Seraphem's Analysis of Fallout Equestria · 9:44am Jul 21st, 2013
Kay, I'm going to signal boost for one of my new best friends in the fandom. Seraphem is my de facto creative consultant for my planned Fallout Equestria stories, and he's written up a chapter-by-chapter evaluation. I've only just started reading the evaluation, but from what I've seen it's intelligent and planned-out, focused on character motivations and an explanation of how the story works and why it works well. It also appears to be a mostly positive evaluation coming from someone who deeply treasures the story.
I hope for it to be a good counter-balance to a liveblogging of the story by Present Perfect, no doubt a more influential name in the fandom. PP's ultimate conclusion of the fic was mixed, often written in a negative tone (because being negative on the internet is fun and cool) but with the reluctant admission that he liked the story more often than disliked it. Most of what he says about the story is fair and I find myself agreeing with it, though my friends have written it off as a matter of opinion. As long as I can learn from (what some people see as) Kkat's mistakes, not much else matters. PP's assertion that "Kkat thinks the show is grimdark," however, is something I have a problem with. He seems to be implying that Kkat thinks that it's only natural that ponies will do horrible, repulsive, gory stuff to each other and that the show is only sanitizing it for the sake of the child audience, but I think the actual case is that Kkat has made the story shades darker to create a better contrast with the heroism and hope that fits MLP like a glove. Kkat says that a harsher struggle means a sweeter victory, which I'd have thought PP might appreciate since he has complained about how easily every single villain in the show was vanquished or neutered. I'm agreeing with Kkat on this point wholeheartedly, even if her romances leave much to be desired.
But enough about that. I like Seraphem and I think his stuff is worth reading.
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Holy shit this blog post is old :D
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I'm not that great at keeping this thing updated. What should I talk about? Should I make a habit of it? Should I talk about stuff that has nothing to do with ponies? SO MANY DECISIONS
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lol I just happened to wander onto your page and noticed my name here :3 I do that.
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I do actually think that it's kind of sad that I say that Seraphem is my creative consultant for the FoE stories I have planned, and I've only actually started writing Song of the Wasteland a whole year after this post.
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I've been planning my big FoE story for over a year now. :B No biggie.