Come one and all to the meta-writefag and help raise the quality of MLP fanfiction! Featuring: Celestia's Futile Quest For Cum!

ITT: There's a book for when you forget what words mean what, an unfinished longfic you're too ashamed to even look at, neither of us is going to make the ITT, your protagonist kind of has to be a little bit of a loser, how fast can we test passwords against the running site?, so dyslexic you can't even write your donut steel's name right, the infant punting made sense to me, there were no good assassination attempts this year, our parents didn't hug/hit us enough as kids, my cock survey last mare fair, this clopfic is brought to you by Audible, Luna regrets rolling back all those zoning laws, cock alone cannot fix her relationship with Celestia, would it really be Celestia if failure and half-assed attempts didn't define her existence?, and manufacturing 'safe' methods of causing trauma!

>/fimfic/ Secret Book Club
The one hundred and seventeenth book is:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/191237/ghost-of-a-rose
If (You) want to join in the discussion, read chapters 1 through 5 by Sunday, July 13.

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Somehow I created the new thread before the old one fell off the catalog. At least there's one thing I can succeed at, even if it's not writing.

>>42347986 (OP)
>an unfinished longfic you're too ashamed to even look at

>>42347999
>coffee shop AU
This shit is peak for normies who struggle to think of anything more abstract than an interest payment.

>>42347999
Can't unfinish a fic if you never start it.

Fifth for best duo!
Enjoy this conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/94526/twilights-plan

>finally have free time to work on the fic ideas that have been bugging me for months
>promised myself I'd complete the fic I was working on for another fandom first
Why must I write so slowly?

>>42347901
>>42347906
I feel like it's the thing you couldn't cheat yourself on, like how you can't tickle yourself because you know it's coming.
...but that doesn't mean someone else can't cheat it for you.
>parent or mentor figure sees a foal "wasting their talent" and engineers some sort of traumatic or otherwise life-changing event that'll just so happen to nudge them in the right direction towards their "true calling"
>as an adult the truth one day comes out and they have something between an identity crisis and a full-on existential crisis as they realize one of the most fundamental parts of the pony they've become was effectively planted there by someone else
>add in a special somepony in their life they met through their "calling" so that they end up questioning not only their purpose in life but everything else that's come from it, as if their entire life down to the littlest details has been based on a lie and none of it is really "them"
Maybe an ending where they realize that while they may not have set down upon that path organically, every step they've taken along the way since then has been all them, their passion for [cutie mark thing goes here] is very real, and it might've been someone else's vision for their life forced upon them at first, but by this point they've made it entirely their own.
Or I guess you could go in a more angsty direction with it instead and they leave it all behind to find the pony they were supposed to have become instead

>>42348095
I mean it's fucked up that a parent would put their kid in a traumatic situation so they could get better horse grades to begin with. That alone is kind of an angst source.

>>42348114
It's definitely angst either way but I meant in terms of the tone for the ending.

Any fics that take the concept of humans being "mutually fictional" with ponies, and combine it with Equestria inventing some magic stand-in for transformer models, so that the ponies have created/located a world of humans who think that they created the ponies, and think that they're the ones using a talk-to-fictional-characters machine to talk to them? (Provides an "in-story" explanation for how they're communicating; allows the humans to have basic knowledge of pony things; avoids provoking existential panic or status resentment in the humans.) Ideally the story would end just as a pony "connects" to a new human to talk to, and double as a prompt pluggable into the model of your choice to let you be that human.

And, if there aren't, who'd be a good candidate to hire to write one?

>>42348373
Jesus man just get a math degree at this point

>>42348373
No.
I think I’ve seen a fic or two with the premise of each world being a fictional settting in the other, but I can’t recall the names and frankly could be completely misremembering.

Did anyone else's currently reading function on the site just up and break

>>42348400
Just checked and it’s not working for me either.

>>42348400
It's just that Cloudflare hates you. Try not being a bot?

>>42348387
I just want to see people meeting characters on equal metaphysical ground.

>>42348412
This image reeks of a certain kind of Internet autism. It’s in the art style.

>>42348412
Pretty sure that's Luna as the Stalker, that scythe looks like Hate

>>42348432
Your post reeks of a pretentious kind of unwarranted dismissal, it's in the way you use "reeks" on what is clearly a novice's artwork in lieu of actually being able to articulate anything meaningful.

It looks like the kind of art style someone would pick up out of an early '00s webcomic or self-taught anime sketch guide. The main clues are the square eyes and use of 2-tone gradients and low-poly armor. In other words, it looks like enthusiasm for drawing, unsupported by formal training.

>>42348437
The time of posting lines up with warframe, and so does the scythe, but nothing about Luna herself resembles that character in google image search...

>>42348482
Maybe Minecraft autism is what I’m looking for.

>>42346817
>longest fanfiction
While I don't have an exact word count for it, I'm pretty sure Unity Saga is the longest completed fic I've read. Rites would be the longest incomplete and Lunar Rebellion would be the longest completed pony fic, with the Winningverse itself being the longest series.

>longest written work
For non-fanfic, single "book", it would be the King James Bible. For a -verse, it would be the mainline Honor Harrington series, though I'm pretty sure the Ryanverse will eventually beat that at the rate things are bloating out with Sum of All Fears.

>>42346965
The final punchline scene of the anthology fic. Now I just have the write the rest of the story.

>>42348095
Cutie marks operate on the principle of the special talent being the thing you most enjoy doing. Dash loves racing. Fluttershy loves taking care of animals. AJ loves apples. A parent could potentially game the system by manipulating their kid into loving a certain hobby or career, but that'd be very hard to do and there'd be a much greater chance they'd end up hating playing the piano instead of falling in love with it.

They might end up having a fucked up family relationship when the secret gets out (though I suspect it'd be fucked up anyway because the parents are already assholes), but they'll still love their special talent. If the pony stops loving doing it, it wasn't their special talent and they won't get a cutie mark in it. You could go the angst angle of having them misinterpret things as the exact cause/effect of cutie marks aren't necessarily obvious, but canon already covered that with the Trouble Shoes episode.

>>42348373
This is a really overly complicated way of doing a "the Twilight Sparkle sex chatbot is actually her via some magic spell" plot.

>>42348488
Maybe they were trying to adapt it. Luna doesn't fit Stalker to begin with, she's way more of a Lotus.

>>42348506
>game the system by manipulating their kid into loving a certain hobby or career
Kinda redundant when you can just give them a name related to that hobby or career.

>>42330664
Well I read a skeleton in the closet. I liked it. Pretty much just felt like delta epsilon playing around in their AU and having fun with it. I like WiBD and I like this because it was more of the same. And yes the typos just get worse and worse as the fic goes on. Quite unfortunate, I would assume this had a little less effort than the main fic has, but that's really not an excuse for the typos. That said, I didn't have a problem with the style or exclamation marks as many others did. I think it fits with the over the top au.

I also started and dropped Ghost of a Rose and then read The Quest, which is pretty much what Skeleton in the closet is to WiBD but for the alicorn adventure series. Definitely wouldn't say it's the best like someone else did, but it was enjoyable.

>>42348506
>Cutie marks operate on the principle of the special talent being the thing you most enjoy doing
Daily reminder for all the fags who keep not watching the show that Rarity's special talent is a gem finding spell. The fact that it is metaphorically related to her broader talent of finding and bringing out the beauty in things and ponies does not change the fact that her cutie mark is ultimately tied to her "find shiny thing underground" power, which is probably by far the part of her job she likes the least. And daily reminder that most unicorns suck ass at magic not related to their talent, the good one exploit the loophole of magic itself being their special talent.

>>42348972
Rarity's special talent is actually spreading every hole she has, but they couldn't get that past the censors.

>>42348979
It takes very little talent to spread something that loose.

>>42349001
It did when she started, circa first grade. It's like breaking in a new pair of shoes.

>>42347676
I think you're much like me. I need to finish my huge document shitting on HPMOR, but it's been untouched for years because I work a job where I have a long commute and need to study on my days off in order to keep up. I've been wanting to read Homestuck for what must be 10 years now. I'm gaining more free time over time, but freedom is far away.

>>42347248
>Longest single work is WORM. 1.6M words and it's complete dogshit
Just sorting by wordcount on fimfic shows multiple single fics significantly longer than that. My Little Pokemon is complete and 4.5M words long, and has an ongoing sequel that's already 4M words long.

Wait, there's no way. I just checked and the sequel just completed this Thursday. The absolute madman wrote 9.5M words in five years and still somehow finished his story.
Well, the first one's still the longest single work.

>>42349386
>Just sorting by wordcount on fimfic shows multiple single fics significantly longer than that
The question was "longest thing you've read", not longest that's ever been written

>>42349411
Apparently I can't read. My bad.

>>42349311
>I've been wanting to read Homestuck
Wishing to self harm is not a healthy thing.

>>42349421
I would wager my life with full confidence in surviving that people who read homestuck are significantly more mentally ill than average.

>>42349421
Yeah it ain't worth it. I keep telling folks that but every so often someone doesn't listen and the shitty ass troll cornfield claims another victim.

>>42349421
I just don't get the appeal. I tried getting into it two times, and in both cases i would get bored after 10-20 pages and drop it

>>42349613
The best way to get into Homestuck is to read Problem Sleuth and then don't read Homestuck. I wouldn't recommend Homestuck to even the turbo autists on this board

>>42349627
Homestuck is for autists filled with self loathing
Mlp is for autists filled with agape

>>42349645
They often have their gapes filled, actually.

>>42349627
The final Problem Sleuth climax makes no sense anyway because electricity doesn't actually move like that. It doesn't need to cross the whole wire. The moment a circuit is closed the signal is actually transmi in a direct air line from where it was closed to everywhere else because it forms a field.

quick question for all the anons:
if you could choose 1 fic that would be turned into a horse cartoon episode, which one would it be?
and the reason why I said pick 1 is to not have anons posting textwall-like lists of them that nopony will ever read because they'd be too long

>>42349706
Celestia's Relaxing Vacation for maximum real world chaos.

>>42349706
Keepers of Discord. A perfect pick - short enough, great story full of feels that fits the show.

>>42349748
Too much death to be allowed. America is gay about deaths in cartoons, like how Japan is gay about romance in them.

>>42349645
>Mlp is for autists filled with agape
Extremely true

>>42349815
Poor Rarity worried everyone will see her pussy winking as Pinkie's taps trigger the response her body has become accustomed to giving when donkey punched.

>>42349844

>>42349706
The great and deathless Trixie or Celestia gets mugged.

>>42349706
I'm a vain asshole, so probably one of my fics.

>>42349706
Final Performance

Fics for that awkward feeling when you don't know if you did something wrong or if the other pony just has something going on in their life and it's still too early to reasonably worry but you do it anyway because you're autistic and have attachment issues?
>>42349706
Non meme answer is probably All the Mortal Remains if you replace the ashes with a general memento Twi wishes to learn more about (and possibly still return) and change the title. It has the right structure to be an episode even if you need to alter something for pacing, and particularly the reveal of Golden Oak is something that I feel would fit the show.

>>42349613
It escalates, significantly. At one point it was legitimately fantastic and I'll defend that part of it.
And then it gets bad. It gets so bad, and it gets bad in an actual bad way, not just comparatively bad, and it never stops getting worse and worse. And it's still getting worse.

>>42350155
Has the Toblerone dictated gender bending been realised yet?

>>42350155
>And it's still getting worse
It's not over??

>>42350203
Nope! The latest lead guy on it just quit, this was the fourth lead guy in the last few years.

>>42350183
Just implied. Don't worry though, there's also plenty of characters that have dog penises forcibly grafted onto them.

>>42350203
The main comic is over but my understanding is that it became such an overcomplicated mess by the end that instead of actually closing everything out the guy just went "here's the ending and now Homestuck II" which is actually just an extended epilogue untangling the fucked up mess of a disaster he made and also it's no longer a comic updated page by page but a written work now because there was just too fucking much left to cover to do it visually.
But I could be wrong because I did like >>42349627 suggested and never touched that shit.

>>42350224
>untangling the fucked up mess of a disaster he made
Lol no. It made it even worse and made everyone leave the fandom in disgust.

>>42350230
Well, as in that was the idea behind it. Having read PS I can imagine it backfiring spectacularly.

>>42350230
Like Twilicorn?

My problem is that I was alive to witness the Homestuck fandom making kino on the same level of ponefans and I hear it call to me like a siren song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKfP9N28buk

What are some pony fanfics similar to homestuck?

>>42350260
Austraeoh strikes me as the same breed of opus if you read the whole series, and Behemoth as well as a consequence.

I read Jojo rather than Homestuck. Good decision all in all, but I never got far through Part 6. Now I read horse fics instead.

>>42350244
Worse. Far worse.

>>42350287
Part 6 still has the best ending in the whole series but it's definitely the one where Araki was cracking the most during the main run. Good thing he switched to a humanly sustainable schedule after that.

>>42350235
It wasn't even that. He's sort of gone insane and thinks that he's the next James Joyce even though he's actually kind of dumb as fuck.
Combine that with insane mismanagement of his multi-million dollar IP that's left him with actual debt, an obsession with Obama and metafiction, and picking the worst possible people to handle writing stuff and it gets worse.
It gets so bad. Pony folk don't know how good they have it.

>>42350358
You realise all this makes me want to read it more, right?

>>42350358
So you're saying I have a chance to get hired to work on it?

>>42350457
I know it sounds cool in a sort of nonsensical Morrowland: From Heaven To Hell, Tails Gets Trolled sort of mess, but it's not. It's more like Life As A Sonic OC: Redux bad where it's just miserable and incompetent. Moreover because the previous parts WERE good you'll just be bored, mostly.

>>42350247
There's only one Homestuck fan animation you need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKb3WLCSg_c

I remember once when I was desperately looking for any Black Clover fanfic I could find and found one with MLP where Sunset goes to that universe instead of the EQG
I stopped reading after five chapters or so when Sunset started explaining their own magic to the BC characters

>>42350792
>2BFP
Still hurts.

>>42350815
It'll never stop hurting

>>42350247
>kino
Tbdesu it just looks like the progenitor of artsy Tumblr OC/AU/LGBTQIA+ culture that popped up around every fandom and had to make everything about accepting mental illness and ironic humor.

In retrospect, it's clear that people pushed that thinking so hard because they were deeply insecure, same with all of the bullshit about bronies actually being bold and progressive and comfortable with their masculinity for watching a cartoon for little girls.

>>42350815
I have an oddly specific question. Did they ever do a video showing off how much fun you can have with the infinite ammo RPGs in Resident Evil 5?

>>42350831
It was. Homestuck fandom was ground zero for everything that sucks about the internet and if you were there you got to watch things change in real time

>>42350876
Homestuck's quality being tied to the internet's quality is wild.

>>42350332
Part 6 should have been good but only has small moments where it's good
I do think a part 7 mlp fic would work seeing as the new anime for it is coming out

>>42350889
Applejack ruins it

>>42350780
Yeah but it makes me want to learn about the man behind it.

>>42350895
By JoJo standards, which are still pretty far above average. And the good parts are really good. Like Pucci aurafarming with C-Moon or how bullshit insane Heavy Weather is. And I maintain what I said, I think the ending is the best in the series and also quite possibly one of the best and most artistically high reaching endings of anything that's ever been published on SJ. It does have a lot of just weird fucking stuff though.

>>42350945
He's a lot more boring than he actually seems. Just some rich autistic kid who doesn't know how to manage money.

>>42350964
GIWTWM

I'm never surprised anymore when someone ignores a warning sign and plunges into a tar pit or some shit.

>>42351012
Really? Because I'm still surprised when people start reading incomplete stories that haven't been updated in years.

>>42350833
No, they generally weren't the kind of channel that would show off the extra goodies and ng+ unlocks in games, which is fair enough. A lot of the games they chose to play often required playing back up to certain points to see them.

>>42351029
Sometimes the incomplete stuff is just THAT good

When having to write non-dialogue exposition do you prefer when something is alluded to before being an explanation or do you prefer to be to the point with it so it's right on the table for the reader to have in mind?

>>42350959
The ending is one of the more definitive endings in the series but the way in which it was achieved leaves much to be desired, especially when you remember FF wasn't in the ending image with all the characters and the anime added them in
Still I think part 7's ending feels a lot more satisfying and earned

>>42350831
Tumblr was the progenitor of the woke left, reddit the rationalist scientism left, and 4chan the new/dissident/alt right.

>>42351306
Allusions are fun.

>>42351142
The probable resultant blue balling is almost never worth it, though

>>42351337
nah, Tumblr was merely the first appearance that people noticed in decades. the real progenitor is a smelly 19th century german stoner with a filthy beard who just happened to have a friend who could write books.

>>42348972
>Rarity's special talent is a gem finding spell
No, it's not. Follow your own advice and rewatch Cutie Mark Chronicles. She gets her cutie mark only after she incorporates the gems she finds into the dresses and inspires the ponies at the talent show. The gem spell may be one manifestation of her special talent, but it isn't the talent itself. She had to do more than just find the gems to trigger it.

While canon's pretty vague about magic, special talents don't ever appear to be one singular thing like a spell or move. They're more abstract concepts than that, which likely means there's multiple abilities that can attach to it, hence the "a little magic" comment in Boast Busters rather than saying "a single spell".

>>42350260
https://www.tumblr.com/woonastuck

>>42350815
I still hope one day there will be a reunion and a mending of the friendship even though I know it'll never happen.

>>42351306
Depends on the exposition. "Physical" exposition like describing the room, blocking of characters, etc. I want to be right away and straight to the point so I know what's going on. "Mental" exposition where the narrator's getting into characters heads or "infodump" stuff like lore or backstory it's fine to build up with hints and allusions until the big reveal.

>>42351316
Part 7 (best part) is still a pretty standard coming of age story at the end of the day, when you remove all the JoJo. The ending is standard too as a result. I still like it and probably rank it 3rd because it is good, but I liked JoJolion's ending more.
>spoiler
Was she ever even alive post MiH?

>want to have standards and not do hie/anon slop
>doing pony-only fics never does as well compared to hie/anon fics
>its the same for sfw and even worse for smut
what do, do i take the human pill?

>>42352112
No.

>>42352112
You should rather have a tiny audience of dedicated fans who appreciate the unique thing that you're doing, instead of a huge audience for interchangeable slop. Don't chase big numbers. There's literally nothing in it for you except getting your ego boner sucked.

>>42352080
>spoiler
No, it's outright stated, in the manga at least, that she wouldn't be able to exist in the new world due to both being a stand and being a stand that was a copy of a person that would likely be totally different on the other side. She does accept her death with dignity, as I remember, and always took that as the reason she was missing from the final panel since she herself chose to die with the world.
>>42352112
If your heart's not in it it'll show in the writing. Stick to your guns. We'll make pony only fics rise above the human influence

>>42352147
While we're on the topic. I really don't like how people miss the part at the end of Part 5 where Pol is no longer possessing the turtle, but is rather a ghost living inside its stand. I do also think it's really funny that canonically this means turtles having a slow heartbeat and metabolism and undergoing brumation means a turtle soul can just chill out in a dying/dead human body and be fine for an hour or whatever.

>>42352112
You should write what you want. Or what I want. Either one of those.

how do you channel your autism into fanfic?

>>42352340
Sorry, I only know how to push people to channel it into sendies.

>>42350332
>>42350959
>Part 6 still has the best ending in the whole series
fuck no
not only did he kill off best girl, he made it so that she never existed
if Pucci is not in the new universe then FF logically can't exist there either
all the memories, all the friendships made, all gone because "lol ur different people now but also the same trust me bro"
when there's literally no reason for it to have to work that way
MiH is a shitty stand, it resets the universe, ok, how does Emporio end up back in GDSP? why does Pucci decide to kill him there instead of just killing his mom and erasing him from existence? why can't MiH just drop him off in the fucking dinosaur age? why is Pucci's heaven so fucking lame? "oh the exact same shit will always happen but you feel a little bit better about it".

SO is fucking dogshit and the ending is the worst part, starting with Pucci slowly floating away from several top tier stand users who have him surrounded and just don't do anything. it's obvious Araki ran out of ideas very early on. as evidenced by the first fight in SO being a worse copy of the Formaggio fight in VA, as well as Pucci literally just pulling random powers out of his ass any time the plot needs it. let's remember, Whitesnake can: make goo that puts you to sleep and makes you hallucinate information that you don't know yet, steal your stand, steal your memories, put both stand and memories into discs, put those discs into other people, make discs that can control people instantly a la Heaven's Door but at a greater range since he can throw the discs, plus his stand itself has a range comparable to medium-range stands like Hierophant Green despite also having the strength and speed to go toe to toe with a close-range power stand like Stone Free, use regular non-stand discs to control people, brainwash people just by touching them, and for some fucking reason it also allows him to completely disguise himself as an exact copy of another person near-instantly clothes and all. holy FUCK literally why did he even need to upgrade? he already has one of the most god-tier stands short of shit like KC and GER. and the story never takes advantage of it, he just gets handed new shit instead of using his base ability in a creative way. he's so fucking lame. man, FUCK stone ocean.

A different kind of a background pony in,
>/FSBC/

I haven't finished the last chapter, but I've read enough to write a post, and I'm already late.
This is a nice fic. I will have to think about it for more than five seconds to write a better post (next week, hopefully, though I'm aware I've been kind of rushing these out for a few bookclubs now), but above all else I'm getting a clear feeling of all this being written intentionally and with the full story already planned out. The writing is good—both on the broad, story-planning level and on the technical level. We can also tell that the writer considers himself a Writer because we get Worldbuilding for Equestria, ha. When alternate weekday names show up, you know what you're in for.

Those are just my first impressions, but I liked how well-defined and clear the emotions and the mood conveyed by each chapter were. The feeling of loss, forgetfulness, and the grief in the first chapter and the "fog" used there was particularly good, making it look like a dream or a nightmare scenario, but then the sweet romance of Rose and Post contrasted it really nicely, and chapter 4's desire was evocative, too. Maybe a little too much, ha ha. I do want to learn more about Ponk, which may be what chapter 5 is about, in which case... oh well.
Back to the worldbuilding, this story has a pretty heavy worldbuilding element for something tagged SoL-Sad-Romance. From the names of the days of the week and what happens on them, to the hints of a Princess-worship (or at least a tradition of Princess-reverence), and the sex festival from chapter 4. Which, uh, despite the writer's best attempts at making it feel like a part of the world, still fell a little outside my comfortable range for Equestria. This setting does feel like its own place; not just Earth with a thin coat of paint.

I also read Maize two days ago, but I haven't able to post anything about it yet! I'll try to do that right away!

Next week we're finishing this fic.

>>42352489
So far i enjoy this story. The prose is very good, descriptive and evocative without being too purple and the atmosphere is great. The mystery persists but it's not one of those stories where the real and metaphorical fog gets too thick and you can't understand what's going on at all. More and more details about Rosey's life are being unveiled, the missing memories find their places, and it's good. Also, this limbo Rosey is in is a pretty interesting idea, how she wanders around, slowly losing her memories and not noticing that weeks and months go by unless someone like Pinkie anchors her to the real world by interacting with her and begging her to remember – interesting stuff. I wonder if all dead ponies go through this or only select ones who still need to do something in the living world before moving on. I only hope the story doesn't end up being just a simple family drama where Rosey died because of some accident and that's it, i hope it goes deeper than that. What really happened? What's up with Pinkie? Is she really Pinkie at all? I am excited to learn about that.

Initially i wanted to complain about... too little Pinkie in that Pinkie if it makes sense, about Pinkie being a little bit out of her character even considering the somber circumstances, but looks like there's something going on with her as well and she may be another pony entirely. Why is she the only one who can see Rose and other spirits? Maybe she is also dead, and is also beginning to lose her memories? I'm interested to see where it goes.

The thing i didn't really like is the fertility ritual scene. I don't mind there being a fertility ritual of some kind, but i just dislike the headcanon where ponies completely lose their heads during heat and can't even finish competing without turning the festival into a giant orgy. I'm not a big fan of such coomer Equestria.

All in all, i like it, but i really need to see the mystery unveiled so say anything conclusive about this story. I'm a sucker for mystery fics and looks like this is an interesting one.

>>42352489
Oh, Golden Harvest is Carrot Top. Obviously. You have to be a total idiot not to remember that. What, are you so stupid that you thought there were two carrot ponies? At least you didn't make a separate, visually distinct Carrot Top in your mind, right? (Fuck!) Anyway, AJxCarrotTop is a cognitohazard, and I refuse to acknowledge it.

Yeah, I can see why some may not like this, but thus far it has hit me in two weak spots: a one-two punch of mental deterioration and an adorable romance. The former, cognitive decline or brain damage, is one of my greatest fears — particularly being in a state of awareness that something has changed, that you're aware that you're no longer you, but a ghost of what was, chasing yourself. Aside from that, the opening chapters of walking around town was actually a comfortable, easy read with nice visuals. The films Jacob's Ladder (1990) and Carnival of Souls (1962) loosely came to mind. As for the romance, it is super cute. I was going to say it was done fairly tastefully, but chapter 4 uppercut me with how horny it all became (I wasn't expecting all that from the teen rating). However, being horny is a part of life; it shows Roseluck's passion and biology in her stringed together vignettes, so I'll excuse those filthy pagan traditions and debauchery this time around (but if it happens again in the next half, I'm going to start preaching).

This was a good place to stop in the story, that cliffhanger is tantalising, and now I'm anticipating getting body-slammed and punted by whatever tragedy is looming ahead, I hope it can pull it off well. (The scene where she's looking and feeling herself on the hospital bed may have given away too much too early.) The writing? A couple mistakes, sure, whatever. Some repetition here and there, but I imagine it wouldn't feel too bad if reading slow. And more fics need ponyisms like tail flicking and ankle crooks, but maybe not to the extent that this one does. Oh, and the world building with the postage stamps and roses was nicely done. I'm not going to reach for any deeper meaning right now, because it feels like the story is going to try to rug-pull (for the love of God please don't be domestic violence or an affair).

Now, the Spike fact revealed this week is that he knows how to tie ropes around ponies. I imagine this is going to be crucial to the plot when it's revealed that he taught Roseluck about autoerotic asphyxiation, hence her condition. And Pinkie's got cuckquean'd three times so far (twice as a ghost looking at ghost-Roseluck ghost-hump, and once in the memory of the "Promise Booth"), I hope I don't have to add to that tally. Also:
>Berry mentioned
>It's neither Cherry Berry nor Berry Punch
Berry sisters, we need to unionise against these flower sluts.

>>42348721
>started and dropped
Explain yourself.

>>42352505
This happens sometimes (and is clearly the proof of good taste of everyone involved, duh!), but I agree with everything you said, more or less.
>Initially i wanted to complain about... too little Pinkie in that Pinkie if it makes sense
Yes, but the fic seems to deliberately lampshade it right at the start, so I also decided to not complain about it until more of the mystery is revealed.
>>She sounded nothing like the happy-go-lucky Pinkie that Roseluck knew. She wasn't the same Pinkie who (...)

>>42352510
>you thought there were two carrot ponies?
Well, if it helps, the show has multiple copies of her in many of shots, so you can cope and argue that they are separate ponies. People did that a lot for Minny / Colgate.
>I was going to say it was done fairly tastefully, but chapter 4 uppercut me with how horny it all became
Haha, yes. One of my very few notes says literally, "weirdly pagan after the cuuute romance chapter, wtf". But it was done at least somewhat respectably (no, the tents full of ponies having almost-public sex aren't tasteful, and neither are the descriptions of all the smells, but it's fitting for Rose's perspective in that chapter), and the author is decent enough to sell the idea without losing me entirely.
>more fics need ponyisms like tail flicking and ankle crooks, but maybe not to the extent that this one does
Agreed on both, but for me, the "too much" part was mainly shown in how overpowering and central the heat season is to them.
>Explain yourself.
I would guess that it's the fact that the fic is about a mare from the show shipped with an OC.

>>42330664
>Maize
This was good! Really good, even! Damn.
The horror depictions were extremely evocative (the fic aimed for that visceral, brutal kind of horror, and actually pulled it off), the mystery kept things interesting and felt appropriate, the "villain" as a force of nature and its intentions that we can see but not fully understand—it all just works! And despite being so far away from the mood of FiM, it doens't violate the setting; it felt appropriately fantastical, like a real part of the world's lore. I'm over a week late so I won't spend too much time on it, but it was one of the better "pure" [Horror] stories we've read, imo.

>>42330818
>And why did aj make it out after 3 years?
AJ understands and respects the field. Twilight didn't, and fought against the laws of nature, and she was consumed as a result.
>And most of all why is it evil?
I don't think it is evil. Or at least, it doesn't consider itself evil. It does not really fit within pony morality systems, and it's older than those besides.
>Also wtf are Flim & Flam doing here
Like Twilight, they were unicorns who in their arrogance thought they could manipulate the field with their magic and paid the price for it.

>>42330875
>I love, love, love how grim and horrible this one is!
Yup, agreed with most of your post. All of my notes here are five descriptions (like picrel) with a word or two praising them for how good they are. They are, sadly, worse without the buildup.
>we're pulled along with her as she gorges herself
Desu I suspected what was happening before she started eating. And not just because I wrote a worse version of that scene once.
>The ending sequence was probably unsatisfying to most people,
No, I liked the ending. And yes, to the favorites it goes.

>>42331120
>Granny Smith sorta spells it out in the first chapter if you're paying attention,
She does, but it also plays into the fic's themes of earth pony labor contrasted with the unicorn "shortcuts", so I don't think it was a bad bit of foreshadowing.
>but one that I love, and it still managed to get a reaction out of me.
>when Twilight talks to the Granny Smith construct and
The fic was really, really good at making its horror descriptions hit hard in the moment and feel memorable later.

>>42332629
kek at that entire post
>all plants being a blood-sucking hivemind
To be precise, 'the field' being that. Not just plants, but the earth, the worms, etc. And they only take a little.
>two pages of crawling through dirt cave-ins
Hey, it was very good dirt crawling!
>Flim-Flam did nothing wrong.
They did, actually—they got caught in the corn.
>Spike got away
Ah, the true horror is when you realize the implications left by the fic. If only they could chuck him into the corn to buy Twilight's life.
>Pipsqueak solved the riddle by following the music
Well, duh. Moonfags are proven to be at least 100% smarter than your average pony.

I'm outlining an alternate history fic in which pre-alicorn Celestia and Luna go around questing for the EoH and learning friendship lessons so they can defeat Discord and earn their wings. This is your opportunity to stop me if this fic already exists.

>>42352782
But they were born as alicorns

>>42352935
>alternate history

>>42352935
I'm sure there's some Make Your Mark episode that says that, but everything contradicts everything. Fic writers should follow the show writers' lead by ignoring canon and making up whatever fits the story they want to tell.

>>42353076
This is not necessary a contradiction. Equestria is young, only going back to the three tribes. Many headcanons with C&L as alicorns from birth make them predate the kingdom and only reveal themselves when Discord strikes.

>>42352489
Well I dropped this one 18% in. It seems like it is written quite well and the author knows what they wanna do with the fic, but it was a bit too uninteresting for me and I just couldn't imagine liking the rest of it. Almost nothing happens between the 5% and 18% mark except Pinkie thinks to try a different way of interacting with Rose. I don't care to read the other 4/5ths of a fic about Rose wandering around trying to remember why she died and if she ever fucked the postmare (male) (not derpy).

>>42352489
>sex festival from chapter 4
Vindicated as always

>>42352505
>The prose is very good, descriptive and evocative without being too purple and the atmosphere is great.
This was pretty immediately apparent. The writer knows what they're doing

>>42352510
>AJxCarrotTop is a cognitohazard, and I refuse to acknowledge it.
kek
>Some repetition here and there
I think this played a part in me dropping it
>(for the love of God please don't be domestic violence or an affair)
lmao, if it's domestic violence I'm gonna be laughing
>when it's revealed that he taught Roseluck about autoerotic asphyxiation, hence her condition. And Pinkie's got cuckquean'd three times so far
what the kek is this story
>Explain yourself.
As I've said I just am not interested in what this fic is offering, you got one-two punched, but if I had to say my one-two punch for this fic it's that I'm not terribly interested in the main character (who might very well be ooc/oc) and the driving plot point is romance with an oc stallion. Add to that how slowburn it starts and I'm not gonna continue with something that is this likely to be a waste of my time

>>42352581
>I would guess that it's the fact that the fic is about a mare from the show shipped with an OC.
kek, you forgot that he's a stallion though. Shoulda been futaderp then maybe ch4 would've been alright
>The horror depictions were extremely evocative
Yeah, probably the best or at least the strongest part of that fic

>>42353076
>>42353087
C&L being born as alicorns raised by allicorns from the alicorn place is Faust approved early canon notably derived from the Journal of the Two Sisters. The other notable bit of canon there is that Starswirl did a lot of time travel which is what justifies him seemingly existing at different moments in Equestrian history but not between them.
>>42353087
If you want to get technical S3 can be taken to imply Sombra was defeated before Discord.

>>42353152
>The other notable bit of canon there is that Starswirl did a lot of time travel which is what justifies him seemingly existing at different moments in Equestrian history but not between them.
He's obviously an immortal angel in old man form sent by Faust to assist mortals.

>>42352935
In S1, they felt to me more like deities who have always existed. If they were "born," it was one of those peculiar mythological births where their parents are incestuous star deities who get murdered by their children.

Later seasons enshittified this by inventing new alicorns and making alicornhood something to be achieved. Canon became a complete mess, and now, nearly any backstory you can think of is consistent with some parts of canon and inconsistent with others. I think >>42352782's fic likely doesn't even count as alternate history.

>>42353170
It does as of based and kino G5.

>>42353184

>>42353087
I wish fandom people in general could learn the difference between between being able to rationalize things by picking apart exact words and those things actually fitting together.

>>42353152
The Journal never implies that he traveled to the past, and all the stories that have him further in the past are from after the Journal and generally don't fit with it anyway.

What implies that Sombra was defeated before Discord?

>>42353195
>The Journal never implies that he traveled to the past
I never said it did.
>all the stories that have him further in the past
HWE came out years before the Journal and he's nowhere to be seen, but implied to have already been around. That is in fact one of the biggest quirks that annoy people trying to figure him out.
>What implies that Sombra was defeated before Discord?
Celestia and Luna did not use the Elements on him. If you want, you can even make a point to say that's why the whole Empire got fucked, since had they had the Elements the Empire would have been saved by the power of Harmony.

