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Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


I never actually read this story itself but I was at Origins (convention for traditional games) and wasn't able to sleep one night so I spent the night reading and assembling miniatures and the security guard for the minis hall came up to me and started talking about his fanfiction.

I think he said it was either called Comic Book Ultimate Battles or at a website called that? The highlights I remember:

Cybermen attack Xmen characters causing Magneto to flashback to the Nazis and unleash all his power on the robot men
Doctor Doom (comics) meets Doctor Doom (movies) and sees him as an impostor and they fight.
Donald Blake dies so Thor instead finds a different doctor with a bad leg and now Gregory House hold the power of Thor.

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Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
"American Kitsune"? David Gonterman should sue.

I'd quote the real American Kitsune here, but my eyes just glaze over every time I try to look at it.

echopapa
Jun 2, 2005

El Presidente smiles upon this thread.

Screaming Idiot posted:

Someone remembers Daria? :psyduck:

I remember Peter Guerin. I think he wrote this when Daria was still on the air, or shortly afterwards. He also did a self-insert novel in which a boy with Asperger’s Syndrome teaches Daria how to love while achieving the greatest civil rights triumph of our generation: running for student council.

MinistryofLard
Mar 22, 2013


Goblin babies did nothing wrong.


Senior Woodchuck posted:

Imagine, if you will, Daria Morgendorfer studying for a semester in Japan.

Imagine that she is essentially switching places with her Internet friend, Ami Mizuno, who, unbeknownst to her, is secretly Sailor Mercury.

Imagine that, so as not to leave Japan undefended, the Sailor Scouts draft Daria into their number as the new Sailor Mercury.

Imagine that, at the same time, an insane nationalist faction of the Japanese military steals an experimental war plane and goes on an orgy of violence because reasons.

Imagine that, also at the same time, the plane taking Ami to America is hijacked by Arab terrorists who fly it into the Lawndale homecoming game.

Imagine that, in the wake of the crash, the Lawndale Militia attempts to conquer the town.

Imagine that Beavis and Butthead are at the game for some reason, and take advantage of the chaos to attempt to rape Daria's sister, Quinn.

Imagine that there is a completely superfluous Japanese superhero called the Solar Warrior.

Imagine that this is all taken very seriously by the author.

Imagine that people spend a lot of time introducing one another.

Imagine that the author is a diagnosed Asperger's patient who has never heard the phrase "kill your darlings".

Imagine that one of those darlings is an appendix almost as long as the fanfic itself, which is easily the length of a Tom Clancy novel, for largely the same reasons.

You still haven't imagined anything one-tenth as painful as Peter Guerin's magnum opus, "The Misery Senshi Neo-Zero Double Blitzkrieg Debacle." An entirely appropriate title.

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here: http://outpost-daria-reborn.info/fanfic/the_misery_senshi_neo-zero_double_blitzkrieg_debacle.html

Haha oh my god this is something else. Beavis and Butthead being portrayed as cackling masterminds (without any change in characterisation) is some outsider art poo poo. Pro-click.

oak meadows
Aug 9, 2014

With each post I strive to improve my technique
Post The Fanfic You Read: What the gently caress nigga?! Oh HELL nigga

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012
As far as crossover fics go, they have the best chance to be absolutely hilarious, like the Harry Potter meets KITT from Knight Rider. And then there's some weird stuff. For example, Frozen has thousands of crossovers with something called Rise of the Guardians, which is 60% of all its crossovers.

What the gently caress is it with the disney movies and fanfiction? The other recent movies also have thousands of crossovers with other disney movies.

Speaking of, I can't find that Harry Potter Meets Knight Rider story. It was short as hell and consisted them finding KITT in the Chamber of Secrets and then going on adventures.

TARDISman
Oct 28, 2011



Rise of the Guardians is a Dreamworks movie about Santa, the Easter Bunny and a couple other similar people saving the world from nightmares. The viewpoint character is Jack Frost. Everyone on the internet decided that Jack Frost, being a vaguely anime lonely boy who had snow powers had to hook up with Elsa, the vaguely anime lonely girl who had snow powers. To its credit, Rise of the Guardians is one of the more entertaining things that Dreamworks cranked out, since it has gigantic Russian Santa beating up people with an army of yetis.

Xinlum
Apr 12, 2009

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Dark Knight

I thought Rise of the Guardians was about a bunch of talking owls?

TARDISman
Oct 28, 2011



Xinlum posted:

I thought Rise of the Guardians was about a bunch of talking owls?

