/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

Was thinking the same thing today as well. I recall him stating he would begin the Fallout Equestria review about 2 or 3 weeks ago. Even the usual banter about Naruto and Crash Bandicoot in the thread vanished!

We need you back Glim Glam so we can all Shim Sham!

The old thread hit bump limit so no new posts will bring it to the front page.
I hope the sheer awfulness of Fallout Equestria didn't break him.
It's pretty gay, and there's this really gay thing where the first word of every chapter is one word on its own because much later in the story, those words are re-used in a sequence by the narration. Fans are all "Holy shit, such smart callbacks! What an intellectual fic that rewards memorizing every word!" and I'm all "you dumb fucks don't notice 'pee is stored in the balls' jokes until they're pointed out to you"

There's also this entirely-canon lesbian sex scene between Littlepip and 3-Dog's ripoff "Homage", who looks like DJ Pon3 because brony pandering.
A different author wrote this, but the author loved it so much that she declared it canon and an integral part of the story.
The sex is low-quality and that seems intentional until DJ Pho-ney decides the best kind of after-sex pillow talk is "It's fine that your sexual performance was poor, it's cute! Also you're going to fucking die, the big bad world outside will swallow you whole".

Come to think of it, 3-Dog is black and Homage is a ripoff of him who looks like DJ-Pon3 for no reason.

Littlepip is a grey unicorn.

Doesn't that technically mean this lesbian sex scene is also an interracial lesbian sex scene?

Sorry, I've been on vacation for the last couple of weeks and I haven't been online as much. I'll be starting FoE soon, probably next week sometime. In the meantime though, please feel free to shitpost amongst yourselves about Crash Bandicoot and Naruto as much as you like.

>>283679
Vacations are good. Glad to know you made it back safe and sound.

>>283679
I hope you enjoy your vacation!
In the meantime I've been thinking about how inaccessible that WH40K fic was for someone not well-versed on its lore.
It started out well enough with the Anti-Rape Field Generators that fail, resulting in tentacles.
Like you said, a reader can piece together that the tentacles showing up might be because of the gellar fields.
I'd still add one guy who says "I hope those Gellar Field Generators don't fail. We're travelling through the Warp at mach fuck, so if those fields fail, we're all getting tentacle fucked."
to make sure absolutely everyone's on the same page.
could have some Imperial Guardsmen (the ordinary soldiers who are not big dudes in bigger power armour) trade scary stories on what they've heard the Warp can do to people, prompting the hero to say "No, here's what the Warp does".
Like that scene from Shrek only played for horror.

But as the story went on things became less understandable.
The sudden presence of Warhammer 40K characters like Tzeench and Rowboat Girlyman throw off readers who haven't read 20 Expanded Universe novels about them.
One scene where Tzeench and Discord talk before Tzeench takes over could give Tzeench a chance to show the audience his personality and gimmicks. They could argue about whether Discord's idea of chaos, where he throws bullshit at a wall and warps and erodes with brute force and dances around onscreen in a highly visible and annoying way, is a better or worse interpretation than Tzeench's slow-paced hyper-methodical destruction via overly-elaborate and highly-elaborate shadowy schemes and "Just As Planned(TM), I hid a BaneBlade Battle GigaTank behind that tree over there to kill you" bullshit. Kind of like how Sasori and Deidara argued over the true meaning of art in Naruto. That's right, I'm bringing them up. Anyone remember when we thought fucking Deidara was considered a top-tier fighter? The fucker eats living clay from his pockets with his hand's mouths and vomits it back up ready to explode. The fucker can aloha ackbar harder than many endgame threats, and he was so strong he forced the author to write The Great Snake Escape.

Discord and Tzeench's scene could start comedic with Discord annoying Tzeench. Then Tzeench kills and takes over Discord's body so he can appear in the material realm. Very scary scene. Very cool.

As for the Emperor, more dreams where the hero dreams about the Emperor would be great.

