Come one and all to the meta-writefag and help raise the quality of MLP fanfiction! Featuring: Autogynephiles!ITT: The only way to go is up, British versus American spell checking, renaming the thread, Anon is a genius, Anon tries writing, this fandom has so many great clopfics, Celestia sends Twilight to pound town, cryptid princesses, you're allowed in the thread if you're not gay and have sucked enough dicks, asexual blowjobs, messy outlines, Thomas the Tank Engine crossovers, wholesome foalcon transformation, it is morally wrong to resist ponies, Anon can't write the last scene, blue coats mean big cocks, finishing Jinglemas fics, named spells, this place has been dreadfully heterosexual as of late, Twi'lyeh, jacking off to gay guys is straight and jacking off to lesbians is gay, is anybody baking?>/fimfic/ Secret Book ClubThe eighty-sixth book is 'Kindness's Reward':https://www.fimfiction.net/story/5764/kindnesss-rewardIf (You) want to participate, read the entire story by the 29th.On Sunday we'll discuss what we've read.>Recommended stories:Tired of authors inserting their fetishes out of nowhere? Fed up with blueball endings? Well, we've compiled the best of the worst in order to bring you our absolute average!New Starter Kit - http://mlpficreviews.org.uk/starter/Old Starter Kit - http://i.imgur.com/vuTA7EN.png>Common fic abbreviations used by the thread:https://ponepaste.org/7317>A list of reviews made by the Anons in this thread:http://www.mlpficreviews.org.ukUse the commands ">review <story link>" and ">discuss <story link>" to add reviews to a story.Userscript for extra features: https://ponepaste.org/8619>An in-depth writing guide for beginners:https://eznguide.neocities.org/>Can you pre-read my story?Post it on Google Docs or HackMD with comments enabled and give us a link.>Additional material for authors:Rhorse's Horse Behavioral Notes - https://ponepaste.org/932Politics and the English Language - https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/Fluffy Pancake Recipe - https://recipesbycarina.com/pancake-recipe/Vhatug's tips for anatomically correct clop - https://poneb.in/g4VpEg4fSetting a story in motion - https://youtu.be/ufO8LbwTdu0Taking criticism - https://youtu.be/-v4R2ZcxPlA>Various reviews and riffs:Fillyanon's Bookshelf - https://ponepaste.org/5555Notkickass222urmom's Reviews - https://pastebin.com/u/notkickass222urmomIHeartShinzakura's Reviews - https://ponepaste.org/user/IHeartShinzakuraAppleanon reads fics - https://poneb.in/wmGX7FPmDeluxe Big Master Review List - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z9Bz7UnEbxo-svlXa2tV49PJkP-yFuR7pRXiBUn-IeUA Guide to Rational Fics - https://files.catbox.moe/3jzrfm.pngThe Royal Canterlot Library's Top 16 Fanfics - https://royalcanterlotlibrary.net/top16/Previous Thread: >>41751638
Anyone reading any Jinglemas fics?
>>41769941Nah, too busy finishing mine.
>>41769941Same as >>41769957, I'm still writing mine.
>>41769962We're gonna make it, Anon.I still need to write 3 and a half scenes, but I'm optimistic.
>>41769996I only need one more scene to finish the draft, but proofreading/editing thousands of words takes time, too. Good luck, I hope you're right.
>>41769941Unfortunately not. But nothing screams Christmas like 155K words worth of BDSM cloppery, right?
>wholesome inanimate tf comedy fic titled "Be Yourshelf">>41770038Moonstone?
You know, it's kind of funny that Dexter Ward is the only novel Lovecraft actually published yet it's essentially a deep cut in terms of knowledge of its contents. Mountains was unreleased yet it's a hundred times more popular, and no one really thinks magic necromancy and verbal spells when they think Lovecraft.
>>41770098>Moonstone?Exactly right. I'm about halfway through at the moment. Not very convincing on the 'story' and 'character' side of things, but it's hot if you're into that.Not the most appropriate fic to be mentioning an hour into Boxing Day but there it is
10th for best duo!Enjoy this conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/547936/a-gifts-meaning
I forget, with current rules are you allowed to do a chapter that's less than 1k words if the total fic is more than 1k words?
>>41770311Yuh:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/540086/a-canterlot-gala
>>41770314Got it. Was always confused on that point.
Would a fic about Luna and Cozy Glow (in her dreams) debating the ethics of Luna using magic to basically lobotomize out the parts of her that make her a psychopath be a weird fic
>>41770383Yes. I need to read it now.
>>41770383Yes, but weirdness is not even in the top 10 reasons you shouldn't write a rationalfic.
>>41770394It's not exactly rational, I wasn't going that angle More just kind of thinking over the entire situation with Luna's redemption in the first place but not wanting to commit to a full fic on it.
>>41770383Hot. Drenched in miserable holier than thou fixfic nonsense, but hot.
>>41770432I like fixfic, sometimes.
>>41770495And I like the morally rotten self destruction of those who expose their own mental undoing online, but I understand it's wrong.
>>41769939HiEfags... I kneel...https://www.fimfiction.net/story/569772/my-little-human
>>41770573
>>41770610The three horsemen....
>>41770819yes
>>41770610Eh, I'm out
How would /fimfic/ anons feel about creating a print anthology of shortfics written by thread authors? This is an idea I've been playing around with for several weeks now, and it feels like the time is right to broach the subject. I'd like to take submissions from anons of their shortfics (probably less than about 10k words) and put them together in a book using an online print-on-demand service, basically. Imagine a little paperback of a hundred or two pages, filled with (You)r stories alongside those of other /fimfic/ authors. Imagine (You)r pony stories sitting on someone's bookshelf! There have been similar anthology projects done before on other boards (namely /lit/) that have been successful, such as "&" and "A Short Fiction Anthology". I've actually ordered a copy of the latter from the printing service I'm looking at (Lulu) and was quite pleased with their print quality. To be clear, this would NOT be for profit; I'd make a free PDF version available and set profit margins from any online printing service to $0. It would just be fun to have some of /fimfic/'s horsewords in a physical medium. I've also been thinking of distributing print copies at next year's Mare Fair (again for non-profit, with either a $0 profit margin or with all profits going to whatever charity the con picks) because there's been consistent demand for printed fanfics since the last con. It would be a neat way to spread the good horseword to other anons and possibly create more interest in writing on the board. You'd have the freedom to publish without content restrictions; I want this to be a reflection of the full array of talents in this thread. From speaking with off-board anons who've done some of these projects, the limiting factor to these projects tends to be the number of submissions, so the last thing I want to do is hold anyone back. I'm very confident I can pull off a project like this; I just want to know whether anons here would be supportive and willing to submit their stories.
>>41770908I'd like that.
>>41770908I accept, with the stipulation that the first story is a Bleedin' fic.
>>41770908Existing fics or ones written specifically for this? Either way I'm game.
>>41770908I would like this.It would need a good name. After careful deliberation, taking into account the thread regulars, our usual topics of conversation, our writing habits, and our collective strengths and weaknesses, I suggest:>A Gay Orgy
>>41770908I've thought about that kind of thing, yeah. All of my stories are licensed to allow exact copies to be redistributed, even for profit. Would the kind of stuff I write be welcome?
>>41771062When has being unwelcome ever stopped any of us?
>>41771072When encountering locked doors, usually.
>>41771072Good point.
It seems like the idea has had a good reception! I'm glad you anons are excited, cuz I am too. I probably should have used a tripcode initially, but oh well.>>41770970Existing fics ideally. The initial idea was to do a "year-in-review" sort of deal, taking stuff published by anons just in the year 2024; but I think as a proof of concept it would be best to keep the window as wide as possible and open it to everything published before 2025. Hear that? Your Jinglemas fics will be eligible.>>41771056>nameA name I like is the "High Horse", given a 19th-century "opium den" sort of theme and an addict mare mascot. We're all kind of high on our own farts anyway, right? I'd prefer to keep the name somewhat classy, but if anyone else has ideas, feel free to share! >>41771062I definitely want to stay away from selling for profit in favour of maximising accessibility. It also makes avoiding copyright issues slightly easier. Really anything reasonably short should be fine, as long as there's good variety in what you submit. I don't want four different pregnant clopfics, but one is probably OK.The way I'll take submissions is probably by having the author of a fic message a throwaway account on fimfiction.net, so I can verify that the submitter is indeed the author of whatever fic they're trying to submit. As above, though, feel free to make suggestions if you have any alternative ideas!
>>41770383>be a weird ficYes, but not necessarily bad. The difficulty of doing a serious ethical debate fic in that vein is Luna's having the debate with a child. There's a reason doctors don't just discuss complex and life altering medical procedures with the child patient and instead include the parents or guardian. >Luna using magic to basically lobotomizeWe talking an actual lobotomy or some kind of magic BS like a memory wipe or personality-altering mind control? I like the later a lot more than the former since it presents way more interesting questions than a normal lobotomy would.>>41770432It would only turn into full-blown Cozy apologia if anon started diving into the parental abuse angle or "she couldn't help herself" nonsense.>>41770908I'm fine with it.>>41771123>keep the window as wide as possibleGood, because i only have an excerpt from the archmage fic published this year.
>>41771123Building on the idea of English idioms, we could have:>Horsewords of a different color>Looking gift horsewords in the mouth>Hold your horsewords>You can lead a mare to words, but you can't make her readFor a clop-focused volume,>Trojan HorsewordsAnd if (somehow) we ended up with a lot of drugged clopping horses,>Get Off Your High Horse
>>41771160That last one should be saved for a Tree hugger clop anthology.I like "Hold your horsewords".
>>41771177Well, I guess it's decided.
>>41771160>Trojan HorsewordsI'm assuming Kaz will be barred from that one.
>>417709083 days after the first books ship I'd expect somebody to post a pic of it covered in cum in the thread
>>41770908>>41771123That sounds like a great idea for stroking our egos if nothing else. Count me in!>High HorseI like that one. It's silly, but it also carries just enough pretentiousness.>>41771160>Hold your horsewordsThis one's pretty good, too.
>>41771156I wasn't talking about the apogolligia kind of dumbness, but rather the "Elements lobotomized Luna" kind. It's a stupid concept parroted by people incapable of conceiving of a fantasy setting with an objectively benign force.
Fun Fact: Star constellations change over time and space. By explicitly naming and showing Ursa Major, Orion the Hunter, Ursa Minor, Canis Major and Canis Minor, G4 confirmed that the setting takes place around the same millennium and coordinates as Earth in the 2000s
>>41771847Well yeah, EQG exists. But also>assuming the stars work like on Earth in a setting where a horse moves the Sun
>>41771123What are the length requirements? Also like I kind of dread this because there's one objectively correct choice out of my library I have to pick.
>>41771855Throughout the series, most of the stars are Fixed Stars, except for "the stars that aid in her escape" of Nightmare Moon.
>>41771884Again, assumptions.
>>41770138>Mountains was unreleased??? Like most of his works, it was serialized in the pulp magazines in his lifetime.
>>41770819So is pony over real picture, but I did it anyway.
>>41771123>>41770970I'd not mind that.
>>41772014Five years after its original pitch and subsequent rejection, and just a year before his death, but yeah, I should have said "originally" and "as a novel". Incidentally, if I remember right, that rejection pushed him into a period of intense self critique during which he literally burned most of the stuff he wrote because he didn't find it good enough.
>>41772027I'd not mind your ass on my face, kplsthanx.
>>41772061Faggot.
>>41772063Is that a compliment?
>>41772122Do they overlap in themes?
>>41771847>By explicitly naming and showing Ursa Major, Orion the Hunter, Ursa Minor, Canis Major and Canis Minor, G4 confirmed that the setting takes place around the same millennium and coordinates as Earth in the 2000sNo it didn't. There's thousands of years where they would be the same.
>>41772264The Greeks aren't real.
>>41772274Then why is everyone ITT as gay as them?
Well, it looks like I'll be moving forward with the project! Expect some more news in the coming weeks about submission logistics, names, and other details as I actually get serious about this. >>41771160>Trojan Horse>Gift Horse's Mouth>Hold Your HorsewordsThese are all great suggestions! I like Trojan Horse for clopfics in particular; it might even be included as its own sub-heading in a larger work. >>41771785>ego strokingThere'll be plenty of that, don't worry. >>41771860Given we probably have a dozen or so regular posters (maybe that's wildly inaccurate), I'll probably accept multiple submissions. There's also not a hard-and-fast rule on length; it all depends on how many words we can fit into so many pages while keeping costs down.
>>41772289>we probably have a dozen or so regular postersThat's how many participated in the corpse. I'm sure more people would be willing to throw a one-shot into the mix for this.
>>41771842I mean it's more the fact that Luna's allowed to get purged of her dark self and continue on but when someone would be asking to have the same thing happen to them that'd suddenly be unfair.
