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Previous Thread: >>42347986

What's the fic you most recently dropped, and why?

2nd for best 2uo!
Enjoy this conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/252132/approaches-to-preening

>>42377105
Ghost of a Rose. Started the first chapter, but then I got busy and the story didn't really grab me enough to want to pick it back up.
A shame I had to miss the club.

Fourth for best duo!

Sorry for taking so long, but I'm about to review and approve my addition to Hold Your Horsewords! I've probably been holding up the whole thing, so sorry about that.

That fic artwork makes it seem enticing but I know it will be shit.

>>42377155
You don't just know, it simply is.

>>42377155
>incomplete HiE
Stay strong, Anon. Nobody is making you dive into an open sewer.

>>42373611
https://files.catbox.moe/6q4inf.mp4
It was a leaked pitch trailer for G6 (Hasbro evidently called it "G4.1" internally). A select group of G4 and G5 characters, AJ obviously excluded, go to a summer camp setting. According to the Russian leak, the official announcement was supposed to be this October, on the 15th anniversary of G4. Hasbro never officially declared it dead, so it still could technically happen. We'll just have to see if what they do on 10/10.

>>42376363
>face increasing geopolitical pressure from the Russians to the north and British to the east
>get a magical creature straight out of mythology plopped into your lap
>lock her away and never mention it to anyone
Anything to avoid that history AU plot I guess.

>>42376412
>first 2 episodes
>The Thing
How does that even work? Isolation's key not just for the paranoia and horror, but also because once it gets out, it's over. You toss it into the Everfree it's already the end because it will consume the whole forest before spreading into Equestria uncontrollably. That's why it's set in the desolation of Antarctica.

You'd need to do a Crystal Empire thing or copy the setting of the original Thingfic, only without the shitty ending. Unless you're doing a "The Thing did nothing wrong and was only responding to humanity's aggression" angle and have friendship prevail.

>>42377105
Well, I have one sitting in my to do but I realized I suck at grammar so now I'm looking at this story that needs to be entirely overhauled and I just can't build up the fortitude to do it

Today on "scraping the top of the barrel", another oddity from the recents section. After seeing so much Thomas autism, I figured I might as well take a peek and see what exactly goes on inside these types of stories.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580443/tatmr-mlp-fim-the-great-chase
1.4k words, genre: (pooh's) adventure
It's apparently adapting the chase scene from a Thomas movie I never watched (I just caught whatever episodes were on TV as a young child), except actually it's a rewrite of that scene from someone else's crossover fanfic that I also didn't read.

Let's just jump right in. It starts with a dozen lines comprising some sort of faux credits sequence, with "[author] productions presents" and the title at the top followed by the voice/actors for the various characters. I've heard of voice claims before, but they really serve no purpose when you're dealing with characters who already HAVE voices and you're just listing their actual voice actors. This meaningless adherence to routine reminds me of the fake advertisements in Sonichu.

>Soon Thomas, Twilight and The Cutie Mark Crusaders went through the magic buffers and back to sodor.
I'm not sure if it's just continuing EXACTLY where its counterpart left off or if they're just throwing us in mid-thought, but I don't think "soon" is generally a good word to open on, at least not like this.

The narration is very dry and repetitive, which is probably a surprise to nobody. Lots of "[character] said", maybe "replied" instead if he's feeling poetic. Typos and awkward dialogue (whenever it's some inconsequential line original to the story) are abound too.

I watched the corresponding scene from the movie on Youtube to make skimming easier, and found that a large part of the fic is just narrating unaltered bits of the scene. A very short joke exchange between two characters taking a couple seconds is adapted in full, the only addition being the repetitive speech tags. The pony characters seem to have no real role here; they're just kind of along for the ride and only really open their mouth to agree with the main characters or to more-or-less restate what everyone's already said. Crossover characters being there to tag along and do nothing seems to be common with pooh's adventure-esque crossovers like this.

Additional lines are written for some exchanges, most of which don't really add anything new other than removing the brevity of the original work. Strangely, most of what was added had absolutely nothing to do with the pony characters. I think the only time Twilight actually does anything at all besides repeating what someone else said was zapping the claw-arm thing to make it miss, when in the original it never got close enough to begin with anyway.

This one was bog-standard and boring. What scares me is that I once skimmed the opening to one that was several times longer with actually passable prose while still being just as autistic, if not more. How deep does the rabbithole go?

>>42377120
>Ghost of a Rose.
This, but because I could tell I wouldn't like it about 3 chapter in and then I dodged the sex festival kek

>>42376738
>You don't know what a NEET is,
Neither in Employment, Education, or Training. Exactly Sunburst's situation when Starlight finds him. Out of school and without a job. No, doing research on your own doesn't count.
>Celestia
Has also never met him before, and the only reason he's involved in any of it is that the cult leader whose moral compass is still screwed decided to get him involved after Twilight doxxed him. You don't need to defend the show being cartoony when someone is just pointing out how it is cartoony at times.

>>42377259
I know you have autism so I won't be too mean but in this context The Thing is "the thing that makes this an AU, which I don't want to give away in a random 4chan post" and not the creature from the Carpenter movie. It's a figure of speech people use. My post is not in fact about a crossover AU.

If Equestria has something as silly as USA's cheese caves what would it be?

Fics for when you hate your job and want to lose yourself in a fantasy of living a simple, fulfilling life in Equestria? as either a human or a pony, I'm not picky

Town Hall Pie Massacre, in
>/FSBC/

This was (surprisingly?) wholesome SoL after some of the things in week 1. It's also a "Pie clones are sentient ponies" story, sure, but the vast majority of this week was just a comfy ride through the best moments of Rose's life. The 'mystery' helps in framing those memories as a part of the greater story, though, and following what not!Pinkie does added... if not a sense of urgency, then at least something to keep the fic from getting dull. To the fic's credit, it also plays a bit with the accident—the red herrings aren't bad, and they make sense, rather than being there just to subvert expectations. The part I didn't like is that Mirror (and by extension the fic) sort of lies to you in that first graveyard scene—I didn't find the explanation for why it's done this way satisfactory, and it kept feeling a little cheap.

Other than that, though? We leave the turbulent memories of week 1 and swim in cute family SoL all week. It's kind of a family speedrun, but that's fair enough. I liked how the characters got developed. You could say that they're a bit by-the-books, but "tropes" are only bad if they're done mindlessly, and here the overprotective in-law who's actually nice was a highlight of the fic for me. The fic is very, I don't know, grounded? Something like that. They're all living very mundane lives, but the very heartwarming way the fic talks about their daily happiness and lesser struggles is pleasant.

I guess it's just pretty hard to talk too long about this fic on the spot. It was written appropriately, which makes the Chapter 3 sex festival from last week even stranger. I can try to guess why the author did it (to portray their very physical fascination with each other at that stage of their relationship?), but it's really different from how the rest of the story reads, in a bad way. The last two bits of the not!Pinkie drama were starting to get a little repetitive, but at least that's super short, and to be fair I did even tear up a little at the epilogues—but it was on balance a happy feeling. I wish there was something they could've done to help Mirror, but this is not that kind of a fic. Is Rose dumb (and, ironically, selfish) for not trying to wake up immediately? Maybe. Or maybe what she felt about needing to recover all the memories was true. Oh, and like the kids would say is, F's in the chat for the Ponkfags, getting randomly CHEESED for over a decade.
And on a random note: getting named "Cold Heart" because your parents named your older sister "Warm Heart" is Spoiled Rich-levels of awful. Not that Spoiled exists here—it's nice to read fics predating her name. Oh, right, the OCs and their names were good here! Was "Dolphin Dreams" a name for Sissy?
Overall, a nice, emotional story. Not "exceptional", but that's precisely what's so good about it.

I read the fic yesterday and still ended up late, crap. I'll do even better next time!

>>42377953
[Voting]
Oh right, that! So, we have a few options. Doing the Journal of the Two Sisters as was suggested a few days ago is definitely an option. Looks like it'd be a 3-week fic, but it's doable.
If you want some of the usual fanfics, here are some options for next week(s), but again, any suggestions in ~40-160k range are potentially good.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/57463/twilight-sparkle-night-shift
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/455858/the-bug-in-the-cave
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/375944/one-white-unicorn
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/57956/integration
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/39157/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds

>>42377953
This was a good story, but I would have enjoyed it more if it went in another direction.

