In the wake of the Canterlot Wedding, Fluttershy has to ask Twilight a very difficult question.
No, wait, strike that. Reverse it.
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Masterweaver
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You know, the bandwagon can actually be a pretty decent form of transport... once you get used to all the practicing tunes.
Best version yet
Now the only question is whether or not Fluttershy is a changeling.
*Sees what Masterweaver has wrote... then remembers the kerfuffle another author had when his story based on what this story is based on was turned down and how that author accused MW of stifling his work*
*Wonders if the 'bear' will come to growl and complain since it is being poked*
But in all seriousness, yet another funny take on this particular story.
Being able to see a crisis as a problem to solve doesn't make Twilight a sociopath. It makes her a hero. Granted, the two are far from mutually exclusive, but Fluttershy makes it clear which part of the Venn diagram Twilight occupies.
Both amusing and thoughtful. Thank you for it.
6521065 Don't be silly.
She clearly is.
6521185 No, she's a giant breezie.
6510197 And here you show the proper way to jump on it.
Well done, man.
I love you, you beautiful disaster you.
Hey look, one of these stories with decent dialogue. nice.
I don't even know what folder of the group to put this in. GG, Masterweaver.
6521434 Nahnahnah…
She's a Ditto that became a changeling who created the alias of "Fluttershy" based off of a breezie named "Shutterfly".
6521876 I put it in Expansions and Reinterpretations, as well as Parodies for this group
Feel free to say something if you disagree with where it is.
well....ok
6521084 He'll probably make a blog post, crying about how unfair it is that this story passed moderation when his didn't, because he still can't figure out the simple fact that the world doesn't revolve around him.
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Not sure if fat joke or implying he’s legitimately that uninformed about heliocentrism.
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This is an interesting take on the bandwagon - Twilight questioning her own reactions to the Royal Wedding debacle and being a bit autophobic about it.
You've got to be fucking kidding me. Why is this still a thing?! Jaxie's story wasn't even that good, and he somehow started a fad almost as horrible as the "Twilight Eats Peaches" one. I think it's actually gone on even longer.
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It's less about the story itself and more about the sociological impact of the story on storytelling.
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My issue with this is that there was any sociological impact in the first place. The original story had dull prose and set up a scene where Fluttershy was not just out of character, but her supposed motivation for engaging Twilight in that sort of philosophical/ethical debate was tenuous at best. If a less popular, or even a less talented author than GaPJaxie had posted the exact same fanfic word for word, I honestly believe it would have been panned as a social commentary piece masquerading as a story.
6521084 Is the bear named Reality Check?
6523018 So why and how did this story get through, and get published, yet Reality Check's didn't? It makes no logical sense to me!
6524528 Because RCs story was a near carbon copy, only really changing the ending, where this is only similarly structured. It has nothing to do with anyone being a changeling. RCs story was just a hate fic, lashing out because the original didn't follow his head canon.
*snerk*
Okay, that was funny.
Great role reversal of the original story, just two small errors I noticed:
It was an Ursa Minor, not Major. You'd think a stickler for details like Twilight would've remembered that.
Get rid of that "e", will ya?
WHY AM I READING ANOTHER ONE OF THEEEEEwell at least it was decently funny, though it still needs some proofreading and Fluttershy didn't quite sound like herself. :B I do not regret this decision!
6524942 Oh, I see. Thank you so much for clarifying!
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How the hell was it a hate fic? It didn't attack GapJaxie in any way, merely rebutted the arguments.
Oh, and it wasn't just the ending that changed. There was also everything leading up to it. You know, the arguments, who was making them...
The story was taken down because, supposedly, it only rewrote dialogue, something that can be said for a hell of a lot of the other fics.
As for saying it was a hate fic, an actual hate fic called "Reality is Stranger than Fiction", featuring a man called "Checkered Reality" kidnapping Nyx, then being murdered and having Twilight and Nyx have all kinds of sex was on the Feature Box for a few days before it was taken down.
Guess who the target was.
Oh, and a copy paste of "Rise of Darth Vulcan" was also approved. It was taken down only after being pointed out.
6527069 First, are you just another of his fanboys? If you are, then I'm not going to even try, otherwise, I welcome a good debate.
His version was a near C&P'd hate fic. The entire purpose was to say to GapJaxie that he was wrong about everything, when he completely missed the entire point of the story. The story wasn't asking "would it matter to Equestria", but "would it matter to our friendship". The only parts dealing with their friendship is Twilight crying about how her friends didn't apologize to her (which is headcanon, as they could very well have apologized) when she was throwing around accusations without evidence, and that Fluttershy didn't tell them something so personal, despite them having only known each other for less than a year.
At least "Reality is Stranger than Fiction" was an original story. It was a stupid story, and the author is a childish ass for making it, but it was original. As for the plagiarized version of Rise, it was taken down when the fact was brought to the mods attention, so that's an argument against you.
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I can't say I agree with everything he says, (I'm apathetic towards Global Warming issue, but I don't agree with his opinions on being a creationist and most of all his opinions on LGBTIAQ). But I certainly don't hate any of his stories, even if they sometimes get a bit too preachy (IE The Audience, Pinkamena)
The original mixed both. Sure, the theme of friendship was there, but the entire reason Fluttershy went there in the first place was because she was afraid Twilight, Celestia and Luna would get hasty with their decisions, which was why Fluttershy kept backing Twilight into a corner. YiM addressed both the friendship question and the national level problems, and the entire ending was devoted to the friendship part.
