Come one and all to the meta-writefag and help raise the quality of MLP fanfiction! Featuring: A 15 author thinktank banding together to try to make a single good HiE!

ITT: Believe in what makes your penis harder, the different levels of self-insert, the masterpiece of a retarded 14 year old edgelord, Luna's Minecraft garden, a going-into-fics machine, a tornado of autism, a crossover with Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, literally the whole universe can watch Luna orgasm, groomed at the sweet tender age of thrity fucking two, walking into a Waffle House and getting surprised when you get shot, what is all this trans stuff doing in my story about trans stuff, rigging the vote so everyone writes your fetish, faith in /fimfic/'s sexual prowess, a theme of >rape, trying to not be retarded for a moment, and not happily sticking your dick in a mousetrap!

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Previous Thread: >>42231758

So, what's the theme for the anthology going to be?

2nd for best 2uo!
Enjoy this conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/429016/vertigo

>>42257009
The only flag ponies should be carrying is the equestrian flag. It also doesn’t make sense for ponies to carry them given that in equestria no pony is mentally ill
>but what about that one barking pony
They were just being freaky on purpose

At least it's not Applejack's autistic Twilight clone

>>42257014
What about the Crystal Empire's flag?

>>42257110
The Crystal Empire is just an Equestrian puppet state.

>>42257111
Shouldn't it be called a Principality then?
This little girl's cartoon is playing fast and loose with feudal statehood

>>42257014
But what about the Jolly Roger?

>>42257111
No I think they're still ponies.

>>42257128
Maybe the Crystal Empire existed first and when the roles reversed they never changed the name.

>Hold It Together is still dead
Pain peko

figured I'd post my first fic in here, since you all seem like you know what you're doing: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/576075/the-blood-is-love
nowhere near finished, but I'd still like some feedback on how it's going, be it good or bad

>>42257302
Something about that title irks me, but I don't have the English Lit credentials to properly articulate it.

>>42257131
Based Captain Twilight flying the blood red moon (surrender or die) and then killing everyone on a Storm King airship in Cadenza Prophecies

>>42257302
>A primal screech fled my lips
Bats?
Read just the first chapter, but I thought it was quite good. It's very pretty, and the premise is interesting. I like what you do with the musical motifs, and the atmosphere is great. However, the paragraph breaks are used a little too liberally. It comes across as you trying to put emphasis on every little thing, and so the whole thing ends up feeling a bit melodramatic. First person is always an interesting choice, and you play to its strengths, so no complaints there.

>>42257529
I will say, Chapter 1 is meant to be very melodramatic. I'm not sure how the paragraph breaks apply in Chapter 2... It's a very different sort of chapter. Let me know how it feels there, if you wind up reading it.

>>42257948
Any good Trixie fics?

>>42257003
This is going to die unless we pick a theme soon. Here are some possibilities:
>Social unrest
>Food
>Death and taxes
>Community spirit
>Secret lairs
>Homosexuality

>>42258160
Here's a few more, with varying relevance to pony.
>Addiction
>Money
>Flight
>Natural disasters
>Revenge
>Insanity
>Conspiracy theories
>Isolation

>>42258115
Eyes on You is very good; one of the better shipfics on the site, imo.
And they aren't as good, but I also liked both The Rariad and Kindness's Reward.
I should probably mention The Moonstone Cup since it has plenty of Trixie and it's a "classic", but on my reread I thought it kinda sucked.

>>42258160
Sisterly love

>>42258166
>>42258160
The taxes one was funny, but I have to admit the idea of natural disasters attracts me.

>>42258254
You really are intent on making this another superstorm, aren't you?

>>42258267
What killed the superstorm--amongst orher things--was scope creep. We were trying to tackle half a dozen plotlines before the storm even hit.
Having Ponyville be struck by a wildfire, or an earthquake, and then have the story deal with the fallout, would be uch more straightforward.

>>42258284
I've got a better cataclysm in mind, given what month it is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb?useskin=vector

>>42258289
>implying we'd finish this month

>>42258300
I've got faith. And failing that, adderall.

>>42257529
>Bats?
They do stay up at night.

>>42258476
You do know what they say about bats. About stopping them, and maybe even about making them leave and not come back.

>>42258302
Faith seems like a good theme.
:^)

>reading a fic describing good food
>get hungry
Dammit

>>42258899
You do faith and i'm just gonna write shit like the 36 Lessons of Vivec but Celestia

>>42259102
>reading a fic describing childhood trauma
>get aroused
Heck

>>42259251
Isn't that a sign of brain damage?

How do you guys come up with pony names it's so fugging hard being original

>>42259664
Don't be "original", just make sure the pony name fits the pony in some way. Or maybe even a misleading way if you want to have more fun with it

>>42259664
[Adjective] [Noun] has never failed me.

>>42259664
What kind of pone are you making a name for? Mark? Speciality? Personality?

>>42259705
>Mark
none
>Speciality
double penetration
>Personality
semen demon from cradle to grave

>>42259710
>name
Your Mom

>>42259714
Teen motherhood would explain a lot of this thread's ails.

>>42259664
Pony names are just silly puns or turns of phrases. You could do a pony named Melting Pot whose parents are Hot Pot and Patty Melt.

>>42259710
Double Trouble

>>42259762
Glory Hole

>>42259766
I'd suggest Gloryhole instead.
The show does it both ways, but when two short words are used as a pony's name, I find that removing the short pause by making it one word usually rolls off the tongue better. Not always (Babsseed would be awful), but often enough, and it's nice to have some one-word names for variety.

>>42259791
It'll always be Starswirl to me...

>>42259797
is there history to Starswirl vs Star Swirl?

>>42259879
It's sort of like Cadence vs Cadance where a bunch of things spelled it various ways (even though Cadance makes no fucking sense in any capacity). I think, officially, it's Star Swirl.

Unless Star Swirl in G1 is Starswirl. In which case I fucking hate toy companies.

>>42259669
>>42259705
Shit..I'm struggling with an MLP name because I haven't finished properly realizing the character yet.
Thanks for the replies but also..shit.

>>42259963
>shit
That's an excellent idea: call the pony Shit Post.

What's the title of the member of staff you'd speak to in the process of getting into the palace for an audience with Celestia? A front door guard, or some member of staff like a herald/chamberlain? Usher? Steward?

>>42260039
Me

>>42259963
And here I am unable to stop coming up with terrible punny names.

>>42260039
Chamberlain or appointment secretary, according to my mom.

>>42255165
>>42255180
It wouldn't have to human or even sci-fi. One of the beautiful things of a theme is ability to take it in unexpected directions. "First contact" can mean any number of things, from the most obvious, to some weird comedy fic where Pinkie thinks she poisoned herself by touching something she never did before.

>>42255673
Appears to be her second attempt to get her website traffic. She tried this previously and got a fraction of the audience fimfic provided. The allure of horsefame was too much and she came back. I suspect the same thing will happen. You just gotta give it a few months.

>>42259664
You think of the job the character does, then you think of simple words or two word terms relating to it.
Gardener:
>Tree Graft
>Grass Seed
>Greenhouse
>Raised Garden

>>42259879
>>42259886
"Starswirl" was a G1 pony. The words were split for unknown reasons in G3, so the trademark Hasbro currently has, and the name of the G4 character, is "Star Swirl".

>>42260039
In Great Britain, it's the monarch's Private Secretary who deals with audiences. In Japan, it was the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. So you can basically invent some title or office that handles petitions/audiences then spin up some lore to explain their history if you feel like it.

>>42260039
It's called Luna with some measuring tape. Under eight inches won't get you anywhere.

>>42260081
idk i still like the tax one. There's a lot to be done there, and stealing from pre-reboot Futurama always works.

>>42259963
Or you could go with a barely-disguised pop culture reference.

I've been wanting to write a story with Tree Hugger and have her friends have names like Peppermint Incense, Strawberry Fields, and Crimson Clover.

>>42258166
>>Conspiracy theories
You should do this, but all the theories should turn out to be wrong.
Probably too ambitious, but each chapter should involve disproving the previous chapter's theory and figuring out what's _really_ going on.

>>42260665
"I keep telling you, the gryphons can't be behind everything. It's got to be a cabal of changelings."

>>42260665
>let's make it an anthology instead of a corpse so we can write each chapter in parallel instead of sequentially
>"okay, but make it an interconnected story where each chapter relies on the previous one"
Anon...

Can we please just agree with a simple theme and start writing?

>>42260744
It's friendship is magic, not agreement is magic.

>>42257001 (OP)
I've been away for a while, where can I grab the most up-to-date fimfiction backup these days? I see there was some drama involving fimfetch. Building a home server and would like a full local copy.

>>42258284
>What killed the superstorm--amongst orher things--was scope creep.
What killed it was endless arguing over what the scope should be and never settling on anything in particular. /fimfic/'s primary problem is that nobody wants to make a final decision, because there will always be someone getting mad about it.

>>42260845
It's still the fimfarchive.

Any good underrated stories?

>>42261329
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/500819/

Are there any good high adventure/fantasy stories about Twilight? I don't know if The Immortal Game or Schemering Sintel count, but I've already got The Sword Coast in my to-read list. Any others?

Is there any way to seach fimfiction.net for authors who are taking commissions

>>42261425
Twilight Sparkle of the Royal Guard.

>>42261425
This >>42261464 and the Alicorn Adventures series (celestia code) is all about her. Like two whole books are her just being a pirate captain and I haven't even started the last one yet

Anyone else been having problems with fimfic progress tracking? As I'm scrolling through a story I'll get a little pop up every couple minutes that says "error: signature is incorrect". This also happens if I try to manually just check the "read" box next to chapters.

>>42260744
No, this project is doomed. Nobody here writes stories. All we ever do is shitpost and suck dick and shitpost and bitch at each other and shitpost and whine and… When was the last time anyone here ever finished a story? No, we’re a bunch of poseurs. This thread will never accomplish anything.

>>42261496
I had hoped that it wouldn't be necessary, but we're going to have to go back to a showing of hands.
https://strawpoll.com/mpnb1pzOby5
Here's all the hat pulls from earlier in the thread. Pick your three favourites, or turn in your horse literati credentials. We'll work out which ones are preferred and then narrow it down further.

>>42261425
Apotheosis and most of Within and Without
Nine Days Down, except for the last arc.

>>42261521
>Indecision (Other)
Heh.

>come up with joke premise (as a joke)
>suddenly start to want to write it for real

>>42257001 (OP)
Anyone know what happened to this fic.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/577158/1/stupid-anon-adventure/00-twilight-summoned-anon-part-1-and-2-prologue

>>42259664
Speaking of, was it ever established how orphan names are handled? I never watched past season 4 so I have to real idea. The best I came up with is that they're given generic good sounding names, which is why two characters I wrote are named Resplendence and Sublime

>>42261956
You mean foundlings? Because most orphans still had parents at one point.

And I'd assume if they didn't come with a name it'd be something related to how they look or something.

>>42261961
They'd get a name related to their job just like everypony else. A name like Loose Hole or Cock Sleeve.

>>42262080
The only pony of the mane 6 with a name related to their job is Applejack.

getting somewhere and going places

>>42262105
That's impressive I can barely juggle six or seven characters in my stories

>>42262112
I made one for every anon that's openly jacked it to RD.

>>42260845
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1084948/fimfarchive-20250601-released
Most recent backup dropped at the beginning of the month. It's only done quarterly, so any fics posted between March 1 and June 1 that were also deleted in that time are either on Fimfetch or gone.

