FimFiction thread - Now with 87% less memorable content

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scooterdude get

>>30014429
>no darf in the winner pic
S H I T

>>30014493
you're right. darf was shit, and thats why nothing he did was in the starter kit.

>>30014674
is anything bleedin in the starter kit?

>>30014674
Now now Anon, we both know that you're just angry that he sperged his way out and deleted everything.
I am too

So is there any schedule on when and how the starter kit will be re-made? I wanna know when I should start going back through my favourites to prep

Also are we just re-doing the old one, or are we going to make a "best new fics" thingy to complement it?

>>30014686
fuck. i guess were actually doing this.

I'd say a new round of nominations. then when it comes to voting, throw the new in with the old and see what comes out on top.

amend/update it. I definitely dont want to just start over from scratch

how do I get god enough to write a story that is good enough to be recommended in this thread?

can we make a discord? This thread is too slow to realistically deal with.

>>30014721
that would kill the thread entirely.

or be an embarrassingly pathetic discord. you could just as easily talk to yourself in your room if you want to be alone and ignored

>>30014721
How on earth can a thread be "too slow to deal with"? Pin the tab and click on it any time the little "!" icon shows up. I think there's a thread watcher in the inline extension, too.

>>30014735
then whats the point? this is too slow to be a proper fimfic thread, at least with discord, we can better communicate.

>>30014686
>So is there any schedule on when and how the starter kit will be re-made? I wanna know when I should start going back through my favourites to prep
Proposal below

>Also are we just re-doing the old one, or are we going to make a "best new fics" thingy to complement it?
"Best new fics." I don't see much point in redoing the old one, since the results would probably be very similar. And "best new fics" would be useful for letting anons ITT know about newer stuff that's good - we all already know most of the "classics".


Here's the proposal for the new voting. All aspects are open to debate (including the decision to make it a "best new fics" list instead of redoing the starter kit).

>Categories
Adventure, Alternate Universe, Comedy, Crossover, Dark, Drama, Equestria Girls, Erotica, Horror, Human, Mystery, Sad, Sci-Fi, Slice of Life, Thriller, Tragedy

These are all the category tags on Fimfiction, minus 2nd Person, Anthro, and Random, plus Erotica. There are 16 in total.

>Nominations:
As the goal is to create a list of the "best new stories", only stories first published during the year 2014 or later are eligible. Even if a story's Fimfiction publication date falls within the appropriate time period, it may be disqualified if the story was published elsewhere at an earlier date. Stories not hosted on Fimfiction will not be accepted for nomination.

Nominations will be done using the same format and website as before.
Instructions for writing nomination posts are here: https://mlp-fanfics.herokuapp.com/instructions
Posts that match the required format will be automatically indexed on the voting site: https://mlp-fanfics.herokuapp.com/
The nomination database will be cleared before the start of the new nomination process, as most of the previously-nominated fics are not eligible under the publication date criteria.

>>30014780
(continued:)

It's okay to nominate a story that's missing the corresponding tag for a category. The voting should weed out any nominations that are completely inappropriate for their category.

>Schedule
The process will be 11 weeks long.

The first 2 weeks will be for nominating stories and discussion only.
The next 8 weeks will be for discussion and voting on specific categories. Due to the number of categories, voting will go in pairs, with each pair consisting of one big category and one smaller category. Each pair will be allocated one week, with five days for discussion and two for voting.
The last week will be used for additional voting, such as tiebreakers, if needed.

>Voting
Voting will be done via Strawpoll, using a simple "approval voting" process: when voting, check all fics that you think would make suitable representatives for the category. The three fics with the most votes will be the winners for that category.

In case of a tie for third place, there will be a runoff immediately following the end of voting for the category. The runoff voting will be open for two days. If the runoff fails to resolve the tie, a winner will be selected at random.

If, at the conclusion of all voting, a single fic has won two different categories, there will be a vote to choose which category it will remain in. Its slot in the remaining categories will be filled with the next lower-voted story from the category. This may require a new tiebreaker vote for the category (for example, if the the third-place fic was moved to a different category, and there was a tie for fourth place).

>>30014756
eh. peaks and valleys. people get busy and rightfully focus on real life when things get hectic. I make a lot of jokes about only having 3 regular posters, but I've been making those jokes for years and we're still here.

Some of the old regulars are long gone, and some only pop in when theyve got something to shill. But theres occasional new blood that trickles in and we've had a steady core of folks that arent going anywhere anytime soon.

sure we occasionally struggle to remember to bump in time, but i honestly dont see most of us jumping ship and moving to a different format

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>>30014780
>>30014784
Ebin.

Are we starting now (if now, when)?
And can you nominate a story for more than one category?

>>30015358
>if now, when
If not. Kill me please.

>>30015358
>Are we starting now (if now, when)?
I can get the nomination site working again this weekend. Hopefully we'll have mostly agreed on a process by then, and can start general nominations.

>And can you nominate a story for more than one category?
Yep. That's why there's a line in the current proposal on what to do if one story wins two different categories.

>>30015551
>That's why there's a line in the current proposal on what to do if one story wins two different categories.
I'd assumed that would happen if two different people nominated a story into different categories, but that's kinda stupid. Makes sense.

>Hopefully we'll have mostly agreed on a process by then
I see nothing wrong with the guidelines posted so far, so that's an agreement from me at least.

>>30014714

First, get some followers, so that there's a chance we'll even notice your magnum opus. The best way to do this is to write some good fics and get noticed organically, but you can also force it by producing feature bait. Writing interesting blogposts and reviews is also a good way to get noticed.

Then, write a good story, Or at least, write an original one - if you write a story with a unique premise, and it doesn't obviously suck, somebody will probably say nice things about it. Get an editor, and make sure that they know what they're doing, to help you clean up your story. Get a pre-reader (who can be the same person as the editor, or someone else) to look at the fic before you publish it, and make sure it's someone who isn't afraid to tell you that there's a major plothole that's going to require a total rewrite.

Listen to their advice, make something good, and the audience you've built will make sure we see it.

>>30016125
>Get an editor, and make sure that they know what they're doing, to help you clean up your story. Get a pre-reader (who can be the same person as the editor, or someone else) to look at the fic before you publish it, and make sure it's someone who isn't afraid to tell you that there's a major plothole that's going to require a total rewrite.
Basically this, and actually only this. You can write total recycled drivel garbage, and as long as it's well-written and doesn't get extremely boring, it has a good chance of getting into the feature box. Random crackfics that are "LULZ that's funny XDD", with a catchy title and well-chosen cover art, probably between 1k and 5-6k words, are probably the best bet to get noticed. And make sure to submit your stories at the correct time: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/494106/when-is-the-best-time-to-post-a-story-answered-with-science

Now, that's your best way to attract an audience. After you've successfully done that, then you can ask yourself: is that really the kind of audience that you want? Then you write something MegatronsPen style to get rid of everyone, then you go back to posting rgre green on /mlp/.

As an aside, wow, that blog post about the optimal time to publish was written almost two years ago, and may actually be outdated by now depending on how the demographics and schedules of fimfic's regulars changed. I hadn't even considered the possibility until I dug it up and checked the date. Time really flies fast.

It's nice to know Cold in Gardez still likes pony.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/355395/the-world-is-filled-with-monsters

Even if it's set in a different time period starring oc's fighting oc's in an oc land.

>>30017550
>a different time period starring oc's fighting oc's in an oc land.
at that point why not just write original fiction?

>>30017919
Because built-in fanbase and +3k readers.

Voiceguy posted 2 new blogs

https://www.fimfiction.net/user/Voiceguy/blog

>>30014780
>>30014784
I don't know how fair it is to exclude fics that were published before the date but finished long after. For example, something like The Night is Passing is a fairly high quality piece and possibly deserving nomination, but its three-year writing process disqualifies it by a year. Perhaps some "More than 3/5 of it had to be published after January 1, 2014, for it to be qualified. This would, I think, be fair because none of the stories already on the list were incomplete at time of voting, afaik.

>>30018028
I remember at the time most people didn't want to include incomplete fics because there was the risk that they could devolve into shit later on.

>>30018028
Given TNIP has been around for four years, I wouldn't really consider it "new". Even three years is kind of pushing it IMO.

But, I know there are at least a few people ITT who won't touch any incomplete fic. Would judging by date finished instead of date started make more sense? And just assume that nothing incomplete will make it through voting, since that's what happened before?

>>30018002
>just be a Fucking bum in the worlds largest spaghetti and pizza factory

Kek

On one hand, I have a crippling obsession with Twinkie.

On the other one, kudzuhaiku

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/372197/princess-twilight-sparkle-comes-out-as-bi

I'm torn...

>>30018485
There's no romance tag, don't bother.

>>30018485
>kudzuhaiku
so twinkie with scat and fart jokes?

>>30014714
1. Have an interesting idea. It can be taking a common genre and beating the dead horse until something new and refreshing spurts out, going avant garde and doing something different, or finally nailing something that's been touched on but never realized to its fullest.

2. Write it well. Grammar and spelling errors are at a minimum. There's no retardation in the plot or ending. Narration and characters are compelling and worth reading and the pacing's not shit (horrible pacing's almost always the biggest reason a fic's shit).

3. Polish up its "marketing." Get a good cover image that reflects what the story's about, a synopsis that informs or intrigues the reader, a title that's also compelling, and accurate and clear tagging--all while making sure there aren't any red flags (misspellings in the synopsis/title, max tags, extra bullshit in the synopsis that should go in an authors note or not be mentioned at all, etc.) that might dissuade readers.

4. If it's a multichapter story, end the first chapter with some reason for the reader to keep reading, whether that's a cliffhanger or something as simple as reminding them why they clicked in the first place (a bit of worldbuilding for the AU fic, some spoopiness for the horror, etc.).

5. Don't have a meltdown while the story's in-progress. Don't be a douchebag to commenters, go off the rails with the plot because of criticisms, and save all your personal drama for the therapist.

>>30018485
I am reminded of an incomplete story I read recently, about EqG Principal Celestia stumbling upon the magical interuniversal mirror portal and popping out in Equestria, as a pretty little petite pale pink unicorn who bore a strong resemblance to a certain Princess. And while the main plot was about trying to figure out why she can't return home immediately, she was suddenly dropped into the local dating scene, because the author is obsessed with muh shipping and muh lesbian hoerses. And there's a scene where she gets set up on a date with Queen Chrysalis, who apparently just hangs out in Ponyville now in between invasion attempts, and EqG!Celestia starts sputtering about her strange feelings of attraction to Bugbutt, saying things like "I knew I was bi, but this is too much for me to deal with."

And, reading this, I thought, hmm. Bi? Check. Beautiful? Check. Not insane? Apparently, check. She IS a unicorn!

...you may now return to your regularly scheduled FIMfiction discussion.

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So, technical question...

Fimfiction cover art can be linked back to the source image on Derpi or wherever, but isn't allowed to be porny. If I crop out a non-porn section of a porn image to use as a cover, and let the cover image link back to the unedited source, is that kosher?

