ITT: Times when you've been reading a comfy fanfiction that

>>30845554
Where in the fuck did you read this trash?

>>30845559
fimfiction

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>>30845554
Oh, I know that feel. There's this subset of authors that are upset that ponies don't get hurt and abused for their wrongdoings in the show, so they live out their fantasies through fiction. I feel sad that one of the show's major themes goes over their heads.

>reading anything with Anon in Equestria
>reading anything that has the author self-insert somehow

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>Story is going fine
>Suddenly a forced reference to show trivia, video games, and/or other popular cartoons.

They do it every fucking time, even in my favorite fics.

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Are there any stories tagged as dark that wouldn't be better without those elements in them?

captcha: SUNRISE Villa

How many friends have you made today?

>>30845586
It's not even just that, but from 2014 onward there's a breed of AiE writers and readers that can't stand anything bad happening to Anon, so they feel any form of retaliation, no matter how severe, is always justified. They would pretty much shit their pants if they read more than half of '12 or even '13 era AiE fics.

>>30845554
Sounds awful. I want to read the chapter in question. What's it called.

>>30845630
>>30845625
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/192497/how-many-friends-have-you-made-today
Don't know the chapter, but I'd be one of the last ones

>>30845623
What if dark is the entire point of the story? Would Lovecraft's works be better if you take all the dark stuff out?

>>30845647
That makes sense, but I'm just strictly talking pony. I don't think it's the appropriate medium for those types of stories.

>>30845647
Lovecraft is shit

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>>30845554
>Reading an action fic
>Author can't into actual combat, everything is anime garbage
>Describes armor and weapons as 'like that one set of armor from X RPG'
>Combatants are treated as though they have a set amount of health or some shit
>Individual characters are shoehorned into typical RPG roles, ie) the DPS, the Tank, the Healer, etc, and are described as such

>>30845652
The show introduces dark themes as well, though. It never expands on them because it's a kids' show, but they're still there. There's nothing wrong with dark themes, as long as they don't devolve into pointless edge-fests.

Finding good authors and good fics on fimfiction is like looking for a small diamond in a football field of shit.

But finding that diamond will feel pretty good.

>>30845698
>as long as they don't devolve into pointless edge-fests
A tall order for many of the young amateur wrtiers who make fics.

Maybe it's just me but I prefer when things are left to the imagination.

>>30845586
>There's this subset of authors that are upset that ponies don't get hurt and abused for their wrongdoings in the show, so they live out their fantasies through fiction.
tbqh I enjoy such stories where there are actual repercussions for such things as long as they're not too over the top.

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>Reading a fic with a very unique concept behind it.
>It's actually very good in terms of action, comedy, and following the idea of how FIM incorporates elements of ancient mythology.
>It's also well anchored within the bounds of being as realistic to the show as a fic could be, aside from one or two minor OOC moments.
>Goes on slightly strange tangent after a number of chapters, but still good and apart of the main story since it's a timeskip.
>No update for roughly a year.
>Finally an update.
>It isn't cancelled.
>It isn't a new chapter.
>It is a complete rewrite.
>It tries make it canon with the up to date status of FIM.
>It is poorly written and horrible.
>It was last updated in early 2014.
>The author is still around.
I still feel betrayed even today. Not even angry, just saddened.
The only saving grace is that the author had the decency to keep full original story.

>>30845554

That 90% of them just abruptly vanish into nothing and leave the reader hanging.

I tried reading the fic in question after reading Exchange, but the constant tense changes and other similar grievances stopped me by the fourth chapter or so.

>>30845623
Exchange is tagged as dark iirc, but it's not quite dark. One thing I admired about the fic is that it never quite crossed the line. At worst, Twilight could have gotten people killed, but her actions narrowly avoided the full consequences either by luck or characters working together to mitigate it. When she threatened Rarity into helping her, Twilight said she was going to wear the shitty dress from Suited for Success. At times, it felt right at home in the show. The fic never fully forgot that it was in a cartoon world, and didn't have qualms about reminding you of it every so often.

I wish more fics did this, MLP fanfic really does work best when you don't shy away from its natural state.

>>30845642
Oh crap im reading that one right now well thanks for telling im just going to skip that chapter then

>>30845642
Looks to be the chapter with the same namesake as the story itself.

