ITT general fandom pet peeves

>>30346761
>Person has an OC

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>browses >>>/mlp/

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>>30346761
>fic starts with Twilight screwing up a spell

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>>30346761
>EQD rejects your submission

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>uses terminology they dont know the meaning of

>>30346761
Pinky. You can call her Ponk, Penk Penka I don't care but if you unironically call her Pinky I hope you die.

>>30346761
>fanfic seems really good
>suddenly introduce ill-fitting special snowflake OC(s)

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>>30346829
>Pinky Pie
>Apple Jack
>Applebloom

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>>30346824
>When people use "flank" to refer to the rump

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>>30346761
> cutie mark is controller/computer/pen/quill/pencil/book/paint splashes/microphone
How fucking """""original"""""

>>30346908
Yeah, this.

Your hobbies or general interests are not the same thing as your calling in life.

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>>30346859
>When people use "plot" to refer to the story

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>Most shitposter are old twifags who fuck with current twifags
>It has become so bad that it is now an ironic meme

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>>30346761
>horse music maker leaves fandom
>deletes all their music
it's even worse when they weren't that popular so no one has saved downloads of their music or bothers to repost it.

>>30346761
This is more /mlp/, but when I find a pony video I really love, I want to share it with you guys, but there is no way to do that without making it seem like I'm shilling for the creator of the video.

>Treating the show like it's a some Shakespearean play
>Mountains made out of Molehills IE(DWM)
>The overall focus on porn nowawadys instead of cute/epic show related art.
Can't tell how it disgusts me to see some of the most mediocre riske artwork get massive scores. People used to have standards

>>30346761
But we have a character like that in the fucking show.

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>MLP content creator's stuff turns into "obligatory pony" just to stay relevant in the fandom

>>30346761
The fact that there are people on this planet who make a living drawing porn of My Little Pony

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>>30347201
Glad to see I'm not alone.

>>30347326
>implying porn isnt art

>>30347332
It's not. It isn't intended to be aesthetically pleasing or moving or whatever, it's intended to assist in achieving orgasm. The difference is in the artist's intent.

>>30346859
To be fair, the show kind of did it first.

>>30346761
Apparently some people are such losers that they think their purpose in life is to play video games.

>>30347372
ya, im sure all the ancient art richfags get a boner over wasnt just ancient porn.

>>30346800
w-what's wrong with that Anon?

>>30347062
holy fucking shit this
why, just why do people even do this

>>30347372
then you're just talking about deviant-art tier porn Anon
what the fuck are you on about, you're telling me that dankflank/doxy/sundown aren't trying their best to make it aesthetically pleasing as possible?
I can understand you faggots being mad at porn artists having an easier time to get ratings and shit, but saying that what they do is inferior just pisses me off so bad
protips; many of these pics have impacted my life much, much more than any other 'epic' or 'moving' drawing anyone ever made, simply because I fapped and fantasized on it so much.
People like porn because everyone wants to jack off, you dumb fucks, it's as simple as that.

>>30347396
music anon here. My best bet is that they either think a. all their stuff is shit or b. their embarrassed they made pony music. Either way imo it's really disrespectful to the fans to just take away all that good shit. Like I wrote a garbage fanfic when i was younger that I cannot bring myself to reread but I know that somewhere out there there's someone who probably genuinely enjoyed it or has it in their fave's list and has been glancing at it every so often to see if it's updated and for that reason I refuse to delete it or take it down.

>Anon says there's no more good content in the fandom.
>Anon proceeds to complete bash any content being made because it doesn't fit his opinions.

>>30346844
Reminds me, why is AJ's name one word while Apple Bloom's is two? I don't fucking like it. It should be Applebloom; it's called consistency, Lauren. Fuck.

>>30347201
Fucking THIS

>>30347372
Fuck you, I like my pornography thought provoking. I miss crookedtrees…

>>30347062
Maybe I can help you out? Any tunes in particular you're looking for?

>>30346761
>SS:
>TS:
>AJ:
>PP
>FS:
Etc

>>30347062
Fuck. I remember YAC. Was pretty good, too. On related note, >>30348240
His EPs? or was it just Smarty Pants? I am not sure.

>>30347126
Basically me, but with some artists I follow. I just say "Sorry for shilling" and leave it at that, unless that's wrong somehow.

>>30347326
>>30347332
I'm the person who posted this >>30347201
I will not say that pornagraphy is not art. I don't get off to it.However there used to be a point in time where people raced to draw the first image of scene after an episode. Now people draw porn indiscriminately.

>>30348318
Well Smarty Pants is up on youtube

>using "buck" "horseapples" and "saddlesore" in regular conversations
>taking random scenes of characters standing next to each other or innocent dialogue as proof that your ship is canon
>musicians not having download links to their song in the video description or comments
>EQD posting non-MLP content just because it involves someone tangably related to pony
>arguing about retarded shit (the exchange rate of the bit to dollar, Twilight dyeing her mane, etc.)
>people who still post on /mlp/ despite deeply hating the show now

>>30348832
>musicians not having download links to theirnsongs in the video description or comments

This makes me pretty peeved. I like to listen to songs in better than rip from youtube quality.

>>30346761
How sensitive this board is to violence. Like come the fuck on its called slave pony for a reason not 'Anon saves former slave and pounds her pussy because lol I good human'.
also
>Hoof holding memes
>Generic story archetypes of Anon being the master of mare pussy and despite being an autist, bangs almost every mare.

I get worried when a one off character (say troubleshoes) doesn't get a lot of love in the fandom, so I think it's dying. Then someone like Ember will get tons of love and i feel like an idiot.

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>Anon Y. Mous, would you assist me in percurring some triticum aestivum baked in an electronic baking appliance and some Malus pumilas?
>o-o-o-o-h-h-h-h, h-h-h-e-e-e-e-l-l-l-l-l--o-o-o-o-o t-t-t-t-t-h-h-h-h-h-e-e-e-e-r-r-r-r-e-e-e-e a-a-a-a-n-n-n-o-o-o-n-n-n-n
>Wehyll yeeeeeeeehaaaowdy ya'll! How's is ya'lls dewin'? Ah is feelin' like a rattler in a pigs bawhl shack! Yeee haaaw!
>Oh Darling, it is simply a darling day my simply darling anonymous darling
>HeyanonhowareyouI'mdoingfinetodaydidyouknowwe'reinagreentextheylookit'sDeadpoolforsomefuckingreason
>Like, I'm like totally having an awesome day tonight anon, I've been like totally dashingly awesomely radically

>>30348968
Nice repost, upboated XDDDDDD~~~

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>>30348971
>repost
>not pasta

>>30348240
I'm pretty good at tracking down old viewable links of deleted songs but there is one song I cannot find for my life. I don't remember the name but I do remember it was an Eliemonty song and the background of the video was ponies but in like constellations and the only line I can remember is "somethingsomethingsomething when I'm without you." and for all I know I'm confusing that last bit from a different song of her's.

>>30349460
I'm in eliemonty's patreon discord. I could ask her, if you want.

>>30349463
that would be extremely appreciated my dude.

>>30349464
I asked, although she's not online right now. If I get a reply while this thread is still up, I'll let you know the reply.

>When a fan fiction has a completely unrelated character bashing scene.

>>30347201
You have some severe rose tinted glasses if you think porn hasn't always been this popular.

>Anon acts "alpha" but it's written by an autist so he just sounds like a douche bag.
>he swears in an attempt to sound more cool and casual.
>references to how he fucks literally every mare in the village and how he makes them cum like 20 times for seemingly no reason.
I just can't stand this whole try hard alpha routine, makes me cringe every fucking time.
Just b urself dudes, that's real real confidence.

>>30347201
>cute/epic
>standards

>>30348088
>crookedtrees
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>30349512
This is the absolute worst. Nothing is more cringy than someone trying to be >le edgy 4chan guy.

