Melon Hunter said:
Sorry, I only spotted this after hitting post. I have to say that's something I'm completely in agreement with as well, with one exception - I don't like the ones who use gratuitous amounts of violence, gore or sexuality in their fanworks. However, there is definitely a distinction to be made between, say, Cupcakes and Fallout: Equestria. Both are undoubtedly M-rated fanfics, but while one is an uberviolent, badly written trollfic, the other tells an epic tale of adventure, love and sacrifice, just in a setting far removed from the original show. Building upon it like that is great in my eyes, because it still held true to the messages of the show about friendship, it just put those lessons in a post-nuclear wasteland.
Wow. People seem to really like my post. Not bad for a first comment, I guess.
Anyway, context is important, too.
Cupcakes vs.
Fallout: Equestria is even more vast than Apples vs. Oranges. I never had anything against violence. In fact, the show has gobs of it. It's all about the context, people.
Cupcakes has no sense in existing. Whereas
Fallout: Equestria has context. It fits the already existing universe to a degree. There's a reason why everything is happening the way it is. Whereas
Cupcakes is just some juvenile excuse to turn the characters as out-of-character as possible.
As for context in real life, yeah, I've mentioned the show to some people, before. I don't rub it in their faces. If the conversation is somehow going in that general direction, I might mention it. But, I'm not going to just jump over to someone and start yammering about
My Little Pony. It would just convey a bad image for both me and the show. However, if I see people slamming it for things that aren't even true, I may jump in. If they just don't find it interesting, I'm not holding any grudge. But, I do see a lot of misconceptions. Even in here. It's not girly, it's not childish and it's certainly not loaded with pink. In fact, the character of Pinkie Pie is about the show's only source of that color. There's a lot more green and blue, instead. I also see people saying they wonder why it's supposed to be so funny, when they never found it funny, themselves. Well, that's because it really isn't supposed to be. Humor takes a back seat in this show. It's far more about adventure, story and characterization. And it certainly isn't slapstick. I don't know where some of you people are getting this from (maybe a YouTube poop?), but there has
never been a single slapstick moment in the entire show.
There are still some of the good ones out there, people. Every fanbase has its fools.
Every fanbase. Don't let universal observations rule your judgment. There's people who write demoralizing garbage like
Cupcakes, which completely pukes over everything the show stands for, and then there's mind-blowingly amazing works, like
Turnabout Storm. Seriously, that is the greatest work of fanfiction I have yet seen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUDfoZGhLjE
