Get better taste in books you illiterate fags.

>>43088173
No.

>>43088173
No, I like Discworld

>>43088173
You will NEVER reach the heights of Dr. Seuss

B**ks? the only inspiration I need comes from music. If a single album proves insufficient, just add another. Keep doing this until the writing has enough substance to stand on it's own. Your fingers will do the rest.

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2+2+2th for best duo!
Enjoy this conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/7335/apotheosis

>>43088242
You are a yurinigger, and as such, deserve to me be ground alive into chum

>>43088242
Based ship. I'm no writer, but I'd love to see a fic one day where Celestia works behind the scenes to try to set Twilight and Luna up with each other. She's already got a reputation for being a chess master in some fics.

>>43088256
>deserve to me be
ESL

I think this past week has been the best I've ever had writing. Over 1k every single day. All on the deadfic, too. I don't know where the enthusiasm came from but I'm not complaining.

>>43086790
>I don't know how you'd even start getting publishing deals
The old way was you had to get a literary agent interested in your work. I don't know how true that is now, though. Rumors are that publishers won't accept anything from a white guy anymore. Could just be right-leaning ragebait, though. Who knows.

>>43086879
> they are getting secret funding to stay afloat
They get subsidized by their profitable divisions. Macmillian's fiction division hemorrhages money, but textbooks are a money printer. It was crazy working for one their textbook publishers and seeing all the money that was thrown around. A table that was restocked weekly with all the newest books you could just take home, candy drawers, snack cabinets, catered lunches once a week, donuts and bagels every Friday, a booze party in the break room where they filled a little inflatable pool with ice and liquor bottles. Insane first job to have.

>>43087486
>it's not a fat fetish
>comic's a group of morbidly obese characters shoveling cake in their gullet
You're never beating the allegation, Rarifag.

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>>43088260
Yeah! That happens in https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62270/Luna's-Librarian%2C-Twilight's-Moon
There was a second one as well, but I forgot which one it is, probably because I read it about the same time as this fic.
Celestia tries to get Cadence to bring them together, and Cadence finds out they've already hit it off. Or maybe Cadence tries on her own, but probably the former.

>>43088268
Thanks! I'll check it out.

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>>43088271
You're welcome! It's mostly a lot of fun, but has a few poorly written chapters. My review is at >>41686970, although desu's down now.

Actually, their mutual connection to Celestia is foundational to the ship, I just assumed that she's expected to be involved in it somehow. Celestia's chessmistressing is the instigation for Apotheosis, although you're not supposed to know that at the start.
But it is much more overt in I Watch the Moon. She says outright to Luna that she's shipping them.

>>43088264
Rarifag, like 90% of pregfags on this board, are just fatfags and voreniggers (same thing) larping as pregfags to keep their horrific and degenerate nature under the janny's radar

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>>43088242
TwiLuna is a good duo.
My favorite duo is Princess Twilight + Sunset. I like the idea of Sunset becoming an alicorn and ruling with Twilight together.

Shame it's kind of hard to find though. Most Twilight/Sunset fics are with SciTwi which I'm not really a fan of.

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>>43088298
Big Twi + Small Sunset is best

>>43088298
>>43088309
Guess I should actually share a fic:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/548021/the-light-and-the-solid

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>>43088264
>You're never beating the allegation, Rarifag.
Only Pinkie Pie was big in that comic, and that's because she had an entire cake competing with a foal for space in her belly.

>>43088291
>Rarifag, like 90% of pregfags on this board, are just fatfags and voreniggers (same thing) larping as pregfags to keep their horrific and degenerate nature under the janny's radar
Nuh uh. I like all sizes, so long as she's obviously pregnant, and I aim for more reasonable sizes lately. Check out this Bundle Joy sketch commission I got from Tony Fleecs at Harmonycon last month. Isn't she cute?

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Thoughts on non-Fimfic horsewords?
https://twibooru.org/3726348

>>43088340
I'm not opposed, but what the fuck is this link? It's not even a fic, it's just a guy complaining that his country outlawed incest porn.

>>43088343
The same country in which Fimfic is cringed in, no less. But as for the specific activities of this linked specimen, it has busied itself using Kisekae to engage in the ancient Japanese tradition of Cuckoldry.

>>43088356
Did you use google translate to write this? I have no idea what you're saying.

>>43088111
Does it not occur to you that trying to write serious fiction about a children's cartoon is postmodernist within of itself? The classics would have scoffed at the very idea of this.

>>43088111
Nice digits, but that's not what I mean. All stories are predictable, but some are more predictable than others. Postmodernist faggotry is unpredictable (and in a bad way). Hollywood movies are mostly predictable. Perfect Pear is more predictable than average: After just a few minutes, you know every plot point and every story beat. There are zero plot twists.

>>43088168
>RIP to the 2nd club
"Maybe everything that dies some day comes back" or whatever it was Lovecraft said.

>>43088332
Do you like pregnant loli?

>>43088588
>Postmodernist faggotry is unpredictable (and in a bad way)
t. got filtered hard by good media because of mental retardation

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I thought you were gone for good!

>>43088646
>t. never been to a pretentious avant garde film festival

>>43088678
If your stuff is shown at a festival you have too much money and popularity to be a true artist.

>>43088636
No he said "things that live forever won't die", but in an extremely mauve manner causing people to start quoting it.

AJ's parents being dead is GOOD, actually

>>43088790
>If anyone likes your work enough to show it to others, then you’re not a true artist
Keep telling yourself that’s why your fics get no views

>>43088923
Surely someone has written an Apple parents snuff fic

>>43088567
That doesn’t make fanfiction postmodern. Fanfiction has been around for thousands of years, dating back at least to ancient Greek stories about their gods and non-canonical books of the Bible, progressing through hagiographies of saints and stories of chivalrous knights, and only being denigrated as “fanfiction” in the past fifty years or so. If anything, fanfiction tends to be antipostmodern because it frequently accepts unquestioningly scenarios invented by others (the source material) instead of requiring a deconstruction.