>>30020090
nope. Some people will post the filename in the description, alluding to where it can Be foUnd but direct linking to sMut is frowned uPon

>>30020427
>SBUMP

>>30020474
...fuck

>>30020474
System Bump, I'm assuming

It's where you put bumps that are only useful to system administrators

>>30020503
Or to the corrupted system enforced by the unicorns.
That guy must be a planted agent. Or an agent plant.

page 10

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Page catalog master race

So what y'all niggas be writin?

>>30023345
My Master's Thesis. Trying to get a bit of work done for my entry into RariTwi contest on the side too.

>>30023416
>RariTwi
Shit, I forgot about that. When's the deadline?

>>30023512
May 26.

>>30023606
Cool, I still have three weeks.
I'll probably procrastinate the first two.

>>30023345
This post.

critique plz

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>>30023345
The fic that's going to stay first place of the feature box for at least a week.
You'll see :^)
I hope

>>30024312
>first place of the feature box for at least a week.
If you manage to get your first chapter featured for the 5 day limit and then update a chapter a day afterwards, you could have a fic in the featured box for over a week.

>>30024418
No, I want my one shot to stay first place for a week.
That's how good it's going to be.

>>30024428

Make sure it's not too short, then.

I don't remember the details, but I'm sure I recall hearing that the FB is biased against fics under a certain wordlimit - I wanna say 2000 or 3000 words? - to prevent people from spamming minimum-length fics into it.

>>30024542
Oh no, it's surely going to be another 6-8k.
People dislikes anything past 10k IMO.

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>Let's see what's new in FiMFicti--
Dear goodness...

any idea what appened to muppetz for article 2 did he got KIA, MIA or AWOL

>>30024591
ISIS wanted to know how the story ended, so they kidnapped him, tortured the rest of the story out of him, and then killed him.

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>>30024591
>did he got KIA, MIA or AWOL
Gonna guess "no" on this one

>>30024576
well at least he finally gave up on call of duty, so I guess thats something

>>30024576
delete this
Everytime it gets posted here the story disappears in a day or two and I'm still salty the last story got canned when it started getting interesting

>>30024782
yeah lets wait for a few more chapters before destroying it

>>30020090
If memory serves, you can post cropped or edited porn images as cover art so long as there's no NSFW showing.

You could always PM a mod, though, just to be safe.

>>30023345
Trying to finish writing a review of Her Soldiers, We I started six months ago so I can post another blog post.

>>30024418
It depends on the "heat" of other fics. Featured fics start to lose their "heat" after I think three days, so if seven even hotter fics are posted, it doesn't matter how many views yours gets.

>>30018002
Nothing brings out the nastiness in family like inheritance disputes.
I'm hoping you get rid of Mark soon, Voicerino.

Can you avoid using the words human and eqg in the OP? It triggers most filters, including mine.

>>30024576
>been reading andre for years now
>he posts a mass effect story at the exact same moment that i'm playing mass effect for the first time
It's meant to be.

>>30026122
AnonxAndre OTP

>>30026091
Then why are you here if it got filtered? Get out and keep hiding in your shitty custom-made safe space

>>30026555
Having a shit dispenser right into your mouth's truly the manly thing to do, amarite?
If you don't want your shitposts filtered write something worthwhile, faglord.

>>30026565
human eqg :^)

>>30024172
The setting of the post seems underdescribed--I don't have a firm sense of the post as a geographic location.

I do like the quietly plaintive feel of the "critique plz", especially the way in which the abbreviated spelling "plz" evokes a sense of fading hope, why spell it out, does anything matter in a universe that is dying by degrees each day.

The tension between the first and last line is brilliantly illustrated by that single blank line in the middle--can mutual understanding ever cross this gulf? it seems to say.

On the whole I think you're really on to something here, but it could be fleshed out a bit more. Good work, Anon!

>>30024576
>it's already gone
fuck you
this is all your fault
I hate you

>>30026598
Underrated post.

>>30027001
I blame me

>>30027001
Why does Andre even continue to write is he knows that eventually we will find it?

>>30027001
I wonder how fast could I make Andre delete his next story.
jk, Andre. If you're reading this, don't stop writing. I hope you keep improving and become a better storyteller.

>>30029944
He has actually improved a fair deal since his very early stories.

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How do you go about writing a lengthy clop? I never had much troubles before, because I used to do quick clop scenes, but now I'm writing a (now at 6k) clop scene, and I'm only getting to the missionary for the sole purpose of procreation.
My dick hurts, I already jacked off 4times today, and whenever I finish I'm just not in the mood to write anymore and have to take a break.
What am I doing with my fucking life holy shit

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>>30030149
>I already jacked off 4times today
There's your problem.
As someone who's currently writing smut (16k words in and just got to cunnilingus) let your libido drive your writing process throughout the day. I'm sure TSG and maybe carcino if he's around will agree, but the quality of your erotica is better when you're turned on by what you're writing.

>>30030268
Yes, but how do I cope with staying hard for SO long if I don't take care of it? Because this 'let your libido drive you' is nonsense to me, I'm not a fucking monk.
I need to find a way to stay aroused but not pop boners.
I need to become a girl(male)

>>30030359
>how do I cope with staying hard for SO long if I don't take care of it?
Go for as long as you can, pal. Conversely, go for several periods of writing throughout the day, you can get a lot of writing done in 45~60 minutes. The purpose is to extend your writing period by edging yourself, not blueballing you.

Or you can use one of those dick cages I've seen around.

>>30030399
>using a dick cage to write better horse pornography
If this isn't the apex of modern civilisation, I don't know what is.

>>30030409
Our forefathers fought for this kind of thing. I'm sure they're looking up at us amidst the flames and smiling.

>>30014674
Hi, darf.

>>30030359
TIL I'm a monk. I have been wanting to stop jacking off so much, and largely been failing, but if I need to be clean for a while for whatever reason I haven't had a problem doing so.

Are you really unable to get through the day without wanking?

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>>30031348
Yeah, but I've been a neet for a couple years now.
I mean, there are days I can go by without wanting to jerk off, but not if I try to write horse porn, obviously.
But then again there's something different about being horny because I watched something hot, and being horny because I'm writing a saucy part, because I can rather easily stop myself from jacking off /normally/, but not when I'm writing.
I mean, I'm not writing often, I'm a temporary guy, I just write greens here and there and don't do anything for months, then come back, but I've been actually writing for hours, every day, for more than a week now, and I just /cannot/ stop myself from jerking off when I start writing.
I guess it's because I'm much more 'immersed' in my story or some shit, idk, must be another form of autism.
That was my blog.

>>30031392
Self-control is a good skill to develop in any way you can. This is a nice low-risk way of training yourself to resist temptation and instant gratification.

See, who says writing horsewords doesn't teach life skills?

>>30031649
Horse words is the most self-deprecating waste of time known to man. How many stories have zero views and zero likes? How many people attempt to write a story, and never get anything from it?

There is no value in it, the only value in this shitty expressive venue is to show how worthless you are.

What a scam.

>>30031744
Is it?
I mean, my stories are kinda shit and I got thousands of views in less than a week. Other than my Trump fic, for some reason heh
I'm still not understanding how some /great/ fics have less views than my wish fulfilling greens.
Maybe because it's smut? (I mean, there are still other smut stories that are much better and don't get over 1k views, for some reasons.)
I mean, of course if you write a scat anthro with kaijus as main protagonists, or some retarded cross-over, of course you won't go far.

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>>30031744
And to really respond, because I'm tired and too horny to understand basic English, It really depends on what you write. Again. Not just for the views, of course, but about the whole "learning from it".
I think that writing is equivalent to... meditating? I guess? Of course if you write a 1k comedy about some random IRL shitposting, you won't learn shit from it, but if you try to actually construct a somewhat 'realist' story, with fleshed out characters it requires you to /really/ put yourself in their boots, one by one, and the more characters there is, the more you see the whole picture, and learn from it.
Or something.
I'm shit at this philosophy thing.

>>30031744
>Horse words is the most self-deprecating waste of time known to man
What about sanic fanfiction?

>>30031813
>I'm still not understanding how some /great/ fics have less views than my wish fulfilling greens.
>wish fulfilling greens
You answered your own question there.

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>>30031744
I beg to differ

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>>30032299
I just can't believe it's that anon.
Not everyone dreams about fucking and impregnating a little horse.
I.. think?
I mean, now that I think about it I guess that the only survivors are the autists, like us?
Fuck you, let me believe I'm worth something.

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>>30032338
>Not everyone dreams about fucking and impregnating a little horse.
You're right.
Only winners do.

This guys lays it on a bit thick with the sarcasm, but his writing advice is pretty solid overall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJNMkroM8zQ

>>30032630
I was starkly reminded by the later portion of Shink's works.

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Writing smut is about keeping yourself at the peak of arousal, but never letting go. Feed the writing off your lust, let it thrive. You shouldn't finish even once before it's done. And it's best that you get most of it written in one session - editting can come in post - or at least in quick succession.
The rest is up to you. Choose between making it cheesy or romantic. Slow or speedy. Refined or rough. Cooperative or complacent. But at the end of the day, if it's hot to you, it's also hot to someone else on this planet. Whether that someone happens to be reading fimfiction depends solely on how fucked up you are.

I've been ERPing way too much.

>trying to write a minific for the writeoff
>have a great idea
>story comes together great, feeling good about rough draft
>check wordcount as I get ready to start editing
>1160 words

Why is it so hard to write a story under 750 words when that's your max, but so easy to when 1000 is your minimum?

>>30032923
Shit, how long until the time is up?

>>30032980

6 hours.

I edited it down to 960 words without too much trouble, but now I'm at the point where I can't just trim fat and digressions anymore. I don't know if I can do it.

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>>30033026
The obvious answer is to write it in japanese to bypass the maximum.

>>30033026
Delete random words until you're under the limit.

I totally fucking forgot, and I'm just about to go to bed. So I'm just going to have to squeeze something out now before I fall asleep at the keyboard.

>>30033026
get an editor to look at the story. they can help you to trim down and rearrange from an objective point of view

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a1b7megYK4&feature=youtu.be
Fimfiction Thread Simulator, narrate by Prance.

Somebody was crazy enough to pledge 10 dollars every month. He gets his own video.

>>30033194
>fimfiction thread simulator
...so you just say bump 400 times interspersed with random commentary on tiger tanks and dong guns?

>submitted some pretentious nonsense written at the last moment
Still, it will be nice to see how this all pans out. I haven't contributed to anything like the writeoff in years. I should probably make this a habit
Needed to do serious editing to get under 750.

>>30033194
This Prance guy sounds underage as fuck.

>>30030149
>writing a lengthy clop
The key is to have a plot to go along with the porn, preferably one that goes with the porn so the two don't fight as much for space.

>I already jacked off 4times
Oh. I waited until I had been masturbating to the various fetish scenes for about four months before I started writing--that way I already had everything visualized and ready to write and wasn't quite as distracted.

Of course, new scenes came into play and would require my attention. When horniess did became an issue, I'd just avoid that particular scene for the day and write one of the non-fetish scenes until things could be adequately addressed.

