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First for best duo!
Enjoy some conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/241032/spring-tide

Let’s make this thread have nothing of substance or anything else worth putting in the ITT section of the next threads OP post.

>>41550941
>Anon's favorite story that he hasn't even finished reading
Man, I'm reminded of how I wanted to favourite Heart of an Author while I was still reading it because I liked it so much. Then I hit chapter 19.
Fuck Heart of an Author.

>>41551064
Did I put it on the list already?

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>>41551068

Officially starting work on my first original novel. Wish me luck.

>>41551080
You'll be back writing horsewords in no time, traitor.

I will be the first author to finish a mom Luna fic

>>41551083
>implying I'm ever going to stop

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Reposting my poem in the new thread!
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/566761/the-day-the-sun-still-rose
It's about sunhorse, her death, and ponies' wildly varying spectrum of reactions.

>>41551086
What's it going to be like?

>>41551092
I think it was alright.
You should put it in other groups if you want it to get more attention, dude.

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>>41551086
Nope.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/316104/tantabus-mk-ii

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>>41551092
With writing this gemmy, why didn't you join the coallab?

>>41551096
Twipie parallels with her baby daddy

>>41551127
Specifically twilight being her daughter.

>>41550941
Im writing a story, details not important, how do you think an interaction between evil Starlight and sunburst would go if he ware to appear on her village one day?

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>>41551136
Didn't want to! I've only got 4 stories now and I want to build a bigger foundation of my own stuff before doing a collaborative project.
>>41551113
>groups
Good idea! As a reader, I never usually engage with groups.

>>41551170
Rape.

>>41551182
Eh, close enough to what im writing

First time I've ever posted on /mlp/. I'm trying to find a clopfic that I enjoyed but lost the link to. Should I post a description here in hopes that someone can find it or is there another thread elsewhere that I should fuck off to?

>>41551170
Sunburst's the whole reason for any of it, so when he shows up Glimmer might well just stop converting outsiders and focus on keeping him trapped.
Together with her.
Forever.

>>41551160
Clownfucker Luna

>>41551206
Bitch really tried to destroy the world over a dude who looks like he reviews Nintendo games for a living

>>41551204
Feel free to ask, just be aware you might be mocked for your tastes. Especially if it's HiE. Usually people try to provide an answer though.
>>41551162
Holy shit I forgot how cute she was. I love her glasses.
>>41551188
I'm not even being facetious. Evil Glimglam has serious issues and so much of it is tied to him specifically that if she happened to have him under hoof she'd go overboard in trying to convert him in such an unhealthy way it may as well be equivalent to it, not to mention the possibility she may also actually rape him as yet another outlet for her tangle of trauma.

>>41551172
>Didn't want to!
Based.
>As a reader, I never usually engage with groups.
As a different type of reader, I get most of my FiL from stuff added to specific groups I follow.
The rest are recs from these threads.

>>41551221
He's so fucking cute.

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>>41551221
Man, I wish a cute mare would be willing to destroy the world for me...

>>41551246
Shut the fuck up Starlight

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>>41551252
I wish I was Starlight because at least she got over losing touch with her best friend.

>>41551262
She ended up ambiguously fucking him

>>41551262
I wish I was Starlight because then I'd be a hot mare in a throuple.

>>41551276
Curs like you deserve not the air you breathe.

>>41551279
Choke me, Daddy.

>>41551282
...GalaCon?

>>41551164
Tuna won't like that

>>41551305
Trust me, he will, even if he acts otherwise.

I wish I was Starlight because then killing myself would be a benefit to the world.

>>41551376
Don't let your dreams be dreams, Anon.

>>41551390
How could I make killing myself be a benefit to the world when I'm not Starlight Glimmer? And don't say jihad.

>>41551394
I'm a necrophile.

>>41551394
The hypno files are right there.

>>41551231
It took me a bit to figure out what search terms to add and remove to track it down, but I did manage to find it on my own. Now none of you will ever know the jackoff material you could have mocked me for!

>>41551409
I wish ego-death hypno actually worked so I could solve the problem of my continued existence in a bloodless fashion.

>>41551424
Do those shrooms that permanently alter your personality.

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>>41551305
>>41551349
I liked ___, which is NMM as Twilight's mother, and Moon and Stars, which is almost like Luna as Twilight's mother.
It sounds like he's trying to write a crackfic, though, which I won't like.

>>41551470
I had a banger joke about that picture but it's a spoiler for something I don't want someone ITT to get spoiled on.

>>41551489
You could always use spoilers.
Nobody would unspoiler spoilers if they didn't want to be spoiled.

>>41551092
I'm far from an expert in rhyme schemes, but XAABCCCB seems unique. Why this?

The use of apostrophes to elide some syllables suggests that you have a regular meter. And sometimes you do for a few lines, but mostly, you don't. So I'm not sure what your metric intentions were.

Was "Do you hear the ponies singing?" meant as a Les Miserables allusion?

I think you're a good storyteller.

>>41551470
Not a crackfic, just parallels. Luna in the past romancing the court jester/Queen's wit, Twilight coming to terms with the revelation while romancing a similar character in Pinkie Pie

>>41551553
>
Thanks for the feedback! I don't have a background in poetry, so I'm not familiar with established rhyme schemes. I just came up with XAABCCCB on the spot while playing around.
>
I took as inspiration the songs "American Pie" and "The House of the Rising Sun". Those also led me to the title. I wanted to give the poem a folkish, American sort of sound, so I deliberately tried to keep the meter and some of the diction pretty rough. I was inconsistent in style, though. It's hard writing poetry when you limit yurself to "common" words.
>
It IS in fact an allusion to Les Miserables. The French Revolution was a disaster and arguably the worst event in the last 300 years of human history (even though the uprising in LM is from 1832, no I haven't read it).
>
You make me blush.

>>41551707
>the worst event in the last 300 years of human history
No, that would be the birth of Josh Haber.

>>41549436
>Skyros
That's the alicorn kingdom, right? If they're still around, that has the "why are they sitting on their asses and not helping" problem that turns them into arrogant assholes. It's a mirror of the "super advanced aliens don't want to help" sci-fi issue.

>>41550237
>Why is that?
Blame the Bronze Age Collapse. The ruins of the former empires it left behind greatly influenced Greek culture which subsequently influenced Roman culture. Then the Roman Empire collapsed and its ruins left an eternal "lost Golden Age" impression on Western society.

>>41550396
>limited and primitive
That's boring, though. You don't stare in awe and wonder at a crumbling thatched roof hut. You do to a giant castle that once loomed over the sky and protected an empire before the Fall happened and the hordes broke it down.

>>41551164
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/284550/mare-of-the-moon
Sorry, anon. There's nothing new under the sun.

>>41550941
Did you ever read a story so wild and disgusting, with a main character so unlikable and horrid, that it gave you PTSD for years? I did. "All-American Girl". I'm incapable of reading anything involving ponies interacting with actual Earth thanks to it, despite stomaching only a few chapters.

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>>41551926
He kinda said that he already went through everything in https://www.fimfiction.net/group/214531/folder/68552/lunas-daughter
Especially noting that almost all of them are abandoned, and the rest are tiny oneshots.

>>41551940
That's why you should've stuck with that Anon's review.

>>41551926
the Epic of Gilgamesh is a good example of a "primitive mythology"
it's essentially about man learning to civilize himself and choose society over being a wild animal

>>41551960
I curse daily people who told me "just wait, it gets better" and "you will see, she is not actually a giant cunt".

>>41551975
She's Rarity's daughter. What did you expect?

>>41551982
Very fucking funny. Lady Rarity would never be able to give life to someone so vile.

>>41551995
It's been a while, but I remember AAG Rarity being a tad of a cunt.

>>41552005
All Mane6 are like that in that travesty of a story, really.

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>>41550237
>Why is that? Where's all the settings in which the world is young and blazing a totally new trail?
Firstly I should have clarified that in the past people viewed such past ages in terms of cultural and spiritual advancement, not technological. Theres also an esoteric explanation for it, that being that that is how they perceived the structure of conscious experience to be, and the evolution of it over history, but I digress.

Secondly most people have not and do not believe in a worldview in which the concepts of progress or technology make sense. Non-Abrahamics don’t think that time is linear, and non-westerners don’t think that reality operates off of rational principles comprehensible to human beings. Most people don’t think that reality operates off of cause and effect logic either, rather holistic relations between different living beings and forces. Most people think that the material external world will forever be a sea of chaos and suffering, impossible to change, which is to be accepted and left through spiritual transcendence. On top of that for the vast majority of people and history you would be kept down from ever achieving any sort of material prosperity because others would just use culture and family and faith and government to just steal or destroy whatever you make or prevent you from making anything to begin with. Growth is uncertain and uncertain=chaos and chaos is deadly stoopid.

>>41551926
>? If they're still around
They dead bro. I'm pretty sure the two sisters journal even hints at some sort of genocide or cataclysm

I gotta say, some of you guys are being way too harsh on that fic.
I know we've got a reputation for being critical, but I think this one deserves some credit.
The author really took the time to develop the mane six's personalities beyond their usual tropes. Like, Pinkie Pie has some legit depth for once instead of just being "lol so random" all the time. And Twilight's struggles with self-doubt feel really believable.
Plus, the plot itself has some real adventure to it! Actual stakes, some tense action scenes... it's not just silly slice-of-life stuff or shipping like so many fics. The quest structure gives it a sense of forward momentum.
Are there some cheesy or cringey parts? Sure, a couple. But every fic has those. On the whole this is some of the most engaging MLP writing I've seen from the fandom in a long time. It really captures the spirit of the show.
So maybe lay off the hate-train for once and give credit where it's due. This fic deserves better than the dumping you guys are giving it. Just my two bits.

>>41552150
If I ever need to read something full of misery and character depths, I would re-read "Triptych" or "Night is Passing". In these stories, characters are at least not totally OOC with a flimsy justification of "mares become annoying cunts when they get older".

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>>41551092
I haven't read enough poem to criticize the form, but as a complete casual, the inconsistent meter kept throwing me off when I expected it to be there.
Nice story, though! You've captured the shift from public's mourning to anger well; the moment things start boiling over was strong. I am not a fan of "Sun & Moon move on their own" headcanon, but at least it was used to tell something convincing here. I doubt ponies would react so violently, but your story didn't make me question it. Good luck, anon. Seconding the advice regarding the groups. Ideally you should do this right after publishing to increases your chances of getting into the box. The first minutes to an hour are crucial.

>>41551995
>Lady Rarity would never be able to give life to someone so vile
She did give birth to Sweetie Belle.

>>41552745
sweetie is just rarity but not shit so I fail to see your point

>>41552836
She burnt soup. She's Best Filly, but there's still a demon inside her. Good thing one of her girlfriends knows how to cook.

>>41552841
>there's still a demon inside her.
Only when I babysit her.

>>41551962
Yeah, that's a great example. This is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about.

>>41552906
Oh, so you're gonna rip that off like every other story in existence, huh?

GigaMAREsh

>>41552963
>>41511842

Why is it always flutterfags with these deranged fetishes?

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I’m thinking about writing a fic where someone gives the zen Buddhist phrase “don’t confuse the figure pointing at the moon for the moon itself” as advice to Luna. It means don’t confuse a tool or resource for the underlying reality it’s meant to direct you towards. Or as a slight derivation, don’t confuse the measurement or abstraction you make about something for the thing itself.
I guess this would be in relation to her dream related or royal duties. Not seeing importance of the underlying immaterial role she plays in balancing and protecting her little ponies psychologically and emotionally, in contrast and dichotomy with her sister doing so physically, eg. politically and economically, as a political figurehead.

>>41553055
Probably some Jungian shadow related shit.

>>41552745
I read that fic.

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>>41553113
>that fic
It was a weirdly popular headcanon some years ago. Thinking that Rarity's "surname" is Belle is another one of those. Not all early fandom ideas were good.

>>41551962
This nigga only read half the fucking story.

>>41553118
I guess it kinda fell by the wayside unlike scootadopt, which still is going fairly strong.

>>41553071
I would certainly read it and try to understand it.
Then act as if I did.

>>41553118
I still kinda see stuff where Rarity is at least raising her, seeing as their parents kind of ceased to exist.

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>>41553118
>Rarity Belle
>headcanon

>>41553224
They're just on their third annual honeymoon.

>>41553224
Their dad is in jail for fish cruelty. Their mom turned to selling herself on the street and got killed by Rarity for encroaching on her turf.

>>41553120
*half the wikipedia article

>>41553277
To be fair I never read it either, I just watched a video retelling it.

>>41553281
I wonder if Zack Snyder will ever do that Mahabharata adaptation he wanted. India would explode.

>>41553120
Isn't a good chunk of it lost media?

>>41553118
I only consider it a joke myself, but it is one I enjoy. As opposed to Rarity doing coke, which I think has actual merits as a headcanon.

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>>41553291
>Rarity doing coke
I never really understood this, outside of coke being the stereotypical "rich urbanite" drug. Rarity doesn't even live in Canterlot, although I could see her indulging at a party or something. She seems like she'd be susceptible to peer pressure from the other socialites.

>>41553246
Art of the Dress is soulless popshit and I'm tired of pretending it isn't.

>>41553316
I mainly think of it as, indeed, her doing it in Canterlot first, and possibly indulging the habit on occasion when she pulls hard working sessions (she's shown doing all nighters in the show). The stereotype exists for a reason. Those leading a prolific party life like she's shown partaking in during Becoming Popular and especially prolific and popular artists across different media often historically did some to a lot of coke, and drugs are still commonplace in industries that require both a lot of work and a lot of social presence, to the point where we have accounts of people who worked in Hollywood saying people there literally sprinkle meth as a light condiment on food. Coke helps with the kind of thing she has to deal with and she's been in the kind of environment where it might be present if you assume it exists, so I think light to moderate use fits her chances if you assume a more mature setting than a show for little kids. Also, I like to think she'd cut it with caffeine or sugar, not with chalk like the stuff you get off the streets.
The idea that she keeps her emergency stash inside her buttplug is purely a jokey headcanon though.

>>41553329
>Art of the Dress

>>41553224
Links to stuff like this? I like motherly Rarity stuff.

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Are there any good gory stories perfect for the spooky season.
I used to loved reading the messed up stuff like Cheerilee's Garden

>>41553431
Sure. What kind of spooky do you want?
Gory dumb spooky?
Intense spooky?
Moody spooky?
Lovecraft spooky?

>>41553483
Every kind of spooky

I HATE AIESLOP
I HATE GREENTEXTSLOP
I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE

>>41553626
Filters are our friends.

>>41553431
Rarity's Secret Life and its sequels have all the gore you'd want, as well as being the best depiction of her character put to paper.

>>41553663
Why does fimmy have no support for filters outside of search and M-rating?

>>41553431
Rainbow's Factory manages to salvage the original into an actually good story, but it's less horror as a result.
I've heard good things about Circles.
The Needle is decently good, though more a supernatural thriller in presentation than outright horror.
Silent Ponyville is dated and unpolished and kinda schlocky, but also genuinely heartfelt as a piece of work.
The Something Sweet to Bite series is generally fun and pretty gory, if you're looking for something that deliberately indulges in horror movie tropes. Other works by the same author might also be your thing, like Just Beneath the Surface.
Seer is generally considered a pretty good horror writer if you want to look into his stuff.
The various 1k words contests had horror as a category and some of the entries were pretty good.
Zaid put out a horror fic some time ago that people seemed to like.

>>41553514
I think your best bet would be Knackerman's Candy Mare series. They're basically a slasher series.
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/36582/Knackerman/stories
Other authors that make good horror are:
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/253168/Rambling+Writer/stories?q=%23horror+&order=latest
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/91/Flashgen/stories?q=%23horror+&order=latest
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/5771/KitsuneRisu/stories?q=%23horror+&order=latest

>>41553671
>>41553713
>>41553747
Thanks!

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>>41553671
>as well as being the best depiction of her character put to paper

So what was the last update to the Berylverse anyway?

>>41551136
oh my fauci, she is such a gemerald...

>>41552083
one motherfucker did this at the fair in town. He leaned back too far and rippen through that canvas ceiling above him. I guess it fling him about a block away before he landed in somebody's yard.

They still use the same machine, but there's a huge duct tapped patch over one of those triangles in the ceiling.

>>41553974
Nice pasta.

>>41553974
R I P P E N

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>>41553291
>>41553316
>>41553343

>>41554015
I'm pretty sure real cocaine can be pink too if you cut it with something pink or red. It's just that people usually cut it with white stuff.
Also, monthly reminder that they accidentally made MDMA canon to Equestria.

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>>41554025
and meth

>>41554048
That one was on purpose. Also fuck my [yet undiagnosed mental illness], I need to get back to watching BB but I can never find the time and right mindset.

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>>41554066
>yet undiagnosed mental illness
You're in the horse board, it's autism. It always is.

>>41554210
The doctor said it's probably not autism actually. I'm taking a full test next week

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>>41554224
Let us know how that goes.

>>41554234
Autism loves ADHD.

>>41554240
Nah it's a Different Kind of Autism

>>41554240
Literally my gf and me.

>>41554240
That's TwiDash

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>>41554066
>yet undiagnosed mental illness
speaking as someone who god beat hard with the ADHD stick, it's probably ADHD

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>>41554401
That was mine. I have three long fics going right now and I wrote 120 pages in a day a month ago.

>>41554401
I'm convinced it is and I've had multiple conversations with people who've been diagnosed and have echoed the fact that I probably have it, but preliminary tests have shown there's something else too on top of it. Not to blogpost too hard but I performed abnormally well in a progressive matrix test, which is a sure fire sign of some kind of neurodivergence. And also I want a proper diagnosis before I say it because even if it probably is I think self diagnosis is cringe.

I'm uncomfortable with how inspired this show has made me

>>41554652
Welcome aboard.

