Stop treating artists like shit when they decide they want to do something original instead of ponies. Every fucking time a brony artist has done this, there’s a mass whiny reaction where they act like the artist has betrayed them.
They have been toiling away giving you free pony content for fucking years, and it can feel really empty after a while because we question “do people even give a shit about me, or do they only care about ponies?” You’ve had years of this stuff, you can look back at it, the content turning original doesn’t suddenly erase everything the artist put in to the original in fact it takes all of that effort and forms it in to something NEW and UNIQUE. This is a perfect opportunity for people to start up in a brand new potential fandom.
But it’s a sad slap of reality that yes, a huge chunk of these bronies are so far stuck up the pony assholes that they can’t accept any other variants, even if the characters and stories are the same it doesn’t matter to them.
All of you who keep doing this, who keep telling artists you’re “disappointed” in them for wanting to do something that will feel special and personal to them, all of you who turn away the moment you hear it won’t be ponies any more without even giving it a semblance of a chance because “WAAH IT’S NOT PONIES”? Those of you who think ‘if it’s not ponies, it’s complete crap’….
Do me a favor:
You’re nothing but shallow, childish assholes.
I can’t help but feel this was partly promented by my ask to @joeywaggoner for some reason… If not, then the timing just was too random to make me think otherwise.
Honestly I know of two blogs that were pony rebooting to become nonpony. And well, one of them I like the idea of it, the Dotty Blog that you’re working on that seems very neato given that at it’s core it seemed to be a very nonpony project that just started off with pony characters yet now is being retooled into something fresh & original.
While the other blog that I know of doing this Joey’s @theclonethatgotaway‘s retool, just for me felt wrong. Like it’s story felt very Pony at it’s core, making me wonder “why” this change is happening, and still feel like that i’m the only one that dislikes this change, just not understanding it despite my best efforts.
I hope i’m not to blame for this post, but either way, felt very attacked by it.
It took Joey a long time to actually build up the courage to do this and the majority of reactions have been negative even though no one knows anything about the world he’s had in development for a REALLY long time now.
That kind of thing builds up and really stings over time because all it says is “people only cared because this was a pinkie pie clone, not about the character, art, or story concept”
Me and other friends have been working with him for a while now to figure how to rework the story because he’s been really bothered by people constantly mistaking Diane for just ‘another Pinkie Pie’ and he was so attached to the character and concept that he wanted to do something original with it rather than dedicate all his time to a fan project. He’s older now, leisurely time isn’t as easy to come by and he’s been doing pony fan content for half a decade now.
The idea of clones is not pony exclusive, the idea of a clone escaping a terrible fate doesn’t need ponies to make it work. At the story’s core, THAT is what it is, it’s not “Pinkie Pie’s Clone”, it’s “A terrified clone who’s in hiding and trying to find their own identity separate from where they originated from”
Which is exactly what the story itself is doing now, branching away from the show it was copied from and becoming an entirely new but still familiar thing.
You can literally replace the characters in the story with non-ponies and it wouldn’t change anything that much at all, so I don’t see why it needs ponies to be good.
I do want to point out that @the-green-anon has since apologized for that ask he sent me earlier saying that he was a bit too harsh earlier and that he does “hope the best” when the reboot/retool comes out (though even if he didn’t apologize I would never want people to go attack him).
But still, the overall reaction the announcement of “Clone” becoming original has been rather discouraging for the reasons Jitters mentioned above. I did expect some backlash from the announcement, I just didn’t think the negative comments would outweigh the positive ones.
The majority of the cast in the blog weren’t even characters from the show, just characters that happened to be ponies and suddenly everybody feels like I just killed all of them off when I’m just giving them a redesign. I can only imagine how Jan Animations and the mod of Flufflepuff feel cause as bad as I’ve gotten it they probably have it much worse due to their bigger audience.
