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Description
The cover art for “Fall of Equestria,” the first story in Fall of Equestria: Redux. Posted by Contral, story by Cardinal.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/174825/fall-of-equestria-bruised-apples
Here you go. Hope you like it.
That would be nice. Thanks! 🙂
I mean… You could read my contribution to FoE, Bruised Apples. A lot of people kinda liked it when it was first written, and I did actually finish it. Would you like the link?
This fan fic needs to fucking die or at best turn the caribou into meat.
I’m just saying that it’s not that odd to think that professionals would be into things like this.
You definitely have the potential to make that a reality. :D
That said, I think Background Human was refering to Cardinal.
I’m not a “professional” writer in any capacity, as I have never made a profit off my works, but I do have aspirations of writing and making my own video games some day. Who knows, in a few years you might see a Visual Novel on steam as my first attempt. At least, that’s what I’m working towards :D
@Background Pony #50AF
Weeeell… there is actually no clear indication of Cardinal even being into the specific kinks associated with FoE. I’m not entirely sure how he even found FoE. He just some day appeared out of the blue, said he wanted to reboot the setting and take it in a slightly different direction, and then invited me and Schorl and a few others to join a Redux project after it became clear our goals were compatible. He never even spoke about the porn part, it was all always about turning this into a lore-driven collaboration project. I mean I’m not overly into the rape aspect of the setting myself, my own stories are mostly resistance stories, I have very few rape scenes in them and I try not to fetishize them, and most of my sex scenes are consensual anyway - but I still initially found the setting because I have a thing for D/s and BDSM. There wasn’t even any indication that Cardinal shared this inclination at all. It was really extremely weird and I still don’t think I fully understand what his deal was - particularly because if you wanted to go for GRRM-inspired fantasy, there are other MLP fanfic settings that are more suited for that purpose, like Equestria Divided for example. Out of all the FoE writers I got to know, he was not only one of the best (in my opinion only rivaled by Schorl Tourmaline, although her style is very different from his), he was also one of the weirdest.
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Are professionals supposed to be all prudes now? Why would that stop them from having fetishes? 🙂
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>professional authors are writing pony rape fic
That’s it, I quit.
Cardinal canceled his story because he got a two-book contract from a publishing company for an unrelated project of his. His one chapter was some of the best writing FoE had ever seen though - but it was also tonally extremely different from most FoE stories. He took a setting that was made for edgy grimdark rape porn and tried to turn it into epic fantasy. I’m still surprised he chose FoE as a basis to begin with. It wasn’t exactly what most FoE fans are looking for. The one chapter we have doesn’t even have any explicit sex scenes in it, and from what he told me, he wanted to handle the topics of sex and rape less like John Norman and more like G.R.R. Martin (whom he repeatedly cited as his number one role model).
Here’s a link to his chapter: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/406492/fall-of-equestria
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Oh.
Cardinal’s story never made it past chapter 1 anyway, but if you’re talking about the stories it’s based on, then yes, pretty much.
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…well this is awkward ^^;;.
Ahem…sorry.
Um… Yes.
Because that’s all the setting has, quite frankly. There’s nothing new or interesting about the caribou and their society other than rape. No matter how hard Aristagtle and Schorl champion Fall of Equestria all you have to do is look at the most popular works in the setting to see what people actually give a shit about. The number of people going to FoE for “characters” and a “sensible invasion” are less than a minority. The Redux fanpage on FiMfic has around 100 people, last I checked, while the main FoE page has over 1000, while the actual Redux fic has less than 30 upvotes. People don’t like Fall of Equestria for smart writing or interesting characters. It’s pure fetish fuel, and NCN’s greatest failure as a writer was making the setting more than what it should have been. Because the more he “developed” the setting the harder it became to take seriously, for those that did, and the more it bogged down the porn for those that didn’t. It’s tonally inconsistent, and having read the first chapter of Redux I’m neither impressed nor under any belief that’s going to change. Of course it helps I’ve seen the contributors for the story talk back and forth through their unprotected Google document and noticed they refused to change several things that would actually let the story make sense simply because “It’s part of the lore” or what have you. The only thing Cardinal brings to the table is decent description in the story, which doesn’t fix any of the actual problems the story has. This will be another failed attempt at reviving a dead sub fandom.
I think it’s more a matter of emphasis. I’m pretty sure Cardinal’s story will have rape scenes (the first chapter got really close to giving us a scene of Dainn himself getting raped), it’s just that he wants to explore and develop as many other aspects of the setting as possible, as well as developing characters and storylines. Let’s face it: FoE always had the pretense to be more than just porn, NCN’s group just didn’t consistently deliver on this standard. Heck, NCN was fairly protective of his “canon”, and that doesn’t even make sense if you don’t want to be more than porn. Whitekitten isn’t protective of their setting in the same way, for example. Also, by giving us an invasion story that actually makes sense, Cardinal gives other writers the opportunity to build more clop-heavy stories around it. It’s not like he makes any fundamental changes to caribou society that would diminish their rape-happy character, he just partially focuses on different aspects, so as to develop a more coherent setting and universe.
because rape is a perfectly fine subject to explore when it comes to dark settings. Just ask the comic industry :P
If that’s the plan, why not develop a new setting, without the endless rape? You can explore the horrors of a subjugated Equestria without pandering to anyone’s fetishes.
You might be disappointed then. While rape is a key factor in the setting as always, the writer of this story wanted to explore the reality of this setting beyond the porn.
Not exactly, but now i will use this scene. :D
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