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I marathoned the last three seasons of MLP:FiM a couple of weeks ago and am having difficulty thinking about fannish things other than the cartoon ponies. Not that I have any complaints. It's a very earnest and reassuring show, and I've already started a rewatch. Poked around fimfiction, which is mostly but not completely dead for my ships, characters, and friendships of interest, so maybe I'll give in to the urge to fic for my time-wise longest fandom.
Friendship Is Dragons
I got the sudden motivation to finish the show because I caught up on this webcomic, where MLP is a 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons campaign being played out. Still love that it has the two-parter pilot be Twilight's player figuring out the Elements of Harmony way earlier than the DM expected, thus derailing their entire campaign.
The variety of players match the variety of the mane six - Spike as a Wizard familiar and the DM mouthpiece makes way too much sense - and it has its own sweet moments despite the distance from the show's storyline. It's understandably not going episode-by-episode, given the volume at play here, so sometimes it does things like turn the S1 finale into a final battle against a Thieves' Guild. Think I prefer current Canterlot Wedding arc, though, where they're playing through the show's events with a different context for the players.
Darths & Droids
...And I got reminded of the above because I decided to catch up on this Star Wars TTRPG comic. The character shifts across trilogies has been great to see, and the comic still manages to pull off unexpected twists. I like the passage of real-life time between campaigns and the players' progress. The comic is at the beginning of the sequels trilogy now. Intrigued by the character choices: Sally playing Kylo, Pete playing Rey, the married Annie/Jim playing Finn-Poe.
Fanwork Recs
Yeah, this is the MLP fic edition.
Spellbound Fireflies (RD & Scootaloo, RD/Twilight) - There are a billion "Rainbow Dash teaches Scootaloo how to fly" fics, but this is a classic that remains my favorite. Written pre-S3 finale, great characterizations for everyone but especially the three mains.
Zero-Sun Game - Rainbow Dash faces her final test to join the Shadowbolts, and fails with flying colors. A fantastic take on Rainbow Dash, in which her loyalty and self-interest means she fails every test but she wins the dream's war, in ways instinctive to her and baffling to her testers. The conclusion fits neatly with the show's ethos. (It's easy to buy that Luna wouldn't think of this solution to her test.)
Friendship Is Dragons
I got the sudden motivation to finish the show because I caught up on this webcomic, where MLP is a 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons campaign being played out. Still love that it has the two-parter pilot be Twilight's player figuring out the Elements of Harmony way earlier than the DM expected, thus derailing their entire campaign.
The variety of players match the variety of the mane six - Spike as a Wizard familiar and the DM mouthpiece makes way too much sense - and it has its own sweet moments despite the distance from the show's storyline. It's understandably not going episode-by-episode, given the volume at play here, so sometimes it does things like turn the S1 finale into a final battle against a Thieves' Guild. Think I prefer current Canterlot Wedding arc, though, where they're playing through the show's events with a different context for the players.
Darths & Droids
...And I got reminded of the above because I decided to catch up on this Star Wars TTRPG comic. The character shifts across trilogies has been great to see, and the comic still manages to pull off unexpected twists. I like the passage of real-life time between campaigns and the players' progress. The comic is at the beginning of the sequels trilogy now. Intrigued by the character choices: Sally playing Kylo, Pete playing Rey, the married Annie/Jim playing Finn-Poe.
Fanwork Recs
Yeah, this is the MLP fic edition.
Spellbound Fireflies (RD & Scootaloo, RD/Twilight) - There are a billion "Rainbow Dash teaches Scootaloo how to fly" fics, but this is a classic that remains my favorite. Written pre-S3 finale, great characterizations for everyone but especially the three mains.
Zero-Sun Game - Rainbow Dash faces her final test to join the Shadowbolts, and fails with flying colors. A fantastic take on Rainbow Dash, in which her loyalty and self-interest means she fails every test but she wins the dream's war, in ways instinctive to her and baffling to her testers. The conclusion fits neatly with the show's ethos. (It's easy to buy that Luna wouldn't think of this solution to her test.)