FimFiction thread - Now with 68% more futagets

>>28269223
don't even use this general first post get steal

second for the chase is the greatest piece of literature of our generation

third for futamac get

I do like the idea of futamac

futaloo git

sixth for doubles

>>28269855
Holy fucking hell.

>>28269917
meh. it was only impressive the first time. then he was dumb enough to explain how and im no longer moist for his phallus

Hi, /fimfic/! I need a break from Faulkner. Shill me your magnum opus.

>>28270047
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/29277/king-of-equestria

What kinds of stories are most likely to get featured here?

I want to write feature-bait but I don't watch the feature box enough to know what kind of shit gets pushed in there.

>>28271368

Dude, you don't even need to read the stories; you can just glance at the titles and descriptions. Takes thirty seconds a day, tops.

Anyway, your best bets for getting featured lie more in promoting than in content. Put your story in a bunch of relevant groups, enter it in some contest, like the Writeoff or F*** This Prompt, just generally get eyes on it.

But as far as content goes, fluffly SoL and comedy oneshots are both good choices, especially if you can find some catchy "Pony Verbs Noun" title to slap on them ("TD Punches Everything), or can otherwise describe a unique premise in the title itself ("Thorax is Secretly a Changeling").

Porn is another decent way to go, but to make the feature box there provoking a reaction is key. Try for a specific fetish, and push it far enough over the top that people will read it both to jack off to, and because their sickened by the premise. Hate-reading counts for heat, too!

>>28271368
>shit gets pushed in there
youre on the right track. m/m gay clop is a safe bet

or just bandwagon onto whatever shit appears popular this week

>>28271565
>>28271592
Good advice from both of you.

I'll just take a look at the large, trending groups and write a story catering to as I can without making it too disjointed or unfocused. EqG and Thorax are both huge right now, so I'll probably have Thorax in the EqG universe. A vomit-inducing premise, I know, but I think it'll attract upvotes like nobody's business. The one fic I wrote with Thorax that was intentionally a huge piece of shit is also my most viewed, so something that has Thorax and isn't completely terrible might have a chance.

Hopefully the Changeling bandwagon doesn't go kaput after this episode.

>>28271658
>isn't completely terrible
Have you ever been on fimfiction? thats not even a prerequisite for being popular.

>>28271744
I know, but I'd rather not try to push my luck too much. Fortuna hates me enough as it is.

>>28271766
You can literally be shit and write what's in the meta, and that will get you in the box in no time.

>>28272312
I'm just ripping off some ancient Greek comedy and switching a few roles (mostly gender roles) to make it more palatable to this audience. And so I have an excuse to make Thorax the main character.

The only thing I really have to be careful of is making sure I don't use any terribly hated ship. There will be plenty of ships just because that's the nature of this story that I'm ripping off, so I'm playing on popularity (Discord/Fluttershy) and taboos (Shining Armor/Twilight Sparkle).

Hopefully this cynical cash-in serves me well.

>>28271592
>m/m gay clop is a safe bet
I barely ever see m/m stuff in the feature box except if some hugely popular fetish author writes it
I see m/f and f/f stuff way more often, especially if it contains either some very specific fetish or just loads of fetishes
I'd say the best way to whore yourself out is writing fluffy SoL

Would a story set in a canon alternate timeline need the AU tag?

>>28274834
Depends on the intensity of the alternate element. What are we talking about?

>>28274834
I'd say yes, if you're exploring a might have been that couldn't possibly be in the main canon timeline.

I think it's AU even if a glimpse of it was shown in an episode, as long as it's not the main timeline.

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>>28268700
>If you had a gravy train, would you ever want to get off?
Fuck the gravy train. I just want a few fags to enjoy some of my stories and think it was nice, not a bunch of clingy yes men with no taste. Internet fame is overrated.

>>28274859
I was thinking about writing a story about a magical research facility set in the Sombra alternate timeline
>>28275079
Alright, thanks

>>28275102
>set in the Sombra alternate timeline

Sounds like a big enough change for AU.

Will you participate in this weekend's writeoff?

https://writeoff.me/event/56-Princess-Not-Included

You only need to write a story between 400 and 750 words.

>>28275749
The theme is Princess not included?

>>28276073
Yes.
So you can technically write about anything as long as it doesn't include a Princess.

>>28275749
I'll be sitting out.
If I have to hammer out 750 words, they may as well be on one of the stories I'm currently writing.

I'll try to write for the short story rounds, though.

>>28275749

I'm partway through an entry, but I think it's going to go way over 750 words once I've beaten it into shape.

If it does, I'll probably skip the writeoff and just submit it as a stand-alone on fimfiction, since I don't think this story will be one I can cut a lot of dead weight from.

>>28275749

I'm 103 words over the maximum and I don't know what to cut. Fuck my life.

>>28277832

Okay, I did it. My story's the one with no introduction and everyone speaking exclusively in contractions

So, how long do you guys think it'll be before a Dungeons and Discords fic will hit the featured box?

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Any journey/adventure themed ones involving the Mane 6 and CMC you could recommend?

>>28278602
All nine of them?

>>28278602
Only one that comes to mind is "Mystara's Little Ponies"
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/2857/mystaras-little-ponies-friendship-is-adventuring
It's not exactly high quality, but it's pretty fun.

>>28275749
>Get stories to review
>15 stories
>Read 3 to get a feel
>Two first I've read have nothing to do with the theme
>Nothing happens in the third and the theme is shoehorned in only at the end

I love this website.

Cadence or Cadance?

>that joker story in the featured box

this ones gonna hurt

>>28279436

My first two were both really good. My third and fourth didn't have any overarching plot. Haven't gotten any further, but I'm glad to see I haven't hit any lolsrandom crap yet.

How could a story have no connection to the theme? This is the easiest prompt I've seen, just write a story without any of the princesses. Or write a story about the princesses not doing something. How do you mess that up?

>>28279802
El Taco Loco looks like pure "lolrandom". I mean, setting a story in the comics, okay. But then you rnadomly drop in Glimmer, who is getting pounded by some communist Russian beard, and who meets a siren who would have no means of getting in the story. I really can't figure something linked with the prompt.

I've also talked about SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. The theme is only tightly stuck in at the end, and doesn't really make sense to the story. I'd work just fine without it, and that's what's bugging me. Why enter a story in a competition if it doesn't even work around the theme?

>>28279829
>Why enter a story in a competition if it doesn't even work around the theme
because you had a 600 word snippet of a story that never materialized from 6 years ago saved in a .txt file in a folder somewhere and decided to get at least some mileage out of it by entering it into a write off that had a vague premise and an eligible wordcount

>>28279531
I've surrendered to Cadance, even though it should be Cadence.

>>28271592
>m/m gay clop is a safe bet
Did I finally reach the bizarro world?

>>28278346
An eternity.

>>28279531
Cadence.

>>28280064
no but he literally said 'shit gets pushed in there so I just had to go for the sodomy joke. you'd have done the same in my shoes, anon

>>28280148
but you don't push in shit during anal

>>28280156
you do if they werent expecting it and thus havent cleaned out their cornhole

its called fudgepacking for a reason i guess

>>28280171
i'd call that scat fetishism myself

>>28280179
or love

t. mythril moth

>>28279851
Still better than that HiE chosen one minific.

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>>28280183

>>28280390
this can't be real

>>28280788
How new are you?

>>28280390
hoof me
hoof me HARD

>>28280390
I will never understand why people think it's okay to include their fetish in anything other than clopfics

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>>28280788
Where do you think you are?

>>28280390
Stop reminding us.

>>28280793
>>28281055
I just still refuse to believe he'd actually do that.
I know he keeps shoehorning some "subtle" references to his fetishes into his stories, but surely he wouldn't just do this shit all of a sudden, right?

>>28279531
The shows seems to have hesitated for a while then settled on Candance, even though it makes no sense.

>>28281067
Again, how new are you to Fimfic?

futaloo bump

I wrote an intro today, I don't like it that much because I can always see myself doing better but I never get there.

Que sera, sera.

This is hilarious because it's about hopes and dreams.

And gratuitous amounts of cum.

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>>28283123
1. Write something
2. Read it
3. Realize it's shit
4. Never write anything better
5. Kill self

Almost done with my checklist!

>>28283163 >>28283123

Welcome to writing.

Can I just publish smut?

>>28283163
You'll never finish the checklist.
Around here? No one ever does.
You'll be stuck, trying to find the end.
Just like a lot of readers.

>People expecting us to bring revolutionizing ideas and expand on headcanons in the write-off

Is it always like this?

>>28284807
>Is it always like this?
Yes.

>>28284829
I'd understand it in longer pieces, revolving around building a plot element, but doing this in <750 words just seems like a waste of characters to me.

>>28284891

It sounds like the problem is authors trying to write stories that require significant headcanon or explanation. If you not YOU, but, you know, "you" can't tell your story in 750 words, saying "well, there's a word limit for the contest" doesn't make it any better. You should be trying to tell a different story then - one that you can communicate satisfactorily within that limit.

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Do you think this could be acceptable cover art, or is it 2lewd4fimfic?

>>28285214
Fine to me m8

>>28285214
no nips, lips, or dicks? good2go

>>28285214
Why is her tail sprouting from the middle of her back?

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>>28285967
Because I hadn't noticed that before you pointed it out.
fugg...

>>28286065

Looks easily editable though.

>>28271368
Comedy/SoL oneshots, something relating to this week's episode, Proper Noun Verbs Article Common Noun, "flavors of the month" (five score, the Twilight peach stories, etc.) a sequel to a previously popular story you wrote, a controversial plot bound to ignite arguments (TCB, rape played for comedy, fix fic, etc.), or a creative and original idea that hasn't been done before are the usual candidates.

>>28274834
>canon alternate timeline
Since you can only mean the S5 finale ones, I'd say yes, as they all substantially deviate from the "main timeline" and so qualify for the AU tag.

>>28279531
Credits/scripts say it's "Cadance."

>>28280390
What I find most baffling is this isn't even fetishy. There's two sentences of description, neither of them really relating to scat, followed by a lame song.

If you're going to put your fetish in a fic, don't half ass it--it's either all or nothing.

>>28285214
When in doubt, run it by a mod.

Given the position of Spike's mouth, I'd say it's probably 2lewd.

>>28286795
>Given the position of Spike's mouth,

I-I swear, he's making farts on her stomach!

Slow af

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>>28280390
>straightouttaindia.png

>>28288413
He's actually a 40 year old autist from Texas.

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>My 3 month hiatus ended a few days ago
>now doing roughly 1K words a day

Life's good right now. What's everyone's worst hiatus/writer's block? This one was my worst so far. Readers are probably pissed again.

>>28288692
My worst one lasted 6 years.
But don't worry, I can feel the next one starting, so I might break the record this time.

>>28288692
24 years.

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Finally got another chapter nearly done, just need to tweak it. But I feel like I left the ending a little awkward, do you think there's a better way I can fix it up?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19QfAJr-3-n2j_csEEODfyG--kPdEgngEm9Bcao_9Zww/edit?usp=sharing

Here's the rest of the fic that's uploaded if you want to see it too.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/339211/shattered-diamonds

Thank you, any thoughts are appreciated.

>>28289677
>any thoughts are appreciated.
Aight.
The description looks very edgy and manages to leave very little to the imagination at the same time.
I feel like I can already tell what the whole plot is and I don't even need to start reading, nothing will surprise me.

Hoping to be wrong,
- Some asshole on the Internet

>>28289722
What's a way to write such a description less edgy then? I mean in a story about Nightmare Rarity, it is going to be obvious what happens.

>>28289677
What >>28289722 said is right, the description should really just be a hook for the story and lay out the general premise, not contain the entire plot

>>28289806
So what's a way to rewrite it, it's not the entire plot at all, but it comes off as such?

>>28289818
It's hard to say how exactly to rewrite without knowing the story, but I'd cut everything after the first sentence and write something based on your short description instead

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>>28289928
So the short description is fine, just the longer one is bad? What about:

>The mantle of nightmares has been taken up again, threatening to disrupt the balance of harmony in the land. Twilight Sparkle uncovers the long history of nightmare magic in Equestria, but when it comes to actually facing the threat, it's easier said than done. Especially when the new incarnation of the curse is none other than one of the ponies she holds most dear.

Does that sound any better? I don't really like pretending it's not obvious that Rarity's the villain, and the problem I have with that though, with the story, it's not just something about Twilight. It's a story about Rarity and Twilight's relationship. So I feel like in a way, even that is what happens, it's not the biggest part of the story. I mean, I guess it sounds better as a hook at least.

>>28289928
Not that anon, but I take a few issues with the description as well. Mainly, that it's too wordy. It's plagued by passive phrasing and unnecessary modifiers that deprive it of the sort of punch that a description needs to hook readers.

As for the content, I don't care for it. I feel like this'll be a wangst fest, like the ones typical of Luna and Spike fics, but with Rarity instead. The other anon called it edgy. I'm not one to use edgy as a pejorative, but this sounds edgy in the bad way, i.e. angsty. Angst is not entertaining.

>>28290235
Much better.

>>28290235
Yeah, that's much better
I don't think you're really pretending that it's not Rarity, the cover art alone makes that pretty clear

>>28290235
I think it's a big step up from the other description, though the overall theme is still not what I usually would read, but that's on me.

>>28290239
Nah, fuck him for giving me irrational expectations about candy.

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>>28290239
Sleep tight, Mr Wonka.
;_;7

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>>28286795
>>28287727
He's too high to be performing cunnilingus on Glimmyglam.
He is, however, perfectly positioned for some teat sucking.
I'll ask the mods.

>>28290239
Why should I care that he's in eternal peace, though?
Usually [s4s] visitations at least have the decency to bring me good fortune.

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>>28290309
>He's too high to be performing cunnilingus on Glimmyglam.
Given the placement of the tail, I wouldn't put too much faith in the placement of the tongue.

>>28290253
Alright, I fixed it as the description. I appreciate your honesty at least, even if it is a bit disheartening to hear. I'm trying to write it a little more than just "edgy nightmare stuff" by being more than that by writing about the character relationships, not just character turns evil and does evil things. But I can see how it can come off as the typical angsty stuff like you described, I'm just trying to avoid that. And I suppose it's difficult to say that without having it completely done.

>>28290364
I don't mind evil characters doing evil things as long as it's fun and/or fascinating. What I mean is I don't want to read a story about "oh, woe is me, my friends don't shower me with their full and undivided attention, I better turn evil now". There are six trillion Luna fics about just that, and they all suck.

And this may just be my opinion, and even a bit of an aside, but "tragic" villains who whine over lame excuses annoy the hell out of me. Take Kylo Ren for example. He's a petulant child who makes Anakin Skywalker look outright stoic by comparison, yet we're supposed to take him seriously as an antagonist and at the same time sympathize with him for his plight. Not only is it an overdone trope, but it's also one that gets more and more ridiculous by the second. Darth Vader was a subtle example of this, and it worked well because it wasn't shoved in our faces to the detriment of Vader's credibility as a villain. If you have to do the whole tragic villain thing, at least take care not to make Nightmare Rarity not look like a whiny cunt.