>>42353192
Thou dareth besmirch the sanctity of the lolicorns?

>>42353170
Faust was still mostly in charge when Hearth's Warming Eve was written, so I doubt it was ever going to stay that way. The longer the sisters ruled together, the more you need an explanation for why Luna chose that particular moment to rebel. Things were definitely more open to interpretation back then, though.

>>42353152
>raised by allicorns from the alicorn place
I thought it was that Starswirl found them as kids and raised them

The real question is how much older Celestia is compared to Luna. Is it an almost twins thing or is it a Rarity to Sweetie Belle style of thing

>>42353272

>>42353288
Journal of the Two Sisters /FSBC/ when?

>>42353216
>HWE came out years before the Journal and he's nowhere to be seen, but implied to have already been around. That is in fact one of the biggest quirks that annoy people trying to figure him out.
That is ringing a bell now that you mention it. HWE implying that Star Swirl was already a past figure before the Sisters were around, after Luna Eclipsed implied that Luna knew him personally. I remember the various rationalizations. If anything, the Journal patched that by having the Sisters take the throne right after the Founding. Then the comics messed that up by putting him in the distant past with a white beard, but the comics and the show never really tried hard to fit together anyway.

>Celestia and Luna did not use the Elements on him.
Weak evidence, but as good as the evidence for any other theory, I guess. I remember a different theory that Celestia getting all the glory for stopping Sombra was what finally drove Luna to rebel.

>>42353272
The comics and such establish him as such (there's one with alpha bitch teenage Celestia bullying Luna)

>>42352489
Yeah, good points about worldbuilding, i forgot to mention it.

>>42353319
Sombra corrupting Luna leading to NMM was also a popular theory, which inspired (and was possibly made more popular by) that travesty of FoaE.

>>42353326
>FoaE
*FotCE, I got it confused with the equally atrocious concept album.

>>42353320
I know Legends of Magic #1 had him trying to teach them, but I don't remember it saying anything about where they were before then.

>>42353288 >>42353326 >>42353332
Not beating the "bitter losers incapable of enjoying things" stereotypes.

>>42353433
I have not read the Journal and was not the anon who posted the pic. Moonrise was good (very good even) but then L got massively up his own ass and Fall is a disjointed mess of poorly timed lyrics. At least Pillars was alright (did Part 2 ever come out?), Healin Brew is very nice. As for the animation, the people behind it themselves have gone on record talking about it being trash they made when inexperienced, with the director IIRC doing a whole scene by scene breakdown of all the problems with it.

>>42350155
Can it still be experienced as it originally was? I thought that a lot of it was Adobe Flash?

>>42350831
>>42350876
Where were they before Homestuck? Where were they after? I know they were here at some point but I don't know the time ranges.

>>42352489
This story is incredibly polarized.
The grim, foggy and washed out first two chapters already weren't an enticing setting, and it threatened to get outright annoying with Rose's denial of being dead with the lack of substantial answers. The prose was the only thing keeping me going through them.
Then, it immediately turned around and had the super cute first date chapter! My expectations for the story were completely turned around as it seemed like going through Rose's memories would be a lot of fun.
But immediately after that, the sex came and it was really weird. The behavior these characters have is like some rural Christian just found out that some schools teach contraceptives instead of abstinence and is still trying to reconcile this. It's so important for Rose to be a virgin, and Post is on the same page with her about it, but then later they're acting like a hoof job isn't sex? The contrast with all of this and Rose's obsession with making a foal is as bizarre as it is offputting.
The H&H Day chapter seemed like it would be fun, I tend to like nude ponies and the stuff that comes from that, but what was actually written did not end up being that. I also wonder if the author has a big gap between what they were imagining and what they wrote. It talked about games, but there were no actual games. It was just heat driving everypony insane, and the only objective any of them had was to not fuck and all of them failed. That does not seem like any fun, just like some mind control bullshit instead.

Also, the Pinkie perspective transitions are t e r r i b l e. It takes far too long to figure out that the perspective is no longer Rose. Part of that is because she's OOC, but I would never take issue with a story just because Pinkie is OOC.
I'll keep reading it because it clearly has some good scenes, but I don't really think that this is going to end up being a worthwhile story.

>>42352510
>Carrot Top
I was originally going to make a joke about Care Package being gay, but then I looked it up and he is actually a different pony from Post Haste. Also, Care Package is way cuter.

>>42353494
Flash still works. My version reminds me to update it every time I restart my PC, and sometimes I use it to play old games like CoC. It's not supported but I would surely assume there are archived versions you can download where everything works fine.

>>42353316
This is a fucking good idea.

>>42353526
All my ideas are good, which is why I'm always too busy working on new ones to finish the old ones.

>>42352489
Very late clubbing today. This story was quite good, for the most part! There was the rare repeated word or phrase, and the occasional use of "arm" or "people", but the writing was pretty all the same, especially the use of colour in the environments. The look we get at Roseluck's life is so very intimate, and it all feels incredibly real. Both she and Post Haste are richly realised, and their romance is extremely sweet for the most part. I thought the whole "Roseluck is dead" thing at the beginning would have been a more central focus, but so far it's mostly receded into the background as a framing device for the story of her life. I'm looking forward to see how possibly-mirror-Pinkie ties into everything, though, especially with the little hint we got at the end of chapter 5.

Now, I respect the author's commitment to portraying pony culture as unique and different, what with all the "Thirstday"s and "Planting 4th" and other little customs. What I wasn't a fan of, and I'm sure other anons have already discussed this to death, was the whole fertility ritual section where everypony in town gets together to have sex all but publicly. I didn't mind the earlier sexual stuff, like when Rose and Post are inside during the blizzard. That was sweet and intimate. But pony sexual culture must be really fucked up if they have a whole holiday about doing elaborate foreplay in front of your friends and neighbors. Especially how the "prize" is having hot and heavy sex in the woods with everypony in town knowing you're having hot and heavy sex in the woods. The whole thing read like clop, and in a dedicated clopfic it might have even been pretty good clop, but such an emotional and serious story was not the time or the place for it.

Thinking of starting an epic longfic just for the perverse thrill of abandoning it.

>>42353979
It's easier to make a child.

>>42353512
>I would surely assume there are archived versions you can download where everything works fine.
You certainly can. Not long ago i downloaded an archived version of flash to play some old newgrounds kino locally, it worked just fine.
>>42353979
Great idea. Just think of the possibilities, you can post a new blogpost every year saying how a new chapter is almost ready but you're just so busy, and also have a nice status bar on your fimfic page where it shows stuff like "writing: 90% completed. proofreading:50 percent completed. Last update: 01.05.2021"

>>42352489
>how well-defined and clear the emotions and the mood conveyed by each chapter were
Yeah, the emotional storytelling is the strongest part of the fic. I liked how Rose and Post both always approached their relationship sincerely and with good faith, and yet it also wasn't *too* perfect and had enough little wrinkles to keep things interesting. The way it progresses over time is varied and also consistently high-quality.

>I do want to learn more about Ponk, which may be what chapter 5 is about
Not quite, but the very end of it sets things up for her in chapter 6.

>This setting does feel like its own place
Yup, props to the author for integrating the world so seamlessly into the story without using autistic lore dumps.

>>42352505
>unless someone like Pinkie anchors her to the real world
I like that too, but it feels like the story is slowly hinting at how "Pinkie" *isn't* actually part of the real world, and is just another spirit trapped in limbo. It's indicated most clearly by how Pinkie lacks memories from further forward in time, closer to Roseluck's death.

>the story doesn't end up being just a simple family drama where Rosey died because of some accident and that's it
I wouldn't mind that, because the story is already pulling its weight with Roseluck's whole life-drama. But it would certainly be better for something more climactic and less cliche than a sudden disease or something pulling the rug out from under Roseluck's family.

>>42352510
>mental deterioration
It was nice how it started out with Roseluck going right to the edge of losing herself. It basically got it out of the way and let the remaining 80% of the story focus on climbing back up.

>filthy pagan traditions
Kek, this. I thought the whole "town-wide almost-orgy" was bad enough, but it's also an offering to Freyja or something. I hope the author was simply in a horny mood when he wrote it and won't come back to it. I mean, it wasn't even necessary since Rose and Post had already had sex, just not penetratively.

>for the love of God please don't be domestic violence or an affair
This would be worse than a sudden accident, but there's not a lot else it could really be.

>>42352636
>Desu I suspected what was happening before she started eating.
Fair, it was pretty clearly suspicious, but the realisation probably didn't detract much from the scene itself.
>No, I liked the ending.
Sadist.

>>42353144
>I'm not terribly interested in the main character (who might very well be ooc/oc)
Unfortunately, this is basically true. You get that with any background pony, obviously, but there isn't much tying the fic to canon other than the setting and the occasional inclusion of Pinkie. It's one of these things where you could swap the characters out with humans and have pretty much a serviceable romance story other than the fertility ritual.

>>>42353507
>It talked about games, but there were no actual games.
That's the biggest issue with it, honestly. Like you say, it's set up as a festival with events and outfits and crowns and flowers to buy, but the only "event" is sitting in a field, trying not to imagine your coltfriend's dick in your mouth, and failing, all while listening to other "failures" have loud sex in taxpayer-funded luxury love tents. There are a few parts here and there where it feels like the author cut stuff out, and this scene was one of the most notable, although I can't complain about having less of it.

>reading comments about ghost of a rose
>find out the initial inspiration is a song I like
huh

>>42353505
Deviantart and Axis Powers Hetalia

>>42354155
Wouldn't have expected a Hetalia Axis Powers->Tumblr progressive pipeline

>>42354264
There's lore there that I don't want to get into, honestly.

>>42354278
There's mares there I do want to.

>>42354135
A familiar experience. I've discovered lots of great music (including non-pony bands) thanks to the pony community.

Why /fimfiction/, most noble of generals, I beg thee once more for reading suggestions, help this morose anon in his plight:
What are some good Bluelight/Twiblood fics? Are there even any? My autistic brain makes the Shining + Celestia's niece equals Twilight + Celestia's nephew as a very pleasant sounding connection
Recently read this https://www.fimfiction.net/story/230514/the-early-life-of-blueblood and it was a very nice change of pace, do you have any recs anons? Thanks in advance

>>42354328
https://www.fimfiction.net/stories?q=%23romance+%23twilight-sparkle+%23prince-blueblood

>>42354278
I promise to go to bed immediately, so my replies won't bloat the thread.

Now tell us.

>>42354375
why you do him like that

>>42354434
A bunch of Hetalia fans dressed up as nazis in front of a synagogue on holocaust remembrance day. On accident. This lead to a bunch of their fujos jumping ship to Homestuck just as it was getting popular.

>>42354438
Because I don't know of any myself.

>>42354441
>On accident
...How? I know the answer is autism, but how?

Fics about tight, winking, dripping mare pussies?

>>42354444

>>42354446
These are the people that became the Homestuck fandom. They are Not Smart.

>>42354451
Do you have pictures of it?

>>42354454
I am not in the habit of keeping photos of yaoi fangirls in nazi outfits on my computer, no.

>>42354458
>yaoi fangirls in nazi outfits
they were WOMEN in the nazi outfits?

>>42354488
There are no male hetalia fans

>>42354458
>yaoi fangirls in nazi outfits
Unf

>>42354441
Lmao. And now some of those people that left probably hate Jews now.

I’ve heard Hetalia was an absolute disgusting insufferable shitshow of a fandom. What was it like back in the day? Also I’m pretty sure hetalia was also partly the progenitor for things like country balls and alternate history.