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>>41554234
>I need to get her pregnant

>>41554234
>>41554826
I forgot to add: whose stock do you think Twilight used?

>>41554830
Her magically transmuted DNA

>>41554830
If any pony can pull off MLS it's her, but for genetic reasons it could be Shining.

>>41554652
G4 fills a gap in some (autistic) people’s minds where a functioning civilization usually sits.

>>41554878
Bro what the fuck does that even mean
You got the fucking babylonians sitting in your mind castle?

>>41554893
You don't?

>>41554927
I've got Prussians.

>>41554830
Probably chicken stock.

>>41552083
>Most people don’t think that reality operates off of cause and effect logic
The fuck are you talking about?

>>41554893
It’s a probably false schizo theory I developed. That being that the show was on some level well developed enough to depict a distinct imaginary civilization that people subconsciously identified with and that that was in part why the show was so successful.
The show depicts a people with a distinct and outlined common social, political, and economic structure, shared geography, environment, architecture, myths, history, rituals, culture, traditions, etc. and that those people are healthy and filled vitality.

Though the fact that the show contains a bunch of cute, prosocial, young adult female characters is still probably the biggest cause.

>>41553974
What is the device?

>>41554983
Read “the weirdest people in the world” and “the culture map”. As far as I know those are the two best books relating to the subject.

>>41554998
It spins

>>41553964
The one where Chrysalis goes to barbie high school:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/489058/paint-the-sky
Hasn't updated in a couple years

>>41554557
I hope you cure your nymphomania, anon.

>>41554557
>I performed abnormally well in a progressive matrix test
I'm sorry anon. You're the target audience for rational fiction.

I'm cooking pasta

>>41555057
What kind

>>41554210
Wrong, i'm diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder

I have a Grandiphallic Condition.

>>41554983
>>41555008
Just go straight to the source and read Decline of the West. It's not a chud book; it's actually pseudo-history about how different conceptions of space, mathematics, and the structure of the universe led different cultures to different beliefs and practices.
In particular, the western (a.k.a. Faustian) worldview is based on the symbol of infinite, continuous 3D space (as opposed to an enclosed dome like Middle Eastern culture or a network of connected points of local space like Classical culture).
This is said to have caused western people to view things like history, but also technological and social progress, as an endless chain of events stretching towards infinity. This is the root of the attribution to westerners of a "linear" view of history, instead of a "cyclical" one, or even just viewing history as a collection of disparate events like the ancient Greeks or Romans did. For example, the Romans would define their years in terms of who was consul at the time, bounding time to local intervals instead of modeling it as an infinite continuum like we do.

>>41555242
How does it address the middle ages conception of the world as an enclosed spherical space or Hegel's cyclical view of history?

>>41552100
It would make sense, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't do that. Aren't you mixing it up with some fic? Like mine?

>>41555521
There's just some line where it's like 'There used to be more alicorns, there aren't anymore."

>>41555527
Why don't you check? https://files.catbox.moe/x7k88g.pdf

>>41555555

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>>41555554
Get fucked.

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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/98069/chasing-winter

SS&E fan here. The fic was recommended to me back in 2016 and I'm only just reading it now because I don't read fanfics frequently and because I've been saving the best for last. This fic was not a disappointment. It was actually pretty good. Best Trixie fic I've read up until now. I just didn't like how that at times the dialogue was unnatural. I definitely recommend this fic. I finished it in 3 days! But now I'm sad because I have only one Trixie fic left recommended that's supposedly really good: Letter from a Friend at the End of the World

For now, my next fic will be: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/174483/bullet-point
I'll read it after this week because tests are coming up and I already flunked my linear algebra test because my dumbass thought 2x2 matrices where the determinant was 0 were vector subspaces. They're not. Also I forgot Cramer's Rule xP

>>41555242
That’s already on my reading list. But it’s fucking 1000 pages so I’ll probably put it off forever.
>>41555280
Read A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell for both of those.

>>41555590
>How does book A talk about X?
>"Read book B"

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>>41555598
>reading nonfiction books
Ew. You can also get most of the basics by doing the critical thinking yourself instead of relying on some dude's interpretation as a crutch.

>>41555637
Nonfiction is good. Speculative, biased, ahistorical "nonfiction" is not. Play Nice is a good book and it gives you insights you wouldn't otherwise get. Guns, Germs, and Steel is irredeemable trash which lies multiple times for the sake of furthering its narrative.

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>go on f-chat to take my mind off writing
>end up helping a guy with the lore for his zigger /c/
there is no escape, is there

>>41555577
Chasing Winter is fun. Flawed in a lot of ways, but I love it.
>Letter from a Friend at the End of the World
Uh... I hope you've been told about it. If you haven't and want to go in blind, go ahead. I liked it.
If not, there's something you've got to know. It's the first of a series that will never be finished because the author moved to Japan or something. The book ends on a cliffhanger and the second book only had two chapters. The author has a blogpost somewhere that explains all that should've happened. It sounds awesome, and Letters already has some cool lore and worldbuilding. But... yeah. It's incomplete. Horribly so.
I hope you enjoy Bullet Point.

>>41555671
Is Chasing Winter one of the most divisive fics ITT? I swear just last week someone was calling it utter garbage

>>41555577
>Cramer's Rule
Nobody likes Cramer's rule, and it's not good for anything. Even for theoretical purposes, it's always better to think about the adjugate matrix instead.

>>41555693
It was one of the worst-received bookclub fics, yeah. Half the people dropped it outright, and it was the first (but not the last) time that happened. It's written really poorly and while I'd hesitate to call it "bad", I remember it being really not good. The skirts fan anon seems to like every story he tried so far.
Actual most divisive would probably be Good Trooper Gilda, with multiple anons claiming it's trash, and almost as many picking it as one of their favorite fics on the site.

>>41555693
>Is Chasing Winter one of the most divisive fics ITT?

Its an early fic, so writing errors and technical problems often get overlooked by the nostalgia factor.

the division falls between those here from the beginning, who rightfully agree that early works from the height of the fandom are better despite being from neophyte writers, and those johnny come latelies that came in towards the end of the fandom and as such cut their teeth on works from more seasoned writers

honestly theres nothing about CW that really stands out, but not being terrible just means its pretty okay

>>41555855
I was going to say I liked it despite coming later, but I forget "later" for me meant the end of 2012.
Time makes fools of us all...

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>>41555990
tfw came in during 2011, but toward the end of 2011 so i cant claim real oldfag status

>>41554979
>the real reason the chicken wasn't in AJ's room at the end of Mother of Invention

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>>41555527
This is the only page in the entire book where the alicorns are mentioned, but not in that context. It implies alright that there were more of them than just Celestia and Luna. Although it's silly they were the original "royal canterlot voice" aficionados. It also implies they lived in Equestria, but nopony seems to know anything about them...?
But at least this pretty much confirms that alicorns are a race, and Celestia and Luna were born as, and didn't ascend onto alicorns.

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>>41555855
Was it posted to g-docs before fimfic? If not, it's not even that old. It's a 2013 story, and one of the less impressive "early fics" at that, imo. Daetrin's fics also start out with some really rough writing, but the stories themselves are realized a lot better and they're also older. So is Eyes on You, Mendacity, Yours Truly, Background Pony, Eternal... When this fic came out, it was already looking bad compared to many of the fics out there.
>the division falls
I may not have been really reading fics until much later in the fandom (aside from the must-reads like F:oE, Past Sins, MLD, RF, Cupcakes, etc.), but I've been in the fandom for a while—late 2011 to be exact—and I am absolutely chasing that "early fic" feel whenever possible. That doesn't mean putting the blinders on, and Chasing Winter is just kind of very mediocre in so many aspects of its execution.

>>41556767
>F:oE
You can't even write the mangled acronym right.

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>>41556983
Oh no, a typo! I should stop writing posts before waking up properly, but you know what I meant, and that one anon can't complain about confusing the name with the clopfic.

>groups on fimfiction let you sort by rating but not by likes

>>41556992
>HiE

>>41557020
has no style, hie has no grace?

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>>41557020
>HiEfagging over reaction images

I'm going to post it.

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>>41557025
Beat you to it.

Cadence in A Minor: Does the wanting to fuck Twilight Sparkle plot continue? I've just seen Shining wreck his room and I'm worried that the fic is about to suck.

>>41557024
>AiE

>>41555577
>Cramer's Rule
Are you old enough to post here?

>>41556414
>taking a picture of the actual fucking book
I respect this.

>>41557011
You can search with a filter like "group:123", which lets you use all the search page's normal sorting options. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to restrict it to a specific folder of a group.

>>41557067
It goes on the backburner a bit then gets resolved closer to the end. You may feel it's a bit of a flaccid cop-out when it does. It's not what the fic is ultimately about, except that it has its place in Shinings numerous psychosexual complications that he needs to heal from.

>>41557121
Why do people talking about the fic always spoiler details like that as if it's not the core premise of the story?

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>>41557074
I took linear algebra in college

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>>41557139
Because you're wrong, and they aren't. But misdirecting the reader as to whether they are or aren't is.
Also, because the good Rariflag said he wants to read it, and he'll go into anaphylactic shock if they aren't spoiled.

