#fleecy

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[mlp-toy-archive]

Gen 1 Baby Pony and Pretty Pal

Baby Fleecy & Baby Woolly

1988, Lamb & Earth Pony, Year 7

[imreadydollparts]

Baby Pony and Pretty Pal Fleecy and Wooly came in at the same time.

Fleecy’s hair is rather faded.

Wooly didn’t need much work at all, she doesn’t even have a tail.

[thatsbelievable]

[queenlua]

@fleecy said: so where does one read actual mtga plot/storytelling? i didn’t realize it had any! is it in like spinoff books or smth :?

oh boy that's SUCH a good question

the tl;dr is that Magic's official story has generally been told via a sort of slapdash combination of tie-in novels (in Actual Book Form) + short stories (posted on their website)

and of those two, the short stories are generally *stronger* and sometimes really quite good, but unfortunately the design-by-committee approach to the overall story does hamper their impact somewhat

the LONGER answer is:

* in the beginning MtG's storyline was told primarily via little bits of flavor text on cards, vibes, and maybe the occasional comic in a magazine or something

* and it really wasn't so much a *story* as it was history... set dressing that told you how this world came to be

* they made a concerted effort at telling an actual STORY on the cards beginning with the Weatherlight set in 1997, with mixed results. nerds like me loved collecting the cards and trying to carefully piece all the flavor text together into something coherent; most people were like "uhhh idk what's going on, but this Gerard guy pops up a lot i guess?"

* so then they tried publishing tie-in novels because this was the era of That Giant Shelf O' Shitty Trade Paperback Fantasy Novels At Your Local Barnes & Noble (feat. Mercedes Lackey)

* unfortunately the authors they chose were mostly bad, and when they weren't bad, they were working under insane deadlines to get a novel out in time for the launch of the accompanying set

* eventually someone noticed the novels weren't making any fucking money and killed them

* for a while they decided Vibes TM was all you needed for storytelling

* but eventually they noticed Superhero Stories TM featuring a Strong Central Protagonist TM worked way better for mass-market storytelling than their admittedly extremely WEIRD original conception of planeswalkers as basically-gods

* so they downgraded the powerlevel of planeswalkers massively, so they could be cool superhero-type heroes instead of actual gods

* and eventually they decided short-stories-building-toward-a-whole on their website was a cool way to tell the story of their planeswalkers

* this was actually a very good idea, and well-suited to the type of storytelling MtG does best (i think its universe really does work better with vignettes-tied-into-a-whole rather than constantly trying to make everything about Jace fucking Beleren)

* but unfortunately they REALLY bought into this "everything needs to be about planeswalkers" shit, so the storytelling has felt kind of samey and stale in that comic-book-y way where you desperately wish someone would do a reboot or something

if you ever want to dig into MtG lore i highly recommend this absurdly-well-researched, lengthy thread on the mtgsalvation forums. weatherlight was really flawed but i also think it was MtG storytelling at its best and i still think about Volrath like once a week, okay dweebing out over BYE

[kittythegengarmonarch]

I added Harry because I thought something bad would be coming, but no. Fleecy however, 100% has to do with something. One of my close friends at my high school hangs out with the girl that I'm scared of. I am indeed quite jealous of that, so that's why I drew it. And no, it's not the guy on here. He gets me.

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[mojimakes]

My entry for the Rune Factory fan works contest. It's a Fleecy, it was hard getting the detail to show in a picture. I wish I was better at taking pictures, something new to practice I guess. But wish me luck, I've already seen some awesome contest entries.

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