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Fallout: Equestra
14 years ago
Well here I go...
I like the new My Little Pony.
There, I said it. And I said that in order to say this: I'm writing a My Little Pony fanfic. (Yep. I'm Twilight Sparkle level of liking the show.) And what I'm writing is "Fallout: Equestria", a crossover (or perhaps more precisely, a blending) of My Little Pony and Fallout. Yeah.
I've gotten a few pages written so far. A first chapter. And I'm looking for the right place to post it. Any suggestions?
Now I know that admitting I like My Little Pony opens me up to some ridicule (by people who haven't watched the show, no doubt), so I'm going to paraphrase something another viewer wrote, making the quote my own:
Now, I'm not going to say the new My Little Pony is THE BEST SHIZ EVER OMAHGAWD. But it's... pretty damn acceptable. I'd even say it's a good show. And I enjoy watching it. It's fucked up that I do, because, honestly. My Little Pony? Like god damn.
I started with the same reaction most people who haven't seen the show tend to have. And that reaction hasn't totally left me -- I will concede that I generally skip the theme song because it makes me have aneurysms, and it took watching several episodes before I was able to admit it had merit. (And I only watched those at first because I promised a friend that I'd give it a fair shot before looking down on grown adults who like it.) But I legitimately enjoy it! Anyway, it's the kind of quality show you'd expect from the developer, but not from the franchise, which is why you're seeing such a crazy adoption of it. Seriously, this show is on fire! My Little Pony has become the new mash-up meme for everything from 300 to Mass Effect 2.
So yeah. I like My Little Pony.
For those somehow not familiar with this new show, I'm going to quote again from elsewhere:
The ponies are coming, the ponies are coming!
Lauren Faust, associated with the Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Cat's Don't Dance, has revived the old 80s franchise, and is doing a spectacular job at it.
No, seriously. This is NOT the sugary sweet tripe about teen girl issues that you may remember. Lauren Faust set out to change this.
I was extremely skeptical at first about taking the job. Shows based on girls' toys always left a bad taste in my mouth, even when I was a child. They did not reflect the way I played with my toys. I assigned my ponies and my Strawberry Shortcake dolls distinctive personalities and sent them on epic adventures to save the world. On TV, though, I couldn't tell one girl character from another and they just had endless tea parties, giggled over nothing and defeated villains by either sharing with them or crying–which miraculously inspired the villain to turn nice. Even to my 7-year-old self, these shows made no sense and couldn't keep my interest. No wonder the boys at school laughed at my Rainbow Unicorn Trapper Keeper.
From what I've seen since I've grown up, little has changed. To look at the quality of most girls' cartoons, it would seem that not one artist really cared about them. Not one designer, not one background painter, not one animator. Some of the more well-meaning, more expensive animated productions for girl audiences may look better, but the female characters have been so homogenized with old-fashioned "niceness" that they have no flaws and are unrelatable. They are so pretty, polite and perfect; there is no legitimate conflict and nothing exciting ever happens. In short, animated shows for little girls come across as boring. Stupid. Lame.
This perception, more than anything, is what I am trying to change with My Little Pony.
The characters are well defined, the humor is hilarious and somewhat self-aware, there is actual conflict, the songs are well written and get stuck in your head for days, and it's just plain GOOD WRITING. The pony craze is quickly taking over the internet, and for good reason.
The show's on at 1:30pm (or 10:30am) on Fridays on the HUB channel
Episodes are also on the HUB website here: http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-p.....-magic/videos/
and also on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/user/pensivepony
and here in HD: http://www.youtube.com/user/MyLittlePony1080p
Fallout: Equestria : http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/.....equestria.html
I like the new My Little Pony.
There, I said it. And I said that in order to say this: I'm writing a My Little Pony fanfic. (Yep. I'm Twilight Sparkle level of liking the show.) And what I'm writing is "Fallout: Equestria", a crossover (or perhaps more precisely, a blending) of My Little Pony and Fallout. Yeah.
I've gotten a few pages written so far. A first chapter. And I'm looking for the right place to post it. Any suggestions?
Now I know that admitting I like My Little Pony opens me up to some ridicule (by people who haven't watched the show, no doubt), so I'm going to paraphrase something another viewer wrote, making the quote my own:
Now, I'm not going to say the new My Little Pony is THE BEST SHIZ EVER OMAHGAWD. But it's... pretty damn acceptable. I'd even say it's a good show. And I enjoy watching it. It's fucked up that I do, because, honestly. My Little Pony? Like god damn.
I started with the same reaction most people who haven't seen the show tend to have. And that reaction hasn't totally left me -- I will concede that I generally skip the theme song because it makes me have aneurysms, and it took watching several episodes before I was able to admit it had merit. (And I only watched those at first because I promised a friend that I'd give it a fair shot before looking down on grown adults who like it.) But I legitimately enjoy it! Anyway, it's the kind of quality show you'd expect from the developer, but not from the franchise, which is why you're seeing such a crazy adoption of it. Seriously, this show is on fire! My Little Pony has become the new mash-up meme for everything from 300 to Mass Effect 2.
