Burn · 6:04am Nov 1st, 2012
I've just rewatched 'Luna Eclipsed' because of the date and all, and then, because eff it, I watched the first eight minutes of Crystal Empire Part 1. I hadn't seen an episode of pony in... months.
I'm glad I did, now, but I also feel like a guilty fool.
Immediately after watching, my brain exploded when it tried to acknowledge the existence of this site modeled after the show I'd just seen. It's a strange distortion--a sick, far-out distortion--and I'm not able to fully grasp what's gone on; it's as if someone dropped a toddler in a night club, or something.
In fact, it makes me feel dirty. I feel guilty for having even been in a place like this when it bastardizes something so heartfelt, sweet, and pure. It's a corruption to me right off the bat and every last little thing I've ever read about Twilight that hasn't been in the show makes me feel like I'd read about an impostor--an impostor pulling cheap cash off of their imitation.
I know Twilight sparkle--I just saw over half an hour of Twilight Sparkle. And you know what? None of the fake copies on here can match her.
I can't do this.Knowing the love Lauren Faust and the creators of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic must have for this show makes me extra aware of what's going on, here. If someone took something of mine and wrote or drew something 'fan art' completely out of context, something not even plausible or entirely inappropriate in the universe or canon or reality I'd found, I'd be...
I'd be downright hateful. 
Hell, I'd even be pissed they were spending so much time on it when they should be out discovering their own worlds, not stitching multicolored pieces of fabric onto a work I've already sown. What an ugly, non-original quilt that would be! What a gaudy, insulting mess. Mutilation is the most sincere form of fandom appreciation, it appears.
I just can't watch an episode of the show and then acknowledge how much frigging goddam porn and bullshit there is based off of it. It's not something I can do. My Little Pony is a sanctuary, it was meant to be a sanctuary, and people are using it to get off. This is worse than when Jesus caught moneychangers using a temple for business. This is like running a prostitution ring overnight in a daycare center, even letting the clients use the toys. You may clean them off with some Chlorox wipes, but the memory remains, and you can't take back what just happened.
It's rape. It's a passive-aggressive rape for an audience to approve of, for people to get their physical and egotistic rocks off, and I can't sit around here anymore. No. No, no, no, no.
The stories on here don't feature the characters from the show... they use cheap Chinese-factory-stitched costumes and stuff whatever they want inside, then beat them around and call them "Applejack" or "Rainbow Dash" when they're puppets filled with sickly meat. You can put makeup on a pig, but you can't call it Giselle Bundchen.
I might be going off the rails, but I look back at the show, and knowing what I know about this site, I simply cannot justify 98% of the stuff. Sure, maybe the sexual or even adult-humor stuff is spun off of a 'love' of it, but none of that is evoked by the show, and I especially am sure that its creators don't want to acknowledge its existence; if they could, they'd probably burn and ban it all, too.
Think right now how Lauren Faust would feel if she examined this website. Think how she would feel if she took a look at "Equestria After Dark." A lot of you have probably met one of the voice actors--can you think about meeting them, shaking their hands, seeing their smile, and acknowledging what you're read, written, viewed, or even jacked off to without some guilt or shame? Embarrassment is a burn you can't bury in a circumstance like that.
We're using someone else's toys in ways they were never meant to be used and calling it love and creativity. This isn't love, and this is rearrangement and utilization for an unintended purpose, not creativity--this is bastardization of a temporary obsession, raping something for what it's worth while it's there until the next sparkly toy rolls down the production line.
I'm not going to partake in this 'fan facade' gangbang anymore. I became a fan of pony for the right reasons, found a true love and appreciation for the show and its characters, and then partook in the fandom, where I found all the wrong methods and actions, and I'm done sitting in a place where Lauren Faust's children are played with like fuck toys and plastic action figures you can smash against the floor.
I am out. No more of this--I've served my time in this psycho ward, and I won't get bitten by this sickly serpent again. I sincerely hope those of you who love fiction continue writing and grow to be awesome at the art, if you choose to continue this path. Please... find something all your own, a world no one else has discovered, yet, and breathe life into it as it so deserves. Do not continue claiming love for something this pure and then doing nasty, traitorous things.
It's not funny... that's just the false excuse we use to cover our asses. "I did it for laughs." No, you did it because you could, and the only way to cleanse yourself is to get off the addiction. Stop abusing this beautiful, pure thing to get high or get off or get your kicks.
No more mixing alcohol with the kids' drinks. No more raping something so clean as this. "The Library Club" is as true a thing as I could ever write for this place and submit.
You know. I get it. And you're a smart guy. I'm not here to change your mind. But I would like to point out some important things.
FiM's characters are based off of Lauren Faust's FAN ART of MLP G1. She got the MLP gig when her original concept pitch was turned down.
Lauren stated that she would probably have been into fanfiction if it had been as prevalent when she was younger.
The creators are mature adults who have pretty good grasps of sexualization, pathological corruption, the internet, etc.
Don't stop writing. Stop writing what you've been and change direction if you feel you need to but don't stop. I think there are some fics that really do get Twilight right. Some that could be an episode. Find them, or if you can't try and figure out how to write them yourself.
Thanks for the long-winded definition of fanfiction, Mr. Swirl.
This, uh ... this doesn't mean we're never gonna hear from you again, does it? I'm praying you just got drunk when you decided to type this. Seriously, you're talking like you wanted SOPA to pass. You're kinda scaring me here.
I would like to point out that Ashleigh Ball enjoys Hotdiggitydemon's videos, and I think Tabitha received a hardcover collection of Fallout: Equestria.
So... Are you going to leave the fandom, or what?
I hope you were drunk when you vented out your frustrations.
To put things simply, and I hope not that you will consider this calling you a fool. However, as the term goes fiction is well.. fiction. Not real, distorted fantasies. Sure some of the things are rather.. odd, but are the black sheeps just so horrid as to make you want to abandon something you've spent time in? Besides, not all the fiction twists the perception of the characters, some are rather good at it. I have a feeling I may have misinterpreted your whole blog post if so... have a quote.
"My friend there are two kinds of people in this world, those that write Fiction and those who write crap."
Ya know, when I think about this website, and I mean really think about it, I will almost always end up feeling exactly like what is stated in this blog-post.
After the sour feeling I get, I'll slowly come to realize that while most everything on the Internet and Beyond corrupts and violates the innocence of this lovely show, it gives me reason to fight until I can experience that pure, innocent, feel-good-feeling I get from watching it once more. After experiencing the purgatory of wallowing in the trashy hive-mind that is the "Brony Community", it makes the show all the more worth it.
I guess if you want to find hope, then you have to start searching where hope can't be found.