>>41772429>allowedWhat?>asking for itIf she's asking to be lobotomized, there's nothing to discuss except that it's OOC for her to do that.NMM didn't ask to get rainbowed. She was going to kill everypony with eternal night, and got Imprisoned for it. Then, the prison failed, and then the ponies needed another survival solution. From Twilight's perspective, the EoH were going to kill NMM when she fired them, there was no way for her to know they had in betweenoptions. You could also argue that Luna killed herself to become NMM, the EoH killed NMM and unkilled Luna when it undid the transformation. In any case, there's no substantial angle there to extract a moral debate.Lster, there is the NMM timeline in which the ponies generally don't die, which makes her banishment not quite so 100% trivially justified, but it is still mostly justified in several ways.
>>41772470>NMM didn't ask to get rainbowedSo then wouldn't someone asking for it to happen to them be better
>>41772429>>41772474Cozy was Rainbowed. Triple rainbowed even. She's still a cunt. She's ontologically evil.
>>41772474Like I said, it's OOC for her to ask for it, just as it would be for Tirek or ChrysalisThere is a debate in there about killing her by lobotomy while leaving her body behind to serve the state, inhabited by a different pony. I'm on the side that she should just be killed, as in canon. But, at least that is not so cut and dry as to whether she is redeemable at all such that she would ask to be lobotomized.
>>41772482more likecuntologically evilamirite?
>>41772510But her cunny is so good.
>>41772470>She was going to kill everypony with eternal night,Terrible headcanon even by your standards. The fact that season 5 directly contradicts it as you mention isn't even the strongest counterargument. Not only does it make no sense for her to do that, it would go against what she wanted to do in the first place by going NMM. And if you assume it was all an unfortunate accident and she didn't *really* mean to, you're making one of the best stories in FiM shallow for no reason other than to further your dumb headcanon with no basis in the show.>You could also argue that Luna killed herself to become NMM, the EoH killed NMM and unkilled LunaYou could, and it would also be wrong. Look no further than what Luna herself does and says about the incident. NMM is also Luna. By treating them as two separate characters you're stripping her of a huge part of her backstory just to have your trivial good Luna headcanon, which is disrespectful to her character.
>>41772632You're entirely right but also you should know better than to keep arguing with him of all people. Especially when you should be working on you fic.
>>41770908>more circlejerkingWasn't the corpse enough?!
>>41772632NMM was not smart in the premiere. It does make sense for her to do things out of line with her stated goals.Also, I'm not making that argument. I'm saying it can be made and is relevant to that other discussion.As for explaining NMM's contradictory behavior in the premiere, I go with the explanation given in 9DD.
>>41772654Instead of a corpse, we just beat a dead horse.
>>41772654It's time to accept that we are a circlejerk general, nonny.
>>41772658>NMM was not smart in the premiereYou know MLP is a show and not a divine vision of a different universe and you can just accept the premiere had some garbage writing partly on account of being a season's worth of plot forcefully condensed into two episodes, right?
>>41772654>gathering the finest fiction known to man, the inspired gift from the heavens themselves delivered to the true ponyfans via the quills of the fine individu- the quills of the faggots posting itt>cirlejerking
>>41772632>S5>canon
>>41772732It's too strong of an argument since it's already S5, but it's definitely far more canon than the equivalent of a twitterpost by Faust. If something is not in the show it can still be a popular headcanon (batponies as a separate race), but it's automatically 100% not canon until the show confirms it.
>>41772732>Faust>Canon
>>41772654>waahh fandom dead, noone does new stuff>anon starts new thread project>waahh circlejerkwhat do you want?
>>41772654I truly don't understand the circlejerk accusation. What the fuck?We don't stick together because we're arrogant; we do it because, as some of the last enthusiasts of well-crafted proseᅳwith grammar that hasn't gone feral and themes that stretch beyond "Anon Fuck ponies"ᅳwe're practically an endangered species.It's not about superiority; it's about holding ourselves to a standard that, frankly, not everyone on this board can appreciate. Think of us as keepers of a fading art, an ancient guild dedicated to maintaining the flame of complex characters and coherent storylines. Without our little circle, huddled around our flickering candles of literary nuance, that flame would be snuffed out by a wave of greentexts and dime-a-dozen HiE retarded tropes.So no, it's not hubris when we come together to encourage each other. It's survival. It's duty. And if someone has to stand as the last defenders of FIMfiction's soul, well, we're willing to make that sacrifice.
I declare creative bankruptcy
>>41772834This, but also we are 100% superior.
>>41772732>>41772747Is it more interesting to have the "eternal night" be a metaphor for NMM's evil rule a la Faust, or to have actual eternal night like how it was shown in season 5, writing in some magical shit about how society survives off of moonlight or something? I'm seriously a bit of a faustard, but I think the literal approach would be better here. You could also avoid the necessity of NMM being retarted.
>>41772830>noone does new stuffThen what the fuck are we writing
>>41772834I enjoy facetious posts like this
>>41772841Yeah, literal eternal light is just so much cooler.
>>41772850When in doubt, take the cool option and work backwards.
>>41772834>enthusiasts ofᅳwith grammar thatWhat kind of messed-up dash is this? It's clearly too short to be an em-dash, but way too long for an en-dash. It also fucked up your line spacing, which is something that usually happens when you use a character from a non-standard set, such as this Japanese full-length space: <-It's here
>>41772850>worldbuilding autism kicking in here for a secondImagine magical crops that evolve to grow in moonlight and starlight. The world might be cooler, like perpetual spring/autumn, but doesn't necessarily need to be ice cold due to the aforementioned magical shit. Fuel for light and heat still becomes far more valuable. The phase of the moon would replace the day-night cycle, where activity slowly increases from the spare light and energy of the waxing moon while decreasing with the waning moon over the course of a whole month. >>41772855Maybe isolated groups try to create their own artificial suns, like a moonlight tower
>>41772830>what do you wantDo you even have to ask?
>>41772855Fallen London but it's a clockwork celestia...
>>41772874It's U+1173, "Hangul Jungseong Eu". Why it's here I can't begin to guess at.
>>41772874>It's hereOr not. Apparently 4chan converts them to regular spaces. 仕方がない (look at the spacing above this line)>>41772888 (checked)>random Korean letterFascinating.
>>41772880To take over, NMM would have to seal Celestia somewhere just like she was sealed. Maybe artificial suns are enabled by some way of reaching out to the sealed princess, and despite their necessity, operators are harshly punished by NMM.
>>41772893Seal her in the sun, duh.
>>41772893>artificial suns are enabled by some way of reaching out to the sealed princessVery cool! They're an esoteric art that's kept secret among solar cults. Where would NMM seal Celestia? Deep underground in the planet's core, or maybe send the sun so far away that it just appears as another star.
>>41772902I don't think that would work as well when the sun is never going to be raised. Not sure where else she could go though.
>>41772909We're presuming a round Equestria here, which doesn't gel well with the manual movement of the sun and moon in general. I do like the idea of the sun as a distant star though.
>>41772880>The world might be coolerAbout 20% cooler.
>>41772913A really interesting headcanon I read once is an infinite, flat Equestria that encompasses the entire (small) universe, and the sun and moon exist above it on a kind of skybox/firmament that's impossible to approach. Such a world would imply that the entire world experiences the same time simultaneously, and that when the sun or moon dip below the horizon, they're still infinitely far away from everything and can't collide with the infinite plane that is the world.
Cringest fic idea you want to do but probably never will?
>>41772694>You know MLP is a show and not a divine vision of a different universeNo, no people like him do not know that. Have you not been here to see them argue about FiO?
>>41772732>>41772841>NMM did not just intend to make eternal night>not JUST intendI.E. she did intend to bring about literal eternal night.
>>41773229Are you the anon which got extremely upset when his headcanons for FiO were dismantled by CelestAI satisfying values through friendship and ponies?
>>41773267What a fittingly empty and self-sucking post.
>>41773267Yes you're being gangstalked.
>>41770383dc comics did with and the arc was called identity crisis go wild anon cannot wait to read that wild take with pones
>>41773137Part of me has always wanted to write a spinoff of a famous fandom fic like Cupcakes or Fallout: Equestria just to say I did.
>>41773347I wanted to do a good rainbow dash taking down the rainbow factorybut then i realized I'd have to actually read rainbow factory.
>>41772845You've got Alzheimer, Anon.You've been writing the same story for the past several years.
>>41773137A self-insert.
I wrote Cadance for the first time for Jinglemas.Now I kinda want to drink eggnog until I pass out.
>>41773442I wish.
>>41773446Wholesome Cadance & SA fics are always nice to see. Good luck.I left a speculative +1 since the box is so tough this far into the Jinglemas.
>>41773461The alt pov fic and all the other side material in recent years have done an impressive job actually making the objectively garbage setting into something that works, even if it required retconning away one specific line in the original.
>>41773461I kinda dropped the idea behind it mostly because it ended up slightly too similar to another fic I'm doing.
You know. Thinking about it. It's kind of funny how SAO is pretty convincingly patient 0 of the Isekai wave, but also one of the least isekai isekai in terms of premise when you think about it.
>>41773529SAO was the FiO of anime.
>>41773529>SAOWhy did you do this to me, anon? I was content not thinking of it for a decade. It was the last of the few anime I watched before going full pony.
>>41773574I don't think it's possible to go more than a week without thinking of SAO if you at least sporadically check the sinbox. HiE fics are drenched in Isekai tropes and most of those tropes were, if not invented, certainly made mainstream by SAO. Which leads to this really funny situation where RPG mechanics abd other game like aspects have become a standard of stories that are actually purely fantasy in setting, all because they borrowed from a source but discarded its actual videogame setting.
>>41773137A warframe crossover.
>>41773607>I don't think it's possible to go more than a week without thinking of SAO if you at least sporadically check the sinbox. Oh no, it totally is. It's weird. I've seen that one big and EQG SAO crossover with a shield on its cover countless times, but skimming stuff like eqg and crossovers saved me from spending a single real thought on it. It auto-filtered itself. A lot of fics can be invisible like that. Seeing the abbreviation itt required just enough mental effort to remind me. The names were effectively gone from my brain for many years.But it's always good to remember things, and recognizing the source is an added benefit.
>>41773675>it's always good to remember thingsLemon approves of this message. DT does not.
People who can't conceive of a story being wrong when it states something should be barred from ever talking about media.
>>41773786What specific thing are you vague posting about?
>>41773787>3267
>>41773787Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
>>41773796Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?
>>41774238Wrong image?
>>41774251Oh, Right. Well, then, the optimal sleep schedule is no sleep.
>>41774246>newfag
>>41774260>woona's first act after returning from her banishment is to establish a chain of 24/7 diners with free refills
>>41773786This post has been entertaining me for a while now, but it is worth articulating another reason why it's so funny.The description of FiO specifically calls attention to the way in which it's lying, with the "it will be completely consensual." (Not that it could have been more clearly laid out that the coercion is the point of the story.) That you can't talk about the fic within the way it says it's lying is funny, but it's even more funny that the only way you can talk about the fic is by assuming CelestAI lies, cheats, and exhibits the vices of greed and laziness just like a human villain. Like it's somehow impossible to think about a paperclipper that makes paperclips, that's just too alien a concept.The coercion aspect of CelestAI is really low hanging fruit, there are lots of stories about it. Not being able to reach even that reminds me a lot of those kinds of fics that boil down to "what if Equestria was all gritty and 'realistic' just like Earth? Let's just have a regular old dog eat dog world, huh?" Now, this call is less of a slam dunk, but there already aren't many situations funnier than this. I wonder if you like to read EaW fics? That unhinged rant in >>41453031 certainly is frothing over how the setting doesn't allow for arriving in Equestria with hands like a proper vanilla HiE should.
Nightmare Moon Did Nothing Wrong.Luna stopped the nonsense of Discord, Chrysalis, Sombra and Tirek in her timeline. She also prevented her big sister with an eating disorder from consuming too much cake, which would have eventually caused her to explode like a supernova and thereby destroy Equestria.
>>41774344A truke of galactic proportions.
>>41772429>same thing happen to themIt's not the same thing, though. For one, Cozy's not been corrupted by dark magic and in a position to be purged of it. And two, Luna doesn't even have the ability to purge dark magic. Only the Elements do.>>41772470>If she's asking to be lobotomizedI still like the headcanon that NMM acted like an idiot in the pilot because Luna was tanking the run so she'd get fixed.>>41772841I like actual eternal night utterly fucking everything up. Luna's been corrupted by dark magic to make her deluded fantasy a reality. Her evil plan doesn't have to make sense and work. Bringing about total ruination as her obsessive desire kills everyone and she's left with a monkey's paw version of her wish for everyone to appreciate her night is a perfect morality tale of the dangers of the dark arts and trusting that they'll actually give you what you want.>>41773137Reverse final destination comedy fic. Anon gets sick of living in Equestria and tries to kill himself, but it's canon Equestria that's TV-Y rated, so every attempt leads to increasingly convoluted Rude Goldberg antics that save him and frame his suicide attempts as perfectly innocuous for the innocent, naive ponies around him as reality itself warps to stop him. Who wins? A stubborn, bitter anon or the E-rating?I don't know if I could ever bear to write an AiE fic, though.