You gotta start blueballing yourself. If you only masturbate once every few days (preferably in ideal temperatures), that nearly guarantees 10/10 orgasms and satisfaction. I can almost guarantee at 4 times a day most of your faps are disappointing and leaving you on edge.

>>30030268
This.

>>30031392
Take this as a lesson. Next clopfic, start masturbating to the scenes weeks before you plan on writing it. That way you won't get quite as horny.

>>30031744
Hey Bleedin.

>never get anything from it
There's your problem. If you don't enjoy writing a fic, you'll never get into writing. Writing a story takes hours; reading comments, basking in upvotes and getting featured takes minutes. Which should you have more fun doing: the thing that takes 30 hours, or the thing that takes 30 minutes?

That bat pony fic I wrote did terribly--it has the worst like/dislike ratio of all my fics (and one of them has a pony OC creator image as its cover art) and the lowest views--but I don't regret it at all and would gladly write it over again if given the opportunity. Because I had a ton of fun writing it.

In turn, Regent would get a fuckton of views, comments, and be featured if I wrote another chapter to it, but I hadn't had much fun writing it--hence why it's been dead for years.

>>30030149
>My dick hurts, I already jacked off 4times today
https://youtu.be/KHnL57KLCls

>>30033603
I like his other song better

>>30033605
Maybe this bonerjam is more your thing:
https://youtu.be/_EyXnAORe_8

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>>30033605
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpY3ggKAPIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2dJ-JUzhVs
I got more of these.

>>30033628
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU

>>30033628
I'm honestly not even sure if my enjoyment of Pepper Coyote is sincere or ironic.

Weird, trashy music is my jam.
https://spikethedragon.bandcamp.com/track/horsefucker-2

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>>30033653
It's probably a little too sincere for me.
It's telling that SGaP is one of the more normal artists that I enjoy.

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>>30033597
>key is having a plot
Well, here's my plot, she's in heat and abducts Anon. The end. I'm not going to add a subplot to that, I can't.

Also, I did try the 'edge for a few days' thing, and all it did was making me come in less than 5minutes.

And I can't go the 'do the fic weeks/months' later either, because I surely will have something else in mind by then and won't be writing.

Tbh never expected writing horse smut would be so... taxing, I guess.
Or maybe I'm just too autistic to write that shit.

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>>30030399
>Or you can use one of those dick cages I've seen around.
>dick cage
>not Nick Cage

git on mah level

>>30034312
I'm now envisioning a story where a stallion's dick is replaced by Nicolas Cage.
What's bleedin' up to these days?

>>30035219
>I'm now envisioning a story where a stallion's dick is replaced by Nicolas Cage.

"We've secretly switched this stallion's dick for Nicholas Cage. Let's see whether he can tell the difference."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Gtb1kElRk

>What's bleedin' up to these days?

I wish I knew.

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>>30035219
>>30035584
no need to worry. hes still making garbage

>>30035658
>no sex or gore tags
Well, at this point, I'll take any kind of improvement.

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>>30014429

>Niggers and Reading in the same image

>>30014714
>caring about us autists liking your shitfic

Just write what you like, show it to a pre-reader/editor and publish it if you think it's decent. Don't try to get horsefamous, it's a dark and miserable road.

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Anyone else seen this? It's self-published on Amazon and advertised on EqD. From the synopsis, it sounds suspiciously like FiO with the names filed off.

>>30037271
Holy shit what a crazy time we're living in.
And here I thought all these years that the fandom would be completely dead by now...

>>30037271
>pilot Andre

>>30037415
How different would all the more popular HiE would be if it starred Andre's definitely-not-self-inserts?

>>30037738
Seeing as Andre manages to be stunningly uncreative, even for a fanfiction author, it would probably just be endless crossovers with whatever he thinks is cool this month.
Expect a lot of guns, wayward video game characters, tied together with barely coherent plots and dialogue.

Looking for stories similar to this one:
http://mulpwiki.org/index.php/Rarity%27s_Debt
Preferable with Rarity.

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>>30033559

Good luck!

>>30033154
>>30033043
>>30033037

Managed to cut it down to the wordlimit at, like 3am. Probably ruined the whole thing because I had to leave out a bunch of the setup, but oh well.

Also,
>tfw you keep refreshing the page to see if somebody's commented on your story yet

>>30038133
I know that feel.
I remember that for three rounds in a row, my entries were always the ones with the least amount of comments for the first day.

Reminder to give feedback on the proposed voting system for the "best new stories" list: >>30014780 >>30014784

Regarding >>30018028, after thinking about it, I'm currently planning to stick with the original proposal (only fics published in 2014 or later), because it provides simple, objective criteria for what fics are allowed. Anything involving the "last updated" date or the dates on individual chapters is questionable because those can change due to edits well after the story was actually completed. The "first published" date never changes.

>>30038470
Ok. How will we do the submission and review process?

>>30038470
My feedback: nominations should open already

>>30038470
What about incomplete stories started previously to 2014--making them ineligible back when we had the first round--but have finished since?

>>30039206
That's what he was referring to. I think because there's not gonna be many of us submitting and reviewing, we should just use our best judgement.

>>30039017
What do you mean? The proposed process for nomination, discussion, and voting is covered in these posts: >>30014780 >>30014784, and is largely the same as last time. What part do you not understand?

>>30039058
You can start making nomination posts now, if you want. Instructions here: https://mlp-fanfics.herokuapp.com/instructions
I'll get the bot set up tonight, and it will pick up any posts you make the first time it runs.

>>30039206
>making them ineligible back when we had the first round
There was never any requirement that stories be complete. Harmony Theory, Arrow 18, and Salvation all made the top 5 list, despite being incomplete at the time. DOWAS was also effectively incomplete. There are probably a few others but those are the ones I know.

>What about incomplete stories started previously to 2014
Personally, I would be fine with excluding those. My intention in proposing the "best new stories" list was to promote good fics that aren't currently widely known in this thread. I think something like "The Night Is Passing", which started over 4 years ago but just completed last year, is already more widely known than, say, "Empty Horizons", which is incomplete but only started a year ago. In general, for the longer genres (such as adventure), I'd rather see an incomplete story that looks like it's going places, rather than a complete story that's 4+ years old.

But, to get an idea of what other people think, here are a couple of strawpolls:
Should incomplete stories be accepted for nomination? - https://www.strawpoll.me/12919168
How should we judge the "newness" of a story? - https://www.strawpoll.me/12919181

>>30039421
>we should just use our best judgement
That works too, I guess. Just set some rough guidelines and see what people vote for. I can also add the publication year and maybe the completion year to the database's story pages to give an idea of how new/old each story is.

>>30039478
>What part do you not understand?
Oh nvm I missed the part where it says in the thread lmao

>My intention in proposing the "best new stories" list was to promote good fics that aren't currently widely known in this thread. I think something like "The Night Is Passing", which started over 4 years ago but just completed last year, is already more widely known than, say, "Empty Horizons", which is incomplete but only started a year ago. In general, for the longer genres (such as adventure), I'd rather see an incomplete story that looks like it's going places, rather than a complete story that's 4+ years old.
I would suggest that the list include everything that the thread considers is worth reading. It should be the answer to both questions "I'm new, what should I start out with?" despite that one being almost moot, it's a good measure of all the stories the thread considers worthy, as well as the "what new things should I read?" question, which is more relevant to today.

>>30039206
>2014
Is the starter kit really three years old? Where the fuck has that time gone?

I barely feel like I've read any truly memorable stuff since then.

>>30039714

I felt that way too, but when I sorted my favorites by date, I found I actually had a bunch of good fics from post-2014 that I didn't even realize weren't "old." Maybe that's just me though.

>>30038470

I agree with anything re. keeping it simple. I don't want to have to do forensic work to figure out if a story's eligible or not. Other than that, I'm pretty much up for whatever format you use as long as it's simple and intuitive for the voter. The details of scoring, time windows, etc.--do whatever, I'll trust you to do a better job than I would.

>>30039786
I'm still just for nominations to be made by judgement call. If you do nominate one which was only finished after Jan 1, 2014, then just say so in the submission post.

>>30039670
>"I'm new, what should I start out with?"
We already have the starter kit for that: https://i.imgur.com/vuTA7EN.png

>>30039799
>I'm still just for nominations to be made by judgement call.
Yeah, let's go with this. Maybe if we get lots of nominations of fics that clearly aren't "new", then we can apply some stricter requirements. But hopefully adding dates to the story listings and reminding people that the list is for new stories will be enough.

>>30039714
Curiously enough, I just went through my favourites and I found at least 4 stories worth discussing. One of which is pre-2014, but I hadn't read it by the time we made the voting.

>nominate http://www.fimfiction.net/story/7531/eyes-on-you for Romance

Eyes on You

One day, Twilight hears a cry of help in the forest, when she goes to invesitgate, she founds a battered Trixie being attacked by Timberwolves. What follows is the birth of a strong friendship, and perhaps something more. But, why has Trixie returned to Ponyville? Well, she wants Twilight to be her partner in the Manehattan Magic Display, Equestria's most prestigious show magic expo.


>Pros:
- Both Trixie and Twilight act believeable and in-character.
- They don't immediately hit it off, and it's nice to see how their personalities clash during the first chapters as they start to warm up to each other.
- There's a love triangle going on between Trixie, Twilight and Rainbow Dash that has a good set-up and is well developed through the first part of the story.
- Despite the tonal shift between the Ponyville arc and Manehattan arc, the story keeps you interested in the developing relationship between Twilight and Trixie.
- The events of the Display are creative and engaging.

>Cons:
- Sans a couple of exceptions, most of the other OC participants in the Display are underdeveloped.
- Twilight's obliviousness to Rainbow Dash's feelings gets a bit tiring near the end of the Ponyville arc.
- The shift between the Ponyville arc and the Manehattan arc is very notorious. If it weren't for the romantic core of the whole story, they may as well be two different Twixie stores.

Overall, this is a great fic. The relationship between Trixie and Twilight feels natural, and the Display is a really interesting event with fun and creative events.

If you like Twixie and Grand Tournaments, this is for you.

I'm stealing TSG's pros and cons from the archive.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/320477/carousel for Horror

Carousel

As Rarity works to create the boutique of her dreams, a forgotten piece of Ponyville’s past is waking up. Secret memories lie forgotten in dusty basements, unrighted wrongs scratch at locked doors, and she finds herself caught up in a history that may be doomed to repeat itself.

Pros:
>atmospheric horror
>fantastic climax that's slowly built up
>has a great setting (pre-show Ponyville) and characterization

Cons:
>starts like a glacier
>post-climax is fumbled a little
>follows a standard atmospheric horror plot (creepy place, character goes to creepy place, creepy stuff happens, reason for creepy stuff is revealed, character and reason face off.)

When the summary promises a slow-burning, atmospheric horror, it delivers. There were no cheap scenes put in for shock value; much like Rarity, the true horror of the story slowly creeps up on you, becoming more and more suffocating as it goes on, teasing you with glimpses of what lies in the dark before culminating in a satisfying climax.

>>30040014
>post-climax is fumbled a little
I can relate to that.