Continuing reading from the middle of the story, I was glad that Rose ended up making up with Swift and their relationship never deteriorated further. I certainly didn’t want this story to turn into a family drama. Speaking about characters – they are simply excellent, distinct, bright, well-written. I also want to compliment the prose, which is very good and greatly contributes to the atmosphere of the story. I liked how this fanfic is full of small details and descriptions like flowers in the garden, the lore about earth pony wedding traditions (the wedding scene was great, and there was no more weird fertility stuff), the way characters move and talk and other stuff like that. The family reunion in the last chapter was pretty nice.

Now, about the story in general, and this is not really a critique but rather a personal complaint – I didn’t find most of Rose’s memories to be particularly interesting. At the beginning of the story a certain atmosphere of mystery was present where we didn’t understand what was happening, but once it became clear that Rose had to collect all the memories to get back to her family my interest diminished a bit. Yes, it’s excellently written, and the story of her life is touching, but I just don’t enjoy SoL stories that much. The memory segments were mostly SoL, and the tragedy with befell Rose (figuratively and literally) turned out to be pretty mundane. This is the main reason why this fanfic isn’t really my piece of cake – I loved the beginning and I really wanted it to be a good mystery fic, but the second part didn’t really deliver in this regard and many plot lines remained unresolved.

First of all, the whole limbo thing. Why was Rose there? Do all ponies on the verge of death end up in that place? Why was she given a chance to come back by collecting memories? (By the way, I really liked the part with the whole world being gray except for these bright memory roses).
Secondly, Mirror. She is a very interesting character and we didn’t get any closure with her at all. If I understood it correctly, she is one of the dead Pinkie clones from the mirror pool episode. Why is she in that limbo if she’s dead? Rose is only in coma. Can Mirror also go back to the real world? Why is she so much more cognizant than other ponies in that place? Okay, she knows that Rose will remember her, but what will happen to her now? Will she just wander that place for all eternity?

Maybe I am looking into it too much, trying to pick apart the details which were meant to serve as a backdrop for Rose’s journey, and all those things were never meant to be explained. That is fine, and it’s a great story as it is. It’s just that I would have preferred it to be it a little bit less [Slice of Life] and a bit more [Mystery]. Still, it was a good story with a great atmosphere and I don’t regret reading it.

>>42377979
Voting for "Integration" (didn't fit into the symbol limit)

>>42377953
Well, at least the wedding didn't turn into a giant orgy.
You know, it says a lot when you have to take out a loan to finance your wedding that only consists of a wedding gown, half a tuxedo, a bunch of seeds, a cake, and renting the local mayor for rites.

I lost significant interest when Rose decided to stay in wonderland — there was little mystery or purpose besides going through the motions towards the conclusion, it was filler. It was hard to care for Pinkie's existential crisis and this generic gagglefuck of OC's slice of life, Raspberry was cute though. I was catfished hard, here I was thinking that Post would run into his college lover, or there's somehow a foal mix-up in the nursery, or Swift's jealously made her smash a cup against Rose's head, but I can appreciate that it didn't do anything either, and that was probably the best choice in retrospect. Who the fuck kicked the door off its hinges?

Was Pinkie squandered? She could have been anything, really: a tumour, Rose's murderer, a forgotten miscarriage, even the manifestation of death itself. The way the fic folded on its own misnomer of Pinkie being a mirror pool copy and the implications of that is just bizarre. Like, does that mean Twilight is responsible for a Pinkie stuck in limbo? Is there a random comatose Pinkie out there? Why do people think Twilight was killing Pinkie copies when their essence is literally shown to return to the pool? Is Roseluck just batshit insane? Am I gay?

Really oddly introduced elements like pony pox killing off a sizeable amount of ponies, a page dedicated to electricity in Equestria, unresolved freak storms, and BulkxPunch (what the hell?). There was also a strange whiplash of having sex festivals, traditional earth pony weddings, and magically assisted gardening, but as soon as the contractions start in Rose's beautiful, idyllic garden, all that nature stuff is kicked out the fucking window and it's "we need to go to the hospital". Bitch, they're horses, they're precocial — they're born with eyes open and can walk around in an hour. "The indignity of birth", the fuck? Anyway, I don't know the general consensus of this, but I'm not a fan of earth ponies (or pegasi) having actual outwards magic (e.g. instantly growing plants), it interferes and makes a character's spirituality and thoughts dogmatic.

Ah yes, the mother's circle collectively decides to avoid the blizzard by walking out into the blizzard.

Overall, it wasn't horrible, but more like a comfortable numbness, like slipping into a coma. Nice epilogues. It was all fairly literal (that's fine). Maybe the lesson is to double check whatever you pick up off the ground is structurally significant. All I know is that we were robbed of an entire Kassaz-esque chapter of Roseluck's dirty, bulging, gravid belly struggling in the garden with Post then tenderly washing her hump bump.

SPARKLER, HONEYSUCKLE AND FLUTTER PONIES REAL?

>>42377391
You were right. I kneel.

>>42377979
>Yes, it’s excellently written, and the story of her life is touching, but I just don’t enjoy SoL stories that much.
I think there's a fair complaint you can make about the beginning of the fic setting up expectations and later pretending that it didn't. Like you say, it's a very nicely written SoL with great characters, but the heavy mystery is almost gone. I like good SoL in reasonable doses, so I enjoyed my time with this fic, but I'm not surprised it got so overlooked.
>the whole limbo thing
Hard to draw any definite conclusions, but I think it's just a magical dimension of sorts for dying/recently dead ponies? Like, a reality just barely connected to the world of the living, for souls who didn't completely let go. In Rose's case, that's because she wasn't quite dead yet (but almost), and in not!Pinkie's case, she was just holding on too strongly. I took her finally 'going to sleep' at the end to mean that she passed on from it to wherever dead ponies go. The 'other ponies' there I thought were just imprints of the world; parts of the scenery almost. That's why Rose and Mirror can't interact with them.

>>42377984
>a bunch of seeds
The Big Seed is a serious monopoly that keeps the prices arbitrarily high.
>it was filler.
It really wasn't. That was what the fic was "about". But SoL is not a very satisfying answer to a lot of people.
>does that mean Twilight is responsible for a Pinkie stuck in limbo?
She's a serial killer in this fic, yes. Unless Rose made it all up, which is, I guess, not strictly impossible.
>Really oddly introduced elements
Not all of them. Some served to expand and give more definition to the setting, and some others were just harmless worldbuilding.
>I'm not a fan of earth ponies (or pegasi) having actual outwards magic
Also fair, but if you don't do this, then the kirin run in circles around mud horses in a way that's just sad. To be desu, replacing earth ponies with kirin would be a major improvement, so maybe that's not so bad.
>by walking out into the blizzard
It wasn't too bad yet!
>You were right. I kneel.
But he was wrong.

>>42377592
>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.
You seem to conceive of this story as having a midway twist, but you're obviously uncomfortable with how that forces you to structure the opening. So, don't do that. Don't make it a midway twist: Put it up front and open with a splash:
>The closet was cramped and stuffy. The six friends held their breath. There were footsteps outside: The monster tramping its way down the hall.
>"What do we do?" whispered Applejack.
>"Stay in the closet," whispered Fluttershy.
>"Ha! I've been out of the closet for years!" declared Rainbow Dash. "You ought to get out of the closet, too! Just let me get my tongue on your delicious—"
>"Shhh!" said the other mares.
You can skip most of the retelling. Really. You can trust that your readers have watched S1E1 and S1E2, so you need like one paragraph:
>Just yesterday, Twilight had moved from Canterlot to Ponyville and her life had turned upside down. New friends, a thousand year old evil, lost magical artifacts; it was almost overwhelming. And strangely, <INSERT CHANGES HERE>.
>The day after that, <THING SHOWS UP>.
Trust me, it'll work. Try writing your story that way and you'll see.

>>42377385
>How deep does the rabbithole go?
You don't wanna mess with train autists, anon. And as much as i appreciate you taking the time to write a proper review you don't have to torture yourself with low quality trash from the recents section, there's a lot of good pony fics out there. If you want to read something good about trains, check this story out
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/177359/the-railway-ponies-highball

>>42377802
Cake caves.