Do you think it's possible for a fimfic to have a wide fandom impact like the old days? I'm talking about things like My Little Dashie, Past Sins, etc, where the stories inspire art, discussion, and enter the general fandom consciousness as something most fans would have at least heard of. I was thinking about how all the 'recent' successes that spread around are all audiovisual projects, such as the Infection AU stuff, Tamers, or EaW - all things that made some kind of broader impact. When I look at fimfics in recent years all I really see prospering are HiE fics, and even the best most notable fics outside of that stay within the fanfiction bubble. I suppose one of the big factors might be attention spans to sit down and commit to a long story, whereas with something visual it is very easy to engage with and get into in mere moments and see the appeal. Or maybe it's because a lot of people hang out in discords, and scrolling to see an image or click on video links/ memes is an easier, more accessible affair than following a link to read through a story. Similar principle content accessibility?What do you anons think?
Who Hangul Jungseong Eu (ᅳ) here?>cleanly integrates with surrounding text without awkward spacing >scales perfectly at any font size unlike virgin western dashes>no bloated width taking up precious space like some fatass punctuation mark>literally invented by divine King Sejong in 1443>part of an actual alphabet system>no debate about spaces around it unlike western dash autism>takes less memory to store>markdown parsers can't mess it upReject modernity—Embraceᅳ
>>41774651Unicode brings ruination.--Hyphen Stacker Union
>>41774644First mover advantage in an unsaturated, exponentially expanding consumer base can't be repeated with the present day brony fandom, which now resembles a post-peak, decaying fad since 2013-2014 S3.Only a new franchise, language market or medium can offer the necessary environment for a fic to have the same broad impact as in OG FiM.
>>41774644Nah. Those days are past. It sucks but it is what it is.
>>41774644Literally all that's needed is for an author to cozy up to enough musicians and artists to get them to do stuff based on a fic.
>>41774724If I wanted to suck off queers I'd go to galacon
>>4177283410/10 effort bait post
>>41774838Anon...
>>41774854What?
>>41774875Lurk moar.
>>41774694G6 will make us all relevant again!
>typing up a fic on the site itself>over a dozen views before I'm even done with the first draftIs this normal?
>>41775134Yes if you keep opening the chapter or reloading it instead of just keeping the tab open.
I wrote five thousand words of horse yesterday
>>41775214I've barely written that much horse over the entire year.
>>41775214It took me a week of diverting most of my free time into writing to get to that number.
>>41775224You don't have to write the horse words in order, that's the secret.
>>41775385I guess that explains Behemoth.
>>41775393That was just Q's way of dealing with a bad breakup.
>>41775462>started before he even started grooming Filly
>>41775464It's called the cycle of abuse for a reason.
>>41775134>On the site itselfAre you insane
>>41775522NTA, I do it too and I've written about a million words that way.
>>41775522Yes, but I don't see what that has to do with anything.
>>41775466>>41775462Interesting theory, but incorrect. Now stop being a Discordfag ITT.
>>41774644It's all about getting in early, really. Also the simple reality that the tremendous creative energy and interest of the fandom is now a shadow of its former self.>the guy who wrote My Little Dashie likes/liked my own fanfic so much he came back a decade later to reiterate how much he liked it in a comment.He seems like a cool guy, just to add.
>>41775534is it true that eponafest was closed because of SIDA?
>>41775556The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency?
>>41775568AIDS in italiano.
>>41775554Yeah there's early shit that has several hundred likes even though it straight up sucks ass. Breaking 200 these days is rare.
>>41775579>several hundred*several thousand
>>41775574I appreciate the effort, anon, and I understand the meaning, I was just mocking your lack of cultural awareness that a simple look at Wikipedia could have helped you prevent.
>>41775582No I mean likeActively shit beyond opinion stuff, no proofreading or incredibly incomprehensible.
>>41775595You mean like the most popular fic of 2024?
>>41775607We get it, you never got in the sinbox. Stop whining.
>>41775610I don't think you know what he's talking about. Just take a look at this and tell me that our new garbage is any better than the old garbage:>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/550684/a-quiet-rune-scribeIt's not.
>>41775610All my stories this year did actually. If you think noticing a lack of standards in what people deepthroat is a sign of jealousy you have a frankly skewed view of the world.
>>41775630Deepthroats, interesting...tell me about your father.
>>41775634Male. Older than me. Same nationality, same last name.
>>41775644Vague. Detached. Evasive. How old were you when he first touched you inappropriately?
>>41775649About 136, I think.
I see we've entered the retarded part of the horsewords thread.
I like HIE
>>41775688'Tis a shame, really.I was hoping more people had read Jinglemas stuff and had found interesting stuff.
>>41775705I've already added five to my RiL, but I'm currently too busy proofreading to read any of them just yet.
>managed to sneak in a biblical reference in Princess Celestia's dialogueIt's the little things.
>>41774344>Luna stopped the nonsense of Discord, Chrysalis, Sombra and Tirek in her timeline.She didn't in all the other timelines.The season five finale is fucking retarded.
>>41775730What is it?
>>41775627I'm not saying it, I'm just saying back in the day you could do ANYTHING and it'd get likes.
>>41775754https://www.fimfiction.net/stories?q=published%3A%3C2013-1-1+likes%3A%3C250&order=dislikes
>>41775214same, I wrote from midnight till 8 to finish my Jinglemas fic
>>41775802That's when the best horsewords happen, between the dawn and dusk.
>>41775802You had a whole month to do this shit, why put it off until the last minute? Why are you me?
>>41775833>why put it off until the last minute?I've been asking myself that question for 30 years buddy.
>>41775833>why put it off until the last minute?you know damn well why ^:(((
does the thread always get this depressing during holiday season?
>>41775833>why put it off until the last minute?Because you wouldn't get it done otherwise. >>41775859Depressing? Ticking deadlines are fun.
>>41775867If I make enough image macros. maybe my fic will complete itself.
>>41775909i completed my ficnow proofreading it? That's another matter entirely.
>>41775656Is that 136 days? Or seconds?
>>41775930After spending five hours on it today and only being 50% done, I feel you, anon.
>>41775939Months, I assume. Any smaller unit, and he wouldn't have remembered it.
>>41775945I got a regular proofreader but he's out for the holidays...
>>41775939AUs
Anyone gonna post any jinglemas fics they liked? No? This is the one written for me, which I found surprisingly enjoyable. The prose is a little shaky, and there are some instances of "anybody", but it's got a cute ghost filly whom Rarity adopts at the end of the story.https://www.fimfiction.net/story/568787/the-cold-wind-blows
>>41776010>rarity getting a ghostIs necrophilia really a big enough niche for pimps to start catering to it?
>>41775737>They are all our subjects. Our little ponies. The ones in Canterlot and the ones way up north. The old and the young. The good and the evil. And my sun rises above them equally.
>>41776040Damn that's wholesome.
>>41774644Sometimes I think I should stop writing horsewords because, at this point in the fandom, I'm never going to have that kind of impact. Then I remember that I'm having fun. Some day, when I'm not having fun anymore, I guess I'll stop, but that day isn't here yet.
>>41776010>Anyone gonna post any jinglemas fics they liked? No?Scroll a bit up; we're too busy doing things last minute and panicking.
>>41776089I have people liking my fics and speculating on my long fics and that's good enough for me.
>>41776091Ah yes the Dusk's Dawn cast getting dusted.
If there's a single multi-paragraph speech in a fic, should it be formatted correctly (omitting the closing quotation marks at the end of all but the last paragraph), or would you write it "wrong" because there's no way most people are aware of that rule?
>>41776617I know about it, so correctly
>>41776617I know it irks the tunigger, so wrongly.
>>41776617>Should I write poorly on purpose?You should be able to solve this.
>>41776653>>Should I write poorly on purpose?No, except if it's HiE. The audience for that seems to actively like poor prose.
>>41776617An end quote signals that a character has stopped speaking. If a character has not stopped speaking, don't use one.
>>41776617It feels wrong to do it but I know it's how it's meant to be.
>>41776761All the Mared got Humaned and fimfic fags don't like it
2025 is gonna be our year bros. I can feel it. Actually that's probably me being drunk but whatever.
>>41776617I don't format it correctly because >>41776772Feels gross and bad, also offends my programmer mindset
>>417768352024 was already my year though.
>>41776958Well, the rest of us can have 2025, then.
>>41776991That's my year too though. All years are my years.
>>41776835>drunk on the 27thAt least it's a Friday.
>>41777013The 27th to the 30th is no man's land. Get drunk with family. Get drunk with friends.Or get drunk alone.
>>41777013But anon I'm drunk everyday
Gives me some opinions.
>>41777065Dad?
Buy your dad good drinks. I feel great shame when I see mine buy wine that costs less than a quarter of my hourly salary.
>>41777080Definitely the worst of the five, and I've generally been a fan of the series.
>>41777141You can't give an awesome opinion like that without saying more!
>>41777131Where can I get $3 wine?
>>41777157Trader Joe's five years ago.
>>41777157At the liquor store. Speaking of which. The drunk couple of my high school friend group started an in-joke among us when one time at a party they showed up with an incredibly cheap liquor (less than €4/L online right now, I think they bagged it for less than 2 back then) with a surprisingly high alcohol concentration (I'm seeing 15% by a quick search even if my memory is closer to 18%) because it was technically supposed to be a cocktail ingredient more so than a straight drink. Which meant they all agreed it tasted kind of bad, but it was also a very cost efficient way to get smashed, as high schoolers do.
>>41777151It was just a very boring story. There is a significant amount of time where literally nothing is happening. But then when things actually do happen, they're always over so quickly and the problems are resolved in such boring ways.It's a mediocre slice of life story poorly disguised as an airship adventure.
>>41775732Luna successfully does in the timeline that she banishes Tia.
>>41777203That's largely matching my opinions. I'm like a third of the way in and all that has really happened is that the airship has moved from Canterlot to Twilight Town.
This is an honest question: is Behemoth at the least in the running for wildest swinging between different moods, themes, and events within a single horsefic, and which other stories are in the conversation? I've heard Winning Pony has quite the breadth there, but I don't know if it's actually comparable.
>>41777213Yeah I was pretty disappointed with it. I will say It has been a while since I read the other books, so I do want to do a series re-read soon. Because I didn't remember any of the others being this bad.
>>41777222I'm not reading your fic, despite the numbers
>>41777212And why would NMM fail to get rid of Celestia in any timeline?
>>41777237I'm asking what the most varied fics you've read or know of are tone- and content-wise.
>>41777238>Le Butterfly Effect has arrived
>>41777245That doesn't make any fucking sense.
>>41777223It's a mixed bag, but many of the other books are similarly forgettable. I'd have to try very hard to remember The Luna Cypher. I consider the best of the series to be the very short fics. I think there was one called The Quest?
>>41777248>>41777245 is right, the entire premise of that episode is that tiny alterations made by Starlight in the past lead to wildly different outcomes as random events build onto each other, leading to a different villain winning each time. This is riffing on an extremely common trope in sci-fi and time travel stories, so it makes cultural sense for FiM to play along with it. However if you want a more thoughtful and still canon compliant solution:The alternate timelines aren't strictly 'real' timelines. Zecora spells it out plainly, and som the Map always being there is a sign too. They are situations that were never supposed to exist. Fate explicitly exists in Equestria and Starlight knocked the universe off the rails. They are ontological impossibilities, wasteful byproducts resulting from her using a fundamentally unstable spell to time travel as opposed to Starswirl's closed loop one. You can imagine a series of events that led to each one, but you can just as easily assume that there isn't actually a true direct history between the moment Starlight messes things up and the world Twilight sees, and that each scenario is literally just the universe having a seizure and tossing out some garbage because a fundamental knot of history and destiny (the Rainboom) was maliciously unravelled. It explains why things go back to normal even if Starlight was still there flying around in the past, and why Twilight continues to exist. They're not real alternate timelines so much as a direct attempt from reality to course correct after a necessary core part of it was removed. They are a glitched, corrupted reinterpretation of the present not so much a consequence of a change in the past but more of an error response to time as a whole being upset. It makes it all more fantasy and less sci-fi.
>>41777313Yeah, even the show doesn't want us to treat the "alternate timelines" as really "canon" per se, as in things that actually could've happened.
>>41777238It means Nightmare Moon winning the Equestrian Civil War 1000 years ago and banishing Tia prevents Discord, Tirek, Chrysalis or Sombra from ever posing a threat to Equestria. Whatever they were actually fighting over, Luna was right.
>>41777378DYEWTS?
>>41777378Literally none of that is at all what happened.
>>41777401He's too drunk to bait? I think there's a name for that...
>>41777313If you go by the S5E26 episode, then the Nightmare Moon timeline is when Tia gets defeated and banished WITHOUT THE ELEMENTS BEING USED 1000 years ago, because the Castle of the Two Sisters isn't ruined and the Everfree Forest isn't out of control. Rarity and Rainbow Dash then join Nightmare Moon in a 1000 years. It's more accurate to call these parallel universes than fake timelines, because the Sonic Rainboom could have not affected the Castle of the Two Sisters in any way.
Luna was right, nobody wants to fuck her.
