Some Thoughts on Legends of Everfree (OR: Why New Pony Episodes Scare the Shit Out of Me) · 6:19am Aug 9th, 2016
What it says in the title. As some of you probably know, I'm obsessed with Equestria Girls, and as such, I've got some opinions on the new one. If you don't want to be spoiled/are avoiding the sneak peeks/don't feel like reading my rants about why ponies cause me pain, beware. Also, swearing, because it's 2am and when it's 2am I start typing like I speak.
More after the break.
Except for this. You get this now.
So, first video. Twilight having nightmares in which Midnight Sparkle kills her friends and threatens to come back. Scary stuff. But as I watched this clip, I couldn't help but feel like I had seen it before... like I had read it before.
Oh, yeah. Because I wrote it months ago! 
Midnight snapped her fingers again and fire erupted from the ground, swallowing Twilight’s friends and erasing them from existence. The buildings fell once again.
Laughing, Midnight brought Twilight down until the two were at eye level. “You’re nothing without me,” the demon said. “I was the best thing to ever happen to you, and destroying me was the biggest mistake of your life! You know it. I know it.” She brought her face close to Twilight’s. “Sunset Shimmer knows it. You’re no more than dead weight to her. Might as well not be breathing.”
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“Accept it,” Midnight whispered. “You need me.”
Those are two excerpts from different scenes in my fic The Nightmare I Need, each one written months ago. Now, before you go looking through my stories to find the fic you've never heard of, know that this fic isn't released yet. The first draft was written back in January-February, and it's been in editing since then. Each chapter begins with a look into Twilight's nightmares, all of which involve Midnight Sparkle threatening to return, and which get worse over time as her psyche degrades. Now that these clips are coming out, I'm gonna try and accelerate working on it.
Now, I don't mean to imply that Hasbro stole my idea, or that they looked into my brain somehow and took my thoughts (although I do not doubt the power of the Hasbro Toy Overlords to do such a thing). What I do mean to imply is that canon scares me because stuff like this happens... or, at least, there's the risk of it happening.
This isn't the first time that this has happened, that canon has taken an idea from me before I can use it. I withheld publishing To Start a Fire for months, because right after I wrote it, IDW released a Luna/Discord comic with a similar premise. The original title of I Dream of Evil Shampoo was "Do Fillies Dream of Evil Shampoo?" before the Tantabus episode came along.
There's a second part to my anxiousness too—but this part is kinda weird. I think there's something that intimidates me about getting ideas... if that makes sense? Probably not. I don't know how to describe it. But when I watch a new episode of pony, or an EqD movie, I immediately start getting ideas for new fics. But no matter how many ideas I get, I know I won't write them all. Some will just be too shallow. Some will get written by other people. Most I won't have time for. It's a miracle I've even written as much as I have. And maybe it's that knowledge that unnerves me, that makes me terrified of new canon. I've got so many ideas, but so little time to put them to use.
Maybe. I dunno how to express my thoughts coherently.
That's why we're gonna talk about creepy romance angles!
Pay attention, Twilight. This involves you.
So, Legends of Everfree looks like it'll be fine... and it'll be even better if they back away from this bizarre Twilight Sparkle x Timber Spruce thing that's going on.
Seriously, Timber. Can we get Sunset or Flash or someone to kick his ass? Or, at the very least, can he stop hitting on fucking high school age girls? Especially ones who are his fucking campers? "I bet you say that to all the campers..." Yeah, a day before he gets hit with a goddamn statutory rape charge.
Back away slowly, Twilight
Is no one else squicked out by this? Timber has to years older than Twi if he's been running the camp for as long as they're implying. And did you see the look his sister gives him when he tells the girls to leave their bags behind? Y'know, so he can go through them with his awful goddamn hands? If she hasn't been covering for him for the past ten years, I'll eat my fucking hat.
