Sep
6th
2013
EQG Stories? · 11:59am Sep 6th, 2013
This morning I found not one but two EQG stories polluting the featured box. What the hay?
Am I honestly the only one who thinks EQG is abomination? This is supposed to be FIMFiction.net, not EQGFiction.net. Let them post on some other site! Let them post on DeviantArt! We were told EQG was apart from FIM, wouldn't affect/corrupt/poison our beloved pony world. I feel betrayed.
Maybe we need a setting sort of like the "View Mature" switch. There could be a "View EQG" switch, and if you turn it off then you'd never have to see another EQG story. This seems reasonable to me, since EQG stories are (to me) at least as objectionable as clopfics.
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Okay, wow. Calm down. No one is pointing a gun at your head and making you read those stories. You could've just ignored them without posting a blog that does nothing more than make you look like a oversensitive, self-righteous soapbox percher demanding that the entire website caters to your tastes and yours alone.
Equestria Girls will have minimal impact on show canon. However, it does exist. Much like any subsidiary material, from the books to the IDW comics, it is fair game for fanfiction. You don't have to read it. You don't have to love it. But for the sake of appearing more mature than a 12-year old with an X-Box Live account and a vocabulary full of four-letter words, I suggest you learn to tolerate it.
My tastes and mine alone? Really? I just assumed that 95+ percent of bronies out there would feel, as I do, that EGQ is anathema.
This is a cycle that I see repeating itself. Hasbro censors Derpy. Hasbro slaps wings on Cadance. Hasbro slaps wings on Twilight Sparkle. Hasbro creates EQG. Every time there's a brief outcry, but it's soon shouted down. Those who object are ridiculed, and we are all expected to rally around whatever Hasbro has done.
Other fandoms aren't like this. Trekkies never stopped making fun of Wesley Crusher, and nobody expects them to. Star Wars fans have never become defenders of Jar-Jar Binks, and nobody expects them to. When other franchises goof up, the fans call them on it, but somehow it's different in FiM world. Hasbro gets a free pass on anything they hit us with, no matter how nuts.
Well, while I still and will forever and always wish EQG had never been a thing, I did download the movie and watch it; it wasn't that bad, as most others have been saying. Like, it was still full of cliches and somewhat bad writing in places, forced dialogue, as well as just a dumb concept to begin with...but it still wasn't that bad. It was pretty good.
I understand how you feel, but unfortunately there's just nothing we can do about it. You can let it ruin your day, or work on trying to keep it from affecting you anymore. Not easy, I know, but it's the best thing to do, I think.
I thought Eqg was an abomination, too.