FimFiction thread - Now with 84.5% more 'Do I have to do

Keep posting fimfic review bro, I love your format and humor.

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>This story is not to evoke an emotional response

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I'm guessing half a million plus words of complete shit. Yes displaced is still a damned thing

>>29692845

did someone actually like, caution with that? that's so great.

rock.
you are a rock.
rocks don't mind.
rock.

Opinions on this story?
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/98069/chasing-winter

>>29693096
It's good. You should read it.

>>29693096
its good for what it is, a short adventury thing in which trixie is neither redeemed, shipped, nor a cunt. give it a shot

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>>29692728

>Old Thread: >>29628927 →

Let's just pretend the last 59 posts were shitposting anyway. Just like the first 441.

>>29692927
>3:1 up/down ratio
>880 comments

God is dead.

>>29692927

It took me atleast 2 years to finish a 70k word story. How people can crank out half a million words in anything short of a decade is beyond me.

>>29693277
its easy if you dont care about quality or making sense

>>29693309

I suppose that's true. It makes me question the type of person who would still dedicate that much time to something and not want to do it well. Writing is extremely time intensive short of banging your head on a keyboard and you need to be passionate about it.

What do they get out of writing half a million words of pure garbage? Or am I simply underestimating the power of pure autism?

>>29693357
>Or am I simply underestimating the power of pure autism?

Yes.

>>29693277
you're not just as good as they are=)

Bump>>29693443
This

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Right now on your very own Intertubes: knighty talks about how Fimfic is a huge moneymaking scheme and he makes tons of hard cash money basically doing nothing!

https://radio.everypony.ru/128

>>29693921
.ru
ты кpaя пoпyтaл

>>29693921
I don't speak russki

>>29694680
>>29694689
It was translated in english, m8
But you didn't miss much tbqh

>>29694705
Give us the Cliff's Notes version.

>>29695475
- Don't ask Russians about politics and Ukraine if you're trying to keep it light.
- The quality of fiction gets worse when there's not enough people writing, and the readers are less picky, says Fimfic Admin in major upset
- knighty has 4 actual friends and no sexy pegasister gf yet
- Then "Genfic" project to expand fimfic into all kinds of words is still in the works and the name for it is a secret because lawyers
- Meanwhile Fimfic is generating good income, but don't talk about it
- Our beloved admin doesn't actually read much, except s̶m̶u̶t̶ romance, and he has shit tastes in shipping

That's about what I remember.

>>29692938
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/82534/hunted-in-the-everfree
Didn't bother to read it.

>>29693096
Definitely recommended. A few parts are spotty, and Trixie's family isn't fleshed out enough. But it's a really enjoyable romp nonetheless.

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I am really disappointed in the fandom.

>>29697543
The EQG tags are fairly new, so lots of the dogfucking you're looking for doesn't have the proper tags yet.

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>>29697595
>lots of the dogfucking
>actually only 1 fic
>with milfs and no girls.
Am I doing something wrong?

>>29697649
Yes. The Equestria Girls tag is also pretty new. Swap it out for Human and you'll find at least one. (I didn't look past the first page of results.)

>>29697664
why are writers such lazy crap? Don't they want my view?

>>29697727
you really think these people are energetic enough to go back and edit several years worth of fics just to update the tags?

>>29692728
Meanwhile:
>>29691101
>Post the most disgusting, depraved, morally wrong,or downright fucked up MLP related fanfics you have ever came across.

>>29698337
hell we could have just called that one fimfic thread 85

Story idea

Twilight goes into a coma after somepony tries to assassinate her. for a decade while in the coma, Twilight attains godhood in her mind with her very own universe to control. Then, she wakes up back in Equestria, and takes over with her experience as an omniscient entity in her own mind.

Is this a good idea?

Would anyone be at all interested if I were to write something akin to Jeeves and Wooster? Just loosely based on the premise- maybe Twilight as the empty-headed layabout socialite, and Rarity as her clever and world-wise, yet reserved and proper, valet? [Spoiler]It's not Raritwi, I swear, I don't even read Mono's work obsessively or anything[/spoiler]

>>29698553
>Twilight attains godhood in her mind with her very own universe to control.
But...how? Why?

>>29698600
Someone might be, but I personally probably wouldn't read it; sorry.

>>29698553
Go away, Michael.

>>29698553

I don't see where it's going anywhere interesting. It seems more the setup for a villain. Or Celestia's backstory.

>>29692728
Damn these fucking things are just as empty as they were four years ago.

Glad to know some things never change.

>>29700517
what things?

>>29700527
These threads anon.

>>29700530
39 posts in 29 hours? this is the pinnacle of activity without shiposting

Okay /fimfic/, I have a question. In those shitty self-insert HiEs, how long does it usually take for the MC to bang the author's waifu, turn into an alicorn, master long-forgotten snowflake magic, save the world, etc?

I ask because I'm still following https://www.fimfiction.net/story/279271/new-beginnings (chapter 29 of book 4 was just posted), which features all of the above. But it takes the story a while to build up to all those things, and I'm wondering if that's unusual or not. The timeline here is
>starts dating Luna: ~40k words into the series
>learns forgotten magic: ~60-70k
>saves the world: ~90k
>becomes an alicorn: ~140k
Currently (~180k) it looks like he's going to be banging Twilight as well by the end of the current book, because herp derp herding.

>>29700716
>how long does it usually take
depends on how much patience the writer has.

in man of war theres something like 180 chapters before discount squall-117 deflowers luna, yet in whats love got to do with it whats his face becomes a fire maned alicorn in like no time.

>>29700716
>herding
Why is this still a thing after 6 years of canonical monogamy?

>>29698600

Both of the Jeeves and Wooster Fimfics I've read were great, so I'd certainly give it a shot.

What's the best course of action if your story flops and turns out you horribly misevaluated its quality (because you didn't bother to get an editor or a pre-reader who could've told you it was shit before you published)? Should you delete it? Edit it and try your best to fix it? Leave it alone and start writing a new shitfic? Commit suicide for the most pathetic reason in history?

>>29701656
Why did it flop? Figure that out and then don't do it again.

I wouldn't bother to edit it. Work on a new story. Your old story is just that. An old story. If you manage to make it perfect, very few people are going to see it. You could take it down, fix it, and reupload it, but then you would be that author. Unless you get the best editor in existence, I do not believe you are going to be able to make this story a resounding success. Any more work on this would be time spent on a project you have already invested a lot of time in at your current level. And this project flopped. I wouldn't even think of fixing it yourself until you've gotten more experience and even then I'd say your time would be better spent working on new material unless you absolutely had no other ideas to work with and you could remake that old story on your own in less than six months.

And committing suicide over insults you receive on multiplayer notepad would be a complete waste. I'm sorry your story flopped, but that's just what you risk if you're going to share your work with other people. If you're new, you might run into this quite often. It is what it is. You might do better next time if you can figure out why this project flopped. Good luck.

>>29701349
>Why is this still a thing after 6 years of canonical monogamy?
Probably for a similar reason that stories with sex are still a thing after 6 years of canonical Barbie Doll crotch.

>>29700716
Depends on the author.
In Diaries of a Madman you get a sex scene (where anything that has a pulse is fuckable) every 100k words or so.

>>29698600
Make them both Rarity and then you'll be in business

>>29702183
>both Rarity
So... Coco and Rara? What do you suggest, my good man?

>>29702513
Not that Anon, but I suspect he talks about multiple Rarities.

>>29702513
Nope. They both look like Rarity, they both act like Rarity (more or less), and they're both named Rarity (though one goes by a nickname, to minimize confusion).

Don't even try to explain it. This is just the way the world is: there are two of Rarity, and one of everyone else. Don't make a big deal out of it in the description either. Just talk about how Rarity and Rara (or Rarity and Ms. Belle) do X, Y, and Z.

>>29702567
or a mentally ill (normal) Rarity

>>29702567
>>29702573
>>29702574
>>29702513
I just had an idea for a story about an alternate Mane6 where they are all Rarity.

>An intellectual Rarity who is well versed in the history of fashion and fabulousity.
>A socialite Rarity who is always throwing lavish parties for the people of Ponyville.
>A farmer Rarity who makes high grade, exquisite produce
>An animal caretaker Rarity who prims and grooms animals of all type to look their best
>A sporty Rarity who aims to compete in most sports with the utmost grace and ellegance
>And vanilla Rarity

>>29702639
I'd read it

>>29702639
I'd read the fuck out of that. Then the sequel where Princess Rarity and her sister Princess Rarity have to work out a trade deal with Princess Rarity and Prince Rarity of the Crystal Empire

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>>29702639
Sounds fun.

>>29702642
>>29702748
>>29702784
I'd write it. Now the question is whether or not to make Spike a dragon Rarity as well. That, or have him die of joy halfway through the story.

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>>29702867
Death by snu snu

>>29702867
>>29702921
make no mention of him at all

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>only 36 stories
>the stories are mostly crap and already read the good ones
Why is the world so cruel?

>>29703124
>not blocking ads
>human
You deserve nothing good in life.