I guess we're starting then.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/252269/the-witch-of-the-everfree for Alternate Universe
It's a more subtle AU, where it really only answers one what if? question, without implementing anything particularly jarring from the world. It takes Sunset Shimmer to the Everfree Forest instead of to weird colorful human-ish land. Sunset proceeds to become a hermit.

Pros:
>Really well written
>Sunset's characterization is spot on
>Basically the rock on which all other Sunset fics stand.

Cons:
>Can't really think of any unless you don't like Sunset. It should be an easy shoo in for the new list.


>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/322316/twilight-the-third for Alternate Universe and Adventure
Written by the same guy as above, it's another well written AU, except this time it does a lot more than answer a single what if? question. I've never seen the anime that it seems to be inspired by, and it doesn't have the crossover tag on it on fimfic, but it could well be one anyways.

Pros:
>Another well written one
>Once it builds up it gets really good for a solid 40k words

Cons:
>Strange if not slow buildup
>Abrupt ending
>Characterization is necessarily adjusted for the setting (not really a bad thing but the characters aren't really who they say they are)


>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/141746/roll-for-initiative for Comedy
The Mane 6 get together to play some Dungeons and Dragons (or whatever). Started 2013 but unfinished till mid-2014.

Pros:
>Hilarity ensues
>Seriously, it had me in stitches on the Eurostar and people were giving me odd looks

Cons:
>None it's not even that long just read it.
>Or you're one of those people who hates /tg/ humor.

>end

>approve https://www.fimfiction.net/story/320477/carousel
I support this. It's a good evening of dark atmosphere. Not that scary but also pretty unsettling.

>>30040179
>discuss 252269/the-witch-of-the-everfree
>Cons: Can't really think of any
Haven't read it it a while, but as I recall, the last few chapters get into show-rewrite territory.

Still a pretty good fic, though.

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>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/230072/twilight-sparkle-of-the-royal-guard for Adventure, Romance, Alternate Universe

This is a doozy, because I feel it does a stellar work in all of its three categories.

The romance between Twilight and Cadance is ver well developed. They go from vague acquaintances, to friends, to they-obviously-want-to-fuck, to genuine affection for each other as they go in this adventure through the Diamond Dog lands.

Speaking of which, this is a great adventure reminiscent of old adventure serials. The pacing is great, its peaks hit at the right moments, the tension is well-constructed, the downtime and calm moments doesn't feel as filler, the OC's have depth to them, the settings and new locations visited feel real.

This also ties with this being a pretty decent AU in which Shining went to Celestia's Academy and Twilight joined the Guard, a simple premise which is developed to its fullest. That's without even mentioning the grat antagonist and how he changes several key moments of FiM events (though most of them occur in the sequel, which is also worth a nomination) Also, the powerups Twilight and Spitfire get in the sequel are some of the most fun and creative I've seen since Besides the Will of Evil.

Feel free to discuss the cons, I genuinely feel this is one of the best pony fanfics I've read in all my years on FiMFiction.

>Captcha: ENTRY WORTH
You're damned right, Captcha.

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thats pretty trihard

All right, the new nomination site is up: http://198.27.67.67:8000
Properly-formatted posts should show up on the site within 5 minutes. (Except when we move to a new thread, in which case I have to update the thread number manually.)

There are still a few things left to do:
>add start/end dates to story pages
>update instructions and bookmarklet
>set up redirect from the old server to the new one

>>30040179
>approve https://www.fimfiction.net/story/141746/roll-for-initiative
Ponies play tabletop. That's pretty much it, and is done so well. This is one of the best examples of taking a simple premise and developing to its fullest potential.
This is also one of those stories that could've gone on forever, discreetly taking from some /tg/ stories, but what we have is enough for everyone to have a moment to shine. There's nothing I would remove, and very little I would add. As it stands is a great comedy that entertained me all the way through.

Cont from >>30040179 I'm gonna stop doing cons, and just list out why I think each nomination should be on the list.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/214578/the-freeport-venture for Alternate Universe and Adventure
Possibly the best Sunset-centered universe out there. Sunset finds herself in an unforgiving city in an island chain far from Equestria. She learns about new cultures and the power of money. It's worth pointing out that it has a series of sequels that carry on its legacy quite well.

>Pros:
Awesome worldbuilding, Freeport stands out as one of the best locations on fimfic.
Great characterization, Sunset takes on a well-defined role in her new world, and the mostly-OC cast supports her very well indeed.
It should be another gimme for its categories.


>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/352029/the-alchemy-of-chemistry for Alternate Universe and Slice of Life
Sunset is a graduate instructor in an alchemy class and makes her first real friend.
I'm nominating this story as the chronological first entry to the other best Sunset universe. Alongside Freeport and Witch of the Everfree, Wavelengths is the best place to get your horse-Sunset fix.

>Pros:
Really comfy University-type setting for some new and familiar characters to have wholesome slice of life adventures.
Each story is contained but relevant to the others, and each is short and sweet
The characterization is very good as well.
The buildup to what may stop being slice of life is intriguing, but unfinished as of nomination.


>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/248094/feedback for Adventure and Mystery and Dark
Sunset is recalled from the EqG world to find out what happened to the now-dead Princess Twilight Sparkle. Time stuff happens, and Sunset figures out a mystery.

>Pros
Sunset thrown into a doozy of a situation.
Twilight is dead, but it's well-handled and she doesn't stay dead
The characterization is on point
The grief is on point

>end

Continued

>>30040315
>nominate 248094/feedback for Sci-Fi
Adding Sci-fi because time travel is the main plot device. Sunset and the M5 get a crystal ball that shows the world as it was nine days ago, and proceed to exploit the hell out of it in an attempt to undo Twilight's death.

See other categories for the original nomination post.

>reject 248094/feedback for adventure
Not much adventuring in this one. The MCs mostly sit around in Canterlot trying to figure out a way to save Twilight.

>approve 214578/the-freeport-venture
Agreed with the entire nomination post. Sunset gets nice character development, and some cool fight scenes too.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/144198/long-road-to-friendship for Equestria Girls, Romance

I'm nominating this for Romance as well--because duh--even though I know this will probably take the top spot for Equestria Girls category.

Do I even have to say anything? This is probably the most well-known, well-regarded, well-developed, and most-hyphenated SunLight fic and with good reason. Then again, since it's so well-known, you could argue why should it be put in a recommendation list.

More from >>30040179 and >>30040315

>approve https://www.fimfiction.net/story/230072/twilight-sparkle-of-the-royal-guard
Holy fuck yes this one is great. Good AU, good, original lesbian romance, good adventure.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/194918/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-sweetie-belle for Romance Tragedy Sad Drama Dark
Fuck this one is some heavy shit. Sweetie does bad things and bad things happen to her but she's too childish to really understand it.

>Pros
It's a doozy alright.
Well written, characterization is top-notch
Holy fuck is it depressing

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/304908/winds-of-wintercrest for Adventure Thriller
A less well-known one, it's a short little adventure that Rarity and Rainbow Dash embark on to find the CMC. End up finding some weird cursed town and "solving" an old love triangle.

>Pros:
Interesting, short, well written
Characterization is good
The tragic love story they uncover does a very good job carrying the story

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/301077/broken-symmetry for Dark Mystery Romance Sci-Fi
Moondancer gets into some weird timey-wimey boondoggle that takes Twilight to figure out. Mistakes are made, then solved, and time travel happens to exacerbate the situation.

>Pros:
The author has an impressive grasp of physics, which helped him write the technobabble for the time-travel device.
The characterization is decent throughout, although one part is a little difficult to swallow on behalf of Twilight
A very solid interpretation of time travel.


>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/341625/around-the-world-in-81-days-and-other-problems-caused-by-leap-years for Alternate Universe Adventure Crossover Tragedy
Industrial revolution meets MLP as Princess Twilight goes on a diplomatic mission. Diplomacy is hard.

>Pros:
One of the best uses of Spike I've ever read
Everything in the middle is excellent

>Cons:
Slow starter
The ending is weird

>end

Continues

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/243811/an-ally-called-preponderance for human, scifi
A scientist gets a phone call from three little ponies and tries to help them get home, the same way she did with earth's previous extraterrestrial visitor.

It's very much not a "first-contact" fic - everyone speaks English, the CMCs reveal themselves to the general public somewhere around chapter 2, and the men in black are on the aliens' side for once. Whether that's a pro or a con is up to you. Also, the narrator manages to be surprisingly interesting, given she spends nearly the entire story stuck in an airport 3,000 miles from where the action is.

>discuss https://www.fimfiction.net/story/301077/broken-symmetry
The fic was pretty good (dialogue was a bit off in places, as I recall), but the ending was a huge disappointment.

>>30040414
Please put commas or the word "and" between category names, otherwise the script won't parse it correctly. I'm going to have to load this comment manually.

>>30040414
I thought you had to use commas for the categories.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/169613/monsters for Dark, Drama

I'll sing the praises for the story in a moment, but I just noticed this is tagged "Mystery" as well. Is there a mystery in this story? Aren't the events and reveals foreshadowed well enough for it to be obvious that spoJMeRs I mean it, the story is great and you shouldn't spoil it for yourself if you haven't read it. New Page is Swift Sweep's rape child and still has some of Nightmare Moon's essence in her, which is why the cult wants to use her to resurrect Nightmare.

Just because they kept you in the dark for a while doesn't mean it's a mystery. And Swift Sweep investigating the break-in at the Canterlot Library doesn't make it a mystery because we see New Page's side of the story and we have the full picture since the beginning.

But I digress, this is actually one of the most effective Dark stories I've read. It straddles the line between serious story exploring dark themes and total edgefest, which is a lot to say about a story about a grimdark Equestria full of murder, conspiracies, rape, torture, and gore.

I mean, taking it at face value, it's amazing this is readable. In the hands of another author this could have been horrible, but JawJoe pulls it off pretty well. That's even without mentioning how sans Princess Celestia and Nightmare Moon, the entire cast is comprised of OC's (understandable, seeing how the story is set a few decades after NMM's banishment, but still).

>>30040414 This one might be my last nomination post
>>30040463 woops, sorry.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/247031/the-mare-who-once-lived-on-the-moon for Alternate Universe, Romance, Sci-Fi
There's not a lot to say about this. TWOLOT is basically the stuff of legends. The definitive Steampunk Equestria with great Victorianized characters and situations.

>Pros:
Almost everything

>Cons:
The stuff Numbers wrote after his mental breakdown isn't as brilliant as the beginning, but it still holds water (or air, in this case) and finishes strong.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/161159/the-mare-in-the-high-castle for Alternate Universe, Crossover, Dark, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
The Mane Six are launched into a dystopian retro-cyperpunk world of severe racial injustice and cruel industrial progress.

>Pros:
The characters are defined well by their new surroundings, and the anger surrounding them is well written.
The world is a star in this work, as Ponichaeism takes PKD's style and implements it well into the land of Equestria.
>end

Now onto the incompletes:

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/280659/twilight-sparkle-unicorn-economist for Alternate Universe, Slice of Life, Comedy
This is just a fun and bizarre retelling of the lead up to episode one, where Economics are the only important part of anything. Twilight, the world's greatest mortal economist, must save the day from unsound economic plans and ideas set in motion in Ponyville. Oh and she's gotta stop Recession Moon or whatever too.