Nah, that was Guardians of Gahool or something like that. I think that had something to do with not many people remembering Rise of the Guardians since they were both out in the same year and neither were super successful.

EDIT: Nope, it was 2010 and it was Legend of the Guardians: Owls of Gahool. Either way, it was pretty forgettable.

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry
fanfiction.net is the tip of the iceberg. There are sites out there that are far more niche. Like sites that specializes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Crossover fiction. This rabbit hole is terrifying.

Variant_Eris
Nov 2, 2014

Exhibition C: Colgate white smile

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

fanfiction.net is the tip of the iceberg. There are sites out there that are far more niche. Like sites that specializes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Crossover fiction. This rabbit hole is terrifying.

Like hpfanfiction.org?

Also, awful Dangan Ronpa fanfic

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry
http://www.tthfanfic.org/

This is the one I was referring to.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

fanfiction.net is the tip of the iceberg. There are sites out there that are far more niche. Like sites that specializes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Crossover fiction. This rabbit hole is terrifying.

Since 2001 when the ff.net admins outright purge all the blatant pornography and extreme violence stuff the community gets all up in arms and forms a new offsite repository. It was pretty weird because beside imposing new site rules in 2002, they clamped down for a few months at the time then did literally nothing for up to a decade, and when they did, the reason was "these rules have always existed".

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/FanFiction.Net_adult_content_purge_felt_across_fandom_two_weeks_on

quote:

According to alixe75 on LiveJournal's ffdotnetrants, FanFiction.Net deleted 2,002 Naruto stories, 1,497 Twilight stories, 1,256 Harry Potter stories, 670 Glee stories, 364 Inuyasha stories, 364 Hetalia - Axis Powers stories, 282 Kingdom Hearts, 213 Pokemon stories, 143 Yu-Gi-Oh stories, 127 Dragon Ball Z stories and 47 Doctor Who stories amongst others. rahirah on Dreamwidth provided another statistic, "Approximately 11% of all BtVS [Buffy the Vampire Slayer] stories were zapped. That may not sound like much, but FFnet is big - that comes to thousands of stories." feckless-muse on Dreamwidth reported the purge included banning users. Despite the purge, Alexa reports no drop in traffic to FanFiction.Net.

So now there are a bunch of other somewhat large ff sites that blatantly cater to allowing that kind of stuff.

quote:

In response to the purge, users flocked to other sites and archives. Recommendations for sites included DreamWidth, LiveJournal, YourFanFiction.Com and An Archive of Our Own (AO3)

No problems were reported by Hurricane Islandheart on MediaMiner.Org, an anime-centric fan fiction site popular in the mid-'00s that is largely absent of moderators at the moment. The site saw an increase in traffic earlier this year, going from 24,156 at end-December, according to Quantcast, to 58,558 visitors at the end of March this year.

According to Tikatu, a member of FanFiction.net Writers Unite, an eFiction software based site, YourFanFiction.com went down under the additional traffic strain. According to Tumblr users, having been created in response to the purge, the site swelled to over a thousand users including a number of Tumblr users like bluelilacflame, konata-the-espeon and getwhatyouwantorjustgetold.

haha, fanfiction sites can grow out of fashion.

Dr Jankenstein
Aug 6, 2009

Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.
Fire and Ice

One night while drunkenly indulging in turbo boosts and a perm Michael Landon was jealous of, I googled "Knight Rider Fanfic". I found....that mess, that needs to be read to be believed.

Basically, Michael had a chip implanted in him that lets him sense emotions/thoughts from KITT, and Michael and KITT fall in love.

Then KITT becomes a full on cyborg and they get to gently caress.

I'm not nearly as intoxicated as i was when i read this, so i don't feel like trying to find a sex scene to link to, but just imagine Mr. Feeny in them.

Speaking of, there are a set of people that ship Mr. Feeny with people. The normal ones write sweet fics with him and the chick he marries during the college years. The creepy ones ship him with Eric. (Their relationship was weird, but I highly doubt ABC intended people to interpret that way).

TerryLennox
Oct 12, 2009

There is nothing tougher than a tough Mexican, just as there is nothing gentler than a gentle Mexican, nothing more honest than an honest Mexican, and above all nothing sadder than a sad Mexican. -R. Chandler.
I think I can top all of you off with the insanest crossover of all.

An X-Com, Ranma 1/2 and Starcraft Crossover.

http://jusenkyo.wikia.com/wiki/One_War,_Three_Sisters

I only remember reading the first few chapters wherein Akane is melted by Guardians.

