May the muffins be forever in your favour.Fillies aren't fillies anymore, they are colts now. · 5:57am Oct 18th, 2019
I need to vent. Because I just stumbled over the greatest and biggest absurdity I've ever had to encounter in 33 years on this planet. I have the feeling that I need to write this down to prevent myself from going nuts. That's how bad it is.
And I hate that I have to do this and that I'm getting dragged into doing it, because the next blog entry was actually planned as a happy one, since I have just finished a story for Lemon Crumble.
But the absurdity I just encountered has to get addressed, there is no way around that. So, what happened, in case you haven't already heard of it?
According to a tweet by Big Jim Miller, Lemon Crumble is actually a colt:
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Yes. Really. Let that sink in for a moment before you continue to read. And while you do that, let me explain that what I say in this blog entry isn't aimed at Big Jim. It is aimed at the faulty reasoning of some in the fandom who now go and take this obvious misinformation, be it a joke or an error, at face value and roll with it. Not at Big Jim. Good? Good.
So, let me start by calling this out as the biggest and most nervewrecking piece of utter absurdity that I've ever seen anywhere. And if you are here for years and have dug your nose into certain corners of the fandom, you know that there has been a lot of absurdity here in the past, so that is saying something.
We know how fillies look for 9 years. We know how colts look for 9 years. We know how to differentiate a filly from a colt for 9 years. We know all of this since Season 1. By rules that were established in Season 1. And that have never been broken or changed since.
This is how a colt looks:
Square nose, bulky, no eyelashes.
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This is how a filly looks:
Round nose, slim, eyelashes.
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We have seen exceptions for that rule. RARE exceptions. Like, a colt with a body like a filly. Or, a filly without eyelashes. Or, male babies.
But we have never, ever, not one single time, seen a colt, who is of Lemon Crumble's age, with a filly body AND eyelashes at the same time and combined in the same body. It never happened. If you don't believe me that, I invite you to go through the entire foal catalogue on the Wiki and check it out for yourself.
The only time we've ever seen a colt with eyelashes for a split-second is a confirmed animation error. Notice how the eyelashes only appear when he closes his eyes. Otherwise, there are none. He does not actually have eyelashes.
Colts may have bodies like a filly , but they never have eyelashes.
So, let us sum that up again (dear Luna, why is it even necessary that I have to explain that, please help me):
Colts: Square nose, bulky, no eyelashes.
Fillies: Round nose, slim, eyelashes.
Exceptions: Colts with fillly bodies, Fillies without eyelashes, Male Babies.
NEVER: Colts with filly bodies AND eyelashes at the same time.
That is canon. That is law. If you think that's different and that colts can have eyelashes, if you think that Lemon Crumble is a colt, then you are wrong and you have no idea about filly/colt/foal canon.
And for that matter, and this is where I come to what I hate the most about having to write this blog entry: Big Jim has no idea about filly/colt/foal canon either. Because if he had, he wouldn't call an obvious filly, a colt.
Yes, he is wrong, too. Yes, I'm quite a bit pissed at him for putting that nonsense into the fandom's head, like dropping a nuke, even though he has made more than enough unpleasant experiences with fandom members and should know better than giving the fandom ideas.
No, I'm not saying this to pick on him. I don't hate him. I won't send him any aggressive tweets over that. I fully respect him. But this is something where he is wrong. Even a statement by Big Jim can't undo or negate 9 years and 9 seasons of firm, solid canon.
Today I learned, that even Word of God isn't always reliable.
This is something everyone in the fandom should realize and understand by themselves, but apparently, this is not the case. Some individuals, including the staff on Derpibooru that enforces against every common sense that Lemon Crumble is getting tagged as a colt now, do not understand this and now insist on it that Lemon Crumble is a colt against every better judgement.
Of course this doesn't go for everyone in the fandom. There is also a fair share of people in the comments on Derpibooru who call this out for the yakshit that it is. This blog entry isn't being written to criticize them. It is written to criticize those who falsely call Lemon Crumble a colt now, because of one statement that stands in woeful solitude against 9 seasons of firmly established and irrefutable canonical facts.
Oh and then there are those who call what I say a "headcanon":
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"Headcanon", like, you know, when there is a thing in the show that has always been there and that never changed for nine seasons straight and when you go and point out that this thing is correct. That kind of headcanon.
This blog entry is also written to shine a light on it that some people don't understand what a headcanon is.
