Fimfiction Thread: Now with 36% more shameful self awareness

hoofaloo get

>>25563411
OOOOOOOOOOOOOH MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
THE END IS NEAR

>>25563423
Chill out, buddy.

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>>25563385
>Want to write FF
>realise it really is one of the lowest forms of literature
>Ideas aren't mega original, but are played out differently than most
Shame i rarely translate what i play through my head as words

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>>25563423
Too bad it wasn't a futaloo get.

>>25560224
reposting from last thread

>Ah, okay. It's still going to be a challenge juggling all those plots.
>literally two, possibly three plots

I may not be a fantastic writer, but I think I can handle that.

plus, the "hopeless" future is more of the setting, not a plot. The plot is the main character getting flashes of Twilight's life while living in the "hopeless" future

bemp

>>25564869
y so ded?

>>25564889
This is the Fimfic thread, it's a part of our behavior.

I wrote this story for you guis, I demand a reading.

Pls.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/301747/spike-and-the-celestia-butthole

I even made it on some dudes behest.

pls.

>>25564916
Bleeding begging us to read his stories, huh.

How low have you fallen?

>>25564928
Oh come on, don't go to extremes. I'm just asking it for fun.

bemp

D E A D
E
A
D

"Foalita"
After Big Mac takes care of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, he's smitten by Sweetie Belle. He then struggles with this feelings.

Would you read? Yes. No. Hold on until I call the cops?

>>25566355
Yes.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/301668/negotiations
>tfw there will never be a TCB fic that doesn't fall into one of the shitty extremes

>>25564395
>>literally two, possibly three plots
>bad future stuff
>psychological issues from the memories
>flashbacks themselves
The challenge is that one of those plots is entirely in flashbacks. Flashbacks are pretty hard to do and moreso when there's a lot of them. There's also the issue of which plot is the focus of the story: the flashbacks and how the bad future came to be, or the psychological issues the character's going through from the flashbacks? Try and give them both equal time is going to really bog things down.

>>25564916
Well, you're making a little progress. At least it has the Slice of Life tag. Now if you could just write something that doesn't have a crackfic M-rated plot and just a standard comedy, you'd be set.

>>25566355
Depends on how it's played. If it's a serious examination of pedophilia and the psycoligal issues pedophiles go through? Sure. If it's some cheap MacinBell? No.

Foalcon only works for me if it's played straight and seriously.

>>25566355
write it well

>>25567313
It'd definitely be the former. I'm good with introspective dialogue and somewhat thoughtful narrative. Not so much at comedy.

>>25568234
I'll do my best senpai.

>>25566355
Only if the real thing has better grammar than this tagline.

>>25568769
Sorry, I was tired and hit Post before I checked if what I wrote had any mistakes.
I promise I'll do better next time.

/r/ing any good feel good/cute ponk stories

>>25569100
showing my support for this /r/

>kh&c, chapter 8

Another slice-of-lifey chapter, in which almost nothing happens. Silversteel visits a Weatherpony-allied town, and Golden Sun is recovering from being barbequed. As for the rest of the chapter…

It's almost Harvesttide (pony Thanksgiving, apparently), and Rarity invites everybody under the sun for dinner: her parents; his parents; Sweetie Belle; Uncle Topaz, Aunt Periwinkle, and their son Persian Onion; her mentor and her mentor's son; and Derpy's kids (but not Derpy herself). She has some trouble figuring out what to cook:
>“Well, I guess there goes the rose and dandelion casserole,” she sighed. “I’d forgotten that Uncle Topaz is allergic to dandelions.”
…for about 30 seconds, before her and Silversteel come up with a plan.

The only real conflict goes like this:
>“So…you’re the stallion after my little filly.”
>Silver matched the move instantly and the two hoofs connected in a hoofbump, the two stallions putting their muscle into it, either vying for dominance or trying to show their primacy in the most infantile manner possible.
>“Nice to meet you,” Magnum said. He didn’t sound as though he meant it.
>“A pleasure, likewise,” Silver responded. His reply appeared equally lacking in conviction.
>So as a result, as the third minute of the two staring at each other and putting increasing strength into a battle royale of hoofbumps, the four mares were at a loss whether or not to laugh or shake their heads in disgust.
They go on like this for a little while by which I mean five fucking pages, then go off to play pool and continue this bullshit, and finally Silversteel's dad joins the fray:
>As [Sweetie] departed the room, she tried not to pay attention to the sudden shouts or banging that was occurring behind the closed door.

I think about 25% of the chapter is spent on this stupidly over-the-top version of the standard "overly protective father" trope. I hope the Weatherponies get it together soon.

Bumple

the bump of bumpiness

>>25572460
>longest book compared with online fan fiction

Until FOE is in one, single, printed book, it can't compete. Yes, all of it.

>>25572475
Well it's not in a single book, but FoE and FoE: Pink Eyes has already been printed, and there are plans for Project Horizons and possibly Murky Number Seven.

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>>25572460
Oh my fucking god. Is that for real? Did that wild ride finally end? What the fuck story needed 1.7 million words to tell? Somber PLS

>>25572486
Well I posted about it here right when it ended even though I dropped it years ago.
Do not fret though, there's a sequel starring Scotch Tape even though Somber himself admitted PH doesn't need one.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/298834/fallout-equestria-homelands

>>25572508
Well this is just a jaunt down memory lane for me, really. I still kinda can't believe it ended. I expected Somber to expire of natural causes before it did, leaving the unwieldy monolith of PH to an evil slumber buried somewhere deep in the far reaches of Greenland.

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>>25572486
I read all of it.
The ending is, and give me a second I am taking a deep breath:
A cyber pony with Luna's soul (Which is deforming reality and turning the cyber pony into Luna, mindrape included, because her soul is so old) being mind raped by an ancient star devourer non euclidian star dude who is trying to disable the generator that keep a shield working so a meteor falls in a cursed city, while a giant snake robot dude fights a giant alicorn star (Not the same as the other star dude) dude. Before that, a immortal regenerating zebra ninja dude got it's immortal regenerating gem thingy damaged, so it turned into a lovecraftian zebra immortal regenerating zebra dude the size of a house, but it got destroyed by Sweetie Bot, a literal fuck bot who voided it's warranty to AM A SHOOTIN MAH LAZZOR at it before her battery recharged from the last AM A SHOOTIN MAH LAZZOR.
I wish I was kidding or making shit up, I really do.

>>25572578
>devourer non euclidian star dude who is trying to disable
while trying to disable*

>>25572578
Sooooo
why the fuck did Somber kill Blackjack like three times, made her a cyborg, an alicorn and whatever else etc?
what purpose did it all serve?

>>25572602
>what purpose did it all serve?
Most accepted theory is fetishism.

>>25572460
Austraeoh series hit 2.5m words recently.

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>>25572460
It's up there with the Mahabharata (1.8 million words). if it surpasses the epic, then it will be the longest written thing ever, and probably the most autistic.

>>25572578
Sounds like PH to me.

>>25572602
Because he's working until the belief that characters in pain generates good drama and has taken that to the billionth level, under the presumption it would be a billionth level more dramatic.

>>25572617
Hell, it has its own wiki.

>>25572661
Wasn't it kinda sorta devoid of content? last time I checked it, it had this whole "Wikia no one gives a fuck about" vibe on it.

>>25572666
The fact alone, man. Somebody set up a server and wrote some shit.

>>25572684
It's a wikia.

>>25572684
Fallout Equestria has a whole wiki about characters, plot, lore and unique items of all notable FoE spin-offs. I think that's more impressive.
Also, nobody set up a server for it, dude. It takes as much effort as making a blog on Tumblr or a channel on YouTube.

>>25564395
This just seems like an easy fall to an edgelord fic desu.

>>25572691
>I think that's more impressive
someone wrote a bunch of wiki articles filled with information about grimderp crossover fanfiction.

I think that is literally the most autistic thing in the world

>Be me
>Be missing episode because of glider courses

Could anyone give me a sum-up of the episode?

>>25572460
Black Rose Raven's Blooming Moon Chronicles is 4.4 million words.

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>>25578296
WINGBLADES
>are
C A N O N
A
N
O
N

>>25578296
It was pretty overwhelming, but gave us a whole metric fuckton of fluff to work with. A whole slew of alternate timelines that would happen if Rainbow Dork didn't do the first sonic rainboom.
TL;DR: An edgy world warfic featuring Sombra, Chrysalis 'Nam, El Presidenté Nightmare Moon, Discord turning Celestia into Bob Ross, Flim and Flam fueling the GLORIOUS FIRES OF CAPITALISM, the incredible wasteland that is Glimmer's heart, Tirek wrecking shit again or whatever, Trixie impregnating literally everyone in Equestria causing a huge baby boom to end the world.

