I put the instructions for using >review back. The ITT is again regrettably short, but by next thread we should be done with Jinglemas fics, and there will be space to properly memorialize your discussions about sixteen year old boys touching themselves.

>no mention of fetishes seeping into paragraph structure
Darn, I thought that was funny.

>>42994391
I did too, but I ran out of space.

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Fourth for Appulwife.

Was anyone here ever part of /pa/? It's back, sort of: >>42978279

>>42994409
That's PP, not PA.

>>42994409
That's why I said "sort of".

>>42994413
Pa ain't pee pee, no matter how much you want pa to be pee pee.

>>42994385
>his four-incher six times in the first chapter
The real trick is to bring up his six-incher for the first time in the fourth chapter.

>>42994409
Wait, /pa/ is dead dead?

>>42994723
They finished the story and decided to stop. So yes.

>>42994723
Yep. They finished the story after all those years. New threads are prologue or just silly notcanon stuff (like the birthday thread).

Is the phrase "his own" grammatically correct? The use of "his" already implies ownership. Doesn't that mean the "own" is redundant?

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Thirteenth for best duo!
Enjoy this conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/470601/the-dreamwalkers-lament

>>42994889
I feel the same way, but it's colloquial and adds emphasis.

>>42994889
Yes, it's correct. It's for emphasis or clarity. Compare: "Supplies are going fast! Order now and you can have your own waifu!" versus "Supplies are going fast! Order now and you can have your waifu!" If you want to get really exotic, "Supplies are going fast! Order now and you can have your very own waifu!"

>>42994729
Nice.

We should talk about the reuse of the OP images and why this ultimately killed the general.

>>42994889
You can just ctrl+f LotR to see if something is correct. 'his own' is present over a hundred times in the book.

>>42994889
English language was cobbled together by absolute retards from a bunch of other languages, don't expect it to make sense.

I'm suspecting Mockingbirb of having taken the AI pill.

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>>42995136
Desu the general is dying because the fandom in general is and also because it’s been 15 FUCKING YEARS since the show first aired and practically everything to discuss about mlp fanfiction that is worth discussing has already been discussed. Standard opinions on a bunch of topics ossified long ago. The bookclub was started because this place was running out of things to talk about. Almost everything worth reading has already been read and discussed. Almost everything that is utter garbage has been discussed. The horse has been milked dry man!

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>>42995136
I remember 2015/16 having even more repeat pics.

>>42995287
Not to mention that these threads have been ongoing nearly nonstop since March 2014.
>>42995325
I wouldn't mind going back to the Levar Burton pics.

>>42995287
>The bookclub was started because this place was running out of things to talk about.
The obvious solution for more activity is to have a bookclub every day.

>>42995287
G6 will save us.

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>>42995287
I'm glad my skill at finding good fics to read is so well-practiced. How unimaginably suffocating the self-imposed burden must be to wait for /fimfic/, or, princess forbid, the algorithm to feed you fics.

>>42995287
I used to post in these threads fairly regularly but haven't for about two years at this point. The reason is partially other posters being autistic but the number one reason is because I don't actually read mlp fanfiction anymore. The fandom has indeed died down quite a bit and for me in particular, dozens of stories I was following just stopped updating. The writers disappeared or gave up and my enthusiasm to read any more mlp fanfiction at all dried up around the time I finished writing my last story. I just don't care about the mlp fanfiction scene anymore.

>>42995265
Detector says "29% AI", which I guess is expected from someone who shits fics like there's no tomorrow, completely disregarding such unimportant details as quality.

>>42995136
We had a bunch of new good ones made that OP has declined to use. Granted 90% are about Luna's dead moon baby but

>>42995420
Do you think the dissecated fetus is still in the moon?

>>42995588
Only one way to find out.

>>42995358
Mostly it's the comments praising 100% AI fics.

>>42995741
You mean you've seen Mockingbirb praising obvious AI fics? I feel like I've seen the opposite, them bashing fics for being AI (on one or two of the ones that have gotten deleted)

>>42995741
>>42996366
Considering they don't strike me as particularly bright, I guess sometimes they can't tell a fic is AI at a glance.

>>42996387
>>42996366
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/587242/wings-too-big-for-the-sky#comment/12368013

>>42995287
Fics about milking a horse dry?

>>42996473
This description wasn't just AI-generated. It was deeply conceptualized as something that transcends the boundaries of traditional prose, something uniquely LLM's.
Also,
>ozone in the fourth paragraph

>>42996617
It's definitely AI. Look at his other fics and look at the jump in quality for no fucking reason.

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>>42996473
That's one of the fics I mentioned the other day. The title and short description looked good when I saw it in the new column, but the long description and chapter itself are pretty obviously AI. Despite that, the fic still made it to the top of the feature box.

>review https://www.fimfiction.net/story/587242/wings-too-big-for-the-sky
AI fic. Also, EqG fic.

I do like the premise. And the "maximum tension, all the time" writing style that the big models like to produce actually works okay for this. It would surely get exhausting after a while, but so far the fic isn't long enough for that to become an issue. Unfortunately, there are a few pretty blatant AI-related issues:

1. Rainbow Dash is hiding in the bathroom, and her new giant wings barely fit into the room. Her dad cracks open the door, which opens inward, and the pressure of her wings against the walls and door flings the door open with great force.
2. When Soarin' shows up at Rainbow's house, he immediately knows where her room is because they were childhood friends and he visited her house all the time. But Rainbow's family moved away, and he hasn't seen her since.
3. Some people have wings, and others don't. Some people know that some people have wings, but otherwise it's a big secret. It's totally unclear who has them (or used to have them), who's allowed to know about them, and why.

>>42996721
Check the earlier and later chapters on some of those other fics. It looks like they went through starting in November and used AI to finish some of their old incomplete fics. I saw one that consistently uses normal quotes and three dots, then abruptly switches to smart quotes and unicode ellipses starting in chapter three.

>>42995136
Suggest or make some. If they're not ugly, I'll consider using them.

>>42995265
You would never suspect this if you had ever read a Mockingbirb story. The bro just writes fast. He might write slop, but it's obviously and thoroughly human slop.

>>42996773
They're talking about a comment not a fic.

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>>42995287
At least the empty space makes it easy to dominate a niche.

>>42996768
That one I made only got used once. I should make another sometime.