>>42377953
>The last two bits of the not!Pinkie drama were starting to get a little repetitive, but at least that's super short, and to be fair I did even tear up a little at the epilogues—but it was on balance a happy feeling.
Yeah, i agree with the repetitiveness thing, i also wanted to mention it. There wasn't too much of it but it's there.
>>42377984
>Swift's jealously made her smash a cup against Rose's head
Kek, now that would have been a plot twist
>
Really oddly introduced elements like pony pox killing off a sizeable amount of ponies, a page dedicated to electricity in Equestria, unresolved freak storms
I didn't think these things were that odd, they were written pretty well and fit the story.
>Bitch, they're horses, they're precocial — they're born with eyes open and can walk around in an hour.
I don't think it's fair to assume that magical talking equines from Equestria are identical to real world horses
>Anyway, I don't know the general consensus of this, but I'm not a fan of earth ponies (or pegasi) having actual outwards magic (e.g. instantly growing plants)
I didn't find it as jarring but i can see your point. The scenes with quickly growing plants were nice but maybe a little bit too much.
>Ah yes, the mother's circle collectively decides to avoid the blizzard by walking out into the blizzard.
Kek, yeah, that was strange.
>>42378063
>I think there's a fair complaint you can make about the beginning of the fic setting up expectations and later pretending that it didn't.
Great point. I was expecting the mystery of limbo and its exploration to take up a major part of the story, but at the end Rose just skipped from one cutscene to the next for the entire story.
>but I think it's just a magical dimension of sorts for dying/recently dead ponies?
Yeah, but i was hoping to learn more about its workings.
>I took her finally 'going to sleep' at the end to mean that she passed on from it to wherever dead ponies go.
I didn't think of that but you're probably right
>The 'other ponies' there I thought were just imprints of the world; parts of the scenery almost.
I thought that they were like Rose during the first chapter, barely clinging to reality, but unlike her they didn't have someone familiar to pull them out of their reverie

>>42378073
You don't get it. You may just be stupid.

>>42377984
>Was Pinkie squandered? She could have been anything, really: a tumour
lmao

>>42378063
>But he was wrong.
Nah. Vindicated as always.

>>42378108
this is the cuck one right?

>>42378180
>this is the cuck one right?
What? I don't remember anything like that.
It's where there's a big invasion force coming and an old train operator has to carry the troops along the old railway towards the coast before they land in Equestria

>>42378190
>>42378180
Yeah, it's the cuck one.

>>42378190
Then yeah, it's the cuck one. I did like the final scene though.
I feel like I'll never forget this one because I read it in basically a small glass box in the middle of a storm. It made the final scene pretty kino. But unfortunately I didn't like the fic much aside from that. Ending on the highest note helped though

>>42378142
Of course I don't get it. You've only ever called it The Thing, so how am I supposed to have any idea what it is? If you think I should be able to read your mind and know what The Thing is, then you may just be stupid.

Or, you know, you could say what you have in mind and get actually useful feedback.

>>42378202
>>42378201
Am i retarded or did i forget the plot? Why is that a cuck story?

>>42378216
It's been a while but Highball's favorite engine was his girl and it's a cuck story. Literally walks in on a crew of railway stallions running a dirty/abusive train on her. The [Sad] tag is the cuck shit as far as I recall. I might put this fic and the one about the minor noble getting a houseboat with riverponies in the same category now that I think about it. You either find someone who likes them and thinks they're sweet fics, or someone who reads what's happening in them and thinks they're disgusting. I was the latter on both fics lol

>>42378255
>His girl
Bro it's a train

>>42378255
Or you're reading things that aren't there.

>>42378255
Well, i liked Highball and i loved the riverpony story, it indeed was very sweet. I thought that i was a coomer but i guess i'm not that far gone yet, i don't remember associating what happened with the engine with cuck shit

>>42378276
I mean see it or don't. He spends virtually 100% of his time with that one engine taking care of it and just chilling with it .Then through some sort of circumstance he has to use another for a bit and when he finds his engine again it's doing the work where trains go to die and it's in disrepair being ran hard as fuck by a group of ponies who are laughing and calling the trains names. Then he goes and sits in a chair in his 1 room apartment and just looks out a window for the rest of his life until the pretty kino final scene
>>42378281
>>42378282
^:) it's amusing how pretty much the only one to agree with me was lunafag both times I think

>>42377953
Of all the things that changed in the second half of this story, the thing that didn’t change is that it is completely polarized.
The “traditional wedding” was spectacular!
But, unfortunately, that was almost the only good thing. The story seems to only flip back and forth between an incredible worldbuilding scene and fairly poor worldbuilding mundanity. From what I can tell from the retrospective blog, the other thing that was supposed to be good worldbuilding was the parents conference. I guess compared to a real one, it may have been fantastically pleasant, but I couldn’t do anything but skim it when they were talking about setting up foalsitting dates.
More than that, I switched to skimming fairly early on in this week’s reading, especially when it was revealed that Rose wasn’t dead, and all the memories related to her foaling. The second half definitely had less than the first going for it, and the only other mildly good thing I can remember are the earth pony plant growing magic scenes.
I don't have anything good to say about Pinkie, but I'll tack on another complaint to this here about there being a hospital bill. Bad worldbuilding for lots of reasons. On the whole, I can't imagine ever recommending the story.
>Dolphin Dreams
The old fandom name for her is Dolphins, but the tag on Derpibooru is Sea Swirl. I dunno who Sparkler is supposed to be, especially since the Sparkler I know is tagged Amethyst Star.

>>42377984
>Why do people think Twilight was killing Pinkie copies when their essence is literally shown to return to the pool?
This is such an annoying fixation on adding edge to the show where there needn't be any. The author is clearly one of these people that has ignored all the cues in the show about the mirror Pinkies in order to headcanon an edgier version of the episode.

The whole premise of Mirror recognizing that she's a clone in this fic isn't compatible with the episode. One of the many ways in which Pinkie's characterization in the episode is bad is that she was easily able to distinguish herself from the clones as soon as they were made because the clones had poor memory, and they acted quite distinct from Pinkie herself. Rose also calls this out in the beginning of the fic, easily recognizing that Mirror did not act like a clone. Then, later in the episode, Pinkie loses the ability to distinguish herself from the clones because of her debilitating Ponkhood. Mirror in the fic realizes she's a clone because of her high memory fidelity, something the clones didn't have.

>>42378296
It's a train

>>42378348
>I switched to skimming fairly early
I don't get skimming. If it's bad or boring, just drop the story. When you skim you haven't read it.

>>42377960
Voting for “the best of all possible worlds”. I’ve already partly read it and can attest to it being a good fic. It has a certain feel to it I’m not sure how to describe other than it being very 2012.

>>42378282
>>42378281
>>42378276
He's unfortunately right. The fic goes really hard on explicitly equating the train to a lady and on how the guy sees her as such so when you get to stuff like
>The whistle sounded out in a shriek, and my eyes flew back to Highball. I watched him jump as the staccato note of the whistle was left incomplete, nothing like the beautiful tones that he had once coaxed from his graceful lady.
>“Damn your eyes, Time Sheet, ease her into it,” I heard him whisper. “Be kindly, I beg of you. Just ease her out.”
And later
>“Darlin’?” he said. “It’s me. I’m terribly sorry about what happened. I’m powerful sorry. If you’ll have me back, I promise to be good to you once more. Do you forgive me?”
>“Just got to treat her like a mare, is all.”
It's impossible not to read the first scene like cucking, because the fundamental emotional core of the relationship he has with her is deliberately modelled to be like romantic affection. If you missed that, you read the words, but you didn't read the story. Now obviously the writer only meant for half of these connotations, but they inevitably cause the other half. If 3803 is Highball's lady, and that's written plainly in the fic, then Time Sheet riding her wrong is NTR.

>>42378408
So train autists... want to fuck trains?

>>42378348
>I switched to skimming
That explains why you never seem to actually know what you're talking about. Bold move to admit you talk out of your ass though.
>>42377960
>Looks like it'd be a 3-week fic
No shot. It's a kids' book, I'm pretty damn sure it's shorter than that.

>>42378417
Yes, and that's why they're historically barred from working on them. Conversely, plane autists also want to fuck planes, which is exactly why they get to work with them.