>>43089019
I knew you would try to use this argument, which is completely irrelevant.
We are not talking about the Bible. We are talking about a little girl's cartoon and trying to write stories more serious in scope than what the original cartoon intended. This is 100% postmodern, no matter how much you cope about it.
>instead of requiring a deconstruction.
Reworking the show's worldbuilding to be more nuanced involves implicit deconstruction and reconstruction.

is it normal to have a read bookshelf, a liked bookshelf, a sub favorited bookshelf, a favorited bookshelf, and a super favorited bookshelf?

>>43089089
I just have a shelf for favs, completed stories I want to read, incomplete stories I want to see completed, and one for my fav ship.

>>43089089
>sub favorited bookshelf, a favorited bookshelf, and a super favorited bookshelf
Definitely not. Why can't the first two just go in Liked?

>>43089035
If fanfiction is so postmodern, then where is its rejection of universal truth? Where is its critique of the self as socially constructed? Where is its pervasive and unrelenting irony?

A fanfiction narrative (FIM or otherwise) is likely to accept the source material as canon. If you deviate from canon, readers will complain unless you mark the story as a AU; canon functions as a kind of absolute truth. But postmodernism is allergic to the idea of absolute truth. Adding to canon (which is something every new piece of official media does) is not intrinsically a critique or deconstruction, nor is it necessarily ironic. There is nothing postmodern about a straightforward Sparity shipfic written by a 13 year old who self-inserts as Spike, even though the fact that they get married at the end adds to canon in a significant way.

Fanfiction plots are usually familiar genres, like adventure and romance, and are usually played straight. Fanfiction romances usually end with characters getting together; fanfiction adventures usually end with a climactic battle where an evil villain is defeated. It is much less common for fanfiction to display characters getting together and then being unhappy about it, or characters defeating someone who they thought was a villain but who actually had good motives. There’s nothing postmodern about these, either.

Lastly, if you knew I was going to make this argument, why didn’t you try to counter it in the first place? I think you’re pretending to be better prepared than you are.

>>43089116
because i like them different amounts. and am autistic, but that probably goes without saying.

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>>43088567
>>43089019
>>43089035
>>43089120
>>43089035
I like reading stories about small colorful horses

>>43089120
>If fanfiction is so postmodern, then where is its rejection of universal truth?
In the dozens of specific fan interpretations of any character all co-existing in a fandom space. And dozens of fanfics taking place during different periods of canon, some contradicting later canon events.
>critique of the self as socially constructed
In the implication that the concept of the target audience is a social construct, and a little girls' cartoon can be enjoyed and expanded upon by people outside of its target audience.
>Where is its pervasive and unrelenting irony?
It doesn't have to be irony. Irony is a buzzword on modern 4chan anyway that basically means "thing I dislike".
Some of the most popular, well-known, and influential MLP fanfics include combining the setting with a gritty post-apocalyptic world of another property, one of the primary cast being turned into a psychotic maniac, and a background character living through a perpetual existential nightmare. All of these have an implicit degree of deconstructing canon to be more "mature".
>everything else
You're missing the forest for the trees. The existence of MLP fanfiction by itself is postmodernist. Under the traditionalist or modernist lens, trying to write serious fiction based on a little girls' cartoon is pointless. Being a little girls' cartoon, it is not supposed to have value or depth beyond that of its perceived target demographic, and as an adult writer, you're supposed to take more conventionally adult subject matter as inspiration. Under pre-modernist lens, you're essentially wasting time trying to assign extra depth to something that was never intended to have it.
>astly, if you knew I was going to make this argument, why didn’t you try to counter it in the first place?
Because I hoped you would have enough self-awareness to not resort to muh Bible fanfic as if that's the same thing as a little girls' cartoon fanfic.

>>43088643
No.

>fimfaggots talk about postmodernism
>argues about terms about what post modernism supposedly is instead of how it actually operates irl.
Proof that this place is full of midwits and pseuds.

>>43089181
>the dozens of specific fan interpretations of any character all co-existing
If that's all it takes to be postmodern, then the Bible is postmodern because the canonical Gospels present four different interpretations of Jesus. I don't just mean that the accounts are inconsistent (which could be explained by human error) but that each author emphasizes different themes, even when the accounts are consistent. I don't think you believe that the Bible is postmodern, and I'm not claiming that you do—but your reasoning applies equally well to that belief, so I don't think it's good evidence of postmodernity.
>the concept of the target audience is a social construct
This is not a critique of the self, though. A work that addressed questions like "who is a fan?" and "what does it mean to be a fan?" could be a critique of the self. Critiquing the concept of a target audience is critique of society, and that kind of critique has deep historical roots and is not specifically postmodern. In addition, to the extent that fanfiction does critique the concept of a target audience, usually it's no more than the implicit acknowledgement that the author and reader are not members of the target audience.
>It doesn't have to be irony
No, irony is the characteristic tone of postmodernism. Someone who is sincere is very unlikely to be postmodernist.
>Irony is a buzzword on modern 4chan anyway that basically means "thing I dislike"
I agree with this, though.
>combining the setting with a gritty post-apocalyptic world of another property, one of the primary cast being turned into a psychotic maniac, and a background character living through a perpetual existential nightmare
These are all incongruous but not ironic. Irony involves saying one thing and meaning its opposite. Ironic would be if the gritty post-apocalyptic world were somehow a better place to live than cartoony Equestria, or if the psychotic maniac were improving society, or if the background character was, despite her belief to the contrary, secretly remembered by everyone.
>The existence of MLP fanfiction by itself is postmodernist
I don't see any evidence for this beyond your bare assertion.
>Being a little girls' cartoon, it is not supposed to have value or depth beyond that of its perceived target demographic, and as an adult writer, you're supposed to take more conventionally adult subject matter as inspiration
This is again a sociological critique. All eras have had topics that they think are Serious and Deep and Profound, usually because they are relevant to problems of their day. Most eras believe that children's entertainment is the opposite (and if you've ever been forced to watch Cocomelon you'll agree). No era that I know of has taken children's entertainment that seriously (though I would argue we should take it more seriously than we do). But that's a critique of what our society considers to be important, not of the self or the nature of being or anything like that.

>>43088296
It was A Short Trip Home. Here's the story if you're interested:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/544043/night-of-the-autumn-moon
It didn't get a ton of views but I think I did a reasonably good job with it.