>>41557216
He's read much worse things.

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>>41557249
It's not about whether the things are good or bad or tame or fucked up, it's just about being spoiled.

>>41557282
I can't wait to read it and find out it's not actually a spoiler and you're just illiterate.

>>41557296
You didn't know that already?

>>41557067
He'll like jerk off to her and that's about it. Don't worry, it all works out okay.

>>41557087
That's generally fine, I just think the sort by rating thing is dumb.
A fic with 35 likes and no dislikes is higher rated than something with 1500 likes and 20 dislikes.

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>>41557352
No it isn't. You can put the numbers into https://www.statskingdom.com/proportion-confidence-interval-calculator.html and set the confidence interval to .99
Those would score at 84 and 97, so the 1500 likes story would be ranked higher.
Even as shit as it is, wilson score is more useful at predicting story quality than guesstimating ratios by feel.

>>41557387
Despite doing like 20 university level modules in statistics and more statistics A-levels than the overwhelming majority of maths students, I somehow never learned what the fucking Wilson score is.

>find a fic with a shitload of likes
>rough as hell, errors everywhere
>but also old as hell
Man the old fanfic scene must have been a wild west. You could get a hundred likes so long as anything wasn't 100% shit

>>41556414
I thought Canterlot was built after NMM.

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Any fics that feel like this?

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>>41557459
>mfw the Castle of the Two Sisters was actually where C&L moved out once they became sick of their parents
>mfw this is how they survived the Alicorn extinction event

>>41557473
The Alicorn Anal Annihilation

>>41557473
They were the alicorn extinction event.

>>41557516
>>41557498
Hot.

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>>41557387
>>41557352
He's right, for once.

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>>41557470
Changeling Space Program.

>>41557437
It's shit. Prior to the days of computers, Wilson devised a method for approximating binomial proportion confidence intervals that could be done with a slide rule. The "Wilson score" is the lower endpoint of Wilson's approximation of the confidence interval. It was never intended to be used for ranking things, and in fact, it's terrible for that purpose. But some guy on the internet wrote a blog suggesting it at some point, and even though he later retracted the blog, now we're stuck.

>>41557588
That's funny. The only reason why I knew that it existed is that it was in the textbooks for Statistics 4 in the OCR exam board for A-Level maths in the UK. In the year that I did Statistics 3, only 81 people in the entire fucking country did Statistics 4 with that same exam board. I suppose that it's in Statistics 4 because they ran out of content.

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Just take an airplane, lmao
>/FSSBC/
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/25966/austraeoh (3/5)
Alright, the break is over! Time to go EAST, and fast. Is it cheating to take an airplane? Looks like it's not.
RD covered a lot of ground this week, and that means we got a bunch of neat places to read about. Maybe not that much "plot" and some people would complain about that, but the sightseeing tour has been pretty nice. RD is very awesome(tm) in this fic, and skirts really wants (You) to know that. If the previous chapters weren't enough to convince some readers, here we have her scaling miles (upwards) of frozen peaks just to not waste time flying around. She also has a close encounter with a lizard-chimera-thing and comes out of it alive. Her characterization is still pretty great in this, with the fic emphasizing both her flaws and strengths, as well as interpreting her personality very nicely. Aside from the few final chapters, this week has been primarily about the sights and RD's self-reflection. The author weaves in chunks that are more action'y and ones that are more comfy to round out the story, but they're not the focus. And, honestly? The fic's prose is strong enough to sell just about all of those scenes; reading it has been fun despite the errors. Some parts, like the Ridgeside mini-story or the lizard-beast fight, don't feel too relevant to the main plot and are there just for a change of pace, and that's okay, too. That's what you sign up for when you start this fic. I wonder if the moments where Dash becomes more philosophical are the author self-inserting into her a little too much; they read not that different from Lyra's BP inner monologues, though to be fair, RD punches herself to stop thinking about it here.
Then we get to the spire city and skirts sidetracks to first have Dash crossdress and then have her pampered. Perhaps the signs were there all along. I liked the white alicorn, though, and the bits and pieces we got about what happened before the fic. The capital-P Plot is back on track, and we're (very) slowly but surely approaching the end of the story. This reads like a story written very in the moment, with the most nebulous of ideas about where to take it, but it looks like skirts actually planned it from the start, or at least the major elements of it. We ended up in the middle of another pretty big side-arc, this time in the Ponykorea, so RD is probably going to start the final(?) stretch of her journey relatively soon. I wasn't too fun of Mr.NoFunAllowed at first, but he's been growing on me; it sucks that she'll leave him behind soon. Oh, and there were many more references this week! They're all super harmless, but there's quite a bit of them. Good to know that skirts was capable of having fun once upon a time.
And... yep, next week it's still:
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/25966/austraeoh
Up to and including chapter 170, "Destination". You should decide what we'll read after, too:
>https://ponepaste.org/8813

>>41557659
I like the Duke. He's quite the silly guy.
This is the kind of stuff that makes people think of Austraeoh. Scenery porn, monologues about random topics, quick action scenes, and mini arcs filled with fun and lore that just vaguely hint at whatever happened before.
Honestly. I don't have much to say that wouldn't be repeating stuff mentioned last week. Strayo' still has those same comfy vibes that made me burn through the first books back in '13.
It's almost quaint to see the seeds for political intrigue in this chunk considering what will come later. Not only in this book, but much, much later. That's not to say this isn't good, but it's certainly more reserved and small scale. I like it.
>This reads like a story written very in the moment, with the most nebulous of ideas about where to take it, but it looks like skirts actually planned it from the start, or at least the major elements of it.
I remember Skirts saying he had a few ideas, but it was mostly just winging it, and coming up with just enough to write whatever arc he had in mind. It's only in Eljunbyro that those ideas take shape and bigger foreshadowing happens.
Ok, quick tangent. 11 years ago, a group of people who were way in over their head wanted to make an Austraeoh animation. Somehow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUasw3s-WOs
I joined the group because I could not miss the inevitable trainwreck. Surprisingly enough, progress was made through almost two thirds of the first book. Do you know what finally killed it? (Other than the main animator leaving?) Darkstine. With that in mind, I hope you enjoy next week's portion.

I still use "x, but y" far too much in my writing.

>>41558216
"x, however, y!"
There you go.

Any fics with cringy ass roll playing?

>>41558316
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/552326/ogres-oubliettes-orgasms

>>41558216
Write a piece with a focus on avoiding that phrase. Good exercise to break habits like that. Best case for me was one fic I used as an exercise to really cut out "as" use. It worked wonders.

How much older would you say Shining Armor is compared to Twilight? Like ten years?

>>41558461
Six to ten, yeah

>>41558461
No, ten years is such a huge gap that they wouldn't feel as close as they do. They wouldn't have been able to play together when they were young. And by the time she was old enough to penetrate, he'd already be visiting whores, and he wouldn't want somepony as inexperienced as her. I think the gap is probably between two and four years.

>>41558471
This is why people don't talk to you.

>>41558474
>Gives me a (You)

>>41558461
Yeah, probably.

>Describe the customer/reader you are targeting to purchase your content. What steps did you take to ensure that they will be satisfied with their purchase?
An actual question I am forced to answer to get my work approved for sale on Amazon. I fucking hate capitalism.

>>41558555
Quit being such a whiny "west has fallen"-tier faggot.

>>41558555
Um, ponies?

>>41558560
Aren't most played straight America has fallen type posts complaining about communism?

>>41558578
Yeah?

>>41558561
Horses?

>>41558601
Equines?

>>41558605
E-quines

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>>41558689
Z-quines.

>>41558931
Vesperquines

>>41556767
>Was it posted to g-docs before fimfic?
I don't think so. It's not on EQD and that would have been the only way for a g-doc fic to gain traction pre-Fimfic.

>>41558555
If a Chinese factory officer worker can answer that question, so can you, anon.

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>>41558995
Felines!

>>41559090
Felquines ^:)

>get home
>debate between immediately going to bed for club or chill for a while

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Stopping at The Calm before The Storm (Part One), in
>/FSBC/

I meant to barely start this week's reading last night to be on time today. 3-4 hours later, it was 5am and I was all caught up. I think that's a huge compliment to the fic.
So this week we mostly read about ponies being heartbroken and ponies who began to heal. Pure [Drama], yes, but pretty good [Drama]. At least we can all be mad at Cadance together, right? The one thing that makes the fic stand out (at least for me) is making you invested in the characters. I know it's been said two weeks in a row now, but the characters are super nice here, even secondary ones like Twi's parents. The 'true' antagonists are dislikeable enough, though I wonder what the fic will do with Cadance now. She's been the fic's tragic character, and it looked like she grew up as a result of her actions, but what she's planning to do now is so obviously wrong, I fear we'll have a repeat of her first mistake, except on a much larger scale and fully intentionally. Some of the blame rests on Celestia, who enabled her.
It's interesting, honestly. Celestia is like a tertiary character here, but her depiction is pretty unique. I don't think this... almost callous level of ruthless management of Equestria suits her at all, but it's a direction you can take, I suppose. That she means well doesn't mean she's not in the wrong; she's grooming Cadance to be not-a-pony, kind of. I hope it's addressed later.

