And May Break The Internet Doing It
“You see, Nightmare Moon, when those Elements are ignited by the... the spark, that resides in the heart of us all, it creates the sixth element: the element of... magic!”
The iconic lines boomed through the Crystal Brighthouse's main TV as Sunny and her friends were gathered to watch the second episode of the allegedly hit series, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Allegedly being the key word here.
Sunny had never heard of such a show about the Guardians of Harmony, and Zipp had been very tight lipped about where she had found those media disks, arguing that a detective never reveal her secrets. Which was a saying normally attributed to magicians, but the earth pony did not have the heart to confront her friend. Her energy was better spent analyzing the audio-visual material presented to her.
As the second episode came to a close, discussion erupted among her friends about a wide variety of unimportant topics, such as which Guardian was the best one, or how did Princess Celestia's mane float in the air. Sunny didn't allow herself to be dragged down into the unibunny hole of opinions, her mind set on aspects that were objectively more critical to the show.
Hitch was the first to notice how distracted she seemed, and poked one of her legs with a hoof. "Equestria to Sunny, do you copy? Were you enjoying the show? You seem... uh..." He stopped, interrupted in his thought by Izzy literally jumping into the conversation, squeezing in between them on the couch.
"Ooh, ooh, I know! Melancholic? Like you bought twenty boxes of Crushed Hooves, and you're still missing that one piece to complete the one of a kind, special edition, gonna impress your friends figurine of Sunset Glimmer?" Izzy reminisced, her stare going a bit distant as the traumatic failed quest for friendship played back in her mind.
The orange earth pony mare couldn't help but giggle at her unicorn friend's antics, and forced herself to smile for her sake. "Nothing like that Izzy. It's just... my dad did a lot of research on the Guardians, and I don't think I remember anything about a manticore or a river serpent in his notes. This show looks great, but I don't know... the little historical inaccuracies are rubbing me the wrong way..."
From across the couch, her friend Pipp was writing a short episode review to her fans, with the aim of releasing those disks to the general public through a no doubt lucrative deal with the Zephyr Heights Broadcasting Network, if it turned out to be entertaining. The popstar princess glanced in Sunny's direction, having long mastered the art of multitasking. "It's just some glitz and glam to spice up the show, Sunny! The production value is amaaaazing~ There's not even any jittering in the animation frames! It would make the best cartoonists jealous! Just enjoy it for what it is, not what it could be. Beside, how wrong could it really get history?"
As it turned out, it could get history extremely wrong. The first few seasons had plenty of inaccuracies that greatly bothered Sunny, but nothing that distracted too much from the adventures of her heroines. As the seasons went however, the outlandish elements grew in scope. What started as a few creatures of species that hadn't been seen in centuries, became entire towns and cities of them. Ponies and creatures thought to be mere legends even in that ancient time appeared regularly, upsetting the world balance's more times that were realistic. By the end of season nine, Maritime Bay's self-proclaimed history expert was fuming.
"The destruction of the Crystal Heart in season six by a newborn alicorn, I could tolerate. The return of the Pillars of Prehistorical Equestria, even if their existence is doubted by most scholars these days, that was really stretching out what should be possible. But the last two seasons, and that finale? What in all of ponykind were they thinking when they wrote this? The gryphons and changelings were never at peace with Equestria, and don't get me started on the hippogriffs! They're an old mare's tales! The Guardians never opened and taught at a friendship school, they were too busy spreading friendship all over Equestria! The Guardians did not grow old like that either! Princess Twilight had mastery over life itself and never allowed her friends to suffer the injustice of time! They were heroes, who lived pure and strong until they were defeated in the Dark Uprising, and sacrificed their live force to save Equestria from certain doom!
"Enough is enough! I won't allow this show to spit on the legacy of the Guardians. Who made it? Someone needs to tell them how awful it is, and fix it!" Sunny rambled, throwing the season nine disk case on the table in frustration. That was when she noticed the contact information in the back, and an idea took shape in her brain.
At a call center in Pawtucket, Rhodes Island, Mike was leaning back in his chair, waiting for the phone to ring. It was a particularly slow day at Hasbro's Customer Service Hotline, and he was almost, almost wishing for a stressful call at this point. An angry, entitled mother would still be worlds better than trying to beat his high score in Minesweeper. As if the gods had heard his plight, the phone chose that moment to ring, and he jerked forward to pick it up.
