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ITT: Shining Armor is God-Emperor of Equestria, unicorns can suck a tennis ball through a garden hose, Overleaf gave me PTSD, my massive fucking brain busts through the bottom of my shitty plywood coffin and explodes across the church patio, Twilight once dryhumped one of those ceramic Ronald Mcdonald bench statues, forcing myself to roll up the dopamine IV like a toothpaste tube, God I fucking hate and loathe some of the people on this board, a prompt is merely the jet of spunk shooting into your brain-womb, the royal library's restricted section has nothing but the princesses' clopfics, people who abandon stories are like Rarity, and
For thine is the New section, the bookshelves,
And the eternal Top Rated.
Horsewords forever and ever,
Amen.

>/fimfic/ Secret Book Club
The one hundred and fifteenth and one hundred and sixteenth
books are:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/525598/a-skeleton-in-the-closet
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/566978/maize
If (You) want to join in the discussion, finish the fics by
Sunday, July 6.

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Previous Thread: >>42307509

What special foods do you think ponies might eat on holidays?

What the fuck asshole, this isn't a 4th of July thread?? What a ripoff

3nd for best 2uo!
Enjoy this conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/7335/apotheosis

Is there a single good fic with this tag?

>>42323628
Yeah I agree with most of that but I just enjoyed the whole series so much that I want to just keep reading. In the start of Skyla my thought was just "wow, I really wish this was the fun crew we've had for the passed 2 books and not random stallions Flurry brought with her" but Ao was the saving grace in the beginning and I ended up warming up to the crew fast enough. Even if there wasn't a kinda kino diamond dog there.
>the entire crew that Flurry took with her to steal the Nebula just lives in Twilight Town after the adventure
Fucking kek, Twilight just stole all of Flurry's suitors I guess.
Also I agree with you on the Twilights. Interdimensional Konrad Curze Twilight was fun and I liked Twilight dealing with her and her piecing together that she wouldn't actually be straight up evil. And yes Bright Sparkle #42069 was fucking retarded. However I do think a fic where Tuna and Ao going undercover into other worlds to spy on the local Twilights could be fun. Even if it wasn't really a pirate adventure. To be fair, the books started off having nothing to do with pirate adventures. If you told me iisaw went on a 3 year sailing voyage after book two and then wrote the rest I would accept that.
>showing up to enforce the game rules if that's an indication of how the "Brights" are going to act.
yeah, somehow far colder and less personal than the 'bad' team. Also Twilight already practices the might is right way of ruling far more than the Equestrian way. Barely anything in any of the books is Twilight participating in Equestrian government. She only shows up to fix her boat lol
Also yeah the anthology thing was completely meh, I guess I liked the story of 'The Hay Field' but the random pedo court case was trash (should've been some sort of economic 'crime' instead of something obvious like that. [Although I guess it was rape since there isn't any age laws in TT?] I mean why would a representative from Klugetown fly all the way out there to rally for a pedo this hard in a country where he's obviously dead?)

>>42323723
Corn

AiE story except it's a thinly veiled propaganda piece promoting National Socialism

>>42323820
Daring today, aren't we sir?

>>42323832
While we're testing the boundaries of the format, how about an AiE story in which Anon happens to share all of the writer's own convictions ad insecurities?

The horse words written are very cute and fluffy today.

>>42323838
Will he also be attractive to the character the writer is attracted towards?

>>42323843
That's right, there will be another Anon in the story.

Fag 5 to Thread Control. I'm a little under halfway through Changeling Space Program. I'm starting to get that sinking feeling; rather, that sunk cost feeling. I'm not sure how best to explain my exact sentiment - I like the concept, I feel the KSP autism, I mostly like the characters, and there's nothing particular in it that's making me balk at it, and yet, it's starting to feel like a chore. It's as though all of the ingredients of something I'd like are in there, but they aren't coming together in a satisfying way. I'll stick with ir for another fifty-thousand-so words before I make the call.

>>42323762
>However I do think a fic where Tuna and Ao going undercover into other worlds to spy on the local Twilights could be fun.
That would be fantastic if someone other than iisaw wrote it, haha. His Luna only ever stops being intolerable for a few minutes around the times when Twilight fucks her silly. One of her few good lines is,
"Trapped?" Luna said, trying heroically to keep the amusement out of her voice. "Confined to only one tiny world! A terrible fate, indeed!"
reminding Twilight that the three of them basically own the planet. That's part of why I didn't like the idea of them gathering up another entire crew to sail the dimensions and save the multiverse.
>Also Twilight already practices the might is right way of ruling far more than the Equestrian way
Yeah, but the TT chapters do at least show that the ponies modeling their way of living after Twilight don't do that. Although I generally prefer a proper Princess Twilight, the background adventuring Twilight has proven a great interpretation.

I keep forgetting what words mean what

>>42324134
I think there's a book for that.

>>42324160
Do you remember what the book is called?

>>42324176
I think kids call them "dictionaries" nowadays.

>>42323747
Yes.

>>42324193
The shit in C# that represents key-value pairs?

>>42324176
Something to do with a sugary musical instrument typically made of metal, I think.

>>42324240
>Something to do with a sugary musical instrument typically made of metal, I think.
The horse that invented the celesta had to be one of Celestia's admirers.

>>42324218
fics with obsolescent skill sets?

>>42325220
Gemini can't code my open world multiplayer railroad building unity game for me, sorry rajeesh

>>42325228
But it can roleplay uncensored lovemaking with mares.

>>42325309
I don't want to just roleplay. Useless.

>>42322291
We'll be back around Sunday or Monday, stop on by and try your hand if you want.

>>42325872
AiE fuckers will only ever have their hands for company.

>>42325309
Not well.

>>42326369
No idea honestly, I stick to DeepSeek.

>shattered horizons is an unfinished trilogy
Fuck

Is the starter kit shitting the bed for anyone else?

>>42319178
>8k meme sequel
?

>>42326888
If only Fimfiction had a built in function that automatically shows stories marked as sequels to one next to it.

>>42326897
"meme sequel" could mean anything.

>>42326897
Tell Knighty to wait on the feature until I finish my FoE foalcon sequel.

I haven't read Prey and a Lamb in a while, why did Prey keep his insulting name and ribbon again?

>>42327174
...anon, the joke is that it's already a thing.

>>42327484
...anon, the joke is that I can mark something inappropriate as a sequel.

>>42327499
No, you dumb fuck, because it only works when the two fics are by the same author. You'd know this if you'd ever written more than an unfinished longifc you're too ashamed to even look at.

I've just realised that I can barely remember The Cadenza Prophecies.

I've said it many times. The best entry in The Alicorn Adventures is https://www.fimfiction.net/story/255709/the-quest

>>42323628
What is "Justice"? There is no fic in the series of that name.

>>42327706
Isn't that the storm king one? Starts with storm king attack where he gets btfo and then Twi chases him after adding Tempest to the crew and they fight a bunch of storm king ships and then Cadenza has her prophecy so they speed back north or something.

>>42326888
Just super short stories from Twilight Town. One of the chapters is less than 100 words

>>42327721
wtf, guess I'll read that and check iisaw's whole log for more AA fics

>>42326784
All in all, pretty good. For some reason it gave me Brandon Sanderson vibes. But man it feels like he hadn't any idea of what to do with Pinkie or Fluttershy.

>>42327567
>humorless autist

>>42327828
I guess the problem with adventure fics with the mane 6 is that Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash fit into it easily but Fluttershy, Pinkie, and the other one are harder to figure out roles for.

>>42327850
>merely pretending

Also the thing where it's like "Oh random people don't like Pinkie's parties/think she's exhausting" as a trope seems dumb and counter to the show's own logic where Ponyville will turn into downtown LA without her constant joy-bringing.

>>42327883
This is amazing. You made a shitty joke. I made a shittier joke. Are you afraid your joke is made shittier by association? Is your shitty joke so important to you that you want to make sure nobody mistakes it for my shittier joke? Our jokes were never going to make the ITT. But if we keep shitflinging, one of us might say something stupid enough to be memorable.

>>42327901
Do you need to pedal to keep your breathing going or did they install a mechanical organ to keep it up by itself when they realised how deeply mentally underdeveloped you were as an infant?

The Abyss has deleted all the porn they wrote.

>>42327955
Was any of it good?

>>42327960
A lot of it was good, some are even classics.

>>42327955
Did you check fimfetch yet?

>>42328106
Fimfetch is dead since they became a moral highground and delete anything they don't approve of you enjoying.

Anyone have a guide to make sure I didn't accidentally write a Mary sue self imsert

>>42328189
I don't have a guide, but I'd say the most important question is: Does the character have a meaningful flaw that causes them to fail at something? If so, they're probably not a Mary Sue self-insert.

>>42328182
So they don’t actually save all deleted fics anymore? I had thought so. I remember searching for nsfw deleted fics and thinking that there were less than there were before. Also not being able to find deleted fics I know I had seen on fimfetche before.

>>42328218
If you want an unbiased archive, you need https://foalfetch.net/

>>42328223
Thank you for reminding me of that.

>>42328189
Make him kind of pathetic. That one Tumblr post was right, your protagonist kind of has to be a little bit of a loser. Look at Twilight.

>>42328198
>>42328430
I feel dumb, the beginners writing guide has a guide to avoid writing a Mary sue and it seems like I'm in the clear for the most part. I may post the story and get some opinions. I think in my haste to end the story I may have made my character too competent

>>42328985
It's not about competence, it's about them being a loser or not. You can be competent and a loser, look at Rarity.

>>42329005
Well, tldr
>Character is sad office cuck
>Management ignores character
>Winds up in equestria
>Ponies help character because they feel bad for him
>Useless at everything
>Character finally gets chance to pursue their passion
>Ends up saving town and becomes hero
When I put it that way I think I'm solid

>>42329087
Sounds vaguely familiar.

>>42329090
I posted in /PTF/ I'm thinking about potential revisions

Does a hack exist that lets you read stories that are unlisted and password hidden?

>>42329294
Have sex with the author

Or just read the story on https://foalfetch.net/

>>42329409
But Foalfetch can't see stories that have never been published, can it? Or is there some way around that?

>>42329475
No, anon, there's no tool to see the stories you're not supposed to see. Feel free to try hacking the site yourself. Theoretically you can brute force finding password protected stories by going through every story number (trivial and probably doable in a day or so if automated) and then brute force every password (good luck getting a single one within a reasonable time frame), but at that point just try to get into Knighty's account instead.

>>42329501
>get into Knighty's account
Okay, let's do that. He already got doxxed, so it shouldn't be too hard to put together a wordlist.

>>42329565
How fast do you think we can test passwords against the running site? If we're all testing passwords at the same time, my guess is 50 per second.

Look, there's no way I can ask this without sounding like a faggot, but here goes:
> Find a good story
> the premise looks fantastic! The reviews are positive! And it includes some of my favorite characters!
> One character has a really bad name that I just cannot get over.
> I associate that name with my fat angry stepdad that turned my life into hell for nineteen years.
> Also, I am VERY stupid, and don't know how to use computer to fix this.
Is there some way I can just... Do some inspect element magic or whatever to replace all instances of this bad name to be a name I choose?

>>42330129
Copy paste into a word document. Under insert I think you can go to select word, and replace. Replace with whatever other name you want. I don't have it open but I remember doing something like that once because I kept spelling a name wrong so I changed it to something easier to spell

>>42330134
Imagine being so dyslexic you can't even write your donut steel's name right.

>>42330129
What fic?

>>42330129
This is trivial. Name the fic and we'll do it for you.

>write the greatest description ever seen by human eyes
>click on the save button
>knighty's site throws up a fucking cloudflare captcha and discards all my work after I complete it
Day of the Hack can't come soon enough.

>>42330419
Form History Control, Nonny.

>>42330419
Emacs

Rolled 1 (1d20)

Playing an out of season Nightmare Night special in,
>/FSBC/

There's currently an /mlp/ online convention going on, which means I only finished one of the two fics. It is a shame. I should be able to respond about the Maize by the time (You) start posting, but as of writing this, I've only finished Skeleton.

Some things about it are immediately obvious. Firstly, this is very anime-inspired. Not so much the events or even the characters, but the dialogues, the overall presentation, and even the way it tackles its premise, to a certain extent. You may disagree, but I don't actually mind that much, though of course that's a part of it being an AU. Other parts of the AU include the weeb-brained aging up of the Ponyville elementary school cast to the classic high school setting and turning Equestria into some kind of pop culture monster world—which, to my understanding, is actually the Witch in Broad Daylight universe, too. So we're in pretty deep AU here, but that's all fine since the AU is fun. It could be argued that the violence ponies show towards all these undead&co make it non-pony, but while I was worried about it at first, the tone of the story and ponies' behavior keeps it more than enough 'pony'.

