Anti-Sparity Shippers in a Nutshell…

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Meh. I would see Lyra and Spike hooking up due to her love of hands. But not one of you know dragon anatomy do they? I bet I could give ten reasons why a dragon, would tromp any stallion in canon. Even Spike.

@Background Pony  
Wow, I could have written this exact post almost verbatim. Well said, I don’t think I could agree more.

@Background Pony  
What about people who watch an episode on youtube, decide they don’t like it, then never pay?

@AraghastThePillager  
It looks like you missed the part where I said that people who downloaded the episodes should also buy them if at all possible.

Alright Lyra, but only if you give me Bon Bon.

@Background Pony
 
Stealing is stealing. It doesn’t change the fact that it’s a company doing it for profit. If anything, that’s still bad because in addition to stealing the episodes that they worked on, you’re also stealing money from the company, by not directly watching it, and again, getting it illegally for free.
 
All I’m saying is people should think twice and know what they’re doing, first.

@AraghastThePillager  
As someone who’s commented in this thread complaining about using someone else’s art to convey opinions they may not agree with, I can tell you that (1) I’m not a Sparity fan myself, (2) I think that anyone who’s downloaded the episodes should feel obligated to also purchase the show in some format if possible, and (3) there’s a difference between using something produced by an organization for profit and something produced by one person because they enjoyed doing so.

Looks like most people are just mad that someone hates the ship, rather than actually caring about art theft. If art theft really bothered you all that much, then you also would find it a complete sin to steal entire episodes of a TV show and upload them online to websites like YouTube for free. Instead, people bitch when the rightful owners take these things down.
 
So just to clarify, art theft is a bigger crime than going into movie theatres and actually videotaping the whole movie? (Which even if you didn’t watch the movie illegally online, I’m sure all of you have watched at least one episode online.)
 
Just saying. Lel

Agreed with this pic.

Сам запостил, сам посмеялся.

@Background Pony  
Nah, Spike will remain just as clueless as to Rarity’s feelings, but he will eventually grow up and fall for a dragoness. At which point he will still consider Rarity a dear friend, and worry himself sick over how she’ll take it when he breaks up with her. And she’ll probably con him into paying for a trip to the spa so Aloe and Lotus can help her “get over the heartbreak.”

Wow, three pages of drama in the comment section. Y’all need to get out more.

Yeah, unsubscribing from this now. I don’t want an update on something I’ve given up on.

@Background Pony  
Exactly. Using one of JJ’s images in that way wouldn’t prevent JJ from doing anything with the image himself. JJ should have no more right to censor the DWM movement than they have to censor him, no matter how much he might dislike his images being used that way.
 
Also, I think that example would be protected under fair use as parody or commentary.

@Background Pony  
So, basically, yes, you do see art as just a tool. So if someone took one of John Joseco’s drawings and edited it to have a “Down With Molestia” message, your only objection would be with the message, not with the use of the artist’s work in a way the artist would obviously disagree with.

@Olpert  
Did you ask the artist if you could use those lyrics to make your point? (Great song, BTW.)
 
All copyright is subject to many kinds of fair use, one of which is parody. There’s a huge difference between plagiarizing an artist’s work and fraudulently passing it off as your own, and borrowing a piece or derivative of another’s work to make a point.

@Background Pony  
A piece of art and a keyboard have one key thing in common: Once you’ve created one it can be used over and over again without any effort. Typing a dumb comment on derpiboo.ru doesn’t prevent you from typing something completely different in the future - similarly, making a bad edit of an image doesn’t prevent someone else from doing something completely different with that same image. Using them doesn’t take anything away from the original, so there’s no reason to ‘protect’ against that use.
 
Also, have you ever tried to build a keyboard from scratch? Trust me, the keyboard is a lot more impressive than a drawing.

@Background Pony: “And we have tags with artist’s names or sources so we can tell people who made an image when we upload it.”
 
Neither of which we have with this image, nor is it tagged as an edit.

@Background Pony  
What’s this? A post that’s actually relevant?
 
I mostly agree with you in that it’s pretty clear that it was created as something for Spike more than Rarity, and Rarity’s perspective on the crush is one of the more interesting things about it, especially considering what happened in Secret of my Excess.
 
The reason I like Sparity as a ship is the amount of really good fanfiction it has produced. Greenfire, Of Age, Yours Truly(the Sparity portion of it)… some of the best stories I’ve ever read have been about these two.
 
Also, it’s just good to see something nice happen to Spike. Poor guy is probably the most tragic figure in the whole show, so seeing him catch a break is always good.

@Background Pony  
So you’re saying art is nothing but another tool?

They’d never really do anything with the ship since there’s too much potential for cute/sweet/funny moments to be used.

“You mean everything to me…please come home.”
 
It was Rarity that counteracted Spike’s greed.
 
It was Spike that repaired the Fire Ruby out of sheer passion, instrumental in saving Rarity from Nightmare Forces.

@Itsthinking  
Really, that’s why? Well, mission over accomplished there.