Timber's gotta end up being the villain, right? There's no way that's not the case. But whatever he ends up being: Twilight, you're too smart for this. You've got six great friends, a talking dog, a full ride to Hayvard, an evil demon haunting your every dream... you're golden. Just back away and go sleep with Sunset.
In the same cabin, I mean. Not the same bed, stroking each other's hair and whispering sweet nothings to one another. No, nothing like that.
I swear, it's not creepy when I say it
Also did Timber say that the word comes from Latin? Latin? In my ponies? I thought I left that shit behind in high school!
Also also whoever mixed up the cards in that cabin assignment bag (TIMBER) did a terrible job.
And how the fuck do a bunch of public high schoolers build a goddamn sundial out of pure rock in a weekend?
Some would call this nitpicking. I call it... well, 'nitpicking,' yeah.
So. In conclusion: fuck canon, fuck sundials, fuck Latin, and fuck Timber Spruce. Not literally. Please.
seriously don't trust him
Would you prefer Hebrew, Sumerian, Mandarin, or (a little crazy here) Enochian?
isn't Sunset also vaguely several years older than her?
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shhh i was actually gonna mention that but still shhhhhh
You are the first person I've ever come across to say that.
Me, personally, I don't mind, despite being a FlashLight shipper.
Because:
a. We're talking about two different Twilights (the one in the FlashLight pairing is pony!Twilight, the one Timber's hitting on is Sci-Twi).
b. We don't really know how old Sci-Twi is.
c. Men dating younger women IS a pretty common thing.
d. It's a spinoff movie to a cartoon about colorful horses. It's not going to be that realistic to begin with.
I too am concerned over Creeper Spruce. And honestly, I'm kind of disappointed that they didn't have a pun for Latin, but they didn't have one for French back in "Suited for Success."
In any case, my stance on this is wait and see. Time and energy spent worrying over what we don't know and can't change is wasted. If they really do go for the skeezy ship, well, we'll deal with that when we know for certain.
i think the councilors are the real villains my personal theory is that gai everfree was a camper who died either in a accident do to there negligence or they murdered her
Shit they have Latin? D: LoE is canon-screwing my fic before I even start writing it, in ways I never would have imagined!
They have the technology, dude, this happens all the time. :B All you can do is write shipping, crossovers and grimdark AUs and hope they don't steal your dialogue.
(1) We don't know the Age of Consent in their culture. If it's 16 or 17, as it is in many American states, Sci-Twi has probaably attained it. The assumption that it's 18 comes from Hollywood, not reality.
(2) Flirting with someone isn't statutory rape anywhere. Nor is it child molestation. In fact (and this surprised me) hugging, kissing and dating the underaged in general isn't considered either statutory rape or child molestation.
(3) It might, however, be against his work rules to do that. Though if what I suspect is true, that's trivial compared to what he's really doing.
(4) However, you're damned right that his behavior was sinister. The clue is not only his flirting with Sci-Twi out of the blue. It's his random cruelty to Bulk Biceps. He's a bad 'un.
Note just who was leading them. I would believe a lot of even a mortal Celestia.
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I think they're sorcerors who want to tap Gaia's power. And need to do it through the Humane Seven.
Creeper Spruce may sexually desire Sci-Twi as, um, the cherry on the sundae of sorcery. Though really, I wouldn't trifle with the affections of someone who can destroy reality.
You bring up a bunch of good points about Timber, since he felt like a creepy character to me and like he is hiding something more (Both him and Glorosia), and what really made this post was that drawing at the end! It made me laugh a little!
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I'm trying to write Sunlight shipping, dude! But EqG comes along and bulldozes over my hopes and dreams!
4140427 hmmm maybe thoe i will say this i dont think any of this is connected to equestria
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I never had a problem with Flash! I mean, sure, I didn't ship him with anyone, but I always thought he had a lot more character in him than a lot of people gave him credit for. He's awkward and insecure and clumsy as hell, and just kinda tries to hide it under that "cool" exterior.