2778: Anon-A-Miss — Pages 41 – 51

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The comic under review today is a professionally published work by IDW Comics. Portions of it are reproduced here for the purposes of criticism and analysis only. We encourage those who are interested to seek out an original copy.
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Title: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Holiday Special or something
Author: 
A whole lot of people working for IDW Comics
Media:
Cartoon
Topic:
My Little Pony / Equestria Girls
Genre:
Holiday or Family, maybe?
URL:
IDW Store Link
Critiqued by
AdmiralSakai and Serketry

Hello hello all you patrons, and welcome back to the My Little Pony Holiday 2014 Comic.

Last time, Applejack had some embarrassing personal information leaked all over the school on an embarrassingly-named Facebook clone, followed by pictures taken of everyone making fools of themselves in Rarity’s rejected costume designs. The perpetrator? A mystery account named “Anon-A-Miss”.

And then everyone blamed Sunset Shimmer for the posts. To be fair, the evidence is pretty damning. 

Yeah, and it’s not like she has a history of using elaborate false-flags to get what she wants or anything.

Yeah, exactly, she- wait, almost forgot to introduce myself again. Howdy y’all, I’m Serketry, and I haven’t left this rollie chair in six months. 

Wait, but Nina was using that rollie-chair when we did the Christmas Lovecraft riff.

Yes, “Nina” riffed that. 

But, yeah, things are starting to get pretty heavy here, pretty quickly. And the comic continues to do the unthinkable and not actually suck.

Well, let’s see how it ends.

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2775: Anon-A-Miss: Pages 17 – 40

–DISCLAIMER–
The comic under review today is a professionally published work by IDW Comics. Portions of it are reproduced here for the purposes of criticism and analysis only. We encourage those who are interested to seek out an original copy.
Seriously. IDW does good work, and you should buy their comics.

Title: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Holiday Special or something
Author: 
A whole lot of people working for IDW Comics
Media:
Cartoon
Topic:
My Little Pony / Equestria Girls
Genre:
Holiday or Family, maybe?
URL:
IDW Store Link
Critiqued by
AdmiralSakai and Serketry

Hello hello all you patrons, and welcome back to the My Little Pony Holiday Special 2014 Comic. Otherwise known as the “Anon-A-Miss Comic”, which I cannot help but notice has thus far not included anything actually called “Anon-A-Miss”.

Instead, Sunset Shimmer went to a sleepover at Applejack’s house with the rest of the Mane Six, shared some pretty mundane personal information, and… that was about it, aside from some random hijinks.

Howdy y’all, Serketry here… because I still haven’t left. And, yeah, this comic has a lot of buildup and characterization before the main plot kicks off. I can appreciate that. Speaking of…

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2772: Anon-A-Miss — Pages 1 through 16

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The comic under review today is a professionally published work by IDW Comics. Portions of it are reproduced here for the purposes of criticism and analysis only. We encourage those who are interested to seek out an original copy.

 

Title: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Holiday Special or something
Author: 
A whole lot of people working for IDW Comics
Media:
Cartoon
Topic:
My Little Pony / Equestria Girls
Genre:
Holiday or Family, maybe?
URL:
IDW Store Link
Critiqued by
AdmiralSakai and Serketry

 

*All is quiet in RIFFCON. The overhead lights are turned off, monitors are powered down, and rollie-chairs are unoccupied. After several months of nothing much happening, the door in the far wall creaks open, revealing AdmiralSakai in all of his bespectacled, cargo-pantsed glory. (An incredibly minute capacity for glory is still glory, right?).*

That’s what all those pockets are for, aren’t they, sir?

Gaaah! How did you get in here! There are a finite number of keycards and I took away everyone else’s.

I… never left? 

Uhm. I mean, nothing is dusty and there aren’t any cobwebs, so… thanks? I’d ask what you ate, but I know ants can eat electrical wiring so I’ll just leave the lights turned off for the foreseeable future and we can forget this ever happened, mmmkay?

Oh, right. Howdy y’all, I’m Serketry, and I haven’t left this office in over a year. It’s dangerous outside!

So… what’re you doing here? 

I’m here for riffing? Used to be kind of my thing before writing stories for other people to read kind of briefly engulfed my entire online presence? Figured I’d come back with something a little different this time- a canon spinoff work, namely My Little Pony: The 2014 Holiday Comic, by IDW, an actual honest-to-god comics company and not some random person on the Internet with an overly edgy RWBY avatar.

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2608: My life as Spitfire: A sex-ed story. — One-Shot

Title: My life as Spitfire: A sex-ed story.
Author: Duskrunner
Media: Television
Topic: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Genre: Romance, Slice of Life, Sex PSA
URL: Entire Fic
Critiqued by AdmiralSakai and Serketry

-WARNING-

In case the title did not give it away, this ‘fic attempts to discuss sex and relationships in some detail. The fact that it is on the Library should tell you how well it succeeded.

Expect not just somewhat more frank addressing of anatomy than is normal for polite conversation, but also the introduction of MRA-y talking points and authorial reactions to same.

Also, this riff is about twice as long as our usual maximum– that’s why it’s going up on Monday instead of Tuesday, so that people have some more time to read it and wade through its somewhat weightier subject matter before Taco’s comes along.

Hello hello all you patrons!

After the fascist fizzle that was To Last A Thousand Years, I’m about ready to go back to Mass Effect: The First War, but before then I felt like staking a one-shot or two, so… here we are, with… My Life as Spitfire: A sex-ed story., which I can only read in the same way as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Also, yes, the period is indeed part of the title.

Howdy y’all, Serketry here. I can tell the Admiral here’s getting a little bogged down at RiffCon, so I thought I’d clock back in and do my part to lighten the load, as it were. A janitor’s work is never done. 

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Fillertacular Special: AdmiralSakai and Serketry Riff Even More Godawful MLP Fanart (And A Wikipedia Page)

Hello hello all you patrons! Somebody didn’t post something somewhere, or something, so we’ve got an empty posting slot and a crapton of terrible MLP fanworks that Serketry and I riffed in Steam chat- and also a random Wikipedia page that pissed me off and I bothered him about. So let’s dive back into the wonderful world of anthropomorphic horse-girl pinups, bizarre facial expressions, and EEEEDGE!

As always, expect some rather more risque than usual visuals, and Serketry will be in bold.

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