ITT: Crying at numbers, pregnancy is a beautifully abusive thing, remasters, Best Yu-Gi-Oh!, conflict or the lack thereof, dark triads, pony isekai, cousins, a book, bang bang Scootaloo with a hammer, and last minute threads.>/fimfic/ Secret Book ClubThe one hundred and nineteenth book is The Bug in the Cave:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/455858/the-bug-in-the-caveIf (You) want to join in the discussion, read the whole thing for the 24thPast bookclubs: https://ponepaste.org/11255>Recommended stories:Tired of authors crossing over a dozen IPs? Fed up with downer shipping? 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>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/>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/Vhatug's tips for anatomically correct clop - https://poneb.in/g4VpEg4f>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:
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The book is out
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>>42483199Out of this world!
>>42483212Waiting for it to 404 is a statement about the ITT.
Fics where Scootabusers get what's coming to them?
>>42483245Pegasus Device?
>>42483245If a scootadopt story doesn't end with Twilight killing her abusive dad horribly it's not a proper scootadopt story.
>>42483245>get what's coming to themYou don't have to censor yourself around us, anon. You can just say they get to fuck her.
>>42483199Reposting this >>42429973 in the new thread...The book's out! Hold Your Horsewords is out! 278 pages of horsey-wordy goodness, $8.58 (plus shipping) of your hard-earned cash. See our satisfied customers:>>42454061>>42476704>>42477535Order a physical print copy here:>https://www.lulu.com/shop/fimfic/hold-your-horsewords/paperback/product-yvyw4kj.htmlor download the complete, free PDF here:>https://files.catbox.moe/0gwkab.zipAlternatively, buy a copy at Mare Fair! (Vendor hall on Friday.) All profits go go charity.
>>42483392I know you struggle with ambiguity, but this is absurd. It means what it says.>ScootabusersThis is referring to fictional characters in shitquestria fics who abuse Scootaloo>what's coming to themThis is referring to those things that read said shitquestria fics for sexual gratification.>getMeans "to gain possession of">>42483245 is asking for a variation on HiE where instead of going to Equestria, the things which read Scootabuse fics are delivered to the abusers in shitquestria, and expire under the ministrations of their new owners. That means they die.
>>42483496Everypony dies someday.
>decide to read anemoia since i know the bookclub read it at some point >muh king is… le bad!>muh “”””””””oppression””””””>muh “””””stolen wealth”””””Dropped.
Got a fanarts>>42483476Got my copy. Was impressed by the quality, but then again my only experience with stuff like this has been Vistaprint which... eh.
>>42483496I know you struggle with reading comprehension, but this is absurd. It means what it says.>ScootabusersThis is referring to fictional characters in shitquestria fics who abuse Scootaloo>what's coming to themThis is referring to the sex that Scootabusers deserve.>getMeans "to gain possession of">>42483245 is asking for porn where, instead of getting sent to jail or subject to vigilante justice, Scootabusers instead get to fuck Scootaloo.That means >rape.
>>42483523No, I meant death.
>>42483537Then you used the wrong word.
>>42483555No, I did not.
>>42483516Read it as a Frostpunk crossover AU fic and it becomes much better.
>>42483520Cute milfbreaker
>>42483559>milfbreakerYour dick would melt
>>42483516That sounds promising, I think I'll read it now.
>>42483557Yes, you did.
>>42483497>mortallets
>>42483559>Milfbreaker>She breaks in milfs
>>42483669They say that Celestia exercised her monarcharial rights all too often in the past, and that's why there are so many white unicorns.
>>42483561A worthy death.
>>42483709You can survive dick-melting.
>>42483718Name one (1) death better than dying by making edgy Celestia cum.
>>42483767You could make edgy Celestia cum and not die.
>>42483771How? She dies (cumming her brains out) every time I try it.
What do you think of these writing suggestions?Writing Guides:Clever Dick's Tips For Short Stories -- https://ponepaste.org/1274Driverbang's Writing Guide -- https://ponepaste.org/1275Navarone's Writing Rules -- https://ponepaste.org/1276
>>42425453Okay, I finished it. I started it, forgot about it, and then finished in two days worth of free time. I liked Steinbeck's writing. It was very clean and pointed. However, I am still uncertain if reading domestic fiction set in rural America was the best strategy for gaining inspiration for writing the Apples.
>>42483767Dying by making edgy Celestia and edgy Luna cum.
>>42483767Dying by edging with edgy Celestia
Come one and all to the meta-writefriend and help raise the quality of MLP fanfiction! Featuring: re-adding the purged, useful links.Fics discussed:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/502583/the-diarchyhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/48108/statisticshttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/75199/asylumhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/216402/twilights-worldhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/581446/my-little-pony-arc-v-legendshttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/249782/magical-mystery-oopshttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/539441/a-dubious-welcomehttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/455858/the-bug-in-the-cavehttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/581114/i-took-a-slight-tumble-onto-an-active-roadway-and-got-magically-reincarnated-into-a-different-world-based-upon-the-show-my-https://www.fimfiction.net/user/173490/Starscribe/stories>/fimfic/ Secret Book ClubThe one hundred and nineteenth book is The Bug in the Cave:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/455858/the-bug-in-the-caveIf (You) want to join in the discussion, read the whole damn fic by August 24thPast bookclubs: https://ponepaste.org/11255>Recommended stories:Tired of authors crossing over a dozen IPs? Fed up with downer shipping? 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/>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/ufO8LbwTdu0Purdue Online Writing resources: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/index.html and https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/creative_writing/writers/index.html>Can you pre-read my story?Post it on Google Docs or HackMD with comments enabled and give us a link.>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: >>42456389
>>42484046>Clever Dick's Tips For Short Stories -- https://ponepaste.org/1274'sokay i guess.>Driverbang's Writing Guide -- https://ponepaste.org/1275This is specific to Flutterrape greentexts. Don't think it's really the thing here.>Navarone's Writing Rules -- https://ponepaste.org/1276Meh. Some folks might benefit from the dialogue punctuation section at the start. The rest is kind of a jumble and overly greentext focused.
>>42484551>The Diarchy was discussedWhen did that happen? I feel like I'd have noticed the thread shitting on that given I put it out in 5 seconds and you fall over commas every 1 second.
>>42484238Most Apples are mentally disabled, like Lennie.
>>42484551>meta-writefriendWe're not friendly here.>Fics discussed:And we don't discuss fics.>Fluffy Pancake RecipeI thought we were getting rid of shit, not adding more.>>42484046>Clever Dick's Tips For Short Stories -- https://ponepaste.org/1274Mid-tier writing advice. Not bad, but not worth directing people to.>Driverbang's Writing Guide -- https://ponepaste.org/1275This is mostly about Fluterrape with a little bit about writing in general. Not relevant to this thread.>Navarone's Writing Rules -- https://ponepaste.org/1276Actually misspells "Charles Dickins".I'll post my preferred version in a moment.
Come one and all to the meta-writefag and help raise the quality of MLP fanfiction! Featuring: A new and improved OP!ITT: Faggotry>/fimfic/ Secret Book ClubThe one hundred and nineteenth book is The Bug in the Cave:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/455858/the-bug-in-the-caveIf (You) want to join in the discussion, read the whole fic by August 24th.Past bookclubs: https://ponepaste.org/11255>Recommended stories:Tired of authors crossing over a dozen IPs? Fed up with downer shipping? 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/>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/Vhatug's tips for anatomically correct clop - https://poneb.in/g4VpEg4fSetting a story in motion - https://youtu.be/ufO8LbwTdu0Purdue Online Writing resources: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/index.html and https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/creative_writing/writers/index.html>Can you pre-read my story?Post it on Google Docs or HackMD with comments enabled and give us a link.>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: >>42456389
On the topic of fics that are never going to be finished, has anyone here read this?https://www.fimfiction.net/story/18256/this-platinum-crownIt's a sequel to The Best Night Ever from the same guy, nearly 900k words adventure epic about Blueblood and co. written over the course of almost 7 years before being abandoned in 2019 during the final arc. I'm curious about it because the premise looks interesting and I expect goid things from the TBNE guy, but it's in a really unique and awkward position of being a fucking behemoth of a story and unfinished at the same time. The author hasn't been on Fimfic in over a year, too.
>>42484577I like this one, can we do this one for the next thread?
Are there any G1 only fics. I know some G1 G4 crossovers but I'm talking a pure G1 story.
>>42484558>>42458207 discussed it, part of a chain on that kind of fic.
>>42484694Yeah, look here.https://www.fimfiction.net/group/1086/g1-ponies-credit-where-its-due
>>42484754>the purest g1 fic on fimfiction is a 7x isekaiOf course.
>>42484706hey speaking of that chain where are the lewd fics about OP princesses
>>42484801https://www.fimfiction.net/story/94526/twilights-plan
>>42483516That is so very not what the story is about that I'm shocked you could even come to this conclusion. It baits with that and toys with the idea before saying that actually this was not good at all. If you think the fic is in support of them, then you have the same brain disease twitter leftists have, the one where you browse every aspect of your life through the lens of their political denomination. The first contact between the botmare and the fake commies is essentially her going "wtf these retards are so dumb; the king did things so much better!" twenty times in a chapter, and IIRC they're consistently incompetent all fic, leaving Bit to do everything by herself (using the pre-commie lore).There is actually a plot point where Bit fixes a heating station after the commies admit that they murdered everyone who knew how to use it during the "oppressive system" rule, and then they started dying from cold by the hundreds when they couldn't fix it.
>>42485090Didn’t read.
>>42485090That poster is too stupid to parse the themes in Anemoia, but you should have recognized that it was just jumping on the "Starscribe is not valid" train from last thread, and bait.
>>42485105>Didn’t read.Yes, you've made your lack of the ability apparent with the first post.
>>42484463You could just survive it. Do you not want to bask in Daybreaker's afterglow as she talks about what to name your foals? Coward.
I have decent IQ and a good grasp of the English language but zero motivationShould I launch an LLM writing career with a view to somehow wrangle it to produce semi-inspired prose rather than just unsupervised slop
>>42485141You should kill yourself and save me the trouble.
>>42485141>I have a decent IQ>Should I launch an LLM writing career
Wanna get back into writing housewords but it's been so long since I last watched the show that I'll probably forget important details. Maybe just adding the AU tag will cover me
>>42485456>it's been so long>since I last watch-ed the show>that I'll proba-bly >forget important de-tailsIt kinda fits.
>>42485463Did you just throw a FNAF reference at me, motherfucker?
>>42485539Yes.
>>42485560Clever, ngl
>>42485446intelligence does not imply wisdom
TIL one line that long perplexed me in Pegasus Device was possibly a House reference.
If you guys can't even copy a cartoonist's writing style then you have no business writing. Try to copy the works of Renzetti and Faust 90% with their exact dialogue style.
https://m.fanfiction.net/crossovers/My-Little-Pony/621/>Pippi Longstocking: 119What the fuck? They're all by the same guy, too.
>>42485777IDC they're all by the same guy I'm going to go tell FoE that their subfandom is smaller than Pippi fucking Longstocking.
>>42483187Anyone have good recs for a “Dazzlings win” story?
>>42485777>What the fuck?>They're all by the same guyI feel like the second part pretty thoroughly answers the first. Checked btw.
Fics with criminal activities?
>>42485777Nice digits.Also, is there a single crossover fic that is actually worth reading?
>>42485777When you go Pooh's Adventures, you never know where you end up. But if there's one essential rule of the Internet it's that every kids show has at least one deviantart tier weirdo obsessed with it, no matter how obscure or bad it is.
>>42485988The only obvious choice is RaF.Depending on your strictness regarding the definition of a crossover, you could maybe add The Best of All Possible Worlds (crossing over Voltaire) and MCA (crossing over NGE and a few others) as two more good-to-very-good fics.It's indeed one of the worst genres, but there are a number of fine-to-decent crossover fics that I would call "worth reading", particularly if you're interested in the thing that's being crossed over to ponies.
>>42485988Yeah. I'm actually planning a whole alt dedicated to just crossover fics.
>>42485988My Morrowind crossover will knock your netch leather socks off. When it's done.
Has anyone started on his story for the anthology yet?
>>42486189My mind-womb has been feeling barren as of late. Like I've hit fimmy menupause.
>>42486189Fuck buddy I got like seven other projects, you expect me to lug around another?
>>42485988Stardust is my default answer. It's been over a decade since I first read it, and I think I've only done one re-read. Due for another, I thinkI remember this one being entertaining.https://www.fimfiction.net/story/378213/wonka-vs-applejackI remember this one for it's action scenes. The story parts were probably good too.https://www.fimfiction.net/story/474178/the-black-between-the-stars>>42486173Well, we have this to tide everyone over until thenhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/29408/shed-your-travails
>>42486189I have written down the premise and most of the plan, but I need to turn it into a lot more words.
>>42485988Stardust yeahI've heard good things about the Blueblood Papers, though I haven't read it myself
>>42485714Which one?
>>424858381) Dazzlings Make It Big, but it's just a coom giantess fetish story2) You'd be better off asking in their dedicated general, this place rarely discusses EQG
>>42486410We rarely get eqg stories period, and mostly it's just shimmy whimmy
>>42486403"I have tenure."
Recommend me some good Nightmare Moon fics.
>>42486469past sins
>>42486189I'm about 40% of the way into mine, but I think I need to think of a punchier ending.
>>42486189Kek, what do you think, buddy?
>>42486562Do you like Kiwi by chance?
>>42486410Oh yeah I remember that one
>>42486469ITCON
>>42486566The fruit? Quite a bit. The race of people? That's debatable.
>>42486425>It's mostly just the one unique element of eqgYeah no shit?
>>42484588From what I've heard, it basically just had the denouement and epilogue left, but that might be copium from BNEfags. I'm still not going to read it because a deadfic is a deafic, even if it allegedly only has a single chapter left.>hasn't been on Fimfic in over a yearNot a blog post or anything, either, so the probably of never logging on again is very high.>>42485141>LLM writing careerWhy? The whole point of the hobby is to have fun writing. If you want to spend all your time editing a shitty story something else wrote, just become a prereader.>>42485777>One Piece has less MLP crossovers than WarhammerI'm shocked. I would have thought the anime autism and general themes of friendship being a powerful force would have really boosted it.>>42485972https://www.fimfiction.net/story/193262/do-changelings-dream-of-twinkling-stars>>42486189I still only have the ending finished. I got a Plan B if the muse doesn't strike, but it's pretty shit.
Read this. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/192497/how-many-friends-have-you-made-today Wasn’t as bad is I expected but I don’t recommend it. I don’t think I need to elaborate why. It did have some nice moments though. And this line goes kinda hard not gonna lie.
>>42486625The bottom?
>>42486625>raceThey’re literally just anglos. Well most of the people there. For now.
>>42487410You need to read more.
>>42485838Not a Dazzlings win story, or even about them, buthttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/461774/dance-of-the-sirens-an-adventure-of-plainity-and-eyepatchincludes a folktale where the Dazzlings beat up Starswirl the Bearded.
I'm always surprised by how much you can make your fic stand above the rest by simply writing the entire thing before you publish any of it.
>>42487146One Piece is normie media.MLP and Warhammer are not.
>>42488094Warhammer is normie as fuck
>>42488147Then why is there no Warhammer movie?
>>42488046Toldya
>>42488207There have been a few, they're just really shit.Also 40k is normie now, but it didn't used to be. Such is the fate of anything that gets too popular.
>>42487557They're the Canadians of Oceania, down to the irresistible drive to kill one another.
>>42488370Are you completely delusional? Leafs are some of the most cucked people in history.
>>42488507They may disguise their bloodlust as "healthcare", but it's bloodlust all the same.
>>42488591There’s a big difference between killing yourself and killing other people. The fact that it’s through a soulless bureaucratic system doesn’t change that.
>>42480188I wonder if this is what the Bleach author did.
>>42486108The thing with crossovers is that 99% is crap but the 1% that isn't is pure fucking gold. There are no good crossover fics. Only bad and amazing.
>>42486097I can understand this happening to a teenager, but I don't understand it persisting to adulthood. I can't imagine being 35 and drawing fan art of The Mummy Animated Series.
>>42483187>Best Yu-Gi-Oh!Probably 5Ds. DM and the one before that are better read than watched, GX took too long to find its feet, only Zexal II was great, and everyone agrees that Arc-V and everything after were a wreck.
>>42486615Expand
>>42489183Early 5Ds is the best but the latter portions are utter slop.
>>42489141It's called autism. Not meme chan 'tism, actual autism.>>42489108He's an unfortunate victim of the SJ schedule. One of many. Early Bleach was pretty alright. Good, even. But barely any authors can sustain that schedule (and by barely any I mean there's like two people I can think of who managed to do it well for long periods of time).
>>42489250see >>39145551NMM starts becoming relevant at the second inflection point I mentioned, "The Aspects Of The Night"
>>42489392Got it.See you in three years when I get around to it
Chapter 6 of Nineteen Eighty-Four is only four pages. This strikes me. I regularly see fimfic chapters approach or break 10,000 words.
>>42486108Usually a crossover refers to other fictional works. Voltaire and other fics with real life people like that don't really work. You can't really call something like A Great Endeavor a crossover.
>>42489415>he thinks history is real >>42489409Depends, really. 40k words is the Hugo cutoff for what constitutes a novel, for example, but chapter sizes can be more varied even in "real" fiction. For example Les Mis has 365 relatively short chapters (they average a little less than 1.8k words each), which is noted as peculiar when talking about it. Meanwhile LotR's longest chapter is over 16k words long (nearly a novella's worth by itself), with the second longest at about 13k and the shorter ones mostly around 5k.
>>42489409I once saw a chapter that was like 240k but I cannot remember the story.
>>42489141Congratulations, you're not that kind of autistic.
>>42489415>Voltaire and other fics with real life people like that don't really work.Most of them don't, and I get not calling that fic a crossover if you're a tag purist, but TBoAPW had an extremely overtly "I put the thing I liked into the pony world" feeling to it, confirmed later by some of the A/Ns. The goal of the story was to have a character the author liked interact with ponies, full stop. Real-world history is, at best, a tool and a tangentially related background to that fic. In fact, because of the temporal and causal fuckups, for much of the fic the human world is in an AU where a human-speaking donkey takes Frederick the Great's place as the King of Prussia. A Great Endeavor is most likely about ponies in a real historical event—TBoAPW is about taking the concept of a character that the author thought could be interesting in Equestria and exploring it further. That's why I called it a crossover.
>>42489141Some anon claiming to be the guy who wrote the cupcakes fanfic is apparently probably in his early 40’s and watched The Amazing Digital Circus.
>>42489805>watched The Amazing Digital CircusSo did lots of people. Hell I was listening to Gooseworx's music back when they had 3k subs and only did Banjo Tooie orchestrations.
>>42489805On that topic, The Amazing Digital Circus is incredibly well done.
>>42489904>It’s meaningless neurotic hysterical nihilistic slop.Fics for this feeling?
>>42489966https://www.fimfiction.net/story/500819/
Human vs Pony fics like to make ponies racist, but are there any authors that put on their big boy pants and made the ponies hate certain types of humans more than others? I imagine that a race coming from a different dimension could form some fun opinions about the different races of humans in a cultural vacuum.
>>42490069Please, pitch us all your fic about why ponies would hate all the same people you do. I'm sure it's absolutely full of creativity and potential.
>>42490072You seem a little slow so I'll be more clear. Has anyone written about this topic? Do you have a recommendation? I'm interested in seeing it.
>>42490083We prefer to use the term "differently abled" here.
>>42490090The term is "Scootaloo"
>>42490083>Has anyone written about this topic?Why would they? Nobody else (rightfully) is interested in this kind of autism.
>>42490090Yeah you’re differently abled alright.
>>42490069Theres probably some pony on earth fic that does it but i dont know of it.
>>42490069>Fire leapt from Twilight's eyes. "My fellow ponies, some of these apes are not your friends. They cannot be trusted. They will set fire to your homes. They will kill you and feed on the corpses of your loved ones. And who are these apes, you ask? What creatures could be so dangerous? I'll tell you: The ones with outie belly buttons."
>>42490307It's true. They're monsters that have haunted humanity since they crawled out of the genetic soup
>>42490331A mlp fanfic but the antagonist is that one belly button eraser anon that stopped posting recently who has come to equestria to make everyone’s belly button disappear.
>>42488094>One Piece is normie media.All the more reason it should be higher. Naruto, Pokemon, and DBZ are all high on the list and they're the kings of normie anime.>>42488207[insert Event Horizon joke]>>42490069>made the ponies hate certain types of humansIf you look at us from the outside, we're all very similar. It's very subtle changes, almost entirely in the face, that define the human "races". Contrast that with the Equestrian species, where there are very clear and obvious physical differences that stand out, even from a distance. Even skin color would seem incredibly subtle and impossible to really tell apart to the ponies. It's all just different shades of tan on us. Compared to every color of the rainbow on a pony.Maybe over a very long time (decades to centuries), opinions would form about the various nationalities and their cultures, but for a long time, you'd have the UN and national governments trying to keep things as clean and polished as possible for the aliens.>>42490307Based and navelpilled. Outies are gross and fleshy.
I didn't know so many of you guys hate outie belly buttons. I quite like them.
>>42490471>>>>h*manI knew you would defend this and i was not disappointed, also you were the first page i opened my horsewords book to
I should let you know that Paul Asaran has Loose Pages in his Requests bookshelf.>>42490506I didn't feel like cropping out a navel from something else.>I knew you would defend this and i was not disappointedI felt like it was targeted at me.>also you were the first page i opened my horsewords book toCool. If you read my stories, I hope you like them.
>>42490455>insert Event Horizon jokeOh, I've got a classic: Event Horizon is good.
>>42490471>natural outieWeird, gross, ugly >innie that becomes an outie during pregnancy because the gravid belly swells heavy with life enough to push it out as the entire skin stretches around it Top unf, kino, based, makes me want to flood wombs with seed
>>42490588Dubs of truth.
>>42487454How about you send me a DM and I'll tell you just how I feel about bottoms, big guy. >>42487557>They’re literally just anglos.Exactly.
>>42490654Ah, yes, the fabled 4chan DMs.
Law-savvy anons, what law is it that would allow you to due Hasbro if they copied your fanfiction and that causes writers at cons to consistently lie about never looking at fandom stuff to avoid legal repercussions?
>>42490471I don't hate them, I just know they don't exist.
>>42490471They're just gross, like some huge zit. And thinking about something like that in the vicinity on a fetus is even worse.
>>42491002If you ever bothered to clean your innie you'd know those are even grosser.
>>42490588What's the horse words equivalent of the blood orgy scene from Event Horizon?
>>42491324The original version of The Archetypist.
>>42490741To the extent that it's actually law, it's copyright law. Pretty much the whole of copyright law, in fact, because what copyright law is supposed to do is give creators the right to control what copies are made of their work (hence the name). If I write a story where a green man comes through a portal to Equestria and turns the M6 into his harem, and if Hasbro creates a show with the same plot points, uses the same OCs, has the same bits of dialogue, etc., then they have copied my work (in whole or in part). Legally, they owe me, because it is my right to control when and how my work is copied.But in practice, that's not exactly what's going on. You can't copyright an idea. If I say, "I think a great story would be a green man coming through a portal to Equestria and turning the M6 into his harem," but I never turn that into a story (or art, theater, etc.) then that's an idea, not a creative work. If Hasbro creates something which portrays a green man coming through a portal to Equestria and turning the M6 into his harem, and if I sue them for stealing my idea, then I will lose because ideas are not protected.However, Hasbro doesn't want to get sued in the first place. The stakes are high, juries are fickle, and lawyers are expensive. Plus, being sued for stealing an idea is bad publicity even if you win. Hasbro can't stop people from suing them, but they can make sure they're in a good position when they are. So they make it their official policy that their employees are not allowed to look at fan works, and they destroy fan mail sent to their creative teams (like the infamous incident where their lawyers sent a little girl a notice announcing they had shredded her fan drawing). That way, anybody who sues them looks like an idiot, and the case is unlikely to ever go very far. That's the real reason why all industry creatives lie and say they don't look at fan works: It's a condition of their employment, and they don't want to lose their jobs.
>review https://www.fimfiction.net/story/232554/how-many-have-you-forgiven-todayThis is slop and you should not read it. Anon is a Gary Stu and the main plot is just a rationalization pathetic over anons emotional pity party vindictiveness. Nobody is very in character and the romance is not believable. And the thing is that that is also to a good degree because of the main plot point. It drags down the rest of the story which would have been more enjoyable without it. The best parts of the fic are when that point is not at the forefront and that are not directly tied to it.
>>42491629Okay but can you point me to a written piece of law that states what's written in your first paragraph in clear terms so I can dunk on someone in a conversation elsewhere arguing the opposite (IP holders can sue fanartists because all fanart is IP theft)?
>>42491793I think you're missing the subtlety of the situation. Hasbro owns the copyright to MLP. That gives them the exclusive right to produce MLP media. If you draw fan art, then you are committing a copyright violation (there are some exceptions, but this is mostly true). That is because you are using their IP. Despite that, your fan art is yours. If Hasbro reproduces your fan art without your permission, then they are committing a copyright violation on top of your copyright violation. For example, it would be a violation for Hasbro to publish a "Best MLP Fan Art" book without permission from all the contributing artists. If they did, then the artists would be able to win a lawsuit. But it would be a complicated and messy lawsuit that would involve the court deciding the relative contributions of Hasbro and the individual artists.Most large media companies do not sue their fans for creating fan works most of the time; it's bad publicity and hurts sales. But if they think that what you're doing will harm their IP, they will. They'll issue a cease and desist notice, and if you don't listen, I'm sure that will progress to a lawsuit. They'll win that lawsuit, and not just because they can afford better lawyers.
>>42492041I think you're missing the part where I'm asking for verifiable legal statements that support your claim, because the retard I'm arguing with won't take a random anon's word as proof he's wrong.
>>42492052I'm not a lawyer, so I can't actually quote the law. You'll have to find it yourself. Try https://www.law.cornell.edu/
>>42492121many lawyers can’t quote the law either.
>>42492121Also look up stuff on the berne convention and derivative works
What's your take on this?
>>42492440I think you shouldn't post your shitpost until you've finished it.
>>42492440>Coco, Trixie, and Derpy are above the Mane 6I know /mlp/ hates the Mane 6 because they have too much canonical information about them that prevents anons from making headcanons about them being perfect trad waifus, but this is reaching a new level of contrarian
>>42492738fluttershy is right there bro
>>42493098Applejack*
>>42493232*Twilight
>>42493285I never got the appeal of the lavender unicorn until I got down and dirty with a twifag.
>>42492738What are you talking about? >>42493292I have never seen a couple that met through a fandom that wasn’t fat or mentally ill.
>>42493302BlackGryphon and Claire Corlett
>>42493302You'd have to be mentally ill to publicly broadcast your happiness to a community of miserable wretches dead set on bringing everyone down to their level.
I’m re-reading some bits of “what a strange little colt” and it has reminded me of my visceral contempt and hatred of therapists and government services.
>>42493351I forgive you for your ignorance. My country's analog of 4chan has a medicine board and a psychiatry board so it was always bizarre to me why 4chan doesn't have those, but I've come to realize Americans are kind of helpless babies who trust specialists to do everything for them and never try to make sense of things themselves. Or, in your case, just reject everything altogether.
>>42493285She'd make a good mom
>>42490455Actually, if you take the racist obfuscation "types" literally, ponies would not have any trouble with that at all, for the reasons the show spends so much time Aesopping about in the first place.I realized I dropped a fic like >>42490111 mentions that does it pretty clearly. The side plot in the framing device of "Five Star Service" clearly separates the Human side of the portal into bigots, those who don't care, and horsefuckers. Most of it is about who will let consenting adults do what they want to each other, but it's not a particularly small part of a large fic and it bleeds into many of the related topics you'd expect.
Where did the trope of Luna painting and drawing in her free time come from? I’ve seen it in several fics. Is it from something in the show I don’t remember?
>>42493351>hatred of therapistsFair, they're useless>government servicesTake it easy, lolbert
>>42493570It's fit her character forever, so it's been fanon since the beginning. Unlike Celestia, she can choose not to spend her time on statecraft, so she can have hobbies. Artistic hobbies are appropriately thematic: the moon's role as a muse is well-represented in basically all forms of art. Besides painting or writing poetry, she's also often written as a matron of the arts.As far as canon, she dreamwalks: a necessarily creative endeavor. I don't think Between Dusk and Dawn really leaves any other possible interpretation other than to closely associate her with artistic creativity. She:- carves a statue- impossibly plays a banjo- sings about wanting to read- goes to see Ponyliacci- and an art museumSo it seems like the writers were also pretty aware of these being core distinctions for her from Celestia.
>>42493625Also her idea of a fun time is mailing a postcard.
>>42493727That doesn't really have a connection to art, though, other than that she also likes leaning over a counter directly in front of her sister while wearing a top, a tail bun, and nothing else.Actually, that sort of indirection and layered cause and effect does go with the point of the scene.
>>42490471>fattie has a disgusting swollen outieYet another reason to dislike them.>>42490588To be fair, Paramount did butcher it. On the other hand, most of the lost scenes were from the hell orgy, so maybe it's not the worst thing in the world there wasn't ever a director's cut.>>42490741>never looking at fandom stuffThat comes from author Marion Zimmer Bradley, who had one of her books, Contraband, canceled due to copyright drama over a 1991 fanfic called Masks. Back in the day, sci-fi authors regularly read and edited the fanzines. Marion did read Masks and that triggered the drama. It's pretty murky what, exactly, happened, though. There was never an actual legal case and it was all handled through lawyer letters. You can read the unnecessarily long article here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley_Fanfiction_ControversyBradly was pretty big in the author circles, so the story got out pretty quickly and rapidly spread. Ever since, authors have vowed never to read fanfics to avoid any headaches like that happening to them. Fanfic authors would have a tough hill to climb in the US. SCOTUS ruled in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com that a valid copyright registration is needed prior to filing any lawsuit. In addition, 17 USC § 106 gives the copyright owner the "exclusive rights" "to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work". So, legally, only Hasbro can create or license something that involves the MLP copyright.
>tranny story in the feature box
>>42494080>My writing isn't good enough to get featured, and I'm jealous
>>42494093I've been featured like, 5 or 6 times. I just hate tranny stories.
>>42494095How can you say that when you wrote a trans Spike story?
>>42494104(You)
>>42493625Thanks this was actually informative. What other fanon or plausibly canon Luna tropes can you think of off of the top of your head? I feel like I’ve come across several but I cannot remember them. I can only like of a few obvious ones.
>>42494106Let's review the facts, shall we? (1) One of your most popular stories is a trans Spike story. (2) You love to lecture us on the distinctions between hermaphrodites, dickgirls, and futanaris. In fact, you can hardly stop yourself. (3) Transgender people live rent-free in your head. All this leaves me with a question:When are you going to transition?
>>42494135Spike is a trap. Traps aren't trannies. It's the reason that trannies hate them as a concept as they effortlessly look like girls without being girls or wanting to be girls.None of the three flavours of extreme faggotry are trannies.Trannies are mentioned when they appear on the site because they're annoying AGP wankers and anyone with sense dislikes or hates them.To answer your question; never. I accept who I am, which is a fruity faggy male.
Has no one ever written an episodic domestic timeskip fic? Like, not on a macro scale, just around 2-5 years or so. Writing how ponyville and the ponies in it have changed over the years. It'd show how the world and the characters have all developed, as well as being able to add new characters and plot lines, and adding returning characters to create new scenarios and incidents. One (or multiple) of the M6 could be written as having foals depending on how far time has been skipped. Like, exploring how AJ’s farm, the boutique, RD’s career, or Pinkie’s bakery are going, as well as how it affects both them and the people around them. Some might not even be in ponyville anymore, like RD being a wonderbolt or if it's pre-alicorn (ideally) Twilight being in the middle of studying to be an archmage and whatever that entails. Showing how the fillies have grown up and how their relationships have all shifted in their tween/young teen years. You'd think that that'd be one of the more popular premises to write for but I can't recall any that are over 20k words and in an episodic format.
>>42493319Pedophilia is a mental illness and so is the age regression stuff she has going on.
>>42494135He already transitioned, he's just too retarded to realise it.
>>42494317>LARPs as Squeaky Belle every nightGabe really hit the jackpot, huh?
>>42494596She doesn't even hide it, oddly. They'll sometimes post videos of themselves together and you can clearly hear her doing a pedobait voice.
>>42494609>a VA putting on a cutesy voice is 'pedobait'Seek help.
>>42494651No, anon, it's literally the same kind of voice you find in loli rp audios.
>>42494231Hit the scribe and be the change you want to see.
>>42494654And you know this how, exactly?
>>42494663By having a loli kink and listening to loli rp audios. To be clear I'm not at all surprised she does the voice and don't have a problem with it (I do have a problem with the grooming though), I'm just surprised she does it in publicly visible content.
>>42494684Any recs?
>>42494733Just dig around GWA until you find the right soundgasm accounts or tags. Presumably look for DDlg stuff.
Not-quite-false advertising in,>/FSBC/Is it still shipbait when the official statement confirms that there will be no shipping whatsoever?We got the bug into the cave! Hooray! Even if it's by a technicality, the fic avoids the shame of Shining in a Minor. More seriously, I just don't have too much to say about the story. As expected, it ticked off all the boxes it seemed to approach in week 1, resolved its conflicts in a decent way, fired off all of its Chekhov's guns, and even tumbled into an ending that almost wasn't too bad. All the while, it was being clearly puppeteered by the author, but at least there seemed to be some kind of a plan, and it was never a chore to read. Almost. But that's just repeating week 1 discussion, for the most part.So, instead, I'll nitpick some things that seemed particularly weird. For one thing, the fic continues with telling the story in a way that falls apart under logical scrutiny, but that's OK—we already knew that. But by far the weirdest thing about this changeling redemption story is how it condemns them so much more than the show! This Thorax will be leading Equestria's SS into the hive in a few years, as one of the "good ones". It's crazy that the moral of the story was, "No, they're irredeemable". WTF? It's even crazier when considering the way the fic tries to retrofit itself into FiM's story. First it bends itself backwards to maintain some kind of compatibility with ACW, but then continues from that with "and Thorax tried, but no changelings ever bought into the pony ideals of harmony and being good", before finally making him more or less give up on his species.It is even more strange due to the attempts to keep the fic's overall atmosphere and content close-ish to the canon show. Despite the threat of starvation and bug death penalties, nothing too bad happens. The technical side of things continued to be marred with the occasional errors and weird phrasing/word choices, but it's not too distracting. It gets a bit too emotionally dramatic near the end for me.Twilight... doesn't do much. All she does this week is putting herself in danger at Thorax's call, only to later tearfully praise him for rescuing her. It's a Thorax fix through and through. Pharynx is the second main character, if anything. I don't think he's mischaracterized here, but I do think that all of the spotlight he gets on his and Thorax's relationship makes him look ridiculously soft. Oh, right, and Chryssie shows up for two scenes but then somehow ends up being somewhat passive, only doing what the plot demands of her. In short, none of the characters are *bad*, but I don't think you can praise any but Thorax as good—which is fair enough in a Thoraxfic, I suppose.My one critique regarding the plot was the length of the "epilogue" section. Basically everything after he leaves Twilight takes ~75% pages too many. The fic really should've been finished in 10, not 40, pages.This is the most "it's fine" fic I have ever read.
>>42494894[Voting]I tried pulling suggestions from the old SK (600k word deadfics, nice), but there wasn't enough there to fill even a one week list, so have two more random ones, too:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/84903/twice-as-brighthttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/71009/clean-slatehttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/38138/lost-and-foundhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/301618/twilight-sparkle-and-the-cake-thiefhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/328030/her-soldiers-weAnd as usual, suggestions are good if (You) want to read them here, as well.
>review https://www.fimfiction.net/story/578820/oh-no-i-was-hit-by-a-truck-and-reborn-into-another-dimension-as-a-horse-except-its-the-same-horse-dimension-im-originally-fromI was baited by the funny title and the extreme amount of likes that the fic gathered.Sadly, the—admittedly quite funny—idea present in the title is the only worthwhile thing about this fic and it doesn't even do anything with it. The 1000 words of "story" that follow are an exercise in meeting Fimfic's minimum word count without having anything to say. Save yourself the 3 minutes. Go feed your cat or something.
>>42494150>Traps aren't tranniesWhat, precisely, is the difference between a trap and a tranny? Because you say:>they effortlessly look like girls without being girls or wanting to be girlsbut I was under the impression that that was a "femboy". I will readily concede to your expertise, however.>the three flavours of extreme faggotryYou mean L, G, and B? Because I was under the impression that that was ordinary faggotry, and that extreme faggotry requires being OP.>I accept who I am, which is a fruity faggy male.I don't think there's anyone left in the thread who believes that except you.