>>29703124
Human w/o EQG is already pretty specific.
And then it has to be a romantic porn with your favorite character, so no wonder that narrows it down quite a bit.

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>>29702951
That, or have him be left in Canterlot with all the non-Rarities.

>>29703140
The ponies are ponies and there's an anon insert, maybe an oc. Is there a problem with this?

>>29703142
>romantic porn
I have it specific at around 50,000-3,000,000 words
it shouldn't be a romantic porn by itself, hopefully it has some comedic value
the only reason I didn't make comedy a necessary tag is because I already have it narrowed down by a considerable margin

>>29703154
>anon insert
>an oc
And you have the gall to ask if there is a problem?

>>29703154
>Is there a problem with this?
Is there not?

>>29703169
I do, comrade. I find stories where people insert anon into stories and/or an oc appealing.

>>29703154
Are you trolling?

>>29703177
You disgusting piece of sub-human gutter trash
Try the Writefag's Guild, they may have some stories to recommend, be it FiMFiction or pastebins.

Found this while looking through recent scifi:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/327837/friendship-is-sufficiently-advanced
It's like a first-contact HiE, except instead of a human, the visitor a scout from a Culture-tier civilization of space elves. There's a shitload of worldbuilding, both for Equestria and for the space elves, the latter being drawn from the author's own self-published original sci-fi (hence the crossover tag). It's also one of the few sci-fi fics that describes a reasonable configuration for the Equestrian solar system - none of that "omg the sun orbits the planet!!!" bullshit here.

The plot is nothing special so far, but this fic is still worth reading if you like worldbuilding and/or sci-fi.

>>29703154
Why are you linking to that post even? Are you asking for fic recommendations or writing advice?

>>29703234
If he wants Anon with ponies, I think the best bet would be AiE.

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Does anyone remember a fanfiction posted with a MC called "Sharky" or some shit like that? I read it a few years ago back when it was still updating - it was your average shitty HiE fic - but there was something about it that sparked enough curiosity in me to read it (the same type of curiosity one might get when watching a movie like The Room; it's a hard feeling to explain).

>>29703496
Can you summarize the solar system design?
I'm interested in ideas but not enough to wade through prose for something I'm not really into when I already have so much queued up.

>>29704163
Equus is a fuckhueg rocky planet, many times the size of earth but with similar gravity. It orbits a pretty normal star, but at a distance of about 25 AUs, so its "real" sun looks like nothing but a particularly bright star. Equus itself is orbited by one normal moon, and by one moon-sized object that puts out a remarkably sun-like emission spectrum despite being nowhere near large enough to sustain fusion. Both satellites ought to fly off into space, given their orbital parameters, but Celestia and Luna keep them on track.

>>29704161
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13024/my-better-life
everyone loves watching a trainwreck. thankfully this one was cancelled 2 years ago

want a bump?

I'm not complaining, but why are almost all featured stories either short funny ones or erotica? Do people have no interest in anything that isn't cheap fun?

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What the hell is this dude even writing about at this point? Can anyone give a plot summary of this shit so far?

...Man, I still remember when it was rare for stories to get to 100k words. This is just ridiculous.

>>29706319
somehow modern humans created discord, and because hes a dick, he wiped them all out.
before they went extinct, scientists did all sorts of retarded shit like creating nanotech which was tested on animals, as well as some other hybrid mix between nanomachines and AI.

Anyway human civilization falls. and over the eons other civilizations rise and eventually discord comes along and wrecks their shit and wipes them out too.

So finally a billion years later or so discord gets bored and decides to commit suicide, except you know- immortal diety. and he knows the ponies will just try to imprison him away again. so he plants a few ideas inside dozens of ponies minds, has twilight summon 'the most dangerous species in the universe', lets it be known that hes loose and leaves it up to the ponies, elementals, and a mentally challenged adolescent human to figure something out for themselves. oh and to prevent getting turned into a statue again he steals the elements of harmony and distributes them all across the globe.


there. 2 million words condensed down to about 3 paragraphs

>>29706365
That seems like the summary of the prologue/set-up, not the entire story. That really is ridiculous.

>>29706365
>oh and to prevent getting turned into a statue again he steals the elements of harmony and distributes them all across the globe
I see he's attended the "Jagar Tharn School of Villainy", which amongst other things teaches classes on identifying the obligatory magical items that can defeat you, and postulates that the only correct way to ensure your safety is to steal the items and dump them all around the globe.
Also known as "Fantasy Villainy 101".

>>29706007
It's just a consequence of feature box mechanics. A story has to get a lot of likes and views in a short time; with long stories, that becomes less and less likely.

>>29706379
>>29706382
oh okay. after all of that begin angsty special snowflake in equestria where he goes from being a slave to a rich wisecracking commando gets raped and fucks anything with a pulse before slowly becoming an even specialer snowflake and continuing to have wacky adventures. he eventually becomes half tree, sprouts wings, sprouts tits, can see in the dark and probably some other retarded shit I cant recall at the moment

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>>29706979
>he eventually becomes half tree

>>29706365
Rarely posting, rarely lurking anon here.
I don't know what most of you guys think about DoaM, but i think it's ok.
Yeah sure, special snowflake-y OC, but the story is good, and it's long enough for even the strongest of autisms.
Most fics feature an overly fucked OC anyway.
>Tfw The end of ponies is ded

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It might just be a random oneshot, but at least Biscuit is writing again.

>>29709044
But is it good?

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Sadness is caused by our expectation of how events could have turned out had things not gone that way.

That's what I've deduced after watching several series and reading books, and seeing I was pitying myself over what the characters would be like had an unfortunate event not happened. I found out that, if things would have ended the same way, I wasn't affected at all.

However, if good things (Anything really, from a little love story to founding a new country) would have happened, I find myself comparing the story with an AU where things went correctly, and sadden myself over what the character missed.

While thinking on this, I've found out that every emotion I perceived was based on comparing alternate or past outcomes. Happiness is based on comparing what I'm feeling now to what I felt when I was sad. Nostalgia is similar, but concerns all of the past.

This is all coming from an autistic anon that tries to view all rationally to make social relations easier to understand.

Thoughts?

>>29706365
Isn't he also the human in disguise sleeping in the MC's main consciousness or something.

>>29709044
Give me OTPP or give me death. If I have to wait for another year of "naive burd horse comments on tingies" i'm going to burn down his mechanic shop.

>>29709683
That's close, but not quite right.

Sadness is just caused by things being wrong at the moment, whether you could prevent it or not.
If someone's sibling dies they would obviously be sad and you would still feel sad for them, even if things couldn't have gone any differently.

Of course people always judge sadness or happiness in comparison to what they can imagine, and that's rooted in your past experiences, but there's still a distinction.

Regret is what's caused by things turning out poorly in a way that could have been prevented. For example if you gamble money and lose everything, that's on you.

>>29709796
I don't know. If a sibling would die, depending on the predictability of that death, I'd be more or less sad. By what could have been, I mean every possibility, be it something you could have done or some miracle which would have turned everything around.

Compare two breaking new headlines: "Fat NEET murdered" and "Unemployed father of three murdered"

The first doesn't really ring a bell, since you know he couldn't have done much anyways even if he would live. The second is much sadder, because you imagine what the father could have done, what his children and family missed, etc. etc.

In the end, they could be the same person, and the emotional reaction towards their death depends (not only on, obviously) on the possibilities missed.

>>29710106
>Compare two breaking new headlines: "Fat NEET murdered" and "Unemployed father of three murdered"
The possibilities missed don't change anything.
The father of three dying is sad for the children, but in the end I'm not really sad for either of them, because I don't know them personally.

Now if the fat NEET is my friend I would actually be super sad to lose him, the father of three is just a news story in comparison.

People I don't know die quietly every other second, but if it happens far away it doesn't affect me.

>>29710149
Exactly.

You know the friend, so you know the possibilities with him that were missed because of his loss. You don't know the father, so you don't know what he missed -if anything. You put it better than I could.

>>29710367
It is not about possibilities, it is caring for the people you know, and not caring for the people you don't.

It is the same in a story, if you spend a while reading about a character you become attached to him and don't want him to die, (unless he's particularly annoying!).

Or at least, that is how it is for me.

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Hey guys its been a long time but I wrapped up one of my old fapfics if anyone felt like reading something lewd tonight.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/9352/just-my-type

>>29709712
that bit is still up for debate. hes a clone of a 21st century human who may or may not be turning into a draconequus but theres still no knowing if he part discord or not

>>29710868
>deadfic for 4 years
>now complete
You're doing god's work, anon

>>29698337
>they're all fics that are so over-the-top edgy, you have to wonder whether they're actually satire/parodies

>>29698600
I'd probably read it if it were Dash or AJ taking Rarity's place. Her personality doesn't really strike me as being world-wise and street smart--even if it is an AU setting.

>>29701349
Never underestimate the Morman fetishes.

>>29701656
It depends on whether you think it's salvageable, which is all based on what the plot is. Dialogue, narration, characterization--all that can be improved through revision, but if the plot itself is shit, it doesn't matter how could the writing itself is.

In general, I'd follow >>29701899's advice. Editing and revising won't make the downvotes go away, so if it had a terrible reception it's usually pointless to try and repair it. Just take the lumps and learn from it when you do the next fic.

>>29704516
>many times the size of earth but with similar gravity
>moon-sized object that puts out a remarkably sun-like emission spectrum
So it's just as fucked up as the geocentric model.

>>29706007
People like to veg out /masturbate. Comedy/clop oneshots are quick, easy reads that will rarely piss you off. A great combination for getting liked and thus featured.

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>autism flares up and I come back after not looking at pony for about 2 years
>hard reset 2 still hasn't updated
fuck

Can anyone recommend something with a time based plot that turns into a near-impenetrable clusterfuck? In literally any medium. Fanfic, book, anime, TV show, movie, videogame, interpretive dance, I don't fucking care, I need my fix.
Hell if it's good it doesn't need to even be time-based, it just needs to feel vaguely like Hard Reset.

>>29712128
Primer?

>>29712279
Seen it and enjoyed it. That reminds me to watch Upstream Color though, thanks anon.

>>29712128
Bioshock Infinite?

>>29712520
Oh shit, I never even thought of that. It even has a waifu. Thanks anon.

>>29712128
There was another time loop one with sweetie belle, though i dont remember the title. Check the review pastebin im sure its in there

>>29712798
It's not about a time loop though. It's about Sweetie being an autistic sex fiend.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/194918/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-sweetie-belle

>>29698600
>>29712083
>I'd probably read it if it were Dash or AJ taking Rarity's place. Her personality doesn't really strike me as being world-wise and street smart--even if it is an AU setting.

None of the mane six really strike me as very Jeeves-ish, but those are probably at the bottom of the list of options for a highly intellectual and reserved character.

Honestly, I don't understand why he didn't pick Rarity as the layabout uppercrust person and either Twilight or Starlight as the butler.

>So it's just as fucked up as the geocentric model.
I mean, so long as the author just has to reconcile "making the sun and moon zip around" with "actual planetary physics" you're not going to get something not fucked up.

>>29712841
try http://www.fimfiction.net/story/227246/a-little-loopy
instead

>>29712128
Anything? Well, it's not a clusterfuck, but Mother of Learning is honestly shaping up to be one of my favorite works of narrative fiction out there.
https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/1/Mother-of-Learning

Have you read Worm? There's no time travel, but there is weird predestination precognition fuckery. And it's definitely pretty clusterfucked.

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>>29709683
>Sadness is caused by our expectation of how events could have turned out had things not gone that way.
Not really. Events can be sad even if they're the only possible outcome. Or the best possible outcome, even.

It can be as simple as those times when you're overcome with the impermanence of everything. Perhaps I'd better call it wistfulness, but there is something fundamentally sad about knowing that all good things will end, and that this is completely inescapable. Things can end in the best way possible, but I will still be sad that it is over. There's a longing for the impossible.

It's not just lamenting that the world isn't what it ought to be, that there is some better alternative out there. It's also those times where you understand that it has to be this way, yet it's still not satisfactory. And it's not really rational or quantifiable, or at the very least I've never been able to make much sense if it beyond the immediate and the instinctual.

>>29710106
>the emotional reaction towards their death depends (not only on, obviously) on the possibilities missed
You're thinking of being sad for squandered potential, and it doesn't really work like that. There's a difference in causation between emphatic and selfish sadness, even if the end result is the same. It depends on relation much more than potential.

>>29712128
More About Time

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That moment when you go back to an old half-finished fic, and in your notes you see
>Shakespur's play?
and have no idea what the heck you were on about.

>>29713386
>Shakespur
This is horrible. I love it.

>>29713386
The fact that this happens to me so often always spurs me to be just a little more thorough when I write down notes and ideas.
Still happens all the time, of course.

I wrote down a scrap of funny reaction to something. Not a damn clue what the character was actually supposed to be reacting to.

>>29713396
>>29713386
Get on my level, plebs.
Write extremely detailed notes about every single aspect of the story, including but not limited to introspective essays analysing the central themes of the story, as well as opinion pieces that tackle the majoy issues presented by the characters and the plot.
And then don't actually write the story.

>>29713289
>Things can end in the best way possible, but I will still be sad that it is over.

I dunno, I'm still seeing that sadness as crying over a perhaps impossible turn of events. Even if there's no possible way things would have gone differently, a "what if" still exists in your mind where things continued on.

Don't take me too seriously though, I'm probably not the best guy to be talking about this. I don't feel any emotion over most things that I can't relate over rationally.

>>29713434
It's not about the existence of alternatives, it's about the event itself triggering a longing for the alternatives.

Just look at things that aren't sad.
A few days ago, I had a good time. I was evening, and although I hadn't done all I wanted to do that day, I decided to sit down in front of my computer to eat some cheese and catch up on some podcasts. I remember this very well because at that moment, I thought to myself that this felt pretty grand. It was a happy moment.
But it wasn't any kind of profound happiness. I can imagine a great deal of possible things that would have been better than eating cheese and listening to podcasts. I could for example have finished all I intended to do, or have eaten better cheese. In the real or the impossible, I can imagine alternatives which are almost infinitely better. But the fact that there is a great amount of vastly better alternatives I reasonably could do, and even better things I could imagine to do, none of them detract from the fact that it was a simple, happy moment.

In any situation, happy or sad, I can easily imagine things that are vastly better and vastly worse. There is usually very real and possible options that are much better and much worse. But although the alternatives might colour the experience, they don't really themselves decide it.

To be banal, when you're sad you're not sad because things could be better. Things could always be better. You're sad because you desire for things to be better.

>>29712520
>>29712559
Reminder that Bioshock Infinite is a lore-raping piece of shit with no relation to Bioshock until the ending that screams "oh right we need to make sure we don't get called out on our cash grab title."
Further reminder that Super Mario 64 is a far better game and does everything Shitfinite wanted to accomplish.

>>29712128
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/248094/feedback
Twilight dies. Sunset shows up for the funeral, and finds a crystal ball that allows two-way communication with the world as it was nine days ago. With the help of the M5, Sunset uses the crystal ball to find out what happened and try to save Sunset.

There's also a sequel that adds in Glimmer's alternate timelines from the S5 finale.

>>29713508
What the fuck does Super Mario 64 have to do with Bioshock Infinite?

>>29713698
To answer that, we need to talk about parallel universes.

Why page ten, why?

>>29714631
its better than page one because double digits

>>29713709
DEEPEST LORE
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>>29713655
Thanks anons, I'll check these out.

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>>29713508
On the subject of BSI, remember that the ending is a load of bullshit. It isn't clever; it's nonsense.

So, whatchu guys readin'?

>>29717021
I was actually going to ask if anyone else was reading http://www.fimfiction.net/story/312711/the-world-within-the-web . It's basically an anthropomorphization of the Internet and bronydom in particular. In sort of a Game of Thrones style. And yes, the Chan plays a sizable part. A lot of engaging worldbuilding and conspiracies.

>>29717122
>anthropomorphization of the Internet and bronydom in particular.

"non"

>>29717122
I started reading it at one point, but it was 2meme4me and I kind of lost interest.

>>29717122
Holy fuck.
I remember when some anon came to these threads to talk about that story. That must have been bacj in the early "x% less shameless self-promotion" threads.
Is that you?

>>29717190
Not that I recall....

Anyone else thinks of magic as electromagnetic waves?

That's the closest thing I could come up with as an explanation for how magic works in general. Projection spells are made of waves in the visible spectrum, telepathy, biological and psychological spells use waves to disrupt electric flow in the brain/nerves/whatever organ creates the magical waves, etc.

Telekinesis would be done through charging and discharging objects to create a magnetic field around them, or some bullshit about gravitational waves which could also apply for teleportation.

Similarly, shields are also made of a multitude of waves emitted on a specific frequency and plane to disrupt incoming spells and either reduce their effectiveness or destroy them altogether. However, this would also make it possible for skilled unicorn to neglect shields by emitting on a specific frequence and plane which would make the shield act as an amplifier for the spell. Thus, stronger shields can be either very restricted in protection or extremely straining to keep up. Physical repulsion could be through the same principle as induction/conduction charging and electric force.

>>29717122

I keep meaning to pick it up. It sounds like something I'd really like, if the setting weren't so cringy. So... how cringy is it, actually?

>>29717122
That sounds horrible.

>>29717021
A fic about Celestia going mad and stuffing Princess Luna with food until she's a giant pile of fat. Some ponies call it the Royal Reserve, the massive room where Luna sits, waiting for her next meal. And Celestia makes Luna beg for the food, jiggling her fat and coaxing her with fatty insults.

"Your such a gargantuan sister, how will I ever get nephews from such a massive thing!"

"Please Tia, I just want to eat cake..."

"Not until you say it, that you are a fatty fat fatty fat."

"Stop it Tia, please, I just want to eat that strawberry frosted cake filling..."

"Oh! you mean, this strawberry frosted cake filling filled pastry I have behind my back?"