>>28290459
>not to make Nightmare Rarity not
Remove one of those "not"s. Doesn't matter which.

>>28290459
>to make Nightmare Rarity not look like a whiny cunt.
In the eternal words of worst pony "Whining? I am not whining. I am complaining".

>>28290459
Okay, I get what you mean exactly. And I thought by limiting it to a Rarity/Twilight relationship, I could cut down on the "woe is me, and try to write it more as an insecurity about being nothing but a tool for Twilight. Which, I felt from some things seen in the series, could be a completely valid thing to develop. I thought that was a much better thing to work with rather than "Waaah why won't my friends hang out with me." And all of this really came from the fact that I really didn't like the Nightmare Rarity comic and wanted to write something I enjoyed more.

And I actually liked Kylo Ren, I felt like he was one of the few good things to come from TFA.

>>28290593
>And I thought by limiting it to a Rarity/Twilight relationship, I could cut down on the "woe is me, and try to write it more as an insecurity about being nothing but a tool for Twilight.
There's no reason for Rarity to have this sort of insecurity. Twilight has absolutely no practical reason to keep Rarity around, and the fact that she does shows that she really does care. That said, I could buy it if the whole "Nightmare" thing was some voice in her head whispering paranoia and doubt into her head, which would be really interesting if Rarity was the protagonist. Then you could veer your way into getting a villain protagonist, with enough depth and moral ambiguity to sate even the most pretentious horsefic reader if you do it well enough.

There are mental afflictions in the real world that do similar things. Perhaps get some inspiration from those.

>>28290714
>That said, I could buy it if the whole "Nightmare" thing was some voice in her head whispering paranoia and doubt into her head, which would be really interesting if Rarity was the protagonist.
That actually is what's happening, what I was writing so far. And the story is split between Rarity and Twilight as focus. Perhaps I'll veer more into that as the story goes on, and have even more focus on Nightmare Rarity as a protagonist than intended.

>>28290768
Sounds good. I hope it all ends in tears at the end. For the characters, I mean; not for you.

>>28291102
But what if starlite is secretely futa and skipe is a faggot?

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>>28290333
Pardon the repost.

>>28290239
Oh wait he's actually dead. Well, fuck.

>>28291132
Wait are you the author of the that pic?

>>28291220
No, I just coloured it.

I want my adventure fic to appear in the feature box. What name should I give it?

>>28291650
There are two ways to do that.

You can write a genuinely good story with a title that screams adventure and will attract the readers in need of escapism.

Or can you ride on whatever is popular now, spit out a meme name that'll get you featured for a day and forgotten next week.

>>28289677
I noticed a few errors
>but the truth was it was a period where there were very little ponies who actually kept tract of history.
"tract" should be "track"
>When you’re finished, come back up here and continuing studying the history as I mentioned.
"continuing" should be "continue"
> Twilight’s vast knowledge in magic and spell casting compared to Rarity’s meager use of telepathy
"telepathy" should be "telekinesis"
>“It’s good to see you again Twilight.”
It should be "again, Twilight"
>“Just forget it Rarity.”
Again, "it, Rarity" instead of "it Rarity"
>Twilight turned around, walked away from Rarity.
"turned around, and walked away from Rarity"

And yeah, the ending feels kind of contrived, I don't feel like Twilight would be such a bitch in that particular sutiation

>>28291686
>genuinely good story
>featured box
Pick one.

>>28292068
The only reason the feature box is full of crap, is that there are few genuinely good stories. When anything remotely good drops a new chapter, it gets featured.

Or maybe you're one of these people who think everyone else's tastes is shit and their misunderstood magnum opus with 200 views deserves to be features more than the popular "overrated" stories?

>>28291810
Thanks, I'll fix those up. And I'm trying to think of a better way to adjust that ending still, I admittedly was a bit tired while writing it and just wanted to have something done, figuring I can fix it up later if I get some thoughts.

Was there at least anything you liked about it, aside from that did it come off as okay?

>>28292154
I did like Rarity's characterization and her interactions with the nightmare, but I didn't really enjoy it overall
That's not your fault though, I just generally don't like this kind of story

>>28292217
Okay, thank you for reading, and thanks for being honest about it, I appreciate it.

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>>28291686
I did that first one, and it didn't work.

Pfeh! Pfeh! I say.

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>>28292441
Prove it.

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>>28292449
Reeeeee....

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/328030/her-soldiers-we

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>>28292099
This is some genuinely good adventure right here, mang.

>>28292573
Isn't this the fifth sequel he's written?

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>>28292623
And yet not one of them is called "Present Sins" or "Future Sins"

>>28292623
I don't know. I didn't even bother with the original Past Sins. Couldn't get past the heap of condensed fail that is the main villain.

>>28292573
I'm not a big fan of past sins, and maybe Pen Stroke is milking that story to absurd levels, but your pic is far from the worst thing I've read on fimfiction.
The writing here is not particularly terrible and while it doesn't stand out as feature worthy or particularly good on it's own, it's a fairly sweet if uneventful scene.

Google says it's coming from https://www.fimfiction.net/story/341518/glimpses, and if you can get past the whole Nyx thing, the premise of the story is actually interesting.
If it weren't a Past Sins sequel which I don't particularly care about, I'd probably want to read that story.

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Somewhere deep within the comments of Past Sins, there's a comment I left saying how much I loved the story and how many tears I shed while reading parts of it.

2012 was a hell of a year.

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>>28292531
So the description is actually mostly fine and I tried reading the first chapter.

Your writting is okay though the first impression of Sky Diamond getting repeatedly insulted for a thousand word is maybe laying it on a bit thick.

Celestia is pretty OOC, you write her incredibly naive and open ("Your name... isn't Bubblebrains, is it").
The show's Celestia is a thousand years old, wise, distant royal horse who doesn't get into random fights with guards on a regular basis.

A word about plot holes. I find the fact that somehow the general public doesn't know about Luna hard to explain in your story.
There is an entire guard that knows about her which mingle freely with the public, stained glass windows depicting Luna and half of the pony capital's royal castle is dedicated to her, but historians — who probably have a cutie mark in figuring out the past — never found out Luna existed?
You might say that the show has the same issues, but there we don't actually see any Lunar guards or similar before her return.

Overall the writing is not bad but I don't particularly enjoyed the argument scene, it lasted several thousand words in which the character interactions sounded off — the captain of the guard is not just being a hardass but borderline bad form and Sunbutt is happy to join in on the fun. I skipped ahead a little and skimmed through the rest, the Nightmare's return is done well though yours seems more interested in small time terrorism than heralding eternal night.
I think that the story has the potential to be okay for someone who likes the characters as it's otherwise fairly well written, it certainly deserves the feature box more than most of the random crap that gets in here, but it's not a shining example of originality, character interaction or airtight plot either.

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>>28293217
I swear, nobody digs the Bubblebrains joke.

>>28293576
Yeah, because like my fellow anon said, it's wildly OOC for Celestia. Even if she is supposed to be less uptight around the guard captain (forgot her name, I read the fic a while back when you first posted it).

>>28269223

>>28295359
Laziest bump ever

>>28291650
The title will be a major part of "hooking" potential readers. As such, you're going to want something that piques interest while still giving the reader an idea, no matter how simple, of what the story's about.

>>28291686
Meme names usually only work for comedies, though.

>>28292068
Sturgeon's Law applies at all times. There've been plenty of good fics that have been featured.

>>28292531
Read it. When I eventually get around to finishing my fanfic review of it, it'll get a 5/10. My primary complaint with it is the fact it follows canon rather then doing carving out it's own plot. Any suspense and intrigue is sapped away as the reader slowly realizes this is just the pilot, but from a different POV.