>>30346761
>Twilight wants to experiment on [Human Character Here]
>Rarity makes clothes for [Human Character Here] for free
>Fluttershy frightened of [Human Character Here] until he says 'I like animals'
>Rainbow Dash is hostile towards [Human Character Here] for no reason
>[Human Character Here] immediately gets a job at Sweet Apple Acres
>Over the top characterisation of Ponk to the point where she's OOC or just annoying
>Spike either thoroughly beta, nonexistent or extreme levels of dudebro
>Celestia being too tyrannical or too formal
>Thee Thou Thy We ALL CAPS DIALOGUE
>Cadence dumps Shining for [Human Character Here] or Shining simply doesn't exist
>Discord being overly malevolent before his reformation and nothing but memes after it
>The existence of the CMC largely ignored, and when it's not, the group dynamic being done wrong
>Pets do not exist

>Human character has an inordinate sum of technical knowledge and talks about it like he memorised a wikipedia page
>Human character has an inordinate sum of historical knowledge and talks about it like he memorised a wikipedia page
>Human character is fawned over by all
>Human character is a sex god
>Human character is a teenager who just so happens to have, totally by coincidence, the first and last name of the author
>Human character is 'just an average guy'
>Human character is shocked at being in Equestria a sum total of one paragraph
>Human character becomes a pony, immediate dysphoria involving the limbs
>Human character becomes a natural at flying at Rainbow tier if a pegasus or a natural at magic at Twilight tier if a unicorn
>Human character receives infinite levels of patience for his bullshit
>Human character immediately becomes the most important thing ever as soon as he arrives
>Human character walking on eggshells about omnivorous diet, bonus points if the ponies are disgusted by this, despite having pets that are carnivorous

And the worst of all.

>Ponies have child-like intelligence

>>30349711
I agree with most of these except a few:

>Shining simply doesn't exist
This is a good thing

>Pets do not exist
>Implying they've existed in the show since season 4 apart from cameos

>Human character is 'just an average guy'
I might be giving fanfiction writers too much credit, but this is done on purpose. It helps the audience relate to the main character. After all, we wouldn't want him to be Edgy McEdgelord, the guy with 3 penises and superpowers.

>>30349727
It can be done well, but when he doesn't exist specifically for the purpose of shacking up with Cadence, it's awful

The pets don't even get cameos in 90% of fanfiction.

No, I mean the literal line of 'just an average guy' for the sole purpose of then saying, 'H-He's not a mary sue now! He's just an average guy!'

100 bonus points if the line is used anywhere within the first three paragraphs.

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>>30348968
I didn't ask for that shit, today. I came here to have fun, damn it, not think about how no one can get Applejack's vernacular down right at all.

>>30349737
Ok, that makes sense. I didn't pick up on you meaning they literally using the line 'just an average guy'

I've actually never seen that done, but I don't read fimfic much so that'd probably be why.

>>30348981
It's redditception in here.

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>>30346761
>character starts acting OOC for fetish reasons

>>30349765
Fucking christ that expression is sending me right into uncanny valley

>>30349753
It was pretty common in the early days of fanfiction.net and later fimfic and was usually followed by an info dump about the self insert.

I envy your eyes having not seen the shit I have. The teenage self inserts, the grimdark foe spinoffs, Felixdawn and others. Believe me, you're better off.

>>30349776
Although I never read much fanfiction, I actually wrote one. Well, I got through three (very small) chapters and stopped because I got bored of it.

It involved me (just me, referred to by my own name) going to Equestria, turning into a pony (who was also an alicorn) and then having all the ponies like me.

I actually found it on fanfiction.net not too long ago, it's terribad.

>>30347464
Apple Bloom is named for the flower which is two words.
Applejack is named after the liquor which is one word.
Some people have the surname St. John
Others have Erikson.
This is not super complex.

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>>30348832
Horseapples is already a phrase you filthy fucking townie.

>>30349596
>porn
>standards

>>30346761
>Anthro or human porn.

They are ponies. Embrace it.

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>>30348968
>people writing them in character triggers you

>>30350328
are you only of the people that gets butthurt over Twilight not being a sarcastic bitch anymore

>>30346782
I mean this is the /thread right here but fuck it i'll keep scrolling down

>>30349488
>You have some severe rose tinted glasses if you think porn hasn't always been this popular.
No,I don't I've been in this fandom since February 2011 and have seen the transition

>>30347451
This.

I really want to delete one of my earlier fics but I can't do it knowing that someone actually fucking reads it and checks if its updating. I feel bad for the poor sap moreso than I care about what I percieve is shit. I wish content creators didn't delete their shit upon leaving the ride. This is the reason why I've started to hoard green.

>>30350565
It was less a transition and more that the porn was always a large part of the fandom and endured better than the not-porn parts.

The porn has gotten way better, though.

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>>30349711
>>30349727
>>30349737
See, the main gripe I have with humans going to Equestria is that unless its a character from a known series, we dont know anything about the character or his personality until he gets plopped into horseland. You can make a character relatable without making him painfully average. That's what flaws are supposed to be for, and to those flaws you give him strengths.
But it always seems that flaws and strengths are pulled out of hat when the author needs said characteristics
For once I would like to see characterization for a character that needs it, rather than a character that already has it

>>30348832
>the exchange rate of the bit to dollar
To be quite honest, there should be no argument whatsoever.
The dollar is fiat, backed by the US government. In a world where said government doesnt exist, it thereby means that the dollar is worth as much as the cloth its printed on.

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>>30348843
Maybe I don't want to fucking abuse another sentient creature and instead hold their hoof.

>>30350645
>porn was always a large part of the fandom
No it wasn't or at least it didn't use to be/

>>30350794
I'm afraid you're mistaken, porn was big from day 1.

>>30346983
Plenty of poners have hobby cutie marks though.

>>30348968
>>Wehyll yeeeeeeeehaaaowdy ya'll! How's is ya'lls dewin'? Ah is feelin' like a rattler in a pigs bawhl shack! Yeee haaaw!

>>30349711
>>[Human Character Here] immediately gets a job at Sweet Apple Acres

And this is why I can't write anything for my waifu.

>receiving ">watching the show" as an answer to anything

>>30350805
>Historical revisionism

>>30350872
>People never wrote pony erotica in the early days
>People never drew pony porn in the early days
>People never roleplayed as their favorite pony or an OC

The only one revising history here is you. Take it from someone who has actually been here since day one that a significant part of the fandom has been centered firmly around the porn. It just seems like more now because the not-porn parts of the fandom have fallen away for the most part.

>>30350900
>Takes a look at the front page of derpibooru.

Non-porn, porn, porn, non-porn, non-porn, porn, non-porn, non-porn, non-porn, non-porn, porn, porn, non-porn, non-porn, non-porn (but suggestive.)

I don't even think porn is taking over.

>using the element of ____ as a justification/explanation for a trait in a character's personality.
>Not the other way around

Mfw Applejack can't lie

>>30350900
>>30350949
Take a look at the most popular images over the past 3 days

>>30350900
>>30351011
And to add on to this I never said anything that suggested that "people never x" Rather it was not as prevalent.

>>30351020
Again.

>It just seems like more now because the not-porn parts of the fandom have fallen away for the most part.

>Writer has an obvious bias against one/any of the main 6 and writes them like shit, seemingly on purpose
>(typically human) Character is completely oblivious to the advances of a character that likes them
>(typically human) Character doesn't understand something sexual going on because 'muh horses are sexually different'
>Writer writes Pinkie like the newer 'so random xd' Pinkie, not the S1 and S2 Pinkie everyone misses
>Oh darling my darling darling no problem, dear darling darling
>Writer gets Applejack's southern drawl very wrong

>>30349711
>Human character is shocked at being in Equestria a sum total of one paragraph
This
>Ponies have child-like intelligence
This is the fucking worst cliche that exists, it pisses me off so god damn much

Also,
>crotchtits

>>30348843
>look at me lots of people don't like my shit slave fetish so they all must be hugboxing fags who hate violence
Fuck off.