>>43089376
I don't argue with walls of text, so I'll stick with a specific thesis from your post.
>No, irony is the characteristic tone of postmodernism. Someone who is sincere is very unlikely to be postmodernist.
By this line of thinking, no deconstruction is truly postmodernist unless it has an explicitly humorous tone. Which would mean things like Lord of the Flies, The Watchmen, or Spec Ops The Line are not actually postmodernist simply because they maintain a mostly serious tone throughout. Or that, generally, taking an element of the narrative and treating it with more scrutiny than a given previous work in the genre, is not postmodernist, even though that's the definition of deconstruction. It's a ridiculously strict criterium by which almost nothing qualifies as postmodernism, even though pretty much everything in modern culture at the very least has signs of postmodernism simply because of the time it was produced in.

>>43088168
If you like cuckolding, adultery, zebradom and drama, this is the story for you. It was written for the 2025/26 zebradom contest. Pretty dark and sad. lol
Sweetie is a fucking backstabbing, lying, zebra whore.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/586417/mr-brightstripe

>>43089475
>If you like cuckolding, adultery, zebradom
Why the fuck would I like any of those things?

>>43089480
You are involved in the inherently cucked medium of horseprose, unlike the Aryan Gods of >greentext.

>>43089292
Lame. Get better taste.

Would you spell it MILF or milf

>>43089527
M.I.L.F.

>>43089472
You're assuming that irony is necessarily humorous. While irony can be used for humorous purposes, it's not intrinsically humorous. Dramatic irony, for example, is often not humorous: Romeo drinks poison because he believes Juliet is dead, but the audience knows she is not.

Irony is characteristic of postmodernism because one of the core beliefs of postmodernism is that everything is relative and there are no absolutes. If it's true that everything is relative, then their rule that everything is relative must itself be relative, leaving them unable to make definite statements about anything; the postmodernist embraces this indeterminacy and turns it into irony. A postmodern statement about anything carries the double meaning of being a true statement on its surface while, to the postmodernist, also being falsified by the relative nature of everything. For a postmodernist, existence is ironic: They cannot make a statement like Descartes's "I think; I am" without qualifying it with "that's how it seems to me, but others might disagree." There is nothing humorous about such a stance except that it has been taken seriously for decades.

Fanfiction is not so nihilistic. A lot of it leans on familiar storytelling tropes that have been around for hundreds or even thousands of years, not on metaphysics and epistemology. Frequently fanfiction is too naive and not self-aware enough to be postmodern. Even when it's not naive, usually it does not embrace the postmodern narrative of relativism.

>taking an element of the narrative and treating it with more scrutiny than a given previous work in the genre, is not postmodernist, even though that's the definition of deconstruction
I think that's the definition in casual circles. I'm not a philosopher, but I believe they use the term differently, and I believe that it is firmly a part of postmodernism. It's something to do with Jacques Derrida, and as much as I understand it, it's not an analysis or critique; it's something like the idea that if you examine a text carefully enough, you will discover self-contradictions that render the text meaningless.

>>43089475
Why am I bothering to defend fanfiction

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>>43089292
Everyone has a price. What's yours?

>>43088588
>muh plot twists
Plot twists are a myth invented by the underread

>>43089711
>Why am I bothering to defend fanfiction
Hey, everything exists on a spectrum. Even fanfic quality.

>>43089527
Spell it M(other)I('d)L(ike)(to)F(uck)

>>43089738
If you want to discuss a commission, then PM me. You won't, because you don't.

>>43089738
>>43089765
Do it, commission him to do loli preg. Demand lots of emphasis on her being underage and pregnant from old man Anon (he's only like 25 but that's old to kids)

>>43089769
Sadly he doesn't do anthro.

>>43089895
You say that like it's a bad thing

>>43089895
I've written one, just to experiment with it:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/522544/preposterously-pregnant-pony-problems

I know you're just making excuses, anyway.

>>43089895
Good, humanized is far superior.

>>43087486
The side view is alright, I'm more interested in those thick haunches of hers rather than the belly.

>>43090308
I'd like to rock her apple bushel back-and-forth for a little while.

>>43089952
What are your rates again?

>>43090336
You can find them here:
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/977619/commissions
It bears repeating that I prefer trades. Right now, I'm saddened by the total lack of best pony in the zebradom contest, and will happily write for art of her getting salaciously striped.

>>43090349
>He enjoyed STRIPED content
The fuck, man.

>>43090349
That's a high effort false flag by this thread's standards, but you should still kill yourself for shitposting like this. And if it's a genuine post, you should kill yourself regardless.

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Experiencing temporal difficulties, in
>/FSBC/

This is a cute fic. Young Twi a cute, to be sure, and it's never a bad day for the site to be graced by such light-hearted, very "pony" fics. Now, there is talk of gallows in sayings and stories and the like, but imo that alone doesn't ruin a story's ponyness; the current Equestria setting is what matters. We've been lucky to get quite a few decently written fics in a row, too! It is very much not a given on the site, but this is written very competently. Well, even aside from some minor stylistic choices or repetitions.

As for the actual story, I am hoping it's not as obvious as it seems from the first chapter on. The way the author makes ABSOLUTELY SURE that we all know it's Celestia makes me question if there will be more to the mystery. I think so? As entertaining as watching Twilight go about her day and her silly mystery quest is, for a 60k story, I'd maybe expect something more in terms of scope. The chapter we ended on felt a little different, so I really could see something else being there. Not that the fic needs it. If it remains the obvious "mystery" story that it has been so far, I'll enjoy it perfectly well, too. Honestly, it's much closer to SoL than Mystery, and the lack of the former tag is strange. It's also tagged [Comedy], but we all know what the tag means (or rather doesn't).

The references are in a curious spot. They are done pretty tastefully, but there are quite a lot of them—both the "you know how the show goes later, right?"-style references, and fandom references or other winks at the audience. I am usually not too fond of the latter, and so stuff like the Nyx reference was really pushing it. Still, part of the fun of writing a pre-show non-AU story is showing how it ties into the plot, so I can't blame it too much for the first kind.
And I could try saying more about the characters being fun, the story being enjoyable, or the "mystery" premise being just a veil covering an SoL fic, but I'd rather withhold my judgment until week 2. So far, it's not a story that stands out in any way, but it also doesn't try to. This is a pretty well-made example of a straightforward, sincere fanfic.