What is less fun is the level of carelessness shown in the proofreading—or the lack of it. Maybe you can argue it's not as big of a deal in a less-than-serious story, but missing words(!), frequent typos, and arbitrary comma usage do not help the fic. The last time we read a fic with so many little errors was... huh, the adoption anon story. Damn it, /fimfic/ writers, proofreading is important!
t. also hasn't proofread the last written thing he posted

But anyway, I ended up liking the fic. It wasn't the most totally amazing story I've ever read, but it's short and fun, with plenty of pretty cool (if cliched) nightmare settings to explore. Making the setting a dream that has to obey fair play rules is a bit of a cheat in terms of letting the author write what they want without keeping internal logic strictly consistent, but hey, I won't be complaining too loud if that makes the fic work. I also don't entirely get the [Comedy] tag on this, but maybe it's there to balance out the [Horror]—warning the readers to not expect "serious" horror here.
Neat!

Nobody voted so next week we're reading randomly chosen one of these three:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/191237/ghost-of-a-rose (ch.1-5 on week one),
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/455858/the-bug-in-the-cave (ch.1-13, including 'Red Hooved', on week one),
or https://www.fimfiction.net/story/328030/her-soldiers-we (whole fic)
1-7 for Ghost, 7-14 for Bug (unstuck), 15-20 for the lunafic.

>>42330664
Linking the time the other club read this:
>>39860474

>>42330419
Cloudflare are gaying Knighty's site.

Everything you do on the site goes through Cloudflare. That includes forms. As of some time yesterday (or maybe a little earlier, like 1 July), Cloudflare has begun using a lot of full-screen captcha challenges when you submit a form. After the captcha succeeds, Cloudflare redirects you back to the site. But Cloudflare discards the form contents when it does this! And you lose everything.

The edit story page and blog posts are the two most obvious victims of this behavior, but everything that works by form submission suffers from this. It's not clear why Cloudflare would discard the form contents. It could be a Cloudflare bug, but it could just be some kind of new, undocumented incompatibility. Because the issue isn't understood, there's no ETA for a fix.

>>42330664
Well I did the opposite of you and only read Maize then stuff came up and I didn't get to the fic I would've preferred to have read lol. I'm not exactly a [Horror] connoisseur but it seemed fine. I think the settings were very evocative. It probably helps that last week was a hot one where I am, but aside from the endless corn realm the house was good too. Aside from that though I didn't really care for the plot or the ponies. Twilight's never asks good questions at any point in the fic which is irritating and furthermore she never accepts the answers she gets. And why did aj make it out after 3 years? Did she (a powerful earth pony) feed the field for 3 years and then get released as part of the cycle? Is Twi coming back after a very long time? Or did the field never eat aj and it just took forever to not eat her since Twi was more important? And most of all why is it evil? It doesn't have to be a hellscape to feed kek. In fact if it wasn't evil earth ponies would probably willingly give themselves to it. Also wtf are Flim & Flam doing here kek
>flying away from the scream and not immediately trying to look at it from above
Ngmi, I guess equestria doesn't know to keep your enemies close
>big mac talking that much
Anyways, I'll read the other one at some point this week prolly and I really don't have anything to reply to

I wrote something really wild:

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580145/snugglapple

>>42330664
Two fics this week!
>A Skeleton in the Closet
I'm sure other anons will criticise the prose more than enough, so I'll just make a quick comment on how amateurish it is. What stood out the most were the scattered exclamation points. I don't think there's absolutely no place for them, but they're really overused here and give the sense that the author is a little too wrapped up in the story in their head to communicate it effectively.

The fic kind of suffers from being set in an AU, where the author has this clear vision of an alternate Equestria (that doesn't make a whole lot of sense) and we just need to go along with espers, zombies, and state-mandated combat training. It was nice that there weren't any big exposition dumps and exposition was fairly spread out, but you also get the sense that there's missing background information which may have made the fic less ... weird.

A lot of the action scenes are kind of muddled, but they're creative and highlight the characters enough that I didn't mind. What I liked the best, honestly, and what may not have even been so deliberate, is how the decadence of the foals in the earlier nightmares had its own kind of horror contrasted against the "serious" ones. The author may have been trying to really double down on how lighthearted and "fun" everything was, and draw a contrast with the second part of the fic being "dark", but I couldn't have been the only one who was put off by fillies throwing themselves down stairs for fun and the ease with which they gleefully and sadistically tormented the dream demon, even if it *was* a demon. In that light, the story is more of a cautionary tale against the recklessness of youth, although nopony really seems to learn any lesson, and DT explicitly disregards it by proclaiming that it's simply not her problem any more. Oh, and the whole thing is also basically Stephen King's It, isn't it?

>>42330866
>Maize
I read this when it was first published on the site, and after skimming it again, it's just as good as I remember it. I love, love, love how grim and horrible this one is! It's definitely a stand-out member of the "Twilight torture" sub-genre of horror fics.

First of all, the author builds his environments extremely carefully. The first few chapters drag on a little bit, but everything contributes to the sense of hopeless desolation of being trapped in the field. The colours of everything are washed out and dead. Every time Twilight seems to make some kind of "progress", she gets another setback, and the light of the sun becomes even more oppressively sterile. When she makes it to the barn, all of that is inverted but no less harsh; the environment becomes black and gloomy, filled with wet decay and crumbling timbers instead of dessicated stalks and packed dust.

The barn scenes are when the fic really starts to get good, since Twilight starts to be deceived by the field more directly. The kitchen scene with the food is pretty revolting, but I thought it was probably the best scene by virtue of how elegantly it builds up. The whole bit is filled with little hints and signs that things aren't as they seem, but the audience is by this point so sympathetic to Twilight's desperation for any kind of relief that we're pulled along with her as she gorges herself, and so we suffer all the more as the true nature of things is revealed. Flim and Flam are set up as predecessors to Twilight out in the field, and the culmination of their story, when Twilight finds them in the barn, really reinforces the idea that Twilight isn't the first or likely the last to go through this ordeal.

The ending sequence was probably unsatisfying to most people, and to me as well, but I think the author pulled off a "bad ending" about as well as he could have. What I like best about it, Twilight torture aside, is how it underscores how the Apple family has a deep, almost spiritual connection to the field. Even though Applejack is lost for years, she still escapes in the end, and the field does take care of her family in the mean time. It's an idea that's utterly incomprehensible to city-slicker Twilight, and she fails to understand the nature of the place to the very end. Maybe the whole things is just a cautionary tale not to go wandering in other people's fields. Anyway, this fic is one of my favourite horror fics.

>>42330664
>Firstly, this is very anime-inspired
>the dialogues, the overall presentation
>the weeb-brained aging up ... to the classic high school setting
I didn't pick up on this, but it's pretty easy to believe when you put it like that. To that, I would add "trying to tell a deeper emotional story than the story is capable of", given how each dream seemed to try to touch upon the different insecurities and fears of each filly, especially the last four, but ends up almost entirely glossing over them in favour of more action. I think it's for the best, to be honest, since the story actually ended up moving at a pretty good pace.

>It wasn't the most totally amazing story I've ever read, but it's short and fun, with plenty of pretty cool (if cliched) nightmare settings to explore
I also agree that it ended up being enjoyable, if somewhat shallow. The variety of nightmares was certainly the strongest point; the last two were my favourites. Diamond Tiara's actually had some interesting subtext regarding her relationship with her family, but they had to leave before really addressing it.

>warning the readers to not expect "serious" horror here
I respect how the author had a clear idea of what they wanted to write and kept to his premise closely. The quality of the fic stays pretty consistent and actually increases somewhat towards the end.

>>42330818
>I think the settings were very evocative
The best part of the fic, in my opinion.

>Twilight's never asks good questions at any point in the fic which is irritating
I mean, what's there to ask? She's stuck with no information other than having an endless field surrounding her, and nothing she tries in order to escape works. This is the kind of situation where, in any other fic, Twilight would escape by using overpowered alicorn magic, not thinking her way out of. Even when she does ask questions to the Granny Smith scarecrow, she doesn't understand the answers she receives, and it's all because she's not an Apple (or any other farmer).

>And why did aj make it out after 3 years?
AJ escapes while Twilight doesn't because AJ *is* an Apple and understands the field, which Twilight doesn't and can't. Why it takes three years, I don't know, but maybe that's just how time passes inside field, or maybe it was just a little lonely, or it was exacting some kind of tax. For all we know, the field only brought her inside in the first place in order to lure Twilight in and have an excuse to lead her around with illusions and evil scarecrows. I don't think AJ even fed the field at all, seeing as how she didn't die and have her corpse mixed with the soil as all of the others were, even the random bodies in the kitchen scene.

>And most of all why is it evil?
It's probably the kind of thing where it's not evil if you look at things from a naturalistic point of view, i.e. things *need* to die in order to fertilise the soil, and that's just how nature works.

>>42330875
>What I like best about it, Twilight torture aside, is how it underscores how the Apple family has a deep, almost spiritual connection to the field. Even though Applejack is lost for years, she still escapes in the end, and the field does take care of her family in the mean time.
>>42330946
>AJ escapes while Twilight doesn't because AJ *is* an Apple and understands the field
I didn't get this feeling from it at all. I *maybe* had this thought in the beginning, but by the end the 'field' for me was pretty much the whole planet but calling itself the field. There is no way the apple family field itself kidnaps about a pony a season and nobody knew about it. And when it takes Twilight, all of Equestria or maybe more undergoes extreme growth and flourishes. I also don't think it grabbed AJ to get to Twilight because that would make me think it would always be prioritizing Alicorns and would've killed Celestia and Luna by now.
>I mean, what's there to ask?
Anything besides what are you and what are you doing. Every answer she gets is it just saying 'the field' or 'feeding' and it is in fact correctly answering every question. She was almost onto something asking about AJ and it did say she was fine which I'm just now realizing is one of the deeper looks we get into things.
>It's probably the kind of thing where it's not evil if you look at things from a naturalistic point of view, i.e. things *need* to die in order to fertilise the soil, and that's just how nature works.
killing things for food isn't evil, but the way this thing does it is. Although funny enough now that I think about it, it could be that the field is trying to not just be naturaly and kill things and trying to be nice which is how it ends up being evil. 'oh maybe they want to see their friends again before I kill them, here are these (horrifying) puppets so they can hang out one last time.'Oh, since I'm such a slow endurance hunter (who chases my meals over thousands of miles in a timeless realm) maybe I'll cast an illusion over these huge mounds of desecrated corpses to offer them the reprieve of a nice meal.
Maybe I change my mind, the 'field' is actually just a not very good hunter. I mean it could've done literally nothing at all and Twilight would've died in about the same amount of time.

>>42330710
It's odd that cloudflare, the most ubiquitous MITM solution in the world and probably serving easily 50% of websites globally, has such a big and dumb flaw.

>>42330866
>you also get the sense that there's missing background information which may have made the fic less ... weird.
Yeah AFAIK it's set in the Witch in Broad Daylight universe. Which is fun, but it actually has many tens of thousands of words to set up its exposition, and reveals its lore gradually in a way that's not overwhelming. It's also unashamedly corny, so it's no surprise that just being thrown into a story that assumes familiarity with the setting will just feel extremely weird and out of place.
Skeleton doesn't even come with a warning that you should check out the AU, which is honestly weird given the above.

>>42330685
Oh wow, it's impressive (in a bad way!) that I managed to a) briefly confuse myself about the purpose of the Comedy tag and b) write that the horror scenarios are what you'd expect from the genre, and somehow not reach the "it's a horror parody" conclusion. I'm feeling more raratarded than usual, though it might be the lack of sleep or the air temperature right now.
I think you've been too soft on the writing, if anything. It doesn't flow poorly, which is very important, but there was very little care put into making sure that even all the words are in the right places, to not say anything about punctuation. Strongly carried by the fun AU, for those who like those kinds of settings, at least, and ending on a 7.5/10 sounds very high to me, but I would probably give it 7/10, maybe half a grade lower. Fun fic overall.

>>42330818
Well the last few days (weeks?) have been very frantic for me, but I'll get back to you once I finish the Maize.