>>25578296
Just wait until it's up on YT or Dailymotion.
It's what I'm doing.

>>25578737
>incredible wasteland that is Glimmer's heart

Well at least Glimmer wasn't that far from what I made her in my fic.

>>25578697
>Wingblades are canon

How is she even supposed to fly with all that junk stuck on her wings?

>>25579037
That isn't junk.
That's a prosthetic.

>>25578697
I have this... weird feeling in the pit of my stomach...

>>25579086
id prefer that over wingblades. it functional?

>>25579086
>RD with her wing cut off

Did they hire edge lords to write this episode?

>>25579370
This is a show for little girls, right?

>>25579370
It's just one flashback, yo.
Still really damn edgy, though. It really feels like it's directly out of some shitty 2012 warfic.

I am watching the episode, and...
uhm...
Why exactly is Twilight making a conference about how to get her entire life broken?

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Hey, /fimfic/. What did you guys think of the new episodes?

>>25579962
I enjoyed them. Not exactly as epic as the season 4 finale, or dramatic as the one from season 2, but it certainly had a lot of depth and heart placed into it.

I'm a little upset at how rushed the ending felt, but I still appreciated that it brought back so many callbacks to previous episodes.

>>25579962
It was shit story-wise. Not as shit as S3 or S4 though.

>>25579337
IIRC we didn't see her fly, but we did see her move that wing.

>>25579942
That was an example to make her point about the power of cutie mark magic or whatever. It's not like she was expecting SG to bust out that powered-up time spell.

>>25579962
Still haven't seen it.
I'm waiting for an HD upload.

>>25580334
I am watching one with a shitty dancing OC in a corner.
Kill me.

>>25580394
Just tell us where it's at anon.

>Sombra universe
>tfw you realize that Cadance and Shining were probably killed by Sombra
>>25580860
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4I55MtcsYQ

>>25580902
>mfw Starlight does know about the exact type of magic I need her to know
>mfw she is the cynical bitch she's portrayed at in my fic

Well, looks like the new episodes won't affect NH that much.

Wonder if the readers will let me get off with Starlight not being reformed due to her getting involved right after the premier though.

>Starlight shows Twilight her childhood
THAT FUCKING OC
I NEED TO KILL IT
I NEED TO KILL IT UNTIL IT DIES

>>25580902
Who the fuck is that orange OC?

>>25581206
Something that requires a slow death.

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>>25581245
In all seriousness though, it looks like it's straight out of pone creator.

And bloody hell it is.

>>25579337
She does in fact fly using the robo-wing. See >>25580902 around 13:20

>>25580902
>13:40 Niggersheep trading and coton camp forced labor

I have a feeling this will make edge lords so happy.

>>25581551
Is it still canon if its an AU episode?

>>25582083
It being an AU isn't going to prevent people from taking it as gospel.

>>25581368
>That feel when you realize that, from now on, every single time you give critic about a OC with any of those characteristics the autist will bring that fucking kid as a "proof" of his OC not looking as an abortion.

>>25582164
You take that, yet ignore that crippled asshole OC that voiced himself from Trade Ya or whatever.

>>25582237
You mean Button Mash? Button Mash was good stuff, that's the diference.

>>25582237
That was a charity program for the disabled, anon.

>>25582250
>button mash
>OC
oh
you're just retarded
https://derpiboo.ru/tags/stellar+eclipse

>>25582287
I hate to say it, but S.E. isn't SO bad, if you ignore the purple hair streak.
Now, orange turd? orange turd is baaad. BAAAAD I SAY.

>>25582279
You don't say. That doesn't make it any better.

>>25582323
It was just there and he didn't have any impact.

>>25582336
It was completely the opposite for me. I immediately noticed him and the relatively bad voice acting. It was like a sore thumb out of the bunch.
Star Burst or whatever, through? Didn't even notice.

Requesting something cute to read. Length isn't really an issue.

>>25582404
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/268569/big-makeuptosh

>That war against Sombra

I'm seriously wondering if that Tiger fucking tank fic would have worked if I had published it completely.

I wonder what argument the gun nuts are going to pull out of their asses now that it's proven ponies can fight bare-hooved and charge with a spear.

Bloody hell, how much did this thread die?

So... so that episode happened. Uh... It caught me extremely off guard, with all the war stuff and the alternate timelines and so on.
Could have been really, really good had it not been for the last five minutes.

>>25563385
>that pic
You anons know what this means
>rape

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It begins.

ded thred bemp

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Gee, it sure is bumpy around here

>>25581245
Considering the shit he started by ditching Starlight...

Yes.

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>>25585300
Mah boi, this dead thread is what all true writefag strives for!

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>>25585324
I just wonder what Bleedin's up to...

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Gotta side with Fluttershy on this one.

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MOTHERFUCKER, HE GOT ME AGAIN

>>25585433
This is a joke, right? A HUGE FUCKING JOKE?

>>25585509
Can't be. It's a huge superserious Shadow battle and the next big plot point. Of course there are no jokes here.

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>>25585433
>>25585500

Your majesty, Mythril and his minions have seized the front page!

On a side note nice duble dubs

>>25585532
This is the stalest meme I've seen in years.

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>>25585550
Hmm... How can we help?

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>>25585567
It is written, only /fimfic/ can defeat Mythril!

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>"Well, that didn't work."

HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

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>>25585908
FUCKING CALLED IT BY THE WAY

Fucking thread why so ded?

>>25586251
First time here?
How about you start talking about something instead of whining like a faggot?

Can I get any active stories (preferably adventure) featuring the mane 6? My favorites list is nearly all completed or pretty much dead stuff from 2013/2014.

>>25586276
>lol I called someone a newfag

>>25586387
I was asking an honest question you insecure cunt.

>>25586251
>>25586276
>>25586387
>>25586399

lol calm down and quit being so mad.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/277463/1/a-second-chance/time-burp

So this was confirmed.

>>25586429
epic
upvoted

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So I guess earth ponies use rocks in combat?????????

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>>25586673
Rocks are overpowered.

>>25586673
>Pony gurkhas using rocks instead of testicle knife

I'm okay with this.

Do you think the new canon portrayal of war fics may actually bring out some good ideas?

>>25587317
Nah.
Though I'm intrigued by those metallic wings pegasi fighters are wearing. They're only on one wing instead of both and they don't seem to be wingblades.

>>25587333
It seems RD is the only one wearing it. Probably some kind of prosthetic, as armoring a wing would just burden it too much.

>>25587374
You're right, I assumed it wasn't just her because I didn't recognize her in the first shot.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/301668/negotiations

I'm fucking going in boys.

>>25587837
>I'm fucking going in boys.
Well, to each their own.

>>25587837
Notes as I read:

>Uses "-" where it should use "—"
>Tells the reader how much humans hate ponies instead of showing
>Namedrops that all these characters are dead in a desperate attempt to make us feel something
>Contains the line "The fate of our nation, my people, and the comatose Princess Celestia, who was kept in secret below Canterlot," which may be the stupidest fucking thing I have ever read
>Twilight too stupid to realize that a race that is extremely violent and individualistic may not like a group trying to forcibly placate them
>Talks about humans killing by the billions when the total war-or-political-related death count for the 20th century is less then two hundred million
>So... many... ellipses...
>Twilight is apparently retarded and can see nothing morally wrong with forcibly changing people's personalities. Even dumber, she cannot see how other people might find that to be morally questionable, and her kindest friend saying "Hey, you're kind of fucking evil" didn't even make her pause for a second
>"Lyra loves humans" joke
>"poverty and corruption was at an all time high," something which could only happen if the progress of the last thousand or so years was somehow reversed
>Twilight admits that the newfoal program reminded her of Starlight Glimmer and does not start to have second thoughts at all
>Twilight, a smart character, has no concept of why somebody might want to die rather than be forcibly converted

HOLY SHIT ARE THEY ALL LIKE THIS?

THIS IS PHYSICALLY FUCKING PAINFUL

>"but in return our refugees get to live in your nation," something quite literally NO VICTOR would ever demand in a war. Ever.
>Human starts stating things about Celestia that would be so fucking obvious to literally everybody that it would overcome even Twilight's hero worship
>Twilight has been made sterile by getting shot, apparently. This is possible but it sounds really fucking stupid to me.

>>25588083
>Cadence destroys major cities on Celestia's orders to try and demoralize religions. They don't pick Jerusalem first, and instead hit fucking Rome. The Vatican is important but not nearly as much as the goddamn holy land.
>Celestia decided to teleport the nation of Equestria to Earth, leaving the other races on the planet totally fucked with nobody to control the sun. This was supposed to be shocking, but I honestly burst out laughing when i read this. This is possibly the funniest shit I have ever read.


Holy shit, that was goddamn awful. I actually started my current running fic because I was annoyed with the TCB stories and wanted to do my own version of first contact, but I never actually read one all the way through. I always got maybe two paragraphs in and stopped.

This is the first time I've powered through one, and I have to say, it's worse than I feared. How do people like this kind of shit?

>>25588171
>How do people like this kind of shit?
Because the majority of people have terrible taste, Anon.
That's why stuff like LtD, What's Love got to do With It, and The Chase have over a thousand upvotes.

>>25588083
>>25588171

So, grimderp war fic?

At least it's not a CoDBoi fic glorifying war.

>>25588083
>HOLY SHIT ARE THEY ALL LIKE THIS?
This is your first time reading a fanfic, isn't it?

All lawful good characters get derailed into

>HUUUUUUR DUUUUUUUR MUH JUSTICE MUH WHITE KNIGHT

and become more Knight Templar than actual paragons.

>>25588204
>>25588208
>>25588313
This is just... so, so bad. I get that it's supposed to be satire of the TCB fics, but I think it fails completely at that was well.

Fuck it, I'm leaving a comment. I normally never do this but I'll make an exception here.

>>25588410
Oh, shit. It was made by Rated Pony Star. I like a bunch of his fics, I wouldn't have imagined he'd do something like this.

>>25588480
Maybe this was a satire attempt?

Honestly, I think the best way to make fun of TCB is to have Celestia try and explain her plan to Twilight, then just have Twilight react in character.

Shit, that could make a pretty decent fic. Of course, in order to write it I would technically have to write a TCB fic, the mere thought of which makes me physically uncomfortable.

>>25589247
Or copy pasta the plot from Kamen Rider Gaim to point out how absurd the TCB is.

>kh&c, chapter 9
Strap in, folks. You're on Mr. Shinzakura's Wild Ride!

>Rara (and Silversteel) on the way to Donkonia to help with trade negotiations
>current ambassador (of 10 years) says this one guy is just 2intimidating4her
>the Donconegasque (yes, that's the actual word they use) negotiator Roadspierre is kind of an ass (hue hue)
>Rara isn't scared, does fine and they come to an agreement

>Roadie snuck in an additional clause
>Rarity is required to marry him

>P A N I C
>send letters to Celestia
>"breaking this treaty is a declaration of war"
>donkey parliament won't reconsider, think Sunhorse is trying to trick them

>Roadie shows up to gloat
>"You may be a noblemare and a knight where you come from, but here you are nothing more than the mare that will be lifting her tail for me at the end of the week."
>"I would have much preferred Celestia’s tail, but I suppose Luna would have been more pliable in bed."
>etc
>Silversteel challenges him to a duel to the death

>more letters to Celestia
>she sends some backup, including a blacksmith to make the perfect rapier for Silversteel
>he spends the week practicing
>they duel
>Silversteel breaks the other guy's sword, then offers him a chance to yield
>“I yield. And now,” he then added, “you die.” And with a quick motion, the jack reached from a point in his mane, and swung his hoof forward.
>The needle buried itself straight into Silver’s neck, and already wounded, the stallion fell to his knees.
>“Iocane-dipped needle,” he said with a grin. “Always works like a charm.”

>What? BLACKSMITH is evolving!
>BLACKSMITH has evolved into SUNHORSE!
>Sunhorse puts the fear of god into Roadie (or at least the fear of caps lock)
>Lifting a single hoof, Celestia then brought it down in a slight tap on the ground. The explosion of force threw Roadspierre the two hundred feet towards the opposite end of the Duello.
>eventually she remembers her sister's boyfriend is dying, and magically fixes him

DAY SAVED

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>>25589920
I am very confused, even though I should be used to that feeling by now.

>>25590134
A lot of really stupid shit happened in this chapter, and I had to cut a lot to make it fit in one post. The important bits are:
>trick marriage agreement
>stereotypically evil villain
>duel to the death
>blacksmith from Equestria comes to make the sword
>Silver wins the duel, but gets poisoned
>blacksmith was secretly sunhorse in disguise
>she saves the day
>"Donconegasque"

>dat finale
Even in a full-on total war setting, guns still aren't canon.
Wingblades on the other hand...

>>25572578
Where does the gangrape and melting face come into play?

>>25578296
>Starlight goes back to the past and stops the rainboom from happening
>Sombra wins AU
>Twilight resets timeline
>Chrysalis wins AU
>Twilight resets timeline
>NMM wins AU
>Twilgiht resets timeline
>rapid fire Tirek, Discord, and Flim Flam wins AUs
>Starlight has autism and can't make friends as a kid because her only friend got his cutie mark before her and had to move
>she gets redeemed via montage song
>the end
>year and a half hiatus
It was basically every grimdark AU condensed down and canonized.

>>25579962
9/10. Probably the best two-parter yet. Starlight was a really shit villain though and her motivation was godawful. Had she been a better bad guy, it likely would have been 10/10 IMO.

>>25582237
I didn't mind the Make-A-Wish kid. He had some problems VAing, but it wasn't bad.

The porn drama that was stirred up was also great.

>>25585433
>present tense
It's guaranteed to rustle me every time.

>>25588171
Now you know my pain. Just remember that there likely isn't a TCB fic out there that doesn't swing to one of those extremes and the actual plot will forever be wasted on "Humans are evil!" and "Humanity fuck yeah!" stories.

>>25590609
Porn Drama? For some reason I think I somehow missed whatever this was.

>>25590609
>Wingblades on the other hand...
Wingblades aren't canon either.
Robotic prosthetics, on the other hand...

>>25590609
>NMM timeline
>grimdark
How?

What are some other good time loop fics? I enjoyed Hard Reset and its sequels, Hard Reset 2, and was kind of lukewarm on the blueblood one.
I also enjoyed that 15 minute smutfic one but I'm still not sure whether to take it seriously.

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With a word limit of five hundred. These are the most popular of this thread.

>>25592381
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Is voicefag kill again?

>>25585908
>>25585939
I feel like I'm missing something, here.

Are there any fics where ALL the Mane 6 have an important role in saving the day? Yet another Twilight-only finale has left a bad taste in my mouth.

>>25592578
Check out Hard Reset. It's worth the time

>>25592537
No, he is just busy with real life stuff. :^(

>>25592582
>fics where ALL the Mane 6 have an important role in saving the day?
I cant really remember many good ones.

Now if you want to know about sonicflutterbooms and clothing related world saves Im sure I can scrape some shit up

>>25592582
Have you read "It's a Dangerous Business, Going Out Your Door"?

Because if you have, read the sequel. It has what you want. In fact, the day is literally incapable of being saved unless all the Mane 6 work together.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/183040/besides-the-will-of-evil

>>25593104
of course dangerous business itself is exactly what hes complaining about. half the mane 6 either sidelined or forgotten

>>25563385
Hey /mlp/, I've been trying to find some old pony fics that I remember reading but I can't remember their titles. I probably bookmarked them on my old computer but it's been broken for years now. I'm gonna describe the fic and tell me if anything rings a bell.
Okay so the premise was Twilight goes around murdering the rest of the mane six in order to absorb their power. And to do that she has to kill them in a way that is the opposite of their element of harmony. So she kills Dash through Betrayal, Applejack through Deception, Pinkie Pie through Horror, Rarity through Greed (I think). And then she goes to kill Fluttershy through Cruelty but Fluttershy sets a trap for her with an older and more powerful Spike. Twilight gets killed and Fluttershy absorbs the remaining magical energy to become an Alicorn. And then I think their was a sequel with time travel where Twilight tries to go back in time and do it again.
I know it might be silly, but I just can't remember what it was called and the new episode got me thinking about it. If anyone remembers, give me a heads up.
I also remember another old one about a Necromancer Pony summoning The Schmooze.

>>25594389
I know the story you're talking about, that's like some 2011 Equestria Daily google doc sharing level old though.

>>25594393
Ah yes, the good old days.
You got a link?

>>25594389
>another old one about a Necromancer Pony summoning The Schmooze

How old are we talking? because rehashing G1 villains while uncommon isnt exactly rare. Theres plenty of Grogar and Smooze fics out there.

hell its to the point where G1 villains are more worthy of getting tags than a lot of the background ponies that have them

>>25594862
Must have been a season 1 fic.
I remember it had a lot of Lovecraftian elements to it.
Also it's version of the Schmooze was a nightmarish compilation of dead ponies fused together by melted hoof and bone-marrow. Like a giant Marshmallow of Death.

>>25594389
I do not know the name, but I am positive that it was a fic made before fimfiction existed and was thrown around in picture format. I know that it was posted in one of the threads a long, long time ago.

>>25586906
>The master was knocked unconcious
Gotta love that damn game

>>25592381
I would have thought "bump" would be higher on the list.

Am I the only one who noticed how, in all of the AUs, the main six always had the places where the cuttie marks would be hidden?
Also I really liked how in some of them they managed to find each other even without Rainbow.

>>25595784
well most of them wound up living in the same town, likely for years before the connection was figured out. why would that change sans rainboom?

>>25595885
Do you realize how much of their lifes depends on the rainboom? FS met the animals, decided to live in the ground, went to Ponyville. AJ went back to the farm. Rarity made her decision of being a fashionista final. Ponka realized that there was mroe to life than picking up rocks and went to live in a bakery, so on.

>>25595907
>Ponka realized that there was mroe to life than picking up rocks and went to live in a bakery, so on.
I think she was going to do what Cheese Sandwich does and travel around Equestria spreading happiness and shit, but she probably stayed in Ponyville after the show that gave Cheese's life its meaning.

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>>25578697
>>25579086

Hmm, at least RD kept her eye. She reminds me of pic related though.

>>25595784
>Am I the only one in a fandom that obsesses over minor details who noticed something that was not even that minor?

Also, I'd like to point out that when Chrysalis and her minions were attacking Zecora's resistance, they had the correct cutie marks. Go figure.

By the way, the Zecora part was the weakest of the episode, mainly because of how Zecora seemed to know things without a real reason

>>25595885
First of all, the obvious snowball effect. Secondly, I view the whole episode as multiple instances of Flashpoint Paradox, in case people here know what that is. In short - the act of travelling through time and changing something creates changes not only via what was changed, but also just creates a ripple effect that can change completely unrelated things, which is the only way I can explain the fact that different timelines had different rulers.


>>25596109
>probably stayed in Ponyville after the show that gave Cheese's life its meaning.
There isn't really much to support this theory, I think that it is more likely that she had chosen Ponyville as a place to reside in because of Sugarcube Corner, and an idea of the linked destinies of Mane 6 making her stay there. We did see that they often showed up in pairs in the alternate timelines.

>>25596183
>Zecora seemed to know things without a real reason
The green salve showed they were from another world/timeline. From that and Twilight's general cluelessness, it's not too hard to guess the rest.

>>25596183
>because of Sugarcube Corner
Why? It's just a random bakery in a random small town., and it has nothing to do with her talent. I think it's just a job she started working at because she needed money/shelter. She probably did stay because of magical bond things in the end, but I don't think her initial reason was "lol nice bakery I wanna live here forever now"

>>25596200
The green salve doesn't do too much to explain things, in my opinion. I can definitely accept it existing as a way of revealing changelings (and I am kinda disappointed that we didn't get to see any of that), but it having the side effect of just casually revealing that some ponies are from a whole another timeline? Seems kind of far fetched.

And even though Zecora seems to be portrayed as a wise mentor figure with a lot of knowledge, I still find it weird how easy it was for her to assume things that just happened to be right. Also her rhyming is mediocre and somewhat tired as a gimmick, which also took me out a bit, but that's just nitpicking.

>>25596214
Assuming that her talent is making others happy (I know it's vague as heck), working in a bakery could definitely be a promising prospect for her, since she didn't know much of her life, and Cakes could have been a kind of necessary parental figures, making it a more attractive option for her. It is also likely that money/shelter is a major factor, and uncertain magical bonds aside, I definitely don't think of it as a "lol nice bakery I wanna live here forever now" thing.

>>25596293
So we basically agree about Pinkie and don't have a single reason to argue.

>>25596306
>don't have a single reason to argue
If you do your best and believe in yourselves, you'll always find a reason.

>>25596293
>And even though Zecora seems to be portrayed as a wise mentor figure with a lot of knowledge, I still find it weird how easy it was for her to assume things that just happened to be right. Also her rhyming is mediocre and somewhat tired as a gimmick, which also took me out a bit, but that's just nitpicking.
Her mohawk was looking extra swaggy in that timeline though.

>>25596293
>I can definitely accept it existing as a way of revealing changelings (and I am kinda disappointed that we didn't get to see any of that), but it having the side effect of just casually revealing that some ponies are from a whole another timeline? Seems kind of far fetched.

Didn't she say it reveals their true nature? It probably shows the real creature underneath, but in Twilight's and Spike's case, it revealed they're their real selves from the REAL timeline, the one that was supposed to happen.

>I still find it weird how easy it was for her to assume things that just happened to be right
I don't think she assumes stuf, I think she just knows much more than we do.

>>25596344
also this

>>25596344
So she is basically a super sayan sage?

>>25596306
I really see this as just discussing, instead of arguing. I do love you guys and this has always been my favourite place to talk about ponies, save for real life, but that's got it's own drawbacks. Expanding on our opinions even when they don't differ significantly/at all is a good way of getting deeper about what we really think about something, and it's definitely my favourite way of finding that my opinions aren't always as well developed and thought out as I might have imagined.

>>25596341
Also this.

>>25596344
Definitely agreed, the way the green salve got applied was also interesting to observe, since it allowed for some new design choices, kind of like the rest of the episode.

>>25596428
I think that the salve is a weird plot choice, and I don't think that it should have made Spike and Twilight glow like that, since they are not really masking their identities. I am not calling this out as a major plothole or anything, but I do consider it a bit of a contrivance. Zecora was a bit too nonchalant about them being from another universe, and I don't know about where should could have had such experience before.

>>25596611
>and I don't know about where should could have had such experience before.
She's been the leader of a rebelion against a polymorphic queen for around two years if we assume that it's the same day and year that Shimmer went back in time, so two things come into play to this one
A) She is a leader. You can't afford to show many emotions when you are a leader
B) She's been at war with a polymorphic queen for two years, she she must've seen some weeeeird shit.

>>25596611
>and I don't think that it should have made Spike and Twilight glow like that, since they are not really masking their identities.
Exactly my point, they were more "real" than the other ponies because they were from the original, unaltered timeline.

> Zecora was a bit too nonchalant about them being from another universe, and I don't know about where should could have had such experience before.
It's possible she always knew something was off thanks to her zebra shaman magic.

Bump before I forget

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hey guys look what I found :)

>>25597836
What have you done anon?

Have your realized the monstrous flood of FO:E spin-off fics you've unleashed?

>>25597952
You mean the one fic idea nobody will ever write because it's shit and non-FoE?

>>25597974
We have to contain it nevertheless.

Imagine what would happen if Fimfiction knew about it.

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Has any Fimfag written a Spetsnaz/VDV in Equestria level of cringe fic?

>>25598055
tigers fucking a tank

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>>25598076
Hey, that was my idea.

>mfw the fic is still there, waiting to be published

>>25598092
literally "Czterej pancerni i pies"

>>25598108
>Czterej pancerni i pies
>Not this wonder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y98ZfNoPK2k&feature=youtu.be

>>25598120
I don't see a tank there.

>>25598092
>tiger ficking tanks
>unpublished
>more dislikes than likes

there is justice in thos world

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>>25598148
Don't be fooled

>>25598214
ok theres some justice, but clearly not enough

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>>25598861
Imagine a Judge Dredd kinda guy who goes around and sentences terrible fiction writers to lives of prison.
To make the idea more interesting, he could go around actually entering the fictional universes, convincing the characters that their worlds and lives are absolutely retarded and making them testify in court against their creators,

>>25599166
Like a slightly less (though probably extremely more) autistic sweetie belle chronicles?

Yeah i could get behind something like that

>>25599721
I unironically enjoy Sweetie Belle Chronicles.
It's got some okay character development (Sweetie is actually affected by all the fucked up shit she sees in other universes) and the The Best Night Ever arc was pretty cool.

>>25599721
>>25599166
I'd read it.
Would kickass222urmom be appropriatedly flogged at the end of every chapter?

>>25599762
Not every chapter. Though i could see LtDland being a very early chapter

>>25599785
I can get behind that.

What's a good feelsy fic?

>>25599166
Even without the judge dredd aspect, id be happy with a quantum leap /sliders thing.

One or a small group of ponies getting randomly thrown into different fanfiction worlds, trying to make these worlds better and less shit, hoping that the next leap will be the one that leads them home

>>25599947
So literally Sweetie Chronicles?

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>>25599944
Nice dubs!!

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/188251/what-could-have-been-lost

>>25599979
>ponies that are actually affected by all the shit that's happened
no don't do this to me
This trope hits me like a fucking bus every time and I don't know why.

>>25599978
Well sweetie chronicles has that whole collecting pieces of the triforce of sparkle

Id envision this as less a collection quest and more 'if this is where we get stuck for the rest of our lives lets make it more tolerable'

>>25600049
I've read a beatiful Ben 10 shipfic which involved the main characters realizing how many times they've barely gotten away alive. It was pretty cool.
I'm just not sure if it could work as a fic all by itself.

>>25600079
Sweetie also gets sent to random universes whenever she picks up a new piece and has to start searching for any sign of a new piece all over again.
The arc I was talking about, the crossover with The Best Night Ever, had her be unable to find it for a very, very long time. After a while, she just dropped the whole search and did her best to try and live her life with Blueblood, knowing tomorrow will never come.
As I was saying, it was pretty cool.
She's also enslaved in some other universe for about a year by a really fucked up creature called Maestro, which required its slave maids to not make a single noise in his house while they were cleaning up, or else he would kill them. If I remember correctly, his "concerts" were implied to be ponies being brutally murdered.

I've been thinking a bit after watching the season finale.

We've seen Starlight fight Twalot that time they returned, only to have RD not do the rainboom because she was distracted.

We saw that both were completely exhausted at the end of the fight, which isn't nothing, considering we have an unicorn in her late 30s-40s fighting a young prodigy alicorn.

How powerful is Twalot then? It could mean she's much less OP than we could have previously thought her to be.

>>25600216
Or Starlight is even more OP. Twilight said "she obviously has more talent for magic than almost everypony I've seen".
You could also theorize that an ascended alicorn doesn't get more power. Unless they said otherwise and I just don't remember.

>>25600216
Ponies are as powerful as the plot needs them to be. That's it.
Trying to get a stable canon power level is jsut senseless in anything that doesn't revolve entirely around them like Dragon Ball.

>>25600470
Umm, please leave?? This thread is for serious MLP lore discussion only...

>>25600509
He's right, you know.

It's why most "who would win" discussions end in a fight. They're only as powerful as the plot needs to be, which in those cases tend to be written by someone with a bias towards one side.

>>25600624
ok whatever...
if you have nothing constructive to say, just leave, nobody neads you here ...

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>>25600216
>an unicorn

>>25600703
I don't see what's wrong.

>>25600624
>They're as powerful as the plot needs to be

Yeah, no.

I'm not even talking about fighting or power level, I'm talking about basic unicorn capacities, and what they can achieve with or without training.

>>25600795
Not that guy, but
>an
>unicorn
Not being a native speaker is not an excuse.

>>25600830
Isn't there a rule to use "an" with words beginning with a vowel?

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>>25600795
"An" goes in front of words that begin with a vowel. This one begins with a consonant, so it's "a unicorn".

Why the fuck can't I make a goddamn post?

>>25600858
/youneecorn/
It starts with a consonant sound.

>>25600879
>>25600864

Well, back to Frenchfag school.

>>25600858
No, but there's a rule to use "an" before words beginning with a vowel sound. "Uni" starts with a consonant sound.

>>25600624
>They're only as powerful as the plot needs to be, which in those cases tend to be written by someone with a bias towards one side.

The show is written by people who don't get paid unless they finish an episode where the pones are as powerful as they need to be to get them out of whatever situation the writer wrote them into.

Just like DBZ's power levels.

>>25600891
Just come over to our Polefag school, we have better English education.

>>25600879

Y is only called a consonant. It's obviously a vowel sound.

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>>25600917
Wrong.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatal_approximant

>>25600912

No shit m8, any English class is better than Quebec's.

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>>25600975
>Quebec
>French

>>25600995
>Sound cajun

That's his own fault. That's what you get for learning French with English as your main language.

>>25600959
>Wrong

"Money" has a consonant at the end.

Sure.

It's a vowel.

And you're a fag.

>>25600975
I was really hoping for a reply just so I could masturbate to my education.
http://www.ef.co.uk/epi/
Ignoring the fact that you're actually Canadian, France's English proficiency is below such famously multilingual nations as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Japan.

>>25601081
And you're fucking retarded.

>>25601091
And your point is?

Again, I'm a Quebecfag, not a Baguettefag.

>>25601117
I had no point, I just wanted to brag about it.
And don't call your school a Frenchfag school, it's misleading.

>>25601136
>Just wanted to brag about it

Go back to studying for your liberal arts degree

>Don't call it Frenchfag school
>What is French as a language

>>25601091

This may explain it for children and retards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pdmaKQauXc

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>>25601081
>a grapheme can be classified as a vowel or consonant
I really, really hope you're just trolling.

>>25601156
But it's misleading, Canada has better education than France.
Also much better English education, I assume.

>>25601163
Not even going to bother t b h, y changes sound depending on its positioning.

>>25601188
>Canada has better education than France.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>Better English education
>In Quebec

OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOH

>>25601618
Well I mean it's fucking France so you know
I think it's safer to assume Canada has better English education

>>25601636
>In Quebec

Again, that's the province issuing a ticket to an Italian restaurant for using the word "pasta".

It's also the province forbidding almost anyone to go in English schools.

So once again,

OOHHOHHOHOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO

>>25601659
Are you memeing me or is that for real?

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>>25601675
It is.

>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/01/quebec-language-police-ban-pasta

As for the second link, look up what's written on page 2.

>http://www.lbpsb.qc.ca/content/Eligibility_Requirements.pdf

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>>25601716
>language inspectors

>>25601761
There's more!

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_French_Language

>>25601761
Honestly, these days that's a must. If you don't that you end up having an abortion of a lingo that is a mix between English (The one used in 'murican movies, mind you, not real English) and the local language.
Hell, here in Argentina the word "Cool" is normally linked to idiots who try to be yankees at this point.

>>25601778
>It also states that the National Assembly is to pursue this objective "in a spirit of fairness and open-mindedness"
lol

>>25601814
We use some English words in Polish too, but we're not being retarded about it. Is it an actual problem anywhere else?

>>25601848
Oooooh yes it is, believe me.
Most of the language related to computers here is the abortion I described. i don't mean as in a word or two, I mean as in English words badly conjugated into Spanish. "Kickeo", "Griffero", "Chitero"
Five or six years ago you could find people saying "Go-o-gle" and "Shoutube" literally, since pronunctuation in Spanish is far more literal than anglo. You'll still find some people saying it from time to time.
Also, Text messages? Hell no, now they are Whatsapps or, thanks to the facebook apk, "Messengers"

>>25601848
Shouldn't you be in bed, sleeping?

>>25601906
>Implying even sleep can take us off this ride.

>>25601906
I'm in bed, should've been asleep roughly an hour ago.

>>25601905
Yeah, we call internet services by their names too.
So you're one of those mythical "vocal language purists" I've heard so much about?

>>25601905
So, when you need to communicate a message over some distance, you send a messenger?

>>25601928
>So you're one of those mythical "vocal language purists" I've heard so much about?
Not so much of a purist, more of someone who is given to cringe. The three examples I gave I've used casually, it's just that it feels forced in these cases.
My point is that Language Police isn't as senseless as it may sound, if you don't want your country to be part of a decadent monoculture destined to fall.God's sake I feel like I am becoming /lit/

>>25601992
I feel more like you have already become /pol/.

>>25601814
> having an abortion of a lingo that is a mix between English and the local language

We're already that in Quebec, anon.

>>25601992

But you can't fall if you're already France.

And France has literal Language Police.

>>25602448
It's not France, it's Quebec.

>>25602469

Someone said Canada has better education than France. Which is probably true, but whatever.

