Totally Legit Recap: "A Rockhoof and a Hard Place" Season 8 Episode 21 (Patreon)

This episode was about suicide. I'm not crazy, right? I had a friend try to tell me that it wasn't, because being turned to stone is a process that can be reversed, so technically Rockhoof wouldn't actually be dead, but to me that's missing the point. Yeah, sure, a little girl's horse cartoon can' t have a character /actually/ hang himself, but the metaphor feels so obvious that they're practically bludgeoning you over the head with it.

On a more serious note, these videos have gotten out of hand lately, and this one was my attempt to steer them back to what I want them to be. They've been getting longer and longer and more crammed full of "1000 hours in ms paint"-tier edits that only flash on the screen for 2 seconds but take hours to make. Back in seasons 6/7 when I was doing every episode on a weekly basis, the whole thing was inherently self-limiting because I had a finite amount of time for each one. Once I decided to abandon that schedule, I fell into a constant game of one-upmanship with myself, trying stuff more and more shit into each video that ultimately added almost nothing to people's enjoyment of them. It slowed my production to a crawl and made the video editing portion of it - which was already my least favorite part - a miserable slog. I like writing jokes. I like making weird little musical segments. I like yelling into a microphone. I /hate/ video editing.

There are exceptions; I enjoyed doing the Horse Play one for the most part because it was a new experience. I also love doing horrible shit like Trixie making Glimmer suck her dick. If it's funny, then it's worth it. Other than that though, there's been a slowly-evolving misallocation of effort here. I've been putting less and less work into the parts of this "job" that I actually enjoy - which also seem to be the parts that you guys get enjoyment out of - and way, way too much into throwing an endless, spastic string of flashy bullshit onto the screen. If I'm gonna keep doing this through season nine, I need to remember why I started in the first place and make it fun for myself again.

Definitely a tl;dr here, since I don't usually say much of substance in these posts, but I figure if anyone cares enough to read what's what's going on in my head, it's the people giving me money.

Thanks for that btw.