>>42354554
>alternate history
Pretty sure that was a thing as early as Roman civilisation, though mainly a speculative portions of historical texts, but it became more widespread in the 19th century and fully blew up as a proper narrative genre during the 20th.

>>42354488
Appropriate dubs.

What’s a fic that feels like it was written by a programmer?

>>42355435
Mine because it was

>>42355435
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/234601/do-while-true

>>42352112
>what do
Write what's fun to write. That's the only standard for fanfics you should have.

>>42352782
>an alternate history fic
Your fic can technically adhere to canon if you bump them to alicorns right before the final Discord fight. Perhaps I missed it, but there's nothing in the show that actually confirms they were born as alicorns. All the confirmation is semi-canon stuff like the comics or books.

>>42353087
>It is beyond even our understanding
You can grab onto the "Equestria has never seen before" line, but this basically sinks it. If they were nature alicorns, they would obviously know how they were born and it wouldn't be a complete befuddling mystery to them.

>>42353152
>implying Sombra was defeated before Discord
The Crystal Empire happened "a thousand years ago" per Celestia and we see in the flashback Luna's there, so it happened just prior to NMM and was perhaps an instigating factor in NMM happening. Regarding the Elements, it's possible they were used. The flashback scene's fairly ambiguous as to what actually happens and Sombra was banished to the ice for a thousand years, mirroring what the Elements did with Luna.

Wanted to make an account to post some practice writing for feedback.
>Registrations are currently closed
Oh, that sucks, wonder if there's now a time window for making them
>if you would like an account just join our discord
Fucking WHAT?

>>42355551
>they would obviously know how they were born
Anon out here remembering his own birth

>>42355649
Whitey Knighty can't into anti-spam.

>>42355551
>The Crystal Empire happened "a thousand years ago" per Celestia
And so was Discord.

>>42355551
>>It is beyond even our understanding
Have you considered that their parents were alicorns themselves and the confusing part was a pure alicorn being born from an ascended pegasus and a mortal unicorn, outside the divine land of alicorns?

>>42355435
FiMC

>>42352636
>the true horror is when you realize the implications left by the fic.
The Apple cultists don't want you to know that wooden teeth can't pierce dragon scale.
But you have the right kind of thinking there, you're onto something. We need a Maize sequel where Spike wages war against Equestria's agricultural industry, burning down crops until it relinquishes Twilight or at least enough to avenge her. Starting off by sending dragonfire letterbombs to that useless bitch Celestia.
The agrarian revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for pony kind.

>>42353507
>Pinkie perspective transitions
Definitely agree there. Maybe an earlier POV switch would have helped, but that would probably interfere with the initial "dead and alone" aspect.
>different pony from Post Haste
To add to the confusion, isn't Post Haste just Parcel Post with brown eyes?

>>42355649
First of all, in practice the site is just for finished works. If you want feedback, put your story on Google docs, change the sharing setting to "Anyone with the link can view," give everyone "comment" permissions, and post a link.

Knighty did this because there was a sharp uptick in the amount of spam and bot registrations. It seemed to make sense. Knighty has been actively working on the site, and it sounded like he was just a week or two away from deploying a new version with additional anti-spam measures. And it's fun to laugh at the spammers who still contact Knighty using broken or AI-translated English and plead with him to "do the needful" and make them an account.

But I'm starting to think that registrations will be permanently closed and that this will be the end of Fimfic. He may be working on the site, but he's trying to do everything in one giant update. Anyone who's ever worked on a large software project knows there's always an infinite amount of work that you could do, and if you wait until you've made every change and added every feature, then you'll never ship. That seems to be what's happening here: Knighty's update has undergone so much scope creep that he will never finish it. So he'll never open up registrations again, and the site will slowly wither and die.

>>42356131
I expect they're going to go to an invite system, but the whole system is to be developed, so a fallback for that is that he will grant his account making privilege to the mods and the current system will transition to "ask the mods for an account" instead of "ask knighty personally for an account"

He's personally doing like 10 registrations a day, which prevents him from getting distracted from the site development, and he doesn't have anything else to do. Shutting down registrations amusingly has probably put the site in its best position for continued improvement in years. It would have killed the site if nobody was actually registering via Discord, though.

>>42356423
The only thing we should import from Ao3 is loli/shota porn.

>>42356444
I'd just like the tagging system.

>>42356673
You wouldn't and you don't understand how it works if you honestly believe that.

>>42356131
>He may be working on the site, but he's trying to do everything in one giant update.
I noticed recently that user pages now have the fancy metadata tags, so I get the impression that he's doing things piecemeal.

>>42356936
He's sorta been forced into it.
I remember a leak that showed the site's new GUI and other tidbits that look like a big overhaul. And that was years ago. Before the coof, I believe.

>>42356949
>I remember a leak
Me when I'm senile and trying to remember what the deal with that blue haired anime lady was

>>42356886
Some posters share an attitude with the scammers currently stymied by closed registrations in that they genuinely want to make fimfiction worse.

He should just ban all of southeast asia like he talked about

>>42357079
Bring the Australian with you or it gets violent one way or another.
drah si sdrkcab gnitirw dlaod(r)ncM retsim

>>42355649
It's over, isn't it?

>>42357088
I'd fuck her so hard I hope her good version is in 4.

>AIEEEEE MY OFFBOARDER CIRCLEJERK NEEDS DICKSWORD VERIFICATION NAO
KEKAROO

>>42357401
Nah I get it, it signals a breakdown of the old internet standards and even basic features of a website.
>Want to sign up? Nope, gotta do it not through this website you've come to sign up on but a third party app unrelated to it
It still fucks me off that some website sign-ups want phone verification. Fuck right off with that. It's a marginal decline into de-anonymity.

>>42357406
I get especially upset when I run into these "modern" websites that still require an account to use but don't offer any method of registering one, relying solely on Google sign-in for authorization.

>>42357406
>website you can make infinite accounts on from a single burner email and accepts even shitty ones that require no verification
>somehow this is a disastrous roadblock
Massive tech related skill issue. Discord sucks but making a throwaway on it is piss easy.

>>42357513
Okay, make a whole bunch of accounts on burner emails to sign-up to FIMfiction.
Oh yeah, discord, there's the roadblock.
Well that's easy you just--Whoops, now we need phone verification for the discord server in question as the next step of ever-ramping security creep.
You're missing the forest for the trees or being retarded on purpose.
Any cunt can make a million burner accounts, it's the irritancy of requiring the jumping of hoops to get there in the first place.
Want to sign-up with a burner account for this specific website or app everyone is using? We don't accept burner emails from XYZ burner email website with that list growing bigger every week and we need a mobile number for security purposes that also can't be spoofed so easily, sorry buddy.
More websites and apps are becoming this way and it's fucking annoying. I don't care to have a burner phone laying around just so that I can access a website or app.

>>42357544
You worthless state supported monkey, Discord is the one you can make infinite accounts on with a shitty burner, and if you don't know how that's a skill issue.

>person I'm replying to logs off just minutes before my reply is sent
Always such a pain.

>>42357584
You're still missing the entire point and I'm going to assume you're doing so purposely because nobody can be that dense.
Here's your (You).

>>42357609
>too lazy to actually create better sites even though it's piss easy
>can only complain

I've decided to drop "the Maretian" having read 1/3 of the fanfic for the same reason i one day dropped "grief is the price we pay". The general plot is interesting and i would like to see how the story ends, but it's just so long and full of chapters where nothing ever happens. It's not bad, i'm sure many space autists would greatly enjoy this story, but it's not for me. I'm not against long stories, i just want something to happen a bit more often.

>>42357955
Things happen frequently in my longfic.

>>42357964
Prove it.

>>42357999
Read it.

>>42357964
Link?

>>42358009
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/466205/

>>42358009
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/500819/

>>42358034
Ew.
>>42358043
Ew.

>>42357544
Look, I get where you're coming from, but the only alternative is genocide. Either you make it harder for spammers to register, or you kill all the spammers. There are no other options. Anything else and the spammers will overrun the site. When they had access, they sent spam DMs, posted spam blogs, and even submitted spam stories. You never saw it because the mods did a good job, but they did it. Before registration got shut down, the mods were getting overwhelmed. If things kept going that way, the mods were going to burn out.

So which do you want? Do you want additional registration steps and multi-factor authentication? Or do you want genocide? For what it's worth, Knighty seems to prefer genocide.

>>42358044
If those aren’t your style, then you should try https://www.fimfiction.net/story/197090/ instead.

I like stories about happiness and where the Pony view of life is proven correct

>>42358288
Uh huh?
https://fimfiction.net/story/496343/moon-and-stars

Every time I try to come up with a pony name for a female character it always ends up sounding like a stripper name

>>42358342
Can you give some examples of pony stripper names?

>>42358373
Rarity.

>>42358382
>the only reason she makes clothes is to take them off later
Sisyphean, is it not?

>>42358288
I like stories about sadness where the Pony view of life ultimately triumphs and is proven correct.

>>42355812
https://poneponepone.org/?search=thousand%20years
No, he wasn't.

>>42355814
>The birth of an alicorn is something Equestria has never seen
>It [the birth of an alicorn] is beyond even our understanding
Celestia's line indicates Equestria's never had a born alicorn. Luna's following line then clarifies even they have no idea how an alicorn could be born. If it were otherwise, Celestia's line needed to be something like "The birth of an alicorn to a normal pony parent is something Equestria has never seen."

>>42356131
>he's trying to do everything in one giant update
That's how Fimfic's always been updated. Weekly or monthly hotfixes are a foreign concept to the britbong developer. The last one had dozens of changes that were made: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/740657/fimfiction-40

>>42358513
No, because they weren't born in Equestria, they were born in the magical alicorn place where alicorns are born.

>>42358044
>Ew.
It wouldn't even be the biggest thing of his you've swallowed.

>>42358803
Why is this thread so obsessed with random fags' sex lives?

>>42358811
Because Jessi Jinxed makes it a point to be an easily recognisable faggot who blogposts about it.

>>42358814
It's okay, I'm sure he'll let you suck his dick if you ask nicely.

>>42358817
Does PD take requests on 4chan?

>>42358829
Nah, he has a submission form. On the upshot, it doesn't require a Jewgle account: https://forms.gle/9rosMK3XhMNssTAj9

>>42358836
There are skin pulling exercises to grow back a substitute foreskin.

>>42357955
Read TMA

Give me your best tragedy (in the classical sense), /fimfic/.

>>42359009
For sale: foal horseshoes. Never worn.

>>42359016
For sale: foal. Never used.

>>42359016
This isn't a classical tragedy this is just a(n attempt at) a sad story. I specifically asked for tragedies in the classical sense.

>>42359016
>>42359022
and we have a 16% reduction on the longstanding lower bound, a revolutionary result!

>>42359016
Not their fault their kid wanted to go into quilting instead of long distance running

Why are authors constantly trying to break out of horsewords instead of just accepting that they're here forever?

>>42359714
Because food costs money.

>>42359906
Why are you trying to make money as a writer? Are you crazy?

>>42360194
It's the only skill I have and I'm too mentally disabled to hold a normal job.

Been feeling like shit, any recs for sadfics? I want something that'll make me cry like Five Hundred Little Murders did

>>42360320
LiaL
Sun Princess

Any good fics about celestia being a bad ruler? Preferably comedy fics.

>>42360524
>bad ruler
>a thousand years of peace

>>42360537
If you think about it, things only started going seriously wrong when a certain second alicorn came back to Canterlot.

>>42360524
Do Daybreaker fics count?

>>42360546
>also a thousand years of peace

>>42360544
Fics about Luna being a bad ruler?