I'll admit fanfics are a weakness of mine and I'll hear no wrong about Rick Moffre's Saint Seiya fanfics.

LSD CURES JUNKIES
Sep 12, 2013

pentyne posted:

No, this is art. By the same author.

Well that's certainly something. :stare:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6204352/1/Jesus-Goes-To-Space

Roro
Oct 9, 2012

HOO'S HEAD GOES ALL THE WAY AROUND?
Who wants some cupcaaaaakes?
Not loving me.
It's actually pretty well written from what I remember, but it's just weird as.

An actually bad one is "Dipper goes to taco bell" but that one is very torture/porny and considering the main character is a ten year old I'd rather not post it here. It's a horrible fic anyway.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Roro posted:

Who wants some cupcaaaaakes?
Not loving me.
It's actually pretty well written from what I remember, but it's just weird as.

An actually bad one is "Dipper goes to taco bell" but that one is very torture/porny and considering the main character is a ten year old I'd rather not post it here. It's a horrible fic anyway.
Quoting for ban.

Not even for pony poo poo, because "My Little Dashie" deserves a place here if nothing else, just for posting such a piece of tryhard crap.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Roro posted:

Who wants some cupcaaaaakes?
Not loving me.
It's actually pretty well written from what I remember, but it's just weird as.

An actually bad one is "Dipper goes to taco bell" but that one is very torture/porny and considering the main character is a ten year old I'd rather not post it here. It's a horrible fic anyway.

There's a huge difference between laughing at teens/adult writing themselves into an anime as a super hero and saving the day and grossly obscene My Little Pony torture porn. holy poo poo what is wrong with you how do you even know that exists and what stage of your life were you in where you actually read it?

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Quoting for ban.

Not even for pony poo poo, because "My Little Dashie" deserves a place here if nothing else, just for posting such a piece of tryhard crap.

ahahahahahaha

quote:

Type/genre Sad/Ponies on Earth

You're goddamn right that sad, but probably not for the intended reason.

quote:

The narrator still has his memories, however, and one other item has remained unchanged: a photo album with pictures of Dashie and a note written by her, thanking him profusely for raising her and that she loves him dearly. Shifting back into the present tense after the longest stretch of consistent past tense narration in the story, the narrator flips through the album. He reflects on the past one-and-a-half decade and determines that, even if Dashie is gone, she has still left a positive impact in his life. After looking at the empty pages in the back of the album, he resolves to live his life to the fullest for his own sake and the memory of his "little Dashie".

quote:

Reception

Reception for My Little Dashie has been overwhelmingly positive. "My Little Dashie" is the most viewed fanfic on FIMFiction, and its rating on the site has a positive to negative ratio of 96.5%. It is labeled "Star 6" on Equestria Daily, meaning that it has received an overall rating of at least 4.9/5 across 1,669 votes (as of April 5, 2012).
Derivative works

Multiple alternate endings, sequels, fan art pictures and musical compositions inspired by or based on "My Little Dashie" have been created.[1] Some can be found in a folder on the original author's deviantART favorites page or Equestria Daily's page for the story (links below). Early versions of a Pokémon-style fighting game based on the story have been released since January 2012. Several fan film adaptations have been announced. One, by username jenomorph, has a completed script, undergoing revisions as of the date of the post;[2] As of August 4th, the final draft of the script is near completion, and voice actors have been found for Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, and Twilight Sparkle, as well as filly and adult versions of Rainbow Dash.

A song by Aviators alters the lyrics of a previously-released song of his to match the story. Specifically, the lyrics appear to reflect the narrator's emotions after Dashie has learned of the show's existence and left her home in tears.

The 8th episode of Rainbow Dash Presents is about My Little Dashie.

A 27-minute long film adaptation of My Little Dashie was produced by StormXF3, best known for his "MLP in real life" series of videos.[3]

Jesus, that actual hurt my brain to read, to think that MLP is so firmly synomous with internet culture there's a youtube video of an embarassingly bad fanfiction that has 2+ million views.

oh god the rabbit hole goes deeper

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/232090/1/the-one-that-caged-my-heart-away/be-my-valentine

quote:

Spike looked up at the carnage which blew a hole in the roof. Flying above the hole was Cagezord and Neil kicking each other's rear end. Small bits of Cagezord machinery crashed to the ground along with black guy limbs which, as we all know, regenerate.