>>41777442I like the idea that NMM would destroy Canterlot and rebuild the Castle of the Two Sisters, it's very in character for her to hold a dark mirror to the fanon that Celestia built Canterlot because she couldn't bear to live in the castle anymore with Luna gone.
>>41777476Another practical reason is that Tia using the Elements against Luna destroyed the Element of Magic and drained the others into inert rocks. There was no way left to keep the Everfree from overrunning the Castle of the Two Sisters.
>>41777444I didn't even see her shoes and I'd fuck her
>>41777444Celestia had sex onceSun: 1, Lima Bean: 0
>>41777545>Celestia had sex onceYeah, with me
>>41777550You're Sunset's dad? Congrats, you're a fuckup
>>41777553Doesn't matter, had sex
Are there any good fics about the CMC?
>>41777567I haven't read any truly amazing ones, but there are some pretty good ones, e.g.:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/123873/moonlighthttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/237365/the-snowball-fight
>>41777565You could have had a happy family and you gave it all up for god strange
>>41777444CHECKED
>>41777545I should catch up with the no nose knows series at some point.
>>41777586I need to start it, I guess. It's still going.
>>41777586isnt that shit just male oc x Celestia? It's been one of the more consistent eyesore's in the box throughout the ages for me
>>41777608Well who else is gonna fuck Celestia up pregways? Sombra's dead.
>>41777442Anon, that still makes absolutely no fucking sense.
>>41777589>>41777608 I retract my statement, I was not thinking about my memories of the story. I read up to chapter 17 of pregnant nose knows and then dropped it. The first fic is good and after that it was kind of a mixed bag. This nose knows started off just as good but gradually slid more in quality until it shit the bed for a few chapters in the middle of the fic and never fully recovered.
>>41777714What I read just made me want a fic about Chrysalis getting dicked down into being good.
>>41777687
>>41777719You mean read in the fic or my post? the chrysalis subplot in this story where she falls for a guard she tricked into loving her irked me a bit when I read it since it could have been good but wasn’t.
>>41777785Messed up on every account
>>41776761>jinglemas addressee is a HiEfagShould I just skip proofreading?
>>41777823No. Proofread carefully and insert extra errors so that he will appreciate the story more.
>>41774644>like the old daysWithout an injection of new canon material, I would say no. The fandom's shrunk to the point it's very hard to reach a critical mass needed to break out. It's important to remember that was incredibly hard to do even at the peak. There's maybe ten fics that really did it--FO:E, TCB, Cupcakes, MLD, Past Sins, FiO all come to mind. It was very hard to strike that kind of popularity even then. And some of those authors might even argue they wish they never had. >>41775688There's a non-retard part?>>41775730>The greatest trick this dark magic has conjured is making everyone believe it never existed at all.I'm doing that all the time. "Everyone"'s used because the griffons and camels investigated it, too.>>41776617Always write it correctly. Then you can shit on the spellcheck people if they say otherwise. Though the narrator really shouldn't let characters have multi-paragraph speeches without interjecting with some description as to what's going on in the scene. There's a reason speeches usually have reaction shots in film/TV.>>41777222I'm pretty sure DoaM has some wild swings, what with the rape stuff happening early on.>Winning PonyI never really noticed huge wild swings in it. The flow from Ponyville SoL, to relationship drama, to the ending warfic shenanigans all felt somewhat smooth, though it really could have been broken into distinct stories with a tighter focus on things. But you could pretty much say that about every 350k+ fic. >>41777313It's still funny that the implication of this is Starlight is directly responsible for killing potentially billions of people as she wiped out four different universes by fucking with a time travel spell. How many people were born in those AU timelines due to the butterfly effect the never would be in the prime one? And are the characters Twilight returns to even the same ones from the first five seasons or is it a new timeline with new versions of the characters? Maybe everything after S5 truly isn't canon because it's not even the same universe anymore.>>41777442>S5E26 episodeDYEWTS? The point of divergence is Starlight fucking with Dash's rainboom in the Cutie Mark Chronicles flashback. All the timelines use the canon timeline up to that point, then split off from there. NMM's just a huge sperg who decided to rebuild the castle she remembered rather than go live in her sister's castle.
>>41777914>authors might even argue they wish they never had.I certainly wish they never had.
>>41777914>multi-paragraph speechesI did this once. I had a character who was withholding a secret for everyone else's protection. Everyone knew he was withholding the secret, and most of them trusted his judgment. Eventually it was time for him to reveal the secret. It was a short little narrative ("here's what really happened"), too long to be a single paragraph but not long enough to be a whole scene. It became a multi-paragraph speech. Other characters had reactions (some happy, some angry), but interjecting them into the speech would have undermined the dramatic effect of him revealing the secret, so I delayed their responses until the speech was over. I think it worked. I think I'd still write it the same way if I had to do it over again.
>>41777914>S5E26>Nightmare Moon: [laughing] My sister has been imprisoned in the moon for years! But it is no less a fate than she'd sentence me to! Now, reveal to me the source of this time magic!>she'd>[SHE WOULD]SHE DIDN'T sentence me toSHE HASN'T sentenced me toNightmare Moon was never banished 1000 years ago. Else she would have said "But it is no less a fate than she had sentenced me to" to state that Tia already did this to her once in the past. The Castle of the Two Sisters was not rebuilt in the S1E1 to S5E26 period, it was never abandoned because it was never ruined.LOOK AT RARITY'S FLANKS, DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A NO SONIC RAINBOOM TIMELINE TO YOU???
>>41777985>LOOK AT RARITY'S FLANKS...I'm sorry, you were saying?
>>41777700Because he's wrong and retarded and fails to conceive of NMM restoring the old castle in the years between her return and S5's setting.
>>41778206Nobody in this thread will ever conceive.
>>41778208Too late.
>>41778187>GtG flashbacksI don't recall any pregnancy plotline in that.
>>41777914>It's still funny that the implication of thisIt's funny that the post you replied to literally argues for the opposite of that but you're apparently too stupid to read.
>>41778214I meant the concept of charging your kid back rent.
>>41778246Oh I see.Yeah Gilda has a tough life.
>>41777608>eyesore's/fimfic/, everyone
>>41778353Flaggots embody the exact opposite of the character whose standard they fly.
The club should read all of the year's Jinglemas fics.
>>41778481Not true. I have a huge cock, just like my flag.
>>41778483All is not very feasible (and so many oneshots would get repetitive fast), but I was going to suggest reading some next week on the Sunday bookclub.Sounds fun and very in the season.
>>41778485
>>41778486All of them. Or at least all the ones by thread authors.
>>41778494I mean, that seems awfully circlejerky. Maybe it'd be better to pick from non-thread fics.Not to mention some "people" itt wrote eqg for the occasion.
>>41778501>literally asked to in the prompt
>>41778505You have the liberty to write in whatever setting you wish, with the understanding that most people prefer proper ponies. If you can't satisfy your santee while sanitizing his prompt, that's a skill issue.
>>41778521Literally not true. If the prompt says EQG and asks for exclusive EQG characters then writing ponies is just as bad as writing EQG when you're asked for ponies. If you can't deliver on what your giftee asked then you shouldn't be participating.
>>41778505>>41778529aren't barbiefags only paired with other barbiefags?
>>41778536Traditionally yes but this year I offered myself up for sacrifice to accommodate for the five or so people who signed up late. Honestly happy I did because my original prompt was worse.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/568040/14/indiana-jones-and-the-daring-daughter/14-oxford-1927WouldWould the supreme Court even be the ones determining if a talking horse has human rights?
>>41778658yes, because america owns the world.
>>41778658I mean legally speaking if you had a kid and that kid could walk, talk, express its wants and desires, read, etcBut just looked really fucking weird, like really fucking weird, they weren't disabled but they just looked like a fucking freak, they'd still have rights. Ugly people are still people. Daring Do in that is basically just an ugly baby.
>>41778485I don't see a Trixie flag on your post.
>>41777203I skimmed ahead a bit. Do they really not encounter the enemy until CHAPTER FUCKING 15, HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIC?
Feels like most authors don't plan their fics outYou'll start with a premise and shit veers off significantly.
>>41778758>plan fic>end up revising plans so much it's an entirely new premiseJust say "fuck it" and write by the seat of your pants.
>>41778774I think I'd have a heart attack if I did that.
>>41778758Plans don't have to be train tracks that you can't escape or deviate from. It's more like a foundation where you build the story. That's why I don't think you should spend too much time planning, but you should go into writing with a somewhat clear idea of what you want to accomplish.
>>41778788Yeah but then you get shit like Chapter 1: Derpy bakes a muffinChapter 30: Blueblood swordfights the woman who killed his parents on top of a burning train
>>41778794I think the issue, then, lies with the writer rather than the method.
This has been updated today. It's a HIE that I like.https://www.fimfiction.net/story/217108/not-the-hero
>>41778814Does the title refer to le ebin gary stu dimension hopper, or the human?
>>41778794Counterpoint: that example sounds fucking rad.
>>41778838Not if you just wanted a fic about derpy baking muffins.
>>41778858Will Blueblood sword fighting the woman who killed his parents on top of a burning train help Derpy bake muffins in any way?
>>41778858Writing, as all art, is not bad should not be about what the readers think they want.
>>41778867No.
>>41778838This thread needs to stop confusing shit writing for avante garde artistry.
>>41778888Quads of truth.
>>41778888The thing is you cannot determine the quality of writing by a dry summary of plot beats, and the idea that you can is one of the greatest plagues upon all modern media discourse. There is no such thing as art divorced from execution.
>>41778917You know damn well that when shit's written by the seat of the author's pants at best it'll be an amusing trainwreck at the end. And that's if it ever finishes.
>>41778926That's an assumption only someone with dreadfully limited media knowledge would make.
>>41778930That's an observation derived from years of painful experience.
>>41778938>yearsYeah, dreadfully limited.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/455381/the-boy-and-the-bugI don't know why, but this fic feels very comfy to read, especially during Christmas time. I like it a lot.
>>41779283>violence >death>dark
>>41778926Counterexample: Dickens.
>>41779300The tags are rather deceiving. It's more slice of life then anything.
>>41779311>then
>>41779311Speaking of, I've thought back and realized that my first fic probably deserves the Slice of Life tag. Is it worth going back and adding it?>>41779324You must be new here, this thread falls for homos all the time.
Sneed.
>>41779330What does faggotry have to do with people's inability to spell?
>>41779334It makes it impossible to distinguish "He's gay" from "He's goy."
>>41779337He's Guy (Fieri).
>>41779333There's nothing quite like posting PERFECTLY RULE-ABIDING IMAGES with this playing in the background:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO_cZNj1ylU>>41779334Homophones, mon 'non.>>41779337Oh boy, gay goys.
>>41779330yes
>>41779343>spoiler Yeah but they actually aren't.
>>41779343>pic nameGood luck. I've just finished mine and I feel so free. No more writing until 5 am!Until the next fic, that is.
>>41779342Guy Feferi?
>>41779373I put it on my RiL, along with your gift.
>>41779367It depends on your accent.>>41779373Danke. I'm still hoping to hit my New Year's resolution, so I'll have to come up with some last-minute oneshot.
Is it morally justifiable to include grammatical errors in somepony's dialogue if making them would be in character?
>>41779632I mean that's how folk talk, ain't it
>>41779632>>41779646the showstaff had the perfect approach to this: just don't write applejack.
>>41779632Them Apples don' have lots o' that larnin'. That's fer city folk.
>>41779664But big mac has a master's degree!
>>41779669He doesn't, Applejack thinks basic calculus is an academic achievement.
>>41779673Yeah Applejack does. Cause she's stupid.
>>41779669He's mastered the art of incest, that's for sure.
>>41779684>doesn't even know which horse is related to himSad!
>>41779632How does this have anything to do with morality? If that’s how the character is then that’s just the case.
Someone tell Knighty the little icon mods are supposed to have next to their names is broken.
>>41779753>Knighty doing anything
My reading list is starting to clear. Fics are going out faster than in. God bless my awful commute.
>8 (EIGHT) Pony-centric fics in the SinbinWow. Don't see that every day.
>>41779835But soon it will be void and empty
>>41779835Gotta commit to at least clearing out the shorter fics soon, don't wanna break 200.
>>41780032Please.It's kinda funny, because I recently cleared about thirty. I should get those reviews posted soon.
>>41780557Why is Luna burning books
>>41780579She's getting rid of all of Cadance's faggy shipping journals.
>>41780585That's fine, she has a shipping wall now.
>>41780594All can burn.
>>41780600Not before they're shipped.
>>41778658If it's taking place in the US and there's some legal question that involves federal law, it would. I'd assume the case would center on whether a "natural person" is only referring to humans or if other intelligent species are included. Since the constitution never refers to "humans" and instead uses "person" or "people" as failing under its rights, it wouldn't be hard to argue.A quick scan of the chapter shows some classic fanfic pacing issues. SCOTUS isn't a trial court and doesn't have witnesses or testimony. They wouldn't be asking Daring or even Indy any questions. They're an appellate court (unless it's state vs. state), so they review legal issues brought up during lower court proceedings. The plaintiff's lawyer and defense's lawyer are given a set period of time to argue those legal questions before the court, and the judges then pepper the lawyers with questions and hypotheticals. After this, they'd adjoin and six months or so later issue a written decision that would be released to the public.The entire process from the initial court case up to SCOTUS's final decision can take up to a decade or longer to resolve. Minimum would probably be at least three years. I don't know why the fic author didn't just have it be a regular federal court with the government declining to appeal, instead, if he wanted to tighten the pacing up or why even make it a thing if he's just going to speedrun the legal drama like that.
