May
6th
2015
In Defense of Being Typecast · 6:50pm May 6th, 2015
People say that the only genres I can write are [Dark] and [Sad]. Well, this week, I decided to prove them wrong by writing a nice little Slice of Life story. It's about a scholar named Dust who lives on the edge of Ponyville, walking into town to meet with Twilight Sparkle and talk about her work. On the way, she meets with all of Twilight's friends, and they catch up and go to lunch together. And so I present A Change in Three Parts.
Go ahead. Click it.
It's a happy story.
You know, you say that this is a "happy" story, yet your chosen cover art is a cross-section of an equine's muscular and skeletal structure. This is not typically evocative of "happy" images.
Also, your username is GaPJaxie, which is a userame not typically associated with pleasant and lackadaisical stories.
So, based on these two pieces of evidence, I hypothesis that you sir, are attempting to deliberately misinform us as to the true nature of this story for the sake of your own amusement.
You can't fool me Jaxie! I'm a genius!
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That's stereotyping.
That's typecasting!
Unless it's a double fakeout! That's right, all along I was fooling you into thinking I was trying to fool you! And it seems I succeeded.
...wait.
Wait... what?
Have these people not read Dressing Room and the sequels thereto?
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I mean... those stories aren't exactly a black vortex of despair. But they aren't made out of rainbows and kittens either!
It's too late. I've already typecast you as a butt.
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Aye. IIRC, Butter Up in particular got a bit of arguing in the comments section about the lack of a [Sad] tag (which I agree was correct without) or the lack of a trigger warning (I could see it either way).
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I'm pretty sure making a story out of rainbows and kittens would demand both the [Dark] AND the [Sad] tags, yes.
Seems legit.
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That's racist.
People discuss what types of fics you're limited to writing? Huh.
Also, clearly these people have never read Fan Service, Twilight Sparkle vs Social Inequality, or even The Quest for Celestia's Raiment.