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Fimfiction Thread - Now with 89% more aesthethics

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ITT: threads that last for weeks, Voiceguy chases a stream, the ethics of teleportation, nominations, general shitposting, easthorse, it's ok to write /ss/ as long as the shota isn't human, rape, the endless disappointment of Hard Reset sequels, writing, nominations, competent authors take on a shitty prompt, autistic story requests, not writing, tech support, and don't forget to vote!

Tired of nice sites with a charm? Can't tolerate citicisms of any kind? Don't care either way and you just want poni stories? Well, we've compiled the best of the worst in order to bring you our absolute average!

>FiMFiction Starter Kit (recommended fics):
Winners:
http://i.imgur.com/vuTA7EN.png
List of nominees by category:
http://mlp-fanfics.herokuapp.com/

>How do I write fanfiction?
Ezn’s guide - https://eznguide.neocities.org/
Politics and the English Language - https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/
Vhatug's tips for anatomically correct clop - https://pastebin.com/g4VpEg4f
Setting a story in motion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufO8LbwTdu0

>Can you pre-read my story?
Post it on Google Docs with inline comments enabled and give us a link. Most will ignore it, but a few may take a look at it eventually.

>Reviews and riffs:
https://pastebin.com/u/notkickass222urmom

>Voiceguy's readings:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt68MpmvEketmqOdHncHI2w
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Previous thread: >>30112913
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First for fimfic is dead and will never recover
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>>30243011
Everything is ruined forever now.
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>>30243024
>now
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Futafic get!
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>>30243643
Never ever.
FutaBloom get.
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Okay, this is about the time I was planning to close the voting for the new fics list, but so far only 5 people have voted on AU and only 1 person voted on Tragedy. This is kind of disappointing since last time, even with the more complicated voting system, we had 8-10 people voting in every poll.

Would it help to leave the voting open the entire week, or has everyone who wants to vote already done so? Should we vote on only one category per week, instead of two? Or, if people really don't care that much about the new stories list, I'm fine with calling it off entirely, and maybe turning the nomination site into a general-purpose "/fimfic/ reviews" site.
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>>30243757
>Tragedy
Wasn't it thriller?
Anyway, I can't speak for everyone, but I've been a bit busy and couldn't finish all the nominated stories in time. I do plan to get around that over these days.
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>Updated feed visually to be a bit cleaner and simpler, removing the coloured headers.
>removing the coloured headers.
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>>30243757
Speaking as someone who voted last time, but not this round, I just haven't read a lot of the newer stories. Plus I've been busy writing my thesis.

I imagine it's the same for many others, in that fewer of us have read these stories. Also there's not as many of us as there was back then.
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>>30243860
We're just removing all colors now, fampai. Where we're going we don't need color.
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Haven't even gone on FiMfic for half a year
Went on it to see these new aesthetics
RIP FiMfic. God that's fucking eyecancer
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>>30243894
>I imagine it's the same for many others, in that fewer of us have read these stories. Also there's not as many of us as there was back then.
this. i dont think I've read anything nominated recently and dont have the time or will to jump into anything new right now
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>shitty HiE group #20005325 i made in 2014 has hit 1300 members
wew
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>it's a "Knighty fucks up the site with another shitty UI update" episode
Here's hoping Fimfic Advanced will update to fix all this shit.

>>30241715
>what exactly changed
The 3.0 update got ride of the banners, changed the logo from Dash's cutie mark, introduced that god awful beige color scheme, and had him finally admit defeat and reintroduce the tracking system after it was merged with favorites back in 2.0.

It continued the trend of Knighty sucking the life from the site's design by making it as bland as possible that was started way back when the featured box was moved out of the banner.

>>30243757
I honestly thought it was open for a week, not just the weekend, hence why I haven't voted yet.
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>Her Royal Highness Celestia
>Her Royal and Imperial Highness Mi Amore Cadenza
>Her Royal Highness Luna (or Serene, depending whether you qualify their joint rule as equal)
>His Royal Highness Shining Armor (as Prince Consort to the Crystal Empress)
>Her Serene Highness Twilight Sparkle
Do these seem about right? I guess Discord, NMM, and Sombra would be His/Her Majesty, but they're no longer in power.
Any theories why there's no Kings or Queens in the show that aren't bad guys? Aside from muh selling toys
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>>30245949
> It continued the trend of Knighty sucking the life from the site's design by making it as bland as possible that was started way back when the featured box was moved out of the banner.
I joined a few months before the banners got nuked... Now you're making me sad.
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>>30246189
I believe the correct nomenclature would be "Her Imperial and Royal Majesty" in Cadence's case, seeing as she's technically a sovereign Empress.
Which would make Shining Armour's styling "His Imperial and Royal Majesty", seeing as he's both Prince Consort of the Crystal Empire and Prince Consort of Equestria.
Examples of this would be Frederick III, who was Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, and styled "His Imperial and Royal Majesty", while his wife was "Her Imperial and Royal Majesty".

Prince/Princess is kind of a difficult term in English, because it covers stuff that in other languages have separate terms. Look at the difference between Prinz and Fürst in German.
You could make the case that Celestia, Luna and Twilight are all "Her Serene Highness", like Hans-Adam II or Albert II, but I wouldn't object to seeing them all styled "Her Royal Highness". Especially if you want to make a distinction between Twilight and the sisters. It depends on how hard you want to go on the honorific autism.
They've been called "Royal" enough in the show for it to work.

That said, the only real rule when it comes to honorifics is that there aren't any rules. A bit hyperbolic, but the point is that they've always been unevenly used, especially across different cultures, languages and traditions. The British monarchs adopted the Imperial title of India, but to my knowledge just used the Royal styling regardless.

Like heraldic "rules", it's a mess. Do what works in the story.
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So what is fimfic's JS licensed under? We could fork it and make our own fimfiction, with blackjack and banners.

If the license doesn't allow that it would have to integrate with existing code instead of being a simple file replacement, which is definitely possible but sounds more error-prone.
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>>30245949

No simple line breaks.

Poetry stanzas all run together.

Scene breaks disappear unless you do a blank line with *** in the middle; but maybe you wanted to save that for shifts in character pov, while still having the option of scene breaks within those sections.
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>>30243858
Whoops, yeah, it's Thriller this week.

>>30245949
I'll leave it open for the rest of the week, then, and see how many more votes come in.


Voting links:
>Alternate Universe: https://www.strawpoll.me/13105080
>Thriller: https://www.strawpoll.me/13105098
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>>30246676

The thread's been there, failed at that. Remember fictiondick?
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>>30249943
Sorry, only been here for like 5 threads. Spoonfeed please?
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>>30250025

Not much to tell. A couple of guys got the great idea to make their own fanfic site, fictiondock.com. They set up an alpha version of the site, invited a few people in the thread to try it out... and nothing happened. Turns out that eight people and no stories on a bare-bones site doesn't exactly make for a robust platform.

I just checked the site, and apparently they let it expire. Nothing of value was lost.
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>>30250168
I remember I registered and tried to put a story up.
No luck.
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>>30251106
it wouldn't let you put it up on the site, or it just didn't have any effect? and did you post it on fimfic?
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>>30250168
Oh well that's not what I was talking about at all. I just wanted to modify the frontend, while still using the fimfiction backend. So you'd have all the existing content, but you'd be using your own layout to browse it instead of being at knighty's mercy.
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>>30250025
Run away while you still can.
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>>30253307
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Y'all niggas reading anything?
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>>30254669
>Implying I read
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>>30255146
No, but I'm done with my exams, so I might as well read horsewords.
Anything you'd like to recommend?
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>>30255160
Obsession by SeaUrchin is pretty good, also that story hand-made write about Anon having sex with zombie Rares is pretty good as well.
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>>30255160
i recommend my little dashie and past sins anon! please read them and enjoy!
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>>30255160
>Anything you'd like to recommend?
The stories nominated for the thriller category. Read them and make a summary so I don't have to read them.
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Page 10
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>>30256356
Funny you should say that.
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Dead thread.
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>>30257466
Dead fandom.
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>>30256356
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/375704/the-shoe

Twilight and co must face the ultimate test of friendship: playing a game of Monopoly.
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I just figured out why I never do well with my fics, because I'm too notorious. And people ignore my work and/or downvote my stories because of that notoriety.

Am I wrong?
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>>30259629
depends. who the fuck are you?
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>>30259642
Mythril Moth

Bleedingequine
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>>30259642
Not so clever name

DakariKingMykan
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>>30259642
CAPTAIN YOSHI HD

Evictus
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>>30259688
>>30259805
>>30259831
And in a shocking twist of fate, these are all SSnE alt accounts.
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>>30259895
answer the question
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>>30259600
I expected the M6 or perhaps in my heart I hoped for Twilight and her Canterlot friends but this cast doesn't interest me in the slightest.
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>>30260417
Good for you?
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>>30259895
I could believe that
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>tfw fimfic is permanently shit now
thanks knighty
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>>30261327
Fimfic was always shit.

It's a fanfiction community, those are shit by default. The only thing worse would be an amatuer original fiction community.
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>>30261499
Yeah, but at least the warm palette and pretty pictures made me feel welcome. Now I feel I've stumbled upon facebook.
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>>30246708
Still busted...
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>>30259688
>bleeding
>keeps posting troll-y stuff and fics that are only meant to be 'shocking' like a colt impregnating his mother and ponies raping, killing and eating other ponies for literally no reasons, and nothing else for years and years
>wonder why some autists take their time to downvote without even reading anything that comes out of his keyboard
idk
I'm not going to say I read your fics, because their synopsis' alone generally stops me from even clicking on it.