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>>30346761
>person has an OC

>>30346761
>person posts a big guy

>>30348843
>it's a 'degenerate looks down on others because they're actual good people' episode
I don't give a fuck what you get off to, but the fact that you have to post that kinda shit just proves that you're just in it to get some attention
worse than a real girl/10

>>30348843
Honestly I don't know what you were expecting. Everyone at the slave general is a white knight. They don't like it because it's not their type of story. They want to rescue the damsel in distress, save the day, and get some on the side. I swear it's the same in /a/ with the moe shit.

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>>30346761
>everything

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>>30346761
>be fandom musician
>make anything that isnt dubstep
>"yeah but where's the drop?"
>"thats gay make more dubstep"

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>>30349711
To be fair, people cite Rarity making clothes as a cliche but she is, or was, the Element of Generosity. I don't think she'd do more than a couple of sets for free, especially if he's not doing chores like Spike, but it's far from OoC. It's painfully predictable, but also what I would consider the most consistently accurate. I guess, you could argue Fluttershy might be the first to make some clothes since she's a hobbyist on the subject and her kindness would make her the most likely to act on her sympathies.

>>30346761
>Any reoccurring character that is drawn to like video games
>Any cross-over

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>has an over the top brony desktop
I can't fathom why I thought this looked nice

>>30346838
>fanfic is really good with a focus on a few interesting characters
>writer suddenly dedicates sections to literally who's that nobody cares about or wants to read about

>>30348246
Fuck that noise

>>30349711
>Twilight wants to experiment on [Human Character Here]
>Rarity makes clothes for [Human Character Here] for free
>Human character becomes a pony, immediate dysphoria involving the limbs
These all make sense

>Thee Thou Thy We ALL CAPS DIALOGUE
And this one is acceptable in doses.
>The existence of the CMC largely ignored, and when it's not, the group dynamic being done wrong
And this is a good idea
>Human character is a sex god
nothing wrong with this one. Who is to say how ponies would enjoy human penis and whatnot.
>Human character immediately becomes the most important thing ever as soon as he arrives
In a way he would for at least a few weeks

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>Anon in Equestria
>Fanfics where one character turns into an a totally OOC evil bitch for no reason, especially if it is a romantic or revisionist fic and everyone acts as if this is normal for them.
>Fimfictions retarded double space/indenting rules that are applied on the whim of the admins but do nothing to make your story more legible.
>Writers that write massive twenty chapter stories that get tons of views that they just abandon before the end without explanation.

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>Every unicorn is Twilight.

Oh wait, that's canon now.

>>30353187
you are like a grumpy old man

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>Pop-culture references
>Fourth Wall breaking
>Favorite character written well, all others written like shit

>>30349711
>Rarity makes clothes for [Human Character Here] for free
Shes the element of fucking generosity. if somebody arrives in a new world with no money of course she will make them clothing.

>>30353206
Hi Jim.

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>>30346761
>pmv gets popular
>go to actual song's official video
>comments are all just bronies saying they found the song from a pmv & people telling them to fuck off

>>30353566
Youtube comments in general are stupid. Nobody fucking cares how you reached a video.

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>>30353566
>people roleplaying as ponies in the comments

>>30353625
I sure hope you mean the comments of the pmv.

>>30353625
What episode is this gif from? Can't recall seeing it.

>>30353644
S3E2, I think.

>>30353643
I've seen it on videos that have nothing to do with ponies. It's not as bad as it used to be though.
>[Princess Luna]: 10:37 The X has been doubled ^_^
>[Twilight Sparkle]: owo I didn't know you liked Y, too.
>[Princess Luna]: Of course we do. How could anypony not like this?

>>30351173
It's more of
>Hug boxing fags won't allow any content that isnt Anon being the generals archetype of good slave owner.
>>30351295
>He has an opinion, therfore it's automatic attention wanting.

>>30353845
Maybe, just maybe, the large majority of people don't like your specific fetish and that's why it's shunned and not catered to? Jesus fucking christ get a grip.

>>30353845
>most people don't want to read abuse/slave stories
>"wow fucking anti-violence faggots"
:thinking:

>>30346761
>Deflated hair Pinkie Pie is a violent psychopath
>Ponies swear in almost every sentence
Is there anything more painful to watch than someone trying to make children's show characters edgy?

>>30353993
Someone trying to make them edgy outside of a darkfic. At least if it's grimderp you know what you're getting into.

>>30353341
Clothes are considered a luxury but non-necessity among pones anon, sure she'd fix a button or rip already in his clothes but creating clothes for a strange species when her entire career revolves around making dresses for female ponies is just retarded.

>>30354064
She's the only who has a (comedic, I know) nudity taboo though. If any pony would consider a human's taboo-fueled plight, that otherwise they'd have to go naked most of the time, it's Rarity. That does make me consider that the results may not be so great though.And has any HiE or AiE been ballsy enough for their main character to just say fuck it and go full nudist?

>being a brony

Holy fuck why even carry on living?

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Writing a rule 63 fanfic and using the established male names for the Mane 6, i.e. Dusk Shine, Rainbow Blitz, Elusive, and so on.

Be fucking original you worthless scabs. Holy fuck if you can write an OC you can think up a name that everyone and their mother hasn't regurgitated before.

>>30353993
I think ponies swearing can be cute but only if it's humorous.

>Human in Equestria fanfic
>Human is a US marine or otherwise on some military branch
>Human is turned into a pony (and always an alicorn)
>Human is turned into a Pokemon or some character from an edgy franchise (Dark Souls) WTF???
>Human is shipped with all the Mane 6 and the princesses at the same time.

these mostly pertain to commenters on Equestria Daily and youtube comments on episodes:

>"Don't like, don't watch!"

>"The staff work hard. Stop complaining!"

>A: "I hate that <pony> acted like <obnoxious thing character did> in today's episode.
>B: "Yeah. I didn't like that. I also wasn't a fan of the way Starlight acted. She's was annoying too."
>A: "It's not nice to shit on people's favorite ponies, asshole. If you don't have any positive to say then shut the buck up. Get out troll"

>"What the hay"
>"What the buck"
>"<cutesy MLP swear>"

>A: "I didn't like today's episode that much"
>B: "Wow, contrarian, much?"

>"<anything> XD/:P/:D"

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>Anon in Equestria fic
>Anon is extremely boring and has as little personality as humanly possible because "he's supposed to be a self insert"
>Anon shares almost no chemistry with any of the pones, but thankfully they're already dating or good friends so the author can conveniently ignore that and skip straight to the sex
>Every single sex scene in every single AiE story is the exact same with a little bit of lip serve to a particular fetish sprinkled in
Stop being so afraid of writing actual characters you jackasses!

>Good artist(s) would rather draw porn of some neckbeard's shitty OC than actual show characters
I know it's for money and blah blah blah but still I fucking hate this is a common thing
>Artist(s) halt progress on any comic they're doing to draw said neckbeard's OC or whatever for money
>Characters kissing in stories ALWAYS include tongue playing even in their first kiss, and there's always a saliva trail when they're finished even though this almost never fucking happens in real life

>Writer seems to be close to wrapping up 200k word story soon
>Disappears off the face of the earth
>Returns two years later, then promptly disappears again, seemingly for good this time
>F-fuck you, HazardousHarvard

>>30354399
>reee muh green chad thundercock
a true to life anon would just jackoff, shitpost about how miserable he is and never meet any cute mares

>>30354528
I don't care about Chad thundercock if he's at least a fun character, the problem is anon usually doesn't do anything at all, at this point jacking off and shitposting would actually be an improvement

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>Artist is absolutely top-tier
>99% of his shit is anthro
Every fucking time.