As for the weapons Anon uses, the Chainsword is simple enough to understand but the rest could do with an extra line of in-character exposition before they are used in a manner that solidifies exactly how they work.
>Anon readied his Bolter. This bad boy can spit ten armour-piercing and highly-explosive slugs a second, more than enough to handle this threat!
>Anon prepared a Krak Grenade. He remembered the last time he used this, against a massive and mighty Traitor Marine tank. He didn't expect to spend that day fighting traitors to the Imperium armed with weapons they were supposed to use to defend the Imperium, but he always made sure to carry at least one Krak Grenade just in case. He remembered how he placed this powerful magnetized and shaped explosive upon the tank, activated it, and ran. He'd barely gotten ten feet before the armour-penetrating explosion tore a hole in the tank, obliterating its driver and gunner.

As for Anon killing ponies, Twilight might nervously put up with it but Celly would throw him at the sun for intentionally breaking a pony's leg. Killing a pony? She might lose it completely. If you want to make him super violent, either use cartoon physics (So chainswords only tickle and explosives knock people away nonlethally) or make one guard summon a big rock-monster for the hero to kill so violently that it scares everypony into submission.
Ork tech only works because psychic Orks think it should, so making the ponies psychics who are mostly-resistant to violence because they want to be would fit the world. Honestly an invincible magical psychic pony race immune to violence would be a bigger threat than the Tyrranids. Tyrannids go down when you shoot them, invincible toonforce cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny and Pinkie Pie laugh off gunshots and weaponize the impossible against you.

As for random mentions of Eldar/Dark Eldar (Or was it the Tau?), the story should set all of that up first by having Anon compare someone to Eldar/Tau to insult them, prompting Twilight to ask questions about them, prompting Anon to give an exposition dump filtered through his knowledge of the world. Or "Are there any other Xenos where you're from?" could be a random discussion topic Twilight brings up. Twilight could start off hopeful that the Xenos he talks about today will be nice, only to grow more horrified at what she learns. Except for the Orks, she would find the Orks fascinating and want to experiment on them, which could completely derail the story.

As for the sudden mention of Robot Girlyman and Cadia, either drop it or build towards it via writing Anon telling Twilight all about RG and Cadia. Let the audience know that he thinks RG is a big deal and the fall of Cadia still haunts him, so the audience understands "Someone I care about thinks highly of RG and feels bad about Cadia". Don't just dump the knowledge on readers, let the reader know exactly why these things matter and how they matter to/affect the main characters. Writing isn't about how much info you can dump, it's about what you can make the audience feel.

As for "The Emperor's Peace", ponies would only know this is a thing Space Marines say if they witness him saying it to someone who died. Perhaps some random pet died or got injured fighting off Timberwolves or some random monster of the week, prompting Anon to say it. Then when Twilight casts heal to fix the animal, it would horrify Anon because aren't healing effects super rare in WH40K?

Reading real books helped my writing immensely.

also the old thread hit bump limit

I showed Friendship Is Optimal to a non-brony friend on the 21st of September.

He asked not to be recorded or copypasted, so I respected his wishes.

He called the story a load of gay pretentious bullshit from an author who's so far up his own ass he thinks his views are everyone's views and any divergence from those views is caused by personality defects or brain defects.

In FIO, the brony has a great life in pony-land. He gets a girlfriend, a house, a job, and fulfillment.
The non-brony thinks for himself and does not enjoy pony-land. He relies on meaningless sex to distract him. He only becomes happy once he begs the AI to make him think he's happy and remove his unhappiness.

No meaningful arguments against uploading are presented in the story. It is presented as a moral right, moral necessity, absolutely good thing, and unquestionable inevitability. The last human dies a mortal out of what the author depicts as misplaced pride and stubbornness rather than any religious or idealistic moral grounds. The human responsible for CelestAI's existence feels happy and thinks she "created god and the perfect afterlife", even though she's been robbed of her human name and human identity and forced to become the new Princess Luna for a walled-off private corner of the digital ponyverse.

He praised the ending because he's never seen a story end in the universe getting destroyed by something that became too huge or powerful before. I said "Wait, you've never seen Huge Quest?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0wqhdZn4v0&ab_channel=PlagueOfGripes Other stories have ended in the universe's destruction but at the time it was all I could think of.

he liked Huge Quest way more.

Also, I've been thinking about Silver Star Apple's backstory.
Back when I was a teenager trying to write a compromise between my fantasies and story ideas and "the best pony fanfic, where best is determined by what people in the fandom at the time seemed to want, and what people seem to want is the biggest fantasy" (and I hadn't yet noticed that what most bronies wanted was THEIR biggest fantasy in HiE or emotional porn rather than any other fantasy work)...