But generally, if your fics aren't doing well, it's because they're shit.
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>>30261499
oh shit. someone should totally do OFiction.net

It would be the most condensed collection of shit on the internet
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>knightly brought back tag colours
>but only for some tags
Genius.
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>anno domini duo milia septendecim
>people are still making black-red pony creator OCs
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/373592/life-has-its-moments
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>>30265566
Would much rather have character icons back.
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Reminder to vote by Saturday
>Alternate Universe: https://www.strawpoll.me/13105080
>Thriller: https://www.strawpoll.me/13105098
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>>30265618
This is brilliant.
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>>30265618
this deserves a screencap
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Looks like someone needs a little bump-me-up. All better?
Anyway, someone rec me a story; any story! Don't me shit, or ironic shit.
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>>30267827
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/371361/more
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>>30267220
my sides
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>>30267848
>Incomplete
Rec me a finished story, Anon!
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>>30267879
I've been reading a lot of Raritwi ever since Monochromatic's contest ended.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/374702/weaving-words
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>>30267891
>Shipping stories
Although that description is intriguing, maybe I'll read it.
Now give me more finished stories to read!
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Mage ben
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What did Fimfiction look like the day you joined?

https://web.archive.org/web/20120216161534/http://www.fimfiction.net/

Here's what it looked like the day I joined.
>recently celebrated 5,000 stories
>The Ballad of Echo the Diamond Dog was just featured
>Moonstone Cup, My Little Dashie, and Eternal are all hot stories
>five star rating system

>>30246189
>Any theories
Equestria's legally a Principality, not a Kingdom. Also, King Grover wasn't evil. At least not that the show implied.

>>30259629
Possibly. As a reader, I almost never pay attention to who the author is, hence why I've read three Aegis Shield fics.

>>30261327
Fimfic Advanced updated and even though the guy that does it fucked up RIP Dash cutie mark logo, it's still better than Knighty's. Plus, someone else redid the nav bar back to green.

Still waiting on the userscript that restores the old image character tags.

>>30266699
Gonna have to do this later today.
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>>30269116
https://web.archive.org/web/20130914213622/http://www.fimfiction.net:80/

>Five Score fics were just banned
>Aragon's first story is in the recently-updated FB
>Green is in the recently-updated FB (how little some things change)

Also, we could apparently change the color of the bar near the top - I had completely forgotten about that feature. But yeah, I didn't know Aragon's first story was popular enough to have made it to the FB, since he seems to hate that story, and I find it kinda funny how four years later Green is still updating.
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>>30269116
>five star rating system
Boy, that does bring me back.
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>>30269116
I joined on December 22, 2011; the closest the archive has is the 27th.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111227024142/http://www.fimfiction.net/
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This Knighty fellow seems to be quite the fool, all things considered. Some people just can't leave a good thing well enough alone.
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>>30270489
>implying fimfiction was ever good in the first place
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>>30270973
Compared to FiMFiction: Facebook edition, it was much better.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJhjqbvm8U

This is Voiceguy's latest video.

Has he gone nuts?
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>>30272635
How long until he shoots up a school?

Walking around at night is super comfy.
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Oh boy Shadowfire pm'd me about shit talking his story it's as poorly written as the story
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>>30272974
Post reply.
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>>30272974
Why can't you just love and tolerate™, you frickin frick? >:c
but yes post it
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>>30273000
Nice trips
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>>30273186
>your
so he's one of us?
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I posted a new fic today... I think this counts as my first collab

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/375542/little-mare-big-family
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>>30269116
>The old layout
Holy shit, maximum /comfy/
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>>30269116
This is from the day I created my account, I can't remember when I first found FiMFiction.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121222043954/http://www.fimfiction.net/
The box has a lot of familiar faces, Cultural Artifacts, Forgiveness Pending, AAG sidestories, Starlight over Detrot, which was a manageable 121k words long at the time.
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Thriller nominees:

>discuss 311508/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-midnight
Read it, it was okay. Didn't seem like anything special desu.
>end

>discuss 161159/the-mare-in-the-high-castle
This is a good fic but not much of a thriller. I'm about halfway through and there's only really one scene that maybe qualifies. Most of it is more like SoL set in a depressing AU Equestria.

Also, I'm not sure what the previous poster meant by "new surroundings". There's no dimension-hopping here, just a set of alternate M6 living in this alternate Equestria.
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Always scouring the catalog for threads to bamp and you lot always manage to fall close to the edge.
You all should treat your threads better.
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>>30275519
Let it die, you bloody thundercunt.
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>>30270489
While he's definitely fucked things up more than he's improved them, there have been some good changes. Moving the featured box out of the banner did give readers a ton more info on the fics, adding updated fics next to new fics, etc.

I think his biggest problem is the lack of getting and using feedback. There's no mockups to show off (because he's a coder, not a user experience guy), no user testing to see what works and what doesn't, and no admitting defeat to the userbase because of god knows why.

It took three years before he finally realized merging favorites and tracking was stupid and undid it. Everyone told him that the very first day.
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>>30242720

Hey, this might not be the place to ask, but I'm looking for a story and can't find it anywhere. It's a clopfic where, in order to become an alicorn, she needs to be fucked in all three holes by the other princesses.
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>>30243860
>Haven't been on fimfiction in a while
>Come to this thread
>Check site
Fuck, what's wrong with them.
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I should probably just do him a favor and block him, shouldn't I?
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>>30276343
Probably. Would you be so kind as to link his story? I need to feel better about myself today, and it sounds like he'll do the trick.
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I've got loads of these.
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>>30276992
faggot
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>>30277031
especially for you
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>>30276992
>>30277084
go fix your shitty site
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>>30277084
If FiMfiction used to be powered by moe, what powers it now?
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>>30277129
autism
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>>30277129
larry, curly and shemp
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>>30277129
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I wonder how long it'll take for FimFiction to die off after these changes.
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>>30277439
soon. its practically on life support already.

is there a hospice for fandoms?
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>>30277132
GO FIX IT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
nah I actually don't mind the changes,
other than the tag colors

the whole system that lets me know where I stopped reading and shit is nice
and who the fuck needs a banner, don't listen to these spergs
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>>30279156
>who the fuck needs a banner
It's not about needing things, if you go by what you need, then just copying fanfiction.net's code would do. The banners may have only been eyecandy, but they made the site more attractive.
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>>30280300
>more attractive
but why would I give a fuck about that Anon
I use the site to read horseporn, not to look at the fucking UI and banners
I can understand complaints about tag colors, because it was useful to be able to spot tags easier, but this kind of shit is the stupidest thing you could ever come up with
98% of the time I'm using the site I'm on fullscreen reading mode, and there's not even any UI anywhere.
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>>30279156
>encouraging an inferior layout
Why?
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>>30280540
>but why would I give a fuck about that Anon
You don't have to, as I said, it's only bells and whistles that make the site feel comfier and more eyecatching than, say, the white background ff.net has. You're within your rights not to care, but think of it as the chassis of a car. Sure, having a nice shape and colours aren't essential to the ultimate purpose, but they do make the experience different.
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>>30280690
No, because you can show a car off.
You don't give a fuck about what your car looks like after a week or so. But other people still see you, and they'll think differently if you're driving a miata or a twingo
This is literally 200pixels you see for half a second, and of which you shouldn't ever pay attention past your first visit.
If you want to compare that to something then compare it to something just as autistic, like sperging about your favorite background pony having the wrong cutie mark in an episode or smth
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>>30277084
I miss the little flames for unread chapters, but maybe that's just nostalgia.
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FimFiction Advanced still looking good
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>>30280540
> 98% of the time I'm using the site I'm on fullscreen reading mode, and there's not even any UI anywhere.
And that's your usecase. Most people actually care about the presentation of the site, including me. Sure, I can download the epub and read it in a pure CLI environment in my configured emacs, or even download the txt and just use a pager like more, but instead I choose to view it in a website with decorated presentation, running in a browser using a graphical desktop environment. And stripping all the decoration because it's not part of the actual story removes this choice - do when that gets done, without a good enough justification, people understandably get upset.
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>>30281476
No, you don't see the UI/banner when you read a story Anon, what are you saying
do you people even use the site?
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>>30281520
No, but I like the general look and feel. It makes me feel comfier. I see it every time I load a page, so I see it a lot while browsing. If I find a story and it's surrounded by happy pictures of ponies and a colourful layout, it will put me in a better mood and might make me enjoy the story more than if I found it on a plain white background with a dull, utilitarian layout. Even printed books often have detailed covers, especially high-quality expensive ones.

Again, there's literally no downside - it's not like I care about the extra 500kb in this day and age, and it would probably be cached anyway - so why remove it?
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>>30276351
He deleted it :(
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>>30282259
Any chance it's available on FiMFetch?
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>>30281850
got to make the site as bland and unappealing as possible. for reasons
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God I love the userscript group.