This creates really bizarre tone shifts that make things unintentionally funny, such as NMM's big evil mindrape spell--something even Nebula's horrified by--being undone by Pinkie's song or Celestia going through decades of delirium and regency... just for the Pinklestia merch reference. It really makes things muddled. Is it a comedy fic or a more serious adventure? It can't quite seem to pick one and stick to it.

There's a lot of potentially cool things that could have been done--from Nebula slowly realizing NMM isn't going to change or get redeemed as NMM commits bigger and bigger atrocities, over to the Night Guard really dealing with their princess returning after so long--but it's really spoiled by the strict adherence to canon.

>>28293576
It was okay. Kinda basic.

I'm kinda new to writing stuff and my first somewhat good thing that I decided to publish, was a greenstory on /mlp/. I'm thinking about converting it into a normal story and post it on FimFiction and my question is, how are Anon x canon stories seen on there? Are people butthurt about them or not?

>>28292823
I'm pretty sure My Little Dashie is still buried at the very bottom of my favourites, being the first pony story I liked. Yeah, I cried at the end.

Looks like the GDoc got fukkin rekt though
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NwdIJMALxxi6egHz832IuNIHy1J7JAqulJFoGeLM5tY/edit?hl=en_US

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>>28295543
Anon stories are somewhat popular, as long as they have an interesting twist.
But people in this thread really hate greentext and Anon stories, and I'm no exception, so I don't think you'll get much help here.

>>28295596
I can understand that. Thanks for the answer

five hour bump

boop

Aren't we a lively bunch.

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state of the featurebox:
>human boops chrysalis, human boops twilight

>HFY! ending to TCB in which twilight dies

>twilight (and everyone else) are changelings

>teen/sex rated oneshot about aria

>clopfic about a pony and her tapeworm

>past strokes' pen sins shitfic

>roseluck vs a swimming pool full of cum

>a 2nd person teen rated gore comedy romance SoL in which you the unstoppable beast gets stopped

>coco pommel makes a dress for chrysalis

>gordon freeman in equestria

yup fimfiction still has shit taste

>>28298078
Do you have a good story to recommend?

>>28298078
Are you surprised?

>>28298103

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/47745/bros-in-equestria
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/243811/an-ally-called-preponderance
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/68260/certain-advantages
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/860/children-of-the-sun
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/155687/a-royal-pain
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/177484/brown-note-the-unicorn
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/90335/history-repeats
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/51991/flash-fog
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/180605/i-guess-it-has-to-be-my-destiny
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/6195/it-takes-a-village
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/851/living-the-dream
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/71501/mother-of-invention
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/152/one-last-quest
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/79264/staying-sane-in-a-peaceful-world
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/68479/the-many-deaths-of-rainbow-dash
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/55531/school-of-hard-knocks
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/95283/rise
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/252269/the-witch-of-the-everfree
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/706/substitute-harmony
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/8222/world-of-chaos

knock yourself out

>>28298145
not in the least

>>28298230
That's an interesting list you've got there, anon. Mind posting the version with only the good fics?

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>>28298230

>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/177484/brown-note-the-unicorn
This really doesn't look good, plus it's a sequel, am I supposed to read the original too?

>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/180605/i-guess-it-has-to-be-my-destiny
404, story does not exist.

>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/851/living-the-dream
Really?
Seriously, anon?

>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/47745/bros-in-equestria
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/79264/staying-sane-in-a-peaceful-world
And that's some more self insert HiE, apparently

I already read those, and they're actually decent
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/6195/it-takes-a-village
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/71501/mother-of-invention
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/55531/school-of-hard-knocks

Those look vaguely readable
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/243811/an-ally-called-preponderance
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/68260/certain-advantages
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/860/children-of-the-sun
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/155687/a-royal-pain
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/90335/history-repeats
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/51991/flash-fog
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/152/one-last-quest
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/68479/the-many-deaths-of-rainbow-dash
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/95283/rise
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/252269/the-witch-of-the-everfree
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/706/substitute-harmony
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/8222/world-of-chaos

It looks like you just grabbed a bunch of random 3-4 year old stories without even looking at the list, unless you're unironically recommending Leaving the Dream.

>>28298344
>>28298230
The only one of those I've read outside of LtD is "Rise", and I can vouch for its entertainment value.

>>28298344
>It looks like you just grabbed a bunch of random 3-4 year old stories without even looking at the list,
well youre half right. I just randomly grabbed shit out of my read folder with a few exceptions

yes brown note, staying sane and LtD were added for humorous effect. though if I had to read LtD and SSiPW then so should everyone.

all the rest of them though were pretty decent in various ways. im a little disappointed that that one 404'd though. it was funny iirc. dunno why pickless deleted it

>>28298344
One Last Quest and Children of the Sun are really good adventure fics and really underrated IMO.

>>28292823
>tfw never cried over a piece of media
>tfw can't remember the last time i cried
>tfw felt guilty as fuck that i wasn't crying in grandma's funeral
Maybe I'm just a monster.

>>28299408
Nah man, it's called autism.

I've pretty much never felt any emotions at media too, and didn't even feel something when visiting my grandfather's tomb.

>>28299408
>Maybe I'm just a monster.
You probably have aspergers, close enough

>>28299459
>never felt any emotions at media
Hey now, I have emotions, I just don't cry.

>>28299465
Rude.

>>28299483
>Rude.
Well, it's not like you're going to cry about it!

>>28299408
If it makes you feel better, Anon, I'm just a giant wuss.

>>28299483
Well, I do feel emotions in my life, and some in media when it touches my values. I usually don't think some fake characters are worth getting attached to, hence not really feeling anything towards TV and books.

>>28299499
>I usually don't think some fake characters are worth getting attached to
Anon, are you okay? Emotional connection to objects and people isn't really rooted in that sort of rational analysis.
Are you actually autistic?

>>28299488
You don't know me! Maybe I'll force myself to cry, right fucking now.

>>28299532
>spoiler

Yes, how did you guess?

It just all makes sense to me. Why care for some stupid fake character when you can care for people you actually know and like?

>>28299532
>You don't know me! Maybe I'll force myself to cry, right fucking now.
Alright alright, my apologies anon.

Still, http://psychcentral.com/quizzes/autism.htm

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>>28299576
>I am fascinated by dates.
Never cared for the taste of them.

>I would rather go to the theater than to a museum.
>being fond of museums means you've got autism
The world has truly gone insane.

Bet you didn't know I was a normalfag, did you?

>>28299662
>normalfag
Scoring 3 is actually impressive, most non-autistic people get around 10.
You might have anti-autism, talk to your doctor.

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>>28299576

>>28299554 here, got a 37.

>>28299662
>>being fond of museums means you've got autism
The world has truly gone insane.

Theater usually involves louder noises and being crammed with plenty of people, which antisocial people might not like.

>>28299662
So you're not autistic, but you're on /mlp/, so you must at least be brain damaged in some way.

http://test.mensa.no/#

>inb4 everyone ITT has 130+ IQ

>>28299689
>Anti-autism

IT'S THE FUCKING ANTI-REEEE

THE /mlp/OCALYPSE IS NEAR

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>>28299757
Well, not quite.

>>28299997
Nice. Maybe there's still some truth to the old saying that 4chan is where intelligent people go to be stupid.

I only scored 121, but for my defence it was yesterday 5 AM and I was sleep deprived!

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>>28299997
heh

>>28300030
Well, I've never regarded IQ tests as a true way to calculate intelligence. You can be a master musician, but have shit logic and get a 60 IQ score. You can be a rain man tier autismo, but still get 200 in the IQ test because you're autistic. In the end, they only measure one kind of intelligence.