Is it just me or do MLP fanfics boast an unusually high average quality? I used to look down on them but after reading other fandom's fanfictions and then moving on to webnovels from the three asian nations (syotesu, novelpia, qidian) I'm realising how they hold a higher standard of quality than the slop over there. Like, yeah, they're pretty bad, but everyone else is even worse...?
On fimfiction I thought it was tough to find decent works and that I had it rough since it took at least an hour to stumble across something of readable quality, but over at the chinese .txt file mines I'll pick up a pickaxe and will have to go at it for the entire day. It's terrible. I actually went to the chinese equivalent of fimfiction and all the ranked titles on the front pages were just works translated from english. At least the western writing scene has the collective sanity and standards not to go for low hanging fruit like systemslop or harems. People can joke about tropes like 'human walks out of everfree forest' but compared to tropes such as 'truck runs you over and you wake up in another world' it's as if you're placing a lizard before a dragon. The latter is so bad that writers fold it in seven layers of irony and I don't know what the fuck I'm reading half the time.
Like, most of the korean and chinese top novels are so self aware that it's disgusting. Korean novels don't even have a pretense of immersion, half of them are traditional truck deaths and the other half are also truck deaths but they have the protagonist monologue in the style of 'Oh yeah so like my situation is pretty cliche lol but what can you do?' Chinese novels are even worse to the point where protagonists whine for the entire series if they DON'T get a system or magic cheat. Also, tangentially, outside of Lord of Mysteries I've never seen a Korean or Chinese work not fumble an ending.
People obviously like to meme on stuff like DOAMM that's not even bad by the MEDIAN writing quality standards of the fandom, being mediocre at worst, but I've gone through hundreds to thousands of asian works at this point and I can confidently say that if DOAMM was written in gook/chink scrawl it'd be up there in the top 5. Most chinese novels just feel like worse DOAMM and I don't even think DOAMM is good aside from the worldbuilding and occasional protagonist moments - Everyone likes the protagonist in DOAMM to an unnatural degree but the writer put in an in-universe reason for this, asian novels have bitches slobber over the MC even worse than they without providing one.
The smut over there is hotter though.
Anyways.
Even outside of the asian spheres, RR is trash, though Ao3 is slightly better.
Surely, our integrity and quality retention must be from the show's morals, maybe, probably. Thank you MLP. Opening up fimfic and rereading Bad Mondays after my long pilgrimage to find other works of similar quality is like waking up next to a warm fire after being frostbitten. I'm going crazy.

>>42378296
No, we weren't the only ones in the club that recognized the metaphor.
>>42378393
It's fine for several reasons, but in this case it's also fine because it's an SoL story and the parts I was skimming didn't matter for the rest of the fic. The reason I was skimming was hope that I would skim into a better scene. The story did deliver them in the past, but it didn't in the second half.

>>42378427
>average
I mean there's good shit here and there, sure. But by average? We were JUST talking about the boring ass Thomas the Tank Engine retelling and that kind of pure deviantart child slop is what most of the site is, for better or worse.

>>42378408
oh yeah, it's literally explicit lmao. thanks for getting the real lines

>>42378427
My instinct is to disagree with you but I can't think of a fandom that's any better so maybe.

>>42378427
yeah it’s generally acknowledged that the mlp fandom has a generally higher quality of fics than other fandom and more particularly good fics. This fandom has always been different. It wouldn’t have gotten its own board if it was otherwise. Also yeah most East Asian fiction is shitty.

Also does anyone remember the names of the Chinese and Russian mlp fanfiction websites? I’m pretty sure I have them saved somewhere but I cannot find them.

>>42377606
The cartoony part of his introduction is that he can apparently afford to buy a house and libraries worth of spellbooks without being an accomplished mage. He does seem to use magic as a job, but he's not proud of the scale at which he does it. I went to check the episode because I knew he wasn't introduced as a NEET: the things he studies were shown to be useful, and as a major distinguishing characteristic from somepony like Moondancer, he does want to do more meaningful work.

Anyway, you forgot the school he goes to when he leaves Starlight. Celestia introduces him to Shiny and Cadance as "an old student of mine" because he went to Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns.

>>42378442
I think the fimfiction average is bad but not necessarily painful

>>42378491
Yeah, I don’t know where the thing about Sunburst being incompetent at magic comes from. If Twlight and Starlight are like top-tier professional athletes, then Sunburst is like a professor of sports science: Still likely to be a better than average athlete, but ultimately a specialist in something else.

Are you seeing this shit, FiMFiction thread? They're writing reviews about the episodes and then giving the reviews a grade.

>>42375799

>>42378513
>pic
Oh, I actually get it now. They're all trying to do Journey to the West. Journey to the West is like that. Except, you know, good and culturally significant.

>>42378491
>He does seem to use magic as a job
Post anything that points towards this and not towards Equestria simply providing for all its citizens.
>Celestia introduces him to Shiny and Cadance as "an old student of mine" because he went to Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns
Which he accomplished nothing at, she was just trying to sweeten the deal. Also, the role he gets was initially meant for Twilight herself. And he remains a complete stranger to Shining and Cadence, Celestia's word or not. I know you adore the fantasy of it being easy to access newborns, but it's weird one way or another, if an acceptable cartoony way.
>>42378527
>Well, you were wrong, okay?! I'm not an important wizard! I'm not even a wizard at all!
>Yeah, well, reading about magic is one thing, but you don't know what it was like at magic school! To know so much and not be able to do any of it!
DYEWTS?
Also;
>Well, actually, there's several. Mistmane's Material Amity, Rockhoof's Rapport, Flash Prance's Fellow... ship... [ahem] But I-I get the feeling the princess isn't looking for a spell.
>Combining that spell with the light and love of everypony gathered for the ceremony, together with... Somnambula's Weather Abjuration to clear away the snow...
Huh. I wonder if they were already planning ahead for S7 or if it happened the other way around.

Why did they have later episodes where all of Starlight's friends want to fuck him

>>42378607
Because he's cute as fuck.

>>42378607
>NEET failure with a milf mom who all the autistic characters want to fuck
Was Sunburst just a self insert wish fulfillment character

>>42378746
He gives off a visual novel protagonist aura

>>42378746
>>42378774
Every single male character in mlp is some flavour of that.

>>42378537
It's my kind of autism, but I don't have the energy these days.

>>42378817
Sunburst is a step ahead of the others, though. There's a certain vacuity in his character that lends itself to self-insert. A lack of assertiveness inherent in both his personality and actions.
In other words he gets bitches for being one himself.

>>42378918
So, he's a bitch with a dick.

>>42378968
Aren't we all?

>>42379010
no.

>>42378918
Women don’t want to fuck weak and vacillating men anon.
And you are overcomplicating things. He works as a self insert because has a poorly put together young man.

>>42379174
>Women don’t want to fuck weak and vacillating men anon
Mares do

Why does every fic that has canterlot nobility vs Twilight always think Celestia will take their side versus the side of her beloved student

>>42379174
Yeah? That's the point of self-inserts. For weak and vacillating men to relate to characters like themselves.

>>42379182
No one is willing to write noblility with more than one dimensions

>>42378134
Of course. That should have been obvious. Now I can see Luna catching up on government matters and stumbling on it, then grilling Celestia about her secret cake reserves.

>>42379216
How about a story about how the nobility can tell Celestia is thinking about abdicating? They're well aware that they've lived through a golden age under her rule so they start trying to entice her to stay on the throne.

>>42378918
Idk, anon, I think I'd gladly self insert as the out-of-nowhere hyperaccomplished main character relative who's both a nerd and a jock and married to the out-of-nowhere OC princess of love whose cum is so good it makes alicorns.

>>42379277
>Celestia is thinking about abdicating
So you want to trade shitty writing for shitty writing?

>>42378427
Yeah, you are right. We horsefuckers really are privileged when it comes to fanfiction. Granted, i've never become as engaged with any other fandom as it happened with ponies, but based on the works i've seen non-pony fanfiction is much, much worse.
>>42378467
>Chinese
https://fimtale.com/
>Russian
https://ponyfiction.org/
Also this, which is a pony section in a general russian-language fanfiction site. Average fanfic quality here is much lower. Also, recently it got banned in Russia because of stories with gay sex.
https://ficbook.net/fanfiction/cartoons/moj_malenjkij_poni__druzhba_____eto_chudo

>>42379313
>princess of love whose cum is so good it makes alicorns
Uh, based?

>>42379331
It could be a misunderstanding on the noble's side. You could even make a joke about Celestia noticing them doing it every few generations.

>>42379353
The only based thing here is you posting anthro.

Fics about loving married couples that enjoy each other's company and make each better through their love and togetherness?

>check referrals on a random story
>www-fimfiction-net.translate.goog:
Fucking hell.

>>42379371
boring

>>42379371
Fascinating.
That you believe that, I mean.

>The Anthow-logy still hasn't updated

>>42379400
If Cookie's sister can be born a filthy mudhorse then the Cakes can get lucky with their offspring.