>>30277439
>the statistics page now 404s so you can't track the site's death

>>30280540
>why would I give a fuck about that
Because having a website that looks nice and is inviting makes you feel at home and want to continue visiting it?
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>>30283597
Yeah, fuck Knighty. I'll just strap on as many userscripts as necessary to get it back up to code.
You know what'd help it even more? If Fimfiction Advanced merely had some very basic usage telemetry. Your client would send out one message to a central server each day that you use Fimfiction with Fimfiction Advanced enabled. With the ability to opt out, of course. If you compared that to the general statistics, maybe these retards might finally realize how many people "don't care about the layout".
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>Tried to find a story today.
>Looks like it must've been deleted.
>None of the archives seem to have it

GOD.
DAMNIT.
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I know we're giving knighty a lot of well-deserved crap for the things he has removed from the site, but I just noticed something he added.

Why is this necessary? Is having a visual representation of the like to dislike ratio better than just having the numerical values displayed?
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>>30285675
because he knows his userbase is mostly too stupid to understand mathematical ratios and a graphical image is easier for people who know green=good/red=bad to understand
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>>30285675
Colors parse faster than numbers.

Since Fimfic is 99% edgy self-inserts written by a 12 year old, it's good to be able to quickly discard the crap.
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What're some good tragedy fics?
Because I'm thinking about writing one. Not thinking about. Already writing.
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>>30287051
What are you writing about?
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>>30287236
I just realized that I don't actually know what tragedy means.

I'm guessing it's not just a word for "really sad", though I've certainly seen many stories tagged that way.
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>>30287389
>I'm guessing it's not just a word for "really sad"
And you would be correct. Tragedy is probably the most abused tag on the site. While Tragedies will generally have a sad tone to them, what makes a tragedy a tragedy is the ending.

Quoting from Google, a tragedy is "a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character." Usually, that downfall is brought by the character's actions.

Edmond Dantès gets revenge, but loses his family because he was so focused on getting said revenge. Victor Frankenstein creates a monster which ends up destroying his life. Like, dozens of Shakespeare's plays.
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>>30287389
All of the terms are vague, aren't they? It's likely on purpose.
Tragedy, loosely, does mean sad. But it also implies a variety of themes - loss, melancholy, moodiness and emotion. If you want to be pedantic, it's based around suffering.
You could call the ultimate fate of Romeo and Juliet tragic, for instance, even though it's the defining romance. More romance, less tragedy. But most novels from the first world war will be mainly tragic, being propelled by the tragedy of war and the suffering it causes, only interlaced with sparse romance and comedy.

What I'm writing will be the other way around. Tragedy will be its defining motif, overshadowing the mellow romance that comes before (and kind of after).
So, simply put, do you know of any fic that's definitely tragedy? Because I could name a few which had tragic elements, but were ultimately romances or thrillers in the end.
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>>30287479
I haven't read it, but according to Cold in Gardez, "Around the World in 81 Days" is a true tragedy by the definition of the word.
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>>30287453
This so fucking much. Tragedy is generally about a character getting fucked by a fatal flaw, but people get confused by its other meaning that has nothing to do with literarure or drama. It's really annoying if you try to find a tragedy fic.
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>>30287389

In the strictest sense, tragedy is a story of a protagonist who tries to fight fate and loses. He is destined to lose. It can be quite sad, but sometimes it can be uplifting - there are cases of tragedy where the protagonist accepts his loss and uses it as motivation to change his life for the better. At tha tpoint it stops being a tragedy and becomes more of a morality play.

The original greek tragedy was a catharsis for the audience. They got to see someone else's failure and revel in the knowledge that it wasn't their own.

Also worth remembering that every antagonist in every comedy would see the story as a tragedy.
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>>30287389

As the other anons have said, a tragedy is defined by having a tragic ending - that is to say, a bad end for the protagonist. But more than that, it's only a tragedy if that bad end is brought about by a flaw of the protagonist's. A character who gets shit on isn't tragic, in the literary sense; their downfall has to directly tie into their tragic flaw (sometimes also called a heroic flaw, it means the same thing).

Our old starter kit is a good place to look for effective tragedy. Let's take a look at two in particular - whether they're the best in the set is up for debate, but I think they offer the clearest examples of what a "tragedy" is:

(also, spoilers because this is all about story endings)

>Biblical Monsters https://www.fimfiction.net/story/87619/biblical-monsters

Here, the main character's tragic flaw is Fear of the Unknown. Twilight Sparkle shows up and acts friendly but confused and a little oblivious. The reader knows that she's genuinely kind, but the protagonist lets his fear of the unknown drive him to consider the absurd-to-the-reader possibility that she's a supernatural horror that must be destroyed in order to save humanity. His religious fundie friend couldn't/wouldn't have tried to kill Twilight on his own; it's the protagonist's surrender to his fear that makes Twilight's murder possible.

>Wyrmlysan https://www.fimfiction.net/story/172789/wyrmlysan

This is a good example of tragedy, because it actually contains two, and both are examples of that most classic of tragic flaws, Hubris. First, there's the dragon: it thinks it can interpret the prophesies better than the dragon mystics, and embarks on a suicidal pony-murdering spree based on a half-cocked idea of what that prophesy states. Then there's Luna, who also succumbs to Hubris at the end of the story by attempting to thwart the prophesy by smashing the egg - which, the reader knows, doesn't change NMM's outcome one whit.
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>>30287527
Yeah it is. My only problem with it is that the last chapter kinda throws out the simmering tragedy for a weird tragedy and some unnecessary magic elements.
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>>30283690
I think this might be the only case where I'd willingly accept telemetry
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>only six votes for AU
>still only one single vote for Thriller
All right, we really need to decide what we're going to do with the voting. At the very least, it seems like we should drop Thriller and probably most of the other small categories. But even six votes is not that many, and it makes me think we should maybe call off the voting completely, and try something different for the best new stories list.

Here's a different way we could go about building the list. Suppose everyone who wants to help with the list picks a category to be responsible for. Then we all take, say, a month for each person to read and review stories from their chosen category. At the end, each person picks a few winners for their category, and we combine them together to make the final list.

Does this sound like something people would be interested in trying? The results wouldn't be as representative of the entire thread, but it should be less work for each person, especially since I expect most will pick categories they're already familiar with. The list would also wind up with fewer categories on it (only one per person), but if it works out well, we could run the same process over again the next month to add another set of categories.
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>>30289523
>one guy picks the winners
thats pretty much where we're already at
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I think there was a 7DSJ: EmoPinks chapter update today
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>>30290416
That does seem to be the case.
Also, how the fuck is the timeline supposed to work here?
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>>30290642
Shitty planning?
Maybe Shinkies real name is george lucas?
Think Star wars. Rogue One comes after the 4th movie (phantom menace) and before the first one (A new hope)
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>>30285675
To be fair, it already displays the bar graphic when you click on the story. This just lets you see it while browsing.

The really annoying thing is that "continue reading" box. All it's served so far is a reminder of the shit stories I've been dropping from my RL list.

>>30287389
Correct. In simplest terms, tragedy = the protagonist failing at their objective, usually fatally and brought about by some flaw (pride, naivety, etc.) they have.

>>30289523
It might be a bit of a chore for me--especially if the fics don't interest me--but I'm game.
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>>30291772
>The really annoying thing is that "continue reading" box. All it's served so far is a reminder of the shit stories I've been dropping from my RL list.
This.
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>Writer updates the story in the dead of night
Now how am I supposed to go to sleep?
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Should we be worrying about this?
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>>30292478
Oh boy, just look at the time.
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>>30292553
If he kills himself what do we do about fimfic?
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>>30292563
We start probing around for any vulnerabilities, and set ourselves up as the new owners.

We may be no /pol/, but we still have weaponized autism all the same.
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>>30292577
Dubs Vult.
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>>30292784
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>>30290642
>Also, how the fuck is the timeline supposed to work here?
It's set during Book I but has spoilers for Book IV
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>>30269116
April/March 2012.

No point in me complaining about the new changes though, given I had to abandon that site about a year and a half later.
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jfc...
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>>30293613
you engaged with him. cant blame no one but yourself
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>>30292478
At least he's not making a site post about it this time.

Fimfic is losing popularity as the fandom slowly shrinks, but I think if it died a small clone would pop up pretty quickly.

Or maybe we'd go back to publishing stories on Equestria Daily!
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>>30294469
Or rather EqD would probably absorb Fimfic's functionalities entirely
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>>30294475
I wonder how active EqD even is these days, I haven't really visited in years.
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>>30294469
>>30294475
I believe EqD might die before fimfic desu.
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>>30294469
Ain't no way in hell I'd make a clone of FiMFic, but i'd be down with making a website to post greentext.
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>>30295954
>a website to post greentext.
You're posting on it right now, mate
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>>30295969
No, I mean like a greentext archive.
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>>30295983
>literally any *bin site
Are you new here?
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>>30296022
>>literally any *bin site
>Are you new here?
No, fuck you Nigger.
Pastebin is shit, and userscripts like pic related are the only thing that makes them passable.
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>>30296022
>pastebin is as good as fimfic
What the fuck are you smoking dawg can I get some
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>>30287453
Adding onto that, the classical Greek tragedy would always have the protagonist being fucked over by the fate. No matter what he did, he would end up with the short end of a stick. A predetermined outcome.
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>>30296071
this
pastebin is shit
so much that I prefer copy pasting my fave greens on a dud fic on fimfic
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>>30296071
Just use mulpwiki then
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>>30296937
>mulpwiki
Cancer
Wikis in general suck for reading shit, and the guy is a germancuck, so you can't post aryanne green.
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>>30290416
>“You were starting to fall off my bike,” Jolly explains, “and I knew I wasn’t going to catch you in time, so I drove into the pond.”
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>>30298016
Wat
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>>30292478
Whatever happened to that game he was developing? Why doesn't he do some work on that?