>>30354399
Maybe it's because I was last here during the Canterlot Wedding two parter but I've seen plenty where Anon was quite fleshed out and his name was just a formality. At the very least most fics had him as a pretty decent straight man with him getting the short end of the stick. I rarely actually came across one that felt like I was supposed to self insert, but now I can't say since so many years have passed.

I 100% agree on the last one though.

>>30354399
Because that defeats the fucking purpose of Anon, you dumb fuck
If your don't even have enough imagination to fill the holes in a wish fulfilling smut green, then why are you even on this board?
Just go read HiE fics with named humans and shit, and be 'happy' about knowing that the character has a job and like cats or some retarded shit that absolutely no one but you care about
We're here to imagine ourselves fucking our waifus Anon, not falling in love with male characters

Also, there isn't 500 ways to insert your penis in a vagina, so yes I'm sorry, sex will always be 'the same', faggot

>>30354598
It's gotten a lot worse over the years, mainly thanks to mindsets like this >>30354614

Basically, people are really fucking desperate for erotic greens and will take absolutely anything thrown their way, but there also happen to be only a tiny handful of folk the board so even the lowest quality shit gets sucked up like a glass of ice cold water in the middle of the desert

>>30354269
>Human is a US marine or otherwise on some military branch
Dont get me started with this
I've seen ONE HiE fic that did this right, and its at the very top of the ratings where it belongs
>Human has 'military experience' that consists of how shoot gud and how punch gud
>Said 'military experience' is usually some bullshit 'elite SF' role like the strong independent sniper who don't need no spotter, or the 'one man army'
God dammit if you dont know how the military works in any form, dont pretend because its obviously bullshit that people can see a mile away

>>30349765
That arm is so fucked that it's defying the laws of nature itself and floating mid air.

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>>30354650
>Character is praised or awarded for disobeying direct orders
>Literally everyone carries a sidearm
>Fucking NCO out ranks a commissioned officer
I was never in the military but pretty much any military green text hurts to read

>>30351159
You had me until crotchtits, you best correct your taste, sonny.

>>30354650
>I've seen ONE HiE fic that did this right, and its at the very top of the ratings where it belongs
Which one?

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>>30351159
>disliking crotchtits

>>30354763
Article 2

>>30353341
It's not that it's unrealistic, it's that it always goes down the same way.

>"Oh darling, darling darling darling, darling darling, darling, NEW CLOTHES, darling."
>"Gee thanks Rarity."
>Proceeds to never talk to or mention Rarity ever again for however many chapters the self insert goes for before the author gets bored or shouted out for his wish fulfillment trash.

On top of that, the character just takes it, usually without even attempting to offer anything in return.

>>30354773
>search it up
>at some point in the past I read the entire thing, added it to all my bookshelves, thumbed up and left a comment praising it
>don't remember even a bit of it
tl;dr maybe please? no spoiling anything

>>30351159
brb, adding crotch tits to all my fics right nos

>>30354792
But that's because we're talking about rarara Anon
Her whole fucking pitch is 'darling' and 'dresses'

And unless rarara plays an important role in said fic, no one gives a fuck whether the protagonist talk to her ever again or not, rather, if the writer doesn't mention her then nothing stops you from thinking he did it in between two chapters or smth, who cares

>>30354841
I care, evidently. This shit is basic chekhov's gun, don't alude to shit you're not going to use, that includes characters. What's the fucking point writing out a whole segment of Rarity saying darling and making clothes if you're never going to use her again? Just make that happen between chapters and get to the fucking story.

>>30354841
If there's no point to her other than to get some new clothes why even mention her at all? Just say you already have clothes, or just off handedly mention you got new clothes from Rarity, if she only has one line of dialogue the fuck is the point of her being in the fic.

Also, how the fuck does she know how to make clothes for humans?
>She has the measurements
A tailor today wouldn't be able to make a dress for a horse in a day if she had the measurements.

>>30354793
Eh, its not finished, one of those 'on-off' perpetual hiatus but sure
>spaceship crash lands in Equestria
>main character, a Marine, is the only survivor, in a coma
>wakes up, tries to escape, fails, tries to kill himself
>after he sorts himself out, performs actual character interaction with the rest of the cast
>faithful characterization of the Mane Six
>Marine Corps jokes and Marine bureaucratic cockblocking abound as he tries to get his affairs in order and get back home
>complete with copious amounts of alcoholism, explosives, technological and cultural
disparity that's more than 'Well let me tell you about this Wikipedia page'-'Stunned pony reaction', and proper gun safety and disposal

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>>30346761
>Writer describes villain as "Pony Hitler"

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>>30346761
>NMM is a completely separate entity who possessed Luna, muh precious Woona couldn't possibly do anything wrong

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>>30354920

>'Well let me tell you about this Wikipedia page'-'Stunned pony reaction'

For some reason this makes me want to read shitfics with exactly that.

>>30346761
>Reversed gender roles in general
>Anthro content in general
>People giving critique on things and saying that someone's writing/drawing style is bad because it's not perfectly reflective of the show
>People using the phrase Mary Sue in a way that's not reflective of the actual definition

There's more, but these are probably the ones that bug me the most.

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>PMV
>Either dubstep, Owl City, something emotional
>Visuals are literally just colors, silhouettes of the characters, transitions
>Kinetic typography of the lyrics
>Every
>Single
>PMV
>My fucking face when
This is why PMVs are in the shit. It's the exact same shit. This is why Top 10 Pony Videos is 6 feet under. It took the fandom like a Goddamn plague.

>>30348832
>using "buck" "horseapples" and "saddlesore" in regular conversations
it's even worse when they substitute it for swearing, shit is mad gay

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Something that bugs me a bit with writing.
There's an ever growing number of authors who, for whatever reason decide to abandon writing character pieces in favour of adventure/"thriller" stories. Frequently with the same characters and settings as thier previous stories. Sometimes between chapters.

Whether it's just something that generates more likes, I have no idea. But it always falls on it's face as the bland yet convoluted plot seems to sap all thier narrative ability to the point those same characters which were full of life are now wooden shells of thier former selves.
Its as if by trying to become "epic", the writer has instead fallen into a pit of mediocrity where they can do nothing well.

Maybe I'm just a grumpy faget.

>have a legitimate critique about the show
>not only does no one want to talk about it, they outright pretend nothing's wrong
I just want to vent, is that so wrong?

>>30356202
No, it's not just you, that's a pretty common problem with writefags who decide to write as they go instead of having a pre-written story line to go off of and end up just throwing so much shit at the wall hoping it will stick that eventually the wall isn't even there anymore.

>>30349782
You do understand you're legally required to provide a link, right? Don't leave me hanging.

>Anon arrives in Equestria
>Two seconds later not a single entity doesn't despise him for simply existing and being a human
>Literally no explanation of the hate other than "He's different!"
>Key point of the story

At least make Anon do some misunderstanding or mistake that ruins his reputation first.

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>>30355875
>Kinetic typography of the lyrics
I hate that shit so much.

shit like this
>>30344196

>>30356451
I slowly grew to hate this trope in general because of poor execution and circumstances that don't justify it like you mentioned. That being said I give the fic a slight break if it was written before 2013. This was more common in Season 1 and early Season 2 where we only had Zecora and maybe Spike for reference so people assumed the pones were very xenophobic folk in general. Less talented writers thought "Well, hey! It's already very implicit. If they freak out over a zebra then just imagine how they'd treat a human."

Iron Will is probably more accurate to how they would view a human imo. They call him a brutish monster but aren't afraid to talk down to him or do business.