>>42996721
Yes, I deliberately wrote that sentence full of model -isms and typical patterns. The description is full of it:
>These aren’t just wings anymore. They’re a reminder of who Rainbow was before
>Cloudsdale wasn’t just a school. It was a home in the sky.
And there are also two lists of items emphasized with an em-dash short sentence at the end:
>There’s no jacket big enough. No door wide enough. No excuse that can explain wings this massive—or the fear behind why she hid them in the first place.
>A story about identity, trust, the weight of history, and learning that sometimes the hardest part of flying isn’t taking off—it’s letting yourself be seen.

This shouldn't be fooling anyone with any exposure to the LLMs.

>>42996809
These aren't just model-isms. They're dead giveaways—and everyone but AI bros knows it.

>>42996809
The greatest mistake of the anti AI crowd was isolate themselves so strongly from it and convince themselves so thoroughly that AI is garbage that they lost sight of the level the slop has risen to and are too sure of their own convictions to conceive being fooled. They have ridiculed bad AI to such a level that their mental image of it is miles apart from reality and in their quest to decry the bad they've lost sight of the mediocre. They fail to notice obvious signs of AI because they've built an echo chamber wherein the concept of it is so low quality that they cannot process something passable could be it.

>>42996819
Ironically no. Barring the idiots, the ones most likely to be fooled by AI, as seen here, are the ones who hate it most, because through lack of exposure and deliberate ridicule they've completely lost sight of what current AI slop is like.

>>42997111
How does this horse pay rent

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>>42997141
It's her house.

>>42997177
Why did she hang the picture upside-down? Or if it's not, why is she on the ceiling?

>>42997284
She's pranking NMM. Didn't you know? NMM loves that kind of thing.

Well, I managed to write over six thousand words this month, maybe I can make it to seven with today. That's below my goal, but I took off several days. This is, regardless, much better than my pace from last year, and I think I can keep it up.

>>42998137
I wrote next to nothing. The general idiocy of fimfic audience (including people praising blatant AI slop) doesn't exactly motivate me to write.

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any fics that give off the same vibes as picrel?

I really like ponies

>>42998220
That's why you write for yourself, not for fimfic. It's great if someone likes your fic, and even better if you get feedback that lets you improve, but ultimately the drive to make art has to come from within.

>>42998137
>unable to get over 9000

>>42998304
So that's the problem: I picked up other hobbies.

>>42998393
>ngmi

Starscribe's latest chapter doesn't have any evidence of AI. Did he give it up, or is he just hiding it well?

>>42998362
Yeah, that was the plan. I should be able to reach that next month, however, if I just do a little better.

>>42998431
Probably just asked the AI to make it less obvious.

>>42998437
It’s funny that these ai were designed to be able to communicate in a manner which is indistinguishable from people but their writing is still easily identifiable as being written by an ai.

>>42998431
>Starscribe's latest chapter doesn't have any evidence of AI
Did you expect it to? His previous chapters also don't have any evidence of AI

>>42998431
He said that he only used it for editing

>>42998778
What a good excuse

>>42998137
I got about 8k words down this month after editing, but I can probably eek out some more today. Sadly, none of it was horse words.

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>>42998137
I broke 30k on my current longfic but I keep having this weird sense of impending doom hanging over me for no reason.

>>42999154
>I broke 30k
Well, fix it.
Do you need glue?

>>42999276
Isn't glue bad for lil figurines

>>42999154
>weird sense of impending doom
That's called self-doubt, and you should ignore it.

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>In a world where a magical rain stole the ponies' past and future, Rarity finds an impossible love that could restore color to her bleak life. She needs only to reach for it.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/587154/lethean-rain

Another year, another gay (mare) story! This time I tried doing something outside my comfort zone, and while the question of how it worked out remains, I enjoyed pushing myself to write it. That's one good thing about these contests.

fics where a pony is raped, abused, or in another way deeply traumatized, but with the help of their friends and/or family, is eventually able to regain their smile? the more harrowing and sordid the better.

>>42999439
Life is a Lemon

>>42999439
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/500819/

>>42998393
I have the opposite issue where I drop other hobbies so I can spend more time reading and writing. 2024 I was really into fighting games and hack-and-slashes but lately I've been clearing out my backlog for movies and books and nutty VNs. Issue wouldn't be the operative word since I am enjoying my time.

>>42995287
>Almost everything worth reading has already been read and discussed. Almost everything that is utter garbage has been discussed.
There are hundreds of fics the club hasn't yet discussed

>>42999439
There was an old post-NMM Luna fic just like that
>Luna had heavy PTSD and hallucinations about bugs under her skin
>M6 were all really nice and supportive of her to help her get better
>Discord was really evil and acted kinda like Two-Face with coin flips
I can't remember the name but I'm sure TunafagGPT has read it

>>42995287
We should have read more rational fiction.

>>42999763
Sounds like this one but with no Discord
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/787/lunacy

>>42999288
You're thinking of hot glue.

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Are >>42999763 really that jealous of my Tuna Trawler? No, I haven't read a story like that.

>>42999815
I could be mixing up two different fics I read 13 years ago, but I don't think that's the one
>>42999826
I assumed you read every fic in existence that features Twilight and Luna interacting

>>42999794
Do you want a death cult? Because that's how you get a death cult.

>>42999422
Gratz on the fitty

>>42999860
What if I do want a death cult, huh?

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>>42999843
I've probably scrolled past it, but the fact that there's so many of them lets me keep my standards high. There's plenty I've dropped, too, and there's still one left on my RiL.

>>42999860
Sadly, the secreter club died before it reached that point.

>>42999439
Compatī >>42988278 is sort of about that, in that Sunset having been (mentally, but in the form of actual rape in a dream) raped by Nightmare Moon in the past is one of the main plot points driving everything forward, and the story focuses on how it affected her and continues to complicate things, and how she tries to run from and cope with and eventually confront it. Lots of her coming to terms with it is self-driven, though, and lots of that comes from the fact that she ends up forced to team up with Luna to dive into her own dreams to banish a fragment of the Nightmare that was embedded in her psyche, so there's also periods where she is isolated from her friends until she wakes up, and a bit of focus on the weight of Luna's past actions vs her attempts at repentance...

It's probably not /precisely/ what you're looking for, but parts of it will definitely scratch that itch, and I consider it one of the best fics I've ever read. I'm also seconding >>42999507, especially if you prefer something shorter; it's unconventional, but somehow it just works, and to great effect (it made me cry out loud when I read it).

>>42999956
Damn I can't believe sunset got raped by her aunt

I mean I kind of can but

Any fics that do a fake-out protagonist? Like you are reading a Twilight story only to realize by chapter 3 that it is actually a Rarity story?

>>43000346
Principal Celestia Hunts The Undead, sorta?

>>42994385
I have been trying to post for 20 minutes what is this new captcha
I've been avoiding AI generated fics, but it's getting difficult to discern. I would prefer fics written by anons who have been here since 2011 and have been through all the drama.

>change something at the end of the fic
>it creates a reverse domino effect where you have to change eight other things earlier in the story for it to actually work and not just be a plot hole
There's something to be said for sticking with a linear style of writing.

>>42998431
>Did he give it up
>I'm just going to make do with Microsoft word's spellcheck going forward. No more Grammarly, no more locally hosted LLM editor prompt, nothing. Though part of me longs for an AI editor, we're clearly still not there yet. I'd rather have a few comments point out that I missed a typo than have an original word changed to something correct but less descriptive, even once.

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>9

>>42999954
Maybe it died because it reached that point.

https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1136279/how-good-are-we-at-detecting-ai-written-material
Wasn't he lurking here some time ago?

>>43001324
He has eyes here, yes.

>>43001324
>seeing the " End-to-end encrypted" message at the top of the document and knowing Google isn't looking over my shoulder is a good feeling
Way to make yourself look like a brainlet idiot and devalue your points right from the get go.

>>43001324
>this tool that in my tests nailed actual AI as 100% AI is actually, uh, totally bad and not good, because it gave my stuff a 30% and that offended me, and I'm too stupid to interpret that as a 30% chance it might be AI and will instead keep searching for a mystical option that divines whether something is AI or not with perfect accuracy and returns only 1 or 0 because even though slop keeps evolving the best detector I found hurt my feefees by rightfully erring on the side of caution therefore it's bad
Lol. Lmao. All those words just to make himself look like a clown and an idiot underqualified for the task he chose.

>>42999507
already read this, but i did love it. this would have been a great rec if i wasn't already familiar with it.
>>42999763
this sounds exactly what i'm looking for, assuming that it actually exists and isn't just a false memory of course. might try to find this later.
>>42999815
i enjoyed this, but didn't love it; and it definitely didn't scratch my itch. the one part i really liked here was celestia lamenting being unable to help luna. the rest of it kind of feels adjacent to what i'm looking for, without actually being it.
>>42999956
sounds close enough to what i'm looking for. coupled with your high praise i'm definitely gonna have to check this one out at some point even though i pretty much never read longfics.

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Kirin week (kinda) in,
>/FSBC/

[The one with a clever title]
I didn't want to repeat the last two weeks' mistake, so I started this fic a little past ~5:40 AM, thinking I'll get a head start and not have to rush later. Then I felt incredibly called out by the first paragraph and went to sleep.
And then I decided to leave it for last since restarting it exactly ten hours later felt neat. It was, unquestionably, a poor choice since it's 16:05 now and the rest of the post is waiting for me to get the anchor done already, dammit. I don't do it often, but I will have to reread this fic. Of course, there are many things about it that are immediately recognizable, but there are some that'd benefit from not reading it in a hurry. Well, the sure thing is that /fimfic/ did win. I am pretty confident in saying that the "best" story in all three weeks was a /fimfic/ one, though of course tastes influence this perception (e.g., not liking yaks, liking this).
I don't want to say too much because the more you show that you understood, the higher the risk of outing yourself as an idiot for missing the other stuff, but yeah, it was very nice. At least responding to (you)r posts about it is safer. It's funny reading this after Discount, since this perspective kinda shows what Discount could have been, were it good.

[Saying the n-word]
Kirin! Kirinkirinkirin! +1 for that alone. This was nice, and I didn't expect it to be. A comedy that's actually funny in spots? With jokes that land? Inconceivable! The part between the dinner and FS is maybe even a little too long, but this was pretty cute. Was this a life-changing experience? No, but it didn't need to be. The "story" in it had an opening and a resolution, and it was funny. Hard to ask for more. Potentially one of the better fics here?

[Delivery]
Derpy is an RPG protagonist, but she's in a gamejam title. Man, this story really needed some more space to breathe! Rushing from point A to B, randomly running into gods and getting mysterious creatures' backstories completely unprompted. -1 point for "Ditzy". Do these people not remember how big of a deal Derpy's censorship was? I mean, it's been a while, but that's like a top 5 fandom event! But anyway, back to the fic, I think I liked it more than not. I wish it was about twice as long since some scenes do feel rushed, and we don't even get to see the letters or the gifts that were brought up. The writing isn't amazing, but it's fine. Does it deserve an updoot? It's like a 6/10, so probably?
(1/2)

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[Sleigh Ride]
I haven't read a Hayseed Turnip Truck fic before. It's a very Admiral Biscuit fic. But it is pretty decent. Written well, and while the extreme "wow" factor is rather extremely capped in the extremely SoL genre like this, it was written about as good as it could've been. Very Hearthswarmy, too, if maybe undermined a little by making ponies so mean to Hayseed Turnip Truck. To be fair, there is a precedent for that in the show, but still. I guess the fic did need that, so whatever. Good story.

[Kirinirikirinirik]
That's it, the point of the story. Well, you won't see me complaing about a fic where Autumn Blaze calls Peaks of Peril, "Mounds of Mild Endangerment". Cute! Perhaps the least substantial of the stories here, and if you're not crazy about the kirin, it might not feel worth your time, but hey, I do love them!

[Discount]
That's a short fic! It also has problems when it comes to writing, but the present tense 1st person narration makes it stand out in a way that feels almost deliberate. I mean, it is 'interesting', I suppose, but neither the stream-of-consciousness narration nor the topic particularly convinced me, plus this Equestria sucks. And Filthy's supposed to be sympathetic, I think, but he's literally planning his next marriage while his wife is talking to his future wife's family over Hearthswarming dinner, which is more than a little gross. Tagging this [Romance] is also a bit of a stretch, too.

Overall, the order this week would be, for me, Carrion > Wifedentity > Sleigh Ride > Delivery/FlitterKirin > Discount. The top three are all actually good, imo, which is better than the previous two weeks. Nice!
Next week... I think we've picked something before this break? I'll look it up in a bit

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>>43001513
Anchoring >>43001517
[Voting]
Apparently we didn't pick a fic for the next week? So how about these options?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/301618/twilight-sparkle-and-the-cake-thief
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/81260/subjunctive
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/159465/brothers-and-sisters
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/328030/her-soldiers-we
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/519321/sorry-we-missed-you

Alternatively, we could commemorate the secreter club by stealing their final, undiscussed story. It looked nice from the start of it:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/163482/the-heart-of-an-author
It's been over a year, apparently. Rip.