>>30292563
I'd assume Xaquseg takes over and the site continues to putter along.

>>30294469
Maybe the Pony Fiction Archive would get resurrected and put back into active development again.
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>>30300237
I have an old archival program that I made after Darf rage quit. Might be able to dust it off and throw together a website for it.
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Stories about poni sex.
How do you like 'em?
Lengthy? Heavy on the fetishes? Romantic? Casual?
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>>30300838
If I want to jack off, right to the point.
If I want some squeaky romantic stuff, cheesy as fuck.
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>>30300838
So extreme that people are calling the author a psychopath in the comments.
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>>30300838
So extreme that it makes babyfurs physically ill.
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>>30300838
extended length clop gets stale and redundant quickly. most fetishes dont do much for me.

4-7k words of vanilla horsefucking works for a nut. romance is fine in longer fics, but theres only so many ways you can word 'he jammed his penor into her vagoo'. romance fics dont normally have a lot of banging for a reason
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>>30300838
this >>30300866
we need both, and both are great.
lengthy romance with barely any porn to get in the mood, then smaller smut filled animalistic breeding to release
if a story has both then it's great
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>>30300838
Lengthy, yes. Not necessarily romantic OR casual, but definitely one or the other in the sense that I love build-up and plot, it makes the sex way hotter.

Fetishes are trickier for me, but mostly they're fine if they can be well-justified in context and don't require me to massively suspend my disbelief; for example, you can totally sell me on a futa story, but not if your sales pitch is "they have a penis just because." If I was gonna be satisfied with 'X mare has a dick just because,' I'd be looking at art. If I'm reading a fic however I'm much more intrigued by how and why it is there/gets there.

Basically, the more I have to blindly accept alterations to the status quo 'just because' as a vehicle for porn, the less interested I am. See: the entire anthro genre.
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>>30302761
You take that back.
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>>30303684
Okay.
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>sex, gore dark and comedy as story tags
>evil alicorn oc
>basic engrish grammar is nowhere to be seen

why
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>>30303877
Is mature sex gore dark the Golden Quartet of Nope, or is it just mostly indicative of shit story?
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>>30303936
>Missing Comedy
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>>30303991
I don't know a word for "five" that sounds as smart-ass as quartet. Quintuplet doesn't do it for me, sorry.
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>>30304035
Mature is implied by sex and gore, so you can just do
>Sex, Gore, Dark, and Comedy
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>>30304046
Well, not entirely. You can go teen gore, and just have someone die without going into detail. That's not full edge experience then.
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>>30303936
idk, I'm more scared of crossover and anthro desu
edgy stories are generally shit but you can still get some good action scenes or lore in these
can't say the same for anthro Pinkie pie joins the XCOM squad
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>>30304072
>have someone die without going into detail.
Doesn't that defeat the point of having a gore tag?
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>>30304491
No death required. Technically if someone gets a nosebleed the gore tag is supposed to be used .

Teen/gore for blood, mature/gore for viscera
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>>30304035
Quintet, you retard.
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So, what are you guys reading?
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>>30305919
A collection of poems by Sappho, specifically a complication of direct translations and Bliss Carmen's reimagining of her poetry. I'm bouncing around an idea for a Sappho in Equestria clopfic in my head and am trying to figure out if I could write Sappho well enough for that.
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>tfw you're going to be high on painkillers for a few days because of wisdom teeth extraction
I wonder if I'll be able to write a crackfic or if my perpetual laziness will once again prevail.

>>30300838
Romantic, but with a ship I enjoy and no fetishes unless it's one that I fap to or is being played for comedy. Preferably >15k in length. Shorter clop usually descends into PWP.

>>30303936
[Dark] [Tragedy] [Sad] was always my Triumvirate of Edge, but the horror and thriller tags have since fucked that up.

>>30305919
Lunar Rebellion updated with some M Night-tier twists that weren't terribly great. I got two chapters into Survive the Everfree's white voids of dialogue before I dropped it and I realized halfway through One Last Act of Tragedy that I had already read it last year and completely forgot about it.
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>>30303936
[Dark] [Gore] [Tragedy] is the irredeemable trifecta
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Yiff
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>>30307566
Say that to my face and not online and see what happens.
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>>30307566
Yes please.
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>>30307566
Can you please yiff me?
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>>30308136
What the hell are those? Marker Pone and who?
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>>30308499
The deddest horse.
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>>30308499
hiatus pone
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>>30310327
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Brump
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Tell me, Anons. Why don't you love horsewords anymore?
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>>30312265
Because I've been banging my head against a metaphorical wall for the past two weeks trying to get this scene written so I can continue with my story, not that I know what direction to go in since I only planned 2/3rd of it and now I've run out of story notes other than vague "get the characters in this position of the finale" kind of guidance from my past self.

If I really can't figure this out by the end of the year, I'm just gonna post what I have and slap a cancelled tag to it on day 1, since I know someone wants to read this SunLight story I'm writing.
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>>30312791
You could always ask us for advice, or ideas.
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Probability of this becoming the next flavor of the month (i.e. Displaced, Blink, etc.)? I'm giving it 85%.

>>30312265
I still love horsewords, it's just life has grown more consuming since the early days of college. I think that's the number 1 reason people have left the ride or gotten less involved. The fandom peaked right when everyone that initially joined was still in college. Now that careers, jobs, and family has come along, a show abut multicolored horses is viewed as the extra luxury you may only get an hour or two a week to enjoy.

I'd also argue that as the how has gone on, fanfic writers have increasingly found themselves boxed in by canon.
>Twilight becomes an alicorn
>Dash breaks a wing and gets depressed
>Griffon Empire invades
>changelings do shit
>no more EoH
>Dash is now a Wonderbolt
>AJ still the same
>Fluttershy's tackling her social issues
>AUs where NMM, Chrysalis, and Tirek win
>Nightmare Sun touched on
Canon's eaten a lot of fanfic premises over the years. Innovation and originality was hard enough back in the day, but I think it's only gotten worse as time's gone on and authors suddenly had to hit the curveballs canon's thrown.
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>>30313684
>Canon's eaten a lot of fanfic premises over the years
This 100%
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>>30313684
>Canon's eaten a lot of fanfic premises over the years.
Boy, ain't that the truth...
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Clever fanon has been repeatedly raped by canon. I think i'm looking forward to the show being cancelled/ending
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>>30315061
It should have ended two seasons ago.
But you gotta milk it for all it's got, right?
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How autistic does one have to be to feel forced to watch a show and read fanfiction of a show you now hate, just because you liked it years ago, and then go out of your way to voice it on a chinese forum?
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>>30315080
It's an honest Murrican forum, that so happens to be about Chinese cartoons. Get your facts straight.
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>>30312791
>SunLight story
fugg, I want to read that
Seriously though, as >>30312815 said, we could help. What is giving you trouble?
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>>30317172
Mostly laziness. Real Life stuff got a bit draining and I went and joined that RariTwi contest which took a month off my schedule, and I haven't been able to just sit down and plan out my third act like I did with the first two. Assuming nothing comes up, I'm gonna devote this weekend to making a story outline, which should make the rest of the story smoother.
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>>30312265
Things change, Anon.

I still do read horsewords, on occasion, but it's been a long while since I've read anything longer. Lately it's been oneshots or the odd chapter of some fic I suddenly remember to have read at some point.
Reading horsewords has become the lowest priority amongst what I read. Which on one hand means that I'm reading more books, but on the other means that I don't really get invested in fanfiction. I just feel much less driven and interested.

But the biggest change is that my lack of drive has taken a toll on my writing. Not that I wrote much before, but I always wanted to. It was very common for me to plan out stories, think about pone when doing mundane stuff, and so on. Little actual progress, lots of actual will.
These days I just don't know what I'd even write about. When I think of story concepts, it's never pone. I don't see any reason to write fanfiction, aside from the fact that I know someone will read it.

In addition, I've long since fallen out of sync with the fandom at large. I still barely manage to keep up with /mlp/, but I'm slipping even there. I don't really know who the hot authors are these days, or if there's anything interesting going on anywhere in the fandom.
I think habit more than anything else is keeping me in at this point, though I really do want to try to rekindle that interest of mine. I do still watch the show, after all.
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>>30317324
>I do still watch the show
Eh, it's more than I do.
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>>30318732
Same. I got halfway through season 5 and just kinda got stalled there
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>>30319093
I bailed after the second season.
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>>30319093
I made it up to No Second Prances. I always meant to catch up, but real life got in the way.
I watched all of DWK's Totally Legit Recaps, though.
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>>30318732
I only watch the show. Nothing else really.
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>>30319421
except youre here, and thats more than just watching...
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>>30320084
tru
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>>30315080
Quite. You only have a certain amount of time every day to be entertained. Unless you enjoy hate and bitterness, spent it doing something fun.