It's done, I can finally drink for fun and not just to stay awake.
>>41781314>drink>stay awake.???
>>41781417it's like undervolting for your brain
Give me some book examples and write a short commentary on what do you think those books mean about you, I'll tell you if you're a good writer or not based off those books and what you understood from them.
>>41781468>mean about youYou mean what I think what I choose to read says about myself?
>>41781468Based on this post, you're retarded.
Bookclub anchor might be delayed by ~20 minutes.
Having eyes on... well, not on her,>/FSBC/Sorry, sorry, it's just been a very busy week. It is 16:03 as I start writing this after just finishing the fic. Nevertheless, it would be a shame if this fic got overlooked in the bookclub, since it's surprisingly good in several ways.But first, look at the date on this thing! It was a 2011 story in some parts of the world, and it has better polish than most of the fics we get now! Having only a few minor typos in all of the fic is outstanding for a fic this old. And boy is it old:>"Nothing can block a unicorn's magic, short of death or intervention from the goddesses. I... trust me, I don't think you've upset either Princess."Amazing. We're so fucking back.And it has that "ponyponypony" energy done right. It even remembers to include ponies doing things with their mouths instead of hoof-hands or wings, something the show itself couldn't keep up in the later seasons. Inject this directly into my bloodstream, please.To get to the actual fic, it's a pretty competent shipfic. It's not best-of-the-genre like Eyes on You, but the way it conveys and highlights emotions puts it above most of the genre. That was legitimately good. The Trixie's portrayal is also pretty great for a Boast Busters story, with some caveats. I like it. I almost find it hard to pick things to praise because it's just pretty solid in its execution all around. By and large, it's a very nice, cute story with not much conflict until the "big" finale". Very nice.There are at least two other oldfics that I read that had the "pegasi give their feathers to their soulmates" fanon, but I can't tell which. Wasn't one Eyes on You, actually? Is this where it started? Considering the fic's age, it very well might be. Seeing the Luna-Trixie fanon being referenced in a joke was neat, too. Another one of those forgotten oldfag headcanons.The fic does have some flaws. They don't ruin it, but they're noticeable. Trixie changes too soon in the early-middle part of the fic. I think the opening is pretty strong and it's good how it hints at her changing and coming to terms with her situation, but then when she does change, she goes 100-0 in a blink of an eye. I wish that part was paced a little better. Speaking of pacing, while the entire ending sequence from the party to the forest and the dragon was good, the proposal scene at the end was a little weak. Did we really need what is basically a summary of Boast Busters and the fic? Oh, and speaking of that, the last scene between FS and Trixie felt a little spicy for the story's rating. And a small part of the premise doesn't work: Fluttershy did not see Trixie's humiliation in Boast Busters. She leaves the episode in the first scene. DYEWTS, author? He even got the same right about Pinkie, which makes this a little odd.Still, that's an easily recommendable old story. Great!I had more to say (e.g., about FS, RD, and AJ here), but I'm out of time and out of space, so hopefully in the replies.
>>41781878[VOTING]How about we read some Jinglemas fics next week? It was brought up in the thread, and I think it's a neat idea.If you have some you'd like to read and discuss, just post them here. I think we can read like 5 or 6 depending on their length. I'd throw these two in to start with:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/569749/merry-mail-mysteryhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/569844/villa-ocasoAnd maybe this, assuming it's the rare FiMfic with Shimmer, and not mistagged:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/569821/looping-over-feeling
>>41781884Read all of them.
>>41781878>review https://www.fimfiction.net/story/5764/kindnesss-rewardThis was such a nice read overall. It made me feel all giddy when I first read it many years ago and it still does now. You can almost feel the early fandom while reading it.The progress of Flutters and Trixie's love leaves me conflicted. It hits the right beats, but the middle part could've used more breathing room. As a whole, I still liked it, but I would've liked them to take their time. Maybe I just wanted more of the story.What else can I say?Ah... raging xenophobe Applejack. Truly a memory of better days. She's quite confrontational, not willing to understand others, and overall comes off as nasty towards Trixie. Since this was written with just S1 as a basis, you could give it some leeway, but I still feel the author should've known better. Hell, even Rainbow Dash acts more rationally than AJ, and that says something.That's my only complaint with the fic. I'll probably come back to this story in four years and still have a good time.>endLuna's Day Out is also a pretty decent fic by the same guy, but it's on the shorter side.>votingHave we run out of longer fics? At last?I agree with >>41781892We could probably read a good handful of Jinglemas fics. It's not like they're long.
>>41781878>Is this where it started?I remember it being commonplace back in the day. Before FiMFiction, lots of fics got shared around as GDocs files. I think there was at least a few that had the blue feather thing.Also.>>32833254
>>41781892I'm not stopping you from doing that, but as the starter kit oneshot bookclub showed, discussing too many at once might turn into a mess. I don't know where the line is. Also, a lot are just clearly bad. I'm hesitant about reading thread fics, though that could be fine.However, it'd be nice if you joined for all the ones that do make it to next week.>>41781917Yeah, agreed about all that.>It hits the right beats, but the middle part could've used more breathing room.It's not just the case of wanting more of a nice fic to read. The middle is too crowded and too sudden for sure.>even Rainbow Dash acts more rationally than AJShe almost murders Trixie on the spot, and she's still the nicer one. Oh, but I think this is a good RD. Both the impulsiveness and how protective she acts about Fluttershy are in character.AJ is... that particular brand of AJ that lived in the early seasons' fanon, like you said. I don't really like it but I don't consider it a flaw of the story, just a consequence of the times.>only complaintIt's a minor one, but I'll add one more: Why does FS need to pay for Trixie's life-saving surgery? Americans, please don't do this to ponies wtf. And if anything, it's RD who should be forced to pay. She meant well, but she literally assaulted a wounded, nonthreatening pony at her own (then-temporary) home.>Have we run out of longer fics?No, there are still a lot more. But I thought Jinglemas reading could be nice, especially since they tend to get overlooked often.>>41781930Good to know. Yeah I knew it was a thing, but I wasn't reading fics back then, and trying to dig up old lore from the GDocs days tends to have mixed results.
>>41781951>She almost murders Trixie on the spotI mean, who hasn't?She does get better after that. Almost weirdly chill at times. But I liked her.>Why does FS need to pay for Trixie's life-saving surgery?It was the kind thing to do. :)My guess is that it's just another point to drive them closer together, legality or morality be damned.Anyhoot. I'm down for Jinglemas stuff.Those three seems fine.Also, did nobody else seriously read the fic?It's really good, I swear!
>>41781052Also the prosecutor is the department of state for some reason?
>>41781468The Sesame Street Library, Vol. 2, was one of my favorite books. It featured the letters C and D as well as the number 2. It had The Perils of Penelope (part 1), The Diamond D and the Dreadful Dragon, plus Cookie Monster's Butterfly Cookies recipe. I remember it fondly.
>>41781884There's one thing that concerns me about reading thread fics, which is whether we're going to be honest with each other. Imagine:>/FSBC/, thread Jinglemas fic edition>the first oneThis was shit.>the second oneIt was okay, I guess, but pretty undistinguished.>the third oneThis was mine, and I think it turned out really well.Followed by:>first oneFuck you, I wrote that.>second oneIt wasn't even "okay". There was a typo, so it's garbage.>third oneYou're deluding yourself.And then:>firstYeah, it's shit.>secondThis was mine, and the prompt was trash. I'm lucky I finished it at all.>thirdAs we all know, the HiE genre is not for the faint of heart.
>>41782014We've read a few fics by thread regulars before, and we didn't have that problem.Having a bunch of fics by thread authors on the same day could lead to a bit more chaos.Eh, there's plenty of Jinglemas stories to read. If anyone can make a solid argument in favour of a fic, we should give it a shot, even if it's by a thread regular.
Am I just entirely motivated by spite for unfinished stories
I don't usually read fics, but I'm going to make an effort for the Christmas ones.
>>41781965>Also, did nobody else seriously read the fic?I read it just over a year ago. I remember nothing apart from the dragon scene at the end and the fact that it was generally enjoyable.
The club is dead. I guess we need to become a marecocks general now.
>>41781878Hurray for a one week book club! But also mostly I'm just glad the story I skipped is over. This was good though, maybe even very good if taking into account its age. I actually liked this Trixie? But if I'm being completely honest, I think that means it wasn't a very good Trixie. The idea that Trixie has come to expect a certain pushback from ponies she interacts with is neat though and how Fluttershy offering no push back on anything at all is somehow a perfect counter to Trixie being a nigger is amusing. I think it could've been a little longer though. The only time I really noticed the length was when I was concerned we were moving too fast and then I looked and it was 75% through the story. I think part of this was that it maybe had the pacing of a longer story at first, but then at some point there's a quick switch in the characters and then the story starts to wrap everything up. Regardless, I read the whole thing in one go and it was definitely enjoyable. There was quite a bit of stuttering and pauses in the dialogue though. Like possibly every single dialogue up until Twilight starts being comfortable with Trixie. It was an interesting decision, but I actually kind of liked it for Fluttershy's lines. Also AJ is just sort of the antagonist because someone had to be. I get that she can be stubborn, but imagine walking up to someone during their own party while everypony is having fun with them and then tearing them down like that. At least Fluttershy beat her ass after that I guess. And it somehow prompted the exaggerated climax we get. There really should've been a mention of the dragon way back with Zecora and this would've worked SO much better. Anyway it was still somewhat kino that Trixie got her magic back like that, even if it was obvious from the moment we learn Fluttershy got lost. Then of course we have the actual ending, I was skeptical at the beginning of it but by the end it was definitely kino.>RD fucks Trixie up and she just starts sobbing Fluttershy's namekino>"I'd be dead ten times over without you." "But you would have fought." "I have always fought." Trixie said. "Every day of my life."somewhat kino but hurt by us finding out she has lived quite luxuriously at some points>Fluttershy hiding her cap and hatI thought this was going to be a bigger thing than it was. I thought Fluttershy was intentionally doing this to steer Trixie's life and personality on the right path, but she never hints to this and then just gives them back anyway. I thought this part was gonna be kino and it wasn't>Fluttershy made AJ crybrutal, she was just doing her job in the story Fluttershy, you didn't have to go all out on her>"This is kindness reward, isn't it?" "Oh, not usually."Kek. And she said the name of the movie!
>>41781878>look at the date on this thing! It was a 2011 story in some parts of the world, and it has better polish than most of the fics we get now!actually astounding how good it is compared to the rest of the shit from then. (Shit on a technical level)>It even remembers to include ponies doing things with their mouths instead of hoof-hands or wingsyeah definitely a strength of the fic. Fluttershy in the beginning does a whole lot of this while nursing Trixie back to health>Trixie changes too soon in the early-middle part of the ficYe, I think the part of the fic could've had some more words>the proposal scene at the end was a little weak.I liked it, which is surprising considering I didn't care for it when the story she was telling started>Did we really need what is basically a summary of Boast Busters and the fic?I think it's unfair to call that a summary. Although I'll kind of agree in that I think the fic actually had a good ending point right when Trixie and Fluttershy head to the party. Honestly the party itself was practically an epilogue.>the last scene between FS and Trixie felt a little spicy for the story's rating.I'm assuming you meant the 2nd to last scene, and i think it was fine, it pushed against it's rating once during the entire fic and it didn't push that hard.>>41781917>You can almost feel the early fandom while reading it.gotta love that feel>Maybe I just wanted more of the story.yeah that's where I ended up pretty much. More words in the middle could've helped>Hell, even Rainbow Dash acts more rationally than AJkek, yeah AJ drew the short straw here>>41781930>digs up a 6 year old post to reference harvest moonbased I suppose>>41781951>Also, a lot are just clearly bad.lmao, those would probably have the best discussion>She almost murders Trixie on the spot, and she's still the nicer one.kek, at the beggining of the scene she almost kills her and by the end she already likes her>Why does FS need to pay for Trixie's life-saving surgery?This was an eyebrow raiser for sure. I'm sure Redheart runs over to save lives and then stands around in the living room looking at everypony until someone reluctantly goes to get their purse during the awkward silence before promptly being on her way.>Americans, please don't do this to ponies wtfkek>>41782014>Imagine:yeah sounds good. hilarious even>>41782321>I honestly forgot about the club lol, that's what I get for skipping 3 weeks (and going to bed 3-4 hours before the club)
>>41782330>This was good though, maybe even very good if taking into account its age.I'm firmly in the "very good" camp on it. I'm not even giving it points for its age, but I definitely appreciate the early show/fandom feel that the fic has.>it wasn't a very good TrixieNah, she was good. Other than flipping too early, we got all the required Trixieness in the fic. It's just that she she didn't have the time to annoy you with her "default" character since she starts vulnerable and confused and then turns into second-stage Trixie super quickly because the fic is short.>how Fluttershy offering no push back on anything at all is somehow a perfect counter to TrixieI went into the fic expecting a crackship, and I'm glad to have been wrong. The author had a very strong idea that required pitting Trixie against a small pony Jesus.>moving too fast and then I looked and it was 75% through the storyAgreed, yeah. It's nice but it could've been nicer with some more words and especially in the middle.>really should've been a mention of the dragon way back with ZecoraAnon, DYEWTS? You can't tell me you didn't recognize one of the very few good dragons in the show (even if he shows up in S1's worst episode). The fic went out of its way to describe the cave exactly like it was in that episode. See picrel if you still can't remember.>>41782393>I liked it, which is surprising considering I didn't care for it when the story she was telling started>I think it's unfair to call that a summary.Maybe it's a little better than I'm giving it credit for. Like you say, it's basically an epilogue, and it does a decent job at being that. Could the words be spend better on other parts of the story? Probably, yeah, but it doesn't make it back. I guess a very subjective part of the problem for me was that when it started I had <5 minutes until bookclub hour and every minute spent on the story only made me realize how late I was going to be.>i think it was fine, it pushed against it's rating once during the entire ficIt wasn't pushing strong enough to warrant any real criticism, but I'm being more strict about it for E-rated stories.>gotta love that feelYes, why can't more oldfics be like this one?>>Hell, even Rainbow Dash acts more rationally than AJ>AJ drew the short straw hereThat's how a bunch of early fics imagined her. As for the comparison with RD, I don't find is strange. RD is impulsive, which means she does dumb things often, but she has little of that stubbornness that was the cause of AJ's antagonism in the fic. Like when you say:>at the beggining of the scene she almost kills her and by the end she already likes herThat's not OOC for her.>those would probably have the best discussionYou're free to suggest any that look interesting.>>41782321There's like three regulars missing it. One read the fic recently, and the other two seem to be busy with life stuff and hobby projects, respectively. Three is not too bad, really.
