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PaperclipPerfector  7d ago (text post)   2566 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 14, 2025

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Any other good examples of media doing a good job at this?

There's a pretty decent Worm fanfic called The Slippery Slope about Taylor joining Empire Eighty-Eight. Also, not about race, but Princess Luna in "Just an Assistant" gives a surprisingly good defense of slavery.

Didn't expect to see brony content from anyone other than @DuplexFields
If anyone wants to read hundreds of thousands of words along the lines of Flashman/Ciaphas Cain (coward dipshit is inadvertently/accidentally the hero) but ponies, you have two excellent options (note that there are additional works in both series): https://www.fimfiction.net/story/55377/blueblood-hero-of-equestria or https://www.fimfiction.net/story/354235/the-prisoner-of-zebra

Regarding my favorite brony content: Jenny Nicholson's youtube series Friendship is Witchcraft has more and better laughs per minute and usually better songs, Dawn Somewhere's youtube series my little pony: mentally advanced series has jokes that are somewhat more funny over the age of 30, in terms of morons being outraged that a proper daquiri isn't a frozen daquiri, or that peer review is a fucking inconsistent mess that isn't at all reliable, and also songs that are far more goofy and memorable a decade later to the ipad raised zoomers that landed on the video as illiterate children and are overjoyed in the comment section they finally found that love song between fat rainbow dash and the monkey who is the joker and voldemort at the same time.

Didn't expect to see brony content from anyone other than @DuplexFields

There aren't exactly that many reasons for the topic to come up here, aside from maybe FiO (which I see has already been linked). And the brony community's unwritten rule of 'be open about being a brony' it once had (which is half the reason it became somewhat notorious in the first place) has mostly disappeared.

Regarding my favorite brony content

As long as we are throwing links around...

has mostly disappeared

Well, 2011 was 14 years ago and the fountain of content was just opening up; G4 was just starting its second season. It's not like I have much of an opportunity to bring it up in conversation; though once a brony, always a brony.

Friendship is Magic was HUGE in the 2010s; it's not surprising that there are former bronies around. Hell, some of the best science fiction I have ever read has been MLP fanfiction (Friendship is Optimal, The Moon's Apprentice, Message in a Bottle, The Maretian, etc.).

And, yes, Friendship is Witchcraft kicks ass. Never liked Mentally Advanced Series, though; not enough polish.

I'm quite looking forward to my daughter being old enough to watch the series.

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