Come one and all to the meta-writefag and help raise the quality of MLP fanfiction! Featuring: Five minute delays!ITT: Conventions, Luna willfully engagin in tomfoolery, not writing at all, proof that you shouldn't meet people IRL, $550, the anthology's deadline has been... delayed, Celestia's mommy issues, AI, Twilight's LEGO autism, losing and finding things, unorthodox reading media, forsaking horsewords for pussy, pussy forsaking you, fuck Chuck Norris, and so much DEAAAAATH.>/fimfic/ Secret Book ClubThe one hundred and twenty first book is Twice as Bright:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/84903/twice-as-brightDue to the larger word counts we've had these last couple weeks, we'll read it over two weeks, splitting it between chapters "Surprise, Sunrise" (week 1) and "Thoughts of Not a Gramophone" (week 2).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: >>42534727
First for best duo!Enjoy this conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/241032/spring-tide
Actual first for Derpy!
Futa is gay.
>>42591791Source?
>>42591795Firsthand, I presume.
Any fics with characters that are really bad at lying but everyone pretends to fall for it?
I would appreciate some opinions on this.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mlD3SZFmQFkLE9qK2pN1jxQG3BN8VMHMEzb3P5SKMgI/edit?usp=sharingA comedy thriller where Derpy thinks she's uncovered a sinister plan. It involves baked goods.
>>42591825That one fic where Scootaloo teaches Spike he can get away with a lot of things by saying he's an orphan.
>>42591777>proof that you shouldn't meet people IRL, $550Did I miss these?
>>42592404>proof that you shouldn't meet people IRL>>42541408>$550>>42543629
>>42592434Both posts are mine. It's a shame this wasn't used for the OP:>>42542705
>>42592451Next time, say yes.
>>42592451See you next Marefair, Kaz.I will not try to fuck you, fear not.
>>42592190He is technically an orphan.
>>42592451Honestly they were both good choices. Also nice trips OP.
There is an unspoken rule that you must only use ancient posts for the OP because the passage of time terrifies autists.
>>42592744Silly anon. Autists don't understand the passage of time. To them, things remain unchanged when not within their attention. That's why my father doesn't understand why I don't love him.
>>42592778They understand the passage of time, they just disagree with it.
>>42592658And that means he should get a pass?
>>42592790Yes. Because he's a poor little orphan with an abusive stepmother.
Recommend me some AU stories where Twilight is a prominent character and undergoes some dramatic change, for better or worse. Bonus points if she changes her name.
>>42592796Eh, I'd say she's more negligent than outright abusive.
>>42592797Foggy Overcast
>>42592805Typical teen mom.
>>42592797Twiguard.
whatcha working on
>>42592906Writing the story for the anthology I ended up not writing. Maybe I can rework it and finish it in time for the new deadline.
>>42592906Nyxfic interequel. Wife drew cover art.
>>42592991That Nyx isn't white...
>>42593016You're thinking of Dyx.
>>42593016She's white around the edges. Y'know, like an Italian.
>>42593019I'm more of a pussy person.
>>42593042Pyssy's being raised by Fluttershy, I think.
We're a step away from revisiting "Applejack grooms the hyper autistic Twilight clone" plot again.
>>42592906an extremely autistic crossover
>>42593069All crossovers are autistic.
>>42593079I wish they were; neurotypicals just can't write good horsewords.
>>42593069with?
>>42593079Nuh uh! Mine's just retarded.
(You) can't write yourself out of a paperbag. Take any story right now and attempt to rewrite it better. Notice how you can't cause you're an autistic asocial loser who never had a normal conversation in his life beyond whos favourite Star Wars figurines are less cheap plastic than the other.
>>42593336ok
>>42593336I was rereading WASLC last night and I swear I find more grammatical errors with every single pass, and it pains me I can't reach out and fix them.It's still the best pony transformation story I've come across.
>>42593110Jojo. Actually started as a green I wrote a long while back, and got a bunch more ideas for since.
>>42593336Rude, don't dox me like that
>Royal Guardsmare General Thread dead and gone.>The-Man-From-Another-Time has been gone for more than a year now.>New chapter of Everyday Life With Guardsmares never ever.EVERY TIME
>>42593449TMFAT is still active on the Fimfic Discord server, so you can just go there and yell at him if it makes you happy.
>>42593498>Discord serverIs yelling gonna give me more chapters?
>>42593503It's worth a shot.
>>42593503Probably not, but it might make you feel better.
>>42592906I got my Flashfic entry in today. I meant to get it done earlier, but Mare Fair meant I waited until the final hour again. Besides that, I've got the first chapter of a commission to finish, and then two more commissions in my queue after that. It feels good to let someone guide my hand, just as I do when I commission artists.
>>42593623ButThere is a block feature
>>42592778I'd enjoy more posts like this.
>>42593659If only my dad still enjoyed things.
Fics where your dad sucks?
>>42592906Wrote a fic in a morning and it probably shows but the concept had been rattling inside my head for a while.https://www.fimfiction.net/story/582852/the-oldest-man-of-the-mountainTwilight meets an incredibly old man.
>>42594046>AiEWhy?
>>42594530Sometimes to stay on top, you gotta slop.
>>42595320Would would would
>>42593423This is how 90% of good crossovers start.
>>42595320>luna's butt isn't small, it just looks that way because the black hides her curvesFics for this feel?
>>4259555290% of 0 is 0.
Alright who wrote the Scootaloo prostitution story, fess up.
>>42596074It was Marecum, can't you fucking read?
>only one whole non-human fic in the sinbinJesus
>>42596156>still having any faith in the artistic taste of Fimfiction readers
>>42596456I don't have faith, just expectations.
>>42596469Still expecting even the faintest bit of taste from the average fimmyfag is the very definition of blind faith.
>>42592906I'm continuing to slowly chip away at my deadfic. I'm really regretting doing the "Equestria discovers griffon troop movements and scrambles to form an international diplomatic response" subplot because it's kind of useless and throws off the pacing of the climax but it's now 90% done and I don't want to cut it because of sunk cost.>>42593498>the guy's still active on DiscordAh, the Asylum copium.
>>42596848>but it's now 90% doneWhy not axe it and rework it into its own separate story?
>>42592906After 10,000 years I'm looking at my deadfic and wondering how the hell am I going to finish it. Also how fucking bad of a writer I was/still am.
>>42597127Not pregnant enough.
>>42592906i have so many fucking luna fics that i meant to rewrite into greens, a half-finished snowpony poem, an unfinished rewrite of a rushed ambient.white short story, and now i'm thinking about a spitfire green. i will never finish any of them nor start on the last one.
>>42597138I'm sure you're bad in more efficient ways now.
>>42597870>rewrite into greensThink of all the time and effort you can save not only by not doing that, but never even considering that again!
>>42597870>rewrite INTO greensWhy would you make your life worse?
I need to stop killing Luna in my fics.
>>42593043Is Pyssy the edgy filly made from Cadence?
>>42598867She's whatever we've decided nightmare Cadance is.
>>42598871Decadence is still hilarious to me.
>>42598952Do you think Flurry's gamer tag would be D.cadence?
>>42598952It's a side gag, but I really liked Cadence's fall from grace in the Pony Courtship Ritual series.
Guys we never updated the bookclub fic number after some anons realized it was off. It’s ten behind now.
>>42599288We'll do like the Gregorian calendar and skip those ten next thread.
>>42596074The first chapter was promising, but it lost me in the following two, it just isn't really what I'm looking for. Too much focus on what happens during the sessions and not too much development or progression of the situation. Some new anxieties are introduced and the third chapter does have some real consequences and raises the potential for new conflict in the coming chapters, but it still feels ultimately like it'll just be a molestor-of-the-week sort of format, every scene being in the alley and following the general tune of "She starts out somewhat confident she'll be able to get through it, but this client is worse than the last one and she feels like it's a miracle when it finally ends. And then next week she's in the same place again, physically and mentally, and it plays out again. We don't see scenes of how she started struggling to keep her mask up in her day-to-day life, or how she's paralyzed with fear, unable to will her legs to move to assume her weekly position until the pain of starvation in her belly overpowers it. There's not much drama or development to it that seems to extend beyond the chapter it's in. It's like reading smut with only the in-and-out and only a paragraph or two of foreplay or aftercare.I tend to get some sort of catharsis reading about the suffering of characters whenever I'm feeling down, so I don't mind how the fic focuses more on describing her anguish than the actual sexual acts—it's what I'm here for—but reading some of the more depraved acts she's forced into, even when they're described in a very 'non-sexy' fashion and I'm not trying to fap to it anyways, still puts me off of the story. I don't want to read about poop and sex, even if it's really just about the degradation or the internal injuries. I should also remark that Scootaloo doesn't feel particularly Scoot-ish; maybe it's just because she's in situations where her real personality couodn't shine through anyways, but it feels too generically orphan-pony and not specifically orange-orphan-pony, if that makes sense. Her identity is never outright irrelevant (mostly due to various levels of familiarity with some of her clients and the fears that result from that), but feels like a background factor most of the time.I will say, however, that the comments were massively amusing. I don't know what's funnier: the roblox kid trying to 'own' people by quoting video game dialogue at them, or the guy who claimed to be 'done' with arguing multiple times only to reply again anyways or spend half an hour extending his comment by multiple paragraphs with a series of about a dozen edits since it's *technically* not the same as replying again. I might follow this author just to see more of the moralfags barking at him.
>>42598985Her game tag is either something really racist or a Morrowind deep lore joke.
>>42598867>Applejack is trying to groom hyperautistic midnight sparkle >Meanwhile Fluttershy is trying to prevent Pyssy from getting groomedIt's a cycle
I got another comic based on a Flashfic entry:>>42600095Flashfic is fun, you guys should participate. You can even get away with waiting until the last few minutes like I've done several times.
>>42600129You know what would be really fun, though? >>42541408
>>42600188>You know what would be really fun, though?A rollercoaster!
>>42600129Do they accept non-fetish entries?>>42600188Pro tip: instead of trying to live vicariously through other people's sex lives, get laid.
>>42600231Hell yeah.>>42600233>Do they accept non-fetish entries?I think so.
>>42600101>>42598054What kinds of books does Luna read? History, esoterica, arcane magic?
This isn't going to be used, but fuck it. I've got the source file, but Gimp can't open clip files.
>>42600249Booktok smut
>>42600254The absolute lowest level of literature and storytelling.