>>25592537
Nope

https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/569094/woops

>quebecfag goes full /int/ again

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So knighty just posted about feeling like the end of this episode would've been a good ending to the show, but I really think this would've been much better. Starlight Glimmer actually destroying the scroll completely instead of pussying out and very slowly ripping it apart just so she could deliver a very shitty backstory, let Twilight convince her with half-assed arguments and become good during a boring song. Then they go back to the "present", only to see this.
Final friendship lesson: don't put your selfish needs before everyone else.
Fade to black, credits, no happy little credits song for the first time ever.

I may be an edgelord, but at least it would be better than whatever Magical Mystery Cure 3.0 musical episode they're undoubtedly going to shit out.

>>25602904
>i think the show should end by having everyone wiped out and replaced by an eternity of suffering where nothing that has taken place over the last five years would matter because of some angry unicorn and her scroll
>and you can put a cheap moral at the end
This isn't just edge, Anon. You're actually dumb. This is a fucking dreadful idea.

>>25602904

>I may be an edgelord

You are. An ending where Friendship is weaker than Selfishness would be precisely antithetical to everything the show's had in it to date. What you just described would be an epically, comically terrible ending, one that would make Dallas's "All Just a Dream" ending seem satisfying by comparison.

Mind you, I didn't care for Glimmer's backstory either, nor the way it was resolved by two minutes of Twi-talk where years upon years of actual life hadn't managed to lessen the sting of that lost friend. I'm just pointing out that, while the actual episode was disappointing, you have described the exact opposite of a FIM episode and claimed it would be an improvement over something which may have been too quick and easy, but at least had the right tone and lesson for the kind of show it is.

>>25603042
>>25603043
You guys just don't understand my vision. I'm leaving this general and making my own, and my show will be better than yours.

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>kh&c, chapter 10

Finally, a chapter that at least tries to pretend to be advancing the plot in some way.

>the guard is running all over Equestria fighting windigoes
>Rarity shows up to help one of the fights and sees Silversteel half-frozen
>starts freaking out, "I don't want to be a widow", etc (same shit as with Derpy)

>Silversteel runs off to the next mission without talking to her
>also doesn't send her a letter for, like, a whole week!
>Rarity is losing her mind, going all emo, literally starts quoting bad poetry:
>“There’s no help for me, for I am ever lost, adrift in a sea of passion unyielding to the darkeness of despair,” she said, staring off into the distance, and apparently quoting from some book of poetry. “I am ever lost, never to be found by my lover’s caress.”
>“I don’t know what I am anymore,” she said to no one in particular, burying her muzzle into the duster. “All I know is that I’ve lost hope.”

>Silversteel gets back from his mission
>Rarity isn't at home so he goes to his apartment instead
>later that night, Rarity finds out he's back in town

>Getting out of bed, he went to the window. Standing there, in the street facing his home, was Rarity, wearing the duster she’d made for him a couple of months ago. She was looking at his window with hope, her horn aglow as if she were casting a spell. But the weirdest part of all was the contraption she held over her head in her forehooves as she stood on her hindlegs, a silvery-metal box that seemed to be where the soft jazz was coming from. She just stood there as the music blared from what he assumed were speakers on the thing.
>Seeing him, she turned off the boombox and set it down. “I want you to know something: I’m never giving up on you. I’m never giving up on us,” she told him. “This life is just you and me, and so long as you’ll have me I’ll always be your mare.”
She literally shows up at his house with a boombox. What the fuck am I reading.

So if Twilight is a Wizard, is Starlight a Sorcerer?

Using D&D terms here.

>>25603199
Dunno about Twilight, but you probably are.

Using internet terms here.

get it? I called you a virgin for liking tabletops!

>>25603199
Trying force characters into D&D classes is about as good as trying to see everyone inside the fucking alignment chart.
It's pointless.

>>25603123
>“I want you to know something: I’m never giving up on you
>I'm never letting you down
>I'm never running around and desert you

Fuck. If I couldnt resist doing that I dont know how the fuck he did

>>25603374
I'd understand that if she said "I'm never gonna give you up", but "not giving up on you" is a pretty common thing to say.

>>25603430
he ponified a scene from say anything.

if youre just going to throw in shitty 80s movie references to your terrible fic is a rickroll really any worse?

>>25603649
Yes. Rickrolling is a forced and tired ancient meme nobody should even remember anymore.
By the way, he didn't ponify shit. Here's the actual scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

>>25603699
God damn you. I actually got up and walked to another room to use my other computer which actually has Flash, because I thought you'd found a specific scene he lifted the dialogue from.

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>>25603744
>Flash
Dude.
YouTube has been using HTML5 as the primary playback method for a very long time now.
Pic related.

>>25603771
I know, I actually don't have Flash installed on any of my machines. That was just an excuse for why I walked to another room to watch the video, so I could avoid explaining that I have the thread open on my desktop and my laptop (in the other room), but the mouse from my desktop is plugged into my other desktop right now, and it was easier to go to the other room rather than plug the mouse back into my main desktop, open the link on my main desktop using the keyboard, or open the thread on my other desktop and then click the link.

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>>25603842
Either way, I'm ON FIRE with these ancient memes today.

>>25603699
>By the way, he didn't ponify shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Y8tFQ01OY

>Standing there, in the street facing his home,
>wearing the duster
>looking at his window with hope
>the weirdest part of all was the contraption she held over her head in her forehooves
>a silvery-metal box that seemed to be where the soft jazz was coming from
>just stood there as the music blared from what he assumed were speakers on the thing


yup. totally didnt ponify anything

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>>25603949
Dude, I literally only wrote that for the joke.

>>25603982
uh huh.

though honestly its probably pretty safe for hacks to throw in scenes from 80s movies and come off as original. I really doubt there are all that many people reading horsewords who were around in the 80s to have seen the shit getting ripped off

>>25604415
>uh huh.
Seriously, I've never even heard of that movie before.

>>25563385
Some more full stops or even some semi-colons in here would have been good.

>>25604931
ummm if you don't like it don't read it?????

>>25604969
You'd think a writing thread would appreciate some constrictive criticism.

>>25605336
>constrictive criticism.
I know it's a typo, but I laughed.

>>25605336
You'd think a "critic" would be able to recognize an obvious joke reply slash bait when they see it.

You see, the ITT part of the OP never had proper formatting because it's just a mostly effortless thread summary for us. Whoever made the OP just likes quantity over quality.

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>>25604969
no one ever reads the op anyways

>>25604969
Umm, if you don't like it then don't read it, okay?

>>25605371
At least it was't conscriptive criticism.

>>25605629
This was genuinely funny. Now let the circle jerk begin.

>>25580902
when did twilight become so bad at magic
Kinda rushed ending but meh.

>>25596652
>around two years
Not completely sure, but I feel like it's been less. IIRC, Pinkie Pride was just a year after the first episode. Kick me if I am wrong.

I don't think that your points make that much sense, anyway - being surprised at weird information isn't a sign of weakness, and I doubt she would have changed her character during the time much, especially since she acted basically the same as in the show.

>>25596931
>were more "real"
See, this would kind of imply that Zecora would have know about their universe not being the "main" one all along, and that feels sort of far fetched.

>zebra shaman magic
I'd say that this is the canon explanation, and my problem with it is just that it's kind of baseless and uninteresting plot-device.

>>25600216
I was very happy each time Twilight got her shit handed to her, since we could see that extremely hard work and determination can be on par, if not beat, magic of friendship. Starlight Glimmer best pony 2016, I am glad I ordered that plush a week ago.

1/2
So, the main problem that people have with the episode seems to be the ending, for a couple of reasons - Starlight Glimmer seems to have a very weak backstory with extremely weak justification for her actions, her redemption was very quick and she wasn't punished for any of the things that she did, but instead got a bunch of frienships. Let's think.

Is it too far fetched to believe that in Equestria, a world that seems to run purely on friendship, someone could be this devastated because the act of gaining a cutie mark separated her from another pony? Of course, creating multiple apocalypses is not something that would be justified, but then again, she never thinks that she is actually creating them, and while her village had the "punishment chamber", we don't see proof that anyone but Mane 6 were directly forced to accept the ideology she stood for.

Since she could only fuel her town is she retained her magic, her keeping her cutie mark isn't as much her being a hypocrite, but her having no way of doing what she does. Her attack on Twilight was never intended to destroy Equestria, but rather to make Twilight experience the same that she experienced in her childhood, and when she saw the consequences, she didn't even believe them. So the attack on Twilight isn't as much as a plot to destroy Equestria as it is a revenge story, which, while right to do, is much more believable and justifiable in the context.

