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Thoughts on "Cupcakes" · 12:14pm
Okay, I have mellowed out since I wrote this blog. I was a little icky at the time. It's still not a story I like, but my opinion of it is lukewarm. I understand its appeal.
This is going to be brief, and I won't be analyzing it. I just can't do that. But I just want to get my thoughts out of the way so that there are no misunderstandings or misconceptions about my stance on the story.
Now, let's get to it.
I don't like it. I do not like "Cupcakes", the original or the spinoffs. I do not like it.
Simple as that.
However, what I do want to say in further addition is that it's just my opinion. Do I have ill will to the author? No, I don't. The author never did anything to me personally and has done nothing to offend me. Do I have ill will to the fans of the story? Hell no. People do like what they like and I have no issue with that. I mean, sure, I may get annoyed when someone never gives a good reason for why they don't or like something, but I digress. But on the whole, I think that as long as you do not attack other people for their different opinion, then what's the problem?
Why don't I like it? Because I don't like gore. I don't like graphically described gore in any medium. I also don't like the way it is portrayed. I don't like the idea. I DON'T LIKE IT! I simply DO NOT LIKE IT! It's not to my personal tastes.
HOWEVER.
This doesn't mean a fan does not have the right to write/draw what they want for a fandom. They have the right.
I mean, for crying out loud, I went and wrote a CLOP fic. I wrote Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy HAVING SEX with each other. What kind of person am I if I harp on someone for doing something out of context?
Sometimes, yes, I have said before that there are some contexts that have no place in a fandom. I still stand by that. But that's more my personal subjective opinion than it is any kind of word of law. What I mostly take issue in THAT regard, is when we are expected to take it seriously. That's when I start to think there's something wrong here, and when it's just plain bad.
So, can out of context experiments with fanfics be good? They most definitely can. A majority of us fans are older and sometimes throw in older contexts into stories within a younger fandom. Sometimes it can work, and other times, it's just blatantly stupid.
Cupcakes, to me, is not meant to be taken seriously. It is purely for gore and shock value. Now, I could be wrong, but that's what I believe. Why else would one write that for a kid's show? Because they want to shock the fans. They love Creepypasta and gore and horror, and wanted to adapt it with MLP. Do I approve? No. But not on principle. It's more of a personal opinion.
So like I said, the out of context thing and kinds of stories I don't like, I simply don't read them. By that, I mean I don't actively seek them out or try to read them if I can help it. However, if I stumble across a bad story, and don't like it, what do I do? I often stop reading, or keep reading to see how it will end, and that's it. I never flame.
"But NintendoGal, you spork bad stories! You're flaming!"
Sporking and flaming are two different things.
But the point is, if I don't like a story, I simply walk away from it (if I don't spork it) and that's it.
I just wanted to make myself clear about this. I don't like Cupcakes, plain and simple.
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i agree with you 100% i hate cupcakes, but love your storys keep it up.
I have never read cupcakes and I never intend to, the idea of it alone upsets me and not just because Rainbow Dash is my favorite pony but because
I don't like storys that mix ponies with gore, and also can you imagine Pinkie Pie actually doing something like that? Pinkie Pie is probably the most gentle of the mane 6 behind Fluttershy, not that I can see any of them doing it.
I never read it but I heard a dramatic reading of it. It could be worse but it has become a well known fic in the Brony community so i guess we just look the other way and ignore it.
>>161162
Me too, I also heard a dramatic reading of it. And I agree! That's just what I do, I just ignore it.
>>161305
It could of been worse, you could of watched the cupcakes animation, every time I watch a Pinkie Pie related video on youtube that comes up in the video suggestions.
A quote from my blog (about things that happen too much with characters in fandom) from a few months ago on the subject...
Pinkie Pie: Cupcakes: If you've read my first blog post, I mentioned that I am sick and tired of this story, and the spinoffs. I didn't go into detail into the story itself, and I won't too here, but maybe later I will. That said, I am sick and tired of this plot device. Seriously. Damn near every single non-happy Pinkie-centric has this somewhere in it. Some stories have it much more disguised than others, but its still the same thing OVER AND OVER AND OVER. Seriously. I know Cupcakes. I get its supposed to be freaky. Frankly though, I'm so numb to it, I yawn. Let alone that this is totally not even CLOSE to something Pinkie would ever do. This is first on the list for a reason, because it is, by far, the worst mixture prevalence and stupidity that I see here.
>>161455
I did see it out of morbid curiosity...and now I regret it. DX I really do.
>>161468
That pretty much sums it up, I'll say! Aside from rolling my eyes about it, admittedly I feel queasy thinking about it since I just don't care for graphic gore. But yeah, that's pretty much the problem with it too. The fact it's so highly regarded and then used in so many Pinkie-centric stories. Come on, really? Pinkie Pie DID have a crazy moment in "Party of One", yes she did. I just have to ask WHY. But whatever.
