Shipping Thread

@VNagato
 
That would actually be an interesting next gen story. Discord/princess/fluttershy has a feeling their child is being bullied and try to secretly intervene, magic annoyances and spying hyjinks insue. But the child is actually okay with the ribbing and its the parents that are getting on their nerves, not the schoolmates. Insert a cute scene where the parents see their child is accepted so they back off.
 
At least its DIFFERENT.

@Ranch  
And that’s the problem with VN’s point; the bullied route is don’t to death and more poorly than the Found Footage genre. It requires more creativity than it’s worth at this point for it to be interesting.
 
And that would be adorable.

@Meanlucario  
You didn’t have to bring me up again, I was gonna just end it there because I lost interest in the conversation and thought it was done with, but if you really wanna be a huge dick about it, fine.
 

You’re complaining about one trope being overused, while the whole overbearing parent-figure apparently isn’t, which I will point out that it is. It’s used at various times for characters to feel like they’re being trapped by their own family, and usually ends with that character doing something rebellious that they will most likely regret or finally take a stand to it. On the other side the parent has to learn that being overbearing isn’t a solution and won’t fix problems and that they need to give their kid privacy, space and trust. It’s everywhere, some way-too-in-control character or a parent, it’s not inspiring or creative, Ranch’s scenario isn’t any different than any other time it’s been used. It’s not new or interesting and it’s being used just as often as the bullying scenario.
 
I’ve kept explaining my points as to why something isn’t dumb unless it’s use is, but you choose to ignore it and say that a whole damn trope is apparently fucking stupid. Fun fact, every damn trope is overused, that’s why it’s called a trope. Concepts and ideas can be shit or amazing but at the end of the day, it’s how it’s executed, you can make something shitty even though the original concept sounded interesting, you can make something amazing even though the initial idea sounded uninspiring and shitty. That’s what the end deal is, just because there is something overused doesn’t mean it is automatically bad, every single damn thing needs to have a creative twist to it for it to be interesting, that’s fucking obvious and the very point I’ve been saying since my first post. Creativity needs to be in it for anything to be interesting, goes for fucking everything, not just one overused trope.
 
The new PPG doesn’t hold a candle to the original, yet it’s the same initial concept, 3 superpowered girls fight crime, and yet why is there so much difference in quality? It’s because the new one had a different approach to the concept and fucked with it, that’s why. Keep going on about how another trope can replace and for some reason be better than the older one, if the same shitty artist who did the bullying scenario, did the overbearing figurehead instead, it wouldn’t at all be any different and just be the same shit quality it is.

What have I done

@Applejack007  
Sorry

@Applejack007  
This seems to be something that me and VN use to do. It seems that old habits die hard.

@Meanlucario  
I’d love to stop going on long ass rants but it’s not like you’re making an effort to stop provoking me all the damn time

@VNagato  
It takes two to continue. We both have a pride problem.

@VNagato
 
Kek the difference being overbearing parents makes sense. Parents are supposed to look out for their child’s best interests.
 
Bullying for the sake of bullying makes 0 sense. You floor me with your stubborn inability to accept this. When it comes to mlp nextgen ocs. The trope is overused AND used badly.
 
The problem is compounded 10 fold when its a “special” child. Some magically weird or unorthodox oc. Because the bullying is just meant to accent how cool the oc is and give them “depth” because “Oh no I got picked on a bit in school, I’m so complex now!” Give me a break…and a bucket to gag into.
 
This “character development” is about on par with Chris-Chan’s Sonichu comic.

@Ranch  
I like how you’re the one calling me stubborn despite the fact I did agree that it was an overused trope and that some of your later points, I already admitted to when redsquirrel456 brought it up.
 
Like I stated before, bullying doesn’t have to make sense, a lot of things don’t exactly make sense in real life, but it still happens. Saying bullying doesn’t make sense, sure, saying it should never be included in story because it doesn’t make sense, uhhh no. That would be like saying bullying doesn’t happen in real life and that it rarely happens, which is untrue.
 
Just because an overbearing parent makes “more sense” (as a person who has an overbearing mother, no sometimes the things she does make zero sense) doesn’t mean it’s better. Again, like every other time I pointed it out, it’s execution. If someone did the whole bullying scenario badly, if you replaced it with that other scenario, it’s not going to automatically be more interesting or grander. If every one of those next gen things had a bad overbearing parent story instead, you would have probably complained about that and thought that some other trope would be better to replace it. The only wrong here is how it’s being used, not the actual trope.

@VNagato  

 
Dude what I’m saying is if there isn’t a good reason for it to exist then don’t include it. If it has no reason to happen then 9 times out of 10 its going to be done badly.

I still ship the Dash Parents with the Shy Parents.

@gingerninja666  
They’re married! Sign, this is why I don’t hang out with shippers.

@Meanlucario  
Twilight’s mom and Rainbow’s mom are shipped a lot. :/
 
I don’t get it, it’s not like there is a lack of non-married mares to ship.

@LightningBolt  
People just like the idea of them being paired up together for some reason, even I don’t know why that happens so often.

@LightningBolt  
Seeing as it’s usually with their kids or their kids’ lovers, I don’t think it quite counts.

@Meanlucario  
No it very much counts as it happens often enough for me to notice.

@LightningBolt  
i mean they’ve shown so much on screen chemistry like that time when…….

@Meanlucario
 
For the sake of cuteness, I don’t mind a little wife swapping.

Never liked incest, pedophilia, or infidelity porn. Guess what is here in droves…why do I stay on this site.

@Background Pony #DBE9
 
I mean, I get why it happens especially with Shiny and Cadance. Cadance is the “goddess of love”
 
and love = kinky = infidelity to some people.

@gingerninja666  
You’d think people would take that to mean ‘being faithful’.

@LightningBolt  
That requires them to tell the difference between love and lust.

@LightningBolt
 
I mean, within the context of porn, I don’t need the greatest morals, but with those two specifically I can see an argument that sex is just sex. It doesn’t mean that you don’t care for someone just because you have sex with someone else. sex=/=love and all that.