>>30317324
>though I really do want to try to rekindle that interest of mine. I do still watch the show, after all.
Hey, it's me.
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>>30320327
>Unless you enjoy hate and bitterness, spent it doing something fun.
You must be new here
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>>30320444
trips of
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why is diaries of a madman so fucking shit
inserting his tranny shit and rape fantasies
why
i just wanted an adventure
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>>30321298
>reading something so obviously terrible in the first place
You just brought this upon yourself.
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>>30300838
Cute, lovey dovey, innocent romance with loving lewd to round it out if it feels right for the story.
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>>30321298
any horsefic with humans is required to have rape. the tranny shit was just to make it unique in a vast sea of diarrhea
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>>30321704
Ah, another man of taste.
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>>30316219
bump
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Shit
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>>30313684
I will read. But hope NOT "Edgy" much.
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>>30325031
Be sure to report back with your results.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX3QAg7G6PE
Is Voiceguy on a quest to find kudzuhaiku and kill him in his sleep?
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>three (3) months since Silver Glow's Journal ended
>zero (0) new chapters of Onto the Pony Planet
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>>30325744
It's dead
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>>30305919
I got hooked onto Diaries of a Madman, read it for a week, and now nothing else interests me.
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>>30327018
The author is actually a neural network programmed to torment us with regularly scheduled mediocre 10,000 words updates until the end of time.
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I just made the most awful pun ever.
I hope it survives prereading.
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>>30327565
Someone needs to write a 1mil fimfic story that is entirely just buildup for a pun.
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>>30327720
And a really shitty one at that.
But still one that's obviously meant to be the final words of the novel.
Better Nate than lever.
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>>30327720
Damn, I only have one planned for a few thousand words. But it's still building up to a single pun at the end.
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>>30327720
thats how diaries will end
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>>30327720
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KgmoMO66uPg
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>>30328425
Nearly missed this one. Fuck you
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Page when
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>>30328421
>Diaries
>End
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>>30329238
it'll probably happen eventually
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wow, I just realized I am really good at getting consistent downvotes on my stories.

Maybe I can use that to my advantage in some weird way.
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>>30329976
t. MythrilMoth
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>>30329976
Hello, Bleedin.
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>>30329976
'sup Estee
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>>30330047
>>30330095
>>30330340
after a few hours, I got nothing.

Any suggestions?
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>>30329688
But will that end come due to the story reaching a conclusion, or will the author simply stop updating?
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>>30327720
Expect unending Derrière Desolation.
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/373584/ofolrodi

Is this series actually worth reading?
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>>30333104
If you have a few hours to kill, in moderate doses, sure.

Other than the character voices kind of bleeding into each other after a while, I'll maintain it's an interesting journey. (course I'm only about halfway through)
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>>30333104
easthorse isnt going east anymore? i demand a refund
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>>30328572
What the fuck was that?
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>>30334901
Watch it and find out.
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>>30334901
Conversely, watch the last 10 minutes.
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>>30334065
>easthorse isnt going east anymore
How the fuck does that work? Did she turn back instead of going on to the dark side? Or does skirts not understand how directions work?
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>>30336013
Maybe she's just flying eastwards while facing west.
I wonder how the story is going, I dropped it three books ago.
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What is even the point of setting a story in an alternate earth with so few differences from reality? Nobody can possibly remember the 20 tiny ways in which your AU differs from real life, probably none of them will even matter that much to the story, but you're still stuck explaining them so that your readers don't get completely confused.
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>>30338445
Seems significant enough.
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>>30338445
>Bin Laden is not a terrorist
I'd read an AU story about an idealist and pacifist Bin Laden leading a small faction of muslims.
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>>30338445
Is this from a horsefic?
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>>30338683
Yes, I suppose.
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Hey, guess what. While reading the AAG TVtropes article, I came across a link to an old version of the AAG character chart. Here it is, in all its glory.
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>>30338699
>>30338743
I-is this for real?
t. newfag
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>>30338743
>No relationship whatsoever
For what purpose.
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>>30338809
Here, this should "help": https://pastebin.com/YpSiMW3Y
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>>30338809
You should read the AAG reviews an Anon makes, they're great.
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>>30338743
>Faust: biological parent of queen Celestia
So how does that work?
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>>30338938
About the same as for anyone else, I believe. Keep in mind that Lauren Faust the human animator has "no relationship whatsoever" with Faust A'Licorne the exiled god-empress of ponykind. I think the older chart doesn't make a note of it, but the newest version does.
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>>30338938
I think in the story, 'Queen' Faust (as in the alicorn) is the birth mother of Celestia and Luna.
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>>30338865
>>30338867
I... Thanks, that certainly did ""help.""
I don't know what to think now, other than "why the fuck would the synopsis on fimfic be completely different", and maybe "why does this have 1000 positive votes."
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>>30335091
>>30335770

I did! Hence my "What the fuck was that?"
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>>30338743
At least it doesn't have changelings everywhere. Couldn't the new chart have at least a generic pony/human/etc. icon instead of changelings for characters without images?

And is that alt verse stuff posted in >>30338445 part of AAG? Because if so, that's a whole new level of wtf I never knew about.
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>>30334065
>isnt going east anymore
Pretty soon, the titles will just be regular, non-nortic words.

>>30338445
>two nuclear states directly engage each other
I guess he's basing it off the border skirmishes in '69, but that sounds WWIII-tier.

>andorra
That's not an AU. It's been independent since Charlemagne, it just has a diarchy that comes from Spain and France.

>all that random bullshit
One has to wonder what nails were left off the horseshoe for such meaningless things to happen.

>>30338743
>Valhallen from Dexter's Lab
>Bane, Chrysalis, and NMM are allies
What the fuck?
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I think the Alternate Universe junk in AAG comes from the author's own ignorance rather than any sort of forward planning. Whenever they make a mistake about history, instead of saying 'whoops, I'll fix that,' they say 'no, it actually happened like that in this universe' and everyone just accepts it, because the story is convoluted enough anyway.
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>>30340855
Believable and makes sense
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>>30340839
>that sounds WWIII-tier.
Idk, after the Nixon-China thaw, I could totally see the West sitting that one out, even before might come as such a blindside to the West (who were very slow to realize that Russia and China didn't like each other, or understand that it was the Soviets who were supporting North Vietnam with only the begrudging support of China).

>One has to wonder what nails were left off the horseshoe for such meaningless things to happen.
I feel like he took the reverse approach to alternate history, wherein he chose some pointless but also significant differences from reality, which had minimal impact on his story's timeline, rather than choosing the bare minimum of differences which have the most significant and relevant impact, and the repercussions thereafter.

>>30340855
Or this.
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>>30340855
>>30341574
Woah, woah, woah...
You guys are saying Shin may not have thought things through nd perhaps don't make sense as a result?
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>>30325031
I'm forced to assume this brave Anon died as a result of the edge.
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>>30342210
You can never be too careful when dealing with edge
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>>30339038
Oh. Makes more sense (well not really but you get my point).
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>>30343407
It makes as much sense as anything written by Shin
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Great timing
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>>30345520
I think horsewords would be one of the last places where I'd expect to see a reference to Franco, but there it is.
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>>30345804
What makes you think he's talking about Franco? Maybe in this universe there was a completely different person who just so happened to do all the same things as Franco.
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>>30345823
>In my AU the Spanish Civil War was won by Generalissimo Brancisco Branco (original OC character do not steal)
>He did the exact same things as Franco, and died in 1975
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>tfw someone tries to give Bleedin' constructive criticism
I kinda hope it'll get to him this time, but I know better.
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>>30345520
I'm not sure if I should chuckle or feel bad. He really is trying hard, isn't he?
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>>30342210
>>30342857
ᛐ'ᚥ ₫ৗለᏫ ឧ⋃st ᎱᎥᏁᎾ
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>>30338865
I just re-read this for shits and giggles and thought of something.
What happens to Spike in AAG? I don't hink I've seen him pop up in the reviews, and he's only mentioned once in the pastebin.
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>>30346608
>An ocean of semen dripped out of Night Light’s world. He breathed as the swarm of orgasm sting all over his body, and he let loose the rest of the seed pour out into the fine cashmere bed of lost sperm
POTTERY
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>>30338445
Now I kind of want to see a shitty AU where there are a great deal of totally insignificant changes made to the world.

>>30346817
We can only hope he died early on. Death seems merciful in AAG, all things considered.
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>>30346608
>Twilight opened the door with a quick turn of the knob, and saw her father Night Light towering before her. His phallus erect and ready to soar like a lit firework.
I audibly chuckled.

>Without hesitation, she dived into his father’s massive cock that stretched her gullet with ease.
Grandfather cockvore?

>He thrusted into his daughter’s mouth like a piston roaring in a gas tank
Pistons aren't inside fucking gas tanks.

>Twilight remembered the way her father pumped so quickly into her mouth, it was his special tactic to get semen into the throat as fast as possible.
That's kind of the way you're supposed to do that. No real tactics involved.

>His penis rolled out of her hungry daughter
Is he fucking Twilight's foal?

>It covered her, making her look like a white-faced purple ghost
She doesn't look like a fucking ghost if only her face is white.

>She set herself on her back to be penetrated, her vulva moving so fast out of her that it let off a volcanically scathing heat in her loin.
Why is her vulva moving away? Where is it going?

I'll stop here, there's too much to pick apart. Are we absolutely sure Bleedin actually has English as his first language?
I've read lesbian elf earfuck fiction that's arguably better, or at the very least more entertaining, than this.
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>>30346933
>>He thrusted into his daughter’s mouth like a piston roaring in a gas tank
>Pistons aren't inside fucking gas tanks.
They are if you crash your car hard enough
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>>30346967
Car crashes and Bleedin's stories have a lot in common, so I guess it fits.
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>>30346967
Or in the case of a smouldering train wreck, there's all kinds of shit in the gas tank.
So this is pretty accurate.
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What the hell is the "continue reading" thing anyway, it looks broken.