"Hello, this is Mike from Hasbro's Customer Service, how may I help you today?" He droned, stating a line he knew by heart, having said it thousands of times. What he did not expect though, was the voice on the other line. It sounded feminine, but nothing quite like anything he had heard before. The voice was too high pitched, and the cadence of her words felt almost... alien. And most unfortunate for him, one thing was universal to everyone, no matter where they came from: angry customers.
"Oh good, there's actually a pony on the line! I had my doubts when Zipp and Izzy had to build this weird machine to solve how to input this strange number. Why you would ever use a 0 in a phone number, I don't have the foggiest idea. So anyway, I watched your television program, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and there's a few plot points I could like to talk about..."
Despite company policy that required that calls be handled as quickly as possible, there was something in Mike's current customer that made him unable to stop listening to her train wreck of a story. It didn't take him more than a few minutes to realize that she believed herself to be a pony in the world of Equestria, and then ten minutes more to conclude that she was completely insane. Her actual argumentation did somewhat make sense, if you squinted at it from a mile away, but in the end, there was just one major problem with this unusual customer's complain...
"I... understand the issue, Miss... uh... Sunny Starscout, but production on this series has stopped years ago. I'm sorry that you feel so strongly about it, but there's nothing I can do to change what was produced. Would a $20 gift certificate on any of our products make up for this misunderstanding?"
Sunny slumped in her chair at Mane Melody, sulking as Jazz gave her a hooficure and Pipp worked on Izzy's mane. "Can you believe it? They tried to bribe me with a gift certificate! Not that I wouldn't have taken it, but then they got upset about me giving 'fake shipping information' and hung up on me. I thought earth ponies were mean about unicorns and pegasi before, but that outer pond pony was all sort of nasty. I bet if Pipp did something like that and betrayed everypony's trust, all of her Pippsqueaks would be asking for her head. Like they did... you-know-when..." She muttered, looking a bit sheepish as she glanced at Pipp. Mentions of her ruined concert was still a sore point among her friends. "...anyway, I tried calling them again and again, but now they're not even answering my calls. It's hard enough that I have to make those phone calls across the ocean. If only I could take my message and spread it among their kind, peer pressure would get them to change their way..."
Sunny sighed and closed her eyes. This whole situation reminded her too much of her activism days, when she was trying to convince ponies that unicorns and pegasi were their friends. It seemed Pipp thought the same, because the pink pegasus princess suddenly stopped tending to Izzy and exclaimed herself. "I got it! Maybe you're going all wrong about this? Phone calls are soooo last decade. You need to think bigger! With more glitter and glam! Why go for one person, when the world is out there, waiting to lend an ear! So here's what you're going to do..."
Julianna took another sip of coffee, staring at her screen. It seemed no amount of life juice could make the current problem go away. The Save G4 movement had started small and innocent enough, mostly a single voice being overly vocal on social media, but then she appeared. No one knew her real name, but she took the avatar of Sunny Starscout, one of the protagonists of the latest My Little Pony iteration, which by itself seemed to defeat the purpose of their message. The 'pony' took her character very seriously, acting surprised when she first got into a video call with fellow believers and 'discovered' humanity. More infuriating, no one was able to trace back her location, and the 3D effects used to animate her were incredible for someone who claimed to be working alone and live.
It had started innocuously enough, just a few tweets on the subject of the 'historical transgressions' the company Julianna worked hard for had apparently been guilty of. It all snowballed with the fan's first YouTube video, a passionate plea for truth to be restored, presented by the most realistic Sunny Starscout avatar ever made, with details and fluidity that would put Pixar to shame. That was when the rumor machine started rolling full speed. Several people started believing that this Sunny was somehow a real pony, and was trying to communicate from beyond their dimension. Mainstream media picked up on the story, networks polarized between believing the extradimensional nature of the pony, or believing that it was the most elaborate hoax of the century. No matter who you believed, Hasbro was seen as the antagonist in the whole affair, so much that even higher ups like Julianna were forced to pay attention. This 'Sunny' was invited to talk live at late night talk shows, was mentioned in the news and her persuasive influence on the Internet grew every day. At the rate things were going, the company's stocks may implode at any time depending on what this 'mare' said. This couldn't continue. Looking at the other executives in the Zoom call plus one special guess, she took another sip of coffee. It was time to end this.