Next week: the second half, where we'll be finding out whodunit.
After that, The Archetypist. It's at 52k, though, so we could either split it in half or do it in one week. Any preferences? Personally, I've been having a hard time starting the fics before Sunday, and >50k on the morning of the club is a little tough, especially when it's an author like CiG, but don't let that stop (You)! And on that note, sorry for not responding to some posts last week.

>>43090297
So you're saying you'd be down for some humanized Flutterdash?

Eugh, I just watched A New Generation after hearing that it "was the only part of g5 made with passion" and that it was some sort of g4 bad future AU and I even went in anticipating a couple interesting scenes which turned out to be completely invented by some fanartist or another. I felt physically ill and severely underwhelmed after actually watching it and now I'm left blueballed on the whole "bringing peace to the timeline where the heroes lost" thing.

Any good fics with that sort of premise? I've already read https://www.fimfiction.net/story/303160/synthetic-bottled-sunlight (future where Flim&Flam took over Equestria, based on a throwaway scene from Cutie Re-Mark) which was really good, and the shorter https://www.fimfiction.net/story/169016/if-you-came-to-conquer (Nightmare Moon wins and only realizes what a mistake it was centuries after the world has withered away) sort of counts and was also good.

>>43090663
>Anon actually thought "This magic was not yours to give" was real
KEK
The original G5 didn't have that solid of a connection with G4 aside from the scene at the beginning, which you could headcanon away as M6 being mythical figures in this world. But then they brought in Twilight's ghost and tried to explicitly connect it to G4, seemingly without care for how much this shits on G4's legacy.
>bringing peace to the timeline where the heroes lost
Relatively short, but you'll probably like it https://www.fimfiction.net/story/240152/the-motion-of-the-stars
I'll have to check out the Flim Flam fic, I've been wondering if anyone developed that premise

>>43090663
>ANG bad
>SBS good
Are you just stupid?

>>43090697
Read the club discussion and temper your expectations.

>>43090409
Okay, this time I actually don't have a lot to say. I guess today we're having sugary-sweet fluff with an extra helping of diabetes.

I was looking forward to this one because I really like the author's Roseluck fic and was interested how they'd tackle Comedy, but I think they were right to not tag the fic as such before caving. This is just cutesy SoL fluff about tween Twilight and Spike with only the barest hints of a conflict. But for some reason, it's stretched into 59k words and took the author 3 years to finish. What?

At least it's pretty well-written, if a bit too purple at times for my liking. Like I said, it's not much of a comedy. The closest it came to being funny was Twilight comparing her slice of cake being stolen years ago to the fictional detective's crime-fighting seeping into her personal life (I appreciate that the story did not rehash this joke over and over as a lesser author would've done).

On that note, I love it when fics acknowledge that Daring Do is not the only fiction that exists in Equestria. But then again, this author is always great at realistic worldbuilding. To put so much nuance into even something as mundane as the castle's bakery is nothing short of impressive.

I guess it's good for what it's trying to do, definitely better than last week's fic for me. I just don't really think SoL fluff needs to be this long. I'll try to finish it, but can't guarantee I'll have much more to say next week.

>Nyx reference
Which chapter? I must've missed it.

>Archetypist
Nice. No need to rush it, the regular two weeks is fine.

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>>43090409
Also, I think I found the real reason you chose this fic for the club.

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>>43090740
I didn't find it purple, but I have a higher tolerance for words, so that's to be expected. Other than that, yes, I agree with pretty much all of this. I feel like there's really not much in the fic that one could draw different conclusions about.
>don't really think SoL fluff needs to be this long
I mean, if it's good, there's no reason why it should end faster. I agree it's unusual, but the pacing didn't feel artificially bloated or anything, at least in the first half.

>>43090755
It's a little funny to me that people keep assuming this but I wear the flag only for the bookclub.
This fic was one of the very few I added to the list as a suggestion out of my own initiative since the Rosefic was overall pretty good despite some questionable choices (I will never forget the bizarre town orgy holiday chapter). And with that in mind, I think that is the "vibes" of the author seeping into his stories. Write what you know, as they say. Thankfully Cake Thief doesn't have anything absurd yet, but the repeated mentions of esoteric stuff like tarot readings or numerology as established practices alongside regular pony magic align with that extravagant personality.

>>43090628
I'm down for that.

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>>43090409
I hope prompt for this fic idea was 'Celestia pours one out for the homies.' and then the author got creative with it. honestly it seems... completely mediocre, and I kind of hate to say that. In theory I should like the fic but the execution leaves me wanting. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but the fic starts off saying it's a teenage Twi, which just immediately starts working against the fic. Everything would've been better if Twilight was even younger. A fic that seems to want to be cute should not be operating with a cast of teens. I think the only part I found cute so far was spike curling up in his basket after he asks if Twilight thinks NMM is real or something. This is not cute foal kino as it seems it should be. And I'm afraid that the entire reason that they're teens is for this random ass crush side plot.
This leads me into the writing. When this guy was introduced I got my first taste of confusion (although I did interpret this specific time correctly) as it talked about getting frosting on his star and then like 5 pages later mentioned that his star that it keeps talking about is a splotch of fur on the center of his face. The second moment was the month/year/cutie mark numbers scene. About 1 page in I understood it, then by page 5 it had lost me again cuz it just kept going and going and I'm not sure if what it was trying to say was different or not than what I immediately accepted in the first page of it and I truly didn't care enough to double check. The third moment was the book trunk incident. It spends so many words talking about what is happening to the truck and I really don't know why, just like the it did with the month math. After the pages of detail about whatever was happening I had an idea about what had happened that wasn't confirmed until pages later when she still has the books and again when they go into the tower and find the top of the trunk because it just isn't clear. And a bonus, Twilight can't even properly describe the tower the trunk hit. I thought for sure it was Celestia's bedroom tower, then they start talking about a random noble. Twilight Sparkle who practically lives in the castle thinks a random noble lives in what I can only assume is the only Tower that directly rivals Celestia's? I don't even think nobles live in the castle at all. Twilight doesn't know that there's an entirely magically isolated Tower on the castle grounds? The description as usual had me completely oblivious as to whose tower it was in the end. I didn't even know if it was on castle grounds or not until they have to go to the castle to get to it, and yes, this is even after one of the very first descriptors is that the trunk flew onto castle grounds.