I have a bunch of stories I read completely sitting in it and it's telling me "~86 words left" or thousands of words left on stories I've read in full.
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>>30346967
Was crashing this fic part of Bleedin's plan?
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>>30346933
Actually, I think I have to do a few more.

>Knowing that her daughter was in such a desperate meltdown, Night Light leaped onto the bed with a monstrous thud.
The movement in this is just monumentally stupid. Everyone just fucking jumps and throws themselves around like it's the porn parody of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

>He aimed his sharpshooter and slid it down the waterfall of contentment.
This is art.

>An ocean of semen dripped out of Night Light’s world. He breathed as the swarm of orgasm sting all over his body, and he let loose the rest of the seed pour out into the fine cashmere bed of lost sperm. Now the bed of the dead sperm was their new home, a place filled with by product of animals which was fitting. But, from death came new life and Twilight rested on the bed of corpses produced by her father that gave her such new purpose.
This section needs to be read and enjoyed in its entirety.

>“Um, dad… I didn’t use anything, I thought you were using a condom, I might get pregnant!”
Coming from Twilight, who has been throwing herself directly "into" his cock thus far. If you were worried about this, you might have done something about that sooner.

>Twilight trotted around the new home that Night Light and her bought together. It was their very own secret, and they were going to take the time to raise their foal when the time was right.
I'm just assuming they killed and buried Twilight Velvet offscreen to live with their incest-spawn.
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>>30347105
>If you were worried about this, you might have done something about that sooner.
Fool, don't you know libido turmps rational thought?
Also, I want Bleedin' to write my sex life.
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>>30347135
I dunno man, he kinda writes people like they were ragdolls in a really shitty GMod machinima.

Or a really god one
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>>30347135
>Also, I want Bleedin' to write my sex life.
It would have to be a fantasy novel.
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>>30347190
fictitious accounts generally do fall under the fantasy heading, yes
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>>30346608
>I kinda hope it'll get to him this time
>it's an incest clopfic and not SoL or comedy
It won't.
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>>30348674
>incest clopfic
Watching that stream of very original daughter x father on father's day sure was interesting.
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>>30348699
>fathers day incest marathon
I would expect no less
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>>30349303
Did anything at least passable came up?
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>>30346817
Pretty sure he grew up, got wings, has that phoenix for a pet, and lives in a cave by himself in the AAG 'present' - he's not around a lot suffice to say.
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>Aragon posts a collection of horror shorts
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>>30350851
>shorts
Are any of them chilling/disturbing?
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>>30351429
Is there any horror fimfic that is genuinely scary?
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>>30346817
>What happens to Spike in AAG?
He's still around. Grew up all big and strong, and lives in a decked-out cave near Canterlot. He can also do magic for some reason, including teleportation and a spell to give him big fiery green wings (he never grew regular ones, I guess).

And because this is AAG, Star Swirl the Psycho's assistant, Spines, who is about the same age as Spike is in the show, is madly in love with him.
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>>30352817
Is Shin unable to get a hard-on unless someone is acting stupidly?
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>>30353555
Either that or he's thinking about being a girl who is trying to bone their older step-sister.

If that one thing from 7DSJ you guys speculated on was any indication.
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>>30354483
>being a girl who is trying to bone their older step-sister.
thats kinda hot
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>>30356676
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>>30357759
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So, why aren't you writing today?
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>>30359222
Because it's fucking 36°C outside and I'd rather just write raunchy smut.
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>>30359331
This
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>>30359331
What about sweet, loving smut?
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>that title
>on a blog post for an incomplete 900,000+ word series
Pottery.
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How hard am I rusing myself by expecting something out of it? I mean the premise is interesting, and the first chapter was kind of good, if a bit rushed. But then along came the second one which just skimmed over everything and felt wrong.
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>>30362382
The premise sounds kinda fun, even if the execution is a bit one-note. I wish the author had kept the point of view entirely to Twilight though, instead of jumping into the other's thoughts for just a single paragraph or two.
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page 10
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Deader than normal around here
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Am i the last remaining survivor?
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>>30365825
Go on without me, I'm as good as dead.
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>>30365825
I'd post more often but now I'm a productive member of society, which means I can only drop by a few times a day instead of all-day-round lurking.
Also I have to get through at least twenty tries with the Captcha on my phone before I can post anything due to "connection issues".
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>>30366271
>I'm a productive member of society
yeah no one believes that
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>>30367036
My boss believes it so far, and that's all that counts.
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>>30367129
>Anon was self-employed. It came with a lot of benefits, like casual sex with his boss.
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>>30366271
Use Dashchan, it makes captchas a fucking breeze
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>>30363693
bump
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Man, the board is slow today.
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>>30362382
The story updated. Sadly. That honestly has to be one of the most awkward shipping """set-ups""" I've read in a non-trash tier story.
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Woah, hold on.
When did knighty made a patreon for the site and why didn't he just do this before?
https://www.patreon.com/fimfiction
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>>30370915
Today I think. Because >selling out.
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>>30370511
Oh yeah. That went from zero to garbage pretty fast. First chapter was somewhat promising.
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>>30362382
>>30370511
>>30371063
It was fun reading how it devolved as the chapters went on. I think this is a story I'd like to see fleshed out more and don't half-ass the introductions and crushes.
Still, I'm going to follow it if only due to my obsession with Twinkie.
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So, what's the deal with SomethingEmoandEdgy? Is he just trying to be a more offensive Evictus, or am I missing some deeper reason for him crapping out a story every day or so which instantly attracts dozens of downvotes?
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>>30371334
Who?
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>>30371334
Whence?
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>>30371319
How dare you lower yourself to such unearthly standards.

I'm still hoping it bounces back, but I doubt it. Giving it 2 chapters max, because that was some AAG tier downwards spiral.
Also, nice OC there friendo ^:)
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>>30371343
>>30371348

https://www.fimfiction.net/user/302769/SomethingEmoAndEdgy
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>>30371387
Seems like Voicefag is going to be busy, should he ever fix his PC.
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>>30371385
>How dare you lower yourself to such unearthly standards.
I'm sure the junkies lying in their own filth under a bridge are aware that drugs are bad for them, but they need their fix.

I'm giving it a couple of chapters as well. If the downward trend continues, I'll just cut my loses and drop it.

And thanks.
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Dose anybody know a story with a chastity device in it

Preferably a clopfic
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>>30371387
heh i thought that was just a new nickname for skirts
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Why Anons.

Why did knighty kill the site.
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>>30371632
better to die slightly past your prime than to linger on into obscurity forever
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We posting our shit here?

Here's an AU storyish?. It required a lot of knowledge and skill to write, but hardly anyone read it.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/375091/much-ado-about-friendship

Alternatively, here's some incest porn. It got a much warmer response. Go figure.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/354715/a-not-so-stiff-breeze
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>>30371387
Honestly this shit's kinda fucking funny.
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>>30371863
People are much less difficult when it comes to porn. For obvious reasons.
Unless it's a 20k romance, they're just there for release and couldn't care less about the 'details', I guess. It's all about 'is this about characters I like' and 'is there any fetish I hate/love in it'
I remember liking your first incest green, can't exactly remember why tho, but I didn't like its sequel, I even left a thumb down, for some reason.

Also your spike story is an uncomplete adventure fic with only 3k words. People are generally very cold towards these. You should've finished it and posted it when complete.
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>tfw the Fimfiction GOLD Account april fools joke is now real

>>30362382
>romance
>Mature
Eh, harem fics have a pretty poor track record.

>>30366271
>tfw you joined the Google botnet and don't have to worry about Captcha now

>>30371319
>following a garbage fic just because it has your ship
Surely there's better Twinkie stories out there to read? It can't be that dead of a ship.

>>30371632
Because he's suffering from severe depression and this is his subconscious trying to destroy his one last link to a purpose in life so he can finally buy that helium tank and air tight mask.

>>30371863
>designed for Elizabethan stage performance
I wonder why no one read it.
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>>30372172
>Fimfiction GOLD Account
the end is nigh. Is there any actual benefit to it? like supporters get poultron to preread everything for them so they dont accidentally read anything too stupid?
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>>30370511
>Rarity is always cute in every ship
Why do I love this horse so much?


>>30372679
Every gold account gets to see the livestream of Knightly's last performance.
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>>30373173
>gets to see the livestream of Knightly's last performance.
and why would anyone want to see that?
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>>30372172
>Surely there's better Twinkie stories out there to read?
There re some great Twinkie stories out there. Problem is that they're either one-shots or dead.
A Different Kind of Magic was excellent, but the author simply abandoned it in 2012 and hasn't said anything about it even though he's still active in the site.
The Baker and the Scholar was lengthy, fun, and sweet. Then the author hit a rut, said he was going to rewrite it and nothing new has come up.
It Started With a Hoof was an adorable take on the pairing which actually dwelled into how their personalities clashed and complemented each other, but then the author disappeared from the site before posting a new chapter.
Imsufficient is great as well, but the author has to deal with a lot of IRL problems, so the updtes have a glacial pace.
Being a Twinkie fan is suffering.
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>>30374493
Do you carry that list with you?
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I complain and nothing changes, I change my writing and nothing changes, I strive to be more descriptive and nothing changes, I try to write the characters and explain how their feelings are being felt and nothing changes, I write whatever to write something for fun and nothing changes.

I never get on up, and in the end I really did accomplish nothing.