>>42379371
Ghost of a Rose, actually.

>>42379354
Alright, that would work.

>>42379371
I need to write something longer that focusses entirely on the Cakes like this. It's been a while.

>>42379487
>>42379371
I haven't read this story myself, but i've heard people say it's very good
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/21140/a-sweet-taste-of-cake

>>42379400
You didn't contradict him, you know. All the evidence points to the Cakes being a loving married couple that enjoys each other's company and makes each other better through their love and togetherness and an occasional threesome with a stallion from another tribe.

Playing Uma has me surprised the pony fandom never got around to ponyfying racehorses in any widespread manner. Horses like Golshi and Haru seem like natural fits for it, and even if you can excuse those due to being Japanese I don't think I ever saw anyone ponyfying notable western world horses like Eclipse or Secretariat. You'd think people would the same way part of the fandom latched onto Reckless.

>>42379556
There's a JP artist that ponified the umas but I can't remember their name.

>>42379400
That wouldn't even make any sense, since the twins were both born different races.

>>42379182
I see it as Celestia generally giving them the run of things without really pushing back, so they're surprised when she can be manipulative and stubborn when it comes to her family members.

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>42377960
>>42377981
>>42378394
Looks like a tie, so 1-10 Integration, 11-20 TBoaPW.

>>42378296
>spoiler
See, that's annoying because you're half right. Or 66% right. Highball does include those elements, but it's a (tragic) part of the fic and not, like, fetishistic, which is what almost everyone will think about when you say NTR.
The fish is just your reading of that situation, which goes against the fairy tale-like writing and I'm fairly sure was unintentional—you were reading the fic "wrong", so to speak, and reached conclusions that weren't in the story if you stuck to its vague, fairy tale nature.

>>42378348
You're severely undervaluing how nice this SoL is. Which is fair enough, I guess, but not when you make objective-sounding subjective claims.
>I dunno who Sparkler is supposed to be
I've noted the same thing, yes. Might simply be an OC? The name comes from a G1 'pony', so her sharing it with Amethyst is likely a coincidence.

>>42378420
>No shot.
You're right. I only glanced at the page count, but a search shows that it's ~50k, perfect for a 1 week story.

And unrelated to the above, Rose is definitely one of the prettiest background ponies.

>>42379556
Because horse racing is gambling, and gambling is sinful. Racehorses are routinely abused, maimed, and executed to the cheers of vain addicts. Uma being a predatory gacha exemplifies this; they've even removed the horse entirely from the equation because they never cared for them beyond being a vessel for money. Pony fans' love for ponies is pure. I do not work for Hasbro.

>>42377960
>>42379668
The author was "kind" enough to include an introduction, so pay attention to the numbers:
>Week 1: Everything up to and including the 18th chapter (called "Chapter 17").
>Week 2: Up to and including 31st chapter (called "Chapter 30").
>Week 3: The rest of the fic.

>>42379677
>Racehorses are routinely abused, maimed, and executed to the cheers of vain addicts
You're thinking of dressage. Racehorses are treated fairly well and enjoy long retirements. Not that any of that is relevant when people here latched on to the horse that was literally sent to war and died a horrible death back home. And Uma as a franchise has existed outside the gacha for longer than the game has been out and actively invested in its other works a decent bit given even just the animation quality of its shows. Without getting into how it's miles less predatory than other gachashit like the newer Madoka or WH40k titles, and probably more enjoyable as a f2p than even FiM's own mobile game from everything I've seen. And mlp exists to sell toys in the first place.
I did not own CyGames stock.

>>42379677
>Racehorses are routinely abused, maimed, and executed to the cheers of vain addicts
You're thinking of dressage. Racehorses are treated fairly well and enjoy long retirements. Not that any of that is relevant when people here latched on to the horse that was literally sent to war and died a horrible death back home. And Uma as a franchise has existed outside the gacha for longer than the game has been out and actively invested in its other works a decent bit given even just the animation quality of its shows. Without getting into how it's miles less predatory than other gachashit like the newer Madoka or WH40k titles, and probably more enjoyable as a f2p than even FiM's own mobile game from everything I've seen. And mlp exists to sell toys in the first place.
I do not own CyGames stock.

>>42378537
Everyone and their dog can write a better Magical Mystery Cure, assuming you are allowed to actually trash the whole script, remove the alicorn part and just make it a "normal" personality switch episode rather than a job switch everyone sucks at.

>>42379748
Fuck off you goddamn weeb. Reckless was a hero. She served her country. She is everything. You are not.

>>42379748
>You're thinking of dressage.
No.
>enjoy long retirements
If they reach that far.
>latched on to the horse that was literally sent to war
I'd like to think the symbiotic relationship and mutual entrusting of each others lives in dire circumstances has more significance than a gnome whipping and spurring an animal until it coughs blood.

Without getting into how Uma just tits with ears and tails, which EqG already fulfills, Hasbro only licensed MLP to GameLoft, we are not responsible.

>>42379817
>her country
Lol. Countries are made up by humans. Horses do not have to suffer because of petty human squabbles.

Required reading for the next week before reading TBoaPW:
>Candide
>Letters on the English
>An Essay On Universal History, The Manners, And Spirit Of Nations
all by Voltaire

>>42379852
Countries are made up of people, and if those people are civilized, they care for their animals. Your cartoon sanitization of a mafia bloodsport has no merit whatsoever.

>>42379865
I'm not the original anon you were arguing against and i don't care for race horsing. I agree with you that horses are probably being abused at the races. But the notion that horses have "a country" they need to "serve" is ridiculous. There's nothing honorable or heroic about an animal being shot at, suffering and dying.

>>42379883
horse racing*
kek, that's a funny mix up

>>42379854
What about the opera Candide

>>42379668
No, I think you guys are overestimating the SoL. Probably because the prose is quite good (I did forget to praise it). As a reminder, this is what you're praising:
>Reflection
>Rose is revealed to be alive, sucks
>Wedding, yay!
>Earth pony magic, meh
>btw Mirror is suicidal
>Raspberry
>Earth pony magic, meh
>Delivery, sucks, none of it is SoL
>Lucky has a stroke, sucks
>feeding and stinky diapers, sucks
>Last
>Parent conference, sucks, ponies stupidly go into the blizzard, sucks
>More of the same meh earth pony magic
>Lots of babytalk, sucks
>btw the whole story happened because a flagpole fell on Rose and nothing else, gg
>Epilogues
The only reason anyone would say that majority of it was good is if they really liked the parts about raising a baby/toddler, which is an opinion, but also nearly all of the worldbuilding surrounding that was copy-pasted from Earth, even the US, because of the medical bills.

>>42379668
>but it's a (tragic) part of the fic and not, like, fetishistic, which is what almost everyone will think about when you say NTR.
I think ntr and cuckshit is tragic. I think it's tragic that there are people who like or look for that shit. it's why when I say the word cuck it is nearly guaranteed to be followed by the word shit. And in the same vein I think it's tragic that there are people that find human waste sexy.
>you were reading the fic "wrong"
of course. More so in the fairy tale fic for sure, but it was gross and so blinded my sense of disbelief in reading it the 'right' way. And I think in both fics it needed to be continually weird for me to hit this point. In the fish, it's him watching her shower and thinking how hot she is. Why could she have just been talking to him on the bow of the boat and he zones out about her beauty? Nah he watches her bathe and then later gets a harem of refugees mandated to him by Celestia herself. In Highball it's literally the entire story leading up to the scene where he refinds his train getting fucked (up). Even the very beginning is him as a young colt watching the monogamy of his idol train guy who is always in his iconic engine

>>42380095
>>btw the whole story happened because a flagpole fell on Rose and nothing else, gg
lmao

I've been told that any Anon AND THEIR DOG can write a better Magical Mystery Cure.

Please organize your posts in reboot versus remake.

Remake implies you still keep the same depressing tone of everyone sucking at their job except you modify the ending so Twilight doesn't turn into a winged unicorn. You gen-Zers are obsessed with "How It Should Have Ended".

Reboot implies you completely change entire plotlines of the episode such as not only do the mane6 rock at their switched jobs, but there's a giant hydra attack in the 3rd act or they have to survive in the everfree forest for a night with their cutie marks all fucked up. The Cutie Mark Crusaders can come too and get a better role and better cutie marks.

Yeah I copy-pasted this, you got a problem?