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>>25605629
I ended up not sleeping at all.

>>25607643
>Is it too far fetched to believe that in Equestria, a world that seems to run purely on friendship, someone could be this devastated because the act of gaining a cutie mark separated her from another pony?
We've seen criminals helping a Daring Do villain, we've seen crystal ponies being enslaved TWICE, we've seen war, we've seen rebelliants living in fear of changelings and "destroying" any changeling they find, we've seen some genuinely bad ponies in less important episodes.
Stop with this meme already.

>we don't see proof that anyone but Mane 6 were directly forced to accept the ideology she stood for.
We've seen it exist, we've seen it being used, we've seen it work. YOU don't have proof the chamber HASN'T been used on anyone else.

Everything else is correct, but she's done fucked up shit in the season opening and decided to take revenge on ponies who punished her. That's like a criminal killing a cop who's rightfully arrested him.

>1/2
Don't.

>>25607643
2/3 now. I accidentally deleted the rest of the post by taking an unrelated screenshot. Good job, me. Let's try again.

Her redemption consisted of two parts - seeds of doubt getting inside of her and the song. I think a lot of people say that it was too sudden, but she started being unsure long before she admitted it, which is kind of proven by how slowly she tore the spell, which was also kind of over the top, but that's what internal battles tend to be. She was fine with whatever punishment Twilight would provide for her, but Twilight decided that she deserved a second chance without any punishment. Was it an error on Twilight's part? At the least, it definitely wasn't out of character for her, but whether it was a lapse in judgement is debatable.

Equestria is not our world, that is for sure. While they face a lot of the same problems, "doing the right thing" is much more often a solution that benefits all parties, and they are generally much more positive, social, and much, much more forgiving. If anything, the fact that Starlight Glimmer is so sure of her getting punished shows that she is a more "real" character than the more cartoon-ish, overly positive creatures that inhabit the rest of Equestria.

Whether she deserved to be punished more is more subjective, at least in my opinion. When she created the town, she didn't seem to be forcing other ponies to accept her ideology and they seemed to be at least partly aware of the consequences. While she did so under false pretense, she had her heart in the right place, which counts much more in this world than in the real one. And if it counts for anything, the ponies were willing to forgive her when she came to apologize, and in the end, she did at the very least organize a whole town for them, which wasn't based on any inherently bad premises, but that could be a whole debate of its own.

>>25607813
>2/3
Dear God.

>but she started being unsure long before she admitted it
No she didn't. Twilight started telling her shit about the future and she instantly went into internal battle mode, then they go to the future where Starlight pretends to be experiencing denial, then she goes to present her underwhelming backstory and they immediately get back to the present.

Everything else is just tons of speculation that still manages to fall apart when you consider the points I made in my previous post.

>>25607813
3/3 for realzies now.

About apocalypses - this is where it gets really muddy. In the case in which she stopped bullies from attacking FlutterButters, it could be argued that the act itself is a morally good one, but the consequences leave Equestria in ruin. The world gets messed up by really crazy butterfly effect, and we know that Starlight herself did this only to take something precious away from Twilight, to show her how it feels to lose a friend. While it's definitely not a good thing to do, it is much more logical and it's more of a personal revenge, instead of a ploy to destroy Equestria.

On the butterfly effect, can the indirect consequences of an action really decide whether it is good or not? This is very complicated, but I don't think that she should be punished for the potential outcomes of the actions, but rather for the actions themselves. If you believe that people can be held accountable through butterfly effect, then she did get off the hook easily, but if you disagree with that idea, the punishment really depended on the ponies that were affected by her actions, and they decided to forgive her.

I am obviously not claiming this is objective truth, I am just putting my thoughts out there to compare them with yours.

>>25563385
The autismwhinnies prompts are giving me goosebumps, wtf.

>>25607890
>it could be argued that the act itself is a morally good one
I'd actually argue she did it simply to fuck with Twilight, because she knew The Princess of Friendship(tm) couldn't stop a kind pony lecturing a misbehaving child.

You're still arguing that it wasn't her intention to destroy Equestria, which anyone with half a brain already knows, because it's been fucking stated outright right in the god damn episode.

The second paragraph is you CONTINUING to argue that she didn't plan to destroy Equestria.

Here are my thoughts - you completely missed why people REALLY didn't like the episode.

>>25607790
>Stop with this meme already.
The alternate universe cases are ones in which the world is in ruin because of the lack of friendship, so I'd say that those are actually more of points for me. And I never claimed that all ponies are good, I am just saying that Equestria is a much happier and frienship-based than the real world, which means that someone who loses a friend would likely be more affected than people in the real world.

>YOU don't have proof
I didn't mean that the chamber wasn't used to punish ponies for the actions, but I think that a lot of ponies started out purely consensually, especially since Fluttershy, one of the Mane 6 seemed like she would like it there, so a lot of other ponies could feel the same way. I'd say that if everyone was in fear of her and didn't believe her words, an uprising would be extremely likely, since she is, well, just a single pony

>>25607881
>pretends to be experiencing denial
Huh?

>speculation
Yes, that's what tends to happen in these threads. Really though, I don't think it "falls apart", and even though it is just speculation, I was trying to base it in reality as much as possible.

>>25607926
>I'd actually argue she did it simply to fuck with Twilight
Oh, I would never deny that her intentions were not good ones, I only meant that the very act of stopping the bullies is a good one. Sorry for not being really clear before, semantics often get in the way in these discussions that can be disrupted by a single misunderstanding.

>which anyone with half a brain already knows
Not as much arguing about her intentions but rather about whether she should be held accountable, since I saw some people online saying that she should have been punished for the multiple apocalypses. I have not really followed any pony things save for the show for half a year now, so I am kind of out of loop regarding how people liked what, so my induction skills regarding episode enjoyment are probably rusty.

Aand I am out of space again.

>>25607926
>you completely missed why people REALLY didn't like the episode.
I specifically posted about the ending, because I don't really feel like analysing the whole thing, and I think that the points that can be made for the rest of the episode are much more valid than some of the stuff that gets thrown around regarding the ending. I am definitely not arguing for this being the best episode or even something that is objectively good, but I wanted to address some of the criticism that I feel was unwarranted.

If you want to discuss some other things, I am definitely up for it, since I actually enjoyed the episode a whole bunch, and our opinions seem to differ a lot, so it could be interesting.

>>25608020
>The alternate universe cases are ones in which the world is in ruin because of the lack of friendship
Are you merely pretending? It wasn't lack of friendship, it was because these six ponies weren't there to get the Elements.

>I am just saying that Equestria is a much happier and frienship-based than the real world, which means that someone who loses a friend would likely be more affected than people in the real world.
And I'm saying that's bullshit, they might be happier as a society, but we've seen that ponies give as much shit about others as humans do, unless you count Canterlot ponies, which are much worse.

>especially since Fluttershy, one of the Mane 6 seemed like she would like it there
That was only because they were friendly. I don't remember her being so keen on the whole idea later on.

>Huh?
She obviously knew the spell took them back to the present, because she both knows exactly how the spell works and because she then started justifying her actions to Twilight.

>since I saw some people online saying that she should have been punished for the multiple apocalypses
Don't mind them, they were born this way.

>>25608047
I liked the whole episode as long as I didn't question why Twilight didn't just cast the timetravel spell as soon as she got back to the present, considering its shield thing would protect them anyway, but the ending sucked some serious cock.

>If you want to discuss some other things, I am definitely up for it,
Fuck no, I didn't get any sleep, I'm not dressed, I didn't eat anything and I need to leave in about half an hour.
Instead, I'm unironically arguing about MLP lore.

>>25608081
>It wasn't lack of friendship, it was because these six ponies weren't there to get the Elements.
Uhh, that's what I meant by lack of friendship. It might seem weird that I meant just this specific six-way friendship, but that is exactly what I meant. They did spread a lot of that around.

>we've seen that ponies give as much shit about others as humans do
I wouldn't say that this really represents them as a whole that much, but
>unless you count Canterlot ponies, which are much worse.
point. I need to rethink my position here.

>I don't remember her being so keen
I meant that as an example of how she could have convinced ponies without forcing - the Mane 6 didn't trust them because they had each other to back them up, so it was harder to convince them, and they had the Map to tell them that something's off.