>>42261425
Rites of Ascension, but it likely will never be finished at the current pace of writing due to the author's health problems.

>>42261428
https://www.fimfiction.net/search/blog-posts?q=commission+-verified&s=date

That "-verified" is to filter out the tons of spam blog posts.

>>42261956
The show never even established orphans are a thing. I'm going to say a mage scries the mists or does a ouiji board thing to divine a name for them because it sounds cool, or maybe just the unicorns do that and the earth ponies and pegasi do some other lore thing.

>>42262083
Pinkie works at a bakery, so her name counts, too.

what is the proper way of responding to a non-hostile comment by someone you utterly detest?

>>42262183
Just let it out. You can't hurt me more than she did.

>>42262183
backhanded compliment

>>42261521
Morning pointer towards the poll, if anyone hasn't filled it out already. I'll take the most popular options and put up another one in the evening.

>>42262124
>The show never even established orphans are a thing
DYEWTS? Not pony orphans, granted, but the blue faggot was pretty explicitly parentless. Also there's orphanages in the comics fwtw.

>>42262407
>the blue faggot was pretty explicitly parentless
Que?

>>42262407
>Not pony orphans, granted
And so, irrelevant, because he doesn't have destiny, and his name doesn't matter.

For ponies, they could be given the wrong name while they don't know it and then they could retake their original name when they get their cutie mark.

>>42262183
Ask them for makeup sex.

>>42262413
What the fuck was their problem

>>42262502
>starfield

>>42262785
what getting dumped by starswirl does to a mf

>>42262846
>Starswirl
But that's her dad.

>>42262869
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_complex

>>42259106
>You do faith and i'm just gonna write shit
could have stopped right there

>>42262124
>so any fics posted between March 1 and June 1 that were also deleted in that time are either on Fimfetch or gone.
So what you're saying is there is no comprehensive archive of fics out there?

>>42261496
>No, we’re a bunch of poseurs.
>poseurs
Except for yourself, I see! Very impressive.

>>42261521
>community spirit
>homosexuality
>indecisiveness
These 3 encapsulate /fimfic/ perfectly, so I vote for these.

>>42261956
>I never watched past season 4

Alright, let's see what we've got. Rather than another vote, let's take a look at the overall most popular picks and try to work out which ones inspire the most ideas. Here are my at-a-glance takes, and I'd encourage everyone to throw in their own.

>Homosexuality
I suppose it is, indeed, pride month. I'm not personally inclined to writing romance, but there's angles you could take with self-discovery or interpersonal comedy.

>Conspiracy theories
Rich grounds here for coming up with the kinds of conspiracies that ponies might believe in. Could be really funny, depending on how original we can get with it.

>Death and taxes
Life's two certainties. I like this one. You could interpret this to write about inevitability or irresistible authority.

>Secret lairs
Might be my personal top pick. You started imaginging what your favourite pony's Bond villain base would look like when you saw this one, didn't you? I certainly did.

>Natural disasters
Even though there's a whole lot of natural disasters to choose from, I worry that a lot of the ideas for these might end up playing out too similarly.

>Indecision
Might be funny, given the circumstances. Open-ended, too, so it'd create a lot of variety in our output. I wouldn't mind this one.

>>rape
Behave yourselves.

>Stop fucking making these
https://strawpoll.com/7rnzVeE3anO

>>42263115
Weakness.

>>42263192
>https://strawpoll.com/7rnzVeE3anO
here's my choice ^:)

>homosexuality
joke option
>conspiracy theories
actually has a ton of flexibility and potential
>death and taxes
bit too "pony in name only" imo
>secret lairs
this will undoubtedly be super repetitive and boring
>natural disasters
joke option, it's superstorm all over again
>indecision
joke option, but has a looot of potential as well

>>42263219
>bit too "pony in name only" imo
Do you think horses don't pay taxes?

>>42263225
Of course not. All public services are funded by Celestia, who conjures up more money (in secret, so as not to devalue the currency). Also there's UBI which is why Fluttershy even has any money.

>>42263225
They certainly don't die. Do they..?

>>42263250
>posts the pony who canonically experienced death and loss moreso than any other pony

>>42263258
>spells out the joke
At what age were you diagnosed?

>>42263258
>moreso than any other pony
Debatable, we have at least another "lost both parents" mare in G5, and you can make an argument for Celestia have experienced more loss as well.

>>42262623
Three miscarriages and a low sperm count.

>>42263275
shit...

>>42263192
>homosex
>rap music
>stop fricking making these
All meme answers, into the trash
>Conspiracy theories
My vote tbdesu, this seems like the most fun and potentially varied
>Secret lairs
>Natural disasters
Both of these have potential, but in all likelihood will mostly feel pretty samey
>Indecision
>Death and taxes
Both are interesting, but they don't immediately spark the imagination like you'd hope

>>42263623
>taxes
I liked the original idea of everypony getting a bigger tax return. We each get assigned a pony, and we write what they do with the extra income. Shenanigans would ensue.

>>42263416
It'll get better, my friend. If nothing else you could always just adopt.

>>42263683
>We each get assigned a pony
You know, coordinating something like this could also be pretty neat.

>>42263757
It wouldn't be too complex, would it?
We determine how many people will particiapte, we choose an equal number of ponies, we use some RNG to assign everyone a pony, and everyone gets to write.

>>42263799
There's stuff that lets you pull names out of a hat, basically.

I'm not trusting any of you faggots to do muh waifu justice.

>>42263799
>>42263757
To this, I'd add a short prologue where Pony IRS workers notice the error and determine each pony will get, I'unno, 500 bits each, and speculate about how it'll impact Equestria's economy before we move into the chapters proper.

>anthology about an extra tax return
>just got a 6k tax refund
Neat

>>42263821
Grats, Anon
Will you spend them on pony?

>>42263828
Maybe a bit

>>42263832
Just one bit? Don't be so stingy.

>>42263815
How much was a bit worth, anyway?

>>42263944
Hovering around $107k at the moment.

What god do you prefer ponies swear to? Megan, the Maker, Harmony, or Faust

>>42264287
In canon, they usually say "Thank Celestia." I tend to prefer that.

>>42264297
They also say "my stars" or "oh my stars" a few times. I've used that when swearing to Celestia didn't seem appropriate.

>>42264302
Or "my goodness", or something about apples.

>>42264308
if Applejack moans out something relating to apples mid-coitus, does that count as a Freudian slip?

>>42264319
Depends on what cultivar she's shouting about. It was "McIntosh", wasn't it?

>>42264287
Faust in my headcanon, but it's too cringe to actually write. I just have them swear to Celestia, or Luna to be a little quirky.

>>42264322
Goodness, no, that would be ever so beastly.
It was Granny Smith.

>>42264326
>Twilight and Luna are having sex
>As Twilight orgasms, she screams, "Oh, Celestia!"

>>42264332

>>42264332
>>42264326
>hook up with a cute mare
>she screams, "Oh Chrysalis!" mid-coitus
>suddenly get a sneaking feeling you're already entrapped and being harvested of your emotions

>>42264338
Good luck extracting anything out of my cold black heart.

>>42263118
No, there isn't. But there never was if you wanted 100% of stories. Fimfarchive's the best you'll get now. Most fics that would slip through it are getting deleted a day or two after posting and even pre-moralfag Fimfetch wasn't perfect at grabbing those.

And there's also the countless lost fics from the pre-Fimfiction days where everything was on gdocs and png screenshots.

>>42263815
The "host" author could do the intro and outro chapters to comply with Fimfic's co-author rules.

>>42263944
If we go off their first appearance (AJ imagining making money from the Gala), then 8 bits is worth a peck of apples, which is about $16, so 1 bit = $2. In S2, a tomato costs between 1-2 bits. In my area, you can get fresh farmer's market tomatoes for about $1 each. There's a few outliers, like Cherry Berry renting her balloon for 4 bits or a single cherry selling for 2, but generally it seems the writers were pegging it fairly close to the dollar.

>>42264395
>gdocs and png screenshots
I just had a visceral flashback to an era of the fandom I never experienced.

>>42264362
>they can take my cum, but not my love

>>42261329
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/536175/dawn-adopted

Easily one of the best Cozy fics out there, though the beginning may be a little slow. I love it a lot.

>>42263757
>>42263799
>>42263683
>>42263815
Didn't we literally have a vote and decide we were doing a theme and not a prompt? Why are you circling back to a prompt now, and one for a theme that wasn't even among the ones with the most votes?
I like the idea of each writer getting a randomly assigned pony though, that will help with variety.

>>42265076
Because we're retarded and can't settle on a theme.
At this point I think we would be better off if someone picked the theme and everyone followed through.
Not me, though.

>>42261521
I'm curious, could you give a breakdown of choices by nationality?

I voted 5 times btw

I have written the bane of /fimfic/: [Comedy] [Random]:

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579004/royal-inheritance

>>42265497
Finished it.
It's [Comedy] [Random]

>>42265376
>just 5 times
Why do you care so little?

>>42265497
Hah, I was wondering if I'd ever see that concept done.
(Also given the thousand year gap how many ponies would have to have fucked the princesses to be descended from them anyway)

yo e-reader gang, where do you get your ebooks from? I just bought something from amazon, then saw that you cant really download them anymore and immediately returned it

>>42265583
Accurate. 1000 years is 40 generations and apparently a lot of countries that aren't diverse are 8th to 10th cousins on average.
If the princesses were sucking and fucking like Rarity on a slow day, most ponies would descend from them easily.

>>42265589
Your search engine of choice.

>>42265589

>>42263687
oh I'm just feeling feels at the idea of RD's parents being so overwhelmingly loving and supportive because they struggled with pregnancy in the past
personally I'm young, virile, fertile, and attractive irl

>>42264395
>>42264398
>checking EqD for fic updates at school and opening that google doc for the latest Fallout Equestria chapter on my Nokia Symbian smartphone
Life will never feel like that again

>>42265589
google reddit piracy megathread books
or just book name + epub

I vaguely remember a story about Celestia and Luna being two of the four horses of the Apocalyps. Might have been a green or something. Anyone know what the story is called?

>>42265213
What even is a theme?

>>42265589
Calibre has a DeDRM plugin which interacts with other reader software to strip DRM so the file can be read arbitrarily, although it is not trivial to use. I used it when I was using the local library's ebook rental, though.

>>42265749
I mean why else would they be
It's not like she's all that great

>>42265990
They get off on babying her.

>>42266112
Holy FUCK THAT IS HOT

>>42266135
I agree. Dash's mom is hot.

>>42266135
Okay Haruka.

>>42265749
>RD's parents being so overwhelmingly loving and supportive because they struggled with pregnancy in the past
Fics for this feel?
Windy Whistles fics that aren't HiE cuckshit?

>>42266354
That's Fae's headcanon he pushes every fucking thread and on other boards too so look at his profile, he has a fic about it.

>>42266354
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/156093/the-empty-crib

>>42266362
What about MY headcanon that Rarity's mom and Spoiled Rich are sisters?
>same color scheme
>same relative naming scheme (cookie crumbles vs spoiled milk)
>would explain sort of why she's a gold digging bitch

>>42266112
The only way Dashie can escape this is if she starts babying them back.

>>42266408
That makes way too much sense.

>>42266408
Does that mean thaat those Sweetie BellexDiamond Tiara fics are now incest?