Cage, along with his megazord crew consisting of Matthew McConaughey, Christopher Walken, Gandalf and Clint Eastwood chopped off Neil's head, which to their surprise grew back, but not as a normal head, but rather one made of naked women having sex with pineapples, which were all secretly made of laser beams.

This transformation took the Cage off guard, leaving it open for Neil's kamahameha, which created a massive explosion, engulfing half the Everfree forest. There, in the receding mist of the battle, stood an injured Twilight Sparkle, standing on the rubble that was her castle. She had not a goddamn clue what just happened.

pentyne has a new favorite as of 03:56 on Jan 23, 2015

bewilderment
Nov 22, 2007
man what



Fanfiction about real people, like, youtube personalities, exists.
This didn't bother me too much, but one day I found out that my most recent ex actually wrote it. Since she was an intelligent person and decent writer I found this kind of discomforting.

Apparently some people really find it hot and intriguing that one youtube nerd can have their soulmate's name magically appear on their arm, and it just so happens that this soulmate is actually another youtube nerd.

SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL
Feb 21, 2006

Holy Moly! DARKSEID IS!

bewilderment posted:

Fanfiction about real people, like, youtube personalities, exists.
This didn't bother me too much, but one day I found out that my most recent ex actually wrote it. Since she was an intelligent person and decent writer I found this kind of discomforting.

Apparently some people really find it hot and intriguing that one youtube nerd can have their soulmate's name magically appear on their arm, and it just so happens that this soulmate is actually another youtube nerd.

That soulmate thing pops up in all sorts of fandoms, too. I have no clue where it started but it was a popular lazy plot device for a few years. I think the psychology behind crappy fanfic is interesting - in this case it's ~magically simple~ to find Twu Luv when it's emblazoned on your wrist and no-one has to stumble through the awkwardness of real life relationship building. You know, the challenging part to write!

Phone posting so I don't have the link, but last year I read about the popularity of fanfic that got tweaked to be original and how it lead to fan sites turning into self-publishing companies. Once a couple "authors" got recognition everyone wanted their payday, too. Unfortunately it was still little truly original material and a lot of wankery, with a breakdown of fan circles in the process.

I wish there were more information on infamous fan works prior to the internet. I know the origin of "Mary Sue" was some Star Trek story published in a 'zine. I've heard of a lot of what were effectively fanfics of Sherlock Holmes coming out contemporary to the time period (there was even a play where he got married, Doyle was basically IDGAF about it).

ungulateman
Apr 18, 2012

pretentious fuckwit who isn't half as literate or insightful or clever as he thinks he is
I wanted to share one particular author's work with you all because the depth of this man's insanity deserves further examination (and also because I hate myself and the things I used to enjoy). This man has written an absolutely baffling amount of My Little Pony fanfiction. I think it's upwards of ten million words at this point.

http://www.fimfiction.net/user/BlackRoseRaven

As you may already know from my highly questionable posting history I was a brony in a big way a while back, so I unironically enjoyed the first three of his 'novels'; looking back now, it's vaguely hilarious that I was so tolerant of the glaringly obvious problems.

- The main character, 'Scrivener Blooms', is a transparent self-insert with a tragic backstory who marries both one of the princesses and the main character of the show. He's even got an edgy black-and-white color scheme to match. Later on he also turns out to be half dragon and has ~dark evil powers~.

- The prose varies between acceptable and excessively, luridly purple. It's still better than most fanfics I've read, but that's about as backhanded a compliment can get.

- Did I mention the average chapter in his later stories is over 10,000 words a pop?

- The first story, Moonrise, is straightforward and not-batshit enough that it looks reasonable in contrast with what comes later. Scrivener Blooms and Princess Luna go off to explore some old ruins to retrieve some dangerous artifacts, Princess Luna's sister turns evil in the meantime, and when Luna tries to stop her she ends up being painted as the bad guy and banished. This sets the stage for A: torrid attempts at writing romance (since self-insert dude is the only person who knows she isn't evil) and B: the craziness to come.

- Lunar Lights starts with pony-land turning into Norse mythology and ends with the princess binding her soul to the self-insert to save his life. Everything in between relies on you reading the first story and also being a brony. It's a somewhat typical weak middle act that only 'pays off' if you have the determination (or sheer bloody-mindedness) to read more of his work.