>>42495031The difference between a trap and a femboy is that one is 2D and one is 3D. A trap is the meme of 'draw a girl, call it a boy' because the point is that you have a guy that knows they're a guy and is happy being a guy, but they look so perfectly feminine that you can't tell they're a guy.Traps are an ancient anime trope and often get a kick out of tricking dudes or are mortified and try to prove how manly and not girly they are, often failing to do so.Femboys are just effeminate IRL dudes. They can't be traps because they can't naturally look like a girl.Neither of these wishes to be female and thus are not trannies.>Flavours of fagAs in, traps, herms, and dickgirls. Such things really require rampant bisexuality as they combine male and female aesthetics.None of these things are tranny either, though trannies have tried to erase traps for the reasons mentioned earlier in that traps are effortlessly feminine looking and perfectly so, which angers the AGPs, and they have tried to claim themselves as dickgirls but those are 2D like traps as they do not exist. There is no such thing IRL as a girl with a dick, only guys with tits. They also obviously can't claim to be herms for what should be obvious reasons.
>>42495074All I'm hearing is made up cope so you can put off taking estrogen.
>>42495089I don't even know where to begin with that.It sounds like you want to try and groom me into being a tranny, but I'm not joining the death cult.
>>42495095Yes, yes, you've established that you have unrealistic standards for what you actually want to be so you refuse to try and instead pretend to be ironic about it.
>>42495116I wish I knew what the hell you were going on about, anon.I've very clearly stated where I stand without a hint of irony.
>>42495089>>42495116Damn, filly's departure made the thread's groomer circles really desperate.
>>42495127I have no interest in grooming anyone, it'll just be sad when he necks himself.
>>42494918Twice as Bright
>>42495074>being this young and naiveI must have been on 4chan longer than you've been alive. You clearly have no idea where the word "trap" even comes from. It's like this: Someone on /b/ posts a pic of an attractive 3d real-life woman with a caption like "would you?" or "wwyd?" or something like that. And after a while, they post another picture that reveals that the attractive "woman" has a dick. "Trap" refers to the idea that these people entrap you: You don't realize that the woman you're lusting after has a dick until it's too late. It comes from a meme image of Admiral Akbar from Episode 6 shouting, "It's a trap!"The manga and anime trope comes from yaoi and shounen ai. It arose independently.Also, you're obviously a self-hating trans female. Some day, you'll be a trap too.
>>42495147You're wrong on so many levels that all I'm giving you is a (You), please lurk moar and stop trying to be a cool oldfag by talking about things you're amazingly wrong about.
>>42495147His idea of "old, classic" anime is Ergo Proxy, just ignore him.
>>42495186I would have said Outlaw Star, actually. Though Ergo Proxy is pretty good.
>>42495163Kek, you just keeping telling yourself that. I know because I was there.After you transition, you should start one of those threads on /b/, just like old times. Trust me, you'll love the attention.
>>42495190Again with the grooming style of speech, it's weird man.
>>42494894Again have to start with how retarded it is that he is stealing again. When he explicitly states that it isn't necessary and how he understands that his bro knows but was giving him a chance to stop on his own.>twilight just sits there starving waiting for thorax>Twilight wasn't the one to save thoraxRip>twilight goes out on a rescue mission for like 5 minutes then needs to use her own flareRip again>another tatzelworm chaseRip againSomething cool could've happened at the climax of the story, but this is not it. I think there were multiple scenarios that would've given us a good climax right around here, but we didn't get any. The story was quite ripe for the saving, but it just sort of ends up being this weird atmosphere Thorax/Twilight torture fic. There's also a contrast with the main character's show-like ideas and actions and then them getting beat/strangled to within an inch of their lives. And the contrast between the author saying NO SHIPPING in an a/n and then literally just writing shipping for the whole last quarter of the fic. At least neither of them broke their promises and the end I guess. The fic just sorta ended up disappointing. I feel like most people will want more of one part and less of another. More actual survival and less forced plot food stealing and waiting around starving. Less torture and more shipping. Less shipping and more torture. Also a whole 1/5 of this fic is post climax. Which is interesting and might usually be something I like, but in this case I was just left reading this entire part in a haze of disappointment since the fic had already squandered its potential. Also Pharanx should've gone with thorax, he even said 'you shouldn't go alone' at one point or something like that. Also Twilight probably should've been more of a character so the story could've not relied on Thorax for everything. >>42494894>Is it still shipbait when the official statement confirms that there will be no shipping whatsoever?They could've actually kissed about 4 different times at the end and it would've been a better build up than most romance fics>resolved its conflicts in a decent wayJust gonna disagree. We got blueballed and every outcome went as mundane as it could've. Pharanx never even saw Twilight kek. Where was our 3(-to-5) way battle in the desert when Thorax uses his flare where everyone is forced to find out about each other? Why didn't the hive detect it when it sucked up Twilight's magic that she kept casting at it?>but at least there seemed to be some kind of a plankek it stuck out to me that one of the more enjoyable chapters had an a/n that said this was the only unplanned chapter lol. I think it was a chrysalis one>It's crazy that the moral of the story was, "No, they're irredeemable". WTF?fucking kek. I didn't expect the part where he says this just isn't working and he is an outlier, immediately followed by them invading canterlot lmao
>>42494894>It's even crazier when considering the way the fic tries to retrofit itself into FiM's story>It is even more strange due to the attempts to keep the fic's overall atmosphere and content close-ish to the canon show.Yeah, both of these just fuck with the fic. I don't think it gained anything from trying to adhere to the show canon specifically, as you mention. >It gets a bit too emotionally dramatic near the end for me.When they part ways at the pass, it's actually hilarious and far more so because of the a/n from like chapter 2. They are literally joining together and physically sharing love with each other and the author doesn't want any shipping>It's a Thorax fix through and through.Absolutely, Twilight only gets worse in the second half which is impressive considering she gets gut rot in the first half>Basically everything after he leaves Twilight takes ~75% pages too many.Completely agreed. Especially egregious was Spike blubbering around after for some reason he was the one to find Thorax so the scene takes fucking forever and at no point does the reader care because Spike cockblocked any decency the reunion could've had. It would've been much a better scene if Thorax just flew straight into ponyville and never stopped in the everfree.
>>42494894I don't think the fic is fine. It's not good, I would never read it again, and I don't think I would even recommend it to a Thorax fan on the assumption that there must be something better. If not for the club, I would've dropped it when Twilight does almost nothing except starve for an entire week, just waiting for Thorax to feed her.I don't exactly regret continuing to read it, there were a couple good Pharynx scenes after that. It's just absurd how pathetic Twilight was in this fic, and how little the author cares for her, even to have Spike not know the name of Smarty Pants.It was very unsatisfying to have Pharynx fail to meet Twilight, and him pwning the poorly named bullies didn't make up for that, either.I liked the epilogue, post-ACW section of the fic the most, I guess. It seemed to have the fewest typos, the fewest awkwardly phrased sentences, and Thorax was the least bad. It still sucked, including a scene with Thorax gazing south of the hive while planning trip to Equestria, which is north of them.I don't agree that the moral was "they're irredeemable," it was more like "Thorax can't redeem them on his own." There was no B-team supporting him, and he had to spend a long time in TCE as well before he had the resolve to face Chrysalis in the show.
>>42495329Yeah I think the only thing I'll remember from this is it's the thorax fic where Twilight just starves in a desert>It was very unsatisfying to have Pharynx fail to meet Twilight, and him pwning the poorly named bullies didn't make up for that, either.Absolutely. This was the biggest blunder of the fic. The fic manages to dodge oh so narrowly around a multitude of interesting climaxes and instead pulls off not doing any of them. >It still sucked, including a scene with Thorax gazing south of the hive while planning trip to Equestria, which is north of them.kek, I didn't notice that
teasing a girl you have a crush on doesn't work if it's a guy you're trying to forcibly turn into a girl.
>>42494894Augh! I didn't finish it! I got up through the chapter "Lost in the Rain" (where Thorax and Twilight reunite), but life has become unexpectedly busy and yada yada. But honestly, does it really matter? This fic is such a slog to get through despite the quick chapters. Thorax has become the worst part of this two-part fic. I'm so sick of all his bitching and moaning and the never-ending pity party that is his life. It's hard to feel sympathy for him, because most of it is his own fault. The club commented on how Thorax's story took precedence over Twilight's last week, but this week, it's all Thorax, all the time. Pharynx finally being direct and chastising Thorax for constantly lying (and not even having the strength or common sense to back it up) was cathartic, but Thorax gets off the hook immediately after revealing that he was in contact with Twilight with yet another "just trust me, bro"! It feels very contrived and is clearly supposed to be emotional, but it lacks any kind of impact. Twilight's not that great, either. As with Thorax, I really started to feel the burn that other Anons had already noticed last week. She's flat as a board with regards to characterisation. She has two moods: fleeing in terror from a tatzlwuorm, and gushing over Thorax -- fawning over him when he's warming her bed and pining after him when he's not. Is the author sure these two characters aren't developing romantic feelings? Because they're far too willing to die for each other than would be reasonably expected. Events just kind of happen and continue to happen. It's powerfully mediocre, even boring. Everything is predictable, and the prose being decent doesn't make up for a lack of anything interesting going on. I'll finish this story eventually, but I doubt the current trajectory will change at all.
>>42494894>Despite the threat of starvation and bug death penalties, nothing too bad happens.Right? You keep waiting for anyone to actually die or have an injury that isn't just covered in mucus and forgotten about, but it never happens. Even Pharynx shooting the bullies in the chest turns out to be a "stun gun" (that incidentally makes them beg for their lives and appear to stop breathing). The worst part is that Pharynx killing them would have been a better beat for the story, but the author simply can't bring himself to commit to anything "dark". There absolutely should have been a scene where Chrysalis kills a random bug as an example to the rest of the hive. >and then literally just writing shipping for the whole last quarter of the ficYeah, the relationship between Thorax and Twilight was way too ambiguous. You could write it off as Thorax getting too attached to the literal first creature in his life who was nice to him, and Twilight simply feeling desperate for social connection and trying to replace the void her friends left. However, that explanation would raise its own doubts as to the legitimacy of their feelings. >Also Pharanx should've gone with thorax>Pharanx never even saw Twilight kek. Where was our 3(-to-5) way battle in the desert>>42495329>It was very unsatisfying to have Pharynx fail to meet TwilightAbsolutely! I can't yet say for certain that something like this never comes, but it certainly should have come at some point before where I stopped. The author did everything to set it up, and he inexplicably never writes it. >I don't think I would even recommend it to a Thorax fanAgreed, this is not a good Thorax even if you like his character outside this particular fic. The fic starts out alright, but it just harps on the same traits over and over again for 80% of the fic. Yes, Thorax is weak and pathetic. We know how weak and pathetic he is.
>>42494231I have timeskips in my fics because I'm too lazy to write the details there.
>>42495390Where did you gain this fine insight?
>>42494918Voting lost and found.
>>42495215>There's also a contrast with the main character's show-like ideas and actions and then them getting beat/strangled to within an inch of their lives.This is one thing that I don't entirely hate. The fic was going for a "show-style" story, but the bugs are cruel and alien so they contrast with the ponies. That's assuming this is intentional, which considering Twilight's more graphic hunger/stomach rot episodes might not be.>I feel like most people will want more of one part and less of another.It was extraordinarily unambitious story.>Also Pharanx should've gone with thorax,Oh wow, I like that idea. It could've saved the fic! ..but it would also be something interesting that deviates from the strict framing ("as close to FiM's events as possible") so of course we didn't get that.>Twilight probably should've been more of a characterYes, she does nothing in week 2.>We got blueballed and every outcome went as mundane as it could've.Maybe calling it 'decent' was too much. What I meant was that all plot point were wrapped up, and that none of them felt like asspulls. Yes, he also went for the most mundane option possible, but that's a separate issue in my head.>Pharanx never even saw Twilight kek.This one, however, I'll single out as an immense squandered potential. He had to try VERY HARD to make that part lamer, and yet he succeeded. Why would you make them miss each other?>>42495233>far more so because of the a/n from like chapter 2Yes. No idea why it's written like a shipfic. Maybe Thorax is just gay?>egregious was Spike blubbering aroundYeah, another argument in favor of the "no fic was made better by including Spike".>>42495329>I don't think the fic is fine.You know, you are probably right. I probably had it as a 5/10 in my head after finishing it, but really it can't be more than a 4.5/10, maybe just a 4. I didn't leave a like on it, and I also can't see myself rec'ing it to anyone ever. But I also don't think it's bad bad. Fine wasn't the right word—it's mediocre, with the negative connotations of the word being intentional.>Thorax can't redeem them on his own.Maybe, but he's not getting another shot. The one big thing that this fic changes from canon is that Thorax is already with the ponies. He leaves the hive after giving up. What I meant is that yes, he does plan to do PR for the bugs, but he's not trying to change the swarm anymore, which is a weirdly downer ending for a bugfic.