>>42330866
>how amateurish it is
Eh, is it that bad? It's careless and full of exclamations! ...and other dubious practices... but is using an informal style such a sin? It's too awful, just has this non-serious tone, which is sort of /almost/ OK given the tone of the fic. But the exclamation points should be toned down a lot, yes!
>you also get the sense that there's missing background information
This is a side fic to A Witch in Broad Daylight. I didn't read that one, but I liked this AU anyway.
>foals
I don't think they are. I'm pretty sure they aren't. Both from the explicit "high school" name for the school, and from their general "anime teenager" *vibe*.
>gleefully and sadistically tormented the dream demon
Yeah it felt a bit off to me at first, too, but to be desu it is a demon and this is a AU where zombies are used for school training.
>story is more of a cautionary tale against the recklessness of youth
I don't really think so. I don't think it has a deeper moral. It's just a fun little story about teenagers beating up a demon while going through a sequence of cool horror setting parodies. And that's fine, I think. As you said, the fic knows what it wants to be and does it pretty well.

So I finished Monsters after all.
While I still absolutely love the lore, and the batponies, ultimately I do have to say the ending wasn't amazing. Worst of all, IMO, was how callous Celestia was. Throughout the fic, you get the impression - or at least I did, perhaps naively assuming the best - that she's doing her best to recover Equestria from the brink of precipice, and that things aren't pretty after the disaster, and that sometimes she has to rule with an iron hoof or do things like set up a gestapo service because there are STILL mad cultists trying to bring about the literal end of the world that was just narrowly avoided a couple decades prior. But that other than being strict in suppressing this, she's genuinely trying to rebuild an Equestria that's truly good.

There's a line near the start of the fic, from the perspective of Celestia in her memoirs, where she says something along the lines that she was dangerously close to being too strict and acting like a monster herself, but was ultimately saved by the actions of certain ponies named Swift Sweep and New Page. So, throughout the fic, I assumed that having a gestapo bureau and possibly harsh austerity measures to accelerate rebuilding was that harshness, and that by the end of the fic she'd realise she was being too tough on her ponies or something something I dunno.
Well no, turns out by the end of the fic nothing changed and Celestia spent another decade - no, over twelve years - continuing to run a brutal slave camp, among other things. Because apparently her being "harsh" was not just having an effective secret service, justified by having literal genuine death cults active in her capital, but also things like gulag labor with cruel slave drivers whipping starving chained ponies mining crystals with blunt pickaxes. And apparently Swift Sweep and New Page had such a "dramatic effect" on her that she sent one of them there, and it took her twelve years to then pardon him, and then allegedly only slowly start releasing more slaves. Yeah, that's better than going on to become even more of a tyrant, but the bar's not exactly high here.

So - the infant punting made sense to me when it was in the context of a literal incarnation of hate and death mind-controlling her underlings. It's Celestia's callousness that feels out of place in a pony fic, for me. "Here's the darkest stain on Equestria's history and how it recovered" - great. "Here's a touching tale of how two unlikely heroes disobeyed orders and risked everything for friendship and the greater good, touching Celestia's shattered heart and making her realise what truly matters - SYKE akshually we're gonna subvert this premise, the hero spends a decade in a gulag before Celestia finally decides maybe forgiveness is worth a try!" - mediocre.

Still love the bat lore though.

>>42331025
>There is no way the apple family field itself kidnaps about a pony a season and nobody knew about it
Well, I don't think it's the Apple family themselves, but the field personified. It doesn't seem like they have much control over things, and since it's necessary for their livelihood, they just let nature take its course. Maybe that's irresponsible of them, if they know exactly what's happening. The field isn't so much the literal soil, or the planet, but the abstract spirit of the land/earth. That's why it seems like a single pony's soul is enough to fertilise the whole field for years.

>because that would make me think it would always be prioritizing Alicorns
It's not necessarily the magical strength of a pony that makes the field prioritise them. It seemed to me like Twilight was chosen by either destiny or coincidence more than anything. There are also the questions of how a pony could plausibly be lured into the field, and how the cycle of day and night is necessary for the field's survival.

>Anything besides what are you and what are you doing.
That's fair. The fic writes it off as Twilight's psyche being slowly eroded and her train of thought being forced in certain directions, but it would have been interesting to see her try and plumb a little deeper.

>the 'field' is actually just a not very good hunter
This'll be me making up headcanon to excuse the fic, but it seems like this is either (a) the simple nature of the field, and the fact that it can't be anything else, or (b) it's necessary somehow to break Twilight's spirit as well as her body to maximise fertilisation, especially since it seems to be more her soul nourishing the soil than her body.

>>42331078
>It's also unashamedly corny
Yeah, I kind of got this, kek. At least it owned it and didn't try to pussyfoot around being super serious.

>>42330664
I don't have much to say about Skeleton that I didn't say back when we read it in the other club (RIP). >>39864909
I still think it's the best Nightmare on Elm Street sequel we never got. Still would've liked it to be just a bit longer so the dreams would've had a tad more depth to them.
Overall, a really solid fic. I'm sure I'll get to Witch in Broad Daylight one of these days.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqsU6gu6sq0
I really liked Maize. I wouldn't call it a favourite of mine, but I certainly had fun the whole way through.
I liked how there was enough shown in the story about Twilight being trapped and magic being useless to justify her not being able to just pop her way out of it, but at the same time, I think it's just a drawback of the genre when you need to kneecap your main character to be able to get the ball rolling.
Nevertheless, I was engaged with Twilight's wandering through the maize maze, stumbling upon the remnants of the twins, the realisation of what their fate had been, and how we slowly piece together what was happening.
Granted, Granny Smith sorta spells it out in the first chapter if you're paying attention, but I enjoyed the slow confirmation.
I think it was an interesting way to explain why don't unicorns just overtake earth ponies when it comes to agriculture. Making the Earth itself a live entity that gives and takes is a good approach, and one that lent itself to the horror premise quite well.
The scenes in the farmhouse were pretty neat, too. The "character eats a feast that turns out to be something horrible" is a common trope, but one that I love, and it still managed to get a reaction out of me. Oh, and when Twilight talks to the Granny Smith construct and is slowly surrounded by the others felt deliciously chilling.
I may be a bit biased, since I love horror, but I still think this is a solid fic that gave me a good time.

>>42331088
>but is using an informal style such a sin?
It makes it read like it was written by a very earnest 14-year-old, which isn't a sin per se.
>Both from the explicit "high school" name for the school, and from their general "anime teenager" *vibe*.
Yeah? A 16-year-old is only 4 years apart from a 12-year-old. They're more children than adults, to use human terminology. Also, it seemed to me like their implicit characterisation still suggested that they were younger than what was explicitly stated, what with all the childish play and blunt emotions.
>to be desu it is a demon
It ... it *is*, but they still shouldn't be indulging in sadism! That's a kind of sin in itself. And it's different from mere violence, like with the zombies.
>I don't think it has a deeper moral.
Sadly, this is probably true, but the story did seem to try to play with deeper themes here and there. I think exploring the prudence of having "Nightmare Night" parties in the first place is the most interesting aspect it could have explored.

>>42330818
>did the field never eat aj
I thought she was just bait. The field really wanted some of that Twiggle magic again, and was content with using appul as a lure for her.
>not immediately trying to look at it from above
That's your brain on corn. And this isn't even high fructose.
>>42330875
>The first few chapters drag on a little bit
Really? I liked how we were thrown right into the maize with little buildup. Just int he first chapter, AJ is already lost and there's little ambiguity about there being some messed up stuff going on.
And once Twi's trapped in the neverending expanse of corn, it felt like a steady string of building terror. At least to me.

>>42331110
>and how the cycle of day and night is necessary for the field's survival.
Side note, but I thought it was weird that it was endlessly hot and sunny in the realm. A setting that would in fact turn all those plants into dust
>The fic writes it off as Twilight's psyche being slowly eroded and her train of thought being forced in certain directions, but it would have been interesting to see her try and plumb a little deeper.
Yeah for sure she was being worn down, but the fic would've been more compelling if Twilight tried harder or did any actual discovering at all through her talks. As it is the only time she's close to anything is the very end when she sees the real world after she cant move forward anymore. And I saw that scene coming the moment she got in the realm. I think one of my problems is that there was never any hope at all. The second Twilight gets into the corn world she never gets any closer at all to making her way back. At least for us as readers and I feel like the fic just goes 'well look at how deranged Twilight got. She certainly thought she was closer to escaping at points!' cool I guess. I think I like stories like this more when they have lasting consequences. Like if Twilight made it out 3 years later also and was mentally fucked like AJ was but it turns out her (or both of their) souls were still in the realm so they were experiencing walking around as scarecrows and sitting at tables with other scarecrows when in reality they were wandering around semi-lucid in Equestria. Or something like that. But not only did I not care for Twilight's story, even AJ's ending was hollow for me. She just lost 3 years of her life and that's it. She doesn't remember any of it and probably wasn't even conscious. As it is I have to headcanon myself into believing that since they got AJ back and know when they both got lost it maybe had to do with the corn maze (and if they're smart enough noticed the extremely well off flora in the entire country that perfectly coincided with an alicorn vanishing) that maybe some sort of magic science research is going to take place and maybe lead to the discovering of this 'entity'
>or (b) it's necessary somehow to break Twilight's spirit as well as her body to maximise fertilisation, especially since it seems to be more her soul nourishing the soil than her body.
I'd believe it considering the realm dehydrates and malnourishes the ponies lost in it. Surely they would physically feed the field more if they were in good health when it ate them (unless you wanna argue them being there means they're already ate in which case the scarecrows have no reason to exist since they're already there and thus consumed)

>>42331107
Now read MCA.

>>42331132
>A 16-year-old is only 4 years apart from a 12-year-old
One of those is legal in most of the world. I know you're barely old enough to vote and so you want to puff yourself up and say you're a real true grown up human now while people a mere handful of years younger are still kiddy kids with weak smooth brains, but the truth is that the puberty period is the biggest spurt in rapid development you'll consciously live through in your life and a 12yo is massively different from a 16yo, by a decent bit more than the still considerable difference between a 16yo and a 20yo.

>>42331134
>The field really wanted some of that Twiggle magic again
What do you mean by that? When she magicked the apples? Maaaaaaaybe I could see that. But maybe not since she was just a unicorn right? I would think it wouldn't care for her until she had strong earth pony magic in her, but then again it got Flimflam so who knows. Then it could've actually have grabbed Pip first lmao but let him out in far less than 3 years, just to ultimately bait Twilight
>That's your brain on corn.
maybe it was just her lack of pegasus warrior instincts

>>42331120
>song
Kek.
I agree with basically everything you say. Especially regarding giving earth ponies their own sort of special nature.
>>42331134
>Really? I liked how we were thrown right into the maize with little buildup.
I like that too, but it was more that we spend a lot of time wandering around with nothing really happening. It's necessary to set the stage, but it might get a little dry.
>>42331145
>it was endlessly hot and sunny in the realm
>the very end when she sees the real world
I think this suggests that the whole "realm" Twilight's in isn't the true nature of the field, but a stage built by the field to some extent for the purpose of breaking any pony who enters. I don't think Twilight actually saw the real world, but rather it was just an illusion to get her guard down at the very end for the scarecrow AJ to make the final blow (on both her body and her mind).

As an aside, I think it's worth asking how complicit AJ actually was while inside the maze. Was she actually the scarecrow all along? Was she possessed by the field or participating in Twilight's death of her own will? In any case, she loses her memory upon escaping, which might suggest that she's done similar things before despite it being so out-of-character.
>>42331153
>you want to puff yourself up and say you're a real true grown up human now
My point is exactly the opposite! 16-year-olds think they're mature and grown up, but in reality they're still very similar to children, and that's even more true the more you claim that young adults are still undeveloped (which they are). Thus, using "foals" to describe pony teenagers is appropriate.

>>42331157
>When she magicked the apples? [...] But maybe not since she was just a unicorn right?
Yup. Pic rel.
That's why the Granny scarecrow thingie says: “And you hold such an abundant well. So much deeper than the others… more than even the strongest of your kind. More even than when first we felt you reach out to us, how can that be? But no matter. You need to feed the field, Twili-girl.”
Back in the first chapter, too. The real Granny Smith says "If you’re gonna take from the earth, you always be sure to give something back in equal measure."
Earth Ponies take from the Earth and give their time and Earth Pony magic and get plentiful harvests in return. Twiggles took a lot of appuls that one time, and the Earth got a taste of her magic and wanted more. It was even surprised at how much more she had now that she was an alicorn. Good thing it waited so long to tap that, huh?

>>42331181
>it might get a little dry.
It did. Didn't you read how thirsty Twilight was?

