I'm not saying writers should be banned from the site until they finish those stories, but surely they can be abducted and locked in cells with nothing but word processors, or something...Fire the Non-Canons! · 3:41am Sep 22nd, 2017
There was a story here on FimFic a couple of days ago, but it's gone now. Its plot isn't important here, except it revolved around Celestia having a centuries-old bias. The story was competently written, had a theme and a message it explored, got featured, had views and a pretty average thumbs-up to thumbs-down ratio; all standard stuff.
The next day all hell had broken loose. I happened to check back on it and the number of thumbs-downs had skyrocketed, and the comments section was charitably described as a feces tempest. I did not thoroughly read the comments (I have enough drama in my life without exposing myself to more, thanks) so it's possible there was more, but it seemed that most of the vitriol centered around how out of character it was for Celestia to hold a grudge.
That is bullshit.
Look, this author didn't just make something up, like "Twilight's a homophobe because that's what my story needs." Celestia's mindset was well explained within the story, which is all the author had to do. If that mindset doesn't gel with a reader's perception of Celestia as an all-knowing all-loving shining deity of perfection and harmony that's a difference of perspective, not a matter of right vs. wrong.
Authors are free to take liberties with the world and characters to tell their own stories. That happens all the time here. I've read FimFic stories in alternate universes including wars, steampunk, and far future, and stories that cross over with humans, movies, even video games. Stories where characters act differently from the show, because the world they inhabit is different from the show's. Hell, how many authors on this site have written the Mane 6 as lesbians, which has never been canonically established, so they can be shipped? How many of those stories get floods of negative ratings and outraged comments explaining how that could never happen?
Every single day there are featured stories that don't strictly follow the show. That's why this site is here. If the only stories allowed were strictly canon it would be called FimTranscripts.
Criticizing a story for poor writing is one thing. Criticizing it because you disagree with it is wrong. And if you do disagree with a story, the author isn't wrong and you aren't right, so don't be a righteous prick about it.
If I could upvote blogs, I'd upvote this one.
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I'd say you could post a link, but I used a Bad Word here and linking to this would be tantamount to saying swearing is good.
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Pfft. Also linking it would make everybody start the debate again. I had to delete my own most recent blog post to get people to shut up already about it.