"It's a pleasure to finally talk to you, Miss Starscout. When we heard you talked to Lauren Faust yesterday and asked, and I quote, 'can you tell your people to fix the MLP G4 ending, I didn't like it', we knew it was time we spoke to you directly. For your information, Miss Faust hasn't been on our payroll for over a decade, and had nothing to do with the ending you despite so much. To stop this PR nightmare, we're willing to listen to have you have to say."
Silence hung in the virtual meeting room as every participant waited for the uncannily realistic pony to answer. It always took a few seconds, as if she was on the opposite side of the planet. That information hadn't helped in the slightest to figure out where she was broadcasting from. "I'm so so sorry! My new friends on your Internet told me she had created the show, and I thought she could tell me her thought process behind the historical alterations. I understand you're an entire continent away, and there might have been some misunderstandings, but it wouldn't be very pony to stay mad about it forever. I just have a short list of corrections you would need to make in order to teach pon... people the correct history of Equestria, as taught by my dad. I was told it would cost a lot of money, and I have never heard of your currency, so I can't pay for it. Maybe Queen Haven has the bits for it? I wonder what's the exchange rate between Zephyr Heights Bits and American Dollars... I would have to ask Zipp and Pipp about it..."
The pony on the screen rubbed her chin with her hooves, seeming to think about something. Her focus eventually returned a few seconds later, and that smile, that darn smile that melted the heart of so many people, returned to the pony's face. "But that's a problem for future Sunny. Point is, there's a lot of ponies and people who believe in restoring the truth, and we can't disappoint them. If you need help getting the facts right, my father left me the most complete collection of Ancient Equestria's artifacts, such as the Friendship Journal of the Guardians, the authoritative source on their exploits. Let me go through my list here..."
It was another sunny afternoon in Maritime Bay, and for the first time in weeks, the eponymous pony wasn't in a sour mood. In fact, she was ecstatic! It had taken a long time, but with Pipp's help for ensuring her appeal to the masses, she had managed to secure enough of a following that those guilty of misrepresenting history had decided to take her advice and produce a new season of the show that would address all of the issues she had raised. She was pretty sure they didn't really believe her as she had explained in great detail what were each mistake and what data from her father's collection backed it up. Nonetheless, they had agreed to her terms, for the sake of their company. Nobody wanted to buy from a phony pony full of baloney that lied.
At long last, she held in her hooves the newly produced season ten of Friendship is Magic, courtesy of Zipp. Her perseverance had paid off. Her father would be proud of her for restoring the truth to all of Equestria and beyond. She started recording a video for him, inspired by Princess Twilight's very own letters to her mentor. Her father might never actually hear those words, but she could feel in her heart that somehow, somewhere, her father could sense her.
"Dear dad, today I learned that when you give your all into a project, something magical can happen! Convincing the blasphemers of the Guardians of Harmony took a lot of research, new magic and a touch or two of glitter, but in the end, they saw the light. Truth won over lies, and the power of friendship prevailed. I've made so many new friends during this endeavor, many of which who really want to visit Equestria. I'm still not sure where on Equus the continent of Earth is located, but I'm sure we will find out some day! Until then, I can sit back and relax, sip a smoothie and watch our revised past. All of this thanks to your lifelong effort to gather evidence. I love you dad. Your loving daughter, Sunny Bunny"
Another day, another round of stupid complains. Mike had had his work cut out for him these last few weeks, but things were finally coming back to normal. This eccentric Sunny Starscout person was still around on the Internet, but the fad around her had died down, with his company bowing to her demands. Then, the newest meme or something about Morbin' Time in theatre made her irrelevant. Nothing out of the ordinary was happening anymore. "Hello, this is Mike from Hasbro's Customer Service, how may I help you today?"
The voice on the other end had a strange bug-like reverb to it, and was very quiet. "Um... hello? This is Ocellus from the School of Friendship in Ponyville, and I was wondering if... uh... you know... when is my episode going to come out?"