I don't even know what the fuck I'm reading right now but it's terrible.

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>>30845554
>fic presents itself as a romance between Twi and Luna
>it's epicly long
>I've read more than half of the fic and the two characters have interacted only once, in an argument
>author just keeps explaining the mechanics of magic in the most dragged out, convoluted ways he can
Dropped it because I didn't wanna torture myself. Apparently, it's not even finished.

>>30846175
>>it's epicly long
Why is there such a shit ton of long pony fanfiction? I think at this point there are dozens of fics longer than War And Peace.

>Chapter introduces a major game-changing reveal
>Last updated: Nov 2014
A worse feeling i have yet to find, than that of abandonment.

>>30846181
You know how movies have deleted scenes and rejected ideas that took a long time before being trashed? Every medium is the same way. A professional either learns to combine or drop ideas, saving them for later works, or they have an editor whacking some sense into them, sometimes both. Many amateur writers lack this, so you basically have every idea they've ever conceived being written into one fic.

>>30845554
>No clues that the fic is EqG/humanized/anthro until halfway through the story

>>30845554
>belly titties

>>30845554
>Any light hearted fic that tries to involve real world issues halfway through
Why the fuck do so many fanfic writers do this shit? They do understand the concept of "tone" right?

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Quiet Sunsets by FizzleAnon

>6 chapters in 2014
>excellent story, as comfy as they get
>also anon romancing my waifu, plus points for that
>no updates for a long time
>think it's dead, start grieving process
>suddenly, update nr 7 in june 2016, after two years of silence
>life is good
>that was over a year ago

J-just have to wait until next summer for some more, r-right?

probably not, its dead as fuck boi, time to feel sad again

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>>30846417
>crotch = belly

>>30846477
Eh, that's how they described the positions in the ones I read

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>>30845625
none, and I haven't had any for two years

>>30846218
>Editors actually telling writers to stop that shit.
Can't have that in pony fic writing!
You might hurt someones fee fees.

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>>30845874
I honestly didn't remember that; probably because of how well the fic handled it.

>>30845554
Oh yea, i been reading that too, felt nice at the start but now its just dumb
Its like the world turns around Anon or something now, pure autism, wish i could get in there and slap the living fuck outta his face

>>30845554
>comedy fic
>part 1: funny as hell, every bit is great
>part 2: somehow even better and funnier than before, sides in critical condition
>part 3: alot less funny than before, but still great writing, maybe just an off chapter?
>part 4: involves romance or dark or literally anything that the fic isn't, and writing quality drops like a brick
Every fucking time

>>30845554
>reading Anonfics
You have only yourself to blame.

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>>30845554
>Well into the story, maybe a chapter or two in.
>It's got my attention and I'm having no problems with the flow of the story.
>Suddenly the writer mentions that the ponies have hands.
>Turns out the characters were anthro this entire time.

I can read an anthro story if it's written well enough, I just don't understand why (or how) this didn't get mentioned sooner in the story.

tst

>>30847206
It means they're not very descriptive; that's a problem in itself. Many people, myself included, will give it a pass if it's a silly oneshot, but otherwise it's very noticeable once you've read enough quality stuff, published or otherwise.

Speaking of that, anyone come across a fic where the dialogue was so on point that you realize you've been reading a ton of fics with stilted dialogue?

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SLICE OF LIFE MASTER RACE

ADVENTUREFAGS NEED TO GO OUTSIDE

>>30845554
Is that the one where aj kicks anon and immediately tries to apologize but anon runs away like an angsty bitch to his hubby and has them publicly humiliated?

>>30845630
The counter-jerk as bad as the circle jerk it was reacting against.

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Not a certain fic, more of a rant.

>Anytime a fic has any violence, the autists on this board REEEEEE with the force of 1000 tendies.(Slave pony thread is a fucking great example)
>Anon is a stud and gets laid 24/7 despite being a total dipshit and chuckle fuck.
>Anon always makes pants of head decisions because Muh morals.
>Refers to his cock as Anon Jr.
>Hot monkey dick memes.
>Everyone on this board seems to be a beta motherfucker who wouldnt kill a fly (PUBG thread asking if Anons would participate in a massive battle royal and the winner would go to equestria. A good chunk of anons said they'd just pull some hunger games tier shit and not participate)

Anytime I see these, I drop the story and look for something better.