- Starlit Knights continues on the path of Norse mythologising with the revelation that the pony princess sisters are actually Valkyries and the big bad evil dude behind everything is a giant dragon-man-god obsessed with storytelling devices and being a moustache-twirling villain. As sad as it sounds, I still like the final battle in this book, and I would be markedly less critical of this guy's work if he'd ended it with this story. I'd say "it's worth reading for the final battle alone" but that still involves wading through half a million words of MLP fanfic, which is way too high a bar for any sane person.

Part of me almost wants to do a read-through but that probably breaks more rules than Something Awful even has. Just remember that there is always more and it is always worse.

e: :allears: oh my god he's even published an actual novel where some Canadian dudebro *cough cough* finds a Valkyrie and has to help her :allears:

ungulateman has a new favorite as of 19:41 on Jan 31, 2015

x1o
Aug 5, 2005

My focus is UNPARALLELED!

pentyne posted:

Self-publishing pisses me off more then is reasonable because writing is generally pretty hard, and I would go so far to say that there are some fanfiction authors with serious potential who need to go through the crucible of dozens of rejections and editors picking apart their writing to become actually good writers.

I think it was Stephen King who dismissed fanfiction as ultimately harmful to budding writers because for many of them they develop too many bad habits of working within established franchises and are not able to generate good original fiction.

Hilariously, some fanfic authors realise this, so they try to find editors/pre-readers to help them. Problem is that it's the blind leading the blind.

DemonDarkhorse
Nov 5, 2011

It's probably not tobacco. You just need to start wiping front-to-back from now on.
I blame 50 Shades of Grey. That kinda started the whole "get my fanfic published" craze. There's another book out now that's based off a One Direction fanfic. http://www.amazon.com/After-Anna-Todd/dp/1476792488/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422929969&sr=1-3&keywords=after+we+fell

William Bear
Oct 26, 2012

"That's what they all say!"

Grumbletron 4000 posted:

Agony in pink. Power rangers torture porn.

http://www.imtwelve.com/4543-agony-in-pink

Its more torture than porn. Everything else aside its one of the most terrible things I've ever read. I cant think of any excuse for having read it in its entirety. I'm definitely a worse person for having done so.

I didn't want to ruin my day, so I just scanned the beginning a bit. I loved Power Rangers when I was little, so this made me laugh:

quote:

Chapter 3 -- "Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi, Kimberly's Being Tortured!

Falcon2001
Oct 10, 2004

Eat your hamburgers, Apollo.
Pillbug

bewilderment posted:

People realise that My Immortal is intentionally parody of bad Harry Potter fanfiction, right? Like, you'd have to be pretty dense to not realise that a main character named Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way isn't a bit of a pisstake. Even hive of bad writing and groupthink SCP Foundation only got as bad as 'Dr Kain Pathos Crow'.

Having grown up with friends who wrote and read fanfiction obsessively, nothing in My Immortal is beyond the pale for me. If it really is fake, it's not nearly fake enough.

Gamma Nerd
May 14, 2012
Even if it's fake, it's pretty brilliant.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

TheHeadSage posted:

Hilariously, some fanfic authors realise this, so they try to find editors/pre-readers to help them. Problem is that it's the blind leading the blind.

Having a 2nd person with college level literacy is enough to catch 98% of the problems with most stuff. A second set of eyes from someone who's not falling over themselves to fellate the author can do wonders.

Apparently Patrick Rothfuss sent the PA guys a draft copy of Wise Man's Fear at the "literate" Tycho was the one crossing out entire pages and writing "this is loving terrible" while Gabe treated it as sacrosanct.

The book was still published with some horrifically bad parts, but that's pretty much par for the course. People can write excellent prose and have really good ideas but they get away from themselves and produce some absolute garbage that they are so personally invested in nothing but a hardcore editor can make them change it.

Byde
Apr 15, 2013

by Lowtax
fanfiction.txt

Have you ever read about a Pikachu turning to a sword?

quote:

"YOU ANNOYING LITTLE GIRL! I WILL ENJOY RIPPING YOU APART!" it shouted.
Then it leered and growled lecherously. "IN MORE WAYS THEN ONE!" It began
to run, ape-like at her, on arms and legs. Misty stood her ground and
desperately hoped that Ash was okay.

All of a sudden, the ground beneath the Machamp's feet ruptured in a
strong earthquake and it grunted in confusion and pain as it was
knocked high up in the air by a powerful blast. Ash, in an explosion of
dirt, rocks and other debris, erupted from the ground and flew up into
the sky after it. "Pikachu!" he shouted hoarsely. "Shadow Blade!"