>>42331181
>I think this suggests that the whole "realm" Twilight's in isn't the true nature of the field, but a stage built by the field to some extent for the purpose of breaking any pony who enters.
Maybe and yeah I agree that Twilight was never actually inches away from leaving the realm. Maybe earth ponies are just in heaven when they get taken.
>As an aside, I think it's worth asking how complicit AJ actually was while inside the maze. Was she actually the scarecrow all along? Was she possessed by the field or participating in Twilight's death of her own will? In any case, she loses her memory upon escaping, which might suggest that she's done similar things before despite it being so out-of-character.
Yeah this is the good shit to think about for sure. From the beginning especially it kinda sounds like the scarecrow IS aj trying to talk, but I osrt of lost that feeling when she asks about aj and it says 'she's fine'. But yeah, what DID aj experience when she was there? Has Granny had a deep experience with the field?

I still do think that the way the story sets it up is that Twilight will come back in a very long time just like AJ did but scaled to her magic in some way or perhaps her soul. In a century (or a couple) she'll just randomly appear again. It's all a part of the cycle. Which would also explain away the rate of ponies going missing if most of them just came back after a couple of months. Just blame the changelings

>>42331183
>More even than when first we felt you reach out to us
ahh good catch. Which also definitely clarifies it doesn't just focus on earth ponies
>Earth Ponies take from the Earth and give their time and Earth Pony magic and get plentiful harvests in return.
kek tax season came and it turns out AJ owed 3 more years I guess. Sounds like someone's been cutting some corners.

>>42331187
>

Whoah Morty don't ask this place, especially Fimficiton, for advice on how to write. These NEETs haven't spoken to a human being in ages and the original season 1 MLP FIM is highly reliant on 6 different personalities interacting together with a sandbox-styled plot that sometimes has a monster of the "week" appearing at the 10min or 14 min mark.

None of the faggots here can write a show accurate episodes to save their lives.
None of these faggots here have actually read books
Show accurate would you mean you have to copy Renzetti & Faust's style, vocabulary, line of thinking, characters 100% and these autists here haven't talked to a human being in their lives.

Also 1 more thing; None of them are native English speakers and none of them went to Grammar & Literature college.

>>42331222
k

>>42331181
If you're old enough to have a license you're too old to hold a loli license imo.

>>42327721
Justice is one of the chapters in Tales from Twilight Town

I read The Quest last night. It was perfectly fine, but I would hardly put it up alongside the actual series. For one, it's not even an adventure, and for two it's barely a story. Most importantly, iisaw accurately says in the comments that it's almost completely unrelated to the other stories. I can see that it's an expansion on the AU scene at the end of Twilight Enigma, naming the same changeling and dragon, but otherwise it's unrecognizable.
What the story actually is is several thousand words of middle-finger-to-G5 worldbuilding and giving Alicorn II Twilight a horn job. Not that those are bad things, but the real series already does them better by actually having Twilight kick flank and not just toss some head explode emojis at the face of the perspective OC, Matrix Architect-style. Also, I have the same dislike of a detail in this story that I did in that scene from Twilight Enigma: Luna should be with Twilight and not in the moon. It's worse that both the cosmic sister are gone.

Anyway, I mostly like the concept of ponies lacking perspective of how good they have it. The bad thing about that is how they've lost their history. I liked all the magically modified plants especially, Twilight making three more varieties of tree houses is probably the most pony thing about the story. But it's really just a oneshot concept of pony utopia. A good one, and recommendable as an alternate take on Celestia's centralized system (the lack of Celestia feels like a reason for why they would forget their past), and a particularly good use of changelings.

On its own, though, I'm not even sure that it's better than the On the Rocks collection.

How do you guys usually approach writing background characters when upgrading them to a major role? Characters whose entire list of lines could be written on a diner napkin.
I'm talking about characters like Carrot Top, Caramel, the trio of mares that sell flowers, and most of the Mane Six's parents. Is there a non-obvious way to mischaracterize someone like Roseluck (not have anything to do with roses or the other two mares), for example?

>>42331545
I just let the divine fire of cosmic inspiration guide me.

>>42331545
Go hog wild, my dude. You already have it figured out, but other than their two lines you're free to do whatever.

Anyone feel like clubbing the thread's 1,000 word fics next week?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/578686/justice
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579004/royal-inheritance
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579418/the-bargain
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579515/sweetie-belle-reviews-my-little-human-fanfics
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580145/snugglapple
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579608/to-catch-a-couturier

If I had a nickel for every 1k Words contest entry with a Drama tag titled "As Above, So Below" I'd have 2 nickels. Which is not a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

>>42331601
It could be cool, but it would be a lot of Math Spook.

>>42331601
Hold on, mine's not out yet.

>>42331722
We've read thread authors before.

>>42331601
Whoa, you can't read a whole week of almost nothing but me like that. Besides which, that's only 6,000 words, and usually the club reading is longer than that.

>>42331775
My point was that 5/6 of them were Math Spook, so it would be more like a "Math Spook" week, but it would still be fine.

>>42331545
Some background ponies have very little canon characterization. What is Roseluck really like? I have no idea. She's almost a complete blank slate. Just about the only way to get her wrong would be to make her hate flowers. But beyond that, you can do anything you like.

>>42331867
If people can blank slate Derpy into a struggling disabled single mother fucking a time traveling alien than you can take Roseluck and make her anything you want.

>>42331851
I like when people read my stories, but it feels like some kind of underhanded ploy to announce "we're reading thread author 1000 words entries" and have them be 5/6 me. (Or 5/7 me, if >>42331728 comes through.) It looks like I'm samefagging (which I'm not). But I just looked and I didn't see any other contest entries from thread authors. Low turnout this year, it seems.

>>42331993
>Low turnout this year, it seems.
I had an idea for that one, but I preferred focusing on continuing my spooky longfic. I'm about to hit 40k words.

>>42331601
No fair, I didn't enter this year.

>>42331993
>Low turnout this year, it seems.
Personally, I couldn't be bothered to give a shit, even out of spite. He'd just complain about my writing and then give a prize to another fag who wrote the same word a thousand times. He's the most annoying person to run the contests he does, and I see a lot of other people on Fimfiction bitching about him.

I don't know, maybe I'll start something, but it's unlikely. There were no good assassination attempts this year.

>>42332092
>No fair, I didn't enter this year.
Were you expecting to enter this year?

>>42332102
kek

>>42332092
You've still got 1.5 hours to rapidly repackage some Pro-Life talking points into something pony-shaped. Could even be EqG if you don't want to sully Equestria with the concept of child murder.

>>42331873
Roseluck is also fucking the time travelling alien.

>>42332139
More like Doctor Dick, I guess.

>>42332140
Hell, yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0sORVBL4kM

>>42332147
It's good to know someone still remembers the old ways.

>>42332092
That's because your writing kind of fucking sucks, Kas. Your prose is mid. You're not a good writer. I have yet to read something of yours that wasn't passable at best. That's before you get into your pathological need to shove your own politics into everything you write and turn ponies into mouthpieces. You're a bad writer whose one gimmick is spamming his fetish and you act insufferable to most people without even realising it, presumably because you're genuinely autistic. You need to be slapped repeatedly, metaphorically and perhaps physically, until you learn to behave.

>>42332140
To be entirely fair "the Doctor fucks" was a very strong and relevant plot throughline in the reboot, especially the Ten days.

>>42332158
It's funny how they wanted to make Doctor Whooves and Derpy siblings after all that.

>>42332153
I'm definitely autistic, so you're going to have to get specific if you want to try to hurt my feelings.

>That's before you get into your pathological need to shove your own politics into everything you write and turn ponies into mouthpieces.
This sentence makes me think you adapted a copypasta.

>You're a bad writer whose one gimmick is spamming his fetish and you act insufferable to most people without even realising it, presumably because you're genuinely autistic.
Tell me how I'm insufferable, and I'll try to change.

>You need to be slapped repeatedly, metaphorically and perhaps physically, until you learn to behave.
kek

After learning more about the horses in Umamusume it wouldn't surprise me if somebody added a pony Gold Ship to their fic. He was kind of a menace.

Ain't it just like the night
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579484/visions-of-gehenna
I wrote some edgeslop like the good old days. Go read it. Or not. It's probably not very good. In fact every single thing that inspired it is certainly better than this fic. But at least it looks wacky if you see it in edit mode so that was fun.

>>42332166
>I'm definitely autistic, so you're going to have to get specific if you want to try to hurt my feelings
I can tell you're autistic by your assumption that any criticism levelled at you, when not formed as slavishly 'constructive' and toothless, is meant to hurt your feelings, and not merely the byproduct of how people interact on a human level.
Anyway, is your pregnancy fetish a reflection of your internalized realization that it's best for all if you keep out of the gene pool?

>>42332150
NTA But It was posted on /f/ (RIP) every now and then. That's how I know about it at least

>>42332201
>I can tell you're autistic by your assumption that any criticism levelled at you, when not formed as slavishly 'constructive' and toothless, is meant to hurt your feelings, and not merely the byproduct of how people interact on a human level.
Fag, kek. I thought so because it was generic, and partially inaccurate. All you've done is remind me of the comments I've received where people praised my prose specifically, even while calling out the fetish it described.

>Anyway, is your pregnancy fetish a reflection of your internalized realization that it's best for all if you keep out of the gene pool?
No.

>>42332245
>I've received where people praised my prose specifically
It's fimfic, they'll praise anything.

Saw a cool experimental 1k entry that's probably going to win. Didn't know you could do stuff like that with the site.
>>42332245
>All you've done is remind me of the comments I've received where people praised my prose specifically
And you trust Fimfiction's audience?

>>42332270
Reminds me that I just read this and it was fucking incomprehensible.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/578505/swwc-side-story-part-5-i-just-want-to-talk-to-him

>>42332270
Not just on Fimfiction, and not just from nonwriters, but this conversation is becoming a back-and-forth.

>>42330664
Late post because I had to sleep on it.

>Maize
This was... fine. I thought the message was going to lean more into "don't take shortcuts", punish Twilight (and Flim-Flam) for doing so, and be a veiled propaganda piece for why earth ponies are useful. But it turns out to have a pro-carnivore agenda by all plants being a blood-sucking hivemind with a combined processing power of a gutter crackhead and ability to put you into a whack-ass corn prison. You'd think the deal would be good enough with a kingdom's worth of horse shit and the dead being chucked into the communal burial pit, but no, the plants need their magical adrenochrome too. If the ponies were carnivorous they wouldn't have to deal with this. Flim-Flam did nothing wrong.

Slightly more seriously, my feelings are mixed in between >>42330818 and >>42330875. But I differ most in that I could not care less for the mirage and barn scenes: eating garbage (nothing new for Twilight), two pages of crawling through dirt cave-ins, and an irritating circular line of questions did nothing for me. I did find the prose dry also (>>42331181), but I couldn't find anything wrong with it. The descriptions and bits of gore failed to entertain, although I don't disagree that Twilight could suck sods through a kitchen sink tap. There really are worse ways to go out than being a sweaty mare in an endless sea of corn and being sucked off by an Applejack effigy for the rest of your life. This is how I plan to go out, too. I love corn.
Pipsqueakbros and Spikechads, we won. Pipsqueak solved the riddle by following the music, and Spike got away with a huge-ass pumpkin and freedom from his slavemaster.
Also:
>Cider
>Alcoholic

>A Skeleton in the Closet
>>42330818
>I didn't get to the fic I would've preferred to have read
Same, I only managed half way into this.

The AU came as a confusing, fun shock. And I know they're not fillies in this, but I still had the hilarious image of them as fillies beating up, stabbing, and chaining a demon before going on suicidal reign of anarchy. I'm biased towards anything with Spoony and DT in it, so I'm going to shut up now. Rumble isn't gay!

>lightning strike outside makes my power flicker for a moment and my PC restart
I'm at least glad it happened now while I was gaming and not earlier while I was writing. And I'd just saved anyway.
>>42332629
>I'm biased towards anything with Spoony and DT in it
I was going to make a suggestion but then I reread that and now I feel like it's not needed.

>>42332655
This is why I write on a chromebook

>>42332660
That won't save you from your Wi-Fi going out resulting in Fimmy's Captcha eating your attempt at saving.

>>42332689
>typing anything directly into the site

>>42332708
>typing

>>42332708
Does your preferred writing software lack a basic autosave?

>>42332689
I still don't get why some anons write using FimFic's own editor.

>>42332870
Being able to see how a passage will look when posted in just a click or two is pretty handy.