>>43090836
Pretty much every time Twilight is alone (or with spike) or talking to an adult the fic is fine. But just fine. The highlight so far is definitely Luna's tower. The descriptions of all the books and artifacts and rooms are very nice. Having a flag older than the princesses in there is especially kino.
The teens are annoying and completely unnecessary so far, it of course could've worked better and still included all of them if they were foals but whatever. Almost everyone and their mom being in the fic is also kind of annoying. Derpy working in the royal kitchens with her mom is a neat little idea but I don't know what it brings to the fic. Especially when she says things like "she's just like me fr fr"
>Turnip Road and lil truck show up
What are the chances.
He's even one of the better characters in the fic so far

>>43090409
>This is a cute fic. Young Twi a cute, to be sure
This is exactly what I'm talking about, if I'm to clump this fic in with 'young Twi' fics, then it's instantly the least cute one. She's barely young and that hangs over the entire fic and especially over any scene that is supposed to be cute. The trunk scene for instance I think would've been completely different if she was a foal. As it is, it's a teenage Twi who still doesn't have adequate control of her magic having surge in public that sends the metal reinforced lid of a trunk flying miles away to potentially kill someone (which immediately makes her think Celestia might hang her???) while the public backs away from her and stares and she starts crying and covering her face. That is not a cute scene. That's fucking sad. No one even helps her until she makes a desperate plea to the crowd. There is nothing cute or lighthearted here. It's also harder to believe it's even a possible scenario when she's as old as she is that she wants to bring an entire heavy ass trunk full of books to her parents house via taxi. It would've all been much less depressing and far cuter if she was a foal I'm sure, as would every other scene except maybe the tower.
>never a bad day for the site to be graced by such light-hearted, very "pony" fics. Now, there is talk of gallows in sayings and stories and the like
kek
>I am hoping it's not as obvious as it seems from the first chapter on
>for a 60k story, I'd maybe expect something more in terms of scope. The chapter we ended on felt a little different
>Honestly, it's much closer to SoL than Mystery
yeah completely agree, this fic seems really long for what it is so far

>>43090740
>I guess today we're having sugary-sweet fluff with an extra helping of diabetes.
I just don't see it.
>was interested how they'd tackle Comedy, but I think they were right to not tag the fic as such before caving. This is just cutesy SoL fluff about tween Twilight and Spike with only the barest hints of a conflict. But for some reason, it's stretched into 59k words and took the author 3 years to finish. What?
Completely agree lol, the size of the fic is perplexing and the [Comedy] is completely unnecessary as always
>if a bit too purple at times for my liking
agreed also
>On that note, I love it when fics acknowledge that Daring Do is not the only fiction that exists in Equestria
Yeah that's nice, and on aa related note it helps Turnip's scene be as good as it was
>>43090755
I kek'd at this as well, but it's different rarifags

>>43090780
>(I will never forget the bizarre town orgy holiday chapter)
I didn't have much time to discuss the Rosefic with the club at the time (despite being the one who suggested it), but I wanted to say that I don't see anything wrong with the festival. It wasn't even described in an especially lewd manner, being completely tonally consistent with the rest of the fic.
>>43090836
I agree that some of the descriptions feel like they're beating around the bush a bit. The month/year/cutie mark scene seemed to be emphasizing the pattern in the years and months when the thefts occurred and setting up how Twilight may fit into all of this, but I remember thinking it was a bit redundant in its description. The trunk scene goes on for a little too long, but it still ended up amusing for me. You're definitely taking this slapstick bit too seriously, though I guess it could do without the brief moment of crying. What annoyed me was that, as far as I understood, only the top part of the trunk hit the window, but the author confusingly kept referring to it as "the trunk" even though all the books inside are mentioned as still being on the ground.
The tower was explicitly referred to as the southernmost tower in the fic, so no confusion for me there. And it's plausible Twilight wouldn't know everything about the castle since she spends more time studying than exploring it.

>>43090755
Not the same Raraflaggots. The book club one is alright.

>>43090992
>What annoyed me was that, as far as I understood, only the top part of the trunk hit the window, but the author confusingly kept referring to it as "the trunk" even though all the books inside are mentioned as still being on the ground.
I was gonna say exactly this but I felt that I had ranted about the trunk for long enough but you're exactly right and it was a large contributor to muddling the specifics of the scene. 'the trunk' when in reality 80% of the trunk and all of its contents were still with her. They even get to the tower and continue to say 'the trunk' when at that point it's just like 3 pieces of wood and two bands of copper.

>>43090349
You're not me. I hate zebradom shit.

>>43091143
based superior Rarifag

>>43090786
What about semi-humanized where they're human but have stuff like wings and can still do magic?

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>>43090740
>Which chapter? I must've missed it.
Oh, I somehow missed that part of your post. It's when Twi's talking to Spike about NMM and the books she's taking home, and she says that she can't discount the possibility of some cult secretly trying to bring NMM to Equestria. That has to be a Past Sins reference.

>>43090836
>completely mediocre, and I kind of hate to say that
It didn't blow me away, and I can't really see it as better than the Rosefic at the moment, but 'mediocre' is way too harsh. It's a little good. Yeah, going with a younger Twi would have been better—and I kept being surprised that she's older whenever the fic mentioned it—but what we have here is pretty solid, imo.
>leads me into the writing
Now, that's definitely not right! A few things are a little overly elaborate, maybe, especially that scene with the months/cutie marks that you mention, but it is probably still better written than 95%+ of fics on the site and like 75% of what we're reading in the bookclub. I suppose it's a matter of preference, but I'd much rather tolerate an overwrought description here and there than the mistakes and simple, bland prose we're seeing so often. This one has some flavor! Maybe the cook added too much sugar to the recipe, but that's still a really, really important part of the writing.