Pikachu, hanging on to the back of Ash's cloak yelled in acknowledgment.
"Pii!" He began to glow black propelled himself into the air above Ash,
with a crack of thunder.

More dark energy formed around the black electric mouse and the air
around it seemed to shift as it reformed itself into a black katana, the
very darkness of the long blade seeming to absorb the light around it.
Ash grabbed the hilt of the sword in both hands and met the Machamp in
midair at the highest peak of their flight.

Now you do!

Orange Fluffy Sheep
Jul 26, 2008

Bad EXP received

bewilderment posted:

People realise that My Immortal is intentionally parody of bad Harry Potter fanfiction, right?

Have you seen XXXbloodyrists666XXX and her friend Raven's youtube page, right?

Either she is legit or this is an incredibly long con.

Bluemillion
Aug 18, 2008

I got your dispensers
right here

Heath posted:

Fallout: Equestria is obscenely long and still going
:stare:
Isn't this thing already longer than war and peace?

:catstare:

Cuntellectual
Aug 6, 2010
Are there any beyblade/metal gear rising cross fanfics?

"It's time for Jack... To let 'er rip. :getin:"


Variant_Eris posted:

Like hpfanfiction.org?

Also, awful Dangan Ronpa fanfic


It's a series about despair, they're just being meta :haw:

Cuntellectual has a new favorite as of 06:55 on Feb 7, 2015

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Bluemillion posted:

:stare:
Isn't this thing already longer than war and peace?

:catstare:

Fallout Equestria is way more disturbing because the brony community absolutely loves it and its literally Fallout gore porn just with pony characters and using pony-related slang

As per tvtropes, just a few examples of what they think of as good writing

quote:

Not much from My Little Pony gets this, but several aspects of the games (and, to some extent, those who play them) are given a good look through this lens. The Party-Time Mint-Als are an excellent example: a player would merely be annoyed by the stat drop caused by addiction, but seeing how it causes a schism between Littlepip and Velvet that indirectly ensures the death of Monterey Jack from the addict's point of view is a very sobering experience.

"The scene where one pony ended up abusing drugs and another pony died was immensely powerful"

quote:

Littlepip narrowly escapes a gruesome fate at the tentacles of a pony Centaur in Chapter 31.

"I'm so glad someone has finally given MLP the kind of serious and mature writing it deserves.

quote:

Littlepip's mother's tendency to alcoholism is mentioned in the prologue and summed up in Chapter 19, where Dr Helpinghooves gives it as a reason for Littlepip's tendency to addiction.

"Finally, real world problems being given a serious and mature consideration in my pony gore fanfic"

I'm desperately hoping that the brony culture consumes itself as the years go by and for some reason they can no longer find disenchanted and lonely men in their teens who developed an obsessive connection with a years old show about talking horses.

Even better, there's a complete audio book of the fanfic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmJW7-5Vtiw

Said narrator has also tried to engage the brony subculture in order to look better

quote:

This is generally a fun, kind, light-hearted subculture, filled with people who just like to enjoy themselves. We're a harmless bunch, and we enjoy doing good both amongst ourselves and for the world at large. That should be the message that we want to get across here. Particularly if they are first exposed to our ranks via an intentionally sensationalistic program such as "My Strange Addiction", the brony-naïve viewer is going to go into this thinking "Men? Men who like My Little Pony? What, are they gay or something?"-- and that's a best case scenario. Worst-case scenario, they might assume that we are sexually repressed or-- even worse-- pedophiles. We need to anticipate these misconceptions, and pre-emptively counter them.

While we can't tell you not to go along with the production company's request for interviews, it's probably best to recommend caution. If you're considering being interviewed for the show, think: "What would the average person think upon seeing me on TV? What would the bully from my fifth-grade playground think? What would my mom think?" If the answer to any of those questions is anything less than stellar, perhaps you would be best to simply tell the production company "no thanks". Remember, the goal of this program is to entertain its viewers, and sometimes, a train wreck is the greatest sort of entertainment. As our subculture begins to garner more and more media attention, we have to all be wary of our public image. If anyone is to represent us publicly, it should be the most photogenic, intelligent, well-spoken, most "normal"-appearing bronies we can muster up, since whomever appears on TV as a representative of the brony community will be taken as exemplars of typical bronyhood.

"WE MUST BE ABSOLUTELY SURE THEY DON'T THINK OF US AS PEDOPHILES!" is not something you would ever have to say unless your subculture was completely beyond hope.