And that is where we stand. Fillies aren't fillies anymore, they are colts now. Least, if we go by what some in the fandom say now after that disastrous tweet has so generously supported and fueled their silly headcanons of trap colts and futa fillies. Now you can go and justify your belief and headcanon that your favourite background filly from the show is actually a colt to fulfill your trap fantasies.
Or, you know, you can stay on the smarter and decent side of the fandom and actually respect the show's canon. But doing that would be lame. Probably.
Either way, for me, I am of course not going along with this new nonsense the headcanon fraction of the fandom has come up with this time. I, for one, truly care about this show and I'm not disillusional enough to get petty over something that didn't happen the way I imagined it by replacing the show's canon with a canon that only exists inside of my head.
I will, regardless of what Big Jim says and what certain individuals in the fandom or the Derpibooru staff choose to believe, go with the actual fact here that has been proven countless times by 9 years of canon, that Lemon Crumble is a filly. A filly with an unusually deep voice, but a filly regardless.
Lemon Crumble is one of the fillies that mean especially much to me and I have planned to write about her a lot, so of course I will go with her actual gender in my stories and also anywhere else.
Which brings me to the part of this blog entry that I hate having to write the second-most, but considering the circumstances, I think the following is necessary, as well.
I have made the decision that, in regards to Lemon Crumble's gender, I will go full-on dictator for once, here on my account. You are invited to read each of the stories I will write about her, if you are interested, but I require you to refer to Lemon Crumble with "she" and "her", if you write any comments about her under these stories and to treat her as what she is, a filly.
Anyone who fails to comply with this will get their comment removed and permanently blocked from commenting on my account.
This is harsh and a lot of you will call this unnecessary, maybe even stupid and ridiculous, but this is the decision I have made. I had a lot of patience with this fandom and its often strange antics regarding the show in the past, even though it did make me explode a few times, but I gotta draw the line somewhere eventually.
And seeing such a blatant disregard of canon, after a silly and obviously incorrect tweet, I know the moment when I finally have to draw a line and firmly put the show above fandom interests has come.
If you talk about Lemon Crumble here on my account, under stories about her or anywhere else, please stick to the actual canon facts when you refer to her. I will permablock you if that doesn't work and if you express any false/alternative facts about her gender in the comments here or if I find you "correcting" me for referring to her as a filly in my stories.
The only exception for this would be if I were to write an alternate universe story about her in which I change her gender and make her a colt as one of many differences in that universe, which is not likely to happen, so don't count on it.
And, just in case, this rule also applies to all fillies from the show/official comics that are obviously fillies. Check the guidelines here if you are unsure about a filly.
And that is all. I actually hoped for it that, for once, the insufferable members of this fandom wouldn't create another drama after MLP: FiM has ended, but I should have known better. Which brings me to the grim realization that one really can't have anything nice in this fandom without someone coming along and spoiling it for you.
I now have enough of this fandom for..... I don't even know how long this time.
Stay easy as a filly colt!
~ Fluttercheer
What about an accidental slip of the tongue?
5141594
Shouldn't happen if you know what you're talking about. Otherwise, tough luck.
5141595
What gender do you think l'il Cheese is? A friend and me have been debating it and I wanted an expert's opinion.
Good Point, fluttercheer! Look at Rumble, he's a colt with a filly like Head.
5141602
I wonder if Rumble was originally meant to be a filly, then got changed to a colt midway through production.
(Note: I am not calling Rumble a filly. I am only saying he may originally have been designed as one.)
Button Mash has a similar body shape.
No, not at all. You're the expert here. Whenever I see your name in my feed, I go "Oh, the one who writes about colts and fillies." This is how you have branded yourself. This is your field of expertise. This whole debacle may be as simple as a discrepancy between the writing and animation teams. It's happened before with background characters, hasn't it? glances over at Derpy It's not a character Jim Miller wrote. It's not a character Jim Miller voiced. (I think. Fact check? And even then Tabitha thought she was voicing a male with Derpy.) It ultimately isn't Jim Miller's call.
Hi. Back again. Know what the literal top result for Lemon Crumble > Images was? A shot of an ad in the mobile game calling her a filly.
See for yourself.
Big Jim also said that he (and by extension, the production team) wanted to mess with fans.
With that in mind, could he simply be throwing a piece of bait to see who bites ?
5141603
I don't know. I can't wrap my head around this right now. Josh Haber claims that they didn't define any gender for Lil' Cheese when they wrote the episode and that they just wanted to show that a foal of Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich exists. Which would mean it's the storyboarders and animators that ultimately settled on a gender for their foal. But he's either lying (for what fucking reason?!) or he forgot his own episode script, because Lil' Cheese is referred to as a colt in it. Yet seems to look like a filly to a 100% anyway..... I have no idea. I didn't even really look at Lil' Cheese so far, between coping with the show's end, all the details in the Finale and writing a fic for Lemon Crumble.