>Pros
What the fuck is going on?
This story is ridiculous, and ridiculously enjoyable. It's so off the wall, but so well written.
Characterization is uncanny for how bizarre this new Equestria is.
Isn't even that incomplete. The story wraps up nicely with the defeat of NMM, but then just continues into comfy economically-inclined SoL

>>30040486
FYI, the nomination site doesn't respect spoiler tags.

>>30040519
Well... Shit. I'll still spoiler them here, just in case someone hasn't read these stories.

>>30040507
>discuss https://www.fimfiction.net/story/161159/the-mare-in-the-high-castle

You know, I really liked that story, but I really disliked how the ending turned Dash from a slightly racist, devout-yet-fanatical officer (or whatever they were called) to a petty mare who does all the things she did because she got turned down by Shining Armour and is still better.

I may be overplaying this, but I remember the last chapter hitting this point really hard, and it made all her character lose strength and left me in a sour note.

Also, why did Twilight dreamed herself to the original FiM timeline while in a coma?

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[pretend this is a clever comment about all the AU stories nominated]

>>30040507 or not, jesus christ. These are all really incomplete, so I understand anyone's reticence to accept them.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/198305/equestria-exiled for Sci-Fi, Adventure, Alternate Universe
Far-future where ponies live on a series of space stations, and the Elements of Harmony are scattered throughout them, lost among the stars. Politics are driving a wedge between two factions in the high council, and Octavia Melody must reunite the elements to make sure the good guys win. Probably.

>Pros:
I love how the space stations do the neo-cyberpunk, and Octavia's existence in them is really well described early on.
The politicians are all a bit evil, and between Sombra and Shimmer, it's hard to decide who's the real bad guy here.
The friendships the Octavia has made so far are very well done indeed.
All the characters follow the fanon faithfully but not to the point where it gets in the way. They've been thoughtfully recreated.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/316852/empty-horizons for Alternate Universe, Adventure, Thriller
Great chunks of land float above an Equestria that's been blanketed by a miles-deep flood when the mane six are dug up from Canterlot by a salvage team. Intrigue only builds from there.

>Pros:
Very interesting world that's being built upon nicely.
Characterization is good. Nobody has taken any truly inappropriate actions.


>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/303160/synthetic-bottled-sunlight for Alternate Universe, Dark, Drama
Celestia escapes captivity to a world run by Flim and Flam Industries, battered and dying. She finds a firebrand conspiracy journalist willing to help her publicize her plight, and try to take back Equestria.

>Pros:
A beautiful take on how difficult public opinion is to shift.
The way the author crafts the gilded inequality under a corporatized government is nothing short of brilliant.

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>>30040507
>Twilight, the world's greatest mortal economist, must save the day from unsound economic plans and ideas set in motion in Ponyville. Oh and she's gotta stop Recession Moon or whatever too.
I think I just got an erection.

>>30040507
>discuss https://www.fimfiction.net/story/247031/the-mare-who-once-lived-on-the-moon

All the bad aspects it has are vastly outnumbered by the good. And the prose in some of the earlier chapters is top notch.

Seriously, though, Spoilers ahead: I wished Numbers had taken his time to properly develop the initial romance between Twilight and Luna. It's about two chapters of Twi seeing her wander around in the moon before being immediately smitten by her. I had to re-read those first chapters to make sure. As great as the development that comes afterwards is, the actual falling in love part leaves much to be desired to my eyes.

Also the final confrontation with the Nightmare was reaaaally rushed. It's one scene that while interesting, isn't developed anywhere to its fullest potential.

Still, it's probably amongst the best stories I've read this year.

>>30040605 ok this is my last one I swear

This one's because I forgot about it until nominating SBS
>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/223509/dusk-falls for Dark, Drama, Mystery
Celestia takes a vacation. Coincidentally, horrible things happen. Set in an idyllic seaside resort town.

>Pros:
Luna and Celestia's characters are well done.
The build up is dramatic but fitting for the god-rulers of a superpower.


>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/280598/faultlines for Alternate Universe, Dark, Adventure, Sci-Fi
This is one of my absolute favorites on the site. It's set in a semi-post-apocalyptic world where everyone from the past is more or less manifested in entirely new characters in this future. The Sun hangs low in the sky directly over the north pole, and racial tensions are divided among lines of color instead of race, in large part due to the diminished magic of the world. There are two story arcs, the first being about Evenstar (Twilight) and Sage (Sunset), who are close friends at University, but are different races, and Sunset, a Red, is looked down on heavily. The second arc is an adventure undertaken by some caravaneers including neo-Rainbow Dash, to deliver neo-Rarity and neo-Sweetie Belle to a northern city. Something is cooking, and it's going to be big.

Pros:
It was amazing when I first read it, then the author rewrote one of the arcs and it only got better.
The characters are super interesting, as is the premise.

Cons:
Irregular update schedule. I only hope it sees completion one day because it really is incredible.

Well, shit, maybe I ought to go find out if I read any good fics in the last three years.

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>>30040687
See if you've read any good clop in the last three years, apparently nobody has.

>>30040700
Doubt it, I don't really read pony smut.

>>30040507
>discuss https://www.fimfiction.net/story/247031/the-mare-who-once-lived-on-the-moon

I finished reading this just a few days ago after putting it off for a long while, and I have to say, it's one of the few stories out there that I re-read before even completing it.

Up to the end it has a solid pace with great characterization for nearly most everyone (even though Spike is almost always just in the background) and great character lines. So much so that I'd wager categorizing it as some kind of weird tragicomedy. It has a little bit of everything, and that's how it excels.

Similarly, I'd say the main con is that, in a romantic story, there isn't much romance at all. As that other faggot pointed out, the romance, while given an interesting gimmick, isn't developed much. The ending, while rushed, is still satisfying, but once again, the implied relationships between some of the characters could have been developed better prior to the epilogue.

Specifically, the ending implies Pinkiedash and Rarijack, mostly the prior, even though there wasn't much of that.

Great story, but I'd hesitate calling it just a romance, even though that is supposed to be the entire point.

>>30040700
Even if I did read smut, I wouldn't nominate any of it.

oh wow. I got all excited when I saw 54 new posts in the thread. surely either someone had a meltdown or did a riff
but no its just this shit again

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>>30041658
What are you writing?

>>30041769
nothing at all

Hey guys, I'm gonna ask here it here since it's the place with the highest probability to find other writefags
I just can't post the third section of this green, for some reason https://pastebin.com/LpFZN4aG
So the "You're Anon", to "But, how?!"
I have no idea why, it gives me a 'connection error'.
The post is 1920 characters long, and don't contain any spam words.
Anyone got an idea?

>>30043749
It's so shit that not even 4chan will take it.

>>30043749
See >>30043758

>>30043783
What did you write Anon?

>>30043790
Oh, that's strange.
Thanks Anon.

>>30043790
Uh, I tried to post without replying to my earlier post and it still doesn't work.
And I don't have anything close to '>R:" "' in that section.
What the fuck is happening

>>30043749
>connection error
Go to the top of the thread, click "post a reply", and make your post with that form instead of the quick reply. It will send you to a page with a second captcha. Once you finish that, it should let you post normally again.

>>30043877
Holy shit thanks m8.
Look like a robot my fucking ass. I'm not that bad

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>>30043817
That's just a distilled example. The actual line causing it was pic related. It looks like a really shitty robot checking regex on 4chan's part.

>>30043936
I don't know Anon, because I had to redo the second captcha to post the fourth section.
It can't be just a line or a combination of characters, there's something else IMO.

>>30043944
It's not just a line, it's a ton of different lines according to /qa/. That's demonstrating how one is a really random thing that can have extra characters slotted into it. The variability is why I think it's a malformed regex.

>>30039893
>But hopefully adding dates to the story listings and reminding people that the list is for new stories will be enough.
This

>>30040507
>reject https://www.fimfiction.net/story/247031/the-mare-who-once-lived-on-the-moon for Romance
The romance is definitely there, and obviously a very important plot point, but from a narrative point of view it really isn't the focus. Heck, I'd rather call the story an adventure than a romance.
>approve https://www.fimfiction.net/story/247031/the-mare-who-once-lived-on-the-moon for Alternate Universe
Overall I absolutely love the story. It's definitely Numbers's magnum opus, and that's saying something.
I'm not explicitly approving it for sci-fi partly because what science there is, is based on hard, real-world science (IIRC Numbers even ran the numbers for some calculations, just to ensure the story would be correct). You do have magic thrown in though, so I'm not going to vote reject either.
Another big reason is that it just fits the AU category perfectly. While you do have elements of romance, sci-fi, adventure, whatever, I think it's an AU fic first and foremost. There's a ton of absolutely exquisite worldbuilding, the like of which I have very, very seldom seen, and it make me like steampunk (which I normally don't particularly fancy).

>mfw I find a really fantastic story then realise it was published in 2012
Woops. I'll just drop it here in case anyone hasn't read it yet and is looking for a nice 30k word read: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/41146/twilight-revised
And now back to combing through my bookshelves.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/101769/triptych for Alternate Universe, Adventure, Drama
Published in 2013, but the author barely wrote anything major through 2014 and 2015, so a lot of the story was published in 2016 and 2017. Incomplete (though close to completion IIRC).
I honestly had some trouble picking out a good fic of Estee's to nominate, so in the end I just decided to nominate Triptych itself. My intention (though not everyone may agree) is to essentially nominate the entire Tryptich AU, and I think the main story of the verse is a pretty good representation for it.

>Pros
Characterisation and worldbuilding. Some say Estee's writing is slow and meandering, but I think all his asides and tangents flow really well, don't detract from the narrative, and are crafted well enough that they are actually very interesting, and don't feel like something you have to trudge through to get back to the action. They are then used to present backgrounds, explanations, backstories, and such - thus building a very detailed and fleshed-out world.
Honestly, the Triptych continuum doesn't seem like it should even qualify for AU, because almost everything in it strictly conforms to show canon. In fact, the beauty of it is that Estee manages to craft coherent, self-consistent, believable explanations for all the peculiarities and illogicalities of the show.
As mentioned above, the pacing of the story is quite slow, but never boring (to me) and simply crammed with these details and snippets of information. Estee's skill shows in that despite everything I just said seemingly contradicting the "show, don't tell" principle, he manages to pull it off without making his story unreadable and boring.

Damn you character limit

>>30044901
(cont.)

The story itself works really nicely with all that, in my opinion. The mane 6 are thrust into an adventure with few hints and fewer ideas as to what they should be doing. They then proceed to figure things out and learn more about why they're actually here (hence the mystery tag on fimfiction), while, in parallel, the reader learns more about the world the story is set in. However, I didn't nominate it for Mystery because there's no "whodunnit" feel; the reader knows a lot more about the events that transpired than the mane 6. Despite that, the suspense in the story comes from lack of explanation for these events - explanation which requires knowledge of the AU, which the reader slowly gets acquainted with. This creates an interesting dynamic where the reader knows about what happened, but has to wait for the mane 6 - who do know how their world works, obviously - to find it out for themselves as well, in order to gain a proper explanation of the events.