>>42600249She reads the phone book and finds it the smuttiest thing since the census.
>>42600129>3 weeks to write 150 wordsHow slow of a writer does this guy think I am?>>42600250Have you tried this?https://github.com/dobrokot/clip_to_psd
>>42600249Twilight's poetry and magical theories, legends about Equestria and the Everfree that she already knows the basis for, Celestia's smut collection and court records.
>>42600285>Twilight's face when she walks in on the Princess of the Night clopping to a filly's sob-filled testimony
>>42600298>Scootaloo AGAIN?
>>42600302She's like the Oliver Twist of rapebait.
>>42600274It's not about how slow you are, but about how badly you procrastinate.Thanks for the suggestion, but I'll probably just ask the artist for the PSD. I don't feel like auditing Python code, and I'm sure as fuck not going to run random code off Github.
>>42600419"Please, sir, I want some more."
>>42600419Witch in Broad Daylight should have had her power be that 50% of the population inexplicably wants to rape her, not reality warping.
>>42600424Ha.
>>42591827>0 repliesDamn, the state of /fimfic/I'd read it myself but I don't like Derpy or find her very funny so I would be biased
>>42600263Is it really any worse than AiE though
>>42600592No it isn’t but there absolutely is worse fanfic out there.
>>42600892>>42601126It's over...
>>42601126Luna with Celestia's asshole
>>42601231No, that's gross.That Selenophile pic with most of Luna's snout in Celestia's pussy instead. Training Twilight to do that to her.
>>42601293>posts rimming-coded pic>surprised when people make it about rimming
>>42601293>rimming gross>posts about pissfag artist instead
>>42600586I respect that.Honestly, I wanted to write a story about Twilight being folded into a conspiracy by Celestia and Luna, but it got too serious for my tastes, so I opted for silliness instead.Though I did end up with a serious twist right at the very end, so I guess I just suck.>Captcha: HROAXHmmm...
>>42601551I wanted to do a story where Twilight's just taken the throne and the horse CIA is giving her the rundown of all the various things, like the key that turns off the sun, the canterhorn missile silo, the place where they incinerate the failed Cadance clones, etc.
>>42601355>surprisedNo, I didn't expect better imagination from you. That hardly means I have to limit myself, though.>>42601364>what are filters
Why can't offboarders into greens?Hard mode: articulate
>>42601788What if we did something where we took the green texts and made them into complete sentences, then strung them together in a paragraph that wasn't present tense. We could call it like, fandom fiction or something.
>>42601788How often is the story written as a green for a specific reason other than "I'm just an idea guy and this is all I can write"? The strengths of greentexts are seen in traditional non-fanfic greentext stories posted around the site, where it's often used for its conciseness and fast pace when the actual fine details of the situation are unimportant and there's no desire to "paint a picture" of the scene and only to get the basic information across, like comedic anecdotes where most of it is basically setup for a punchline, or a brief recounting of events followed by a "what the fuck do I do, /b/?". It's also good for short stories where the real meat is in the basic idea itself, and a short line at the end recontextualizes the information you've been presented with up to that point, like a stinger line at the end of an /x/ creepypasta or a punchline at the end of a greentext on /b/ that recontextualizes it as being an elaborate reference to some meme instead of a real anecdote.How many of your stories actually take into account the strengths and weaknesses of the format and tailor itself to them? Because a lot of greens I see are basically just outlines or very rough drafts of a "normal" story but with meme arrows on each line, and at that point you're basically a scriptfag with a poorly-applied 4chan coat of paint. You don't get to hide behind "ACKSHUALLY it's 4chan culture I'M MORE 4CHAN THAN YOU ARE!!!!! GET OUT NEWFAG" if your only understanding of greentexts is "the text is green" and you ignore all of the storytelling conventions built up over two decades of fiction, nonfiction, and fiction masquerading as nonfiction. That just makes you a poser.
>>42601853>fiction masquerading as nonfictionOy vey.
>>42601853>I'm just an idea guy and this is all I can writeThat's hardly a green only thing, plenty of anons here jerk off their ideas, blow their creative load and then shrug and move on.Claiming that there's no desire to paint a picture is kinda goofy because you can draw from a character's perspective as well as a third party/fourth wall perspective. You can argue small details need to be included but you can utilize the limited scope.>how many of your stories actually take into account the strengths and weaknesses of the formatIf you're asking directly, a few do. Especially when it comes to perspective change and making certain situations have a more direct impact. Greens are so rare in general to the point I'm wondering how many you've seen were actual efforts or just vague shitposts. Fimfiction isn't full of quality, it often has the same level of lame ideas and executions. Just with a higher word count to imply more effort was taken.I'd recommend more writefags that hold their nose up high try greens. It isn't dumbing yourself down unless you actually dumb yourself down and don't recognize the perks.
>>42602092>Fimfiction isn't full of qualityThat anons are somehow bigger cowards than the Thomas the train fanfic writers speaks volumes. How are THEY the ones outdoing you?
>>42602092Greentranny go home.>b-but muh board cu-You lost. Go home and fellate one of your favorite greenslop "authors" so he can shit out another post or two.
I've seen a few Yu-Gi-Oh crossovers but I've never seen a fic where they play the actual FiM card game.
