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How does the feature system even work?
Is it view-based or is it rating-based?

>>30561075
A story needs to get a secret amount of views and votes in an unknown amount of time for it to be featured.

The specifics have never been disclosed because then people would abuse the system.

>>30561075

It's heat-based. Heat is a combination of upvotes and views, heavily weighted toward recently received ones. I don't know what the actual weightings are, though; knighty keeps that part hush-hush because he's afraid of people trying to game the system.

The system is also weighted against very short stories - I don't remember how short, but I want to say the penalty starts at 2 or 3 thousand words, and is greater the shorter the fic. This is to prevent people from shitting out a bunch of minimum-length stuff and clogging the feature box.

The bottom three slots are reserved for fanfics that have recently updated, and I think it uses a combination of total popularity and recency of update rather than heat.

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>>30561008
Is there any excellent grimdark stories on Fimfiction about ponies falling into madness. But not Cupcakes or any same child fat shit.

>>30561132

Going through my bookshelves:

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/246047/the-visiting-hour

Probably some other Horse Voice stuff too, but that's the first one I see.

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/212758/daring-do-and-the-curse-of-ahuizotl

Not exactly "madness," but it hits the same buttons I think.

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/249737/please-open-the-door

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/32210/pinkie-pie-is-an-eldritch-abomination

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/332084/cant

This one's pretty subtle, but good

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/142509/truth-be-told

>>30561132
This one is pretty good at detailing Rarity's descent into madness while under the influence of a vengeful spirit.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/320477/carousel

She does get better, though.

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I was re-reading Audience of One last night and I had an idea for a Princess Luna/Nightmare Moon story.

Basically, the essence of Nightmare Moon comes back trying to tempt Luna into becoming one again. It tries to appeal to her insecurities, ego, and whatnot, but Luna puts her hoof down and resists her.

NMM, of course, doesn't give up, however she starts to get desperate, and it soon becomes obvious that she just wants to be one with Luna again. Cue romantic developments that end with Luna purifying the Nightmare through the power of love and maybe turning her into the Tantabus (only that this time it's not a dream being used to torment herself, but rather an assistant to protect the dreams that some stories seem to tackle)

>>30561132
Read this one a while back and thought it was alright. It's written in the form of journal entries that follow Rarity as she tries to help Twilight uncover the nature of a weird object she found.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/304458/entry-649

>>30560759
>But I want to ask the guy who has been slogging through the insanity: now that book 1 is done, what is by FAR your favorite part of the series thus far? And what is the most insane, if it's something completely different?
I flipped through the pastebin to make sure I wasn't missing anything important, but really nothing can top Star Swirl the Psycho and her Sweetie Belle sex golem.

Though, if you just want one thing to read, you should check out chapter 9 of Kind Hearts & Coronets
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/146048/9/kind-hearts-coronets/ix-just-an-illusion-we-believe
It's a fairly self-contained chapter from the side story about how Rarity and Silversteel first met.

Is Princess Celestia a tyrant? Or, god forbid, a molester?

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>aag, chapter 26
NMM's host is dead, so she gets a new one. Also, the old host's identity is finally revealed: it's Orange Box. (Literally who?)

Spitfire is dead. There's a funeral and shit.

The Iranian fighter captain is not dead. He bitches at Mr. Taco for sending a bunch of untrained pepsis as pilots (they all got BTFO). By the way, the aircraft carrier they attacked is also not dead.

Lyra is almost dead. This is the most bullshit thing in the entire chapter because Lyra is cool and her near-fatal injury is 1000% contrived. During the battle, she hit the button for the orbital friendship cannon, and it worked but also electrocuted her for literally no reason. She's now in the hospital.

Non-Hitler Sunset (Champaigne's golem) is supposed to be dead, because Champaigne's worried about her getting out of control, but NHS resists because she's already turning into a real girl.

Chrysalis gets dead. Blood Armor takes over and all the changelings move to Saddle Arabia.

Luna fucks Robin. Celestia fucks Sam. Star Swirl fucks Rumble. Pip fucks Imago. Sweetie Belle is foreveralone but her friends (who are all married by the way) throw her a party to cheer her up.

I already talked about Luna and Robin's kid.

DJ and Rarity actually talk to each other, finally. Unfortunately Rarity is still fucking stupid. Among other things, she tries to insist that DJ send her kids to Not-Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, despite them obviously not being unicorns. Oh, and of course they'll have to adopt pony names, to fit in. DJ tells her to fuck off, obviously.

Equestria is part of NATO (despite not even being on the same planet as the North Atlantic), so Celestia requests help defending against future nightmare / changeling / taco attacks. They agree, but Megan Williams warns her that the secretary general of NATO is secretly part of an anti-pony group that was formed by a merger between the KKK and the Black Panthers.

IT'S FINALLY OVER for now at least

>>30562272
>a merger between the KKK and the Black Panthers.
How is that supposed to have happened?

>>30562178

Tyrant: (in ancient Greece) a ruler who seized power unconstitutionally or inherited such power.

I'd say that turning the current ruler of Equestria to stone and declaring oneself and one's sister supreme executive diarchs meets that definition, yes.

>>30562766
That implies Equestria has a constitution. What if there's no legislature whatsoever, and Equestria is like a lion pack where the strongest, the alpha rules?

>>30562461
>"Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green." — Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

ripped straight from the TV Tropes page for fantastic racism.

>>30562808
>Equestria is like a lion pack where the strongest, the alpha rules
I'm sure that must have been the case before the unification, but surely once the three tribes got together they must have figured out some sort of constitution to make things work between them before the sisters arrived.

>>30562272
So, out of all of AAG thus far, what is your favorite scene, and what in your opinion is the most insane scene (if it's not the same as the first answer)?

>>30563755
I think he already replied to that here: >>30562111

>>30560415
>cause as much chaos as possible
What would be stopping Equestria from just kicking them out when it becomes clear they're only making the situation worse? Equestria holds pretty much all the cards when it comes to relations with the Empire (transportation, likely food imports, etc.) It certainly gives a big motivation for them to get a colonial empire going to break out from Equestria, but I feel like Cadance would be very careful about locking horns with the millenia old Principality with dozens of major industrial centers and a diarchy in control of the literal survival of the planet... at least until she had her colonies all in order.

>>30561075
It uses "heat," which is an algorithm that factors in likes/dislikes, comments, views, and the age of the story. The exact proportion those factors are used has not been revealed because of muh rigging.

>>30561132
>>30561375 This. I wouldn't really call it grimdark, though.

>>30562178
No, she's not.

>>30562272
>the aircraft carrier they attacked is also not dead
>not taking out its Aegis system
>not then firing a dozen cruise missiles at it
Plebians.

>the Secretary-General of NATO is a member of the KKK/BP
Damn Norwegians.

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>>30562272
>Orange Box
Derpy's daughter.

>electrocuted her for literally no reason
The reason is more drama. Everything that happens in this fic happens to enable more drama.

>Blood Armor
CRAWLING

>Sweetie Belle is foreveralone
How long until she goes full /r9k/ incel?

>that the secretary general of NATO is secretly part of an anti-pony group that was formed by a merger between the KKK and the Black Panthers
What the actual fuck?
Jens, what have you done?

>>30562178
Molestia is her younger sister and Tyrantlestia is her older sister. Family reunions are awkward.

>>30563823
Ah, somehow missed that, thanks.

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What are you reading, Anonymous?

>>30566162
Python documentation on expressions.

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>>30566162
The latest Skyla Pseudonym updates. I sometimes question why, I guess once I started I don't want to quit halfway through.
Monochromatic started a Rarilestia story I'm interested in. And also whatever hits the featurebox while looking short, or bad enough.
Still slowly working my way through Chrysalis Visits The Hague. It's getting more interesting as the plot thickens, but the guy really needs a proofreader.

>>30566162
Nothing at all

>>30566162
Your comment, you big penis.

>>30566162
My reply to your post, you huge horse dong.

>>30561132
Well, there's Asylum, but the falling part itself is pretty quick.

>>30566162
The Count of Monte-Cristo

I watched the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGs4jb1pCf8 series and I just had to read the book.
It's actually really good!

>>30568040
I remember watching the 2002 movie when I was little and read the book afterwards only to find out Edmond's family doesn't immediately forgive him and accept him back into his life at the end.

I learned to distrust Hollywod ever since.

>>30568114
One day I'll learn not to read spoilers when I haven't finished the fic in question..