>>43090907
>But just fine. The highlight so far is definitely Luna's tower.
I would say it's fine++, but if the SoL isn't speaking to you, then this isn't really a story I'd fight to defend. It is what it is.
>What are the chances.
I made a note of it, too. See, he is relevant! His son totally deserves a tag. Derpy is here either because the author wanted to give her a backstory OR as a fandom nod. You get to pick what you believe was the cause.
>'young Twi' fics, then it's instantly the least cute one
Based on past weeks, I don't have nearly the same affinity for "foal Twilight" stories as you do, though I had a brief moment when I was reading it (I think right after the baker colt started hitting on Twi) and thought that you'd dislike the age chosen by the author. Looks like I was right, ha ha. To me, it's not really a huge difference whether a fic is about a foal Twi or middle school Twi.
>That is not a cute scene. That's fucking sad.
It's almost all in her head. I think you're overreacting about the scene. Nothing *really* happened there.

>>43091143
It is an anti-best pony conspiracy, I'm telling you.
Or merely an anti-flaggot conspiracy, which would be a good thing.

>>43091176
So long as they fuck and Fluttershy has big old titters it's fine.

>>43091519
What's wrong with big young titters?

>>43091623
I like them old timey torpedo titties you know?

>>43091645
But torpedoes go on budding chests, silly.

>>43091681
Get out of my big tiddy Fluttershy fantasy, please. I didn't ask you to come in here.

>>43090780
>I wear the flag only for the bookclub.
Even though I know this in principle, I have a mental association between a Rarity flag and Kassaz. Every time a see a Rarity flag anywhere on the board, I can't stop myself from assuming it's him.

>>43091960
kek

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>>43091960
Yet another reason to bully every raricuck you come across.

I like all ponies.

>>43092094
I like all cute ponies.

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>>43092099
Exactly, I like all ponies.

>>43092099
there are non-cute ponies?

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>>43092104
Yes. Sometimes, ponies are too hot to be cute.

>>43092104
that's like saying a puppy isn't cute because you vomited all over it. he's cute in his natural state.

>>43092106
>he's cute
lmao this nigga gay

>>43092100
Fics where magical lesbian pregnancies are commonplace in Equestria?

>>43092107
And yet, far from the faggiest post ITT.

>>43092113
Don't consider one evil worse than other or you'll try to tolerate the lesser one.

>>43090697
>thought "This magic was not yours to give" was real
I feel like that one post of a fujo playing Deltarune for the first time and finding out Spamton is just some retarded little gremlin and not a tall handsome tumblr sexyman like in all the fanart.

I'd seen stuff like that in my peripheral vision while looking for G4 art/fics in the past, so without any reason to investigate further I just kind of assumed it was actually based on something from G5.

>I'll have to check out the Flim Flam fic, I've been wondering if anyone developed that premise
The first chapter was originally a oneshot, and if you don't want to read the whole story it still works well as one. I just left it at that at first, but after eventually reading one or two of the following chapters I got into it and after a couple more I got really hooked and binged the rest of it as fast as my irl schedule could allow.

A bit of a warning (sort-of spoilers) but the on-the-run setup and accompanying oppressive atmosphere fade away over the course of act 1, giving way to something like a bittersweet, measured optimism, to the tune of "things got real fucked, what can we salvage?". The author still manages to create some good tension for the final stretch, and I was satisfied by how it ended. It probably won't appeal to everyone who wanted the rest of it to be a complete tonal match to the first chapter, but I enjoyed every part of it.

>The Motion of the Stars
I've only gotten 2/5 of the way through, as I ended up busier than expected today and couldn't read it all in one sitting like I'd planned, but so far I love both the prose and dialogue. Thanks for the rec! It sort of reminds me of https://www.fimfiction.net/story/144961/darkest-before-dawn , a shorter one where NMM is defeated by the elements but day never returns because she'd already slain Celestia.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/578488/the-unrequited-thespian
13k, coco pommel x celestia
Cute story about Coco Pommel stepping down from her role as the head of the community theater thing from that one episode, and her chance meeting with Celestia, who'd recently stepped down from a leadership role herself. I was delighted with all the ways the author found to relate the two characters, and Coco is a cute character so that certainly helped too.

>>43092131
When does the anal come in?

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/134645/a-taste-of-the-good-life
Think this one was offered as a possible bookclub read, and it's...
I mean it's competently written but it's another one where it kind of rubs me the wrong way.
The starting premise is simple: A high profile stallion chef stays in Ponyville after his restaurant gets fucked up and finds an old cafe that he decides to refurbish. Said cafe is being inhabited by an orphan runaway Scootaloo. Parenthood ensues.
That premise right there could work: guy who doesn't want to stay in a Hallmark-ass town learns the value of friendship and family when he fixes up a restaurant with an orphan inside it.
But halfway through it kind of pivots to this dumb shit regarding Scootaloo's family. It's back in the days where it wasn't just her being from a bad home, but from comical levels of dramatic abuse. In this case, Scootaloo's the bastard daughter of a noblewoman and a pegasus drummer, with her mom's abusive cuckold husband knowing Scoots wasn't his kid and having said drummer disappeared. The mom blames Scootaloo and is abusive to her as a result of Scootaloo's existence ruining her life or something.
Maybe that's all well and good as a backstory, but the pivot isn't about chef guy choosing between his life as a high profile chef in the big city and the kid he's developed paternal instincts for.

It's about him starting to fuck Scootaloo's abusive mom and trying to find a way to repair the rift between them.

The rift from Scootaloo's mom being horribly abusive towards her.

For some reason it gives me the same vibes as the one with Chrysalis being an abusive mom towards her mentally disabled inbred daughter. I dunno what was going on with old fanfic authors but they really liked to apparently have kids get beat up and then learn to forgive the parent that beat them up.

>>43092143
>It's about him starting to fuck Scootaloo's abusive mom
Holy shit, fucking BASED. Fic of the year.

>>43092140
No, Celestia's not a futa in this fic, so she doesn't come in Coco even once.