>She obviously knew the spell took them back to the present, because she both knows exactly how the spell works and because she then started justifying her actions to Twilight.
I'd say that this is her being in denial, not pretending to be in denial.

>casting as soon as she got back to the present
In the first time, she wasn't sure about what was going on, and in the NMM universe she tried to do something, but her horn fizzled or something. She did leave instantly a couple of times, but other than that, like the Zecoraverse, it was really just to show the audience what could have happened.

Have fun at your job/uni/whatever!

>>25608183
>They did spread a lot of that around.
Apart from saving the world from the obvious, they helped, like, a few ponies with friendship problems. That's it.

>I wouldn't say that this really represents them as a whole that much
Then here's some more to consider: every Manehattan episode. City ponies are basically humans, Ponyville just happens to be the small happy village with happy people where the show's action is set in.

>I meant that as an example of how she could have convinced ponies without forcing
Me too. The idea that its citizens are kind to each other is nice and appealing, but I'd imagine if Flutter "Fucking Retard" Shy noped out of there, other ponies would too.

>the Mane 6 didn't trust them because they had each other to back them up
The brainwashing chamber part comes to mind. Even the six best friends in Equestria couldn't get through that much longer.

>I'd say that this is her being in denial, not pretending to be in denial.
I'd say it's not, seeing as how she obviously knows it's real 5 seconds later. I think maybe it's just how she deals with heavy emotions. She's been getting pretty angry during confrontations she didn't have an upper hoof in.

>Have fun at your job/uni/whatever!
Fuck that, I need to eat more than I need to attend this one stupid lesson right before a two hour break.

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[Pt. 1]

>>25590675
>Make A Wish gets a kid onto the show
>people immediately draw porn of
>kid's mom gets pissed
>drama ensues
>kid is actually honored people draw detailed dick pictures of his OC
>drama ends
Pic related sort of summarizes it.

>>25590693
I honestly find the idea of it being a wingblade more plausible than a cybernetic--especially given they're still using spears and steam locomotives in the AU. Equestria's got some weird tech gaps, but it couldn't get that big.

>>25591569
I was more referring to the show taking all the grimdark fics and using their basic plots. They didn't really show enough in any of the AU scenes to indicate just how shit everything got.

>>25594389
>murdering the rest of the mane six
That would be Severing. The very first evil!Twilight fic written and so old, you have to go to the Pony Fiction Archive to get it (http://www.ponyfictionarchive.net/viewstory.php?sid=364). The sequel, Reconnection, written by a different author's not bad either (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/50695/reconnection).

>>25596183
>Zecora part was the weakest
For the AUs? Sure. But Glimmer's backstory was the shittiest part of the whole two parter.

>>25599166
>actually entering the fictional universes
Reminds me of the SCP guys "decommissioning" all the shitty Mary Sue eldrich abominations, only to realize they turned their own characters into shitty Mary Sues in the process.

He who fights Mary Sues...

>>25600216
>How powerful is Twalot then?
The real answer is she's as powerful as the writers need her to be.

You could argue she's a shit fighter with shit aim and has been expending a lot of power repeatedly spamming that time travel spell, but I still think the writer made Glimmer too OP. Which is one of the reasons they should have stuck to one of the AUs and had Twilight try and find Glimmer instead of the repetitive Cloudsdale fight scenes.

[Pt. 2]

>>25600858
The rule is how it sounds, not the actual spelling. If it uses a vowel sound, it gets "an," if it uses a consonant sound, it gets "a"

"Unicorn" starts with "you," a consonant sound, so it gets "a." Likewise, "an honest error" has an "an" because "honest" uses a vowel sound (ah), despite starting with a consonant.

>>25602904
>canon grimdark ending
>better than quite literally any other possible ending
That's some shit opinion you have there.

>>25603744
>not having [Embed] enabled so you can just mouse over it and see what the video is

>>25607890
You sound like one of those holocaust deniers claiming Hitler wanted to deport the Jews.

He did nothing wrong desu

>>25608866
>pic

Top kek

>>25608866
>Pic
That...
Say what you want, but I suddenly respect the boy a bit.

>>25609912
>implying he doesn't masturbate to ponies but had to pretend not to because muh public image

>>25610370
I don't care about that, a weird fetish or two is healthy, I mean that he didn't go full on sperg about it and took the most mature option.

>>25610387
He's into it, so he's defending it, is what I'm saying.

>>25608877
>[Pt. 2]
>no actual part 2 follows; instead, it's just another bunch of replies with no bearing whatsoever on "part 1"

What's the damn point of tricking people into thinking you're posting a continuation of the preceding reply?

>>25610871
He's been doing that since forever.
It's just so everyone knows it's him, since there were a couple of people who were really anal about his multi-reply, so they can recognise it's him and skip it.

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>>25600995
>Caring about French people

>>25608315
>a few ponies with friendship problems
We know that there is some stuff that we don't see, but even ignoring that, a lot of ponies have been affected! Over the Barrel alone is a huge group, and each of the S4 rainbow item ponies could have spread the lessons pretty wide, and even some of the city ponies got better with their community with Cutie Pommel and the whole play shindig.

But yeah, I admit that city ponies are generally assholes.

>Flutter "Fucking Retard" Shy noped out of there
She kind of noped out because the city rhythm had been disrupted which caused all sorts of trouble. Starlight also messed it all up herself with being so wrapped up in controlling everyone.

>>25608866
>Wingblades
I never participated in the old discussions about them, but the ones that we are seeing are obviously unlikely to be straight up robotic prosthetics, but wingblade is even dumber than that. We've seen magic fuel mechanical devices with Tank flying, so this is likely magic as well.

Thanks for Severing, it's definitely enjoyable, even if it's not necessarily great. It has a nice S1 fandom feel to it.

>Glimmer's backstory was the shittiest part of the whole two parter.
Even with how much I've defended her in this thread, I can't disagree with that.

>You could argue she's a shit fighter with shit aim
I'd say that her being a bad fighter is a major point here. SG studied specifically for the purpose of taking revenge on Twilight, while Mary Purple Princess Sue studied the magic of friendship. Glimmer seemed to defeat her a bit too easily though, a bit more struggling, or even better yet, cunning and trickery would have been great.

>>25608877
>The rule is how it sounds, not the actual spelling.
I see that you are still the old you - answering posts that have already been answered without adding anything new. I still love you, but come on man, this just takes up space for no reason.

>>25610871
And I see that there are still people who do this as well. Never change

>>25609586
>You sound like one of those holocaust deniers claiming Hitler wanted to deport the Jews.
I actually do believe that a lot of knowledge about holocaust is overblown and unreliable, since it happened so long time ago, but I am definitely not a denier. Yes, this is very relevant information.

I see how I might sound too defensive about SG, but I just really started liking her after this episode, and I had some major gripes with the opening episodes, and while they weren't about her, my experience was made somewhat worse by the mess. Now I think she a qt.

>>25610370
I honestly think that it is fine, and he is being a good sport in a proper way. I always liked this story.

Added to my Sunset story (After a year) and added a prequel type chapter to explain why this universe is different.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/166524/sunsets-on-spike-sunset-of-canterlot

>>25611008
I considered it a useless quirk, but I see how it's easier to write a filter for that than to tinker with regular expressions to get satisfactory results for the general case. So, even when he makes a single multi-reply post, it's still prefaced with "[Pt. 1]", right?

>>25611091
>And I see that there are still people who do this as well. Never change
And I see that there are still people who make worthless meta-comments that don't answer the questions. Never change.

>>25611194
>And I see that there are still people who make worthless meta-comments that don't answer the questions.
C'mon mate, these threads are for fun, don't let banter bring you down! I didn't answer the question because someone had already answered it right before, so me answering properly would have been just simply redundant. I do find it funny how many times people have managed to complain about the guy's posting style.

And I would have never made a single post just to answer something in a joking way, I do try to have my posts to contain at least some proper discussion, at least by my own standards.

>>25611108
Hm, the story description alone seems to contain multiple errors ranging from lack of capitalizations to weird misspellings. If you need help with some of that, call out in the thread and I might help out, but I'd suggest trying some proofreading of your own, since you should be able to write yourself as well, instead of relying on proofreaders.

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>character ends up in pone world
>"better attack him"
>"wow we shouldn't have attacked him"
>"why is character such a jerk/emotionally distant"
>"lets see why with a spell INTO THEIR MIND"
>"W-WHO HURT YOU, CHARACTER"
>emotional breakdown
>it's all good

>>25611356
...what?