I heard the movie wasn't as good as the book, so I haven't really given it a chance. Is it still worth watching even if it's worse?

>>30568163
The movie is pretty good, even if the ending is different. The performances are great, off the top of my mind, the old man in the jail who teaches Desmond nails his part. It's been a while since I last re-watched it, but I think it's a pretty enjoyable movie nonetheless.

Show your fimfiction profile or what you've written lately you coward. I bet you'll just turn your page to hide your special snowflake content because your afraid of scrutiny.

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>>30568889
>what you've written lately
I haven't written anything since 2015.

>>30568929
Then why are you replying?

>>30566229
Regular expressions or just things you can put on the other side of an assignment?

>>30568889
Main account: https://www.fimfiction.net/user/158274/Undome+Tinwe

Alt account: https://www.fimfiction.net/user/278838/Melesse+Lindenya

>>30569239
So, do those mean anything?

>>30568889
>fimfiction profile
Do you take pastebin?
https://pastebin.com/u/AusAnon

As for what I've written recently; >>30569193

>>30569626
Nope. I'm nobody on the site.

>>30569239
>44 like story with barely any dislikes

nb.

>>30568889
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/181713/Tinmane
If it'll keep the thread from undergoing apoptosis again.

>>30566162
Just finished the two most recent chapters of Lunar Rebellion. The Avatar's defeat was kind of a let down. I was hoping for something more exciting than just 5k of aerial jousting.

>>30568889
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/14342/xTSGx
Really gotta fix that "story progress" thing to show that everything's dead to fix the margins that got fucked up after the most recent site update.

>>30568040
theres just nothing like it

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>>30571575
Out of curiosity, what made you drop Regent?

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Are you writing? If not, why?

>>30569820
>tfw haven't written anything in years, yet i still have far more pastebin views
It bothers me somewhat that the first thing I do when seeing someone's pastebin is turn it into some kind of dick measuring contest. Because it really doesn't fucking matter.

>>30573257
How many pastebin views come from bots anyway?

>>30573294
Unless it has changed in the last few years, it's actually not a whole lot.
The bots usually just check it out right after it has been published, and you can get anywhere from twenty-five to around fifty views from them.
Or that's what I seem to remember, as I said it's been a while.

Posted one just now, and it got thirty-two hits after five minutes, and up to thirty-five after another five minutes. So the bot views drop off pretty quickly.

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Let's see what's new in FiMFi--

>>30574000
That was fast

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>>30574000
>mfw I am one of those 4 views

Yes and I much appreciate it!

>>30574393
Well, good for you, I suppose.

>>30561075

I'm a new faggot to this: how are new stories sorted out?

Like, do they just go into the 'hopper' in the order that they're approved/auto-approved and they get sorted out (and obviously the number of people stalking you helps you get more views sooner) or is there some sort of system?

>>30574450
New stories go into a queue in the order of (auto-)approval, and get posted at a fixed rate (2 per 10 minutes, as I recall).

>>30574493

Thank you for your insight, comrade.

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Hey, remember Not Twilight's Problem, that fic where everyone thinks Twilight is a stallion when she comes to Ponyville and where she's immediately shipped with Pinkie? It just updated and it's moving fast into the "so bad it's good" territory.

Twilight is frustrated that everybody still thinks she's a stallion even without her armor, telling Spike she tried "just about everything" (and no, I don't know how simply telling her friends wasn't the first thing on that list).

Then Twilight suffers a flashback to when Pinkie kissed her, Big Mac came around and wondered how come he can't see Twilight's dick ("When Ah kiss my fillyfriend, Ah can't help but go rock hard."), so he did the most reasonable thing - lifted her back leg to check out her nonexistant horsecock. He somehow missed her actual genitalia, but he didn't see a dangly thing so Mac assumedTwilight is using magic to hide it. End flashback.

Turns out Mac started telling every stallion he met about this spell. Cue another flashback. One day Twilight visited the hospital to give the sick foals some books when Doctor Horse called her into an empty office. He had a throbbing erection and wanted the spell from Twilight so he could walk around the hospital with it while checking out them hot nurse asses. Twilight did the most reasonable thing, and wrote down an illusion spell for him, even going as far as signing it. It also made Horse look a bit more feminine, but he liked that. End flashback.

Spike is having a rightful giggle. Twilight realizes that because the spell made Dr. Horse look more feminine, everyone is going to think that's the case with Twilight as well, so now nobody is going to believe her. Spike almost dies from laughing at this revelation.

I can't wait for the next chapter where Twilight starts flashing her horsepussy to everyone to prove she's a mare, because somehow someway, simply telling people and explaining the misunderstanding is still not an option.

>>30574999
TripsAnon, if problems could be solved by having serious, honest talks, two thirds of all forms of entertainment wouldn't exist.
But I, too, look forward to the ensuing insanity.

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Everyone's favorite author did a Q&A thing today. Here's the lineup for the next ~6 months:
>7DSJ, until the main series is done. This should be maybe 3-5 more chapters, by my estimate. WIZARD WAR SOON 30 AND A HORSE
>AAG side story #1: "The Breaking Straw" (>>30574000), about the public reaction to all the crazy shit that went down in AAG book 1
>AAG side story #2: "Lyra's Songbook" (not posted yet), about Lyra dealing with being stuck as a human forever which is still bullshit, by the way
>AAG book 2. This is supposedly happening in November but I figure January is more likely.

Aside from that, there was some info on the plans for Sterling (Luna's daughter) in AAG book 2 which actually sounded kind of promising. If it really turns out as advertised, then I might have to upgrade book 2 from AAG-tier ("induces severe brain damage") to 7DSJ-tier ("induces brain damage, but has a few redeeming qualities"). But then again, fool me once... (pic related)

>>30575201
I will never understand why people read this stuff.

>>30575256
Same reason they watch B-movies. Schadenfraude.

>>30575256
AAG-Anon is nice to have around, but I'm pretty sure he has some sort of brain damage.

>>30575282
Yet he can't kick the habit.
I wonder which is more addictive, and which has the worse side effects on your head: crack, or AAG.

>>30568889
I have most of my stories on Pastebin. I'm slowly transferring them to Fimfiction.

https://www.fimfiction.net/user/224592/Waxworks

I don't know about brain damage, but I feel like I come close with one fic (don't want to name names behind the author's back) where it seems like every chapter bends over backwards to make the protagonist's life hell and/or screw up his relationship with Twilight over the slightest thing (admittedly part of the point is probably that they're both new at this and not very stable, but the volatility does wear after a while), and dragged out further by the POV narration, to the point where I literally have to put down my iPad growling "of COURSE this is happening."

Like, I read the first chapter of it in a while earlier today- originally thinking to get back to 7DSJ, but then I thought, I've got time and how bad can it be?
>protag, Twilight and Rarity are in Canterlot for reasons
>Twilight sends protag off with her coin purse to get some food while they get settled in (at this point commenters who followed this from the beginning are already expecting trouble)
>gets to restaurant as Fancypants and Fleur de Lis are walking out, Fleur twirls around a bit and bumps into protag, knocking them both to the ground with herself on top
>FP and Fleur react as though protag assaulted her
>protag sees Twilight's bag knocked away, picks it up, Fleur screams that he's taking her bits b/c it looks just like hers (which protag knows b/c he sees it STILL ON HER SADDLEBAG)
>KO'd by guard & 2 hours dungeon
That's an eighth into the chapter.
I mean, he's released in short order when F&F realized they screwed up offscreen, but... is this the feel longtime AAG readers get? (I haven't minded the first 7 AAG chapters or so, apart from the M6 suddenly catfighting so Nightmare Moon can worf them, despite them being a task force supposed to be prepared for this specific thing.)

(Why am I still reading the first fic, you ask? Still kind of curious what will happen re:relationships, and I figure a chapter at a time is OK... in fact I read two more after that.)

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>>30576216
And this, kids, is a prime example of Stockholm Syndrome.

>>30566162
Where Eyes Deceive, can't get enough of the bug.

>be me
>decide to jump headfirst into the fucking autism pool for the first time in literal years
>decide to listen to past sins
>its cringy as fuck
>on chapter like 17 now
>still plan on finishing it for some reason
kill me

>>30572446
I got burned out on it. I had started Ascend as a side thing I'd update once in a blue moon. Then it got really popular and I felt pressured to sink a lot of time into writing it. That was my first mistake.

My second was not doing something else once Ascend was done. I should have written another multichapter or done some oneshots, but instead went right into Regent and found it really unsatisfying writing once I got to Chapter 5. No motivation = no writing. It really doesn't help I can't look at a chapter of Ascend or Regent without wincing at it because of how shitty it reads to me.

>>30574999
>It also made Horse look a bit more feminine, but he liked that
So it's turning into a trap fetish story?

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>>30577420
I thought Past Sins is popular only because it was one of the first and one of the longest.

>>30577420
I like Past Sins, but I absolutely love the MST3K riffing it got and would love to hear an audiobook version of that

Do you think OCxCanon romance can be pulled off?

>>30578013
Yes, if the OC isn't a self-insert and is well-fleshed out, and if the romance is actual romance instead of "hey you look hot let's marry".

In short, if it isn't shit. This phenomenon scarcely ever occurs.

>>30578013
Theoretically yes.

>>30574999

>so bad it's good
>it's featured
Is there no justice?

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> The very end of the climax in a fanfic you're reading ends with minor character's death
> the author does this alot
> it's only 1/4th of the way through

>>30579219
>climax in a fanfic
>1/4th of the way through
I don't think that's how pacing is supposed to work.
What fic?

>>30579219
I'm killing off the main character and love interest at the climax of my fic.
Then extensively torturing the protagonist for the rest of it.
Tragedy is great.

>>30579219

I'm bad at writing after the death. I prefer the valiant fight up to the death, where the person involved dies valiantly for their principles or something.

Closest thing I've come to writing a story about death is a halfway thought out story where Pumpkin Cake has a fit and wishes to not live with her parents any more, but then she gets her wish and has to deal with the fact that going back to her parents is going to be much harder than wishing to be rid of them.

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I just found out something.

In medieval times, it was usual to only work while the sun was out, then go to sleep at sundown, and get up at sunrise.

Of course, human beings don't normally sleep for 10~12 hours straight, so people back then typically slept in two periods during the night.

In between the first and second sleep the person would be awake about an hour or two to do the things people in medieval times usually did—pray, die of the plague, eat, drink, bury those who died of the plague—andm ore importantly, have sex. The French physician Laurent Joubert (1529-1581) even advised that couples have intercourse during this period, because “they have more enjoyment” and “do it better.”

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/01/how-did-people-sleep-in-the-middle-ages/

What is my point? Well, I just pictured an AU where Luna didn't become Nightmare Moon because she found a renewed (relewd?) purpose by essentially becoming a goddess of sex.

I mean, why not? Ponies slept through her night, but if they really did go to sleep as soon as the sun set, then you could apply the two-period sleep pattern to them and you suddenly have a one to two hour window where ponies are awake through the night, and you're a young princess keen on making the ponies appreciate your work. While not high on the list, encouraging married couples across Equestria to use that time for sex seems like a perfectly acceptable plan.

And if I ever write this, of course the story would be titled "Because the Night Belongs to Lovers"

>>30579532
Luna turned into Nightmare Moon because Celestia was envious, so she made her days last longer. You know, sunrise shortly after 4 AM, light outside until 10 PM. Ponies worked more, got tired more, slept more during the night and fucked less.

I've recently read this: www.fimfiction.net/story/18087/the-best-night-ever
The pacing was a little bit too slow towards the end, but it was still a pleasant read.

Anyway, what are some other good fics centered around time manipulation?
Ideally, is there anything about screwing around with time stop?

>>30579565
That actually sounds like a plausible way for Celestia to go full Daybreaker.

Her little sister is leading a sexual revolution in Equestria, everypony is feeling more content and are fucking more in general, everyone appreciates nights more and Luna is now revered as a sexual goddess. Now that period in-between sleep is considered a sacred time devoted to fucking. She feels happy for her, but can't help feel that pang of jealousy deep in her heart—and her nethers—due to Luna's new appreciation. Eventually these small feelings pile up until she snaps and declares that ponies must fuck during daytime as well, and she'll make day last forever if she has to.

Cue: Elements of Harmony, and Celestia spends a sexually-frustrated millenia in the Sun.

>>30579583
>screwing around with time stop?
I believe there was a clopfic in the featured box not long ago where Twilight stopped time to have sex with immobile ponies.

>>30579583
After reading TBNE I fell in love with time loop fics, but sadly there aren't a lot of good ones.

Hard reset and its numerous sequels are maybe the most well known time loop series of fics if you haven't read it already: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/67362/hard-reset

A little loopy is pretty good: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/227246/a-little-loopy

And the cross-story version of The Best Night Ever in The Sweetie Chronicles is also a pretty good nod to the original: https://www.fimfiction.net/stories?q=sweetie+chronicles

Finally you can also read the sequel of TBNE (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/18256/this-platinum-crown), but it's in a pretty different style, not really time fuckery related anymore (though it has its fair share of stupidly powerful spells and 5 letter aliterations).
It can get pretty slow/long-winded at times, but I'd still recommend it overall.

>>30579237
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/357556/two-thousand-miles-echoes-of-the-past

Here

Also I mean 1/4th because there's gonna be three more different fics in the same story, after this one.

So how about them poners?

>>30581238
What about 'em?

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>want to go back to a story I had abandoned
>read it again to get reacquaintanced with the plot and pacing
>make a rough outline for the new chapter
>work out the details
>start writing
>get blocked halfway through and nothing I write aftwerards feels right
Well, fuck me sideways.

>>30579818
Have you read Half Minute Horses? Its kinda like a time loop fic

What are some fanfics that are actually much better than they sound?

>>30582482
my fanfics

>>30582482
How about a story about a teenager going to Equestria and having tons of adventures with lots of OC's?

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/73404/

Been rereading this story. Filly Twilight fails her entrance exam and is drawn down the path toward dark magic. It hasn't been updated for a while, but the author has had a year long break before and come back, so who knows.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/325097/the-rise-of-the-empress-midnight-sparkle


Also, a story I've been trying to find again is a RariTwi (not by Monochromatic). AU where the kindest and worst children are kidnapped to be taken to a school where they're turned into fairytale stories. For the life of me, I can't find it again. If anyone knows it, please share.

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>Only 5 Windy Whistle clopfics on all of Fimfiction

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>>30583129

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I'm surprised nobody noticed that Shin has announced the title of the next AAG book, complete with its logo.

>>30583365
Got to hop on that Fo:E fad while it's fresh I suppose

>>30583365
I think graphic design is the thing Shink is most deluded about. I mean he's not a talented writer, but he follows general conventions most of the time and doesn't do anything too offensively stupid aside from his plotlines, but his covers are genuinely horrible.

>>30583557
to be fair, the AAG covers are a lot less nightmare inducing than the 7DSJ covers

>>30578013
Quite possibly, but it's likely one of the hardest things to pull off. Right up there with a dark comedy fic.

>>30579417
>killing off the main character then torturing the protagonist
How does that work? They're both the same thing.

>>30579620
>where Twilight stopped time to have sex with immobile ponies
Oh yeah, the one where the author said it wasn't rape and didn't need a dark tag, thus ensuring a 150 comment long shitstorm that kept it featured for days.

>>30583365
>using three different fonts
>image as a font's color
>"girl" has no proper line spacing
The typologist side of me's really triggered.

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>Be writing a story.
>Have good ideas for particular moments or parts of it.
>Can't for love or money find a way to string them together in any satisfying way.

The writefag's eternal delema.

>>30584352
Protagonist =/= main character, Anon. The protagonist of a story could be a lowly peasant while the main character and the driving force of the story is some noble hero. The story will be from the point of view of the peasant, then, not the hero.

>>30584435
I feel your pain, my brother... ;_;

>>30584460
wat

>>30584460

Dude, what? The main character is the one from whose perspective the story is being told, and who gets the most "screentime" so to speak. If the story's told from the peasant's PoV, it doesn't matter if he's the hero or not - he's still the main character.

I mean, you CAN separate the protagonist from the main character; in most of Doyle's Holmes stories, for example, Sherlock is the protagonist but Watson is the main character. But the way you're describing the words is just wrong.

will fimfic follow suit?

>>30585833

It would make the quality of content increase and kill off low effort, troll fics.

>>30585972
How do you figure?

I can't imagine quality would increase just because there are only upvotes. There would still be shitty FoE stories and autistic crossovers, and poorly written trash besides, but it probably would have some affect on troll fics like you say.

>>30586048
Yea, but they would be hidden and wouldn't get any exposure, forcing people to work harder to make actual quality.