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what is wrong with G4 exactly???😐
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The mane 6 having to learn lessions from past seasons over and over again, Twilicorn, Starlight Glimmer, The birth of Flurry Heart, Grogar being revealed to be Discord in disguise, the mean three (including a literal child) being turned to stone for all eternity, Princess Twilight Sparkle probably outliving her friends in the near future because of her immortality, the IDW G4 season 10 comics, I could go on and on.
And the reason why they want Hasbro to do a rewrite of G4?
Because of both the old writers leaving the show after season 3 and executive meddling on Hasbro's part.
If you want a better idea about the rise and fall of MLP G4, I highly recommend this video by Toosie4ever:
>story parodies bronies taking things too seriously
>bronies show up in the comments
>immediately begin taking things too seriously.
love this song.
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It's the same old story same Old song and dance!
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G4 has several flaws, but some people think it's worth redoing over, which is what this story make fun of.
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This is exactly what this story is about. It's fine if you have opinions about things, everyone is free to speak their mind. Demanding changes and harassing people who were just trying to do their job over said opinions is where a line is crossed. After all, freedom of speech ends where other people rights do. Here Sunny won because of course she would, she's a cute poner. I do not condone doing this in real life tho.
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I had a good laugh at those comments. Comically missing the point is like best comedy. Good song too.
You know the funny thing is no one has had the sense to do a story with Lauren having to interact with a program she left in season 2.
this story is amazing, I just loved how funny it was especially that ending. I hope you write more soon
I hope that MixMaster226 doesn't see this.
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I thought it, but it felt in poor taste. Other than quoting the line out of the cover pic out of respect for what caused this story to exist, I didn't want to involve any existing people because this is at core supposed to be funny.
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You're in luck, I already promised to make a real one shot about Hitch and Sparky if the next TYT episode isn't about them. Because it should have happened already.
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I hope they do. That would be an absolute win in my book.
Two things:
), but then I saw English wasn't your first language, so all is forgiven.
1) I totally missed that you were the author when I clicked on the story— I've been bingeing a ton of Starscribe's stories lately, so thanks for your contributions to them!
2) I was going to comment about all the typos/errors in here (it's the editor in me, I apologize
I have to say, for being your first story on here, it was a really funny premise, and you did a good job! Keep it up!
This is a pretty funny story. I didn't like the last 2 seasons of the show myself honestly but I wouldn't raise this much fuss about it.
I myself didn't like some of the stuff in later seasons, and I probably take things a bit too seriously at times (I laugh at myself when I do so though). What I DON'T do however is needlessly harass/threaten the VAs, show writers, animators, etc.
If ANYTHING, the CEOs and Marketing have more to do with Sunny's "woes" than the people who made the show itself. I seem to recall reading in a very old interview transcript that one of the reasons Mrs. Faust left was the pressure to get a month's worth of episodes done in a week's time or somesuch.
This is a nice little story, I like it.
"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology" indeed
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Two responses
1. Thank you, on the behalf of Starscribe too. I've been editing Star's stuff for years, although not with 100% dedication like Bitera, the real MVP. It does help with my English a lot, even if I obviously don't catch everything. I try my best tho.
2. It doesn't help that I'm naturally very typo prone, I'm a tad dyslexic. I did go over two editing passes on my own, but if I do another one shot, I will have Bitera and Star go over it too. This one was kind of a surprise first story, so even they were not in the know. So next time should be better. Also, fellow editor brohoof! /)
But yeah, glad you enjoyed it. It was a very silly premise, and didn't turn out quite as funny as I had initially envisioned. When your perspective character is so obviously in the wrong, it's hard to paint them in a positive light. Not that anypony in universe would know that. Nopony alive lived through G4 to tell an accurate retelling of it. Beside Discord, but he's an unreliable narrator. Also he maaay have caused the whole thing for giggles.
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Thank you! I tried my best! I personally did enjoy some of the later seasons, especially the Young Six, but I feel like it was a missed opportunity. But then again, I bet it was very difficult storywise to balence having what could basically have been a whole new mane cast. The story's punchline is the only time a personal opinion of mine did slip through, the rest is all made up. The point of this story was to make fun of the complainers, not the complains themselves.
