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GaPJaxie


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Oct
8th
2015

Would It Matter If This Was How the World Ended? · 2:57pm Oct 8th, 2015

What have I done?

Patient Zero:
Would It Matter If I Was

The Really Funny One:
Do It Mattered If I Is

The Really Bad One:
Yes It Matters

The Rom-Com:
Some Things Matter More Than Others

The Shipping One:
Would It Matter If I Was Yer Cuz

The Timid One:
What If I I mean Somepony Were

The One Where the Picture Gives Away the Plot:
Would It Matter

The One That Removes the Ambiguity:
Would It Matter If I Was Trans

Inception BWOOOOOOW:
Would It Matter if I Matter Mattered

The Writeoff Entry:
Would It Matter If I Am What I Thought I Might Be Once

The Actual Sequel:
What Matters More

The Meta One:
Matter I Was, If It Would

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Comments ( 64 )

You're a bad person and you should feel bad.

Would it meta?

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I DO FEEL BAD.

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Present Perfect did it first.

Now all we need is Would I Chuck Wood If I Was A Woodchuck?".

You got people thinking and writing. That isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Also, there's a Writeoff entry.

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Everypony's focusing on the wrong issue here.

Why, Jaxie?! Why did you play with forces you did not understand?!

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That's what I always say!

Oh wow, all those stories got hit by the mods for being too close to the original?

PresentPerfect
Author Interviewer

Don't forget this one! :D

I'm glad I tipped this off. :V

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True, but one of those people was RealityCheck. So it kind of evens out I guess.

God damn it, Obs.

...Wait.

~Skeeter The Lurker

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Oh god. Post updated.

So, how many of those actually got past moderation?

Sometimes I think GapJaxie made some sort of Robert-Johnson-at-the-crossroads-at-midnight style deal for writing talent, and this is the cursed, infernal downside.

The rest of the time, I know he did.

And yet there is no King of the Hill version.

God I wish there was one none-MajorDude KOTH story here...

Relating to the subject: Amazing how one story inspired others stories based on that. You must be my teacher, Jaxie.

I'm a little surprised nobody has yet written one where Fluttershy wonders if it would matter if she ate a peach.

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Oh god they're multiplying.

PresentPerfect
Author Interviewer

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We need that, and we need one with the Rock showing up to declare that it doesn't matter.

These could potentially happen in the same story. Just saying.

Wait wait wait. All these have been deemed OK to publish, except for RC's? :rainbowhuh:

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Looks like they all passed... except THAT one...
Guess the writings on the wall, rules are subject to moderator's whimsy.
Some pigs are more equal than others.

:fluttershysad: "Would it matter if I was a changeling?"
:facehoof: "That depends. Do you have the real Fluttershy in a pod somewhere?"
:fluttershysad: "Yes."
:twilightoops: "Then... we should go get her out?"
:fluttercry: "But I don't know where they put it! I replaced her because she was a supermodel but the other changelings took care of the pods and everypony scattered when the other changelings attacked and I don't know where any of the pods wound up or anything!"
:twilightsmile: "So you're saying that Fluttershy probably starved to death after being abandoned in a cave somewhere, and it's your fault?"
:fluttershysad:
:fluttershyouch: "Just make it quick!"

At first I thought you had written a response fic to your own fic. And now that I think about it, this should definitely happen. :scootangel:

3452678 That would be the problem certain members of the site are having with the moderation staff at the moment.

Unfortunately, RC is unpopular enough that they're getting away with it with little protest from anyone with the influence to do something about it. To me this just feels like phase two of that fiasco a while back with the Twilight/Nyx/RealityCheck incest fix that made it past moderation and sat at the top of the featured box for days. It's RC, so free reign to treat him unfairly.

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To be fair, most of these are not of the same genre as the original, or are sequels, or parodies.

The one that's closest is What If I... I mean, Somepony... Were?, which is more or less the same as RC's, except it doesn't come off as a rant about the original story.

They're all identifiably derivative.

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Actually, I lied. Would It Matter If I Were Trans? is the sort of thing that would probably get you an honor code violation at a university; it is basically an exact copy of the original story, but with different characters and a different subject. The conversation's flow is basically identical.

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Well, shit.

I promised I wouldn't do one of these because I hadn't read the original or the first parody, and had no inclination to, then I went and read them like an idiot.

Holy humping horseshit. :facehoof: My strategy paid off perfectly for avoiding the Twilight's X Is Flooded with Semen fray. Why didn't it work this time? Why??? :raritydespair:

...maybe I'll forget about it soon because I'm switching meds. Keep hope alive.

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I have just finished reading all of them as well. Expect a review post shortly.

PresentPerfect
Author Interviewer

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So what you're saying is now you're going to write Would It Matter If Twilight's Castle Was Flooded With Peaches?

The story was fairly good but this kind of reaction does seem kind of ridiculous.

3453508 Now you've done it... There's going to be a race, mark my words.

Quick, see if it's repeatable with another subject! Try something about Sombra and pickpocketing.

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It's in the spirit of it, for sure! :yay:

So I might as well wade into this morass, I actually kinda-sorta liked RC's contribution.

I think. I don't actually know.

I don't care much for RC usually, either personally or his stories, but this one seemed almost like he was trying to deconstruct himself. Like, it starts off with, "Oh, this is a polemic against the underlying premises of the original story, fine, not unusual, let's see if he actually starts making personal attacks" and then three-quarters of the way through it switches gears to "... holy shit, Fluttershy actually is a Changeling and now Twilight Sparkle feels like a complete asshole for taking such an absolutist stand on this issue and pronouncing sweeping moral judgments. I did not see that coming. Well played, RC. Well RC."

It felt a lot like RC was deliberately subverting expectations for the sort of heavy-handed bricks to the face and in-your-face moralizing he's known for and turning it around on readers.

But I don't know that that's actually what he's going for. It would be... unusual, after all these years, for RC to have developed that level of self-awareness. It could just be I'm overly reading into it.

The odd part of this whole thing is how solid most of the parodies/spinoffs/etc. ended up being. Very few of them are actually bad, which is unusual. When something goes meme like this I expect it to instantly devolve into disgusting sex and violence, because FimFiction. That didn't really happen.

Well my respect for the Mods on this site is now at an all time low.

Just so you know, I made an inverted version and it's in submission right now. So, expect it soon!

3457128 Congratulations, you are now part of the problem!

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Ah, but what a problem it is!

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Please don't assume the surface is the substance.

3457642 I hadn't assumed it had substance.

Would it matter you ask?

YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT IT WOULD MATTER!!!

You see this, right?! This is your fault! This is what happens when you divide by zero!

3456095 Come on. None of these are copies, but stories that take the same premise and either parody it or come to a different conclusion. (Except maybe the trans version with Mac and Applebloom.)
While you might argue about the quality of most of them, there is no basis to put them down.
Since all of the stories on this site are based on someone else's intellectual property it would be highly hypocritical to delete stories simply because they rip off other stories.

3461014 You kind of make my point for me thanks!

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