>>43000466
>I've been avoiding AI generated fics, but it's getting difficult to discern
Read this:
https://www.tumblr.com/nostalgebraist/778041178124926976/hydrogen-jukeboxes
Just about all the AI fics I've seen have this same high-intensity writing style, where they try to make every single sentence the most impactful line of the entire fic

>>43001324
Apparently gptzero is actually quite good on this test:
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1136279/how-good-are-we-at-detecting-ai-written-material#comment/5887037
The blog author only tested ZeroGPT, which looks to be some kind of low-effort ripoff banking on people mixing up the names

>>43001513
>-1 point for "Ditzy"
To the fic's credit, it is a gift for someone who prefers Ditzy over Derpy.

>>43001513
>(let) The World Carrion
It seems to be fairly unpleasant in Equestria these days. I guess I'm supposed to be put off by the setting? It is [Dark][Random], after all, and it lives up to that. It doesn't feel like a Hearth's Warming story.

I thought this was fairly good, if confusing. It wants to be atmospheric, and it succeeds. Inky Rose's tulpa (I guess I'll call it a tulpa) always seems to know more than us but never reveals it. We get clues to what's going on regularly enough to keep us interested, and yet never enough to make things add up. Overall, I thought it was one of the strongest fics this week.

>Mistaken Wife-dentity
I think I qualify as a missed audience for this one. I can see from the views and ratings that a lot of people really like it, and I remember that it was in the feature box for a week straight. But I can tell the tone is supposed to be comedic, and yet I found very little to be funny. The only things I thought were funny were throwaway lines like, "I would have made both of you widows."

Despite my misgivings, it still works decently well as just a romance. As plain, ordinary M6 shipping (with two M6 ships, even), it's shallow but acceptable. I didn't think there was anything special about it, but if someone likes M6 shipping, then they might like this. Maybe that's why it stayed in the box for so long. The author does deserve some credit for pulling this off as a Breezie story (particularly when this is compared to the Breezie story we read two weeks ago).

>A Sleigh Ride Together
This didn't do much for me. If I try to put myself in the Admiral Biscuit mindset of "too much detail about everyday life", it's not so bad. Watching Toola Roola help construct a sled is cute, and I do enjoy cute. Though I was kinda expecting to have a scene where Toola Roola's family secretly pays him for the sled. After all, he puts in days of work and uses a lot of raw materials, so he's effectively giving Coconut Cream a very expensive gift on a whim. Giving gifts is very seasonal, but it's such a big gift that it stretched my willingness to believe in the story.

I can't really recommend this except to someone who likes Admiral Biscuit stories. I know those people are out there, but I don't understand them. Maybe I qualify as a missed audience on this fic, too, just like the previous one.

>>43001633
>Holiday Discount
I found this surprisingly good. A fic with these tags can only be a crackship, right? Which means it's stupid, right? Except this isn't. The justification for why "Filth" would be interested in Applejack is surprisingly good. AJ's end is less developed, though you have to expect that given that it's first person from Filthy's perspective. Spoiled Milk's bitchiness was entertaining if a bit abstract. The fic is short enough that it doesn't really have time to show her doing much.

I can only imagine that a ship like this will get lost at sea. But I can believe that it gets launched, which is pretty impressive. I have to wonder what prompt provoked this. This did such a good job with something unexpected that it was my favorite of this week's stories.

>The Warmth of Friendship
The most peculiar thing about this story is the author's note, where he admits to being nervous about writing for his recipient. Really? This story is at least twice as good as the story of hers we read two weeks ago.

Not that this is a work of genius or anything. Flitter and Autumn Blaze are both enjoyable characters with good dialogue, and I liked watching their budding friendship. The plot was too simple for me to find it really enjoyable, though. Overall, I'd call it a little stronger than mediocre. There isn't enough going on for me to feel really positive, but I don't have much negative to say.

>>43001638
>A Timely Holiday Delivery
At first I thought "timely" in the title meant "on time." Instead it's a hint: This fic is a G1/G4/G5 crossover. That's completely new to me. Unfortunately, I know nothing about G1, and my only knowledge of G5 comes from seeing G5 threads in the catalog.

One thing I didn't like about the fic is that it throws references at you and assumes you'll catch them. Sometimes they're easy to catch. Celestia and Luna's disguises are easy to figure out, and if you know anything about G5 you probably know who Misty is. But sometimes they're not. I had no idea what a flutterpony was, but apparently they were a G1 thing. Presumably Lady Rose is also from G1. I didn't find a source for Star Catcher (comics, maybe?). And who's the pink unicorn who sends the letter to Misty?

The fic itself is rather banal: Derpy (I know the fic calls her Ditzy, but in my heart she'll always be Derpy) encounters a bunch of ponies across Equestria, and that's all. The fic gestures in the direction of plot when she encounters a blizzard, needs to find Rose, and can't decipher the squiggles, but each of these is resolved as soon as it becomes an obstacle. Since the fic has no meaningful plot or characterization, the only thing you could possibly get out of it is feel-good fluff. And it does feel a little good to watch Derpy succeed, but for me, it didn't feel good enough to justify the time spent reading the fic.

Having run into Lunaria's writing before, I know she is ESL. So there are errors like "excentric" for "eccentric", and there are a bunch of comma splices. For me this was only a mild inconvenience. There was nothing that would have interfered with my enjoyment of the story, if I had enjoyed the story. I didn't really enjoy it, though. But I didn't dislike it, either.

>>43001513
>Carroña
I think I liked this one the most, too. I've never been a fan of stories that skirt about its plot. I am, however, a fan of nice little character explorations.
If you have a messed up sleep cycle product of depression and whatnot, having a never ending dusk would probably just compound the issue, wouldn't it?
>the more you show that you understood, the higher the risk of outing yourself as an idiot for missing the other stuff
Yup! And I'll gladly admit most of it went over my head, but what I did get from it left me satisfied. I liked Inky's inner monologue, though I'll admit the start felt a bit heavy with those chunky paragraphs right off the bat. Nonetheless, I liked it quite a bit.

>Wife Aesthetic
A roundabout approach to shipping, but sure. It was quite a lighthearted read, and light on kirins as well. A pity. Regardless, I found myself smiling through the story. It goes back to my usual gripe about shipping fics in that it doesn't really dwell on how AJ and Fluttershy complement each other, preferring to focus on the aesthetics of the ship, and how cute they are together.
Which is fine. I don't think the story attempted to deliver anything beyond that and some feel good moments. And at that, it succeeded.

