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Either I am reading this wrong or you are saying they moved the example...to the same section it already was in? What?
"Troper Unicornia 1 has moved the section "A Hearth's Warming Tale Characters" from Friendship Is Magic: Historical Figures to Friendship Is Magic: Historical Figures (without even leaving an edit reason, by the way, meaning I had to look it up to make sure it wasn't mere vandalism) with just adding an Ambiguous Situation trope example arguing that the characters may actually be historical."
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I think there's an error in your first sentence. You write that she moved it from Friendship Is Magic: Historical Figures to Friendship Is Magic: Historical Figures.
That is still the same page twice?
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I was responding to StFan.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. I got it. Sorry!
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I think what StFan meant to say is that Unicornia1 reorganized the characters page and moved folders around on it without discussing it anywhere.
I've never seen MLP, so I can't comment on which organization scheme is better.
I checked, and they moved it from Characters.Friendship Is Magic Others. If I remember correctly, the Hearthwarming's Tale characters are from a fictional story, so calling them historical characters isn't quite accurate.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Yes, my bad, I mixed up my copy-and-paste of the links.
And yes, what I wanted to say is that the story was clearly meant to be Show Within a Show, and never described as historical. Thus the move was entirely based on speculation.
Yeah, I agree with StFan. The story the characters are from is simply presented as a novel or fairytale in-universe. The only justification given for the change are "that the story features the Windigoes and references Starswirl the Bearded" (historical in-universe figures) and "the show's theming of Real After All" (a lot of stories in the show have turned out to be real in-universe). I find neither to be a good argument. Any work set in a real time period is going to mention real people, places and things without being itself real history (for example, Les Misérables mentions a lot of actual French history, but it doesn't mean Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert really existed) and the show has had plenty of Shows Within a Show that didn't turn out to be real.
Edited by Theriocephalus
I agree, the characters can go back on the Other page.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
I PM’d Unicornia1 and they said it’s fire to move them back to Other.
Troper Unicornia1 has moved the section "A Hearth's Warming Tale Characters" from Friendship Is Magic: Others to Friendship Is Magic: Historical Figures (without even leaving an edit reason, by the way, meaning I had to look it up to make sure it wasn't mere vandalism) with just adding an Ambiguous Situation trope example arguing that the characters may actually be historical.
Problem is, the show never alluded to that being anything but a story making use of some Historical Domain Characters, and even if it did that would still be quite speculative and insufficient to warrant the move. Thoughts?
Edited by StFan