>>42495498>life has become unexpectedly busyIt tends to do that often, yes.>This fic is such a slog to get throughEh, I wouldn't say that. In fact, I'd probably even claim the opposite: that this was the fic with the best "ease of reading" to "quality" ratio. Which makes it sound like a slopfic, and that's also not what I meant, but whatever.>Pharynx finally being direct and chastising Thorax for constantly lying Pharynx was the best part of this story, and it unfortunately isn't very close. After the first two chapter Twilight just kind of passively dies in the background, and Thorax... is just Thorax. Except that I think that maybe this this is true to his characterization. If you recall the episodes where he was still looking like a proper changeling, then yes, living an endless pity party is probably accurate to his time in the hive. He even recalls something like that in the show.>Is the author sure these two characters aren't developing romantic feelings?The (completely not intentional) way I'm reading this fic is that Twilight fell for the bug but he's gay and oblivious. I mean, they are sharing love energy near the story's climax, and that is—surprisingly—not an euphemism for sex!>It's powerfully mediocreKek, but I can't say that it's not.>>42495544>You keep waiting for anyone to actually die or have an injury that isn't just covered in mucusI can respect trying to keep a fanfic close to the show, so I, personally, didn't wait for that. But as I said in another reply, while this is clearly something the author intended, it doesn't extend to all events in the fic, so you end up with something that reads like it doesn't want to commit in either direction. It was much closer to show-like than not, so I absolutely did not want Chryssie killing bugs.>way too ambiguousI don't want to look fanfic-poisoned and find shipping everywhere, but to be desu, it's way, way past being ambiguous. Also, you've lost Twianon's (You), and now he will starve.>this is not a good Thorax It's not, but that problem comes from Thorax never being good. The reason why he's not allowed to develop too much, I think, is that the author didn't want that happening "ahead of time" with regards to canon timeline. Which is dumb, but that's how it read to me.
>ponies have unique scents depending on their color scheme and personality I can only recall seeing this in HIE fics and I can only vaguely guess as to why that’s the case.
>>42495722>vaguely guessDon't pussyfoot around this, we all know exactly why that is.
>>42495722It's an outsider observation. Ponies wouldn't need to observe this, and Spike is too much of a dork for self-inserters to feel comfortable writing about him. Alternatively, maybe there just happens to be a huge overlap between self-insert fags and smell fags.
>>42495730It's like everyone forgot the Tali Zorah smell analysis guy.
>>42495215>Also Pharanx should've gone with thoraxI was waiting for this to come up every time Pharynx told Thorax that he was the thing he lived for in the hive, and that he was nothing without his brother. If Thorax has nothing at the hive, and intends to leave, leaving Pharynx with nothing, they should obviously just leave together. There could've been an argument about how Phaynx believes in Chrysalis, or the other drones depend on him, or something, but it was never even considered.>>42495668It's really not that different from canon. In Thorax's introduction, he says he abandons the hive after ACW (the gap in time between then and Season 6 is unexplained), and then the Spike episode happens, and he's left working for Shiny and Candy.In the fic, he similarly saves Spike from falling down a ravine, which is really the only downer part of the ending. It looked like it was setting up the rest of canon: he would make some friends, return to the hive, challenge Chrysalis, and become the big gay.The main difference from canon is closing the unreasonable timing gap and that he ends up with Twilight vouching for him instead. Is it worth trading a Spike episode for Twilight's character being erased? Since Spike didn't die, I'm going to say no, but it's otherwise a close call.
>>42494894>the fic avoids the shame of Shining in a MinorI'm really curious about this line. Was this intentionally not Cadence in A Minor? What's the shame of it, either way? I kinda liked CiAM.
Results are out.>https://www.fimfiction.net/group/216361/a-thousand-words/thread/564636/a-thousand-words-contest-iv-resultsCongratulations to the winners.
>>42495852Just a non-serious joke about fic names misrepresenting their contents. This is "The Bug in the Cave", but for almost the whole story it's Twilight who's in the cave, and Thorax visits her from time to time. He finds himself in a cave for about half a scene in the epilogue.As for CiAM, I also kinda liked it, but at the end of the fic, when they are finally able to have sex, Cadance transforms into the high school version of herself and they roleplay it, too. The "joke" is that the climax (hue) of the fic shows Shining in a (=inside) character who appears to be underage (=a minor). Also the fact that his issues end up with him getting turned on by younger, weaker mares several times in the fic. In short: "[character]" + "in a" + "minor" rather than the intended "[character]" + "in" + "A minor".
>>42495917There's another fic with Shining in a minor you should read one day.
>>42495899Is the head troon in charge going to comment on every story as usual?
>>42494108She's responsible either for creating or finding baps. She has a much closer, more familial or cultish relationship to them than Celestia does the Royal Guard.She's a warrior princess; this is backed by the comics more than the show.She has an affinity for creatures of the night, basically the same as Fluttershy's power but for nocturnal animals.Although it's canon, the show didn't expand on her retention of NMM's powers: shapeshifting, and turning into a cloud. Many fics add the ability to shadow-walk as an alternative to teleportation.Treating the sky as her own personal canvas for art or trolling.Less directly connected to canon, she has an affinity for fae/occult elements, can reach the fairy realm or summon demonic entities, communicate with them. More canon, that she's an expert at dark magic, and has the strength to not be corrupted by it (anymore).The canon ones are pretty obvious. That she has a non-nonsense attitude and not much patience (except for foals). Strict and dutiful for things related to princessing, but playful and relaxed outside of that. And a bunch of the stuff from >>39864661
>>42495944He is, and that's based.
>>42495917>Just a non-serious joke about fic names misrepresenting their contentsAh, yes I see. I was befuddled by the way you changed the name up to emphasize the joke.
How's that writing going, guys?
>>42496184I think about the fic I want to write a whole lot
>>42496184Almost past my highest word count and rereading what I've written so far to make sure it's good.
>>42495899There are very few 1000-word fics that are any good. This is one of the worst contest restrictions imo.
>>42496281I think even my shortest fic is twice that length.
>>42495188>Ergo Proxy is pretty good.Jesus Fucking Christ. The only good thing is the Rika export.
I've finally gotten around to perusing the later seasons after promising myself I wouldn't, and I'm just now beginning Uncommon Bond. IDK how it ends but holy shit is this ever an NTR episode. Any fics where Twilight cucks the Glimglam?
>>42496365Well, no, it also has a very good title drop moment despite everything.
>>42496427Remind me.
>>42496425Many.
Now I'm more than halfway through and they're just building the tension by adding new mares to cuck Starlight with! JFC what happened to Glimmer being a self insert?
>>42496431Climax of episode 9, when Law regains his awareness of being EP and declares as much while defeating Kazukis.
>>42496448Nice, got any up your sleeve king?
>>42496514No, because NTR is a garbage fetish.
>early fic writers love to imagine the griffons as a rival nation to Equestria, a prussianesque empire with longstanding animosity and tons of power behind it>turns out in canon they're a failed state full of kleptocratic retards Lol
>>42495973Cool, I’ve seen most of those. >>42496596Griffon characterization is all over the place. I’ve most commonly seen them characterized more like celts or Vikings. Ie. Clanish, individualistic, prideful warrior people.
>>42496596>fanon griffins are historical russians>canon griffins are actual russians
>>42495973>She's responsible either for creating or finding baps.This part at least is official (though dubiously canon). The one bit of bap info we have comes from a book where it mentions she found them in the mountains.
>>42496571It's hot when it happens to girls
She's responsible either for creating or finding braps.
She's responsible either for creating or finding traps.
>>42496769You mean trannies?
What fic?
>>42496796https://www.fimfiction.net/story/500819/
>>42496773>luna invents bat traps to protect her little ponies in ye old equestria >realizes they are cute and match her aesthetics and decides to keep some around>eventually establish good relations with some>this eventually results in the night guard being filled with bat ponies.
>>42496769>She's responsible either for creating or finding traps.Fics where Luna creates an elaborate trap-filled dungeon after reading too many Daring Do books?
>>42496815>>42484918
>>42496820If I read that fic and find out it is all flirty horse sex without a single chapter of Twilight using her wits to decipher Luna's Daring Do fanfiction dungeon, I'm going to be upset with you.
Is adding fics to the starter kit still a thing? Because I’d like to nominate chaotic neutral. I was kind of harsh in a post a made of it a bit ago but it is still a pretty solid fic. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/134455/chaotic-neutral
>>42496946I would be open to adding to the starter kit, but I'd want it to be read by the club first.
>>42496948Why? There’s a bunch of single nomination fics in there that the bookclub has not read. Nigga I’m the person who put trouble in tiatarta in the starter kit by nominating it and we never read that.
>>42496956Yet!
>>42496956I'm not going to defend the way the starter kit was made. I'm just saying I want a better process going forward.I sound like a middle manager.
>>42495899Did they just pick random entries out of a hat, or is there supposed to be some kind of sense to the results? Because I just read everything that got a medal, and I can't figure out how they came up with their rankings. From the judges' blurbs, you'd think some of these are literary genius. None of them are bad, but none of them are impressive, either. And there's something ugly and unsavory about allowing your judges to enter and giving them prizes, even if it's in categories they're not judging.
>>42494231The "post-canon" genre was big back in the day but it was rarely episodic. Usually the "where are they now" stuff is what kicked off the story before the adventure plot ramped up and took over.>>42496184I think I'm going to have to fall back onto my Plan B for the anthology because the main idea's just not shaping up.
>>42496607I hate how the advancing canon of the show destroyed all the cool fanon and replaced it with something lame.
>>42497074Contest winners are determined by a mix of personal friendships and sexual favors. That's why the results were released at the end of EFNW: The judges collected.
>>42495899Yeah, congrats to our local talent for placing. It's particularly nice to see the Grimbush author get placed. But this >>42497074 has gotten to a ridiculous state. Wish I'd written something, but happy I didn't.>>42496281Not everyone's built for it, but the ones that /are/ good are just fantastic and always a worthy reread. Short and (bitter)sweet is my bread and butter; my longest works end up feeling like I'm padding out paragraphs that are only worth skimming. 1000 words make for a nice contained piece that can easily show a precise snapshot of a setting and its meaning. But a lot of the 1000 word fics in these contests need a bit more word to breathe, or at least refine and hone their scope. Aim small, miss small kind of thing. If anything, it's great practice for applying it in long fics.
>>42496833Hey now, there's no need to get bent out of shape over the order of some words.There are several chapters of Twilight using her wits to decipher Luna's elaborate, trap-filled dungeons, and if they're maybe more MMDW-themed than Daring Do themed, who's to even say what that means?Anyway, I'm sure you'll be mollified by all the aforementioned flirty horse sex and sometimes mentioned Daring Do in the fanfiction.
>>42497526>the ones that /are/ good are just fantastic and always a worthy rereadAre they, though? Can you name any 1000 word fic that's actually stuck with you (besides your own)? Because every year I try reading some of the entries, and not a single one ever makes an impression on me.
>>42497736This is because you have bad taste and your brain is wrongly formed.
>>42497778So you can't name any. Okay. That's one way to answer my question.
>>42497793>I've licked every mare in Ponyville and they all made me vomit><this is because you are a faggot allergic to mares>oh so you can't name any mare that tastes good?
Review & analyze the premiere of season 1. How would you evolve and write the story if you were given more episodes for it let's say 26 whole episodes happening solely inside the Everfree Forest?
>>42497895>lose an argument >"I'll equate minimum length oneshots to mares!">third green line
>guy who is always wrong says you're wrong
>>42497986Probably make it monster of the week with twilight and the girls analyzing the various flora and fauna inside itZeora acts as a guide and learning teacher to twilight about magic that she can't use her horn for I'm assuming the idea is the girls can't leave the forest and have to find a way out
>>42498039Anon, please, stop replying to him.
>>42498068Why does he do this regularly?
Rolled 20 (1d20)>>42494918Next week we'll be reading... please be patient, rigging in process.Odds: Twice as BrightEvens: Lost and Found
>>42497895Just name a good fic dude, quite dancing around the question.
>>42498131Statistics
Finished Bug in Cave today, and no, it didn't get any better. If anything, the not-shipping became worse.
>>42498320Would it have been better if she fugged the bugged?