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Yeah, I totally understand that. The people who complain hardcore like to paint the showrunners as some kind of evil demons out for the poor innocent fan's blood, which isn't really fair. Although the humans in this story are totally fictional, I made a point to show that in the end, they're just people like you and I, just trying to do their job. Some may not be the best at it, but who are we to judge? I bet if we looked at a mirror we would see a lot of flaws. As a certain purple smart would say, we're not flawless.
As for the actual complains, you can note that I made sure that Sunny only complained about things that are factually wrong from our viewpoint, because her understanding of history is flawed, and her friends support her because they don't know any better either. Otherwise she would just have been a mouthpiece for my opinions, and that's just terrible writing. I certainly didn't want to take a side in the debate of who's right and who's wrong regarding the latter seasons, so I had to make Sunny's reasoning both inherently flawed while also making sense from her perspective. I hope that made it across in the writing. Sunny is a well meaning extremist, but she's our well meaning extremist.
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Thanks! And indeed. Although honestly, I doubt the ponies could actually make a device that could contact Earth. Here Discord likely intervened to make the bridge between pony tech and our tech, without the ponies's knowledge, because who doesn't enjoy a little chaotic phone prank.
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Nothing is Wrong with G4. It's just Bronies taking things way too Seriously; I loved every aspect of G4, and I like how the show Ended, and I also love G5 what irritates me is how so many bronies are throwing a fit over stupid shit and taking the show way too seriously what I have to say to Bronies that do this grow the hell up change happens. It is inevitable to deal with it and cope. It's bronies taking things too seriously and bashing both g4 and g5 that makes me sometimes want to leave this community because it's entirely and utterly ridiculous.
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i was being sarcastic
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I figured my comment was more pointed to the bronies that take things way too seriously and can't grow up and accept change and move on and cope.
Get bent, G4 purists lol
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Well duh, I doubt even Zipp and Izzy could put an audio time machine together without a little outside help.
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I don't see the issue. G4 is flawless as-is. Who would ever rewrite such a masterpiece of forethought and planning?
sus tbh
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It simply didn't have good enough writers for its ambitions.
Friendship is Magic was never good at drama but kept trying to do it anyway. Its cartoonish, anything-goes setting and inconsistent, MacGuffin-laden lore were completely unusable for any serious story, and the show is for 6~10yos so it literally wasn't allowed to be nuanced, dark, or "2real" anyway. Also, as a Flash-animated series, all of its fight scenes are boring, stiff, and bad.
The writers kept swiping tired old ideas from fans, alternating these with wild left-field ass-pulls so they could pretend they weren't obviously doing that. For instance, crybaby bronies got the bizarre idea back in like S1 that the reason Scootaloo couldn't fly was because she was permanently crippled rather than I dunno because she was a little-ass kid, the same reason Apple Bloom was useless on the farm and Sweetie Belle was unable to perform any magic. For some deranged reason Faust and co. decided to go with this pointlessly "waaaah :'(" idea, including one episode where Scootaloo openly sobs over it and Rainbow Dash has to awkwardly wave it off. But to avoid looking like they were just swiping bad fanon the writers later hard-passed on Scootaloo being an orphan, giving her the most forgettable parents in one of the most forgettable episodes in the series (along with likely-unintended homophobic implications discussed below.)
Even the series finale is a shitty fanfic idea from S1: Twilight becoming the next Princess of Equestria, immortal and all, completely undermining not only herself as a character but all six main characters as a group. This was conceived by and for weebs who don't understand anything about a story except powerups, "feels", and destroying characters to make them vehicles for their petty self-gratification tropes. Unfortunately the show's fate was sealed on this one as soon as Twilight got wings - which, by the way, instantly destroyed the entire point of "alicorns", which was to be race-neutral leaders, which isn't possible if they grew up as one of the three races!
The show laid the groundwork for good morals and thoughtful ideas and then failed to deliver on literally any of them, proactively destroying its characters and themes and becoming an aimless mess of pretentious false Aesops and cheap weeb glamour, bouncing back and forth between ripping off bad brony ideas and trying to look like they weren't with bad original ideas.