>>42332901
Yeah but you know that Fimfiction likes to separate words with spacing to format a paragraph better and you know how italics and bold look. You can account for all of that within another word processor and pre-add the italics and such else whilst not needing it in the FimFic editor.
You can paste your work from another editor into it so you don't lose anything whilst also being able to save and preview how it will look, then making adjustments as necessary and not losing any data from a failed save or powercut or whatever because you didn't autistically save every five seconds by using a retarded in-site editor that lacks an autosave feature.

>>42332908
If you hate Fimfic so much, why don't you just write greens?

>>42332989
I hate Fimfiction's editor.
The site is fine.
Its users could use a kick in the arse for their love of HiEslop.

>>42333024
why do you think about men's asses so much?

>>42333081
Because femboys and traps are extremely fuckable.

>>42333092
>pic
Does this apply to femboys too?

>>42333154
No. A trap is perfect and 2D. A femboy is imperfect and 3D.
A trap cannot be distinguished as male but you can tell a femboy is male and fucking him is gay.
It only becomes not gay if you say no homo afterwards AND ensure that he wears thigh highs and a choker.

>>42333164
Sometimes, I look around at my life, at where I am, the things I do, who I am. And I wonder, "How the fuck did I end up in an MLP fanfiction thread reading about traps and femboys? Where did I go wrong?"

>>42333183
My guess is that our parents didn't hug/hit us enough as kids.

>>42333222
I got plenty of both as necessary and I turned out great!

>>42333164
Are you the guy that spergs out about the differences between futa and dickgirls? Why don't you just admit you're a homosexual?

>>42333231
Because I'm bisexual, doy.
Futanari have pussy, and if I was a full-on faggot I would not enjoy pussy.

>>42332908
Even better, just don't use italics or bold. That way you can learn to actually write instead of using formatting as a crutch

>>42333236
>bisexual
Are people still trying to claim that shit's real?

>>42333236
If you like feminine penis does that mean you also like masculine pussy?

>>42333244
I'd wager half of the spread is bisexual, at the very least.

>>42333245
Hey, now. Who wouldn't want a hard, meaty pussy that can squeeze your dick like a vicegrip with just one kegel?

>>42333244
An engorged clit is a bit weird but I can appreciate that much like a fat mare clit.

>>42333253
Thread. Fucking autocorrect.
>>42333264
People who like having intact fremelums.

>>42333269
Half the thread are yanks, they don't have those.

>>42333273
From my cock survey last mare fair, they most certainly do.

>>42333278
Was the cock survey a dick-sucking contest?

>>42333237
Writing is a canvas, I'll paint how I wish.

>>42333280
Measuring, actually. ||The sucking came after.||

>>42333287
Actually, a canvas is a canvas. Paint however you wish. Writing is a skill that suffers from shortcuts.

>>42333288
I will choose to believe that attempting a pisscord spoiler was intentional.

>>42333297
There's nothing wrong with using italics for emphasis.

>>42333299
Formatting is like spice. When used sparingly by a skilled chef, it can greatly enhance a dish. But if you're Indian, you just create a lot of shit.

>>42333297
No.

>>42333299
Actually, there is. The context and characterization should be more than enough for the reader to infer where emphasis should be without the use of special formatting.
>But what if the readers are stupid
If you believe this, then you shouldn't be publishing your work anywhere
>But the emphasis is completely lost without italics
Then write better

>>42333337
You're one of those people that insists on the use of singular they, aren't you?

>>42333348
He's probably sitting there with his one twenty likes five dislikes three comment fic telling himself that it's not him, it's the world.

>>42333348
You're a faggot if you insist on they being purely plural
>>42333355
>Implying I've ever published a fic

I just read Cupcakes for the first time. Why did I never read this before? Far from being horrifying, it's such a pointless edgefest that it's funny. The torture comes on too suddenly, rocketing from zero to eleven in just a few paragraphs. Pinkie's cheeriness would be in character if not for her inexplicable drive to torture and murder. (I'm a little surprised that the story doesn't also feature rape.) This is a true classic and the fandom at its peak: Utter insanity combined with extreme retardation.

>>42333429
>I'm a little surprised that the story doesn't also feature rape.
There are certain topics which the normie will always deem off limits, no matter how edgy he attempts to be. They are unable to fully commit and will ever only wear the aesthetics of edginess without any of the substance.

>>42333429
Cupcakes was a masterful deconstruction of shipfaggotry that the fandom collectively spurned.

That Ruskie horseword panel at /mlp/con got me wondering, what foreign fic is most deserving of an English translation?

>>42332908
I was writing for the 1k contest and making an experimental entry and there's no way to do that without writing directly on the site if you're adding 70 nested footnotes to game the wordcount.

>>42333227
Ah, there's the physical abuse to justify your faggotry, that explains a lot.

>>42333972
Every one of us has been physically abused by the uncaring universe's decision to not grant us perfect pony bodies.

>>42333955
I wouldn't mind reading the Dash and Gilda fic, Above the "Secret" it translates to, that he was talking about.

>>42333994
>pony
>perfect
Pathetic mammal. Everyone knows changelings are the true apex of biology.

>>42331717
I may just be a shitty writer but I can hardly convey anything worth reading in 1k words

>>42334286
Don't worry. Nobody can convey anything worth reading in 1k words, and you're also a shitty writer.

>>42332655
My text editor autosaves but I spam the save shortcut so often that I never really worked out how the autosave works.

Are their any good fics where the main character is stalking/spying on someone?

>>42334863
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/543517/scolopendromorpha

>>42334874

>>42334874
>Incomplete
What?
I could've sworn it was a one-shot.

>>42334931
It was definitely complete before. The author must be working on a follow-up.

i've binned four entire roughs drafts in a row, all different ideas, none of them up to snuff despite almost a month of working on them
i am going to jump off of a bridge

Can someone recommend a fic in which humans sell human junk for ponies, it's about the Equestria economy in general
Something like (Wizard of the White Door.)
I want to find something more like that.

>>42333955
>>42334002
Glad you guys watched my panel! I had planned for it to be a little bit more serious but i feel like it was pretty well received even as an "unhinged stories" show it mostly turned out to be. I hope you had fun. Here's a picture from one of the fics that i didn't have time to talk about. Maybe next year

>>42335204
I thoroughly enjoyed it. A fascinating look into another part of the fandom that'll never truly understand, but one that is always fun to learn about. Music and fics are what hooked me properly after I watched the show, so it was really cool to see both showcased - 'Mustangs Waltz' was a pretty moving. Thanks for including those captions. In fact, I appreciate the effort to highlight some of the extras like related english fics (Elrod mention, woo!) and the context surrounding the stories.
>I had planned for it to be a little bit more serious but i feel like it was pretty well received even as an "unhinged stories" show it mostly turned out to be
It was a mix of both, honestly. The tight summaries combined with your excellently descriptive visuals lent towards the entertainment value (not to mention some of the stories did have that unhinged factor: Steel Wings. Nuff said), but you also got across the quality of the other works.
I'd love to see you return for another panel. It'd be shame not to hear and see the rest of what you had planned.

>>42335204
Maybe I should know the answer to this, but spoon feeding would be appreciated: Was this recorded? Where can I find the recording?

>>42335911
The panels are being uploaded on ponytube as we speak, i'll probably take another day or two for the process to finish. I recommend to wait a bit and then watch it with the chat recording, it's always funnier this way.
>>42335641
Thank you for your feedback.
>Music and fics are what hooked me properly after I watched the show
Same for me, i started reading pony fanfiction pretty much immediately after watching my first episode.
I have ideas for more than one russian fanfiction related panel, there's actually tons of interesting stuff i can talk about. Not making any promises but i'll see if i can do it again next year.

>>42335942
it'll*

Slutty Pinkie Pie cousin named Audible Cream Pie

>>42335204
It was a wild ride, mane, and I was glad to bear witness to it.
This'll get me lynched ITT, but have you thought about throwing a green or two into next year's panel? I'm curious what Dvachnons might've come up with.
>>42336014
>this clopfic is brought to you by Audible

Slow day, eh?

>>42336014
This wording implies Ponka isn't slutty herself.

>>42336799
The greatest trick the Coomer ever pulled was convincing the world platonic relationships didn't exist.

>>42336921
She wore fucking fishnets and put on a show. You just know she makes sure everyone who came to her parties alone doesn't go home without an orgasm.

>>42336014
Slutty Pinkie Pie cousin named Audible Cream Pie vs slutty Applejack cousin named Apple Tart

>>42336239
Yes, in fact, i planned to show some 2ch greens during the planel, but run out of time. I'll definitely show them in the future because they are a perfect source of funny and unhinged stuff.
>pic
I don't really like that OC and country ponifications in general but that's just my thing.

>"Enchanted Library and anything in the series will not be coming back to Fimfiction for a long time"
>a little over a month passes
>the fic is back and Mono is back to her name
>but she's in her "titles without capitalisation because I'm an a r t i s t e phase"
Somebody please make sure she takes her meds regularly. I mean this genuinely, she's a good writer and for all I know a nice person and she's having too many brutal mood swing moments on the site for me not to worry.

Who's the fucking duncehead that kept recommending me MCA? It's got EqG in it, and it's not even tagged for fuck's sake.

>>42337128
Read it, bitch.

>>42337135
I am, how do you figure I've realised this

>>42337138
The Baconhorse is correctly tagged and on the cover. The EQG tag should be there too but the writer is dead or missing so it's sadly not getting added.

>>42337146
Yes that's my issue.
Or rather my issue is EqG being in there at all, but since it is, it should've at least been tagged correctly.

>>42337172
Get better taste.

>>42337183
>>>>>>>

>>42337189
Bacon is good.

>>42336799
She's just trying to find the one that won't nut and bolt.

>>42337128
We told you not to use Morrowind Comes Alive. Just get a creature mod at most.

>>42337118
Look being good at something also usually means you're kind of a taco short of a combo plate.

>>42337215
Non-sequitur

>>42337317
Anon just said he doesn't like Bacon.

>>42337317
Bacon is bacon horse. Bacon horse is fun because bacon horse has a lot of angsty bacon horse problems that have a lot of angsty bacon horse angles that you can work.

>>42337340
Both of the posts >>42337128 and >>42337172 are complaining about non-tagged EqG, while the story has a [Sunset Shimmer] tag. Under what interpretation can "the story should have been correctly tagged for this thing I dislike" be interpreted as "I dislike this thing that is in fact tagged"?

>>42337340
Both of the posts >>42337128 and >>42337172 are complaining about non-tagged EqG, while the story has a [Sunset Shimmer] tag. Under what interpretation can "the story should have been correctly tagged for this thing I dislike" be interpreted as "I dislike this other thing that is in fact tagged"?

>>42337349
You CAN have Sunset without it being Equestria Girls. Like if there was a fic where she never went to the human world.

>>42337352
Anon is saying the source and container of bacon is bad, which cannot be true becayse bacon is good.

>>42337358
That's an incorrect deduction. The source-accurate bacon is tainted anyway.
Like, imagine if bacon was first invented by the WEF as a fungus-based protein strip. And only later someone decided "hmm, what if we just used pigs for it". That's basically what's happening here. If someone gives you a dish with bacon and you look inside and it's the WEF bug-paste, and you declare "I hate the WEF, why didn't you tell me you were using bug paste", you would be entirely justified.

>>42337118
At least she's still writing something, where the fuck's the last Empty Horzions?

Whoah Morty don't ask this place, especially Fimfiction for advice on how to write. These NEETs haven't spoken to a human being in ages and the original season 1 MLP FIM is highly reliant on 6 different personalities interacting together for 20 minutes. These faggots can't interact with another creature for 1 whole minute.

None of the faggots here can write a show accurate episodes to save their lives.
None of these faggots here have actually read books
Show accurate would you mean you have to copy Renzetti & Faust's style, vocabulary, line of thinking, characters 100% and these autists here haven't talked to a human being in their lives.

>>42337429
I wanna read a fic about Pinkie Pie getting knocked up.

>>42337429
>these autists
Lack of self-awareness is the biggest sign of autism, anon

>>42337433
I read one where she gets knocked up by a changeling despite it being established in fic to be impossible.

>>42337438
Lack of self-awareness is the biggest sign of autism, autist.

>>42337450
Good job, anon, almost perfect

>>42337367
The first time we see bacon she's a horse in horseland. DYEWTM?

>>42337514
Non-sequitur.

>>42337527
Bacon was not invented as bug paste. Your analogy a shit.