I'm probably not being very clear and kind of rambling here. If you're familiar with the continuum, you know what I'm talking about here. If you're not, I doubt I'll convince you to read 300k words just for this vote.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/293468/a-fork-in-time for Comedy
It's 13k, go take 20 minutes to read it. It's worth it.

As a more formal argument, I can say that while there are tons of twilestia fics out there, this one switches the usual roles around, something which I don't think I've seen anywhere else. That said, I honestly think it's more comedy than romance - although some may perhaps disagree.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/289892/a-once-and-future-darkness for Horror, Dark
The entire worlds gets deconstructed. Everyone goes insane, but not really. Woopsie daisies.
I think this one is more up to personal preference - there isn't really a deep point to the story, so some may just end up finding it boring. I'm throwing it in here anyway for judgement.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/221490/pinkie-pies-last-nightmare-night for Comedy
At just over 1k words, this is a very short fic, which has one purpose - to be funny. It achieves this purpose admirably. It's one of the three or so all-time top comedy fics on fimfiction for me.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/197006/a-hell-of-a-time for Comedy
And here's another one of my all-time favourite comedies, if not THE favourite. This one is a little bit longer, but keeps up the tone all the way through, builds and then utilises running gags perfectly, and ends on a fantastic punchline.
I mean it's Aragon. If you've read Aragon you know what I'm talking about. And this, in my opinion, is the best Aragon fic I've read.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/169016/if-you-came-to-conquer for Tragedy
A thing with two sequels. Can I nominate the trilogy? Or at least the first two - I feel like they belong really well together as a dilogy, with the last one being more of a separate work, a sequel relative to the first two together.

Either way way, we seem to be lacking in tragedy submissions, and I think this is a great candidate. Some might say the characterisation is off, but I believe the characters - especially the princesses - are all pushed so far out of their comfort zone that they were really handled quite realistically, all things considered. The plot itself is pretty unique, too - at least among well-written stories.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/264005/the-twilight-enigma for Adventure
While I love the Luna Cypher, it might be just be me but I believe it's somewhat inferior to the original Celestia Code. The Twilight Enigma, though, brings it back very well in my opinion, matching the original in quality and scope. Then, of course, you now have the Skyla Pseudonym but I haven't gotten around to reading that yet.

>>30044908
I imported this one manually because it's missing the >discuss line. (The bot doesn't follow reply links because it's not always obvious how a reply relates to the initial post.)

>>30045483
Right, good point, I should have thought of that.

>>30045098
>of course, you now have the Skyla Pseudonym but I haven't gotten around to reading that yet.
It's pretty good. I was a bit disappointed that it didn't put more focus on teenage Flurry Heart, but it works pretty well as an adventure fic about Twilight going sky-pirating.

Speaking of Flurry Heart:
>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/322183/rebellious-alicorn-teenager-shenanigans for comedy
Rebellious teenage Flurry Heart does crazy rebellious teenager things. The writing style for the narration is entertaining it itself, and does an excellent job of capturing the rebellious teenager mindset.

It's incomplete, but the chapters are largely standalone short stories, with not much of an overarching plot to worry about.

>generally positive comments on writeoff minific so far
I'd totally forgotten how much I liked to get comments to stuff.

>>30046122
I hope it turns out well for you, Anon.

>>30046182
Thanks!
It's not going to be outstanding, I know very well that it isn't, but I'm still hoping for the best.
It came down to kind of a last-minute submission, with little in the way of planning, but that's just my own fault. I should probably get started much earlier next time.

>>30046284
>kind of a last-minute submission, with little in the way of planning
That can sometimes give good results.

I wish I had managed to make something for this round. Maybe next time.

>>30040947
>>30041122

Screw you guys. Guess I'm doing this myself.

(and I won't even nominate my own shit, promise.)

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/345961/custodian-pegasus-nights for Erotica

You know what I love? Worldbuilding as porn. This is a neat little story about how each of the three tribes has their own customs and rituals when mating season comes around, and this one is about those of the Pegasi, specifically from the perspective of Fluttershy as she's unexpectedly tasked with playing the role of custodian for newcomers who have no earthly idea why their bodies are tweaking out. Sweet, sexy, and engaging from start to finish, with the promise of future sequels about the other two tribes.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/219950/red-shoe-diaries-equestria for Erotica

A (mostly) fun, silly, and very enjoyable collection of sexy short-stories in the style of the old Showtime softcore porn series of the same name. Only real 'con' for me is the heinous and unpleasant mood whiplash the Twilight Velvet story causes, otherwise it's a fantastic collection.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/195415/my-life-is-a-glass for Erotica

Remember how in that episode where Dash broke her wing, there was a guy sharing her room in a full body cast? This is a story about Rainbow fucking and falling in love with that guy. It's unique, I gotta give it that. I'll understand if it's not for everyone though.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/166959/facing-her-fears for Erotica

Fluttershy tries to work through her fear of dragons, ends up spying on some fucking and leads her to pounce Spike in turn. One of the better Spike ships out there that's not Rarity.

>end

There you go, enjoy your high quality new-ish porn. Continued next post with some non-porn submissions.

>>30044901
>I honestly had some trouble picking out a good fic of Estee's to nominate
then dont nominate any of them

>>30046666
>That can sometimes give good results.
Generally I feel like full spontaneity is the best way to start writing, it just means that you should spend more time editing afterwards.
For this thing I just kept writing opening sentences until I found something that sounded nice, and built upon that. Which is a fun way to write something short.

>>30046682
>and I won't even nominate my own shit, promise
Is that supposed to be some sort of hint?

>>30046682
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/195415/my-life-is-a-glass
Dear goodness, I remember adding that to my tracking folder back when it came out. It's good to know it hasn't been abandoned.

>>30046729
>Is that supposed to be some sort of hint?
I'd be tempted to nominate his genderbent Apple Bloom story, but I already forgot the details other than male Apple Bloom jacking off.

>>30046842
It's smut, what more details could possibly be relevant?

>>30046849
The specifics of the smut and the emotional investment you have in said smut, of course. If all there is to the story is peg A going in slot B, you may as well jack off to IKEA manuals.

>>30046874
>you may as well jack off to IKEA manuals
That's not normal?

Goddamnit 4chan let me post nominations, stop giving me connection errors.

>>30046890
See >>30043877

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/238375/til-sunday-do-us-part for Romance

Of course I'm nominating a Sparity fic, who do you think I am. Here's the short summary.
"Rarity has an awful idea; marry Spike for the weekend to gain entrance into an ultra-exclusive club for socialite couples.
Spike has a brilliant idea; go along with it."
Absolutely adorable all the way through, especially with how their struggles mirror those of a 'real' marriage.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/365247/the-bounce-test for Slice of Life
Best Flash Sentry fic you'll ever read by far, period, the end. Worth reading even if you hate him.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/44632/get-stuffed for Erotica

Smarty Pants is self-aware, and ever since Big Mac took her, she has seen how lonely he is. But for one night she becomes a real pony, and helps relieve him of his loneliness. Super cute story, despite being guilty of a bit of fridge horror at the idea of an inanimate object having sentience.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/246579/luna-princess-of-space for Sci-Fi

Without a doubt my absolute favorite piece of absurdly over the top sci-fi pulp on this entire site. Plays out like a more violent and futuristic version of Made in Manehattan.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/232852/three-gems-and-a-scooter for Drama

Scootadopt story where it's NOT Rainbow Dash that takes her in. Instead it's Rarity, and all the headbutting and culture clash that implies. Cute and unique with an enjoyable ending that doesn't just feel like a hand-wavey happily ever after.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/309823/someone-still-loves-you for drama

A much heavier and visceral version of Orphanloo that gets really deep into ponies showing the absolute worst sides of themselves before they're able to make up and heal. If you enjoy gut-wrenching feels with your drama fic, this is the story for you.

>end

>>30046729
Nah, my shit's unfinished anyway.

>>30046896
Hey thanks. Missed that bit.

>>30046932
>Nah, my shit's unfinished anyway.
Yeah, how's that going for you?

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>fimfic story metadata API includes date_modified
>mfw it does not include date_published
>mfw extracting chapter publication dates from markers on the historical likes/upvotes graph
>mfw the graph "API" response is just a blob of arbitrary HTML to be pasted into the page
>mfw it's wrapped in a JSON object for no reason at all
>mfw parsing javascript with regex to extract chapter timestamps

It works, though. Publication dates now appear on the story pages, with dates before 2014 shown in red. Example: http://198.27.67.67:8000/story/25/2

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>>30047098
>It works, though.
Isn't that knighty's general attitude towards the way the site is built?

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>Only one story nominated in Sad, Human, and EqG
The last two don't concern me, but I'd imagine there'd be something worth discussing, right?

>>30047172
We are barely 24 hours into the nomination process. And of course you can nominate fics yourself, if you're really worried about a particular category.

>>30046932
>>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/246579/luna-princess-of-space for Sci-Fi

Ooh, I'll second that one. Great pulp-era fun.

I just realised that I published my last new story a year ago.

Writing whole stories before publishing them feels refreshing and is less stressful, but then it leads to situations like this.

I want to nominate Touch the sun.
For all categories.

>>30047672
We do need more Horror nominations.

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>>30047795
ur havin a giggle m8?

>>30047190
I'm pretty sure that all of the recent nominations have been done by two people.

>>30047955
I'll nominate some stories at some point. I'm just being lazy. How long is the nomination thing gonna be up? I might not get around to it until after the RariTwi contest finishes on the 26th.

I honestly cant think of anything recent that was any kind of memorable

Hump

>>30049736
>Hump

Nominate for erotica. A lustful odyssey in a single word.

Urethra

Sodomy

Urethral sodomy

Urethral humping

>>30046721
No, I meant the opposite. It wouldn't have made too much sense to nominate like 5 fics of the same author, set in the same universe, for the same categories, but I had trouble choosing.

Looking back I should have worded that better.

>>30046932
>approve https://www.fimfiction.net/story/246579/luna-princess-of-space for Sci-Fi
Chuckfinley seems to be equally good at writing realistic teenage debauchery and space pulp fiction.

>>30047098
>mfw parsing javascript with regex to extract chapter timestamps
Heh, immediately made me think of http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

>>30051299
I usually really like his stuff, though I haven't bothered to read a lot of his smut.

>>30050735
>>30050878

I know what I am, but what r u?

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Nominations looking good so far. I'll look for some crossover/human/EqG fics to fill out those categories a bit more. Someone else should do the same for Sad and Horror (I don't read much of those).

>>30053202

How long do we have to submit things? I'm being lazy and putting off going through my favorites.

>>30053306
Until this weekend, at least. Probably another week after that too. We can discuss it this weekend based on how many nominations are in at that point.