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>Person has an OC

>thread is just a wall of text nobody will ever read

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>Every mare wets herself by just standing next to human character
>Human character doesn't want to have sex with ponies for some reason
>Human character is muscular
>Human character is master of sarcasm
>Human character is epic troll and ponies are losing patience with him but don't do anything about it other than angry yelling
>Ponies swearing
>Pinkie saying "hooman"
>"bucking"
>Discord is either always serious, never serious or just not in the story
>Human character's name is Anon Y. Mouse

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>Twilight asks human character sexual questions
>Ponies all lust after human character because muh stamina
>Mares cum just from human character touching them
>Human character has literally no enemies or ponies that dislike him for long periods of time
>Human character is a white knight
>Human character has a phone that works with magic
>Human character gets free shit for telling ponies about human culture
>Human character is totally clueless that ponies lust after him or is unreceptive to it because "muh ponies aren't humans, im not ready yet."

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>I can't see my forehead

>>30357427
>Human character is totally clueless that ponies lust after him or is unreceptive to it because "muh ponies aren't humans, im not ready yet."

This really activates my almonds. Most of what I jerk it to is anatomically correct ponies, so, given the chance, I'd happily fuck it

>>30353957
>What's a fetish?
>What's a good story telling?
>What's a potentially good plot?
I bet you go out your way of telling people they are crazy because they watch horror movies. I mean, who likes to get chainsaw massacred right?

Not everyone has an actual special talent, I agree if an OC is meant to be like the subject of fiction they probably should, but if someone is just using an OC as an avatar for themselves I don't mind them having a generic or lazy cutie mark, I mean how many people actually have some amazing gift that sets them apart from everyone else? Most people just have mundane hobbies, and even aren't even that great at them

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>>30349460
Not sure about the constellations, but "when I'm without you" sounds like part of I Will Always Miss Us.
>And I never thought I'd see a day
>When I was without you

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>>30349768

>>30346761
Anthro

>>30357957
The lyrics would make sense for someone to put constellations as a background image but I don't think this is it but thanks for taking the time to post it.

>>30357322
>Human character doesn't want to have sex with ponies for some reason

It's overplayed but it's not like it doesn't make sense.

>>30359106
>not wanting to fuck a horse
Get out of here, normie.

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>Writting and narrating a CYOA
>It's a battle scene that requires creativity from the players
>Give them a bit of power so they can play around with it
>They do jack shit and just trow magic missiles at the enemy

IF YOU GET A GREEN LANTERN RING, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TROW PLASMA BALLS AT EVERYTHING YOU SEE!

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>Set in the EqG world
>The fact that the girls all have magical powers is always ignored, especially in situations where their magic would solve the problem immediately

>>30359316
As a GM, hey it's similar, always assume your players will take the safer and most effective option when the safer option works. This probably means your enemy (or enemies) need to be fleshed out better and have attacks that are ineffective against them or punish certain strategies. But maybe you did and they're doing shit that's not working.

>>30346983
Let's be honest. They made a MLP OC, their only true calling in life is suicide.

>>30359498
>always assume your players will take the safer and most effective option
That or just go full murderhobo and kill everything in sight

>>30355875
>PMV

>>30354488
>people need money
>ANGERY
I bet the artists would rather be working on there own projects too dude. It's just life

>>30357029
Nah I read it

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>>30357878

>>30356504
>Iron Will
Speaking of peeves.
>fanfic/green has ponies refer to human as a monkey despite the fact that Iron Will, a character that is canonically referred to as half-bull/half-MAN, exists
And I'm almost 100% sure there's never been a monkey shown on screen in the show.

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>>30357878
Friendly reminder that humans are not important in this world, childhood is the only time of your life you're actually a person, after that your whole life is preparing to work a job you hate, then spending 2/3rds of your entire life working that job until you can finally retire, by which time you're old, worn, and broken and can't do any of the things you missed out on in life and can only prepare for death.

>>30360419
It's not the most outrageous of headcanons to assume monkeys exist (they do in fact have a warning about thief monkeys in a comic map, but of course not canon) somewhere else in the world and that they would be educated enough to know some non-local fauna. While you could argue how using half-man here shouldn't make sense if there aren't any humans (if man strictly means human) it's not mutually exclusive to calling a human a monkey to begin with. Keep in mind only Fluttershy even knew what he was too.

So, it's mostly unrelated to whether or not they know what a human is. Think of it this way. The idea of calling a human a monkey or an ape is to break some preconceived notions about ourselves. That a human just looks 'human' is, well, a human idea that only the beings in question would have. Like the people who think they don't have an accent. At the end of the day it's undeniable that we're an ape of some kind and a different type of sapient being is going to see that much more clearly since...

>It's natural to make comparisons with other creatures. Just look at how European colonists named a ton of new animals they came across.
>Since they're not human, there's no self-esteem issues and baggage in making the comparison. It's pretty obvious many of us desperately don't want to be related to poop throwers and/or think we're special.

>>30360419
>And I'm almost 100% sure there's never been a monkey shown on screen in the show
The Best Night Ever had a monkey

>>30346761
The negativity toward Anthro

>>30361848
Simple, eqg is cancer

>>30361848
Furfag pls

>>30354488
>Characters kissing in stories ALWAYS include tongue playing even in their first kiss, and there's always a saliva trail when they're finished even though this almost never fucking happens in real life
I dunno mate, that's exactly how my first kiss was. And most of the deep kissing afterward involved saliva trails, too. Not that I'm some kind of expert snoggist, but I've never given it a second thought.

>>30354792
I usually write that Anon buys his clothes from her or some other pony
There's not many other ways you can go with the whole lack of clothes to wear thing

ITT complain about every possible minor aspect of a story because it's been used more than once

>>30362485
More like used every time. You want to read a copycat story for the thousandth time be my guest, but there are other genres that should not be having this same shit.

>>30357798
That's because 'Anon' isn't a brony, he's just a random guy that appeared in horseland Anon.
He didn't watch the show and doesn't know the songs by heart.

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>almost every animator stopped making content

The Rarity clothes thing is yet another reason to skip the 'arrival' phase in HiE and start in-media res.

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>>30363346
>meanwhile, BrutalWeather released a new video just today

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>>30360419
Do you even watch the show?

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How do you feel about fanon giving Earth Ponies super strength to make them less shit?

>>30364810
That's fine. It makes sense.

>>30364810
It's actually canon, remember when Big Mac dragged a house across town?

>>30364859
Big Mac is a big pone

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>>30364810
That's more than just a fanon thing, at this point, though it isn't show-level canon. Pic related.

>>30364859
I'm not sure a guy with "Big" in his name is representative of all earth ponies.

>>30364872
What about Maud who pulverized a boulder before it touched the ground, a filly who lifted the side of a school house, or cheerlie breaking through the front of a building frame and all.

>>30346983
My hobby is basically the same as my talent though, I'm really good at working on and detailing cars. It's both my job (technician) and my hobby (on my own car at home.) If I was a technicolor horse my cutie mark would probably be a combination wrench or some other easily minimalistically represented tool. I don't have an oc though because I am not creative and it would probably look like shit, as well as having an oc being fairly more autistic than being into this show at all is.

>>30364893
Don't pretend you didn't get it you fucking cunt

>>30364931
Get what?

>>30364872
For (You)

>>30364935
Why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane

>>30346983
t. A fag with no self esteem

>>30364940
Why would a man need a gun in a plane if he can just throw him out of it?

>>30364810
Maud Pie and AppleJack Exist

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>>30347386
This

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>>30347386
I've actually met people like this, it's fucking beautiful.

It's like, you think you're a sad pathetic piece of shit with no future, and then you meet one of these guys and suddenly feel a lot better about yourself.

>>30347386
Those people are the best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Ch6N8QT00

>>30347372
I like my porn to please me, aesthetically or not, as I masturbate.

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>>30365091
Holy fuck

>>30365091
This video actually made me angry. The way this motherfucker acts as if anything he does in the video game world has an effect on ANYTHING, as if he's the ONLY person to EVER do ANYTHING in a video game, if this cunt doesn't get a job or anything, how's he going to pay for new games and his doritos and mtn. Dew?

>>30365312
He went to university and abandoned his channel.