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>>28299689
I really like talking to people, so I guess that's a big part of the reason. Really though, I don't feel like there's much value to the test.
I've been feeling like I need to meet new people lately. I like the people in my social circle, but it's smaller than I'd like at the moment. And never really liked socialising online. It's completely insufficient.

>>28299692
Do you have super-autism?
How do you feel about Sonic the Hedgehog?

>Theater usually involves louder noises and being crammed with plenty of people
Huh, that makes sense, I guess. Didn't even think about it that way.

>>28299757
>tfw not 130+

>>28299997
>>28300030
>>28300043
Look at these dumb fucks. It's even 1AM at the end of a long day.
I'm sorry, Anons. I don't want to be rude. I'm taking a completely useless education, and will just end up living a sad lonely life anyway.

>>28300061
I completely agree actually, I've always though that IQ tests were wildly overrated.
Intelligence in on domain absolutely does not translate to other domains in general.
That said, I don't think it's completely meaningless either. If you can't complete simple logic questions, you will likely have problem in many scientific domains.

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>>28300075
>Do you have super-autism?

I believe so.

>>28300088
muh librul urts

>>28300102
I'm not actually that autistic in real life. I can get along fine with some people, but it ends there. Most of my time at home is spent on my computer, so I have no idea of when X friend has an event or who X is going out with to shop/fuck, etc.

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>>28300102
>muh librul urts
Among other things, yes.
For example I can answer a stupid IQ test correctly, but I couldn't write a decent story to save my life.

>>28300102
Since you're the Terminator, just sadder, I'd like to take the opportunity to ask you something.
Why do you read fanfiction? I'm not saying that's anything that has to do with your 'tism, necessarily, but I'd like to hear your words.
What do you look for in a story?
What element of a story, roughly defined, would you say is the most important to you?
If you can recall an especially memorable scene or moment in a fic, what would that be?
What genres do you like the most?

I don't expect anything in-depth, but you've got my curiosity piqued.
Really, any of you could answer this if you felt like it. Would be interesting to see what people think.

>>28300167
>couldn't write a decent story to save my life
Storytelling/writing was one of my favourite things when growing up. When we got writing assignments that were supposed to be around two or four pages, I tended to show up with my own fantasy stories that could be somewhere between ten and twenty pages. Teachers must have hated that.
Read a lot too, basically all the time. Wasn't big into computers or vidya. Or being outside.

Now I'm just shit. I read barely enough to keep up with my studies, and write not one word more than I have to. I play tons of vidya, and I'm basically enslaved to my computer. Haven't read non-oneshot horsewords in months, and haven't written horsewords since I wrote greentext in 2013. Never published anything on FimFic.
>tfw you're a lazy fuck

>>28300241
>Why do you read?

I don't even know really.

>What do you look for?

What you guys would normally look for. Good grammar, good plot and interesting idea.

>What element is the most important?

Everything, really. A good plot with shit grammar is shit, a bad plot with good grammar is also shit, and a meh plot with meh grammar is just meh.

>If you can recall an especially memorable scene or moment in a fic, what would that be?

Since I barely feel anything when reading, I don't have any. The question always fucked me up in high school, when the teacher asked "what is your favorite moment of the book/movie, anon?"

>Genres

AU, tending towards darker themes than the show. I generally don't like overly joyful and shiny stories, as there's nothing to be told, since everything goes as planned and ends well without anyone learning anything except that they're right and they're the good guy. That's why I cringe pretty much any time my little sister watches her generic "protagonist is angel" series.

>>28300241
>Storytelling/writing was one of my favourite things when growing up. When we got writing assignments that were supposed to be around two or four pages, I tended to show up with my own fantasy stories that could be somewhere between ten and twenty pages. Teachers must have hated that.
I have a lot of respect for people who can write, draw, compose, or anything involving the arts, I've always wanted to be good at it, but anything I write or draw is invariably terrible. I guess I never had the motivation to actually spend enough time on it until I get better.

>Read a lot too, basically all the time. Wasn't big into computers or vidya. Or being outside.
Yep, I can relate. When I was small I'd spend all night reading when I was supposed to be sleeping, I was engrossed in La Comédie Humaine and Les Rougon-Macquart and any old book that I could find. And then I'd be tired all day but school is for scrubs anyways.

>Now I'm just shit. I read barely enough to keep up with my studies, and write not one word more than I have to. I play tons of vidya, and I'm basically enslaved to my computer. Haven't read non-oneshot horsewords in months, and haven't written horsewords since I wrote greentext in 2013. Never published anything on FimFic.
I know right? It's ridiculous the amount of time I waste on my computer doing literally nothing when literally anything else would be better.
I have the chance to have a lot of free time because I don't need to study much, and I'm wasting it. Lazyness is the worst of evils.

Yknow I think I'm gonna stop ranting like this is my personal blog and I'll set myself a goal to get shit done tomorrow. Maybe I'll even follow through.

I think Voicey's gone insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS6leRVqhKA

>>28299408
>>28299459
>>28299465
>>28299483
>>28299488
>>28299493
>>28299499
>>28299532
>>28299554
>>28299576
>>28299662
>>28299689
>>28299692
>>28299757
>>28299803
>>28299997
>>28300030
>>28300043
>>28300061
>>28300075
>>28300088
>>28300102
>>28300120
>>28300167
>>28300241
>>28300368
>>28300384

Did we actually have a semi-intelligent discussion where we prove we're not stupid shits once? Something's very wrong.

>>28300000 check

>>28300391
k

>>28299488
ruthless

>>28300368
>Since I barely feel anything when reading, I don't have any.
I find that hard to believe.
Aren't there aspects to the story aside from emotions, that you'll find interesting? A clever turn of phrase, an interesting idea, and the payoff of a plotline can all be memorable, can't they?

>I have a lot of respect for people who can write
Same here, but writing always seemed accessible to me. Even if I'm not a good writer, I've never found it hard to write. I'm shit in every other possible form of artistry though.
The area I view with "remote respect" is usually maths and the hard sciences. I got good grades in school (mostly, math was tanking a bit at the end), and I have an enormous respect for those fields, but I couldn't ever imagine working in them.

>La Comédie Humaine and Les Rougon-Macquart
Hah, it was almost always fantasy for me. I'm catching up on "classics" now, but as I said, I mostly only read academic stuff now.
One of the reasons I find it hard to "justify" reading longer horse-stories now. I could be reading things which are arguably more important. Then again I'm also supposed to read Diskworld, which is arguably equally pointless, and I don't care.

But yeah, enough blogging.

>>28300406
Posting IQ scores doesn't make for intelligent discussion. I've got a good score, yet I post a lot of dumb shit.

>>28300494
>>28300384
Forgot quoting. Just to prove my point about the dumb shit I do.

>>28300406
>Did we actually have a semi-intelligent discussion where we prove we're not stupid shits once? Something's very wrong.
Don't worry, it was all off-topic.

Also, linking to every single post is fucking cancer. Kill yourself.

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>>28299757
>mfw only 123 IQ pts
BRB killing self.

>>28300746
>BRB killing self
You need to take out at least two people with lower IQ before you die. That's the only way to start cleaning the gene pool.

>>28300241
You want onions? Boy, I have so many of them, I'm practically giving them away.

>What do you look for in a story?
Something unique that I can lose myself in like a unique concept expanded through worldbuilding, or something quick and short in horseland that's disposable but cute.
>What element of a story, roughly defined, would you say is the most important to you?
All of it. Characters fall flat on a shit plot, and a great plot is ruined by shit characters. I can say the same for porn as well.
>If you can recall an especially memorable scene or moment in a fic, what would that be?
I know this seems patrician, but something that's really cool in lore, or something that shows me a different way of looking through the world in another character's eyes. Novelty is my jam.
>What genres do you like the most?
Sci-fi, Fantasy

>>28300494
I don't find stories uninteresting at all. I just look at them from a general perspective instead of remembering a single element. I don't think a phrase, chapter or even idea is worth bothering about. I look at how the entirety is executed.

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Bonus point if you can understand all the questions after retaking the test.

I actually have no idea what's the explanation for question 34, but it sounded right and I got lucky

>>28301078
>eller mer
Kek.

ITT:proof that you can be a genius and still be retarded

>>28301548
As someone who tested as having "High IQ" (98 percentile) as a kid and got placed with a bunch of other kids with similar IQs, I can attest to that. Sometimes I wonder how we made it through our childhoods without dying.

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Am I late to the dick measuring contest?

Took me a while to realise the answer to most of the latter ones was to intersect the images and see what was left once you took away the common elements.

That hurt because I'm studying architecture and most of what I do all day is stare at squiggly lines and try to make sense of them.

>>28301929
IQ tests only measure how good you are at taking IQ tests.

>>28295543
>Anon x canon stories seen on there
They're pretty much the standard AiE fic. Unless you're bringing something refreshing to the table, it's likely to drown in the ocean of piss.

>>28298344
Flash Fog's good but I feel like it loses its way halfway in when the whole Fluttershy certification plot is shrugged off.

>>28299408
It really depends on how well you knew her. I didn't know my grandma that well due to her mental illness, so her death had little impact on me, whereas my aunt's death wrecked me.

>>28300241
>Why do you read fanfiction?
Because I hate spending money and am too lazy to go to the library, so novels are out. It's the most convenient way to get entertainment--especially when relating to a show I like.

>look for in a story?
An interesting premise or idea that I think I'd enjoy.

>most important to you?
The plot. You can have so-so characterization, bad grammar/spelling, and check off all the cliches--but if the plot's entertaining, I'll still read it.

>what would that be?
The scene in Rafiki's Tales: Evening RIP where the Cult of the Broken Circle attacks the Crescent Moon Meerkat Colony. It's such an eerie and exciting scene as its told from the POV of the meerkats, as they first hear the mysterious sounds of digging in the dark, then SHTF, all because the skull of the cult leader's buried there.

>What genres do you like the most?
AU, Comedy, Adventure, Dark, and Sci Fi.

>>28300384
>is invariably terrible
No one is born with the ability to write or draw, just as no one is born with the ability to fly an F-18. You have to practice to git gud. Finding the time is where the challenge lies.

Just started reading this after taking a year-long break from fanfiction. It's real good.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/126735/at-the-mountains-of-discord

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Something similar to this http://pastebin.com/HXtRQpUs

>Rarity, slutification, slave/pet training

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>>28302841
Last time I read a Dark Crossover set in a freezing land away from civilization I got severely assblasted.

I'll trust you and hope this one is better.

Captcha: Bicchi LANE

Go to hell, Captcha.

Do you degenerates prefer stand alone clop, or a story with clop interspersed throughout?

>>28303146
I despise clop, period.

>>28303336
you dont belong here, deviant

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>>28299757
hurrrrr durrrrr

>>28303146
both are fine

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>write-off
>69 stories
>Half is literally about princesses not being included physically in X
>5 stories only quote the prompt

It's very nice to know most writers have original minds and care about writing something not that obvious

>>28304139
Yeah, because writing something that just doesn't have the princesses in it is soooo clever and original.

>>28304157
That's exactly what I meant.

>>28304157
I think you agree with him, anon.

>>28304163
>>28304169
Weren't you saying that stories about princesses being physically excluded are unoriginal?

>>28304179
Yes. I thought >>28304157 was sarcasm to disprove my post.

>>28304185
Yeah, I was saying stories that stories about princesses being physically excluded are million times better than "hahaha lets like write a storyy... without a princess in it!!!!"

>>28304139
I was going to write a story where a snobby foreign leader came to Equestria and made all sorts of ridiculous claims, such as consorting with royalty after seeing Twilight. Celestia isn't amused, but thanks to the guy's bad phrasing, she set him up to spend the rest of the day with Blueblood.

I ran out of time, though. Maybe next time.

Le bumpeau

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Y so ded, thred?

boop

>>28305614
Sorry, but I've been busy. Being outside. With people.

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>>28305614
My favorite fic hasn't updated in three weeks

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>>28307229
>busy
>outside
>With people

And to think I used to love you

>>28307351
>tetrology
>tetro
>tro
>o
God fucking damn it, Shin.

>>28305614
Just talking about relationships and taking some drugs with my friends over beer on the beach.
The usual.

>>28307847
Who needs drugs when you can make a Pinkie Pie tulpa?

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>>28305614
There's been nothing new, interesting, and short for me to read and I'm currently spending my time procrastinating in a more distracting way than reading

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>>28307351
>three weeks
Get on my fucking level.

>>28307860
I don't want my Pinkie tulpa's deformed face screaming at me 24/7.
I'd rather realize I'll never touch my 3DPD waifu's hand and kill myself.

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>>28307898
>2 months
At least you still have hope.

>>28307960
>having hope about EoP
Skirts has gone on record several times about how he's not going back to End, y'know?

>>28307989
It doesn't say "On Hiatus" or "Cancelled", that's all I need to pretend.

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>>28307898
You are like a little baby
Watch this

>>28307960
>>28308057
but the 7DSJ and PEG posts were ironic

>>28308062
Only somewhat ironic

>>28308081
same

>>28308081
>>28308087
I'm glad LtD was done when I picked it up.
And I'm also glad I managed to drop it two thirds of the way through.

>>28308057
One of these days I need to reread Syncopation and Synchronization. I've been meaning to read that one chapter that came out last year but I realize that I have no idea what happened before it.

>>28308173
one day i'll read mendacity, the best night ever and the Flight of the Alicorn

one day.

i probably won't though, they've been in my backlog for years and i really can't find any sort of interest in blueblood

>>28308173
I wish I could just unread Synchronization at this point
I'm almost 100% sure that it'll never get finished

>>28308216
but the best night ever's blueblood is a bro

>>28308240
ONE DAY ANON
ONE DAY

Though i will probably get around to Mendacity. Hopefully

>>28308258
why not start with TBNE? it's the shortest I think

>>28308266
because i really really don't feel like it. I should probably continue Ynanhluutr at some point too. I took a break from it and suddenly half a year passed

I've kinda of been avoiding fimfiction because of all the fics that you once followed and actually looked forward to updating are now dead

>>28308336
>norsewords
>2017-4 months

>>28308336
Reading Ynanhultrazlthurr when you could be reading The Best Night Ever is having really poor tastes desu.

>>28308372
>>28308351
oh right, i forget sometimes that 4chan hates anything and anyone thats remotely popular just because.

Then i looked at your winners list and see that It's a dangerous business and through the well of pirene is at the top of their respective categories. And now i realized that everyone here just has fucking awful taste.

Enjoy your threads though

>>28308418
Seriously, man?

>>28308418
>oh right, i forget sometimes that 4chan hates anything and anyone thats remotely popular just because.
HURR HURR INTERNET HATE MACHINE
So you're just new and unaware of all the reasons most people here dropped it?

>Then i looked at your winners list and see that It's a dangerous business and through the well of pirene is at the top of their respective categories. And now i realized that everyone here just has fucking awful taste.
You pointed out the only two fics on that whole list that actually deserve to be at the top of their respective categories, and you just casually handwave away the voting process behind it.

This has to be bait.

>>28308418
That's ridiculous. Especially since Pirene and Dangerous Business are more popular than Ynanhluutr will ever be.