>Wife Upgrade
Listen, I'm not gonna lie: I like what the fic postulates. Filthy WOULD have known the apples quite closely all his life. He WOULD have been there for Bright Mac and Pear Butter's death. He WOULD've been somewhat close to their age.
And while I usually like age gaps in the other direction, I think the idea of there being a seed of connection between Filthy and Applejack since they were both younger isn't really that crazy. The dilemma presented in how Filthy chose his wives through a colder, more logic minded approach while the affection he feels for AJ is more genuine is an interesting one. And AJ as Diamond's stepmom is hilarious. Aunt Apple Bloom has a nice ring to it, as well.
That being said, I don't think the fic pulled it off as well as it could've. Being largely framed as just a musing of Filthy's inner monologue doesn't lend itself to much depth, not to mention that we only get a tsunder~ish moment with AJ's view on the whole thing near the end.
If anything, this has made me wish to read a longer story that explores this idea at length. Still, my view on this one just barely tilts to the positive.

>The Rest
Yeah, I had a busy week, and I couldn't read more. I'll definitely check out the other kirin story, though.

>>43001530
Her soldiers we was written by an anon, so I say that one. It catched my eye more than--
>163482
Oh, fuck you.

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>>43001513
A Sleigh Ride Together
Very kino premise and a great fic, but the two parts that focus on ponies fucking with the MC by being racist or calling him retarded just shouldnt be there. Why would people whisper bad shit about him helping fillies go caroling on hearthswarming eve, thats ridiculous. This equestria is just shit
>applied his Celestia-given skills
Nani

The Warmth of Friendship
>"Maybe a hundred years from now we'll have new, better stories. Like the kirin who helped guide a pegasus through the snow."
Kino. Cute fic. Also, pegasus flying through a blizzard on hearthswarming is a classic trope by this point. Also I'm glad she ended up going into town with Flitter, when she turned around to walk back I got a little blueballed

Holiday Discount
I had to double check the description during that first scene, and if someone described the fic to me I probably wouldn't have read it. But wtf I actually liked it. The premise is random as hell but aside from some writing hiccups it was good. I like how filthy didn't really even say much, we just follow along his thoughts for the most part. It's interesting how political all of his actions and especially marriages are, but we are in his mind se we get to experience the emotions of it all that no one else sees.

Let the world carrion
Weird. I like Rarity believing in Twilight and keeping Inky's spirits up. It's kind of impressive that she of all ponies has managed to adapt so effortlessly. I liked it overall. Definitely interesting. And I like the idea that weird phantoms will appear next to you just to have philosophical debates and then simply vanish kek, that would probably help society as a whole honestly

A timely holiday delivery
>another derpy flies through a blizzard with mail on xmas fic
classic
>derpy gets yet another name
fucking kek. Well that was great. A fun pocket sized adventure that manages to actual go to some unexpected places in a very small word count. I think rereading this one (and the last one) would be nice. I'm not really sure why one of the princesses sent a letter to the future, but maybe I just missed something

Mistaken wife-dentity
Actual kek at the namesake scene
>rd being a shitter
>just imagine you're a tree and Applejack is about to buck you
Actually funny moments in a comedy? Wtf is wrong with me
This must be Zaid's fault

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>>43001596
Ah, then the fic is excused and the guy who requested is a newfag.
>its FOME
Sigh...

>>43001633
>It seems to be fairly unpleasant in Equestria these days.
To a certain degree, yes, but also the POV that we get paints it in probably bleaker colors than it is. We can't take all of her observations about other ponies as facts.
>I think I qualify as a missed audience for this one.
If there's anything this proves, it's that [Comedy] is inherently a poor genre since you cannot find two people agreeing on what is funny. This one worked for me. Rarity's line was the best in the fic, but it made me snort, and several other situations got me to smile at the fic.
>I know those people are out there, but I don't understand them
Me neither, but this was a well written Admiral Biscuit fic. I can respect that.

>>>43001638
>I found this surprisingly good.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills since this fic completely missed for me. And sure, tastes are subjective, but it's the only one I considered leaving a dislike on—I thought it was that bad. Ultimately I didn't do it, but still. The writing was probably the weakest of the bunch, and the story (despite having a decent justification) is just too awful. Like, I think this is several times more unpony than Carrion, where the dark setting is intentional and not just a necessary assumption to make this drama work.
>The Warmth of Friendship
Yeah, I do agree with you on this. It wouldn't be fair to call it mediocre, but it's not doing anything actually, you know... good.

>>43001641
>if you know anything about G5 you probably know who Misty is
I only realized like 50% through this scene. I think those were the first words I've seen or heard Misty say. Not that I watched G1 (I should, I know), but flutterponies show up in fan art or stories sometimes, so at least I caught that. I think I kind of enjoyed it, but I really would've wanted to see more happening, not just skipped through.

>>43001704
>And I'll gladly admit most of it went over my head,
We are all dumb, the trick is just to try to be a bit better every day. For the record, I did like those paragraphs.
>>Wife Aesthetic
Yeah, it was sad to see Autumn go, but I suppose it wasn't her fic. And AJ+FS were cute. The Twinkie scene was fun as well.
>I like what the fic postulates.
I agree with a lot of the assumptions the fic makes, but I kind of hate the conclusion that it reached. A part of it might be that, I think, it didn't convey those conclusions effectively on account of being written in a less that stellar way. But presenting it as Filthy's monologue was at least something interesting, so I won't criticize that.

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>>43001765
>the two parts that focus on ponies fucking with the MC by being racist or calling him retarded just shouldnt be there
Yep, yep. Shitquestria does it again. I get what he was trying to do there, showing Hayseed Turnip Truck's quiet pride, but it doesn't nearly make up for shitquestria.
>pegasus flying through a blizzard on hearthswarming is a classic trope by this point
I was just thinking how many times we've seen it. A lot. But it's a cute fic, yes. Kirin will do that for you.
>how political all of his actions and especially marriages are
The part I really liked was how much of it was him trying to conceal or justify his own emotions, but I think what took me out of it was the premise. Not the age gap there, just the whole "repeatedly separating and remarrying" part, discussed over the Christmas dinner. That kinda sucks.

>weird phantoms will appear next to you just to have philosophical debates
This will be quite a guess, I know, but I think those (and the fic's feel in general) are at least in part inspired by the game Paratopic. Again, it's not a strong guess, but that's immediately where my mind went when I read the fic. The mood of the fic also works.
>Actually funny moments in a comedy? Wtf is wrong with me
I had the same feeling, yeah.