>>42602212Is there a fic about them reacting to them having a bunch of merch of themselves?
>>42601660"I don't understand. Why are we following the outlines made by female sheep? They make less than one in fifty of all inhabitants of Equestria."
oh Lord he's coming
>>42602301What page size do you use?
What the fuck was the point of the egg test Twilight got? Did someone ever ask Faust that?
>>42602467It was probably just a test of magical output. It shouldn't be possible for a child unicorn to hatch a dragon egg with magic, so if they try really hard you get a safe way to see how much power they're putting out.
>>42602462Just what every Google doc's default is. I don't go by page count anyway, word count is what matters.
>>42602467To see how well a ten year old handles crushing failure.
>>42602467Celestia knew or at least suspected that Twilight will be the Element of Magic, so she had her test replaced with the dragon egg.
>>42602694Nah, Celestia was surprised to see her in that tower. She didn't know she was the element of magic until she checked out her ass.
>>42602269This one kind of fits:https://www.fimfiction.net/story/568043/duly-elected-representative
>>42602725I sort of meant like, in-universe. I know there's a comic where Candance and Twilight come across merchandise and Candance is insecure over it
What are you reading?
>>42602961Homestuck.
>>42602988I'm sorry.
>>42601551You should have made the twist at the end that the hyper serious, fate of the world conspiracy was actually just Celestia and Luna hazing/trolling Twilight as a new princess. That they were just fucking with her all along.
>>42602961Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.
>>42602961I'm finishing a Katawa Shoujo fic before I start this week's club.I feel happy.
>>42603157Link? It's been a while since I read some good, wholesome cripple porn.
>>42603164https://archiveofourown.org/works/30205380/There's no porn in it. Sorry to disappoint.I really like it, though.
>>42602961Jekyll and Hyde. I'll probably finish it tomorrow. It's interesting how cultural osmosis has made it impossible to experience the story blind. Since anyone interested in it only knows about it due to its twist. I'm trying to see if someone reading this back in the 1880s could reasonably figure out the twist before the reveal.Also, I don't know if I can call it detective fiction. Granted, I don't have much of a frame of reference for those. But it feels like Utterson is stumbling onto new information instead of doing any actual deductive work. I feel like as the reader, I've done more deductive work than he has. But, maybe that is intentional.
>>42603339I mean like yeah, he only learns shit because Jekyll confesses to the entirety of it at the end, doesn't he?
>>42603083No, that would've been boring and stupid.
>>42602715>"That ass is elemental!"
>fic is written well prosewise >Nothing fucking happens and it's boring as shit
>>42604232Wait a minute, you're not the regularly scheduled Luna bump guy!
Is this /moon/?
>>42605064This is better than /moon/
>>42605059Pun intended?
>>42605286There can't be a pun when they're disgustingly proportioned.
>>42605297I dunno, the one where she's pregnant and dreaming about flying with her baby's kind of cute.
>>42605297The only disgusting thing I've seen mixed with Princess Luna in this thread is a lesbian, with wings at that.
>>42605305Damn girls, no need to fight.
>>42605353I'm willing to sacrifice the pregfag if it means he takes the Tunafaggot with him.
>>42605362But then who will bump the threads? You?
>>42605368I'm sure we'll all do our part.
>>42605375You mean play our part?
>>42605036This is a general fanfic thing that makes me seethe to no end. Why? Why do authors blather for 100k+ words with NOTHING to show for? I'm pretty sure The Nostromo by Conrad is 100k or less and is filled to the brim with not just plot but tangents about the world and backstory for its characters -- fanfic authors need to fucking read this thing to see what a good 100k story looks like. I recently found an ME/Marathon fic that's already over 100k and the story STILL hasn't really got to the meat of it. So many fanfics can be cut down in half if they weren't mired in boring bullshit. 40k should be the max of a general fanfic.
>>42605697Sometimes people like the boring bullshit.
>>42605697>Why do authors blather for 100k+ words with NOTHING to show for?Because editing is also a part of writing, and fanfic writers are amateurs.
>>42605697I’m not the only one who has read Nostromo? Wow.You’re supposed to read really long fics differently from novels like Nostromo. You’re not supposed to dwell on the words and extract every ounce of meaning from them. You’re supposed to skim. The author isn’t spending much time refining his prose, so why should you spend time studying it? If you skim, then all of these obese, overly wordy fics become bearable.On the flip side, if you write fics with careful, subtle prose, then your readers will skim and miss the point. It’s happened to me more than once.
>>42605697Read Les Miserables, now.
>>42605813No, Toilers of the Sea is better.
>>42605834Too short for the purposes of this exercise.
>>42605701This.If I wanted neatly trimmed fiction, I'd read a book.
>>42605036Me with No Nose KnowsIt's like the central conflict gets resolved waaaaaaaay too fast and then it's just not that interesting
What'd be the best option for hosting images for illustrations I'd want to embed into my fic?
>>42605923Catbox is a safe bet desu, I've had the least upstream issues with it.
>>42605923Upload them to the boorus, use Derpibooru for the embedded image, and link to each one underneath it.
>>42605993It's more authentic if you host on the booru
>>42605923https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1028988/image-hosting-on-fimfiction-an-authoritative-account
>>42605993This seems a little unwieldy.