Consider that you migth be wrong.

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>>28307989
and yet he refuses to cancel it which is why ill never bother touching anything else he does

>>28308114
it was actually a deadfic for awhile then he came back and posted 2 final chapters that came so far out of left field it confused even the autists that legitimately enjoyed it.

and then i noticed this.

>>28308680
KURT YOU FUCKING MADMAN

>>28308680
You know what to do.

>>28308745
I've already downvoted it, anon. i dont know what else to do

>>28308258
Mendacity is really good. I recommend it.

>>28308351
That shit has gone so far off the rails now. Daily updates are kill and Utaan recently hit 250 chapters and 750k words with no sign of stopping.

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>>28308680
It's been three fucking years and the guy still doesn't know how to use a spell checker.

>>28308760
Read it.

>>28308920
thats fucking crazy talk and you know it

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Say, SSnE found out that the maximum amount of chapters a story can have is a thousand. You can't have more, the site won't let you.

What do you think that'll mean for our dear kudzu "The Fart" haiku's Magnum Opus??

>>28309156
the best we could hope for is it to end and for his fan to an hero.

in reality it would simply mean an arbitrary stopping point and immediate sequel

I honestly dont know why knighty removed the old maximum of 200 chapters. I can only think of a handful of fics that go beyond that, none of which are any good

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Hey, guys!

It's September. Now that two thirds of the year are gone it's time to settle down and think back.

Have you gotten off your lazy ass and actually written something this year?

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>mfw my fic gets called a magnum opus

>>28310286
no, no. I said you had a magnum sized anus, homo

>>28303146
I prefer story with clop. If I wanted PWP, I got Derpibooru.

>>28307989
>not going back to End
>doesn't tag it Cancelled

>>28308173
I'm scared to reread Chronicles of the Pridelands, because I'm worried it's actually a shit story and I don't want to taint the nostalgia.

>>28309156
>The Chase is now three times the length of the King James Version of the Bible

>>28308673
If people felt like reconsidering their opinions and trying out things that are popular instead of blindly shitting on them, FoE would be considered average.

>>28310142
Yeah, like a few thousand words.

>>28310142
51,136 words commited to document this year, not counting the shit smeared between the pages of old notebooks.

>>28308216
Blueblood has nothing to do with Mendacity, tho.

>>28311569
well the main character is a changeling, so maybe its also blueblood

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>>28309605
>I honestly dont know why knighty removed the old maximum of 200 chapters. I can only think of a handful of fics that go beyond that, none of which are any good

There's 19 of them, all more cancerous than the last, and it looks like the someone already reached 1000 before the chase.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/149893

>>28313011
>1000 chapters
>only a million words
could have been worse. those <200 word chapters are probably the best parts

>>28313077
I didn't know you could make chapters that short. 66 words has got to be a record.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/149893/975/appledashery/the-once-basin
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/149893/726/appledashery/rainbow-crashery

>>28310142
My last semester of uni just started, and I need to work on my thesis, so...
I only write to procrastinate.

So I have a story with a pretty terrible like/dislike ratio (2:1), but I rewrote it and want people to give it a second chance. Is there any way I can achieve this, or am I fucked?

>>28313798
Better ask a mod.

>>28313798
Fuck off legionfag

>>28313798
Ask a mod, but be sure to explain that you have legitimately rewritten the entire fic from scratch. They might give you a chance then. Otherwise you'd likely get lumped in with all the idiots who did a quick editing pass and think that's enough to let them reset their votes.

>>28314314
Work on your reading comprehension, friend

>>28314421
Who else is rewriting his shit story with a 2:1 ratio?

>>28314421
I don't really have any way to prove that I rewrote it from scratch, as the original edition isn't on any record of mine.

>>28314438
Oh, is "legionfag" a particular person? Thought you were implying he was requesting personal army.

>>28314421
>Work on your reading comprehension, friend
He was implying that the poster in question is actually Decanus, who's a filthy fucking Legionfag.
I mean, Legion territory is peaceful as fuck, but it's a cult of personality which does really fucked up shit on the side. NCR, despite all their flaws, are America's best chance to restore the civilized world.

>>28314457
Welcome, newfriend.

>>28314444
You might be out of luck then. I don't think the mods are likely to feel inclined to reset votes on a story that's already posted. (As opposed to letting you post the new version as a whole new story.)

If you still want to try, you can probably dig up an old version from the fimfic archive or web.archive.org. That way you have something to show the mods for comparison.

This is sending me off the wall. What am I doing wrong exactly in this http://www.fimfiction.net/story/344460/the-shadowbolts-adventures-the-glory-and-legend-of-eternal-city to get only a guy commenting the description resembles "Suicide Squad" (and thus implicitly shit) BUT have a positive ratio and no other comment otherwise?

Am I just a whiny faggot, or is it something that has a rational explanation?

>inb4 "Eeeww EQG"

>>28314509
Eeeww EQG.

>>28313143

Ponky beat that by 11:

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/261719/5/if-horses-had-gods/chapter-five

I also remember reading a fic where the last chapter was just "Then she woke up," but I don't think that really counts.

>>28314509
Eeeww EQG

>>28314495
>(As opposed to letting you post the new version as a whole new story.)
I tried that, too. They didn't let it through. Looks like I'm fucked.

On the plus side, the ratio is slowly recovering. I don't think the recovery will ever be full, but one can dream. Plus I'm looking around for a reviewer who can give it feedback, and possibly some publicity.

>>28314509
It doesn't have many views, and the only guy who cared enough to comment happened to be a moron.

>>28314519
>I also remember reading a fic where the last chapter was just "Then she woke up,"
Was that darf's sad Derpy story?
I think it was. I do think it counts since the whole story is about how she's stuck in that endless loop of futility and depression.

>>28314532
It's true it doesn't have many views, but then it's a bit of vicious circle in which nobody reads the story.

Am I supposed to go and clutter my followers' feed with blogs begging for them to worship me as Sapa Inca/look at me?

>>28314509
>What am I doing wrong exactly
None of the main characters are tagged. OC's are tagged. It's marked as incomplete. I'd guess the only reason it has any amount of success at all is because you have a decent amount of followers.

>>28314548
desu your fic is not especially good at the moment.

For one thing, it seems like you expect the reader to know these characters as well as they know the M6, which is not reasonable. They got so little screen time in EqG3 I doubt I could even match names to their pictures. You should spend more time establishing their individual personalities and group dynamics.

In reading the first chapter of a new fic, I'm usually still trying to decide whether it's worth sticking around for the full 50k or more. But the main point in your favor, the ghostly marching band, is described so matter-of-factly that it's downright boring. "Come look, there are ghosts outside." "Yep, those are indeed some ghosts." You could do a lot better job of selling this so that it catches the reader's interest.

>>28314519
I think you're thinking of Applied Starlight (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/185230/applied-starlight), but that final chapter was weird. Every word was a hyperlink containing a clue as to what really happened.

>>28314993
Jesus, fucking finally, somebody's telling what I did incorrectly!

Admittedly I also had doubts on how I described the ghostly marching band. The problem I came across with it was that, well, the Shadowbolts had seen much worse than that (Midnight sparkle). But, then again, that shouldn't exclude the fact that they should be more surprised.

I will find a way around that shit.

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what's the highest l/d ratio on one of your stories?

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>>28315805
My highest rated story is a terribad clopfic since my other story got several drive-by downvotes last year.

>His main character isn't a unicorn

Good luck having a shitty character.