>>43092143
>>43092147
>adopt a kid
>start fucking the kid's mom as well so if she complains point out that you are now her dad twice over and have double the authority over her

>>43092131
I read this one a while ago and really liked it.
If we ever do another handful of short stories for the club, I nominate this one.

>>43088340
>Thoughts on non-Fimfic horsewords?
Deviantart has a shit user experience for fics. FF.net is pretty dead now, isn't it? And AO3 has just always seemed like a dumpster fire to me.

>>43089120
>readers will complain unless you mark the story as a AU
Most readers don't care about that. The lack of a [Dark] tag is basically the only tag complaint you'll see. Readers almost universally accept that a story will deviate away from the source material as it goes on and, back in the airing days, it was an unwritten rule that anything that aired after the story started didn't count.

>>43089527
MILF.

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>>43092173
>Deviantart has a shit user experience
FTFY.
I have a profound dislike for repositories that describe themselves as "archives", but at least """A"""O3 isn't subject to the laws of Cuck Island like Fimmy.

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>>43092143
>going for the horrid hag instead of showing his adoptive daughteru some tender love

>>43092194
>molesting the filly you adopted
Ticket
REVOKED

>>43092143
Why would he ever even meet scoots mom? Or is she Ponyville's only nobility?

>>43092208
>forcing a runaway back into their abuser's grasp is a-ok because it doesn't go against my marxist-feminist indoctrination
Pathetic.

>>43092218
He caters an event that a bunch of snobs attend.

>>43092228
As everyone knows, Karl Marx in 1865 wrote his famous book "Raping Kids Is Bad, Actually", which somehow caused the bolshevik revolution.

>>43092256
but what if the chikun consents??

luna being banished 1000 years ago is too long there's no way celestia would remember her at all unless she wrote that shit down. should retcon it to 100 years max
also what happened in the years inbetween lunas banishment and return? fuckall? i was thinking about this because in a european history book it said that there was 100 years of relative peace after napoleon. relative is the key word there
i'm writing a fic where celestia loses her memory after falling a height or being struck by a branch and she thinks its ancient equestria again. feel free to steal the idea

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/575983/the-sun-little-fillies
This has me seething and malding all over. Maybe I'm the only reader in existence who bought the Daybreaker act but her not showing any improvements to anyone, barely acknowledging Parvas like twice after 6 months and babying herself and Twilight more and more drove me up the wall, showing how easy it was for her to soften up just makes the fact that she spent 1000 years being a cunt worse, and makes the fact that she's still actively being a cunt when not playing tea-dates (Abyssinia anyone?) worse still.
Then the rebellion happens and oh my god Shining Armor just keeps getting epic owned by smug Daybreaker and her facts and logic and guess what Cadence just had mommy issues and needed a hug LOL fuck convictions I guess no one believed in freedom or peace they just all had stupid personal grudges against DB and when those fall apart they just let DB get away scot-free.
Actually DB was such a good ruler that those who deposed her WANT HER BACK ROFLMAOLKGKSBGLAKRDQPSLEPSLC. WHY DID I BUY INTO THE AUTHOR'S SETUP OF DB AS A VILLAIN TO BE REDEEMED. Clearly no one else did and the fic itself just screams how much of a perfect leader she was anyways. Maybe the author intended to show her evil side by implying she jailed Machiavelli for promoting dangerous ideas but by the end I'm convinced that they just caught the guy streaking and she just chanced upon him on the dungeons. So DB gets what she deserves (no punishment plus an easy life plus a new daughter) and she then gets the satisfaction of telling those who want her return that she's not fixing anyone's problems anymore and if there is instability none of it it's her fault at all and fuck trials anyways (why is everyone so quick to dismiss trials and immediately group them with on-the-spot execution??? is this a good thing??)
Btw her biggest sin is tranforming all ponies into hyper-competitive treacherous conniving assholes but all the ponies she sees giving speeches are to be trusted and everyone in ponyville is quick to accept her in paradise.
It has good parts I'm sure, otherwise I wouldn't be so upset right now and wishing to write a story set in the same universe to get some catharsis. Yeah I guess it has good or very good parts, they are in there but my eyes are too red and unfocused and I'm too retarded to find them. In case the author reads this sorry for the melty and your tale made me feel very strong emotions, you know so that's good strong emotions are good

>>43092140
When you learn to let go of one-note jokes from 10 years ago

>>43092326
>mortal cuck projecting his limited mental capacity onto gods
Sad. Many such cases

>>43092359
Kek
This was written by a resident sunfag who wanted to make a sweet DB Twiadopt story I think, it was never going to actually get serious or interesting

>>43092359
There was a club about it
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/42152381/#42167122

>>43092472
She's more talented than that. I'm sure she can get more than one note from it.

>>43092256
Iirc Marx let one of his kids starve to death in his apartment because he was too much of an autistic wordcel to get a real job.

>>43092326
>there's no way celestia would remember her at all unless she wrote that shit down.
The show starts with a written account of the events leading up to Luna's banishment

>>43092359
You, like many readers, were fooled into thinking this story was something other than cutesy Twiadopt. But that's what it is. It's not about politics. It's not about a rebellion, even though a rebellion happens. It's about Mombreaker. Mombreaker is the point of the story. Mombreaker was always the point, so the story's weaknesses are all in service of cutesy Twiadopt Mombreaker. If you keep that in mind, the story isn't so bad. There's a thing it's trying to do, and as long as you focus on that and ignore everything else, it does its thing pretty well. I didn't enjoy the story much, but I could see what it was trying to do, so it didn't make me seethe.

>>43092359
Fae writes slop and needs to be beaten with sticks, yes.

I'm reading a manga where a shota falls in love with his new oppai teacher so his childhood friend who is into him goes full mesugaki trying to get take him back and flashes her buds at him. Any fics with a similar setup?

>>43092672
I believe I've read fics about Rumble crushing hard on Cheerilee.
I'm sure some of them must have the CMC or DT try to meddle.

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Finished The Immortal Game yesterday. I like Titan. Titan is pretty cool. :)

>>43092359
I never got the idea that she was portrayed as a perfect ruler, considering she starts wars for no reason, likes to hunt down and murder petty criminals, and has everyone around her terrified of her, just that they were so used to an all powerful authoritarian they had no idea how to operate without her.