>>41781878Sad, sweet, sympathetic; this story is almost entirely good! I'm hard-pressed to find stuff I dislike about it. I'm biased towards Trixie, but even worst-mane-6 Fluttershy really shines here. Their relationship is adorable, and paced so well that the progression from simple charity to outright marriage-proposal feels very natural. The use of Fluttershy's unconditional love to bring out Trixie's emotional issues makes perfect sense, and that acceptance of Trixie's vulnerability makes them seem like a very good match despite their wildly different personalities. The story starts with Fluttershy's perspective, of course, but Trixie is really the main character throughout the majority of the story, and it's her perspective which the audience sees through. Her pitiful circumstances and tragic backstory are incredibly sympathetic; they really strengthen the credibility of Fluttershy's falling in love with Trixie. It avoids the pitfall of feeling overly gratuitous in the same vein as many AiE stories, where the love interest falls in love with Anon simply because it's necessary for the story. The note about pegasus culture and the gifting of flight feathers was very interesting and added some depth to the world. Were I in Trixie's position, though, I wouldn't be happy at being deceived into accepting what's essentially a marriage proposal without my knowledge. The story is overwhelmingly "pony"; if it weren't so dramatic, it could almost have come from season 1 itself. Sure, ponies fuck up plenty (looking at you, AJ); but in the end, all differences are resolved, and all wrongs are forgiven. The segment where Trixie goes and meets the mane 6 in town is executed very well. I enjoyed how she and Twilight moved past their grievances fairly quickly, as they simply hadn't really understood each other, but some awkwardness nevertheless remains in their relationship. Again, this seemed very believable and avoided feeling contrived. Best-pony Rarity bonds immediately with top-5-pony Trixie over their shared love of ostentation, to little surprise. I almost would have liked to see more animosity, but the story was so tight even without Rarity that I think it was ultimately fine.
>>41782724On that note, every single character in the fic is characterised extremely well; even Zecora retains the mystery she held before being relegated to a plot device in the later seasons. Rainbow is brash, but puts her friends first; Twilight is well-meaning but slightly oblivious; and AJ is stubborn and quick to judge, but . AJ in particular worked well as an antagonist in the later chapters, although I think her last rant at the party was a bit too much. By that point, AJ should really have started warming up to Trixie, even if just a little. I guess she was just that irritated by Trixie's third-person naming habit. Now, the story's not perfect. I'm sure some anons will complain about retreading the same ground of "Trixie's hurt, Fluttershy helps her"; although I think this helps the realism of the story. That's a matter of personal taste, though. The dragon fight was obviously a departure from the previous tone of the story, although I think it just barely ended up working out as a narrative element. In addition, the ending was pretty sappy, even for me. The allegorical story was creative, sure, but basically the same story we'd just read. I get that it was meant to show off Trixie's talent at embellishing tales, but the allegory was nonetheless so thin that it didn't end up adding much. The "they kissed and everyone cheered" final line was also pretty over-the-top for what had been a fairly quiet story until then. Overall, good story! It kept a nice, tight scope and really dug into Trixie's and Fluttershy's characters. It had that simplicity with just a dash of adventure that I love from season 1. I wish we got more stuff like this these days. Coming back to it a second time, I actually liked it better than the first time I read it!
>>41782622>It's just that she she didn't have the time to annoy you with her "default" character since she starts vulnerable and confusedYeah I think that's what made it bearable. She was barely cognizant enough to talk smack to flutters>DYEWTS?I think it would've been better for a self contained story if Zecora expressed some sort of concern that they were headed right for a dragon's hoard in ch1. I honestly think the dragon came out of nowhere even having watched the show, because they had almost already visited that location and he wasn't a factor.>the problem for me was that when it started I had <5 minutes until bookclub hour and every minute spent on the story only made me realize how late I was going to be.you should've only read that part and then based your entire thoughts about the fic on that>>41782724>but in the end, all differences are resolved, and all wrongs are forgivenYup, that's that good shit>>41782725>The "they kissed and everyone cheered" final line was also pretty over-the-top for what had been a fairly quiet story until then.Ehh I'd argue we were at that point when AJ btfo trixie at her own party and then a dragon almost kills fluttershy as a result
>>41781878>Trixie changes too soon in the early-middle part of the fic.>>41781917>the middle part could've used more breathing roomHuh, I would have assumed that anons would have thought the story too slow or repetitive. I don't think Trixie getting over herself comes too soon, since she'd already been stranded in the wilderness for about a month and has her ego shattered multiple times upon coming back. I think anyone in such a psychologically weak circumstance would put up very little resistance to outside influence, even though (and maybe especially since) it goes against her whole prior personality. This also ties into what Twiflag notes with >>41782330>>RD fucks Trixie up and she just starts sobbing Fluttershy's name>kinoI would never have believed this had Trixie not already been at rock bottom. As it is, though, it is indeed kino. I agree that Trixie and Fluttershy's romance progresses a little fast, though; I don't think a romance would work based purely on their actions over the course of the story. Rather, there's necessarily some innate attraction between them to begin with that the author tries to emphasise, like Fluttershy admiring Trixie's independence and strength of character, or Trixie feeling touched that Fluttershy doesn't try to take advantage of her like every other pony she'd been vulnerable towards. Trixie's got some pretty low standards, though, if "she's a nice mare" is good enough to be a soul mate. If this were real life, you could easily make an argument that Fluttershy is taking advantage of Trixie to play out some rescue fantasy, like an idealised "you have to eat all the eggs" scenario. >>41781884Reading thread jinglemas fics sounds like fun! I am a little concerned, though; as >>41782014 puts it, will we really be able to keep up a good discussion if everyone has a stake? Potential shitshow, may be entertaining. >>41782321Lack of prescription stimulants + poor sleeping habits = strong bouts of daytime drowsiness
The club is alive. We should still become a marecocks general, though.
>>41782724>I'm biased towards TrixieIt's not biased, it's based.>even worst-mane-6 Fluttershy really shines hereThat's some serious praise for Pinkie Pie, who's even in this fic to make you question the first part of that sentence. Or maybe everyone sucks at writing her (most of the show staff included).>pegasus culture and the gifting of flight feathers was very interesting and added some depth Ha! I finally get to call you a newfag! Read more fics.>wouldn't be happy at being deceived into accepting what's essentially a marriage proposalKind of, yeah, but it's not committing Trixie to anything. RD makes it look like it is since she takes FS's side of "you can't leave her now, idiot", but Trixie hasn't accepted anything by then. It's more like FS calling dibs on Trixie, which is still a little wrong, but not as much.>The story is overwhelmingly "pony"Yes, it is.>>41782725>every single character in the fic is characterised extremely wellI was going to mention Pinkie being overly annoying (something Trixie herself notices) compared to the show, but I guess we just see her only in the more proactive moments, like she was in S1E01 and not like in, for example, S1E02.>it just barely ended up working out as a narrative elementI liked the fight. It's kind of over-the-top, yes, but those "action'y" finales can work fine as exciting and dynamic finales for calmer stories, and this story is a good example of it being done in a way that works.>I wish we got more stuff like this these days.Absolutely. It's the good kind of "old fic".>>41782744>AJ btfo trixie at her own party and then a dragon almost kills fluttershy as a resultAJ is very rough, but not as out of the line as you think she is, considering when it was written. And the dragon is a classic adventure finale to a lower states story. It can't be that over-the-top if the show has a scene not too different from this in an S1 episode.>>41782889>I don't think Trixie getting over herself comes too soon, since (...)I can buy this argument, but what I'm not seeing is that transitory period before she's "fixed". Trixie goes from denial/surprise to "whelp, guess I'm better now" in what feels like an instant. The most kino fic Eyes On You doesn't give her such a crushing backstory to work with so maybe that's why they're different, but Trixie spends a lot of that story understanding and working on her bad habits. Here, she just gets so impressed by tiny horse Jesus that she changes practically overnight. And the early parts of the fic aren't like this—it takes her a good amount of time to accept FS, understand her situation, and drop the act.>Fluttershy admiring Trixie's independenceI thought that was nice. You can already infer that from FS being close friends with RD in the show.>Fluttershy is taking advantage of Trixie to play out some rescue fantasy, like an idealised "you have to eat all the eggs"Now we finally know why FS keeps a full chicken coop despite living alone.
>>41781917>Ah... raging xenophobe ApplejackShe's got an accent and lives in the country, which means she MUST be a spiteful, backwards hick who shits on everything good and right in the world. I'm surprised this anti-rural view was already around in late 2011, since I associate it more with the mid-late 2010s social progressive movement. >>41781951>I think this is a good RD. Both the impulsiveness and how protective she acts about Fluttershy are in character.I agree; it's not that Rainbow's more rational, but that she's quicker to forgive. If anything she's less rational. >Why does FS need to pay for Trixie's life-saving surgery? Americans, please don't do this to ponies wtfEven without the parasitic American health insurance complex, doctors need to eat, and Equestria is not a welfare state. There's no suggestion that the price is anything exorbitant. >>41782330>mostly I'm just glad the story I skipped is over.It's a welcome change from Twilight and Shining talking about their attraction to each other in front of Cadence, or long, fetishistic scenes of "totally-not-clop". >how Fluttershy offering no push back on anything at all is somehow a perfect counter to Trixie being a niggerIt's really surprising how well this works as the foundation of the fic. Trixie making some big scene about something and Flutters just going "OK, if that's what you want" never really got old. >that means it wasn't a very good TrixieHow do you mean? I think this Trixie was perfectly within character given her shattered ego. Would you have preferred her to hold onto her airs for longer? >There was quite a bit of stuttering and pauses in the dialogueI think it works insofar as it tries to present the dialogue realistically, as well as emphasising how everything is still awkward in the early stages. Fluttershy and punished Trixie work especially well for this. I think the shift to "regular" dialogue feeling unnatural is just a consequence of the relatively sudden shift from awkward to sentimental that other anons have mentioned. >imagine walking up to someone during their own party while everypony is having fun with them and then tearing them down like thatMy biggest gripe with the fic is how out-of-character this felt for AJ. Even if she felt that strongly, which I don't think she should have, she has the social sense not to make a scene at a party like that. >she has lived quite luxuriously at some pointsHas she? Trixie went from orphan -> live-in maid -> hitchhiker -> struggling actor -> travelling magician. She never attended Celestia's school; she just stole books from her "mother" who taught there. >cap and hatI think it fits, since (this) Fluttershy never outright pushes Trixie to do anything. She gives Trixie absolute freedom, but wins Trixie over by making herself the best of every available option at every crossroads.