I think I peeked at your blog, I don't know. XD But I think I did at least see that one! Well, rest assured, you won't see any of that from me. If by chance I may make stories where Pinkie has some kind of development or it delves into her past, I won't do something like that.
>>161486
Well... I don't do gore fics. Really, they are just violence porn.
>>161496
Neither do I. DX I mean, I've watched a lot of horror movies (and some reviews of sucky ones) and have seen my share of gore. It's not that I can't handle it, it's just annoying and violent porn, indeed.
I just can't do it like that.
Not all storys that have cupcakes references in them are bad, I read one a while back called The Light in the Darkness which pretty much shows that Pinkie Pie would never do something like that, it's a really sweet story.
>>161537
You are right! There are references to it in "Silent Ponyville", even to where one of the monsters was Cupcakes!Pinkie Pie herself. There it felt a little more in-place and was meant to be a mental obstacle for the real Pinkie Pie to overcome. So yes, maybe some stories might reference to Cupcakes somehow, and it CAN be done well if it's delivered nicely and in place of the plot.
>>161305
I don't like "Cupcakes" either.
I didn't even finished reading it.
I stopped reading at the beginning of the story, because I started to feel bad.
(If people ask me, I usually say that I didn't read it at all,
because this is almost true, since I stopped reading at the early beginning.)
Then I just went and read comments to the story in the internet...
From the comments I could guess what was going to happen in the story...
Most of the people regretted that they had read the story.
Some people was upset. Some of them were disgusted.
Some people even said that they had been traumatized by the story.
I am really glad that I stopped reading "Cupcakes" at the beginning!
I can't understand how some people can write such stories.
And I can't understand how some people can like such stories.
I don't have ill will to such people. This is their choice. But it's just beyond my understanding.
I think that I don't like stories with gore. At least in that way it was shown in "Cupcakes".
I mean, I've read "Silent Ponyville". It was like a good horror movie. I can't say that I didn't like it.
But "Silent Ponyville" is considered as a gore story, right?
>>239910
About the whole Silent Ponyville thing, the difference is that in Cupcakes, as I stated in a comment before, PINKIE WOULDN'T DO THAT! The story is very OOC, and while it is vivid in imagery, I can't get over that. Silent Ponyville on the other hand, is definitely within Pinkie's character, and the reference to cupcakes in it is more of a figment of her somewhat broken mind. Its hard for me to say more without giving away details of the story, but lets just leave it at as long as a story keeps characters in character, I can deal with it (usually)
>>239910
And yes, it is a gore fic
>>250653
Good point. I think, you're right.
Cupcakes was completly out of it. I don't like it either. It is as simple as that. It was a complete and total table filp experence for me. I didn't get far into the story. To this day I still regard pinky as really scary. I prefer cute and fluffy...
I can see its morbid appeal too but I still think its rather sick. Its amazing how things like it can become so well known though the brony community.
And about what follows your "HOWEVER. "
I think your 'Heated' is an inspiration. Normaly I'm completly against clopfics but I can bear it when its these two. You on the other hand completly engaged me in the story right from the first entrance into Fluttershy's room and I have followed the story closly since then. You achieved a great balance between the kinky stuff and the strong character building moments.
>>254937 I've mellowed out since I wrote this blog, and I definitely don't hate the story. It's not for me, I'm not a fan of gore, but I can see its appeal with everyone. And frankly, well, it just pretty much is a way not to take things seriously and I respect that. On its own, it's pretty okay.
So thanks again! I'm glad you enjoy it.
Well.....
I guess I had the worst "first encounter" of Cupcakes...
I didn't find it as a fiction. I found it as a VIDEO on YouTube...
I was terrified. Disgusted. I stopped at the start of the gore. I was like:
1. Hmm... Cupcakes? seems like a nice title. I think I will watch it then.
2. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie will make some cupcakes? Awesome!
3. Why did Pinkie stun him?
4. WTH?.... is that? OOOOOH MY GOOOD!
5. !??!??!?!??!?!?!?
6. How could anyone make such stupid thing like that? It is disgusting. Why would Pinkie even do that? So stupid.
From what I understand... there was a brony: sgt.sprinkles <---- or anything like that.
And, his whole purpose of making Cupcakes was because, he was tired of Rainbow Pie/Pinkie Dash shipping. So, he made Cupcakes. And, he succeeded. Every time that shipping is there... they associate it to Cupcakes.
But, still...
Anyways, you did write clop fiction. But, I liked it. It was because that it was FlutterDash shipping. It was well made too!
Well made blog!
>>265090 XD Actually, he wrote "Cupcakes" on a whim just to see if it would get any views. It was written before and around the time PinkieDash was getting popular. X3
>>265125
Oh... I didn't know that... guess the information on YouTube was fake all along... but it did have many thumbs up... but anyways, it was a terrible fiction... REALLY TERRIBLE... and GROSS...