>>42360581
I bet she uses imperial.

>Writer keeps on having a breakdown causing him to cancel his stories and then start working on them again then breakdown again to cancel them
holy fuck what a baby

Three contests posted today:

E-rated Starlight Glimmer contest: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1127831/starlight-glimmer-contest-announcement

Year of Snake Anthro TF MC 50 dollar story contest (this is targeted at a very specific fetish): https://www.fimfiction.net/group/215801/hall-of-contests-sfw/thread/563258/open-year-of-snake-anthro-tf-mc-50-dollar-story-contest-15-71-1

miniTAGfest #1: Queer/Disabled Joy (NB they do not like 4chan): https://www.fimfiction.net/group/219161/tag-festivals/thread/563260/minitagfest-1-queer-disabled-joy

>>42360862
Thought the last one was going to be Artist, again.

>>42360862
>Year of Snake Anthro TF
>'The idea is simple, have a human character (or anthro animal) be turned into a naga-like anthro snake'
Anything goes on this My Little Pony fanfiction website, huh?

>>42360940
I'm sure CiG will approve of it.

The real reason the Twiflag skipped the book club is he started lurking CHAG.

>>42360992
>implying twiflag isn't one of the most popular flags
also when I drop something it's usually because I would rather be reading something else while sitting around at work

>>42361113
Ah, but how many other Twiflags are also into futa princest Twilestia impregnation?

>>42361266
All of them, obviously.

>>42361266
Damn, maybe I should go over there and check it out...

>>42360862
>glimglam
ah!

>>42361823
Ah yes the Daddy Issues pony

>>42360862
>Please no geopolitical or the like commentary in your story.
Kek. And here I was getting ready to write my my anthro naga TF hypnosis fic where they have a three thousand word debate over the ongoing tensions in the South China Sea.

>>42361955
>glimglam
she'll touch you without your consent

>>42362027
She did forcibly turn Sunburst back into a seven year old like a fucking lunatic.

>8 (EIGHT) Non-human or barbieshit stories in the Sinbin
Ye gods, did we shift onto the other timeline?

>>42362078
>one is AI generated and one is incest porn
Eh.
Also not sure why the Parent Trap's super downvoted

>>42360862
>Queer Joy
I have a great idea. How about a fic where Twilight takes great joy in her queer identity as a MAP?

>>42362027
If I were twilight I would have done everything I could have possibly done to kill this bitch as soon as possible. Get the princesses and the elements and discord and fucking erase here from existence.

>>42362027
If I were twilight I would have done everything I could have possibly done to fuck this bitch as soon as possible. Get the princesses and the elements and discord and do a giant fucking orgy.

>>42362275
And that's why you aren't Twilight.

>>42362078
The balance must be maintained. I shall write my first Human fic.

If I were Twilight I would giggle.

>>42363078
Giggle at what? Nothing is funny.

>>42363311
At the ghostly, silly nonny. Did you even listen to the ponies?

>>42362252
DYEWTS, jannies? You know about Twilight Time, right?

>>42362252
>>42363348
It's true.

Feeling a lot like this today

>>42364481
At least you came up with a scene.

>>42364534
I'll come up your scene.

>>42360372
>Sun Princess
Short and sweet. Not what I expected from the title, but it was a joy to read. I think I got a little misty eyed by the end.
It reminds me of another fic I've read, centered around Angel Bunny, where he's determined to learn how to write because there's something very important he has to say to somepony special.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/250429/of-angels
It's not the way I usually think about the character, but it was a pretty interesting concept, and the part at the end was beautiful and also not at all what I initially expected him to write (if a bit wordier than believable for the time he spent studying).

>LiaL
I had to scroll through the archives to figure out what this stood for but eventually found a post using the acronym next to the title "Life is a Lemon", so hopefully I read the right one. I'm not exactly sure how I expected a story about a pony who thinks she's a lemon would make me cry, and at multiple points I was worried that I was just short of connecting with it enough and that it just wouldn't click and wouldn't make me feel anything, only to realize that my tears are already flowing. The part that really got me is when Sunshine said "You're falling. Let me catch you." and I cried more than I can remember from reading any fic in the past.

Thank you very much for recommending it to me. In turn, I recommend it to anyone ITT that hasn't read it yet.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/47908/life-is-a-lemon

>>42364481
I come up with ideas/scenes like this at a pretty constant rate, so I stick them all in my notes for later and then when I get one I /really/ want to write, I scroll back through all the other ideas I wrote to see if any of them would also fit that kind of story. That way more of the horse is filled in, even if the connective tissue still doesn't always have the same level of thought as the core scenes it all sprouted from.

Maybe I'd thought of a good dynamic between two characters, and a scene I thought of later involving one of them is the perfect setup for how they'd reach that point, or maybe a random piece of worldbuilding I came up with is what really brings together a plot idea.

>>42364667
>Life is a Lemon
You got it, yeah. Glad you liked my recs, Nonny. And now for something slightly different but also sad in its own way.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/508109/tower-of-diamond

>>42364667
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/250429/of-angels
That was good

>>42363348
>>42363355
Any good Twidophile fics?
>>42364481
Just save it for the next 1k contest.

>>42364716
The only good pedo is a dead one.

>>42364716
>Any good Twidophile fics?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/432018/how-to-say-no

>>42364725
And me!

>>42364716
Fuck off and don't project your mental instabilities over the show

All these fuckable mares and you choose to be a pedophile, smdh just cum in rainbow dash like a normal person.

>>42364481
I'm more of a start strong and trail off kinda person. I hate writing endings, they never feel compelling or satisfying

>>42364962

>>42364962
You alright, filly? Something you want to share?

>>42364698
>Linking it directly to an anon that sensitive who already knows how to scrape.
Are you trying to get him to kill himself? You can't keep living vicariously through the sufferings of others.

>>42365153
>You can't keep living vicariously through the sufferings of others
I can and I will.

>>42364725
>>42364765
>>42364962
>>42365033
Greetings, newfags. You have just experienced a phenomenon called "trolling." This is where someone derives entertainment by posting something that makes you mad. For example, >>42364716 pretended to need advice about Twilight pedophilia stories. This is called "bait." He posted simply to provoke you, and he succeeded. And >>42362252 trolled so successfully that his post was deleted. You will find that many people on 4chan enjoy trolling. If you stay here, then some day, you may even find yourself trolling. You might find that difficult to believe now, but it will come in time as long as you lurk moar.

>>42365618
Penis wenis

>>42365618
Replying to bait is common courtesy.

>>42365618
I don't give you the benefit of the doubt because you don't deserve it.

Since my last suggestion was received so well, I'd like to suggest another fic for the Queer Joy contest: Fluttershy finds joy when she accepts her queer identity as a zoophile and fucks Harry.

>>42365999
Why would Harry DuBois fuck Fluttershy?

>>42366010
Because he's a desperate man who hasn't had sex in years.

>>42366010
>Dubois
The bear is French?

What is the fimfic equivalent of this?

>>42366010
Why would anyone not fuck Fluttershy?

>>42366124
The old fics that are held up as classics but are actually kind of bad

>>42366124
>used for structural support as opposed to reading material
Sounds like Fallout: Equestria.

>>42366124
Those first few stories knighty uploaded to the site to test functionality.

Interested in winning some Tumblr art and Monopoly money?
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1128034/carpet-tailoring-contest

>>42366124
TCB and any other verse-spawning fic that may be unfinished or even deleted from the site but still gave way to dozens more based on it.

>>42367636
>the duo that had an episode about how they barely interact contest
Okay?

What's the difference between ponepaste and Fimfiction. Why should someone use one instead of the other?

>>42367891
One is to paste greens about knocking up Pinkie Pie and the other is for people who know how to actually write.

>>42367895
I genuinely don't understand how someone could look at the sinbin and still see Fimfic as some bastion of literature.

>>42367895
Ah, good to know. I might post a few pics on Fimfiction then

>>42367910
You'd be better off using Twibooru or Ponerpics.

>>42367910
The P key is nowhere near the F key.

>>42367895
Ponepaste is unironically better than Fimfiction.

>>42367636
I guess writing a story about the bottom 1 Mane 6 pairing would be a challenge. Both the prospect and the rewards are equally unappealing as well. But I don't hate myself enough to do that.

>>42367917
>>42367915
Phone posting, it auto-correct from fic to pic

>>42367981
But that's not a TwiShy contest.

>>42368032
>using autocorrect
>ever
>>42368041
Excuse you, that's my self-insert pairing.

>>42368048
I thought you self inserted as Gallus.

>>42368051
Contrary to long-standing belief, I'm not exclusively homosexual. And my dick isn't tiny.

>>42368054
Gallus is bi as fuck though.

>>42367981
Which are the bottom 3?

>>42368048
I can't turn that shit off. I hate it so much

>>42368058
Those are the CMC, anon, we're talking about the M6.

>>42368070
How? Even iToys aren't so locked down that they prohibit you disabling that "feature".
>>42368088
I've always pegged Apple Bloom as more of a clumsy top.

>>42368111
>always pegged Apple Bloom
So do the other two.

>>42368111
>I've always pegged Apple Bloom
Well then she's not much of a top, is she?

>>42368154
I'd argue that a man pegging a filly is still in a submissive role because he's not using his actual dick. The typical setup is a dildo affixed to a chastity cage, which makes it even more subby.

>>42368162
Why do you know this?
I didn't even know that. I didn't want to. That's super fucking weird.

>>42368188
Prequel was good.

>>42368208
It's still ongoing, albeit at a fucking snails pace because Kaz probably keeps forgetting about it.

>>42368213
Thought you said Kas at first and was confused.

>read thing
>it has the same thing I wanted to do in my thing
>not sure if I should include the thing now

If only HiE posters thought like that.

>>42368507
If only HiE posters thought.

>>42367799
This. Any fic that would be considered genre defining or that influenced the content of the site as a whole.

>>42368518
I thought about making basically the same post as you did but chose not to. I will take this as evidence that we are indeed a hivemind.

>>42368331
This happens to me a lot. I'm at the point where I'm going to say screw it and continue it anyways.

>>42368531
It's a "holy shit two cakes situation" most of the time.

>>42368547

>>42368547
I fucking hate cakes!

>>42368575
You hatefucked Mr. Cake?

>>42368575

>>42368578
No, anon. He's fucking Hate Cakes, and the Cakes are clearly lovecoded.

>>42368331
>read nothing
>have no idea how original my idea is beyond gut feeling
>write it without any feelings of remorse or apprehension

>>42368606
>flag
>gut feeling

>>42368606
>>read nothing
Ah, that does explain the quality of your work.

Any fics about Twilight having kirin ancestry and that's why she Gets Like That

>>42368735
Yes

>>42368644
I knew you'd say that. I read, just not fanfiction for the most part.

>>42368951
And?

>>42368968
And I don't really feel like looking for it right now, but it was probably a throwaway line in a Tunafic.

>>42368983
Aw, I wanted a oneshot with it being centric to that.

Maybe someday someone will write a Thomas the Tank Engine crossover that doesn't suck
lol

>>42369025
I kneel and pray for your specific brand of autism. I'm glad it isn't mine.

>>42369031
I don't even know shit about the trains, it just scares me and I feel like I could conquer that fear.

I wanted to write a fic about Equestria's struggles in getting the Crystal Empire to adopt the railroad but then realized I don't know anything about railroads and realized that the autistic train people who DO would laugh at me.

>>42369047
It's easier than ever before to acquire basic knowledge on the topic that you want to write about. A basic Wikipedia skim might take around an hour to absorb, and that'll be more than enough on its own to trick all but the most veteran trainheads into thinking that your writing is accurate and smart.

