I'm still alive · 5:14am Nov 26th, 2013
Hey, remember when I used to post here? Wow, my last blog post was in fucking June.
Hey, remember when I used to post here? Wow, my last blog post was in fucking June.
Sunset Shimmer is the worst damn villain ever.
Seriously.
I have taken dumps that were better villains than Sunset Shimmer. They took Diamond Tiara and removed all the things that make Diamond Tiara entertaining, and then in the last ten minutes they stuck on Nightmare Moon only without all the things that make Nightmare Moon sympathetic.
It kinda sucked.
Didn't even have the decency to be bad. It was just mediocre. I'd go into more detail but I'm tired.
Now that people have seen it, it seems like it's gonna be roughly on par with your average season opener/closer two-parter only an hour long. I still think it has no business being a theatrical release, but at least it's apparently not awful? I'm reserving judgment until it's leaked onto the net in its entirety. Though some of the songs have been leaked and... they weren't very good.
Welp, I've lost all interest in it.
I'm still making progress, but got punched in the gut by some bad writer's block for a new scene. That's my own fault for deciding to elaborate on the funeral instead of glossing over it like the original first chapter did, but OH WELL. I got some nicely awkward dialogue between Twilight and Shining Armour, though, so there's that. I've burst through the writer's block and am somewhat back on track with almost 200 words thus far tonight and no signs of slowing down yet, for a total of 835
I'll freely admit that I've not read all of them, so maybe my opinion isn't as well informed as it should be, but unless they straight-up hired a new writer after the first two issues, I highly doubt that my opinion will change. I really, really, really want to like it - the art is absolutely gorgeous - but... the writing is just so bad. It feels less like the show and more like a half-assed fanfiction written by someone who hasn't actually seen the show. And the characters are idiots!
Don't worry, guys, this is actually a good sign. The reason it's gone missing is because of revisions! More specifically, where the story is going has changed and so where it's been needs to be changed to match. Some changes will be pretty minor, some not so much. I'm also gonna mashing it together with what I've got of chapter two thus far. As much as I like the cliffhanger ending of finding the corpse, I feel like where I am in Chapter 2 right now makes for a better end-point. Hopefully y'all
Specifically, the guy behind Ask Brainy Twilight (which is amazing and you all should go follow it for realsies) and at one point he said the following;
[3/13/2013 8:38:20 PM] Brainy Twilight: My Little Midnight Crew: Organized Crime is Magic
...Oh my god, I would watch the hell out of that.
In which FiMFiction updates and now I can't tell where I have to go to find new blog posts and stories posted by the people I'm following.
Don't you just love it when websites take a system that isn't broken and try to fix it? Like Youtube with their new channel designs or Facebook with their updated newsfeeds.
well, whatever, I'll figure out this shit eventually.