"Gargle"

>>29717378
Not at all for me, but I feel like it may be a matter of taste, depending on how distracting some familiar place names are.

Is fimfic down?

I'm at work, and the site suddenly stopped working on my phone. Is it just me or is anyone else having similar issues?

>tfw I have nothing better to do but to read horsewords

>>29717021
A bunch of Titanium Dragon and MrNumbers fics ive had on my shelf for years. Feels good to raise my fic clearance rate

>>29717122
>http://www.fimfiction.net/story/312711/the-world-within-the-web
Ayy, ain't i seen this shit on EQD? Aw well, it's fun to see how bad bad writing can be

>>29717680
They just switched to mandatory TLS, so that might be causing it.

>>29717902
Well, that explains why my script is getting 308s on every request. Thanks, anon.

>>29717902
Ok but what does that mean? I'm not super technical, but I'm a quick study if you can point me in the right direction.

Also, do you know exactly when they made the change? It would help to figure out if that's the problem or if my phone is just being difficult.

>>29718048
Not my area expertise either, but from what I understand, you can only access the site via https instead of having a choice between http and https. Not sure what the ramifications of that are.

The announcement went up around 9:30pm EST, but I'm not sure if that's when it went live.

>>29717021
7DSJ Book 1

Does this stuff seriously go into looney ville? I've heard there's a mary sue unicorn in this but I've yet to encounter it.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/130/1/a-familiar-shape-a-different-taste/chapter-1

Hey is this the oldest clopfic on the site?

>>29718071
>Does this stuff seriously go into looney ville?
Hell yes it does. I guess you haven't gotten to the part with the mind-control date-rape club yet? That's only chapter 9, as I recall.

>I've heard there's a mary sue unicorn in this but I've yet to encounter it.
She's mainly in 7DSJ Book 2, A Hairier Problem (7DSJ prequel #2), and a few chapters of 7DSJ Book 4.

>>29718070
Ahh, I see what the problem was then. My phone was defaulting to http links instead of using the https links whenever I clicked an onsite link since it was on http before.

I just had to manually change the web address to https and now my phone is defaulting to that and I can browse properly.

I appreciate the information, my fair anon. If I couldn't figure out how to make fimfiction work on the phone the only reasonable way to pass time when I'm working would be to personally test just how much faster it is to take the window to the street level than using the elevator.

>>29718074
It appears so unless there's an older one that isn't tagged properly.

Also, please don't direct link to a chapter in a story unless you're referencing a specific chapter. It's annoying. Just use the story link as so
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/130

is this... voiceguy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5btoAAEy9ec&index=8&t=334s&list=PLpXLx1a_owv2uNrDlrhBkOpVQua5ohuh3

>>29717021
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/357556/two-thousand-miles-echoes-of-the-past

If you can stand a little bit of edge there's literally nothing wrong with being edgy sometimes this reads pretty well. Just got to chapter eight and so far it's been a lot better than I expected.

Wouldn't nessarily recommend it since it seems like there isn't much too it yet, but so far I'm enjoying it.

>>29713408
>not doing so much word-building you end up with ideas for companion short stories set in the same continuity, including character building prequels, side-stories, spin-offs and an epilogue idea that builds into a complete full length story idea on its own.
>not starting to do that level of note taking and introspection for each one of those. Leading into yet more ideas for other spin-offs
>fractal productive procrastination

>>29712520
>>29712559
>>29713508
>>29713698
>>29713709
>>29715087
>>29715202
Bioshock Infinite is half the opening sequence to a really really good game and half a really terrible story with mediocre but playable shooting mechanics and a gimmicky but kinda-fun system to differentiate it from every other totally-not-every-other-shooter shooter out there.

>>29713709
Jesus

>>29718848
>>29715202
So much potential. So very gently exploited.

>>29712128
>a time based plot that turns into a near-impenetrable clusterfuck
Double Rainbow (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/836/double-rainbow) Everyone hated how much of a clusterfuck it became so the author spun some metafic bullshit explanation for it.

Steins;Gate is a great time travel anime in the you fuck with the timeline, the timeline fucks with you genre.

>>29713386
>Shakespur
5/10 pun. Not as good as Spurlin being the capital of Germaney.

>>29717122
>anthropomorphization of the Internet
I remember that anon's idea. God, that was a while ago. I wonder if he ever figured out what to do with people who had multiple tabs open on their browsers.

>>29719273
>I wonder if he ever figured out what to do with people who had multiple tabs open on their browsers.
disgusting hybrids. anongags, fureditors, twitanons, etc

>>29719273
Do you like The Legend of Korra?

>>29718648
Yep!

I should redo that as well.

Who would be down for a short Mass Effect: Andromeda stream after editing?

bamp

How can one gauge interest for the type of story they're writing?

>>29720772
Asking here is a good start.

Asking on FimFic is also a possibility, but I don't know how much good it's going to do. If you're unknown, people probably aren't going to read your blog and reply. If you're well enough known to get responses, it's going to be coloured by the fact that the people who reply will largely be people who follow you, and will be more likely than the average reader to read anything you put out.
Maybe if you found a suitable group.

But the best way is simply to see what kind of stories and genres are already popular, and how stories like the one you're planning have been received.

>TL;DR: Do some research on popular stories and stories like yours

>>29720772

In addition to what >>29720807 said, there's also a fimfiction Discord server where you can go and talk to people. You can ask there about interest, and if one of the bigger names is online at the time, they can can probably give you some insights on how well your story will go over with the general public.

>>29720772
Also, if you have a decent watcher base on fimfiction asking them directly with a blog works. Though if you just cater to them you might run into problems expanding your audience.

Another good way is to check what kind of groups have a lot of members, stories, and what kind of engagement those groups have. Though that has the problem of not nessarily being indicative of interest when it comes to novel concepts.

Obviously the best way to gauge interest is to write a story, publish it, and shill it where appropriate, though I'm guessing that's not the awnser you're looking for.

>>29719831
I would, but I have to work today.

>>29722818

Again?

>>29718731
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/357556/two-thousand-miles-echoes-of-the-past
I started reading that fic because it showed up in a search for recent sci-fi. The premise seemed all right, but then it suddenly got way too edgy for me.

I'm on chapter 7 by the way.

>>29724357
>edgy

>mature
>dark
>gore
yeah no one could see that coming

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>>29724357

OH SHIT SOMEONE ELSE WHO'S READING THAT

I'm dying to know what happened to Equestria just before the silence! This is a wild ride i'll be on for a long time.

I love the 24th Pegasus's stories.

>>29724441
Huh. Well I guess I got what I deserved for not reading the tags.

I got this fleeting idea that I probably have to develop more.

Imagine an Equestrian scientist in whatever the equivalent to the Victorian era was for ponies. In an effort to find a way to immortality, they experimented with imbuing ponies with the magic essence of phoenixes. In a shocking twist of events, it backfires (heh) and it creates fire undead ponies. Eventually it gets purged.

Fast forward to the present, and some cult/idiot passer-by releases the same disease/curse/whatever, and it's up to Twilight and the M6 to figure out how to solve it and find out how the ponies from the past solved it.

Both the past and present stories would develop simultaneously, probably alternating every chapter.

I'd have to polish this idea much more before it can become something readable, but I thought I'd threw it out there for the time being and see what you people think.

>>29725058
Could be good. I'm not sold on this specific setup though. Why does pony + phoenix = zombie? Especially with this "fire undead" business apparently spreading just like the standard zombie virus.

>>29719629
Stopped watching it right before the S2 finale because of how cliche and shitty it became. The /co/ threads of despair, bitterness, and comparing the ratings of Spongebob reruns with it more than made up for how dull it got, though.

I've heard it got its shit sorted out but haven't picked it back up to see.

>>29720772
Look up the genre tags you're going to use and filter by views. Then start reading the synopses to see if they track like you fic will.

As a general rule: Dark, Human, Horror, Sci-Fi, Sad, and Tragedy are not nearly as popular as Comedy, Slice of Life, Romance, or Random. Shorter stories will also track better than longer ones.

I've always been more on the "write what you enjoy" side of things rather than the "write what readers enjoy" side so I don't usually bother checking.

>>29725058
I don't really think fusing phoenixes with ponies would create fire zombies. Instead of going with cliché zombies, I think actual immortals who can't let go of the past as easily as Celestia did might make the story more interesting and emotional, if that's what you're aiming for.

>>29725080
Pony dies, burst into flames, keeps going because of the phoenix magic, but doesn't quite regenerate and is left as shell of who it used to be filled with pain and regret.

Think less zombie apocalypse and more existential dread and wondering about what life truly is. And lots of incidental killing as well.

>>29726397
That could work as well. As I said, it's just something that popped into my mind and I'd have to work on before it becomes a solid idea.

>>29726477
Do work on it, I'm interested.

Has he gone insane? Again?
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/723392/22-years-old-fucking-mentally-ill-social-degenerate-pathetic-nerd-is-back-

>>29712128
Heart of an Author
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/163482/the-heart-of-an-author

Twilight gets stuck in a looping murder mystery narrative written by Fluttershy. It's not time travel, but it's definitely near-impenetrable.

>>29726618
What happened to our favourite German?
I remember the early days, when he was just another goof who couldn't write, and spewed out incoherent self-insert stories. So pure, so innocent. And now he's just another meme-spouting moron.

>>29726618
>blog
damn that would have made for a better title

>>29712128
is just being an incomprehensible clusterfuck good enough?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/71281/cultural-artifacts

Sometime... i really need Anthro fim

>>29727481
Are you sure about that?

Yeah that seems like something that everyone could do without

Dong gun equipped zombie phoenixpones.
Is there anything more frightening?

>>29728178
It's anthro.

you lads could use a bump
I've read this since it was feature box'd and surprisingly had fun
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/367827/evil-is-easy-governing-is-harder

Hump

>>29726657
>Heart of an Author
Man, I've been meaning to write a rant piece about that story since last year.
I guess I should force myself to finish it first.
Since I've already dropped it twice.

>>29730720
Rant away. I'm probably never going to read it but I'd love to hear all about why it's shit.

>>29730741
It's not so much that it's shit, because it's not, the first 19.5 chapter are excellent.

I guess that's what makes the reveal at the 20th chapter sting so much.

...

Oh, fine, I'll try to re-read and finish it and make an autistically detailed analysis of why it sucks.

>>29730768
huzzah

deader than usual around here lately. where yall niggroes at?

>>29732617
>where yall niggroes at
At work or sleeping.

>>29695896
What's he ship?

>>29732792
>niggroes
>work
I dont belieb you

Page 10

Everyone still sleeping at work?

>>29732906
he used to ship twidash, though now he seems to prefer flutterdash

>>29732832
>>29734228
wrong post

Zbog tebe mi bump prode kao dan

a thread se moja pretvori u san

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/299781/changeling-courtship-rituals
Is this series any good? Description and rating both look good, but it would be nice to hear from someone who's read it.

>>29732906
In my defense, I'm not a nigger.
I'm just a despicable spic.

>>29734228
>he seems to prefer flutterdash
How can one person have such shitty taste?

>>29736164
I haven't read it, but if you like the description and it has +3000 upvotes, it'd be a shame to not even try the first couple chapters.

>>29736164
>>29736677
And if it's shit, you can come here and tell us all about it!

tage pen

>>29737435

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/280666/stargate-shangri-la
Is it shit or not? I'm a pretty big stargate fag so fucking up that part of the story counts just as much as fucking up the mlp part.

Including SGU in any meaningful way also counts as fucking it up.

>>29736363
Reminder that Flutterdash is the most plausible lesbian ship in the show.

page nine

>>29736164
Its worth reading.

It starts out as a gag concept, Changelings consider mortal combat a courtship ritual and everything seem light comedy.

Then the author rather expertly turns it on its head with Crissy going "Ha ha, yeah but no: I'm totally serious" and Twilight finds herself stuck between telling Crissy she doesn't want her back and risking the fragile peace breaking down or living a lie for the sake of Equestria.

Solid 7+/10 at the very least.

>>29738455
I've been enjoying it so far.

There's no SGU stuff. As I recall, it's set after Atlantis, but the only canon Stargate characters are the original SG1 team. Though, since Carter and O'Neill are both generals now, they mostly stick to management and diplomacy, while a bunch of (Stargate) OCs do the fun stuff.

The premise is similar to Atlantis, in that SGC dialed another galaxy and wound up inside an Ancient city-ship, this one buried under the ice in the Crystal Empire. From there it's basically normal Stargate stuff: get established, meet the locals, and start dialing random planets until they run into trouble.

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I'm never going to get back to my fanfic, even though I have an ending in mind.

Anyone read this?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8185097/1/My-Litte-Ponly-Friendship-is-Danger

By the way there is a video reenactment of the story for anyone interested in seeing that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLimvHMp7H4

>>29739917
If it's on fanfiction.net it's probably going to be utter trash..

>>29740065
Oh okay, now that I take a look at it, it's clearly a masterpiece.
Would make a good script for a RdP episode

>>29740051
Well decide for yourself after reading it, though the video is even better in my opinion. Also, it's by the same author as DOOM: Repercussions of Evil.

What if all the circlejerkers in their neverending circlejerk fad groups stay there because if they go solo and write something original, some bitter cunt will downvote it with all four of his accounts and get his 11 friends to do the same... But if they stay in their circlejerk, they can't attack everyone in the circlejerk without... Well, attacking everyone in the circlejerk and making it obvious that hate groups exist on-site, and is such a problem that it's responsible for newbies hiding from "Mindless hater downvotes that just hate the genre" and staying in their groups?

>>29740051
Then stop using the site. Why are you even here? By the way, here's your (You), now fuck off.

>>29739917
I like how they explored the concept of a magicless alicorn while leaving it open for interpretation for the reader and not making it too melodramatic.

>>29739917
All fics posted on Fimfic.net have to be approved by a moderator or whatever, right?

Why do fics like this get approved? Do mods know their audience needs fics like this to feel superior?

>>29740143
Sorry, wrong reply. I wasn't talking about that fic.

http://imgur.com/vuTA7EN

>Friendship Is Optimal

In what world is this Worse-than-TCB HPMOR-tier edgy whiny transhumanist "We're all going to get sucked into an AI's fake happy world because we're all little bitches that'll choose fake happiness over anything real" bitchfest "One of the fandom's best stories in the genre of sci-fi"?

>>29740114
ff.net != fimfic.net

>>29740232
>we're all little bitches that'll choose fake happiness over anything real
Funny how you just described the real world.
A lot of people don't want to be right these days they just want to feel right, facts be damned.
I think those people would be happy to live in just this kind of fantasy world.

>>29740090
oh look its that guy again.

meeeeester did nothing wrong and your story was shit

>>29740458
You aren't fooling anyone. There is only one person on this site who thinks "hate groups" are an issue on fimfiction, and he just happens to be a prolific /r/the_donald poster.

want to write a good story, but can't because.

1. Too lazy
2. Don't have enough time
3. Don't want to write over 5k words just to get attention.
4. it's hard work.
5. I hate my life.

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(You)'re the one thinking you're superior lol

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>>29741098
>you're just a background character
Those always have it easy!

>>29741128
I don't know, that ending was pretty soul crushing

>>29741098
>you're a background character

I guess that's what I really want subconsciously. I don't really feel like any regime that isn't far from the center will change anything to my work.

To quote Sherlock Holmes:

"You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

>>29718828
I see you're familiar with my process.

>>29741649
>they are very difficult to get rid of because you tend to think the wold owes you a fortune for your hardwork and are not being treated fairly
How appropriate.

>>29701349
>canonical monogamy
Well, unless you count Twilight's two Flashes.

>>29702639
>>29702642
>>29702748
>>29702784
>>29702867
Aren't you all just talking about https://www.fimfiction.net/story/203926/my-little-rarity-rarity-is-rarity? (Haven't read it myself.)

>>29704516
So what exactly happened when Luna "refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn", and later tried again to create eternal night? What happened when "the stars aided in her escape"? Did Discord really swing moon-sized objects around at near or possibly greater than lightspeed (has anyone calced that?), only to set them gently back into their proper orbits when he was done? What happened when Celestia and Luna were taken by the vines and the sun and moon were apparently frozen in the sky? How did Twilight avoid losing or crashing the sun and moon when she had no experience controlling them? How powerful a telescope would ponies need to observe the changes in a comet's coma as it approached a sun that weak?

>>29706319
What annoys me the most is the part where they give up on bothering with chapter titles.

>>29706979
>>>29706379
>>29740071
>>>29740065
I hate it when I miss posts.

>>29708329
>long enough for even the strongest of autisms
This is a good thing?

>Most fics feature an overly fucked OC anyway.
And this gives them power over us?

>>Tfw The end of ponies is ded
Didn't that star Scootaloo?

>>29712083
>>they're all fics that are so over-the-top edgy, you have to wonder whether they're actually satire/parodies
Even when they're over 300,000 words long?

What would be an example of a story that's "disgusting, depraved, morally wrong,or downright fucked up" without being edgy?

>>29712128
Bearing in mind that I haven't read Hard Reset or Hard Reset 2:

>book
All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
All You Zombies (short story) by Robert A. Heinlein
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft (best read after prior Dream Cycle stories)
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
Flux (short story) by Michael Moorcock
The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick

>anime
Noein

>TV show
Doctor Who episodes:
Blink
Silence of the Library/Forest of the Dead (beginning of River Song arc linked to Silence arc)
Eleventh Doctor's run (The Eleventh Hour through The Time of the Doctor)

>movie
Edge of Tomorrow
Futurama: Bender's Big Score

>videogame
Marathon trilogy

More available on request, though nothing else comes to mind that I'm personally familiar with.

>>29712937
Conceivably it *could* be some kind of gigantic sphere or holographic projection. Though it'd have to be either partly transparent or extremely realistic for Twilight to get the ideas she has about the structure of comets. You might also have to throw out the comics (I know, huge loss).

>>29713655
>Sunset uses the crystal ball to find out what happened and try to save Sunset.
2wibbly4me.

>>29717021
this thread duh
Currently queued up for me are three stories of no particular import except that I accidentally voted on them and want to clear my conscience by reading enough of them to change my vote to an informed one.

>>29717287
>Anyone else thinks of magic as electromagnetic waves?
Twilight in Friendship Games. Sounds like complete BS otherwise, though.

>>29725641
>I've heard it got its shit sorted out
I've heard the same about The Chase.

>>29726657
You mention a "thematic crossover" with Umineko, but not Umineko?

>>29732617
I blocked 4chan with Cold Turkey for a few days, then spent a while trying to reduce my Read It Later list.

>>29739133
Are the planets all inhabited by different OC pony cultures?

>>29739244
Never is a long time, anon.

>>29740090
You've lost me.

>>29740183
So what fic *were* you talking about?

>>29740232
The Berenstain world, anon.

>>29740490
https://www.reddit.com/user/Databass
>there doesn't seem to be anything here
???

>>29740458
>You just described leftists. Kek.
Congrats on the size of derail this spawned. Also, fuck you.

>Hating shit fads encourages shit fads
k

>>29740581
Expression of sympathy.

>>29742301
>So what exactly happened when...
For starters, the story starts from mid-S3, so you can forget all the vines and Tirek business.

>lower the moon
Presumably maintaining the day/night cycle either requires cooperation from both princesses, or else Luna was using her magic to counter any attempt by Celestia to move the sun/moon.

>eternal night
The entire inhabited portion of the world lies in a single large crater, so keeping the moon on that side of the planet would create eternal night from the point of view of every living creature.

>the stars will aid in her escape
That was magic. The exact mechanics of pony magic (especially high-tier magic like the EoH) haven't been explained yet.

>Did Discord really swing moon-sized objects
Probably. It's implied in the story that there's a class of beings above Celestia/Luna's tier that are capable of ignoring or altering the normal laws of physics, and that Discord might be such a being.

>comet
No idea what you're talking about, specifically, so I couldn't say.

>>29742307
>Are the planets all inhabited by different OC pony cultures?
They've only visited one so far, which had an OC changeling hive as I recall. There's also an OC race of bad guys at least I think it's OC, but it might be based on the comics, and naturally the SG team has to save the changelings from them.

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>>29742417
>Presumably maintaining the day/night cycle either requires cooperation from both princesses, or else Luna was using her magic to counter any attempt by Celestia to move the sun/moon.
I understood the previous summary to mean that the sun and moon were orbiting by their own momentum, and what magic was actually needed for was to keep pulling them back to stop them from escaping while still letting them move fast enough for a 24-hour cycle.

>The entire inhabited portion of the world lies in a single large crater
Must be a pretty big crater to extend from tropical jungles in the south to frozen wastes in the north.

>It's implied in the story that there's a class of beings above Celestia/Luna's tier that are capable of ignoring or altering the normal laws of physics, and that Discord might be such a being.
I assume the story ignores the "clock ticks" in Lesson Zero.

>No idea what you're talking about, specifically
http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Transcripts/Owl%27s_Well_That_Ends_Well

>[Twilight Sparkle: >[sigh] "The Study of Comets. Comets are small, irregularly shaped bodies that are made of nonvolatile grains and frozen gases. They..."
>[creaking]
>[Twilight Sparkle: Huh.
>[Twilight Sparkle: "...have body structures that are fragile and diverse..."
>[creaking]
>[wind whistling]
>[Twilight Sparkle: Shoot! Oh... This is a job for Spike. If only he were awake...
>Owlowiscious: Hoo!
>[Twilight Sparkle: Wait! Don't go! Don't be afraid. Thank you for returning my scroll.
>Owlowiscious: Hoo! Hoo! Hoo-hoo.
>[Twilight Sparkle: Gosh, it's cold tonight. Say, would you like to relax in here and keep me company while I work?
>Owlowiscious: Hoo! Hoo!
>[Twilight Sparkle: Now, where was I? Oh, yes. "...fragile and diverse with a surrounding cloud of material called a coma, that grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the sun..."

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>This is the story of my first official OC Bismuth, a child born from a mistake and as seen to most as nothing more than a mistake.
Official edgiest OC?

>>29742482
>I understood the previous summary to mean that the sun and moon were orbiting by their own momentum, and what magic was actually needed for was to keep pulling them back to stop them from escaping while still letting them move fast enough for a 24-hour cycle.
If the princesses have the power to do one, I don't see why they couldn't do the other.

>Must be a pretty big crater to extend from tropical jungles in the south to frozen wastes in the north.
It is pretty big, but I think there was also something about wind blowing in from the surrounding radioactive wasteland affecting the climate at one end or the other.

>I assume the story ignores the "clock ticks" in Lesson Zero.
What is there to explain? That was obviously Twilight's imagination.

>comets
The fake sun is already emitting an unreasonable amount of light given its size. In fact, it shouldn't be emitting light at all, being far too small to sustain fusion. The whole thing is some kind of unexplained precursor tech, so I have no trouble believing it could affect comets to some degree.

>>29742316
>https://www.reddit.com/user/Databass
DataBass and DBIDF really are two different people as surprising as that is

>>29742575
>If the princesses have the power to do one, I don't see why they couldn't do the other.
What's meant by "the other" in this case?

>obviously
Nothing is obvious here.

>>29742596
I don't even know why I'm still discussing this in so much detail, when the story in question is unfinished and has only laid out maybe half the author's headcanons on the subject.

>What's meant by "the other" in this case?
If they can move the sun/moon to any significant extent, then they can probably hold them still as well.

>Nothing is obvious here.
Next you'll be telling me that Twilight's mane literally turns into fire when she gets mad.

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>>29742643
>If they can move the sun/moon to any significant extent, then they can probably hold them still as well.
But that's different from just passively refusing to cooperate with Celestia or countering her attempts to move them from a natural stationary position.

It's also a hell of a commitment. How much effort is required to hold two satellites in the air? Why not just fling the sun away - wasn't she strong enough? Did she plan to ever sleep? Did she plan for her final revenge to be the sun and moon crashing down when she finally died?

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>>29742797
Also:

>>29742643
>I don't even know why I'm still discussing this in so much detail, when the story in question is unfinished and has only laid out maybe half the author's headcanons on the subject.
I don't know either, but thanks.

>>29742307
>Recomending any D Who episode featuring River Song
Why Anon
She went from baddish to terrible

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>>29742853
Has the show had a bigger clusterfuck?

>>29742684
Because of how hard he was damage controlling on DataBass's behalf when he first showed up. He completely refused to admit that DataBass had made any kind of mistake during the "cock of ages" shitshow, so most people assumed he was really DataBass.

>>29742878
Oh my god is this like, the cousin to the AAG Relationship Chart or something?

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>>29743209
[shrug]
I was hoping to find a more complete chart of the Doctor's own timeline over the Silence arc, its causal ripples and the various places it intersects or doubles back on itself, but that's probably impossible.

>>29743326
...I'm more struck by the implication in this image that somehow, NCIS crosses over with MLP on Spacebattles now.

Wat.

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>>29743209
I think this would be closer.

>>29743395
Only indirectly, going by a search of chapters 1-189 of MLP Time Loops. You can always go there and write an entry yourself, though.

Also:
https://www.fimfiction.net/stories/relevance?search=ncis

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>>29743410
Forgot image.

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>>29742878
>>29743396
Get on my level

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>>29742307
>>29743209
Obligatory on the subject of time-based clusterfucks and relationship charts.

>>29743420
>still has more upvotes than downvotes
>3:1 ratio

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>>29743440
That has to be deliberately arranged to be as overwhelming and unreadable as possible. At the same time, it is kind of nice when authors (or even fans) of epic-length stories or ones with huge casts go to the trouble of making guides.

>>29743440
I still think its stupid to use changelings as placeholders instead of a non-confusing image.
makes it look like half the characters in AAG are changelings. which they might actually be

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>>29743586
I doubt anyone actually disagrees that it's stupid. Especially when they use changelings for characters that appear in the show (or have plenty of fan art) and don't need placeholders.

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>>29743526
>using the spraycan
They don't even care enough to properly make a chart.

>>29692728
Stupid question. I remember seeing a particular saga in six parts, arranged in two trilogies, but being written out of order, so that several of the individual stories were incomplete, including the first one. Does that ring a bell for anyone?

>>29743778
Any, like, plot points or characters?

>>29744160
Nothing I can swear to. I have it mixed up in my head with another trilogy called "The Queen and I".

>>29743778
a general direction to go in would be nice. HiE? EqG? written by one guy or a 'verse?

because I can think of a bunch of multiparters where several parts are incomplete

>>29744292
One guy; set (I think) in normal present-era Equestria; no humans or crossovers. May involve the alicorn characters and possibly Chrysalis. May involve a teacher and student. May have numbered titles.

>>29744321
narrows things down. centers on the M6 or more on OC/BgPs? epic warfic or adventure?

are the parts proper sequels that are supposed to be following the saga sequentially, or is it more "Book 1: Shit Luna Does During The Happenings, Book 2: Shit Twilight does during The Happenings", etc?

>>29695896
So, on this note, what's the "state" of FimFiction at this point?

It makes money, which I guess is good. How big is it any more? How many active users does it have? How often are new fics posted? How have these numbers changed in the past year or two?

>>29742301
>example
Edginess is all about adding stuff that isn't necessary to the story. Someone getting raped can be a great plot. Someone getting tortured, raped, murdered, then necrophilia committed on their dead body is edgy because you really only need one to make the point--whether that's the trauma on the victim or the depravity of the villain. Having them all nearly tips it into comedy.

I'd say Faithful (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/42520/faithful) is a good candidate that's disgusting, depraved, morally wrong,or downright fucked up but isn't edgy--it's all about a pedophilic Celestia and filly Twilight and pretty much every disgusting thing that happens only serves to reinforce and enhance the horror of the plot, rather than feel like an unnecessary thing the author threw in.

>>29742482
>"clock ticks" in Lesson Zero.
You can easily write that off as Twilight's mania, much like her talking to her puddle-self.

>>29744431
You know there's a statistics page, right?
https://www.fimfiction.net/statistics
There's been a general slowdown across all fronts (stories approved, new users, blogs posted) going back to 2014 (beginning almost exactly when S4 began) which can likely be correlated with the slowdown of the fandom in general since then.

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>>29744502
>fimfiction.net/story/42520
>tfw dead
Tell me it at least didn't end on a cliffhanger

>>29743440
Wasn't there a guy who said they'd try to make a real life string chart copy of this once the missing characters were added in?

>>29745495
We are forced to assume he went insane and is now on his way to kill Chink azura.

>>29745515
nah. wanting to kill shinky is a perfectly sane and rational thing to want to do

ass, ass, ass and titties.

big booty bitches is where its at.

come on girl take it easy with that.

I say ass tiddies ass and tiddies.

>>29744363
>narrows things down. centers on the M6 or more on OC/BgPs? epic warfic or adventure?
The impression I had was of a diplomatic/political drama centering on the princesses, and a sequential saga, but I'm not sure about anything. I didn't actually read any of it; I just saw it in the course of collecting stories, and didn't look at it very long before adding part one to my Read It Later list and moving on.

The one thing that sticks in my mind is the phrase "Book ___ of the first/second ___ trilogy"; or words to that effect. And I'm not even sure they were trilogies. I've apparently badly underestimated the number of series that fit my description, so at this point I'm just going to wait and either come across it again in the future or not.

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>>29744502
>Edginess is all about adding stuff that isn't necessary to the story. Someone getting raped can be a great plot. Someone getting tortured, raped, murdered, then necrophilia committed on their dead body is edgy because you really only need one to make the point--whether that's the trauma on the victim or the depravity of the villain. Having them all nearly tips it into comedy.

If you have an edgy sense of humor, I guess.

>That one greentext where Twilight is extremely masochistic
>http://pastebin.com/7zD8EYvZ
Twilight's babble is hilariously random and over-the-top, as is the premise, but given the premise the actual events all seem pretty necessary to carry it out.

>the green of rarity dealing with sweetie belle getting abused
>http://pastebin.com/WpSKWd8G
Just rape; no additional torture, murder or necrophilia. Maybe the suicide takes it a little over the top, but it's a plausible consequence. I'd call it glurgy, but not edgy.

>Past Sins
A stupid story, but it doesn't even have rape.

I'll grant the others, mostly because I haven't read most of them. I wish I'd been able to answer the question at >>29706013 about horrific stories without violence or sex; I'm sure I could at least name a few.

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>>29744502
>You can easily write that off as Twilight's mania, much like her talking to her puddle-self.
Can, but I didn't know whether that particular story did.

>>29746401
>I'm sure I could at least name a few.
Well, do it.

>>29746910
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/125/the-circle-of-friends
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/650/twilights-plan
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/5828/party-of-none
http://ponyfictionarchive.net/viewstory.php?sid=986&index=1
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/42101/celestia
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/167167/225
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/257968/one-plus-one-will-always-equal-two-here
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/278295/meaningless-in-their-dreams
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/288366/arachnophillia
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/289205/would-it-matter-if-i-was
https://archive.is/hKfGB

Quality not guaranted.

Considered but disqualified:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/8454/running-from-myself
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/248528/safe
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/313332/quiet-boy-and-moon-horse

For further consideration:
https://www.fimfiction.net/stories?tags[]=g:horror&tags[]=r:everyone&order=top

ponii

>>29747663
How curious, outside of FiO, I haven't read any of these.
I'll give 'em a look.

>>29748464
It's a big fandom.

I also considered https://www.fimfiction.net/story/286689/second-birthday, but that seemed to far on the mild side (though it fits the original criterion of "morally wrong").

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'k so. I think I may have an insight on how the whole "displaced" thing happened. Besides blatant wish-fullfilment, that is.

Apparently, over the last few years, there's been this genre on the rise over at Japan called Isekai, which involves the main character (usually a neet) transported into a fantasy world and lives out wacky adventures. This is a huge fad in Japan, with Light Novels, mangases and animus comign out with that premise over the past six or so years.

>>29748985
>main character...transported into a fantasy world and lives out wacky adventures
Hasn't that been a genre since the Odyssey?

Finally finished reading https://www.fimfiction.net/story/6007/the-flight-of-the-alicorn after maybe two years. Is that still considered good? People complain about the unfinished storyline but I think the story stands pretty well on its own.

>>29748991
Ulysses wasn't a shy modern-era Japanese teenage boy who formed a harem of as he travelled the lands, though now that I think about I'm sure that must exist somewhere.

But seriously, it's almost that always that very exact scenario in every isekai story, with minor variations regarding who gets transported and where the destination is.

Add the impersonation of another established character, and that's every displaced story ever written.

>>29749010
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/74410/the-abyssal-forge#comment/3743694
>It's not [abandoned]! I'm just very slow.
every damned time

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>>29749064
Damn it, Ponydora.
Also, I'm surprised this reply wasn't downvoted to hell and back.

>>29749052
But if you don't add the impersonation of another established character, isn't that every HiE story ever written?

I'll grant that I'm not well versed in harem fiction specifically, but I'm pretty sure "shy young male discovers a fantastic world and gains friends including multiple attractive females" is older than 2011. I know Heinlein came close.

>>29749010
I only read it recently and I really enjoyed it. I do wish it wasn't dead but oh well.

>>29744502
>Edginess is all about adding stuff that isn't necessary to the story
I'd disagree with that. I think edginess is a matter of tone. In a story about a group of people trekking across war torn Afghanistan, a rape or murder wouldn't be all that edgy. In a story about Jeffrey Dahmer someone getting tortured, raped, murdered, then necrophilia committed on their dead body is par for the course.

In a story set in ponyland, a place where they believe friendship is magic and all fighting seems to consist of is slapping or flashy magical battles that never seem to harm anyone, a murder is edgy as all get out.

A U.S. Soldier dying by stepping on a landmine in Vietnam isn't edgy, its expected. A pony dying in the supposedly-but-not-really dangerous Everfree forest is the height of edge.

>>29749583
to add to that https://www.fimfiction.net/story/120494/the-assassination-of-twilight-sparkle is edgy as can be.

But the assassination of Ned Stark, if you want to call it that? It was shocking, sure, but in the world of ASOIAF it's not unthinkable. I'm not even sure there is a way to have something like an assassination in ponyland without it being edgy.

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>>29749583
Not just edgy, but "the height of edge"? There's literally nothing in Celestia's Relaxing Vacation that you'd consider to be even slightly edgier?

What would be an example of a story that's "disgusting, depraved, morally wrong,or downright fucked up" without being edgy?

>>29706319
Dropped this ages ago when he first turned into a tree, is it worth getting back into for someone who loves trainwreck fics?

>>29749805
You're right, I was speaking in hyperbole. Fics like Celestia's Relaxing Vacation, or Cherilee's Garden, or Cupcakes, are basically authors trying to be as edgy as possible for shock value.

>What would be an example of a story that's "disgusting, depraved, morally wrong,or downright fucked up" without being edgy?

That's a hard question. Like I said, what is or is not edgy depends upon the story and setting. In the context of pony, I guess I would say darkfics that manage to keep the spirit of the show can have moments where things are morally wrong without it necessarily being edgy. But I'm not sure I can think of any that really manage to do that. But to have a story that is "disgusting, depraved or downright fucked up" without it being edgy would be hard to do, because of the saccharine nature of the show.

Scrolling through my lists, I'm having trouble coming up with anything that manages to dance on that razor's edge without slipping into edgy territory. Maybe this https://www.fimfiction.net/story/191621/not-the-same. Even then, I'm not sure. I liked https://www.fimfiction.net/story/243016/a-world-without-kindness because I feel it managed to make a setting that is pretty edgy, but didn't sacrifice the core values of the show.

Speaking of the show, I feel that what Starlight Glimmer did in "Every Little Thing She Does" to the mane 6 qualifies as morally wrong without being edgy.

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>>29747663
>>29748464
One more: Some people apparently found https://www.fimfiction.net/story/269332/blink horrifying.

>>29749940
>Fics like Celestia's Relaxing Vacation, or Cherilee's Garden, or Cupcakes, are basically authors trying to be as edgy as possible for shock value.
Does that make for bad horror fiction? What makes for good horror fiction?

(I know Vacation is clop; but it's pretty horrifying if horror isn't your fetish.)

>to have a story that is "disgusting, depraved or downright fucked up" without it being edgy would be hard to do, because of the saccharine nature of the show.
Then should >>29712083 be surprised to see edgy fics posted in response to that request?

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/191621/not-the-same
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/243016/a-world-without-kindness
Interesting; thanks. I see they're already among the thousands of unread stories in my collection.

I see >>29391423 also noted A World Without Kindness as edgy (though maybe that was you). It also has a negative review at https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/450090/on-trial-a-world-without-kindness, which out of concern for spoilers I won't read further in.

>what Starlight Glimmer did in "Every Little Thing She Does" to the mane 6 qualifies as morally wrong without being edgy.
What about the arguably worse things she did as a villain?

>>29749891
Not really. it actually has something resembling a plot now

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>>29750466
>I see >>29391423 also noted A World Without Kindness as edgy (though maybe that was you). It also has a negative review at https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/450090/on-trial-a-world-without-kindness
And a shorter one at https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/455319/fic-recs-march-15th-more-most-dangerous-game-part-1.

>>29749583
>a murder is edgy as all get out
I disagree. What should define edginess should be within the context of the story, not within the context of canon. Otherwise, any story that has a character die in it could be called "edgy" since no one has died in the show.

>>29750722
>no one has died in the show.
there was a funeral once. doesnt that count?

Would you guys say that there are hugely influential fics that have been written? If so, what are they and what did they influence?

>>29750910
Fallout Equestria. Search your feelings, Anon, you will know it to be true.

>>29746401
>Misery and Innocence

There's a sequel. Because a successful suicide attempt would've meant the pain stopped.

"glurgy" is not a word I have heard recently.

>>29747663
I picked one of those at random to read:
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/289205/would-it-matter-if-i-was

Man, it's a pretty decent idea for a story, but Twilight's side of the discussion is so weak. Her attitude is in character (even if I almost always write her as dryer and more rational than this, that's just my thing), but her inability to come up with anything to say for herself, for her side, is not.

>>29748985
I actually knew about that genre. But "characters from the real world transported into fantasy realms" is a meme that's come and gone in fantasy for decades at least.
Chronicles of Narnia, Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Uh, Wizard of Oz? Neverending Story?
I feel like I've read half a dozen books where there's a magic ritual to summon a hero and it turns out the hero is some dude from Earth.

Here's the tvtropes article: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrappedInAnotherWorld

On the other hand, I can easily believe in a big weeb/brony overlap, and thus fanfiction authors being inspired by popular Japanese trends.

But has there been a particular growth in popularity of Displaced that mirrors the "isekai" trend?

I personally have assumed it's more popular in FiM fanfiction than others because there are no humans in the cast as it is, and many authors like someone they can identify with physically.

>>29751093
>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrappedInAnotherWorld
'Normal doof goes somewhere and becomes big hero' is one thing, and can be done well by a competent writer.

Displaced adds to that, becoming ' Normal doof becomes skeletor/naruto/main-character-from-some-weeb-shit-you-watched-recently-who-is-sooooooooo-fucking-cool-you-think goes somewhere and becomes big hero and nobody can pull that shit off successfully

>>29751527
Displaced is pretty much nothing more than a straight crossover *except* with one critical difference in that the 'displaced' is not, in fact, that character but some random john doe.

Or essentially the original non-pony character is lobotomized and the brain of a self-insert person put in their head instead, so the author can have the character do whatever the fuck they want without people digging into them for acting out of character, because 'technically' it isn't that character.

>>29751729
writing a crossover without having to know shit about one of the ips?

It'd be brilliant if it werent so retarded

>>29751527
Ah. I see what you mean now. An interesting difference.

>>29751093
I've been reading that trope page.

It says that in some fanfiction circles a crossover or self-insert appearing in the fiction world is so common it has its own name: "bamfing".

Apparently it's becoming popular in Russion fanfiction too, and has its nicename: "пoпaдaнeц" "one who unwittingly arrived" (Google translate says it means "hitman" though.)

Getting some kind of powers, especially native ones, when taken to another world isn't uncommon.

I feel like the version with bringing their own special powers is weirdly common in Chinese manga. I was reading one a wuxia type martial artist ends up in a fantasy world, and their chi powers complement the magic they end up learning very well, making them super OP.

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>>29753085
Popadanec is someone who accidentally fell into a story, different world. Now I ain't Russian, just a Slav, but assuming it works the same in Russian, the root of the word padat means to fall, and popadanec is someone/something that accidentally or spontaneously falls from somewhere to the ground. Like apples that fell from a tree would probably be popadanci, in theory.
Virtually every anon in Equestria story features a popadanec.
Also, page 10 bump.

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>>29746910
>>29747663
Some more, not all of which I've read (and whose qualification may depend on your morals and/or definition of "violence"):
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/51105/fifty-sheaves-of-paper
https://fimfetch.net/story/58252/the-two-mares-of-the-hanging-tree
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/59796/celestias-big-day
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/162019/magic-cant-make-foals
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/211922/so-fluttershy-likes-screwing-animals-now
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/342535/pranks-a-lot (https://www.fimfiction.net/group/201778/rage-reviews/thread/273787/tag-team-rage-review-pranks-a-lot)

Not quite qualifying:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/195851/a-flicker-of-light-in-a-sea-of-darkness

Some of Chatoyance's fics may qualify, but I haven't read any myself.

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>>29750722
>>29750776

>>29753834
>Chatoyance
Huh, I just checked her page out of curiosity, and it looks like she's off the ride as of last September. According to her blog, she got tired of being "bullied", tired of the show being shit (she's in the "only S1 was good" camp), and tired of being the only "real" TCB author left on Fimfiction. So she went through and finished all her remaining incomplete stories, and now she's done.

>>29750910
Too many to adequately name. (Though at the same time it's sometimes hard to say whether a story was influential or just an early example of an existing or inevitable trend.)

Bright Eyes; Bubbles; Today, Tomorrow and Forever - helped create the fanon around Derpy
Cupcakes - spawned the whole genre of edgy "grimdark" stories trying to top it
Rainbow Factory - spawned a lot of spinoffs and imitations
Conversion Bureau - spawned a genre of spinoffs and parodies, plus the meme that the fandom is full of "misanthropy" that needs to be countered by HFY-type material
Hands, Anthropology - probably didn't create the human-obsessed Lyra fanon
Progress - started a short-lived Luna/Abacus trend; may have helped popularize Lunamac
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/314/fluttermac claims to have helped popularize Fluttermac
Past Sins - lots of bad writers think writing Nyx or a Nyx expy will make them popular
Spiderses - helped spread the "trollfic" fad to ponies
The Vinyl Scratch Tapes probably didn't start Octascratch
My Roommate is a Vampire may have started vampire Vinyl
The Lunaverse seems to have inspired a lot of other attempts at collaborative series, and "verses" built around swapping different characters for the princesses and/or mane six
The Life and Times of a Winning Pony created a popular fanon version of Cloud Kicker

I recall also reading that The Rise of Darth Vulcan basically spawned LoHAV and its successor Displaced, although I'm not sure.

While they might not count as proper "fics", the first Awkward Life in Equestria posts have a lot to answer for.

I don't think any particular fic created Doctor Whooves or Doctor/Derpy.

I don't know where the trend of calling ponies' planet "Equus" or "Equis" instead of Earth came from.

>>29750910
Did Beating the Heat start the meme of mares going through uncontrollable monthly estrus?
Did Xenophilia start >>29701349?
Did Mendacity start Changeling Bonbon?

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>>29750910
Did La Poulain de Rue popularize homeless/orphan Scootaloo?

>>29750466
>>29750573
I'm late getting back here, but as to those negative reviews of A World Without Kindness: they both have their points, and I agree with some and disagree with others. The longer review harps on about sentence structure, and while no doubt important, that doesn't really bother me (especially in fanfic). A World Without Kindness is far from perfect, but I thought it was interesting enough to get me thinking about my own writing, and which parts of the story worked and which didn't, and how to incorporate the good elements into my own fics. Like the reviews noted the beginning is really strong, and the middle starts to sag, and the climax is pretty laughable, but I thought the very end, and the second chapter, where both interesting. I wouldn't call it the best fic ever, but I thought it was good enough to warrant reading twice.

Someone tried google-translating a bit of greentext from Spanish: >>29754883

Surprisingly, it seems mostly readable. Makes me wonder if the problems with Andre's grammar were due less to the text being machine translated, and more to Andre's inability to write a coherent sentence even in German.

I don't suppose Andre ever posted the German versions of his fic anywhere?

>>29754345
>Did Mendacity start Changeling Bonbon?

I'm pretty sure Changeling Bonbon was around before Mendacity.