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Ponies
Topic Started: Sep 8 2011, 04:12:30 PM (3,243 Views)
TheBurrowingHippo
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Shady Dude Doing God Knows What in the Corner
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Oh, and I just mean the "Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur" part.
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Vidguysteve
Nov 28 2011, 04:08:11 PM
Well, fuck you, Vidguysteve, because you don't know shit.
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Pipsqueak
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Belay yer blubberin' or I'll beat yeh with a cat 'til yer hide is stripped from yer bone!
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TheBurrowingHippo
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Yes. My life is now complete :D
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Vidguysteve
Nov 28 2011, 04:08:11 PM
Well, fuck you, Vidguysteve, because you don't know shit.
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Pipsqueak
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TheBurrowingHippo
Oct 22 2011, 11:19:12 AM
Yes. My life is now complete :D
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Axem Red
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For those who have not joined the herd

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Edited by Axem Red, Oct 24 2011, 06:49:16 PM.
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SuperDS
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You're out of your vector!
Looks like I'm going to the moon.

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCEEEEEEEEE!!
"Any tree can drop an apple. I can drop the freaking moon!" -Sho Minamimoto
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Axem Red
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Oct 26 2011, 01:33:10 PM
Looks like I'm going to the moon.

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCEEEEEEEEE!!
Yes...without a helmet or spacesuit...
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This show has finally dropped all pretense of being a kids show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnS_5tR-K9U
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Axem Red
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WTF?! HOLY SIMILAR!
Edited by Axem Red, Nov 12 2011, 05:02:33 PM.
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Lordraymond
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Wow
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It's official

FiM no longer best thing in world, now best thing in universe.
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Let me in on something I've learned from experience. No matter how much you insult people, your dick is still going to be small.

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Lordraymond
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Wow
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PS, if anyone wants to take a look at my craptacuspeclicious in-progress Skyrim crossover ponyfic, here's a link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WAwvw1FijAnD5DosPmB-FTftiyOlozIn57O3d5nKkLg/edit?hl=en_US

It's my first time really writing in first person, so it is probably more terrible than usual

EDIT: Well, funfact: In one day I've written more on this than my entire NNWM thing.
Edited by Lordraymond, Nov 20 2011, 02:41:24 AM.
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Let me in on something I've learned from experience. No matter how much you insult people, your dick is still going to be small.

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So I was convinced that the people that read and commented on my ponyfic, "Heavenly Turmoil" (have I mentioned that I wrote this before?) were kind of tarded about my ending. What with the extreme negativity to an unhappy ending of a GRIMDARK story with TRAGEDY as one of the tags.

Plus there was some weirdo Role Playing jackass who did nothing to talk about the story and made me remember why I banned Merloo.

Last night this Lighthouse dip was pretty dumb about it, but then he posts this and fills me with happys.

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Thinking overnight on this (confounded excellent writing... you drive me to think), it likely IS that grimdark is grim, no more or less complicated than that. However, because this is solely an evisceration of the mind and not particularly the body, there is a HUGE amount of reader interpretation to be had as to the ultimate nature of the story, along with great difficulty determining a true point of hopelessness.

These are both great things, with great freedom to be had by both writer and reader. *urrk... grammar vomit*

Of course, grimdark does NOT have to end happily, comfortably, full of shipness and light (Rainbow Dash goes where?!), or with even a modicum of moral closure or justice for the antagonist. Likewise, grimdark does not have to be, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act. What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."

This story is what the author wishes it to be; he is obviously entitled to this and the fact that we're still constructively discussing it, more or less, post 120 comments in means he has snagged the brass ring at the very least in terms of his skill at writing presentation and storytelling.

Because it's psychological horror, it's very easy for the more hopelessly romantic among us (guilty as charged) to interpret this as a vicious and costly adventure with a hard fought climax, ending with a bittersweet/pyrrhic victory or at least a barely morally satisfying closure to come. We could easily miss the distinct possibility that this is, for want of better terms, a VASTLY superior psychohorror rendering of Cupcakes, where the evisceration, just as unchangably lethal, actually begins in the first chapter and the 'abrupt' ending is simply the final removal of that last beating heart from the dying shell of the victim on the dissection board.

Trying to 'fix' the ending without changing its content is like moving from 90th to 95th percentiles: WAY above my skill levels.

Excellently written, perfect characterizations (we wouldn't be fighting/rooting for Celestia if we couldn't identify with her very mortal weaknesses), a difficult ending that, if indeed flawed, is worth dwelling on for a long time.


All I got out of this is "excellent writing," "I got a brass writing for writing excellence award neat," "stop complaining about the ending," "characters are great you're a great writer you're great," and my favorite: "this is, for want of better terms, a VASTLY superior psychohorror rendering of Cupcakes."

*Takes a bow*
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Lordraymond
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Wow
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You are pretty cool
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Let me in on something I've learned from experience. No matter how much you insult people, your dick is still going to be small.

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GamerKing777
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I am the Vanguard of Hope. And Destruction.
<gets linked to 16 Page Pony Topic. Reads it all.

. . . . . . Well, I don't exactly need to hide the fact that I'm working on a Pony Fanfic here.
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