Judge a person based off their tastes:Guy1>Books/Authors: Fahrenheit 451, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Tom Stoppard, Ray Bradbury, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, H.P. Lovecraft, Samuel Beckett, John Milton, William Butler Yeats, and basically most peeps involved in Modernism/some Post-Modernism. Guy2>Authors: Douglas Adams, Ernest Hemingway, Bloomberg, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde>Books: 1984, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Fight Club, The Prince, The Art of War, A Clockwork Orange, Trainspotting, Catcher In The Rye, Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus>Poets: Oscar Wilde, Dante Alighieri, Edgar Allen Poe Playwrights: Arthur Miller, Oscar WildeGuy3>My favorite television shows are Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, The Walking Dead, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Babylon Five, Doctor Whooves, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, The Cleveland Show, Awake, Kings, Misfits, Falling Skies, Terra Nova, Firefly, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Suits. Favorite movies are Serenity, Star Wars, The Secret World of Arrietty, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Schindler's List, Flyboys, Monsters, Foals of Stallions, Tron, and of course, Dune.
>>41782982Guy 3 should be executed, the other two are on notice.
My favorite book is "The Stars My Destination" because I like the idea of a retard being that vengeful and single-minded about an inanimate object. >Vooooorga! There are some morals and shit like that later, but who cares? It’s Monte Cristo but fun, without the boring parts where you can tell it was paid by the word.
>>41782982None of them are schizo-autistic enough for me.
>>41782744>it would've been better for a self contained story if Zecora expressed some sort of concern that they were headed right for a dragon's hoard in ch1Agreed. I get that it's meant to be the same cave from "Owl's Well That Ends Well" but nothing in chapter 1 indicates this. There are only about 2 good scenes in that episode, anyway. >>41782945>That's some serious praise for Pinkie PieI'll give you that Pinkie's probably the worst-written M6 in this story in particular. If you mean in general, though, then you're out of your mind. >Or maybe everyone sucks at writing her (most of the show staff included).It's this. This is the answer. Well-written Pinkie is fabulous, but it's very difficult and not many people are competent enough (myself included). Zaid did her really well in K'awka Supay, though. >Ha! I finally get to call you a newfag! Read more fics.Aiieeee, it stings ^:)>those "action'y" finales can work fine as exciting and dynamic finales for calmer storiesIt works in the same way to how the Ursa Minor fight in "Boast Busters" worked, or the hydra in "Feeling Pinkie Keen". It would have been better with some more foreshadowing, though, like Twiflag said. >Here, she just gets so impressed by tiny horse Jesus that she changes practically overnight. And the early parts of the fic aren't like this...That is a good point. You're right that she does initially start off slower to change but then accelerates very quickly. You could even extend it to AJ or even Rainbow coming to accept Trixie very quickly (too quickly). I wrote it off during my read through, but I'll acknowledge that it is one of the main problems with the fic.
I've mentioned before that I want to write a FiW fic one day. It has occurred to me that if I do I can and maybe should write out any two related characters by having one flee Equestria after being outed as a paedophile and the other cut ties with everyone, refuse to acknowledge any previous involvement with the other character, and go into a sort of hermitic hiding only very sporadically coming out of it.
If you were trapped in my basement and were forced to write a fic about the zen Buddhist proverb “don’t confuse the finger pointing at the moon for the moon itself” what would you write?
>>41783064Based Bester fan. I like that book too.
>>41783428Honestly? It'd be something like>let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out>let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out>let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out>let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out>let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out
>>41783428Luna takes an upstart pony to tour the moon to show them just how awful it really was.
>>41783428Every single time you bring it up itt I am reminded of the main antagonist from the Witcher series (books), who repeatedly warns the protagonist about being out of his depth, and then when the protag finally makes a move and has his 'smart' plan collapse on him due to political intrigue and 5D chess plots that he was never even aware of, the villain tells him:>You’ve mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.The meaning here is not the same, but I wonder if the author took the inspiration from it.To answer the question and avoid making a purely off-topic post, it'd be an episode 1 AU where Twilight stays in Canterlot instead of going to Ponyville to prove that it is, in fact, possible for Nightmare Moon to exist and return from the Moon. She spends all fic trying to answer the "how", only to figure it out in the last scene, at the same time as the Eternal Night begins.
>>41781884Following up on the Jinglemas idea, some more to maybe consider:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/568787/the-cold-wind-blowshttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/569967/great-and-powerful-comeback-tour-one-night-onlyhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/569606/same-day-deliberationhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/569796/amazons-are-in-this-winterhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/569226/the-hearths-warming-horrorhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/569316/shining-and-crews-most-eventful-hearths-warmingBut again, it'd be better if other bookclub anons suggested some, too, since this way it feels like rigging a lot, e.g. not including any super short [Comedy][Random] that seem to be the most successful in the event.And *if* we want to read thread fics:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/568786/https://www.fimfiction.net/story/568876/ (EQG, sadly, so listed mainly for completeness)https://www.fimfiction.net/story/570093/https://www.fimfiction.net/story/570138/https://www.fimfiction.net/story/570169/If you're a Jinglemas /fimfic/er and not on the list, then congrats, it probably means you don't circlejerk enough for me to recognize (You).
>>41783428I'd write a story about annoying the foal in Princess Luna's belly by poking it with a finger.
>>41783721Who the daddy
Victory Everlasting is a good title. I should use it.
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>>41783822She's not good enough for her.
>>41783905>t. wilight
>>41783428I'd write a story in the vein of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". It starts with Applejack bringing some new kind of "apple" from the Everfree forest, obviously acting slightly off. She says they're the best "apples" she's ever had and that she's going to plant them. The new "apples" become more popular in Ponyville, and more and more of the populace "turns". The whole time, Pinkie tries to convince everypony that something's going wrong, but nopony believes her until she's the last one left. Now that I write this out, it's a lot like that season 6 episode (but hopefully better).
>>41783910Four out of five mares all agree that she's too good for her. The fifth is dead.
>>41783808I hope it's clop where a stallion named Victory never goes soft.
So what was up with Lucky Seven's nuclear meltdown?
>>41782982Can someone explain to me what the fuck kind of person puts those books/authors/tv shows/movies on their favourites list?
>>41783956What was up with your breakup?
>>41783976Which one?
>>41783978Uh, latest one.
>>41783985I think her near death experience in Canada made her ditch the kind of relationship we had, and she just came up with an excuse for it.
>>41782982I can get quite a few of these but to just like everything is nutty.Like sci-fi shows, Firefly/Serenity are classic but having all the shit like Terra Nova and Babylon Five in there?Man, at least have Andromeda and Farscape in there instead, they were worth a damn.
>>41782982>Doctor WhoovesDid you really make the substitution in your head?
>>41783985>discord turns ponies into the opposite of their normal selves>lyra becomes extremely homophobic>bon bon shows emotion
>>41783998How's the metal taste, nonny?
>>41784007Lyra is clearly a bi girlie, Discord should make her asexual. Bonnie is the dyke, and ironically the one who wears pants in the household.
>>41782982>guy 2>The Art of War>Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The BusA man of many talents
>>41784019actual lesbians (if they existed) >>>> "bisexual" women
>>41783985>>41784007>>41784019>>41784028they're both straight and you're all fucking queers
>>41783038>>41783070>>41783974>>41783998>>41784006>>41784021All of those are writers for Legends of Equestria.
>>41784052If I wanted to think I wouldn't be writing fanfic.
>>41783428I guess I should have explained what the proverb even means. It means don’t confuse the tool you use in relation to something for that something.Confusing an argument about a subject for the subject being argued about. A measurement of something for the thing being measured. A practice to achieve some end state for the end state itself.
>>41784057I wonder what the average Iq of people who have made my little pony fanfiction is. Assuming you exclude fics written by adolescents, only counting adults.
>>41784062We know what the saying means, we were just taking artistic liberties
https://legendsofequestria.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Ink>I'm Blue Ink and I'm the Public Relations Head for Legends of Equestria!The PR was in charge of game design and writing, let's see out of curiosity what he played and read.>Video Games: Miasmata, Spy Fox series, Pokemon (Gens 2, 3, 1, 4, 5, in that order), Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Series, Forget Me Not Annie, Portal 1/2, TF2, Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth, and Bioshock 1.>Books/Authors: Fahrenheit 451, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Tom Stoppard, Ray Bradbury, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, H.P. Lovecraft, Samuel Beckett, John Milton, William Butler Yeats, and basically most peeps involved in Modernism/some Post-Modernism.A combination of the most milquetoast video games and authors I've ever heard of. Nevermind that a PR should do PRing, not be in charge of controlling the game design and writers' direction.https://legendsofequestria.fandom.com/wiki/Bloomberg (no longer in charge, but still worth mentioning since most of the 100+ quests were completed back in 2017)>I lead the writing team, which gives me a fair amount of creative control over this projectAlright let's see his qualifications to be a lead writer.>Authors: Douglas Adams, Ernest Hemingway, Bloomberg, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde (put himself as author)>Philosophers: Socrates, Immanuel Kant, Gautama Buddha, Friedrich Nietzsche>Poets: Oscar Wilde, Dante Alighieri, Edgar Allen Poe Playwrights: Arthur Miller, Oscar WildeFriedrich Nietzsche and George Orwell ... when you're in charge of writing for a magical equine utopia? interesting, interesting.>Mythological Beasts: Cockatrice, Harpy, Manticore, Vampire, Leviathan, CerberusDistinct lack of unicorn and Pegasus.So most of the culture they have is in the minus , they have the culture of a pretentious teenager who pretends to read some books from which they don't understand anything just to pretend they're smart. This is the equivalent of bringing an abacus to a math class.They have the tastes of a wrinkly old man born in the 1930s books wise and games wise they don't enjoy video games.>Video Games: Killer7, Shadow Of The Collosus, No More Heroes, No More Heroes 2, Grim Fandango, Okami, Legends of Equestria>Video Game Developers: Goichi Suda, Tim Schafer, Fumito Ueda, Bloomberg (still puts himself here as if EA,Ubisoft,Valve won't laugh at it)Also a distinct lack of MMORPGs, RPGs or any games that promote imagination and critical thinknig.This one is hilarious too.https://legendsofequestria.fandom.com/wiki/WolfsGhost>I like sci-fi!!>reads Dune>plays the Elder Scrolls seriesUh huh, sure you do, bud. Like I said ... bringing an abacus in a math class.
>>41784082For a battle of wits, they are quite unprepared.But at least they've all got their game catalogues squared.
>>41784082I dunno Spy Fox was pretty good.
>>41784082>authors I've [n]ever heard ofGet thee hence to a library, thou miseducated varlet. Thou shouldst read those authors even if thou likest them not.
>>41784082Oh fuck, the LoE autist has escaped containment.
>>41781930Has anyone ever gotten to making an archive of those gdoc works? I know that some of them were reposted to Fimfiction, but quite a few of those were altered from the originals to try and better fit with the show canon as it updated, such as with those old Luna fics like Past Sins to name one example. I've tried search up Equestria Daily to some very limited success, and there's an archive containing a lot of old fandom works such as https://www.deviantart.com/jlryan/gallery/36883186/ereader-ready-ponyfic-pdf-s. But there are quite a few others that have slipped by for one reason or another. As is, searching Equestria Daily for those old works is a bit of a pain. So far I've been lucky in the couple fics I have managed to find still being up, but I have to assume that there are other links that have either rotted out or have become inaccessible for any number of reasons. So it'd be nice if there were an already existing archive of the stuff from 2011, if nothing else. Speaking of finding fics, I am trying to find one of the first Sparkler/Derpy Mother/Daughter fics from that point in time. I recall it being decent enough with the emotional beats of Sparkler finally being adopted by Derpy Hooves at a time before she aged out of the system, Sparkler managing to find her place within the Hooves family, but not much beyond. Any of you happen to know of an S1 fic by that description? Or at least, some better search parameters to make it so browsing Equestria Daily to find it isn't such a pain?
>>41784229Ohshitoffuck someone get her out of there.
>>41784140Better than Nu-Bond, certainly.
>>41781878> Is this where it started?The feather thing was super common back in the day. I'm pretty sure it was a oneshot Dash shipfic that really popularized it, but like stuff like wingblades, I think it was a concept that had been floating around in lesser known stories before bigger authors grabbed onto the idea for their fics and it really took off.>>41782982>Guy 1/lit/ incarnate. I'm shocked he doesn't have Infinite Jest on the list.>Guy 2Strong redditor vibes. Including poets and playwrights causes my gaydar to blare.>Guy 3Neckbeard but that's obvious. He's got Caprica on the list. Even most sci-fi fags have no idea that existed.>>41783956Is that an author or another "FO:E but I'm going to fix everything that was shit" fics?>>41784263https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Pony_Fiction_Archive/worksThe Pony Fiction Archive might have some, but good luck sorting through that AO3 hellscape finding them.>sparkler fichttps://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/11/story-my-sweetie_22.htmlThis it? Seems to match the closest from the synopsis. If not...https://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/09/eqd-super-simple-archiver-test.html?c=derpy-hoovesIs every fic on EQD with Derpy as a character. No Sparkler tag, I'm afraid. You could also try something like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aequestriadaily.com+sparkler+adoption+fanfic And play around with the search terms to see what comes up.