>>42266472
Only if you think that makes them hotter.

>>42266472
Does it matter when Applebloom/Diamond Tiara is better?

>>42266529
>>42266472
Diamond may mind control and dom all the CMC but her heart belongs to Silver.

>>42266408
I have two close friends with the same name and a few minor similarities, are they brothers?

>>42266607
Reality isn't beholden to purposeful design.

>>42266607
MLP names are a bit more deliberate than two douchebags named Travis.

Has there been anything worth reading released this year so far?

Also, what are some fics with this sort of dichotomy in their story?

>>42265589
I sometimes wonder if I have “““downloaded””” enough books for the authorities to consider making an example out of me.

>>42267025
>Has there been anything worth reading released this year so far?
Everything highly rated so far is daybreaker HiE centric, so unless you like anon inhabiting the body of evil lady Celestia

>>42266607
Yes, because that way it’s hotter when they fuck.

>>42265589
I signed up for Bookbub and get the daily email. There's usually a choice between Amazon and Google for the books. I always go with Google because of the family library feature Google's got. Most of Bookbub's selection is garbage but there's been some interesting books for cheap every once in a while and there's usually at least one free one per day to try to bait you into a new generic fantasy/sci-fi/thriller/etc. series.

If you don't want to pay $2 a book or read the first of a ten part series, you can check your local library and see what library app they use. Libby and hoopla were the ones mine uses. All you need is your library card number to get on. The downside is the library can only loan one "copy" of the ebook at a time, so on especially popular books you'll be forced onto a waitlist. Then, when you get it, you got two weeks to read it before you have to return it.

I've been diving into the high seas as well, but haven't found a good treasure trove yet. Anna's Archive had a good selection, but they do that retarded "download wait timer" thing to try to get you to pay that reminded me of an old 2010s piracy site.

>>42265213
I'm doing it. I'm picking conspiracy theories.

>>42265213
Let's do HIE

>>42267714
Hitler Impregnates Everypony?

>>42267718
I pick Fluttershy.

We should do a metafic about how we're better writers than the hacks in the sinbin, and how HIE and comedy BAD.

>>42261496
Hey, I'm still writing my HiE fic.

>>42267773
I’m going to pass on this. My comedy is still in the sinbin.

I forgot, how long did we have to look over the proofread versions of our fics for the printed thing? I was busy last month and then I got sick, and now I can't remember if I should be rushing to it or if I can do other stuff. I wish not to make the printfriend wait too long.

>>42267773
But Black Dynamite, my fics are in the sinbin.

>>42266472
Sounds like you've got a new prompt to write.

How /pol/ can our conspiracyfics get?

>>42268209
Having an earth pony named Grassy Knoll screaming about alicorns controlling the banks and mass importing non ponies to devalue pony labor should be fine

>>42268226
>alicorns controlling the banks
That's just canon, though.

>>42266632
>>42266675
You faggots really trying to tell me that Cookie Crumbles and Spoiled Milk are "deliberately" "similar" names?

>>42267885
printed thing?

>>42268209
Depends of what flavour of conspiracy you want, there's plenty to go around.

>>42268209
This one has always been a favourite of mine.
>>5007634

None of you faggots are brave enough to tackle a REAL conspiracy.

>>42268209
The solution is to talk about schizo-autistic shit that makes the maximum amount of people seethe.

>>42266408
I'm borrowing this one. That character pairing sounds fun.

>>42268402
My take is that alicornification made her dye job permanent.

>>42268356
There's no use crying over spoiled milk

>>42268548
tell that to diamond tiara

>>42268553
Well she's just gotta learn that's the way the cookie crumbles

>>42268600

>>42268402
delete this. now.

>>42268402
What, that the wings are fake/removable?

I miss filly...

>>42268710
How new?

>>42268720
who?

>>42268720
We know, Q.

If you seek inspiration for writing Celestia, do lookup Charles Grey, the second Earl Grey.

>>42268916
That's not me, I was busy playing a game a friend pestered me to try instead of writing like I should be.

>>42268948
Which one?

>>42268949
If you were good enough at lurking you could actually deduce it from previous conversations in past threads.

>>42268944
If you seek inspiration for writing Celestia, write your mom

You all read books, right? Which book has given you the most inspiration for your horsewords?

>>42268977
DIscwordl

>>42268977
Read the Last Unicorn.

>>42268977
Royal Road has devastated my literary tastes.

>>42268981
For me, it's the manga.

>>42268977
Robert E Howard for non-faggy prose.

>>42268982
It's ponies that have devastated mine. I sometimes can't stop myself from mentally ponifying whatever it is that I'm reading. They really are a mind virus.

>>42268989
I know that feeling. I was a man with dreams once. Now I'm just a vessel for bad horse words.

>>42268999
On the contrary: I was once a man with nothing, and now I have bad horsewords; which isn't much, but it's much more than nothing.

>>42269003
And yet, by the power of horse words each of us are equal; pulled in opposite directions by the same force.

>>42268944
>Charles Grey, the second Earl Grey
Not a name I expected to see here. There's a monument commemorating him in the nearest city to me, as a matter of fact. What about him in particular inspired your recommendation?

>>42269012
What a weird way to admit to living in Sunderland.

>>42269020
>Sunderland
Oh no, I'm on the good side of the river. The city in question is Newcastle.

>>42269057
Please don't share my flat or office. I will do very friendly things to you.

>>42268732
2014…

>>42269090
>Please don't share my flat or office
I'd be very surprised if either were true. I also didn't expect another ponyfag ITT to be up here, either

>>42269090
>>42269164
I'm within train-riding distance of the both of you. Be careful.

>>42269169
Sweetie Belle you're too young to ride a train, this was established as a fact. Which is odd because you're apparently also old enough to be a guidance counselor.

>>42269164
I played a couple of games of the TCG in town a few years ago. I think they even had reasonably big tournaments.

>>42268977
Story of O.

>Feel like I do a thing too much in my writing
>but also like doing that thing so fuck it

>>42268710
No, that Twilight dyes the stripes on her mane and tail. That argument spawned a multi-thread debate that lasted for around a week--and this was peak /mlp/ so it about a thread a day.

>>42268977
Reading Tom Clancy has really revitalized my interest in my long time geopolitical deadfic.

>>42267885
>>42268359
Hi guys, sorry, life has been pretty busy lately, but things have been moving slowly and steadily. I'm almost through the next round of authors (Jinxed, Kassaz, and Not That Anon) who should be getting some proofread copies of their fics with notes in the next day or two. After that, it's just Math Spook and alki, who should expect feedback maybe a week after that.

As far as a deadline goes, I'm aiming to have editing done and dusted by July, so I'll say that if you don't voice any concerns by July 1 I'll move ahead with your fics as they are. I realized that I was probably too heavy with editing the first set of authors, so don't be afraid to push back or tell me that I'm retarded.

>>42269634
I do hope you tell that limey cocksucker to spell his words properly.

Rise and shine, thread!

>>42270238
No.

Think we could get this anthology off the ground before the nukes?

>>42270371
Do we even have a group on the site or anything

>>42270398
I refuse to spoonfeed you fuckers two threads in a row.

>>42270420
I'm saying if you haven't done any sort of announcement or anything, then it's not going to get off the ground.

>>42268967
>gatekeeping someone's personal interest in yourself
the ego on this guy

>>42269634
You're gonna print the /fimfic/ anthology for everyone, right?

>>42269090
>>42269057
>>42269169
I'm about 3.5 hours away.
Anybody wanting their dick sucked by any chance lads?

>>42270760
Not him but I'm going to guess it'll be a thing ordered from a company site? Speaking from experience with similar situations.

>>42270773
Pretty sure he said we're doing Lulu or another such print on demand service.

>>42270644
Motherfucker this is a collab between authors part of the /fimfic/ thread, the posts within this thread are the fucking announcements. Anyway I'm pretty sure people largely agree on conspiracy theories. Do we want to pull names out of a hat for who gets what pony or no? Either way, now's the time where you go to the dedicated and already existing thread in the dedicated and already existing Fimfiction group that was already linked as part of this discussion and voice your interest in participating so whoever decides to run the thing can have a proper list of names.

>>42270802
I thought the vote went for taxes

>>42270808
>https://strawpoll.com/mpnb1pzOby5
Faggotry, rape, and theories all got 5. Taxes got 4, but then people started chimping out about it in spite of that, and cycling back to a prompt instead of a theme, which is why we're still not moving along.

>>42270773
>>42270796
>Lulu or another such print on demand service
That's right, it'll be a lot simpler to distribute physical copies if somebody else does all the logistics for us. I have experience with Lulu, and their printing is cheap enough and good quality.

>>42270760
If Anons are happy with my work, we could certainly have the anthology or corpse printed, maybe as a single volume. Only after we're done with this Hold Your Horsewords thing, though.

>>42270862
>as a single volume
Nah. I didn't contribute to HYH so I don't get a self-indulgent stiffy from the thought of having a printed copy.

>>42270884
No, no, I mean that the corpse and the anthology could be a single volume together. It's good to keep circle jerks properly separated to prevent the spread of venereal disease.

She has posted another raritwi fic

>>42271144
As one does.

>>42271165
what am i looking at

>>42271220
Prolificity

>>42271144
>She
It's a well known fact f*males only write yaoi and fluttercord.

>>42271268
Not true, they also write child abuse

>>42271304
write what you know, eh?

>>42271312
But I don't know shit...

>>42271268
lol, you made me question if monochromatic had trooned out at some point and I didn’t know because I don’t keep up with obscure mlp fanfiction drama.

>>42271485
monochromatic is a chick tho

>>42271489
You are confused anon.

>>42271498
NTA but I also thought monochromatic was a biological (i.e. real) woman

>>42271503
You're getting gaslit by posters that are intimidated by her.

>>42265820
Pretty sure that was Bleedin'.

>>42271515
We had it so good back then...

>>42271581
Stop mourning the past and start making the future. The path to salvation is paved with good horsewords.

>>42271512
Mentally ill women are not very intimidating imho

>>42271804
If that's the attitude you have, it's even more ridiculous.

>>42271344
Good, then you can’t write scat.

>>42271840
>unicode apostrophe
perish.

https://strawpoll.com/xVg7170dGyr
Final vote to select a theme. I picked five of the top seven results from the previous poll that people actually seemed enthusiastic about in the thread.

>>42270802
We need to confirm a final theme. Since it's an anthology, I'm fine just letting people pick whatever character they want. It's okay to have multiple uses of the same pone since each chapter is completely independent of the others.

>>42272052
but what about my epic overarching narrative?

>>42272052
I'm not voting in your stupid poll. Let's discuss this on FIMfiction.

>>42272108
>FIMfiction
That's for posers. Let's discuss it on the discord.

>have 3 fics I should be working on
>spend hours upon hours reading rationalfics instead
They're not even pony.

>>42272177
HPMOR sequels?

>>42272111
>discord
That's for the uninitiated. Let's discuss it on the facebook messenger video call.

Bookclub anchorpost might be a little delayed, but it's the last time, I swear!

It's over for bookclubs...

I can't believe it's not (really) Discord, in
>/FSBC/

It's five minutes past bookclub time as I start writing this, so I haven't actually finished the fic. I pause right before the epilogue. But I believe that's enough to write the post, and I'll finish it right away!

