>Start to read a fic >"____'s POV"

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>>30514244
>start to read a fic
>it's in second person

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>>30514244
>Writefag deletes his entire pastebin

>>30514304
Why? Why the fuck do some of them do this?

>>30514244
>see someones OC
>has a Videogame-related Cutie Mark


what does POV mean?

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>start to read a fic
>Day * in Equestria

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>>30514244
>Start to read a fic
>It was written in 2012

Decently written green and/or prose from that year is a fucking myth. I can count on one hand the number of stories I've read that weren't the equivalent of pouring bleach into your eyes.

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>>30514244
>Start to read a fic
>Generic HiE with mane 6 in their overused roles that's stated in every HiE

>>30514606
>It's a "Anon works at Sweet Apple Acres, gets clothes from Rarity, helps Fluttershy with her animals, exercises with Rainbow, helps bake with Pinkie Pie, and stays at Twilight's castle who he treats like shit and is 'total bros' with Spike"
>Bonus points if the fic starts out with Anon doing all of these activities in some order

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>>30514244
>Anon/character is totally oblivious to someone's advances on them despite them being so painfully obvious
>character is so oblivious to romantic social cues they seem genuinely mentally retarded
>'pone' instead of 'pony'
>'hay' instead of 'hey'
>'buck' instead of 'fuck'

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>Main character is a soldier

What the fuck is this unholy fascination with the military? Are you all fucking faggots?

>>30514244
Why do people even use this "POV" thing in fanfiction? It's not like it makes anything easier.

>>30514808
It's the easiest way to show Anon as a capable fighter with out going into animu land tier justification.

>>30514448
I did it because I wanted to torn over a new leaf.

I didn't, I just shitpost under a different name now.

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>>30514244
>Dialogue lines are written like an essay

>Run-on sentences

>"I just woke up here one day / I fell into a portal / I already knew this place existed but I'm going to withhold that information and let it slip at the worst possible time.

>>30514270
>>30514606
>>30514705
>>30514799
Just admit you hate it because it's heterosexual and not dyekshit.
>>30514468
Point Of View.

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>writer leads up to sex
>leaves it open ended with spicy diologue
If you can't write sex, then don't lead up to it!

>>30514970
Now I want a fic where Anon is just some Navy Bosun's Mate who chipped rust and slapped on paint for a living. Still has autistic military tendencies but only combat experience was that one shitfaced bar fight in Manila.

>>30514448
I did this because I only had 1 story and I wanted to revise it so it wasn't as cringy and fucking stupid.

I never revised it cuz the general I wrote for died. Coincidentally I think I was the last writer who even updated. Not saying it was my fault, but damn.

>Read fic.
>story mentions hands.
>realized the ponies are actually humans halfway in the story.

>>30515657
What general

>>30514705
Because that's most likely if he got to stay in ponyville in the first place

>>30515815
Flutterbully / Bullshy

>>30515707
>Read fic
>story mentions hands
>The ponies aren't humans.

Fucking stop it!

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>>30515707
>He doesn't ctrl+f to look for 'pony, hoof,wings,horn,' to make sure he's reading an actual pony story
Guess you should have done it beforehand

>>30514799
I think you're forgetting 99.8% of mop fabric writers are literally autistic. They don't pick up on things like that.

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>>30515935
CARLOS!

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Reminder. Unless you want the character to be a nudist, then Rarity making the human character's clothes is practically not optional. If he's staying in Ponyville, that is. All other cliche interactions, like working at Sweet Apple Acres, with the M6 is fair game for criticism.

That being said, it would help if writers played around with it more. Like Rarity makes the clothes, but the results are a mess since she has no experience with bipeds. Then Fluttershy steps in and makes very simple clothes focused on practicality. So Anon has to make do with robes, togas, cloaks, and similar ancient styled outfits.

Of course this is just a symptom of the real problem. It means the writer should be skipping over Anon arriving in Equestria and fast forward several months.

>>30516395
>Rarity making the human character's clothes is practically not optional
She has a lot of skill though, so shouldn't she be able to replicate the clothing I'm wearing with ease? If she used me as a model and then wrapped the fabric around me and studied it, would she not be able to make me new clothes, or are jeans and t-shirts complex and have weird fiber tricks to get them the way they are?

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>anon is talking to his brain and his brain talks back

>>30516462
Not optional as in mandatory. But yes, she could roughly copy whatever you're wearing even if it's not her usual gig. They have sewing machines and magic. Even if they didn't have the machines, tailors throughout ancient history were so skilled that they were nearly on par with machines anyway. Alternatively you could have Twilight outright dupe your clothes, because she's shown multiple instances of transforming living things into other living things and objects - regardless of size I should add. Could be a funny subversion.

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>>30516473
>Anon is talking to his brain and his dick keeps interrupting.

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>>30516395
>the writer should be skipping over Anon arriving in Equestria and fast forward several months.
Possibly. It sucks reading a green and the very first lines are detailing how he unexpectedly made it to Equestria, brought to Celestia, setup the mane6 roles and bla bla everytime like countless others.

Would it kill to add some variety to your story?