Fimfiction Thread - Now with 81.5% less supremacy

81.5% why? The last thread survived until the end

>>29505143
Because you allowed me to create it. Don't be so slow next time, or it will be 81,5%.

>>29503396
>I'm an e/lit/e now
Only if the book's some obscure philosophical work. I'll forever be mad /lit/'s not just /co/ for novels that has general threads devoted to their favorite novel series.

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>>29505286
Why would you be reading obscure philosophical shit, anyway? I set myself down the path of a nihilist before I even found out about Nietzche, I don't need some old fat faggot telling me what to believe in in some crusty old fat faggot book from a hundred years ago. And half of them are by jews, so.

>>29505163
So you'll use the wrong number and incorrect punctuation?
Ok you passed the test! You truly are an illiterate fanfiction writer

>>29505761
Great to know I'll fit in.

>>29504995
bump

>>29505286
Not him but does Codreanu count?

>>29505286
As far as philosophy goes, I'm happy to stick with the uncontroversial stuff. I'm a down to earth /sci/fag, so I don't actually like reading the meaningless pretentious bullshit that some of /lit/ masturbates over.

I'm reading Thinking, Fast and Slow and Feynman's Lectures on Physics. Judge me.

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>>29505294
>not reading obscure philosophical shit

I'm throwing around titles for a tentative one-shot.

So, completely devoid of context, what would your reaction be upon glancing at a story titled "Stationery Palaver"?

>>29506877
"The what what?"

>>29506877
"I have no idea what this even is, so the description better be good"

>>29506877
u wot m8

>>29506877
After looking up "palaver", I would realise that the title isn't in fact a typo for "stationary", probably get annoyed that the title tripped me up like that then click through and read the description.

Then I would decide based on that and the cover art. Knowing only the title right now, I can probably say that it sounds more interesting than not.

Ooooooor I would just be too disinterested to look anything up and would scroll to the next story.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/106538/tea-time-with-the-crusaders
Shilling my old fic because it was a joy to reread and I hope it makes someone happy.

How long do you make your chapters?
Because mine tend to vary. A lot. Anywhere from sub 1k to 15k, and it feels... improper. But I feel as if I am doing it the logical way.

A chapter is to a story what a paragraph is to a page. It is a logical grouping of a thematic whole, it's merely a higher standing. And just like with paragraphs, a chapter can describe anything from the fairly mundane day of a character to the highly detailed fight scene spanning several action-packed hours.

>>29507890
Paragraphs generally don't vary too much though, depending on your style. Writing long walls of text is almost never good.

That said, you're more or less right. Here, for example, are the Lord of the Rings chapter lengths: http://lotrproject.com/statistics/books/chapters
The shorter chapters are around 5k words, the longer around 10-12k, with the single shortest 3.3k and single longest 16k. (Disregard the first 4 in the Fellowship as they're not part of the story per se, and disregard the Silmarillion since it was never properly finished and is more of an anthology compiled by Christopher Tolkien.)

>29 unread chapters
I wish I could keep up with my tracked stories

>>29509136
Oh my sweet summer child.

>>29506880
>>29506896
>>29506899
>>29506900
The story would be about Twilight subscribing to a book-of-the-month club, but some of the novels would fall below her expectations, which in turn prompt her to start writing letters to the editorial with unwanted and unnecessarily long critiques of the stories. This starts taking its toll on her as stress and anger pile up until her friends get her to calm down and stop taking works of fiction so seriously.

It may or may not be inspired in true events.

Also, the title is inspired by an album by the band Camel.

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

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>>29509136
I'm still at the point where I could catch up with my unread chapters, but if I don't start clearing them soon, it's gonna be a problem.

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>>29509136
hm

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Ah Christ this is actually happening.

>>29509967
Hello Daniel Bosse

>>29509985
Sup?

>>29509992
Nothing much.

>>29509967
>browsing fimfiction on a ps4
Why?

>>29510037
Well why not?

>>29510115
>Windows 10
>PS4
Jesus christ it just keeps getting worse

>>29509967
Now, the chances of getting the right D. Bosse is pretty low, but I just want you to know that somewhere out there, in California, one Daniel W Bosse is getting four small, completely blank pizzas delivered to his home.

>>29506717
https://jasoncollins.org/2016/06/29/re-reading-kahnemans-thinking-fast-and-slow/
>All the above points are minor in themselves. But together the shaky science, overconfidence and lazy storytelling add up to something substantial.

https://archive.is/SkPDV
>In 1971, Kahneman and Tversky had cautioned that scientists’ intuitions about randomness—their unwarranted belief that any small sample of the population could stand in for the whole—could lead to “unfortunate consequences in the course of scientific inquiry.” It was as if the field forgot, or simply overlooked, what they’d demonstrated with such clarity and humor—that even virtuosic scientists, even Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky types, might be prone to this mistake.

>>29506877
"Literally just characters standing in one place and talking? 2mundane4me.". I wouldn't look long enough to notice the pun, but if it did it wouldn't change the verdict.

>>29510539

hownew.ru

https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=1947200

>>29510632
>"heil avenue"

>>29510539
wrong.

I wish we had more pony cock vore stories.

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>>29509136
Sounds like you need to prioritize. When a story I'm tracking updates and I don't read it immediately, I either download the update for offline reading and untrack the story, or just demote it to Read It Later (or at least Read It Sooner).

>>29509222
To be fair, if this is a commercial publisher we're talking about she might have a viable career available as a professional editor. At least until (being Twilight) she finds something else to suddenly obsess over to the exclusion of all responsibilities.

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>>29510656
I dunno

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What did he mean by this?

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So, how do you guys feel knowing that hybrids are now canon?
Are there any fics that used hippogriffs at all outside of special snowflake self-inserts?

>>29510883
I don't see how griffons (mix between a lion and eagle) are supposed to breed with horses. Like most stuff past mid S5, I'm not going to include them.

>>29510632
The amusing thing for me here is that despite being a Yurofag, I've unknowingly been within a few miles radius of four Americans here, and that's all within the last four or five years.

>>29510871
>Writer and Drawfag for AiE
Absolutely disgusting.

>>29510883
>So, how do you guys feel knowing that hybrids are now canon?
I feel like I'm going to ignore them.

>Are there any fics that used hippogriffs at all outside of special snowflake self-inserts?
I honestly can't think of anything. Doesn't seem like they've been used a lot in fics.

>>29510915
I don't see how lions and eagles are supposed to breed

>>29510871
>rape

>>29510915
Well, griffons are a mix of lion and eagle. hippogrifs are just horse and eagle.

>>29510931
Griffons are just that in mythology. It's like asking how a bird breeds with a horse to make a pegasi.

>>29510969
Then what is the difference between a Hippogriff and a pegasi?

>>29510595
That's interesting, I'm happy to note that some of the points in this blog post also made me tick when reading the book, and although it seems to have taken some dents from the replication crisis, it looks like it holds up pretty well in the end for a >psychology book.

>>29510978
>It's like asking how a bird breeds with a horse to make a pegasi.
Yeah, how do they?
Hippogryphs are just that in mythology too

>>29510978
>Hippogriff and a pegasi
Pegasi are just winged horses.

Hippogrifs are just like griffons, just that instead of being front part eagle and rear part lion, they're eagle in the front, horse in the back, and fuckable all around.

>>29510984
>Yeah, how do they?

>One is that they sprang from the blood issuing from Medusa's neck as Perseus was beheading her,[8] similar to the manner in which Athena was born from the head of Zeus. In another version, when Perseus beheaded Medusa, they were born of the Earth, fed by the Gorgon's blood. A variation of this story holds that they were formed from the mingling of Medusa's blood, pain and sea foam, implying that Poseidon had involvement in their making. The last version bears resemblance to Hesiod's account of the birth of Aphrodite from the foam created when Uranus's severed genitals were cast into the sea by Cronus.

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>>29511029
The front doesn't actually look like an eagle, though. So the designers probably didn't give a fuck and just gave a horse front claws.

>>29511029
Just looks like some special snowflake version of pegasi to me. I thought the whole deal of them being "hybrids" was that they were bred with griffon.

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>>29511046
Interestingly, stratuses are a family of cloud characterized by being big, flat and just boring in general.

Maybe the designers did give a fuck after all.

>>29510756
So write some. Or if you're lazy, commission them from headless_rainbow, Vraddock, Septia or someone else who takes "anything goes" commissions.

>>29510883
>My Little Pony The Movie
>Guardians of Harmony
Damn it, they can't even keep their own brands straight?

>>29511140
>>29510756
Or Kaidan.

>>29509502
Rainbow Dash--We meet her parents! Windy Whistles and Bow Hot Hoof!
Applejack--Bright Mac and Pear Butter!!! Applejack's Parents!!!!

Headcanons being destroyed left and right

>>29511281
There isn't much regard for topic in these threads, is there?

>>29511742
>There isn't much regard for topic in these threads, is there?
We can talk about literally anything, since there's the built-in excuse of "I'll use it for a fanfic".

Besides, thinking of all the fan names for AJ and Dash's parents that got obliterated seems pretty on-topic for me.

>>29511786
>fan names
>>29511709

>>29511889
You misunderstand me.
I'm saying that it's fun to see all the fan names that people have given to their parents be finally rendered non-canon by the reveal of the official names.

>>29504995
>Fimfiction semantics
...Which part of the thread was that again?

>>29512131
I think it was about that discussion about the difference between a published and an unpublished, but accesible story.

>>29513102
>Fallout: Equestria
Why, of course they'd have shit tastes.

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Oh Jesus fucking Christ this is actually fucking happening help me

>>29513135
>Those recommendations

OK, it's not that those are bad. That's subjective and all that jazz.

It's that most of them are old as dirt. Of all the things they could recommend, why did they pick mostly ancient shit?

>>29513135
Blame our general

>>29510883
>>29511281
were at a turning point here lads. for quite possibly the first time ever in any fandom anywhere, soon autistic headcanon may very well be less retarded than official material

>>29513135
danny boy, you know youve got to be completely honest with them. admit that you only read terribad shit for the lulz and only one shots unless youre getting paid

>>29506877
Sounds similar to Carabas' Moonlight Palaver

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>>29513135
>Illya Leonov

>>29514608
His/her voice sounds edited

>>29513135
I'll do my best to tune in and keep track of every time you sperg a little bit. Or a whole lot.

>>29514834
Don't worry, Dan's sperging will likely be tuned out by a metric fuckton of saliva, landwhale blubber, pitch shift and awkward hissing.

>>29514863
Y'know, it'd be great if he opened doing that inhaling voice he does.

>>29514876
this would be a perfect time for him to get back into doing that hypno thing.

doing a guest spot on a podcast about purified autism while doing a rarity voice? fucking hilarious

>>29514915
>mention something offhand about cocaine and PCP in the middle without ever mentioning it again
>DAAAAAAAHLING

>>29514373
Yeah, I think any story with the name Palaver in it is going to evoke Carabas' fic in the reader's mind, because Palaver is a really obscure word and that's the only fic most people know of that's used it. It's like how titling any fic with the name Pirene is going to make people think of Ether Echoes' fic.

>>29513801
>the first time ever in any fandom anywhere
...Do I need to go digging for insane '30s and '40s comic scans?

>>29515042
Yes. Yes you do.

>>29514834
I don't think it's a live podcast. It's gonna be through skype, so everything will most likely just be recorded, edited, and then uploaded.
>>29514863
Supposedly, it's just gonna be me, Illya, and Kitsune talking about how we got into narrating MLP. (Or 'podfic' as they call it.)
>>29514876
Holy fuck that'd be hilarious. I'll do my best to see if I could insert that somewhere.
>>29514951
Kek

>>29509222
It's like the story of my life, if you replace "long critiques" with "unhinged rants" and then remove the "friends" part and the "stopping" part and replace them with a continuous, never ending downward spiral.

>>29515123
I hear ya, pal.
I'm actually writing these as therapy in hopes to stop taking little horsie stories so seriously.

>>29514373
>>29515026
That's a good point, but I don't think I care all that much.

I mean, it's not as if a lot of people will end up reading what I write, anyway, so I might as well go for a title that I think is fitting.

>>29515252
Am I the weird one out when I never took any of these silly fanfics seriously?
I used to take the show seriously, but then I quickly stopped giving a shit after the first annual wingsday.

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>>29515273
>Am I the weird one out when I never took any of these silly fanfics seriously?
You're in the ~180th thread of an ongoing series of threads in a japanese image board dedicated to writing fanficion about a show about little horses.

If you don't think this is srs biznoose, then get out of my face.

>>29511281
I guess Windy Whistles and Bright Mac (assuming Mac is short for McIntosh) are okay, but what the fuck is up with Bow Hot Hoof and Pear Butter. What self respecting Apple wouldn't have an apple themed name? If you go to the wiki entry for Apple Family there are like twenty Apple family matters and all of their names either have the word Apple or are a reference to Apple related products, then they just decide to give up? Er...wait...Romeo and Juliet plot. An Apple falls in love with a Pear. Never mind, it's cool.

Bow Hot Hoof is still a stupid name though. Is there some clever pun or something I missing with that name?

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>>29515322
>family matters

>>29515322
>Romeo and Juliet plot.
Is that how they died?

>>29515322
Is ajs hatred of pears an autistic canon thing, or an autistic fandom thing?

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>>29505294
>anyway?
So you can be pretentious and make references to it in your fanfic before sperging out when people don't make the connection and assume it's just a spelling error.

>>29506495
>Romanian
>inter-war period
Yes, he does.

>>29506877
I'd google "palaver," then wonder why the author didn't use the much funnier sounding "rigamarole" instead. Then I'd realize it's a story about a boring and pointless conversation happening on paper and probably skip it unless the synopsis really got me interested.

>>29507890
Depends on the fic. Generally, I do everything I can to avoid a five digit word count, because as a reader, I'm far less inclined to read a chapter that's >10k long.

>what a paragraph is to a page
A chapter is two things in a fanfic: the standard literary mechanism of breaking up a longer work so as to make it easier to read (and stop reading), and a way to serialize a story so it can be published in pieces.

If you have a 30k long chapter, you're kind of defeating the whole point of a chapter, much as if you had a thousand word long paragraph.

>>29509136
>only 29
Anon, pls.

>>29509222
What's the hook, though? Is it a comedy where Twilight's really anal with her criticisms (i.e. a 500 word long rant about the oxford comma and how it's correct/wrong)? Because I can't really see how a straight story about Twilight ranting about stories would be terribly entertaining.

>>29510883
>merch is canon
skyla.jpg

Lack of any VA announcement aside, I think that's pretty cool. It'll hopefully jumpstart some griffon/hippogriff worldbuilding fics that have cooled since the Griffon Klingon Empire was debunked.

>>29510915
Technically wouldn't the anthropomorphic eagle or perhaps parrot be the one hybridizing with the pone? If it was griffon/pone it would be 50% horse, 25% eagle 25% lion. That looks straight 50-50 horse/eagle.

>>29515512
>That looks straight 50-50 horse/eagle.
not really. looks more like bulk biceps got himself wing extensions and some hoof claws. needs more mouthsword or donggun

Dunkin' Ponuts

>>29516247
Apparently it also has a beak, though it's so subtle and not-beak coloured it looks like a muzzle.

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We all write[sic], but does anyone here roleplay?

And does anyone here do erotic roleplay?

>>29517884
Ew.
You know that's illegal on the fourchins, don't you?

>>29517889
And?
Is this site the only website in all of existence you visit?

>>29517901
Yes.

>>29517904
Oh.
Close your eyes and plug up your ears, then.

>>29517908
Or, you could go back to wherever you crawled out of.

>>29517916
I crawled out of here.

>>29517919
Well, keep on crawling.

>>29517919
Then you should know about >>>/mlp/rules/4

>>29517927
I'm crawling around in circles.

>>29517943
You're crawling in my skin.

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>>29518149
lewd

Oh god it's happening

My current mood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3v_eT8aCA

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>>29518207
Onwards to victory, voiceguy.

>>29518207
And it's over.

I may or may not have sperged a little bit.

Also, Jesus Christ Illya actually sounds like that. He's over 60 damn years old.

>>29518696
Are you gonna post the video once it's uploaded?

>>29518700
...SHIT

Ah, it's all good, you'll see it on that Auralphonic podcast.

>>29518721
An unedited version would have been fun too

>>29518735
I had the thought of recording it, but I don't think they'd have appreciated that.

I can't be a prick 100% of the time.

>>29518836
>I can't be a prick 100% of the time.
Sure you can. You just need more practice

>>29518721
So, when is that coming up?

>>29519478
We'll have to wait about as long as it takes for these ladies to edit out everything Voicefag said and block him online.

>>29519516
>We'll have to wait about as long as it takes for these ladies to edit out everything Voicefag said


>"And with us today is Voiceguy! How are you?"
>--ello, I'm--fine--
>"Good to know, thanks for coming. That was Voiceguy, everyone."

>>29519478
I'm not sure. Kitsune Heart is the one editing it, so It'll probably be up around the time she finishes it. Doubt it'll be today.

>>29519538
Heh. Honestly though, it was a lot of fun. We talked about how we got started, funny stories, and personal recommendations. Kitsune rec'd Fallout Equestria, Doctor Whooves Adventures, Illya rec'd It's a Dangerous Business, Twilight Sparkle gets a free Salad, and I rec'd Siren Song, and Conversion Bureau The Other Side of the Spectrum.

I might have also mentioned Celestia's Relaxing Vacation.

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>>29519589
Did you tell Kitsune to choke on cock?

>>29520202
Why do you guys want me to be assholes to anyone and everyone? That ain't healthy.

>>29519589
Sounds good. I didn't want you to sperg completely, I actually want the end product to be listenable.

read any interesting fic lately?

>>29521971
Just the river thing, which continues to be cute as fuck.

Also https://www.fimfiction.net/story/361744/secret-of-flying, in which someone other than the main character gets to save the day for once.

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>>29504995
Recommend me some good anonymous in equestria fics.

Protip: You can't

>>29522020
We know.

>>29520431
Hey voiceguy, can you read my brand spankin new fic next time you do a reading for me.

>>29520431
That reminds me. Did you by any chance gave Bleedin' any free publicity?

>>29522080
Now that would just be cruel.

>>29522020
Exchange was pretty good. That's the only one that comes to mind, really. The good HiEs tend not to use Anon.

>>29522080
>>29522084
No bully the bleedin

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>>29522020
http://pastebin.com/h0V7jE9e

Not on Fimfic but this was the first Luna fic I ever read and is still one of the best by far.

>>29520431
>implying
Kitsune sounds like a fat fucking fuck up and I'll bet $20 that "she" is just a trap who thought "HURR IF I PRETEND TO BE A GIRL, IT'LL BE OK FOR ME TO RAVE ABOUT OBJECTIVELY SHIT THINGS." Just be a cock to people who need an ego check.

>>29522020
Too heterosexual for yo/u/?
What's with the sudden surge of "kill all males" mentality on FiMFiction? For fucks sake, users are approving of people sperging out over ships involving a penis, and blog series that ADMIT to being emotionally-based and consist of "nitpicking about romance until it degenerates into autistic screeching over male positivity." Justify this. Oh that's right you can't.

>>29522084
>>29522114
Nah, its okay, I just gotta accept that no one likes my fics, even the one I just made is failing. i just meed to find a way to quit. I was never meant to succeed, I think ill start drinking or something, gotta quit somehow.

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>>29522258
I just asked a question don't sperg out on me

>>29522501
He can't help it, his autism is too strong.

>>29522501
There were no questions you walking, talking victim complex.

>>29522509
It's more autistic to write gigantic blog posts that are thinly veiled anti-male rants, but aight.

>>29522017
>the river thing
The what, now?

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/361744/secret-of-flying
>Human turned pony turned alicorn
>176,457 words in series to date
I may pass.

>>29522258
What?

>>29522601
>The what, now?
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/363036/drifting-down-the-lazy-river

Georg's latest georg.
Oc romance about seaponies with Luna and Celestia thrown in there.
Seems to be steadily updating daily.

>>29522205
She is a woman, she was nothing but nice to me and Illya, and she's married to her husband.

Believe me, I'm on your side when it comes to ego's, but she is, honest to god, like you or me, someone who cares about horse words.

>that time I got yelled at on my homepage by a super popular author because I wasn't aware they could see the description of the library I put their story into

it was so fucking weird

>>29522601
>What?
Oh no you don't, cocksucker. You don't get to pretend to be retarded.

What went wrong?

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/364920/jutterance

>>29522644
Please tell us more.

>>29522644
Post it.

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>>29522631
>FOEggot
>cares about horse words
At best, "she" would be like a retarded kid who ruins a priceless painting by swatting a fly on it.

Also, when even Kkat lies about being a girl, despite his giant mutton chops...
Well, like attracts like, you know?

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>>29522683
Are you feeling alright, pal?

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>>29522578
>gigantic blog posts

Get your autism checked
A single sentence isn't a blog post.
>>29522020

>>29522666
>>29522669
It was a 2000+ upvoted story with barely any downvotes and I usually at least try anything with that good of a ratio, I should have avoided it due what it was clearly about, that's my fault.

I realized I wasn't enjoying it because every character talked super monotone and the plot was really generic and I skimmed the rest of the pages and threw it into my "already read-stories I didn't like enough to favorite" library.

I noticed I had notifications about 3 days later because I never get any notifications, and I was being told off over it.

I wiped my page and locked my shit down out of fear I was about to get fans sicked on me.

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>>29522703
>Kkat trying to derail via an epik doxx xdddd
Are you okay? Someone should get you help.

With that said, dry your eyes of your tears and direct your attention to this image.

>>29522729
You know I wasn't referring to that post after the non-spoilered part. Quit trying to backpedal.

What the fuck is this shit.

Is this an ebin derail or is someone gonna tell me what went wrong with my story, because I'm gonna fucking lose it.

>>29522796
Post link.

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>>29522763
That persecution complex isn't healthy, Anon.

>>29522796
Hold the fuck up. Are you actually Kkat, here to do damage control, or do I just need to break out the "fuck off bleedin" folder?

>>29522804
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/364920/jutterance
>>29522822
>Fuck off bleedin folder

Why

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>>29522813
>call out your victim complex
>"n-no u have a complex"
Get smoked, fagbait.

>>29522838
Dude, you're the one calling boogeyman.

>>29522832
That opening description of the world and the character hurt me physically, not gonna lie. It feels like stuff that you could have saved for later or at least described better, this is super rushed, sort of "HERE IS EVERYTHING SO I DONT HAVE TO MENTION IT EVER AGAIN YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS NOW"

You also write with some weirdass flair like you're a grizzled british man doing a documentary on how to correctly cut trees down.

What the hell is a sentence like " Yet, we do nothing, but eat, sleep, and defecate into our everlasting toilets."

>>29522832
Goddammit! I was really hoping that Kkat was here to shitpost in retaliation to me posting that pic. Anyway fuck off Bleedin.

>>29522847
You murdered five teenage boys and ate their kidneys. See, I can blatantly lie too!

>>29522832
holy shit you're making me laugh as I read more

" Luminescence felt a bit aggregated at his father brought up old thoughts that she used to have. "

>>29515322

It's very likely that they misheard "Bow Hot Hoof" and that the real name is something completely different.

Windy Whistles is an almost Wind Whistler, a G1 name they couldn't get back, and it sounds like there's a family line of Apple stallions named after an original McIntosh. Big Mac just happens to be the most recent of the line.

>>29522854
>everlasting toilets
I have several questions

>>29522874
GUYS
WHAT COLOR IS BIG MAC'S BUTT PICTURE
WHAT COLOR IS A PEAR

>>29522891
They're pale yellow/gross green colored

>>29522731
>I was being told off over it
Man, what a baby.
What story was it?

>>29522601
>The what, now?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/363036/drifting-down-the-lazy-river
Sequel to this equally-comfy fic:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/284135/the-one-who-got-away

>>Human turned pony turned alicorn
>>176,457 words in series to date
>I may pass.
The first book is actually pretty good. It does a nice job portraying an HiE-turned-pony learning to live in Equestria, and there's a nice gradual buildup on the romance. It's mainly book 2 and onward where the MC slowly turns into the immortal alicorn warmage savior of the entire changeling race twice and starts soloing every season premiere and finale and fucking EqG for good measure with no regard for the M6.
Link: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/279271/new-beginnings

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>>29515361

Fandom thing.

>>29522895
"I'll always be here for you", it was a bad idea to read something of that genre in the first place but the fucking ratio.

>>29522832
At least there's no gore tag.

What will the overall story be about?

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>>29522854
>>29522866
>>29522884
Goddamnit, there have been worse stories that have better ratings.

But, I guess I really am that terrible.

Is there anything redeeming at all, at least let me have that.

>>29522613

Georg writes a buffer in advance, so most stories get steady releases a chapter at a time.

>>29522891
FUCK

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>>29522932

>>29522893
>>29522932
DEEPEST LORE
DEEPEST LORE
DEEPEST LORE
DEEPEST LORE
DEEPEST LORE

>>29522919
I dont want to spoil, but I guess it dont matter.

Twilight Sparkle is still alive after a long time. She finds the protagonist and helps her out and tries to use her to finally destroy the black tower, so pony kind can rebuild.

>>29522891

Oh, that gonna be gud.

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>>29522918
'k so, I know you mean this story...

>>29515322
Somebody in that thread had a suggestion that it was misheard, and is something more like Beau Hothoof, which is not good, but a shitload better.

Plus, don't forget that the Oranges are related to the Apple Family too. I'd been low key assuming that one of AJ's parents was an Apple (Granny's child), and the other was an orange.

>>29515361
Fandom.

>>29515512
>Technically wouldn't the anthropomorphic eagle or perhaps parrot be the one hybridizing with the pone? If it was griffon/pone it would be 50% horse, 25% eagle 25% lion. That looks straight 50-50 horse/eagle.

But that's exactly what it's like in the original poem though. A male griffin mounts a mare, siring a hippogrif, which, despite the sire's lion characteristics, looks like a mix of horse and bird.

I suppose you could think of it as the way a Liger doesn't get a mane, except more extreme.

One thing to remember is that stories of griffins are old enough the origins are lost to forgotten oral history. But some myths have it that griffins aren't lion/eagle hybrids, but rather the parents of both eagles and lions: lesser predators that are kings of only the sky or the land, rather than both.

>>29504995
So is this a man that rides a horse around to light fires, or is it a man who burns down horses?
Oh shit, is it a horse that burns down things?

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>>29522962
...but then I found this, too.

>>29522975
Yikes.

Yeah though, the first one.

>>29522891
BRIGHT GREEN
YELLOW

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>>29522993
Looks like our best pal Shink left his two cents.

Voiceguy, what's your stance on fics that include singing? Not just "go click this link for background music", but actual in-character singing?

I'd like to request a reading for a fic, but it includes 3-4 key moments that involve heartsongs.

>>29523308
>voiceguy singing
[autistic screeching intensifies]

>>29523318
I don't actually care if the songs are sung, or if they have background music (which would make them hard to post on YT); I'd just like to know if it'd make a reading request unsatisfiable.

>>29522993
Link to his comment?

>>29523308
>What's your stance on fics that include singing?

Depends on the song. Like when I did Come Little Children, I'll take thee away, I just took the song from the youtube video, and played it.

For originals? [External Screaming]

>>29523645
>Depends on the song. Like when I did Come Little Children, I'll take thee away, I just took the song from the youtube video, and played it.
>For originals? [External Screaming]

They're well-known songs, but with replacement lyrics (with varying degrees of originality).

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/187968/cutie-mark-adventurers

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>>29522644
>>29522731
>>29522918
>>29522993
ANON, TELL ME YOUR USERNAME
NOW

>>29523680
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/187968/cutie-mark-adventurers

Specifically, Sweetie Belle is a bard, and uses song-based casting a few times.

>>29523645
I'll give it a look!

So, the podcast audio is finished. Despite you naysayers, everything that I said is in it. Granted, this is just a section of the podcast itself, and the people who actually run Auralphonic may change a few things, Which is why I'm uploading this audio in case they do. but this is everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=949wU6EbShw&feature=youtu.be

>>29524170
>I'll give it a look!

Thanks!

It's definitely cheesy at times, but it never descends below cheesy into cringe, and when it's good it's extraordinary.

>>29521971
Read Blink (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/341279/blink). Felt really edgy, in the sense that the grimdark was more there for its own sake rather than to enhance the story and, in fact, caused a far number of inconsistencies (massive energy requirements, infinite teleportation loop, etc.)

>>29522258
>tfw you only follow two people, one of whom has been dead for 30 weeks and the other's a SoarinDash shipper

>>29522832
Are. There are only a small amount "number" would be better than "amount". There are a few who dream.

Spelling errors in the synopsis is almost guaranteed to be one of the biggest turn-offs for potential readers. Always make sure to read through it carefully before clicking that publish button.

>>29522924
Even though the synopsis could be much improved, the root idea of an Equestria thousands of years in the future that's gone Western Roman Empire circa 500 and is a shadow of it's former self, with it's inhabitants dreaming of better days long since gone and perhaps desperately trying to recapture those days is a really interesting idea. One I'd definitely read.

Not too sure about the Sauron tower thing, though. It'd be better if Equestria's decay and collapse just happened naturely rather than some evil force--that would make the protag's journey much harder and more fulfilling, rather than just pointing at a villain to defeat and make everything better. You could even throw in a "fix your own shit and don't rely on immortal alicorns to do it" moral at the end

IF ITS A INTERESTING IDEA, THEN HOW COME NO ONE READ IT

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>29524332
>Read Blink (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/341279/blink). Felt really edgy, in the sense that the grimdark was more there for its own sake rather than to enhance the story and, in fact, caused a far number of inconsistencies (massive energy requirements, infinite teleportation loop, etc.)

While that Blink went for much more direct horror, I preferred the psychological horror of the other story named "Blink": https://www.fimfiction.net/story/269332/1/blink/blink

Note for Voiceguy: The Chase, chapter 3, has a pile of noise at 6:09: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDO16HWJh-E#t=6m09s

>>29524691
I put that there. it's some bit of silence I amplified.

>>29524709
>it's some bit of silence I amplified.

Huh. Why?

>>29524715
Because I don't like The Chase, and I make every effort to have recordings be somewhat entertaining.

Which reminds me. The Chase chapter four for the Thursday stream

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Red Eye did nothing wrong. He didn't know about the Gardens of Equestria and was trying to rebuild the bombed-out nation in the only way he could, with slavery.
He was a vital instrument in bringing about the New Canterlot Republic.

>>29524170
>one patron on patreon donating 1 dollar
kek
>pinged for copywrite for tiny tim
did you report yourself? because I cant imagine any of your 3 listeners would

>>29524857
It wasn't a user report. Youtube has an automated system that's able to identify copyrighted content, and either mute that section of the video, or monetize it without your say-so.

Will anyone just write me a fic. I am literally just begging for free shit yes, and it is very retarded what I want.

>>29525166
explain ur request so we can all laugh at how retarded it is

>>29522650
fite me irl male scum

>>29524332
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/341279/blink
Looked at the description. Is it a copy of Stephen King's "The Jaunt"?

>>29522854
That line is fucking funny.

>>29524170
>I [post] the video in the comment section of the story and they've always been appreciative
Sidestepping the whole issue, I see.

>>29525191
Its just an idea or a /ss/ with Spike and any of the Mane 6. The catch is that Spike is human, which is why I cant find any stories on the matter.

>>29525571
>The catch is that Spike is human
Ew

The only thing that comes to mind is Zen and the Art of Suasion.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/307701/zen-and-the-art-of-suasion

It's really well-written, and the character interactions feel believeable. I'd love it if I didn't find myself wishing they were ponies every chapter.

>>29525571
Sounds against Fimfiction rules.

>>29522650
...I just realized you called me a cocksucker while insinuating that I'm part of a movement that wants to kill all males. That's some headless_rainbow shit you're accusing me of.

>>29525647
I'm 80% sure he's just shitposting. Best to ignore him and continue with our schedulede bumping and ocassional fic trashtalking.

>>29524369
The account BleedingEquine was registered on 6th Oct, 2012. How many stories were posted between then and your posting this one? Of those, how many stories' descriptions did you read? Of those, how many involved an idea that had the potential to be interesting? Of those, for how many did you go on to read the story and provide detailed feedback within five hours of the story's posting?

Also, please link to the post or posts you reply to.

(Yes, I realize I'm doing a poor job ignoring shitposting.)

>>29515512
>What's the hook, though?
Twilight would start just trying to give her opinion as well as some constructive criticism, but the longer it goes, the more vitriolic her letters start getting and it starts affecting her in her everyday life, and her friends realise this and try to slowly stop taking pieces of fiction so seriously. Cue: happy ending.

I wann do this because I feel my grasp on the characterisation of the M6 is getting a bit sloppy, so I just want to make a full character piece to keep sharp

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So, how do you think the ranks in the Royal Guard work?

We know Shining Armor is the 'Captain', but how would the hierarchy work amongst them?

>>29526012
I like the premise. If the critique is done in a humorous way and it's overall just a light SoL piece, I'd read it.

>>29525571
why would spike be human?

>>29526457
Because I really like the picture.
https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2016/7/25/1208912__explicit_artist-colon-cold-dash-blooded-dash-twilight_spike_twilight+sparkle_balls_blushing_embarrassed_erection_femboy_humanized_male_nudity_.png
Its very spery and creepy, but I just want ONE fucking fic from a fandom that's literally catered to every single other fetish I have.

>>29521971
Mostly been reading clop, vore and gore recently.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/362596/a-night-only-one-will-remember

Luna, to satisfy her "needs", transforms a bat into a stallion and proceeds to torture and kill him, convinced that she's doing nothing wrong, that he ought to enjoy the "mix of fear and pleasure" and that she's very kind and considerate because she feels bad about it and "humanely" doesn't torture him as much as she potentially could. Celestia is mildly annoyed, but grateful that at least Luna didn't kill an actual pony this time.

If I were better read I'd probably recognize the cliché, but as it is I don't think I've ever seen a killer quite so self-satisfiedly convinced of their own kindness because of token expressions of sympathy toward the same creature they're torturing and killing for pleasure. It's an interesting concept, and quality rage fuel. (Probably doubly so if you have sympathy for clearly-sapient animals.)

The author begs for feedback in the author's notes, but on getting some dismissively says he "doesn't care". Yet he's also planning a sequel. [shrug]

>>29522854
>everlasting toilets

That made me laugh more than it should have.

>>29527148
You could try asking in the comments there. It'd be a long shot, but at least you'll get a notification if anyone does reply.

Or you could hire one of the various writers taking commissions.

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I'm writing a short story comprised entirely of reports and letters.

The underlying story is that back in the first episode, when Twilight is about to contact Celestia regarding the whole Nightmare Moon debacle, Spike mentions that she doesn't actually know anything about what Nightmare Moon is capable of doing. Spike's remark about not having much knowledge about Nightmare Moon prompted Twilight to delay her letter to Princess Celestia until she had a well-rounded plan to deal with her. Seeing how this is a pre-friendship Twilight, this meant she tried to face the problem by herself, which in turn led her to dabble with dark magic. However, dark magic requires a cost, and in this case that means part of Twilight herself got banned to the moon as Nightmare Moon was re-sealed there.

The story itself would be comprised of short, after-the-fact reports.

The first chapter would be one of the guards interviewing Spike, another would deal with the results of Twilight's medical check up by the head doctors of Canterlot, other would be the testimony of maids who were nearby when Twilight blasted NMM and herself to the moon. Another would be the findings of the archmages of the court after they examine what's left of Twilight's study.

I'm wondering how exactly to end the story. The entire purpose is to slowly give clues in every chapter so once you read everything, you realise exactly what happened. But storywise, I don't know how to give it a good ending that still fits within the epistolary format of the story.

>>29527418
>I'm wondering how exactly to end the story. The entire purpose is to slowly give clues in every chapter so once you read everything, you realise exactly what happened. But storywise, I don't know how to give it a good ending that still fits within the epistolary format of the story.

So, I take it you want the fact that Twilight Sparkle banished a part of herself to the moon to be a twist.

In that case, I'd recommend something along the lines of mentioning a new addition to the mare in the moon, like color or something, in one of the last few reports.

Or you could just dump it into a condolence letter sent to Twi's parents.

>>29527434
I thought about including a newspaper clipping later on that reported an addition to the visage of the mare in the moon. Maybe additional spots, or a shade of sorts. I think that could be a good way of explaining it to the people who didn't catch all the hints in the earlier chapters, though I'm not really a fan of speelling things out for the reader.

>Or you could just dump it into a condolence letter sent to Twi's parents.

I like that.

The way I'm working this is that just part of Twilight's mind/soul/whatever got trapped in the moon alongside Luna, so her body is still in Earth, though she's in a coma.

Maybe I could devote a small chapter to just condolence letters by teachers at the Academy, or Moondancer and her other "friends" from back then.

>>29527481
>I'm not really a fan of speelling
hue

>>29527488
Man, that bit alone is funnier than any comedy fic I've ever written.

>>29524170
That as pretty okay.
7/10, nice ambience for laying in a bubble bath and playing with my penis.

Though I have to wonder why they asked you to come on the podcast. I mean, you're cute and all, but you're kind of a "literally who" in the field of MLP fanfic narration. Still, nice show.

>>29527434
>>29527488
Anyway, here's the first chapter, the interview with Spike. I'm going to make the medical report now.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fo2MlkEqa9ynEoWAy97ija5BoiogxBLAVG7pZtD1rLs/edit?usp=sharing

>>29527813
I asked that same question.

There are apparently a bunch of MLP narrators, I was one of the few who had an easy to remember name.

So I guess it was just blind luck.

>>29527825
OK, so first thing's first: Most official and fictional transcripts that I've seen normally have someone's initials before their dialogue.
Example:

AN: Surely, you can't be serious?
LN: I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

I'm pretty sure this is done to keep track of who's speaking, because otherwise you end up with a long series of quotation marks that can get confusing if you aren't paying close attention.

>>29527856
Something tells me you wouldn't have been invited if you had kept the "voicefag" moniker.

>>29527859
See, I was originally going to do that, but isn't "script style" narrative banned from FiMFiction?

I know that's supposed to deter people from writing Nightmare Star's Revenge levels of cringe, but I just wanted to play it safe here.

>>29527884
See, I was originally going to do that, but isn't "script style" narrative banned from FiMFiction?

Good point. Maybe you should ask a site mod about that.

>>29527481
>Maybe I could devote a small chapter to just condolence letters by teachers at the Academy, or Moondancer and her other "friends" from back then.

Letter from Celestia expressing sympathies and her own regrets that she hadn't pushed Twilight to make more friends to support her?

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>>29527898
>how do i greentext

>>29527884
I don't think so. Stuff like The Vinyl Scratch Tapes is up there.

Which reminds me, I read a lot of VinylTavia in the early years of the fandom, and now I have no idea why I did that. I mean, I realise that it probably was because it's popular romance and that the ship was gigantic back then, but I just can't remember any particular things I liked about the characters.
I guess tastes just change. It's around half a decade ago, after all.

>>29528031
I'm well aware of how I fucked up.

Anyone else wish there were a way to view all comments by a Fimfiction user, even yourself?

>>29528277
I'm sure the mods can do something like that, just like they can find out all the fics you've upvoted/favourited.

>>29528304
Probably; but I'm not really interested in >doing it for free, even if they were inclined to let me.

>>29527418
>I'm writing a short story comprised entirely of reports and letters.

That's a hard format to work with.

You might also include narrative chapters told from the point of view of a character other than Twilight or Spike. You don't have to make it the "results" of Twilight's medical check-up, or the "testimony" of maids, or the "findings" of the archmages; give the chapter from their point of view, third-person limited. The reader can put together the full picture, while the viewpoint characters only have part of it. Develop the characters a bit.

Let the doctors be baffled by the workup, because they don't have the whole picture. Show the archmages examining the study, and let it slowly dawn on some of them how far Twilight was ahead of them in some ways, while simultaneously doing something far more dangerous than they'd ever consider doing themselves. (Twilight is brilliant and powerful, but doesn't always know what she doesn't know.)

>>29527418
>I'm wondering how exactly to end the story. The entire purpose is to slowly give clues in every chapter so once you read everything, you realise exactly what happened. But storywise, I don't know how to give it a good ending that still fits within the epistolary format of the story.

Don't leave it hanging. Spell out what happened at the end. People who figure it out early will still enjoy it just as much, and will appreciate the confirmation. People who don't figure it out will get the wham-moment, and go retroactively re-evaluate what they read (or even just re-read it).

You could have somepony like Shining Armor, Cadance, Twilight's parents, or Spike go to Celestia and ask for details, because they know something's not quite right.

>>29527856
>There are apparently a bunch of MLP narrators

Really? I've found very few, and even less if you care about quality. Who else is out there that produces decent-quality narration?

>>29528531
Whoever did the audiobook version of University Days that's on EqD is pretty good. I really enjoyed listening to it again.

I'm not sure who else is good though; the Project: Sunflower narrator on EqD has a thick enough accent that it's hard for me to understand without focusing on it.

>>29528508
>Don't leave it hanging. Spell out what happened at the end. People who figure it out early will still enjoy it just as much, and will appreciate the confirmation. People who don't figure it out will get the wham-moment, and go retroactively re-evaluate what they read (or even just re-read it).

This. There is very little point to leave things hanging. I mean sure, if you expect your readers to be able to connect some conspicuously placed dots, you don't _have_ to spell out every little neat detail about your story or setting. But leaving the main plot twist only vaguely hinted at serves no purpose whatsoever, except to annoy and alienate those readers who didn't make the connection.

One exception is if you want to leave the actual interpretation open to the reader. Generally speaking I dislike these types of stories as they tend to be the /r/im14andthisis2deep4me kind, but assuming the story is good, it can work. If, however, you have a clear "correct" interpretation in your mind, a particular premise you were working towards, then fucking give the readers this premise! /rant

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Esteemed Anons, I have not been diligent in my fanfiction duties lately.
I've read very little fanfiction at all for a long period now, and a significant amount of the fanfiction I have read isn't even pone.

Therefore, I seek to remedy this. Do I:
>Write a story
>Start reading The Blooming Moon Chronicles
Time allowing, with no promise made to finish either project.

I leave my fate in your hands.

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>>29528700
Write a story.

>>29528700
Write a story.

Or, as a third option: get a recommendation for a better story to read.

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>>29528700
Write a story, Anon.

>>29528700
Write the next Blooming Moon Chronicles.
Problem solved, see you in 5 million words.

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>>29527898

Well, Meeester said it's ok as long as it isn't mostly script-like dialogue, so I guess I'm safe.

>>29528508
>>29528620

>That's a hard format to work with.
Which is part of why I want to make a story like this.

My stories often end up with an overwrought narrative, full of needlessly long rambling and overtly detailed descriptions that could work just as effectively or even more so were they to be trimmed down, much like a garden that has been left unattended for too long and now has grown wild and randomly until the point it obscures the house behind it.

That is why I want to make a short story that has the least amount of traditional narration in it (I estimate the final wordcount will be around 5~6k words) while still managing to deliver an engaging plot.

>You might also include narrative chapters told from the point of view of a character
Something I was thinking about including were small excerpts at the end of each report where the character who made the report shares their thought with colleagues or the recipient of the reports.

For example, the doctor who did the checkup on Twilight'sbody, would complete her report and then send a short memo to the head doctor asking just what happened to her because all her symptoms indicate something eveil and whatnot. And then the one of the archmages would send a letter to one of his elders as they try to ascertain whether or not it was really dark magic that led to the accident.

I still want the core of the story to be a somewhat experimental epistolary story.

>Don't leave it hanging. Spell out what happened at the end.
>There is very little point to leave things hanging.
Yeah, it's probably for the best. I'll keep the reveal contained to the very last chapter though. I'll still get my autism kicks from making the preceding chapters be all mysterious.

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Guess I'm going to write a story. Thanks, BMC would be a nightmare.
Time to go into my idea archive and see if there's anything salvageable in there.

>>29528757
Suicide is not presently an option, so I'll stay clear of that insanity.

>>29528508
>>29528620
How do you feel about http://www.fimfiction.net/story/54410/a-description-of-a-fountain-in-canterlots-gardens? The commenters sure seem to like it.

>>29528919
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/54410/a-description-of-a-fountain-in-canterlots-gardens
>From the Author's note: This made me started wondering what it would be like if I wrote like people drew; this is the result. I didn't start with the notion of telling my headcanon of Equestria's post-Hearth's Warming political history by describing a fountain in Canterlot, I swear.

Is that what this was about? I thought it was some weird Chekhovian sketch of a fountain with a subtle joke at the end.

>>29528919
>It's beeen four years since I read that story
fugg
>>29528947
I thought it was about Celestia getting a gift after her sister got banned to the moon.

>>29528919
I read another story this guy wrote.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/41443/twilight-discovers-literary-analysis

Metafiction makes my brain hurt.

Sodomy

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>>29529756
But Anon, that's lewd.
Any good sodomy fics?

>>29529787
Celestias relaxing vacation

>>29529787
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/124728/role-reversal
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/322191/2/24-hour-clopshots-season-6/episode-2---a-is-for (other chapters unrelated)

>>29528871
>Time to go into my idea archive and see if there's anything salvageable in there.

Idea for a random prompt:

Randomly choose one of the Mane Six or Luna or Celestia, and then randomly choose a character other than those who has had at least one speaking part in the show. Write a believable romance between those two characters; come up with a way for them to make sense together.

I've seen believable stories with ships that in any other story would seem like a crack ship. Anything is possible. And it makes for an interesting random prompt.

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>Already has four tags
>Description says it's also is a Slice of Life and a Romance
Why do that? Isn't mistagging against the rules?

Halp.

I'm looking for a story, that I can't remember, where human in equestria, surprizes everyone by loving chrysalis for who she is or something like that.

>>29530706
>human in equestria
Yeah, I'm sure you need help.

>>29530706
>loving chrysalis for who she
gonna need more than that.
bugbitch luvin' cancer isnt as small a genre as youd think

>>29530730
It was either denying the help of the ponies in favor of Lings, or that she thought she captured a loving critter, who just openly had a crush on the bug queen.

I can't remember.

Either or is good.

>>29530706
>I'm looking for a story, that I can't remember, where human in equestria, surprizes everyone by loving chrysalis for who she is or something like that.

There are several of those; it's a pretty common trope at this point for Chrysalis to offer Anon a choice of forms, and Anon to tell Chrysalis that he wants her true form. I've seen it both in fimfiction and greentext stories.

What else do you remember about the story?

There's a greentext story involving a magic-immune Anon getting all the alicorns pregnant. There's a fimfiction story involving a human who turns into the Alicorn of Sex. There are a couple more fimfiction stories and at least one other greentext, whose details I don't remember.

>>29530738
>Either or is good
well thats debatable

was this one where pones were shunned completely and cheeselegs were embraced, or was everyone waifued?

Any extra details would help because theres no shortage of human fucks __________ in horseland stories

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>>29513801
this has already happened, or did you miss to where and back again. be fucking honest. if any fanfic tried to do exactly what the finale did you'd all think it was the most base crack tier bullshit ever.

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>>29522258
>durr u dont like my otp donut anon steel self insert/my waifu so that means you're an sjw who wants to kill all men
holy fucking balls please end your miserable existence. no one should have to put up with this kind of stupidity.

>>29530730
>not liking bugmom
the only cancer is (you)

>>29525307
No, when Twilight (or anyone) teleports, she teleports into a giant glass sphere, a copy of her is created out of thin air with all the memories, etc. and teleports out and she's stuck there to eventually die of exposure/thirst/hunger and join the massive pile of corpses of herself and her friends (who'd occasionally teleport with her) she's standing on. There's no explanation for why the spell would do something so massively inefficient other than the author shrugging in the comments and going "maybe someone evil made the spell."

>>29527418
>comprised entirely of reports and letters
Hey, so am I. My framing device is a dying government server full of errors. It starts with boring government transcripts, letters and such but as you sift through it all, things shift to dealing with a zombie apocalypse that started in Manehattan and it ends with the revelation that the princesses are dead, Equestria's been in eternal night for months, and the -100 degree temperatures are what's causing the servers to die.

>part of Twilight herself
How does that work, exactly? Because You could probably leverage that for the ending. Celestia's letter to Twi's parents, or a doctor's speech about Twilight's current vegetable status to a symposium.

It does depend on the kind of ending you want, though.

>>29527825
Pretty cool, overall. I've always been a sucker for fictional reports and the like. You might want to add some bullshit at the top like an ID number, name of report, name of agency, maybe even a stamp/seal or two if you can be bothered to fuck around in Photoshop/Illustrator, etc. to make it feel more like a report. You also might want to add some cues in the transcript, like >"Spike: [sob] I didn’t know, alright! How could I have known she’d do something like that?”

>>29530744
Anon and Chrysalis met in a bar after Twilight tried to experiment on him.

>>29531266
>Hey, so am I. My framing device is a dying government server full of errors. It starts with boring government transcripts, letters and such but as you sift through it all, things shift to dealing with a zombie apocalypse that started in Manehattan and it ends with the revelation that the princesses are dead, Equestria's been in eternal night for months, and the -100 degree temperatures are what's causing the servers to die.

Twist later on, or is this just an "everything sucks and everyone's dead" crapsack world? Or do you not want to say?

>>29531317
>Anon and Chrysalis met in a bar after Twilight tried to experiment on him.

Hmmm. It's been a long time since I've read it, but are you thinking of https://www.fimfiction.net/story/134427/never-judge-a-bug-by-her-cover-chrysaliss-royal-break-up-chronicle ?

The original story was pretty good. Skip the "sequel" entirely; it takes the story in a completely different (and awful) direction.

>>29531317
I always get a chuckle out of how people treat her.
Twaifufags act like she can do no wrong, normal people treat her like a ponified mengele. And very little middle ground

>>29531928
>Twaifufags act like she can do no wrong, normal people treat her like a ponified mengele. And very little middle ground

I don't care for the stories that suggest Twilight would experiment without consent. But even though I like Twilight as best pony, I can easily imagine her getting a little too invasive with questions, or momentarily being thoughtless with an experiment. (She's brilliant, but she doesn't always think things all the way through and apply common sense in addition to intelligence.)

>>29528919

I remember liking it, but feeling it was just slightly on the side of being too obscure in trying to convey what happened without actually saying what happened.

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>>29530744
>There's a fimfiction story involving a human who turns into the Alicorn of Sex.

But there already is an Alicorn of Sex...

>>29532198
Is there a version of that picture with a cohesive stream of semen flowing out of her backside?
Because there should be.

>>29532198
>But there already is an Alicorn of Sex...

The story actually brought that up explicitly, and had some clear dividing lines between their two domains.

>>29531266
>My framing device is a dying government server full of errors.
Hey, I remember you talking about that one. How is it going? Did you figure out how to use computer code the way you wanted?

>How does that work, exactly?
This will be revealed by the archmages' report once they finish scanning Twilight's living quarters. What happened was that she tried to seal back Nightmare Moon on her own, but thought that searching for the elements would be a waste of precious time, so she stumbled upon a dark magic ritual used for sealing--picture Sombra's banishment--and decided it was her best shot.

Now, Sombra was sealed by two alicorns, while Twilight is just a unicorn, so the price to pay is greater for her. In the process of sealing Nightmare back, part of her soul/mind/consciousness was stripped from her and was sealed too, leaving her as an empty husk.

I think the best way to deliver the reveal is with the report of the archmages and their findings of dark magic.

My outline so far is:

-Transcript of an interview with Spike
-Medical check up of Twilight's body
-Actual incident report from the local police
-Written testimony of one of the maids who was close to the blast zone
-Letter from Shining Armor to Cadence informing her of what happened, with him breaking down midway through
-Newspaper report about the odd appearance of the moon in the nights following the Summer Sun Celebration
-Report of the court archmages after they ascertain there was black magic involved in the accident
-Series of condolence letters by Twilight's acquaintances sent to her parents, and a letter of apology from Princess Celestia where she explains other details about what happened.

Interspersed at some point would be notes from the ponies doing the reports to their superiors, like the nurse asking just what's wrong with her, to include a bit of character moments, but they'd be minimal.

Sounds good? Does anyone have any suggestion as to what could be added/removed?

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/233710/my-little-orgy-debauchery-is-magic

that title. that ratio.

How?

>>29533214
>how
It's a straight and/or lesbian clopfic

>>29533214
Well, it doesn't seem to have any odd fetish. If the writing is at least passable, then I don't see why it's so weird that it has a somewhat decent rating.

I've seen worse clpopfics with better rating.

>>29528919
Ranting anon here. It was a decent little read.

Now, I am not much of a fan of long descriptions and not much else, so if this story was much longer than it is, I'd probably have ended up bored. As it stands, it was pretty alright to say the least - I did enjoy reading it.

Now as for what I'm guessing is the main reason you asked: I had a guess as to what the point would be about halfway though, but after that there was very little to actually confirm it. According to the author's comments I was right, but had I not looked, I wouldn't have known, and would have been left with a feeling of mild dissatisfaction stemming from my guess being only tentative, and no way to confirm or deny its validity.

It's still, however, clearly meant to be a piece that evokes thought, rather than tells a particular story, so I probably would've enjoyed it either way, because ultimately the story isn't the important part here.

Also,
>The commenters sure seem to like it
That's not a measure of quality by any means. Unless the story lures in wrong readers by describing itself as something it's not (this includes stories that are really, really shitty, but you couldn't tell that from the description alone), or touches on topics that some people will go out of their way to yell at (e.g. foalcon, torture porn, etc.), most stories will generally have predominantly positive feedback.

>>29530744
>magic-immune Anon getting all the alicorns pregnant
>a human who turns into the Alicorn of Sex
I'm gonna need some links anon

>>29533405
anon (or at least a human) knocking everyone up probably isnt too uncommon, but I'm so used to faggots turning into the alicorns of edge that The Prince of Fucking might actually be entertaining in a cringe inducing sort of way

>>29531266
Oh, right. Forgot to mention. I know it isn't exactly the same story, but maybe you could check this out and gather some ideas for your story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6miahiNDtiE

It's a similar core concept. A computer is slowly dying and is sending distress signals, though the circumstances are vastly different.

>>29530343
I actually found some ideas and concepts I want to use, but this prompt sounds fun. So I'll roll for random characters and write some ideas about it before chucking it into said idea archive.

I'm going to go roll a d8 for main character (sorted alphabetically).
Rolling for the random speaking character is going to be harder, but I think I've found a way. The MLP Wikia, being the glorious autismden that it is, has a fuckton of ponies listed by when they first appeared in the show, down to the second. So I'll just roll for season, episode, minute and second, and then find the speaking character that was first introduced closest to that random point in the series.
I cannot possibly see any issues with this.

>>29532683
>>29527825

I finished the second chapter.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19uw_8F-I6w68APRXZQVYpbgKMHjxpHeavEd4HO8MbVY/edit?usp=sharing

A medical report of Twilight's state.

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>>29534293
So that's main character 7 in alphabetical order, which is Rarity.

And her romantic partner will the the pony with a speaking role who was introduced closest to episode 112 (Scare Master), at 15 minutes and 28 seconds into the episode. I'm excluding children and elders.
Just 27 seconds earlier, we are first shown "S05E21 Unnamed Earth Stallion #1", who doesn't have a speaking role. He's only shown for like three seconds. So the search continues.
However, aside from the highlight in his mane and tail, the Unnamed Stallion looks exactly like Noteworthy. So I'd say that kind of counts.

There weren't any new Crystal Ponies introduced that entire season, so they're out. It seems there were actually no new characters introduced this episode at all, or in the following episode. However, the Wikia lists two new introductions in episode 20 (Hearthbreakers), and the latest introduced would be Marble Pie.
HOWEVER, this is just flat out wrong, as Marble Pie was in Pinkie's S1 flashback. The hunt continues.
But she does kind of count since I'm excluding foals and this was her first adult appearance.

I've ended up with "Steel Bolts", one of the McColts from that whole episode. Some literally who, never even been mentioned in a FimFiction story.

So I guess it's either Rarity x Steel Bolts, Rarity x Marble Pie, or Rarity x Noteworthy.

>>29534599
While I'd go for the last two in a heartbeat, I'd be interested int he way the first one could work.

If you can come up with a decent explanation foro Steel Bolts and Rares to have a romance, go ahead.

If not, I'd love me some Rare Marble.

>>29534624
Random anon here to point out that the point was to get an unexpected and challenging ship. Steel Bolts seems like a perfect candidate.

>>29534666
Can't argue with that, Satan.

>>29534624
Yeah, I'm also seeing the most promise in going with Marble Pie.
The rock/mining parallels are pretty obvious and somewhat fitting, so that would be something to incorporate. Marble, the rock, is also kind of a luxury product in a way. So there's some thematic stuff.
Characterwise I'll have to go reread Marble's lines, but she was pretty shy and quiet, right? Better make sure not to write her as a stand-in for Fluttershy then, but find some new angle to her. Maybe contrast her with how Rarity's a pretty social and vocal character, and make a lot of it be about communication. Maybe their interest in each other isn't spawned from conversation, but admiration or fascination with the other's work. I dunno, I'm just throwing stuff out here. And busy 10 hour workdays restrain my already meagre creativity.

It also means Pinkie pretty much has to be involved in the story on some level, which gives me even more to work with. I do believe that episode about getting Maud a gift mentions that Pinkie does this gift swap things with all her sisters, so that might be something to incorporate. Though that treads dangerously close to retreading the ideas of an episode, which isn't something I want to do.

There's definitely something in here that you could work with, easily.

>>29534666
But Satan is also right.
Rarity wasn't there during the episode, so she would be meeting him after the feud is over. Maybe he's left the clan home, and is pursuing work as a carpenter or something?

>>29534712
What are you talking about? I explicitly said I was just a random anon!

>>29534765
Nothing says you can't write both

>Maybe he's left the clan home, and is pursuing work as a carpenter or something?

You just made me think of a parody of The Glass Blower but where the stallion who falls for Rarity is a carpenter.

>>29534765
Steel Bolts also doesn't seem to be very aware of the world outside of his family's feud.

He no longer feels like he needs to stay at home and fight, seeing as the feud is over. In addition, Twilight and Fluttershy's visit has made him curious about the outside world, of which he knows fairly little. He's barely ever been more than a day's travel away from his home, and his education is lacking in a lot of areas. He's got a good talent for carpentry or some other kind of physical labour, but all he's ever used it for is building and rebuilding stuff related to his family's home.

No matter the reason and backgrounds, he ends up leaving home to go somewhere else in Equestria, and encounters Rarity. Maybe it's in Ponyville, maybe it's somewhere else. She's familiar with the story of the feud, but has never met him. But when she hears that he hasn't been having a easy time getting work, her generosity kicks in and she hires him to do some token carpentry or something.

And as per standard romance plot, they grow closer while he's working for her. Despite being very different and all that jazz, they eventually find a bonding tone over something that's more important than their differences. Maybe they find something intriguing in the other in regards to work ethic, siblings/family, or generosity/giving. Or maybe they just hatefuck.

Not exactly inspired or interesting, but I guess it's somewhat functional.

>>29534787
Laziness, Anon. I'm very lazy.

>>29534842
>Not exactly inspired or interesting, but I guess it's somewhat functional.
Many relationships are based on that very same principle.
Godspeed, Anon.

>>29531346
Not the other anon but that story wasn't quite bad, although I stopped reading before the now uncanonical chapters

>>29534865
>Many relationships are based on that very same principle.
That could also be an element to it.

Something like Rarity coming to terms with her feelings for Steel Bolts, when she's spent most of her adult life fantasising about princes, artists and authors. Does she suppress her budding feelings to stay a hopeful romantic, waiting to the "right one", or does she allow herself to fall in love with someone who's actually real and will be there for her, even if he's not exactly what she's been dreaming of?
It would tilt the fic into being more-Rarity centric, but I guess it's a decent place to start when figuring out that plot mandated internal struggle. I don't real a lot of romance these days, in case it's not readily apparent.

Is it defeatist to settle for something that's real and functional, or are Rarity's grand romantic ambitions juvenile?

I dunno, I'm probably not ever going to finish this. But I'll keep some notes, just in case I really feel like being the first guy to publish a fucking Steel Bolts fic.

>>29531212
>Undertale pic
Like clockwork.

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Give him a nice haircut and he could be a stud.

>>29535396
>Is it defeatist to settle for something that's real and functional, or are Rarity's grand romantic ambitions juvenile?
Well, there you go, spend a good chunk of the story with Rarity dealing with those feelings, maybe asking the rest of the Mane6 for help and advice.

Have you read "I Love to See You Smile"?

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/27108

It's a mostly Rarity centric fic that does a remarkable job of work out through the developing feelings she has for Pinkie, and that's the same concept you could apply here.

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Is this the new peaches fad?

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>>29531266
No, when Twilight (or anyone) teleports, she teleports into a giant glass sphere, a copy of her is created out of thin air with all the memories, etc. and teleports out and she's stuck there to eventually die of exposure/thirst/hunger and join the massive pile of corpses of herself and her friends (who'd occasionally teleport with her) she's standing on.
Read the story. (I mean I did; stupid homonyms.) So it's closer to a ponified version of Schlock Mercenary's wormgates, then.

(There's probably a better example of the idea from classic sci-fi, but I'm regrettably ignorant of it.)

There are other issues the story raises, but I guess there's no point naming them here; you've basically summed it up.

>>29531266
>>29536418
Isn't that Hugh Jackman's trick in The Prestige?

The teleporting machine Tesla built him worked as a fax machine, keeping the original, but made a copy of the teleported subject somewhere else, and then Hugh has to kill the original so only one remains because he only cares about his magic show instead of the infinite possibilities presented by having a cloning machine.

>>29536418
Forgot to >; sorry.

>>29536192
My knee jerk reaction is "I sure hope not"; but it's good if it gets people writing, I guess.

>>29536476
Only if some outside party were secretly following him around abducting all the originals so that the copies never found out they existed. Otherwise it'd either be that or Think Like a Dinosaur (curiously apparently published the same year).

>>29536544
...Come to think of it, Think Like a Dinosaur did have the originals killed in secret without the copies knowing, didn't it? So it's a lot like that, just from the victim's perspective and with the killer(s) hidden.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/360348/the-skyla-pseudonym
>Celestia Code, book 4
>starring rebellious teenage Flurry Heart
HYPE

>>29536642
>The [adjectiveised noun] [noun]
See? I told you people this scheme worked!

>>29536642

>not calling it The Pskyla Pseudonym

>or the Skyla Seudonym

Missed opportunity tbqh

>>29531334
It's supposed to be sort of a twist. There's going to be a weather "chapter" (with a "local on the 8's" style gif) that reveals what the current weather conditions are.

>>29532683
>How is it going?
Much, much slower than I'd like. I've only got three logs done and there's probably at least a hundred more to go. Plus most of the visual effects.

The coding's still an issue, although I've leaned a little.

>sounds good?
You might want to start with the police report, since they'll probably have no idea what happened, much like the reader, and that could help with the suspense/mystery that'll hook people in.

>>29536870
>The Pskyla Pseudonym
bonus points if you work in a palaver and/or piriene

>>29536642
>not The Skyla Sobriquet

deder dan ded

>>29522017
>>29522613
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/363036/drifting-down-the-lazy-river
Completed now, I see.

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>>29537917

>>29537428
>I've only got three logs done and there's probably at least a hundred more to go.
Damn, that sounds like it'll be a trip.
I hope you get to wrap it up within the year.

>>29538492
>I hope you get to wrap it up within the year
sheeeeeeet. those three logs probably took a year

Nyxyanne is a better mouthsworder than your waifu

>>29539319
something something poop