Or maybe just make people bitch more on forums about how their story got ignored.

I still feel like fimfiction and it's moderators have no real idea to what they are trying to do.

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>>30586188
>but they would be hidden
Isn't that worse?
If a group of people dislike a story and proceed to hide it, then people who may like it won't be able to see it.
Honestly, people have to learn to ignore things they dislike.

>>30586188
The system in place at Derpi currently is supposed to hide any image you "downvote", though, so any shitfic you haven't done so to would still be floating around, and I think the sorts of people who write such garbage would only be encouraged to see nothing but likes in the cases where they do receive them. Unless they were aware of the statistics on the number of people who hid their story, so it would be functionally the same as dislikes.

And the people bitching wouldn't be restricted to the folks whose stories got completely ignored. You would get people complaining about the dislike feature being removed, people complaining about people complaining about the dislike feature being removed, and I think there would be quite a few more wars in comment sections because of the people who want their disdain to be heard in some way. Depending on who you are, though, that might not be seen as such a bad thing.

>>30586408
I don't think it hides it from other people, just from the person that decides to hide it. Like a filter, but for a single story. I imagine such a feature wouldn't stop on the level of single stories, though, and include some means of just hiding specific writers from your feed.

>>30586408
since I didnt follow the link, ill say it depends on how 'hiding' works.

If I downvote/hide something I dont like and it becomes hidden to me, well thats just fine. if i didnt like it then I'm not hurt by never seeing it again.

However if my downvote would cause it to become hidden from everyone else, that I could see being a problem.

Though I could see the benefit of having an anti-featurebox, where if enough people downvote in a short period of time it would generate anti-heat and that the shitfic would become hidden globally. because lets face it- horsefuckers have shitty taste, but if a bunch of them dislike something then the odds are pretty good that it was a shitty thing to begin with

>>30582383
I'm puting it in my Read Laters, but sadly don't have the time to do much reading these days.

I'm crazy coocoo panties, and this is my website.

It's called fimfiction and it'll totally fucking work without any complete fuck ups whatsoever.

"Cough"

>>30587558
Also, I'm teleporting, don't mind me.

Wait, your saying that fimfiction was created by Knighty? Goddamn, I'm in the wrong section then.

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Has anyone ever made an adaptation of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the Apple Family?

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>>30587679
I hope not, I really, really hope not.

I'm ready to die.

I've lost all interest to write stories. I can't play videa anymore, because I hate all the games, and have no semblance of quality in them.
I can't do anything I used to enjoy for plenty of reasons and/or my brain just doesn't allow me to gain endorphins anymore.

I'm dead meat.

>>30588225
Have you considered doing hard drugs and/or joining a cult?

>>30588283
I wouldn't know where to get hard drugs or know where to find a cult.

>>30588225
You won't be in your teens forever.

>>30588304
I'm 24

>>30588321
Well, I'm glad you still enjoy your hobby of bitching about your alleged personal issues on in the horse subsection of a Taiwanese fingerpainting forum. Gotta get that attention, right?

Stop complain, start working out, walking in nature, making food, socialising, and just increase your general quality of life. Whatever you're looking for, you're not going to find it in video games and horsewords.

>>30588356
I don't want attention, I want an end to this pain.

Other than that, those are words of wisdom that are good, but can't work on a human being who has been crushed alive by life.

But, i'll try it, if it works this time, I might even smile.

>>30588296
>I wouldn't know [...] where to find a cult.
Allow me:
http://www.ic.org/directory/

>>30588296
>I wouldn't know where to get hard drugs or know where to find a cult.
Allow me to show you a place where you can get both things at the same time:
http://www.insaneclownposse.com

>>30588374
geez man, go get some fresh air and take a long walk off a tall building

>>30589586
why must you say this?

Just read this story and thought it was very good: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/378115/a-quest-for-love-an-apple-pear-family-story

Basically an Apple-Pear family story and expands on the recent MLP episode: "The Perfect Pear" The story is a real tearjerker. I'll admit. I cried a bit lol

>>30582795
Did you actually enjoy this story? I've been reading it and I'm not sure I want to finish it because the edge levels are absolutely off the charts.

It's less "drawn down the path toward dark magic" and more "literally a murderous sociopath who can only use dark magic from the very start"

>>30590533
why not?

>>30566162
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/353594/grief-is-the-price-we-pay

AU where instead of a happy ending, the Thorax intro episode ends with Spike failing to convince everyone that Thorax is a good guy, and they must go on the run and form a new life for themselves in secret while Twilight searches tirelessly for the 'evil changeling that stole her son from her.'

I've probably mentioned it before, but due to recent developments I feel it's worth mentioning again. Despite the premise it actually spends a good while in slice of life territory as they establish and play out their new lives, but it's now barrelling headfirst toward the climax. If you can suspend disbelief with regard to Twilight going rather off the deep end with her blind racism, it's otherwise a great story.

>>30591666
>great story
>thorax
fuck him

>>30592716
How dare you.

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Mature words from a 22 years old man.

Anyway, what's the best new thing you've read in the last month or so? I haven't found anything good that has been published recently.

>>30593919
Truly a Supreme Übermen.

>>30593919
>what's the best new thing you've read in the last month or so?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/380145/administrative-angel
Only new fic I've added this month. It's not that good though.

>story page: this sounds nice, but I vaguely recall this "horizon" guy not being a very good writer
>chapter 1: hey this is pretty good, wonder why I thought horizon was bad
>chapter 2-4: ah, now I remember why...

Can one of you explain the logic behind this "fanfiction can never be good" meme I've been seeing crop up on /mlp/ recently? It seems pretty silly to assume that because something is fanfiction it can never be good

>>30594758
Fanfiction can never be good because acknowledging that fan-created content can be good would mean coming to terms with the fact that we all are capable of creating things with value but choose not to do it due to a series of inner flaws and shortcomings of which we're too scared to accept.

Or, y'know, just shitposting.

I'm trying to think of a place where Sunset Shimmer and Rainbow Dash would wrestle, that's private.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/198685/the-wreck

This was good.

It's not often that I find a mystery story that's worth a read. If you discount the ones that want to emulate Doyle or Christie, there's even less. But this one is pretty entertaining.

A.K. Yearling is having a weird recurring dream about a shipwreck. She thinks it's tied to her writer's block, but can't know for sure, so she starts investigating abit about the history of that ship.

What follows is a nice and solid tale of investigations, twists, a bit of tension, and a satisfying reveal. It could really have used a bit more ambience and adding to the tension, but the pacing is already strong and even, so you never feel there are moments that drag on.

But yeah, 7/10. Go check it out, it's only 13k words long.

>>30595409

Rainbow Dash's basement.

>>30594879

It would also force us to acknowledge that just because a creator has managed to monetize their content does not mean that it has literary merit.

I mean, goodness, look at Twilight or Fifty Shades of Grey (also known as 'this would be rape if he lived in a trailer instead of a penthouse)

>>30595755
I went with a storage room behind the gym, even though it's anime as fuck.

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YEEEEESSSS

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/380285/my-name-is-hatred


YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

>>30595823
Voiceguy is back and edgier than ever!

>>30595798
Link (when ready)?

>>30584460
Main character of the story = protagonist. That's the definition of protagonist. The key phrase there is "of the story." The "main character" of the setting may be different, but the protagonist will always be the main character of the story.

>>30585972
Derpibooru changed it back after everyone complained, so I doubt Knighty would bother after seeing one shitstorm. Plus, it would really fuck up the featuring algorithm.

>>30588225
Then explore various hobbies and find something you do enjoy doing. You also might have actual depression, a chemical imbalance in the brain requiring medical treatment, so consider talking with a mental health professional if this continues.

>>30591666
>tfw they didn't make it ambiguous through the episode if Thorax had brainwashed Spike, instead revealing everything 5 minutes in
I'm still mad about that episode.

>>30593919
>best new thing you've read
It's not new (from 2009), but The Never-Ending Sacrifice novel was great. If you're a DS9 fan, I'd highly recommend it.

I read Morsel of Truth (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/352080/morsel-of-truth) a little while back and thought it played with the building tension really effectively.

>>30596421
>it would really fuck up the featuring algorithm
Maybe it'd be easier for something good to sneak in for a change.

>>30597332
Well we can't risk that happening, so it'll never be implemented

>>30595798

Storage room/equipment room/equipment shed is pretty standard. Back when I was in high school, some kids found a maintenance access for the showers and that was the place people who wanted to fuck during school hours would sneak off to.