But enough about them. I like what Vinyl and Shiny got going together. It's particularly good to see that not only Vinyl changes, but Shining Armor does as well. Their growing trust is one of the main points the fic tries to highlight, and it's shown nicely in many scenes, e.g., when he tries to understand why Vinyl can't forgive Sky. Speaking of, great that the fic acknowledged Vinyl's point of view instead of acting like she's in the wrong. To be fair, she did go too far this week, but the story shows a nice level of self-reflection. From the author, yes, but also from the characters themselves. Vinyl thinking about her actions more is a very noticeable change from week 1 Vinyl.
We don't get many new plot points this week (revolution aside); instead, the story takes the time to develop everything it's been building up. It's a good 50-75% chunk; I'm excited for the finale. This week also confirmed that Shiny Chad on the rebound is firmly a main protagonist alongside Vinyl now. It remains to be seen if that's good. I like him, but Vinyl's cuteness still wins by a lot.

One thing holding this fic back for me is the writer's inexperience. I think that's what it is. It's not written poorly, and the editing has been a huge boon, but it's not written too well, either. It's particularly noticeable in the emotional scenes, where often there's a phrase or a narrator's interjection that does not fit the atmosphere. On the other hand, the pacing is really good. Both scene-wise and story-wise.
Next week we're finishing the fic.

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>>41560030
>"to being in the same room when Shining had given up his love."
Wait what
>Cedar Mulch story of his wife dying during birth of his twins just to get another foal
Wew
>"I dated a diamond dog once."
Kino
>Scene where shining says he admires vinyl and says "If it wasn't for you, I would've never broken up with Cadance."
There's no way this is how the relationship starts, this scene sucks. This confession sucks. This doesn't feel right at all
>Sky doesn't even tell lily that vinyl isn't mad at her
>Cadence decides to 'Do nothing.' and then later in the same sentence talks about going to Galea's inauguration
that's not doing nothing you retard. I agreed with her when I read 'do nothing' but then she immediately decided that meant 'do something'. and I don't agree with it at all.
>Hey lily, just wanted to tell you something before we leave. Its ok to hate your mom forever btw
Fucking kek, then Vinyl is immediately btfo by a real Equestrian (foal)
>grandma satin is a mastermind
>cadence letting galea bully the crown to let her and satin go
Wtf, drop her ass. The crown does whatever it wants. Cadence should make her first action as a diarch to uninstall galea lmao
>Shining bumps into his mom in the morning
Kino
>Glory thinks Twilight Velvet is a milf
Based
>Soarin does too
>Shining and vinyl conveniently forgot Glory was flying and picking apples just the day before
Up until the last 3 minutes of reading I would've said I'm rooting for Cadence in all of this. She did something bad sure, but she doesn't deserve everyone she loves to just walk away forever and to have to start from pretty much a blank slate of only having Celestia. She's a fucking Alicorn. Of course Shining can go find another mare, but that's not the fucking point. The fact that he has no increase in 'tolerance' for the fact that his current gf is an immortal god is CRAZY. And she's young and the alicorn of love, of course there's going to be some teething issues during her very first times exercising her domain. She did it wrong and has accepted that. I hope in the end it's her and Shining and not for completely retarded reasons like just magicking every character in the story into being with someone
>>>>>>>>then queue the 2nd to last scene we read where she decides to rape Vinyl so she can mind control her
????? There's a massive opportunity for cadence to grow as a character in all of this and I'm very scared for it after reading that. But I am looking forward to Uncle B(ased) talking some sense into VInyl

>>41559763
"It's the kind of unwell sleep won't fix" -VInyl SCratch

>>41560030
>though I wonder what the fic will do with Cadance now. She's been the fic's tragic character, and it looked like she grew up as a result of her actions, but what she's planning to do now is so obviously wrong, I fear we'll have a repeat of her first mistake, except on a much larger scale and fully intentionally. Some of the blame rests on Celestia, who enabled her.
Yeah, I really hope she isn't so obviously wrong in whatever her role will be in the finale. As I said I'm (now very tentatively) rooting for her.
>I don't think this... almost callous level of ruthless management of Equestria suits her at all, but it's a direction you can take, I suppose.
>she's grooming Cadance to be not-a-pony, kind of. I hope it's addressed later.
Yeah it's a bit brutal. But at the same time apparently she hasn't coached her well enough because Cadence is basically just negotiating with terrorists at this point with Galea and Satin when she should've never promoted Galea or at least immediately uninstated her after the arrests. (and then decline the governmental change. She really should actually consult Celestia on that considering how big of a change it is. Even though THIS Celestia is definitely... 'something'... enough to sit back and watch as Cadence's first ever decision results in a complete governmental reformation of Equestria.)
>But enough about them. I like what Vinyl and Shiny got going together
sure, but I hate how it happened and I do hope it's only temporary to help both of their frames of mind.
>I'm excited for the finale.
absolutely, the story is still a page turner
> It's not written poorly, and the editing has been a huge boon, but it's not written too well, either.
I forgot to mention in my post, but I'm pretty sure errors have significantly increased this week. Things like whole words missing or wrong instead of just THis SHit.
>pacing
agreed. very fun read

>>41560030
I think it's kind of funny we stopped just as the plot kicks in. It's also kind of funny that the plot kicks in three quarters of the way through the story.
Still, what keeps me going after all this time are the character interactions. Every time two characters are speaking, the story flows so nicely it just makes me feel comfy. Comfy enough not to be bothered by the odd mistakes here and there.
Speaking of characters. I'm glad Galea finally has something to do after I don't know how many words. And something she does. Let's just upend the entire government system, why don't we.
That's a point of contention for me. Sure, Cadence was caught off guard (heh) by Galea's proclamation about the dissolution of the House of Nobles and a return to the Diarchy, but why is Celestia just rolling with it? Not even a comment, or anything. Quite odd.
I do think it's hilarious that the big bad evil Twilight is called Satan. Haven't found an OC with a name this on the nose since Sunset of Time.
You know, while Celestia is partly to blame for giving Cadance bad advice, Cadance really tried to minimise her own mistakes. And now she's trying really hard to rationalise her actions, and I don't see her getting a good end unless something drastic changes.
Anyway, onto the last batch of the story. Vinyl is moving on. Shining's dating his clone. Cadence will commit heinous crimes. Galea will puppeteer Equestria's government, and Grandma Satin may go to jail. Yay!

I see that The Cadenza Prophecies is marked complete. How was it?

>>41560160
I’ve never heard of that fic so it’s probably not worth reading.

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This is peak fanfiction.

>>41560170
>PK-Pony 2002
Somebody liked RuneScape.

>>41560167
Nigga it's iisaw's next fic in the Celestia Code series. Not him and I stopped at Luna Cypher (I might continue it some day), but it's one of the most important series on the site, and one of the only ones written in 2024.

>>41560134
>I think it's kind of funny we stopped just as the plot kicks in. It's also kind of funny that the plot kicks in three quarters of the way through the story.
Well it's kinda the same as last week honestly. We stopped at the train ride. And the first week we stopped right before Cadence ruins everything
>Still, what keeps me going after all this time are the character interactions. Every time two characters are speaking, the story flows so nicely it just makes me feel comfy.
Absolutely. The characters drive the story and they're damn good drivers
>That's a point of contention for me. Sure, Cadence was caught off guard (heh) by Galea's proclamation about the dissolution of the House of Nobles and a return to the Diarchy, but why is Celestia just rolling with it?
I'm upset Cadence is rolling with it. I kind of expected that from this Celestia. I think it's in character for this Celestia to sit back and watch as the first decision Cadence has ever made enters the entire country into a new era. If she didn't then it would go against her entire scene with Cadence about doing something and living with it whether it's right or wrong. In fact Celestia is doing just that as well by letting Cadence have a single decision entirely to herself and then watching all of Equestria change as a result
>I do think it's hilarious that the big bad evil Twilight is called Satan
kek
>You know, while Celestia is partly to blame for giving Cadance bad advice, Cadance really tried to minimise her own mistakes. And now she's trying really hard to rationalise her actions
during this week's reading it occurred to me that Cadence might use her magic on Vinyl and Glory, thinking it to be significant enough to actually go through with it despite the lesson she had just learned. Then I was kinda glad when she started thinking about it. Then it somehow at the end boiled down to "I'm gonna lock myself in a room with Vinyl so I can make out with her and mind control her." like wtf?!?! THAT's what she got from all of this? I thought for sure her first PROPER use of her magic was going to be mending a broken family, but nah. Let's kiss and mind control someone. Surely that's what it means to be the Princess of Love. This is the first time I've actually been disappointed in the direction of the story so far and I hope her garbage scheme doesn't come to fruition.
>Vinyl is moving on. Shining's dating his clone. Cadence will commit heinous crimes. Galea will puppeteer Equestria's government, and Grandma Satin may go to jail. Yay!
kek, I'm looking forward to next week

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>>41560071
>Kino
That was a nice subversion of expectations, yeah. Addressing your next point, I think the scene was supposed to be awkward. It's meant to feel not right (and Vinyl does mention that she also feels that something is off). Unlike you, though, I hope they work it out before the fic ends because they're cute together.
>Vinyl is immediately btfo by a real Equestrian (foal)
Which shows she's not really reformed, imo. I liked that, actually. The fic has been talking a lot about Vinyl still having the wrong state of mind, and here we're shown it in a big way.
>Wtf, drop her ass.
Yeah, absolutely.
>She did it wrong and has accepted that. I hope in the end it's her and Shining
I feel like we're going towards the Scratch ending and I like that direction, too. This Cadance had her chance to fix things and instead decided to make her last mistake worse.