Jesus loving Christ this took literally 4 minutes to find after searching for Fallout Equestria.

x1o
Aug 5, 2005

My focus is UNPARALLELED!

Bluemillion posted:

:stare:
Isn't this thing already longer than war and peace?
:catstare:

Fallout Equestria is finished and is apparently 620,295 words according to google, which makes it longer than war and peace, which stands at 587,287 words. What's even worse is that there's a side story written by another person. So a Fan Fic of a Fan Fic, which clocks in a stagging 1.6 million words and is still ongoing.

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

TheHeadSage posted:

Fallout Equestria is finished and is apparently 620,295 words according to google, which makes it longer than war and peace, which stands at 587,287 words. What's even worse is that there's a side story written by another person. So a Fan Fic of a Fan Fic, which clocks in a stagging 1.6 million words and is still ongoing.

How is it a side story if it's longer than the original thing?

Orange Fluffy Sheep
Jul 26, 2008

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Slime posted:

How is it a side story if it's longer than the original thing?

It's a spin-off. Fallout: Equestria: Project Horizons. I may have missed a : or two.

It's also the source of all the accusations that Fallout: Equestria is full of rape. The original F:E is just violent. Fallout: Equestria: Project: Horizons is significantly edgier than its predecessor. It opens with the protagonist breaking up a lesbian tryst in the shower. Before the chapter is out, the protagonist breaks one of the Overseer's rape slaves out of rape slave jail.

The Overseer is a child, by the way.

This is just the first chapter. I'm amazed it's just the first chapter; it's over 10,000 words long.

It doesn't handle its subject matter maturely. At a later point in the story the Overseer reclaims control over her rape slave and holds a conversation with the protagonist while punctuating. Every. Word. With. A thrust. This is not handled better than it sounds. In fact it's handled as well as it sounds, which is to say badly. It's there for shock value, which is really weird when this is, like, 30 chapters in and you'd think the novelty would've worn off. This is the same chapter in which the protagonist has to commit cannibalism to not blow her disguise and it's revealed the vault's food extruders recycle all biomass, including corpses. This chapter, like all others, drags like a motherfucker.

Note how these characters being horses didn't come up. The protagonist is a wizard, in that she has magical powers and casts spells. Fallout: Equestria: Project Horizons cannot handle the concept of a chunk of it's cast being wizards, as no one uses their magic for anything else other than holding guns without their mouths. The central conceit introduced by being a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfiction is that the characters are horses. All it does is force the Fallout part to contort weirdly to adapt, and waste time with paragraphs explaining how Fallout concepts work with magical horses.

I think I mentioned offhand that the story drags. Oh my god does it. It's not 1.6 million words because it's that action-packed. I'm not sure how to describe how it drags, but if you can believe me, it does. I may venture to blame our protagonist, because the entire story is first-person and she's a wordy rear end in a top hat.

Fallout and My Little Pony are really far apart for a reason. They're too dissimilar in tone for a literal crossover like this. One franchise's literal magic and the other's 50's pop science can't be reconciled easily. If it is possible to mix the two, it'd have to be a Fallout story wherein a character discovers pre-war unflinching positivity, and how their addled brain processes it. A chem junkie thinks the ponies are real and tries to apply messages of friendship to the Wasteland? Something like that, maybe. It certainly isn't in Project Horizon's form: what the hell is the child owning sex slaves saying about the value of friendship, or the nature of mankind? The only message I can take is a metatextual one: that people are hosed up little hobgoblins for being able to enjoy this trite, and the confusion of shocking the audience with edginess and surprising the audience with an effective story still continues.

Toys For Ass Bum
Feb 1, 2015

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

It's a spin-off. Fallout: Equestria: Project Horizons. I may have missed a : or two.

It's also the source of all the accusations that Fallout: Equestria is full of rape. The original F:E is just violent. Fallout: Equestria: Project: Horizons is significantly edgier than its predecessor. It opens with the protagonist breaking up a lesbian tryst in the shower. Before the chapter is out, the protagonist breaks one of the Overseer's rape slaves out of rape slave jail.

The Overseer is a child, by the way.

This is just the first chapter. I'm amazed it's just the first chapter; it's over 10,000 words long.

It doesn't handle its subject matter maturely. At a later point in the story the Overseer reclaims control over her rape slave and holds a conversation with the protagonist while punctuating. Every. Word. With. A thrust. This is not handled better than it sounds. In fact it's handled as well as it sounds, which is to say badly. It's there for shock value, which is really weird when this is, like, 30 chapters in and you'd think the novelty would've worn off. This is the same chapter in which the protagonist has to commit cannibalism to not blow her disguise and it's revealed the vault's food extruders recycle all biomass, including corpses. This chapter, like all others, drags like a motherfucker.