>>30846475
He'll finish it eventually. He actually thought his last chapter wasn't good because it didn't get a lot of feedback, and he assumed people didn't care. I told him that current year /sun/ isn't 2014 /sun/ and there's a lot less people. Let's hope he understood.

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>>30848355
I don't get some of these desu.

>first one is autists reeeing, and not the story content
>everyone is 100% a beta pacifist mofo because they aren't complete sociopaths who would participate in mortal blood sport with zero qualms or remorse

Look, you're probably thinking >muh morals, but you have to draw a line somewhere. Unless you're specifically talking about retarded people who actively try to interfere with the competition by entering and then bitching out despite not being forced to enter in the first place, then I understand what you mean.

>2012
>reading a fanfic about a human in Equestria that starts as a light hearted detective story
>among the first 10 mistery chapters there is one about desert thiefs on a train and a war between them and the buffalos
>pretend I never saw it, after all the author went back to writing misteries right after
>chapter 15
>it seems to start with the protagonist investigating about Twilight's illness
>it turns out that Celestia is ill too and it's a plan from a counselor to have her killed
>he's the only one who knows it but DOESN'T tell the other mane 6 (who would believe him) and literally ASSAULTS CANTERLOT WITH A SCYTHE, absolutely destroying the royal guard (including Shining), the wonderbolts and cutting off Luna's horn in order to inject the antidote in the princess
>he succeeds, everyone apologizes and all the chapters after that are about him punching Chrysalis or Discord or some other magical beast

>>30845586
>>>30845554 (OP)
>I feel sad that one of the show's major themes goes over their heads.
I think you mean all of /mlp/

>>30845554
>reading pony fanfiction
>in the year no. 4+ of pony

>>30848355
>>30848707
Reminds me a while back of someone suggesting a fic of Berserk in Equestria. Had like twenty people in the thread all saying what a good idea it was. Cue sword fight five minutes in and some nameless pony gets decapitated by a mercenary. Suddenly all these faggots who thought it was such a good idea before start reeing about edginess. Like what the fuck did you expect from Grim Dark: The Anime?

>>30849365
They wanted an AiE where Anon gets all the mares because he's a stud, just replace Anon with Beserk.

>>30848872
schizophrenia?

>>30845554
Or worse, the usual Anon teleported to Equestria on accident, immediately gives a big fuck you to everyone he ever loved and fucks off into horsey land.


What's even worse is when Earth does come calling again the Human is swinging for the enemy team and essentially gives a big middle finger to his homeland.

I fucking hate when this happens and I cannot understand how you can turn down hot water and modern conveniences, as well as more developed people and learning for a bunch of ponies.

Fucking traitors, the guy who wrote "No I am not a Brony!" had his character go back to Earth just to leave it in one story, and has pondered sending the main character and his Pone wife for VACATION, cause y'know fuck his old life.

S'not like he had an entire story trying to go home.

>>30845554
>Ponies are medieval and don't know what electricity and water heating is
Like this fucker above me, I bet he doesn't even watch the show as that shit's been canon since season 1.

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Never had a fanfic ruined by dumb shit, then again i like horrible pony fiction. I do need more bad fics though, i'm getting bored again. What ruins fiction for me is when it is written using the wrong fucking words. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/310913/soldier-of-magic I remember everything by this guy to be very painful to read because of this despite not being able to pull an example out of the copy on my other phone except the complete lack of comma usage.

>>30848872
Wat

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>>30845554
>be reading a HIE fic
>the main character gets adopted by celly
>the first few chapters its pretty normal
>he tries to deal with ponies being afraid of him and such
>eventually a few chapters later they accept him and he gets a pony waifu
>all nice and good
>then he dies and comes back as a half alicorn monstrosity
>and right after he gets shipped with one of the mane 6
>mfw

>>30845737
A fair point. Personally, I enjoy it when stories are more detailed. Not like, describing every leaf detailed, but leaving less to the imagination. If I wanted to make up parts of a story, I'd be writing instead of reading.

