That quote.. I should have thought about that a few years ago, it could have helped to lift my spirits.
I need to watch that movie, I should have watched it back then, but its better late than never.
It's an incredible film. Nothing really compares to the original, despite being mercilessly copied and remade.
Anywho there's probably a lot of grimdark for sake of contrast. Easiest way to make a ripple is put the characters in a completely different situation than usual.
Remarkably enough, I agree wholeheartedly with both of those unrelated statements. But yeah, most of the motivation for writing grimdark fics seems to be rooted in the lighthearted nature of the show, in the same way that there are slice of life fics for absolutely horrific grimdark 'verses.
Sturgeon's Revelation.
I get a much better ratio than 10% by reading only stories with 5 or 6 stars. Here is a convenient list. Also, searches for particular characters tend to give better than 50/50 good/bad results. Even if a story is not very clever, having focus on characters you definitely like often makes it a better read.
For some reason it seems like a lot of EQD fanfics are grimdark. I don't understand why. Sure...I read Cupcakes because it's notorious, but my interest in ponies isn't motivated by a desire for scary, mean unpleasantness. I much prefer stories about Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie and Luna being lovable.
Oh, I do the same thing. It's just that I occasionally run across one that is not so good, and am reminded of it. Plus the fact that I'm a nitpicky bastard, so little things bug me, like what I see as poor word choice. Perfect example: Fallout: Equestria. Absolutely wonderful crossover fic, and it had one moment where the author used a word in a way that bugged me. They were describing a wound as having lost more "flesh than meat", IIRC, which bugged me, as those are practically synonyms, particularly in that context, and it would have been IMO much more descriptive to say "skin" or "hide" rather than flesh, as the author was basically saying that the wound looked really bad, but wasn't that deep. (For reference, it was inside one of the buildings in the zebra town under Canterlot, the one with the deep pool of water that Steelhooves fell into IIRC.)
That sort of thing really shouldn't bug me, especially considering that I make worse mistakes than that all the time, but it does. And little things like that add up so that when I eventually run into a genuinely bad fic I overreact and get sick of the whole thing for about ten seconds and then go back to reading.
On an unrelated note, is there a canon spelling for griffin/gryphon in the FiMverse? I know it isn't griffon (a breed of dog), and I don't recall ever seeing it in text, but I wanted to get it right.
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