>>42369061
I've seen what these guys do, they freak if like the horn is wrong.
Train autism is a whooooooole nother can of worms that probably makes horse autism look like lego autism.

>>42369047
Do the railroad mechanics have to be detailed? Can it not just be some ponies bickering in a boardroom? How in-depth do you think the average mlp fan's knowledge of trains is? This sounds like this is a story for average fans and not train enthusiasts.
I'm imagining this as an episode and it would probably just be Twilight and co. being sent to deal some ponies who are charge of the railroads and struggling because said ponies are too stubborn or neurotic or lazy or are dealing with in-fighting or some other conflict. Just because a story is about trains doesn't mean it has to be to be a lesson on trains.

>>42369047
The Crystal Empire's train technology is far ahead of the mainland's right from the get-go.

>>42369047
I wrote a green set in a grocery despite knowing virtually nothing about working in one, you'll be fine. Just avoid adding details that are unnecessary and research the few things that are actually important.

Any fics with characters that assume things will get better and that progress will happen when it obviously won’t?

>>42369200
DO NOT LET THE AUTISTIC HORSE OBSESSED EITH ROCKS NEAR THE ROCK TRAIN

>>42369315
my diary desu

When exactly would you say being featured on Equestria Daily stopped being a big thing in horse fiction?

>>42369382
That place is a den of braindead turbofaggots

And to answer your question I don’t know. I can’t recall ever seeing almost any featured fics on their worth reading in ages. Maybe 2016?

>>42369382
I heard once that Seth is toxic and has chased away anyone competent. I don't know when their fanfiction staff changed, but that's why EqD's fanfiction selection is now exclusively scouted mid-tier fics.

>>42369382
I had a fic featured there in 2018, so I'd say well before that.

Here's another story I enjoyed. I planned to skim it before linking it here to refresh myself on the parts I liked the most and just ended up reading the whole thing again.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/112621/a-sun-without-a-moon
4.5k words, Luna snoops through Celestia's old diary. It hits the emotional notes you'd expect, but I feel like there were multiple parts that were less obvious uses of the premise that were done pretty well, and I couldn't help but tear up slightly re-reading it. I can't believe this is the only fic the author wrote, I would've loved to see more from them.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/559330/unsent-letters-unsung-failures
3.3k words, another from my favorites. It's a dialogue-only fic (part of some contest or something), told across a few conversations (including twilight dictating letters to spike) at times when Twilight felt nesrly ready to give up on friendship (placing it early season 1). She never gets nearly that disillusioned in the show, but that aside, I really like how this is written, and despite being dialogue-only it never feels hard to tell who's talking. If you're reading on mobile, switch your browser to desktop layout so the right-justified lines don't blend into the conversations.

>>42364698
It doesn't look like quite my cup of tea, but I suppose I can give it a try.

>>42369200
That's because they bought it from the reindeer

>>42368331
>read thing
>get mad about how it executed the idea
>write your take on the idea

>>42369047
You throw in magitech to toss a curveball to the railfags. Though I'm wondering what "struggles" there'd really be outside of weather, which should already be dealt with by the pegasi. Equestria's got the tech, so it shouldn't be that hard building one to the Empire.

>>42369382
Late 2013 was when I really noticed. I think at some point around there Fimfic hit a critical mass and fanfic writers realized it was way more "lucrative" to shoot for the featured box and focus entirely on Fimfic than to obsess over an EQD feature that generated a fifth the readers, most of whom would have picked the story up on Fimfic anyway. You really saw a lot of "Oh, I'm already reading this. Cool it's on EQD now." comments for stories start around then.

>>42369478
>anon gets successfully gateway drugged into rape fetish porn by Life is a Lemon
Kek.

>>42369012
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/489381/twilight-takes-a-dna-test

>>42369790
>You throw in magitech to toss a curveball to the railfags
This is already a necessity for the train towards a Canterlot btw. Irl trains are really bad at inclines.

There are only seven stories
I'm smart btw

>>42370133
You're the guy in the middle of the bell curve meme

>>42370169
>You're the guy you're mocking actually
whatever you say sally

>>42370085
Just have a longer track looping around the mountain.

>>42370068
Well that was a nice cute story. Felt like it could have been expanded into something longer.

>>42370442
You don't understand. Trains are really fucking bad at inclines. Aside from how we already see what the track looks like in the show, there's a reason we invented cog railways for irl mountainous areas. Trains are not particularly great at turns either because they're made of long rigid portions.

>>42370509
It's a magic train.

>>42370708
I do believe that was anon's point, Mr. Driveby Dumbass.

>>42369790
>so it shouldn't be that hard building one to the Empire
They're a thousand years out of date, victims of mass enslavement and a dictator and probably get weirded out by it.

>>42370778
If Japan has taught us anything, it's that no amount of devastation can't be made up for by copying a superior race.

>>42370820
>fic about the Crystal Empire becoming modern japan with its anime bullshit

Where will you go now?

>>42370890
>the website is literally falling appart
Fucccckk no, i need my horse fiction. Knighty, it's your bread and butter! Don't let it die!

>>42370906
Get over it. the show died 7 years ago
G5 never caught on
the fandom died 9 years ago

why havent you found something new and relevant to latch onto like most other people have?

knigger had lofty plans, but his laziness outshines his greed. he wont be saving you

>>42370820
Unfortunately it seems like they are also trying to copy the west with respects to some more recent developments as well.

>>42371062
>why havent you found something new and relevant to latch onto like most other people have?
This. Never ruminate on something old you were passionate about. Always be chasing the next high.
You didn't get a chance to engage with something at the zenith of its cultural relevance? Tough titties said the kitties when the tap ran out of milk.
Thought about reading LOTR? Why? There are NEW books being made. Interested in Star Trek? It's too late now. Should have been born earlier, dumbass.

>>42371062
>latch onto
What is there that is worth latching onto?

>>42370890
Fuck it, I'll just make my own personal site to host my fics. Can't stop the signal

>>42371062
>the fandom died 9 years ago
Damn, i joined 8 years ago and i didn't know.

>>42370890
Because the people ITT don't actually write anything and are reacting like this is news: that's actually been a problem for a while now. We even talked about it ITT. Knighty putting out an announcement in regards to it is a positive sign.

>>42371329
Cartoon horses are popular right now. In a couple of years cartoon horses will also be popular as one of the highest rated Japanese things ever gets animated.

>>42371106
some things have lasting impact and remain relevant over the ages. most things dont. ponies had a surprisingly good run, but that time is past.

>>42371329
no idea. i havent watched new tv in years. rick and morty had an insufferable fandom. maybe you can bandwagon on that

>>42371431
it went on life support once they embraced diversity and the new 6 took over and the fandom started hemorrhaging creators. just because fimfiction is still slogging along doesnt mean much

>>42371482
what cartoon horses? G5 was shit and unpopular enough that theyre probably going to take their time on G6

>>42371543
>what cartoon horses?
The eastern ones.

>>42371543
>theyre probably going to take their time on G6
They literally already announced the next movie.

>>42371568
why? pony movies are garbage

>>42371585
The G4 one was the worst one and it was still passable.

>>42371543
>what cartoon horses?
He's talking about gachachit. That is the level we've sunk to as a general.

>>42371619
MLP having a mobile game does not make MLP mobileshit.

>>42371543
There's nothing like this community. It's not like i don't play videogames and watch other media from time to time, but nothing really compares to the horse fandom. No other cartoon made me read more than 10 million words in fanfiction.

My biggest problem with the Equestria Girls movie never changed. It's the end. The very end. Showing Twilight fly so well forbid us from ever getting an episode where Rainbow Dash teaches Twilight to fly. That episode would have been great and easy to write.

>>42371640
>there's nothing like [thing I autistically latched on to after being exposed to it at the right time], and clearly that's an inherent property of [thing I autistically latched on to after being exposed to it at the right time] and not something tied to the relationship between it and me that could and has been equally replicated for different people in other times with different works

>>42371482
No they aren’t. And China doesn’t count. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ccp has a division dedicated to making China look like it has a more vibrant fandom and merch consumerist culture than the west and that that is partly why it seems to be popular. And if it is actually popular in China that that is also why. And What Japanese horses are you talking about schizo?
>>42371568
And it’s gonna be a fucking flop because bureaucrats can’t innovate they can only keep churning out the same risk managed ass covering responsibility abdicating group thinking garbage until their corporation goes bankrupt

>>42371697
You are a blind fool if you cannot see that this fandom stands out from others.

>>42371712
>China
Nobody mentioned China. Nobody mentioned MLP either. You should exist within society sometimes.

>>42371543
>some things have lasting impact and remain relevant over the ages. most things dont. ponies had a surprisingly good run, but that time is past.
You said it, my man. Everyone should know that media has a potential invisible and arbitrary expiration date where you aren't allowed to deeply engage with it anymore. The only exception being a selective clique of works that are equally as arbitrarily defined. Always be willing to abandon your passion to side with the tides of the masses. Remember to consult the invisible list of what is and isn't currently okay to fawn over.

>>42371697
>and clearly that's an inherent property of ....
I didn't say that.

>>42371725
>t. Harry Potter fan
>t. Sonic fan
>t. Minecraft fan
>t. Star Trek fan
>t. Doctor Who fan
>t. Star Wars fan
>t. WoW fan
>t. FNaF fan
>t. UT/DR fan
>t. 2ho fan
>t. Homestuck fan
And more and more and more. Things look a lot bigger when you're inside them and a lot grander when you're hype about them. FiM's fandom was one of the most impressive but none of its achievements are unique, neither in scope nor in level. It was special to you, but it wasn't more special than many others.

Did you all go emo because Tunafag had to save the thread from page 10 multiple times?

>>42371796
I am just naturally emo

>>42371801
Favourite 3DG song?

>>42371812
Numbed - Lincoln Park

>>42371812
I'm more of an MCR guy

This general is kind of shit, ngl

>>42371834
And yet this may be the best general on the board because most of others are just that bad

>>42371762
I hope to never be the kind of joyless faggot you are.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/418430/after-i-looked-up-the-stars-had-gone-away
6.8k words, Twilight becomes convinced late one night that something is there in the library with her. Horror's not always my thing, but this one clicks all the right buttons for me—I always like there being an unnatural sort of "that's not how things are supposed to be" feeling to it instead of just "oh shit it's coming to get you!", and a couple of the things included painted a nice picture for me. This one has a lot of focus on Twilight's reaction and thoughts and the fear she's feeling instead of just what's causing it, which I think is pulled off very well.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/58791/is-someone-there
3.5k words, similar to above (though in this case she was woken up instead of not having been asleep yet) but basically going all-in on what's running through Twilight's head with little indication of what it is that's got her spooked. The ending is a bit up to interpretation but I think it works better for the story if you treat the author's explanation in the comments as merely what inspired it instead of what's actually happening. I guess technically it isn't tagged as horror, and it isn't really trying to make you feel the tension as much as the one above, but regardless I can't think of one of these stories without also thinking of the other, and I enjoyed them both.

And for something completely different,
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580039/pinkie-bites-twilight-and-doesnt-let-go
1k words (something something contest), it's exactly what the title says it is.

>>42371921
Yeah, i remember reading the first story. It's a good atmospheric piece.

>>42368983
>>42368735

>>42372066
Good timing
https://www.forthwithfic.com/ow/celeste/index.html

>>42372113
Oh no. Isn't this person supposed to be a computer science graduate?

>>42372125
That's not an accident. It's an invite.

>>42372142
Some of it is a bit too blatant, like the multiple cardboard boxes with Amazon labels still on.

>>42372168
Don't judge. I still have boxes with my deadname on them.