So, I should start with what I missed from last week. And the truth is, it was really good! Both of the mini-arcs last week were pretty great (not great-great, but pretty great), and I thought that everything the fic wanted to do there simply worked. It is not the most sophisticated story, with deep character arcs, etc. But stories are allowed to be light and simple reads, provided they don't mess that up. This one most certainly didn't. Both Star Swirl and Clover are fun to read, each for their own reasons. I need to take back some of my praise for the implications of Luna's banishment—sadly, it was less clever than I thought it'd be. It still makes for a nice side point to add some characterization to Starswirl and why he's the way he is. I also liked how much this fic respected canon—from the bugs to his big MMC spell, it all fits really nicely despite being set ~900 years before the show.
And I guess there's the Wasponies morality debate in the fic.
Back to the characters, this is a fantastic Starswirl. You really feel just how powerful he is and the burden of his age, decisions, and various pacts and dark magic he'd studied and/or bargained with. The scene where he lets out the blood magic to save Clover was honestly a pretty good and dramatic, tense action scene. Despite that, he's so fundamentally Pony that it all works really well in a ponyfic. Everypony here is very pony, actually, Clover's parents notwithstanding. Even the cultists. I must also disagree with the anon who said that Starswirl has just one flaw—the old mage's moment of doubt showed it the best.

Putting this all aside, I figured out what the fic is. [Random] here isn't just for the first part of the fic; it's there to show that we'll be doing all kinds of genres and stories in the fic. Most of them are connected alright. The mixing of genres, cool ideas, and was executed well. The chapter where Clover takes a particularly tame Shoggoth for a walk was the funniest part of the fic by a lot, and the escalation of the final "Salt is hydraphilic" joke killed me. Some other jokes are great, too. Actually, the fic leans very heavily into the absurdist kind of humor, and that's nice because I liked it way more than the [Comedy] gags from week 1.
This is all very disorganized, and I might do a follow-up post once I digest the fic a bit, but in general, I liked it. Some parts are better, some are bad, and it'd have been way better if the author didn't put his IRL family issues into the story (or at least something that reads like it A LOT), but I left an updoot. Pleasant little story that I don't regret reading.

Next week, The Creature and The Knight!
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/567461/the-creature

(1/2)

>>42272623
Again, in the middle of this week’s reading, I found myself wondering, “Why am I reading this?”

On the whole, I didn’t like the final arc. It had good moments, but not very many. The most boring parts of the infant multiverse, to me, were all the visits to individual universes. Almost every one of these had no effect on the story. I think I was supposed to be enthralled by the exploration of the personalities of all the characters Clover has met along the way. But I wasn’t. It was all predictable. I kept wondering when she was going to accomplish something. The effect was an endless drag.

Clover continues to be clever. She’s sweet, and I like her. Star Swirl wasn’t really around, which might be part of why I enjoyed this arc less. There was a lack of humor this week, though that’s fairly common in this type of story (it happens in Terry Pratchett, too).

The EqG epilogue chapter was shit. (PSA: According to the author’s blog, that Star Swirl is Star Swirl of the Void, the Star Swirl from the first arc whose universe was destroyed.)

I do think the story is better than a lot of the fics on the site, but I don’t think it’s really good. For me, it doesn’t hit high enough highs to earn a thumbs up or low enough lows to earn a thumbs down. The final author’s note mentions a sequel, and I have to admit to feeling some relief when I checked the author’s list of stories and decided the sequel hadn’t come to pass. This way, at least I feel like I’m done.

>>42272623
I read *almost* the whole thing, but the last chapter + the two epilogues are still unread. ~75k words in a week was just too much for me. I would just delay posting by a couple hours to catch up, but unfortunately I have familial obligations today and can only stick around for about the first hour of club. It's a very disappointing ending to clubbing a fic I really enjoyed.

So this is going to be a sloppy and ad hoc writeup, but I thought the fic was witty in a way that was really entertaining. Sure it was cheap and kind of trite a lot of the time, but it still managed to put a smile on my face. Something I appreciated was also that the fic didn't feel the need to insist upon its own jokes and harp on them to the audience. If a joke didn't land, no matter, we've already moved on to the next thing, and the jokes that did land benefitted from a certain dryness in the delivery that saved them from being obnoxious. There was plenty that never even got a punchline, like the CMC-Star Swirls from week 2. I also like all the little references to stuff like the "Coltyssey" or the "Epic of Gilgamane". It's cheap, but it made me feel clever for understanding very surface-level cultural knowledge. At least, I got the sense that the author was fairly knowledgeable or educated, more than you'd expect from the kind of person who'd write comedy-random. It would be very easy to dismiss the fic on the basis of its genre or the apparent tone, but it's really well put together if you get to know it. In fact, I think it the fic as a whole was elevated to about the best you could do with those two tags, low bar that that is.

Clover was great, I really liked her, a bit of a Mary Sue but she was sympathetic enough. I got the strong sense that the author was a woman during several parts, or at least on the effeminate-fruity side. It's hard to put into words, but I'm sure somebody knows what I mean. Clover struck a good enough balance between being the straight-mare and being odd enough on her own to contribute to the absurd setting/humour. Uh, .............asdf and I liked Star Swirl, too. He was cool by the end of the fic, and I enjoyed how we slowly got to know him better and better. The chapter where we take his first-person perspective was great; the fact that we "replayed" the events of the previous chapter through his lens rather than merely seeing new events did a great job at shedding light on his thought process.

>>42272632
And all of the side characters were extremely vivid on their own merits, too. Bunnies was probably my favourite (making hoof-worship cool since 2013), but Ginny and even Tarsus were great fun. The cultists, especially during those last couple chapters where we see their dream worlds, were surprisingly pitiful/sympathetic creatures. I also often bemoan falling back on tropes like "enter a dream world to symbolise working through mental issues", but the author did it really well here. I loved how Dean Cinch's perspective was reflected by the dark, dreary, conspiratorial atmosphere of her world, and how Cutting Edge was hiding a secret, sensitive childhood memory. It was also funny how Swirly Star, bitch that she is, consciously chose to block off her own world from Clover.

Overall, this was one of my favourite club fics we've read, even if one must admit that it's likely extremely hit-or-miss with regards to its audience. Does that make sense? I mean that I liked it (and think that it's technically good) even if other anons probably don't. I think I'll even give it a favourite (once I finish the damn thing).

>>42272623
(2/2)
As for things that actually happened in week 3, I have less to say. Well, I'm glad I read the PR arc right before week 3 because the final arc was very disappointing. I don't know; it felt like the fic tried to be more 'epic' in giving Clover her own big adventure, but it was bad. Honestly, you could cut 50% of it and be left with something better. When the fic tries to give backstory to the cultist, it doesn't really do anything important with it. 2/3 of her visits culminate with NOTHING as the resolution. Wow! It had some nicer moments—of course it did—and I understand why the author chose to focus on Clover there (very pointedly, with Starswirl literally saying "I'll let her deal with this"). I suppose that's also showing some character development for him, but eh. I'd have preferred to read one more of their shared adventures instead.
And I'm rambling and the replies are already there, so I'll maybe get to responding instead.
Clover's dad also made the story so much worse whenever he was on the page.

>>42272623
[VOTING]
Since Mono's fics are a 1-week reading, here are some ideas:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/519321/sorry-we-missed-you
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/22148/rainbow-typhoon
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/455858/the-bug-in-the-cave
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/434003/the-archetypist
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/57956/integration

>>42272627
>I didn’t like the final arc. (...) The effect was an endless drag.
Totally. I swear I'm writing my posts before reading anyone else's (in order), but now it looks like I paraphrased you for my opinion here, ha ha.
>She’s sweet, and I like her.
I like Starswirl more, but Clover actually grew on me a lot, too.
>The EqG epilogue chapter
>EqG epilogue chapter
The WHAT? Reading it might change my overall impression of the fic after all.
>it doesn’t hit high enough highs to earn a thumbs up or low enough lows to earn a thumbs down
I can understand that point of view, but to me, "better than a lot of the fics" is enough for a like button. I just think that in the sea of awful and mediocre fics, a story that does something well and doesn't crumble halfway through deserves that updoot. That, and bringing a semi-longfic to completion also earns it some credit. What you're describing as an upvote is more like a Favorites inclusion to me.

>>42272632
>the last chapter + the two epilogues are still unread. ~75k words in a week was just too much for me
Same except I had to read all of that today. Well, minus the epilogues. I've been reading for ~4 hours before the club interrupted me, ha. To the fic's credit, those were pretty good 3-4 hours.
>it still managed to put a smile on my face
Yes, same for me, The Hater of [Comedy], which imo probably means the Comedy part of it was pretty good. That dry delivery you mention was a particularly neat choice.

>>42272623
>It still makes for a nice side point to add some characterization to Starswirl and why he's the way he is
Yeah, I thought "the sun is fake" was a really interesting (and dark) element to add to how light the rest of the fic was. I thought that the thing took place long before either Celestia or Luna, though, but it's probably just a reading comprehension issue on my part. Sure, Star Swirl mentions the princesses, but I thought that it was more about some ancient, primordial princesses (it's pre-HW, after all).
>he's so fundamentally Pony
I agree, the fic hardly ever strays from being "Pony" no matter how weird or absurd things get. That's probably best exhibited by how everypony is still nice, friendly, &c deep down no matter how snippy or antagonistic they are on the surface. It also contrasts nicely with the griffon and to a lesser extent the changeling.
>Putting this all aside, I figured out what the fic is
Ah, see, it just requires a change of view. The whole thing is absurd and episodic, and not even always consistent in tone or time period, which is just like the show in a lot of ways.
>the escalation of the final "Salt is hydraphilic" joke killed me
I don't think I'm there yet, but despite what I said about jokes coming and going quickly, I do like how the fic still manages to build on itself like this. Despite being broken up into several arcs and being all over the place in terms of genre, it's very cohesive over its entire course.
>it'd have been way better if the author didn't put his IRL family issues into the story
Honestly, I think that Clover's dad callously dropping the bombshell of divorce on her right before her exam was probably the best way the author could have salvaged that whole plotline. It's un-pony, but in a way that deliberately contrasts with the rest of the fic in the buildup to the story's climax. It's like a sharp shock, but maybe I'm being too charitable.
I liked that, and also Clover daydreaming about her parents getting back together and telling her they love her. That was also good because it showed that this whole divorce thing wasn't *just* being played for laughs; it, and her parents' loveless marriage overall, was having a very severe effect on Clover and divorce is really just a bad, unhealthy thing in general. It was pretty bleak black comedy, but I thought the author pulled it off dessu.

>>42272627
>The most boring parts of the infant multiverse, to me, were all the visits to individual universes.
I agree it was pretty tropey. In order to enjoy it, you'd have to already care a lot about the characters, and being fair we don't spend very much time with many of them prior to that point.
>She’s sweet, and I like her.
Yeah, when Dusty showed up and started leading her on, Clover was so innocent and sweet in a very naive way. It made me think "ugh, the one who has a cute, snarky esoteric scholar marefriend should have been ME". He was throwing off red flags every time he came up, so I wasn't surprised to see that Star Swirl's apprehension about him wasn't unfounded, but it was really nice to see another side of Clover's character.
>I do think the story is better than a lot of the fics on the site, but I don’t think it’s really good
That's very understandable. The story is witty, but it's not the most intricate or sophisticated wit. It's better than what the average author could write, especially considering its length, but a lot of what's appealing about it is very subjective.
>>42272654
>it felt like the fic tried to be more 'epic' in giving Clover her own big adventure, but it was bad.
Maybe it's because I'm still partway through it, but I don't think it's *bad*. And the cultist dreams, like most of the little arcs throughout the story, exist for their own sakes. It's just meant to be fun info-gathering while gradually leading Clover towards the right answer, and I could say that giving her a better understanding of the different ponies involved *is* helping her towards a resolution, especially how the different cultists' perspectives of Cambridle and Chocolate Bunnies can give Clover insight into Bunnies herself.
>Clover's dad also made the story so much worse whenever he was on the page.
But it was a funny "Clover's family life is a total mess and not in a funny way" kind of way.

