I don't care for the Everyone is Gay atmosphere of fanon either, but in some cases it does work.

My attitude toward shipping in general is basically that it's the same thing as any other kind of fanfiction, fanon, or miscellaneous fanity. There's nothing that makes shipping fics or fanart any different than fics or fanart that present the same characters in literally any situation that doesn't occur in canon. And since I don't reject fanwork in a general sense, and I am more inclined to appreciate the warm fuzzy feeling of a good romance story than, well, Cupcakes, or even sometimes more than an epic adventure, most of what I read is shipping fics.

And now I am contractually obligated to say it:

WORST. PAGETOPPER. EVER.

edited 24th Aug '11 3:33:08 PM by TurnwaysFlip

Pfft. You kids these days think all your pagetoppers are the worst ever.

Back in my day, pagetoppers were special!

And you had to fight a dragon to get 'em, too! And not a baby one, either!

One of these days we're going to have a really horrible pagetopper, and then you'll all feel silly/embarrassed/eye-gougey.

One of these days we're going to STOP CARING about the fricking page toppers! >.>

Also, remember when I went to target and they had an AWESOME MLP display? They still have it. And this time it was my dad taking me (looking for a new backpack) but I still lucked out and he didn't notice me smiling like an idiot.

At least the Everyone is Gay thing makes sense; there are only like 2 male major recurring characters, so you pretty much have to go gay unless you want to dig into the minor characters.

As far as MLP goes, I just find it cute. But yeah, like any fanfiction, the only thing that matters is how well written it is.

Yeah...

Anyway, I've decided to read some fanfics again. The fanfics I've enjoyed are Moonbeam, the P3 Project, and I'm currently hooked on Estrella Noctis. With that said, I'm concerned if Estrella Noctis will be properly finished, since He plans to do 80 chapters. He hopes the second season will give him good potential for ideas. As of this writing, it's at Chapter 24.

edited 24th Aug '11 7:00:46 PM by Psychopulse

Silly Turnways Flip, you have to threaten to shove something up someone's ass or something for that to have been a "bad" pagetopper!

(I find it amusing how those of us who post here but mainly stick to YF showed up to comment on that.)

edited 24th Aug '11 7:04:50 PM by AnonymousUser

Two major male characters? I can only think of one.

Big Mac and Dr. whooves.

No, he means Steven Magnet and Prince Blueblood.

I was thinking of Spike and Big Mac. And Spike isn't even a pony.

When your only recurring male characters are a baby dragon with a canonical crush, the older brother of one of the main characters, and the Doctor, there will be much Les Yay Shipping, not that its a bad thing.

I just find shipping heroes with villains to be odd.

Foe Yay is popular, I guess. I can see where shipping Trixie with other ponies would be interesting, but I don't know about outside of that.

Spike?

I was thinking Big Macintosh and Bloomberg.

I feel I should post this here too...

You know Fighting Is Magic? MLP fighting fangame?

They're doing a live stream of gameplay right now. Not sure how much longer it will last. Be there.

YES.

...Only 50 viewers at a time?

I suppose it is rather packed at the moment...

Oh, there's a cap on the channel? I'll get off now and let somebody else watch. It looks awesome, by the way.

Deathonabun, thank you. I lost track of that thread(s) on Ponychan and wasn't aware of this.

I love that Twilight fights with a book.

I started watching that and for a second I was wondering why Granny Smith was a playable fighter, then I realized it was just a palate swap of Applejack.

This fandom is ridiculously amazing. There are practically as many pony games I'm looking forward to as there are retail games.

I know, I am stoked for this one, and I don't even like fighting games all that much.

Will there be any retail pony games?

It's too late for me to watch the stream and I'm getting tired... It's probably a one time thing anyway...