>>42498320If you don't want to imagine Twilight and Thorax doing anatomical studies in the treebrary after the epilogue, you can just headcanon that Thorax is 110% gay and Twilight was consumed by moonlust watching Luna dance at the wedding. Then the friendshipping is good.Thorax himself did get better later in the story, though.
>>42498373>you can just headcanon that Thorax is 110% gayAs is show accurate.
>Tunerd is a catfagfigures
>>42498686Cats are good.
>>42498794And yet they're not ponies, and ponies are not cats.
>>42498799Yes, and?
>>42498686It's neat when people out themselves as newfags.Shows that we're still getting new blood.
>>42498349It would have been at least a statement. >>42498373Fics where a mare develops unrequited love with a gay stallion (or a straight mare)? >inb4 any fic with Sunburst
>>42498936Sunburst ain't gay, he's just a sissy.
i read a fic one time where luna was pregnant when she was banished to the moon, the baby just suffocated on the lunar surface, i dont know why the writer fucking made it there was no point just baby dies
>>42499025I know that one. And it's a dead fic too so you never get any sort of conclusion. Just pointless Luna suffering.
>>42499025Yeah, I took that idea and turned it into a happier ending.
>>42498936You should've inb4'd The Celestia CodeThere are also some unrequited loves in Within and Without but I think none exactlylike that. And tons in that bad portal fic I mentioned earlier.
>>42499070The fuck, that's just miserable
>>42499070is that cadence? is that the happier ending
>>42499025>>42499070And Luna couldn't use her infinite alicorn magic to produce an oxygen-nitrogen rich air bubble because...?
>>42499070I swear to god I read a fic at some point about Luna giving birth on the moon and the foal dying immediately because it’s you know space.
>>42499101Because the author needed to write a dead fic about Luna coming back and being a dead inside depressed horse because she's spent a thousand years staring at her dead baby.
>>42499106I'm laughing, thats so horrifically upsetting its hilarious
>>42499070Is there a point to fics like this, or is it just spontaeneous lunabuse?
>>42499025>>42499103Jesus Christ I am blind
>>42499113Schadenfreude
>>42499082>>42499093>>42499101>>42499103>>42499113Here's my happier story, while I'm at it:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/525912/almost-alone-on-the-moonIn brief, she holds him in rather than give birth on the moon.
>>42499111Then there was another take on it when the foal DOES survive and it's Twilight and Celestia raises it in secret which likeOkay fine?And then literally the first chapter Twilight gets regressed into a toddler because she's actually a toddler by alicorn standards.And at that point I just have no idea if it's a fetish thing or not.
>>42499127I already read that shit and I intend on never reading it again.
>>42499127That's just horrifying in a different way.
Leaning back in my throne (desk chair) contemplating this shit.
>>42499140Throne. Porcelain throne. Hmmm…Any fics with ponies taking a shit?
>>42499140The entire Mom Luna stuff is kind of hilariously cursed. And ALL of it is incomplete save for that one porn fic series where she rapes the captain of her guard.
>>42499146its all so fucked its hilarious
I've seen enough of a thing where Twilight is Luna's direct descendant too (No Nose series, Celestia XVII).
>>42499152My favorite one is this edgy fic where Nightmare Moon wins and like punctures fluttershy's eyes out while keeping Twilight prisoner. Incomplete of course, because the author abandoned it for another fic where Celestia is Twlight's mom and then abandoned that one too.
>>42499146I thought Fae wrote one and finished it.
Do you guys like my idea >>42495424
>>42499193No.
>>42499170I want MORE of the premise Or more importantly I want people to finish their fucking fics.
>>42499198Looks at the floor sadly.
Speaking of siblings has any fic tried to work that one unused movie premise where the main bad guy was going to be Celestia and Luna's long lost brother?
>>42499256I've speculated on it but cant come up with a compelling enough reason why he'd be completely absent for so long, best I came up with was he erased himself from living memory with a curse out of spite? Far as I got
>>42499264>why he'd be completely absent for so longSent away to alicorn boarding school (it was very gay).
>>42499256He was banished to Moon 2
>>42499347The Moon's Moon.
>>42499193Can't we just say that he's adopted like Cadence?On that same note, I've noticed that every Blueblood fic that brings up the nephew thing is always a Blueblood + Celestia story. There should be at least one Blueblood + Luna story. I find the idea of Luna finding out that she has a new pompous nephew to be very funny.
>>42499348>each moon has a slightly smaller moon>each of these moons contains a far more mentally unstable sibling
>>42499353Yes, biological sibling or not wouldn't matter terribly
>>42499264He got hit by a wagon and isekai'd to Earth, where he became well-known.
Read this https://www.fimfiction.net/story/13616/arrow-18-mission-logs-lone-rangerDont know why I didn’t read it earlier. Very good fic, very solid character writing, would have been more satisfying if it had been significantly longer.
>>42497986Hello again vogelfag. 26 episodes inside the Everfree Forest is an absolutely insane idea, no wonder you'd come up with something like that. I know there are a few premiere rewrite fanfics that are 100k words. I haven't read any of them and I struggle to imagine what they add to get to that length. The premiere two-parter is a little rushed, but not to the point where it would need to be a 100k story.
>>42499264He died on the moon when Luna gave birth to him. Then he got better.
>>42483187>Crossover story about some fuckass media is well written and goodWhat's her name, /fim/?Daily Equestria Life with Monster Girl for me
>>42499893I’ve heard good things about that one fairly odd parents and equestria girls crossover.
>>42499070Why the fuck wouldn't Celestia intervene
>>42497986>entire season of EverfreeIt'd be shit. Mysterious, creepy things work best in small doses. The more they went to the Everfree, the less creepy and threatening it became. You even see it start in S1 itself when Zecora is introduced. A whole season there and the villain decay would be worse than what happened to the Borg on Star Trek.And that doesn't even get into the narrative issues doing something like that creates. You don't get to develop Ponyville or any of the support characters. You don't get Cloudsdale or Canterlot lore. You don't get the Sol/Adventure dynamic. And you kneecap a ton of plot ideas with a baffling setting restriction that doesn't add anything good to the story.>>42499025>it's a "fanfic author doesn't know the difference between 'in' and 'on'" Luna fic>>42499127>forced to be pregnant for 1000 yearsThere's a fetish tag, isn't there?>>42499256Upheaval, but he's not really the villain of that.
>>42500150>There's a fetish tag, isn't there?^:)
>>42499146>spoilerwhich fic?which fic is that?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/581114/3/i-took-a-slight-tumble-onto-an-active-roadway-and-got-magically-reincarnated-into-a-different-world-based-upon-the-show-my-little-pony-and-the-game-fallout-in-the-side-fic-of-fallout-equestria-known-as-project-horizons-as-a-stable-99-stallion/i-guess-that-security-mare-explained-the-situation-and-i-might-be-stuck-here-permanently-but-im-sure-not-happy-about-it-i-dont-even-like-ponies-and-now-im-on-some-sort-of-special-assignment-for-being-too-annoyingLinkmaxxing your story
>>42499264He's dead. Just straight up dead, until some cultist retard or shadow retard (sombra) resurrects him with mcguffin trying to gain an ally or minion for their own needs
AAAAI LOVE DARK LORDSI LOVE EVIL CHARACTERS WITH GRAND PLANS AND COOL DESIGNS
>>42500712Yakub in Equestria when?
any good, humans trapped in ponies bodys fics?
>>42499126Yeah but once enough people fuck up their life enough you can start buying weapons from their base on Mars.
>>42499145Anything by Moth.
>>42499353>There should be at least one Blueblood + Luna storyOne day I'll finish mine.
>>42499936>why wouldn't Celestia, in her physically drained and mentally wrecked state, go check on the sister she has no way of reaching, who she banished after they fought and she had no other option, who hates her, and whose very sight would ignite her grief anew, to help with the birth of a child whose existence she is not aware of in any way Gee, Anon, I have no idea.
>>42499193Yeah.
>>42500150>>42499681Good on you for recognising Lauren Faust as a retarded hack.
>>42500150>it's a "fanfic ""author"" throws an autistic shitfit if you dare deviate even a little from ""canon"", in a way many people and even fucking Hasbro itself already did, for the sake of writing a fan fiction story" post
>>42501047Looks up at the ceiling happily.
>>42499681>>42500150Why the fuck are you morons feeding him? Just ignore him.
>>42501062The whole in/on thing isn't even half as clearly canon as people like to pretend. The strongest argument towards in is the Mare in the Moon itself, but the actual line doesn't come from anyone involved. It's from a children's book retelling of the events that Twilight herself considers untrustworthy enough she fails to realise Luna is Celestia's sister despite reading about it, one most probably written significantly after the events since it itself treats it like a story and not a historical record, meaning Celestia deliberately had Equestria forget Luna existed. There is no strong canon source to prove she was in and not on and on fanfics are perfectly valid (not that they wouldn't be either way), especially when Hasbro approved of on material.
>>42501102You're the one pretending the show isn't canon.
>>42501186Give me the timestamp for where it's proven your headcanon is real.
>>42499146Isn't the ultimate implication that all the Nightmare Moon stuff is just the result of preggo hormone swings?>Luna: Nightmare Moon is my pregsona.
>>425011910:00 the premiere's title
I'm fine with the in the moon interpretation, but it's unintuitive and it's annoying when people get up their own ass about it, since it's not even that important. And the surface of the moon is kind of a cool setting for a prison as opposed to either being buried inside it (weird and hard to imagine) or some magical metaphorical bullshit.
>>42501255It literally shows her profile in the moon, and her profile disappears when she returns to Equestria. The only way for that to make sense is magical metaphorical bullshit.I'm not going to let facts stand in the way of a good story, though. I'll let authors have "on the moon" if they want it.
>>42501246The better question is what Luna was doing for 1000 years if she was awake and conscious chilling on the surface of the moon. She could have spent a millenia playing Dr. Manhattan/God and creating life or whatever. Or 1000 years of making giant dicks out of moon rocks. Either way. Got to keep yourself sane.
>>42501260>Got to keep yourself sane.She didn't.
>>42501257I won't let them have it if they just want it. They have to earn it.Usually by telling a good story that unequivocally depends on it in the premise, and they also lose a point for every year of the thousand that are unaccounted for. The moonscape is not, in fact, a cool setting if all you can think of for it is a couple pages of bleak landscape "and then NMM was mad for the rest of the time."
>>425012731000 years of isolation would probably render any normal person catatonic. If Luna was just still a mustache twirling villain she did a pretty good job.
>>42501246>permanently>when she clearly comes backThat book was full of shit.
>>42501246Wow. It's like you didn't even read the posts you replied to. >>42501255Hollow Moon.>>42501257>this children's book Twilight is reading MUST be 100% accurate
>>42501342No, it's just that "The Tale of the Two Sisters is weak supporting material for canon" is too retarded of an argument to warrant a more involved reply.
>>42501371Post pink mane Celestia from her flashbacks then. Oh, wait.
>>42501380If the difference between you and me is that I take the storybook as canon because it's better and you take the potion flashbacks as canon because they're worse, I guess you'll just have to live with that.
>>42501440>thing is le headcanon which is le bad because le show said different>btw the show isn't canon
>>42500487Secrets of the Royal Bloodline
>>42501260In the comics the moon has a civilization of rabbit things on it that she subjugated.
Actually Luna wasn't in the moon or on the moon, she was floating a few inches to the side of it but Celestia figured that was close enough.
>>42501619>being an opinionlet
>>42501646Actually Luna was sucking my dick.
Found the next thread's OP.
It's so funny reading about Carroll's final novel and the critical reception to it. It's basically "everyone more or less thought it was dogshit but Tolkien kinda liked it."
It's so funny reading about Daring Do's final novel and the critical reception to it. It's basically "everyone more or less thought it was dogshit but Rainbow Dash kinda liked it."
>>42502060>>42502129It's so funny reading about MLP:FIM’s final season and the critical reception to it. It's basically "everyone more or less thought it was dogshit but some mindbroken faggots kinda liked it."
I can't stop killing Luna in my fics but at least I never made her baby suffocate to death on the moon.
>>42499674I’m still thinking about the character writing in this fic. It’s genuinely very good. What are some other fics with exemplary characterization?
>>42502219DoWaS
>>42502224I kinda don’t like au fics like that. Where the setting or lives of the characters is completely different. It’s like learning about someone you love living a happy life with someone else.
>>42502215you're a good man
>>42502231By far the weirdest reason I've seen to not read DoWaS.
>>42502238Good men keep Luna alive.