>>30365312
What annoys me is hisventry level taste desu.

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>>30365337
>Real world caught up with him
>Deleted his huge speech about being a gamer when he realized being a "gamer" doesn't pay the bills
It's too fucking perfect

>>30365337
I wonder if he looks back on the absolute shit he spewed and shakes his head at himself.

>>30365346
I mean don't we all look back at the stupid spaghetti we did and wonder how we made it.

>>30365341
His entry level taste*

What's wrong with like, a book being cutie mark? Not like it has to be your job. Cheerilee just made shit up because she wanted to be a schoolteacher, she isn't a gardener.

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>>30365353
Yes, fuck you for making me remember

>>30346983
I think for some ponies it is. many of the cutie marks we have seen would never make you money.

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>>30365091
This can't be real.
This can't be real.
This can't be real.

>>30354650
I've read one way back when that was halfway decent. Human forces weren't retardedly OP and the author had some semblence of knowlede on the subject, though its been 5 or more years since I read it I'll have to re-read it.

It is Heroes and Allies

>>30360419
They don't say he's half man, what are you on about

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>human in Equestria
>writers not following pony name conventions with their OCs

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>heterochromia
>alicorns
>broken horns
Disgusting.

>gamer Luna
It's like those 420 assholes who have to inject drugs into everything in order to legitimize their crippling disability as a hobby

>>30346800
>fic starts with RD breaking a wing

>>30346805
>EQD rejects your submission for Pinkie Pie Day, because they only want new art
>EQD posts years-old Pinkie Pie art on Pinkie Pie Day

>>30346761
People who whine and cringe about something in the show.
They cannot change it, they cannot take it back, they can do nothing but watch, yet they still somehow feel angry about it and need to bitch about it and how it ruined everything for literal years in some cases.

I know we have to understand and accept autism these days but holy shit.


>>30366415
I've been a gamer and am currently a pothead. The games made me a 400lbs antisocial sack of shit with no job. The weed has gotten me outside, tanned, two jobs (one being heavy labour,) and encouraged 100lbs of weight loss within a year.

I know which is the more destructive hobby,

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>>30367126
Don't engage with muh anti-"""drug""" fags

We're on a board where everyone wants to fuck horses, they've no room to bleat 'degeneracy!' about burning a plant.

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>>30366415
>A broken horn unicorn is gonna be canon in the movies

>>30366415
>ma broken horns are edgy.
I agree though, fuck hetrochromia.

/r/ing entertaining shitfics

>>30367126
>>30367144
>WEEDLMAO SO COOL teenagers are unironically this retarded
Kek.

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>>30368342
pbbbt, ree about it some more, dude.

>>30368282
>Broken horns aren't edgy
They're in the exact same category as hetrochromia and bat wings, basically trying to severely overdo a characters visual appearance because you can't write them with an interesting or memorable personality.

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>>30368357
Honestly don't know how you can type out either of your posts without thinking that just maybe you're not as cool n edgy as you think you are.

>human already knows everything about Ponyville and its residents since MLP was a cartoon in his world
>main character has a human name that is almost definitely the writer's real name

I've seen some good ones in this thread but these two are immediate deal breakers for me.

>>30368635
The first one is kind of rare in my experience. If we were to tally up HiEs where MLP doesn't even seem to exist on Earth versus brony HiE, the former would outnumber the latter by far. My pet peeve with that writing convention is that no one ever really does anything interesting with it.

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The prevalence of human Anons compared to the virtual nonexistence of Anon-stallions.

I know the reason is because people can self-insert as humans more easily, but sometimes it just smacks of wanting to feel special. It's also weird when you consider that the one canon(-ish) means of traveling to Equestria actually turns you into a pony.

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>Tfw can't find anything good to read anymore
>Actual good authors take ages to update their stories
>Dropped greentext stories altogether
This sucks.

>>30368811
Self insertion is part of it. But many people simply don't want to be ponies, they just want to fuck them. This even includes furfags with fursonas funnily enough, because their fursona isn't an equine so they just default to human as well. This tradition is also older than Equestria Girls which is shitposted as not being canon at all.

>>30368811
The mirror's transformation logic is entirely contrived, and quite possibly exclusive to it. When there were several tears in the EQG universe, several students clearly passed between worlds, at least partially, yet they did not transform into a pony. This suggests that the whole "pony to human and back again" thing was a mechanic limited to the mirror portal.
Most AiE stories don't fill in details as to how Anon got there to begin with, and when they do it's usually a very brief mention along the likes of "suddenly you found yourself in equestria", which means that the mirror probably wasn't their means of getting through.

>>30346983
I think cutie marks merely reference one's best talent, not necessarily one's calling in life or a hobby. Rainbow Dash's cutie mark is in weather control. We know this from "magical mystery cure" when Rarity starts trying to go clean up the sky after she got Dash's cutie mark. Despite this, Dash's calling was to be a top tier athlete - her talent just happened to also give her an advantage there. From this, it's easy to determine that a pony's calling in life is as much a matter of self discovery as it is for us. It's a matter of perspective. this was practically the moral of the Troubleshoes episode, too. Troubleshoes probably wasn't trying to make a hobby out of tripping on thin air, and it wasn't his calling to avoid society because of his constant poor coordination. He just needed a new perspective.

>>30359578
Underrated

>>30368904
>>30368963
The EqG thing was a minor point, which is why I spoilered it.

>>30369038
>Rainbow Dash's cutie mark is in weather control.
No, her cutie mark is for speed. Larson admits he fucked up on that. He mentioned it in a panel when someone asked him if there was anything he wished he could go back and change.

>>30369038
>>30369136
I can't find the panel offhand, but he mentioned it in this interview as well: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2016/03/equestria-daily-interviews-ma-larson.html

>>30346761

I'm just wondering why are you expecting an actual special talent from the kind of people who has an OC.

>>30369136
>Larson admits he fucked up on that

Well, unless they go back and edit the show (which they can't do without dropping serious cash to change the whole goddamn episode), its canon status still stands. I mean, they've fucked up other parts of the show too, like the bit about granny smith being a part of the founding of Ponyville after it was mentioned that Ponyville is centuries old, or the mention of France by name, and the butchering of GlimGlam's backstory. That doesn't make these things not canon, much though some of us often wish they weren't.

We have direct evidence in show that Rainbow's cutie mark is weather control. The only logical explanation in-universe is that her talent was versatile enough that she could apply it to her true calling in life, and seize the opportunity when it came.

>>30369250
It's as canon as the dozens of Lyras and Minuettes in early season crowd shots. You'll have a better understanding of the characters and their world if you don't base your understanding on errors like that, especially when you can hand-wave them with literal magic.

>>30369268
This is a false equivalency. You're comparing the deliberate choices of a pony based on their new cutie mark, literally a plot point in the episode, to copy-pasted background character models that were inconsequential to the story to the point where they often didn't move. One of these was an intentional story decision; the writers had Rarity act a specific way, because of a specific event, the other was forced by limited resources, or happened by accident. Also, Larson said he fucked up, not that Rarara controlling the weather wasn't canon. Even if Larson says RD got her cutie mark in speed, we have direct evidence in the show that contradicts this, and Larson didn't retcon Rarity's actions, only stated his regret for making that mistake, changing the canon in process.
He regretted that he changed the canon, but he did not retcon it.

If you insist on counting them as being the same thing, even though their premise is different, you could use one explanation in lore to explain literally any crowd dupe: the mirror pool. We don't understand the personalities of the crowd dupes because it's never expanded on, and almost all the early season episodes are in or around ponyville, so it fits well. Pinkie only made it a big issue because she did it on an entirely new level, and overran the town with hyperactive copies of herself. Ponies dupeing themselves is just another part of life in equestria.