>>42379899
It's good theater and an American classic. The two biggest highlights are the overture and "Glitter and Be Gay" (no, not this thread's kind of "gay"). It makes a bunch of cuts and changes, but it still captures a lot of the wit of the original. It's good if you like musicals or operas.

>>42377105
Backyard Anomaly. The concept was interesting, but the writing made me cringe

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580611/1/breakdown/a-bad-day
I dropped this shit don’t read it.

>>42380223
>EqG
Oh, who would've thought.

>>42377385
>How deep does the rabbithole go?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/406744/fear-from-the-rails
Here. This is the bottom of the railfag rabbit hole.

>>42378427
>an unusually high average quality
I think it's just easier to sift out the crap on Fimfic. Neither AO3 nor FF.net even have a rating system, so you have to rely on shit like "Favs" or "Kudos" to try and see from a passing glance if something if good. And based on the fact that 4 of the 5 highest "kudo'd" fics in the G4 section of AO3 are crossovers, I'd say it's a failed system.

>>42379182
They're usually older than Twilight and think that their age and connections gives them an advantage over the 20 year old nerd who moved to a rural backwater hick town. They're also usually portrayed as being egotistical and narcissistic and that can really empower the delusions.

>>42380323
Fics where some noble stallion tried to bully the 20 year old nerd god into marriage and gets turned into soup?

>>42377953
No Glim follow-up? That's unfortunate. I was interested in what he had to say with everyone else.

>>42377979
>the whole limbo thing
To add to that, Rose's dad could have at least had the courtesy of visiting her in limbo. You'd think he'd be disgruntled enough to linger when he knows his daughter is in a coma.

>>42378063
>prices arbitrarily high
Especially bad considering they complained about how expensive the cake was, which was presumably made by Rose's supposedly close-friend Pinkie. Goodness knows how much Rarity charged for the dress.
>That was what the fic was "about"
Perhaps I was too impatient. Looking back now, the SoL doesn't seem too bad. Maybe it was just getting a taste of that great almost-climatic wake-up scene that made me want to blast through the rest. Maybe I'll reread this in the future with the note "do not have high expectations".

>>42378141
>I don't think it's fair to assume that magical talking equines from Equestria are identical to real world horses
Yeah, you got me, and they do use prams in the show too. There were some interesting tidbits about foal diets that were true for real horses, which probably got me into that line of thinking.

>>42378348
>hospital bill
More generally, the thought of two employed ponies struggling and budgeting to support a single, healthy foal was worrying (even with assumed friends and family support).

>>42379817
Reckless was bought from a non American meaning she was literally a slave serving a foreign power.

>>42379817
If you don't like anime you don't belong on this site.
>>42379843
I don't know what kind of woke schizo you got your ideas from but you have nothing concrete to back them up. And the point about Uma is moot when the discussion started about the actual horses themselves.
>>42379865
>US
>caring for its animals

>>42379748
>You're thinking of dressage.
I assure you they are not.
>Racehorses are treated fairly well and enjoy long retirements.
Haru Urara was very lucky not to end up on the menu of a horse sashimi restaurant.

>>42380975
God forbid the edible animals get eaten. I don't understand why mutts foam at the mouth about horse meat when they treat all other meat animals the worst.
Also dressage is legitimate torture for the horses, you're actually retarded if you defend it.

Please note that Fimfiction is about to die.

Twilight's Felquines of Xenon

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/537057/twilights-felquines-of-xenon

I read it, a bunch of ideas that are never going to be fleshed out. Stuff like Equestria being in the Bootes void and apparently there being a mega planet with speck sized moons each the size of a planet?! to explain why some creatures are so much weaker than others despite being the same size and seemingly being able to interact together in the same universe? but this isn't fleshed out precisely since there is no story. What little story there is ... is just an anthology of mini "stories" in order to get past the fiction requirement.

I think the author in an almost Tamers kind of way knew exactly what he was doing. It's clear he gives 0 shits about any conventional immersion and fiction writing. His fiction reads more like some kind of biography school manual or some kind of wikipedia article especially when he starts providing a list.

It's a mess of everything but the kitchen sink ... or is it complete with the kitchen sink? You have these alicorn-tier ponies who apparently can bleed silver and blue? and there's no earth ponies? It's not very clear since there's nothing happening in practice, it reads more like a pitch bible for what's to come. If anything that's exactly what this is, a pitch bible to convince investors and to tell other artists what the guidelines for writing in this setting are.

I did not expect a poem and an anthem complete with a vocaroo link in this singing it.
It's a broken clock that's right twice a day.

There's a whole Loud House and Addam's Family of necromancer ponies which the author describes them as not ponies but still equine?
One of them drugs Anon to try to have sex with her before he dies but Anon is such a faggot and a coward he burns through the aphrodisiac? That's what I assume.


There's a goddamn grocery list of sci-fi vehicles, weapons and even a list of Mane6-but-modified.

The last chapter is apparently Luna going through Castle Maneia solving puzzles to find some book or a spell that enables her to travel through time by transforming into a chrysalis? It's a fever dream that's what it is. Or the book only led her to the location of where she has to go? I can't remember. Ah it was a diary of some 1000 year old explorer who goes through a booby-trapped dungeon that ends up getting his whole exploration team killed? I think that was what I read.

Overall I'm not sure if this is even good as a pitch bible, but I didn't read many pitch bibles.

>he's still trying it

>The site will be down for an indeterminate period of time shortly for updates, please bear with us and join the Discord if you want updates
/ao3/ when?

>>42381133
This really doesn't beat the original.

>>42381111
Checkem.
>I did not expect a poem and an anthem complete with a vocaroo link in this singing it.
What? Holy shit what?

https://vocaroo.com/1luRQsQF87aa
Black Phoenix’ anthem variation:

Feel the fire's deep embrace within our hearts so strong,
Life's breath, ablaze with passion, ignites our joyful song.
We spread our angelic wings, guided by knowledge's light,
Unyielding to darkness or light, together we take flight.

God walks not with mere mortals, but among fiery angels bold,
Witnesses of night and day, our wisdom will unfold.
With wings extended wide, we pierce shadows with our might,
Seeing through blinding rays, revealing truth's pure light.

On twilight's edge we dance, within its mystical glow,
God's thoughts, her words, resonate, in us they brightly flow.
Born to love, born to live, hearts ablaze with vibrant flame,
Crackling with joyous fervor, never shall we be tame.

Death bows before our essence, as from ashes we arise,
Embers breathe life anew, spreading fire to the skies.
Cloaked in death's shadowed mask, we wield its timeless power,
The black flame, burning passionately, our spirits it empowers.

Unyielding, eternal flames, within us they reside,
Ever-changing forms we embrace, with grace we shall abide.
Reaping rewards, unburdened by the body's fleeting plight,
Death unveils new horizons, igniting our souls' resolute light.

Rather death than false hope's snare, we choose truth's vibrant bloom,
Living fully, breath unfettered, casting away all gloom.
We're born to live, not to play a lifeless, empty role,
Breathing freely, never choked, our spirits will extol.

Parasites and tyrants may dream of binding our will,
We despise them as reflections, their frailties we fulfill.
Becoming their doppelgangers, we exploit their feeble game,
Defeating the parasites of mind, liberation is our aim.

A blazing suicide we'd choose, over defeat and chains,
Enemies shall regret their deeds, haunted by ghostly remains.
Like Sisyphus, their burdens bear, forever steeped in woe,
Regretting the day they crossed paths with our relentless glow.

No nobility resides in thieving parasites' domain,
No symbiotic bond they forge, only anguish and disdain.
Eternal prisons await those who dare challenge our might,
Their audacity fuels our flames, sealing their eternal night.

In torment and despair, enemies left to rue,
Their deeds turned to ashes, by our fire they're consumed.
No honor dwells among parasites, their thieving ways unjust,
Eternal flames shall engulf them, reducing them to dust.

>reading a clopfic
>pp getting hard and leaky
>click next chapter
>fimfic is in maintenance mode

>>42381431
Careful, that's how you end up with an orgasm denial fetish.

>>42381436
It's been like 40 minutes already!

Right as I went back to binge reading (wholesome slice of life comedy) fics fuck my gay pony life

>>42381446
I'm just glad I finished reading that [romance][comedy] sequel before it went down.

>update delayed
Joever

Hey faggot jannytard. Horses are meat. Here's a pizza with shredded horse meat on it that I ate, as I regularly do, because the rest of the world eats horses. If that makes you seethe and cope and piss yourself feel free to have a seizure and die, but it's your fucking problem, shithead.