So yeah. I like My Little Pony.
For those somehow not familiar with this new show, I'm going to quote again from elsewhere:
The ponies are coming, the ponies are coming!
Lauren Faust, associated with the Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Cat's Don't Dance, has revived the old 80s franchise, and is doing a spectacular job at it.
No, seriously. This is NOT the sugary sweet tripe about teen girl issues that you may remember. Lauren Faust set out to change this.
I was extremely skeptical at first about taking the job. Shows based on girls' toys always left a bad taste in my mouth, even when I was a child. They did not reflect the way I played with my toys. I assigned my ponies and my Strawberry Shortcake dolls distinctive personalities and sent them on epic adventures to save the world. On TV, though, I couldn't tell one girl character from another and they just had endless tea parties, giggled over nothing and defeated villains by either sharing with them or crying–which miraculously inspired the villain to turn nice. Even to my 7-year-old self, these shows made no sense and couldn't keep my interest. No wonder the boys at school laughed at my Rainbow Unicorn Trapper Keeper.
From what I've seen since I've grown up, little has changed. To look at the quality of most girls' cartoons, it would seem that not one artist really cared about them. Not one designer, not one background painter, not one animator. Some of the more well-meaning, more expensive animated productions for girl audiences may look better, but the female characters have been so homogenized with old-fashioned "niceness" that they have no flaws and are unrelatable. They are so pretty, polite and perfect; there is no legitimate conflict and nothing exciting ever happens. In short, animated shows for little girls come across as boring. Stupid. Lame.
This perception, more than anything, is what I am trying to change with My Little Pony.
The characters are well defined, the humor is hilarious and somewhat self-aware, there is actual conflict, the songs are well written and get stuck in your head for days, and it's just plain GOOD WRITING. The pony craze is quickly taking over the internet, and for good reason.
The show's on at 1:30pm (or 10:30am) on Fridays on the HUB channel
Episodes are also on the HUB website here: http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-p.....-magic/videos/
and also on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/user/pensivepony
and here in HD: http://www.youtube.com/user/MyLittlePony1080p
Fallout: Equestria : http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/.....equestria.html
Pony-Hoof-bump!
Fallout I know nothing about - but I hope you enjoy putting it all together!
...and nice to know you're still workin' at stuff!</Biggest Fan>
Even die-hards who have spent years spitting on children's television animation have turned out to enjoy the show.
If you want a wider audience, go ahead with DA or a blog (I've never used Googledocs, but they are also a possibility), but if you change your mind, you should at least post it here on FA.
(^.^)
Now I'm thinking I'll have to check it out.
What you've said about MLP sounds like what someone might say about anime.
*shrugs*
Can't hurt to take a look next time I've some free time.
I'd really, really like to see an edit function in these comments.
To clarify, your journal's made me interested in taking a look at MLP.
I've not seen it, but I'll have to read your story when you get it posted, I think. :)
Around six months ago, a friend of mine went nuclear on ponies. Both of us being guys, I poked fun at him. Yeah, I was mean, but given his level of obsession.... I mean, his computer says "welcome to the grand galloping gala" when you turn it on, I think it might have been at least partly justified.
See, we'd both been gamers for over a decade and we'd both played games in the fallout series, him playing fallout 1 & 2, me starting with fallout 3. There were always things wrong with the game, but I could never really put my finger on it, aside from rocks being to shiny or something. I'd always stopped sometime well before I'd finished the main quests, to the tune of having more then 300 hours logged in game but only having beaten it once at least two years ago.
So when another friend, a more covert brony, approached me about Fallout: Equestria, I was amused. Fallout? With ponies? Ha! I put it off for a week or so, mainly because I was too lazy to google it, but when I did...
It was mildly intriguing to begin with, the way one visiting a foreign country might try and analyze the culture, because this WAS foreign. I had never watched an episode of mlp. Ever. Hell, I couldn't have told you who any pony other then rainbow dash was. To say you managed to do both worlds justice isn't doing the phrase itself justice. I was viewing every single thing pony through your story alone, the only thing I knew about the characters was what you told me, and according to my friend it was all frighteningly close to what he would have expected.
Shortly after the beginning, I was hooked, I would sit and read for 3-6 hours at a time, until my back cried in pain or my eyes were bloodshot from google doc's horrible black-on-white color pallet. I don't actually remember that much of the story because after I'd finished it and gushed positive about it to anyone that had admitted brony status it was less than two days before I started reading Project Horizons and stalled midway through.
To say that it has had an impact, well.... before reading it, I didn't understand bronies at all, and now I've watched every single episode at least once, I've got 6gb of pony-themed music and I'm following various pony-themed tumblrs. I used to not understand bronies. now I think I am one. apparently it's a virus, passed from one nerd to the next, turning us all into a heard of undead chanting the song of the week.
I guess what I'm trying to say is.... thanks.
Without you, I never would have found the awesome.
...and why haven't you linked your Kkatman online alias with the kkat pen-name in any of the interviews you're done with various brony websites?