>>42606259You also probably don't need to link to the source
>>42606263If you want actual advice, ditch inline links altogether and make the image embed send you to the boorus when clicked, a la [url=https://twibooru.org/2476816][img]https://cdn.twibooru.org/img/view/2021/6/12/2476816.png[/img][/url]
>>42606259kek
>>42606290If you want another laugh, turn on comments ^:)
>>42599845>>Applejack is trying to groom hyperautistic midnight sparkleThere's nothing wrong with this because she totally WOULDN'T end up doing it. They'd just get really close to fooling around before Twilight or Big Mac almost walks in on them, and filly autismo Twi wouldn't even realize they were doing any thing wrong and would actually be open to meeting other ponies. But Applejack knows that "A" she has to hide the filly and "B" she can't be outed as a filly fiddler, and also "C" that fiddling fillies is actually wrong (and it's significant that she thinks of that last), so she quickly clenches her tail down and runs over to keep the door closed while making up some excuse as to why all of Apple Bloom's crayons had the wrappers taken off. (It was because filly Twilight didn't like how one of them was slightly ripped, so she tore the whole thing off, and then she didn't like how it was the only crayon without a wrapper, so all of them had to go.) It's a good story and you don't understand that it's not 100% sexual, she's a normal mare for the most part she only gets urges sometimes and always stays in control.
Fess up, which one of you downvoted this 2 years ago? https://www.fimfiction.net/story/537057/twilights-felquines-of-xenon
>>42606486See, this is why they're giving the state custody of her instead, AJ. This is why those ponies were talking to Apple Bloom.
>>42606520>I can't believe you were molesting a weird filly version of me!>No I ain't! It's a weird filly version of you from that monkey world, that makes it okay! They ain't legally ponies!
>>42606259I guess. It's less unwieldy for me because I put them in the author's notes, and I name the links to have a nicer representation, like this.>>42606284The issue with that approach is the fragility of the boorus. I provide multiple links specifically so that at least one will survive even if all the others are gone. Some are flaky, and Ponybooru now does this annoying thing where the requests fail the first time around, making them unsuitable as the direct image host, and there are other issues like this with using only one.
>>42606603That's fucking disgusting. It doesn't look like pregnancy, it looks like a giant tumor. Spoiler that shit in the future.
>>42606610Eh, I figured I should've used one of the later chapters as my example instead. It's cartoon pony anatomy. Shove twins inside of a pony, and that's the result, arguably.Regardless, the arrangement of the links is much less cluttered this way.
Ah, yes.The question that has left writers powerless for centuries.
>>42606637>It's cartoon pony anatomyNo, it's exaggerated fetish slop. Newborns are tiny. Really tiny. That screencap shows babies who are able to sit upright unassisted. They don't do that until like six months old, by which time they've been through multiple growth spurts and are way, way bigger than newborns.But you don't care. Why would you give a fuck about reality as long as it helps you drain your balls? Go ahead, keep jorking to gross, bloated, distended bellies. Keep telling yourself that's what pregnancy actually looks like. But spoiler it so that the rest of us don't have to see it.
>>42606663What would Dialogue's cutie mark be?
>>42606672The boring answer would be quotation marks. Or a speech bubble.I'd like to picture the head of two mares talking.
>>42606683>quotation marksNo, quotation MARK, singular. One on each flank, with the pony herself technically resting between them, like actual dialogue.
>>42606603Have you considered using favicons in place of plaintext?>>42606687The rump is far from the most quotable body part.
>>42606694>The rump is far from the most quotable body part.A story is nothing without a good plot.
>>42606715Carlos, I will kick your spic ass all the way to Alligator Alcatraz.
Just went past 31k words on my fic.It feels good to write it all ahead of time. I keep going back and forth from chapter to chapter just to tighten little things or better set up stuff. It's great.How's your writing going?
>>42606728Got 15k words out in a lil vacation and finally figured out what I wanted for the endingOriginally was going to be much more bittersweet but it just doesn't fit the vibes of the story anymore
>>42606668>No, it's exaggerated fetish slop.It's exaggerated, yes. I asked the artist to tone it down for the following chapters, but I won't pretend to dislike it at all.>Newborns are tiny. Really tiny. That screencap shows babies who are able to sit upright unassisted.This is where you mix and match different aspects of real horses, real ponies, and cartoon ponies. Real foals can stand after minutes, but we already knew that.>They don't do that until like six months old, by which time they've been through multiple growth spurts and are way, way bigger than newborns.Real foals are still pretty big. Compress everything, make the heads proportionally bigger, add more than occur in nature, and you can at least get to the same result. They don't speak or wear diapers either. Just about everyone still left here picks and chooses the characteristics he wants them to have.>But you don't care. Why would you give a fuck about reality as long as it helps you drain your balls?Where do you think we are?>Go ahead, keep jorking to gross, bloated, distended bellies.All sizes are nice, frankly.>Keep telling yourself that's what pregnancy actually looks like.Out of curiosity, have you ever seen a pregnant deer? They get particularly distended. It's pretty hot.>But spoiler it so that the rest of us don't have to see it.I'll just listen to the little voice in my head and choose something a bit more appropriate next time I have an excuse to post it.
>>42606728It's going. And yeah, alongside my limping along updates for my main stories I have a few drafts in the works that won't go out until I've completed them as full stories.Lesson learnt there on making stories on the fly.
