Prejudice · 11:42am Jun 13th, 2016
I'd like to think that I'm sort of an open-minded guy when it comes to checking fics out. Sure, I don't like inter-Mane 6 shipping, or Twilestia, or adultery, or fix fics, or anthro, or fics about the latest episode that come out immediately after the episode, or HiE, or the random tag, or Fluttershy stories, or Equestria Fuck Yeah stories, but I will occasionally check such a story out if I'm in the mood. Just to check if there's one I can say is the exemption.
But there are some stories that I've simply developed such an intense prejudice against that all it takes is one look and no. These include:
1. In Which My Story Screams Look at Me I Have a Stupidly Long Title Aren't I So Clever, Kooky, and Zany!?
2. Half or more the story description is not a description of the story. Saying featured is annoying, but mild. Includes things like going on about how or why the story was written. Excuses like "written while drunk" or some shit.
3. Displaced - I actually click on these stories, so I can add to the dislike bar. I'm done looking for that elusive "good" displaced. All I want to do is make them feel just slightly more disliked.
4. Conversion Bureau and Fall of Equestria - I don't care if it's a reaction against the original stories or actual additions to the "mythos" of these stories, I want nothing to do with them.
5. "Hilarious" Mary Sue Parodies - Proving that saying about those who hunt monsters, these stories have become as cliche as the cliches they mock.
6. Memes - If I see that fucking doge and its ilk, I'm out.
I wish I could encourage open-mindedness here, but honestly, even I don't have it in me to defend Displaced, and I'm just as prejudiced as you are when it comes to that whole mess. Minus the downvoting without reading. I never do that. But if I did, I'd do it for Displaced.
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People call it cancer. I don't think it's cancer, I think it's herpes. It quiets down after a while, then the symptoms break out again.
I, at least, read the descriptions. It's never good.
I want to say so many mean things about the list in the beginning.
The only bit of this I remotely agree with, (or don't thinkbis ridiculous to scream about) is displaced and fall of equestria.
What is displaced?
Also, you left out "stories based on some fan animation shit" (e.g Button Mash, Snowdrop, etc.)
4019345
I envy your ignorance. I truly do. Spare yourself and don't look it up.
You're right about the animations bit.
Well, Fall of Equestria seems to be dying. I haven't seen hide nor hair of it on FIMFiction or Derpibooru in ages, aside from a single "anti" fic a few weeks ago. Thank God.
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Oh, is this that thing where they dress up for a con, then end up in Equestria as the thing they dressed up as?
I can't imagine how that managed to become a fad, but then again we did see things like "Five Score Divided by Four" on this site.
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It cannot die fast enough.
And this is coming from someone who once marathoned all the La Blue Girl and Cool Devices in a single weekend.
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Speak of the devil, there is a five score story lurking in the new stories at the moment.
I'm actually thankful we have those stupid genres, just to keep stupid people away from good ideas and tricking me into clicking on something that looks good.
There were two short stories about ponies who had to shut down human portals before they caused trouble, like men in black, but I can't find them at the moment.
Wow. I haven't written a single fic that fits your list. I'd say that's a good thing, but it's sorta irrelevant since I don't think you've ever looked at any of them anyway.
4019364 Fall of Equestria gets entirely too much hate. There is nothing wrong with the series; it is just about fulfilling a specific fetish. It is not even idealizing that fetish, the stories make it entirely clear that the caribou, the animals that are forcing ponies into being sex slaves, are villains. Not just in the descriptions where it says "This is just make believe, the authors do not actually think rape is good" but a strong theme of the stories is that rape is bad and that the caribou are the villains. They do not suffer from extreme plot holes like some anti-fics point out. Are there plot holes? Yes. Are they big enough to write a whole fic mocking them? Absolutely not. The stories are not particularly good, I would not recommend them, but they are not worthy of hating.
This is just something I feel somewhat passionate about because I think it's a real shame for people to hate a story over a misunderstanding of the content of the story.
Lol I couldn't not agree more although I do enjoy some of the displaced fics such as the Awakening of a Tactician and I usually read human fics with some exceptions such as your upheaval which I've only have read first one which I thought was really good.
Doesn't matter if the author is writing the greatest story ever. I'm just done If I find a hyperlink to a song on YouTube crammed in there for "setting the mood". No mercy >:(
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If people had consistent standards, they would hate Fallout: Equestria just as much as Fall of Equestria.
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The problem for me is not the fetishes: it's the story. I have no issue with people who freely admit, "hey, it's just stupid fetish fuel, of course it doesn't make sense." It's when people try to claim it's somehow a well thought out story that my dander gets up. The story of Fall is stupid, recursive, insulting to the show and characters, and overall just plain retarded.
However, I will admit a spot of ire for the setting in general. Talk about shitting all over everything the show stands for. I hold no hate for the people who like that stuff. Hell, I remind people that a lot of the content creators for the fictions are women in the first place. But the entire AU is just stupid and offensive.
You could always read Bad Horse's Displacement. That way you can say that you have indeed read a good Displacement fic once, so there is not reason to touch the genre ever again.