You are human. You are the green-skinned suit-wearer. You are called Anon, and Pinkie Pie calls you 'Nonny'. Literally the only thing you care to reveal about yourself is that you are human. You were held in an unspecified dungeon for an indeterminate amount of time until Princess Celestia decided you 'weren't a threat' then let you go for some reason. It is established that you are sarcastic, but this makes you a likeable rogue. You are in Ponyville. You somehow have a house, and an income. You meet a pony. She is intrigued, about the only thing that is notable and interesting about yourself which is: you are human. You hit it off within a day. After a token attempt at feeble resistance, you decide to mate with her. She accepts after using wordplay and alliterated sentences as foreplay. HUMAN STAMINA. Spraying fluids. Narrated pornography happens, after which you fall asleep because nobody writing My Little Pony fanfiction knows what happens after ejaculation besides closing fifteen browser tabs. You decide that this is your life now. End of fanfiction.

>>30848355
slave pony threads are susceptible to REEEE because the crux of their stories are low-standards.

>I believe slavery is wrong
>enslaved horse waifu "OH ANON, MARRY ME"

Out of the hundred greentexts, I've read just two or three that were worth my time.

It goes without saying that the best one of all, which doesn't pander to the pathetic is Cadance/Thunderlane Slaveventure.

>>30845554
If the fic in question is Hi Anon have you made any friends today?, I have to respectfully disagree with you.

>>30850538
I suppose being a misanthrope helps and many people on /mlp/ are.

>>30851525
that doesn't excuse their particular flavour of mental illness. in fact it just makes them pathetic assholes; unable to love or even like themselves, let alone fictional ponies. fuck 'em.

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>>30846408
FUCKING THIS

Fuck off, frogposter.

>Waifu Defense Force roll in, doing that screenshot-avatar-posting 'no [character] is good and pure' thing, until the thread 404's
It's all 'if you don't like it LEAVE *smug reaction face*' until it's *your* waifu, huh?

>>30851603
yes, because my waifu is superior to others, and, therefore, should be treated with higher respect. that's an obvious fact.

>>30851469
Hey remember when CYOAs were still a thing, and it turned out literally everyone in the /mlp/ audience was either unironically 'sing a song in public underneath her window wearing a top hat' autistic, or 'pray to Shrek and poop your pants!!!!' comedians, and the OP was all 'you do X but this happens anyway because reasons, warm and fuzzy hug'

>>30851622
>warm and fuzzy hug
Sounds great, where do I sign up?

>>30851621
You just can't reach some people: at the end of the day, they've had more practice being unrepentant, selfish assholes online.

>>30851469
There's nothing wrong with this at all, provided you're literally just writing for the purpose of providing masturbatory material. Porn plots are usually extremely simple and samey, because the producers know that about half of people watching are going to fast forward to the 'good stuff'. The plot just exists for the benefit of people who need context before they can start working their pole. However, this is unacceptable if you're actually trying to write an enjoyable story that can be read by people who are currently wearing pants.

>>30851469
The formula for literally every greentext on /mlp/.

>>30851469
>You were held in an unspecified dungeon for an indeterminate amount of time until Princess Celestia decided you 'weren't a threat' then let you go for some reason.

I'm glad this meme eventually died in every form of HiE. Also you've been reading the wrong smut if it doesn't have a follow-up shower scene.

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>>30852954
>I'm glad this meme eventually died in every form of HiE
Died with Tyrantlestia. RIP that shitcannon.

>>30852954
>>30853097
Why is it bad?

Writer does nothing but inject all of his terrible fetishes

>>30853139
It's a shitty characterization that goes against the themes of the show and is bfto by her canon development in later season.

>>30853226
You mean the dungeon part, or the restraining a being from an unknown world until you know more about them part?

>>30853389
Not him, but a bit of both. There's no reason to detain him in the castle dungeons when he could be at a local station for an hour, and not necessarily behind bars.

It depends on how he arrives, however, as him violently warping in an area of interest would be cause for alarm.

If he just walked into a random part of the world, then they might just think he's a foreigner, or native monster. Certainly not something you need the princess of Equestria herself to judge. The fact that they don't just have other ponies doing that, and sending word to the higher ups, makes it come off as over the top.

>>30845830
>The only saving grace is that the author had the decency to keep full original story.
As opposed to?