>>41784406I think you got it, thanks mate!Yeah... This definitely one of, if not the fics I remember reading back in the day. Brings back memories when I first started browsing the site back in 2011. MLP fics back in the day were just magical in a way that the modern day has not been able to recapture. It's nice, going back down memory lane. I'll look into the other search parameters you have provided. They'll be most helpful.In return, I'll provide another work for you to read if you are up for it. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/78117/the-irony-of-applejackOut of all the "X was actually a changeling all along", I can vouch for this one being one of the better contenders. Without spoiling too much, I enjoy how the fic plays with the dynamic of Applejack dealing with being a changeling queen in the aftermath of the Canterlot wedding episode, conflicting with her Element of Honesty, and dealing with other shenanigans as the plot piles on. There's just something about fics of the S1-S2 era back before Twilight became an alicorn that lent some ascension or "shift" for one of the characters more weight than it would do so today. Twilight, while still there acting as a strong supporting character, does not take away the spotlight by here mere presence as she would be as an alicorn. It might be my personal bias, but the sequel really didn't do it for me from what little I read of it. It attempted to incorporate the newer canon post ascension, but... It was not my taste to put it politely. But if that is no issue for you, then the sequel should be just fine as another read. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/133387/love-loss-and-apples is another fic featuring Applejack, this time shipped with Soarin. It's one of the two fics that pioneered the ship in question, and it does a splendid job of it. It's a simple but straightforward ship fic for the pairing. It isn't going to knock your socks off with any unexpected revelations or the like, but it does what it sets out to do competently. If you are looking for a decent ship fic, it's hard to go wrong with this SoarinJack pairing. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/52953/without-a-hive is another changeling classic, written back on /mlp/ way back in the day before being translated into prose form. While I have not been able to find the thread in question, the reactions were quite positive back in the day. Without spoiling the work, the fic does a fantastic job of detailing the MC's journey as they struggle to adapt to pony society while keeping their cover, all the while developing as their own individual as a pony and becoming attached. The dynamic they have with their would be target is a slow burn, but it manages to pay for the effort with every chapter. If you have an afternoon to burn and are itching for something decent with changelings, I'd add this one to the pile along with The Irony of Applejack. Again, thank you for the help. I appreciate it.
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>>41784266I will kill anime and make you watch.
>>41784047Stop fucking invading every thread you retard.
Fics about unrelentingly raging against the black gaping maw of nihilism?
>>41784406>Is thatAuthor, had a decent following, hosted some contests and had popular fics. Then he (relatively recently) became a moderator on Fimmy (yes, an actual new mod) and proceeded to have a meltdown so fast and critical that he didn't just wipe out everything on his every account related to pony including the accounts themselves, but some people barely even realised it had happened or missed it entirely, and no one I've seen even knows what triggered it.
>>41784962Anthro Lyra.
>>41784993Machina Cor Armageddon Behemoth
>>41784962You are on the wrong site, buddy.
>>41784101>But at least they've all got their game catalogues squared.Yeah they've got the "normie pretending he's smart by playing Portal" starter pack. :)) those are the crappiest, most common, most generic games you could put on a list if I was to judge you as a game designer. Nevermind it's a tiny list, it's a shitty list, you would not get the job as designer if you gave me those games, neither as a writer if you gave me those authors.>>41784149I've heard of them, they all suck to a grown ass intellectual and you're a pretentious teenager who tries to appeal smart. Americans have worse literature than the British and the British's literature is bottom of the barrel.What I said before applies: "Like bringing an abacus to a math class".Imagine being born between 80-2015s and the books you read and consider high literature are the most milquetoast generic shit and school-assigned garbage you could possibly read. Soon you'll tell me Huckleberry Finn is the pinnacle of literature. Anglos have nothing to do with literature, nothing at all. Then imagine having so many good French authors and what do you read from all those great French authors? Jules Verne in your fucking 20s as a young adult. Are you still sucking your thumb in 6th grade to read Jules Verne? what about great Spanish authors? You'll tell me Miguel de Cervantes, seriously? I mean if you're a 14 year old, sure.
Imagine not having a personal library or your 80 year old dying grandpas having a shit library collection and presenting that to various people pretending you're some high intellect only to get laughed at how redneck and anti intellectual you are just like /lit/. Imagine freshly getting out of college after being forced to write an essay about 1-2 works about Geoffrey Chaucer and Emily Brontë's works and watching their equivalent movie adaptions and then presenting those as your favourite authors and saying "I'm an le intellectual, zu understandu? I'm die intellect!" you're where intellect went to die. I remember visiting /mu/ and /lit/ a few times and Jesus Christ of Bethlehem. /mu/ reminded me of my mentally retarded elementary teacher who was listening to static on the TV and /lit/ reminded me of some redneck reading the bible and calling himself educated.
>>41785049>>41785076Class, note how he has not listed any of those "quality french and spanish authors", ONLY the popular ones.Clearly, he's trying to appear smarter than he is by pretending he isn't exactly alike the rest.
Ignore and report.
>>41785007The lesser of two evils.
>>41785302Impossible. Anthro is always the ultimate evil.
>>41785315That makes it hotter.
>>41784993I think fics about raging against the blacks get deleted.
The pattern was broken...
>>41785366>ten years and the author still can't spell right
>>41785049>I've heard of themBut not read them, clearly, because you have no substantive criticisms. Or do you? Do you really think A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man sucks? Do you even know what it's about (hint: nobody gets a portrait)? Also,>Cervantes is for 14 year oldspicrel
>>41784993All of mine. I'm a student of the New Sincerity.
>>41785407>Anthro
>>41785449You're almost as annoying as the HiE hating hebe.
>>41785455Both of them are right, and neither is a single poster.Although bitching about joke edits is a step too far.
>>41781884>>41783680If absolutely no one has any suggestions or objections, those add up to a little under 80k (13 stories) assuming we read the thread's authors, or ~50k (9 fics) if we don't.So it's at least two weeks either way, and ideally three, I think. Which do you (asking those who want to participate) prefer? And should we do them in a row while we're still in the season, or spaced out with some larger fics from the regular list?
>>41783680>my fic's first despite being published lastEbin.>>41785547I say we devote the next week to threadfics, cool off with a regular club, and wrap it up with the non-thread Jingles. What better way to greet the new year than by circlejerking as hard as possible?
>>41785547We should double check if there aren't any newer ones worth reading too.
>>41785681We'd need a list of authors still active first
>>41785681I still maintain that a week of 9 fics at once would be a complete mess, so if we're doing the self-sucking thing, 3 weeks is a must, imo.>next week to threadfics,That's an option, though spacing them out (1 or 2 per week) could maybe feel less cirlejerky. Plus, spacing them is smart since the ones written by the thread anons are surely going to be the best ones, right?>>41785697If you see anything, just post it here.Again, the "scouting" being done by one guy (me) invites a lot of bias (e.g., longer fics go up, [Comedy][Random] go down). Of the new ones, this one could be neat:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/570314/regifting
>>41785744I so do despise this chromatic aberration trend, especially when the >>>artist has no idea what it's supposed to look like. Making a red-tinted copy of your lineart layer isn't right in any sense of the word, it isn't even eyecatching--it just makes it obvious your mother drank too much during pregnancy.
>>41785785Counterpoint: hares.
>>41785785>he says, posting zebradom garbage
>>41785810It's depressingly impressive that in a setting with no BBC garbage faggots still found a way to try and insert it.
Well I just finished “pregnant nose knows” and thought it was pretty decent. Lots of sentimental or even cloying slice of life shit. it got a little tiring but it occasionally executes a couple of great moments. If it weren’t for the multiple subplots I might have found it too boring to finish. The earlier fics already laid out the majority of the relevant plot and character details so there wasn’t as much new shit going on, just coasting on previously established ones if that makes sense. I guess I’m just more interested in technical autistic plot and setting related shit and if it’s not in that frame I struggle to be invested. Still care enough that I’m moving on to the next fic in the series though.
>>41785820It's a shame there's just not more longfics in that vein. I guess the one with the schoolteacher and Twilight.
>>41785810All maledom is good.
>>41785863Not when you start fetishizing raceplay, objectification, corruption, extreme sluttery, maybe NTR(?), and whatever else it is that zebradom enjoyers see in it. Just a really poor fetish all around, and one that has no basis whatsoever in Equestria, as >>41785819 said.
>>41785888>objectification, corruption, extreme slutteryLiterally all good things.
>>41785863>>41785888It's bestiality.
>>41785927I knew someone would say that. But even if you have terminally bad taste like that, you're still left with the weirdly racist angle forced onto Equestria.
>>41785967You're one to talk about taste.
>>41785967The racism is entirely Lauren's fault for making Zecora as stereotypically black as possible.
>>41785981Someone with the correct opinion has to speak up sometimes.>>41785991It is her and the team's fault for sure (insert random Swahili mumbling here), but I'm convinced our american brothers would find a way to shove their favorite fetish in even if Zecora didn't exist.
>>41786014I'm surprised with the wave of refugees coming from the middle east in the last couple of years, you'd think someone would've done that kind of stories with the Saddle Arabian horses.It's good that they didn't, though. Those horses are very pretty and don't deserve to be dragged into raceplay..
>>41785863>argument from definition
>>41784501I've shilled Phoenix_Dragon fics here before, Without a Hive and its sequel is a good fic. There are are a lot of good things about the way he writes changelings, he's particularly good at writing their attitude towards ponies as food while living among them and interacting with them.His fic, Fo:E The Chrysalis is the same story written significantly better, though. He learned a lot of lessons about pacing and keeping the story on track while writing those previous longfics and applied an even more refined collection of headcanons on changelings to The Chrysalis.
Rolled 4, 5 = 9 (2d6)It'd be good to have a bookclub plan ready for the next thread and we're 1 post from bump limit, so how about this:>3 weeks of Jinglemas fics>3 non-thread fics and 1-2 random thread fics each week>chosen randomly, keeping word counts similar (see picrel for autistic explanation)>obviously (You) don't have to read all of them, e.g. if you only want to circleje— participate in thread fic discussion>regular, non-Jinglemas fics in between Jinglemas weeksWe can always pivot away from that last point on Sunday, if that's preferable.
>>41786205Now add the remaining thread fics.
>>41786210Other than the one eqgfic, those are all the Jinglemas thread fics that I'm aware of. Are there any that I missed?If you're talking about the eqg one, then, well, the bookclub has kept away from eqg since the beginning, but if anons on week 1 want it, I suppose it would be correct to add it. It's an unfortunate situation either way.
>>41786222You will read the EQG fic and you will like it.
>>41786227which one now?
>>41786750The one.
>>41781884>>41786205I realized this might not be super clear, so to sum it up:Week 1:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/569606/same-day-deliberationhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/570314/regiftinghttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/569967/great-and-powerful-comeback-tour-one-night-onlyhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/570138/present-virtueshttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/568786/salvation-aviationWeek 2:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/569844/villa-ocasohttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/569316/shining-and-crews-most-eventful-hearths-warminghttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/568787/the-cold-wind-blowshttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/570169/beneath-the-northern-skies(maybe the eqgfic, but hopefully maybe not)Week 3:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/569749/merry-mail-mysteryhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/569821/looping-over-feelinghttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/569796/amazons-are-in-this-winterhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/569226/the-hearths-warming-horrorhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/570093/princess-cadance-and-the-wishing-tree
>Let’s rip the bandaid off now: this is an Anon-A-Miss story, and it eventually becomes clear that Sunset committed suicide. For those of you tired of anything and everything Anon-A-Miss, this may be a dealbreaker. Normally it would be for me as well, but Duck does such a fantastic job with the overall concept that I’m more than willing to forgive..Do people really hate anonymous stories so much? Is this common? Does it applies to all HiE stories or is it just if it's Anonymous people don't like it?
>>41786978Anon, you picked the right (wrong) thread to ask that.Generally speaking, fimfic's "masses" love Anonslop a lot and prop the genre as the most popular and the most sloppy thing on the site. On the other hand, pretty much anyone with the ability to read is annoyed by how garbage these fics are in 99% of cases. This is a sentiment shared by almost every writer worth their salt.HiEs are a little more tolerated, in that you'll find a decent amount of people defending them with "but it's not just cheap and poor self-inserts", but since that's the vast majority of the genre's stories, in addition to its other problems, the more discerning readers and writers will often look down on the genre as a whole. And they're not really wrong, though it's a symptom of a problem much larger than our little horse site.
>>41786978Anon... Anon-a-Miss is not about and has nothing to do with Anonymous.
>>41787000>responding seriouslyFull retard moment
>>41787027I see it now. I am not well-versed in eqg fan lore.
>10Is anyone baking?
>>41787051I'm making crossaint egg boats, but that's not baking.
>>41787027>>41787032Honestly I was the retard here. I was unfamiliar with EQG myself and I appreciate your response. I'll watch EQG so this kind of thing doesn't happen again.
>>41787073The first movie is definitely shit, so don't worry.
>>41787073You don't really need to watch it.
>>41787073Anon don't subject yourself to cancer.
>>41787079>>41787079>>41787079>>41787079>>41787079
>>41787032>>41787073You don't even have to like EQG to know how new you are
>>41787102Been on the board for almost eleven years, anon. I've always avoided anything eqg like fire, which includes that general.
>>41785785>>41785863You're a nigger.
>>41787073Unfortunately AAM is a comics thing.