>>30596379
Not for several days, Sunset has to go through all the girls.

>>30597966

Is any part of your story done and posted? I'd be glad to give any part of it a view.

>>30597966
>>30597993
Ditto here.

>>30597892
>tfw i don't know where people went to fuck at my high school
Aside from the odd story of someone fucking in the woods outside, I never really heard about it taking place at school.
I mean, I'd use the basement, that was easy to get into and always deserted, but I never really put that knowledge into action, if you know what I mean.

>>30597993
>>30598429
You know the wrestling is just a lazy pretense to get them to have sex, right?

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>>30598568
I'd be offended if it were otherwise.

>>30598568

>Wresting and not wanting to either kill the other person or fuck
There are no reasons to wrestle someone without either of the above motivations in mind.

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>>30598585
This puts a whole new light on WWE.

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>>30598568
>You know the wrestling is just a lazy pretense to get them to have sex, right?
Now I kinda want to read GLOW fanfiction...

>>30597993
I'm only gotten through Fluttershy, I'm not feeling it with Rainbow Dash. Maybe I should just move onto Rarity.

shamefur

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Someone just shat out 3,3k words of a spiderman crossover.

What's your excuse for not writing?

>>30600177
Probably a commission. There was this autist that commissioned hundreds twi X spiderman pics.

>>30600177
jama;2504 pls

There's an AppleDash contest going on right now.

If you think you can put at least 5k words of a decent romance story about fast apples, you could score money prizes.

https://www.fimfiction.net/group/956/appledash/thread/324666/appledash-contest-5---second-chances

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Maybe if you can't keep a thread a live, you don't deserve a nice thread!

Hasbro has licensed their own HiE books.
>>30599189
How does this make you feel?

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/380746/the-lion-kang

Human on page 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf2Ey69Bjt4&feature=youtu.be
My name is Hatred by Kildeez

Now let's see if I can stick to this again.

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>>30604401
Do it, v. I believe in you

>>30604401
Hello, Not Important.

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>tfw managed to write 200 words today
It's not much, but at least I'm getting back on track.

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Why so dead, thread?

>>30606758
because no one reads my fanfics anymore.

That side fic of Shin's where not-Nightmare Moon shags some rich widower or something updated today and made the featured board after like, a year of no updates.

>>30606819
>after like, a year of no updates.
That's irrelevant. As long as a story updates, if it gets enough views it'll make it into one of the last three slots of the Box.

>>30606819
That's the fourth chapter this week, and not a single one was on 7DSJ book 4

>>30606786
Create a new account and write stuff that is completely different from your previous work.

>>30607770
bleedin had a half dozen accounts. it fooled nobody

>>30606786

>Not just writing more stuff so you'll become famous by pure volume.

>>30608724
Quitting is the best option.

>>30609227
>>30608724
I'm surprised we've never tried to rig the Featured Box for Bleedin. Seems like a worthy endeavor.

>>30609393
back when we had the numbers, we also had standards. Now that we have no standards, we also dont have the numbers to rig anything

Unf

>>30610855
Unf me hard
Unf me tender
See this card?
It's a bender.

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>>30561008
First I'd like to recommend what is pretty much my absolute favorite mlp-related fanfiction, The Tale of Lord Barleycorn.

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

It's a human in Equestria story that features a human named Jack disguised as a scarecrow, claiming to be "Lord Barleycorn" the spirit and lord of Autumn, and his efforts to introduce Halloween to Equestria and help a small town revitalize itself and draw others for the celebration with his deception at being a spirit. The town in question is not Ponyville like most would assume. But Hollow Shades, a small farming town that was built a bit into the Everfree forest that's essentially withering and dying thanks to various circumstances that the main character wants to try and fix.

For those who don't like stories with only OC characters, the mane six do come in eventually and are featured prominently when they do, though they don't outright steal the show and it's mostly about the human Jack and the Ponyville resident Carrot Top.

I really do mean it when I say it's my absolute favorite mlp-related story. Though I might be biased because it just hits all of the right notes for me personally.

Second, I'd like to find more stories like Lord Barleycorn. Stories with a very distinct Autumn and Halloween feel to it that doesn't just devolve into senseless grimdark.

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>>30611531
>It's a human in Equestria story
Aaaaand dropped.

>>30611539
I'll agree that most HiE stories are pretty shitty, but I really like this one.

>>30604401
See, voiceguy? You would save a lot of time if you just made text-to-speech narrations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QwDf--u7h0

>>30611539
It's a lot better than your typical HiE, it could be your exception just like some are gay for Braeburn.

>>30611531
Autumn and Halloween, that's a very specific feel and I can't think of any. There is "The Mare Who Once Lived on the Moon" by MrNumbers which also has that fantastic horror yet grounded in reality feel, but it's steampunk.

>>30611531

I've been tracking it for years, but I'm not gonna start another incomplete longfic. I've been burned too many times.

Is it anywhere remotely close to finishing?

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Tell me, Anons. Are you working on a story?

>>30614006

perpetually, without end. one day i may finish.

>>30604401
finish aforementioned disability already.

>>30614006
I want to finish a new chapter of Blankness before July is over. I'm almost 5k into the chapter and it's going to hit at least 7k by the time it's done.

>>30614664
oh so its technically not dead yet?

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>>30615209
The only thing dead is my self love.

I've just been stuck at a particular scene for the better part of a year. It got so bad that I actually went and wrote a whole in-between chapter which nobody read as I tried to figure out the logistics. The worst part is that I'm just itching to write the third act, but I know that jumping ahead and writing stuff for chapters 10~12 is only going to delay the next update even further.

I already have a solid outline of the chapter, so the only thing left for me to do is to push through and bleed all over the blank pages until I'm done with this.

>>30615397
>nobody read
Sorry man but I just wont touch incomplete fics anymore

>the blank pages
well post the blank pages. it fits in with the storys theme :^)

Curious, is there any way to hide individual stories on fimfiction? The amount of stories I've completed keeps staring me in the face every time I search for new fics.

>>30615397
Yeah I saw it updated, read the last chapter and realized that I know that, so I had to go through the whole thing again
I'm not good with fimfiction.net but it was pretty confusing and I imagine it's the same for some people which would explain why nobody actually read it
Still glad that you haven't completely abandoned it just try to finish it before the ride ends for me please, I don't want another Night's Favoured Child scenario

>>30611729
This actually kinda makes me mad.

There's no effort if you use a text-to-speech program. Where's the emotion? Even for shitty stories, I put effort into the emotion, if at least for comedic effect. And t-t-s programs are notorious for mispronouncing words.

Tell you what though. this gives me an idea.

>>30561008
What are the best clopfics on fimfiction regarding herding, mares making up to a stallion for some wrong they committed, or a stallion exploiting his sexual prowess by paying rent with sex?

>>30616656
all of those sound terrible

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/362243/crossover-together

Let me tell you about crossover together.

If you've opened the link, then you can see the fact that there's moon runes in the title and in the chapters themselves. In curiosity, I decided to translate them. They're basically just the title of the story and chapters in japanese.

But wait, if we use google's 'Detect language' feature, we can see that certain chapters actually use Chinese characters!

Why do I bring this up? It's obvious to me that EquestrianKirin is so lazy, that he decided to translate some of his chapters in chinese because they look vaguely Asian enough.

That, or he's so inept that he didn't bother to check if the translations of his chapters were actually in japanese or not.

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>>30617683
Are you so fucking retarded that you don't even realize japanese has adopted chinese characters whilst trying to translate from japanese?

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>>30617683
Uhh... there are 1850 Chinese characters incorporated into Japanese writing that Nip kids have to learn in K-12 school, and probably another 1500 in use on top of that. (Actual Chinese has something like 10,000).

EquestrianKirin did nothing wroooooong!

I had high hopes for this story.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/93700/413-mulberry-lane-a-report-with-annotations-by-twilight-sparkle

Let's just say I ended up having a different experience.

This whole fic is built up as a dark horror about this mysterious house and all the unexplained phenomena which take place in it and, for the first half of the story it does a really great job about it. Seriously, I had a really sense of tension and curiosity as Twilight and her first crew go in that house and start analysing it. All the little unexplained things, all the mysteries piling on top of one another but still fitting somehow, until it reaches the point they must leave the house.

That was all great, and I had high hopes to see what Twilight would do now.

Then we go to the second expedition, where Twilight takes the rest of the M6 and... it all goes downhill.