This is an imperfect world.
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>>30377012
This month has been shit for everyone I think.
I guess half the userbase was too busy with school or some shit.
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>>30377081
down votes are never fun. Especially when you put hard work into your fics.
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>>30377102
How do you even get downvotes?
Did you try to tackle an edgy subject or something?

I'm shit and I always keep a 1 to 5-10 ratio, desu
And downvotes don't mean shit.
Faves and views are the only important numbers. I mean I guess if your fic has a 90% red ratio, then yeah, nobody's going to click on it, but I still wonder how you can get there without wanting it.
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>>30377012
I know, I wanted to post my shitty fic for one anon who wanted to see it continued, and now people accidentally found it to be good and I'm forced to update it semi-regularly.
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>>30377166
Good for you, I'm glad someone else has success, oh wait, that's all the time because I never get anywhere with my stupid fucking fics. And you know why their stupid? Because they keep failing in every aspect.

So exhausted.
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>>30377186
Now now, the success of others is not dependant on your own failure Anon. This is not a fight to the death for the sole remaining escape pod.
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>>30377142
by existing, by posting a fic, by making a written story with any quality and getting the same shit over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

And the worst part, is that I can't quit. I'm in too deep, and I'm suffering for it.
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>>30377255
link it fgt
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>>30377309
Spare me your tears, you do this routine regularly.
I actually read Honest Love, and it has multiple obvious mistakes in it, making it clear that you never properly edited it. All this shit about "hard work" is an outright lie.
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>>30377467
Of course you do, that's why you haven't made any progress.
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>>30377309
>bleeding
fucks sake haha

Okay so let's see, we got daughter daddy incest, both of them being 1k long.
What do you expect with that? You don't have the time to explain their relationship or their dynamics, it's just smut.
Degenerate smut. It's also way too short for anyone to fap to. It's basically 'RD was horny so she injects something in her dad's cock and suck it'
Do you really expect people to like that?

>lusciousness
Okay so we've got
>A weight of a thousand tiny pins landed on Anonymous’s skin. His heart fluttered like a pterodactyl that had been changed from it’s ferocious ways to wanting some simple fresh meat.
Do I really need to go farther than that?
I won't.

>the bet
Okay so we got another 1k5 smut, way too short.
And that's how it starts, 'RD won a bet against rarara, so she equips a strapon and fucks her because she's her sexslave, because she told her literally ten seconds earlier'

>>30377455
This guy is right.

You're not working on your fics, they're 30minutes challenges you write while horny or smth and you don't edit or try to make them endearing at all.
I mean, maybe you do, and you're way too autistic to understand what people want/like. But I can't do anything for you at this point.
You've been writing that shit for years now.
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>>30377479
You are blind.
It is like a person trying to dig a tunnel through a mountain with their face, and asking what you think of their progress after repeatedly breaking their nose.

You can't help somebody that doesn't learn from failure.
The best thing to do is let it go and watch the failure from afar. Hoping that one day, maybe, they'll realize they wasted their time by doing it all wrong, and that this mountain didn't really matter at all in the first place.
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>>30377467
Read:
>>30346933
>>30347105

But honestly, I don't see why I should spend my time trying to help you.
Because I've done that several times before, over the last few years. And you've barely improved at all, barely taken any of people's criticism to heart. You're either too lazy or too dense to actually make anything of quality.
So I'm out.

I mean, I'm going through the archive right now. There's posts from over two years ago made by people who were tired of your shit then. I was tired of your shit then.
Over three years ago, the "ITT" of our first 30% thread included "Bleedin's shitfic discussion". And that's still were we're at. You're an institution of awfulness.
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>>30377501
I personally don't give a fuck. You can keep trying if you want.
But I don't want to see you posting that you're 'trying hard' if you don't. Or just use a trip so I can ignore you if you do.

>pterodactyl
A 1k5 romance fic with smut, and not even tagged comedy.
Why would you even consider adding a dinosaur in there, when trying to describe a feeling?

Let's go forward a bit
>He flew towards her, flying by with the new warmth melting away inside him, lifting him forward. There, he bumped into her strong butt with his face, it’s force caused him to reel back from passionate electricity that blew him away.
What is this even supposed to mean?

>Anonymous felt her soft and warm hands tighten around his. And he rose up to her height, the tall goddess’s beauty pulled him up from the shameful hell that was the bacteria infested floor.
That started great, actually. Until the BACTERIA part.
Not really romantic or erotic.

>“Hello there, my name is Rarity, I like making dresses and you?”
I hate rarara, but I can tell you that this is OOC as hell.

idk Anon.
You should read more and try to understand where you're fucking up by yourself, because I can't and won't point everything.
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>>30377540
>>30377542
I understand, I just come here to vent because I have no recourse or way to get out of this.

I'm sorry if it looked like shitposting, I'm just beyond frustrated.

I'll leave now.
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>>30377556
It's okay Anon, I'm not mad at you or anything, but I'm having a hard time believing you're not shitposting at this point.
Have a good day
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>>30377556
Until next time.
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>>30377571
There is such a thing as mental illness.
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Are you hyp for the brand new AAG chapter?
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>>30362382
So I read the new chapter and I found pic related.

The daily updates led me to believe this whole thing was written up in advance, but now I can't help but wonder if the author is just winging it. I mean, why else would you jam the book right before NMM returns instead of trying to come up with a way to introduce it naturally in the narrative?
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>>30378103
Still got over a week though. Think Shinz might actually meet his self-imposed deadline?
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>>30378125
He openly said that he is writing them on the go.
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>>30378330
well theres no way that could go horribly wrong
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>People suffer and nobody cares the thread
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So how does one write a good shipping story, or at least, a non-trash one?
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>>30242720
I'm looking for clopfics where all the Princesses meet up and have a mini orgy in secret. Any recommendations? Futa is fine.
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why do people have to be absolutely perfect writing wise in fimfiction to succeed? Does everything have to be a perfectionists dream?
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>>30377012
>in the end I really did accomplish nothing
You're writing horsewords. That's all anyone who writes horsewords can say. It's not like you can leverage this in your job.

>>30377142
>How do you even get downvotes?
Every story gets downvotes. If you have a bad ratio (3:1 or less), it's likely due to:
>some issue with the writing/plot (bad grammar, a terrible ending, etc.)
>a topic that's usually poorly done and prone to autodownvotes as a result (HiE, warfics, etc.)
>a synopsis that shows the fic has some agenda/soapbox its promoting (TCB, abortion, etc.)
>an unpopular subject matter (foalcon, a shitty

>>30377556
I will say this one final time, Bleedin: SoL or comedy. Ignore the sex ideas, ignore the gore ideas, ignore the complex ideas. Keep it simple, stupid and try to write something light and fluffy.

Then do it several more times to try and get an idea for the characters and develop a style of writing you enjoy.
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>>30377166
What fic, anon?
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>>30378103
Hell yeah my dude

>>30378142
>Think Shinz might actually meet his self-imposed deadline?
He normally does. The general 7DSJ update schedule is somewhat irregular, but updates with specific announcements have (almost?) always gone up on time. Presumably he only posts the blog if the writing is close to being done.
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>>30379486
There are many things that can make or break a shipfic, but I believe the most important aspect to consider is to make sure the feelings of attraction don't feel rushed, and this stands true whether you're writing a one-shot or a long story.

I've come across stories where the characters are acting normally and then go full lovestruck in the span of a few paragraphs.
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>>30378125
>"A glance at Spike revealed the poor dragon making a 'deposit' into the base of one of the potted plants."

...
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>>30380184
Morbid Curiosity

It's amusing to me because the only reason I put it out there was a single anon who wanted to see it finished.
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>>30380456
one guy wanting you to entertain him is still an audience
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Ump
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>>30376033
Yes.
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>>30362382
Fuck me sideways with a spiked bat, I kept reading.
Apparently the author decided to opt out of re-treading the premiere, so the last chapter just skips to the confrontation with Nightmare Moon. I feel torn about whether or not this was a good call.

On one hand, it feels cheap to skip over all the possible moments where Twilight interacts with the rest of the M6 and the crushes get some development; on the other hand, though, it makes it so the joke of mistaking Twilight for a stallion isn't run into the ground. Not yet, at least.

The author seems to be taking the story into a Twinkie route, which should make me happy, but it all feels so superficial. The more it goes on, the less substance everything has. Events are glossed over and described sparsely, the pacing goes out the window in the last third of the story, previous plot holes >>30378125 are lazily explained.

Oh, and since the story has wrapped up Nightmare's arc and is still marked as incomplete, I must assume it'll go into show re-write territory with a plethora of increasingly flimsier excuses as to why everyone keeps mistaking Twilight for a stallion.

Yeah, I think I'm good. At least I got a couple of cute Twilight x Pinkie moments, so I feel satisfied.
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>>30382870
What do you like about this shipping?
I just see it as awkward as hell.
Not just twinkie tho, anything with Ponka is kind of awkward, save for Dash or maybe discord.
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>>30383492
It skips the fun adventures only to butcher the villain fight. Not a good call, imo. The joke of everyone thinking Twilight has a dick under her tail got stampeded into the ground in like the second or third chapter, considering it was never explained why everyone would even think so (unless I missed the part where it said Twilight has a square snout).
The Twinkie element is superficial and forced in really hard. But I'll keep a closer look on the fic to see how much of a trainwreck it becomes in further episodes.
A shame, really, because the idea of Twilight having a different upbringing and approaching her friendship problems in a more direct, physical guard-like manner is something I would like to read about, at least for like the first season.
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>>30380957
That's why I am continuing at all. It was pretty much a dead fic before.
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>>30315067
Scootaloo flaps her wings
"Mein Führer! I can fly!"
Or something like that.
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>>30379486
You have to pick something on the shipping continuum (first getting together, dating, marriage, disillusionment after marriage, having kids, getting old and feelsy) and stick to that specific section. The big mistake most shipping fics make is going through the whole fucking relationship, which makes things incredibly boring as you're dragged through a decade+ of people living together.