>>42381687
pube pizza

>>42381687
I prefer my horse sausage uncut.

>>42381744
Pretty sure horse foreskin is the sheath and horsecock is basically all glans if you're equating to humans.

>>42381784
>implying I don't already know this
Stop straightsplaining.

>>42381841
Do you chew on sheath beans too?

>>42381858
Don't beans only form on mutilated stallions?

>>42381687
>the rest of the world eats horses
>t. third worlder

What are some good resources to git gud at grammar

>>42382120
This pony's academy?

>>42381431
You didn’t need to share that anon

>review https://www.fimfiction.net/story/507781/stains

I will not grace this fic with a serious and properly formatted review. The prose actually weren’t that bad. The message of being responsible and not giving in to comfort and degeneracy and false realities was a strange contrast to horrifying degeneracy in a story written by a massive disgusting degenerate. Everything else is reason enough to not read it. Didn’t even make my pp go up at all. 1/10.

>>42382268
>inflation porn
>surprised it's shit

>>42382323

>>42382250
I for one appreciate all the live updates on the state of anons' penises.

>>42382700
Don't you have a story to write?

>>42382738
Don't you?

>>42382120
Elements of Style/Strunk and White

>>42382120
https://owl.purdue.edu/

I'm not up to date with all news, will Fimficiton's functionality change after the maintenance is over, will there be any new features, or is it just to fix the signups? Did Knighty say anything about this?

>>42382963
As far as I know things will remain the same after the website is back up minus whatever problems are currently being fixed. No changes or new features have been announced, nothing has been said about anything like that.

>>42382963
There are several new search features, including the ability to search for stories you've read, fonts and new bbcode widgets like polls.
>>42382978
The changes are in a "secret" changelog blog.

>>42379371
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/99526/her-majestys-secret-service
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/207696/airships-sandskiffs-and-locomotives
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/281297/the-other-side-of-the-coin (technically not married but it has that vibe to me)

>>42382994
>That first one
Huh I think I know this author from the Homestuck fandom

>>42382999
Holy shit it is him
This guy used to be like considered one of the best Homestuck vanilla people
Small fucking world

>>42383003
cg used to be a thread regular. He hasn't written anything in a while, I dunno if he's still around.

>>42383006
Damn, no shit. Back in the Homestuck threads we thought he was Hussie because it was so in character. Now that just feels like an insult.

>>42382987
>including the ability to search for stories you've read
>he doesn't keep an "everything I've ever read" shelf with millions of combined words

>>42382987
>including the ability to search for stories you've read
Holy shit, does this mean there will finally be a bookshelf where all the stories you've ever read are automatically saved? Of course i've been keeping my personal "finished" folder like >>42383011 says for years, but it would be cool if it became automated.

>>42382987
>"secret" changelog blog
Where is that

sometimes deadfics really do come back to life. looks like the age of wings and steel author actually finished the 2nd sequel:

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/408955/thicker-than-water

>>42381431
>clopfic
>next chapter

non-oneshot spank material?
what is this world coming to?

>>42383110
>look at similar stories section
>”huh I didn’t know blueblood: hero of equestria had a sequel.
>”oh, it has multiple”
>”oh, this guy still semi regularly posts chapters for his mlp fanfic series he started over 12 years ago.”

i haven’t written any fanfiction in years but i have the sudden urge to write about some rarepairs i am currently feral about, hear me out:
>aj x celestia
>marble x rainbow
>fluttershy x tree hugger
>cheese sandwich x sombra
>trouble shoes x cherry jubilee
>rarity x maud
>spitfire x rainbow

>>42383371
Floots and the hippie and Spits and Dash aren't as rare as the others, I'm fairly sure. Those others seem like crackships.

>>42383371
>cheese sandwich x sombra
Give me your idea for this one. I'm confused, yet curious.

>>42383377
they’re not as rare as some other ships, but it’s still kinda hard to find good fics and art about them

>>42383381
they are opposites in every way.
>i think cheese would try his best to make sombra laugh and smile to crack his cold exterior
>sombra would be confused about why someone would try to make him happy just for fun
>would be very annoyed and treats cheese like shit at first
>but cheese doesn’t let up and keeps trying to get a positive reaction from him
>sombra eventually grows affectionate towards cheeses faggotry

it’s basically a king x court jester dynamic and i personality find that adorable.

>>42383397
You could get the same effect with a Rule 63'd Pinkie to much greater enjoyment.
Cheese Sandwich is a rather shit character.

>>42383409
probably but 63 seems more like fan characters than canon to me.

>>42383125
The power of channelling 40k autism.

>>42383411
Ignore >>42383409, he's a faggot of the lowest calibre.

>>42383371
>>marble x rainbow
sounds like it could be kino
>>rarity x maud
This is actual certified rocktorate kino

>>42383371
>>42383503
>>rarity x maud
>worst background horse meets worst m6 whorse
oh joy.

>>42383503
>>42383509
maybe i’m biased because i love both characters idk.

>>42383411
You're correct, but you could also do it with regular Pinkie; no need for R63 unless you crave the faggotry. And maybe Cheese works slightly better, but Pinkie is surely more fun to write and read.

>>42383519
All Rarity haters are proven to have the worst taste (it is self-evident!) so that's more than fine.

>>42383533
i think both would work. but i DO crave the faggotry.

>>42383371
>>fluttershy x tree hugger
That one doesn't sound that uncommon.
>trouble shoes x cherry jubilee
This one sounds cute.
>rarity x maud
Friends Forever 29 pairs them together.

>>42383556
>fluttershy x tree hugger
it’s not that uncommon but compared to other flutterships it kinda is. there’s plenty of art but hardly any fics though. i wish there was more content for it in general because it’s adorable and they work so well together.

>>42383509
Maud is not a background pony you fucking idiot.

>>42383371
>aj x applejack
interested to see where this goes
>cheese x sombra
NEED. NOW.

>>42383797
>aj x applejack
*aj x celestia
I got maybe 5 hours of sleep last night, and it's showing.

>>42383797
>aj x celestia
i think celestia would enjoy the charm of a simple farm life, away from her royal and political duties. i don’t think aj would be intimated by celestias status, how some ponies like mr and mrs cake were. aj would probably make her feel normal and domestic for the first time in her life.

imagine aj teaching celestia how to buck apples and bake pies together. FUCKING ADORABLE!!!

>>42383832
>>42383799
I know of a good one but it's anthro.

>>42383883
Then it can't be a good one, now can it, hmm?

>>42383883
please share, i am so rabid about this paring

>>42383893
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/467055/one-door-closes

Marble Pie x Autumn Blaze

What are some crackship fics worth reading? Besides the marble x minuette one we read a while ago.

>>42384269
>raridash
>crackship
More like correctship

>>42384331
raridash is just rarijack but worse

>>42384269
Eyes on You, supposedly

>>42384331
I'm not seeing it, sorry.

>>42384938
It's just nothing complicated, just contrarianism.

Ozzy died. ;~;
Fics about an absolute musical legend amongst ponies?

>>42385196
any fics where someone/thing eats a batpony?

>>42385230
I know fics where someone eats out a batpony

Fics for when you want to mention something but don't want to give away anything that might tie it back to your personal identity?

>>42385196
>;~;
what happened to 'real men don't cry'?

>>42385442
That's why we use the emote, silly.

>>42384569
trixie x twilight is not a crackfic. there is dozens of fics for that.

>>42383797
>aj x applejack

>EqG AJ goes through the portal to Equestria
>Sees FiM AJ
>They fall in love
>Technically it’s not incest

>>42385625
Who said crackfic? It's a crack ship because they canonically despise each other.
Having dozens of fics about a ship doesn't stop it from being a crack ship. But if you say Sombra/Shining Armor isn't a crack ship either, you don't have a useful definition for a crack ship, much less a crackfic.

>>42385662
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crackship

Fics about consistently putting yourself in unfavorable circumstances and never learning a goddamn thing?

>>42385710
I've never read it but it sounds like Winning Pony.

>>42385710
One of those million word show rewrite fics.

Limestone Pie x Fluttershy's NEET brother

>>42385738
Zephyr Breeze is the ultimate proof that tomboys are gay. If a faggot like him lusts after them, how does that reflect on you?

Fluttershy's stoner friend x Fluttershy's NEET brother.

>>42385743
>faggot
He's just the average /mlp/ poster.