The first big problem is that the rest of the girls were there just like any set of five background ponies could have been, or five ocs, or five blocks of wood with a nametag on them. Seriously, they have no impact on the plot and the house does not interact with them in any meaningful way.

It's not as though the house was creating tailored made challenges for the members of the first expedition, but in the second one, Twilight does all the work. Oh, sure, Rarity identifies that the composition of the plates and its hoofwork mean the house was centuries old, but we already knew that from the first expedition. Pinkie wants to check the bottomless pit in the den, but Twilight doesn't let her, so there's the end of that. AJ and Dash try to stop Twilight from entering a closet, but they don't stop her and she goes in anyway, Dash flew to the second floor, which put a stop to the ever-extending stairs, but we're never told why Twilight couldn't teleport to the second floor, I already forgot if Fluttershy did anything at all.

Do I have to post in FiMFiction.net, because I got an AO3 account and I'd rather just use that.

>>30618209
But hey, it's all worth it if the things they see this time around are still dread-inducing and mysterious as the first time, right?

Yeah! Yeah...

Listen, I know that in horror you can't explain everything or else you run the risk of ruining it, but the first expedition presented all these weird things happening and there was this feeling that there really was something behind it. Twilight's second expedition, however, is where the cracks start to show, and every new unexplained thing gives the impression of someone throwing spooky things at a wall and seeing what sticks.

We knew the dimensions of the rooms changed, yes, but now we're supposed to buy there's a never ending series of closets that even though the space gets smaller and the doors get larger, they still can be opened? One of the ponies in the painting was an alicorn? Is that why the painting didn't show the cutie mark? How is that related?

Oh, and the final slap in the face is this. Spoilers, in case you want to actually read this. When Twilight is in the final room with the, I assume, evil alicorn, the outside has been replaced by a painting of the street, because that was supposed to be a theme, I guess. But the painting showed the moon, and since it was a magical painting, that means Princess Luna was able to come in and rescue Twilight.

Did I seriously just read a literal deus ex machina ending? What the hell, the story didn't give that much attention to paintings until its last third, if you want to bullshit your way out of a corner like that, at least try to craft a decent foreshadowing.

All in all, this was just bad. It started great and promising, but it just works against itself and doesn't deliver in any front.

>>30615917
Is there?

>>30618224
Nope.
Not unless knighty feels like copying derpibooru's strategy of hiding things.

>>30618246
;_;
Are there scripts that achieve the same end? I ask because there's an extension for fanfiction that lets you hide stories.

Thanks for the help regardless.

>>30618258

with the new API, it might be possible.

>>30618213
>AO3
But why
Nobody uses AO3 for MLP fics. There are literally 60x more stories on fimfic than in AO3's MLP category

>>30618258
I'm pretty sure there must be one, but none that I know of. Is there a group on FiMFic wher you can ask that?

>>30618302
If there is, I don't know of it. I tend to be rather anti-social online.

>>30618298
If it turns out I have to make it myself, I'm going to cry a river because I'm an absolute noob to programming.

>>30618311
You could do it manually pretty easily. Install Stylish and add a custom stylesheet for fimfiction.net. Put in a bunch of lines like this:

[data-story="851"], [data-story-id="851"] { display: none; }
[data-story="45860"], [data-story-id="45860"] { display: none; }
[data-story="25148"], [data-story-id="25148"] { display: none; }

Add one line per story, replacing the numbers with the story ID. Be sure to replace both numbers - the first is for search results, and the second is for story cards in group listings.

This only affects what you see, not what the server sends. So if you do a search and the first 10 results the server finds are all stories you've hidden, you'll get what looks like an empty results page, but later pages may still have more stories.

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What do you think would be an accurate estimate of Ponyville's population?

>>30618552
100-300, but very social.

>Finally have all afternoon to write
>Can't muster up energy to write

Damn it.

>>30618552
>accurate estimate
No such thing.

I'd say you could get away with anything from five hundred to a few thousand, depending on how you portray it. The ideal population is whatever suits what you're writing without it directly contradicting the show itself. Which means that you cannot make it a tiny hamlet of fifty ponies, or a bustling metropolis, but between that you're freer than one might expect.

The show isn't primarily written with internal consistency in mind, which broadens your possibilities. For example one might argue that it makes no sense for a village the size of Ponyville to have a hospital, but then again the hospital isn't there because it makes in-universe sense for it to be there, but rather because the show has scenes that necessitate a hospital.

In a story, if the size of Ponyville is important, you can justify the hospital being there in different ways depending on your chosen vision of Ponyville. If the village in your mind is too small, you might say that the hospital is not there because Ponyville itself is large, but because of it's central location. Alternatively, if you think the population should be larger, you could say that although the village centre itself is small, there is a large surrounding rural area, meaning the region's total population is sizeable enough.

Honestly though, you rarely need to actually get into demographics. Just give us something that is consistent and feels believable. The specifics matter very little.

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>>30618552
The Town Hall serves as a cetral axis for the whole town, from this point we can divide and group the blocks in concentric rings.

The innermost circle, which surrounds the Town Hall, is the town's centre, comprised of a mix of commerce and residential buildings. Since economic activities are the primary role of this area—notice the stores and the market—, the amount of ponies actually living here is rather low, with an estimated ratio of 3:7 of residence to commerce. The aerial view of Ponyville shows an estimate of 15 buildings in this area excluding the purely commercial ones.

The Layout of Ponyville can be grouped in Rings, however, these are not fully closed rings but rather arcs that adapt to the topography. This is why despite being in close proximity, the farm areas are not included in the inner rings, but more on them later.

What follows are the inner rings, divided here in A and B sectors. In these rings the ratio of residential housing to commercial increases to approximatedly 4:1. The nature of the commerce here also changes, rather than dealing with every day purchases, these are more specialised stores (think Rarity's Boutique or Davenport's Quills and Sofas) It's in this area where other types of buildings start popping up, usually relating to health, education, and security. Ponyville's Hospital is on the outskirts, so this isn't the case, and there isn't a police station or guard regiment stationed here, but we do see the schoolhouse in the outer edge of the Inner Ring A. The most densely parts of these rings reach 30 houses per loosely defined block.

>>30619015

Once we reach the outer rings, the buildings become primarily residential. It's worth noting that while each "block" also is comprised of thirty houses, they're located apart from each other, and cover a larger area.

Then, we reach the expansion area of Ponyville, here we found the hospital as well as the farmlands. There is also a small residential presence in the southeast (Fluttershy's cottage and the small villa belonging to Rarity's parents)

Therefore, we can make an estimate of approximatedly 5 inhabited houses in the town's centre. 40 inhabited houses in the inner rings. 90 inhabited houses in the outer rings, and an indeterminate amount on the expansion area. Let's round it up to 140 houses total.

The US Census Bureau released a Summary file in 2012 wich determined an approximate of 2.5 persons per household in the country. Applying this rule to Ponyville we get an estimate of 350 ponies, not counting possible visitors or temporary residents.

>tfw this has been the first time I've applied what I learned in my Urban Design classes

>A sudden quietness, a silent evening.
>Then, a storm comes out of the blue, into the evening and stirs a fearsome torrent.

Jesus fuck, nature you scary.

Achem, I mean, Jesus fuck, Fimfiction thread you scary.

Only two posts for the whole afternoon?
Damn, we really are dead.

>>30622503
its not just us. the only way a thread could survive like that is if all of /mlp/ is dead

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>>30623252
>the fandom is totally not dead, even though statistics are plummeting all over the place

I haven't watched the show in ages, and I don't know anybody else who does.

>>30611531
>Hollow Shades
But, it's nowhere near the Everfree Forest. It's near Fillydelphia. I'd normally give it a pass, but the town literally came from the map. It's not like it was a name without a location.

>halloween
Why? They already have Nightmare Night, complete with dressing up and getting candy, pumpkins, and creppy decorations.

>>30614006
Not presently.

>>30618552
>2500. They only have a one room school house, have no major infrastructure (main roads, street lights, etc.), only use basic markets, and lacks any discernible industry.

http://dziadek1990.deviantart.com/art/Ponyville-Statistical-Trivia-Population-293863525
Then again, 14 hours of autism determined a population between 3100-4300.

>>30619018
>in 2012
It was 4.6 in 1900, which would be a closer approximation of Equestria given their tech and city layouts.

>>30624440
>which would be a closer approximation of Equestria given their tech and city layouts.
Good point.
I'll research further.