And I can't really care about Lil' Cheese right now. My mind's currently on Lemon Crumble and that is difficult enough already. There's no space for a second foal in my head right now.
5141755
This isn't the first time the team have had a lack of communication.
I saw eyelashes on both Lemon Crumble AND L'il Cheese, SO, to MY mind, they're both fillies.
Regardless of what Big Jim says.
Sorry, Big Jim.
5141681
Thanks. When I started reading your comment, I wasn't even sure if you mean that or if you are sarcastic, but then I read your comment on Derpibooru. This whole thing is upsetting and confusing me so much that I'm having trouble determining who I can trust on that matter..... including Big Jim, because his info about Lemon Crumble doesn't make the slightest amount of sense.
No. Turns out, it's not even a discrepancy between writers and animators. They actually agree on her being a filly, the script listed her as filly and the animators animated her as filly:
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/875510/lemon-crumble-round-2-if-you-see-this-and-still-think-that-lemon-crumble-isnt-a-filly-you-make-a-complete-fool-out-of-yourself#comment/5141745
Which gives me more the feeling that Big Jim is messing with us and that he, for whatever reason, loves to see everything burn right now while he sits at home and laughs his ass off. Can he really be so far off the tracks that he is misinformed about Lemon Crumble's gender after both the writer and the animators have envisioned her as such? I have my doubts about that.
And if that's really the case, then I'll still be disappointed of him for not doing a better fact check before answering questions by fans, when he knows that the fandom is taking his word serious.
I know about that. The Gameloft guys don't write the show, but regardless, they went by the established rules for the looks of a filly just like everyone else does (or, should) when they called Lemon Crumble a filly in their game, so this adds some credibility still.
They might not be writers, but they are knowledged about the show and its animations enough to know what distinguishes a filly from a colt.
5141693
Where did he say that? Do you have a link or screenshot? This would be useful for clearing up that whole nonsensical mess.
5141756
There wasn't a lack of communication. Read my response to 007Ben and follow the link to my other blog entry in it.
5141759
Yeah. I hate to say it, but for once, Big Jim doesn't know what he's talking about. That, or he is messing with us. Either way, he is wrong.
5141771
Thank you.
5141773
You're welcome.
5141790
The shenanigans that go on behind the scenes would make a good TV show in and out of itself.
5141771 I agree.
And I would lean toward him trolling us all.
5141803
I really hope so. Because then, he eventually has to admit he's trolling..... right?
5141792
The entire brony fandom could be a highly-acclaimed AMC drama series, really. How I wish I could just remove all of those people from the fandom and banish them into a different dimension. Where's Discord when you need him?
5141829
Breaking villians out of jail.
5141828 Hopefully so.
But, like I said earlier, if I see eyelashes on a pony foal, I'm going with "filly" as their gender.
5141831
Hmm..... Tartarus seems a more and more tempting place, the longer I think about this whole deal. Whether to lock up certain individuals (no, not Big Jim) or to hide myself in from all the absurdity that happens right now is open to interpretation~
5141832
That's the only correct way to go about it.
5141835
Not me, please!
5141844
Why you?
5141858
There's no electrification there
5141859
Considering your comments here, I don't think you're a Tartarus candidate.
5141863
Phew.
5141839 Yep.
5141890
And now that I just finished preparing a text to address and explain in a proper, detailed way why it would be incorrect to tag Lemon Crumble as a colt once my ban has expired, the Derpibooru staff has extended my ban from 24 hours to 7 days. This is getting hilarious now.
5141770
That Big Jim quote was being shared at the EQD Discussions.
Sorry, I'm on my mobile and don't have a screenshot right now.
Quite a bit of content is open-ended. Such as the implied pairing of AppleDash which is not explicitly stated. And how gender pro-nouns are not used when talking about Lil' Cheese.
All part of the Choose-Your-Own-Headcanon. And to "mess with fans" in a fun way.
5141771
That, or he is messing with us.
Bingo. He even said as much.
I mean, look at that reveal tweet - "That is a colt."
You can almost feel the poke at the fandom and sense the smile he has as he writes those four simple words.
The show is over. Nothing more can be developed. So what is a few playful jabs at the fandom? It's not like Lil' Cheese or Lemon Crumble will get voice actors, or further episodes revealing their "true gender", so he has nothing to loose in terms of retconning.