>>42272632
>plenty that never even got a punchline
I don't mind that too much. A lot of time it felt like the opposite is true, too, where you could tell that everything being introduced is a Chekhov's gun. It's not the most appropriate criticism for [Comedy][Random] perhaps, so I'm not criticizing the story for how shallow it is. It's not the point here.
>elevated to about the best you could do with those two tags
I do think this is better than Tantabus Mk.II, so yes, you're probably right. At the very least I can't think of anything better with those tags.
>I'm sure somebody knows what I mean
I also got the feeling that he's (or she's, I suppose) inserting quite a lot into Clover. Not just talking about the family stuff; the perspective she has and how the college life is described (more... grounded? that the rest) really made me think the author wrote this when they were at the university.
Oh, and yes, I enjoyed how alien Starswirl was as well.

>>42272637
>side characters
The fic does a good job introducing all of them for their episodic stories and then still doing something with them later.
>The cultists
Maybe it's partially because I was starting to get nervous whenever I checked the time, but that part of the fic wasn't my favorite. As the other anon said, going into their minds felt kind of pointless, really, and making them more well-rounded characters wasn't something the fic's finale should've been concerned with.
>I think I'll even give it a favourite
It doesn't get there for me, but it's a good story that you can't go too wrong with favoriting. It missed for me a bit too much, but it's rarely straight-up bad (only the R63 world, imo), and it's written competently the whole way through. I haven't finished it either, though, and if there really is an EQG epilogue, that's probably not a great place to finish.

>>42272656
>interesting (and dark) element to add to how light the rest of the fic was
Yes, that and a lot of other things to do with Starswirl. The prophecies, the world ending in ice, blood pacts—all the many things he's keeping to himself so that ponykind can exist in peace. He's doing the Princesses job, and I'm certain it's intentional. He probably got it from Luna.
>reading comprehension issue
I'm afraid so. Every time he alludes to the Stars and what happened 90 years ago, he's talking about Luna. Did you miss the part where he gets very upset at Clover using the nig— word? Or that he's studied time travel hoping to prevent NMM? Or that one of the reasons he's about to give up and die is that he won't live long enough to be there in 900 years (when Luna comes back)? Or the fact that he's on Canterlot Street 1 (that he names this way)? I really enjoy the little implications of him knowing Luna and Celestia; I wish there was more to it.
>maybe I'm being too charitable
No, maybe you're right. I could see that. But for me, it's too much of a shock given the tone of the fic. And his dream (which you haven't read?) is also bad.

>>42272623
I can't write a detailed review, but I have to say my overall impression isn't particularly good.
I like Star Swirl, and Clover is good at times. I don't really care about the rest of the cast, nor about Cambridle. Honestly, this feels like a weird AU more than a story set in the past. It felt contemporary in a bad way.
What I liked felt relly goo, but they also felt like islands amidst a vast ocean of meh.
I don't feel I would've missed out if I hadn't read this fic, other than Star Swirl. I want to read more about that old coot.

I liv!
>>42272687
>I don't mind that too much.
Oh don't get me wrong, I appreciated it. Too often, a fic lacks confidence in its audience and feels the need to point out every little thing. It also contributed to the absurd atmosphere, having silly things going on in the background without even Clover making note of them -- not that she'd know about the CMC.
>where you could tell that everything being introduced is a Chekhov's gun
But this is also nice. Having so much foreshadowing and so many callbacks kept the feel of a single overarching story instead of rigidly dividing each arc. It's just a pleasant structure for a longfic like this, especially a comedy.
>I also got the feeling that he's (or she's, I suppose) inserting quite a lot into Clover.
I didn't mean in exactly the sense that the author is pulling on personal experience, although that may well be true. I was thinking that Clover was a bit of a self-insert, but also that she's just an idealised kind of female protagonist. This might just be sexist, but the way her thought process worked and her motivations felt very genuinely female, especially her "romance" with Dusty, unlike how many writers will often write female characters as stallions with teats. I imagined that the author would have personal insight into that kind of thing, maybe related to how Monochromatic writes good yuri, but it might just be a male author who's just good at writing women.
>making them more well-rounded characters wasn't something the fic's finale should've been concerned with
That's fair, especially right at the end. I'll probably see what you mean better once I finish it, but I can already partially agree with the below anon who said that the story felt like the author's AU more than the Equestria we know. The author definitely loves their OCs, that's for sure.
>But for me, it's too much of a shock given the tone of the fic.
It's certainly the kind of thing you can only do sparingly. The brevity of the scene was absolutely necessary to make it tolerable. I just liked the fact that the fic didn't go full "no-fault divorce is A-OK" and actually portrayed Clover's parents as doing something wrong, even if it's unfortunate.

>>42272687
>Every time he alludes to the Stars and what happened 90 years ago, he's talking about Luna.
Are you sure? Because this is still an ancient pre-HW world that seems *much* earlier than 900 years before the show starts. For one thing, not only is Celestia around, her throne and Equestria itself aren't even formed yet. Cambridle is ruled by the Unicorn King, and all of the tribes still have their own separate nations with their own governments. We learn in the show that Luna is only banished while she and Celestia are already ruling "the magical land of Equestria", so I don't think that she could have been banished before the events of this story. The Council of Horns is also clearly the structure alluded to in the Hearth's Warming play where the unicorns raise the sun and moon, which is explicitly flawed but lacks an alternative. If Celestia were still around, then there wouldn't be any need for the Council to exist.

We know that Clover herself lives through the windigos' ice (possibly Star Swirl's prophecy about the world ending in ice which only Clover can avert), which means that Equestria must be founded during her lifetime (presumably after Star Swirl dies). The princesses should therefore show up sometime after Equestria is founded. However, Star Swirl still refers to the sun being fake, and that the real one was irreparably destroyed somehow. He also mentions some prior princess who's now gone. That might be an allusion to an earlier princess who controlled the celestial bodies, who vanished due to Star Swirl's meddling, and the Council of Horns is an ad hoc replacement. Perhaps Celestia and Luna arriving to Equestria would symbolise the return of a "real" sun and moon and a restoration of the natural order.

As far as his shushing Clover's mention of "nightmare", we already know that he can see the future, so he might just be referring to Luna's future fall (an alternative interpretation of his prophecy as eternal night). The 970-year countdown is probably referring to Luna's fall and banishment, not her return. It would also make sense that Clover doesn't know what he was talking about, since surely if Luna had been banished only 30 years earlier, then everypony would know about what had happened.

>>42273080
>Honestly, this feels like a weird AU more than a story set in the past
It's so distant in the past that it does wrap around back to being contemporary-feeling. It seemed like, in distancing the story from Equestria, the author had to make up large elements of his own world and pulled largely from real life. I don't mind it, but I can see how others do.
>I want to read more about that old coot.
Yeah, a spin-off about his actual adventures outside of Cambridle could have been cool.

>>42273289
>970-year countdown
907 years, but the point still stands.

Are their any good fics where celestia interests with subjects that don’t like being ruled by here? Bonus points if it’s not in an edgy and angsty “monarchy is le bad” way but for some other reason.

>>42272654
Voting rainbow typhoon. I did not forget.

>>42273325
Excluding Tyrantlestia bullshit, there is Celestia Regina and ___

>>42273080
>this feels like a weird AU more than a story set in the past. It felt contemporary in a bad way
I agree with the second part of that statement, but disagree with the first one; there was a lot of effort spent on tying it to the show's lore in a way that I, personally, found enjoyable and Clever.
>I don't feel I would've missed out if I hadn't read this fic, other than Star Swirl
I would say the same. It's not an amazing story, but this Starswirl is good enough that I'm glad to have read it for him. I'd honestly steal this characterization as my default one going forward.

>>42273289
>Are you sure?
100%. You're doing that thing again where there's something that logically doesn't seem to work, so you ignore a metric ton of thematic and atmospheric evidence pointing in its direction. But that's not how (good) stories are written and I think you're doing them a huge disservice by doing the "game theory" approach.

The fic starts by presenting Starswirl as this antisocial recluse, but not only is that portrayal at odds with what Clover read, we also fairly early (in the multi-starswirl arc) get proof that he wasn't always like this. The other aspects of Starswirl's psyche all seem to be gone now, which should make you to ask yourself "what happened?". The fic's writing is good enough that the way he wallows in his exile should point you in that direction. The timeline has been set to match, too. He met Luna (and Celestia), then NMM happened, and he's been a broken stallion who spent his life first trying to undo the damage and then, when it failed, to continue their legacy.
As for thematic evidence, there are probably about 10-20 moments where he either defends the Night, compares himself to the Stars (justifying his reclusive lifestyle this way), or alludes to The Unnamed Tragedy From His Past that changed him. Look at how he treats his own nightmarish transformation. I mentioned it in week 2—thinking it was clever characterization—and in this week the author made it far more visible because it's the key to understanding his character in this fic.
Furthermore, it's a piece of very-FiM fanfiction. Starswirl has been associated with C&L extremely often in fanon. And not just fanon since picrel fueled it. For you to go,
>maybe he's referencing another pair of OC day/night alicorns in an untagged AU, and that the fic neglects to mention by name
is just kind of absurd when C&L are not only there, but also really fit with the story. Celestia is literally mentioned IN THE FIC as the one who started the unicorn Prince/Princesses line (when Platinum says the last female Princess was Celestia). And that works in timeline, too.

I would even go as far as to say that C&L are absolutely paramount to understanding this Starswirl and why he's like this, and I think, writing-wise, it's the best thing the entire fic did. Without it, I would not leave an upvote on it.

>>42273289
>>42273501
After finishing writing that post and looking for the Celestia quote, I found this. Please don't click that link before reading my post since I don't think I need to rely on it for the argument, but:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/122424/the-crown-of-night
It's literally what I said.

>>42273501
>You're doing that thing again where there's something that logically doesn't seem to work, so you ignore a metric ton of thematic and atmospheric evidence pointing in its direction.
Look, I get what you mean about ignoring themes, and my conjecture about earlier princesses could well be wrong -- in fact, it makes a lot of sense in its own way that Celestia and Luna themselves were around in the past -- but there's no way that NMM could have happened before HW. Your "evidence" is nothing but Star Swirl's schizo and deliberately oblique ramblings and prophecies when his continuity with the flow of time is already compromised. Star Swirl is shaken from a major even in the past that he describes as irreconcilable (on his own) and having major consequences on the health of the world. He's never shown to be particularly sociable or friendly even before this event. Star Swirl defending the night or identifying himself with the stars does not automatically signal "Luna", no matter how much every other fic ever written associates them. It's a massive leap to suggest that Star Swirl's self-imposed exile somehow parallels Luna's banishment when he himself explains that his association with the night and stars arises from his nature as a dark wizard studying forbidden knowledge.