>>42337548
Your entire argument a shit.
>the mirror existing
>human high schools existing
>sunset dropping muh epic human references all the time haha
All of these are disgusting and unnecessary for any story. The ponies involved are irrelevant.

Bacon was invented in the movie that invented all of the above. Hence, bug paste. Bacon, by itself, independent of all this, would be fine; but the story chose not to use normal bacon, it chose to use WEF bacon.

A couple of cute fics I read recently (though they're by no means new, each over a decade old):

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/152173/dear-princess
>a filly having trouble making friends in her new school sends a letter asking the newly-crowned Twilight Sparkle for advice
8k words, Twilight is a cute autist here. Written entirely in the format of an exchange of letters.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/10624/reading-rainbow
>after a magical mishap leaves Twilight in the hospital without her vision for a few weeks, Rainbow Dash takes it upon herself to keep her friend company by reading to her
5k words, about half of which are taken up by the cute little Shel Silverstein/Dr. Seuss-esque story-within-a-story Rainbow's reading. Really cute story, and despite not even being a romance fic it's sold me on twidash better than any actual twidash content ever has.

>>42337172
Almost all of the "nods" to the eqg-verse are nearly inconsequential and easy to ignore, since Sunset's story in the fic happens in Equestria from start to end, with the exception of the sudden "fuck you" chapter in the middle of the fic that's almost all eqg BUT that you can safely skip and not miss anything. None of the other chapters happen in the barbie world, and the fic is easily worth reading if you skip the eqg chapter.

>>42337354
Yes, Witch of the Everfree, for instance, which is also good. MCA could've been that, but unfortunately she does visit the hell dimension in that one awful (but skippable) chapter.

>>42337565
>Almost all of the "nods" to the eqg-verse are nearly inconsequential
Hence there's no reason the story could've just... not done that.
But not only did it do it, but it also hid it from the tags.
>and easy to ignore
Somewhat, if you turn your brain off. It's definitely enough to sour my opinion of the author.

>>42337558
Get better taste.

The aspie who throws a tantrum anytime even anything mildly EQG happens is god damned exhausting.

>>42337577
>>>>>>>

>>42337579
Please understand, the incessant bullying he received due to his crippling autism left him forever scarred and traumatised and every mention of anything high school related triggers him.

>>42337584
Nobody enjoys high school except those who won't even grow beyond it, bub. You still gotta learn not to throw shit everywhere anytime someone even vaguely posts about Twilight's bacon flavored penpal.

>>42337590
>Nobody enjoys high school
Speak for yourself. High school was great. Some of us got the "doesn't need to study to get good grades" autism instead of the "socially awkward as fuck" one.

>>42337600
And I was a varsity athlete as a freshman, doesn't mean I'm ever going to look back on those years with any other attitude besides "thank fucking god it's over".

>>42337590
Not trying to defend Eqg but i enjoyed high school because i spent it doing nothing, shitposting online and enjoying life, only getting ready to the uni exams at the end of the final year. It was fun time.

>>42337605
That's because you were wasting your time on effort instead of coasting and enjoying life. Only a NEET or a collegecuck could think high school is worse than a job.

>>42337614
>not living off royalties and interest

>Mono comes crawling back with two new fics
Lol

>>42337590
Or you could have enjoyed it and still dislike how it's being mixing with ponies, which also violating several of the foundational ideas that made FiM good. It's irredeemably SHIIIIIIIT.

>>42337627
It's just the logical end result of all the HiE slop.

>>42337622
I swear to Celestia, if i check her account now and it's RariTwi...

>>42337629
Oh even better, it's Equestria Girls.

>>42337634
See? If you had good taste like her you too could be a popular and well regarded horsefic author.

>>42337649
The real way to become a popular horsefic author is to hit a jackpot by writing a popular story during the early fandom years and coast on that popularity for the next decade

>>42323869
I kinda felt the same way when I was reading it years ago and ended up dropping it around chapter 10/11. I think it was a combo of the chapters getting really long along with the story's gimmick running out of steam and having nothing to really replace it.

>>42337649
I'm happy with where I am now, but thank you for the vote of confidence.

>>42337667
That's because it's a bad story by a bad author who should be beaten with a stick.

>>42337600
my highschool was shit
>3k students in a 60’s era brutalist school
>”student culture events” only had maybe 100-200 people participating
>incredibly low turnout for the valentines dance and student council voting
>student council fees had to be paid to access clubs because “fuck you”, clubs weren’t even anything good or worthwhile.
>covidtardation ruined the first two years, some moron on the school board decided that locking people outside in the middle of winter so they’d all be huddled and freezing up was a smart decision.
I don’t hate the years, it was just a shitty school, there was nothing good happening and the people I met were only acquaintances I knew already.

>>42337659
Or just crank out low quality slop that updates constantly or meme one-shots but then you're stuck doing that forever.

>>42337649
But I don't have a preference for RariTwi.

>>42337649
I'm okay with Equestria Girls. Sunset's a fun source of angsty feelings.

>>42337679
>admitting to being barely over 18 on 4chan

Fics for this feel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxVTrX8TjrU

>>42337709
Who do you think attended /mlp/con, and had fun, nigger?
Same for marefair and etc

>>42337708
You just like writing Celestia being angsty, fae.

>>42337738
Yeah, because it's fun.

>>42337729
Uh, me?

>>42337777

>>42337783
This post made me realize that I have never laughed at a fic tagged as comedy.

>>42337729
>Implying those barely over 18 have enough money to attend marefair

>>42337600
Literal actual unironic npc identified.
>>42337679
At least your school didn’t shove woke shit down your throat.
>>42337709
I’m sorry anon but we can’t all be 40 something year old original fags.

>>42337927
I've never laughed.

>>42337945
Please come back when you're 18.

>>42337584
It just makes me horny. I went to an all-boys school. That and anime fucked me up.

>>42337945
>Barely out of highschool zoomer whining about the wokes and the NPCs
Good god, work on yourself man.

>>42337614
High school was worse than a job. I'm respected in my job. I fear at most one guy in my work place.

>>42338014
I get money for my job.

>>42338024
Most people have this thing called parents which make you not need to worry about money while you're in high school. You don't need to worry about making food either.

>>42338050
It's better when you have lots of your own money, trust me.

>>42338052
Oh I know. I have a lot of it now. Might buy my first kiss.

>>42338052
>lots
Sorry, anon, prostitution isn't legal in my country. Happy to hear about the state of your bussy though.

>>42338400
>Luna regrets rolling back all those zoning laws

>>42337937
You can get a great deal on accommodations if you're cute and/or funny.

>>42337741
>meaningless buzzword

>>42338589
>artificial fun

>>42338589
Pony OC who only communicates with bee-like sounds.

>>42338607
Isn't that just Boop.

>>42338610
No. Meaningless Buzzword is biologically a pony. She might just have some form of condition that doesn't allow her to speak, but maybe she's doing it on purpose. Who knows?

>>42338613
Isn't it always convenient that every pony gets a name that fits their eventual cutie mark and talent

>>42338614
DYEWTS?

>>42338610
>alien noises
cute

>>42338613
>some form of condition that doesn't allow her to speak
like applejack?

How's your /fimfic/ anthology entry coming along, anon?

>>42338610
Twilight's just out here collecting monster children like a fucking Pokemon trainer

>>42338656
Well that's just rude to Spike.

>>42338695
He is both a monster and a child that Twilight collected. Therefore, he is a monster child.

>>42338698
>He is both a monster and a child
That's just wrong. He's a servant, you know?

>>42338702
with a monstrous libido.

>>42338650
It's ongoing?
No one told me!

>>42338702
>a servant can't be a child or a monster

>>42338656
Nopony ever willingly said, "Spike, I choose you!"

Equestria has very strict child labor laws. Luckily, dragons, magically created lesbian babies, orphans, and Earth pony foals are not considered "children" under the law.

>>42338722
I would.

>>42338731
But you're not even human, let alone a pony.

>>42338734
Humanity's overrated.

>>42338810
So you agree pony transformation is better than HiE

>>42338825
Pony TF is still bringing humanity to Equestria, albeit in a more aesthetically pleasing form. Just write pone, 'non.

>>42338825
HiE sucks. No point in being in equestria if you aren't a pony

>>42338009
>stop noticing things it makes me feel bad

>>42338878
This is the case all over Europe.
It's rather annoying, I tell you.

>>42338709
Children have rights. Dragons don't. Spike is legally classified as property.

>>42338919
All the better.

>>42338009
imagine not dropping out of highschool to stop them pumping your brain full of jewish subversion

>>42338945
It's okay, Anon, you can just admit it was too hard for you.

>>42338871
Plus your foals with Twilight won't be weird looking freaks.

>>42338986
You mean Shining's foals with me, right?

>>42339010
Cadance I get that married life can get kind of boring but get an actual hobby.

Misanthropy is a naturally occurring Dunning-Kruger test.

>>42339072
Do explain.
As an Englishman I hate everyone, though I've yet to find the connection between that and how good I am as an artist or writer as I don't overestimate my ability at all.
I'm rather mediocre and feel the need to improve, constantly so. Does one need to love everyone with the power of friendship to feel far better about their shitty ability than they should?

>>42339072
I don't hate people.
I just hate myself...

>herd headcanon shit out of nowhere
God I hate this shit

>>42339072
>people who like pancakes must hate waffles

>>42338650
Newfag here, tf is this about?

>>42339232
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/204388/voting/thread/561635/2025-collab-attempt

>>42337565
>itch of the Everfree
Which is literally by the same author as MCA, which makes your point a bit moot. MCA's handling of Sunset and EQG is integral to the way it slots itself against the show and doing it differently would have pushed against what it was going for.

>>42338650
Finally came up with a good enough premise. Now I write.

>>42338650
I'm going to adapt the plot of a horror story I never wrote. Time to procrastinate.

>>42331107
The biggest flaw in the story for me is it taking place in "canon". It's impossible to square NMM going on a foal punting rapefest, then popping off her cultists heads like a cork with the mare we see in canon cutting off a gay dragon's moustache and poking a splinter in a manticore's paw. It could have all been avoided by the author simply not making it a prequel to another fic.

>>42330129
Inspect element would only work as long as the page is loaded. The second you jump to the next chapter, it resets. You'd have to download the fic, fire up Word/Libre Office and "find/replace". Alternatively, there may be one of those political browser extensions that let's you auto do it for any webpage you're on, but I'm unsure if they allow custom word filters.

The real answer is you need to deal with your trauma rather than running from it and keeping it hidden away. That shit's going to pop off on its own eventually if you don't.

>>42331183
>be Gaia
>get a taste of that sweet unicorn mana
>gotta have more
>enact your convoluted ritualistic sacrifice plan you've been using on the earth ponies for millennia
>got her
>suck her dry instead of tapping the immortal well for the next million years
>spend the next billion years chasing that high and never getting close again

>>42338650
Haven't even started it yet, though I do have the ending "punchline" ready to go. I gave up trying to do something serious and decided to go the comedy route.

>>42338705
Deadline's Sept 1st.

>>42339726
>me lounging back and reading some slop on royalroad while neglecting horsewords entirely

Hey Anons! I was in my bed yesterday and I started wondering about reverse "human in Equestria" fics... like you know... pony on Earth
I don't mean like "the Conversion Beaureu" level, just shinanegans of a single pony/ponies who somehow wound up on Earth

Does anyone know if such fics/greens exist and point me to them? I been looking at fimfiction but im not realy sure how to word it so no results

>>42339831
That flag is not doing you any favors in this thread. Take it off immediately.

>>42339831
PiE (Ponies in Earth) is a thing, but I don't pay attention enough to recommend any.
I would not inflict My Little Dashie on you.
There's a FimFiction group, I guess.
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/20/folder/382/pony-on-earth

>>42339890
Why would you want to see ponies brought to this hellworld?

>>42339904
You are like >>42337577

>>42339904
Don't you (you) me! I'm not the one asking for it!

>>42339395
>The biggest flaw in the story for me is it taking place in "canon". It's impossible to square NMM going on a foal punting rapefest, then popping off her cultists heads like a cork with the mare we see in canon cutting off a gay dragon's moustache and poking a splinter in a manticore's paw.
I don't mind it being part of a "heavier AU". It's not the first time I've seen the idea used that the show depicts a very kid-friendly version of events, and maybe the real Equestria is not quite so sunshine and rainbows. The out of universe reality is that the cartoon was designed to be appropriate for 7 year old girls, and I don't think this necessarily means that all fics that try to follow canon events must also accept a version of Equestra that's appropriate for 7 year old girls.
Monsters, to me, is "in canon" inasmuch as it follows the general lore of the canon w.r.t. NMM's existence, and out of canon in as much as it breaks the kid-friendly rating of the show. Whether it's enough to be an outright AU or whether "the show is a sanitised version of the events for kids" doesn't matter to me.