>>30053380

Alright. I can get my act together before next monday, at the least.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/234937/fractured-sunlight for eqg, romance
A SunLight fic that actually makes sense, and acknowledges at least some of the weirdness of that ship. Specifically: human Sunset was Twilight's best friend in elementary school, before she tragically died at age 11. Now, years later, pony Sunset shows up and throws a wrench into Twilight's long recovery.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/304396/social-bathing for eqg
Pony-turned-human Twilight and Sunset take a shower together. As the description says, it's not a clopfic - that's how ponies typically bathe, and Sunset's been missing it since her human friends aren't interested. The story works out to be a nice little SoL, and expands a bit on Biscuit's usual headcanons, as seen in Onto the Pony Planet and elsewhere.

>>30053600
>discuss https://www.fimfiction.net/story/234937/fractured-sunlight
I'm never going to let go on just how shitty of a scientist SciTwi is.

I suppose it's fitting because she is just looking for means to avoid facing her survivor guilt over human!Sunset's death, and devoting herself to science is just how she copes with that, but still it pisses me off how the story makes it seem as though she's this brilliant scientist in spite of blatant disregard of the scientific method, lab safety, or just rational thought and scientific curiosity.

Stellar romance, though. Thumbs up.

>>30054211
>discuss https://www.fimfiction.net/story/234937/fractured-sunlight

Alright, I know we keep doing this over and over again, but I don't really see where Twi is being a bad scientist. The story itself shies away from describing the actual science she does, since it's not the focus of the story, but her actions strike me as that of a scientist. She curious, doesn't dismiss far-fetched claims when there's empirical evidence to support those claims, and investigates a novel phenomenon in what is assumed to be a methodical manner.

She also does emotional teenager stuff, but that for the most part has nothing to do with her science, or the conflict between scientist and teenager is played for drama and deliberate.

The only really dumb thing she does is near the end, when she drinks the vial of magic, but at that point you know she's not in her right mind.

TL;DR: when Twilight is in her right mind, she's a good scientist. She just spends a lot of her time not in her right mind, and as such I think her characterization is very well done.

>approve https://www.fimfiction.net/story/234937/fractured-sunlight for eqg, romance
because it's good lol

>reject https://www.fimfiction.net/story/234937/fractured-sunlight
because i can lol

>discuss https://www.fimfiction.net/story/234937/fractured-sunlight
because i haven't even read it lol

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/285707/the-lunar-guardsman for Human, Dark
A dark and edgy human OC who can murder for fun decides to take care of filly Twilight and becomes like a second father to her. Then they grow more distant as she moves to ponyville but he meets up with a suicidal Luna who was deeply traumatised by the banishment and they decide to be edgy together, much to everyone's chagrin. Meanwhile, Celestia is trying to be the idealistic ruler and voice of reason in a world plagued by monsters, treason, poverty, and other edgy things.

Oh and it's really, really well-written. All the characters have depth, all the motivations make sense, the worldbuilding is great, and really until you take a step back and think, "wait, so what exactly is this story about again?", you won't even notice how cliche some of its topics are - because it handles them so well that they don't actually seem cringy or cliche.
The entire thing us a real page-turner; at the end of every update I'm left waiting for more. For something that's been going for over a year and a half, and nearly 500k words, I think that's quite impressive.
Honestly, I think this fic is a strong contender for my favourite fimfiction story of all time.

>>30055584
>discuss https://www.fimfiction.net/story/285707/the-lunar-guardsman
Oh by the way, I didn't nominate it for AU because the focus isn't on the worldbuilding - it's on the story and characters. Really, if anything, I think it should mainly be in Human - but I added Dark as well simply because it's so prevalent throughout the story.

>>30054435
>discuss https://www.fimfiction.net/story/234937/fractured-sunlight

Just for the sake of the voting, I'm going to read through the story once again just to gather examples of what I mean, sort them, and maybe make a spiffy graph afterwards.

That being said, this is being nominated for romance and not scientific fidelity; and as a romance it has my full support.

>>30055584
not sure if serious

Why so little pony horror that isn't an edgefest?

>>30056661
because horsefuckers only know edge

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>mfw last fic is 2400 words
>need 2500 to get featured
this is stupid

>>30057255
You sure? Because I'm pretty sure I've seen pic related in the feature box some days ago, and it's less than 2500 words.

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>>30057498
Nice pic

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>>30057498
>>30057535

>>30057498
Well idk, 530 views in, like 10 hours?
My other stuff got featured as soon as it reached 100-200, so..
idk
Or maybe there's a 'list' kinda thing with maximum X number of smuts being featured, and since the clop now featured didn't pass its 3 days of 'hotness'...? I'm just guessing.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/280666/stargate-shangri-la for crossover
This is a Pony/Stargate crossover that follows roughly the same formula as Atlantis: SGC tries yet another new way of dialing the gate, finds an abandoned Ancient city-ship in another galaxy, meets the locals, and pisses off a new race of badguys. The main difference, of course, is that this galaxy is full of ponies and other MLP races instead of humans. The city-ship is also a bit less run-down this time (has working ZPMs), so the story focuses more on interactions between the human explorers and various ponies, instead of the Stargate people trying not to die. The characters on both sides are a good mix of canon and OCs - the original SG-1 members are there, and with the city-ship being so close to the Crystal Empire, they naturally have to negotiate with the Equestria princesses and their friends.

I'm not completely sure how well this story would hold up on its own, which is why I didn't nominate it for sci-fi, but if you like Stargate, it's definitely worth a read.

7DSJ updated again

>>30059001
Ah fuck, I always forget that happens on Wednesdays.

>August 15, 6 PM: Love Will Tear Us Apart
>6 PM
Sounds like there are going to be three chapters for August 15? Seems like we're getting into Zeno's Arrow territory here

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>When your favorite porn author is extremely talented at writing the fetish you like, but has very little content in regards to that fetish.

It's Megapone and urethra play

>>30059031
Zeno's Arrow? I'm not familiar with what you mean by this. I've never heard of it.

>>30059128
I checked Wikipedia and I mixed up the arrow with another of Zeno's paradoxes. The one I was thinking of was the race. To get to the finish line, the story goes, you first have to run half the distance, then you have to run a quarter of the distance, then an eighth of the distance, and so on to infinity. Since there are an infinite number of steps, and each step takes some time, you can never finish the race.

Similarly, if Shinzakura keeps dividing the remainder of 7DSJ into more and more chapters, each covering less and less time, we'll never get to the end of this fucking story.

>>30055584
>8 tags
>loooong description
>Prologue starts with Twilight casting a spell on an apple... wait, why should I care?

My first impressions are awful. Is it really as good as you say?

>>30059310
considering how many times he mentioned dark and edgy i'm pretty sure it was a fictitious nomination

So this is a dumb question. Are there any stories that involve uhm, boys with foreskin?

>>30060056
Doesn't seem likely, but there are plenty that mention stallions' sheathes, if that's close enough for your purposes

>>30060056
>boys
are you some sort of gay pedophile, anon? because most everyone else here is more interested in horsecock

[Pt. 1]

I gotta reread The Night That Never Ended so I can rec it for AU

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/358008/a-little-bit-of-nothing for Romance

Pros:
>comfy shipping
>lighthearted
>no relationship drama

Cons:
>has the standard "characters awkardly interact before shipping ensues" oneshot plot

It had that lighthearted tone that I love in shipping stories, was short and easy to digest, had a ship I enjoy (Flutterdash), and wasn't shit.

>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/352080/morsel-of-truth for Horror

Pros:
>short
>but with horribly building dread as it moves on
>doesn't have a gutpunch/twist ending

Cons:
>the ending could be better developed
>the wonderfully developed dread wasn't nearly as well used as it could have been

Probably one of the most effective "horror" oneshots I've read, in that it built the tension and atmosphere very well and did it without using any of the standard horror plots or gimmicks.

>nominate http://www.fimfiction.net/story/78420/reharmony for Alternate Universe and Adventure

Pros:
>great "total" AU setting
>characterization of the AU characters is good
>dark elements don't overpower the in-show feel of the story

Cons:
>Pinkie's references are so blunt, they're banned in the EU for bludgeoning people
>advanced tech (fighter jets, nukes) can seem out of place in the world of pone
>holy shit does the author need to learn how to properly pace his story arcs

Still the bar I set "total AUs" against. It's fun and adventurous in a shonen sort of way while still worldbuilding quite well. But it still can fall to the faults shonen can, namely bad pacing, a story that just never seems to end, and less-than-ideal AU character roles.

[Pt. 2]

nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/123244/blackacre for Dark

Pros:
>Tyrantlestia done well
>politics and war, what a combination
>Celestia flexes her manipulative muscles

Cons:
>shit tons of OCs mean subplots become a mess
>prequel setting means foregone conclusion
>Tyrantlestia still too evil, needs more moral ambiguity

Full review here (https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/325294/fanfiction-reading-update-155)

TL;DR: One of the best takes on Tyrantlestia--especially if you're in a mood for rooting for her, it has intrigue, politics, and war, but, being a prequel, has a fuckton of OCs which can get lost in the plot. Tyrantlestia's a hard beast to write and even here she could be improved by toning down the evilness a little. Note that the author has since made revisions so some issues may have been resolved (or made worse) since I read it.

nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/77470/the-lunar-rebellion for Dark and Adventure

Pros:
>without question the best warfic out there
>great plot
>side characters are well used and characterized

Cons:
>main protag can feel Sueish at times
>dear fucking god the siege arc refuses to wrap up

Of course I'm going to shill my favorite story. Starts out dishing out prequel world building and politics, then shifts over to war--and does war the best I've seen in a fanfic to date. If only Chenger had developed the protag better and not made her always right.

[Pt. 3]

nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/128320/3-5-7-2-8-7-0 for Dark

Pros:
>Villain isn't overdone/overpowered
>Well done dark elements
>Bittersweet ending

Cons:
>there's very little actually connecting it to pone
>entire cast of OCs means less empathy for them

Full review here (https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/281604/fanfiction-review-3-5-7-2-8-7-0)

TL;DR: The out-of-the-way setting is both a pro and a con. It means the plot can flourish, the dread develop, and the OCs shine without canon meddling, but it also means there's very little there truly making it a pony fic. The villian/monster, always important in these kind of fics, is done well and his gimmick is still pretty unique even years later.

nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/189261/the-better-angel for sad

Pros:
>short but compelling
>one fo the most effective shipping trageties out there
>great use of the griffons

Cons:
>focuses more on Luna and less on her actions
>aparently everyone's fine with genocide

Probably the saddest Twiluna fic out there, but also one of the most powerful.

>approve https://www.fimfiction.net/story/320477/carousel for Horror
Full review's here (https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/652169/fanfiction-reading-update-171) but tl;dr is that while it starts slow, the steadily building atmosphere, good use of pre-show Ponyville, and fantastic climax more than makes up for fumbling a little with organizing the "monster reveal" and ending. 9/10.

>end

>>30037271
>litRPG
What the fuck? We've gotten to the point that they're turning MMOs into fucking novels.

>>30045098
>somewhat inferior to the original Celestia Code
He fucked up when he wrapped up the evil portal invasion that was, til then the main plot of the story, in favor of shoveling the less interesting and less developed NMM subplot as the finale.