The question is why they had to be pointed out in the first place. Pen Stroke specifically requested that no porn/foalcon fics be made of Nyx in his rules of using Nyx, AND it's also a hate fic, but "RiSTF" was still publsihed. "Destiny is a Fickle Thing" was an even bigger example of "Rewritten Dialogue" than YiM, yet it was still approved. Why were these fics approved immediately, but not RC's?
Oh wait, RC's was approved. By accident, for a few hours. And then taken down again. That can't be said for the others since "RiSTF" was on the Feature Box for a few days, and the other one went on for 16 chapters before being taken down.
GapJaxie himself said that RC's fic was a legitimate parody when he was approached by the mods, even though he hates it. Note that this was even after RC suspected him to be the one instigating the block (Yes, he apologized for it), so even the original author, despite having every reason to not give a shit, thought it was OK.
So YiM was not aiming to attack anyone, has the consent of the original creator, and was even less derivative than other fics (Titanium Dragon noted that the one discussing Trans issues was more derivative, having the same conversation flow, but just replacing Twi and Flutters with Big Mac and Applebloom and changelings with trans issues, and having read it, yes, I agree). But no, it's not published.
I'm not aiming to get fics taken down. I actually like a lot of the parodies (IE KitsuneRisu's and Alex Prior's, the former having nearly the same "rewritten dialogue" problems posed by the mods), but why the heck is RC's the only one not passed? Why can't everything just be allowed in?
6527176 The big problem with several of these examples is that the mods can't be expected to remember every fic. Often times, stories like that get through, and it's the responsibility of the readers to report these. When they are, the mods can take action.
While I haven't read the one about Big Mac being trans (I saw it, but can't help but feel it's likely just someone jumping on the trans crusade bandwagon, like so many people are doing right now), I can assume it's different enough, not only different characters, but a different issue. It just uses a similar template. RCs version is the same characters, same discussion, very similar dialogue (except for Twilight verbally assaulting Fluttershy), and a slightly different ending. The only real differences is the setting and Fluttershy revealing she is a changeling as opposed to leaving it vague.
While GapJaxie may have said it was a parody, it still wasn't. A parody is defines as an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect (Google definition). YiM is not nor was meant to be funny. It's just Twilight lashing out at Fluttershy. "Do it Mattered if I is?" is a parody. YiM was just a rewrite, and FiM fiction doesn't allow rewrites without taking down the original. That's the reason why it wasn't approved.
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I have read RC's fic.
It is decent.
Please stop using the comments of my fic to attack another user. I know he is unpopular, but I also know this is neither the place, nor the method that I would use to discuss this user.
6527514 Sorry. I only meant to discuss the fic, not the author.
In all seriousness... that was actually a really intelligent conversation with Fluttershy and Twilight.
Upvote!
Ooooh. A DoesItMatterverse story where it isn't about being a changeling or not, but still thematically appropriate. Fantastic!
wat
Oh, that's brilliant. At this stage, Scootaloo is nothing more than the friend of her friends' sisters, and a somewhat annoying, somewhat endearing fangirl. She hasn't had her upgrade to honorary sister status--Twilight really doesn't have a reason to be good to her beyond a general niceness needed to keep people from bothering her, which wouldn't justify putting put up with her like she does. Very well done, author and Fluttershy.
Although Twilight's logic is completely flawed in the since that she couldn't possibly power friendship with fake, one-sided affection.
If I had a ring, I would propose to you right now.
Ooooh. A DoesItMatterverse story where it isn't about being a changeling or not, but still thematically appropriate. Fantastic!
...
wat
Oh, that's brilliant. At this stage, Scootaloo is nothing more than the friend of her friends' sisters, and a somewhat annoying, somewhat endearing fangirl. She hasn't had her upgrade to honorary sister status--Twilight really doesn't have a reason to be good to her beyond a general niceness needed to keep people from bothering her, which wouldn't justify putting put up with her like she does. Very well done, author and Fluttershy.
Although Twilight's logic is completely flawed in the since that she couldn't possibly power friendship with fake, one-sided affection.
If I had a ring, I would propose to you right now.
Twilight, even if you were Our Little Sociopath, that doesn't mean you're bad. It isn't what you are that defines you, but what you do. There are plenty of people out there filled with all kinds of utterly monstrous urges, and refuse to act on them because it's wrong.
Twilight: "I'm not saying I won't keep your secret, but.... if you turn into Celestia and make out with me, I'll be too exhausted to go spreading rumors."
Fluttershy: "Ok... I'm, I'm gonna take back some of the things I said about your mental stability."
This is getting ridiculous
Hey, this story has been added to The Devious Writer's Picks in Would it Matter if I Made This Group?, congratulations on a job well done!
I see myself as a pretty friendly guy, but even I would struggle to befriend someone who is hell-bent, utterly insistent that something is seriously WRONG with her.
Then again, maybe something is! Twilight is obviously not all there, so to speak, if she claims she faked their entire friendship just to, what, prove Fluttershy wrong? How does that work?
And that last line, basically "Welp, good conversation, I'm done here, byeee!"
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When Twilight enters her madness place, she doesn't follow logic, or at least any logic we're familiar with.
I read this almost expecting a reversal of the original. I'm glad I was wrong.
6539465 And if this didn't happen to be an excellent story, I would be pissed off.
Neat.
Apparently everypony's a changeling! In my book at least
...y'know, I can't decide whether this is funnier if Fluttershy is a changeling, or if she is not.
I like this one. It's fun! Nice reversal of the subject, and it STICKS to things.
Woah, this was cool! Glad I stopped by.