>search “tunafag” on desu>333 results found
>HIE fic>human have a greater degree of control over their dreams than poniesI’ve seen this a good amount of times. What’s up with this?
>>42502254As a sex toy.
>>42502372I have seen the opposite, human dreams are usually depicted as uncontrollable messes.
>>42502372Easy excuse to fuck the blue sex toy.
>>42502380At the end of the night, it's all about fucking (over) Luna.
>>42502376No, because it's the right thing to do. Poor girl has suffered enough.
Does iisaw usually update on Tuesdays or has that just been a coincidence?
Anyone read that Dexter's Lab crossover where the author imagines the elements of harmony did in fact devise a worse punishment for Luna after returning as NMM by keeping her amongst mortals so she can suffer eternal emotional torment. Sort of like the punishment of Tantalus in the myth; surrounded by things you will never have. I found it a cool interpretation.
>>42500529>anon finally getting MARED>its Duct Tape
>>42499363
>>42502467>Dexter's LabIs the original actually good? I can't remember if it's on my list or not.
>>42502060Manlet (1903)
>>42502518What is a novel.
>>42502523>Discord spoiler>is wrong anyway because that's a short piece of poetry
>>425025304chan is the only website I still use where || isn't the spoiler syntax. I always forget.
>>42502532Ctrl+S
>>42502535I know, but I use Markdown so often that it's second nature.
>>42502254but not her foal*
>>42501281Luna being a screaming lunatic post moon is a take
>>42501281Discord did it better.
>>42502886I think the comics showed she was just fucking around with people's dreams, her being trapped in complete silence on the lunar surface with nothing to eat, do, see or drink for a millennium would have fucked her up way worse if else.There being consequences is neat though like in your pic anon, but I take her season 1 design as an example of that where shes all small and mundane looking compared to celestia like shes been weakened and depowered
>>42502898Being turned to stone is just like being rendered unconcious though isnt it? Though in discords case he probably time skipped his own perspective or something
>>42502913He was conscious throughout, according to his own testimony in S3. Realistically, he'd go nuts (well, more nuts) faster than anyone else in solitary confinement, but he probably just projected his consciousness elsewhere and dicked around in other dimensions for a millennium.
>>42502886>has to appear in people's dreams because it's the only way she can see and interact without making them run away in fear or feel like she's in pain>wants to be Nightmare Moon again, not out of any particular evil urge but she's just tired of throwing up constantly and not being able to walk unassisted
>>42501342>I never watched S1E1It starts around 19:25, but you really should watch the whole episode.
>>42501342>how can she be imprisoned IN the moon? it's solid rock, it makes no sense! either the moon is hollow or she's standing around on the surface!I know we're all autistic here, but you're really setting yourself apart from the rest of us with this one.
>>42503183The absolute state of the Friendship is MAGIC fandom.
How do they talk? They're horses. Horses don't fucking talk.
Well this is the worst fucking thing I've ever made
>>42503197Legitimately made me laugh, good job
>>42503197Nominating this for the next heterosexual OP.
>>42503197I guess you could sayYou could sayThe fic was aborted
>>42371921I read https://www.fimfiction.net/story/418430/after-i-looked-up-the-stars-had-gone-away as well, and it's excellent at what it does well despite its flaws. The atmosphere is nearly immaculate; it perfectly captures the feeling of being in a nightmare far better than any fic I've read that's explicitly set in one.What's key, like the other anon said, is the sense of things feeling deeply "unnatural" or "wrong" rather than simply threatening or unknown. Nightmare fics will usually try to effect this feeling by using familiar settings with "changes" of varying degrees. Think stuff like ponies all having constant blank expressions, or hallways being longer or taller than normal, or the air being inexplicably dry and causing an overpowering thirst. The feeling is usually stronger with subtler changes (e.g. mirrors having a slight delay vs. blood pouring from faucets), but I suspect that that's not the true source of this kind of horror. After all, this fic has the stars disappearing and Ponyville replaced with a black void -- totally un-subtle, yet the fic is still more horrifying than most fics set in nightmares.No, the important thing in creating a nightmarish atmosphere is in the thought processes of the characters. Even slightly "off" things that wouldn't necessarily ring any alarm bells during the day can cause disproportionately powerful feelings of fear and *paranoia* in a nightmare, to the point of nearing a frenzy. Indeed, the fic focuses on Twilight's anxious and (initially) exaggerated reactions more than the spooky phenomena themselves. Notably, there's this irrational and inescapable anxiety that conspicuously overpowers her better judgement, no matter what she tries to cope with. Something I think is critical is how Twilight repeats the same worries over and over. This could easily have been tedious for the audience, but it ends up creating an immersive feeling of helpless panic. In general, the way Twilight's mind is insidiously weakened sets this fic apart from those where a character merely "enters" a nightmare but otherwise keeps their wits about them.The main flaws with the fic were poor grammar and a lack of pony-ish terms e.g. there's a bit where Twilight "strongarmed herself". It was also confusing how the fic didn't initally clarify which floor of the library Twilight was on. While it wasn't anything better reading comprehension couldn't fix, it was still disruptive having to pause and reorient my picture of the library mid-story, and that's a fairly big issue when your story lives or dies on its atmosphere. There were more than a few comma splices, but you could (and I did) charitably write those off as the author giving Twilight's thoughts a rambling style. On the other hand, Spike being out of the library could have been good, but it was revealed so abruptly and also so obviously necessary for the story that it ended up feeling contrived.
>>42503197HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
>>42503277I have apparently read this fic and upvoted it, but I have zero recollection of what it's about. I will re-read it and see what I think of it before I finish reading your post.
So I've been listening to a lot of Laurie Anderson and felt the urge to make a green after laughing my ass off at one of her tracks. Standby.
>>42503511>Bing Bong"Now boarding flight 115 to Baltimare">The Mane Six shuffle along to the desk, checking in their boarding passes whilst making idle chatter.>"Oh! it looks like we're all seated next to each other! How delightful~!" Rarity gushes, "Fluttershy, dear, may I take the window seat, I'd love to get a look of the city as take off.">The yellow pony nods almost enthusiastically, "Oh yes, no problem, I'm not sure I want to.. the ground disappearing below us anyway..">"Fluttershy, you can FLY. what do you mean you're afraid to see us ascending??" Rainbow Dash exclaims throwing her forehooves up in exasperation.>Fluttershy merely shrinks away mumbling with a little squeak.>"C'mon now Rainbow, Ah wouldn't feel all too comfortable considering we're taking off in one of Anon's latest doohickees from his world," drawled Applejack, "Ah mean, just look at that thing!" stretching a hoof towards the window at the nose of the rather impressively large 737. "How's something that big and made of metal meant to get into the air??">"A slingshot maybe?" offers the Pink Party Pony, "Ooh Oh, or maybe a pony-pult!!">"Girls, I've already tried explaining to you how this all works!" Twilight interjects, "Anon gave me extensive diagrams and a whole lessons on the aerodynamics of this 'Aero-plane'. Airplane wings are shaped to make air move faster over the top of the wing. When air moves faster, the pressure of the air-"BONG"Good evening everypony, this is your Captain speaking. Welcome aboard. We will be flying at thirty-nine thousand feet on our flight from Ponyville to Baltimare. We are expecting a smooth flight and anticipate an on-time arrival at 10:05 PM Pony Standard Time. Please sit back, relax, and we hope you enjoy your flight.">"39,000 feet?? That's higher than all of Cloudsdale!" Rainbow Dash cries out>"Not getting nervous are you, darling?" chides Rarity, with a smug grin, "You *can* fly can you not?">Rainbow crosses her forehooves and slinks into her chair a bit without a wordThe chatter of the rest of the passenger ponies picks up again, some nervous, others in astonishment as the vehicle begins to taxi its way out of the boarding dock. Anon, seated in the pilots chair, goes through the motions he has a thousand times, checking in and communicating with the ATC tower, giving a friendly wave through the window, as the lumbering beast makes its way onto the correct runway. It had taken a long time to explain the workings of terminal, the specifications for an airport, and how to properly perform pre-flight checks, but these ponies he's found himself surrounded by were smart, and all too eager to learn more about technology from his world. They knew the risks of half-measures, so he was confident that everything would be fine. Years of work. All leading up to this moment to where he could give his new friends the flight of their lives.
>>42503518>"Hey! Where the catapult? Not even a trebuchet?! BOOOORING." >"Pinkie, there ISN'T a catapult! The size it would have to be to accommodate something of this size would have to be-">"Uh, Twi?" Applejack cuts her off with a forehoof, "I don't think we need another lecture on aviation or physics, let the girl have her fun">Twilight lets out a groan and leans out over the aisle, "Still you've got to admit this is rather impressive. We're getting a trip to Baltimare faster than any sky-chariot can take us, with several dozen passenger ponies, they offer snacks, and there's even a few outhouses located throughout the plane!" With a jerk, and a rumble, the machines below hitch forward and begin taking on higher and higher speeds. >"Woah Nelly, we're uh.. going fast" stammers the apple mare, a bead of sweat forming on her head.>"AHHH YEAH, C'MON, FASTER, FASTERRRRRRR" shouts Rainbow to the concern of some of the other passengers, all fear lost from her expression, now forming one of elation. >Fluttershy can do naught but meep, squeezing the air from Rarity who has begun turning a shade of purple matched only by her maneThe speed builds and builds, and just when it seems the run-way was about to run-out, the rumbling ceases, and the feeling of smooth ascension takes its place, as the plane angles upwards to caress that blue blue sky. >"WE DID IT!" Shouts Pinkie, a blast of confetti and streamers shooting from seemingly nowhere as she bounces up and down in her seat, "WE'RE FLYING!" >Twilight shakes her head free of her terrified expression and gives a nervous smile, and gives the pink mare a pat, "Yes, yes, and there was never any doubt, now please sit still, I don't think the stewardesses are too pleased with our yelling so early into the flight." After 15 minutes, the plane reaches a cruising altitude, Anon leans back in his seat with a smile, giving a nod to the his co-pilot stallion, Windy Gusts, who smiles back with only a hint of skittishness at experiencing the power of flight in something other than his Pegasus body first hoof. "Right, you're doing great Windy, excellent takeoff, but I wouldn't expect any less from somepony with flight experience like you." "T-thanks Anon, this is all rather new to me, but I took your training manuals seriously, and am seriously excited to do something as novel as this with someone as experienced as you." he says with a slight flushing of his face. 'So cute. It's really going to be a shame that his confidence in you is about to be shattered in a few minutes' You think to yourself with a smirk.
>>42503547Another 15 minutes pass uneventfully, Windy humming a tune to himself as he goes over the operators manual, having become bored with the view already. The stewardesses have reported that everything has been going well with the passengers as well, barring the one incident of having to physically restrain Rainbow from coming into the cockpit to drill you with question after question. The sun has since set, and the stars gleam overhead, and that's when you see it- a patch of clouds up ahead. Right. On. Schedule. >Twilight magically sifts through the SkyMall magazine, when she feels a prodding on her shoulder, "Huh?">looking right she sees Rainbow pointing out past Fluttershy, occupying herself with arranging some of the complimentary peanuts into shapes of Angel, and Rarity, who has since placed a frilly eye mask over herself, and promptly dozed off. >"Twi, those clouds..">"What about them?">"They're not supposed to be there, Cloud Patrol should have cleared everything below us and we don't even get clouds this high up anyway!">"Well, we are passing over the EverFree Forest, it could be that they're just 'naturally' there?" she says, putting strain on the word 'naturally'Just then there is a shake, as the cabin lights go out for a moment and then return.BONG"Attention passengers," the voice over the intercom vocalizes, "We are experiencing a bit of turbulence, nothing to be alarmed about, please return to your seats and fasten your seatbelts until the light has turned-" The intercom cuts out sharply. The lights flicker once again. "Twi..?" mutters Applejack peering out into the now hazy window"It's nothing to worry about." Twilight murmurs at first before drawing herself upright, "Anon has years of experience with flying, I'm sure that-"Another rumble fills the cabin, a nearby foal begins to cry, though it could be just because Pinkie is now standing and making funny faces much to the grimacing of the mother.Another shake, this time much more violent, rocks the cabin pushing Pinkie back into her seat, which Twilight quickly takes advantage of, attaching the seatbelt to the pony with her magic. The intercom crackles to life again. "Good evening. This is your Captain," comes the voice of Anon, trailing off for a few moments, "We are about to attempt a crash landing."
