So I had, uh, ‘feelings’ watching No Second Prances this weekend.

Quick summary for those who don’t watch MLP but are still interested:

Trixie is a magician, and wants to do what she calls the greatest trick in the world: launching yourself from a cannon into the mouth of a manticore, who chews you up and swallows you, except then you step out of a nearby box completely unharmed. She doesn’t know how to do it, but Starlight, her new friend, says she can help by using her magic to teleport Trixie into the box.

They then have a fight and Starlight leaves, and Trixie, brokenhearted, launches herself into the manticore during her show anyway. Of course, Starlight had a change of heart and saved her, and there’s a happy ending.

The thing is, it actually made me super uncomfortable watching this, even though it’s really right up my alley, obviously. I’ve noticed I feel that way a lot when there’s vore stuff in ‘normal’ media. I had the same reaction to the MLP comics, you know, that once time a ‘good’ guy straight up murdered the issue’s villain by feeding him to a hydra. Same with the ending of Shrek, Dude Where’s My Car, and so on and so on.

I think it comes down to intent. The people writing these thing’s don’t (I assume) know anything about vore; they’re just coming up with an amusing/ironic/fitting/etc. ending for a bad guy.

And I think that’s why I’m uncomfortable. It’s because these show creators have unintentionally created something that a fairly large community considers fetish fuel. It’s played for laughs or horror, but it has a rather different meaning to me, and for some reason that conflict makes it into something of a turnoff for me.

I mean, not enough that I won’t draw something about it. I mean, let’s be realistic here.

I have been working on stuff to post here, actually, though not vore stuff, just generic smutty stuff. Obviously, given this episode, I sketched something up quick.

The funny thing is, I had a one page comic thing I was going to make that was just like this, involving Trixie putting on a show. Of course, now that the episode did the same thing, I’ll be abandoning that idea and you’ll never know what it was.

(just kidding, I’ll start working on that in the next week or three)