>>30624440
>>30625315
Or maybe you could just count the number of ponies that show up for each home in Ponyville?
Like in those scenes where disgruntled mares close windows because of Zecora, or can be seen in and around buildings in that learning for the wonderbolt test scene.

>>30625337
>you could just count the number of ponies that show up for each home in Ponyville
Now, what do you think I am, autistic?

>>30625848
yes

>>30625848
yes

>>30626111
Nice trips

>>30626744
Nice doubles.
Will I get singles?

>>30618408
Thanks for this man, I appreciate it.

bump bump

>>30629413
Watcha readin, Anons?

>>30630323
I skimmed through a deconstruction of the inflation fetish where the characters pop and Celestia nearly drives herself insane trying to put them back together.

It was odd, yet surprisingly decent.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/206397/ghost-town

>>30630323
I got seven tabs open to fics under the horror tag, the one I'm fixin' to read soon is:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/329203/the-thirteenth-hour

Also got two books free from my buddy who got 'em from some intro to economics class or something like that.

>>30630323
"The Emperor", by Ryszard Kapuściński.

>>30630323
I'm reading https://www.fimfiction.net/story/174483/bullet-point

It's pretty fun so far, I'm really liking it.

Which is a lot to say about a murder mystery. The crossover tag is just there because this apparently lifts the entire concept from another series.

Point is, fifteen ponies are summoned to a mansion, they're trapped there by someone, and the only way to get out is to kill someone else and fool everyone else into believing you're innocent.

So far only one pony has died, and the culprit has been found.

I really like what I'm seeing. I'm yet to see if it'll devolve into utter insanity and/or edge, but I feel cautiously optimistic.

>>30632294
>Point is, fifteen ponies are summoned to a mansion, they're trapped there by someone, and the only way to get out is to kill someone else and fool everyone else into believing you're innocent.
So it's an edgier version of Ten Little Niggers?

>>30633090

ten little ziggers when

>>30561008
interesting little grim story I found:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/65636/

>>30634146
this story hits hard

>>30634768
no, it really just plops firmly like semi congealed diarrhea splattering on the floor

I'm reading The Weed, first two stories completed. How much of a fanfic pleb am I?

>>30634146
this story is so much better, and it also depicts celestia being a shit:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/2935

>>30634146
whats interesting about it? because from what I remember everfree human gets befriended by rara. human murders rara. human somehow gets involved with luna. celestia forbids bestiality. they murder celestia. then commit murder/suicide and horseland plunges into chaos

Am I remembering the wrong story, or do you have shit taste?

On a slightly lighter note, https://www.fimfiction.net/story/19247/green is finished at long last.

>>30632294
>Twilight
I was going to bitch about her not just immediately teleporting out to get help but then I skipped to the last chapter.

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OTPP update soon

>>30637639
Well it's only been how many months since collegepone ended?

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>>30636567
>green is finished
And so close to half a million words.

>>30637200
It really is a a good story, and I'm amazed I'm saying that all things considered.
I'm just happy I found a mystery story where the detective actually takes the time to gather evidence, think about it logically, and arrives at the conclusion with no last minute asspulls.

>>30637200
Also
>skipping to the end of a mystery story
I hope your favourite stories never update.

>>30636567
>And that's the end of Rarity and Fluttershy's tale. Now, of course, there is more that could be said about them. But sometimes we have to let the couple ride off into the sunset
...after half a million words of exploring their relationship.


>We will see them again, of course. I am far too fond of them to just let them go. But we won't be seeing as much of them. The sequel
>sequel
Jesus fucking Christ.

>>30616139
Hey, Voiceguy.
Wanna read the official prequel to the Movie?
https://www.hasbro.com/common/assets/image/Printables/f0c7980050569047f5de28496ca8092b/99141fe650569047f5a192596fd00d7b/991A025850569047F5CFEE3FE09E84AD.pdf

>>30635920
I liked reading this, personally. Seriously recommend it.

>>30639106
Would you care to elaborate on why you liked it?

Help..
I want to write but there are also several stories I'm itching to read.

>>30640035
What prevents you from doing both?

>>30639130
I just personally think the plot line is interesting. It's not overly autistic, either.

>>30640198
Autism, and my inability to focus on a single thing at a time.

https://discord.gg/3mJqR8E hahahayeah!

>>30642032
I wish you would die very, very soon.

>>30642192
Why not just wish him to comprehend the plot of 7DSJ instead? It's far less humane.

>>30643207
I want to read a Lovecraftian horror fic where Twilight descends into madness after finding a copy of AAG.

What's the best way to start off a story? Like the very first few sentences?

>>30644358
Well.

>>30644358
Once upon a time it was a dark and stormy night

>>30644358
>Twilight thought of Spike and smiled. With any luck the tide would carry his body out to deeper water by nightfall.

>>30644358
With a minimal amount of bullshit.

>>30646005

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>>30644358
Start with the hook right away, get people invested and give them a reason to care.

You can make things slow and more mysterious or whatever you want afterwards, but always start with a punch.

>>30638550
>skipping to the end of a story you don't give a fuck about
Truly there can be no worse crime.

>>30644358
I like diving right in with some dialogue, then you start detailing the scene as the character/s keep talking. It especially helps to start fleshing out the character if they're an OC.

Going on for several paragraphs of narration, even if it's an AU, is usually a terrible idea since it gets really boring to read and interest is quickly lost.

>>30650265
I'll give it a try, I just feel like the very first few sentences will no matter what feel forced and bland as fuck. I don't like starting like that. Explaining shit at the start of a story is a bitch too.

>>30644358
It doesn't matter what the first sentence is, but the second has to be "And then the murders began."

Or >>30650265
That's good advice too. I guess.

>>30644358

Maybe look at this article, it's about some horsewords first sentences that the writer particularly liked and it talks about why they work.

http://onemansponyramblings.blogspot.com/2016/11/first-sentences-in-fanfiction-16th.html

>>30644358

Any discussion about the weather should only be used to set the tone of the story.

>>30652665
well you know- unless the weather is actually relevant

>>30652694

The weather almost certainly has to do with the tone of the story if it's relevant. Too many people talk about the weather for a whole few sentences, but then the weather never ends up being relevant.

"I'll always remember the storm that night, and just how little we cared."

"The sun was oppressive as we continued the march."

"So fierce was the downpour that looking out the window seemed too dangerous."

>>30652714
Pretty much. If you're going to bother to talk about the weather then only do it if the weather is relevant to the plot, or it serves to set the mood of the scene. If you're only talking about how shiny/cloudy/rainy it is to pad out the wordcount, then don't bother.

I'm reminded of something George Carlin once said: "I've also grown weary of reading about clouds in a book. Doesn't this piss you off? You're reading a nice story, and suddenly the writer has to stop and describe the clouds. Who cares? I'll bet you anything I can write a decent novel, with a good, entertaining story, and never once mention the clouds. Really! Every book you read, if there's an outdoor scene, an open window, or even a door slightly ajar, the writer has to say, "As Bo and Velma walked along the shore, the clouds hung ponderously on the horizon like steel-gray, loosely formed gorilla turds." I'm not interested. Skip the clouds and get to the fucking. The only story I know of where clouds were important was Noah's Ark."

>>30652694
But what are the chances of that happening in a world where the characters control the weather?

>7dsj, book 4, chapter 26, part 1
Another chapter of buildup for the wizard war.

The 7M7 reappear. The SIREN kidnappers get back to their secret Canterlot base and dump them in a hole with the rest of the prisoners. For being super elite black ops types, the SIRENs don't seem to be very good at kidnapping. For starters, they put all the prisoners in the same place (except for Human Edition, who they stuffed into a broom closet somewhere so they can use her as leverage against her mom). They also did a poor job of searching the prisoners, since Ponk was able to hold onto a lighter (and heaven knows what else). And finally, they're keeping the prisoners in part of an abandoned subway tunnel. Now, I don't know about you guys, but most subway tunnels I've ever seen have had more than one exit. Fortunately, the SIRENs' boss is marginally less incompetent than they are, so it all works out in the end.

Meanwhile, Sunset and the Dazzlings are hauling ass up the interstate, doing 100 in a stolen car, on their way from the resort back to Canterlot. Their car breaks down, so they have to steal another one. Stealing is wrong mmkay, but it turns out that if you steal it from an out-of-business dealership and also loop their security feeds and hack into their computers, then grand theft auto is A-okay. Sunset and co resume hauling ass up the interstate, now doing 200 in a much nicer stolen car.

