could be a video or otherwise, but I don't think it's Snowdrop. If the post is from Spring 2012, then it can't be Snowdrop, since it was uploaded Mar 21, 2013. It wasn't even released at this point, nevermind "old".
Thing is, I can't think of much media that came out long enough before that time to be considered "old". Maybe it's talking about the Pony.movs?
Fic-wise, I also pondered Asylum, but that wouldn't fit, since it's not even finished now. Friendship is Optimal was another one, but that has the same issue as Snowdrop. I'm still thinking Past Sins, maybe Fallout Equestria, but more likely Past Sins.
FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshi