FiMFiction thread - Now with 86% more of nothing to offer!

>>29325074
>>29878646
>Recycling an OP image after only eight threads

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>>29878672
Has it only been 8 threads?
>http://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/29325074/
It's been three months, Anon.

>>29878804
pretty sure Ive used that pic pretty recently. either the 84.5 or 84.75 thread

>>29879985
>84.75
I must've missed that one; and it wasn't linked from 85.

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>>29880164
i dont remember which was which, but we had several threads in a row die early. but i know ive used that one between january and now

more importantly, where's the cum inflation stories

>>29880656
There's a group for that:
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/200385/warning-cum-inflation-belly-bulging-huge-insertion-gangbanging-etc-ahead

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>>29880254
Actually, looking at the archive, we skipped 82%

>>29878646
You suck

>>29880751
because sometard got confused and thought that 83 came after 81.5

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How long is it going to take before even the dwindling few actually good authors leave for good?

>>29881553
>confused
No. Just added 1.5 more than last thread.

>>29882015
Thats an even worse excuse than just being retarded

>4 out of 7 new featured fics are clopfics
Guess the premiere didn't really get the creative juices flowing that well.

>>29882319
it apparently got some kind of juices flowing

Plump bump

>>29882590
Well played.

The crux of the matter is, this is a dying fandom.

Online friends were sending me links to assorted things at places like FIMfiction that they thought were good. At one point I had over a hundred browser tabs open.

I'm catching up now, despite longer hours at work and less free time.

So many of the fan writers and artists have latched onto Gravity Falls or Steven Universe as "the new hotness." Things come and go, I guess--some of my favorite horsewords were written by names I recognized from Evangelion fics. That's just how it is.

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What the fuck

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>>29883951
What the hell am I reading

>>29883985
wat

>>29883985
What the hell am I reading

>>29883985
Is shink among us? Is that what's happening? Did Autismo's autism finally provoked the madman to come here?

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>>29884910
Remember this?

I'm pretty sure it was Autismo's doing.

>>29884963
It was, I remember he sent him a pm complaining about the incorrect nomenclature of the fake elite team in 7DSJ, and mentioning /mlp/ in it because his username wasn't just a joke, it seems.

I mean, I can understand and even respect taking horsewords seriously to the point it stops being fun, sane, or even healthy, but that was just unnecessary.

It's almost as though people truly believe rule one and two are a joke.

>>29883985
>>29884502
youre playing right into his insane, little hand. just ignore him

>>29885668
That is the joke.

It's not like he's ever going to come here, anyway. He only even knows that we talk about him because Autie PMed him about it.

>>29884963
>he actually posted my shitty gif
I'm not sure I like this.

>>29886380
Well, you know who to blame

>>29884980
>because his username wasn't just a joke
Was there ever any doubt that he wasn't the real deal?

>>29887241
Wasn't he the TIGER FUCKING TANKS guy? Yeah, there was never any doubt.

Day after the premiere and we only have 31 replies? We had more activity during the hiatus.

How to describe pone? Do I just leave them up to the reader's imagination beyond coloration, gender, cutie mark, size, mane style and species?
(Links to) examples?

>>29887267
A pity he never got his Minority report story off the ground, it sounded quite interesting

>>29888432
Don't forget eye color, age, accessories and bearing. But you don't necessarily have to throw in all of those; certainly not in one big dump.

As a reader, I tend to get annoyed with description for the sake of description.

>>29888432
>gender
That should go without saying with the dialogue. Even so, it's not as if that can be treated as a mystery for long. Unless you're writing about a qt trap.

>cutie mark
Unless the character's cutie mark plays a role in the story, you can get away with not mentioning what it is.

>coloration, size, mane style
You can go into detail if you wan, but characters should have more depth beyond their appearance.Otherwise you end up with superspecial, multicoloured, alicorn oc's with no real personality.

>species
This should be made clear by how the character acts. If they're flying, then they're obviously a pegasus, have them do magic if they're an unicorn, and they should grovel in the presence of others if they're earth ponies.

I do hope that Knighty or whoever lauches a general fanfiction site. Not changing Fimfiction to a general site, but a new site entirely. I've been on all the big fanfic sites and Fimfiction is by far the best.

>>29889880
And then it will just die to fimfiction.net.
Good job.

Fimfiction will still last for a while, and after then, it'll last as an archive. One that hopefully won't get set on fire.

>>29882590
I knew someone wouldn't be able to resist that joke.

>>29883609
>dying fandom
Dying implies it will at some point actually die. To borrow a business term, I'd say it's "maturing" (reaching the point where growth ceases and shrinks into a reliable, but smaller, market). The bandwageners have mostly left, the internet is well aware of pone and mostly gotten over it, and (most importantly) most of the remaining fans have IRL shit to do now that they aren't in high school and have to decide how much time to dump into multicolored horses.

The Lion King's section of fanfic.net had about ten fics a day posted--and this was six years after the last bit of official content was released and well over a decade after the "golden age." The fandom will never really die, even long after Gen 4 wraps up.

>That's just how it is
>tfw Aquaman52 will never finish The Pridelanders

>>29884980
>sending someone a PM over the name of a fake French Canadian special forces team
I keep forgetting how badly it rustles Autismo.

>>29888432
I usually give
>species
>sex
>build (lean, muscular, fat, etc.)
>mane color/style
>fur color
>general/specific age

>examples
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/306006/fight-club
My weird bat pony clopfic. First chapter introduces the main character and her physical appearance. Since it's a clopfic, there's more info than I'd usually give (specific age, cutie mark, etc.) since I wanted the reader to have a decent idea of what she looks like.

I tried to blend the information into the scene as best as I could--character introductions are always challenging as they can act as expo dumps to a large degree, so trying to naturally blend them in with the scene is important.

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>>29890893
>Bat ponies have fangs
>Bat ponies are vampires
Thanks for at least not calling her a thestral, I guess.

>>29888432
>>29888878
>>29890893
Also, I hope you don't overdescribe your protagonist, as though they were a narcissist constantly contemplating themselves. (Unless they are.)

So, y'all readin any interesting fic?

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>>29892031
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/172954/in-the-suns-shadow
So no. But I accidentally voted on it, so now I feel obligated to read what's been posted to date to justify my vote, even though I already don't like it and will probably just end up with a lot of unjustified resentment toward the author at the end.

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I need help finding a cuter fanfic than this one.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/367578/flurry-hearts-first-kiss

>>29892337
I decline the request.

>>29892084
>accidentally voted on it
>I already don't like it
so change it to a negative vote and move on

>>29892490
It is a negative vote. But there seems to be a lot of hostility on the site toward people downvoting stories without reading them. I've even read about people being banned for too much downvoting of stories they *had* read, because it "looked like" "bulk" or "grudge" voting or something.

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>>29892031
I have been reading less and less horse fanfiction as of late. It's a combination of reading more important works and waiting for half-read ones to finish (if they ever will).
I really should just be writing my own instead of deliberating. I might end up publishing long after the heat death of this fandom at my current rate.

I know, non-answer. I'll just say something by MrNumbers and be done with it.

>>29892564
except by your own admission you have read a portion of it and didnt care for what you'd seen.

thats completely legit. the hostility you mention stems from downvoting genres you dnt like, ships you dont approve of, verses you dont like, etc

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Who is FimFic's equivalent of Dr. Chuck Tingle?

>>29892564
>people being banned for too much downvoting of stories they *had* read,

Oh for fuck's sake. They ban you for downvoting garbage now? Is Knighty trying to turn the place into even more of a hugbox than it already is?

Better to let it die than turn it into another Tumblr.

>>29893490
Bendy

>>29892031
I'm looking for one I read a few years back, that I'd like to reread, but I think it may not have actually been on FIMfic, but on one of the defunct horsewords sites. If so, it may be gone forever.

I can't recall any specific passages or bits of dialogue to google, nor a title.

>>29893634
Unfortunately, I can't find what I previously read; so take it with some skepticism.

>>29893890
Are there defunct horsewords sites? I've only heard of PFA and EPFA, and they're still online.

Was Pinkie Pie out of character in Filli Vanilli?

>>29893490
I might have suggested One Terrible Writer if they were still around.

Who was the guy who wrote second-person "romance" fics that always ended with no sex and the protagonist humiliated; e.g. being arrested for accidentally exposing the CMC to a porn movie starring his dad?

I haven't read anything by Tingle.

>>29894289
There used to be one called Equestria After Dark, that was--well, it should be obvious, with a name like that, shouldn't it?

The one I was looking for was a pretty well written, romantic Celestia clop story. (actually mostly about her switching to human form to visit our world--or a world much like it--to go on vacation in Hawaii and falling in love).

This would have been around 2013.

>>29894309
By that point she had no character left to be taken out of.

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>>29894386
Ah, that one. I wasn't counting it as a horsewords site in the same sense as Fimfiction and [E]PFA. I've fantasized about going through the site via Wayback and collecting all the stories still retrievable, but I haven't even got far trying to do the same with the Clopfic Directory.

>>29892031
I read 'Heart of an Author' once again, hoping to get through the last third this time, but I ended up dropping it altogether once again.

It's odd, this is my third time, and I can't make myself even finish chapter 20.

>>29894461
I haven't had much luck with the Wayback Machine when it comes to fic. A lot of fic sites have a robots.txt file preventing webspiders from looking at them, so when they go, they're gone.

So I wrote the first chapter of a short-ish story and would like someone to look it over and tell me if it's worth continuing or if I'm just shit.
But I don't want my google account to have any trace of this shit on it, so I can't really put it into google docs. What would you suggest I use? Or should I just ask around fimfiction's IRC or sometihng

>>29895339
Make an alt google account for stupid shit, like reviewing horsewords or making an account on comdotgame

So what's everyone here's favorite fic? My personal favorite is probably Upheaval, regardless of its problems.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G16NO6Eb5XTF9zLFSdTVwYlFsNik2Ig45quijh2rXyQ/edit?usp=sharing

Please tell me I'm shit so I can drop this crap and do something useful instead.

>tfw DOWAS is dedder than ded

>>29895451
Keeping it Simple.
After all this time, I still find the somewhat downer tale of a farmer finding his place in the world one of the most endearing tales I've found in this fandom.

>>29895630
Overall, I liked the intro and first couple of paragraphs, but it soon devolves into dialogue -> scene description -> more dialogue -> more scene descriptions, and there's little in terms of character thoughts, nor do you dwell in their actions. That makes the whole story feel bland.

As for the plot itself... Well, it's not outright terrible, but I don't see what the overall story is suppposed to be beyond OC meets Pinkie Pie.

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>>29894957
Why do you keep trying? (And apparently restarting at the beginning on top of that?)

>>29895451
A Gay Old Time. Maybe not the best story, but the one that made me laugh the most.

So...did Chink actually go insane?

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>>29895833
>Why do you keep trying? (And apparently restarting at the beginning on top of that?)
Well, I saw it recommended here and I didn't notice the Crossover tag, so I just added it to my RL list and then downloaded the epub file to read on the go. I was thoroughly engaged for the first 18 or so chapters, and immensely thrilled to have found a somewhat decent mystery fic. Then the chapter where the reveal happens happened and it killed my investment in the story. Honestly it went from 100 to 0 in the span of a few paragraphs. I tried to keep going, but I didn't last too long.

So, that was it. I dropped the story withoug looking back.

Sometime later, I remembered just how good the first two thirds were and thought I should give it another chance. Maybe knowing what was coming would make me get mentally ready for it and I could see how it ends. But then I reached chapter 20 again and had to drop it halfway there. I couldn't even finish it.

I thought that would be it. I had seen what the story was offering me and I just wasn't interested.

Then, a few threads ago, some Anon brought it up again and I warned him not to read it. And then I remembered that the last four times I found a story that disappointed me to that degree I ended up writing an autistically detailed rant about why I got so worked up over fictional stories about fictional little horses and that helped me move on, so I decided to read it again to do that.

Once again, I made it to chapter 20 and I just couldn't go on. I wanted nothing to do with the last third of the story. I simply made up an ending in my mind and lived with that.

So, I'm probably going to do one of those long-winded argumentative whining pieces about Heart of an Author later this month.

Because seriously, fuck that story.

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>>29895307
The only robots.txt for EQAD seems to be on the .org domain. The archives for .net and blogspot.com seem pretty extensive, so I'd probably start there before worrying about anything further.

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/*/http://equestriaafterdark.blogspot.com*
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/*/http://www.equestriaafterdark.net*

>>29895909
I don't really pay attention to him. Are you talking about >>29883951?

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>>29895451
I'm not sure I've settled on a definite favorite, but excluding clop, I look back fondly on reading https://www.fimfiction.net/story/9098/tears-of-a-goddess (as mentioned at >>29832277).

>>29895630
Read for a while, then lost interest. Doesn't help that I'm up late and starting to want to sleep. Your diction seems awkward, particularly in dialogue; is English your first language? In particular, you seem to have a bad habit of telling rather than showing us that Dawn thinks or feels a particular way.

Also, >>29865976, and what >>29895798 says. You have my promise not to be pissed if you want to abandon it.

[Pt. 1]

>>29892031
Glanced through If Only, If Only (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/369155/if-only-if-only). Felt really rushed, especially the ending, like he took the plot to a 40k fic and compressed into oneshot size.

I've been trying to get into Daring Do and the Lost Tome of Shadows (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/241758/daring-do-and-the-lost-tome-of-shadows) because I love the idea of Twilight being behind the grand evil plan of an adventure fic, but the whole premise is just leaving a bad taste in my mouth. AJ and Dash act really weird, almost like they're children with overactive imaginations instead of young adults, and Twilight's just spitting out holodeck shit right next to Ponyville, which is hitting my suspension of disbelief fiercely.

It doesn't help Dash and AJ are RPing the whole time. Probably going to end up dropping it if I can't get absorbed the next time I try reading it.

>>29892564
>lot of hostility on the site
So don't leave a comment saying you autodownvoted. Who's going to know?

>people being banned for too much downvoting
I think the rule's you can only downvote a hundred fics a day. If you're going through a hundred garbage stories every day, you need to reevaluate your priorities.

>>29893890
Don't forget to try fimfetch (fimfetch.net).

>>29894309
I would say so. Proof even the best show writers can struggle with her character.

[Pt. 2]

>>29895630
Jesus Christ is it hard trying to read something with all those editing notes. Left some stuff. You should ignore the other guys after paragraph formatting suggestion unless you plan on doing a PDF or straight up Gdocs, since that kind of stuff wont transition to Fimfiction or Fanfic.net.

As for the fic itself. It seemed nice. There were some oddities, like the hangover comment or some word phrasing, but it's nothing some polishing wouldn't fix. Overall, Pinkie seemed decently written.

It definitely feels kind of boring, though. I don't really have any interest or investment in the guy since it starts with plunking him down in the cave. As an intro chapter it really doesn't work well.

If the fic's focusing on the OC than developing him and making the audience care about him is incredibly important. Why care about him when they can just read about the M6 they already have investment in? So the first chapter should really all be about introducing the reader to the character, his personality, etc. (and maybe setting up the plot depending on the type of story). Then you can get into situational stuff like the cave and Pinkie interaction.

I'd recommend focusing the first chapter on that party. Then you can develop him and his friends, have some fun SoL shit, and if you're lucky maybe get the reader to care enough to keep reading.

>>29896985
Huh, I wanted to read The Lost Tome of Shadows. Is it really that bad?

I'm wondering if I could write the Dazzlings as being unrelated by blood. Was it ever explicitly mentioned that they were sisters in Rainbow Rocks?

>>29896985
>Don't forget to try fimfetch (fimfetch.net).
How, if he can't recall any specific passages or bits of dialogue to search for, nor a title?

>>29896987
>Jesus Christ is it hard trying to read something with all those editing notes
View -> Mode -> Viewing?

>ou should ignore the other guys after paragraph formatting suggestion unless you plan on doing a PDF or straight up Gdocs, since that kind of stuff wont transition to Fimfiction or Fanfic.net.
Sorry about that; didn't realize.

>If the fic's focusing on the OC than developing him and making the audience care about him is incredibly important.
Sounds dangerously close to shilling a Sue. Can't he just be an unremarkable guy who happens to be lost far from home?

>I'd recommend focusing the first chapter on that party.
So you want to start with the stakes even lower and even less reason to care?

Maybe if they started in the cave, but expanded on the reflections of what happened before. I'm not a writer, though.

>>29897639
People write them as sisters? They have different surnames. (I know most multi-word names in MLP don't imply family names, but some seem to, including theirs.)

>>29897711
>Sounds dangerously close to shilling a Sue.

Where do you get that?

>>29897812
I thought the traditional advice was that a story shouldn't revolve around an original character; which is different from his just happening to be the protagonist.

>>29897837
This sounds like garbled advice. If a character is the protagonist, the story is going to revolve around them. If it doesn't, the reader is going to wonder why this character was chosen to hold the narrative focus when they aren't that pertinent to the story.

OC main characters aren't Mary Sues. OC main characters who are perfect at practically everything and show up the main cast with their skills and who are automatically beloved by the main cast for no real reason are Mary Sues.

>>29890893
>The Lion King
What's your favourite Lion King song, and why is it Be Prepared?
Why is the second and third movie so bad?
Why is Nala so sexy?

>>29897887
>This sounds like garbled advice. If a character is the protagonist, the story is going to revolve around them. If it doesn't, the reader is going to wonder why this character was chosen to hold the narrative focus when they aren't that pertinent to the story.
Because the story is happening to them. That doesn't mean they have to be super special and interesting outside the scope of the story.

>OC main characters aren't Mary Sues. OC main characters who are perfect at practically everything and show up the main cast with their skills and who are automatically beloved by the main cast for no real reason are Mary Sues.
Sounds like the advice that leads to people giving their OCs meaningless "flaws", making them terrible at everything and making the main cast hate them for no reason, while not fixing the fundamental issue of the story revolving around them without justification.

>>29898540
>assuming binaries
Theres middle points you know

>>29898554
>If the fic's focusing on the OC than developing him and making the audience care about him is incredibly important.
Sounds pretty binary.

>>29898587
Yes. Caring aboyt the MC is becesary to care abiut his journey.

>>29898679
I guess we'll leave it to the writer to decide.

>>29898679
are you retarded or just illiterate?

I now realize the greatest mistake I made: I accepted mediocrity. "Good enough" text was written because I wanted to present something to someone, not because I wanted to write.
I'm now rewriting everything. Even the idea is better. It includes the same pegasus as before, but this time also Princess Luna and some of her shenanigans. I'm not sure I want to explain the plot like that, I feel like that'd ruin it. Somehow. I doubt anyone cares anyways.

Writing this all out is going to take a while.

>>29901208
Are you >>29895630? Good luck, I guess; sorry we accomplished the opposite of what you asked for.

>>29901208
Hope you do well this time.
And a piece of advice, always write until you feel satisfied with what you've made, or at least close enough.

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Just for the sake of having activity, post something you've written and say something about it.

>>29902340
I just wrote this post and i feel its some of my best work yet.

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>>29896985
Are any 40k fics good?

>>29902340
I've written some greentext and posted it in AiE.

White Room Story
by Anonymous at http://pastebin.com/DrrgZXEp
What does a goddess do, when she's in heat? And with whom?
Tags: Celestia, interspecies relations, estrus, clop

I'm dissatisfied with it and should have spent more time editing.

>>29902526
>Celestia, interspecies relations, estrus, clop
If it weren't AiE, I'd read the hell out of it.

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Posting my new fic

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/370678/the-art-of-seduction

Started it like 5 years ago... yeesh

>>29902532
Yeah. It's second person, and strictly first draft quality, made up on the spot and typed right into the new-post windows.

...if it helps at all, the setting is not Equestria as such; it's a little pocket universe/dreamscape thingy that Celestia uses as a private rumpus room when certain natural urges start getting the better of her and she feels the need for a certain kind of companionship, if you follow my meaning here, and I'm quite sure you do. The distinction is, if this is the crux of the matter for you, that the human viewpoint character isn't interacting with the Mane 6, or looky-looing at Ponyville. He's just banging Best Princess like a Buddy Rich drum solo.

>>29902513

I liked the Iron Hearts series by SFAccountant. Just be aware that it starts off as a comic 40k/Pony crossover, tone-wise, but by the fourth and fifth books it's mostly 40k with a few pony characters thrown in.

Can someone upload >>>/trash/8836456 to Derpibooru for me? I'm banned, and I want it somewhere persistent where I can link to it.

>>29902778
You can get banned from derpibooru?
Also, what's the artist tag?

>>29902804
Yes.

artist:sharpy. It's the original of image 197242.

>>29902813
https://derpibooru.org/1415768

>>29902513
Karazor wrote one. It was okay, as I recall.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/3146/a-foul-light-shines

>>29902833
Thanks. You got the description backward (197242 is the edit, not 1415768), but close enough.

>>29902846
'k, it's fixed.
Why do you need it?

>>29902552
That ratio doesn't look promising.
Did you spring an odd fetish in the last chapter or something?

>>29902889
AJ was the good end and Rara was the, well, I don't want to say bad but she enjoy her night as much as AJ was

>>29902856
For >>29894461. A story included the edit as an illustration and linked to the original on Ponibooru; I wanted to replace the link with a working one.

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>tfw writing smut in your breaks at work
It's odd to feel aroused several times over the day, but at least I'm being productive.

>>29902513
>good 40k fics
possibly if youre into that sort of thing

>warhorsemer 40k crossover fics
highly doubtful

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>>29903279
https://www.fimfiction.net/stories?order=top&minimum_words=40000&maximum_words=40000
>1 story tagged Anthro and Human
>1 story by headless_rainbow

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>>29903069
I should really just write smut. I have considerably more experience with it than with normal writing, and yet, I don't really want to write any. Hell, I don't know what smut I'd write. Isn't the most popular shit just "take the latest episode and make it lewd" anyway?

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>friend starts getting me in shape
>start running
>run for 20-25 minutes a day now
>listen to the same 3 songs every time, in the same order each time
>create mental fanfic about how the songs are the plot of far-future pony stuff
>debating writing the fanfic and not sharing it anywhere just so I can solidify my mental headcanon
>tfw embarassed of this but it's still helping
>tfw embarassed to write the fanfic but still want to
Is this autism? Should I do it?

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>>29903909
Do it. Start a private tumblr, link it nowhere, obsessively add stories and pictures to the same universe for years on end.
Then 'accidentally' link it in some public place, notably somewhere here, and let mankind bask in your immense creation.

>>29903924
>let mankind bask in your immense creation
I doubt it'd explode. I'm fairly certain it's just your run of the mill edgy scifi warfic.

>>29903944
To elaborate, because I posted this early - if it was off-the-wall batshit concentrated autism I'd definitely do it, but it's precisely because of how mediocre it is that I don't want to.

>>29894311
>Who was the guy who wrote second-person "romance" fics that always ended with no sex and the protagonist humiliated; e.g. being arrested for accidentally exposing the CMC to a porn movie starring his dad?
kek, bump for interest.

>>29899382
Writing in a phone, so a bit of each.

>>29897546
The issues I'm having with it are right there from the start so give the first few chapters a go.

>>29897688
>google search
>"site:fimfetch.net [keywords]"
It's how I do most fic searches on Fimfiction since Knighty's search engine is shit.

>>29897711
>Can't he just be an unremarkable guy who happens to be lost far from home?
Why's the reader going to want to read that? If it's really focusing on him, you have to get the reader invested in him. Otherwise, they'll be bored after a chapter and Alt+Left Arrow back to find another fic.

You don't "shill" him, you show him to the reader. Show his personality, his character traits, perhaps some flaws. That's why you should start with the SoL party--it gives you a chance to really flesh the guy out under regular circumstances right at the start (plus set up the opening of the plot and his friends).

>>29897934
>Be Prepared
>not OIJCWTBK
Third movie's shit because it took all the seriousness and grandiosity and turned it into a bunch of shitty jokes for Timon and Pumbaa. Simba's Pride is arguably the best made for TV sequel Disney did, but suffered because of being a made for TV sequel to the GOAT Disney Renaissance film.

Nala's sexy because she's a tough, intelligent character who has the right body proportions and color scheme.

>>29902340
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/112143/compliance
Despite being a pretty generic comedy oneshot, I still look back fondly on it and continue to yearn to parody more grimdark fics.

>>29903835
Just take what already arouses you and make a pony story with it.

>>29904415
>the best made for TV sequel Disney did
Simba's Pride is one of the better ones, but the best one is clearly A Goofy Movie.
My ironic appreciation for Cinderella III: A Twist in Time also puts it up there, at least for me.

mage ben

>>29904800
>Cinderella III
I'm not sure if its hilarious or pathetic that all of these major disney films i remember from my childhood have dozens of sequels combined that I'd wager most people know nothing about

No dying yet. I'm not done writing and want to present what I've made once I am.

Not gonna lied, Dexter is the best writing I ever see.

bumpu

>>29908023
The writing I've seen that impresses me the most recently is--well, Elegan/tg/entlemen will know what I'm talking about.

There's a pen-and-paper horror/conspiracy RPG called "Delta Green." I personally think they've got some of the best writers in the business working for them. It's grimdark as FUCK, though.

>>29908774
I've been wanting to try Delta Green, but there's no interest in it around me, so I've just been putting it off. Going to read it once I have more available time.

Wonder how many people in the thread, if any, are into /tg/ stuff.
I just returned from my weekly GURPS session.

>>29908948
Admittedly, in a Lovecraftian horror RPG, where total party kills are the normal ending for the evening's play... well, that's not gonna be to everyone's taste.

Story idea: blah blah interuniversal portal, blah blah magic ponies come to visit modern-day Earth. How does Delta Green react? Being paranoid sumbitches who see the hand of Nyarlathotep everywhere, I'm pretty sure they're gonna lose their shit completely and start doing kuh-razy stuff.

Or maybe Equestria exists somewhere in the vast uncharted regions of Lovecraft's Dreamlands, and Delta Green anticipated this, and is intrigued with the idea of controllable, stable gateways into the Dreamlands, whether for operational use or as a final bolthole, a final refuge for a remnant of humanity in the End Times. Note that in both cases the Princesses aren't going to be the least bit happy with DG--either they're kidnapping and vivisecting and killing ponies because they think they're Mi-Go biopuppets, or heavily armed DG strike teams are taking shortcuts through Equestria to go on missions--and the survivors are coming back leading a horde of gugs and ghasts, who are not averse to adding human, or pony, to their diet. Celly is gonna be PISSED. And Luna is supposed to guard ponies' dreams, but here come these humans, chased by a horde of nightmare monsters that have followed them into the waking world. A stern talking-to isn't going to cover it.

I read Empty Horizons straight through. I gotta say its one of the better examples on how to write Rarity. Everything else has been alright, and thankfully spreads its worldbuilding pretty evenly. Can't really say I'm fan of the stakes its trying to build up. Its mostly been "that thing left behind is now evil/corrupt," and I'm kinda bored of it. The characters are carrying it for me mostly.

>>29908948
>Wonder how many people in the thread, if any, are into /tg/ stuff.
I want to play Tails of Equestria, if that counts.

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I saw this on Ao3 and made me wonder why hasn't knighty gone the derpibooru route and started a patreon for FiMFiction.

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>>29904218
Unfortunately I didn't quite remember it accurately.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/56419/personal-assistant

>>29909435
I've been enjoying it too. You're right that the stakes don't feel much higher, but I'm really anticipating the reveal in a chapter or two

>>29904415
An accomplished and well-regarded author is saying that the cure for a story being boring is to bury the parts about being lost in a cave and encountering unhinged canon ponies, and to instead open with a detailed account of an idiot OC getting drunk with his douchebag OC friends. I don't know what to believe anymore.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/275264/a-little-help
I'm just gonna post something a wrote sometime in the past
I no longer like this story, but eh, it's popular enough

>>29909693
>he cure for a story being boring
He's giving advice to that specific story. If the point is to care about whatshisface and whatever his insight into life in ponyville and Equestria is, then we must get to know him first so we'll care about his journey.

Also:
>well-regarded author
Is it 2013 again?

>>29909822
>Anon
>Human
>Anthro
And yet what bothers me the most is that you didn't put the Anon character tag

>>29909840
It was written and posted before they had the anon tag
I'm still working on another story.... very fucking slowly though

>>29909832
>If the point is to care about whatshisface and whatever his insight into life in ponyville and Equestria is, then we must get to know him first so we'll care about his journey.
Because OCs are easier to make the reader care about than journeys?

>Is it 2013 again?
Is that a meme? I'm new. He has followers and upvotes, but I know those don't mean much; is he known to be an idiot? But you seem to be agreeing with him.

>>29909840
Generic expression of frustration that the site didn't just make Human a character tag from the start. It'd make more sense to have a character tag for human inserts in general than for a specific 4chan meme; and "Human" as a "genre" never made any sense.

Anyone have the dump of all of darf's story? A friend of mine wants to know if there was ever a sequel to Pinkie Pie Sucks a Hundred Dicks.

>>29909632

I forgot to mention that while I had those gripes about the stakes, I am genuinely enjoying the read.

Are there any stories in the same vein as Harmony theory and Empty Horizons? Preferably of the still ongoing variety?

>>29901208
Beware the trap of endlessly rewriting and never learning to finish a story.

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>>29910103
The Fimfarchive collection has 74 items by darf. There are no items by user 22830 under other names. Of those 74, searching for the word "hundred" in titles and descriptions turns up only https://fimfetch.net/story/88780/pinkie-pie-sucks-a-hundred-dicks and the unrelated https://fimfetch.net/story/111177/events-that-have-occurred-or-remember-that-time-twilight-ate-a-bird.

https://www.fimfiction.net/stories/relevance?search=hundred+dicks also turns up only one story, unrelated to darf's, so there doesn't seem to be a fan sequel either.

>>29910253
Interesting. He seems to recall it being a thousand dicks in particular, but not too sure where it had come from, but will look from there. Thanks!

Is it me or the "clopfics" section on fimfiction lately is filled with shitty dark&edgy stuff, gore or fart/scat fetishes? Fimfic feels kind of dead, multiple good stories I subscribed to have been cancelled or abandoned

>>29910724
there are 108350 published fics on fimfiction
apparently there are only 5096 cancelled, and 8960 haitused fics
really wish there were a quick and easy way of determining how many abandoned/dead fics there were

>>29909693
If the story's about an OC, the audience needs to give a fuck about the OC. You can't do that if the character has no development--especially at the start of the fic when readers are wondering "why should I read about this guy and not the M6".

>>29909937
>than journeys
Characters are what drive stories, not plots. You could have the greatest plot with the best suspense and action planned, but if the characters are shit you'll be hard pressed finding anyone who'll want to read it.

>Is that a meme?
He's referring to the fact I haven't been that active recently or released a popular fic since 2013.

>>29911377
>I haven't been that active recently or released a popular fic since 2013.
Wish you wrote more, though.

>>29910103
I'm pretty confident there was never any sequel (from darf at least.)

>>29911135
You could probably write a script to retrieve the date_modified attribute of incomplete stories listed in the latest Fimfarchive collection's index.json, then generate a histogram. Not it.

>>29911377
>If the story's about an OC, the audience needs to give a fuck about the OC. You can't do that if the character has no development--especially at the start of the fic when readers are wondering "why should I read about this guy and not the M6".
If I don't give a fuck about the OC, why am I going to want to trudge through a bunch of "development" consisting of his getting drunk and partying with his douchebag friends?

>Characters are what drive stories, not plots. You could have the greatest plot with the best suspense and action planned, but if the characters are shit you'll be hard pressed finding anyone who'll want to read it.
>assuming binaries
Theres middle points you know

>>29909840
>Anthro
That remind me a writer who focus another language EQ world.

Y'all were gonna let the thread die, weren't cha?

>>29914549
A man can dream.

Do you know any good first person clop stories from a female pov?
I mostly find either third person stories or first person about male protagonists.

>>29915111
>checking dem trips

I've never heard of such a story but this could be fascinating. Seconding the request.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G16NO6Eb5XTF9zLFSdTVwYlFsNik2Ig45quijh2rXyQ/edit?usp=sharing

Should I bother you with this shit more often? It seems like the thread is kinda dead. "Kinda."

I'm not sure about the formatting. Hell, I'm not sure about anything, expect the very first part which at least I like. I tried to fix a lot of things but I've revised the revisions so many times that I'm not even sure what's going on or if it's any better.

Oh yeah, and I'm not including a party scene to start it off. Why would I start with something that has no relevance for the rest of the story? Not to mention having to come up with all the OC's who'd then at best be only mentioned in passing.

>>29915111
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/220526/odd-one-out
Only one I've got. HiE chick hasn't gotten laid in 6 months, so she gets it on with Big Mac.

>>29915533
Thanks!
It fits my criteria and it's short, so I won't even complain about it being human.

>>29915533
From that story's groups:
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/1909/female-human-x-pony
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/200540/fie
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/209259/women-in-equestria
Those groups also link to others. Unfortunately I don't see a group that isn't human-specific, or that specifically collects female first-person narrators.

feeeeeeemales

>>29915111
Wow, it's interesting how rare this is, which is really too bad.

This author does first-person female POV clop: https://www.fimfiction.net/index.php?view=category&user=194829. She hasn't been online for a while and her stories are about her self-insert OC, but the writing isn't terrible for clop and we can't exactly be picky at this point.

And... that's it. 100 clop stories on my list, and that's all I could find. Damn this is a shame.

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>>29915111
You know what, that's what I should write. Stallion and futa mare on human female. I've always been disappointed at the complete lack of stallion on female stories and even more so a lack of futa on female, strangely enough, considering the popularity of that form of porn.

Anyone got any ideas (call them 'requests' if you want) for some good ol' fashioned smut wherein the girl gets stuffed? I have my own sick, sick fantasies, but I'll listen first.

What if we had a Discord?

>>29917325
What if you had gone and fucked yourself?

>>29917339
Why the hostility?

>>29915283
I don't think the echo thing works that well. It feels really unnecessary and doesn't really add anything. Perhaps I missed it, but I don't recall seeing an actual description of what Dawn looks like, only that he has wings. Also remember to indicate new paragraphs somehow, either through indentation or a blank line in between each new paragraph.

>not including a party scene to start it off
Suit yourself. It's going to be challenging getting readers into the story with only the implied promise that the OC will develop and his characterization solidify as things go on.

>Why
As I've said previously, an introductory chapter/scene where the audience gets to know the OC that will be driving the story helps to make the audience care more about him and whatever situations he might encounter.

Readers don't care about characters they don't know--hence why redshirts and mooks can be killed by the dozens without much more than a shrug by most people. By going right into the main plot without the reader knowing who the protag is, you risk the reader not caring about him and his story.

As it stands, you'll hopefully develop him as the story goes on and those that do end up reading it will hopefully come to care about him, but without laying the foundation first, it's unlikely many people will.

Plus, by writing an intro scene where the reader gets to know him, you do too in a way. You'd have to write how he normally acts, thinks, talks, etc. and that can prove invaluable as you think up the various situations and interactions he's going to have as the story progresses.

Page 10

I think this thread should just die.

>>29919396
Whatever should I do with my life then?

>>29919449
Experience the magic of friendship.

give fic idea

I write fic idea

Why not, it might happen right?

something simplistic

ANSWER ME

HOW CAN WE

BE

TIDDLE DEEE

I'm going to write about Rarity and Fluttershy, so in addition to rewatching episodes and reading transcripts, I'd like to read some fics that get the two of them right.
Can anyone give me some examples?

Shorter stories would be preferred.

>>29920072
Something to explain why Twiggles' personality changes so much from episode to episode. Sometimes, especially in season 1, she's Twilight Snarkle, deadpan sarcastic straight-man to a crazy world, and a lot saner and more stable and mature than most of the cast. Sometimes she's Twilight Snapple, going batshit about being late writing a letter to the Princess and willing to cast a hideous, brain-raping mind-control spell on a doll and toss it into a crowd, causing a riot, just to create a problem to write about. How and why does she switch back and forth between Daria Morgendorfer in hoers form and, and--I am struggling to think of another fictional character who's barely even capable of functioning, and in such a constant state of being on the verge of a complete nervous breakdown over absolutely nothing. Twilight Snarkle is believable as the personal protege of a living queen-goddess. Twilight Snapple isn't. One of these two very different characters, who look the same and share a name, was a reasonable choice for apotheosis. The other is a menace to her entire society even with baseline unicorn magic, much less the package she got with wings. Celestia's reasoning here is inexplicable.

Are there two Purplesmarts, who from time to time swap out? And has the sane one been on vacation since season 3?

>>29920501
dunkey dunk dunk?

>>29920567
Pardon me?

>>29917405
>Perhaps I missed it, but I don't recall seeing an actual description of what Dawn looks like, only that he has wings

And? Not sure why that's necessary; see >>29890947.

(I'll grant that some hints to age and/or social status would be nice. What does he do besides get drunk and party? Is he in school? Does he have a job? Does he live any family? Does he live with them, with roommates or on his own?)

>>29910161
Guy you replied to here. I've been following these two https://www.fimfiction.net/story/198305/equestria-exiled
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/280598/faultlines

They're both really good, but neither updates very often. Faultlines got rewritten at the beginning of the year. They're both kind of that "weird things going down in not-equestria" way.

>>29902340

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/326647/changing-lanes

Sort of wish I had converted this to first person narrative like I did with Through Dark of Night when rewriting it from greentext.

Still, I think I improved it a lot during the rewriting process. Just got back into update mode after a hiatus, we'll see how far I get.

https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/730924/something-drops

Chink's descent into madness seems to have no end.

>>29922161
At least he's having fun, I suppose.
As all the people who read his stories.

>>29922570
>As all the people who read his stories.
do people legitimately enjoy his things, or are they all like us who mostly mock and deride the shit we read?

what is bump

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/86615/rainbow-dash-discovers-erotic-mind-control
>tfw you look forward to Twilight sliding down the mind control ethics slope
>tfw she hits a trampoline at the bottom of the slope halfway through the story and winds up back at the top
>tfw the rest of the fic is just generic mistress/pet RP bullshit
6.5/10. I don't know if I'll ever find a fic that has the perfect balance of mind control/hypnosis. They're either all "their mind is completely wiped and they become a vegetable slave" or "it's just a prank/RPing, bro."

>>29920987
>And? Not sure why that's necessary
How is the reader supposed to visualize a character that's never described? It's like the "standing and talking in a white void" issue, only it's much worse since the lack of detail is over the very protagonist of the story.

>>29924328
>tfw she hits a trampoline at the bottom of the slope halfway through the story and winds up back at the top
God damn it, I hate reset buttons on character development so much.

>>29923486
Well, Book 4 of 7dsj has almost 15k total views. Statistically speaking, some of those views must have come from people who actuallyenjoy those stories.

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>>29924328
>How is the reader supposed to visualize a character that's never described?

>>29924328
>>29924914
That was my fuck-up. I initially had a paragraph where the MC was described, but it got deleted among some other stuff that didn't feel like it fit in. It wasn't my intention to leave him as a completely blank slate but somehow didn't think of that in the middle of all the revisions.

>>29924547
>Book 4 of 7dsj has almost 15k total views.
Total views is the sum of each chapter's views, right?

>>29927116
No, the max. It's the number of people who have read at least one chapter.

Go

>>29915283
Just finished reading and commenting. Sorry for the slow work; I was doing a lot of stuff in between. I also was probably a bit overaggressive with edits, but you can look at them and see what you think.

Overall, as I mentioned at >>29910218, I'm suspicious of the value of polishing the same short passage over and over.

>>29928792
no

>>29928879
I say go because "10" moron.

>>29929144
Too bad. I'm staying til I feel like leaving.

Week's almost over, why haven't you written anything?

https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/730883/super-trampolines-feeling-that-way-royal-canterlot-library
>Super Trampoline is in the Royal Canterlot Library feature
Damn, we truly are scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

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>>29930414
>Today's story brings home the consequences of war.
Brought to you by a man who wants a civil war.

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>>29930204
Because I choose not to.

>>29930523
...Crap, I copied the wrong number; it was actually 480981. Whatever.

>>29928879
I'm too afraid of committing the sin of writing something boring to stop.

At least I got you theorizing.

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>>29930846
Deliberately write the most boring things you can til you get over it?

>>29931084
It's not about what, it's about how.
I'm sure I could make even the most daring, excitement-filled adventure as boring as a lecture about the history of math.

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>>29931434

>>29930204
Been trying to think up something for the RariTwi contest. I think I finally have something, but it's so far out of my wheelhouse that I'm really struggling to get it going. It'll good experience writing outside my comfort zone if I can pull it off though.

>>29932031
>the RariTwi contes
Oh, right.
That was a thing. I should give it a shot.

>>29930488
I have no words.

I have spent the last week thinking hard about a story my muse wants me to write, but which I've decided not to. It would have been a technicolor-horses-visit-the-real-world thing set in a bankrupt, balkanized US that's having a civil war.

I have figured out that every time I see things like that, and hear about more organized violence in American politics--well, those of you living outside the US may not care, and I apologize. I'm not trying to hijack the thread. I know this isn't /pol/. It's just that over the last several years I've seen an increasing trend of implicit and explicit threats of violence made, from people on the extremes of both ends of the political spectrum in the US. It fills me with despair. My muse feeds on that and wants me to write a story that is, among other things, a guided tour of a setting where all the crazies who want "revolution" got their wish. It's Somalia, a continent wide, and my muse wants to wallow in it and show ponies (and humans too) dying in hideous ways, to random roadside bombs and sniper attacks by a hundred groups of armed crazies, and rub the reader's nose in it. It would have come out looking like something that was screamed onto the screen and no one would have finished the first chapter.

Which is illogical, and to my way of thinking isn't a justifiable purpose for art. I want to write things that will speak to the better aspects of our nature, not take the cheap route to visceral horror that no one's going to enjoy.

>>29930488
>can work together
Tell that to Trotsky and Clemenceau.

pump

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/63175/the-golden-rule
>dedfic updates suddenly after almost 4 years
>it's been handed off to a new author who's continuing the story
>start rereading the old chapters
>eventually get caught up
>new chapter has been inexplicably deleted and the story is on hiatus

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>>29934067
>reading a 2nd-person reader-x-pony romance
>reading an incomplete story
>reading a fan continuation of an abandoned incomplete story
My sympathy is limited.

What's the "Debbie Does Dallas" of pony smut?

>>29934748
what does that even mean?

pony smut thats famous, so that everyone has heard of it, yet practically no one has bothered to look at?

>>29934748
>>29934769
John Joseco or Slugbox, maybe?

There has to be a decent and longish non smut bat pony fic out there somewhere. Can someone rec something? Adventure genre preferred.

Sometime, i hate 2nd-person reader

Sometime i hate people don't have add details background.

>>29934835
well theres xTSGx's bat pony fic which technically isnt smut unless you're some sort of extreme sexual deviant

>>29935674
From page 2?

>>29935688
You never know, man.

>>29935688
I forgot to check the page before bumping.

>>29935635
>extreme sexual deviant
Would that be like getting off on characters doing skateboard tricks while shredding guitars?

>>29934835
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/328030/her-soldiers-we

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>>29827309
More dendrophilia:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/19689/Fluttershy%27s-Tree

>>29936788
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/19689/Fluttershy%27s-Tree
>Dead since 2012
>Author is still active

>>29936898
>hasn't published anything since 2012

wew

>>29937047
>They're all about watersports
And nothing of value was lost.

>>29937047
Dodge that bullet.

HERE WE GO AGAIN!
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/371089/7dsj-downtempo

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>>29938357
why

>>29938357
Oh, hell, I forgot this was happening today.

Those character tags are awfully concerning.

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>>29938863
I know we like to joke about Mr. Chink's Wild Ride, but does he honestly believe those CG models look good?

>>29939245
...Is it not supposed to look like Pinkie's trapped inside a plastic doll, as a metaphor for something?

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>>29939301
That would be neat if everybody else didn't also look like a soulless husk.

>>29939336
That looks like CGI, made with one of those 3D art programs. It also looks the way a lot of art created with those programs does--all the characters look like nightmarish plastic dolls, just human enough for the little bit of wrongness to be horrifying. "Uncanny Valley" is the term, I think.

>>29939383
Yeah, part of me wonders if that's what Shin was going for, but I'unno. After Anon's extensive review of his body of work, Shinzakura doesn't strike me at the kind of auteur who's big on subtlety and symbolism.

>>29939336
Okay, you've got me there. Also, that siren does not look like she should be allowed or able to hold that weapon.

>>29939383
It looks to me like the cover of a pay-for-access fetish comic or "art pack" sold on Deviantart.

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>>29939420
I suspect maybe not. Drawing 3D human or human-ish figures with CGI, or even with extremely detailed painting, is hard. Not many artists can avoid the Uncanny Valley of hideous plastic-faced robots with dead empty soulless eyes that CGI so often produces.

The faces don't even have to be especially human. Pic related. The detailed eyes in a nearly featureless, barely-3D face make Trixie here look like something that wants to come through the screen and eat your soul.

>>29939198

I eagerly await for the summaries now.

>>29939336
This is straight out of /hgg/ or /tesg/.
Terrible plastic waifus as far as the eye can see.

>>29939514
I suppose plastic faced robot dolls might be someone's fetish, but that person is probably in Japan.

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>>29939546
>but that person is probably in Japan.
I don't know, Anon. Real Doll© is a USA-based company.

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Guyz /mlpol/ still lives

https://mlpol.net/mlpol/

>>29939572
Decanus must be overjoyed.

>>29894461
Speaking of Calibre: Does anyone know how I can use a regular expression to copy one metadata field into another (in this case Date into Published)? Or am I going to have to try to read the tutorial?

I'm looking for a story a read back years ago about a foal who had split personalities, and at one point, the foal was doing some kind of project with a filly he liked. Then, he some drama in his mind during that.

I've tried fimfetch, but it doesn't search for words in stories.

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>>29939572

Thanks for this. I hadn't realized.

>>29939939
Were they all OC's?

>>29940801

>>29902340
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/33635/show-and-spell

It's fucking shit. I dread reading my stories over, but don't have the heart to take them down.

Is Seeking Beauty still the king of RariPie fics?

i seen a few opm/mlp crossover fics,but they be either on hiatus or canned

I wish to read about Princess Luna and/or Celestia doing something silly.
Are there any hidden gems or should I just search fimfiction by popularity or something?

>>29943025
Link?
I'd read a Office of Personnel Management/My Little Pony crossover.

>>29878646
So what's /mlp/'s opinion of Lord Barleycorn?

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/99168/the-tale-of-lord-barleycorn

At first I was kinda iffy on it but it's grown on me. I might just be biased because I love Halloween themes.

>>29943891
I love it, and Barley just wants to make due and leave. Here's hoping he doesn't' fall for the pony pussy like every other "Human does not want to be in Equestria story"ala NO, I am not a Brony, Dash of Humanity,and Your Human and You.
All such good protagonists in the beginning, all become species traitor's that side with the colorful ponies who know nothing about them.

>>29940861
Pretty sure.

>>29943125
Stories I found not totally unreadable:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/566/scratching-a-diamond
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/893/the-thousand-year-urge
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/5712/lunas-excellent-adventure
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/59796/celestias-big-day
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/73280/let-the-snowballs-fly
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/90400/celestia-and-luna-vs-a-ball
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/206594/by-celestias-nose
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/347605/night-of-the-living-sunbutt

>>29945550
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/59796/celestias-big-day
>Fiddlebottoms is alive and writing again
Why did nobody tell me?

>>29946119
>59796
It's from 2012; and his last story update was in 2016.

>>29943731
here are two
this one is finished https://www.fimfiction.net/story/308332/the-adventures-of-one-punch-man

and this one ,dont know when it will get updated https://www.fimfiction.net/story/317871/one-punch-equestria

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Any good Raridash fics out there?

>>29948666
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/51703/salvation is pretty much the RariDash fic. It's written by CiG so you know it's really good. It also has one of the best uses of sex to explore characterization and move the plot forward that I've ever seen.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/369974/vows-made-in-wine isn't shipping, but it has very good RariDash interactions. It's damn depressing though, especially if you can relate to the characters.

>>29948870
Read Salvation, literally the only good Raridash fic I've seen so far.

Thanks for the other though.

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Is it 'easy' to get featured?
I mean, wtf, I got two fics in the featured box and posted them both these lasts 48h
When I see some people going full autismo on some fics, write like 40k words and are obviously better than me but never get there?
I mean, they're not fetish fuel and wish fulfillment fics, can't really compare both genres, but still.
I don't know how to take it, is this a mod liking my shit? View counts? Like/dislike ratio?
How does it work?
no bully

>>29949598

Getting into the feature box isn't particularly difficult, though even if you follow these guides, it's not guaranteed. Just be aware that the feature box isn't a measure of a fic's quality, but rather how well it's able to appeal to large numbers of people just enough for them to want to consume it. It's like TV ratings; the best shows often aren't the ones that the most people watch each week.

So with that in mind, here's how you get in the feature box.

1) Write a one-shot. People are less likely to check out incomplete fics than complete ones, and are less likely to pick up 50k words on a whim than they are 5k words.

2) Spam any appropriate groups. Don't put your rarijack fic in the Twilestia group, go ahead and put it in the rarijack group(s), the shippers groups, the rarity and AJ groups, maybe a hearts and hooves group if its out there... search around and find relevant places to add it.
---a) Related: do this right away. The FB is heavily weighted towards new fics and recent views, so you want to get readers ASAP, rather than have them trickle in later.

3) Make your subject matter either highly relatable, or highly appealing to a motivated niche.
---a) For the former, that generally means SoL and/or comedy. Use at least one popular character prominently, and make sure your story has an easily identifiable hook that can be summed up in a single sentence.
---b) For the latter, we're mostly talking niche porn and/or shipping. Pick a popular ship, pick a specific fetish (either/or), and give that subset of reader exactly what they want.

>>29951232

4) Actually put some thought into your short description. If you half-ass it, people will assume you half-assed your whole story.

5) Don't play coy with your description. Tell the reader what's in your story, and don't worry too much about spoilers. The better an idea you give the reader of what you've written, the more likely they are to take a glance; obtuse may sometimes make for a better reading experience, but it won't help you grow an audience.

6) Find good cover art; derpibooru is full of pictures you can steal. Make sure it's bright and eye-catching, and that it still reads well when shrunk down to thumbnail size.

7) Network a little. The easiest way to do this is to ask one or more people with a bunch of followers to pre-read for you, then see if you can get them to blog about your fic to their followers. Also, if you can get on EqD, try to time your fimfic release to coincide with your EqD release, so that those extra readers will boost your heat. Any other website you can crosspost to to get a few extra eyes won't hurt either; just remember 2a, and get those links out as quick after publishing as possible.

8) Finally: do this a bunch. Post a new story every couple of weeks, and/or start using fimfic blogs to post actual interesting content on a regular basis. The best way to get followers is to consistently produce content, so if you CONSISTENTLY put stuff out that isn't total ass (and follow the other guidelines), you'll accumulate a decent number of followers relatively quickly. And once you've gotten a bunch of followers, getting into the feature box is easy; all you have to do is publish your next SoL/Comedy oneshot (or piece of fetish porn) and your built-in audience will do all the work for you.

Good luck on your quest to get horsefamous, I hope it's every bit as fulfilling as you surely imagine it will be.

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I need some maledom fics and I need them now or I will make a permanent mess out of my pants please anons.
I want a hard stallion to pin me down and slide his throbbing rod into me as I squirm.

>>29951232
Oh, that's a bunch of cool stuff, thanks anon. Is it written somewhere, on a pastebin or something? Or should I just screencap it?
I was just wondering why/how did I get in there with shitty greens, twice. And the first one I posted got featured like, 4hours later.
Now that I know it's 'automatic', I can only take wild guesses at why people read these things.
I don't want to be 'horsefamous', I just want to write a couple good fics and be remembered for that, really. And bask in my autism while pushing my headcanons in other peep's heads.
But all of this stuff is nice to know, ty bb

>>29951232
>>29951239

We should save this in a pastebin and link it in the next OP.

>>29948666
A parsimon spring is good.

>>29952063
It's also not about Rarity and Rainbow Dash.

>>29952148
Fuck, meant to say Spring is Dumb.

>>29948666

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/172887/just-give-me-a-reason is good, though it's a rather depressing one.

>>29952281
I don't know what is it about depressing stories about romance that really strike my fancy.

>>29949598
Combination of factors:
>timing
>genre
>length
>not shitty title/synopsis/cover art

In general, the easiest way to get featured is by writing a story that's easy on readers. Something short, so they can quickly read it without debating whether it's worth sinking time into; lighthearted, so they know when they reach the end they'll walk away with a smile (and upvote); and competently done (not necessarily well done, just good enough that it doesn't make them stop reading), since walls of text, terrible grammar, or a really shitty plot will sink readers no matter if the other factors are checked off.

>How does it work?
The exact algorithm remains a mystery since Knighty's paranoid about people trying to rig things, but it appear to rely on "heat" (how popular [upvotes, views, comments, etc.] a story/chapter is) and time (how long the story/chapter's been published). You have about 12 hours or so to get it "hot" enough to be featured, otherwise it'll be too old and slip into the abyss.

Downvotes don't appear to factor in much--hence why controversial fics (abortion, rape, TCB) get featured a lot. They have a ton of comments and views and that's most of what matters.

To the best of my knowledge, staff can't influence a fic's chances of being featured. Although that'd be one hell of a shitstorm if it was revealed they can.

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>flintlock blaster
GUNS ARE CANON
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Where's voicefag?

>>29953598
Go figure, the species with opposable thumbs and no magic created a weapon which suited them.

stumbled on this fic and its pretty good
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/339671/fightin-spirit

>>29954800
>crossover
>eqg
>thriller

>displaced weeb crossover
>pretty good
yeah I'm not buying it

>>29955013
well,the weeb part is just for formalitties,thing is no one knows the name of metal bat so he made one up

>>29953806
Ded. Too many drunk readings, his liver couldn't handle it.

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Holy shit 7DSJ proper just updated. Is Chink feeling ok?

>>29957502
Considering what he writes, there's no real way of knowing if he's ever been "ok".

Can an open-ended story work? Has it ever worked in pony fanfiction?

>>29957951
Define "open-ended" and give an example, so we can understand your intent a little better, please.

>>29953806
oh yeah he hasnt been around lately

>>29957502
Well, it's Wednesday, so that's sort-of normal. Surprising to see a new side story and a normal update in the same week though.

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Why is he suddenly obsessed with us

>>29958963
Holy fucking shit dude

>>29958963
Holy shit!
I forgot Filly Funtasia was a thing! Didn't that, like, got deleted and the creators tried to hide all evidence that it once existed?

>>29959023
It still has a website and a wikipedia page. Though, the closest thing to a premiere date listed on the wiki page is "early 2016". Wonder what the hell went wrong with the production process there?

>>29958585

Didn't he try to read AAG and fail miserably? Perhaps it was a fatal mistake.

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>>29959023
I didn't know it had materialized into existence to begin with.

>>29959062
On one hand, I'd hate to feed Shin's already huge ego.
On the other hand, I feel Voiceguy should read his stuff now more than ever.

>>29959076
Challenge accepted

>>29959849
he lives

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>>29954262
Cats, lacking the biological advantage of possessing massive horsecocks, are unable to develop the vastly superior firepower of the dong-gun.

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>>29959849
IT BEGINS

>>29959849
Final battle.

>>29959849
you ain't going to do shit you lazy nerd.

I don't come here nor have I ever been a brony but I have some friends who used to be and we were discussing old MLP cringe. For lulz and cringe I used to sometimes read Equestria After Dark. Now unfortunately it seems to have been shut down but I wanted to know if its archived or if someone could point me to a very specific story.

The story was about 30 chapters and it revolved around Fluttershy ending up in some pony's rape dungeon which is later revealed to be a very elaborate role play with her wanting to be there, can anyone tell me where to find this monument of degeneracy?

>>29962344
Ask MLPG.

>>29959091

>>29962725
Already did, they sent me here

>>29962344
>if its archived
See >>29896107.

Page 10, pls go.

>>29960773
Cats pretty much have weaponized penises already. Barbs and shit.

>>29964459
Ducks truly have the swiss army kmives of dongs.
In the world of genital artillery, the ducks are king.

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>>29964730
Duck penises are terrifying non-Euclidean phenomena straight out of Lovecraft.

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>>29965002
We're posting these for educational purposes, so it's ok.

Could you imagine two ducks using their erect corkscrew dicks as rapiers for fencing?

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>>29965034
No. But maybe these ladies can. At least some of them might even be centuries old and jaded enough to seek out that kind of thing.

>>29964459
Had they not entered the gunpowder age, truly they would have ruled the world (except the duck parts of the world.) But now they are gravely outclassed by the power of the fully operational DONG-GUN!

is this the best you fuckers got? no wonder this is the worst fucking board on 4chan.

Goddamn

>>29965198
>>29965089
>>29965034
>>29965002
How much more horryfing would Fall of Equestria had been if Equestria had been invaded by ducks instead of whatever it was that invaded? (were they deer? elk?)

>>29965264
The only thing I know about that 'verse is that caribou rape a whole lot of horses. What is it even really about?

>>29965318
>What is it even really about?
Caribou rape a whole lot of horses. That's about it.

>>29965318
Pretty much.

And then there's Fall of Fallout Equestria, in which caribou rape, torture, and murder a lot of ponies, then get raped by hideous radioactive mutants, and then everybody dies, slowly and horribly. But it was all a bad dream. Of a cute little filly. Asleep in a fallout shelter. She wakes up and opens the door. And gets raped to death by radioactive caribou ghouls.

...do you see a pattern here?

>>29965462
And the rape cycle goes on.

I'm doing the bad thing where I try to start another project to give myself a break from a different project.

>>29965685
Since I can't do it, do me a solid and slap yourself.

>>29965685
its always nice to see those aspiring writers with dozens to hundreds of stories on their page . And every last one of them having an incomplete tag hanging off of them
Its nice because I know I'll never have to waste my time reading their stuff

>>29957951
>Can an open-ended story work?
Depends on the plot and genre. A mystery for example would be a terrible story to be open ended, since the whole point is the reader trying to piece things together with the story ultimately revealing the correct answer.

>>29958963
>seaman
What did he mean by this?

>>29959023
http://www.funtasiadaily.com/2016/11/filly-funtasias-new-status.html
Last official update was in November and was "still working on it." It appears some international licensing fighting is the cause of the delay/cancellation.

Hey, I'm looking for a story, it seems to have been removed from FiMfiction. It was a R63 Human-to-mare story, and the MC meets Pinkie 63 and becomes his marefriend. It involved force-feeding, and NC acts. It was only four chapters

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>>29965619
I couldn't find a rape cycle but this is the cycle you can ride until you find someone to rape, I guess.

>>29958963
Hey, Shin. Just in case you drop by to see us haters, I just wanted to let you know that most don't really care and are actually amused by your stories. Please never stop writing your particular brand of insanity.

>>29967045
>>seaman
>What did he mean by this?
The SIREN group was part of the Canadian navy, so they use naval terms for everything.

>>29967571
Now that's funny

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