>>43001513
>It's funny reading this after Discount, since this perspective kinda shows what Discount could have been, were it good.
Yeah discount (and every other fic) had some errors, and it maybe had the most of the bunch.
>A comedy that's actually funny in spots? With jokes that land? Inconceivable!
Pretty much this kek. They should remove the [Comedy] tag tbdesu
>Derpy is an RPG protagonist, but she's in a gamejam title.
kek. I didn't really mind the transitions from a to b. It's a very short fic that wants to be at cool placing but not necessarily have to go to them lol. Aside from the first journey's blizzard, I suppose nothing interesting happens on the trips. And also somehow she gets home before midnight lmao
>>43001517
>if maybe undermined a little by making ponies so mean to Hayseed Turnip Truck. To be fair, there is a precedent for that in the show, but still.
getting badmouthed while helkping a crippled filly on hearths warming eve is crazy tho
>Cute! Perhaps the least substantial of the stories here
Yeah I'd agree, but it really doesn't need to be substantial
>That's a short fic!
Hey, it's about how you use it! it could've been used better
>this Equestria sucks. And Filthy's supposed to be sympathetic, I think, but he's literally planning his next marriage while his wife is talking to his future wife's family over Hearthswarming dinner
Doesn't seem as bad as Turnip's. And you're focusing too much on his wife and not everypony else, she's the bad guy, don't you know. He'd be a hero for divorcing her and marrying a kid he watched grow up kek
>which is better than the previous two weeks
I actually liked all of them to varying degrees this week. Definitely the best week

>>43001633
>It doesn't feel like a Hearth's Warming story.
That's a good point. It doesn't really, but at least Rarity throws a splash of holiday cheer into it
>Inky Rose's tulpa
fucking kek
>supposed to be comedic, and yet I found very little to be funny.
finally a sane person who didn't find the [Comedy] funny
>Giving gifts is very seasonal, but it's such a big gift that it stretched my willingness to believe in the story.
Hey, just because everyone calls him a nigger behind his back while he can hear them, doesn't mean he can't get into that good ole' fashioned equestrian spirit for the holidays
>I can only imagine that a ship like this will get lost at sea. But I can believe that it gets launched, which is pretty impressive.
kek, good way of putting it
>>43001641
>it throws references at you and assumes you'll catch them
Yeah I definitely didn't get all the characters and also the flutterpony thing, but I didn't dislike that about the fic

>>43001773
>>its FOME
Has reviewed every major piece of G4 media and has been writing fics since before you were watching the show. His preference dates back to when both names were used by the fandom, before the mare was ever given a speaking role. Pay some respect to his earned contrarianism.

>>43001704
>Which is fine. I don't think the story attempted to deliver anything beyond that and some feel good moments. And at that, it succeeded.
I mean I think it's a [Comedy] that tried to be funny and actually succeeded a bit which is frankly a monumental step forward for the [Comedy] tag as a whole
>If anything, this has made me wish to read a longer story that explores this idea at length
Yeah, this idea could stand to be a bit more thoroughly explored
>Aunt Apple Bloom has a nice ring to it, as well.
kek, that would be crazy

>>43001773
>Ah, then the fic is excused and the guy who requested is a newfag.
>>its FOME
>Sigh...
fucking kek

>>43001811
>has been writing fics since before you were watching the show
So he has less of an excuse for being bad than I do

>>43002006
I remember for a Jinglemas I asked for something focusing on two characters.
He delivered a post-show story where those two characters speak once.
What a year.

>>43002027
I would hope you'd be able to remember things from 2024, Zaid, but you should know to speak ill of people to their face and not to their back.

>>43002138
I could've sworn it'd been longer. And had I remembered it, I would've tried to apply the same principle to that Yonabar story.
And the story was good on its own, I'm not demeaning that.
I just think it's weird he went so far out of his way to write something that only barely complied with my prompt.

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>>43001513
>Who Deserves a Place in Heaven?
An odd fic, written at an odd time, but the recipient was happy with it. For the sake of clarity, the request demanded that Inky say the word "Entscheidungsproblem" at some point, which is why the mention of it feels so awkward. For trivia, it's really damn hard to find a good front-facing Inky screencap. The cover was made using pic related, cutting the right side of her neck and bust and flipping it to place it on the left.
>Then I felt incredibly called out
I'm glad.
>I will have to reread this fic
Terribly sorry about that, truly.
>the more you show that you understood, the higher the risk of outing yourself as an idiot for missing the other stuff
You overestimate me. Sometimes I just think it would be funny if the owl was a cook instead of a writer and went shooting at the turtle instead.
>>43001633
>It seems to be fairly unpleasant in Equestria these days
Sometimes bad things do happen. Rarity is there to remind us things don't stop just because of that.
>It doesn't feel like a Hearth's Warming story
It was not written in a particularly Christmasy mood either.
>Inky Rose's tulpa
I have yet to see someone correctly identify what I did there, and I don't know if that means my own experiences are different from the norm or if people simply aren't familiar with it yet.
>I thought it was one of the strongest fics this week
Yay.
>>43001704
>I've never been a fan of stories that skirt about its plot
There's not much of a plot beyond 'Inky mopes her way through the holidays'. The rest is part of a story she's not a relevant player in.
>those chunky paragraphs
I like chunky paragraphs.
>>43001765
>I like Rarity
In my mind she's not literally but metaphorically narratively the same as she is in No Time.
>I like the idea that weird phantoms will appear next to you just to have philosophical debates
'Tis a lot better than them trying to murder you, for sure.
>>43001773
>We can't take all of her observations about other ponies as facts
You would ever not trust a cute mare? S m h .
>We are all dumb
All animals are equal and all that. I should reread Animal Farm.
>>43001785
>Paratopic
While I have played it (and I'm waiting for the sequel, it was supposed to be out last year, where the hell is it?), the inspiration for the phantoms is quite closer to your awareness, global and recent both. Though the general mood may have been influenced from there, unconsciously. But a deliberately inspired work wouldn't be as linear, if I did write one.
>>43001789
>It doesn't really
Well I miss snow too if that helps.

>>43002183
I wasn't completely joking when I said I thought he was bad. In my experience, his work seems to merit descriptors like "adequate", "middling", "decent", and "acceptable". I've never read anything of his that I thought was really good, but I've also never read anything I thought was bad. Since I don't think of him as a talented writer, hearing that his story only barely fit your prompt matches my expectations.

>>43002262
In his defence, he has autism.

