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Oh my god I am so sorry 
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DiD U jUsT aSsUmE mY gEnDeR??!!!1!!
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I did.
Stone is either from the CIA or FBI.
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I’m a part of the FBI.
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Can’t fool me FedBoi
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Wtf who even are you
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Poor coffin he is illiterate
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I do use “Unfinished” and “Peta break-in” but the stranger bits of my headcannon are that unicorns, pegasai, and alicorns can use magic, weakly fly, and both respectively. I also believe that, beyond the initial batch, more fluffies (usually alicorns) can be created with bio-engineering. and the final strange thing about my setting is that hasbio has created MORE than just fluffies, such as plant-dogs(plogs), and living, cartipace-wearing, alarm bells.
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This. I like this.
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Now that Fall of Cleveland is being reuploaded, it might be a good time to page @LordAnubis for his thoughts on this subject.
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Hivecanon is good in the same way a building’s frame is good: you use it to build on top of. The best and worst part of this fandom has is that its core concept is very malleable. On the plus side, it lets people get very creative with stories and art. On the down side, it encourages the uncreative to be even more lazy with even basic aspects of worldbuilding and continuity.
The fandom balks when major hivecanon is changed in a story, and with good reason. If the most important parts of our collective continuity are treated with the same casual regard and more esoteric things like Jellenheimers, resets, poopy babies, Cleveland, etc, the creative space turns into an anarchy zone. But I’m still not opposed to it in theory, but you better make something entertaining and engaging enough to be worth the major shift.
A story concept I had imagined but never put to paper was a guy trying to solve the mystery of why there seem to be so much contradictory information about Fluffy Ponies. He eventually realizes that fluffy ponies, being artificial creations instead of naturally evolved creatures, are not only genetically unstable, but also cosmically unstable. They break probability all the time purely by existing. This is why they always manage to find themselves in impossible situations. Most fluffy pony lore contradictions can be explained as being different universes with different rules (i.e., different headcanons meant different continuity), but plenty of content creators will break their own rules or introduce new ones all the time. In this hypothetical story I never wrote, the guy figures out that fluffy ponies will accidentally shift into different universes and continuities all the time, and never be aware of it because they’re stupid and die easily in virtually every headcanon. This would also explain how a physically impossible amount of fluffy ponies descended on Cleveland; a lot of them came from other dimensions accidentally. Don’t ask how, it just happened because fluffy ponies are just quantum weird like that. In some people’s universes, Cleveland was a nuclear disaster, in others it was a minor kerfuffle that had little lasting consequence, and in others Cleveland is just a city in Ohio where nothing fluffy happened at all. Never got around to writing it because even in my head it was getting ponderous and not interesting outside of a meta exploration perspective, but that idea definitely stuck around as a rule to help understand this weird little fandom.
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So, fluffies would be like SCP-507 - The Reluctant Dimension Hopper?
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I hadn’t been able to read all of Fall of Cleveland and I plan to change this once it is all uploaded. I do embrace how the various interpretations of the Cleveland incident can all be considered canon unto themselves.
It inspires creativity. And enables the lazy.
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Kinda, only with no awareness of the shift whatsoever
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There’s many reasons why I wanted you here @LordAnubis , and this is one of them. I feel you have written one of the most important posts within the Fluffy Pony fandom and community, and one that more people need to acknowledge.
I wish you had written that story. Even if it seems ponderous , I do find it interesting. That said, this idea of exploring fluffies as a cosmically unstable creation, as well as its many different contradiction and universes has been one of the key elements of my own Sam Adams Guide. I also attempted to go even more into the idea in nɘbiɒӘ ƨmɒbA mɒƧ = nediaG smadA maS. I hope you give some of it a read some day, as your mentioning of this approach had a latent effect on the guide as I kept writing it.
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Another reason I didn’t write it was that I had no real endgame planned. It was mostly this guy talking to his friend about his discoveries and being like “…so yeah that’s kinda crazy right?”
When you write a story, you’re asking people to spend their time reading it. You owe it to them to make something that doesn’t make them feel like they just threw away that time for nothing. The stories that frustrate me the most are stories that just don’t do anything interesting. If you really want me to read 5 chapters of your story, those 5 chapters better goddamn well not waste my time. Don’t write a story you’ve already read, the story already exists! Write a story you’ve never read before!
This applies to hugbox, neutralbox, and abuse, but honestly it’s the abusers that really need to understand that. It’s consistently the abuse content that comes up unfulfilling. Not because it’s distasteful, but because it’s boring. And that’s so much worse. A foal getting microwaved was interesting and horrifying and compelling the first time I read about it. On Ponybooru. In 2012. Make something better.
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Well, personally speaking, I think there is a beauty to that kind of story. Its why I would still read it - if there’s one thing I know about writing, is that sometimes you can enjoy a written piece that was written for its own sake. Its a different take, I admit.
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I feel you a lot.
Most abuse pieces just leave me like “Ok, I spent ten minutes reading about imaginary creatures getting ripped apart. Coolio.” But why bother? There’s no character development. No lucky escape. No karmic justice. No moral victory. Just pointless suffering. Everytime I jump into an abuse story, I know it’s going to be set in the biotoy canon 9/10 times, where abusers run rampant and authors can literally ignore having to flesh out characters and background scenery. After all, why bother with secondary characters if every human hates fluffies? Nobody will bat an eye at the blood curdling screams and pleading coming from an alley, because the voice is shrill and talks in fluffspeak. And I literally don’t find enjoyment in reading about pointless suffering. A good story with suffering included? Ok, give me dem feels. But most abuse pieces are so… soulless to me.
Hugbox aswell, most pure hugbox images I kind of gloss over, but at least those are usually cute!
It’s like watching cat pictures on the internet, they are simply cute and make you go “aww”. At least they kind of warm your heart a bit, even if there’s no larger story behind them.
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