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11 years ago
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Finally started reading my hard copy of Fallout Equestria.
I'm eight or so chapters in, at about 150 pages so far out of a 1400 page story.
Normally I would be concerned with the beginning chapters moving at an alarmingly fast rate, lacking the detail I would prefer, but as far as I'm in now, it has gotten better with the pacing. Add to that the extreme length of the story and it sets me at ease. It seemed to be rollercoaster after rollercoaster of the main character diving headlong into situations and getting perforated each time.
I would have gotten father in the book, as it was only 9 pm when I stopped reading, however the way the story was going had me shaken.
For those that don't know, Fallout Equestria is a blending of Fallout and MLP, creating a rather bleak world that was once all happy sunshine and rainbow farts. It hasn't gone too far into detail, but the Zebra's went to war with the Ponies, and ended the world using 'mega spells' that are our equivalent to nuclear bombs. It was a ground war at first, but then went M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction).
The story picks up almost 200 years or so after the bombs fell.
With that being said, it has numerous references to what happened before, and those that fought to keep the world whole. That even after the deaths of the Mane 6 (Presumably, it's been 200 years after all) and to see the few ponies trying to keep what they stood for alive, even in the face of all that has happened in the world. Even as fictitious characters, what they have done in their little world, what they stood for and all that they had done, despite the odds, other ponies centuries later still wanted to emulate them.
I guess dealing with characters that I have grown to love, however fictitious they are, and their mortality in this scope has brought up my own shallow fears about it. In this instance, they are gone from the face of Equestria, but their deeds and actions still live on. It just ate at me, forcing a question I have long sought an answer for myself, as to how I would be seen after I'm gone.
After that I had to take a break from reading. However, bravo on the author for being able to set up something in a way that is not pointed at me, but rather dragging something up inadvertently.
I'll eventually dive back in, but so far it's been a rather good read, and the more in depth I get, the better everything else does.
I'm eight or so chapters in, at about 150 pages so far out of a 1400 page story.
Normally I would be concerned with the beginning chapters moving at an alarmingly fast rate, lacking the detail I would prefer, but as far as I'm in now, it has gotten better with the pacing. Add to that the extreme length of the story and it sets me at ease. It seemed to be rollercoaster after rollercoaster of the main character diving headlong into situations and getting perforated each time.
I would have gotten father in the book, as it was only 9 pm when I stopped reading, however the way the story was going had me shaken.
For those that don't know, Fallout Equestria is a blending of Fallout and MLP, creating a rather bleak world that was once all happy sunshine and rainbow farts. It hasn't gone too far into detail, but the Zebra's went to war with the Ponies, and ended the world using 'mega spells' that are our equivalent to nuclear bombs. It was a ground war at first, but then went M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction).
The story picks up almost 200 years or so after the bombs fell.
With that being said, it has numerous references to what happened before, and those that fought to keep the world whole. That even after the deaths of the Mane 6 (Presumably, it's been 200 years after all) and to see the few ponies trying to keep what they stood for alive, even in the face of all that has happened in the world. Even as fictitious characters, what they have done in their little world, what they stood for and all that they had done, despite the odds, other ponies centuries later still wanted to emulate them.
I guess dealing with characters that I have grown to love, however fictitious they are, and their mortality in this scope has brought up my own shallow fears about it. In this instance, they are gone from the face of Equestria, but their deeds and actions still live on. It just ate at me, forcing a question I have long sought an answer for myself, as to how I would be seen after I'm gone.
After that I had to take a break from reading. However, bravo on the author for being able to set up something in a way that is not pointed at me, but rather dragging something up inadvertently.
I'll eventually dive back in, but so far it's been a rather good read, and the more in depth I get, the better everything else does.
think the reason the first chaptes are like that is that the story is not very edited. ever since the recursive fanfictions, and for worry of never really finishing it via revisions and edits, she has chosen to keep it untouched. think she iw rathe touched that people love it so.
though some of that fanfiction.......... kinda bad. i know of one overtly long story that is a total mess that insults the fallout equestria story quite singificantly.