Note how these characters being horses didn't come up. The protagonist is a wizard, in that she has magical powers and casts spells. Fallout: Equestria: Project Horizons cannot handle the concept of a chunk of it's cast being wizards, as no one uses their magic for anything else other than holding guns without their mouths. The central conceit introduced by being a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfiction is that the characters are horses. All it does is force the Fallout part to contort weirdly to adapt, and waste time with paragraphs explaining how Fallout concepts work with magical horses.

I think I mentioned offhand that the story drags. Oh my god does it. It's not 1.6 million words because it's that action-packed. I'm not sure how to describe how it drags, but if you can believe me, it does. I may venture to blame our protagonist, because the entire story is first-person and she's a wordy rear end in a top hat.

Fallout and My Little Pony are really far apart for a reason. They're too dissimilar in tone for a literal crossover like this. One franchise's literal magic and the other's 50's pop science can't be reconciled easily. If it is possible to mix the two, it'd have to be a Fallout story wherein a character discovers pre-war unflinching positivity, and how their addled brain processes it. A chem junkie thinks the ponies are real and tries to apply messages of friendship to the Wasteland? Something like that, maybe. It certainly isn't in Project Horizon's form: what the hell is the child owning sex slaves saying about the value of friendship, or the nature of mankind? The only message I can take is a metatextual one: that people are hosed up little hobgoblins for being able to enjoy this trite, and the confusion of shocking the audience with edginess and surprising the audience with an effective story still continues.

               

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry
Stepping away from skeeviness for a moment, I just ran across a 1.2 million word Secret World of Alex Mack fanfic...I'll just let that sit for a while.

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010

pentyne posted:

Having a 2nd person with college level literacy is enough to catch 98% of the problems with most stuff. A second set of eyes from someone who's not falling over themselves to fellate the author can do wonders.

Apparently Patrick Rothfuss sent the PA guys a draft copy of Wise Man's Fear at the "literate" Tycho was the one crossing out entire pages and writing "this is loving terrible" while Gabe treated it as sacrosanct.

The book was still published with some horrifically bad parts, but that's pretty much par for the course. People can write excellent prose and have really good ideas but they get away from themselves and produce some absolute garbage that they are so personally invested in nothing but a hardcore editor can make them change it.
You know, that book suddenly makes a lot more sense. The book literally says "At which point Kvothe fell overboard, was rescued by pirates and spent several months adventuring on the high seas, but that's not important so let's forget about it" then spends 75 pages describing him having sex with The Best Sex Fairie Ever, then another 75 pages having him train in Mystical Monkey-Takes-a-Dump Fist with polyamorous aspergian sex samurai, and then ends with basically nothing happening, nor having happened.

Here is the entire plot of that book: Kvothe is sad that Deena (his "girlfriend" in the nice guy "doesn't realise she was just being polite" sense) has finally told his dumb rear end to piss off. Being 15 and a virgin, he goes into the magical forest and has a lot of sex, and he's so good at sex that even the queen sex fairie is like "whoa slow down man, you're the best sexguy ever". He sees in a magic mirror that Deena is being beaten up by her MEAN JOCK boyfriend and goes "well, that's what you get when you don't pick the Nice Guy." Kvothe then sexes the queen sexfairy so well that she falls asleep and he escapes. Then he has even more sex with the "hyper-rational" pseudo-japanese Adem who are totally dtf 24/7, and after all this he still pines like a terrible nice guy after Deena. Then he meets Deena and is kind of a dick to her, and gets told to piss off, and gets super upset about it. Book ends, very little has happened.

That didn't just need no editor, it needed an actively terrible editor. I'm still waiting for Rothfuss to release book 3 and go "SURPRISE, UNRELIABLE NARRATOR" because of the sheer endless shitshow that was The Wise Man's Fear. It's like Rothfuss just wanked all over the pages then sent them in. Now I know who to blame.

gently caress you, Tycho. gently caress you forever.

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x1o
Aug 5, 2005

My focus is UNPARALLELED!

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

Stepping away from skeeviness for a moment, I just ran across a 1.2 million word Secret World of Alex Mack fanfic...I'll just let that sit for a while.

I don't think anything will ever top the 4 million word Super Smash Bro's fanfic.

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