For the final season Mike Vogel (Vice President of Hasbro at the time) pressured them to suddenly dump tons of gay in. In addition to being uncannily abrupt and blatantly patronizing, they (probably unwittingly) put the gays in subtly homophobic places other than Lyra & Bon Bon, which becomes far less subtle if we simply describe it in terms of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
- Sweetie Belle, the most classically effeminate one, divides her time between her M/F parents and her aggressively straight older sister.
- Apple Bloom, the middle-effeminate one, has spent most of her life without her parents. While her family is otherwise straight-seeming, her older sister is a closet lesbian and the second-least-effeminate main female character.
- Scootaloo, the least effeminate one, almost never sees her parents, and is raised chiefly by her gay aunts. Her idol is a closet lesbian and the least-effeminate main female character.
Friendship is Magic thus reflects the homophobic perception of gayness as some sort of disease or poison or "Devil's lifestyle" that robs people of their sex, making men less manly and women less womanly, including children who are exposed to it, even if it's closeted.
There is no way anyone on the team meant to make that implication, of course.
And Twilight was always going to get wings, because this show was made to sell toys to six-year-old girls, so Twilight was always going to need a tie-in to her eventual princess toy.
But if they had been better writers, the toys would have been better-integrated, social commentary like race and gayness would have been more authentic rather than campy, the conflicts would have been more meaningful, the themes would have been more consistent, the characters would have remained endearing and shown growth and increasing complexity instead of redundancy and Flanderization, and the show would have remained in its golden age for some years longer, rather than become just another weird cartoon that only weebs, furries, and perverts like.
And just like the Cutie Mark Crusaders - literal infants insisting they would all do the exact same things in life forever and ever and were all set up to learn that they were individuals with their own skills and hobbies and this would not stop them from being friends - just like the CMC completely obliterated this years-long character arc AND a founding principle of the show's entire setting, the point of cutie marks, with their absolutely idiotic three-of-a-kind mark...
... G5 is at high, high risk of falling into regurgitating G4 instead of finding its own identity.
And that's a damn shame!
Now I should probably read this fic in which, I'm quite sure, Sunny has considerably pettier objections to G4 than I do.
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Ok, get in the party Howitzer.
Damn, you take things too seriously.
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Although Faust left direct participation, she still served as (unofficial) consultant with the team. Like, off the record they would run ideas by her.
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I honestly can't stand MLP and could give a multi-page rant about it, but the real question is why? It's a goddamn cartoon and people should let people enjoy things. Really, the only reason I'm on this site that the show gave us an amazing fantasy universe to play around with and, in many cases, the fans have turned a show I completely despise into something fun and I will forever have a ton of respect for the Bronies for that. (Hell, Admiral Biscuit's Cinematic Universe is one of my favorite "Aliens on Earth" series in all of fiction)
If you love the show, I'm happy for you and I'm glad. If you don't, don't be dick. There's a reason I left the X-Files fandom years ago.
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That wasn't the most polite way to say it, but I kind of agree that some people do overreact. However, I wouldn't put all the bronies in the same basket. It's doing a disservice to the silent majority that just enjoy smol horses doing cute things. For every Sunny out there being overly vocal about some nonsense or another, you have four other who just enjoy things for what it is. If I had one piece of advice, it would be to ignore the loud ones. There's many more reasonable fans out there, and I think this comment section is proving it. Very few fell into the temptation to say their piece and just enjoyed this story for the sillyness it is. Not everything has to be perfect.
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That's just rude. Liking G4 only doesn't make one a purist. It just means the stuff stuff doesn't interest them. And if there's one thing FIM thought us is that it's okay to be different. Personally, I will just keep watching the new cute horses while other people can go consume more G4, or something else entirely. To each their own.
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I didn't want to dwell too much on it in the story, but I can here. The ponies wrongfully assumed that because the phone number had a 0 in it and different format, that it had to come from a distant nation. The no 0 thing is a reference to Hitch's old school phones with only 9 numbers on the pad. Zipp may be a genius and Izzy a masterful craftpony, but the odds of them actually inventing an unknown phone signaling protocol is next to 0. They tried anyway, and did make something that could signal the inputed number. Of course, the odds it would actually be compatible with our technology is quite low. As for reaching its intended target, Izzy did try to involved sympathetic magic. In the end tho, Discord acted as a bridge between pony and human technology, making Zipp and Izzy believe they had actually succeed. Same for when they latter added internet support. Discord's magic convert the Canternet data into Internet packets, and sends them through time and space. That's also why no one on Earth could trace back the signal. He used a IPv6 address that wasn't assigned to any ISP or legal entity. The signal just... dissapeared in transit in the undersea cables. It would take people months to find the location, and by the time they did he could just magically move it somewhere else. Discord is OP, PLZ nerf.