You're left with the question of how destroying one of the many universes was somehow supposed to be a solution to NMM, when in reality that entire event, or at least its resolution, had nothing to do with Star Swirl. You're also leaving out the matter of how Luna was ruling over Equestria at the time of her banishment, when Equestria couldn't have been formed at this point in time. And it can't be a reference to the land itself as a region, either, since the tribes explicitly migrate to a new land *away* from their old lands after they fall to the windigos.

>you're doing them a huge disservice by doing the "game theory" approach.
I have no idea what you mean. I'm doing nothing more than trying to form a chronology of events based on what could logically happen. This is not another V*le situation, either.

>>42273507
Well this is just bullshit and conflicts with canon, then.

>>42273534
>Star Swirl defending the night or identifying himself with the stars does not automatically signal "Luna",
No, but it suggests it. Implies it. Plants the idea in your head, very bluntly even.
>he himself explains that his association with the night and stars arises from his nature as a dark wizard studying forbidden knowledge.
Oh come on. You can't tell me you took him at his word there! This interaction (and it happens several times) screamed to me that he's coping. Clover states that herself, too, even if she doesn't know the cause. I don't think it's a "massive leap"—the parallel seemed extremely natural to me there, even before it was proven right. It's also a story, written for a reason, and having that be his impulse is both very tragic (in a good way!) and also tying the fic closer to show events, something the author has proven to enjoy doing.
>I'm doing nothing more than trying to form a chronology of events based on what could logically happen.
Exactly, and that's wrong. I insist that it's far, far more important to *feel* what the story is trying to tell you, to understand its message, rather than trying to logically organize the event or dig into the minute details of what is shown.
>This is not another V*le situation
No, but you could say it's another Prickett situation.

>how destroying one of the many universes was somehow supposed to be a solution to NMM
I don't know if the two events are related. I didn't mean to imply that they are. That's either a separate thing, or something that happened as a consequence.

>>42273544
Clearly not if the fic allows the readers to grasp the author's intention exactly as he envisioned it. I'm not reading the incomplete prequel, but the timeline for this fic that I had in mind while reading was like this:
>Discord happens
>C&L show up and defeat him, they rule ponies
>Starswirl meets them
>The NMM disaster happens
>Celestia disappears/banishes herself/gets too wounded and must go to Elysium (all of these are common fanons)
>ponies break into the tribes (this is when Starswirl lives his life), with unicorns continuing the line of Princes and Princesses
>this fic happens
>HW happens, led by this Clover
>Celestia comes back
This does not conflict with canon. It bends it by implying the existence of another united pony land (which is canon to this fic; there are a few references, the most direct one coming from the Gryphon assassin) which is not Equestria that we know and that dissolved due to the NMM disaster and Celestia being gone, but that's not a break. And yes, S1E01 calls it Equestria, but in the context of this fic, this should be treated same as the HW play showing modern Equestrian flag—as something done to show the continuity of the pony kingdom.

They should call it Horse Country.

>>42273653
>No, but it suggests it. Implies it. Plants the idea in your head
>It's also a story, written for a reason, and having that be his impulse is both very tragic (in a good way!) and also tying the fic closer to show events, something the author has proven to enjoy doing.
>I insist that it's far, far more important to *feel* what the story is trying to tell you
See, I just disagree that meta-analysing the story like that, especially by comparing it to other fan works, is the most appropriate way to figure out what's happening. Regardless of what a character's biases are -- and I agree that Star Swirl was coping, but merely in a "they don't understand my burden" kind of way -- you need to rely on information in the work itself, rather than going "other fics use the night sky to symbolise Luna, so this one must be doing that as well".
>it was proven right
And it's a shame because it makes no sense, especially considering how closely the author seemed to be adhering to canon, as you note. That's really what throws me off the most, far more than if the entire thing was non-canon.
By the way, my timeline was:
>World functions normally (C&L or some other mechanism) and tribes are in separate nations
>Something happens, Star Swirl breaks stuff either causing it or in response, end result is that the sun no longer works
>Council of Horns is formed by the unicorns to move the sun
>The fic happens
>The windigos come
>Tribes abandon old kingdoms, form Equestria
>Princesses come/return, replace the Council
>Discord comes, the princesses fight him
>Luna is banished
>Luna returns, the show happens
I think your mind is too poisoned by the expectation of tropes and cliches to evaluate the story on its own. Also keep in mind that the story was only written between 2013-2017, so even if a trope is well established now, it might not have been back then, though you'd know better than me.

And your account doesn't necessarily conflict with canon, but I think it's much more heavily implied in the show that Celestia and Luna simply aren't present *and haven't yet been present* at the time of the first HW. I mean, hell, the episode introducing HW itself starts with the narration "Once upon a time, long before the peaceful rule of Celestia, and before ponies discovered our beautiful land of Equestria, ponies did not know harmony."

>>42273859
You forgot Sombra getting his bean flicked between that

>>42273342
Fuck it.
I second his vote.

>>42273859
I would actually say that those Starswirl headcanons were much more prevalent back then, before the disaster of S7 Starswirl. He used to be a more respectable character before he showed up in an episode. But more to the point:
>meta-analysing the story like that
I do think it's entirely valid to consider how the character is perceived, however my argument still stands without it so discard it if you don't like doing it. Despite his popularity, we knew very little about Starswirl, and him knowing the Princesses was one of the few things that were suggested in the show. That the fandom took it much further is a separate matter.
>other fics use the night sky to symbolise Luna, so this one must be doing that as well
You keep quoting me as "must" or "automatically", but I never said anything like that. It's important to be precise, since I never saw it as anything more than another point to reference—a big one, yeah, but still just a point—and only when enough of those add up in your head and the conclusion matches the themes of the story you can make the Luna claim.
And associating Luna with the night sky is NOT a fanon thing, lol!

>my timeline was...
It doesn't account for C&L existing here pre-HW in this fic (the talk with Platinum), or for Discord already having been defeated (hinted at by both the Discordians being a fresh cult, and Starswirl's remark that banishment spells hold for exactly 1000 years), both of which are in the fic. Your timeline fails to address those points entirely! To me, it seems like you assumed—and do correct me if I'm wrong—that pre-HW C&L are strictly incompatible with this story, and clinging to that scrap of (false) information you either missed or made an alternative explanation for when the actual hints happened. It's not me being "poisoned by the expectation of tropes and cliches", it's you outright ignoring data points.* I mean, suggesting two unnamed Princess OCs that Starswirl knew, really? Surely this was the point where going "huh, maybe they're C&L?" is the more logical next step.
*And there's also the extremely important nuance of "poisoned by the expectation of tropes and cliches" vs understanding narrative themes, which is a good thing and people should do much more often to understand what the work is actually about. Most well-written things are built around their key themes, and then those themes somehow don't appear in broader discussions. Maybe people are just dumb.

And I do agree that, in principle, C&L only showing up in the actual show-Equestria is the far, far more reasonable headcanon—almost bordering on canon—and that's what I thought, starting the story. But since the fic suggested the opposite headcanon early and often, I discarded that notion and looked for alternatives. There was one. One that made it all work neatly. Don't fight the story when it's trying to communicate. It's really as simple as that.

>>42273783
Don’t bowdlerize it. It’s supposed to be “Horse Cuntry.”

>>42274010
Well no, it used to be Fat Horse Pussy Sex World but they had to change it due to lobbying.

>>42273958
>It's important to be precise, since I never saw it as anything more than another point to reference
That's fair, but I still see it as a very tenuous connection when there are no other references to Luna in the fic. You can say it "adds up" with other points of reference, but the only references I see to Celestia are in the R63 and downvote chapters where her name is used as a sloppy replacement for "God".
>And associating Luna with the night sky is NOT a fanon thing, lol!
This is something *I* have never said anything like. My point was that not all symbolism with the night sky has to do with Luna, and that it's not right to assume that it is, even if it's common in other fan work.

>It doesn't account for C&L existing here pre-HW in this fic (the talk with Platinum)
I went looking for this and couldn't find it. If you could reference it, then I'll eat my words.

>I mean, suggesting two unnamed Princess OCs that Starswirl knew, really?
This is far from the most out-there thing we've read, and I was working off of the assumption that this author was making an effort to adhere to canon and would rather expand upon it (as they do elsewhere) than contradict it. I was making my best effort to put together a series of events that would follow the course of the story while not conflicting with canon. You do the same by assuming "the existence of another united pony land", which I disregard as unfounded because of the explicit mention of the "Unicorn King" and his kingdom of unicorns that's clearly the same one as seen in the HW play.

>Starswirl's remark that banishment spells hold for exactly 1000 years
He says "[1000 years is] the expiration date for all the most reliable magic wards we are currently able to devise." That doesn't necessarily suggest all unicorn-devised banishment spells, but for the sake of the argument we'll assume it does. However, that isn't an absolute limit on spell length, just the limits of unicorn kind's current knowledge. And even then, Discord was sealed with the Elements, which wouldn't be included as a spell that Star Swirl, or any unicorn, would be able to devise. We don't even see the Elements in the fic, so it might be that Star Swirl doesn't even know about them.

> in principle, C&L only showing up in the actual show-Equestria is the far, far more reasonable headcanon—almost bordering on canon
It's not "bordering on canon", it literally *is* canon and I showed you where the show quotes it. The fact of the matter is that there's conflicting evidence with regards to whether or not the fic breaks canon, but that prequel fic clearly indicates that it does, or at least the author intended it to. It also does not suggest that headcanon nearly as often as you think; you're just reading that conclusion into ambiguities and claiming validation by the vagueries of "themes". I'm certainly not doing anything as ridiculous as "fighting the story when it's trying to communicate".

>>42274017
>"Sister, why doth thou keep referring to our kingdom 'Equestria'? Why art thou so embarrassed of Fat Horse Pussy Sex World's noble nomenclature?"

>>42274036
>”sister, what dost thou mean when thou say ‘demonstrating that the crown has good relations with a noble family by having sex with their patriarch in public is no longer allowed’? How else are we to maintain stable relations with the nobility?”

>>42274045
>"Sister, what is a 'condom'?"

>>42274052
>”but what about-
>no, we can’t have harams lulu
>”bu-“
>not even if they’re not ponies
>”there’s sti-“
>no “royalty consummating” important marriages
>”w-“
>no sex with the commoners during fertility festivals either
>”i-“
>or with soldiers before battle to boost moral, or to “bypass the bureaucracy”, or to “improve relations with the nobility”, or for any celebrations or other important events, or executing via death by snu snu, or as a torture method-
>”c-
>and absolutely not with anypony under the age of 18!
>*sinks to the floor and whimpers*

>>42274100
>"Not even the winter solstice, dearest sister?"
>"Not even the winter solstice, Luna. You should have learned your lesson the first time; we've only gotten the bat ponies under control within the last decade."

>>42274100
>no, we can’t have harams lulu
Well I mean it makes sense, they're forbidden.

>>42274114
The equestrian magna carta but it’s just a list of sex related things the princesses cannot do because they will scramble the heavens involuntarily if they nut to hard.

>>42274156
No wonder Starswirl ejected himself into Limbo

>>42274238
>Limbo is just a nickname for Luna's loins
DEEPEST hue LORE

Is it bad to have waking dreams about raping a FiMfiction writer?

>>42274701
No, but posting about it in the thread is annoying and bad

>>42274701
Depends on the writer.

Fuck's sake, I was looking up brocade switches earlier and now typing "witch in broad" fuzzy matches ebay pages instead of WiBD so I have to type all the way up to "daylight" every time I want to check for updates

>>42274701
Yes. You should only want to >rape ponies.