>>30061589
Whoops, fucked up the bot formatting for some of the nominations.
>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/123244/blackacre for Dark
>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/77470/the-lunar-rebellion for Dark and Adventure
>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/128320/3-5-7-2-8-7-0 for Dark
>nominate https://www.fimfiction.net/story/189261/the-better-angel for Sad

>>30061598
I don't think your comments for each nomination will be copied to the site if you do it like that.

>>30059310
>8 tags
It's 8 tags because it's almost 500k words long. Though some of them a really self-evident and should probably be removed, I agree. Unfortunately the author seems to tag by whether the story contains something, not whether the story focuses on something - so of course there's gonna be some comedic relief here and there, and if course there's gonna be some mystery and suspense.
I'd ask that you overlook the author's poor tagging practice, though.

>long description
I don't know about you but I prefer a description that actually spells out what the story is about, rather than some bullshit like "Rainbow Dash fliest East". I mean sure, some one-shots or short stories work well with really short descriptions, but I'd never start reading a several-hundred-thousand word story without a clear idea of what I'd be getting into.

>Prologue starts with Twilight casting a spell on an apple... wait, why should I care?
Can't you literally apply this to 99% of stories?
>"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." Wait, why do I care?

If you'd bothered to read past the first two or so paragraphs you'd have found that it introduces the characters, setting and time period. Not every story has to start with an exciting cut straight to the action. IIRC David Copperfield starts with like an entire paragraph of David just talking about this being his autobiography and hoping it will be interesting or something like that.

To be fair I started reading it expecting an average-tier autism to pass the time. Then I got really engrossed. Then I looked back and thought, "wait, why am I enjoying a HiE fic that's so full of supposedly cliche tropes this much?"

That being said, it's been forever since I read the opening chapters, and the author's skill has probably improved quite a bit since, so maybe you're right and the beginning is actually quite average.

>>30061585
>>30061589
Imported these manually

>>30061598
The script ignores empty nominations, fortunately, so I didn't have to manually delete these

>>30061589
>>entire cast of OCs means less empathy for them
Why are you tards so triggered by OCs? Why do you virtue signal your hatred for OCs like it's something to be proud of?

>skirts continues to not work on the things that made him popular
Short stories that almost never have a point? He's still doing that.

>>30053600
That isn't even THAT AUTHOR'S best SunLight!

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/332128/a-sunlit-journey
A much better SunLight EqG fic by the same author with a tighter and more compelling narrative, better science, and an actual moving plot.

>>30062221
Nominate it, then

>>30061582
>discuss http://www.fimfiction.net/story/78420/reharmony
>advanced tech (fighter jets, nukes)
That sounds awful. Good thing I dropped it before it got to that point. A few chapters of Weeaboo Applejack and her finely-honed katana were already more than I could bear.

>>30062206
Because if you go too far, then at some point there's no reason why it should even be a pony fic. And if that's the case, then you get just random autistic fiction which has ponies in it for the sole reason of trying to hitch off the large fanbase.

>>30062099
>regarding the beginning of the story

A story on the internet needs a hook much more than a story in a book. There's a million other entertaining things I could be doing on the web so the author has to give me a reason to care ASAP. That's just my personal preference though.

In general, pacing should be fast or at least brisk in the beginning of modern stories. If it isn't, then it has to arouse my interest in some other way. To use an example you're probably familiar with, Game of Thrones starts fairly slow: a trio of dudes are in a forest. But it gets interesting immediately: there's dead people, tension between characters, light exposition and finally a fight. Older books (such as the Hobbit) don't usually follow the rule of fast pacing either, but they are interesting in their own way. The Hobbit starts with an odd description and makes me curious. What's a hobbit? Why does it live in a hole? What is the hole like?

The start of the fic you nominated does make me wonder why Twilight is casting a spell, but that's it. I need more. Even Past Sins has a better hook in the beginning.

>>30062350
Fair enough. That's still just your personal preference though.

Also, hypothetically, if this were to make it into the list, then that argument would be moot because if you're reading it because it was in the list, then there's your reason to care. Of course if the entire beginning was a huge boring slog then that would be a completely different matter, but I don't think that's the case here.

Anyway, I don't expect you - or anyone else - to read the entire thing just to vote in this contest.

mage ben

>>30063193
I'd read a story about a mage called Ben who is sent to Equestria.

>>30063867
Does this count? https://www.fimfiction.net/story/216781/

>>30064544
That's low, man.
I trusted you and you come and do this to me.

>7dsj, book 4, chapter 25
Basically nothing happens.

Sunset, the Dazzlings, and 1,000,000 evil SIRENs are at the resort. The evil SIRENs are shooting civilians. The Dazzlings are shooting evil SIRENs. Sunset is punching everybody with her magic fists and super-speed. She punches the Dazzlings, but then an evil SIREN shoots Adagio, and she realizes the Dazzlings must not be evil. So she heals Adagio with more magic, and they all go to In-n-Out. After getting a bite to eat, and Sunset showing off her old pony form, they start driving north, back to Canterlot, to rescue every other character in the entire story from their SIREN kidnappers.

Celestia, Luna, Twilight Velvet, Night Light, Spike, Shining Armor, Cadance, and Solaire hope I didn't forget anyone chill in a prison cell for a while. Solaire looks exactly like Celestia in every way except hairstyle, for unexplained reasons. Solaire gets to see her daughter (Human Edition) one last time before DR drags her off to be the last ritual sacrifice.

The 7M7 are nowhere to be seen. Presumably the SIRENs' black helicopters are still on the way back to HQ.

Edgelord and Zephyr do standard black-ops badass stuff, and head off to save Celestia and Solaire.


On the bright side, DR says this: "We have a few hours left before we inherit the world." Which suggests that we only have one or two chapters left before the big event. wizard war SOON

Also, in case I haven't called it yet:
>inb4 DR tries to summon Sombra but gets Berry Sue instead

>>30065042
>and 1,000,000 evil SIRENs
I'm aware that this is probably hyperbole on your part, but with Shin I can never say for sure.

>>30061582
>>30062263
>discuss http://www.fimfiction.net/story/78420/reharmony
Same desu I couldn't make it through the first chapter before I couldn't take it. It's more like Shink than good fiction.

>>30065173
Yeah, it's hyperbole of course.

The SIRENs' plan is still stupid, though.
>need to kidnap these 7 teenage girls
>if we do that, the cops will come after us
>that would be bad
>instead, let's kidnap 7 teenage girls and also shoot 50+ other random people
And of course this is all a moot point because DR plans to acquire phenomenal cosmic power within the next 12 hours or so.

>>30065042
What if it isn't Berry Sue, though?

>>30065400
Could be, but here's my reasoning.

Divine Right is trying to summon "the Black Unicorn". The Black Unicorn's name is never mentioned, but really, the only two real candidates are NMM and Sombra.

NMM has been mentioned basically never through the course of this story. But Sombra and his dark magic have gotten a good amount of attention. Berry Sue can only use dark magic, and is a direct descendant of Sombra. Scilight goes crazy in book 1 due to a miscast dark magic spell. I'm sure there are more examples that I've forgotten, but most recently, Sunset identifies the evil SIRENs' transformation as the result of a "badly-done black magic spell".

Sombra is long gone, so it seems unlikely that DR will successfully summon him. (Though not impossible, since the timelines of the two worlds don't seem to be synchronized in any way.) But Berry Sue has Sombra's power and is a descendant of Sombra's bloodline. Furthermore, she possesses "dark power on a level [Tirek] hadn’t felt in years; not even that simpering idiot in the Crystal Empire who fancied himself a king was this refined of a talent". If DR's spell goes looking for wielders of dark magic, it's likely to latch onto Berry Sue before anyone else.

The only other major candidate I can see is maybe Tirek. As of the end of the most recent Equestria chapter, he's about to fight Twilight and Berry Sue, and presumably will absorb their magic if he wins. In that case, there's a decent possibility that DR's spell might see Tirek as the new Black Unicorn, instead of Berry Sue.

Finally, don't forget that 7DSJ is a Berylverse story. The whole universe revolves around Berry Sue, and it would be surprising if she didn't have a part to play in the climax of the series.

>>30065042
>>30065541
>berry sue
Who?

I can't even pretend that I understand what's going on in this fic.

>>30065042
>>30065541
I have no idea what any of this is talking about and I am thoroughly impressed.

I should never read that fic to understand more.

>>30065611
Raspberry Beryl, a pony OC. She's got your typical tragic backstory, uses unique (dark) magic, and is secretly a princess because she's a direct descendant of Sombra. She's also super nice and 100% friendly and good to everyone ever. Which is good because she's actually stronger in magic than any of the real princesses, including Twilight.

She hasn't been to EqG-earth yet, so she hasn't much role in 7DSJ so far, but I suspect she'll be visiting soon.

>>30065703
I feel that actually reading 7dsj would ruin the magic.

>>30065703
>>30065718
Here's a pastebin with some summaries of book 1: https://pastebin.com/uYSenQGA
I'll add the rest to the pastebin at some point, but for now you can search the archives for "7dsj" to find the rest.

>>30065718
not reading it also helps preserve your sanity

>>30066064
THERE IS NO SANITY, ONLY ZULL.

>>30066220
Shoulda been "Only Shink".

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>>30066270
Eh, it only works if it's the ghostbusters reference though man.

>>30066270
THERE IS NO SANITY, ONLY SHINK

>>30066291
The structure of the sentence already makes it a Ghostbuster reference, only it's subtler the other way.

Reading about this is great in the sense of "how is all this crazy stuff going to come together", except that now I'm getting the "coming together" part first, so I'm ambivalent.

Screw it, I've already binged the AHP duology, I'll start tonight. Never mind that I've got arguably better stuff like Starlight over Detrot, The Night is Passing, This Platinum Crown, Evening Flames, Austraeoh vol. 5, Hard Reset vol. 3, Upheaval vol. 2, Savage Skies vol. 2, Trixie vs. Equestria or Sweet Apple Anthology to get (back) to when I can set aside enough time.

>>30066297
This is 4chan, since when the fuck do we do "Subtle" ?

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Why does it seem like every HiE fic ever has a full retard protag? I like having a charactor whom I can relate with in body, but they're all retarded. Why?

>>30066323
>I like having a charactor whom I can relate with in body
So you're already halfway through with being a retard, I don't see why not go all the way.

>>30066323
>Why does it seem like every HiE fic ever has a full retard protag?
Because it's HiE. It tends to be written and read by retards.

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>>30066331
Let me have my non-sex wish fulfillment please. Why u bully?

>>30066323
Because it's funny, stupid.
This is called auto-derision.
You can go the other way, but it will come out as edgy. Or no one will read your shit because it's boring. It's hard to do well.
Sir hat used to do that.

>>30066336
t. 200 avg views writefag

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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/371026/seasons

I'm writing a slowburn comfy Rarijack slice of life fic that tries to be cute and funny but I'm not very experienced in either. Writing from their contrasting perspectives is fun though. So far so good but it probably sucks, would appreciate helpful feedback