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7/20/2025, 9:45:49 AM
Today on "scraping the top of the barrel", another oddity from the recents section. After seeing so much Thomas autism, I figured I might as well take a peek and see what exactly goes on inside these types of stories.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580443/tatmr-mlp-fim-the-great-chase
1.4k words, genre: (pooh's) adventure
It's apparently adapting the chase scene from a Thomas movie I never watched (I just caught whatever episodes were on TV as a young child), except actually it's a rewrite of that scene from someone else's crossover fanfic that I also didn't read.
Let's just jump right in. It starts with a dozen lines comprising some sort of faux credits sequence, with "[author] productions presents" and the title at the top followed by the voice/actors for the various characters. I've heard of voice claims before, but they really serve no purpose when you're dealing with characters who already HAVE voices and you're just listing their actual voice actors. This meaningless adherence to routine reminds me of the fake advertisements in Sonichu.
>Soon Thomas, Twilight and The Cutie Mark Crusaders went through the magic buffers and back to sodor.
I'm not sure if it's just continuing EXACTLY where its counterpart left off or if they're just throwing us in mid-thought, but I don't think "soon" is generally a good word to open on, at least not like this.
The narration is very dry and repetitive, which is probably a surprise to nobody. Lots of "[character] said", maybe "replied" instead if he's feeling poetic. Typos and awkward dialogue (whenever it's some inconsequential line original to the story) are abound too.
I watched the corresponding scene from the movie on Youtube to make skimming easier, and found that a large part of the fic is just narrating unaltered bits of the scene. A very short joke exchange between two characters taking a couple seconds is adapted in full, the only addition being the repetitive speech tags. The pony characters seem to have no real role here; they're just kind of along for the ride and only really open their mouth to agree with the main characters or to more-or-less restate what everyone's already said. Crossover characters being there to tag along and do nothing seems to be common with pooh's adventure-esque crossovers like this.
Additional lines are written for some exchanges, most of which don't really add anything new other than removing the brevity of the original work. Strangely, most of what was added had absolutely nothing to do with the pony characters. I think the only time Twilight actually does anything at all besides repeating what someone else said was zapping the claw-arm thing to make it miss, when in the original it never got close enough to begin with anyway.
This one was bog-standard and boring. What scares me is that I once skimmed the opening to one that was several times longer with actually passable prose while still being just as autistic, if not more. How deep does the rabbithole go?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580443/tatmr-mlp-fim-the-great-chase
1.4k words, genre: (pooh's) adventure
It's apparently adapting the chase scene from a Thomas movie I never watched (I just caught whatever episodes were on TV as a young child), except actually it's a rewrite of that scene from someone else's crossover fanfic that I also didn't read.
Let's just jump right in. It starts with a dozen lines comprising some sort of faux credits sequence, with "[author] productions presents" and the title at the top followed by the voice/actors for the various characters. I've heard of voice claims before, but they really serve no purpose when you're dealing with characters who already HAVE voices and you're just listing their actual voice actors. This meaningless adherence to routine reminds me of the fake advertisements in Sonichu.
>Soon Thomas, Twilight and The Cutie Mark Crusaders went through the magic buffers and back to sodor.
I'm not sure if it's just continuing EXACTLY where its counterpart left off or if they're just throwing us in mid-thought, but I don't think "soon" is generally a good word to open on, at least not like this.
The narration is very dry and repetitive, which is probably a surprise to nobody. Lots of "[character] said", maybe "replied" instead if he's feeling poetic. Typos and awkward dialogue (whenever it's some inconsequential line original to the story) are abound too.
I watched the corresponding scene from the movie on Youtube to make skimming easier, and found that a large part of the fic is just narrating unaltered bits of the scene. A very short joke exchange between two characters taking a couple seconds is adapted in full, the only addition being the repetitive speech tags. The pony characters seem to have no real role here; they're just kind of along for the ride and only really open their mouth to agree with the main characters or to more-or-less restate what everyone's already said. Crossover characters being there to tag along and do nothing seems to be common with pooh's adventure-esque crossovers like this.
Additional lines are written for some exchanges, most of which don't really add anything new other than removing the brevity of the original work. Strangely, most of what was added had absolutely nothing to do with the pony characters. I think the only time Twilight actually does anything at all besides repeating what someone else said was zapping the claw-arm thing to make it miss, when in the original it never got close enough to begin with anyway.
This one was bog-standard and boring. What scares me is that I once skimmed the opening to one that was several times longer with actually passable prose while still being just as autistic, if not more. How deep does the rabbithole go?
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