>interesting human trasported to equestria fic
>older human
>language barrier with ponies
>mostly done from the pony's perspective
>played up the "alien" aspect and the differences between humans and ponies
>really enjoying it.

and then it became utter madness

>language barrier cured through dream sex with luna
>harem of ponies
>extradimensional versions of ponies suddenly appear including AJs parents
>extradimenional ponies also include filly versions of the princesses (which obviously join the harem)
>i think the main character ate discord at one point and used his powers to defeat every other villain.
>maybe a meme tyrant conversion bureau Celestia showed up at one point

and the first few chapters of the fic watching the ponies react to the goofy biped were so comfy.

i don't remember the name and can't find it again.
probably for the best.

>>30853998
Deleting it. Fanfic writers often delete their work when they feel embarrassed by it.

>>30845554
>browsing fimfiction
>all the characters are the author's self-insert
>super alicorn donut steal OCs
>edgy villain shouting linkin park lyrics
>"quirky" loner autistic man in equestria
>forced romance/love at first sight
why do people even write?

>>30854127
Given the level of batshit fuckery, was it possibly Cultural Artifacts?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/71281/cultural-artifacts
I haven't read it myself, but I've heard it goes pants-on-head retarded around chapter 4 (out of 43)

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>>30851469
>It is established that you are sarcastic, but this makes you a likeable rogue
>You are in Ponyville
>You somehow have a house, and an income
This is all that applies, at least as far as my autistic self-inserts are concerned.

>Narrated pornography happens, after which you fall asleep because nobody writing My Little Pony fanfiction knows what happens after ejaculation besides closing fifteen browser tabs.
Kek'd harder than I should have.

>>30854564
yeah that's it.

and yeah about a handful of decent chapters then total madness.

>last updated 13th May 2017
pls stahp

>>30854494
Wish fulfillment, you dong. How have you not figured that out?

>>30845559
Sounds like most of AiE

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>>30855446
I wish they'd have better wishes.

>>30845642
The worst part of that fic is that it's so bad, and yet so highly rated, and the other actually has a patreon that they get money from to write crap AiE's.
>>30845830
If you try to keep your story canon to the idiocies of the ever progressing show, you're gonna have a bad time.
Seriously, GriffonStone destroyed a whole bunch of fics that did gryphon culture better.

>>30851525
Nothing gets my blood boiling like stories where there's a chance of a character finally going home and seeing his friends and family again.

And he's like,meh, back to porking my colored horse and living without the conveniences of modern sanitation or electricity.

There's a story called the Unity Pact, and by book 3 they are so much on the ponies side, that when a portal opens up in the middle of book 3, I damn bet the author will make l none of them will go back home.

The main character has a wife and shacked up with 3 quadrupeds, one of the other First Leaders turned into a kooooky wizard ( the most kooky out the human wizards that gained pony magic) that fucks and marries Luna, I mean when they open up the portal in book 3 and he gets fucking shot Discord LITERALLY CHANGES REALITY TO WHERE HE DOESN'T"T DIE! Because said character ramps up all magic around him, oh, can't go changing the status quo of your traitorous humans now can we.

Same ponies who murdered said bunch of stranded humans in the end of Book 1, fuck it, we submit. Y'know women and children were murdered and we lost friends but we accept.

>read a oneshot
>its pretty good
>like it and forget about it
>a year later
>discover this 200,000 word story you liked but only read the first chapter
>realize it was the oneshot
>rest of the story's a convoluted mess and is pure shit
Every fucking time.

>Fic has pretty natural dialogue
>Suddenly scene where a character decides to regularly swear in a smug "I don't give a shit" attitude.
It made some sense when there were characters in a serious danger moment, but that time it's just cringy.

I guess it depends on the circumstances, but if a human were trapped in Equestria for as long as the show has been running, I think it's fine if he chooses Equestria over Earth.

Let's say he's a young guy 17-20 and so odds are he never really established a full career or had a real piece of property he could call his home before leaving; maybe he had a girlfriend.

If he's expected to survive 7 years in Horse World, he would need to work hard to build a life for himself. That means getting a job, getting his own home, and buying absolutely everything he needs instead of his absent parents footing the bill.

In this way, he has grown into a full fledged adult and most of his adult life will have been in Equestria, not Earth, by the 7th year mark. He may have even found a wife, and perhaps they have an infant son (who may or may not be a satyr, don't hang me). Are they not at least on par with his family on Earth?