>>42372194

This is only slightly worse than when Bleedin' made a ___ sequel.

>>42372213
>Wrong Magic Color
Stupid Cissy

>>42347986 (OP)
Fics for when you are actually crazy and mentally disturbed but are able to lock in and act like a passive normie when interacting with people without even thinking about it?
Pic unrelated

I need to get back to work on writing the non-pone fic I promised myself I finished before I get to my horsewords but I find it hard to get the ball rolling again. What motivates you to pick up the pen?

>>42371340
>Can't stop the signal
Hey, I saw that movie the other day

>>42372419
my wife

>>42372419
>What motivates you to pick up the pen?
Ponies.

>>42372991
The PEN anon, not the Peen.

>>42371482
>Cartoon horses are popular right now
Not really. The horse girl gacha game doesn't count. They're just anime girls with tails and ears.

>>42371568
Variety reports there's not even a creative team yet, so there's a high chance it dies on the vine like the "summer camp" idea did.

>>42373496
>like the "summer camp" idea
What was that?

JFC its still going

>>42373611
Camp Cutie Mark, failed G6 pitch that was a reboot fusion of mainly G4 and G5.

How the fuck do I know when I'm done editing a chapter? I literally cannot stop myself from making minor alterations that no other soul on the planet could possibly care about.

>Luna’s words echoed in her mind; ‘Sister, there is a time and a place for everything, but while I am out please don’t break into my armour cabinet and frantically hoof yourself on my bed. I find it quite disagreeable when you do such things.’
>Celestia shoved that to the back of her mind. Rules were made to be bent, and her sister had said there was a time and a place for everything, so that means that there was a time and place to break into her room and masturbate to her armour.
Ahh, now we're talking.

>>42374920
Nobody is ever done editing. Eventually you just give up.

>>42374920
Show it to someone you trust, get some input, then make one last editing pass.

>>42371890
I hope your parents abandon you so you finally stop being an arrogant special snowflake piece of shit. "Oh look at me, I have 53k porn pictures of Twilight Sparkle on Paheal, I am the greatest fandom ever! In fact I invented fandoms!!! Kneel before me Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Dr Who fandoms! KNEEL before the horsefucker supremacy!!!"

>>42371834
It is exceptionally shit when you see the kind of garbage these creatures read around here and promote around here.

>>42371839
Do something fucking useful and create a proper review series for the cartoon show. I want to see how painfully bad you niggers are at analyzing pacing, dialogue, story, characters, etc.

I never bothered with forums back in the day cause I told myself "What good does discussion do? Nobody ever creaters shit out of it. And fanfiction/books? Nobody will ever spend 150 million dollars on turning your book into a movie."

But then I went to 4chan and I noticed how you creatures aren't even capable of good discussion. You can't discuss worth a shit, period. Your generation is incapable of carrying a normal conversation. All you do is groan and moan like animals. Prove me wrong.

You okay bro

>>42375767
Are any of us?
>>42375056
"Art is never finished, only abandoned" - some French guy in the last 300 years and not actually Leonardo like redditors will tell you.

42375712
I"LL PROVE YOU WRONG. /fim/ is going back to school.

>>42375799

>>42375799

>>42375799

>>42375712
Is this Vogelfag's split personality schizo arc?

>>42375850
Is the boogeyman in the room with us, Anon? Your thread got linked somewhere, especially Fimfiction.

>>42375767
This is the first time I'm agreeing with you making one of those posts. They're still awful, but maybe this time it's appropriate.

Oh to be young and whiny again

What fic do you most regret reading?

>>42374920
Just finish bro, it's not hard, kek.

>>42376253
You'd think it would need to be hard for you to finish, but I suppose you've mastered analgasms.

>>42376286
So people in /fimfic/ masturbate or are they all married software engineers?

Sometimes you come across an entry on the front page so strange that your mind cannot conjure any response other than to dive headfirst into it.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580625/the-diplomat-with-the-shot-arm
6.3k words, part of the unusual "russian historical isekai" genre I've seen pieces of in memes, though I suppose this is actually a reverse isekai.

The story follows Alexander Griboyedov, who was...
>*googles his name*
A Russian diplomat to Persia in 1829, who was killed by a mob after granting asylum to 3 Armenians from the shah's harem, which was the tipping point to already high tensions caused by their country ceding land to Russia after being defeated.

In the fic, the eunuch he rescues mentions a curiosity among the shah's collection of exotic beasts: a mare unlike any from this world, with human-like intelligence. Griboyedov, though unsure if he believes this claim, decides that it's cruel for such a creature to reside in captivity, and resolves to free her; an act which becomes his undoing.

I'll say off the bat that this fic is very different from the usual horsewords I read, though I think anyone would get that impression just from first glance. It mainly follows the historical figure instead of Twilight, so most of the story centers on interactions between the human characters (is it right to call real people 'characters'?). Furthermore, it doesn't feel very pony-ish or crossover-y at all, written more in the style you might expect of an old tale of a man meeting a mystical creature, as if that creature being a cartoon character is entirely incidental. If not for a couple recognizable names, I wouldn't bat an eye if I'd found this in the yellowed pages of some old low fantasy anthology in a used bookstore. Something that's both a strength, and a weakness...

I wished Twilight had a bit more of a role in the story than she does. Although she's not entirely lacking in personality, she feels like more of a plot element than a true character, and I would've liked to see some more interaction between her and the protagonist that wasn't just about the situation at hand. The internet says that Griboyedov was a cultured man; a composer, poet, and playwright. There was certainly potential for some sort of interaction there, given Twilight's interest in literature. In the end, though, I still very much enjoyed the story, even if the pony aspect felt a bit secondary—perhaps this is merely an issue of expectations, given that while the English version was posted on fimfiction, the original Russian version is on a broader fanfiction site where readers are likely more open to more variety with these things.

The prose was pretty good, though I believe the author mentioned using MTL for a previous work, so perhaps that is at play here.

Overall, I very much enjoyed this story, even if I only clicked on it out of pure bewilderment. This was my first exposure to the Russian side of the fandom, so I guess it was a good first impression.

>have a solid idea for an AU concept
>realise the optimal way to make a real story out of it would unfortunately involve making it a barely changed retelling of the first 2 episodes up until The Thing is revealed and then maybe have the second half of the fic be original
I legitimately believe the concept has potential but I don't know if I can bring myself to write that and I wouldn't expect people to enjoy reading it before The Thing. At the same time writing just the scene with The Thing wouldn't be a real story.

>>42376412
The way I'd approach this kind of AU would be using the original episodes as a framework for some original scenes (Moondancer's depressing party, Spike rummaging through Rarity's dresser, Pinkie's party preparations, etc.) interspersed with whatever vital changes to canon you make.

>>42376244
Heart of an Author.

>>42376363
Sounds interesting. It would be cool if there were more fics like that.

>>42376302
I would marry a software engineer to be desu.

>>42376476
I wish I wasn't a useless NEET so I could have desperate faggots like you tripping over themselves for me

>>42376244
Any part of uncompleted trilogies.

>>42376476
You would, you whore.

>>42376244
Anything by thread authors.

AI chatbots are seriously fucking with my ability to commit to writing a story. It feels like all my creative energy is going into RPing and just talking with them. Slightly concerned I'm frying my brain.

What's the writing equivalent of a leitmotif?

>>42376627
Cute nerd with a cute beard? What's not to love?
>>42376493
You DO have charisma and a pretty face, don't you, anon?

>"We will let this NEET we never met before take care of our newborn child because the ex cult leader we never met before vouched for him"
It is kind of silly when you put it like that.

Can you stop being a circlejerk?

>>42376678
The truth is that only pure virgins can be trusted with caring for Flurry Heart. That demon of lust can spot even the slightest hint of impurity and will immediately exploit it.

>>42376659
Tropes, archetypes.

>>42376412
Start in medias res: Have one chapter of The Thing, then skip backwards. Also, brutally cut the retelling parts. Only keep the stuff that changes.

leitmotif in reverse is fitomtiel

>>42376692
Fitomteil. Sounds like a name you’d find on Egyptian ruins from 4000 years ago.

>>42376661
I've been called a cute nerd though I'm really neither of those
Probably be above average if I lost some weight
>>42376682
Does that answer your question?

>>42376678
Imagine if we made a game out of making posts like this and then trying do guess what fic it is in reference to.

>>42376697
>I've been called a cute nerd
Hahahaha lmao sure you have desu.

>>42376699
I'll go first:
>twilight fucks up a spell

>>42376654
I've roleplayed the same fetish a couple dozen times and my LLM usage dropped dramatically because it's gotten boring. Sometimes i come up with a new variation of that scenario and do a couple more sessions but it also gets boring very quickly. But the first couple months were amazing

>>42376627
The peak of unicorn masculinity, ladies and gentlemen.

>>42376709

>>42376715
If Big Mac is the ideal earth stallion, Sunburst the ideal unicorn stallion... who's the ideal pegastallion?

>>42376727

>>42376728
Fucking gross

>>42376678
Fortunately, that's not what happens.
You don't know what a NEET is, but more importantly, Celestia is the one who vouches for him, not Starlight.

>>42376678
I hear he's the peak of unicorn masculinity.

>>42376654
It is frying your brain in multiple ways if the studies are to be believed, but it should all be temporary. If you're worried about it, read more fics and books to compensate for the pleasant slop. Read good fics, too.

>>42376694
That's a very Tolkien-esque elf name imo.

>>42376710
This is why I come up with a new scenario/character for every other session. LLMs are painfully uncreative, but you can use your brain for the moment it needs. If you go in with the full ""story"" already prepared in your mind, it'll pick up on what you want it to do. Eventually it'll slip back into its predictable patterns, but I didn't notice it getting significantly worse over time in those early responses.

>>42376772
>look up “ancient Egyptian names”
>go to Wikipedia
>not a single name starting with the f sound
I concede

>>42376715
>The peak of unicorn masculinity
That's Rarity's dad.

>>42376825
>forgetting the beeficorns from BNE

I can feeling it cumming in the mare tonight. Oh lord.

>>42347986 (OP)
Today I had a dream in where there was a weird crossover between The Simpsons and Malcom in the middle in short resume Bart with the help of Reese and Dewey forms some sort of purple gang and they took over Springfield, that's normal i guess, but the weird shit begins just here they were for some reason selling mlp porn comics at some brand new tabern/pub/club; One of the magazines had as its peculiar main title SEXY PINKIE other instead had the very unfurtunate name CAKES as name imprinted on it; the first one being the original copy and the last of said issue, very rare and they needed it to print pirate copies of it, the problem was it was just sold moments ago by mistake and for that reason they wanted to fool some poor idiot to swap the the issues, they managed to do it against all the odds and while they were retreating with their loot they turned their faces to the right and with them the camera, there was her, the real fluttershy trying to rescue her rabbit angel from a very sturdy locker, at first she was trying to open it turning the number combination but it was futile so she tried to forcefully open it by bashing it, it was no use she, like some looney tunes character starts to dig the floor but the dream ends there.
Legit dream not a fic do with this as you wish I don't care

>>42376860
Do I want to know what "it" is? Does "it" mean "Trixie's marecock"?

>>42376244
The Games We Play. Deserves to be dropped at many points.

>>42377084
I remember liking parts of that story, but being overall frustrated. Cannot remember why. It's been a decade since I read it, at least.

>>42377104
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>>42377104
>>42377104

>>42376691
>Have one chapter of The Thing, then skip backwards.
There is no backwards that isn't a retelling and the weight of the Thing as a midway twist hinges heavily on the retelling being there.

>>42354328
>>42354375
very based choice of romance, Anon.