Edgelord McWerewolf sneaks around a bit, scoping out the SIREN HQ.

Zephyr sneaks around a bit, scoping out the SIREN HQ.

One of the seven remaining non-mutated SIRENs sneaks around a bit, scoping out the SIREN HQ. She saves those other two dumbasses from the bad guys and takes them back to the non-evil SIRENs' hotel room to plan. Also, daily reminder that Zephyr the fuck-up is secretly even more of a black-ops badass than Edgelord himself.

>>30654777
>7dsj, book 4, chapter 26, part 2
DR turns the Mean Girls into super-mutants. Then DR turns some pigeons into basilisks, which by the way un-stone all their victims when they die, and also are weak to phoenix fire. Finally, DR casts a timestop spell that stops the entire world so he do his ritual in peace. But he includes an exception for the SIRENs, because otherwise the upcoming epic battle would be over pretty quickly. Want an in-universe explanation? Tough shit, there isn't one. As far as DR knows, he's the only magic user on earth, and literally every person except himself and the SIRENs is timestopped for the duration of the spell. There is absolutely nothing for the SIRENs to defend against.

Sunset counters the timestop spell for herself and the Dazzlings, and they finally make it back to Canterlot. Despite claiming to be OOM all throughout this chapter, Sunset still has enough power to cast permanent anti-timestop enchantments, which she puts on the Dazzlings' belts. She also sends a letter to Twilight (Pony Edition) asking her to bring the Elements for backup. But Equestria is busy getting its shit wrecked by Tirek, so instead all she gets is Berry Sue and Snowflake the Phoenix.

Somewhere, the Mario 2 overworld music starts playing as a blind old man and a woman or mare? with blue eyes declare that "IT BEGINS". I'm really hoping Ms. Blue-Eyes is not Fausticorn, because that would be dumb. But she watches Sunset with "a maternal pride", and Faust is at the very least Sunset's grandmother by adoption.

>>30654783
I've already forgotten eveything about 7dsj except that someone was sacrificing virgins to bring forth something evil, MCA sperged about the name of one of the organizations, and there was a subplot about date rape drugs.

>>30654842
I can't even remember the date rape thing.

>>30654842
>someone was sacrificing virgins to bring forth something evil
That's Divine Right. I think he's done with the virgin thing, except for Sunset Shimmer (Human Edition), who he plans to kill during the ritual itself because he really hates her mom, who is his cousin. The ritual itself should be starting any day now. It's supposed to grant him unlimited cosmic power, but we'll see how that goes.

>MCA sperged about the name of one of the organizations
"Les Scars", a made-up nickname for SCRS, the Canadian CIA. The SIRENs worked for them, but went rogue after Les Scars assassinated their beloved "Uncle Poutine".

>there was a subplot about date rape drugs
It's ancient history at this point - it was the first big subplot way back in book 1. Except it's come up again in Ponk's side story, because she got raped, got pregnant, and had an abortion (Without parental notification, but with the requirement that she watch one of those "informational" videos, in some bizarre mix of left-wing and right-wing abortion policies. And this in California of all places.) and she spends her entire side story being emo because she refuses to talk to anyone about it.

>>30654777
>wizard war.
can it really be a war when there are apparently only two wizards on the entire planet?

>>30655930
Wizard Skirmish doesn't have the same impact.

>>30656841
How dare you.

sugar

lump

rump

>tfw just stumbled upon a fic with seemingly time travel nonsense and chapters seem to be posted daily since its release, and suddenly the chapters have stopped being posted

how do I fix a dead author?

>>30659296
If he's still active in the site, send him a PM and ask if everything's alright. If the author is just dead, then you're shit out of luck.
What story is it?

>>30659328
They do seem to be active if you mean they're online. The story is called Potion Mare, and the author is MooseRuck. on closer inspection, a chapter wasn't posted on August 1st either

>>30654783
Who the hell is Snowflake the Phoenix? Sounds like some stupid new Sonic the Hedgehog character.

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>>30659345
>Only three chapters
I think it's a bit early to panic. Wait a week, and if there's no update, try talking with the author.

>>30659472
It also sounds paradoxical.
Phoenixes are fire creatures, yet it's called Snowflake.

>>30659472
>>30661144
I mean Berry Sue's special-snowflake green phoenix. The bird's actual name is Heliodor.

>>30661218
>Heliodor.
Oh, good. For a moment I thought it was something dumb.

I want to write spoopy poni stories.

What do?

>>30661946
first make a spoop concept. Then spoop it up further.

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Well, it's fucking strange but it could be possible.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3S1_VX84f9obEFjVlBqMUZTVFU
A theory of the Equestria existence

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>>30659835
>>30659345
>>30659328
>>30659296

Uh, hello. I'm the author of Potion Mare, and someone linked me to this thread. Really glad some of you are enjoying it, and I just finished / posted chapter 4. Thanks for reading, tell me how you like it. I hope I used this quoting system or whatever correctly, I'm kind of new at this, I normally lurk. Have some Melody art as a gift for being cool.

>>30663698
faggot

>>30664034
<3

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>tfw cancelled a story in 2015
>Screwed up characterization really bad and didn't want to edit story to fix it
>Suddenly aware of how stupid that attitude is but it's been so long that both halves of the crossover have moved on and the story feels extremely dated
>still want to try to edit/finish it

send help

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/53322/a-tale-of-two-worlds

>>30661946

Depends on what kind of spoop you're going for.

There's two basic spoop stories, really:

There's a tribe gathered around a fire, and the medicine man is telling a story. He says 'The evil is out there in the darkness. It's the other tribe, it's a herd of wild animals, it's a monster in the night.'

Same scenario, except the medicine man points to his heart and says 'The evil is in here. It's the wickedness inside all of us.'

After choosing what basic story you want to tell, find a basic fear you want to tap into. Popular ones are fear of death, fear of loneliness, fear of obsolescence, fear of the unknown, fear of the loss of self, and several others.

Once you have your basic story structure and what kind of primal fear you want to tap into, the rest is just specifics.

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>>30664089
>MLP x Avengers crossover

>>30664117

The movie's theme can be boiled down to 'Hey, it's nice to have friends.' That's where the idea came from, really.

>>30664122
Then why not make a crossover with Miami Connection instead?
It'd make for a great My Little Human spoof, actually

>>30664132

Because I have no idea what that is. Outside of my pony love, I am an unforgivable normie.

Also Loki could turn into a horse in Norse mythology. A girl horse. And Odin's 8-legged horse is his spawn. So there's that """"connection"""" as well.

>>30664135
MLP goes great with mythology by default, you should know that. Be it Norse, Greek, Greko-Roman, Slavic, whatever, they are all unified by the common theme of horsefucking and debauchery.

But even then, how could you say no to something that sounds like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43dYg_Kuc0

>>30664132
>Miami Connection
My negroid.

>>30664147

Very true. And any excuse to get Flutters to have a shout-down with the Hulk.

gib attention

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>>30664742
We ded here.

Seems deadish here, but I got something to ask. So I read some Fanfics I really liked in the past and noted that the reading community is pretty on point, thought I'd give some of the amatuer audiobooks a cracked, stuff I had read already, enjoyed a lot of what I found. I was hoping to give “The immortal game” a go, but the guy that did what seems to be the only reading “raven feathers” channel is gone and his work is lose in time. Anyone know if it was ever archived or some where that might archived work of this nature?

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>>30664115
Huh... I now realise I was going for a mix of both. I'll try to streamline it.

I talked about it a while ago and by a while ago I mean last year it's a story about Luna stumbling upon a recurring dream amongst several ponies and looking for the cause only to find out its some unspeakable eldritch abomination trying to escape Tartarus.

I was planning to contrast Luna's quest for the dream creature with that of a therapist treating the ponies who were afflicted by the creature.

>>30665547

PresentPerfect has a big list of readers he listens to. It doesn't list all the stuff they've read, though - you'd have to go to the individual readers' pages to find that. Hope it helps a bit, though.

https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/599763/how-do-i-get-present-perfect-to-review-my-story

>>30665733
Interesting thanks, I'll keep an eye out on there. A Lot of the stuff I was looking for is well know, might be more then one reader with any luck.

How do you get an editor if no one fucking replies to your thread in the stupid group.

Screw this, I'll just post the story.

>>30666110
How long have you been waiting?

>>30666138
since last night.