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[Bdthemag]

I still don't understand the gore fics for MLP, I mean come on guys really?

[Gunner-Chan]

I really don't get that too. It's like certain kinds of fans need to make everything darker and edgier for the sake of it... I guess it's not too weird thinking of it that way though. Just still... DAMN.

[Bauglir]

As a fan of the show, I second these remarks.

[Aklyon]

As a non-fan, I second the WTFery. I can see how people like the show, but not all the wtf that came up around it.

[Leafsnail]

I really don't get that too. It's like certain kinds of fans need to make everything darker and edgier for the sake of it... I guess it's not too weird thinking of it that way though. Just still... DAMN.

That kind of thing isn't too weird, sure.  But then you read the super detailed torture stuff and argh what the hell this isn't dark or edgy it's just sick.

[NotAQuisling]

Urban dictionary loves my name.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Erik

It's rather obvious 2 (consonants) are better than one.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Erick

[TheBronzePickle]

As for the pony stuff, people discuss it because it's popular and fairly well-written, with an engaging background to dig into.

As for the horrible gore, I was part of writing a very horrifically detailed torture fic and its only purpose was for shock value. It's easier to get shock value from something that's light and friendly than it is from something that's already grimdark. I'm sure there might be other motivations, but shock was ours.

[Bdthemag]

Eh, I guess some writers enjoy trolling more than others.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Eh, I guess some writers enjoy trolling more than others.

It's almost Halloween, people deserve a good shock.

[Siquo]

I play with MLP's on a daily basis, because my 3yr old demands it.
That makes me question the intelligence and relative level of... mental growth (there's a better word for this somewhere) of grown up MLP fans. However, going on a crusade of hate against them for liking something I can't fathom to be likeable is not really my style.

[Dutchling]

iTunes is being iTunes again..

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[kaijyuu]

I play with MLP's on a daily basis, because my 3yr old demands it.
That makes me question the intelligence and relative level of... mental growth (there's a better word for this somewhere) of grown up MLP fans. However, going on a crusade of hate against them for liking something I can't fathom to be likeable is not really my style.

Have you seen the show or just played with the toys?

Most fans are pretty disappointed with the toys, as they're pretty much the epitome of "pink sparkly crap." Everyone shakes their head at Applejack's pink apple shaped truck, for example.

As for "mental growth", well, here's the famous CS Lewis quote:

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

If anyone is lacking maturity, it would be the ones rejecting it due to being "kiddie stuff."


Re: Gore fics. I don't see how it's any different than say, slasher films. Some people just like gore. And yeah, the shock value is (suppoed to be) somewhat increased with cute ponies instead of boring old humans.

[TheBronzePickle]

The idea of the shock value increase has less to do with the beings involved and more to do with the setting. Even if they were the same otherwise, if the ponies were waging war with some kind of enemy through terrifying battles of attrition involving innumerable casualties, then there wouldn't be as much shock. The shock comes from going from one end of the idealism/cynicism spectrum to the other.

As for the show, it's got fans not because it's all simple and flowery. If that were the case, then every other crappy little girls' show would have a ton of fans. It's got fans because it's well-written above all else. The characters have personality, the plots of each episode are well-rounded and thought out, and the entire premise is pretty secure and believable.

[SalmonGod]

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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Had never heard this quote before.  Thanks.  This describes quite eloquently something I've been struggling to express for half my life.  I've always thought most uses of the word "immature" to be hypocritical abuses of the idea for exactly the reasons outlined in that quote.

[Urist Imiknorris]

None of the above.