>>41560101
>As I said I'm (now very tentatively) rooting for her.
No way lol. We'll see how it happens, but she plans to kind of rape Vinyl to make her stop dating her ex. No matter how she's justifying that to herself, she's not doing it from any moral high ground; she admitted that she wants Shining to accept her as her marefriend again.
>THIS Celestia is definitely... 'something'... enough to sit back and watch
She did warn her that she'll do this. She sees this as a learning opportunity for Cadance. And if her decision ruins lives or destabilizes Equestria's politics for years, so what? To this Celestia, teaching Cadance a lesson is way more important than any current concern, because they'll be seeing hundreds more of similar crises. Again, I don't really think it fits Celestia and I think she's wrong, but you can understand her logic.
>I hate how it happened and I do hope it's only temporary
They'll need to work it out properly once they've both calmed down, but I don't hope that they break up. Maybe it's because of his depiction here, but this Shining seems to be a much better match for Vinyl than this Cadance.

>>41560134
>I think it's kind of funny we stopped just as the plot kicks in.
I'd like to claim that I've planned this (down to character titles!) but it's really just a funny coincidence.
>Every time two characters are speaking, the story flows so nicely it just makes me feel comfy
Absolutely this. Comparing to Austraeoh (which has plenty of errors, too) makes this writing look quite bad, but the characters and their interactions are carrying it hard enough for me to mostly overlook the flaws. Only 'mostly', though; it is pretty terrible.
>why is Celestia just rolling with it?
See above, I think that's just her way of teaching Cadance. It does not matter how much damage it does as long as Cadance learns something in the end.
>And now she's trying really hard to rationalise her actions,
That's the worst part, yeah. She had a chance to do better, and instead doubled down super hard. I don't know what it'd take to make her and Shiny get back together at the end. Rip Twilight, too.

>>41560218
>(and Vinyl does mention that she also feels that something is off)
True. I had forgotten about that part but it did give me hope going forward.
>Which shows she's not really reformed, imo
Didn't you hear? Being reformed just means getting a job lmao. Agreed though
>Again, I don't really think it fits Celestia and I think she's wrong, but you can understand her logic.
I actually really like this mentality for the Alicorns. Celestia and Luna's first priority should always no matter what and without hesitation be each other, and to a slightly lesser extent the other alicorns. And it's because of exactly what you said. When you're immortal the present just flies by and the only constant in life is going to be the other immortals. Anything that happens to Equestria can be fixed in time, but something happening to the other immortals is potentially irreversible. That said, I don't think it's a very Equestrian view at all
> Maybe it's because of his depiction here, but this Shining seems to be a much better match for Vinyl than this Cadance.
Because he's still young and stupid ^:)
I'm glad we have people on both teams as usual though
>It does not matter how much damage it does as long as Cadance learns something in the end.
the kino mindset
>Rip Twilight, too.
That reminds me, I didn't like the part where Satin tertiarily implied Twilight Sparkle is the element of magic because of her. I guess she's more powerful than we could've thought.

>>41560180
>>41560218
You see, I understand why Celestia is okay with letting things unfold, but this is affecting her directly. This is giving Galea far too much control. You'd think she'd have a say in the matter. But it really is Cadence's first real decision, so I suppose it is important to let it play out.
Also, something I forgot to mention. I know it's Shining's dream to be a Guard, and he has loyalty to the institution, but I think it would've been funny if he'd just quit after learning of Grandma Satin's machinations and fucked off to be a cop in Manehattan.

>>41560253
>Celestia and Luna's first priority should always no matter what and without hesitation be each other
[Despairs in Electro Swing]

>>41560274
>Also, something I forgot to mention. I know it's Shining's dream to be a Guard, and he has loyalty to the institution, but I think it would've been funny if he'd just quit after learning of Grandma Satin's machinations and fucked off to be a cop in Manehattan.
That was interesting. I think this is first time Shining has been forced to choose between 'being a good pony' and something else he values, which in this case is his life-long dream of being a Royal Guard. So he actually has to put thought into if he wants to be a good pony or have a good life, both of which would be lessened by not choosing the other option. And interestingly enough he didn't choose 'be a good pony' which has been his answer to most if not all of his decision making so far. Maybe Vinyl is just a bad influence ^>:)

>>41560275
Fuck wtf does that mean, I'm definitely reading that at some point and I didn't think they had anything to do with it.

>>41560286
>I'm definitely reading that at some point
Well, what's stopping you?

>>41560340
Me.

>>41560401
Don't think so highly of yourself. It's not you that's stopping him. It's me.

>>41560286
Celestia wants Luna to be happy but she's out of touch with others on even an emotional level and is even willing to ruin any of her own potential happiness for the sake of The Plan

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>>41560487
Reading this is bringing back some emotions

>read a fic that seems kinda borderline fetishy but decently written
>check author's profile
>huge amount of fics in the same vein
>still not sure if he's got a fetish for this or not

>>41560175
Oh, I was wrong, I have seen that fic before. But the fact that I managed to forgot about it just reaffirms my point.

Exquisite corpse chapter completion dates so far:

xTSGx, 6 June (3 days)
Polychromatic, 8 June (2 days)
Kassaz, 18 June (10 days)
Zaid ValRoa, 24 June (6 days)
Math Spook, 1 July (7 days)
Etyco Filly, 19 July (18 days)
Not That Anon, 7 August (19 days)
Jinxed, 9 August (2 days)
Gold Meddle, 20 September (6x9 days)
Captain Neckbeard, 8 October (18 days)
Odd_Sarge, 11 October (3 days)
Reviewfilly, 12 October (1 (one!) day)
xTSGx II: Electric Boogaloo, 20 October+ (8+ days)

If you're having trouble fitting everything into 3k words, I'm sure we could relax that limit for the grand finale, since you're already getting double the space as everyone else.

>>41561000
I need to actually watch This Is Spinal Tap at some point.

>>41561000
Checked. I hope this is the last one of these.
>>41561015
Good idea. You should do that instead of finishing the corpse.

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>>41560030
I've been sick the last few days, so I don't have it in me to give my usual million-word writeup about this weeks fic.
As usual, Vinyl is completely in the moral right. The whole thing with Lily was very idyllic; she had a good life with a family who loved her, and then she totally accepts Glory as her mother and forgives her without any kind of emotional conflict with her family. Glory is welcomed by Cedar, reconciles with her trauma, and gets the happy ending she didn't deserve. Et cetera, et cetera. There goes any hope of Glory taking responsibility for her actions (incidentally, that bit she throws in later about being sick of being blamed for everything was very ironic). I sympathise with Vinyl for finally giving up on Glory at that point, as it was clear that Glory would continue to prioritise her own emotional satisfaction over Vinyl.
So yeah, the Ponyville bit was good, but the author then tries to invent new, contrived drama to replace it. Galea, who was initially just the hardass trying to prove herself, orchestrates a coup against the government? She's just the police chief, and for all any third party tries to assure the reader of her loyalty to the crown, she sure steps on the Princesses' hooves to consolidate power. Like some anon said last week, the author writes in certain characters just to be hateable antagonists, and Galea is definitely one. She's got conflicting characterisation and motivations because she NEEDS to be the bad guy in every situation. There's a bit at the end where she schemes about how to get rid of Shining, since he's incapable of rehabilitating Vinyl. According to Shining, the rules say that Vinyl is technically already rehabilitated by virtue of having a job. She also notes that Shining would get in trouble if he were to start a relationship with Vinyl after his assignment ends, when this is already explicitly said to be fine. And why the hell is Intrepid now some spymaster plotting against Vinyl and Shining instead of the sympathetic, broken veteran from earlier? The overall writing quality, both grammar and plot-wise, seemed to backslide as we got further through this week's reading.