>>42262124
Darn that sucks there is one fic that I really wanted to read that disappeared really quickly, it was about an evil twilight, that was going to be redeemed through love.

Do any of you know of a way to find the author with a link or ask them why they took it down.

>>42274971
Just bookmark, silly.

>>42275580
Tab junkies are allergic to bookmarks

>>42275903
You're allergic to basic empathy for the mentally ill.

>>42275920
We're all mentally ill here, but I'm a schizo who at least knows how to use a fucking bookmark.

>>42276443
She's pretty.

>>42276446
Yeah pretty GAY

>>42276448
Take it back at once.

>>42276455
Or what's she gonna do, go crying to her big sister?

>>42276448

She is pretty cheerful, I agree.

>>42276459
Exactly. And following that, they'll have an all-night session of feel-better sex.

>>42276463

>>42276446
>>42276448
That is true

>>42276460
And you're right, too!

https://www.fimfiction.net/group/204388/voting/thread/561635/2025-collab-attempt
Conspiracy theories handily won the final poll, so that's what the anthology theme will be. Join the thread to officially participate so we can tackle things like word count ranges, the deadline to complete your entry, etc. and actually get it written.

>>42276067
Bookmarks sully the divine purity of default state, not to mention how they remain hidden and forgotten. Furthermore their purpose is fundamentally different.

>>42277301
>Why Grug develop writing? Grug's shaman's oral history worked out so far!

>>42277375
The advent of writing has been a disaster to the medium of storytelling. Why bother making your words count when you can have as many as you can fit on a page? The likes of F:E, BP, and W&P revel in their wretched verbosity, burying all semblance of meaning under literary clutter.

>>42277392
You're writing a post in a thread about writing horsewords.

>>42277396
>You're writing
clearly not

How're those horsewords going bud

>>42277407
I do not write horsewords.

>>42277407
just passed 30k

I think I just found the single weirdest fucking bug in all of Fimfiction. There is a somewhat precise combination of chapter contents and author note content that will make it impossible to save a chapter by trapping you in a Cloudflare Captcha error loop. This works across different stories and across different accounts, and I ran into it by sheer accident. I'm not sure what causes it, and I know it's not just precisely what I wrote because minor edits were still causing the same problem, but it's incredibly fascinating. I can provide the details for the contents of both, though this being a SSC story I'd rather wait until the event is done if the bug is still there by then.

>>42277396
>about writing horsewords.
Have some respect for readchads

>>42277580
what exactly did you write anon?

>>42277407
Slowly but surely.

>>42277407
I finished The Knight almost three weeks ago and I still only have half a club post about it. Reading it was infinitely better than writing a post.

>>42277407
I won't let myself write horsewords until I'm done with a full show rewatch. I'm currently on the later end of Season 2. I expect to finish my research and begin procrasting in earnest by October.

>>42277407
I haven't continued my short story with Queen Chrysalis resting on her massive pregnant gut in eight days, but I'd like to finish it today. The artwork's not finished anyway.

>>42277945
>actually watching the show instead of just learning the character traits from random fan content
shig

>>42278147
>actually bothering to mimic canon instead of just vaguely feeling it out by projecting yourself onto a character that's similar to you
diggy

>>42277945
I rewatched episode 1 and 2 because I couldn't remember if Spike came along with them to the Everfree Forest.

Camaradery is Sorcery deserves far more attention than it currently has. If you like a darker, more serious take on the show with decent worldbuilding, you'll like this fic. Although updates have been slow, they've picked up quite a bit with it just entering season 5 this past week. Also, if you were not a fan of canon Starlight's backstory, I think you'll enjoy what the author is doing with her.

>>42278191
He's a baby dragon who needs his sleep.

>>42278232
He's a good kid.

>>42278212
>770k words
No, thanks.

>>42278212
Wasn't there an old and less popular abridged called Camaraderie is Supernatural?

>>42278239
Well, if you're ever in the mood for something chunky and is still updating, this story wouldn't be a bad choice - at least it isn't HiE. Besides, since it's adapting the show it's mostly episodic; you can jump in or off wherever you want. In fact, you could even read the most recent chapter and if you're intrigued you can always go back.

>>42278381
I'll take HiE over fixfics any day of the week; it has no delusions about being a perversion of the show's goodness.

>>42278433
You have bad taste.

>>42278433
It's not really a fixfic, though. It's more like "what if FiM was written by Tolkien". By that, I mean it is more focused on events and scenes rather than character drama and development. If you can appreciate world development over character development (not that I'm saying Tolkien was like that), you'll like this fic.

>>42277945
I avoid this issue by only writing about characters that barely have any speaking roles or are only major characters in one or two episodes.

>>42278443
>tunaflag accusing someone of having bad taste

What is a fic that keeps tricking readers into thinking something will actually happen but it never does?

>>42278819
The Only Mark That Matters
Or any fic that probably parallels the entire series.

>>42278805
Yes!

>>42278895
>pic
Luna looks like she forgot to put sunscreen on part of her face.

>>42278933
Anon, those are holes where the Moon Worms come out from to infiltrate the soft brain matter of foals, turning them gay. Twilight in that image, reaching maturity, is returning her worm.

>>42278933
being a nighthorse can lead to splotches of night in cute places

>>42277407
Archmage fic is still getting slowly chipped away at. Unfortunately, I've now accepted I won't be meeting my self-imposed August 1st deadline for it. There's still too many gaps to fill in. It doesn't help I've also been writing scenes for my long dead deadfic as well which has eaten up fic writing time.

>>42278381
>is still updating
Primrose War consistently updated until it didn't. I refuse to read a longfic unless it's done.

>>42279403
Looks fuckable.

>>42279419
Luna is only fuckable when she's a vulnerable little filly.

>>42279685
I can always count on you faggots to make the worst possible post about any given topic.

>>42279685
I hate this stupid age regression Luna trend, fake cunny invading my searches as a cowardly excuse for those who refuse to commit to the fetish.

>>42279699

>>42279720
A fine addition to my collection.

>>42279746
Why do all of these use the outdated logo?

>>42279751
The joke works all the same.

>>42278212
I think I'm good.

>>42279746
>only 12

>>42278313
>https://youtu.be/J8AV8_7Bouw?si=91B338FrygSll-HS&t=286
seems alright, never heard of it before

I'm nearing the climax of To Perytonia. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy have broken up and Rarity is just about to completely fuck everything up. This isn't one of those fics that people hate just because of a bad ending, is it?

>>42280355
>dykeshit
My opinion has shifted from "don't give a fuck" to "could never possibly give a fuck".

>>42280370
and yet here you are, giving a fuck and wanting really badly for everyone to know about it

>>42280370
You okay bro

are there any Project Zomboid crossovers? I did a quick search and couldn't find any. might be interesting to read about ponies attempting to survive in post-outbreak Kentucky only to inevitably die because they tried to carry too much while running from infected ponies, or because they ate bad food, or from an infection caused by running through thick forest, or from eating poison berries, and so on
I did find this: https://mlp-mod-database.fandom.com/wiki/My_Little_Pony_Plushies_(Project_Zomboid)
and also this place which I have yet to get to in-game: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Pony_Roam-O

>>42280355
Nobody hates To Perytonia, the main reason anyone could be dissatisfied with it is listed on the starter kit already.
It has a good ending.

>>42280577
I played with that mod, the gun mod and a bunch of car mods because the only fun thing to do in that game is collect stuff at your base. Got a bunch of good ponies and way more randoms and OCs. Probably wont be playing the new build anytime soon until there's interesting mods for it (besides the npc mods)

I may have found Editor-Kun: https://www.fimfiction.net/user/713152/I+Review+Fewer+Than+5000/blog

>>42280823
>I Review Fewer than 5000
>I barely have any stories worth reading under 5k
Man...

>>42277580
Probably some WAF shit, where it sees some particular combination of words and request structure and assumes you're doing a sql injection. Might be possible to work around it by opening the browser dev tools and rearranging the order of the form fields (in particular, swapping the chapter text and author's note). If it's using a standard <form> tag then that should make it build the request in a different order.

>>42280577
The only thing I could find was:

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/376243/mlp-but-also-theres-a-zombie-apocalypse

It doesn't look promising, but I didn't click on it.

>>42280890
>have never written anything longer than 5k
Suck on that, Kkat.

>>42281237
it was short so I gave it a read. negatives:
>too many ponies immune to the airborne strain
as a result:
>dialogue
horrors I hadn't even considered make up the positives:
>unicorn zombies retain some magic
>pegasus zombies can still fly
in the context of the game, pegasi are a problem because it means upstairs isn't as safe

>>42281272
>>pegasus zombies can still fly
That's a pretty good way of avoiding the "why don't they just go one floor up?" question that inevitably shadows zombie stories.

>>42281285
in PZ zombies can't climb ropes, so barricading the downstairs and tossing a fabric rope out an upstairs window is a common strategy. this allows the player to sleep with very low risk of nighttime visits from zeds. to be 100% safe you need to destroy the stairs with a sledgehammer

>>42281295
shallow game mechanics like that are just one of the reasons CDDA is far superior.

>>42281299
the devs have already made zombies be somewhat volumetric (driving over them makes your car go ba-bump). it's only a matter of time until zombies are able to climb on top of piles of other zombies to reach the upstairs

>>42281285
>"why don't they just go one floor up?" question that inevitably shadows zombie stories
Ever heard about fucking logistics, anon? The human need for food and water? Sooner or later you will need to go outside.

>>42281586
>not starting a rooftop farm + water collectors
scrub detected

you get the chance to force this man to read one fic of your choosing to completion
which is it?

>>42281791
It has to be an Alicorn Twi angst fic

>>42281791
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/500819/

>>42281770
>>starting a rooftop farm
Citylet supermarketcuck hfytard detected. I've worked actual land and your ass is dying from starvation if you think you can grow anything there in a timely and easy fashion while also dealing with a lack of food. Oh, good fucking luck dealing with parasites and other wild animals too, as you grow the few foods you can eat without cooking (not enough to keep you alive on their own btw) without access to fertiliser, anti slug, safety nets, nitrogen supplies, or plant disinfectants should your plants get sick. Not that you'll be alive to even begin the project when your weak office worker spine will snap in the process of carrying dirt up a flight of stairs. Never mind how water collection is not enough in most regions at most times given the rate of precipitations, or worse how your stupid ass will kill the plants by watering them at the wrong time. Good luck knowing when and near what to plant them in the first place without the Internet. Good luck setting up proper land without tools for that matter. Lmao.

>>42281770
>>42281805
>drives up to your gay little compounds
>shoots you and steals all your produce
what now prepcucks?

>>42281815
>>drives
L M A O
Where you getting fuel from, cartarded amerifat?

>>42281815
>guns in a zombie apocalypse
Actually the worst fucking weapon you could pick. You do not physically have the means to carry around the ludicrous amounts of bullets it would take to properly deal with a fully zombified population, not to mention painting a giant target on yourself by the loud ass noise drawing in thousands more. Guns are to be used as sparingly as possible if you actually want to have a shred of a chance at survival, and wasting bullets on non-hostile humans is foolish.

