Post by Jair on May 17, 2011 18:48:12 GMT -5
This is for those fan-fics that are some of the greatest ever made but noone should have to read them. give a premise, why it is awesome, why you shouldn't rush to read it.
One rule is if you are commenting on swearing or are putting in a part that HAS swearing use asterisk's and put a !! before them.
I'll give my inspiration to start this topic:
Interdimensional
Premise: Rainbow dash is main role here. after a failed teleportation spell the ponies find themselves locked up on earth in area 51. After escaping they find themselves needing to save equestria from the humans.
Why it is awesome: Great action scenes, Gives real depth to rainbow dashes character, and is overall awesome. I cannot begin to describe how awesome it is. second best fanfic I've seen in many regards.
Why you should never read it: This is also the WORST fan-fic i've ever read finally beating out cupcakes.
if you go on ED you will see it is grimdark: war. That has nothing to do with it else i would have put "cupcakes" up here. No if you want solid evidence why not it is in some parts horribly written and sometimes you have to trudge through long, horribly written walls of text. That alone is bad. but i focus more on content.
first: Area 51... seriously? This fan-fic is just a whole mess of conspiracy theories. For example, one guy is a epic conspiracy theorist and was talking about how the Illuminati is taking over the world when the main human stops him and says "I worked at area 51 !!****** I would know if there was such a thing as the Illuminati" and hey howdy guess who is second-in-command of the Equestrian invasion! Mr head honcho of the Illuminati!
But here is where it gets bad. You cant go through one paragraph without at least 5-7 swear words being blurted out (like F and C(hard) and S) and more often its more than 10. Also things like Jesus and God (note not offensive in their own right) are used like they are confettii at pinkie pie's party. Rainbow dash even uses it once (the only human swear word uttered by the ponies).
Also if you didn't gather from the image at top and the warning. it's shipping. Also, told by the image, its a appledash shipping story. If you dont like shipping in your fan-fic this one has got one full scene, one cut out scene (by the way pretty much everyone except the main human got a bite of that action), 4 or 5 stopped scenes, so many it's insane allusions to name a few parts AND the EQUESTRIAN-SIDE general told his men that he would have said sample the local fare but they are !!******* ponies for !!**** sake. Now I like a bit of a romance side-story. But knocking boots as people are dying at your house's front door (no literally there was a battle going outside the house as AJ and RD were in it)? come ON!
Also might I add that rainbow dash is EXTREMELY out of character. For instance (note that many many many more examples abound i just picked this one because of it's story importance) while wandering around the resistance's HQ he picks up a book for no reason and starts reading (note this is somewhat referenced by applejack as very odd but it doesn't excuse the rest of it). First he picks up the Bible flips to a random chapter, reads a verse about people killing each other. puts it back saying people really are violent. Grabs ANOTHER book (mind you that twilight had never touched one since she got here) about WW2 learns the different policies and, in the end, becomes Mrs smarty pants (note Mrs) from reading that one book, blackmails the U.S.A. to recruit forces to help save equestria (for some reason they get different countries in as well) and becomes a ambassador after the war. Not really RD's character if you ask me. for one thing why the heck did she pick up the book when there was a whole lot more to do? Second why the heck a ambassador? Yelling BOOOOOOOOORRRRRRIIIIINNNNNGGGG during meetings isn't the best way to endear yourself. Also politics? The pony that charged into a dragons cave and smacked him in the nose to get him to move in POLITICS? I could go on and on.
Also a side-story that is never resolved is twilight's remorse over casting the teleportation spell that brought them to earth in the first place. She is constantly sulking but that is never resolved in the story. The only thing this does in the story is let rainbow dash pick up the WW2 book before her and learn about politics. Annoying
Finally it is religious. more like: God is evil than most other things but there is a lot more. There is a lot more stuff about this one i could post but i'll spare you.
I will give a quick rundown of minor grimdark:
Due to a party some of the EQUESTRIA-SIDE HUMANS had to shoot each other.
Applejack is shot, rainbow dash is shot in a bullet proof vest
Celestia and Luna are killed (revived but still killed)
Descriptions of men and women's body parts being strewn around are throught the fan-fic.
Just to name 3 instances out of the hundreds.
What else is there to say?
TL:DR get out of this thread if you wont read it all
The point: post similar descriptions of fan-fics that are the great but noone should have to read. Or a warning on how bad a fan-fic is before they read it.