>>41560030
>I don't think this... almost callous level of ruthless management of Equestria suits her at all
I think the idea's to let Cadance crash and burn, and learn from the experience. If Cadance weren't in the picture, Celestia would shut down Galea's shit before it even began.
>To be fair, she did go too far this week
never ever, she didn't do a single thing wrong this week
>>41560071
>>Its ok to hate your mom forever btw
Someone needed to say it. Kids will say they forgive someone just because it's the right thing to do, without actually thinking about it.
>>cadence letting galea bully the crown to let her and satin go
>Wtf, drop her ass. The crown does whatever it wants. Cadence should make her first action as a diarch to uninstall galea lmao
This, so much this.
>Soarin talking about fucking either Shining or his mom in front of BOTH of them at the same time
>Glory staring at Velvet's ass as she walks away
>Cadance reading about "extend orgasms for hours" magic
What the fuck was this horny shit in my T-rated fimfic?
>>41560101
>I forgot to mention in my post, but I'm pretty sure errors have significantly increased this week.
I noticed this as well.
>>41560134
>You know, while Celestia is partly to blame for giving Cadance bad advice, Cadance really tried to minimise her own mistakes.
The government will fall apart and everypony will blame Cadance. Cadance will repeat her mistakes and then go crying to Celestia for comfort. Then, Celestia can finally start making moves on her niece while she's at her most vulnerable. All according to plan.

>>41561215
>And why the hell is Intrepid now some spymaster plotting against Vinyl and Shining
That wasn't Intrepid. This is a spy that had one scene like a dozen chapters ago, coming out of Galea's office. He's called "Intrigue". Kind of dumb to give two similar looking ponies similar sounding names.

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>>41560253
>Being reformed just means getting a job lmao.
Makes sense that a cold government would see it that way. If the parasitic criminal turns into a working drone then the job's done.
>Anything that happens to Equestria can be fixed in time, but something happening to the other immortals is potentially irreversible.
In general, yes, I agree with both the idea and the logic behind it, but not stopping her when things are going bad is where it kind of stretches believability for me. She should've stopped her before things started going to shit.
>implied Twilight Sparkle is the element of magic because of her
Granny literally set the entire FiM; she made it so Shiny dated Cadance and Twilight got Celly as a mentor. And then she jobbed to a guard lmao.

>>41560274
>I suppose it is important to let it play out.
You might be right, but to me it's way past the point where the long-term consequences are already too damaging. Then again, for an alicorn ruler, a few decades is probably next to nothing, or so the fic implies. It's a subjective headcanon choice, but I'm not too fond of making the Princesses feel so distant. FiM's Celestia literally never acted like that's the case.

>>41561215
>Vinyl is completely in the moral right
Not really. Not at all, even. There's a world of difference between your actions being justified (which hers 100% are) and being 'in the right'. Glory acting the way she does impacts Vinyl, but Vinyl should strive to be the bigger mare instead of casting her aside like this. She's her family, too, and I hope uncle Based talks some sense into her. Unlike Night Light, Glory is not acting maliciously. Shiny put it well for the most part, and it goes doubly true for Equestria.
>she sure steps on the Princesses' hooves to consolidate power
Galea I think is what you say she is (an antagonist the fic needed), but it's not like she's inconsistent. She wants Order in Canterlot, at all costs. Backroom deals and browbeating the Princesses into compliance are both OK in her book as long as it ends with making Canterlot more orderly. But yeah, she's kind of an antagonist for the sake of needing one. I've read another fic from this author and it had the same thing going on with the world's worst&dumbest Judas character in a zombie apocalypse.

>>41561261
>idea's to let Cadance crash and burn
Yeah, and I question letting her 'crash and burn' as a lesson. Surely stopping things before the disaster would work almost as well.
>she didn't do a single thing wrong this week
Nonsense. Acting like a spiteful bitch and telling kids it's okay to hate people is 100% in the wrong, even with her justifications. Vinyl should be trying to look for a better solution than attacking ponies and shutting Glory out. It's also supremely non-FiM.
>horny shit in my T-rated
There wasn't much of it, but it was pretty odd to see it brought up for no reason. At least when Shiny's marefriend called him a virgin it was funny.
>All according to plan.
At last I see.

>>41560218
>but this Shining seems to be a much better match for Vinyl than this Cadance.
It seems like Cadance is set up as the conventional "perfect" match (both kind-hearted with moral integrity, both have positions of authority, Shining's fortitude stabilises Cadance's passion, &c), but Vinyl is the subversive and unexpected match. It's like the rough commoner showing the uptight and narrow-minded noble "what it really means to live" or some trite shit like that. I still like the way it's done here.
>I don't know what it'd take to make her and Shiny get back together at the end.
Within the world of this fic, it goes against fate. I don't think it'll happen, and even if it does, it'll be some sort of consolation prize after Shining and Vinyl are forced apart due to some circumstance.
>Celestia and Luna's first priority should always no matter what and without hesitation be each other
If this were true, Celestia would have allowed NMM to rampage around in the hope of reforming her in the short term, regardless of how much damage she caused to Equestria. I think Celestia's motivation toward prioritising Cadance's learning is more that it will benefit Equestria in the long term, rather than having Candance learn a lesson be valuable in and of itself.

>>41561316
forgot a (You) >>41560253
>>41561308
>FiM's Celestia literally never acted like that's the case.
I agree here. In the show, Celestia's consistently shown to care not only about Equestria as a whole, but about the well-being of individual ponies. She's also the kind of all-knowing mastermind who wouldn't be forced into choosing between either option; she can have her cake and eat it too. Flawed Celestia is interesting to read about, but it seems like any other Celestia wouldn't fit into the story cleanly, anyway.
>>41561308
>Glory is not acting maliciously.
Glory is acting self-centeredly and only cares about her own little story having a happy ending, no matter whether it was earned or not. Granted, Vinyl up until now hasn't been much more altruistic, either, but at least Vinyl accepts responsibility for her own problems and position in life. Being in the right and being morally justified (assuming some external moral system to justify yourself) are synonymous. Vinyl's under no obligation to take more shit from Glory under the pretense of "being the bigger mare". Do you know what it would take for Vinyl to reconcile with Glory? Vinyl would need to say "Yes, Glory, it's my fault that you abandoned your foal". Glory clearly won't accept anything less than Vinyl taking responsibility, at least partially. It's completely delusional on Glory's part.
Would Vinyl be happier in the long run if she just took this shit now and let it be done with? Yeah, maybe. Happiness isn't the ultimate goal, though; forcing Vinyl to take responsibility would be unjust, even for the sake of greater happiness.
> She wants Order in Canterlot, at all costs
That's a good way to look at Galea's motivations. From that perspective, her actions make more sense to me. However, this also implies her loyalty to the princesses is secondary to her drive for order, which is all the more reason to remove her from office. She'd depose the princesses and form a police state if she could.
>telling kids it's okay to hate people is 100% in the wrong
Saying that you don't need to forgive someone even if they ask for it is true. Yeah, the kid is 6 and maybe it's too early for the kid to learn the lesson, but it's likely the last time Vinyl would see her, anyway. You can't tell me you weren't disgusted at that description of Glory playing with the foals while Vinyl and Cedar watched. Glory forgave HERSELF of her actions by extracting forgiveness out of a little 6-year-old foal who didn't even know she was adopted until earlier that day. What was she going to do, refuse?

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>>41561316
>after Shining and Vinyl are forced apart due to some circumstance
Hi anon! I mindraped your marefriend and broke your relationship with her so we can be together again!

>>41561383
>You can't tell me you weren't disgusted at that description of Glory playing with the foals
Oh yeah, definitely. Glory is easily the "worst" character in the fic because unlike Galea or Satin, she acts like she's in the right all the time. There are similarities to Cadance's situation (as multiple anons pointed out) except that Glory's martyrdom act is so repulsive because ultimately she only does it to make herself feel better. It wasn't about Lily, at least not until now. Vinyl calls her out on her bullshit multiple times and gets ignored.
>Vinyl would need to say "Yes, Glory, it's my fault that you abandoned your foal"
As you said, Glory complaining about being blamed for everything was pretty gross. I still think Vinyl should do something like this. For the sake of their family—they were a good family once and Glory isn't a bad pony—but even just for her own sake. And to reiterate, for me the difference between 'right' and 'morally justified' is that the latter is the least you have to do to avoid making any unethical or otherwise evil decisions, and the former is the desire to do what is good. Vinyl isn't trying very hard here. Yes, she has a lot of reasons to not try and it'd be "unjust" but she should still do that. For family and even, as you pointed out, her own happiness. She'll be glad she did, and that's exactly why Shining Armor tries to nudge her towards that path without forcing her.

Is ponepaste down for anyone else at the moment?

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>>41561215
>Galea, who was initially just the hardass trying to prove herself
I mean she fucks over the nobles and gives more power to the princesses, just so happens that she becomes the 3rd most powerful pony ^:)
>Like some anon said last week, the author writes in certain characters just to be hateable antagonists, and Galea is definitely one
Yeah she, Satin and even Cadence drew some short straws
>Intrepid
Oh yeah no one talked about that lol. To be fair this was his way of coping with what Cadence did to him and scratch. But it's also psycho that Galea just knows every conversation Shining and Scratch have had thanks to glowniggers
>>41561261
>If Cadance weren't in the picture, Celestia would shut down Galea's shit before it even began.
for sure
>Kids will say they forgive someone just because it's the right thing to do, without actually thinking about it.
and that's based as hell in Equestria at least
>What the fuck was this horny shit in my T-rated fimfic?
the stage was set in week 1-2 when scratch touches shining's cock out of fucking nowhere. At least we all know Velvet IS a milf so it isn't as out of the blue
>The government will fall apart and everypony will blame Cadance.
even tho this is a meme, I don't think anybody except Galea knows it was Cadence's decision and no matter what her decision is, Celestia is backing her on it.