If a one way portal were to appear, would he really be comfortable starting from scratch again? What if he can't take them with him? If he could, would that really be such a good idea? Government spooks might be after you, but they'll definitely have their eyes on your wife and child.

>>30857443
Going native is a thing; even if its just some dude going undercover for a short time.

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>Established characters suddenly act extremely out of character to cause problems and drama.

Nothing ruins a story quicker than this.

>>30845554
penis

>>30851469
I have literally never fallen asleep immediately after sex. Also

>t is established that you are sarcastic, but this makes you a likeable rogue
If not the worst part about HiE, it's probably up there. None of these authors are anywhere near as clever as they think they are, and thus they think a grown man acting like a petulant child is unironically good characterization.

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>>30851469
>>30860454
>Be a grown adult who watches childrens' cartoons, reads fanfiction and browses /mlp/
>Complain about self-insert character not being mature enough

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>reading the twilight/anon game night fics
>Madoka elements with the CMC becoming full on despair megucas picked up halfway in
NANI?!

As I understand it, a lot of the issues here can be summarized as...

>Be a fanfiction author.
>Write a decent story with a sizeable following.
>Have a completely new set of ideas that you can't seem to get out of your head.
>Don't do the responsible thing and just write a new story.
>Instead, decide to leech off the success of an ongoing story--getting readers and writing beginnings is hard!--or genuinely don't see a problem with bending over backwards to make these fit even remotely; everything you like has to be crammed into one fic, after all.
>Now have a shit version of a formerly okay story, and a poorly executed version of your new ideas.
>That's okay, you already have a ton of likes from before it jumped the shark and too many have invested time in it to stop reading now.

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>>30861063
Yes.
Honestly, this pisses me off more than just about anything else.
I'm reading some comfy character fluff and enjoying the hell out of it, and the author just suddenly decides to try to turn it into an 'epic' adventure. It never works.

I've walked away from several stories/authors because of this bullshit.

>>30845554
That's not what happens at all.

>>30861063
This makes me think of Winter Formal Dash.

>>30854320
Sad.

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>>30845830
>tfw people won't complain about you on /mlp/ because the one story you have published is kind of just mediocre and you haven't ever gotten around to publishing anything else
>not good enough to warrant legitimate praise
>not bad enough to warrant mention

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>>30845554
>comfy fanfiction
Thats where you fucked up, moron

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>I'm going to make an accompanying fic to my popular horror fic and completely remove any mystery or spook factor

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>>30860216
And then we get the combo meal with >>30845586
I won't stand for it.

>>30847417
How bout you make actual friends fggt for your fake ass slice of life
Adventure master race

>>30846408
This.

>>30845554
>Anon is misanthropic chucklefuck who never forgets to mention how bad humanity is and how much better ponies are. He lives his life full of sugar and rainbows and bad things just never happen to him.

>Human protagonist had shitty life on earth, was abused, bullied and is depressed. But he need just some "laughter" or "kindness" to be happy again.

>Anon is suddenly best friends with all of M6.

They are just so different characters that it's almost impossible for someone to have all qualities needed to be best friends with all of them. How many Anon's like sport, farm life, books and science, fashion, animals and partying? Not that much. But in stories often Anon just loves all those thing and have common interests with all of M6.

>Anon and waifu just meet few days ago but they're in true love and they can just proceed to fucking without that whole boring dating thing.

Last one is just personall tigger.
>Anon after being transported to candy land decide that his whole education and knowledge is obsolete and decide to be farm help/masseur. Even tho he has ability to be someone bigger he just don't care because of course work on farm gives him enough money to build house in few weeks. I'm not talking about him becoming some millionaire but even inventing ball pens would bring him a lot of money

>>30865047
>best friends with all of them

Really? I rarely see that, if only because of the author clearly playing favorites at times.

>>30854564
Yeah, it was bad. Total insanity.
Another story that started really good is
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/71660/a-mighty-demon-slayer-grooms-some-ponies
You notice it's on hiatus, that's because the last update, which has been removed, went with such an insane twist that most of the readers legitimately thought it was a joke and the real chapter would be uploaded soon after.

And this story had some really great headcanon/world building to link MLP Gen1 up with the current Generation. It was damned skillful.
Then Celestia and Luna turned out to be demons (I think Tia was Tirek) and Celestia was Megan's mom or something, and the elements turned creatures evil if they were used outside of their dimension, which is why Sunset became a demon.