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Somepony with way too much time on her hooves. Come on Sunny, don't you have a world to unite or someone to pester about our lord and savior the crystals and their magic?
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Sunny has been ejected... 1 imposter remains.
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I... thought very long and hard about this one. On one hand, you're free to your opinion. On the other hand, I'm not sure what it is I read. I thought maybe I could argue some points presented in that essay. But ultimately, this comment section isn't really the place for it. It's to discuss a story, one that you apparently hadn't even read at the time you wrote 800 words about... all the things. So while that is dissapointing, congrats for the incredible word count on your comment. It takes guts to draw towards you all the hatred. Cuz judging by those downvotes, you sure did. Heck, I'm giving you an upvote. Because your opinions are original, at the very least.
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They sure did. But at least it spiced things up. Someone was bound to barge in, not read anything and then rant. But what an epic rant it was. This said, if you did end up reading the story, I hope it brightened your life a little.
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Dear Princess Celestia, today I learned that when your write a rantbait story, that you do attract rants. PS: I'm best princess now, go me. Your faithful ex-student, Twilight Sparkle
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You know, at first I wondered why you were even here, but then I understood that you prove my point. You're not even a fan of the source material, but you found something to like in what others made out of their love for it. Which is also totally fine! Your comment better not be downvoted into oblivion. There's no wrong way to enjoy the ponies, so long as you aren't being a jerk about it.
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Glad you found engagement via the fandom!
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Well you said there was no 0.
That was way too much tech talk for me to process, so I'll take "Discord, 'nuff said" as an acceptable answer.
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I think you misunderstood the meta of my comment, or otherwise I was unclear with it. Either way, I apologize.
But what I was referring was the undulating consistency of G4 purists who insist G4 is soooooo perfect that everything that is even slightly different or contradictory is somehow reprehensible.
There is a difference between liking only G4 and being a G4 purist. I was not saying that those who only like G4 are funny. The obsessive, demeaning people who look down on other generations and exalt their idea of G4 is the punchline. I interpreted the story as satire about that particular mindset. After all, was not Sunny trying to promote her specific view of G4, and getting so upset over it? That's what a purist does - they get sucked into their own spiral and stop enjoying the product but instead grow to love only their view of it.
That's less in line with the show's message about the importance of differences than my little snark.
...Guess the names got mixed up over the centuries of history.
Nice touch.
I wonder how often Hasbro actually had to deal with situations like this...
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Good story!
I enjoyed reading it.
This was your first story! Amazing! You can be proud of yourself.
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Like clockwork.
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^_^ Glad for them too.
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And that's why it wasn't in the story. I'm a big nerd at heart, and computers are litterally my job. I can get a little carried when I want to, and I'm not the best at explaining things.
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To be fair, it's hard to extract intent from one short line. Sorry for misunderstanding you. As for Sunny, it's true that was pushed her views and lost all enjoyment for FIM because it wasn't exactly what she demanded from it. On the other hand, her anger is probably more justified than that of the people you call purist. She had legitimate concerns about history being misrepresented, which is more valid than... I dunno... perceived social slights.
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Headcanon here is that unicorns know even less of their past than earth ponies did. All they have is snipets of history distorded beyond recognition. Although let's be honest here, it was probably supposed to be Starlight Glimmer. Sunset was likely forgotten to time due to being slightly not in this dimension.
And I'm sure Hasbro employees have dealt with a lot of unique fans. I pity them fools. Also I will let you in on a little secret, it's my first story here, but I did wrote a whole pokemon novel over a decade ago. The less said about it the better tho.
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Tick tock, it's whinin' time :]
Honestly. That G5 continues to roll forward, shows just how much Hasbro takes the movement seriously. As in not at all. G4 was far from perfect. But still 😁.
Love the story.
An amazing read