>>41561290
wait no way wtf kek I also thought it was intrepid

>>41561308
>but not stopping her when things are going bad is where it kind of stretches believability for me. She should've stopped her before things started going to shit.
but nothing has gone bad, the government itself doesn't matter in the slightest and neither really does a mortal relationship. It's all just learning opportunities
>And then she jobbed to a guard lmao.
Imagine scheming to remove all nobles except for herself and not knowing that with less than 100 nobles the government can't work kek. Unless that was Galea's plan and she just kept Satin out of it from some form of loyalty to her
>FiM's Celestia literally never acted like that's the case.
But she has Luna ^:)
>Glory is not acting maliciously.
This honestly. Vinyl and Glimfag just want to see her suffer because of what she's done. What could Glory even do to get them to finally not hate her? Who knows
>She wants Order in Canterlot, at all costs
picrel

>>41561383
>this also implies her loyalty to the princesses is secondary to her drive for order, which is all the more reason to remove her from office
ye

>>41561433
>I mindraped your marefriend and broke your relationship with her so we can be together again!
based, might as well use those powers you got
>For the sake of their family
No one is doing anything for the sake of the family, and that might be the problem

>>41561451
Yeah.

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>>41561308
Hey, that's not Shiny!

>>41561582
Cute.
Would hypnotise and fill with eggs.

>>41561589
Does this mean that girl shining wants man cadence to still be smaller than her
Does she still jerk off to Twilight?

>>41561610
I'm sure part of her wants a big prince to dominate her.
The rest of her is a trained guard who would fight back.
Hot.

>>41561610
Everyone else is still a girl, Shining included.

>>41561666
Is Satan a girl, too?

>>41561669
Yes.

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>>41561672
Is she single?

>>41561733
She's mine.

>>41561748
Put your flutterflag back on.

>>41561582
Why is it that Shining Armare is so hot and perfect, but regular Stallion Armor isn't? I don't even dislike horsecock, but it's like everything cute and likeable about the mare version becomes either boring or irritating with the colt.

>>41561776
Shield Maiden*

Hey bro do you want this Twilight/Some Guy romance fic in the flavor of "Pony nobility disapproves of Some Guy knocking up Twilight" or "Shining Armor wants to kill the guy who knocked up Twilight".

There are no other flavors.

All the fimfic threads are so fast it's been nearly three months since I don't post anything here. I even stopped pinning the new threads since then.

>>41561793
Is the latter happening because he's an overprotective big brother, or because he wants to romance Twilight himself?

>>41561797
If it's a Twilight/Some Guy fic it's never incest. I'd say sorry, but I'm not.

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>>41561799
You will be.

>>41561806
No I won't.

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>>41561610
>smaller
What an astoundingly awful suggestion. Only Artemis should be a twink alicorn.
>>41561639
>fighting back
She would be demolished so gently.

>>41561816
Imagine how hard male Chrisalys pounded shields tight orifices.

>>41561433
>I mindraped your marefriend and broke your relationship with her so we can be together again!
Thank you so much, best princess! I love being manipulated and having my relationships be subverted! Please let me put foals inside you!
>I still think Vinyl should do something like this.
>for me the difference between 'right' and 'morally justified' is...
That's an interesting way to relate morals to justness. I think in general, I'd be inclined to agree that what's "just" isn't necessarily morally right or positive, but can simply be neutral. However, in this particular situation I'd go so far as to say that Vinyl accepting responsibility for Glory would be morally impermissible (wrong), and not merely neutral.
As you say, though, it's important to consider the impact of Vinyl's decisions on her family. I wasn't really considering that too closely, and I guess I have to relent. Vinyl does have some responsibilities to her family, Uncle B if nopony else, and should be doing more to maintain her relationships. This does NOT mean she gives in to Glory, though. Just that she doesn't give up on her.
>>41561467
>spoiler
Maybe in the show's Equestria, but not this one, where infant foals are abandoned in different towns on rainy nights by single mothers.
>Velvet IS a milf
True, better than reading about Shining's morning wood
>Vinyl and Glimfag just want to see her suffer because of what she's done.
She does deserve to suffer, actually. And none of this half-assed "woe is me, I'm a downtrodden victim of circumstance, betrayed by my sister" bullshit, but some actual "I fucked up and now I have to pay the consequences, and even then there's nothing I can do to rectify the situation".
>What could Glory even do to get them to finally not hate her? Who knows
Have Glory actually accept responsibility for abandoning her foal instead of rationalising it out and blaming others. This, however, seems like too much to ask.

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>>41561825
No. Why would I imagine that?

>>41561825
Chrysalis still female.

>>41561856
Across all possible worlds, the one constant is Chrysalis's penis.

>>41561467
>Imagine scheming to remove all nobles except for herself and not knowing that with less than 100 nobles the government can't work kek. Unless that was Galea's plan and she just kept Satin out of it from some form of loyalty to her
This raises the question of why Galea spared Satin at all, if she were just going to immediately remove her from power, anyway. The fact that she does that means that Satin's blackmail must have lost its power once Galea became captain and removed the nobles. I've though about some scenarios, and one that makes sense to me regarding possible blackmail is:
>Satin finds out Galea is investigating the nobles, including her
>Threatens to tell nobles unless Galea spares her from investigation
>Satin thinks she's big-brained and is removing rivals from power
>Can either use influence with the princesses or get the other nobles on her side to check Galea
>Galea ends up removing 3/4 of the nobles, dissolves the house like a boss
>Satin's formal power and blackmail both go down the drain, princesses do nothing
>Galea stays winning

>>41561861
>Can either use influence with the princesses or get the other nobles on her side to check Galea
Maybe that's why she was so mad Shining broke up with Cadence.
If Lovebutt isn't her grandaughter in law, anymore, she has less pull to use in her favour.

>>41561861
Ah this guy might be onto something >>41561871 She expected the dissolution of noble government and expected to be 'in' with both princesses and Galea easily making her the 4th most powerful and more importantly, lowering all the other nobles who don't have such powerful connections

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>>41561582
Why do you think I put "pretty" in the pic's name? Of all the things that I am, gay is not one of those.
And since I'm already speaking with the authority of an expert on what isn't gay: R63 isn't, Futa is, and magical TF depends on implementation details.

>>41561816
I never saw R63 Cady before and now I understand I should've been glad for that. Dear Celestia, what an abomination.

>>41561861
>>Can either use influence with the princesses
Yeah, that makes the most sense to me, too. Her plan relied on Cadance and that fell apart when Shining broke up with the toy princess. Destroying the highest institution of power that you're also a part of makes no sense if you don't have a way out that ends with you having more influence.

>>41550941
I want to make a pony story with OCs and loosely based on G4 but with completely new stuff, how do I do that without making it completely terrible? Or I guess I should be asking what kind of things should I be doing that most people would like. I haven't written any pony fiction yet but I've read lots of fimficton stories and I wanna make something now. Please help me out

>>41562086
>how do I do that without making it completely terrible
Git gud

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>>41562086
Read all-OC fics and recognize how they capture the essence of FiM to be good. A good example is Cartography of War. An amateur example is Cypress Zero. An example of what not to do is H A Z E.

>>41562086
I guess the first question is why not do your own original setting at that point.

>>41562086
>loosely based on G4 but with completely new stuff
What do you mean by this?

>>41562109
>H A Z E.
Which one is that?

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>>41562154
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/523751/h-a-z-e

>>41562154
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/523751/h-a-z-e

>>41562160
>jaxie and daOtterGuy first in 'also liked'
I know it's not an honest way of judging fics, but that makes the story look very bad.

>>41562086
>loosely based on G4 but with completely new stuff
What I think this means is that you like G4, but you want characters and a setting that are different, but it should still feel G4-ish. You are stuck: If it's too different from G4, then it's original fiction, not fanfiction, and if it's too similar, then it's not what you say you want. Really the important thing is to figure out what kind of story you want to tell first.
>Or I guess I should be asking what kind of things should I be doing that most people would like
AiE porn. You think I'm joking, but I'm not. You'll go straight to the sinbox.

>>41562160
>>41562164
Oh, duh. No wonder I couldn't find it.
>>41562166
Who's the otter?

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>>41562166
>Dishonest
What? The "Also liked" column is a better test than the fic's vote bar, for fics that have lots of likes. It's only "dishonest" if you use it as the only metric or something foolish like that.

Other than the CMC's newspaper is there like a canon or semi-canon name for the newspaper in ponyville

>>41562166
Jaxie is on a whole other level of bad than OG. Also, fwiw, the club read a fic by that author and found it at least competently written.

>>41562190
Equestria has no real journalism because it is a utopia.