>>30369556
Alright, Anon. If it helps, think of it this way: Weather management is not Rainbow Dash's "calling," but as we saw in S01E01, it is her occupation. Rarity was trying to perform that same role as part of the larger "Rainbow Dash" thing, because Star Swirl's spell swapped more than just cutie marks.

We know Rarity's special talent isn't tailoring -- it's more about seeing the hidden beauty in things -- but AJ tried to make clothing regardless. Same concept.

>>30354141
>And has any HiE or AiE been ballsy enough for their main character to just say fuck it and go full nudist?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/206444/a-sleeping-rose
I don't remember if it shows up in this exact fic or not, but this series does have the MC debating going full/partial nudist at several points.

>Celestia is a sun tyrant
>Luna a good girl she dindu nuffin

What will happen to the fandom when Gen 5 hits?

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>Luna in fanfiction never makes an effort to stop using thou and the royal we
>not once
>in the entire story

I get the appeal. Because it gives her dialogue a unique and easily identifable quirk, but come on. She's learned since then and it's obviously something she consciously puts on.

>>30368635
That one was common in the beginning but has fallen out of favor as of late.

>>30370990
Assuming G5 actually turns out to be good, a wave of newfags shouting about how great it is and how pony was never good until G5.

I'm sure you can imagine our collective reaction to that.

>>30369250
Glim glam's back story hasn't been butchered, they just went ridiculously light on detail. All they need to do is expand on it, show her fall into an echo chamber of her own ideas, show her having no social contact, show her recieving no support from family, show how her ideology appeals to her specific insecurities.
100% fixable.

>>30346800
I know it's cliche, but some really great fics have started this way.

>>30348968
Two of these issues in particular stand out to me.

First, Twilight doesn't act formal in the show outside of a few specific situations. She does lapse into technobabble when she's explaining something that actually warrants it, but otherwise she's about as casual in her speech as the CMC are. She will try to use the proper terms for things when she knows them, but this is the same mare who came up with "big crown thingy". Luckily, there aren't many people writing her that way now that she's gone full Princess.
Secondly, Fluttershy almost never stutters. She corrects herself, hesitates to talk, and trails off in the middle of sentences, but those aren't the same thing.

At least there's some canon basis for most fanfiction cliches.

>>30349711
>Twilight wants to experiment on [Human Character Here]
>Rarity makes clothes for [Human Character Here] for free
>Fluttershy frightened of [Human Character Here] until he says 'I like animals'
>Rainbow Dash is hostile towards [Human Character Here] for no reason
Similar things to all of these have happened in canon.
>[Human Character Here] immediately gets a job at Sweet Apple Acres
Other options do exist, but this is a valid one.
>Spike either thoroughly beta, nonexistent or extreme levels of dudebro
Granted, but the show gets this wrong sometimes too.
>Thee Thou Thy We ALL CAPS DIALOGUE
Whether this is credible depends on when the story takes place.
>Human character is 'just an average guy'
A lot of people are, that's why it's the average.
>Human character becomes a pony, immediate dysphoria involving the limbs
That would almost certainly happen, especially if they became a pegasus.
>Human character receives infinite levels of patience for his bullshit
>Human character immediately becomes the most important thing ever as soon as he arrives
As diplomacy goes, ponies do have a history of being pretty accommodating to other species (i.e. yaks) and a visitor from another world would naturally draw a lot of attention.
>Human character walking on eggshells about omnivorous diet, bonus points if the ponies are disgusted by this, despite having pets that are carnivorous
I'll give you the second bit, ponies couldn't very well coexist with griffons if they condemned meat-eating. A human unfamiliar with them might assume they did, though, so some worry about it is understandable.
>Ponies have child-like intelligence
True, ponies seem fully capable of thinking like adults, but their innocence and optimism does make them far more childlike than the average human.

>>30368811
desu I don't even bother reading if the protagonist is an OC and isn't human.
I don't read anything else than comedy and smut/romance tho, so I guess this plays a big part of it, but I don't see the point of creating an OC I'd have a hard time self inserting as, because I don't have a horsecock, nor do I have hooves, or a horn.
Why would I take the time to try and fall in love with this character, while I already have plenty from the show that I already love and know?

If you want to make a pony on pony story, then write about a pony we know.
Protagonist OCs are just so... eww

>>30349711
>Human character is shocked at being in Equestria a sum total of one paragraph
This.

Seriously, this is the most universally missed opportunity in all greentext, and in HiE stories as a whole. A human being has just been dropped into another universe. If they don't have a mile-long list of questions based on that alone, they're either criminally lacking in curiosity or not very bright. It's even harder to forgive if the protagonist knows about the fandom, because they'd have heard dozens of theories and concepts that they could now find out about firsthand.

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>>30369038
>>30369136
>mfw I never actually paid attention to that part of MMC
damn, I'll never be able to enjoy it ever again
why you must do this to me

>>30374318
>As diplomacy goes, ponies do have a history of being pretty accommodating to other species
And as individuals go, they're pretty damn xenophobic.

Gilda, Zecora, Iron Will, The Buffalos and Thorax. Granted, it was well deserved in Thorax's case, but still.

>>30369556
It's an SoL show you dumb autist.
There's absolutely no point in trying to prove you're right or wrong about this kind of shit.
If the show/staff retcons it, then it's retconned, end of story.

I mean you can still sperg about it all you want, but nobody except you and a handful others will think you're right. And you're not.

>>30374318
>this is a valid one

It's the most disputed because of episodes like Applebuck Season.

>>30351159
>(typically human) Character doesn't understand something sexual going on because 'muh horses are sexually different'
I sort of like this one, when the sexual thing is something that humans either wouldn't view that way or just can't do at all. It's bound to happen at least once when interacting with another species.

>>30374387
Horses put out some pretty clear signals that even we can get when they're down to fuck.

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>>30352269
>This song is so unique and inspired and catchy and original! I know the fandom is a little oversaturated with EDM, but give this a shot, it's totally different!
>it's five minutes of electronic sounds and pony voice samples

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>>30353625
>all their comments are gibberish because they're trying to type with hooves

>>30374359
>enjoying MMC in the first place

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>>30374901
>hating it because of 'muh wings'
yeah nah, it has two of the best songs of the serie, a heartwarming plot and twiggy is great in it.
you're just a faggot stuck in the past for autistic reasons, sorry Anon

>>30374359
See >>30369685

It was an incomplete spell that didn't swap their entire cutie marks. It swapped their physical marks, and the drive to find a job or role based on those marks ("It's got to be my destiny / It's what my cutie mark is telling me"), but it left their abilities behind. When the marks were swapped, they retained their purposes but lacked the skills to support them -- like the spell peeled off the husks of cutie marks, and left all the meat behind.

>>30375517
mmh, idk, it makes kinda sense for rarara's, but not much for dash's. I mean, weather stuff seems like the 'mac donalds' for young pegasi at this point.
Oh, you can't do shit with these wings/ended up with an useless CM? Just join the weather team!
I would've preferred to see rarara running at mach 3 or maybe even driving a car or some shit. Because, obviously, Dash's cm has NOTHING to do with weather stuff.
I mean it was just an episode, so I don't really care, but I know that I won't be able to see MMC the same way ever again.

>>30375704
Mate, in the first episode, she's bragging about using her speed to clear the weather quickly so she has more time to slack off.

Rainbow-CM is still telling Rarity to do things based on the assumption that she's Rainbow Dash, despite not having her personality or skills. Again, it's just a husk with everything important left behind. It remembers the goal, but not why that goal was set.

>>30375744
Well yeah, but she's bragging about speed for literally anything.
Her talent might as well be bragging.
She also uses her speed for nearly anything, from fighting to showing off to... prank ponies or help around town doing random shit.
And we see her fight and show off way more than we see her do her weather job, desu.
I mean look at the weather team, half of them are poor and/or below average flyers.

>>30374366
>Gilda

What

>>30375806
I'm not sure how that's relevant.