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>hay guise i'm gonna delete all my fics
>no wait i'm only gonna unpublish them, you'll still be able to access them if you have the link, but they won't show up on my stories page
>i'll make a big blog post with all the links so you can still read them
>oh wait, linking unpublished stories is against Da Rules, i'll link googledoc versions instead
>i need to do this because i want to recycle parts of them for some novels
>original novels, not mlp fanfics
>specifically, self-published smut
>i can't do that if the original fics are still available online for free

Am I alone in thinking there is no part of this plan that makes any kind of logical sense?

>>28316375
just thinking theres actually a market for written mansmut is enough to doom him to failure

if anyone wants to wank off to humans theres a whole lot of actual pornography out there. no one is going to read words about humans to get off

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>>28316569
There's totally a market for written smut. I've done my research.

Thing is, you can't expect to get by if you're just writing for common fetishes. Or worse, just regular old sex. People won't pay to read that. There's little money to be earned here.
What you need to do is find a very specific niche, and them establish yourself as a leading name in that niche. You need to find the sweet spot where it's obscure enough to avoid being covered by porn and free material, but large enough for there still to be a market.
Christie Sims is the standard you should aim for. Tons of works in a few areas (most notably dinosaur smut), at a low page count (15 - 20 pages), and a modest price (2.5$ - 7.5$). Sims has even gotten to the frankly impressive place where you can buy audiobooks about some slut getting boned by a dinosaur.
Joyee Flynn is another person worth looking into, who also does more ordinary stuff than Sims, like M/M/M incest stories (admittedly with paranormal elements). Flynn also operates with a longer format.

Though I'll admit I've never self-published smut yet, I don't think it's hard to make some money off it. Work-intensive, but not hard.

>>28316569
There is absolutely a market for that stuff. Turns out a lot of women are not really into porn but do appreciate the >nohooves equivalent of "clopfic with a plot". So there are a lot of romance novels that are heavy on the smut. I read a paranormal romance novel by accident once, and was surprised to see a very explicit sex scene about 3/4 of the way through

>>28270047
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/338253/beneath-the-suns-surface

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>>28316814
>I read a paranormal romance novel by accident once
How do you do that by accident?

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>>28316868
Hold on, Celestia gets killed by a blizzard?
Seriously, is that all it takes?

>>28316884
The Worf Effect has gone a bit too far, methinks.

>>28316884
Or has she been killed by a blizzard? Maybe you'll have to read and find out.

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>>28315805
Only my third story, technically second since I cancelled one.

>>28316884
>>28316957
I can just imagine the characters getting a bit meta in the story.

>"Celestia can't be dead!"
>"Well, why not Twi?"
>"Because she's an Alicorn! She raises the sun! There's not way somepony with that much power would die just because of some cold weather, it can't be that easy."
>"Oooh. I dunno Twilight. No offense to her and all but she's been kinda uh...How to put this lightly..."
>"A total pushover! She got kidnapped by vines Twilight. Vines!"

>>28316814
I'm surprised it took you that long. The last one I read that went 3/4 without a sex scene involved an incorporeal ghost who couldn't get it on until she got a body 2/3 of the way through the story.

Most will have a sex scene within the first half of the story, or at the very least an aborted attempt at one, and some will have it right in the first chapter.

Before I joined the ride, my main obsession was Paranormal Romance novels. Read around 300 of them in a single year before discovering pony.

>>28317262
That's probably the way to do it. Tease the reader a bit and then have all the fucking right at the end after all the building. I really hate long clopfics that start out all lewd and shit, but then midway through they more or less drop the clop for several chapters, only occasionally bringing it back up for a forced "Oh wait I have to put sex in the story because it has Mature and Sex tags" scene to be shoved in with no build up.

>>28317262
>300 of them in a single year
That's both impressive and sad.

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>>28317278
>>28317262
I have a question that is pertinent to the topic at hand.

How long do you think it's ideal to make the reader wait for sex?

I ask because I'm currently writing a love/lust fic where the whole story builds up to the two characters making love at the end and, as much as I love introspective tirades about characters coming to terms with their feelings, I wouldn't want to go on for too long before finally delivering the goods.

For the record, I'm also including a solo masturbation scene halfway through the story, as well as a steamy massage session near the end.

Crosspost from the Writefag Guild thread.
>>28317283

Basically, I need critique on something I hammered out in a couple hours for some contest.

It's not the whole story, but the whole story isn't planned to be that long or very complex.

>>28317303
It's all about buildup of sexual tension. Sexual tensions tends to be cumulative, and if you build up too much of it, the reader ends up frustrated and feeling blue-balled. The less intense the story is, the longer you can make the audience wait for that scene.

Unfortunately, it's really hard to tell when that point is and it's very subjective anyways so I'd need to read the story to be able to say.

You actually could read a ton of romance novels to get a sense of this. If you have a ton of time on your hands and low standards for literature (which you probably do on account of reading fanfiction), you can check out Lynsay Sands and Kerrelyn Sparks for low-tension stories with sex scenes and Christine Feehan and Kresley Cole for high-intensity stories.

>>28317330
The story is somewhat interesting, but I feel you focus a bit too much on unimportant things. The entire second paragraph is spent listing off the components of the mc's uniform. Why not spend that time showing the dynamic between the lancemates? If they're going on a dangerous mission, make the reader care about the characters so the risk feels real.

Overall, it's not bad, but it could help to focus more on the characters, by the time the story is over, I can't say any of them really pop up to me save for a few traits that are mentioned rather than getting to know their personality.

>>28317388
Focusing on unimportant things seems to be a recurring problem for me, it seems.

I'll definitely try to find a catalyst to make them interact with each other in ways that exemplify their characters. Maybe some off-screen mess hall incident for them to snicker about.

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>TheDecendant hasn't been on Fimfiction for ten weeks
>his second to last blog post was about his crippling leg pain and depression
Pls no.

>>28314509
Not sure how it's Suicide Squid. Going off the synopsis:
>they aren't imprisoned
>the government's not pardoning them in exchange for services
>they're actually friends rather then distinct villains
I'd say the guy's an idiot who equited "villains who have to do good because of circumstances" with a recent movie with a basic plot that's similar.

>>28314656
>None of the main characters are tagged.
Yes they are. The "Other" tag is used for canon characters who do not have a character tag. None of the EqG3 villains have a tag on Fimfiction.

>>28315805
A shame it's a story I will forever regret writing and will likely never finish. Also,
>liking your own story

>>28316375
>re-use in my original fiction
It's funny how many people think they can become the next Fifty Shades of Gray.

>>28316868
>immortal alicorn princess is killed in a blizzard
>story was started after the episode in which she flies around in a severe blizzard for hours aired
I really hope it's a griffin cover up because my suspension of disbelief isn't buying it.

If it is, you need to emphasis how shady her death is in the synopsis to let the reader know. One little phrase at the end isn't cutting it.

>>28317330
Left some comments. No idea why "lance" is so prominent, but if it's never explained, you might want to give one to the reader just so they're not left scratching their head as to why lances never actually appear in the story.

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>>28317358
I want this story to turn out as best as I can, so I'll probably try to read more romance to use as reference, so I'll try to check those authors out.

I'd say my story is overall definitely low-intensity. Out of a projected 10 chapters, only the last chapter will be dedicated exclusively to hot dragon-on-pony sexy times. So, I'll do my best to make sure the preceding chapters are well worth the wait.

In the meantime, I'll procrastinate by working on the cover art.

>>28317452
>liking your own story
But what if you actually like it?

>>28317452
I used lance because a team of three isn't quite a squad, and fireteam doesn't work thematically. If you know some better terms, I'd like to hear them.

>>28317473
>But what if you actually like it?
that just proves you have shit taste.

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>>28317473
Then you're not self critical enough.

Every writer should hate their own story. They can like the subject and maybe even fap to it if it's clop. But they must always hold themselves to a standard higher than themselves.