>>42281886
>loud ass noise drawing in thousands more

>>42281886
Guns are also probably bad at killing zombies. They're good with humans because you can kinda just shoot them in the torso and any kind of untreated internal damage like that leads to death, plus potential blood loss, plus pain hindering fighting capacity. Most of that is not a thing with a corpse. Precise shot might disable limbs but most guns won't damage the easily hit area enough to accomplish much quickly. Blunt or pointed weapons are probably the best option if you do get into a fight. Polearms remain goated but you're not walking around with one of those.

>>42281815
>shoots
oh shit zigga what are you doing
>>42281805
just tatermaxx

>>42281903
>using logic with zombies
Zombies don't make logical sense in the first place, so methods for fighting zombies don't make any sense, either.

I still miss Qwapdo

>>42281905
>eating raw potatoes
Anon...

>>42282002
You do know what cooking is, don't you?

>>42282004
>replies to a post talking about how the eventual collapse of services and resulting lack of electricity and gas will make cooking no longer an option, reducing the number of worthwhile vegetables in the long run
>just cook lol
Anon...
>inb4 just start a fire
Fire requires material, which requires gathering said material, which defeats the point of farming as a way to minimise outside trips. It's also a safety hazard both for the risk of burning the place down and choking on smoke, and while doing so outside minimises those it also paints a target on you by giving away your position.

>>42281272
>pony zombies

Seeing as zombiism is primarily spread through infected bites, how exactly does that work with herbivores?

>>42282159

They ask nicely if you could spread the infection for them by consuming their blood.

>>42281937
>fictional elements within a story remove the need for verisimilitude in its non fictional components
You are a blight upon art and upon its discussion.

>>42282159
Horses are omnivores, and their teeth are fairly more human like than those of full on herbivores. They can consume meat just fine and tend to eat up small animals while grazing (not always deliberately, they have a blind spot in front of them). They lack fangs but a horse can bite just fine (and may bite you if you stick your fingers in there), not too dissimilar from a human bite which is also primarily carried out through our front teeth with only relatively small impact from our "fangs" (canines). As for the act of biting others, pretty sure the impetus to do that comes with the infection, regular humans don't usually bite people or consume human meat.

>>42281937
>tfw in the apocalypse everything follows zombie movie tropes
>the black guy in your group dies first and you get the suspicion that you won't survive much longer than him unless you get a badass love interest

>>42282191
>and may bite you if you stick your fingers in there
This is also the case for any other orifice on any other creature that has a mouth.

>>42282199
>you get a badass love interest
that only works of youve got DDs and a uterus.
If youre a guy and youve got the hornies for a badass heroine, thats just as much a death sentence as being overly melanated

>>42282191
No, they're herbivores.

>>42282179
>verisimilitude in its non fictional components
I can't believe I have to argue this point, but: Zombies are not real. Therefore, methods for fighting zombies are not real. QED.

>>42282215
QED on these nuts, bitch

>>42282159
STDs

>>42282244
>sex zombies
muh fetish

>>42282215
I bet you like World War Z.

>>42282203
Not true.

>>42282264
The book or the movie? They're very different.

>>42282215
Humans are real and so are the effects of kinetic force upon their bodies, therefore fictional creatures made of human bodies should react similarly. Furthermore they should behave consistently with regards to different types of hits.

>>42282305
zombies are made of zombie bodies, not human bodies

>>42282305
What about the effects of kinetic force of human bodies upon other bodies?

How's that writing going, guys?

>>42283303
I wrote about 500 words recently. I'll start a new anthology soon, and another, and another.

>>42283303
I've almost written all the scenes I had in my head, now I have to connect them.
And that sucks.

>>42283303
I'm just about ready to put out the first chapter of my first fic.

>>42283315
>anthology
Oh, yeah.
What happened with that?
Are we starting soon?

>>42283341
I meant different anthologies, but here you go:
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/204388/voting/thread/561635/2025-collab-attempt

>>42283303
I'm polishing a 1000 words story for the contest. Should be done soon.

>>42283303
Recently got out 500~ words for my idea for the 1k contest but have stalled on it for a bit now.

>>42283303
I've written 1.5k of my deadfic in the last two days. Now just another 198.5k to go.
>tfw someone DMed you today asking about it

>>42283341
No, it's dead already.

>>42282350
I hate that I like this pic.

>>42284047
It's perfectly normal to want a man to put you in a headlock with his chiseled thighs.

>>42283303
Working on a story with discord. Kinda difficult to write desu

>>42257001 (OP)
>HiE
>good
OP, and to that thinktank, that's a fucking impossible endeavor. that shit will never work because of two things:

Y'all are horny horsefuckers who will put smut to digital paper the second your mind start to wander and think of bending over small pastel horses and spank their flanks until-- I'm fucking feeding the trolls now. carrying on.

The second thing is people will immediately call you out for any plot device that brings a human to ponyworld or whatever you call it because there is no asspull strong enough to make that shit happen.

>t. Tourist

>>42284173
The amount of good HiE fics is a prime number part of the Fibonacci sequence. I believe we've identified 5 so far.

>>42284161
>3000 character limit
use f-list or tox, sheesh.

>>42284173
I'll spoon feed you: The "Now with...", "Featuring," and "ITT" parts of the OP are always references to things people said in the previous thread.
>bending over small pastel horses
No need. Ponies are naturally bent over and in maximum ass position.

>>42284173
The HIE genre is not for the faint of heart. It’s not just about sending humans into the world of Equestria; it’s about transcending the boundaries of fiction itself. Just as you wouldn't expect to stumble upon a Shakespearean play in a high school drama class, or find the nuances of a Tolstoy novel in a community book club, you simply cannot expect mere /fimfic/ posters to grasp and master the profound depths and soul-stirring complexities of the HIE genre. It's the apex of storytelling. Too intricate, too delicate, too soulful for most to comprehend, let alone capture in writing. The problem isn’t with the genre. The issue lies in its towering grandeur, which is just too monumental for the average writer. We don't lack good HIE stories; we lack the literary giants to pen them.

>>42284261
>>3000

>>42284365
That's what it was the last time I got vorny enough to hit it during one of my RPs. Fuck Nitro.

>>42284173
>Y'all
Why are you here? Go back.

>>42284161
What's the premise?

>>42283303
I just realised there's a way to improve my story. I'll just have to do minor rewrites to the previous four chapters.
Writing the whole thing ahead of time is great.

>>42284492
Wrong.

>>42282159
>he doesn't know

>>42282033
>not knowing about the fire roll
people knew how to make fire hundreds of thousands of years ago. if you can't figure it out you deserve to die

>>42284969
>didn't even read the fucking post
You stupid failed abortion bitch, you still need to burn something to have fire, you can't just start that shit on air. You need fuel for the fire. You know, the thing the fire burns to sustain itself, which you'd be familiar with if you'd ever seen fire in person. Fuel. Like wood, or something else. Something that is consumed and cannot be used again after it burned. Something you'll need to gather more of, you retarded waste of human resources. Learn to fucking read.

>>42285019
you can just put your pan over one of those toilet paper + rubbing alcohol cans
if you're that worried about long term survival buy one of those huge propane tanks, that stuff lasts forever

>>42285019
Would growing bamboo help?
They don't require much water and grow really fast. Chop up some every day, let it dry, and you have a near endless supply of fuel. Provided you're only using it for yourself and immediate family, that is.
Oh, kudzu. That one grows stupid fast, too.

>>42285132
>growing bamboo
>on a rooftop
It's also terrible wood for burning, way too thin and light, no sustain or proper embers at all. Great for making pointy sticks though.
>>42285059
People only get the feeling propane tanks last a long time because they're sparingly used. If you were using one every day you'd chew through it much quicker. We had one installed in our old RV and just using it for daily cooking during vacation periods we still had to change it a couple times across the years, granted it wasn't a huge one but the point remains. Sooner or later you'll need to head out, at which point, and it would be great if people following the discussion actually understood this is the core of it, you may as well go look for consumption ready long lasting food to stock up on, since it will feed you better than anything you can grow yourself and it's probably going to weigh less too.

>>42282215
Alternatively: Zombies cannot exist because in order for us to move our brain needs to be active and we need to be pumping blood, resting, acquiring the right nutrients, etc. There is simply no way for zombies as we understand them to work unless they are influenced by magic, or else they will starve to death/ collapse from exhaustion in a few days due to being unable to find food in cities or the wild and moving nonstop. And fighting them with guns would actually be quite easy as you would simply shoot them like a regular human which would cripple or cause them to bleed out just as well. Similarily a 'rage virus' or fast zombies would encounter the same problems, but perhaps exacerbated as the average person is very unfit and sprinting for even short periods of time is exhausting.

EVEN IF they retained their intelligence but were simply murderous food would run out in urban areas and farms would be difficult to maintain when society collapses and things like food transport networks and farmer supply shops/ tool repair cease to exist.

>>42285342
>Similarily a 'rage virus' or fast zombies would encounter the same problems, but perhaps exacerbated as the average person is very unfit and sprinting for even short periods of time is exhausting.
I liked how the ending of 28 Days Later showed the infected naturally dying.
Then Weeks came out.
And I think Years has mutated infected, or something like that.
Still, it's a fun fantasy scenario.

>>42285342
>actually there shouldn't be a story at all
>>>/r/eddit

>>42283303
Just published another chapter, mostly done with the next, and have a pretty clear picture of what follows. So... Decently enough!

>>42285539
Hi Gaws.

>>42285588
Oh dear, I've been recognized.

Fics where Luna gets a happy ending?

>>42285682
>>42257009

>>42275903
>Tab junkies
Never understood this. I turn off my PC nightly.

>>42281029
I agree. WAFs have caused me problems just like this.

>>42285682
I'm gonna give her one in my thing since she never fell in this

>>42286228
>turn my PC off
>2TB drive with all my torrents on it shits the bed
never again

>>42285682
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/490501/happy-endings

>>42282159
Herbivores can chew through tree branches. I guess it would work pretty well.

>>42286943
>zombie trees

>>42286951
Zomtrees

>>42286951
Do triffids count? What about that one from Poltergeist?

How in the FUCK

>>42287074
Why are you surprised it's featured? It looks like trash. Of course it's featured.

>>42287074
#relatable

>>42287074
Maybe it's unexpectedly well written

>>42287327
Alright, hold my seat. I'm going to go and stick my head in.

>>42287327
>>42287328
Oh. It's AI-generated.

>>42287334
Is it? I was going to give it a read too.

>>42287347
NTA, but yeah 100%.
The guy didn't make any effort, he probably just copied and pasted from the official site.

Anyone remember how Fimmy's built in footnotes system works? I remember it was coded in but not what the formatting to trigger it is.

It just occurred to me that the reason poorly written slop get so popular on the site is how a huge chunk of people aren't just ESL, but outright ignorant of English, and browse the whole Internet and stories too as a result with automatic translation on. They have no concept of writing quality, and arguably the dry trash reads better to them because the softwares have an easier time translating it.

>>42287352
I always wonder if things like this are fully written by AI or if the writer gets the absolutely awful idea of having the AI proofread and correct things for them.

>>42287436
It's written by AI. You can check his other fics too, he started in 2023, so you can see all the old isms. Despite the upload rate, he's either not putting much work into it or just can't detect what's wrong.
1000-word chapters should be piss easy to make unrecognizable if you're the kind of retard uploading AI writing here in the first place.
>absolutely awful idea of having the AI proofread and correct things for them.
They won't change your writing unless you ask them to, unless your sentence is really awkward or grammatically broken.
Most of the time, they just give a list of the mistakes they found.

>>42287628
>>42287628
>>42287628
>>42287628