What's the fluffy trope you find most annoying?

adding my two cents cause i had the same thought, like, what if hasbio didn’t kill itself with the fluffy explosion and recovered finatually, cause market ALWAYS demands new and “better” stuff. but thats me and you dont wanna hear the rest of it. But there are ALOT of subspecies that just- barely return?

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Too many subspecies and “adopts” like. Kid, we all tryin to make money doing what we like but we’re all broke psychopaths’.

And the subspecies that barely make a return, like, i do not MIND subspecies, i like to see new adaptations, but show me how they BREAK too.

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From most hated to ‘meh’:

Pop-culture references made by fluffies or in the story as an element rather than some little wink… utterly garbage and lazy writing.

Overly smart fluffies and “magic fluffies” who are “special”.

Fluffies that talk to each other the same way they talk to humans when no humans are around: animals interact with each other differently than with people, fluffies should be the same.

Wierd fluffy anthro sex shit

Hugboxing.

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You know, I never did get the whole ‘Justice box’ or what have you on that topic. It often feels like folks who use such are just abusers but think themself higher then someone who say they just want to abused such. Heck, even seen an old pic posted here where some human female had a recording of something happening to a foal - did nothing to stop it - and take out her ‘Justice’ on the fluffy that broke its leg that caused it to be put down.

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I think hugboxing is good because it gives abuse a lot more ‘oomph’. It’s like sweet and sour. One flavor compliments the other.

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Kind of a tie.
People who have fluffies, let them in the back yard unattended with a hole in the fence. Same thing with dog/fluffy doors. If you care about a super fragile creature, why do you leave them unprotected. If you think your fluffy MUST have outside time, then stay with them while they are out and check your fence. Or even better, on a leash. It would seem like ut should be basic to fluffy ownership.

The other is the rabid hatred that some cannons’ fluffy owner’s have over the idea of thier fluffies wanting sex or babies or both.

I can get the idea not wanting more fluffies in the house, so you get your mare spayed. But who cares if your stallion wants to get his rocks off with a some feral at the park? It’s not like you have to take care of them.

Plus, if you really don’t want fluffies to repouduce, there are ways of preventing that before it happens.

But when it does, it seems like the most common response is intense abuse.

Which is cool…it just doesn’t make sense to me. From an in world perspective. Loved pet, to mutilated creature at the mention of “am soon mummah/daddeh nao!” When there are numerous ways to prevent that.

To be clear, i like the violence. It just the in universe owner’s mind set that seems fishy to me.

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i always disliked jellenheimers and hell gremlins. jellens are OK as a meme but hell gremlins just seem like the artist trying to make a fluffy tough and badass but how badass can a horse pig dat tawks wike dis really be?

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Alicorns being super expensive and “perfect” fluffies. It makes them into insufferable Mary Sues.

I also despise hunting friends and most cannibal fluffies because they’re just fluffies but edgy and stupidly OP. Like a DeviantArt OC version of a fluffy. Especially hunting friends, because the idea of genetically modifying a fluffy to hunt other fluffies is just plain retarded.

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I like this idea!

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I’d love to see a weirdbox piece based on this.

“Babbeh wan miwkies?”
“Nu nao, Mummah! Am awgoowin’ on Weddit!”

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To be fair most dog owners aren’t great about keeping them. Also annoying ferals would outweigh letting them fuck.

That was kind of the point. They’re supposed to be better in every way (not perfect. Just better.) At the cost of being a pariah who is constantly lonely. A social animal with zero ability to meet its own kind without fear revulsion and hate is akin to hell. They can be better but never happy. That is how we cut down on the mary sues.

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Also disagree on the very last point. Puffy gryphons were that but they’re close to space cat territory. A personal favorite one off was the spike fluffy. Modified to have quills. It’s always lonely and wants hugs but stabs to death anyone that hugs it.

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It’s more like the average fluffies are made to behave worse so that poopie babbeh are shown to be better.