>It could have all been avoided by the author simply not making it a prequel to another fic.
I admit I've read Night Shift I think over a decade ago, among some of the first fics I read after discovering fimfiction, and my recollection is extremely hazy. Does it somehow explicitly hold up the show's version of NMM? If so then yeah that'd be a big contradiction.
From what little I do remember, and from the author's own comments on the story, Night Shift had its flaws and yeah maybe Monsters should've just been let to stand on its own. I don't think the presence of a suboptimal "sequel" tag should be enough to ding the story itself, though. In fact, given that it's a prequel, fimfiction doesn't even shove in your face that "this story is a sequel to..." so it can very very easily stand alone.

>>42339831
I heard Georg's farmer sneed story is decent for this.
Though I myself am of the opinion of >>42339904 so I haven't read it, or many other stories of the kind

Biblical Monsters is a classic, but it's a short story

>>42339960
Please share more MCA thoughts.

>>42331146
>>42340033
Ah yes, so as per request I read MCA, and just finished it earlier today in fact.
It was definitely fun, but my main issue with it is that it was kind of halfway between goofy and serious. Giant attacks happen with extremely little space given to the emotional reactions of anypony, as if it was some anime or parody, but at the same time it tries to have serious themes and expects us to really care about the outcome of the war. You know, since I also just read Monsters, an apt comparison I think is that MCA is something that tries to be between the super-serious, emotionally-heavy Monsters and the absolute wacky anime-esque parody prose of Witch in Broad Daylight. It achieves neither, instead it's just kinda-fun and also kinda-serious.

I definitely enjoyed the read, but now that I've finished it, I don't really care all that much about it. To the anon who claimed it was better than Monsters, due to this simple fact I will personally disagree, since I still very much care about the characters from Monsters. Machina was cool but somewhat forgettable, to me.

One thing the story pleasantly surprised me with is how the characters actually came alive towards the latter parts of the story. The early chapters really felt extremely dry. Maybe part of it was to show "character growth", but, for example, we don't see ANY consequences to Shining's death until much later - not even Cadence's! It's just brushed over and later we learn that yes there was mourning and stuff. Much later we learn how Sparkle was bottling up her feelings (somewhat... it's still only ever addressed over like a couple of paragraphs), but the death of the Captain of the Royal Guard and a major character is completely brushed off at first, not just from Twilight's PoV, but by the story as a whole. It was weird. But later on I think the story got better about this, and it was actually pleasant to see all the major characters come out of their shells and actually become friendly with each other.

Since the story was recommended earlier when I asked about NMM fics, on this specific aspect I do want to say it was a bit disappointing, in that it's still entirely unclear to me what even was the difference between NMM and Luna in the fic. Literally the only indication that they're even different is during the last exposition chapter when NMM corrects Celestia to not call her "Luna". Otherwise it seems there's no difference at all. Even Celestia doesn't seem to care. I don't think it makes the story worse, but it does make it a worse rec as a NMM-related story.
Also there are no bats.

>>42340080
I'm sorry to hear you have bad taste.
Read ToD. There's no NMM in it.

>>42340100
>muh anime giant battle fic is the best literary achievement ever!!
It was cool, for sure, don't get me wrong. It just wasn't amazingly memorable. The ending even tried to go for some grand epic finale, but it still isn't memorable just because the entire fic is very anime-ish; it was still a cool ending but that's about it.
Allow me to compare, for example, Pirene, whose ending also has the world order changed and everypony unlocking the ability to become an alicorn. That was much more impactful and memorable for me, simply because the entire fic is much more impactful, takes itself much more seriously and earns that seriousness. Pirene describes a living world; Machina describes an anime world where thousands die and half a city falls off a mountain and yeah it's kind of a tragedy on paper but the story really doesn't seem to care THAT much, so why would I care too much either.

WiBD does a similar kind of thing too, with less gratuitous death but also generally treating everything like a cool anime scene rather than a serious life-and-death situation; but WiBD has mountains of wacky lore to back this up, somehow fits all of that lore into a coherent world, and takes a lot longer to build up its adventures up to the point of world-changing climax such that even despite being wacky and corny I think WiBD is actually going to pull off a meaningful ending once it completes. Machina was simultaneously more serious yet also more dismissive of death and consequences, and didn't have the time or build-up to make me care deeply and take its world properly seriously.

So, it's still cool, and a fun read. Lots of flashy combat scenes, done pretty well. Fancy magitech! Just not particularly impactful.

>>42340118
Read ToD. I struggle to trust your judgement when you seemingly struggle to read half a 4chan post that's 3 sentences long.

>>42340144
I ignored that recommendation because you said there's no NMM in it.

>>42340148
Good. Why can't all readers have such refined taste?

>>42339890
Thanks a lot Anon!
An yeah of corse ML Dashie was an example, how could i forget!

>>42339904
I dont... but sure is interestibg to see what they would do in such case

>>42340148
There's N at least. Maybe even NM. Anyway your opinions are discarded on the grounds that you're a waifufag.

>>42340207
I'm actually not, but the conversation was about NMM fics and so recommending a fic by saying it doesn't have NMM (right after I complained that Machina had a sub-par NMM) isn't very enticing
I also don't like daring do sorry

>>42340213
You're thinking of HoD.

>>42340247
So I am, so I am! Silly me.

It's funny how everyone seems to agree WiBD is just an anime in horse novel form.

>>42340313
No it's not funny. That's like saying it's funny everyone agrees Celestia is tall. Finding amusement in a mere collective acknowledgment of a fact is deranged.

>>42340313
I mean it's kind of pretty obvious and unashamedly so. Are there even any counter-arguments that someone could use to disagree?

>>42340319
Celestia's not that tall.

>>42340322
>Are there even any counter-arguments that someone could use to disagree?
It's pretty damn gay for a shonen anime.

Hey where does one go to discuss comic books with other people? I can't really find anyone who read these comics.
https://www.canterlotcomics.com/

>>42340325
I have no idea what the different anime types are (other than "dbz is shonen because big explosions") but surely big explosions combined with yuri is not that novel of a premise, is it?

>>42340328
I mean if you know of any animes about cute girls kissing while really big explosions happen, I'd be open to knowing about them.

>>42340330
I don't know any animes unfortunately. It just seems weird that there wouldn't be any, considering how many animes are about girls kissing and how many are about big explosions.
Actually, what about that one tank girl anime?

>>42340330
Gushing Over Magical Girls

>>42339831
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/397663/back-and-there-again
If you don't mind anime bullshit and obvious self inserts. Fair warning the sequel died right before the climax.

>>42340441
>died right before the climax
Happens to me a lot since I started taking meds.

>>42340471
Fics about male impotency?

>>42340491
Cadence in A Minor?

>>42340568
>can still cum to a wingjob
Shining Armor's fine.

>>42340337
Melodies of Oblivion, milking scene.

What happened to review filly?

>>42341277
It's review stallion now.

Anything similar to Empty Horizons? Mane 6 in an adventure, longer form, actually fucking complete?

>>42341426
WoE

>>42341277
The Slavs kidnapped him to review their fanfiction.

>>42339831
Admiral Biscuit has a bunch of slice of life fics about ponies living on earth, usually doing some ordinary human job. Usually the premise is that there's a portal somewhere and enough ponies have come over that they're not unheard of, but not commonly seen (so maybe a few thousand I guess). Here's one that I particularly liked: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/535221/power-outage

If you want something a bit more out there: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/243811/an-ally-called-preponderance

>>42341669
HUNgarians are slav(e)s in all but name.

I've seen lots of fics that got a print release.
Are any of them worth having?

>>42341978
Ours.

>>42339904
I remember one where Twilight popped in to a guy's garage as a naked human, so that probably gives you a good idea of why.

>>42339960
Night Shift follows canon up to the end of S2, then splits off and does it's own thing. I never understood why he made Monsters a prequel given there's no connection between the two fics and there's no lore in Night Shift from that era that would make one want to visit it. Just feels like he wanted to tap some of the audience by duct taping a different story onto it and it shows.

>>42341277
He graduated college and got a job, thus fully completing the Fimfiction Writer Arc by being too busy with life to logon anymore.

>>42339200
After some close contact with a real-world polycule, I am considerably better disposed towards herds than I previously was.

>>42342196
Look I don't wanna be reading a fic and have "by the way twilight's dad fucked four other mares" thrown at me as a random detail.

>>42342264
Yes, I also think that merits some detailed exploration.

>>42341981
It's coming. I realized that 13pt line spacing for a 12pt font was insane, so I increased it to 14pt spacing. That fucked up how the last line above the page number cuts off, so the sizes of the text boxes around the bottom of the page need to be adjusted.

>>42341426
Austraeoh, from a certain point of view
TMA, from another point of view

>>42342515
bro your bottom margin?

>>42339253
how long should my entry be?
>deleted
lolwut

>>42343085
That looks more like a dagger.

>>42339253
>>42342864
How curious. As for the question, this is a simple anthology of disconnected narratives, so your story can be as long or short as you'd like it to be. Don't even have to worry about Fimmy's 1,000 word minimum, since everything gets published together.

>>42343348
She's a little pony.

Recommend me NMM fics.

>>42343448
Past Sins

>>42343463
Already read

>>42343448
Left Behind

>>42343448
The one in which she fucks her pet human.

>>42343480
Such a thing surely can not actually exist

>>42343484
I think it was like the top liked fic for the year this year

>>42343494
I won't believe you until you provide a link

>>42343505
I don't have any desire to endorse AiE slop.

Fics about Shining Armor getting outlived by the mares in his life?

>>42343585
That one where having sex with an alicorn can de-age you and Shining Armor refuses to do with Cadance anymore because he's lived for 200 years and doesn't want to live anymore.
So flurry heart rapes him.

>>42343585
Broken

>>42343435
That doesn't change the fact that the lack of a guard, relatively wide base, and the sharp angle of the visible portion of the blade make it seem far more like a (ceremonial) dagger than a sword, and if it is a sword it's probably a really shitty one.

>>42343590
Link it!

>>42343505
I'm pretty sure you can throw a dart at NMM fics and you'll have a 75% chance of hitting one with that theme.

>>42343626
I'd like to think nightmarefags are slightly more tasteful than that.

>>42343643
No they aren't, and you know it.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to fuck Nightmare Moon.

>>42343672
Okay Twilight.

>>42343672
If anyone wanted to fuck Nightmare Moon Nightmare Moon wouldn't have come about.

>>42343707
Everyone wants to fuck Nightmare Moon.
Regular Luna, not so much.

>>42343612
The way that swords tend to be in stones and be possessed by eyes overrides their tendency to have guards, which don't define the sword. Also, princesses don't swing swords with their faces, so a guard wouldn't affect its function, only aesthetic.

>>42343707
Unfortunately, cock alone cannot fix her relationship with Celestia. For that we're gonna need a threeway.

>>42343733
Luckily for her, pony tastes have improved since the old days

>>42343809
>Unfortunately, cock alone cannot fix her
Right, that's what cum is for.

Put a baby in Luna and momshame her into never going evil again

>>42343735
The eye does not possess the sword. It's merely a sign that the sword is possessed. And believe it or not, a guard is still useful regardless of what you're swinging with, because mechanically catching an opposing blade or having the possibility of using the weapon as a striking one is always useful. Not all ponies are princesses either, so a sword clearly not originally designed for one should have a guard still. None of that addresses the angle of the edges pointing to a short blade anyway.

>>42343707
This is just wrong. They look significantly different.

>>42343942
Works every time.

>>42343992
So THAT'S why Glimmer had Luster Dawn

>>42344000
But Luster is Celestia's daughter.

>>42343448
ITCON
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/344288/in-the-company-of-night

>>42343448
Didn't you get a third recommendation that you've ignored so far because you're too much of a size queen?

>>42343957
Yes, the eye doesn't possess the sword, but it's still suggestive of a sword.
Regarding the sword being designed for a princess, it's in stone, which indicates that if she can pull the sword out, it's destined for her. That is a strong basis on which to justify such an alicorn-favored design over designing the sword to be swung with a face, on top of the disadvantages of designing a sword to be swung with a face.
As for the blade angle, it may be appropriate for it to have that shape for some other reason, such as that it is only ceremonial, or even that it is advantageous to have a higher mass for swinging it telekinetically.