>>43002238
>I have yet to see someone correctly identify what I did there
Maybe there's enough information in the fic to figure it out, but if so, I didn't get it. Is Inky Rose supposed to have dissociative identity disorder?

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>>43000346
MiaB in the transition to the second part.

>>43002505
My wife is so cute

>>43002290
That's a given. Why can't he channel his autism into creating quality horsewords?

>>43002586
Too much MtG.

I'm at the wedding of my youngest friend.
Fics about being left behind by life?
They don't even have to be about Rarity.

>>43002505
Message in a Bottle?
Do you write these acronyms thinking that they are helpful? Thinking that everyone browsing this board already has an encyclopedic knowledge of commonly discussed fanfics and can immediately identify them based on 3 to 5 random letters? Or do you just like giving fic recommendations in the form of a scavenger hunt guessing game?

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>>43002997
That's its name, yes, and that one in particular is one of the easiest of all of them to look up. And I do assume that 98% of fic request posts are from thread regulars who don't need to look it up, and that more than half of them are not genuine.

>>43002301
No. It's not technically explained in the fic in any way other than the presentation of it, but that in itself is meant to be sufficient to understand provided familiarity with the element. Kind of like you can show a character being in a cast and people will assume a broken bone. That all said, DID wouldn't work like
that to begin with, as it's my understanding it's pretty strongly defined by awareness and even information being compartmentalised between the different selves. I was gonna say something else too but then I double checked the medical information and now I need to ruminate on it.

>>43003370
I'm not going to ask you to explain, since it seems you want it to have some mystery. But I will say that I find myself wondering why nobody has correctly identified it. Maybe it's not well known? That would make sense, but it's just speculation.

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>>43001324
>paying for a "privacy" cloud word processor when you can just write the blog posts in Word or Libre Office
How bizarre. Are people that worried about hard drive failures they need to cloud backup their horseword blogs? Also, Mod confirms ESL/tablet kids remain the best AI test possible. Spoonfeed anon from earlier was right.

>site full of writers
>wikipedia article is still a stub
Explain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimfiction

I'm glad that AI is here to keep the general alive!

>>43003671
>expecting a writer to write

>>43003382
At this point I'm keeping shut out of curiosity.

>>43002997
Some of the abbreviated fics are not even commonly discussed, they have like 3 pages worth of mentions in the archive across 12 years

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>>43001530
Since no one voted, I'll roll (1-4 for Cake Thief, 5-8 for Subjunctive, ...)

>>43001789
>He'd be a hero for divorcing her and marrying a kid he watched grow up kek
Yeah, that's not exactly the optimal description of a ponyfic for me. Also, I'm focusing on him more than his wife. If this is the "right" way for him to act, I don't like this Equestria.
>also the flutterpony thing
I swear I've seen them in G4 fanart multiple times.

>>43001811
>has been writing fics since before you were watching the show
If his fimfic stories are his first stories, then no, not really. Those only date to late 2011. I'm definitely not as much of an oldfag as he is by fandom participation, but I've been around for a while.
>when both names were used by the fandom
It's been a while, but I don't remember Ditzy being used much since everyone rose up to defend Derpy. Derpy became an icon. Being there and refusing to call her Derpy is way worse than ignorance; it's disrespectful.

>>43002238
>if the owl was a cook instead of a writer and went shooting at the turtle instead
I think you might enjoy Alexis Kennedy's writing in his games.
>the inspiration for the phantoms is quite closer to your awareness, global and recent both
Then it must be the game with the Visitors and opening the doors to let them in or not? I think it's also about some kind of unnatural disaster, but I haven't played it yet, so that's why it didn't immediately click.

>>43004145
>you MVST use the name Hasbro chose for us

>>43004145
>I think you might enjoy Alexis Kennedy's writing in his games
I unfortunately suspect I might not like the games themselves that much.
>Then it must be
The "the Sun is fucked now" premise most likely did come from there, but not the spirits themselves, no. It's a lot more blatant than that. I at least restrained from giving them a music cue. I think. Maybe I didn't, actually, I need to check.

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>>43004145
>Subjunctive
welp

>>43003671
Even now that I know the article exists, I don't care enough to edit it.
>>43003896
Well, I for one am not going to spend any additional time thinking about it. The last thing I'll say is that if it's from a video game or movie, then the chances that I've heard of it before are nearly zero.
>>43004145
>>He'd be a hero for divorcing her and marrying a kid he watched grow up kek
>that's not exactly the optimal description of a ponyfic for me
What, you're not the /ft/ or /jdb/ type? I thought you had taken the mantle of the thread's designated pervert!

>>43004145
Hey, I voted for "Her Soldiers We".
But it's okay. We can read Subjunctive.

>>43002997
For some reason this thread has a fetish for acronyms

>>43004145
I submitted subjunctive like several years ago, crazy to see it finally being picked

Hello fimfic thread, I was hoping someone could help me find a story that got deleted recently?

I don't remember who the author is, but it was titled "CMC: the Unrated Senior Project," an EQG story about the CMCs as high school seniors in their last days before graduation using the movie club room to film a porno of themselves. I read the first chapter when that was all that was posted at the time and decided to come back later when it was complete, but the next time I looked at it, it had been deleted. I can only assume because "underage" despite them being explicitly 18 in the story.

Has anyone else seen this story who knows if it was archived, or posted on another site at all? Or at least remembers who the author was so I can DM them? Any help is much appreciated.

>>43004773
author was EquestriaGirlsIsBest, who has since changed username https://www.fimfiction.net/user/697573/EquestriaGirlsIsBest
It was deleted because every story that guy posted was fully AI-written, which went beyond the benefit of the doubt when his latest story accidentally left the prompt in

>>43004793
And yet, Starscribe got away scot-free.

>>43004793
Oh, damn. Well, that's incredibly disappointing. I'm so used to being on the lookout for AI visual art it just didn't occur to me to look for it in writing.

Glad to hear fimfic is not allowing that kind of thing though. Thanks for letting me know.

>>43004683
>confusing the raraflags
I know it's hard to believe multiple people could like worst pony, but it's sadly true.

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>>43004739
I remember suggesting it to the schizo club, but they turned up their nose at it because it had too many upvotes. I still don't think it's good enough for the main club, and it'll surely kill the Twiflag.

I'll try to find some time to at least start reading it, even though I clearly remember that I never wanted to read it again.

>>43004822
>they turned up their nose
It was added to the list you dumb fuck. That some people who didn't even participate in the club gave you shit for suggesting it was entirely related to the fact that you're insufferable.

