FiMFiction thread - Now with 80% more butthurt

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>>29375369

best cosplay coming through

>>29375488
>not mirror shades
shit cosplay

I kinda miss the days of failed futagets to start the threads.

At least Futaloo ascended to greener pastures alongside TDA.

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>>29375617
Never futalooget.

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>>29375817

"Dear Princess Celestia,

Today I learned that it's easy to descend into shallow arguing and petty name-calling under the pretense of doing it for fun, but you never know when the other person may be too autistic to let go of the issue, and that can ruin the fun for everyone else. It's better to remember that no matter what, at the end of the day we're all just a bunch of grown people who take stories about little horsies way too seriously, and only a fool would take anything said here to heart.

Yours truly,
Anonymous"

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>>29375927
Word.
~PC

>>29375803
>Never futalooget.

Never Futalooget Part 2, Electric Futaloo

Shout out to the Anon who recommended the Twilight Sparkle Of The Royal Guard series. It's been fun.

>>29376389
If you haven't already, read the clop side-story too. It has a lot of the same great character interaction and development that makes the rest of the series great, in addition to the clop.

>>29376419
I shall do so! Even thought smut isn't really my thing.

>>29376419
>>29376504

And done.

>>29376624
What did you think?

>>29376729
Pretty good. Was cute. Wonder what the second chapter mentioned in the author note will be about though...

made last edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ouKhuTna1fkXqQGfySuxGSkth2yggLUDJ-7k7W3Rys0/edit

What happened to darf?

>>29376924
Last I heard, he got institutionalised.

>>29376924
Isn't he the one who got buttblasted over something-or-other and deleted all his fics except for paid commissions?

>>29376943
Yeah, I was just curious what that something was.

>>29377013
The something was really inconsequential--someone questioned him for using an informal spelling of a word--but it was the tipping point that pushed him over the edge of insanity.

>>29377028
Sounds dumb.

There's a theme I've seen in a few stories, where someone winds up running an empire/city/world/species with zero experience and minimal justification (right place at the right time, prophesy, summoning, or in the best cases some timely common sense that everyone around them lacks), to varying degrees of success. Wages of Sin has https://www.fimfiction.net/story/217612/diplomacy-for-the-strong , Bucking Nonsense has several such stories, MrNumbers has https://www.fimfiction.net/story/146407/the-demesne-of-the-reluctant-twilight-sparkle , Pen Mightier has https://www.fimfiction.net/story/185340/1000-virgin-mares-1-frickin-badass-dark-overdude-infinite-facehoofing , and Reykan has https://www.fimfiction.net/story/255419/the-substitute-demon .

Any other stories out there with similar premises?

Hey, this just finished today.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/241758/daring-do-and-the-lost-tome-of-shadows

The summary looks interesting, coverart is definitely of high quality, and has a decent up to down vote ratio.

Has anyone read this? I'd rather not end up with another 'More About Time'

>>29369399
Currently, it's about a 6.5/10. Certainly not a terrible story, but there's far better ones out there now. Back when it was written, though, it was one of the better ones out there. Hence why it has the popularity (and infamy) it does.

>>29377806
It's on my RL list. I really hope my gut--Twilight "acting" as the shadow emperor to the villain in order to make things more exciting for Dash and Applejack only to slip into the role a bit too well--is correct, because that's a premise I can get behind.

Being relatively new to /mlp/, what's with all the self-insert stories that get posted here? Was it always like this? I thought even the fanfic community at large, let alone 4chan, mocked something so blatant.
So far, /mlp/ is the only board I've seen use greentext to tell full blown stories on a consistent basis.

>>29379255
>with all the self-insert stories that get posted here?
Fapfuel.

>Was it always like this?
Pretty much.

>So far, /mlp/ is the only board I've seen use greentext to tell full blown stories on a consistent basis.
Are you straight from /b/ or /v/? What's the newfag intro board these days?

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Futaaryanne get.

>>29377798
A few random ones I could dig up

Dropbear has a couple. Specifically anything involving Nigel Chambers

brony writer has a series starting with https://www.fimfiction.net/story/122018/td-the-alicorn-princess in which the MC wrote down the rest of starswirls spell during MMC and wound up ascending instead of twilight and winds up with his own not-ponyville domain

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/26915/the-rule-of-king-cocoon-of-the-changelings
a human winds up in horseland as a changeling king

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/181310/my-secret-life-as-an-evil-insect-overlord

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/237992/who-is-this-lord-tirek-you-speak-of

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/57026/ascend (well technically the sequel applies, or would if xTSGx ever finished it)

Quality not assured.

>>29379554
You should just ERP it out.

>>29379554
you go ahead, we'll be right behind you
arent aryanne and milkyway banworthy now?

>>29379554
>We should flood fimfic with Aryanne stories
>We
Not you personal fucking army.

>>29379571
I don't think so, but global rule 4 is still a thing.

>>29379609
I'd personally fuck him in the army.

How can I stop myself from checking fic's statistics(views, likes etc shit) every 5 minutes after I publish it? It's so degenerate. I want to die.

>>29380187
Well, the first thing you should do is stop writing horsewords and write real fiction, nigger. Fimfiction is long, LONG past its prime.

>>29380187
Seems like you already found the solution.

So this is a long shot, but to whomever was training a neural net on Fallout:Equestria last year; are you still here? And if so, what program did you use for that and/or is the code you used available online? I'd like to try my hand at that sometime.

>>29380219
there is literally no difference between horsewords and "real" fiction. It depends on the quality of a specific fiction.

>>29380256
As it concerns his problem with sperging over statistics, irl book sales, publisher deals, etc. aren't so readily available that he can check them every five minutes.

>>29380233
Code is here: http://pjreddie.com/darknet/
Info on using it for text generation: http://pjreddie.com/darknet/rnns-in-darknet/

I gave up on it mostly because it was taking too long. You need an nvidia GPU with good CUDA support or else it takes about a week to train each model.

>>29380318
Thanks. Hmm... I've got a Raspberry Pi lying around that's currently doing nothing, I wonder how many years it would take to train a model on that?

>>29380338
4-6 months, I'd say

>>29377798
>>29379507

there's also this https://www.fimfiction.net/story/48085/guiding-light

and its sequel https://www.fimfiction.net/story/92198/to-see-the-light

author hasn't updated for more than a year though

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>>29380379
>hasn't updated for more than a year though
I really kind of hate these assholes.

I dont mind seeing deadfics if the guy writing it hasnt logged in since forever. If you've dropped it/given up, cancel the goddamned thing. If you're off to prison, a mental ward or just dont know where youre going with it, go on hiatus. Dont just leave that shit as incomplete until the end of time

>>29380442
the site could forcibly change a status to hiatus after half a year or so if fic is without an update.

>>29380578
I like it. so thatll never happen

>>29380442

he updated another one of his fics just yesterday

>>29379255
>Was it always like this?
Only since ponychan invaded in like 2013

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>>29375488
He's got nothing on Rares over here.

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>>29381704
I don't even.

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>>29381704
Fucking hell that's foul

>>29381925
>implying you wouldn't make sweet, sweet love to an IRL anthro Rarity that looked like that
>implying implications

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>>29381990
>29381990
Unf just thinking of it makes me hard as fucking rock
> eating out and dicking that delicious anthro anus
IWTCIIRLR

>>29381990
Unf just thinking of it makes me hard as fucking rock
> eating out and dicking that delicious anthro anus
IWTCIIRLR

https://www.dousaflavor.com/flavor-pantry/73006

Vote for horsecum

>>29382167
I can't, it's wordfiltered

>>29382243
fuk they actually removed it

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>>29382253
I voted for "Hltler did nothing wrong" with BBQ sauce instead.

Any thoughts on https://www.fimfiction.net/story/360888/stranger-in-the-forest
So far featuring the good half of the Mane6 and Anon
I think it's gud

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>>29382731
>Anon

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Has anyone written an anon fic where anon is a card-carrying member of the NSDAP?

Bonus points if Aryanne is in it.

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>>29383152

Došlo vrijeme da se Srbi svete
Sve Reich u oblake lete
Nema Hitler, Goebbels I Rommel
Da te opet od Srbina štite

I need to relax

What's nice, soft, cuddly, comfy Slice of Life?

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>>29383296
>nice, soft, cuddly, comfy
Aryanne

>>29383316
Wrong thread.

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>>29383332
Nein.

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>>29383316
Nečeš nazifag proćI kao prije
I na štapu nosičeš avatar
Tvoja propast već je na vidiku
Kad ti cerka učI politiku

>>29383342
go hrvatske ustase and stay go

>>29383296
Do you have any character or setting in mind, or anything goes as long as its SoL?

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>>29383350
Oh, right, you people fucking hate anything that isn't smutty. Well, here you go, degenerate. I hope you're happy.

https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2017/1/9/1335329.png

Hello friends

I'll try to do a stream again. At Thursday, 11:30, I'll be editing the audio for the description of that Celestia's relaxing Vacation story. Come suggest edits and just hang out. Maybe I'll play some Overwatch afterwards.

>>29383367
>Overwatch
>not TF2

FUCKING CANCER GO AWAY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>29383367
How long did that thing ended up being?

>>29383373
Well fine I'll play some TF2 maybe shit calm down man.

>>29383380
The description? Supposedly, it's over 7K words.

>>29383409
>supposedly

It's longer than some of my chapters

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>>29383423
Forgot to crop, stupid me.

>>29383427
Huh, so it's shorter than I remembered. I must have messed up the initial wordcount.

>>29379255
>I thought even the fanfic community at large, let alone 4chan, mocked something so blatant.

It's kind of complex. I'm sure at least some of it is raw contrarianism, given that there's a broad current of mocking all fics with named human protagonists, because that's just a blatant author self-insert. Whereas"Anon" is a blank canvas for the entire /mlp/ audience to paint themselves on. Not to mention an ingroup shibboleth, that only sekrit club members can truly recognize.

There's a flip side to this meme too: no humans at all mean you are probably self-deluding and you probably hate yourself, instead of the world, as a "true" anon should.
"bronies" want to be ponies. Horsefuckers want to imbibe the magical bleach and go to Equestria.
It varies by general how much either side of this is actually militated against, of course.

Neither that specific meme nor the greentext stories have been here since the beginning (I'd say the proliferation of green is about three years old?), but some of the other things that feed into it are quite old (the difference between a brony and a horsefucker, for instance).

I've never gone around to lots of boards (fit, k, g, tg; slowly dropped all and added mlp), but I had the impression that /co/ does greentext, and one or two of those borderline smutty anime boards. I'm pretty sure /tg/ "quest" threads are a big part of the inspiration for the form, but I thought other boards would use them. There were a few small regular threads that would occasionally do just stories (weekend smut before that got closed down), though I'm not sure how many were in the green format.

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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/117970/breakdown

Jesus H. Christ, man. All the fics I've read from this guy have been kind of weird and sometimes hard to follow (The Best of All Possible Worlds, At the Inn of the Prancing Pony). But now I've got all of that plus a first-person narrator who's been tripping balls for the past six chapters, and I don't know what the FUCK is going on anymore but I kind of like it

>>29383296
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/185990/flutterhug
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/331091/a-fic-about-nothing

>>29383296
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/245468/apple-knots
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/134575/games

>>29383367
Oh man, I can't wait to hear someone read that list of fetishes and murder aloud.

>>29383610
>Twilight mentions neglecting Cadance but not her Canterlot friends
Come on now.
But hey, other than that those are pretty good. Any Rarity SoL in store? Most of what I read is either adventurous or shipping.

>>29380975
Oh shit, it was No Room for Regret. Nice.

>>29383868
>Oh man, I can't wait to hear someone read that list of fetishes and murder aloud.
well its still got to be better than the collected works of bleedin

>>29383610
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/245468/apple-knots
With a title like that I was hoping for bloomXdog clop. I was disappointed

>>29363888
>The premise alone doesn't appeal to me, so I was unlikely to read it, but what was awful about the ending in particular? Go ahead and spoil it.
>>29364347
>Cancerino hates it because Spike gets cucked/blueballed in the last few chapters when everyone has an orgy since he's a kid and Talon didn't want creepy pedo subtext in his fic.

Super late on this, but the biggest annoyance wasn't so much the blueballing as it was the inherent hypocrisy of saying 'he's a kid, it's creepy' when the girls were macking on Spike as much as any of the other males throughout the story up until that point. If the 'kid' thing was ever going to be a problem maybe you shouldn't be having Zecora pondering the potion-making properties of dragon semen.

(also Rarity obliviously shoving it in his face afterward how awesome a time she had getting railed by Big Mac instead was just adding insult to injury.)

>>29379255
>let alone 4chan
Remember that 4chan is just as autistic (see: the Philmarilion), if not more, than the rest of the internet.

>use greentext to tell full blown stories
That's more or less what >>>/qst/ is.

>>29383296
A Little Bit of Nothing's (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/358008/a-little-bit-of-nothing) a nice comfy flutterdash oneshot.

>>29383498
>a blank canvas for the entire /mlp/ audience to paint themselves on
Except that never happens. I don't even really think you could call Anon a self insert, given his personality is almost universally the same regardless of the story--a sarcastic, brash man in his twenties who 's usually a douchebag and yet somehow is still found endearing instead of being rejected for being a dickhead.

I'm still waiting for the AiE deconstruction where he's really representative of /mlp/--someone with multiple personality disorder who hates porn, loves porn, hates what Equestria's become over the years, still loves it, has the entire Mane 6 as his one and only waifu, etc.

>>29383970

i haven't read it. what's the deal with that?

>>29385886
Yeah, what is the deal with you not reading it?

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This is Nyx, main character of Past Sins.
Say something nice about her.

>>29386434
>Say something nice about her.
At least shes not aryanne

page 10

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I found an OC better than Aryanne!

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>>29386458
you stfu, kike. go burn in an oven.

>>29387439
actually pretty cute.

>>29383367
>>29383409
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1bphI52mGbs

Gentleman, we got ourselves a fucking ride tomorrow.

Who do you wish you could just make go away permanently on the site? Alternatively, who is one dude who's gone for good that you wish you could bring back to fimfic?

>>29387637
*the one dude
sorry, fucked that up a little

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>>29387625
>42 minutes
Good.

>>29387637
>Who do you wish you could just make go away permanently on the site?
Part of me would like to see MythrilMoth go away, because fuck him, but then we'd be robbed of the ocassional whatthefuckery.

>Alternatively, who is one dude who's gone for good that you wish you could bring back to fimfic?
Skillet Biscuit or Krizak.
I can count with my fingers the amount of good Twinkie fics in teh site, and the authors of the two that are probably amongst the best both died.

>>29387625
Y'know, you could've asked and I wouldve helped you narrate random words.

>>29387718
For what raison would I have needed help? It's just words. The fact that the final, unedited audio is 42 minutes long is what I'm pointing out.

>>29387751
I just want to be useful.
;_;

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>>29387917

>>29387917
You wanna be useful?
Keep being you. Keep doing the things that you do, no matter what people say!

That, or you can blow me, whichever's easier for you

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/362662/asleep

I wrote a new story. Feedback would be appreciated.

>>29388072
>Feedback would be appreciated.
Yes.
Yes it would.

>>29388086
Yes.

>>29388095
no

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>>29388072
A bit 2oniric4me, but I liked it. I'm sure there's probably a theme or underlying meaning behind what Rainbow goes through, but it eluded me. Still, I enjoyed the ride.

>>29387637

>Who do you wish you could just make go away permanently on the site?

Meh, the block button's there for a reason. Autists generally keep to their own particular circles of autism myself included, and if one wanders into your little corner of the site where you don't want them, you still don't really have to see them.

>Alternatively, who is one dude who's gone for good that you wish you could bring back to fimfic?

The Descendant. Best Spike author, comfiest of fics, and he was an all-around pleasant dude. I miss him being around, and legitimately feel that fimfic is a less pleasant place without him being the unofficial greeter and general, genial help.

>>29387637
>Who do you wish you could just make go away permanently on the site?

Well, RealityCheck is already gone, so that's one down. Maybe Alondro? I can deal with trolls but he seems to be commenting on every story I've read and it gets kinda annoying after a while.

>Alternatively, who is one dude who's gone for good that you wish you could bring back to fimfic?

Obselescence. RIP as of a few days ago. He was a pretty cool guy.

>>29387637
>Who do you wish you could just make go away permanently on the site?

People who don't know the difference between "who" and "whom."

>Alternatively, who is one dude who's gone for good that you wish you could bring back to fimfic?

Actually this guy's never been on fimfic, but AchingScaphoid, from the PiE threads. He is writing, possibly no longer (threadly reminder that AchingScaphoid is ded, y'all) a very long and surprisingly good greentext about Purplesmart and Spike ending up on present-day Earth (the Boston 'burbs, as it happens) as a result of a freak teleportation mishap.

It'd need some rewriting to convert it from second person greentext to something more conventional, but in my opinion it's one of the better things to come from the short sad life of PiE.

>>29388605
>Obs
what? why?

Bendy currently has 4 fics in the popular stories column. Why? All he does is shitty crackfics

>>29389365
According to his blog, sounds like he's too busy with real life to commit the time to being a mod anymore. Real shame, he always seemed like the most reasonable and approachable mod.

>>29382731
>ponies find anon's cellphone
Ughhh

>>29390104
well at least its a cellphone and not an ipod full of the living tombstones dopest remixes

...and yes I've seen that

I once masturbated and tasted my semen so I could better write a fellatio scene.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11514900/1/My-Little-Warrior Best fanfic eva

>>29390680
you really expect me to read all those words?

>>29390688
Now THIS is da shit.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11238566/1/Fluttersayain-porady

>>29390680
Oh goddammit I was trying to figure out how to access the actual fic for a couple minutes until I noticed the wordcount
truly a masterpiece

>>29390745
I can say with almost absolute surety that that is the best DBZ/MLP crossover ever written

>>29387637
Don't really get pissed off enough at anyone to want them gone, but as for coming back...

>>29388552
>The Descendant.
This. I miss his comfy blog posts, complete disregard for shilling Patreon and instead wanting donations for charity, and civil war reenactment hobby.

>>29388072
Eh, I'm not a big fan of artsy fics. I had no idea what Dash was going through or why it had the sad tag. Additional context, such as a longer initial scene to give the reader some direction to analyze the dream from. It doesn't really help that dreams are a terrible way of trying to communicate things to the reader since everyone's had dreams and knows they never make any sense whatsoever.

>>29377755
Isn't all of this?

Recently re-read a story: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/243016/a-world-without-kindness.

It's edgy, but the themes are interesting. I also thought that NMM's army was too edgy. Based on the descriptions, no one would ever choose to fight for her given an alternative, and if everyone had just joined with Celestia in the first place there probably wouldn't have been much conflict. Also Celestia glassing the earth to slow down NMM seemed out of character for her.

>>29388072

I don't get it. It feels almost meaningless and nonsensical.
Is it?

Dreams are highly personal, and without full insight into Dash's psyche I fail to draw any meaning from this.

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Never thought I'd see the day

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3 hours.

Can't help but feel nervous.

>>29392588
How is it going?

>>29392588
>windows 10

>>29393131
>implying you can use anything else if you like video games

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>>29393166
>directx 12

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>>29381925
>>29383293
>>29383350
>>29386458
>>29379571

>>29393174
I guess you can use Win 8.1 if you don't want dx12

>>29393166
Which games, specifically? I'm still running win7 and I haven't had a single problem.

20 minutes

I was just making sure that everything works before I start the stream.

Everything's hunky dory. Except my nerves.

>>29393184
>win7
ancient

>>29393181
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_12_support
>5 entire games that require you to have windows 10
>all but one are just AAA copy and paste bullshit

>>29393189
Guess we ought to get rid of the wheel 'cuss it's so old. Fire and matches, too. They've been in use for so long, should get a nice big ol' mandatory update for those, too.

>>29393189
>ancient
I've never heard of that one, what kind of game is it?

>>29393201
He might mean AI Wars - Ancient Shadows which is, however, available on Mac OS and Linux as well.

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>>29393199
I know you're joking, but people have tried.

twitch tv voiceguystreamswhatever

It has begun

>>29393272
>heavy breathing and background noise
Nice.

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>>29379255
you aren't going to find a straight answer from anyone but me in all likelyhood. The self insert fantasies thrive on mlp because it has the same culture /a/ has. an intense waifu fag culture where by you are expected in social structures to take it very seriously, and an intense hatred for being cucked or otherwise having their waifu shipped with someone other than their own dick.

/a/ is pretty much identical in this regard, the only difference is the lack of original content and more moderation. I think everyone expects the worst of mlp, so we can get away with green smut, but if /a/ tried it, it would probably be shut down. Either way, the end result is an insular community who thinks they are above other "bronies" but will shit post and Reee at the very idea of their waifu having interactions that don't revolve around anon, let alone finding another pony to be interested in. If you want less anon, try NST. it's
>no hooves
but they at least don't always explode at the idea of dykeshit. though there are a few gross polsters seething in the background, just ignore the edge and enjoy the characters be themselves.

>>29393731
Real good that I don't and have never had a waifu, huh?
Fuck off with your pet theories, kid. There's a bunch of self inserts because everyone is creatively bankrupt and a self insert can appeal to basically everyone.

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>>29394130
Needs more bump, but nice.

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>>29393731
You know, it's not like Anon-centric greentext is a phenomenon unique to /mlp/, this place just has more of it. It doesn't come from waifu culture, waifu culture is just so prevalent that it will dominate greentext.

>>29393272
And it's over.

>>29394165
The finished product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLIK4LMPUCk&feature=youtu.be
The Description of Celestia's Relaxing Vacation by Headless_Rainbow

That was fun, we should do it again sometime!

>>29394426
This is almost hypnotic

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>Flash, I only risked the life of your girlfriend and all our friends who just barely survived this fight and died multiple times during it to make a really weak point and guilt trip you into confessing that you've cheated on your high school girlfriend.
Mythril's logic never ceases to amaze me.

>>29394426
Had to reupload with an edit. Sorry bleedin

>>29394625
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iflNRdSeS-w&feature=youtu.be

>>29394545

and yet it is so very predictable

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>>29394545
Then Flash names his Shadow after a fucking Naruto character and uses all his Japanese Personas to fight him.
No joke, he used all his anime Personas, Gojira and Teddie from Persona 4.

This all happened in one of the most serious and important battles of the story to date.

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>>29394745
And when he finally admits to cheating, he... gets kicked out of the dorm?

Let me just remind you that their dorm is currently hosting two former villains, both of which were involved in serious crimes, including hacking, bullying, driving someone to commit suicide, and rape.

I do have to admit that I'm curious how the story will go from here, now that all of his friends hate Flash. He reversed most of his Social Links, including The Fool, which is pretty shocking from the games' perspective.

>>29394714
I don't know, I have yet to predict anything that happens in this fic. Everyone is so fucking insane that it's hard to predict what they'll do next.

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>mfw still no three way shipping fic with Aryanne, Donald Trump, and Pepe

>>29394788
I want to read a MythrilxShinzakura collab.

>>29380442

So uh, hey, I get that it annoys you, but there's been a good reason for it. I was suffering from severe anaemia for most of the last two years - as in "may drop dead at any point"-levels of anaemia, only diagnosed around christmas 2015 and only properly treated within the last couple of months because my former GP was a complete idiot.

The reason I started writing again in the last few weeks is because I've finally started getting a proper treatment and getting better again. I had a whole bunch of blogs about it. There was also the legal crap, which I somehow managed to pull off despite having no blood and a mind like an Alzheimer's patient.

tl;dr nearly died because commies tried to steal my blood and wasn't up to writing as a result. Feeling better now.

>>29395266

Accidentally read anaemia as amnesia, which would've been a much better excuse.

>Every morning for the past two years, I've woken up, logged into fimfic for the first time, and wondered why I've got all these followers when I've yet to write something

>>29394633
In hindsight, deleting the latter half was a bad idea, seeing how that meant skipping the list of all the character's deaths.

>>29395292

50 First Clops

>>29395292

No but seriously, amnesia isn't far from the truth either. I don't remember most of the last few months of 2015. If I hadn't got an emergency transfusion right before christmas, I would have died in a pretty horrible way around the summer.

>>29395380
Sounds pretty terrifying. How are you holding up now?

Once every couple months or so I like to visit my graveyard of Fics that haven't updated in several years.

Who's in yours?

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There's no 7DSJ for a while, but I just remembered there's an AAG side story that I never read.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/66494/polarity-a-tale-of-two-sisters
This one's about Derp Horse and her twin sister Other Derp Horse. But I'll be calling them by their full names because "Derpy" and "Ditzy" look too similar.

>polarity, chapter 1

>Derpelle is pregnant
(No, I didn't skip over anything. This is established in paragraphs one and two of the entire fic.)
>also, she's single

>Derpelle has a twin sister
>Derpelle got the brains, while Ditziduella yes, that is her actual name got the looks
>Ditziduella also has a reputation for sleeping around
>she'll fuck just about anyone to get what she wants
>oh btw, she's also married and has two kids

>Ditziduella is here to take Derpelle to lunch
>and also to insult her, because Ditziduella is a crazy bitch
>she wants to thank Derpelle for talking her husband (Autumn) out of getting a divorce

>"talking"
>actually Derpelle and Autumn are secretly in love
>but Autumn won't divorce Ditziduella because that would "ruin the family"
>...the family consisting of Autumn, the perpetually-cheating Ditziduella, and two kids
>...kids who are almost certainly not Autumn's, given Ditziduella's perpetual cheating
>and of course, Autumn is the one who knocked up Derpelle

And there you have it, only the first THREE FUCKING PAGES of chapter 1 of this wonderful tale.

By the way, you should definitely check out Derpelle and Ditziduella's section of the character chart, up at the top center - it's pretty fucking weird, even by AAG standards.

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>>29395933
Just...

that picture. That chart.

what is this I don't even

>>29396006
Oh, have you not heard about AAG before?
http://pastebin.com/YpSiMW3Y

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Only a month to go, lads. Hopefully Biscuit won't be too burned out, and there won't be too long of a delay before OTPP starts updating again. Think the story will break the big 1,000,000 before it wraps up?

This year's Scribblefest just started.

http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/711857/everfree-nw-scribblefest-2017

Write a story between 2000 and 6000 words that fits the prompt and you could win one of the six awards (and a $20 gift card)

This year’s prompt is: "Growing up wild and forever free"

>>29396647
I cant wait. I'm just not a fan of the daily updating nonsense. Though to be fair OtPP was getting a little boring last few chapters, so maybe collegepone was just an attempt on biscuits part to get away from PP for awhile

going by the average chapters length, another 30 chapters will put it right around the 1m mark

>>29395310
Well, at that point when I was recording it I was getting pretty sick of it. I stopped once I finished up character by chapter list. I'm currently looking for another to read that could be done on stream

So I was curious, what's the weirdest piece of clop you've written, /mlp/? Not necessarily the most hardcore or disturbing, but the oddest. Mine has to be a fic where AJ gets kidnapped by a giant (like 6 foot tall) moth, taken back to it's lair, and cajoled into sex. Had this whole storyline planned out where the other 5 turned up to rescue her, but got bogged down in all the red tape and bureaucracy the moth hive made them go through before letting them in. It was actually a pretty interesting idea, but I got to the part where AJ has sex with the moth and couldn't actually write the scene. Turns out moths have a ring of hands around their anus to hold their partner in place, fuck that noise.

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>>29397740
>moth

Something something realistically sized horsecocks something something straight pony on human something sex. I am a simple man.

>>29397786
realistically sized horsecocks, or ponycocks?

because theres a difference between walking funny afterwards and dying

>>29397804
Realistically sized for a pony.
Or an alicorn.
So somewhere between walking funny for nine months and calling the amberlambs.

>>29397740
The very first piece of fanfiction I ever wrote was one where Anon kept Fluttershy in a diaper, then she pissed in it, then Anon removed her diaper and wrung the piss-soaked diaper into his mouth, then fucked her in the ass while she made baby noises, then went to the kitchen to eat cheese made from her mammary milk.

I had called it "Cobwebs" since the opening paragraph had Anon staring at a cobweb in Fluttershy's cottage.

>>29397881
>not calling it The Aristocrats

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>>29394130
I like this one myself

>>29397740
>weirdest piece of clop you've written
That would be my beloved bat pony flattening fetish fic. I'm so glad I enjoyed writing it given how poorly received it's been (which is to be expected given how niche it is). (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/306006/fight-club)

>>29395498

You know all those science fiction stories where the one character takes the mind-enhancing treatment and goes on about being able to see everything so clearly now? Sort of like that.

>>29375927
Never knew telling a kid to kill himself for writing bad pony fanfiction was considered "Just shallow arguing".

At the end of the day, there's a difference between "Critiquing bad pony fanfiction" and "Telling someone to kill himself for writing something for himself, not for you".

>>29398001
This is 4chan. If you don't want your thing shat on, don't post it here. It's that simple.

>>29396079
>http://pastebin.com/YpSiMW3Y
That description was enough for me, thanks.

>>29397740
>what's the weirdest piece of clop you've written, /mlp/?

Oh, goody, I've been waiting for an opportunity to paste this link.

http://pastebin.com/e1g0PiME

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>>29397740
Pic related, I guess.

>>29395597

Only two on my list, as I cull it every now and then and mostly try to stick to finished and/or short fics.

Lunacy is Expected by Caleb Serusa
I started reading this one years ago, and looking back on it it's a bit amateurish and filled with grammatical errors and too many side-plots. The premise of a broken, fucked up Luna slowly but surely rebuilding her shattered mind and ruined life after her return really spoke to me though, and still does. I guess I can at least take consolidation in the fact that when the fic last updated, Luna was approaching the level where she can function in society and trust ponies again.

A Slice of Life by Dawnscroll
Another one from years ago. I don't recall much of it, other than I thought it was really good and I got invested in the portrayal of the characters, I keep it around because I plan to one day go back and reread the half story that's there.

I notice they follow the same pattern as many other of my graveyards, there's a ton from the early days of the fandom, I still have Crookedtree's askpinkamenadianepie and asksweetiepoo bookmarked for fuck's sake, despite them being deader than dead and long-since buried. Lot's of stuff from 2011/12/13, but nothing from 2015.

>>29396698
ooh, that sounds like fun
def gonna throw my hat into the ring again this year

>>29396698
I'm a lazy fuck, and I'm looking forward to reading the winners

>>29396698
>Growing up wild and forever free
I have no idea what I could possibly write for that.
Except maybe for Rarity nourishing her inner petrolhead by ripping through the streets of Canterlot on a four cylinder Honda CB750.

>>29398660
D O I T

>>29396698
>"Growing up wild and forever free"
because I'm too lazy to ever do it myself, ponified tarzan. a foal gets lost in the everfree, and instead of becoming somethings lunch, gets raised by it. yadda yadda yadda grows up and hangs out with a manticore and a cockatrice. youre welcome

>>29398660
WITNESS! All shiny and chrome!

Kid Rarity going all Mad Max on Canterlot would be fantastic!

>>29398724
Meh, tired and boring.

>>29398660
>>29398792
Cutie Mark Crusaders War Foals

>>29398792
You do Mad Max Rarity, I'll just write about a Rarity that gets tired of just sewing all day and pursues [X past family relative]'s dream of driving on a badass inherited motorbike.

words about horses

>>29399668
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLucCUG4i0

boop

So, why aren't you writing?

>>29401159
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6rOGqoB0b0

words about horse sex

>>29401177
Upvoted, favorited and printed out in a book.

>>29401159
I've been colouring porn pics for the clop dump and humanised threads in /trash/ because I can't get over a writer's block.

>>29401387
Which thread is that?
All I see is fetish threads and all-out furryshit.

>>29401420
This is the clop thread.
>>>/trash/7507138
This is the humanised thread.
>>>/trash/7530454

I'll post my colored pics at the end, since the threads are new.

page 10

>>29402238

What do you do when you find out someone else has written a story you already wanted to write?

>>29403578
If it's good or better than I could have done, I'd be glad and happy.
If they've fucked it up, I'd be further driven to actually write it.

>>29396869
Fuck it I'll just do another The Chase chapter.

>>29403840
Forgot to mention I'll do it drunk too. For the story and the stream.

>>29403844
Just do the Eye of Argon.

>>29403864
>The Eye of Argon
>Some poorly written 1970's heroic fantasy novella

I'm not one for disturbing old graves.

>>29403890
>poorly written
>not the most poorly written abomination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBc1aQeqZTQ

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I like cute pastel ponies.

Was browsing earlier, and I found this. The description called my attention, but what really got me to give it a look was that it was posted alongside a 2012 draft.

all in all, pretty good remake of it.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/361268/closer-to-heaven

>>29404026
>tfw you will never die of a gunshot wound as an entire soviet company rapes your wife

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>>29405472
>that green hand
Tell me at least it's not Anon.

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>>29405477
>at least it's not Anon.
you wish

>>29405472
>By Shakespearicles
Quite.

>>29395933
I have zero fucking idea how to read that chart.

>>29405576
You don't 'read' the family chart of AAG, you just bask in its insanity

>>29405472

Is it "lemon"?

>>29405576
But anon, it's so simple! The key at the bottom right clearly lists the color and description for each of the 20 types of character relationships documented in the chart.

>>29405833
I thought you were just kidding, but there are actually 20 types of character relationships.

AAG, man. Not even once.

>>29405833
I'd pay good money to see someone make that chard in real life, complete with 20 different kinds of yarn strings

>>29405881
>chard
chart + retard = chard?

>>29405893
Yes, that was totally intentional and not a typo

>>29405881
If it weren't because more than half of those are just placeholder pics of changelings, I would definitely do it.

>>29405874
Including one for "No Relation Whatsoever." Because at this point, the characters not being related is a special thing that must be pointed out.

For those of you wondering, AFAIK it's only used once, to show that there is no relation between Lauren Faust and Faust (A'Licorne).

>>29406073
I could have sworn there was a second one for John DeLancie and Discord. But it looks like I mis-remembered. The actual second "no relation" line is on the far right, connecting John DeLancie and Eris DeLancie, the latter being a doctor who appears once in chapter 36 of the side stories and is never mentioned again.

The most confusing part of the whole thing is that, as far as I can tell, Lauren Faust and John de Lancie have never appeared in AAG or any of its side stories.

>>29406138
So, if there's no "No Relation Whatsoever" line between DeLancie and Discord, does that mean there is SOME relation between them?

>>29406212
That sounds logical to me

>>29406212
I want to read a DiscordxJohn clopfic

>>29406138
>>29405874
Also, I really dislike the use of changeling images as placeholders; it makes it look like most of the characters are changelings, which, while I wouldn't be surprised if that turned out to be the case, is probably not right. Would it have been too much to ask for a different placeholder for each race, at least?

>>29406366
Unbelievable. I searched for Mature + Sex + Discord + "john" or "lancie", and there was nothing. Only two fics came up and they both involved some other John.

I think this is the first time Fimfiction has demonstrated better taste than I expected

>>29406564
zing!

>>29406366
>>29406564
I refuse to believe that doesn't exist.

>>29406564
>>29406590

That only means we finally found an unexploted niche.

Oh, Bleedin'~!

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>pic related
Disgusting.

In the same vein, has a fanfic ever captured your attention so much that you just had to keep going and couldn't leave it aside?

>>29403327

>>29406850
3
Just don't make the pegasus super special snowflakes.

>>29407100
I see you've been on reddit today too.

So has anyone found a Milo Yiannopoulos in Equestria fic?

>>29407133
http://pastebin.com/9gnUFz7E

>>29403919
Now that I look into it, a fun drinking game could come out of it.

Any mistakes, take a shot.

Looks like I'm getting shitfaced Thursday.

>>29406803

When I started reading It's a Dangerous Business, Going Out Your Door, I started just before bed and ended up staying up until the wee hours of the morning before exhaustion claimed me. I didn't finish it that night, but I got about 12 or 14 chapters in, because I was so caught up in it.

I did something similar with Apotheosis, though it being shorter, I actually was able to finish it.

Arthurian - The Black King also really caught my attention, and I ended up spending most of a Saturday not just reading it, but also digging into some of the writing decisions (it's heavily influenced by Malory's Le Mort D'Arthur).

Relevant links:

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/182859/its-a-dangerous-business-going-out-your-door
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/7335/apotheosis
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/102108/arthurianthe-black-king

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>>29406803
>has a fanfic ever captured your attention so much that you just had to keep going and couldn't leave it aside?
I'm constantly chasing that feeling, this is practically the only reason I read fanfiction.

There have been a few.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/4656/anthropology was the first I remember. The thrill of following Lyra's little conspiracy theory is something I haven't seen anywhere else. Now the second part of the fic becomes progressively bland, and it might not be as good as I remember, but I definitely won't forget this one.

In https://www.fimfiction.net/story/5170/project-sunflower I really loved the sense of discovery, the exploration, the adventure. The rest was fine as well, but the first part really hooked me in. I'm kind of a sucker for HiE/PiE because of this story.

And then there's Background Pony. I didn't read it all in one sitting, but anyone who calls it overrated need to have their heart replaced. The feels are absolutely overwhelming, just rereading some parts of it still gives me the chills. SS&E writes a lot of crap and has some troubles dealing with his own ego, but this one little collection of horse words is worth reading.

Finally I'm going to say https://www.fimfiction.net/story/48739/harmony-theory, although there are other smaller fics that captured me much more strongly, this one manages to stay interesting for the whole length of half a million words, which is impressive in and of itself, and not something I can say about any of the others.

>>29408390
I'm kind of in the same corner with Anthropology. I remember it being pretty compelling and had me reading chapter after chapter until the huge change mid-story. Then it lost me really fast, I just didn't care about it after a few more chapters.
Finished it because I felt I had to more than because I wanted to see the end.

>>29406803
>family prayer
Is this an American thing or a Muslim thing?

>>29408438
I am burger and I've never heard of this. But I could definitely see some evangelical christian families doing it.

>>29406803
I binged the Dear Sweetie Belle series in one afternoon when I first checked it out, albeit it was like half the length it is now.
http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Jade+Ring

More recently, I sped through the second half of http://www.fimfiction.net/story/116344/foal-of-the-forest after a particular contrivance screwed things up for everypony and I wanted to see it resolved.

Also with (Act One so far of) https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8176156/1/Romance-and-the-Fate-of-Equestria. As with DSB, partly it's that the small chapters go down more easily, but in its way I think it's as batshit as Shinzakura's work.

>>29408438
I'm guessing Christian. Muslim prayers are five times a day, so often alone in your room or just at random places you are in the day according to my arab oneitis.

>>29408732
I had some muslim friends who only did one a day in boarding school, in the late evening.

>>29375369
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/185272/the-chase
over 2.5 MILLION words and 931 chapters and STILL going strong, it's worth a read. I went on a month long bing to read it all and man was it worth it. 10/10.
(also it's still not done)

>>29408863
Is it actually readable? It sounds so incredibly autistic, I already made the mistake of going through most of DoaM, I don't really need to do that again.

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>>29408863
I know you're being a bit of a laffy taffy, but now I'm kinda curious what will happen once kudzu "The Fart" haiku reaches the thousandth chapter.

I mean, he's obviously not going to stop. What do you think the sequel will be named?

>>29408691
Addendum: There are also http://www.fimfiction.net/story/68002/tangled-roots and http://www.fimfiction.net/story/89379/vengeance-of-dawn.

>>29408863
>2.3 million words
>Sex, Gore, Alternate Universe, Comedy, Dark, Random, Romance, Slice of Life
>Has a side chapter named "The Sonic Wombboom"
>By the author of "Brown Note the Unicorn"
>10/10
Somehow I have my doubts.

>>29408879
no joke, it's readable, I would highly recommend it, it has a slow start but damn around chapter 30 or so it fucking takes off to Neverland for a ride you'll never experience again
>>29408888
this is also a sequel to another story he made, The Catch
>>29408946
give it a read 10/10 would try at least the first few chapters, will not regret.

>>29408930
(For what it's worth, Vengeance is also its own type of bizarre, and I blogged/riffed it (alongside the first couple arcs of Harmony Theory) in the event one cares. That should be it for addenda.)
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lb_i.php?lb_id=14254433610B42602500&i_id=14366483560I10405300&p=8

>>29406803
There's been a few. They're not necessarily the greatest stories, one in particular lacks proper editing even, but they all either gave me the feeling of wanting more no matter how tired I was or how long I had been reading already.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/341625/around-the-world-in-81-days-and-other-problems-caused-by-leap-years
It wasn't until the end of Day 7 that this story really reveals what it's all about. I was bogged down because I didn't really like the reversal with Spike being both the main character and more level headed than Twilight, which felt out of character early on. But once things heat up, the story settles into a wonderful rhythm that isn't broken again until the very last chapter. Twilight's character becomes much more believable because she's not making poor choices, she's just trying to do what she thinks is right, and it is genuinely what is right, and the frustration with her flakes off like it was never even there. 8.5/10.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/90558/the-night-is-passing
When I started this story it wasn't finished yet, but it was about halfway through. I think I got caught up in two or three days max. The story does a phenomenal job building its world and giving a sense of adventure. The characterizations are good on all counts, and it's beautifully well written. The ending does bog down, but it doesn't necessarily take away from what is an otherwise fantastic journey. The problem with the ending is almost that it exists at all, because whatever comes to conclude the adventure cannot possibly be as good as the adventure itself. 8/10

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/192047/twilights-inferno
Someone was just in this thread talking about how this story was ruined by its ending. I wouldn't go that far, but it definitely hits you in the gut and feels senseless. However the journey up to that point is incredible. Supremely well written and delightfully dark. 9/10

cont.

>>29408888
>truman capote
Oh shit. I thought I recognized the name when he showed up as a character in https://www.fimfiction.net/story/191973/disco-inferno, but I couldn't remember from where. Apologies in advance for being a total fucking pleb

>>29408969
The last story on my "Couldn't put it down" list is also the strongest candidate in my opinion. This is the one that lacks proper editing, as well.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/268391/mortal-coil
I've shilled it before and I'll shill it again. This is one of the best stories on the site. Now I don't mean story as in complete work, I mean story as in the tale that it tells. This story is just an outstanding adventure that, were it not for its often poor editing, and the fact that the author quit the site shortly thereafter, would be rated much more highly than it is. On a website filled with so much fluff that is so much worse, it really is a shame that this one gets overlooked. It's well paced and has no contrivances or bizarre plot devices that ruin the immersion. It does at times read somewhat like a videogame, especially with how small the world can feel, but that just allows it to have a broader scope and it makes excellent use of that. This is an action fantasy that makes full use of all half a million words.

>>29409009
>only knowing the name "truman capote" because it showed up in my little pony fanfiction
Anon...

>>29409020
No anon, I recognized the name when it showed up in my little pony fanfiction, because I had previously seen it in an image macro on a lebanese embroidery forum.

>>29409009
>>29409031
Bro, get to reading In Cold Blood. Like, now.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/270897/1/three-out-of-ten/three-out-of-ten-healthy

if you like tragedy, I'd recommend this fic. Trust me on this, if you like tragedy, this is for you.

>>29409061
Normally I'd say something about you linking directly a chapter, but since I have a pathological fixation with tragic romantic stories and TwilightxPinkie shipping, I'll let it slide.
Thanks, I always look for these kind of stories.

>>29409077
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/170994/never-stop-smiling

heres another one for you, figured you'd appreciate it.

>>29407133
http://pastebin.com/e1C31rSV

>>29408863
>STILL going strong
>Last Modified 14th Nov 2016

>>29408815
Apparently it's 5 prayers, not 5 different prayers, so you can all do them at the same time.

I'm reading non-fiction today. I feel like I betrayed some small autistic part inside of me.

>>29410105
I've been reading plenty of non-fiction to write fanfiction. I feel doubly autistic and heretical.

>>29410109
I've read quite a bit of non-fiction to write original fiction. Though, it's genre fiction, so it's still autistic.

boop

>>29407116
Of course not, Anon
I would never touch that website

>>29408390
>. The thrill of following Lyra's little conspiracy theory is something I haven't seen anywhere else. Now the second part of the fic becomes progressively bland
Seems like literally everyone shares this opinion. I have no idea why the author decided to go for such a sudden story shift.

I wish someone else wrote a fic similar to the first few chapters of Anthropology.

>>29406803
>has a fanfic ever captured your attention so much that you just had to keep going and couldn't leave it aside?
Funnily enough, I binged all of Persona EG when it was half its current length. It was shit, but there was something fascinating about it.

>>29407100
4.

>This action scene is giving me trouble. Let's try skipping it.
>This character introduction is giving me trouble. Let's try skipping it.
>This setting description is giving me trouble. Let's try skipping it.
>This character interaction is giving me trouble. Let's try skipping it.
>This climax scene is giving me trouble. Let's try skipping it.
>DOCUMENT TOTAL WORD COUNT = 0

Perfect.

>>29411558
If every single part of the story is giving you trouble, then you probably don't really want to write it.

>>29411498
Honestly as far as longer fics go, I can think of many more 'trainwreck' type fics than 'good' ones

Its almost guaranteed that anything over half a million words will be batshit nutty

>>29412307
It was about 100k when I started reading. It's this long only because it used to have daily updates and set out to describe every single day of a year of the main character's life. Most of it is filler.

>>29409136
I really liked it, thanks.
Makes me want to go and write a few more sad Twinkie fics...

So do people promote their shit here or something?

>>29414524
Sometimes.

>>29414524
Yeah but be ready to get shit on if it's feature-box pandering material.

>>29375927
I wasn't here for any of that but I have to ask, isn't getting the other party all triggered and worked up the entire point of shitposting at them?

And if it's not then whatever autistic reply they come up with can be ignored. I don't see how that's a problem. And we're on /mlp/, I really don't see anything wrong with telling anyone to kill themselves - in fact disliking a story they wrote is a much better excuse than most people use.

Tl;dr kill yourself

>>29414565
I think that whole debacle got mixed up with all the Aryanne shitposting and then someone started defending DataBass of all people, then all of that descended into dozens upon dozens of shitposting.

I can't wait for the next bout of FiMFiction drama so we can all move on.

>>29414565
The problem, I think, was that the shitposting started to drown out all the real discussion. Most people are here to talk about horsewords, not circlejerk about Nazipone and debate the DBIDF.

Do you sometimes need to take long breaks from writing?

>>29416037
Sometimes it's a good idea to take a breather from writing, but if you let too much time pass, then you may end up postponing writing on and on.

My recommendation is to rest for a while if you feel too overwhelmed or exhausted, but force yourself back to writing as soon as possible.

>>29408965
>no joke, it's readable, I would highly recommend it, it has a slow start but damn around chapter 30 or so it fucking takes off to Neverland for a ride you'll never experience again

Go ahead and spoil it: why? What happens around then? (I don't find that spoilers make a story less enjoyable; often I find they make it more enjoyable.)

>>29408390
>And then there's Background Pony. I didn't read it all in one sitting, but anyone who calls it overrated need to have their heart replaced. The feels are absolutely overwhelming, just rereading some parts of it still gives me the chills.

The first part of it, sure.

A previous fimfiction thread talked about stories that are completely retroactively ruined by the ending. Background Pony falls in that category for me.

>>29416298
How so?

>>29383296
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/207379/the-brief-reign-of-princess-twily

>>29416306
Not him, but probably because after 400,000 words, the resolution of the main plot is "everything that was fucked, continues to be fucked forever, and eventually Lyra dies"

>>29416407
That's kinda the heartbreaking moment though, isn't it? It all returns to nothing, fight against windmills, etc.

>>29416428
There were plenty of feels in the first 19 chapters, the last one could have gone either way and it would have worked fine.

It's kind of frustrating sticking with a story for that long, following Lyra through all those challenges trying to improve her situation, only for the author to go "lol nope" right at the very end.

>>29416506
This, exactly.

>>29416298
I haven't read it, but the complaint I seem to recall was that it originally was just a one-off that had the same overall theme/ending, and the expanded version is just a long and dramatic buildup to the same futile conclusion. That ultimately it's more words for no added benefit.

>>29416506
I see where you're coming from, but to me the fact that it was all useless (in regards to lifting the curse) and seeing her deteriorate makes it that much more devastating. It's not like the "lol nope" came out of nowhere, it had pretty solid reasoning, didn't contradict anything from the story and basically forced Lyra into a great self-sacrifice. That itself makes her a bigger hero than if she somehow came out with a happy ending.
Sure it's kinda unexpected and frustrating and sad, but I'm okay with it in this case.

>>29379507
>A few random ones I could dig up

Thanks!

>Dropbear has a couple. Specifically anything involving Nigel Chambers

I'd been hesitant to read those because the summary seemed to suggest that the protagonist was actually evil. Is the summary just misleading?

>brony writer has a series starting with https://www.fimfiction.net/story/122018/td-the-alicorn-princess in which the MC wrote down the rest of starswirls spell during MMC and wound up ascending instead of twilight and winds up with his own not-ponyville domain

Yeah, I've read that one. It's fun, though I didn't enjoy it turning into warfic, and as a result I have little interest in the sequel.

> https://www.fimfiction.net/story/26915/the-rule-of-king-cocoon-of-the-changelings

Holy hell how have I not seen this before?

> https://www.fimfiction.net/story/181310/my-secret-life-as-an-evil-insect-overlord

Already reading that one. It's OK, but just OK.

> https://www.fimfiction.net/story/237992/who-is-this-lord-tirek-you-speak-of

That's one of Bucking Nonsense's stories that I was talking about. (And an actually finished one, too.) All of his stories are awesome.

>>29380379
>there's also this https://www.fimfiction.net/story/48085/guiding-light
>and its sequel https://www.fimfiction.net/story/92198/to-see-the-light

Read that a long time ago. Looks like the sequel has a few more chapters that I haven't read yet; I'll have to go back and revisit them. Good excuse to reread from the beginning.

>>29416557
I have to disagree. I don't know the origins of the story, and yes, the writing is fluffed up, but I find it hard to imagine the story missing a chapter or two, because they always tell some story. Whether it's the main plot or something from the sidelines of Ponyville, it builds Lyra's character and paints the world.
Okay, maybe the one where she gets the couple (florist/construction worker, I think?) together I could probably do without.

>>29416559
>I see where you're coming from, but to me the fact that it was all useless (in regards to lifting the curse) and seeing her deteriorate makes it that much more devastating.

"Devastating" is universally not a property I want in an ending. A middle, sure, if it serves the story and makes the subsequent payoff that much better. But as an ending, never.

>>29416590
Yeah. I appreciate its unusualness. Leaves a stronger impact.
This really comes down to personal preference. I would be less satisfied if she somehow overcame the odds and fixed everything. This way she saved everyone but herself.

>>29416627
>This really comes down to personal preference.

Agreed. Some people enjoy sad endings. I can enjoy sad middles, but can't stand sad endings.

> I would be less satisfied if she somehow overcame the odds and fixed everything.

I can imagine other ways to handle it that wouldn't involve Lyra herself overcoming the odds.

One possibility: don't provide a full definitive resolution for Lyra herself, but preserve enough hope to see how it could resolve. Show the early parts of Lyra's decline, but show some hints that somepony started to remember. Not remember Lyra herself, but remember some aspect of the wake she left in the world, and start feeling the drive to investigate. Sequel hook, or just unresolved hope.

>>29416571
>the summary seemed to suggest that the protagonist was actually evil. Is the summary just misleading?
Not evil, just kind of an asshole to be honest. And he tends to look out for his own best interests

Dropbear uses the same protagonist in several fics, the characterization of which changes from fic to fic and I don't think any of them are connected to any of the others. He just really seems to like using this nigel guy

>>29416771
You would have to bend the rules of the curse a bit for that, work it in the lore in the later chapters or something. But perhaps a sequel where Lyra has a partner in crime could be pulled off. Her being saved by an outside force and a fresh perspective would be cool.
Just no unresolved hope. If there's something I'm allergic to, it's when a story doesn't give any closure. If a writer is telling a story and instead of saying how it ends he shrugs in a maybe-maybe not kind of way, he's not telling the full story, so unless he has a really good reason, like dying, I'm blaming the author.
If BGP after the 400k feel bomb ended in a who knows??, I'd go nuclear.

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>>29417802
will you degenerate freaks keep your depravity to your fucking selves?

>>29416037
Yes. It's been several years.

>>29417824
Why are you upset? It's white, isn't it?

>>29417824
Roleplaying is not allowed.

>>29417824
>>29418358
Erotic roleplaying, however, is, as long as you commit it to paper. Then it's just smut.

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I wish I could ERP with Aryanne.

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>>29418622
Why don't you go to Equestria then?
We won't miss you.

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>>29418885

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

>>29418885
I want to ERP with Aryanne, and Equestria has neither ERP or Aryanne.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/342050/body-suits-make-terrible-toilets

>So these hate groups are still operating

>>29375369
Imagine a world where people realize "Kill yourself cancer child I'm done talking to you" isn't criticism, which is all hate groups spew when they aren't yelling "EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS TERRIBLE! THERE, I CRITIQUED IT! HAHA" and getting asspats for it.

Imagine a world where we have a writing community that's stronger than the hate group community.

>>29418939
>Imagine a world where we have a writing community that's stronger than the hate group community.
We could have such a world. If only most writers weren't illiterate retards.

>>29418939
Alright, then please imagine a world where writers make a conscious effort to write quality works of fiction and listen to constructive criticism, so that said critics won't give up, leaving only the trolls to fill up that void.

>>29418939
Be the change you want to be, Anonymous.

>>29418947
>>29418949
>>29418952
Do not reply to the DBIDF

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>>29418939

i think you are asking too much of this thread or its regulars. Censorship will always end in hugboxing, a place where nothing honest is ever said and where everybody has the same opinions, out of the fear of being punished for expressing himself.

You may not like Freedom of Speech, but it is a thousandfold more important to a real public discourse than your delicate feelings or the mental wellbeing of writefag X. Even in a toxic community constructive, honest criticism will always exist and make sure that at least most of the reasonable works get a decent review.

>>29418971
>Even in a toxic community constructive, honest criticism will always exist and make sure that at least most of the reasonable works get a decent review.
Or not, the other extreme of a hugbox exists, and it turns into a hivemind of pretentious bullshit where people spend their time hating on popular things out of a misguided sense of fitting in with the community.

>>29418971
Why does "U just wanna hugbox!!!" always come up whenever anyone says "Hey, maybe if we stopped telling amateurs to kill themselves, they'd be more likely to like us and think our criticism is worth listening to"? Does it make you feel like edgy misunderstood critics perpetually surrounded by silly childish thin-skinned writers that "Just can't handle criticism"?

Here's one for you: Why are these "Critics" unable to handle criticism? Call one out on clicking a fic containing a fetish they knew they wouldn't like and they get pissier every time you do.

We've been through this already. Don't reply.

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>>29419176
Now you're pretending I'm a glimfag. How cute that you can't take criticism when it comes to your own shitty actions and attitude, yet expect all the bronies you attack to just stand there and take it when you tell them to kill themselves for not giving you what you feel entitled to.