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>>29433893

I'll post it again I don't give a fuck

Stream tomorrow

The Chase Chapter 2

Doing it drunk.

It might be a pretty short stream Unless I actually play a game or something.

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>>29433912

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>>29433992

>>29434016
Why won't you just ERP out your nazi fantasies already?

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>>29434032

I am someone else. I notice you people rage a lot here, so I came here to calm you down.

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>>29434046
But we like to rage.

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>>29434046
>I am someone else. I notice you people rage a lot here, so I came here to calm you down.
>calm you down

lol you can't

This is what happened when I tried arguing with someone on fimfic. Now imagine this with 20 other anons.

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>>29434046
>I am someone that isn't the other anonymous poster spamming Aryanne
lol ok

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>>29434046
>>29434081
Also got a better reaction

https://strawpoll.com/d995r2y

>>29434180
Where is the "kill yourself" option

>>29434193
I think that's the "Record and edit another The Chase chapter" option.

>>29434203
But then where is the "masturbate to Aryanne live" option?

>>29434206
Next to the "kill self by reading more AAG" option

So, Valentine's coming.

Will you capitalise on the ocassion by publishing a cheap romantic one-shot?

>>29434180
where is stream

scooterdude get

>>29434447
>off by three
You're a shame to scootagets.

>>29434407
His channel, Voiceguystreamswhatever

Should probably put that in the opening post along with a schedule or something.

>>29434180
Have you already played SLHRPG? If not, you could play that.

>>29434180
You could post your request queue as a poll, to see what to read next.

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>>29434522
I second this motion.

>>29434514
Super Lesbian whatever?

Game looks a little cringy to be honest.

>>29434522
That's not a bad idea.

>>29434602
>Game looks a little cringy to be honest.
It's very cringe-inducing at times, but I think the worst part is that it's barely pony related. The sprites are of the Mane6, yeah, but the enviroments barely resemble Equestria, and none of the enemies you fight belong in the same style or even universe as FiM.

Then again, I beat the whole game in +2 hours, so it's not as if you're going to lose a huge chunk of your life in it.

>>29434614
Huh this just reminded me of that coc mod i had almost talked myself into doing

>>29434180
I can't believe LUNA GAME is winning.

>>29434455
eh in three years weve only managed to accomplish a single scootaget. its just tradition at this point

>>29429945
Thirding The Contest.

>>29434602
>Super Lesbian whatever?
>Game looks a little cringy to be honest.

It has some cringy moments, but it's also hilarious at times, has a few feels moments, and even the bad moments often hit "so bad it's good" territory. It doesn't feel accidental; I think the author had enough self-awareness to know exactly what they were creating.

It's a couple of hours long at most, you don't need to grind at all, and it'd be many times funnier with Voiceguy voices.

>>29434180
So I tried to look up the Luna Games. The website which hosted the download links is completely gone.

Tragic.

Are you guys writing anything?
>inb4 "I'm writing this reply"

>>29434180
Play My Little Investigators.

>>29436113
Still writing my SunLight story. I'm halfway done and hope to finish by the end of Summer. Then I need to edit heavily and maybe I'll have it out before NaNoWriMo rolls around again.

3 hours

>>29436108
I know, I looked it up as well. That really is sad, that's half of my High School memories down the drain.

>>29436117
It's either this or Super Lesbian. Or maybe Welcome to Ponyville, that Virtual Novel that never got finished.

>>29436152
OH WAIT FUCK THAT ACT 2 CAME OUT FOR WELCOME TO PONYVILLE

GUESS WHAT WE'RE FUCKING DOING?

>>29436161
Nope, I'm retarded. False alarm

>>29436152
http://www.equestriagaming.net/2011/05/luna-game-2-creepypasta.html
It's still hosted on Equestria Gaming. Even then, I think I still have a few of the Luna games on me compooper.

>>29436175
http://www.equestriagaming.net/2011/04/luna-game-creepypasta.html for thine first revision.

>>29436182
First games a virus bro.

>>29436204
It's supposed to be a virus, though.

40 minutes.
Getting drunk is hard work.

>>29436205
Regardless, I'm not dealing with all the fucking images and text files.

>>29436665
Fuck it it's happening now

twitch tv voiceguystreamswhatever

>>29436724
>watch a few seconds of horrible background static
>windows 10
>close it
Fuck off.

>>29436724
There's a lot of blanks between every little thing you say, it doesn't sound natural.

>>29436785
He uses Windows 10, you already know he's an idiot.

>>29436805
>>29436735
Calm down, mate.

Lil' theory here

What if Celestia and Luna were referred to as "Princess" because Equestria considers the sun and moon as their royal deities? Kind of like how the pharaoh in Egypt was the human form of the sun god Ra, the two princesses were chosen by the sun and moon among other unicorn to represent them in physical form and take the responsibility that once fell to all the unicorn race.

>>29436882
You just made me imagine a comedy where all legislations must be approved by the Sun and the Moon, and all the wacky ways in which bureaucrats would circumvent this.

>>29436888
HEIL

I'd reckon it would work similarly to Canada, or any other constitutional monarchy. The queen/king is the supreme ruler, but her authority is entirely transferred into the governor general, who doesn't have any real power other than signing papers because he's just another symbolic ruler in the end. The real power is held by the elected deputies.

If Equestria evolved like western societies, there would probably be some laws putting in a democratic system in place, or even stripping the royalty of all political power other than signing papers and writing speeches.

>>29436724
And it's done

>>29437400
The finished product
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXbt6LEM_ps&feature=youtu.be
The Chase by Kudzuhaiku chapter 2

I'm most likely not doing this next thursday.

>>29437477
Now that I'm actually listening to the story, it's pretty fucking hilarious just how bad it is.

>>29437477
I don't know what it is, but I can't comment on the story, letting him know I made a new narration.

Someone else is gonna have to do it. Maybe I'm shadow banned or something.

>>29437519
Maybe he blocked you after your stream was linked to him.

>>29437526
I didn't know you could block people specifically from a comment section.

What a baby

>>29437534
A well paid baby.

https://www.patreon.com/iakovl

>>29437540
Holy fuck I should write words.
Lots and lots of autistic words.

>>29437526
He didn't respond to my invitation for him to drop by the stream.

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Speaking of autistic words, I just checked and Shortskirts has only written 710k more words across all his FiMFiction accounts than BlackRoseRaven has. That is, without counting skirt's non pony fanfics.

It almost makes me want to root for BRR.

>>29437580
That doesn't necessarily mean he didn't see it.

>>29437519
Blocked by the author, so he can easily stay in his hugbox and reject criticism.

>>29437590
I was curious what was so bad about BRR (apart from an ugly icon), so I did some searching and found an old thread where someone said:

>>25988335
>RealityCheck...implicitly condoned child abuse in a comment of one of my fics

Now I'm curious about the context of that. Does anyone know?

>>29438737
>RealityCheck...implicitly condoned child abuse in a comment of one of my fics
Ah, that. Good times.

I wrote a story a few years ago where filly Twilight goes nuts due to taking books too seriously and ends up hurting and traumatising a few dozen foals.

RealityCheck didn't paid this any mind and declared that Twilight was in the right and she should have been backed up by her parents, even though the whole point of the story was about Twilight being in the wrong.

>>29438737
I have no idea what the drama is about, but I was surprised how 4chanX just loaded that 1 year old post without blinking. Archives are cool.

>>29438852
Sounds moderately entertaining. Is it still online anywhere?

>>29438981
Yeah.
https://http://www.fimfiction.net/story/204781/

RC's comment is neat the bottom.

>>29439021
Ah, you're the guy with the Diamond Dog story.

But
>putting a period on the end of your title

>>29439361
Ha! I didn't even realise it had a period after all this years. In my defense I knew next to nothing about proper writing format back then.

I still don't, but I didn't back then either.

>Ah, you're the guy with the Diamond Dog story.
You know, if it weren't for you I probably forgotten I started writing that. I think I still have a few drafts for that story saved in a folder of my Google Drive. I should check that some day.

You guys think the Asylum fic is ever going to be finished? Also how do you think would have ended? With Twilight really captured in an illusion/dream or asylum is real?

>>29439418
That's why I'm happy 'Believing Stories' exists.
It's done and offers a subjectively satisfying conclusion.

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>>29437534
>>29437526
>>29437519

kek

>>29440904
inviting him is a good thing. he probably has no recollection whatsoever of shit he wrote 950 chapters ago

>>29439418
I'd guess it's a dream/Discord fucking with her/whatever. Writing 200k and ending it with "Twilight was actually insane. The end." just doesn't seem satisfying for either the reader or writer.

I haven't followed fanfics in like 3 years. Did Antipodes, Through the Eyes of Another Pony, or The Ballad of Twilight Sparkle ever finish?

>>29439418
I think the author still hasn't decided on the ending, because after all these words and time it'd have to be pretty damn original to not disappoint.

>>29441002
Anitpodes did never heard of the other two

>>29441002
>Through the Eyes of Another Pony
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/19641/through-the-eyes-of-another-pony
Believe it or not, the author is alive and still editing the old chapters, like he planned to when he first posted it on Fimfic. It looks like he's making progress at a rate of about one chapter per year, so maybe around 2024 he'll start writing new material again.

Daily reminder to those of you judgmental pricks that call shit anything you aren't personally a fan of, your opinions aren't facts.

Daily reminder that you should not reply to the DBIDF.

>>29442333
>333
>WIN 3-0
wew lad

>>29442337
wat

>all this movie hype
>people /still/ whinging about furries
Why?

>>29444685
wat

So now that anthro cats are canon to FiM lore, do you think we'll see a new wave of all-anthro all-oc furry fics pop up?

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>>29445934
Oh, this is gonna be good.

>>29445934
wait what

If this is in this saturday's episode, I'm glad I don't watch FiM regularly anymore.

>>29446176
Nah, it's from the movie.
>>29442504

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>>29445934
More anthro OC, but those were always furry.
The salt will be great.
>>29446176
Just check the /mlp/ catalog.

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>>29446292
>CMC needing help with "bullying"
>When they've befriended their biggest bully and the other one is just a cunt that they don't give a shit about

10$ that the movie is going to be like pic related.

>>29446292
>>29446367
Also

>Edge OC is canon
>Anthro furryshit is canon
>Princess rip-off is canon

I guess Hasjew finally listened to Fimfic's most popular authors after all.

>>29446367
It's just a joke image. Sheesh.
>>29446402
Those three things were always canon.

>>29446474
Well, outside of Sombra, I don't recall anything too edgy or anthro. Cadence might count as princess, but I've never really acknowledged her as a true one, and still consider her a "fake" mortal alicorn, like Twilight.

>>29446600
I think the movie script was written by Bleedin

>>29446600
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

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>>29446565
>princess
Platinum
Ember
>anthro
Iron Will
Diamond Dogs

>>29446600
>that story
>those digits

Hey, Bleedin

Want to make something that will be popular? The movie characters have already been anounced, and the trailer is dropping tomorrow. Do what Albinocorn did and make a huge story about what the movie will be about before it comes out.

>>29446687
What's sad is that his thing will very probably be accurate.

>>29446646
Princess as in alicorn

>>29446713
Your comment makes even less sense considering the new princess is clearly not an alicorn.

>>29446736
Oh fuck

I thought she had a horn. Nevermind then.

Any story made you rage lately?

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>>29447644
All American Girl.

>>29447644
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/20761/ribbons-and-lace

Rarity gets way too much shit from everyone
the only thing that was actually wrong was her dressing Fluttershy up the second time

>>29447703
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/20761/ribbons-and-lace
Aw, man. I had that in my RL list.
Care to elaborate on why it made you rage?

>>29447764
It's not that bad, you should give it a try

It was fine until halfway through chapter 9 where Rarity reveals that she is Fluttershy's secret admirer.
At this point it's already clear that some drama will happen but the reason for it is stupid.

Instead of calling Rarity out on things that were actually morally wrong, like dressing Fluttershy up for her own viewing pleasure or manipulating her by telling her how to behave when she gets the secret love letters that were actually written by her, Fluttershy mostly complains about things like Rarity being too shy(!) to just confess her feelings or how it's somehow a sign of distrust when she makes sure that Fluttershy even has an interest in mares before hitting her up.

They end up fugging anyways so that confirms that all these "sins" couldn't be that bad.

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>>29440904
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/TheChase

>Toilet Humour: Present both in the story and in the humor of characters therein. Especially prevalent are fart jokes, ranging from a unicorn foal enchanting a loaf of bread to make fart noises when sliced to the running gag of pegasai being flatulent.

What now, Voiceguy.
WHAT NOW

>>29447644
You Make My Whole Life Worthwhile.

I'm writing a rant piece on it right now.

>>29446291
Wow, those designs are terrible.
What the fuck is up with that broken horn? It's straight out of pony creator.

>>29446600
I have to wonder if I should just keep half-written smut around so that I can plug in a character and release it before anyone else.

>>29448392
>“Oh… cat farts.” Boadicea slumped over and shook her head. “And I was having a perfect day, too.”
- The Chase

>>29447644
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/361744/secret-of-flying
Wouldn't really say I raged, since it's exactly as bad as I expected given its predecessors, but I'll probably write a mini-rant for it when it's done.

>>29446291
Why does a fucking cat have hair?
fuck that sounded stupid, but you know what I mean

also those wings? flutterpony?

Goddamn I think i just became a fan of the fandom because canon just became too retarded for me to tolerate

>>29446291
>CapperGeneral is now canon

>>29448785
>Why does a fucking cat have hair?
Because he's designed like a fursona.

>>29448804
>>29446646
>>29446713
Looks like we got ourselves a Queen, too. >>29448789

>>29448994
FiM always ends up doing one step forwards and two steps back with lore and worldbuilding. I realise the series doesn't even really try to focus on it, just be somewhat coherent, but I nevertheless wish we didn't get new elements out of the blue all the time.
Sometimes it's good, like Changelings, other times there's stuff like Blueblood (that people are still not in agreement over how to explain) or Cadence (which the show just introduces out of nowhere while insisting that she's always been there).

I dunno, I can't say for sure that the movie will be bad, but these character designs look like shit to me, and I can't help but think that it's mostly going to contain things that avoid or keep out of my own fics.
Kind of how I just tend to disregard how technologically advanced Equestria has been portrayed now.

Guess we'll see when it finally comes out.

It's interesting that she's a queen, but doesn't have an obvious villain design.

>>29441764
Nice try.

>>29449533
Nobody replied. Seems like a win to me.

The movie is going to ruin the feature box for a while, as far as I'm concerned

>>29449788
>implying
>implications

But seriously I hope at least some of the new worldbuilding is tolerable. They did send all the competent staff over that way so maybe we'll be lucky.

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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/43761/among-the-ruins

Hey, this isn't dead!

>>29450529
>13 wpd
Shit even I beat that

>>29448994
>lel pc black VA totally not alicorn princess exdedee

JUST

>>29449103
>Kind of how I just tend to disregard how technologically advanced Equestria has been portrayed now.

Even if you do, magic fuck things up so much that technology ends up being pretty irrelevant.

>>29441002
Ballad's RIPing in pieces.

>>29444685
It's funny--especially since drug kingpin furries and nazi penguins were a thing in Gen 1.

>>29446402
>Edge OC
Sombra.
>Anthro furryshit
Diamond Dogs and Ember muh scalies aren't furry.
>Princess rip-off
Cadance, Amore, Twilight, and Flurry.

Anon, where have you been?

>>29448392
Whenever I get to that chapter, I'll replace fart noises with Hitler speeches.

Which reminds me. Every Thursday, new The Chase chapter on stream, along with some game playing. Maybe My Little Investigations.

Also, More Bleedin monday, here's a strawpoll for Tuesday.

https://strawpoll.com/gefycdw

>>29451928
The Chase, but every time someone farts Hitler gives his declaration of war on Poland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnVtF22QhU

Bump since I know someone will miss it at page 10

On horseword unrelated stuff, I'm reading Oreimo. It's really cute till now.

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>>29453136
I found myself just absolutely hating it by the 11th volume.
Then again, I don't really like SoL stuff or pedophilia, so I guess that's in line.

>>29453163
Well, I'm at chapt 19 and it's still a nice cute SoL manga about a brother awkwardly reconciling with his sister

I did hear about the incest stuff that happens later on though, although I wouldn't really call it pedophilia, since the Kirino and her brother are "only" 3 years apart, which is kind of doable.

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>>29453186
It just becomes kind of tired and samey and stupid to me, almost like it's trying to morph into a horrifying harem without actually committing.

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>>29453203
Just got into 21, and yeah, it starts becoming some harem shit.

I legitly thought the title was a joke and didn't actually mean full on brother-sister incest and wedding proposal when I saw it. I just wanted some heart warming Watamote style manga, but it doesn't seem to want to go that way.

I guess I'm picking Tomoko up again after I finish this.

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>>29453254
Didn't you post this a while back?
Eh, lo leeré de todos modos.

>>29453254
>anthro

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>>29453223
Harem is never good, and the only harem I ever liked was good because it stopped being a harem for a little while and became batshit insane.
Watamote, on the other hand, is the exact opposite of a harem. Tomoko is basically just Moon Dancer.

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>>29453286
Moon dancer?

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>>29453370

>>29453405
Oh that one.

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Don't mind me, just checking something.

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>>29453460
I do mind you.

>>29453203
So, is 26 really the last? Is the tease for a new chapter just a lie?

>>29453479
S-sorry. I saged tho!

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>>29453485
Saging doesn't do anything anymore, and you know it.

>>29453507
It's invisible, but it still works fine!

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>>29453480

>>29447644
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/359772/choose-wisely
In celebration of Cadance and Shining's anniversary, Cadance has a surprise for him: She's secretly best friends and lovers with and has shared all his secrets and security procedures with the emotionally vampiric monster who brainwashed and raped him and who's probably still plotting to take over the kingdom. Now, to prove his love for her, he has to play a rigged game where both the reward for success and punishment for failure are a night spent pleasuring his rapist.

The comments provide extra fun. White knights including a Story Approver are butthurt at the author for mistreating their fictional horsebando, some demanding a sequel to set things right; white knights for the author insist that Cadance and Chryssy did nothing wrong and that Shining clearly wanted it; and Internet tough guys insist that they totally would've done way better in Shining's place.

>>29450589
Like the thread says, the show already has black VAs. I'm just annoyed that they're casting celebrity face actors instead of experienced voice actors (and that instead of Discord's brother and the return of the alicorns we're getting some OC-driven side adventure in some island kingdom we'll probably/hopefully never see again).

>>29450596
Bit of an oversimplification, I'd say.

>>29444685
>>29451407
>You can't dislike things that have appeared in any generation of the show, even once
k

>>29453203
What is that eye gesture, anyway? I read a claim that it's called the "one eye" sign and means the person is under mind control.

>>29453907
At least casting DeLancie made quite a bit of sense since, well, Discord was quite a similar character to Q, both in concept and design. Though I don't know whether he was designed around DeLancie or they got a voice actor afterwards.

>>29453907
I don't know, "Princess Novo" doesn't really sound like black culture to me.

>>29453942
http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/John_de_Lancie
>Initially, Lauren Faust wanted to cast someone who could impersonate de Lancie, but Hasbro suggested casting de Lancie himself.
(They don't have a source, but I remember reading it somewhere more authoritative.)

>>29453959
You've lost me. Did you mean to reply to someone else?

>>29453942
De Lancie had also done some voice work in the past. Not a ton, but he voice acted for some video games, and has read a good deal of audiobooks.
His work on Discord is actually pretty good.

>>29454159
He's a voice actor more because he just has an interesting voice rather than because of any additional talent. In the same rough league as Tara Strong, except he's got less tits and is actually trying.
These new VAs probably won't even have any of that.

>>29454266
Have Blunt, Schreiber, Zaldana, or any of them ever done voice acting work?

>>29453907
>I'm just annoyed that they're casting celebrity face actors instead of experienced voice actors (and that instead of Discord's brother and the return of the alicorns we're getting some OC-driven side adventure in some island kingdom we'll probably/hopefully never see again).
Also that they're presumably throwing out the EU version of sea ponies, and instead of either carrying on in the old continuity or starting over in a new one the EU will probably just incorporate new canon into its existing series and pretend there's no contradiction.

>>29453907
>You can't dislike things...
You can dislike them, but they've always been there, so complaining about them like a newfag is retarded.
I don't get why people like you continue the 'reeee furries!' nonsense like Bugs Bunny killed your fucking chia pet.

>>29454649
>I don't get why people like you continue the 'reeee furries!'

Because furryshit in this fandom is the combination of beastiality's degeneracy and fingers' laziness. It basically means you want to do animal stuff but are too lazy to actually use their animal characteristics other than their fur and face.

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>>29454667
You don't like thing. That's very nice.
Realize that, then realize you're just making shit up to justify you not liking thing.

>>29454685
You like thing. That's very nice.
Realize that, then realize you're just making shit up to justify you liking thing.

>>29454667
>cherry picking
I'm pretty sure that are plenty of furry pictures where the artist uses more animal characteristics than just the face.
It doesn't even make sense that you're upset about fingers in the first place.
It sounds more like you're upset about furries for something they did to you.
>degeneracy
I hope you're not who I think you are.

>>29454760
>Literally only one person hates degeneracy

>>29454685
Wait, so what are you saying? That one can't have reasons to dislike something?

>>29453907
>experience voice actors
They're already actors, voice acting isn't all that different.
>we're getting some OC-driven side adventure
You mean the same thing we would have gotten with your idea?

>>29454784
So, you are him. Figures.

>>29454795
>my idea
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/83298

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>>29454805
>Namecalling

You think he's the only one who dislikes furry?

>>29454760
No, I'm not Aryannefag. However, you do know most people consider bestiality as degeneracy, right? It's not like we're not aware that liking pastel horses isn't the most natural thing to do.

>>29455047
>https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/83298

>This version definitely feels like a blown out expanded episode and with this approach it doesn't feel like there is an audience beyond the fans of the show. I don't see how it expands out.

Fucking execs, man...

>>29455047
>except for rarity they don't have much personality

AGREED

>>29454502
>Schreiber
He was the cat in that Scientology episode of BoJack. That was alright.

Is there a story where the mane 6 try to survive in the wilderness together? Couldn't find any.

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What stories are totally lost to the Internet?

Some I came across recently:
Celestia's Sunstone: Southern Camp by Satriark (https://archive.fo/8XQ3h)
Sparked by dovewing23 (https://archive.is/MGhSV)
Trixie's Heart and Hooves Day (https://archive.is/RaJnr)

Admittedly, I have no reason to expect any of them to be worth reading (and at least one wasn't even finished); but it's still a little sad.

>>29457345
Of the 569 stories I'm currently tracking with my custom update checker script, seven have been deleted.

>Accentric (#309842)
Random oneshot about Twilight secretly having a fancy Canterlot accent, which she covers up in order to fit in. Disappeared when the author did the usual "delete everything and leave forever" routine.

>AOnceAndFutureDarkness (#286878)
This was a prerelease version of a writeoff fic by Cold in Gardez, which was public but unpublished. After the contest, he deleted this one and published the final version: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/289892

>CityOfBronze (#177051)
Adventure fic where Twilight and Luna go on a diplomatic mission to a major Diamond Dog city. Probably the best fic on this list, aside from the CiG one that isn't actually gone. No idea why this one was deleted - the author is still active on Fimfiction.

>SomewhereOverTheMoon (#101858)
Five Score fic starring human-turned-Luna. It tied into a Celestia Five Score fic, and they did that horrible thing some -verse fics do where two different stories contain the exact same scene with the exact same dialog but from two different characters' POVs. Author has apparently written and deleted multiple fics, but is still active on Fimfiction.

>StargateAtlantisEquestrianChronicles (#238358)
Exactly what it sounds like. The SG:A folks dial into a stargate in the basement of the Castle of the Two Sisters. Again, not sure why it was deleted - the author is still active and has several other stories published.

>TheConversionBureauGalvanized (#167285)
Conversion Bureau fic about some random guy dealing with the impending arrival of the Barrier. Was apparently "cancelled" but no explanation why. This is by the same author as "Always Say No", which is one of the better Optimalverse fics.

>TwistedReflections (#95736)
Asylum-style "which world is real", starring Celestia and Luna together. This is by the same guy as "Somewhere Over the Moon", but was deleted two weeks earlier.

>>29457762
Some of those are on Fimfetch:
https://fimfetch.net/story/309842/accentric
https://fimfetch.net/story/177051/city-of-bronze
https://fimfetch.net/story/101858/somewhere-over-the-moon
https://fimfetch.net/story/167285/the-conversion-bureau-galvanized
https://fimfetch.net/story/95736/twisted-reflections

#286878 isn't on Fimfetch, but is in the Fimfarchive collection.
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/550995/plans-for-the-tenth-release

No idea about the Stargate one, though.

>>29457967
I actually have saved copies of all seven. But anon asked about "lost" stories so I figured I'd list the ones I knew of.

>>29457762
>After the contest, he deleted this one and published the final version
Didn't he delete it because we found it and left some comments that could have compromised his anonimity in the write-off contest?

>>29458246
It was literally posted on his own Fimfic account, it doesn't get much less anonymous than that.

>>29458253
It was unlisted. You could only access it if you knew the story number. We only stumbled upon it because an anon was going through newly posted but unpublished stories.

>>29458312
Yeah dude, I remember, I'm the one who found it.

When you say comments, are you talking about the comments on the fimfiction story page, or comments on the writeoff site or something? Because the comments on Fimfiction couldn't possibly deanonymize him any more than the text "Cold in Gardez" at the top of the story page already does.

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Are there any FimFic that involves all the stallions end up being extinct and the mares try to adapt to their new society?

>>29458393
Maybe he just didn't expect anyone to find it before the results were over.

>>29458792
Not that I know of, but I would read a story about a country based entirely on lesbian sex.

>>29458792
Celestia's Relaxing Vacation has a potion permanently added to Equestria's water to stops all births of colts; but it doesn't extend to after the already-living stallions' deaths.

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>>29459180
Why am I not surprised?

>>29457762
>he deleted this one and published the final version
funny how some people can break the rules and get away with it

>>29459275
Welcome to life.

>>29457345
Just remembered another one: the clean version of RagingSemi's Our Last Goodbye that I'm pretty sure existed at one point. Gone along with the Fimfiction copies of all his other stories.

Also, very minor example: the original MLP fragment Eliezer Yudkowsky put in HPMOR, before he replaced it with a snipe at peer review.

>>29455047
So the original version of the movie was made by people who aren't even capable of speaking proper english

>I get it if we bring the ponys into our world or something like smurfs
On second thought maybe it was better that they scrapped it

>>29453907
>it's a "comedy rapefic spurs controversy and gets featured as a result" episode
I swear this happens once every six months.

>You can't bitch about the movie making things canon that were already canon, even once
Fixed that for ya.

>>29453942
Faust had been binging TNG episodes when she got the idea. He was always an explicit Q expy, they were just surprised the actual actor agreed to do the voice.

>>29454667
>literally call each other horsefuckers
>beastiality's degeneracy
The cognitive dissonance over furry stuff on this board will never cease to make me laugh.

>>29457345
I'm probably the only person who still has copies of Rafiki's Tales (Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Sunset; Sunrise will forever be RIP) thanks to the Scrapbook add-on.

>>29459275
Pretty sure the rule only applies to published fics that are public.

>>29459520
>Rafiki's Tales
Doesn't ring a bell. Are they worth reading, even without the missing part? Have you considered reuploading them somewhere?

>>29455167
>Namecalling
I don't get what you're upset about.

Valentine's in two days.
Will you write a cheap shipfic to capitalise on the ocassion?

>>29459520
I don't deny that even horsefucking is degeneracy to society, like I don't deny loli is also on the same level. I still have a porn stash of both.

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>>29459398
Another: Stockholm Syndrome by RainbowConnection27.

>>29460763
"I am large; I contain multiple dudes."

>>29460917
?

>>29460911
Yeah, you're much cooler for coming to a board about something you hate to passively-aggressively snipe at people who care about it without even bothering to confront them directly.

>>29460925
http://infogalactic.com/info/Song_of_Myself

My prediction is that this movie will have terrible pacing. There'll be some sort of loose adventure plot that will require the Mane 6 to travel to a number of exotic locations to meet with new characters in an effort to sell toys defeat the bad guy. This will end up meaning that the mane 6 take a backseat to all the exotic locations and new characters. I'd much rather have a smaller movie with more focus on the main characters and their personal journey and struggles. It could even still have an "epic" scope, so long as it focuses on the mane 6.

Also, been reading this https://www.fimfiction.net/story/120195/11/the-necromancers-ambition/11---the-greater-good. I tried to read it once, years ago, but never got through the whole thing. It's not bad, just a little amateurish.

>>29460982
And you have fun pretending to have sex with pony Hitler.

>>29461019
Her cervix ought to be a sad sight by now.

>>29460963
He roleplays as an edgy OC, why do people keep responding to him

>>29461029
Because I, too, want to roleplay as a total insufferable faggot, and I want to learn from the master.

>>29459275
He didn't break any rules. The first version was never published, so publishing the second doesn't violate the "same story twice" rule. And the unpublished story link was never publicly distributed, we found it by accident. Plus I think this happened before the rule against distributing unpublished story links was made.

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>>29460982
>>29461019
>>29461036
>mfw people are actually getting mad over all the shitty canon characters

>>29461153
>Plus I think this happened before the rule against distributing unpublished story links was made.

There's a rule against that? I still see people do that regularly for drafts and stories not ready for public consumption.

>>29461973
I think the rule is that you can do it for editors and pre-readers, but not for general consumption.

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Speaking of publishing the same story twice...

>>29463187
Holy fuck, I read that way back when it first came out and only just realized it. God damn that's a blast from the past.

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>>29460910
Further browsing Derpibooru: Twilight's Pet by Randomsaur.

>>29463187
Did you report it?

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>>29463222
At this point I'm just going to collect these in a gallery and hope it doesn't get deleted.
https://derpibooru.org/galleries/nonparticipator/2062

how long does it usually take for a story to get approved, lads?

>>29464006
Anytime from one hour to a full day.

I've heard of situations where it has taken a few days, but those were more extreme situations.

Are there any reviews/recaps/summaries of Jerry Peet's stories? Or stories by NintendoGal55 or other friends/alts of his?

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QUESTION:

On the website Fimfiction, how do I filter out the "human" tag, so I don't see stories tagged with it anymore?

>>29464749
You can't. At least not until knighty overhauls the tag system in 2024.

The best you can do is filter it from searches, but that's it.

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>>29464698
>Jerry Peet's stories
Huh?

>>29465098
https://fimfetch.net/story/11146/doomsday-ascending
https://fimfetch.net/story/102170/spiritus-khayyam
https://fimfetch.net/story/170125/stockholm
https://fimfetch.net/story/177546/stockholm-valentines-day
https://fimfetch.net/story/177550/stockholm-twiscentia
https://fimfetch.net/story/177564/stockholm-the-dash-family
https://fimfetch.net/story/179182/limits
https://fimfetch.net/story/190605/limits
https://fimfetch.net/story/246238/stockholm-the-razzle-dazzle
https://fimfetch.net/story/259794/stockholm-illicit-disco
https://fimfetch.net/story/261287/stockholm-the-littlest-dazzle

>>29464749
I'll write you a userscript for it if you ask nicely.

ponii

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>>29433893
Why are the stories on fimfic so fucking awful in comparison to the shit that gets written on here?

Hilariously enough my favorite fics on fimfic are written by people who are obviously from here
Getmeouttahere
Flutterpriest
etc.

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>>29467541
>Flutterpriest
Anon, a polished turd is still a turd.

>>29467541
Because you identify with and share a common microculture with the authors, and they in turn write with readers similar to you in mind, maybe?

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>>29467579
Fuck you I liked it:
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/298089/dash-tries-to-win-your-heart

And I say this as someone who hates Rainbow Dash with a passion.

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>>29467728
>Rainbow Dash
My comment about polished turds still stand.

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amirite guyse

>>29467541
Because you like self-insert stories and those are the minority on fimfic.

>>29468105
>those are the minority on fimfic.
It's true and yet sometimes it doesn't feel that way, does it?

>>29468116
Well, the bad always sticks out more than the good/decent.

What's in a good title?

Any tips?

>>29468875
Words.

>>29459639
Probably wouldn't given they're from '08. Only the oldest of TLK oldfags would remember MorpheuousDreamer. They remain, in my book, the second best Lion King fanfic series out there.

I've been wanting to strip out the HTML files and spiffy them up in InDesign before shoving them onto DeviantART or something but I haven't had the time to go through it all.

>>29464749
Fimfic doesn't have site-wide tag filtering. Only for searches. Knighty's been planning on implementing it for years, but he's as proactive as we are.

>>29468875
Short. Interesting. Relevant to the story.

Avoid:
>[Proper noun] [present tense verb] [article] [common noun]
>lowercase titles and misspellings
>OC name in the title

>>29464006
my first story was approved in 2 days
the second one in 3 minutes.

>>29469051
Pony pulls the cart.

page 10

>>29467541
Because you have shit taste.

>>29468875
Just don't go the White Wolf route of:
>[Noun]:[Article][Noun]

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Eli! Eli! Lama sabachthani!

>>29470722
Go read that river thing instead, it's cute as fuck. Also it's 100% prewritten and updating daily until it's done.

>>29470761
I have it's prequel on my RL list. I've been a fan of Georg ever since Opening of the Guard, and will continue to shill Travelling Tutor and the Librarian as one of the few OCxMane 6 romances that's actually good and well paced.

>>29470722
What do people here think about Estee? I read some of his Triptych stories. They have some interesting concepts and some moderately effective feels. But they're way out of tone with show canon despite being ostensibly set in it. He also goes way over the top in torturing his characters and having them torture their "friends". And he really likes beating up right-wing strawmen both in his stories and outside them.

>>29471189
I've only read Five Hundred Little Murders and it's sequels and enjoyed both, but I've heard that those are his best stories, so I'm a bit hesitant to read his other stuff.

>>29471270
That's also the one that got me reading the series; but I tried to read them in order and got sidetracked before I got to it.

>>29471270
>>29471317
Clarification: seeing comments *about* Five Hundred Little Murders convinced me to start reading the series.

>>29469051
"The oldest of oldfags" are the people who remember year 16 of a 22-year-old fandom? But I take your meaning.

>>29470016
Biology: A Romance and Riverdream at Sunset: A Manuscript seem to have done pretty well.

>>29471387
I guess it depends on what exactly those nouns are, and how they relate to the story.

Even a creative mix of just an adjective and a noun can be interesting, just look at those paperback detective/spy thrillers they sell at airports: The Hades Factor, The Cassandra Compact, The Paris Option, etc.

Two words and you know you're in for a fun romp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksB7Z9PJXxY&feature=youtu.be
National Meeting by BleedingEquine

>>29451928
And the winner is Two and Two and Two by Mayclore

Odd, I was pretty sure AAG would win.

>>29452666
Sure thing, Satan

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>>29472086
It's cheating to just list Ludlum titles.

>>29472148
But I luv lud lum

Besides, my point still stands.

>>29472097
What exactly is the point of that story?

>>29472265
What the fuck is the point of anything Bleedin writes?

'k so...

I wrote another rant piece about a fic, because that's where I am in my life I suppose.

It's nowhere near as long as the one about "More About Time" was, I think this one is only half as long, but I do get angrier.

I'll be posting it in a while, unless something else comes up in the thread.

>>29472449
>the one about "More About Time" was
I don't see it in the notkickass222urmom Pastebin. Should it be?

>>29472705
I ended up making it a blog post afterwards.

http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/707897/

I'm probably going to do the same with this one, but I wanted to post it here first to fill the thread with some activity and perhaps stir up a bit of conversation.

Or you can tell me to fuckk off and I'll just make it a blog post and link it here afterwards. Whichever is fine.

>>29472732
I'd just post it here

>>29472732
>Zaid again
There aren't many content posters in these threads, are there?

>>29472808
It's always been this way, we just don't talk about it.

>>29472808
>>29472952
There have been 45 posters in the thread, so it' probably more small contributions than anything big.

Plus, I don't care who says what, as long as there's something to talk about.

>>29472967
>45 posters
It's IPs, and I know for a fact that I account for at least three of those. But yeah, it doesn't matter who does something, as long as something gets done.

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I like romance.

I’m serious, it’s my favourite genre, and I absolutely love (heh) a good story about the developing relationship between characters. And with love in the air, as it were, I went through some of the stories in my Read Later bookshelf, and picked "I Love To See You Smile" by Steel Resolve because the story had a decent rating. And all things being said, I really liked it.

However, that story is not what this rant is about, but it is our starting point to start unraveling the madness that dwells within this little series, so let’s get started.

I’ve been in this site since early 2012, and in all these years I've noticed a trend with erotica that, while not necessarily bad, must be indicative of some underlying issue.

There are dozens of thousands of stories that deal with love—many of which do so remarkably well—and yet there are very few that take the time to explore sex as a way of expressing that love. Conversely, there are probably other thousands upon thousands of clopfics that use romance as nothing more than a starting point to justify the characters getting down to business rather than another layer to the act of sex.

As a result, the number of stories that take the time to blend both the emotional and physical aspects of love is dishearteningly low. What's more, within these stories there are still troubles (or at least, there are if you're a nitpicking wart like me). Because a lot are done in a way that the sex itself is still separate from the romance. If you take the sex away and the story still stands on its own, then I have to wonder if the sex isn't just gratuitous. Much the same way, if you take the romantic aspects from them and you still get a satisfying erotic tale, then is the romance just there to make the sex not seem as shallow as it would otherwise be?

>>29473006
I hope you understand I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with having stories that are clop written purely for its own sake. Sex exists by itself just as it does within the context of a relationship, but my point is that when compared to the amount of clopfics in the site there’s a disproportionately low amount of stories that successfully manage to pull off an enthralling love/lust tale that blends all aspects of what I've already mentioned while also delivering a satisfying story.

“I Love To See You Smile” is one of them.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/27108/

To make a not-so-long story short—seriously, it’s barely 40k words long, go read it—Rarity is having a rough time dealing with work-related stress, and goes to SugarCube Corner to distract herself. While there, she tells Pinkie about her problems, and Pinkie in turn suggests she should let off some steam by giving the ol’ honey pot a stir and get her mind off of work for a while. Rarity argues that “A lady should not do such things”, while Pinkie tries to explain that it's a completely normal thing to do. Somewhat reluctantly at first, Rarity agrees to try while Pinkie lends a helping hoof. One steamy masturbation session later, they open up to one another and talk about their past experiences with self-pleasure and how that affected them in their lives.

This ties to what I said earlier about being able to mix the plot and the clop evenly, so it doesn’t seem as though one is superfluous. Both Pinkie Pie and Rarity have deep-seated issues that add layers to their characters, and they work towards solving those issues throughout the story, not only through sex but also by talking things out and spending time together, igniting feelings for each other in the process.

Eventually, Pinkie confesses to having been attracted to Rarity for quite some time. Conversely, Rarity starts to develop feelings for Pinkie when she learns more about her, and it’s all so well-written.

>>29473173
This is probably going to make me look like a sper, but I’m in a japanese imageboard writing a review about a story of two little pastel horses engaging in a sexual journey of self-discovery, I have no dignity to withhold.

I absolutely gushed in delight while I read this. As their tale progresses, you really come to care for them, and that investment in their motivations and aspirations, their desire to overcome their own flaws and get together make their intimate moments carry all that more impact. That's something I've so rarely come across in romance, and it is immensely gratifying. I made little happy noises whenever they overcome a hurdle and grew closer to one another, and squealed like a schoolgirl when they got engaged by the end of the story.

“I Love To See You Smile” is one of my all-time favourites. It's a slow-cooking romance story with a good dose of sex, a healthy dash of compelling character exploration, and a happy resolution. What’s not to love?

I’ll tell you what’s not to love. When the next story comes and takes a steaming dump all over the first one.

'Now' let’s talk about the topic of this rant, “You Make My Whole Life Worthwhile”, the sequel to ‘Smile’ that came six months after the original and just about wrecked all that was good about it.

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>>29473372
>>29473173
>>29473006

>>29473372
By the way, if you haven't already, read Cold in Gardez's Salvation. He doesn't quite use sex the way you describe, I still think you'll find his use of erotic scenes to drive a story very well-done.

>>29473427
Oh, I really liked Salvation. CiG's use of sex in that story is also kind of what I mean about tying the segments of sex in a story with the rest of the narrative. It isn't a dramatic story that happens to have sex scenes, it uses sex as a mean to further explore the characters.

I wish more stories did that, maybe not to that extent, but I wish you couldn't count the ones that do with your fingers.

>>29473372
You sure are taking your sweet time getting to the contemptible parts.

>>29473510
Seeing how I'm going to tear the sequel to shreds--because seriously, fuck that story--I figured I'd at least talk about the good parts.

>>29473372
Through out ‘Smile’, Rarity confided in Fluttershy about all of what was happening with Pinkie, first how insecure she felt about wanting to give a relationship a try, and then just how much she loved Pinkie, how amazing she was, and how much they enjoyed sex.

What Rarity didn’t notice was how this was affecting Fluttershy. Our little shy pegasus has been cooking her own stew of emotions throughout the first story, but it always played in the background. By the end of ‘Smile’ we know that she used to be in a serious relationship with Rainbow Dash, but they broke up, and now that Dash is dating Applejack and Rarity is going on about how great Pinkie is all the time, those feelings of loneliness and longing of having a partner intensify.

Parting from this set-up, most stories would deal with Fluttershy trying to find love and all the ups and downs she’d face in the unpredictable journey towards finding somepony with whom she can share her life.

Well, I don’t write rants about “most stories”.

See, it just so happens that the pony for whom Fluttershy falls is Pinkie Pie. You know, the pony who spent the last story developing a deep emotional connection with Rarity and vice versa.

The premise by itself, is not bad. There is nothing wrong with injecting a bit of drama to liven things up and rise the stakes, as long as it’s well executed and most importantly, has a good resolution. Is that what happens here?

You should know better by now.

>>29473553
>she used to be in a serious relationship with Rainbow Dash, but they broke up, and now that Dash is dating Applejack
See, this is something that would bother me. It's always rubbed me the wrong way when romance stories insists that all the main characters are exclusively into other main characters. It's like the M6 live in a bubble and are only capable of loving/fucking one of five other persons.

Now I'm not going to say that they can't fall in love with each other. Especially if it's just one pair, and that's the core premise of the story.
But if you for example write a story about how Bluefast gets together with Bananahush, and then the remaining four hook up in some constellation in the background, then that seems so incredibly artificial. They each have social lives that extend beyond those five other friends.

>>29473654
Honestly, it would feel contrived, but it's all played subtly in the first story. It stays in the background and never calls too much attention on it because the story is focused on Rarity and Pinkie Pie.

Oh, those were the times...

But yeah, there's no real excuse other than shipping fever.

>>29473479
At the risk of distracting from the rant, what would your list be? I can look at my collection of read romance stories and name some candidates, but I haven't read many substantial ones to begin with.

>>29473710
Well, Salvation is definitely there. carcino's stories, too.

I'd almost say Full Bloom, due to the exploration of Roseluck's feelings for Rarity, but I think it just barely qualifies. The sex is really hot, though, so there's that.

Also, and I know this is more of an outlier and a matter of personal preference.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/7624/enabling

This fucking story is a fever dream and a journey from beggining to end. A real ride of insanity that uses sex amongst other elements to convey that frenzy and pain that escalates the more the story goes. It's tagged teen, but the end is quite graphic.

I'm sure there are a few others, but they don't come to me right now.

>>29473553
Storywise, it feels odd to have this conflict introduced just to kick off the plot. After all, nothing in ‘Smile’ hinted that Fluttershy was developing feelings for Pinkie Pie. Sure, she felt lonely, and part of her was still hung up about her past with Rainbow Dash, situation that wasn’t helped by Rarity’s constant talks of how great a relationship—and Pinkie herself—was.

While it was somewhat expected that the sequel would deal with Fluttershy, nothing suggested that she would fall for Pinkie Pie. I just imagined Rarity would help her meet new people, gain confidence, maybe talk things out with Dash so she can solve any remaining issues she has, all while the RariPie plot continued to develop in the background.

You know, the relationship we spent an entire story witnessing bloom into love.

But hey, emotional investment is for schmucks, let’s go for some more drama!

One day, Fluttershy catches Rarity and Pinkie Pie having sex at Carousel Boutique and is unable to look away. This coupled with all the aforementioned events in her life, finally push her over the edge and makes her fall for Pinkie, and even if it had absolutely zero build-up, I must admit it feels like a logical step for her character to take.

So, regardless of how it came to be, we circle back to the original question: Is this development well executed?

The answer is surprisingly more complicated than simply saying “No”.

>>29473759
Interesting. Nothing I've read myself, though.

Candidates from my end (limiting myself to stories currently on Fimfiction, and even then possibly stretching the definition of romance):
Mute by GodOfBBQ
Quiet Boy and Moon Horse by horizon
Field Notes on Alicorn Reproductive Behavior by biologic orthodoxy
Trapping the Quarterback by roygbiv
Dream a Little Dream by YukoAsho

>>29473765
Let’s do a quick recap of the events of "I Love To See You Smile" leading up to the beginning of “You Make My Whole Life Worthwhile”, shall we?

Pinkie Pie started to nurse a crush for Rarity ever since they got stuck in the desert, but never felt she really had a shot with her. Once Rarity reveals she’s never partaken in self-pleasure, Pinkie offers to help, afterwards they start talking about deep personal issues that stem from their own explorations of intimacy. Rarity starts to feel infatuated herself and after a series of endearing and wacky shenanigans, then have a heart to heart and start dating. As their feelings for each other deepen, they eventually make the decision to get married.

So, this is the situation. Rarity and Pinkie Pie are deeply in love with each other and care wholeheartedly for the happiness of the other. The story has gone to great lengths to show us that. Now let’s introduce the disruptive Fluttershy Element.

After a series of misunderstandings and some well-intentioned meddling from Pinkie’s part regarding her recent attitude, Fluttershy kisses her and confesses her love.

Remember that by this point Pinkie Pie and Rarity are engaged, they announced their plans for marriage in front of all of their friends and have gone on record saying how much they mean to each other.

In her defense, Fluttershy has been a mess of emotions lately and even though she definitely should have known better or at least should have tried to explain things earlier, it was a purely emotional outburst that while not necessarily forgivable, is understandable. So, how will Pinkie Pie and Rarity react to this enormous betrayal of their trust?

Why have a crisis for half a chapter and then immediately decide to court Fluttershy for a polyamorous relationship, of course!

Yeah, you read right.

>>29473911
Nevermind all the bonding they did throughout the first story, the tears and heartache, the healing of emotional wounds, the exploration of each other's bodies, their heartfelt confession, and the fact that they're gonna get married. Fluttershy is sad, so they have to make her happy!

I find it incredibly hard to wrap my mind around this. ‘Smile’ did a splendid job at selling us the RarityxPinkie relationship, to the point that I genuinely want them to be happy and get married and I just do not buy that they would act the way they do in the sequel.

Is Steel Resolve trying to tell us that the same Pinkie Pie who bared her heart to Rarity and considers the day she told her she loved her back the happiest day of her life is going to think it’s a good idea to bring Fluttershy into their relationship just because she has a crush on her?

And the same Rarity who vowed to share her life with Pinkie Pie and who has devoted herself in body and mind will be so eager to share her partner in an open relationship?

I’m sorry, but nothing of what I’ve read so far points towards that conclusion.

Chapter three of “You Make My Whole Life Worthwhile” has Rarity confront Fluttershy after she confessed and kissed Pinkie Pie. Early on in the story, Rarity realised something was bothering Fluttershy, and when she finds out is a love-related issue, she more or less pushes Fluttershy into confessing to whomever the subject of her crush is. What’s more, once Pinkie Pie runs into her, she notices something is bothering her, and tries to get her to open up, which in turn leads to the aforementioned kiss and confession.

Therefore, we can’t in good conscience place the full blame on Fluttershy for blurting out her feelings to Pinkie Pie. She was being pressured by the two other involved parties, even if unbeknownst to them, so it's understandable that her nerves got the better of her.

What can’t be so easily excused, as Rarity eloquently puts it, is the kiss.

I have to leave for a while, I'll come back and finish the rant in about 2 hours. If I don't get to come back, I'll just finish posting tomorrow and then make a blog post about it. There are only 5 or 6 posts left, depending on character count, and those are the ones that go deeper in the analysis.

Also, in case it hasn't been made clear: Fuck this story so hard.

>>29471189
>What do people here think about Estee?

Ive enjoyed several of Estee's stories, especially the one-shots and self-contained ones:

For long stories, https://www.fimfiction.net/story/131321/a-mark-of-appeal was really enjoyable, and now that it's complete I recommend it all the more. It has a great feeling of depth to it, and you really come to like all the characters.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/340612/good-for-nearly-all-princess-labor-public-and-private is funny with some thoughtful worldbuilding.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/282416/1/multi-factor-authentication/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-throne-room is precociously cute.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/219197/post-negative-comments-only is rather hilarious, with a few good serious moments and a fair bit of character study.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/209574/naked-lunch is one of the better explorations of "carnivores in Equestria" I've seen.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/117465/lunas-lottery-lunacy was both hilarious and a good example of "take a random idea and think it all the way through to its logical conclusions".

>>29474325
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/209574/naked-lunch is one of the better explorations of "carnivores in Equestria" I've seen.
That's one of the one's I've read. On one hand, I liked the descriptions of disastrous screwups, griffon culture (even if it seemed a bit simplistic) and ponies' relationship with meat eating. On the other hand, the idea that the press just naturally hate royalty and can't be bought, bullied (until Luna's scheme at the end that shouldn't have worked) or held accountable to the law was kind of weird; and I disliked the general pro-immigration implications.

I've been binging the Triptych Continuum on and off, mainly because of its considerable trope page. Great worldbuilding, but *really* gets depressing after a while, and even the rare pure comedies are a tad mean-spirited.

>>29474483
>On the other hand, the idea that the press just naturally hate royalty and can't be bought, bullied (until Luna's scheme at the end that shouldn't have worked) or held accountable to the law was kind of weird;

They don't hate royalty; they just work against anyone who doesn't align with the point of view they espouse. They're the press, and they write what sells or what viewpoint they want to promote. In that, the only flaw I can find is that they're not candy-coated the way the rest of Equestria is, but I'll happily excuse that level of realism based on the rule of funny.

There were also those members of the press shown who seemed rather enamored of the crown's policies, when those policies aligned with their own point of view.

(And for the last part, about "held accountable to the law": what would you have them charge the press with? Most of the press aren't quite stupid enough to make actionable statements, and the story mentions retractions in some cases, albeit well-concealed ones. Beyond that, it's always been a dangerous road to try to control the press, even with the best of intentions.)

> and I disliked the general pro-immigration implications.

It's Equestria, the land of friendship and harmony. The show itself, in canon, has shown numerous examples of ponies getting along with other cultures or trying to (Griffons, Yaks, Zebras); if anything, the show has shown them doing so rather more readily than in that story. Naked Lunch showed a pretty realistic depiction of culture clash and xenophobia. Even more so than the canon episode about Zecora, for instance, which showed completely baseless fear, as opposed to Naked Lunch's at least somewhat excusable fear and revulsion.

Beyond that, the story didn't depict a complete lack of immigration control; on the contrary, it spelled out a number of controls and safeguards on the process.

>>29474664
>They don't hate royalty; they just work against anyone who doesn't align with the point of view they espouse.
Is there a particular point of view that news publishers naturally espouse?

>They're the press, and they write what sells or what viewpoint they want to promote.
Not what the people who pay them want them to promote?

>I'll happily excuse that level of realism based on the rule of funny.
Humor's subjective, I guess.

>And for the last part, about "held accountable to the law": what would you have them charge the press with?
I'll admit it's been a while since I've read the story, but I recall their making fairly serious accusations and hiding behind transparent weasel words that really shouldn't have made a difference.

>the story mentions retractions in some cases, albeit well-concealed ones
Why should that be considered adequate?

>Beyond that, it's always been a dangerous road to try to control the press, even with the best of intentions.
Sounds like propaganda to me.

>It's Equestria, the land of friendship and harmony. The show itself, in canon, has shown numerous examples of ponies getting along with other cultures or trying to (Griffons, Yaks, Zebras); if anything, the show has shown them doing so rather more readily than in that story.
"Getting along with" is different from importing them and setting up foreign-species neighborhoods in their own cities. The only foreign-species show characters I can think of that actually live in Equestria are Spike, briefly Thorax and possibly Kevin.

>the story didn't depict a complete lack of immigration control; on the contrary, it spelled out a number of controls and safeguards on the process.
And?

>>29474770
the writers are a bunch of effeminate nu-males and the only ones defending them are their fellow effeminate nu-males.

>>29474801
...Who are you talking to and about?

>>29474835
To you. About the effeminate nu-male writers and their effeminate nu-male fans. What else did you think?

EVERYTHING IS WEIRD AND SCARE!

>>29475444
Your post didn't seem to have much to do with mine.

>>29475448
...What?

>>29471387
>year 16 of a 22-year-old fandom
I'd say yes. The TLK fandom was small back then. I doubt very many that were in it are still today. I know Aquaman will never finish The Pridelanders.

>dat colon cancer title

>>29473372
>three posts in
>let’s talk about the topic of this rant
Jesus Christ.

>>29475687
>>dat colon cancer title
It's two titles.

>Jesus Christ.
And people say the Internet isn't destroying attention spans.

Testing testes

>>29476454
Horse testes?

>>29476477
If thats your preference. Nah Sprint has apparently been range blocked as of today, so just making sure my vpn still worked

>>29475687
Well, if I'm going to talk about why the sequel is one of the most disappointing things I've ever read, I have to talk about the original story first.

Speaking of which, let's get this over.

Quick recap: Pinkie Pie and Rarity love each other and are going to get married. But then the sequel happened.

>>29474091

>“You kissed her, yet I had to keep a tight reign on myself to avoid getting angry at her,” Rarity told the floorboards, shaking her head in disgust. ”I can’t even begin to express how wrong that is...”

Let’s make one thing clear: Rarity is completely justified in her anger. This has nothing to do with being in favour of polyamorous relationships or not, Fluttershy can’t be faulted for having those feelings, and can’t be entirely blamed for her confession, but nothing—nothing—justifies acting on those feelings with such disregard for the feelings of her soon-to-be-married friends.

I’m sure some will say that the problem lies within me and not with the story. Maybe “You Make My Whole Life Worthwhile” just wanted to tell the story of a polyamorous relationship, and make a stance about how there are many ways to love. Well, you’ll have to forgive me for not buying it.

Execution is everything. The plot is important, of course, but it’s ultimately up to the author to make the story feel believable.

So, what does the execution of these stories tell us?

In short, that its entire premise is flawed from its inception. And that is the most egregious crime of this series, because it’s trying to sell us a three way relationship but while Pinkie Pie and Rarity love each other, Fluttershy just has the hots for Pinkie.

Don’t take that as me playing down Fluttershy’s feelings, it’s a straightforward observation that I can back up with examples from the story.

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Is there a fic with Aryanne gassing the ziggers and (((griffins)))?

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Ar any Aryanne fic at all, really. She's a nice horse. I have warm, fuzzy feelings towards this horse.

>>29476707
This needs to happen

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>>29457345
>What stories are totally lost to the Internet?

I think pic related was the first clopfic I ever read, on a long since defunct clopfic archive. So I have a certain fondness for it. This was pre-fimfic, and I'm mostly sure it never made the jump to fimfic (but then I don't even remember the title.)

It was anthro (ugh!) futa (yay?) stuff, and it had this wonderfully brutal moment where Celestia is fucking Twilight and Twilight is adorably asking "Celestia... could I, will you let me, please, I would be so happy if I could put my dick in you?" and Celestia oh-so-sweetly answers "Oh Twilight... that will *never* happen."

>>29476695
It’s true that Rarity and Pinkie Pie’s relationship started from a sexual encounter, but it was founded on the existing infatuation between them that didn’t stem from mere physical attraction but an admiration and respect that ran deep and had been forged through years of knowing each other.

Meanwhile,the entire basis for Fluttershy’s feelings is that she felt lonely and was constantly aroused by Rarity’s tirades of how great Pinkie was in bed.

Oh, but that’s so reductive! Fluttershy also found endearing all the other qualities Rarity mentioned about Pinkie!

Yeah, no. All Rarity told Fluttershy was how aspects of Pinkie personality complemented hers, not once throughout ‘Smile’ or the first chapters of the sequel does Fluttershy feel attraction to Pinkie’s personality.

We spent the entirety of ‘Smile’ seeing how Rarity and Pinkie made sense of the feelings inside them, how it affected them, how they wanted to act, how those sensations bloomed into love until Rarity proposes to Pinkie Pie and they decide to get married and that moment felt so earned.

With Fluttershy, we are told she likes Pinkie Pie, gets flustered a few times, and then kisses her and blurts out a botched declaration of “love”.

That’s it, that’s all we’re given. Where are the chapters that deal with how Fluttershy liked Pinkie Pie’s personality before she started a relationship with Rarity? Where are the little anecdotes of the times those two spent together, which planted the seeds of love?

With the way the story is told, I’m more inclined to believe Fluttershy just felt in love with the image of Pinkie being relied through Rarity’s anecdotes, which found fertile ground on the pegasus’s heart, but the plot would have you believe Fluttershy’s feelings are as strong as Rarity’s.

>>29476779
We’re supposed to accept the undermining of the entire first story just because. If it had been made clear from the beginning that both Pinkie and Rarity were okay with an open relationship, it'd be one thing, but ‘Smile’ made such an excellent job at convincing us that these two had found in each other something special, something they longed for and that complemented them.

To add insult to injury, the way the narrative of chapter three is constructed, it almost seems as though the story is trying to make Rarity the antagonist. Because apparently not wanting to share your significant other is a bad thing. She raises all these valid objections as to why she doesn’t want to share Pinkie Pie with anyone else, and how what Fluttershy did is a betrayal of their trust and feels so hurt because of it, and why a three way relationship can’t work, and what is the damned point of all of this if just a scene later every single one of the points Rarity brought up are is just going to be ignored and she’ll make a hundred and eighty degree turn on her position and agree to the idea of courting Fluttershy?

And the most insulting thing is how Pinkie reacts to this.

Remember that she’s the one who fell for Rarity first, the one who didn’t think herself worthy, the one who put aside her emotional turmoil to help the object of her affections.

>>29476824
The same Pinkie who said this:

>“Okay, imagine you are a Pinkie Pie. You have a friend that you like, actually you have lots of friends you like. But one you really, really, really like. But you’re just a Pinkie Pie, and she’s a Rarity. She likes stallions, that's all she ever talks about. So you keep that to yourself. But then, one day, she comes to you. She’s unhappy, and when you tell her how she might be able to feel better, she tells you she never does that. Not only that, she tells you she feels ashamed to even try. When she tells you why it makes you so sad, because you... well you had something like that happen too.”
>“Now you have a problem, because you’re still just a Pinkie Pie, and she’s still Rarity! So you take a risk, a big risk, like that-first-time-you-threw-a-party big: you offer to help her. You know this is going to be hard, because it means being close to the pony that you are trying not to upset with your little Pinkie Pie feelings. And you’re worried, because you like her, but you don’t want to bother her with that, you just want to help. But she agrees!“
>“That's like... like seeing all your friends laughing at the same time! She seems happy to do things with you, and then she wants to do more with you... Then she says words a Pinkie Pie only ever dreamed of hearing...no, not ‘Want to get some more muffins’, but something way, way, waaay more important than that... those words you'd never-ever in a million years thought she'd say... What should that Pinkie Pie do? I mean, I’m pretty sure I’m just dreaming but even my dreams didn’t act like this.”

Is going to feel the same way for Fluttershy?

A relationship requires balance, the reciprocation of feelings. Do you think Pinkie’s feelings for Fluttershy will be equal to the ones she has for Rarity? Oh, but the story sure would love to make you believe that’s the case.

>>29476707
>not a fic where Aryanne personally breeds a new generation of superior ponies

>>29476935
This leads to what I deem the second worst aspect of “You Make My Whole Life Worthwhile”. The complete assassination of Pinkie’s character.

The Pinkie Pie from the first story had depth, an arc, compelling motivations, and relatable issues that made her a full fledged character who didn’t stray far away from her core personality from the show. The sequel, however, decided to hit the reset button on her for the sake of getting the plot moving. Gone is the deep and well-rounded Pinkie, and in comes Standard-Fanfiction-Characterization-Pinkie to take her place.

“Fluttershy feels sad because she has a crush on me? Can’t have a pony being sad, let’s include her in our relationship even though that shows a complete disregard of Rarity’s feelings from my part!”

"I Love To See You Smile" showed us the depth a romantic relationship could have. “You Make My Whole Life Worthwhile”—as far as I can tell—wanted to showcase a functional polyamorous relationship, but in trying to mix those two approaches to love, it undermines both ideas.

I honestly don’t understand what is the point anymore. If you want to write a story about a polyamorous relationship then plan it that way from the beginning, and if you’re going to use an existing story as a starting point, then take the time to justify the change in the minds of the characters.

As it stands right now, I can’t say “You Make My Whole Life Worthwhile” is one of the worst stories I’ve ever read, far from the truth, but it is probably the most ungrateful sequel I’ve ever had the disappointment of reading. It completely ignores and overrides all the positive aspects of its predecessor just to push a rushed, under-developed polyamorous relationship.

>>29477055
I just can’t help but wonder why this story was done the way it was done. It came out half a year after the original, so I don’t think it’s fair to say it was written just to capitalise on the popularity of the first story. Perhaps it meant to tell a polyamorous tale and used the unsuspecting fans of the first story as a guaranteed audience.

I don’t know… Perhaps I’m just being too cynical.

I know reality is different, harsher, that people fall in and out of love, and that maintaining an emotional connection takes lots of effort and sacrifice but deep down… Deep down I want to believe that true love exists.

…

Or maybe I just have the Holiday Blues due to being alone on Valentine's Day for the fourth year.

Anyway, that's it for my rant on “You Make My Whole Life Worthwhile”. A rush job of a sequel.

Now for your scheduled bumping and aryanneposting.

>>29476716
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/204026/aryanne-is-the-best-pony

>>29477142
The only thing I can think of is that Steel Resolve confused this story with Green, where those developments would have made sense. Green's Pinkie was totally willing to share her partner with a third party, and it made sense given the context and her characterization up to that point. And of course, in Green, Rarity and Fluttershy are together, though amusingly enough there is a bit of a love triangle thing going on where Fluttershy is currently opposed to sharing but Rarity seems slightly more okay with it.

So yeah, it sounds like Steel Resolve took the characters from Green and stuck them in this series instead.

>>29477179
That seems like a more reasonable explanation. I'm still butt flustered, but is better than thinking Steel Resolve just wanted to fuck with everyone who liked the first story.

Now I'm on the fence about whether or not I should take 'Green' off my Read Later list...

Oh, well. Here's the review in blog form if for some reason you want to read it again.

http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/714738/

>>29476772
http://explicit.ponyfictionarchive.net/viewstory.php?sid=295&warning=9
>“...Twilight? Why are you blushing?”
>Twilight was looking up into her eyes. “Well, I was wondering...”>“Yes? What is it?”>“I thought, that maybe... since you’re here...”
>“Speak up, my child.”
>“I was wondering, maybe, if you’d let me fuck you.”
>“Oh, Twilight,” Celestia pulled Twilight close, pressing her face into her breasts. “My most precious Twilight. Sorry, but no.”

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>>29477328
>Sorry, but no.

>>29477328
Oh shit! It lives.

...Aww, but it's not as mean as I remember.

>>29477414
Your standards for 'mean' have probably changed since you first read it.

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>>29476511

though to be fair seemingly half of sprints ips have been permabanned for cpbut we still had a few left, but still fuck hiro

>>29477414
Celestia's Relaxing Vacation is pretty mean.

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>>29477392

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>>29477718
Free wings for everyone soon enough.

>>29477647
That's *too* mean. (Also, Jesus, it's like 89 chapters long now. I dropped out by 10. Who is there even left for her to fuck with? All her toys are broken and rebroken.)

I seek the perfect balance of mean, where Celestia is telling Twi she'll never rate while she's fucking some guard in front of her or something.

Maybe I should write, durrr.

>>29477937
>Who is there even left for her to fuck with?
...Do you want me to paste the complete chapter-by-chapter death list from the description?

(Short version: after chapter 59 there are other players, and after chapter 85 she's not in charge at all.)

>>29477987
Just link vg's reading of the description

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iflNRdSeS-w

>>29477937
That should give you an idea of what to expect later on.

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>>29477718

>>29478055
Ah, right.
I forgot voiceguy deleted the part that listed the deaths.

>>29478153
VG half assing it as always

So...
Found any good romances for Valentine's?

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>on the site for less than three months
>already has 57 stories for a total of 366k words

Is this guy the new BlackRoseRaven?

>>29478706
Christ, that's more than four thousand words per day.

>>29478706
>they're all either unrated or have a horrible ratio

>>29478706
>>29478750
>his page has tons of quotes
>half of them are by him
What a clusterfuck

>>29476772
>>29477328
Speaking of tracking down stories, is there any way to search for something through the text of all stories on Fimfiction? Mature-rated stories aren't indexed by Google.