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
Assuming that was directed at me, you're welcome, dark.
And if you're looking for dA pages, Star, here's mine.
edited 12th Apr '14 1:13:23 PM by Wryte
No new episode today? o.O
GODDAMMIT HUB, IT'S SATURDAY, WHERE'S MY PONY FIX!
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...@Star Well, I post stuff on that occasionally. It's right here
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If you like the Kingdom Hearts style stained glass, there's a tag for those on Derpibooru.
Wow there's a lot of continuity nods in the Rarity book. Twi teaching the foals gets a nod, chocolate rain is mentioned, Sweetie says The, worst, possible, thing! and Rarity's moving up and getting notice across Equestria after the wedding and Saphire Shores.
edited 12th Apr '14 1:25:35 PM by Darkabomination
I think this is the first hiatus we've had in season 4. There were a lot of them during season 3.
Regarding the EUP, I like to think of them as a highly disciplined, extreme prejudice military force who attack with pies.
Dammit, Over A Barrel sucks but the pie warfare was amazing. Whenever I come across a grimdark/war fic I like to mentally replace all the weapons in the story with various different flavoured pies.
I'm the same way. Part of what drew me to the show in the first place was the fact that it managed to have mature plotlines without having to push the envelope in regard to content. It's one of very few truly optimistic works that don't come across as Glurge.
Reaction Image RepositoryGrimdark usually tends to be not so good, but stories that are just darker then the original show aren't inherently bad. If there were more fics out there that got the darker stuff from expanding upon things that already exist in the setting while still overall being optimistic {Like how the first Sonic Adventure game was a little dark at certain times with a deconstruction of the "Cute little critters trapped inside animals" trope as well as showing us how all of the Echidna's died, but overall the game was still mostly in tone with the rest of the series} and less of Cupcakes style fics, I don't think Dark fics in the fanbase would be hated so much.
edited 12th Apr '14 2:25:21 PM by marston
So that's why she sang Hellfire in Fi W.
Agreed. I found that weird too.
It paid extra money which she really needed.
Well season 3 was only a half season. Season 4 started unusually late considering it was full length.
I've seen suggestions that that is referred to as grimderp.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayOn the topic of dark fics- I generally agree. Dark can be good. Grimdark, excessive violence and darkness on the level of Cupcakes, is bad. Heck, some of my own ideas for fan fics are dark, but they aren't that dark.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/I think the main issue is that a show like MLP can only really support a certain degree of dark content before the dark elements get to be too much and overcome the base elements of the show. Once that line gets crossed, it comes across like throwing away elements of the source work for the sake of the darker elements. And the line is different for everybody.
That's a point of contention. It's definitely a Dark Fic in that it introduces lots of really dark violent and sexual elements that aren't in the source material. Whether those elements are pronounced enough to qualify it as grimdark, or whether it's just a darker but legitimate take on the setting is a really subjective question. One that this thread has had some pretty long arguments about.
edited 12th Apr '14 3:19:11 PM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image RepositoryI thought I was getting a sudden urge to check the thread.
Is it Dark.... there is a lot of darkness in it certainly, but well.. screw it here..
It has lots of darkness in it, but overall the story never is ABOUT that, but rather fighting it. So yeah while it can be a Dark story, it is by no means grimdark. Since the entire story is about hope. And Grimdark is about the utter and complete futility of hope, how everything will suck and be horrible no matter what. Or about simply embracing the darkness and reveling in being dark for it's own sake. Neither of those comes close to applying to FOE.
Dark CAN work quite well, even for Pony fics. Grimdark... not so much. Things like cupcakes.. they exist, can't really call them good, but they are good for what they are meant to be, and no one takes, or is meant to take them seriously. If you like the kind of stuff, whoo if not, just ignore them.
It's ones that try to pull grimdark, overly dark and painfull and cynical and whatnot.. and expect you to take them seriously. *cough* Octavia Takes The Bus, *cough* that I hate.
edited 12th Apr '14 3:45:39 PM by Seraphem

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