Sometimes I love my life
Nov. 15th, 2018 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee34Last night, Emma and I got curious about My Little Pony fanfic, so I went to AO3 and pulled up the Friendship is Magic fandom. As of last night there were just a little over 2000 fics which was a lot more than I was expecting.
When sorted by kudos, the first few pages are a mixture of gen that seems pretty true to the show from the summaries, fusions where the characters of another show are ponies (SPN, Star Trek: AO3, Sherlock, etc), and Fluttershy/Discord. We haven't reached the season where Discord is introduced, but I looked the character up and he's voiced by John De Lancie (which explains the fic I saw where Q ends up in Ponyville). I was kinda surprised that in a show that (so far at least) is almost entirely about girl ponies, that a het pairing is so popular, but I cannot fault anyone for being swept away by John De Lancie's voice.
But the best part is that Josh did a dramatic reading of the least kudosed MLP fanfic for us, complete with voices for the characters and a faithful rendering of each lovingly misspelled word.
[In the interest of full disclosure, let me reassure you that I have no interest in reading or writing MLP fanfic; I was just curious about what's out there.]
When sorted by kudos, the first few pages are a mixture of gen that seems pretty true to the show from the summaries, fusions where the characters of another show are ponies (SPN, Star Trek: AO3, Sherlock, etc), and Fluttershy/Discord. We haven't reached the season where Discord is introduced, but I looked the character up and he's voiced by John De Lancie (which explains the fic I saw where Q ends up in Ponyville). I was kinda surprised that in a show that (so far at least) is almost entirely about girl ponies, that a het pairing is so popular, but I cannot fault anyone for being swept away by John De Lancie's voice.
But the best part is that Josh did a dramatic reading of the least kudosed MLP fanfic for us, complete with voices for the characters and a faithful rendering of each lovingly misspelled word.
[In the interest of full disclosure, let me reassure you that I have no interest in reading or writing MLP fanfic; I was just curious about what's out there.]
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Date: 2018-11-17 12:47 pm (UTC):)