Everypony's Really Happy For Braeburn, or So THAT'S what the Mature filter is for! · 3:01am Mar 29th, 2014
First, I give you this:
Everypony's Really Happy For Braeburn
I am no good at the image insert from DeviantArt. If anyone cares to enlighten me, I'd be grateful. Anyway, I thought this was cute.
I got curious about the mature filter, I admit. I usually screen stuff out, just because that's the boring mindset I've got. Well, not totally, but basically I'm a G and PG rated writer. But of course, when a fic is uploaded to a community I'm in, I can see the title and who submitted it, and sometimes, I'm kind of curious.
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Actually, I'm pretty impressed! I had no idea I wouldn't even see that there were stories at all. It's as though they weren't even there. That's probably pretty tough to do.
Anyway, as I said, I got curious. I can't read anything about Cheese or Pinkie, because it would dent the way I write them, so I selected Braeburn and just picked something. And ee-nope.
Not because Braeburn was Really Happy. The one episode he's in, he could be anything. It was because he was mean.
Sorry, you can make me believe in Gay Braeburn or Straight Braeburn or Omnisexual Braeburn or Braeburn with an Alien Space Harem, but the one thing you can't make me believe in is that Braeburn would be mean, or vicious, or enjoy intentionally humiliating anyone. He might inadvertently embarrass the heck out of someone, but he'd never intend to do it.
Braeburn's a sweetie. Almost every time I write a character for a while, I find something to like about them, and then I find out stuff about them I didn't know when I started to write. I'm sure a lot of people feel the same. I hope more people try writing Trenderhoof. He may be embarrassing, but he's an embarrassment gold mine. Pretentious unicorn journalists need love, too!
Speaking of trying out new stuff, the prequel/teaser for my new fic will probably be out in a day or two at most. With all the new EG material coming out at the same time, I'm kinda nervicited.
... What did you read?
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Also, yeah. I'd have trouble believing Braeburn was malicious. He's one of the sweetest things... I mean, most ponies are, but still. He cares about foals, people! He cares about foals.
1963255 I can't even remember. It was some orgy fic with a bunch of stallions, but what stuck out more than the unlikely props (I admit it, I skimmed) was the total mean OOC-ness of Braeburn. Dude, if he were at an orgy, he'd be circulating to make sure everypony was having a good time and making sure they knew that this orgy was brought to you by the Appleloosa Apple Grower's Association ("Apples: Good For What Ails Ya.") I firmly believe that vest has a thick stack of business cards.
His reference to foals always made me wonder if Braeburn was actually married and we never happened to meet Mrs. Braeburn, but I think he's just really concerned about everypony's welfare generally.
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Hrmmm. I'm usually not as big on clop for clop's sake, I mostly prefer a story with it, but I'm curious to see this now. Plus, well, I like clop, though I do have my own particulars.
And I love the idea of an orgy being hosted by Braeburn and brought to you by the AAGA.
Same thing here. I imagine it probably is a sign that he really does care about everyone and he's probably family inclined. Also, he knew that would appeal to a bunch of mares. "Think of the foals!"
But then there's also that instance where he looks at the clock tower and I don't think he's that concerned for himself. I don't think he'd freak out as much either if he wasn't worried about the whole town's survival (after all, he could just leave and say to hell with that. He has family to go to.)
And I am now imagining a giant box full of business cards in his house. I wonder how tacky they look.
Hrmmm... I bet there's an apple with a smile on it.
Going looking for it, I see. Well, you'll recognize it in an instant by the way that Braeburn is mean as a snake and a manipulative SOB. Eh, clop's definitely not for me, although it's gore that truly bothers me. It's just that I really dislike OOC characters, wherever they are.
I don't know why, but I sort of imagine everything Braeburn's got in one big room: bed--more like a mattress-- over there, bags of seed there, stacks of tourist leaflets over there (as yet unused): "Appleloosa: what we don't got, you don't need!"---canned goods, dry beans, bag of coffee--it shrieks "bachelor establishment," and also "I ain't home much." Heaven knows what exactly he expected Miss Jubilee to think, but probably he just expected to marry her and she'd do some magical "woman's touch" thing that makes it all nice. It's all very Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Plus probably at LEAST six foals, which is why a mature lady like Cherry Jubilee might be an issue. Or maybe not. He doesn't know much about that mare stuff.
(Incidentally, I imagine it looking exactly the same if he's gay. It doesn't grant magic interior decorating skills.)
But, see, I know that's just my imagination, whereas "Everypony's gay for Braeburn" is like Lyra and Bon-Bon: heavy fanon. And something rubs me the wrong way about the idea that someone could MAKE someone else gay, as though it were some sort of communicable disease. Bleh.
An apple with a GIANT showing all the teeth smile on it.
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Sorry, didn't see this response somehow. I might have found it, but I haven't read it yet, if so. I'm leery of Big Mac (not for incest, just that I don't like most clop with him in it), Spike, and Snails being in the sole orgy fic I've noticed with Braeburn tagged as a character. Even if it suggests Spike somehow set the whole thing up (and I like Snails.)
I love clop, but I have particulars.
In all truth, I also don't read things just to irritate myself. Not unless I die laughing at the same time. If it it's a crappy fic, it may just irk me. Plus I have so much other stuff to do... I dunno. I didn't look that hard but whatever I did turn up is now in my read later pile, I think.
I never put much thought into his home but I never expected anything special out of it. This is as good as any for head canon material. And yes, just because he's gay doesn't mean he has good taste or any interest in making it look good.
I do imagine him having some adorable curtains with apples on them. A gift from Applejack. Probably Hearth's Warming, house warming, or his birthday. Rarity made them. He put them up, because they're useful, and they remind him of AJ, so it makes him smile. Other than that, he doesn't think about them much. He doesn't even know who made them. He assumes she bought them somewhere. Braeburn tends to forget he even has them; he put them up at least a year ago and he is normally looking past them, through the window, or pondering what time it is as he considers what is beyond them, when he wakes up.
... That was just off the top of my head though. Your ideas made me wonder if he had anything dressy at all and for some reason that immediately came to mind.
... People take that seriously? I always assumed that was a joke. It's just the notion that he's so hot, even the straight guys want him. I thought it was supposed to be funny. Then again, that is kind of a porn thing too... for some reason marketing things as bisexual doesn't sell very well, or something. It's weird. I guess it's like the generic fantasy of being so desirable you turn everyone's head? Still, they could handle it a lot better.
As for me, I just like the idea of ponies having sex and sometimes I want M/M. And well, Braeburn would be my choice for a sweet, rustic, very traditional stallion who just happens to love other stallions. Then again, I pick a character's gender preferences depending on what a story works with. And if it doesn't come up, it doesn't matter. That applies to any character.
I hate fanon that is cancerous. That is all.