>>42606733If you're in favor of draining balls, then why did you refuse to help? >>42541408
>>42606759I'm neither gay nor am I bisexual, that's why, kek.>>42606728>How's your writing going?I'm wrapping up the first chapter of my commission, and working out future details with the commissioner; after that, it's an Eris one shot that should be pretty easy. I swear I never want to write when it's convenient, always when I'm doing something else.Say, do you guys have writing rigs, or do you just write anywhere? For me, I've got a fancy mechanical keyboard for my work computer that stays in my room, and an ergonomic chair. I can write on a laptop, for short bursts, but it's a lot less ergonomic. I can't imagine writing anything significant on a phone, in the Fimfiction website, and I've never used it for anything but very small tweaks of words or spelling corrections.
>>42606786>do you guys have writing rigsI write on paper whenever I'm out, and then type it all in GDocs.
>>42606786>do you guys have writing rigs,I got a deal on a chromebook for $100 and I love it. It weighs fuck-all and is easily portable.
>>42606694>Have you considered using favicons in place of plaintext?The more I think about this, the less I like it. It's cute, certainly, but a lot of the reason I go to these lengths is because I'm planning for a possible future where the only existing copies of my stories anyone can find is in the Fimfarchive torrent, which doesn't preserve images like this.In fact, I asked the Fimfarchive creator recently about adding some metadata to the index, the source link for cover art that has it in particular. He didn't disapprove of the idea, but apparently this isn't exposed by the Fimfiction API. Does anyone here have any idea what to do there?>>42606792Damn, that's hardcore.>>42606795You're using Google Docs then, I take it. I can't say I've ever used it, or a chromebook.
>>42605036>he needs PLOT and EVENTS to HAPPEN in the story instead of getting lost in the SHEER WONDER of THE MAGIC OF WELL-CRAFTED PROSE TICKLING AND PLAYING WITH YOUR IMAGINATIONOr something else a techlet autist who forgot about the concept of entertainment value long ago would say
>>42606663Dialogue is easy. Descriptions are hard.
>>42606786I do most of my reading and writing on a tablet. It allows me to walk around, which allows me to think way better than when I'm stationary. I've long suspected it to be an ADHD thing
>>42607066It probably is.
>>42603380Yeah, that is what happens.>>42603339All right, I've had enough time to ruminate on it now. Let me get all the praises out of the way first. I like how Stevenson writes dialogue between characters. The opening exchange between Enfield and Utterson is a perfect example. Their rapport feels natural and gives the reader a fair idea of their acquaintanceship. For this reason, I also believe that the exchanges between Utterson and Jekyll are a highlight of the story. Utterson can't believe that his old friend would associate with a character as vile as Hyde. His skepticism feels believable, which is important since a lot of the story rides on it. Seeing Jekyll's state of being, physically and mentally getting worse over the course of the story, really had me feeling bad for the guy. I think that can be another appeal of the story: watching the sinking ship that is Jekyll from the perspective of an old friend. Now, the Jekyll-Hyde dynamic itself. Something like that is easy to apply to allegorical writing, but I like how it is presented here, whether you choose to read it allegorically or straight. Jekyll's account at the end ties everything together, but I think both Utterson's and Jekyll's perspectives are key to forming the whole narrative. Utterson provides an important role as the outsider's perspective. I think reading his exchanges with Jekyll before and after reading both accounts is important to understand the full context. His account takes on a performative quality afterward.
>>42607639So, as a piece of gothic fiction, I liked it a lot. I like how it takes advantage of different perspective to explore a character's internal struggle. I've seen this categorized as detective or mystery fiction and I am still on the fence about that one. From my limited exposure, I think there is a unique appeal to mystery fiction that Jekyll and Hyde does not satisfy. With mystery fiction, there is a game-like relationship between the author and reader. The author is tasked with creating a puzzle in prose, a mystery that the story shall reveal the answer to by the end. The author is to deploy to the audience enough hints and clues so that one may decipher the puzzle alongside the cast. When I read it like that, I'm not sure if it works. While there are hints sprinkled in Utterson's account, Jekyll has to spell out everything in his own account, which makes up a large percentage of the story. There isn't much for sci-fi elements before that, or enough to derive a proper motive from Jekyll, I feel. There's an internal struggle to Jekyll that you don't fully understand before the end. So the story doesn't really work as a mystery story, but I don't think it was trying to be. Utterson would be a poor detective if that was the case. Like, someone has to come up and tell this guy, "Hey, did you notice that Jekyll and Hyde have the same handwriting? Crazy, right?"I am aware that this isn't very MLP related. But I still think I learned something from this that I can apply to my own fiction writing, horse words included.
>>42607024It's basically just a tablet with a keyboard, but that's all I needed.
How long do fics typically stay in the Sinbin?
>>42608100Depends on how much engagement they get
>>42608100The most I've seen was three days.I think there was one time people saw a story get featured and stay there for five days, but I only have vague recollections of that.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/576075/the-blood-is-loveI have published a new chapter and now await judgement.
>>42608309I've got it tracked.Do you have any idea of how long it'll end up being?
>>42608358I don't know for sure. There are 14 chapters planned, but I have no idea how that'll translate in terms of word count.