>>43004683
>What, you're not the /ft/ or /jdb/ type?
No, that's not me. Though desu in that fic's defense, AJ is show-aged when it happens, and he is maybe ~30. Which makes the age gap weird, but it's not /jdb/. The thing with him having at least two awful wives (and multiple other mares he saw through before it got to marriage), divorces with kids, etc. is what's taking me out of it. Well, that and the fic being about Filthy stepping out of the Hearthswarming dinner to sorta-kinda offer AJ to marry him (while his wife is literally in the room behind them), which is morally unpleasant. I get that the fic makes it look like the best way forward, but that's too far and too human for a non-AU setting, imo.

>>43004717
>>43001530
Whoops, sorry. We can read it afterwards. We're not pressed for time, I hope. So, to make it nice and clear:
Next week we're reading Subjunctive!
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/81260/subjunctive
>Week 1 to chapter 10 (Chapter IX: Superlative)
>Week 2 to chapter 22 (Chapter XXI: Elision)
>Week 3 the whole damn fic

>>43004822
>and it'll surely kill the Twiflag.
kek, if it's not an oc stallion harem fic then I'll probably make it. After reading the description though I probably won't have too much to say since I read at work and take shitty notes on my phone and that doesn't seem like a good environment for this one. Unless you mean that this one is just boring as fuck then maybe. I have no idea what the fic is about plot-wise from the description and it's 120k lol

Will I appreciate Subjunctive if I'm ESL

>>43005015
That's the only scenario in which you would.

>>43003632
Paranoia and/or autism? What'd be a fimfic writer without at least one of these.

>>43005015
Depends on what sort of stories you like. I'm an esl too and i enjoyed it.

>>43004852
>author's last blog was a farewell post shitting on the series, the fandom, his own fanfics and fanfiction as a concept
nice pick bro
easiest skip of my life

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>>43004915
You'll see what it's about by the first chapter, that part's not complicated.
It's a stallion OC MC fic, and the prose is deliberately circuitous and not accessible. Often even pretentiously misleading. The second week has the train scene, where it gets so lost in its own grandiloquence that it actually forgets to say what happened.
It is what it says it is, though, a fic for linguists with entire chapters dedicated to word jokes and language nerdery.

Whatcha writing

>>43005327
Princess Celestia finds baby Sunset Shimmer abandoned in a dumpster behind Donut Joe's one evening

Why does SuperPinkBrony12 also attach his name to his diaperfics. Why does he think this is a good idea?

>>43005321
You just had to say it, didn't you? But still. Separate the art and the artist.
Even if the """artist""" here seems to be a tremendous fucking faggot, holy shit.

>>43002805
You're not being left behind. You've avoided infection.

>>43005321
fucking kek

>>43005563
Accurate to Sunset Shimmer

>>43005327
A seasonal romance piece with a rare pairing.

>>43006054
Hello, Zaid.

Any good mystery/detective stories? Doesn't have to be murder, just something cool and well-put-together with good characterization.

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>>43006002
She is an all powerful garbage baby.

I'm considering writing "singleclawededly" but that feels terrible. I should just use a phrase instead.

>>43006910
>singleclawededly
I'd write "single-clawedly".

>>43006910
There's times where replacing hand with hoof would make sense, but it just reads so awkwardly.

Oftentimes i peruse old equestria daily archives and see what stories were posted in the "story updates" posts in 2012-2013. And i swear, if it's a longfic in like 80% of cases it's unfinished and in 10% it is deleted. I actually struggle to remember the last time i found a completed longfic this way. Why is that?

>>43007084
Because once the high of accolades dies down, most of them couldn't even finish a sandwich.

>>43003671
Wikipedia autism requires non-primary "sources" to base articles around and I can't imagine there's too many news articles or books talking about the horseword website.

>>43004773
Doesn't appear to have been up long enough for the scrapers to grab it before the AI nuke and it definitely wasn't up long enough for Fimfarchive to get it so your only chance if you really want to read it is asking the author for a copy.

>>43005321
I always wonder if any of the "I'm moving on to the next stage of my writing" fags actually become published authors or if they all end up self publishing into the $0.99 kindle ocean of piss.

>>43005327
Wrapping up the flak chapter, then I have to figure out how I want to do the big volcano fight. I'm kind of tempted to do a Dash vs Gilda thing, even though it's incredibly fanservicey, self indulgent, and isn't earned, but it at least gives Dash something to do other than fight nameless goons.

>>43006113
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/193262/do-changelings-dream-of-twinkling-stars
Only good (finished) one I have encountered and I've looked through the entire mystery tag. The detective genre's so barren, I've started writing one because I know I'll never get to read one.

These City Walls was great back in the day, but it's an old deadfic with no chance of finishing.

You guys remember that era after A Canterlot Wedding came out and a bunch of edgy fics came out about how Twilight was betrayed by her friends and they never apologized? Anything even slightly good come out of that premise? I'm feeling in the mood for a shitty betrayal/revenge fic

>>43006910
I think singlehoofedly also sounds bad tbdesu. I would opt for using "solely" instead.

>>43005321
I don't read art to search for role models
Drama queen authors can be more interesting than normie authors
This is going to be fun!

>>43007335
Loved and Lost was an alright take on it I thought. Not the most professionally written and a little rapidly paced, but it wasn't nearly as "woe is Twilight her friends are all so awful" as most of these tend to be, which puts it a lot higher in my eyes.

>>43005665
I'm simply not afraid to own it.

>>43007243
>actually become published authors or if they all end up self publishing
I'm guessing a lot of them don't finish anything and never even make an attempt. It can be exciting to work with characters and settings you already know. If you were that excited by your original fiction, you'd probably be writing that in the first place.

>>43007888
It's hard to justify it when pony commissions just pay a lot better than attempts at self publishing, and that's a problem because it's harder to find time to build material to show a potential agent.

>>43006948
That sounds much better, yeah, but I just used a phrase.

>>43007021
I used "hoofle" instead of "handle" in a story once, when describing the anatomy of a broom.

>>43007888
Isn't trying to sell original fiction a shitshow because of Amazon, and other fanfiction, and people reading less, and the discovery problem, and most recently large language models? It's enough to make you wonder how authors last millennium managed at all.

>>43008073
Do horses even really loaf

>>43005665
At this point, I always suspect him of putting diapers in a story, even in stories that logically should never have diapers.

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>>43008125
You can buy them a loafing shed, but they can't seem to do it properly. Fortunately, ponies are cats, so they can loaf.

>>43007335
Families does that, it also sucks.