The way some people talked about poopie fluffies made it sound like just another Better Fluffies™ subspecies instead of just fluffies with different color. And it seems all it does is to vindicate how right someone is for saving a poopie fluffy.

That was so fucking ass because the original spoosh comic is based on has more ambiguous & complex situation than just “bad mummah hurt a foal”.

His defense was also stupid as fuck. He made the story to have a serious moral high ground and surprised when gasp people took it seriously.

Justicebox are bad already, revisionist justicebox are even worse.

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Exactly… the idea that “fixing” fluffies has become a trope is tiresome in my humble opinion.

The exciting thing about a Fluffy universe is making interesting content within the established limitations of a fluffy.

This doesn’t mean there can’t be new things introduced. For example, I think Fuckfies are a decent addition in theory, primarily from the original comic book.

But “fixing” fluffies always seems to lead to Mary Sue issues (sorry for that term I know it can be offensive). The cannibal fluff is an example. Often depicted as an invincible monster to other fluffies and a shrewdly intelligent dog-like companion to humans, I can barely see how it relates to fluffies at all!

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I made a post about it on reddit yesterday, but it’s interesting how the “pariah” part of alicorns are barely a characteristic in the early stories.

When it was first conceptualized alicorns main problem was not that they were hated by to other fluffies, but that breeding them is more difficult than breeding normal fluffies due to the fact that they were more emotionally intelligent:

“Fluffy Alicorn Breeder” Part 2 by Giant_Neckbeard

Nearly lost your original Mares when they learned their babies would always be taken away, and they tried to kill themselves by pushing their necks into the sharp edges of the collapsed walls of the pens.
After that, you always kept the prettiest Mare from your ‘best’ Brood Mares as ‘backups’. Ended up saving your bacon after the two original Mares figured out that if they hugged each other very, very tightly and pressed their faces deep into each other’s fluff, they could suffocate each other.
Fuck … don’t want to remember walking in on that scene, with the poor Stallion sitting there and asking “Why nu take Fwuffie wit yuu?” to the dead Mares.

“What Has Science Done? Part 5: Starting Over” by Fuckasaurus_Fuck

“I’m sorry. They’ll have good lives.”
You want to believe him, but how can you?
He took them away from you
You just want to take the longest sleep
You eat some food and cry for a bit
That’s when you see your water bowl

“Sunny Gardens - Poison Pill” by Mayclore

“Gif wuvs, den…den hewp babeh feew betta.”
“What does that mean?” […] Lightning takes the foal, and, plopping back on his haunches, gives it a hug. It finally squeaks; a broken, warbling mess of a noise that sends chills down your spine. […] After a long, quiet hug, Lightning takes the foal […] and waddles past your legs to an empty corner. He sets the baby down and sniffles.
“Am sowwy babeh, too smaww. Haf owwies aww time. No wan’ fo’ babeh.”
Before either of you can react, he presses his left front hoof on the foal’s head and steps on it. There’s a muffled pop, and the foal becomes still. Lightning, crying bitterly, wanders away and sits with Berry. She’s still crying, too.

All of them are breeder stories. That’s why it matters that alicorns was expensive. The point of that was you could breed alicorn to get easy money, but you have to be careful about it.

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Oh, definitely, in the context of abuse you have to have ups and downs… I mean I find pure hugbox to be pointless.

“Fluffies are cute and cuddly, the end”

That is really all one can do with it.

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Huh, you know, I’m sure I read that at the time but managed to miss The Discourse. I’m a lucky boy!

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I still think it’s really to dumb to have a fluffy be worth tons of money. It’s still a fluffy no matter how many growths it has, and fluffies being worth a lot of money in a post-Hasbio setting is ridiculous.
Maybe they’d be slightly more expensive due to rareness, but them being a living winning lottery ticket is stupid.

I do like that those stories actually appear to have abuse done towards them that isn’t done by hellgremlins, though.

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They shouldn’t be better in every way. That’s one of the popular tropes I hate about them.

Plus, that added with the pariah trope just reeks of the “people hate me because I’m flawless” type of Mary Sue.

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