Any personal favorite sci-fi stories? I want to read more shit about ponies in space killing each other.
>>42608377https://www.fimfiction.net/story/464678/flurry-in-timeBut that's my Babylon 5 bias showing.
>>42607024Images aren't preserved, but the links do stay. Even if Fimmy, Faust helping, goes down for good, the source trail will remain quite accessible. This'd be an excellent usecase for alt text, but the site's markup language is still stuck in the last millennium.As a bonus, if any of the boorus you link go down, their favicon will be replaced with an error message automatically, sparing your readers from a wasted click.
>>42603339I didn't even know it was a twist. I thought it was the fucking premise.
>>42605813I don't think I'm educated enough. I know next to nothing about the time period. I probably couldn't name England's monarch.
>>42606668>implying we have ever held a baby
>>42608568It was victoria
>>42608551It's one of those stories that are so popular and influential, mostly because of the twist, that it's hard to go into it after consuming general media.Like, I'unno, trying to watch Psycho or Sixth Sense.One thing I find funny is how the story itself has been twisted so much that people think that the concoction the good Dr. Jekyll takes transforms him into the evil Mr. Hyde, when it just changes his appearance and that lets Henry Jekyll be the asshole he really is.
>>42608618>it just changes his appearance and that lets Henry Jekyll be the asshole he really is.I don't believe you. But, hey, my first exposure to the story was RuneScape and my second was from Steven Moffat.>PsychoNever seen it. Didn't even know it was supposed to have a twist. It's known only for the shower.
>>42608606Even the anons who have kids?
>>42608693Especially the anons who have kids.
>>42606610>>42606637You know, it's been a while since I've seen this screencap, but they're still pretty big, and you have to account for amniotic sacs, placentas, and other stuff that goes in there.The model I usually use is the head, but Rarity's a bit bigger than she'd be with that model, I suppose. I wish the show had given us a glimpse of a pregnant mare, so we'd have some guide.
>>42608702>I wish the show had given us a glimpse of a pregnant mare,We saw shining armor
>>42606610His entire shtick is that he disguises his hyper-fat fetish with a passion for a pregnancy fetish. Don't ask me why he's not as open with it as some anons are with theirs.
>>42608766Are these proportions acceptable to you?
>>42608618>it just changes his appearance and that lets Henry Jekyll be the asshole he really is.I feel like that's an oversimplification. The final chapter is very meaty with introspective and internal conflict.Stevenson wrote in an essay that a central idea of the story was a voluntary change becoming involuntary. In Jekyll's account he says that he does not fully recall his actions as Hyde. It gets worse later on when Hyde takes over without Jekyll knowing. However, Jekyll still voluntarily takes the tonic even after things get worse. Is a drunkard or druggie their "true self" when under they are under the influence of their vice?My personal take is that a "Hyde" is a small evil that resides in the heart of an otherwise good man, who in turn succumbs to his own vice and indulgences.
>>42608640At the time it was released, the producers went on a big campaign telling everyone not to spoil the ending. It worked, and to this day, it’s still rare to hear the ending spoiled.You absolutely must see it. It’s an amazing film, no matter what you think of the genre. But be prepared. The day after I watched it, I literally took a whole shower facing the curtain because that scene was so overpowering.
>>42608799Sus. I wasn't going to respond, but you've spurred my hand. Anyway, half my point is you can drag things in whichever direction you want, and it can make sense. None of this really matters.This is a more realistic horse, but you can still tell she's pregnant because it's emphasized, and that's what I want most. If you don't emphasize it somehow, and have to draw a line with the text "pregnant" to point it out, that's just boring, to me. I'm not going to try to justify hyper pregnancy, that's just a guilty pleasure for me.I remember finding it funny just how unrealistic a lot of futa–sorry, dickgirl–art is due to the length of the mare's flare, but no one really gives a shit. Arguing about realism in fantastical hyperrealism or whatever you'd like to call it is just silly. Do whatever you want.
>>42608861Verisimilitude should never infringe on you getting your rocks off, but I draw the line at using hyphens in place of em dashes.
>>42608913>Verisimilitude should never infringe on you getting your rocks offAt least within reason, yeah.>but I draw the line at using hyphens in place of em dashes.Ah shit, those were en dashes. I hate writing on this computer.
>>42608713He was practically glowing
>>42609235Well it's not every day you get cummed inside by the mare you cummed inside.
Has anyone here tried reading https://www.fimfiction.net/story/582478/not-an-animal? The basic premise is a human goes to Equestria and reinvents computers there (which is a premise I've been tempted to write myself). It's a mix of the story of the MC starting up the computing industry from scratch (aiming for ~1980s level of technology) and in-depth discussions of computer architecture (mostly in the form of journal entries).Unfortunately, instead of making the computers fully magic based, which would let the author bullshit/handwave many of the details, the author decided to base them on realistic semiconductor technology, with magic only used to simplify the manufacturing process. And even more unfortunately, despite the author having many opinions about computer architecture, and specifically how to improve on the way things were historically done IRL, I get the distinct impression that he's never written a line of Verilog in his life.
Wow, a human introduces modern technology into Equestria? This has never been done before!
>>42609346Easy there, Kaczynski.
Fic where anon gets to Equestria and it turns out they have all the technology he knows how to invent
>>42609379Of course they do. It's not that hard to invent dildos.
