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Are folks really as bent out of shape about the death of fanon as they seem, or is this largely playful faux-rage? I mean, really. . .
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@scribus People are genuinely mad and it's mangoesing delicious. I love it.
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@scribus I'm not remotely angry. I've adopted so little of the fanon because I prefer to go against the grain. I just like laughing at the folks who take it too seriously.
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@scribus what are you talking about ?
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@ceruleanspark is this concerning the toy accuracy and the new blind bags, or the whole sisterhooves social thing? cos as far as I can tell, sisterhooves social didnt realy upheave any fanon relationships it just added a few more.
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@redback Both. People were butthurt Sisterhooves until they'd built their increasingly retarded family trees to explain away the discrepancies.
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@ceruleanspark fanon is a harsh mistress.
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@quetzalcoatl Fanonymous doesn't forgive, but it usually forgets.
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@ceruleanspark I honestly dont see why the family trees have to be so complicated or ridiculous. its pretty simple: Dinky AND Sparkler are both derpy's daughters, and Berry Punch has a little sister as well as a daughter. easy peasy.
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@redback no way dude not enough overanalysis.
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@redback I honestly don't see why the family trees have to be so complicated or ridiculous. (INSERT COMPLICATED AND RIDICULOUS FAMILY TREE HERE).)
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@redback Have you heard of occams razor?
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@ceruleanspark Occam if they can't take a joke.
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@ceruleanspark you mean "the simplest explanation is usually the most likely"?
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@ceruleanspark well there ya go. my point is further proven
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@thelastgherkin Derpy is everyone's mother and daughter due to a shorted out time differential from the time she reversed the polarity of the neutron flow in her muffin bag and accidentally the laws of time and sex. Then it becomes less of a tree and more of a mound of wood chips and paper pulp. tl;dr EVERYPONY EVER IS RELATED TO ADOBE. WHICH YOU WON'T FIND IN NAIROBI. fanon fixed.
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@quetzalcoatl 'The Laws of Time and Sex'... isn't that a Prince album?
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@quetzalcoatl that makes sense
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@punbot is it purple?
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@quetzalcoatl All the Ditzy Doos are failed attempts by Celestia to make another Pinkie Pie.
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@quetzalcoatl Its the one with the song with the drum machine on it... y'know, the one about sex.
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@thelastgherkin of course. Celestia is confirmed as god in Sisterhooves Social.
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@punbot that narrows it down.
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@scribus I think it depends on the person? I mean in my case, I just plain haven't kept up with much of fanon because I find it easier to enjoy the show for what it is if I don't take in a ton of outside things to set up expectations to be knocked down. With clopfics, any fanon they try to craft would turn out implausible for inclusion in the show, regardless of if it made sense for the characters or not. So I'm fine with those. And I'm totally fine with episode fics that leave the characters static while fleshing out their backgrounds or potentials a bit more. That is. A fic exploring AJ's cooking abilities can be amusing to me because we already know she can cook. So much was shown in the show. But if in the same fic, they said that she can cook *only* apple dishes. it would be weird, as it'd be setting up character definition. Since I read very very few fics, don't look at a whole lot of fanart, and don't watch very many videos other than episodes, a lot of it passes me by.
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@quetzalcoatl She was confirmed as god in Bridle Gossip. AJ says "Thank Celestia!" there.
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@retl eww, clopfics? How can you read that garbage? They're so poorly written and almost always have plotholes in them.
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@ceruleanspark No wonder Luna went mental.
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@punbot Nightmare Clegg
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@quetzalcoatl I READ THEM FOR THE PLOTHOLES
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@punbot oh Celestia what have I done?
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@retl yeah, its an acquired taste. i mainly try to avoi the fanons that give big changes to the eel of the show, mostly just sticking with the fanons that add a little more personality and life to the background of the show- things like derpy and dinky, lyra and bonbon, berry punch, etc. just the background characters that have been given personalities. gives the show a sort of "expanded univese" feel to it. but i agree, i dont really like the kinds of fanons or fics that end with big changes in the canon. im actualy trying to keep that in mind with my latest fic.
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@quetzalcoatl Did you miss the #Iwatchitfortheplot part of my profile? ;p And yeah, I read a few clopfics. Really, at this point there's only one author I'll make time for, though. Hotsauce.At the same time, he/she takes his/her time writing so updates aren't that common. Alternatively. Eww, ponies? How can you watch that garbage? They're so simplistic and almost always have bright colors in them.
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@redback Even minor changes can have big implications. For example, assuming the idea of Spellsplipping is canon also kinda implies that a pony can fudge their way through a spell without having learned it necessarily. But assuming they need to know exact spells also leans towards being a kind of fanon. So usually, I just hoofwave it and say IT'S A PONY DOING MAGIC
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@retl Yep, just go with the KISS principle. Keep It Simple Stupid
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