How could you do this? And on Jueves?!
If you want to unfollow me/unfav my stories over this, then I will understand completely. This is difficult for me to admit to you all, but it's time I stopped living the lie.
*deep breath*
I don't like My Little Dashie.
At all.
Like, not even a little bit.
Please don't hate me.
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Why would we hate you, everyone has their own opinions about certain stories. My own opinion of My Little Dashie is that it is a truly great fic.
114877 There are certain stories in the fandom which seem almost sacrosanct. Among them is My Little Dashie. I've always felt like I was in the minority in not liking that story.
I'm mostly joking about the "don't hate me" bit, though, because I do doubt that I'd lose any readers over that.
114878 Ah, ok
I never understood why My Little Dashie was so beloved. I thought it was okay, but nothing special, just a wish-fulfillment and a long whine about how shitty our world is.
Now, Past Sins, I thought that one was worth the hype.
Finally, the truth is revealed! I just knew you were hiding some big secret from us!
Actually, I didn't like it that much either. I guess it was cute in some places but I don't see how it gets regarded as The Best MLP Fic Ever by some people.
Also, you misspelled "confession".
114984 I have never read Past Sins, but I hear that it's the granddaddy for all alicorn Mary-Sue fics, and that's a turn-off for me.
115017 No I didn't. That's how you spell it now.
Finally, I've met someone else who was less than impressed with MLD.
I found it nowhere near as heart-wrenching as I'd been led to expect, and it was depressingly unengaging in parts. I kept seeing the coincidental contrivances as intrusive and distracting. The worst part was that Rainbow Dash was too OOC for my liking. (She angsts because she's a cartoon character, even though here she's a real-life character? Why?)
Then again, I'm not really the sort to look for sad fanfics, anyway.
I prefer comedies, slice of life stories, and adventures. I'm enjoying Canterlot Follies by LadyMoondancer at the moment, for example.
115105
Eh... having read it, I really didn't see Nyx as being very Mary Sue-ish, myself. But to each their own.
Yay, I've ranted about this story before and now I have the opportunity to do so again.
Tl;dr: I enjoyed this story although I wouldn't say it's actually good. Nor did I find it sad.
A clinically depressed mopey wanker who happens to be a brony finding a foal RD and raising her with love and affection, saving himself and becomming a bettter person, if still a social recluse out of necessity to protect his adopted daughter; then a tearful separation when she has to return to Equestria.
Objectively I consider it to be mediocre at best in both writing and story, with little regard for charaterization or proper storycraft.
Subjectively I enjoyed reading most of it, although I found it failed miserably at imparting the emotions it intended.
What truly frustrates me is that many in this fandom make little attempt to differentiate between their subjective and objective opinions.
Just because you love a story doesn't mean it's good. Just because you hate one doesn't mean it's bad. It's OK to dislike a masterpiece and It's OK to like trash. But it's important not to confuse the way something makes you feel with technical quality.
The other thing that frustrates me is how many people take this fic so seriously. It's wish fulfilment written in the "fantastical reality" style. It's not meant to be realistic or believable. Stop claiming the story is awesome because it has truthful depictions, stop claiming it's crap because it has ridiculous depictions, it not meant to be realistic or believable. At all. Taking it as such misses the point entirely.
115972 There's... that.
I do find the premise inescapably contrived, though. Not that the character found Rainbow Dash in a box, but that he was somehow able to raise her, in seclusion, for fifteen years, without anybody noticing or catching on. Also, the idea that Rainbow Dash somehow brought the protagonist out of his shell, changed him as a person. Bull. If anything, all she did was drive him further into it. If anything, he became more of a recluse, dedicating all of his time to his "Dashie," rather than forging relationships outside of his house.
The ending's got some really sad implications to it, and I don't mean because of the alleged heartbreak of Rainbow Dash going home with her friends (and Applejack). I mean because the guy's dug a fifteen year deep hole for himself. He has no friends, no social connections outside of his house and work - I don't see an out for him besides suicide, quite frankly.
It's a very warped, very disturbing story. Not heartwarming or heartbreaking at all. Also, like you said, it's poorly crafted and panders too much.
116022
That's precisely what I mean by it being a fantastical reality story though.
The characters, plot and events don't have to be believable or realistic at all.
I agree with your assessment on the character, but applying things like rationality or psychological assessment to a work of fantastical reality is completely pointless.
That's what the genre is all about. Being able to depict a story that works the way it does only because it disregards reality.