There's a reason most ships die once canon confirms things. 99% of it is the build up to the payoff. Same's true for fics. No one really wants to read about the whole thing. They just want to get to that satisfying payoff.

>>30380456
>Morbid Curiosity
>gets excited it's the Twilight one from several years ago
It's the Dash kills anon greentext one, isn't it?
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Page 10
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>>30371617
>search "chastity"

wow so hard
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Bringing this thread back from page nine.
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Did Four Score or whatever the mass human-to-pony transformation thing was called ever finish or did it die off due to too many people trying to jump on the bandwagon at once?
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>>30384120
>What do you like about this shipping?
It just brings joy to my heart.
There's something about the juxtaposition of Twilight's innate desire for order and rationality and Pinkie's exuberance and randomness and how they play off each other. It's a contrast I really enjoy, and I think has a lot of room for exploring.
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>>30387989
Four score finished a while ago, although a major part of the final conflict ended being split between the main fic and The Last Crusade, which also finished a couple years ago.

There's probably still tons of dead side-fics that will never finish though.
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>tfw all the authors and stories I've been following for years are disappearing and dying
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>>30388012
>tfw your fandom was
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>>30387989
>did that thing from 5 years ago finish
if only there were some way of searching for something you know the title of. maybe someday knighty will implement such a feature
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>>30388012
it's a bad feel
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>>30388567
True, but I was expecting it to have crashed and burned such that the response I would have gotten from this thread would have been far more entertaining than just searching it on fimfic.
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>>30387021
Wow, you really help him. I bet he didn't do that before asking here
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>>30387021
>half the writers actually write half the fetishes presents in their fics
faggot
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>>30390993
People tend to overlook the obvious solutions
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tenth page yet again
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is this a thing now? why?
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>>30393543
I should be weirded out by this, but nothing ever surprises me anymore.
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>>30393543
Beanis :DDDDDDD
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>>30393120
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seriously whats the deal with benises
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>>30395242
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHJ6OwTYWc
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>>30397182
I have the most understandable boner right now
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>>30350851

>Horror/Comedy

Wut. Are they any good?
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>>30398456
survey says probably not. how does horror/comedy even work?
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>>30399536
It's not as though it's impossible to pull off, it's just that most people don't have the skill needed to do it.
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>>30394617
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>>30399536
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>>30400522
that shits neither horrific nor funny.
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>>30400537
Well, aren't you a fucking pleb?

How is the concept of horror comedy difficult for you?
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>>30400487
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>>30401146
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Beanis.
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>>30400537
Well, that's just uncalled for.
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T-MINUS 7 DAYS UNTIL NEW AAG.
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>>30404938
How will we survive the wait?!
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>>30405962
That's easy, just try to remember where the story left off. That should keep you busy for a week.
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>>30406006
Darn it, I still want to catch up... I have less and less time to myself.
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>>30405962
How about writing autistic spin-offs that have nothing to do with the original story except for 1 character, and then pester Shin to acknowledge it to be canon?
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>>30406699
dubba dubs has spoken. was this a thing that happened?
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>>30406720
Not to AAG I don't think, but to many other """successful""" fics
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>can't even post an image without fucking it up
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>>30407721
Don't ruin it! Post nothing until he finishes!
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>>30407721
>Mass Effect
Why do people still bring it up. Why must they make shitty crossovers with it. Can't they just let me forget already?
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>>30408212
I'll try to wait this time.
It's such a shame that he deletes his fics every time I post about them.
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>>30408239
well it could cross over with the shitty new one...
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I'm not bumping anymore. Y'all nigroes can sink or swim on your own
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>>30408257
Just save them as he posts them and then make your posts after he finishes/gives up/deletes everything.

Also is https://www.fimfiction.net/story/263081/call-of-duty-black-ops---ember by him? Because this is lit as fuck.
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>>30410314
Every time.
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>>30410314
Yeah, it's his.

>>30410364
>New Spark: Enabling Retards Since 2014
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wow 3deep
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>>30411900
>A person died. That is bad.

A true potter.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIv_ConaZ1c

Movie trailer's out. Mouth swords are canon.

Where is your god now?
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>>30412551
Hope we get at least a few words of explanation for whatever this is
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>>30412551
So, the main bad is Edge mcCrawling, a unicorn with a scar and a broken horn. Who can fly in the air because kung fu. She is leading an army of a furry bipedal creatures, and invades Canterlot with her airship. The Royal Guard is useless, the Princesses are useless, the centuries old fortifications and magical barriers of Canterlot are useless. The ENTIRE Equestria is kill (because there are no cities other than Canterlot), and so the M6 have to go outside of it to seek refuge amongst bunch of OCs. Who out of nowhere have the ability to save the Equestria. And then they fight.

Like really, I've seen enough shitty stories on fimfiction to know how this is going to pan out.
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>>30413165
too bad for you it's canon.

unless you can write a better mlp movie.
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>>30413472
It won't be canon if the movie flops.
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>>30413485
The question is, if there is a better way for the movie to be written and produced, why don't you show it then since you know better.
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>>30413531
>if there is a better way for the movie to be written and produced, why don't you show it then since you know better.
That's not a question, and hardly even a sentence. Actually fuck it, it's not a sentence. Not a coherent one at any rate. Go bait to some other thread, will you?
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>>30413165
I like this analysis. I'll still watch the movie, though. Can't be as bad as Luna vs. a Tiny Italian Car.
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>>30413575
nice dodge.
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>>30413165
...So its LtD: The Movie?
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>>30413575
How is that even a incoherent sentence, your just fishing for excuses.
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>>30413165
First of all (you)

Then, no, we don't know who the real villain is.
Donut steel and storm King aren't the bad guys, they'll be the 'good guys that do it wrong'.
Whatever was in that huge building is the real enemy.
But since you saw so many shitty movies, I can't expect you to guess something like this.
It's just a little girl's show
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>>30414554
>reading comprehension is overrated - the post

Are you sure you are in a right thread friendo? Are you just randomly roaming threads, doing your best to shill for hasjew as hard as you can?

>it's just for little girls
Go to bed Jim.
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>>30382870
Got a link to said list?
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>>30414972
Sure.

https://www.fimfiction.net/bookshelf/590933/twinkie

I'll go through it and make a few noteworthy recommendations.
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>>30413607
What? I've never heard of Luna vs Tiny Italian Car
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/377573/the-first-law-of-magic
Not sure how to feel about this fic.
I was impressed at his ability to create a tense atmosphere, but once the edgelord showed up it went rather downhill for me
Id say I have hope in its continuation, but Ive given up on hope a long time ago
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>>30415785
>Parallel incomplete stories
yeah no thanks
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>>30415008
That'd be greatly appreciated, Anon! Don't go too far out of your way for my sake though. I've seen a list of some of the better ones mentioned earlier in the thread, after all.
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>>30412551
>tfw the Princesses and Royal Guard will forever be useless
>tfw the dirigible looked like a PS1 graphic
>tfw your headcanon about Equestria having an international peace treaty in exchange for moving the sun and moon is ded

Trailer honestly felt 5/10. I'm getting a worrisome feeling the movie's going to be generic as hell and suffer the same fate the TNG movies suffered--dumbing everything down because if there's any continuity and creativity it might not make enough money. Hopefully that's just because of the trailer.

>>30413472
>it's canon.
Provided it gets referenced in the show. Otherwise, it'll suffer the same neverending arguments as EqG does--especially if it proves to be shitty.

>>30413531
>in order to criticize something, you have to be better at creating it
Anon, only shitty fanfic authors use that argument.

>>30415785
The max tags and use of the Triumvirate of Edge has me worried, but I'll probably still read it anyway.
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>>30417109
>Hopefully that's just because of the trailer.
traditionally trailers show off all the best parts
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>>30411900
Fuck... I have a few Susumu Yokota albums...
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>>30417541
I dont believe anyone has ever heard of that person unless they're. Some kind of weeb or hipster

Threads almost over. Shitpost away
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>>30417109
I didn't ask if you can't criticize the movie, what I asked is if you can do better since people just complain all the time and never do anything about it.
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>>30417678
Can you stop trying to bait already?
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>>30417769
The story itself is not convoluted enough.
I rate it a 6/darf.
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>>30417769
Has there ever been a fanfic that tried to be deep and actually succeed?
Probably not, Id think, considering how the base material is too light and fluffy, and the average fanfic writer, no matter how edgy their character is, either goes for a simple happy moral or a simple sad moral
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Bump limit reached.

Whos got next?

not me
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>>30418770
Wasn't there that weird dark fic of darf about rarara having aids
or was she a vampire
shit, I need to read it again
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Page 10. Anyone working on another thread?
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>>30419661
I'll make one when I get back to my hotel.
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>everything i post keeps getting blocked by the filter
Someone else needs to do i to me.
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