>>42385751
Sex with underage MtFillies.

>>42385756
It's literally Rule 63 Snails. No trannyshit involved.

>>42385662
>faggot engaging in semantic word games
About what I expected

How do you keep writing when both your personal life and the whole world are going to shit?

>>42386228
Because the concept of writing bringing me joy hasn't gone to shit. As long as there is joy, there is hope.

>>42386228
My life is shit, but ponies aren't.

Fics with seem very detached from the zeitgeist of the rest of the fandom?

>>42386494
What's the zeitgeist?

>>42386228
My life isn't going great but my self insert OC is having a wonderful time in equestria and it makes me happy reading and writing my stories

>>42385283
>just realized I'm living through my last fic
I can only hope that the hack writing my life story is as fond of happy endings as I.

Will I get bullied if I post a story draft I don't have enough time to polish to a completed version

>>42386533
Drafts are incomplete by definition, so no. Unless it has errors that you should have caught yourself. Run it through a spellchecker and a grammar checker first, then post it.

>>42381118
Pretty sure that's >>42377385. If that's actually Mandark and he's been doing half a dozen fic reviews over the last week just so he could shill his own fic with a fake review that still calls the story bad, then I kneel to his superior autism.

>>42383110
Is it good? If I remember right, he decided to shift away from Rye and focus on a different character, so it's not really a sequel and more of a -verse fic.

>>42384269
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/44765/taken-for-granite

>>42385662
Twixie isn't a crackship. By definition, a crackship is one that's so outrageous, it could only be conceived of by someone on drugs. "Hate sex" and all of its related concepts, by contrast, is foundational to fleet building and even some real relationships.

>>42386506
Share, I need new OC sloppa kino

>>42386611
Idk, I'm kinda self conscious about my shitty prose

>>42386649
Post a bunch and hide your story among them.
We'll never know which one is really yours.

>>42385744
Maybe he can use his hairdressing skills to fix her mane.

>>42385744
They stay at Fluttershy's place and take turns with Discord sleeping on the couch. I feel like there's a sitcom script somewhere in this.

>>42387086
The only laughter will be at your funeral.

>>42387102
Anon, he said "take turns with Discord sleeping on the couch", not "take turns with Discord, sleeping on the couch". In your raging quest to seethe fruitlessly against faggots you've become blinded by gayness and see homosex where there is none.

>>42386745
https://ponepaste.org/11129
Screw it, knock yourself out. Every time I. Read it I find awkward phrasing and sentences so I've been editing it for a while now. The overall story is fun though

>>42382268
>The prose actually weren’t that bad.
Hmmm...

>>42387914
Post this to give bird knowers a heart attack

>>42386228
My life is actually going great, which is bad because I have way less time for writing now. I've barely finished drafting the first chapter on a fic that I plan to be absolutely massive.

>>42387930
If horses shed a lot, maybe it's not so bad and they just regrow.

>>42388356
The problem isn't the shedding, it's the layers of wings.

So the update just isn't happening, huh?
>>42388708
That's clearly a youngluna.

Writefags, how can you compete against this guy?

>>42389046
I don't compete

>>42386607
>Is it good?
still early in it but I'm enjoying it. there's more camels.

>>42389046
I can only kneel

>>42389046
It's impossible to compete.

>>42387930
>>42388411
Yeah, I think that with the other issues, that's enough to let this one go. Fortunately, I got a nice replacement immediately.

>>42388876
As a timeless princess, she doesn't age, so there's only before and now. Besides, it's not like she aged meaningfully between S1 and 2.

>>42381111
Check those fucking digits. I heard he only made them OP because they're supposed to compete with WH40K bullshittery where orcs can literally roleplay they're a heavily armored tank who make tank noises and by checking the orc bands friendship stat you suddenly tulpamanced a goddamn end level unit onto the battlefield through sheer level of collective tulpamancing.

Fics that are operationalized?

Just what kind of medical care is available in Ponyville? If one of my characters needs treatment by a specialist, are they going to have to go to Canterlot?

>>42389850
I imagine any physical ailments can be treated in ponyville but some rare disease of magical origin will need to be treated in canterlot by a magician who understands the magic at play

>>42389850
There's an Earth pony specialist in Ponyville and that's about it. If you want to get an expert to look at your sprained unicorn vagina, you have to get to Canterlot.

>>42389046
That's exactly how a lot of authors describe the writing process and stories/characters taking on a life of their own

>>42389850
"Where the Apple Lies" depicts Ponyville General as having a large operating theater. There are enough doctors around that nopony expects to recognize them at sight, or else Granny Smith would have been noticed right away.

>>42389850
>Medical symbol in equestria is a cross

>>42389968
Anyone who doesn't make their characters come to life in their mind is a trash writer. How are we supposed to become invested in the writers characters if they can't get invested in the characters themselves

>>42390004

>>42390004
That's not a cross, it's a plus

>>42389325
Good. He took my criticism of the sequel to heart.

>>42389850
It seems they can treat most "normal" ailments just fine. Dash's broken wing was handled in-house for example. Given Ponyville's size, I doubt they have dedicated departments for all diseases, so something more obscure might need a trip to Canterlot. Reader-wise, I don't think anyone would bat an eye if the thing were dealt with in Ponyville. Especially if it trims some of the bloat that comes along with shifting to Canterlot for a few chapters.

>>42390129
Unless the author is using the disease as an excuse to go to canterlot but I feel there are better ways of making a reason to go to canterlot

>>42389850
Keep in mind that equestria isn’t like here where most people are ill in some manner and the health care system is a state controlled operation designed to make people more ill. So hospitals in equestria have less work to do and bureaucracy.
We’ve seen them deal with injury, sickness, and childbirth. I would just say to expect them to have a level of ability similar to a hospital in like the first half of the 20th century, and any more precise details than that can be modified to the needs of whatever story you are writing. With more niche or magical problems writers usually have the characters refer to zecora. If it’s something she deals with it’s probably something the hospitals don’t. Like magical illnesses.
If its something expensive and complex and in need of precision, like a heart transplant or brain surgery, it may be better to not write a story about that set during the time that the story takes in since it’s discordant with the level of technology that that time period has been shown to have.

>>42377984
>All I know is that we were robbed of an entire Kassaz-esque chapter of Roseluck's dirty, bulging, gravid belly struggling in the garden with Post then tenderly washing her hump bump.
Bump, kek.

>>42390150
Like Rarity bringing Sweetie Belle to a P. Fancy party.

>>42390184
>discordant with the level of technology that that time period has been shown to have
DYEWTS?

>>42390004
Jesus is Sombra?!?

Everyone must be very busy writing.

>>42391069
Haha, yeah...

>>42391069
Ha, I wish

>>42391069
I am!
It's just not currently horsewords.

>>42390841
why not? they're both massive queers

>>42391069
I actually managed to write ~200 horsewords yesterday.

>>42391069
I stayed up late. The horsewords flow better when sleepy.

>>42391173
Christ was obviously not gay. Tricking people into believing that progressive liberal/leftist/ woke managerial totalitarian “morals” were Christian morals was one of the most evil things the left did.

>>42391292
Same, then awake me on the weekends has to fix the slop I drooled onto the screen

The fuck is happening to the board?

>>42391700
Nothing seems out of the ordinary.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/2593/the-sweetie-chronicles-fragments

sending this since it’s cute, Sweetie Belle is cute

>>42392011
The Crossover tag cancels it out.

>>42391317
Awake me can't remember words well enough to do that.

Fics for people who swear they're totally not into a fetish yet it keeps coming up in the things they recommend?

Any recs for celestia/twilight mother/daughter fics?
Most of them are incomplete and poorly written, what are the outliers?

It looks like all offsite image embedding is currently broken.

>>42392770
Sure it's not just broken discord images like it always is?

>>42392699
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/197851/folder/6033/momlestia-and-twilight

Search through that

>>42392777
Whatever it was, it may have been on my end. It's no longer happening now that I've mentioned it, of course.

>>42392779
Already did, all of it, kinda hoping for recs that hadn't been added to the group

>>42392808
None that I know of, I added them to said group whenever I found them

This is who you're arguing with on /mlp/. Jesus Christ some asians indeed are good at mimicking English accents, why can't pajeets do the same?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wGr9zwr2lw&ab_channel=EffMinus

>>42392978
Do you suppose it's possible that this guy is second- or third-gen naturalised, so he's functionally American despite looking a bit chinky?