>>42609461Yeah but the good ones, the ones the mares go crazy for, are beyond poor anon's capabilities.
>>42609471An AiE can still corner the market on lifecast HMDs.
>>42596879Doesn't really work on its own. It's intrinsically tied to the central "evil plan" plot of the story. The primary purpose is to foreshadow the griffons are in on the evil plan and establish that year long, multi-country evil plans can be nearly undone by a dirigible flying over the wrong spot at the wrong time. I just don't know if it's worth the word count it eats.>>42602467I seem to remember Faust saying Celestia swapped the regular test for Spike's egg because she had a gut feeling about Twilight.>>42605697>Why?No editor who can force, not just recommend, changes/cuts. Same thing happens in long-running book series when the writer ends up writing the checks for the publisher and the editor looses all leverage to actually edit the book. Clear and Present Danger is 100k longer than Hunt for Red October but has half the plot.>>42605923I use imgbb, but I'm sure they'll go the way of Photobucket and Imgur eventually and I'll have to migrate to a new one again. Maybe the AI training bubble will keep the furnace fueled with money for a while longer.>>42606728It's been at a standstill the last few weeks, unfortunately.>>42608100Depends on how "hot" they are and how "hot" new fics are. In a slow period, they can stay in for days (especially if it's a multi-chapter you update just as it's loosing momentum), while a particularly bad luck case might only break into the seventh spot for an hour or two. I'd say the average is about a day, though.>>42609342Reminds me of the old Pippanon days. It's impossible for any single person to have a complete knowledge base on building something as complex as a computer. Maybe AMD's lead designer gets teleported over and he can get the CPU and foundry going--maybe even the GPU and RAM if we're generous--but he's going to know fuck all on how the monitor works or how to code the operating system.
>>42609518>I seem to remember Faust saying Celestia swapped the regular test for Spike's egg because she had a gut feeling about Twilight."I am going to make this ten year old a single mom"
>>42609518>It's impossible for any single person to have a complete knowledge base on building something as complex as a computer.You severely overestimate how complex the base architecture is.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydd6l3iYOZEThe only thing you'd need over this is knowing how the gates are actually implemented in circuitry (the thing that can explicitly handwaved away with "magic").
>>42609535>set up conflict>hoofwave it awayFor what purpose?
>>42609535Agreed. So long as you know the interfaces between parts, you could figure it out in an advanced setting like Equestria.Imagine making a television. Sure, you don't know the exact recipe for a cathode ray tube, but you can figure out everything else as you go. For electronics, you can slowly step up the lithography ladder with what the society already has.This doesn't work if you're trying to build something that requires an extremely specific and obscure physical phenomenon whose recipe you don't know, but ponies don't need superconductors anyway, do they?
>>42609738>superconductorsTake any conductor, squeeze it so the atoms are very close together with either extreme cold, extreme pressure, magic, or careful mixing of materials (or use hole removal spell a-la "The Martians"), boom, superconduction. The recipe isn't in the physical trick, the recipe is in finding materials that don't turn to dust under the required conditions.>>42609566For the purpose of "why would you make the whole industry chain to make vacuum tubes/transistors if you can use magical inscriptions instead?".
>>42609342>reading HiE and expecting it to be anything but wish fulfilment power fantasy trashShiggy.
>>42608861Ahh, body paint fetish art. Very good. Mare's a little fat, tho.
>>42592906chrysalsis' not-evil, shittier sister trying to attempt diplomacy and not get sun nuked
>>42609518>Celestia swapped the regular test for Spike's egg because she had a gut feeling about TwilightCelestia swapped the regular test for Spike's egg because her insides tingled when she looked at Twilight
>>42610207She just wanted hardboiled dragon egg for brunch, and figured she could kill two birds with one stone.
>>42610207Does the cock count as inside you when sheathed?
>>42609918Oh sure, it's not a good story. Among other issues, the MC is a total mary sue. It's particularly egregious around chapter 6 or so, where the MC has gone missing and you get all the other characters circlejerking for thousands of words about how good and right the MC was about everything, and how wrong and bad Neighsay was for opposing him (there's unfortunately quite a bit of late-season cancer in this fic).But part of the selling point of this fic is that it has long asides on pipeline depth and RAM latency and shit like that. I would have liked to see some interesting ideas on how that might look different when you're building a computer out of magic crystals instead of silicon. Instead the author just rehashes the way things work IRL, gets a bunch of the details wrong, and adds some dubious "improvements" on top.
>>42610152Ah, the Luna to her Celestia.
>>42610403Not really
>>42609518>ame thing happens in long-running book series when the writer ends up writing the checks for the publisher and the editor looses all leverage to actually edit the book.Harry Potter.
>>42610705HP got bloated in book 4 because IIRC she had to keep writing around a plot hole.
>>42610749I've heard that story before, but the series is so riddled with plot holes that I can't believe it.
>>42610769Most of the big HP plot holes are inter book rather than intra book, especially earlier on, so I think there might be some truth there.
>>42611066I could fill three posts just with complaints about how weak the mystery in the second book is. It's so bad that fan fics always have to make major changes because anything going slightly off of the book's path breaks everything.
>>42611078Instead of doing that, you should read some Tuna, like >>42591779