Fighting and bragging are not the -role- she performs in the community. How is this confusing? She took a low-tier job based on her laziness, and her laziness is enabled by her CM letting her do it quickly so she has plenty of time to slack off.

The mark is not the job you perform. It's just one factor that leads you to your occupation, along with personality. In this case, the marks remembered their owners' desires. Dash's CM thought it was still on a lazy speedster, and pushed for a weather-managing McJob appropriately -- something that takes real effort for most ponies, but would satisfy Dash's laziness.

This was true of every damn pony in MMC. Their jobs were swapped, because their marks remembered what led them to it.

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>>30346761
>Person has an OC
>alicorn for no reason
>heterochromia because "speshul"
>red/black color palette
>"tragic" backstory
>Mary Sue anti-hero with demonic powers and crippling depression/generic angst
>name sounds like a rejected 90s comic book character (e.g. Bloodwing Dreadnought, Steel Edge, Skullcrusher, etc.)

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>>30376001

>>30376001
I've only seen parodies of this though. Tons of human to pony stories with alicorns though, because the fucks think an out of the ordinary transformation justifies it or something.

>>30376001
I'd rather have this than "human is suddenly transported to Equestria and turns into an alicorn because he's so speshul"

>>30376542
There's almost no difference between the two except for the name and maybe the color scheme if they're merciful.

>>30359498
It really bugs me when people have been watching too much anime and try to make their characters win fights through sheer power and bravado rather than through creative use of their abilities.

>>30364810
I prefer that their magic manifests in a way linked to their talent, like unicorn magic does. Maud being basically an earthbender, for example.

>>30374359
I've just viewed it as the spell switching their current positions in life, leaving a lot of gaps and inconsistencies with their actual talents because the spell itself was an incomplete mess.

>>30374366
There's an important distinction to be made in that none of those were their first meeting with the species, so they didn't have to ensure peaceful relations with them. Unless we include EQG, ponies have never met a human, so it'd be a form of first contact.

>>30377828
It depends. Like he mentioned with individuals, rather than the government. Many ponies don't seem to know what Iron Will even is, if Fluttershy having to correct her friends the whole episode is anything to go by. But they still treated him as a sort of generic monster that they would rather not have to deal with.

>Anon has to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence in Ponyville, doing sporadic odd-jobs for a bit or two, because either the ponies are inexplicably xenophobic (or even downright hostile) to him, or because he's a moron who lacks the ambition, drive and ingenuity to find some kind of permanent job or niche in Equestria that can afford to move him out of that rickety wooden shack on the outskirts of Ponyville that he calls a home.

It's either that, or he consigns himself to day labour at Sweet Apple Acres forever. It's honestly annoying to read shit like this.

>>30346761
>Artist deliberately draws all OC's in clothes because he can't draw cutie marks worth shit.

And i'm basically talking about myself.

>>30380118
I always thought the latter was somewhat intentional and a bit of characterization. As in he's a depressed loser stereotype of anons on imageboards and he can't escape that even in Equestria. The better examples have cutie mark discrimination and not so much general xenophobia. Which makes a bit more sense. I really wonder how those fics would go down today with Glimmer as a thing.

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Ooh boy, where do we start...

Every HiE fic mentions the clothing and lack thereof and human taboo or some shit for no reason, it seriously never goes anywhere and it just literary filler.

Fics generally boil the cast down the what are essentially crude caricatures of their former selves without and depth or complexity.

>How would say Applejack react to HiE? I dunno, but let's make her as county as possible!

>Military guy in Equestra!

I haven't read one that isn't cringe to this day.

Almost nobody writes about how visiting cupcake corner everyday would mostly likely end in diabetes and more cavities than the surface of the moon.

I haven't seen a single fic that shows MC explaining how gravity works the sun and moon and making Twi loose faith in Celestia even though the story practically writes itself.

>Anthro

>Humanized

Sex scenes are nowhere as near awkward as they should be between INTER SPECIES and or VIRGINS.

Last but not least is that I want a proper fic about HiE Anon x Spike. Show age spike.

>>30380206
It's not necessarily this bit that's filler. It's the entire arriving to Equestria part that's filler for 9 out of 10 stories. The clothes thing is a natural consequence of having to set this human's life up. So while it's unavoidable if you cover his origins, you can avoid it by skipping forward a few months.

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>>30380206
>I haven't seen a single fic that shows MC explaining how gravity works the sun and moon and making Twi loose faith in Celestia even though the story practically writes itself.

You'd have to ignore Twilight witnessing Celestia raise the sun and the whole conflict of the first two episodes for this to not feel forced. There's plenty of HiEs where the protag reacts to this lore by complaining about how illogical it all is, but Twiggy usually brushes them off.

You're better off searching for Season 1 era fanfiction if you want something like this since the fedora meme wasn't a thing yet, Feeling Pinkie Keen butthurt was still a thing, and the Royal sisters were heavily focused on because the show didn't have a rogues gallery yet ( and fanfic writers were too uncreative to make their own villains).

>Like to roleplay when I think of a new character as a way to "test drive" that character and he how he/she would react in certain situations or just see if I think their personality or manner of speaking works
>99% of the time I either get autists who do not know how to talk to someone or just want to ERP and jack off

Its even more annoyinc considering how shallow of a pool anonymous MLP rp is.

Also;

>Persons OC has super bright clashing obnoxious colors made to make their OC "super original"

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>>30346761

>pony analysis video
>it's just a synopsis

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>>30380312

It's a world where ponies control everything, even the leaves falling from the trees. Nature doing things by itself (Everfree Forest) is considered creepy and unnatural.

Look at it from the other side. If a pony came to earth and started explaining to us that our view of the solar system is wrong, and the sun actually revolves around the earth, would you take them seriously?

>>30380363
Just react in-character even when people are being autistic or trying to have sex. I once had someone ask a pone I was playing to join their Discord server. She panicked because she interpreted that as "join us in servitude of Discord".

>>30354141
>Be anon
>Standing in the middle of the field
>Completely naked
>You have never known such freedom on Earth, but here in Equestria you have discovered the joys of shedding your overly complicated second skin
>You smooth, glistening buttcheeks catch the sun magnificently, glowing like the finest topaz
>You sheath less genitalia swaying gently and elegantly in the wind like a 90 year old ballerina
>"Yo anon, sup?"
>You look up to see Rainbow fly towards you, noticing your radiance
"Nothin', just enjoying the day."
>She can't help but notice the elegance that is your tan, a luxury you could never afford at home now becoming a part of you
>"A-anon, are you okay? You're starting to look really..."
"Yes Rainbow! I have never felt better, behold how my skin has turn golden like a perfectly over roast chicken."
>"Anon, you're not gold, you're red as a tomato"
>It is only then that you realize how severely damaged and sunburnt your skin is
"Oh fuck"
>You spend the next few days in agonizing pain before skin cancer finally kills you

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>>30367415

>>30380885
Good end

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Just shit OCs in general and autists' lack of self awareness when it comes to them
>All of Shinodage's OCs
>Those thousands of brown coat/black mane ocs
>A lot of ocs that look like they're trying to larp as toxic waste, ie lime green/black mane and lime green coat
>those fuckers with unironic black / red ocs and they try to justify it with a billion different retarded reasons. "the coat is not black it's grey and the mane highlights are more pink than red"
>the people who try too hard to make a non-shit oc and it comes out as RD/Lyra/Roseluck manestyle clone with neutral colors
>OCs, ever

>>30380952
>A lot of ocs that look like they're trying to larp as toxic waste, ie lime green/black mane and lime green coat
>those fuckers with unironic black / red ocs and they try to justify it with a billion different retarded reasons.
Seriously, how is "pastel" such a hard fucking concept for people to understand?

>>30380969
Because "pastel colours look girly"

A lot of the people who make edgy OC's are even to this day in denial about the fact they watch a children's cartoon primarily targeted towards girls.