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>>42503606Muttering and frightened gasps fill the passengers of the plane, the flower trio have already begun to faint and fall over themselves, with shrill cries of, "The horror! The Horror!"Stewardesses attempt to calm a mare and her stallion as they argue over who is running this ship, and that they want their hard earned bits back.The intercom whines and continues, "Please extinguish all cigarettes, place your tray tables in their upright, locked position"Anon, holding the intercom button firmly looks on stoicly, the rumble of the plane and a tied up and gagged Windy, doing little to phase him from his preplanned speech. "Captain says.. Put. Your head. On your knees.""Captain says.. Put your head in your hooves- put your hooves on your hips, aha ha ha.." >Meanwhile in the passenger cabin, Twilight begins focusing her magic, straining to encompass the plane in her magical aura attempting to stabilize it. Something about the materials of the vehicle as well as its sheer size have made it difficult for her though as she begins to pant in exertion. What was Anon doing? Was that just nervous laughter?Another crackle of static from the intercom, "This is your Captain,">A quiet fills passenger compartment as dozens of souls listen intently; many taking notice of a feeling quiet opposite to what they felt upon take off,"we are going down" he continues with a long pregnant pause, before he finishes, "We are all going down.. together. Standby."Shrieks erupt from behind Anon, as he hears the entirety of the plane go into a full panic, unable to act beyond keeping themselves strapped into their seats, and try to remember the inflight safety procedure.There are furious knocks at the since locked cockpit door, Windy, looking between it and the drizzle of rain now pattering against the windshield- terror invading his eyes as he locks his gaze with yours."You know, I've got this funny feeling I've seen this all before.. Why?""'Cause I'm a caveman..">Back in the passenger compartment Rarity, her mane frazzled lifts up her mask groggily, "Twilight dear, what is happening? Whats this about a caveman?" >"Rarity, the plane is experiencing a malfunction! I need your help to get it upright again!""Why?" says Anon into the mic, "'Cause I've got eyes in the back of my head..">"What the hay is Anon talking about??" Applejack bellows, straining to look over her chair towards the front, "Has he lost his marbles??">"I don't know!" shouts Twilight gritting her teeth, I need to concentrate on this spell! Applejack, Pinkie, see if you can get to the pilots cabin and figure out whats going on!"
Sir this is a Wendy's
>>42503661"Why?" asks Anon, tugging at his suit's collar, before returning to lock eyes with Windy, still hyperventilating in his gag, "It's the heat.">Louder bangs comes from the cockpit door now>"Ah-non! Ah-non, whats going on in there??" >"Nonny is this a prank? I loOooOoove a good prank, but you're really scaring everypony out here! I know its fun to be scared sometimes but.."You're fully strapped in now, still several thousand feet of clearance to work with for this next part. You only hope that nopony actually follows through on what you're about to say."Captain says: Put. Your hooves.. over your eyes." you intone ominously, "Jump out.. of the plane.">Twilight and Rarity both gasp, momentarily losing hold over the plane>Rainbow unbuckles herself and floats next to her, "Twi! Maybe I can go out there and do something?? I don't know, try and push the plane back up??" >"NO!" Twi screams, "If you open the emergency door, the pressure would suck anypony not strapped in out and all the oxygen with it!" >"Then teleport me out! We have to do something!!" >Twilight looks outside the window and begins furiously scratching at her mane thinking through the calculations of her mind,>"Even if you could keep up with the speed of descent, there's no way we could make this thing weightless enough from in here to allow you to push it back upright. I need you and Fluttershy to go up and down the rows to make sure everypony is secured and okay." >Fluttershy cringes from her seat but nods, unbuckling and floating her way down the aisles.>"Rarity, we've got to try again, we might be able to slow down the descent to at least minimize the impact">They both nod and begin focusing their magic into their horns again. You are gripping the yoke with strain now, not that it's hard to bring a plane down, but getting it to just such an angle that it feels out of control. The smell of ammonia reaches your nostrils with a slight frown you look over at Windy, who has soiled his seat quietly sobbing at the sight of the ground coming into view past the cloud cover.A quick glance over your shoulder and you see there are now noticeable indents where Applejack's hooves have started bucking at the door. >"Ah-non, for Celestia's sake open this door! Ah may not know how to fly this contraption but I can still buck some sense into ya if that's what it takes!"Altimeter reads 13,000 ft.You take a hand off the yoke for one final transmission into the mic, "There is. No. Pilot.">"Ah-non!" >Bang. Bang. Bang.10,000 ft."You. Are not. Alone.">"AH-NON!!">"NONNY!!!"8,000 ft.
This is a fimfiction thread right? Is this not what this thread is for? Idk, I guess I'm a newfag to this. Whatever, I had my fun. Didn't really know how to end it to by honest. Just really liked "From the Air"'s lyrics and wanted to make a green of it for a couple weeks now. >>42503713*Crash*The door busts open hanging on a hinge, and a very angry orange mare stands there.But only for a moment as you yank the yoke back, sending her and her pink friend tumbling backwards towards the aisles. The gleaming cityscape of Baltimare in sight, you quickly make adjustments for a quick fly around to decelerate, making note of your location and syncing up with where the Baltimare National Airport is. >About 10 minutes ahead of schedule.>You've still got it, Anon. BING BONG"Mares and Gentlestallions, this is your Captain speaking. We have now begun our descent procedure into Baltimare International, The local time is 9:54 PM, and the temperature is a cool 66*F. We expect to land in 5 minutes. In preparation for landing, please ensure your seat backs are in their upright position, your seat belt is securely fastened, and your tray table is stowed. Please also make sure all carry-on items are secured." A small smile creeps upon your lips, despite knowing this is probably the last time you'll ever be allowed to fly a plane from your own home again. "We hope you've enjoyed your flight and look forward to seeing you on board again soon. Thank you again for flying with Anon Airlines."The rest of the flight proceeds as normally as it did on take off, with a smooth landing and a hitch-free parking. The attendants at docking swiftly connect to the door and are perplexed to see Anon standing at the door. "Sir? Aren't you supposed to wait until after the passenger have deboarded first?"You pay them little attention as you swiftly brush past them as quickly as you can making your way to the nearest Gate and taxi. It unlikely you as a human were going to avoid detection after what happened on that plane caught on with others, but that was a later problem. You only made it about 3 minutes into your taxi trip before cackling, to the confused looks in the rearview mirror of the taxi-pony pulling your cart into the city.
>the main plot of the fic could easily be solved or not exist in the first place if ponies just used violence.
>>42501102>There is no strong canon source to prove she was inI don't know how much stronger you can get than the literal opening sequence of the show that establishes the setting, one narrated by one of the two princesses in said sequence, and one further reinforced by the surface of the moon being physically altered before and after the banishment.If all that's not enough, the Elements of Harmony referecne guide book, one that exactly predicts the time of the banishment ending and even mentions the stars aiding in her escape, also states NMM was "imprisoned in the moon". If even that's not enough:>Nightmare Moon: My sister has been imprisoned in the moon for years! But it is no less a fate than she'd sentence me to!>>42502467>Dexter's Lab crossover>so she can suffer eternal emotional tormentWhat? How do you get that out of Dexter's Lab?>>42502504It's a classic no continuity comedy cartoon. Best episode's the fanfic one. A six year old fan wrote a story, narrated it, then sent the tape to the producers, who turned it into an episode. The show's quality slides after S2, when Genndy Tartakovsky moved on to do Samurai Jack and a different production team took over. It's like MLP S3, but they also change the animation style and Twilight's VA.>>42503722>This is a fimfiction thread right?Put it in a gdoc if you want critique. Also, it's a prose story, so there shouldn't be any greentext. As a general critique, I'm not a fan of an airliner in Equestria. It throws the the and general tone of the setting way off. I had to double check to make sure it wasn't a PiE story, that's how off it is.
>>42503909>The show's quality slides after S2, when Genndy Tartakovsky moved on to do Samurai Jack and a different production team took over.It's sad that every cartoon is like this.
>p9We are dead, I tell you! DEAD!
>>42504303
>>42503183Me when I'm so autistic I fail to realise something was a joke.
>>42503909>But it is no less a fate than she'd sentence me to!Would!=did
>>42504373>fancy myself a comedy writer>struggle to pick up on the most basic of jokes in conversation
>>42504355And that, kids, is why your parents always warned you not to swallow your chewing gum.
>>42504355How do you feel about cumflation?
>>42504303Death really becomes Rarity.
>/fimfic/ say fic is good>fic seems like it would be good>put off reading it because im a contrarian that thinks i know better and have better discernment>read fic>it’s very good
>>42504812Which fic?
>>42503277>>42503504Oh man I hate this one. Seer is a good horror writer, but this fic is fucking nothing. Nothing happens in this story, which is why the second anon probably doesn't remember it. This is not an exaggeration, nothing happens. There is no threat and no plot development. No need for it to be two separate chapters, either. There is only a bunch of suspense without a pay-off, and that gets old fast. Apparently a lot of people liked that, but it was incredibly boring for me. This is literally atmosphere for the sake of atmosphere. I prefer more substance in my horror.
>>42504983You may just be incapable of comprehending it.
>>42504999Only in a sense that it appeals to a specific fear scenario pretty alien to me. In my nightmares, if I feel dread and an ominous presence, I always choose fight over flight and try to find and confront the source of it (usually it ends with me finding nothing and a sense of dread getting so high that I just wake up with a racing heart). Point is, if I suspected the world around me turned into a black void, I would not hide in the corner whining like a bitch for 6k words, I would jump out the window and kill myself to get this over with.
>>42505051Sounds like you like the basic ability to empathize with characters. This is a known sign of autism.
>>42505103If I wrote an extra drawn-out story about a guy who lies in a puddle of shit and thinks about how horrible it is but never once tries to get out or do anything about it, would I get to call you autistic if you didn't relate to it?
>>42505138We get more than enough HiE already.
>>42494918>>42498075Oh, right, it was probably good to mention chapter splits; for some reason I read 20 as an odd number. Pay attention to chapter titles! 2/3 of the fic is titled 'Lost', and the prologue chapters are included in the count.Week 1: Chapters 1-11, inclusive of ch.11 (fourth 'Lost' in a row).Week 2: Chapters 12-22, ending with the last 'Lost' in its batch.Week 3: The rest, starting with Chapter 23, 'The Adventure'.
>>42504843A fimfic
>>42504412I think of myself a comedy writer but I think purple prose is funny as fuck
>thread stops talking about dead babies and dies
>>42506007Fics with dead babies that die?
>>42506007Q: How do you get 400 foals in a mare?A: With a blender.
teleporting to equestria just to show luna that fucking image on my phone then recording her reaction >>42499070
>>42506081>just goes catatonic and starts crying
>>42506081>”reason humans cannot be allowed to come to equestria, number 2467.”
>>42506081>shows you an image of you miscarrying your own foal in your dreams as revenge
>>42506081
>>42506148Man this joke is really going places huh
>>42506018Three Steps Back.
>>42506148This is the best thing to ever come out of this thread.
>>42506148I feel like it'd be funnier without the tear.
>>42506018WoE
>>42506148kek gj. And we can just put the fimfic logo in his hand and have another op image
>>42506371Howzat
Does anybody happen to know of a fimfiction that involved Queen Chrysalis being fully turned into a pony (premise), being ravenously hungry (because she had never actually eaten before), and then being fed a peanut butter and jelly sandwich by a chef in Canterlot (I believe this occurred in the first chapter)?
>>42506466It was supposed to be in the hand lol. Like he is showing her FimFiction and it made her cry lol
>>42506514Oh, okay. Like this?
>>42506518Wait huhWhy did it not save and why did it let me post a duplicate
>>42506524
>>42506526There we go. Looks just as trash and low effort as I imagined it lol but I do like the shadow
>>42506526I like that the thumb position implies he was standing with his back facing Luna, and then just extended his arm and turned his head 180° just to shove the pic on Luna's face.
>>42506574>makes that gmod head crack sound when he does it
>>42506508Probablyhttps://www.fimfiction.net/story/27280/march-to-the-scaffoldChrysalis is turned into a pony as punishment, and gets a PB&J sandwich in chapter 6.
>>42506597Thank you so much, this is it. You’re the best!
>>42506623Only a flaggot could describe him as "the best".
>>42503277It was the bit about the scream that sounded like it was smiling that really sold it for me.
>>42506623You're welcome, and speaking of best, here's the best duo for the next thread!https://www.fimfiction.net/story/41152/within-the-seas-of-the-galaxies
>>42506792>>42506792>>42506792>>42506792
Bump
>>42507406No
>>42507552Yes.