Phew... It was... something.

>>30845554
>A comfy fic about AJ accidentally landing Anon in a hospital
>Goes into mild feels directions.
>Turns out Anon was a skeleton all along.

Fuck fanfics and fanfic writers.

Seems most of my pet peeves have already been mentioned and discussed to death.

>romance out of fucking nowhere
It’s bad when there was no foreshadowing. It’s worse when the author makes an ostensibly straight character into a dyke or a fag just because. It’s egregious when the author decides to start pairing up everybody. It’s absolutely enfuriating when when the author does all three.

>Flash Sentry as anything other than either a main character or a background pony.
I can’t stand stories where he’s not meant to be the focus of the story yet he takes up valuable screen time because the author feels they simply HAVE to give him some character because unless they do he wouldn’t have any.

>katana
>katana and trenchcoat
I swear I must’ve run across every serious story with an author obtuse enough to do this. There’s no other explanation for why I’ve seen it more than once. (I know that’s bullshit but it’s a lie I have to keep telling myself if I want to keep any faith in humanity whatsoever.)

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>Reading fic
>It's fucking amazeballs
>Chapter ends in a cliffhanger
>Go to the next one
>There is no next one
>Last update was two years ago

>>30865417
>katana and trenchcoat

seriously?

>>30865047
>Anon after being transported to candy land decide that his whole education and knowledge is obsolete and decide to be farm help/masseur.
You understand that the vast, vast, vast majority of people writing and reading My Little Pony fanfiction won't have jobs? - either due to being literal schoolchildren, or 'I'm only staying alive until my parents die then I'm killing myself' modern 4chan?

Virgins writing sex scenes, angry shut-in incel misanthropes writing what they imagine having a 9-5 job is like. It's wish fulfilment alright, but of the gross pathetic 'my social development was exclusively online until the age of 28 [sad pepe comforting wojak.bmp]' empowerment kind, and I can't relate to that at all.

>>30865778
I completely agree with you, that doesn't change that it irritates me.

>>30865778
Threads like these remind me that I have nothing at all in common with 4chan: this place isn't a healthy place to be, at all, unless you're a poopsocker with unlimited reserves of free time.

also apparently the entire internet outside of 4chan is 'le epic upboats xD' Reddit, circa 2007

>>30854127
>i think the main character ate discord at one point and used his powers to defeat every other villain.
Like, vored Discord? Was it hot?

>>30865047
>>30865778
I don't really disagree with most of this, the assessment of most of the writers and readers that is, but it's not exactly the reason for that particular trope.

If the Anons in these stories are barely old enough to post on 4chan, with only a semester of uni under their belt, then it's not exactly a stretch that they'd just become a farmer or a masseur. Hell, even just being an otherwise seasoned programmer, who doesn't know his hardware nearly as well as he does his software, can land him in a bad spot. It's probably unintentional, but that itself can be the harsh and unglamorous reality.

Of course the obvious solution is to avoid writing those character backgrounds.

But in the end, the truth is that these professions simply don't matter. If they did, they wouldn't be farmers or masseurs; it would be part of the plot; no, it would -be- the plot. Conservation of detail, the author doesn't want to tell that story, and so they don't. Most, not all, AiE is about that considering its unspoken rule is: If it's not stated, it doesn't matter. It's pragmatic and spartan, stripping away all the pleasantries and niceties to bring writer and reader closer to the plot or ideas the author actually wants to showcase. It's why the story is Anon, and not a guy named David So&So, in Equestria.

Is it lazy? Yeah probably, but it's a form of minimalist storytelling that has its merits at times. If you're finding yourself wanting the finer details filled out then maybe it just isn't for you, or you are still searching for an AiE related to Anon getting an interesting profession (in which case you get a ton of focus on that at the expense of everything else). Yes, there are AiE stories that are far and away from this classification, but considering what's the norm, you should probably rethink why you're reading them in the first place and not a more conventional HiE story.

>>30854646
the first part is actually quite helpful for new writers, since the establishment of the backstory to set up the human's presence in equestria usually burns them out before they get to the actual plot

>>30862571
that story started off retarded in the first place.

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>>30865778
Normals leave.