Also no cupcakes parts please. I'm afraid every brony will have to read that sometime or another.
One rule is if you are commenting on swearing or are putting in a part that HAS swearing use asterisk's and put a !! before them.
I'll give my inspiration to start this topic:
Interdimensional
Premise: Rainbow dash is main role here. after a failed teleportation spell the ponies find themselves locked up on earth in area 51. After escaping they find themselves needing to save equestria from the humans.
Why it is awesome: Great action scenes, Gives real depth to rainbow dashes character, and is overall awesome. I cannot begin to describe how awesome it is. second best fanfic I've seen in many regards.
Why you should never read it: This is also the WORST fan-fic i've ever read finally beating out cupcakes.
if you go on ED you will see it is grimdark: war. That has nothing to do with it else i would have put "cupcakes" up here. No if you want solid evidence why not it is in some parts horribly written and sometimes you have to trudge through long, horribly written walls of text. That alone is bad. but i focus more on content.
first: Area 51... seriously? This fan-fic is just a whole mess of conspiracy theories. For example, one guy is a epic conspiracy theorist and was talking about how the Illuminati is taking over the world when the main human stops him and says "I worked at area 51 !!****** I would know if there was such a thing as the Illuminati" and hey howdy guess who is second-in-command of the Equestrian invasion! Mr head honcho of the Illuminati!
But here is where it gets bad. You cant go through one paragraph without at least 5-7 swear words being blurted out (like F and C(hard) and S) and more often its more than 10. Also things like Jesus and God (note not offensive in their own right) are used like they are confettii at pinkie pie's party. Rainbow dash even uses it once (the only human swear word uttered by the ponies).
Also if you didn't gather from the image at top and the warning. it's shipping. Also, told by the image, its a appledash shipping story. If you dont like shipping in your fan-fic this one has got one full scene, one cut out scene (by the way pretty much everyone except the main human got a bite of that action), 4 or 5 stopped scenes, so many it's insane allusions to name a few parts AND the EQUESTRIAN-SIDE general told his men that he would have said sample the local fare but they are !!******* ponies for !!**** sake. Now I like a bit of a romance side-story. But knocking boots as people are dying at your house's front door (no literally there was a battle going outside the house as AJ and RD were in it)? come ON!
Also might I add that rainbow dash is EXTREMELY out of character. For instance (note that many many many more examples abound i just picked this one because of it's story importance) while wandering around the resistance's HQ he picks up a book for no reason and starts reading (note this is somewhat referenced by applejack as very odd but it doesn't excuse the rest of it). First he picks up the Bible flips to a random chapter, reads a verse about people killing each other. puts it back saying people really are violent. Grabs ANOTHER book (mind you that twilight had never touched one since she got here) about WW2 learns the different policies and, in the end, becomes Mrs smarty pants (note Mrs) from reading that one book, blackmails the U.S.A. to recruit forces to help save equestria (for some reason they get different countries in as well) and becomes a ambassador after the war. Not really RD's character if you ask me. for one thing why the heck did she pick up the book when there was a whole lot more to do? Second why the heck a ambassador? Yelling BOOOOOOOOORRRRRRIIIIINNNNNGGGG during meetings isn't the best way to endear yourself. Also politics? The pony that charged into a dragons cave and smacked him in the nose to get him to move in POLITICS? I could go on and on.
Also a side-story that is never resolved is twilight's remorse over casting the teleportation spell that brought them to earth in the first place. She is constantly sulking but that is never resolved in the story. The only thing this does in the story is let rainbow dash pick up the WW2 book before her and learn about politics. Annoying
Finally it is religious. more like: God is evil than most other things but there is a lot more. There is a lot more stuff about this one i could post but i'll spare you.
I will give a quick rundown of minor grimdark:
Due to a party some of the EQUESTRIA-SIDE HUMANS had to shoot each other.
Applejack is shot, rainbow dash is shot in a bullet proof vest
Celestia and Luna are killed (revived but still killed)
Descriptions of men and women's body parts being strewn around are throught the fan-fic.
Just to name 3 instances out of the hundreds.
What else is there to say?
TL:DR get out of this thread if you wont read it all
The point: post similar descriptions of fan-fics that are the great but noone should have to read. Or a warning on how bad a fan-fic is before they read it.
Also no cupcakes parts please. I'm afraid every brony will have to read that sometime or another.