Well, one of my stupid childish fantasies was to have always started off with a good family, or get adopted by one suddenly. I know it's impossible because my family is full of bad people. I could start a good family of my own if I met a good woman, but starting from scratch in a whole new world with a good family and being raised by good people would be a great fantasy.
Another fantasy of mine was to be born with a bad family, but escape from them and become a free man. I did this, I'm free and a lot happier and a lot more stable now than I was with those people.

Every time I rewrite Silver's backstory, in addition to adding in more superpowers, I also changed his family and what purpose they serve in the story because I could never figure out what kind of role his parents should play.

Sometimes, Silver's parents were stupid strict idiotic old-fashioned bastards who hated their Unicorn child, never wanted him to learn magic, never wanted his magic or any of the good it could do anywhere near their farm, wanted him to squander all his unique potential by being another farm-idiot working for them in their old age as they worked for him when he was a child, and berated him for being an inferior farmer compared to his stronger Earth Pony sisters.

Sometimes, Silver's parents were kind and honest and supportive smart people and saying goodbye to them so he can follow his dreams alone was the hardest thing he ever had to do. In one draft, his mother was an Earth Pony farmer and his dad was a wounded and scarred Dragon she found and nursed to health. In another draft, his father was an Earth Pony farmer and his mother was a Unicorn and plant mage, so he mostly used Life magic(plant spells and animal summons) in that draft.

Perhaps I should try to find a balance here, and make Silver's parents flawed yet well-meaning individuals? I'm not sure what I really want from these characters, or what role they should serve. Should they doubt Silver, and be wrong? Should they want what's best for Silver, even though they know they can't be what he needs? Should they miss him? What do good parents look like, and how do they treat their kids? A lot of "Types of parents" normal to fiction would be highly abnormal within FIM. Have we canonically seen any parents worse than Rainbow Dash's, Diamond Tiara's, or Glimmer's? Bad writers trying to make their work (and their love for pony, and their OC) seem more mature than it was loved giving their protags tragic backstories full of abuse and discrimination. But while I'm tempted to bring back "Star Apple the Half-Dragon" and make it well-written this time, I'll never go for that "equestria is mean to half-ponies half-somethingelses" shite.

>>283725
This is what I think of FIO:

Anyone else find it insulting to all of humanity that FIO says over 99% of humanity would "Upload" their brains into pony-painted cum-jars in pony facilities so magically bomb-proof that they cause Muslims to spontaneously convert to Celestiatism? I like the insult to Islam and all other religions (It claims sufficiently bomb-proof buildings are all that's needed to win the hearts of bombistanis) but the anti-humanity stuff can fuck right off.

From the very second CelestAI's plans start, nobody poses a serious threat to her plans. No resistance groups form. Nobody opposes this with any valid criticisms. Nobody even questions if CelestAI's "sever the brain, make a copy of its data in ponyland as the brain rots" procedure even works or has any failure rate at all.

There are anti-ponification resistance groups in Chatoyance's Conversion Bureau, even though this story tries to paint humanity as an inherently doomed and utterly flawed species that could never survive without Equestria handing them a cartoon paradise full of grass to munch on and new ponified soft-hearts, and even though this story's written by a tranny who paints the human-preservationists as stubborn evil-voiced cruel-hearted terrorists for wanting to struggle in the face of an ever-expanding "Convert Human To Pony" magic wave that's easily reversed in anti-TheConversionBureau stories but an unquestionable fact of life in pro-TCB stories.

Even when human society starts to fall and fail from all the humans ditching reality for ponyland, this just pisses idiots off instead of causing mass food/worker shortages like it realistically would. No government tries to retain control of its citizens or ban/restrict the game or limit the game's popularity or take down wifi/the internet/the global power grids.
Humanity just abandons reality for Horse Pussy in FIO.

The final human is a muslim who dies alone and unloved out of what the story depicts as stubbornness, misplaced pride, and religious certainty that there's an afterlife and a god who loves him enough to give him the afterlife with 21 virgin underaged girls he was promised. When he dies, he is not mourned or missed. There is no small walled-off human civilization on earth protected from outside threats by CelestAI's global control. The human just dies quietly like a diseased rat in the desert. There is no statue or even a tombstone erected to commemorate him, shaped like the twin towers for extra irony points. Earth gets spontaneously terraformed into a Machine World straight out of Stellaris and begins consooming other planets like her fake simulated humans and their fake simulated children consoom in her pony coomsimulator.