>>42344585
>it is advantageous to have a higher mass for swinging it telekinetically
The shape suggests a lower mass though. Do I need to draw lines on the picture for you to understand why? That is either a very short blade or a very edgy one that's jagged the wrong way.
>it's in stone, which indicates that if she can pull the sword out, it's destined for her
Pretty sure it just indicates someone stuck it there. Also Princesshood does not strictly correlate to alicornhood. This is actually even more true for Equestria's past than for its future, as we hear of multiple non alicorn princesses in the show.
>That is a strong basis on which to justify such an alicorn-favored design over designing the sword to be swung with a face
A telekinetically swung sword still appreciates a guard. I'd dare say it would need it more than it would a handle. Again, guards are for catching and twisting opposing blades as they slide down your own, and occasionally for striking in a hammer like fashion.
>but she can do that with magic
Then why use a sword in the first place?

>>42344625
The basis of calling it a dagger is mostly in the way it seems short if the whole sword ends at the point that the edges converge to, I got that. The angles could change deeper into the stone, making it longer than it seems, but the telekinetic weapon I am describing assumes that the whole thing is like a pyramid or octahedron.
Such a weapon would be useful telekinetically with a long acceleration phase where the mass would help to deliver a lot of energy on impact, and the parrying features wouldn't be important. Throwing dangerous things is often relevant in a magic fight.
>Also Princesshood does not strictly correlate to alicornhood
Also not relevant if it's in the rock because of its destiny to be wielded by the best princess, who is an alicorn.

>>42344175
Nobody's gonna cum in Celestia.

>>42344175
>Cadance can have Alicorn children
>Celestia can't
Who is really the alpha mare?

>>42344175
That's Sunset. I know, it gets confusing because they all have the same fucking name.

>>42344659
>the telekinetic weapon I am describing assumes that the whole thing is like a pyramid or octahedron
Cool and it could be that too, but that's also not a sword.

>>42344666
Sunburst did and that's how Luster was made. It's simply moronic to believe that he and Starlight would fuck and have a child and she would somehow turn out like Luster did. They may both have parent issues but she wouldn't be that bad. But she's clearly Sunburst's cumspawn, so he had to fuck someone else, and Celestia having a secret unprotected tryst with him and the accidentally getting preggers and then secretly dropping the child off without admitting it's hers but still ensuring she's personally looked after by Twilight makes the most sense.

Some of you deserve the anthro tag infesting your favorite authors.

>>42344666
Says you, Satan. Just you watch.

>>42344742
But anon, I like anthro.

>>42344780
Bait used to be lievable.

>>42344732
Both parents are annoying as fuck about friendship, it makes perfect sense that she'd grow up thinking it's lame and gay.

>>42344742
Look I just want Twilight to be insecure about her huge tits. Sue me if you must, but in the court of taste I'll bankrupt you.

>>42340491
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/574326/the-apple-tree
>>42343615
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/571676/the-fountain-of-youth

>>42344893
That's male infertility.

>>42344726
You started all these gymnastics before anyone even said who her parents are.

>>42344732
You started all these gymnastics before anyone even said who her parents are.

>>42344726
It's still in the stone, and it's cooler if it's a sword, which it could be!

>>42344000
>The crown orders Sunburst to cum inside Glimmy in order to ensure her conversion to the light side is complete

Fics with terribly written drama?

>>42345345
Mine

>>42343585
There's at least three where Cadance goes insane prior to him dying and starts turning into a villain because of it. Does that count?

>>42343992
There's always the chance post-partum depression will cause her to go insane and murder the baby.

>>42344742
Jokes on you. None of my favorite authors have logged on in years, so them posting an anthro fic would still be a net gain.

>>42345345
60% of Winning Pony relies on Cloud telling one of her lovers one thing and the other the exact opposite. Then, they both find out and the cycle repeats another ten times. The cyclic nature of the drama gets so bad, at one point an entire chapter is spent arguing about honor killing Cloud's mom and at the end of the chapter, the argument has circled back to the points made at the beginning of the chapter and nothing is actually resolved.

>>42345388
>There's always the chance post-partum depression will cause her to go insane and murder the baby.
That's what all those lovely unicorn made drugs are for.

>>42345345
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/291812/sunset-reset

>>42345345
WoE
>>42344851
"I'm going to fix you by sending you to be with your parents but they're also your school managers have fun with that lmao" just doesn't really seem like that logical of a plot point.

>>42345731
>doesn't really seem like that logical of a plot point
Yes, and your point is? You're talking about season 9.

>>42345754
>>42344812

>>42345761
Of course a haberverse fan would believe that.

>>42344666
Fics where Celestia's partners are too in awe of the majesty of Her royal presence to ever dare cum inside her while she just wants messy creampies.

>>42345949
FiMC, in a sense.

>>42345949
https://fimfetch.net/story/326849/the-blind-date-company

>>42345949
>Celestia's Futile Quest For Cum

>>42346005
Nice try, Mr. Byte.

>>42346340
>Celestia, uncharacteristically shy, brings up that maybe she'd like a baby too
>everyone in the room just laughs uproariously at her

Are there any good fics involving bat ponies?

>>42346528
Yes.

>>42346528
No, not a single one.

>>42346552
Married batpony fics?

>>42346528
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/505051/where-only-silver-shines

>>42346528
>>42346618
I am unironically waiting for Journey with a Batpony to complete. I remember it being excellent if you think polish ultra-autism is up your alley.

>Caught up with all of my ongoing fics
>The dead fics that have started updating again are doing it super slow
>Deliberately not picking up any more fics
The pains of wanting to read.

Fics that actually feel like Faust wrote them?

>>42346618
Who the fuck out here marrying bat ponies?

>>42346528
I honestly don’t know. Thinking back I can’t recall any fics I’ve read with batponies where the elements of the story relating to the bat ponies was written particularly well or to my liking.

>>42346528
The Princess's Bit

>>42346800
I mean if you go batpony centric it usually ends up being about batpony racism which is like eh
Or they're just another character in the story.

>>42346642
Looks well written but I just can't stand stories writen in the first person

What is the longest fanfiction and the longest written work in general that you have ever fully read?

>>42346809
>Or they're just another character in the story.
That's the thing. I love world building, I know there is very little to go off of in cannon. I want to see what the fandom has come up with in terms of what their society looks like, how they live, their relationship with regular ponies. I may just write my fic and come up with my own ideas of that their society looks like

>>42346817
Homestuck

>>42346823
>what their society looks like
It revolves around fucking random stallions
>how they live
They fuck random stallions.
>their relationship with regular ponies
They fuck them.

>>42346528
There are a lot of fics worse than Beyond the Veil of Sleep.
There are also better fics out there, but this one has bats.

Did anyone here read this? It's been going since Dec 28, 2013.

https://www.canterlotcomics.com/comic/en/the_origins_of_hollow_shades-102

>>42346817
>fanfiction
Behemoth but that's unfinished.
>written work
Does JoJo's count?

Whats the last thing you wrote

How would you faggots like to be in charge of 100+ anons who haven't written a grocery list in their lives in order to write A SERIES of fanfics?

>>42346798
These, I'd imagine.

>>42346817
>the longest fanfiction and
The first six Austraeoh books.
If standalone, I think Electro Swing. That's 420k.
>the longest written work in general that you have ever fully read?
The Harry Potter series, I suppose.
Uh... Standalone, I think the Bible.

>>42347042
Harry Potter is only like 1 million words and most of it is The Order of the Phoenix. You've read longer fics.

>>42346965
Scootaloo getting a stump leg cauterized.

>>42347130
EoP rewrite, or generic gore porn?

>>42346817
Longest single work is WORM. 1.6M words and it's complete dogshit
Longest series is probably Austraeoh (which btw is one of the big reasons I stuck with WORM all the way through its garbage ending)

>>42347229
A way to get her a cool robot leg afterwards.

>>42346965
A pretty boy prisoner nearly getting vapourised by a mentally broken alicorn.

>>42346817
>longest fanfiction
If incomplete fics count, it might be "MLP Time Loops" through Loops 129.

>longest written work in general
No idea, but the Dune Chronicles are probably up there if I can count them as one work.

Don't have a word count for either on hand.

>>42346965
Last year I co-wrote an outline for Celestia eating Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, but I don't see it going anywhere.

>>42346965
A self insert pony transformation fan fic. I had a lot of fun writing it

>>42347229
Sometimes Scoot just has to lose a limb, y'know

>>42346965
A background pony simping for Luna.

>>42346817
Rekindled Embers for both apparently. I didn't realize that thing bloated to 800k words by the time it ended, no wonder the last third felt like such a slog.

>>42347129
Yeah, I was thinking of traditionally published stuff.

>>42347248
>btw is one of the big reasons I stuck with WORM
wut

>>42347249
Ah. FOE rewrite, gotcha

>>42347283
Also >>41865251 if that counts.

>>42347454
The CMC are long dead in FOE

>>42347480
Filly is temporary but cunny is eternal.

>>42347249
But if you cauterize the wound then there's not gonna be anything to work with augmentation-wise.

>>42347448
Austraeoh books 2-4 spend hundreds of thousands of words developing random side characters who I mostly didn't care for at first. But it has a fantastic payoff in book 6 when they all have unique roles to play in the final battle.
WORM likewise spends hundreds of thousands of words developing random side characters who I mostly didn't care for at first, but I figured at least it would have a cool payoff at the end like Austraeoh. It doesn't - the final battle in WORM is just the main character and 4000 faceless mind-controlled puppets vs the big bad.

>>42347509
Yeah but the final battle in worm is just telling the main bad guy to kill himself over and over again until he does it and that's hilarious

>>42347500
Cauterize the wound so she doesn't bleed out, then later on you have to surgically attach the leg anyway.

>>42346813
Really? What’s wrong with you?

>>42347519
Worked on Star Trek.

>>42347384
based background pony

>>42346618
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/212535/mating-habits-of-batponies

>>42347509
I need to read Worm. If it's really shit it'll make for a great post when I go back to the writing place I used to hang around in before this for the sole reason of shitting on it.

>>42346618
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/156093/the-empty-crib

>>42347676
It has its moments, a lot of fun powers, and I ultimately liked it even if I couldn't get through the sequel.

>>42347661
Evil fic I hate it.

>>42347820
Different tastes.

>page 10 already
Who's baking

And then the human kissed the mare.
The End

And then the phat-arsed trappy Spike was ploughed by several sexy well-hung stallions.
The End.

>>42347794
There are a few characters with cool powers (Contessa, or that group with the girl with the labyrinth thing) but they hardly get any screen time. The story started out okay for me, but it got a lot less interesting once I realized that (1) there is a cape fight in every arc, even the ones that don't need it (the MCs and another group arrive at a murder scene at the same time, agree that they all want to find the killer, and then have a big flashy fight for absolutely no reason) and (2) the main character isn't allowed to lose (the MC gets pinned down with disintegration fields on all sides and can't move, so I thought she was going to get captured which could have been really interesting, but instead she talks her way out of it with some bullshit). Also I kind of hate the idea of having a setting where there are multiple ways to get superpowers but every one of them just so happens to come with a mandatory dark and tortured backstory.

>>42347878
>Also I kind of hate the idea of having a setting where there are multiple ways to get superpowers but every one of them just so happens to come with a mandatory dark and tortured backstory.
Well no, there's only one way to get superpowers if you don't buy them from Cauldron that HAS to give you a dark backstory.

>>42347881
Right, your two options are "get PTSD" and "spend years lying to your friends and family and getting blackmailed by Cauldron"

AU where you can only get a cutie mark through a traumatic experience

>>42347901
Ponies would manufacture 'safe' methods of causing trauma.
'Ah, so you want to be an artist? Very well, off to trauma centre #34 where X procedure is done to you to induce the right level of fear-response to manifest such talents.'

>>42347906
Sunless Skies ass horses

Oops, I only just noticed now that we're over the bump limit. I'll get to work on an ITT, but we might fall off the catalog for a few minutes.

>>42347911
Celestia once said that it doesn't matter when it happens, but if it happens.

>>42347916
Celestia sounds like she has a lot of incomplete fics.

>>42347930
Would it really be Celestia if failure and half-assed attempts didn't define her existence?

>>42346817
>longest fanfiction
The your human and you series. Would not recommend. The only enjoyable elements of that are the slice of life slop.
>longest work in general that you’ve fully read
I think it’s also the same. I’m currently reading the entire story of civilization series by Will Durant and intend to finish it so that will probably change in the future. It’s also a great read and I would recommend it along with his other works.

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