This is the guy who had to lock his Twitter account because of all the death threats the fandom sent his way.
Can you blame him for having a poke back, then sitting back and watching the fandom deal with it, all in good humour?
5142030
In good humor? What could possibly be good humor about this? Oh, sure, I get it, he probably falls out of his chair from laughing right now. I could hear the stab when I read those four words. I could hear it. To him, it surely is humor. But good humor? No.
This feels like he wants to get back at the fandom for the death threats and the many dumb questions and undeserved criticism of the show he received over the years. And that is bad, because in the end, it hurts everyone in the fandom, not just the awful fraction, the good members, too.
It hurts those who truly care for the canon of the show. It hurts those who truly care for Lemon Crumble. It hurts those who would would like to be sure about something so simple and given as the gender of a foal they like. It hurts those who would rather be able to watch the show without having to constantly mull it over if this or that foal is really male or female like they always thought. It hurts those who have to stupidly defend a pony they love against some idiot who abuses Big Jim's tweet to justify their personal headcanon. It hurts those who feel that everything they knew was a lie now.
He might be saying that it spurs creative discussion and fun debates in the fandom, but all it really does is creating pain and mayhem for everyone. He makes fun of everyone right now, at the expense of the entire fandom, and especially because he had to deal with so many complicated people over the years, I would have thought better of him than pulling the same kind of shit in a petty act of revenge.
He acts disappointing and now you can't even trust his words anymore. There is nothing "good humor" about that. He fucked up with that tweet.
This whole thing still confuses me, but even if Lil Cheese is a colt with just feminine looks, most of the fandom is still already determined that he’s a filly.
Jim, if you’re absolutely positive that Lil Cheese is a male, you have some serious convincing to do...
5142360
This blog entry is actually for Lemon Crumble. Lil' Cheese is a difficult case, because the information from the script and the information the finished animation delivers us with contradict each other.
But Lemon Crumble has been animated as a filly in consistency with the script describing her as a filly. Which is why it is so ridiculous that some claim her to be a colt now and that the Derpibooru staff enforces that in the tags.
See my other blog entry that is linked at the bottom.
5142364
My bad.
5142365
But, yeah, it is a confusing and frustrating situation. Right now, it looks like that the staff on Derpibooru wants the tags to express an opinion, rather than an objective fact, from now on, which would make Derpibooru lose all its credibility.
5142367
No kidding. If the genders are all left up to the fandom, then I’m okay with Lil’ Cheese being a guy with eyelashes and a girly appearance, because it could actually be good story material. (Let’s just hope the other foals don’t make fun of him for it though.)
5142370
They aren't left up to the fandom, though. The show was always completely clear and consistent with disctincting between fillies and colts.
5142374
You’re right, actually. They’re able to agree with putting Scootaloo’s lesbian aunts, yet they couldn’t agree on little things like this? That’s odd.
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I need your opinion about the release of a story for Lemon Crumble that I finished on Thursday. This entire drama leaves me unsure how a story for Lemon Crumble will be received right now. Please help me decide for the release date by answering the few questions here:
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/875670/a-lemon-crumble-story-is-ready-for-release-and-i-need-your-opinion-when-i-should-release-it
5142382
I’ll check it out.
5142382
Of course.
5141931 Yeah, I'll say!
5142382 Okay.
Okay, I just rewatched the bit about the The Young 6 bring everycreature together and to the aid of Twi, and the others, and when Lemon Crumble was speaking to the other pegasi in Cloudsdale, I think I now know why Big Jim is asserting that she's a colt.
Just listen to her voice:
It's at 0.38 seconds into the clip.
Give it a listen.
Either way, she's STILL a filly.
5142466
Answering here to not derail the other blog entry. Also where more people will see it.
The replies are definitely needed. Because this whole thing will only be over if the staff on Derpibooru stops insisting on tagging Lemon Crumble as a colt because of Big Jim's and their own headcanon.
I just come from reading the newest posts in the "General Tag Discussion" thread and how their arguments are reaching there to justify a headcanon is embarrassing:
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https://www.derpibooru.org/tagging/general-tag-discussion/post/4565146#post_4565146
Implying that children are hurt by it if Lemon Crumble is getting viewed as the filly she is, rather than a colt, to feel validated in their shared headcanon by changing her gender tag to "colt" is the lowest attempt of trying to get it your way that I've ever seen.
>>>We need to tag Lemon Crumble as a colt now, think of the poor children and how much they will suffer if we don't!