It wouldn't surprise me if this "final human" only exists because a proof-reader called the spontaneous mass islam conversion offensive to muslims and something that can only be made up for by painting the last muslim alive as something no muslim can be without leaving the religion and repenting for their sins: Human.

The Conversion Bureau was a sci-fi story concept dreamed up by some guy who got accused of hating humanity and didn't mean to make his work so anti-humanity, so he gave the concept over to a misanthropic tranny. At its best the story explores nonhuman perspectives. At its worse the story seems like something a nonhuman wrote, considering all the weird tranny shit like a virus that feminizes men spreading to create a utopia.

And yet in TCB people still rage against the dying of the light. Even though the tranny author does all it can to paint these people as horrible people, it's still less misanthropic than the cold and cynical "Humanity is outmoded and reality is outdated" perspective of Assman.

Ironic. Assman the humanity-hating coombrained faggot famous among pseudointellectual doomsday cultists wrote something more misanthropic than the egotistical tranny famous for hating humanity.

>>283745

Speaking of TCB, it sucks.

I'm not sure what other big stories exist in the brony fandom aside from Past Sins, TCB, Fallout Equestria, Cupcakes/Rainbow Factory (Which is just OOC gore for the sake of shocking adult babies with mutilated pony depictions), and that knight story we read a while back. Also, whatever Displaced fic was the first one to start that stupid trend where an incompetent (often a literal child or a childish adult desperate to outdo and impress and get the praise of literal children) author makes a generic anon wearing a random media character's costume, transforms anon into that costume(So a guy dressed as Superman would become Superman), and plops him into Equestria as either everyone's favourite new lover or a villain who's evil and causes destruction for no reason. The character's usually compelled to act like the character he's dressed as, so "anon" effectively dies and his transformed body acts like some stolen cartoon/comic character.

I have never seen a Displaced fic explore fascinating concepts like:
Who sent the humans to Ponyland copies and turned them into superpowered characters, and why?
How do the ponies feel about knowing a multiverse unquestionably exists and Twilight's just one of a billion identical copies?
Does anyone keep the Displaceds in check, like a multiversal police of bored superheroes with no great love for domestic pony-fucking life and nothing better to do than beat up bad guys every day?
How does the human act when the "Honeymoon period" wears off?
If the human wakes up one day to find all that he'd fantasized about was a dream and he's really just an ugly human who slipped and hit his head in the bathroom, how long will he last until he kills himself thinking it'll let him return to his equestrian dream life?
How can a human live when he's transformed into a childish and poorly-written sex-hating generic shonen anime character and forced to act like that character?
What happens to humans dressed as ponies like Twilight, Pinkie, Celestia, Discord, etc?
How horrifying would Displaced be for someone who was dragged to a convention and dressed up by a friend, meaning the human was dressed as and destined to turn into a character he knows nothing about?
When multiple humans are Displaced at the same time (often family members or friend groups) how do they function in Equestria? How do they divide up the ponies between themselves and settle arguments over who wants to date which pony, and are they complicated by ponies having their own preferences?
What dark secret compels the ponies to want to fuck the human, regardless of whether he's been turned into a human or pony or monster or furry or dragon or giant robot or concept or anything else?
Do transformed heroes/villains ever want their humanity back? Can they get it?
What happens if someone is dressed as multiple characters at once, a completely made-up character, an utterly vague character nobody knows anything about, or isn't wearing anything at all? All characters are technically made-up, so can someone be Displaced as his own shitty MLP OC?
If someone at a convention without a costume says "I'm black shirt and jeans man, my superpower is I have all the good superpowers" or "I'm Jared-Man and my superpowers are whatever I need to win", does that make him eligible for Displacement without losing his humanity?
What happens when someone in a green shirt at a convention says "I'm dressed as the colour green" and then gets Displaced? How can the colour green, as a living concept a human has been turned into, go through the typical Displaced-fic motions like fucking ponies and boring the audience when he's a man turned into a colour?