>>43092708
That's not how I imagined him

>>43092656
>were fooled
Were you fooled or were you deluded?

>>43092714
If the character's flaws don't cause the character any struggle in the story, they're not real flaws.
One can say Pinkamena isn't perfect because she's insane, but that doesn't matter if it doesn't cause her any tangible problems in the story.

>>43092760
Incorrect, Pinkamena is perfect because she's insane.

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>>43092760
I don’t like the concept of “character flaws” since people who apply them or talk about making fictional characters like that are usually operating out of a frame of people being inherently good, but they have to “add” flaws in order to make the character and story interesting. Instead of operating out of a frame of inherent fallibility. With the nature of the story naturally following from that.
>>43092777
“insane” women are a liability. They are not attractive. I unfortunately know from having to deal with them myself.

>>43092359
You aren't the guy who messaged me asking to write a sequel, are you?

>>43092812
>They are not attractive.
You don't have to lie just because you got with a 3dpd and had to deal with the inevitable consequences

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>>43092669
I was born into this world writing familyslop and I'll leave this world writing familyslop.

>>43092708
>black and white OC alicorn
Alright buddy

>>43092964
It's a monochrome image.
The alicorn could be red and silver for all we know.

>>43092812
Landmines are pure sex though.

>>43092979
Lies, they are very impure.

>>43092964
Still would

>>43092812
The idea that character flaws need to be very discrete attributes that are resolved via the events of the story makes a lot of writing far less interesting. I'm not really sure how this meme got started but everyone seems to think that's the 'correct' way to write characters, give them one or maybe two obvious blind spots in their otherwise great behaviour, almost always linked to past trauma, and have those flaws get directly addressed and corrected, or occasionally have them fail due to those traits if it's an evil/disliked character. That kind of arc can be satisfying, but when I think of really great stories they're usually packed with characters who make mistakes due to not having enough information rather than some personalized flaw.

>>43092359
>just let DB get away scot-free.
Really? Celestia managed to live but she doesn't have her empire and is actively scared of taking power, plus she has to live with the fact that Luna's dead. And she's living in Ponyville, which is the worst possible punishment.

>>43093003
>but when I think of really great stories they're usually packed with characters who make mistakes due to not having enough information rather than some personalized flaw.
Curious. Can you give some examples of what you're talking about?

>>43093003
>usually packed with characters who make mistakes due to not having enough information rather than some personalized flaw.
I dunno, stuff like this pisses me off. Like in Wheels of Time how 99% of the conflicts would be resolved if the idiot characters just sat down and talked.

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>>43093054
The unwillingness to take power or responsibility at the end was MEANT to be a flaw, if I ever get around to the sequel it's slightly more political and focuses on her actively being afraid of Daybreaker and the personal consequences of that.
Though if people expect fucking war room intrigue and shit lmao it's a momlestia story where she's in therapy, not a retelling of Equestria At War.

>>43093150
Real talk do you have anything that isn't fucking adoption

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>>43093247
I've got a twipie jester/princess one and I want to do one where Twilight getting poofy alicorn wings is like the pegasus equivalent of her suddenly getting big boobs, does that work?

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>>43093113
___ is the exemplary rationalfic because of this: the character decisions mostly revolve around the information available to them at the time and the conflicts often arise from gaps in it.
There's a big caveat to this in that the main plot driver (and therefore ultimate conflict driver) is Twilight's character flaw of hating Celestia. But the caveat for that seems to be that character-flaw-seether-anon seems to define a character flaw as a flaw that the character overcomes as past of her development, and Twilight never overcomes this one, despite her otherwise extensive development.

>>43093255
NTA, but I liked the Twipie one, even if it was light on Twipie. Jester guy was cool.
Tell me more about the poof.

>>43093326
Twilight's new wings are all big and foofy so all the pegasi in Ponyville start hitting on her and doing things like giving her cool rocks or showing how much they can puff out their chests or how cool their nests are.

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>>43093335
I am intrigued. I hope you can get it out soon.

>>43093335
What does this mean for flurry heart?

>>43093381
Flurry Heart is the equivalent of a human kid being born with Henry Cavil's face

>>43093386
Doesn't that mean that Applejack was the same way?

>>43093388
Applejack doesn't have wings

>>43093420
So having a weird adult face only applies if you also have big wings?

>>43093426
t. winglet

>>43093441
The term is chicken nugget thank you

>>43093381
We already knew Flurry is the sexiest being in all of mlp.

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>>43092359
I like Fae's stories becuase they are sweeet and heartfelt and give me the warm fuzzies :)
Also I saw a meme today that made me feel super guilty not working this weekend :(

>>43093481
He wants her for himself.

>>43093528
I can relate to Ego and Mental but only some parts of the Emotional. I guess Emotional is more relevant for women.

>>43093528
These three demons are easy to kill.

>>43093622
Redpill me.

>>43093625
It's never going to be perfect, just write what the fuck ever even if it's just the one sentence in your head, and do it on your phone if you have to.
Best advice I ever had was to ride the high you get when you want to do something, just drop your other dumb shit and do it. Been cooking and cleaning and exercising a lot more since then.

>method to his madness
I remember somehow in discussion being told that it was worse than the first two books.
Honestly maybe, but I think the main thing is that it's a dramatically different setting, and hence dramatically different scope. DoWaS and FS start off focused on a minuscule part of the setting, two small ponies who are nobodies within a wide, vast, and seemingly nearly uniform world of dogs and machines; and follows how from those two little ponies armageddon exponentially escalates and culminates in the end of the world. The story starts with calm slice of life in a tiny village and ends up covering the entire world, no corner left untouched.
Madness is totally different in scope, since it's about a single cataclysmic event within Equestria's history; it starts off discussing world-ending monsters, the story runs through the sturggle against the world-ending monster, and said monster is defeated. Equestria endures all the while, there are many nations scattered all around who are barely involved and many who are barely even mentioned. The most exciting military conflict we see is of a couple capital carries with a few dozen escorts each, plus some handful of missiles and nukes being flung around.

So for this reason, honestly I am glad that I waited to read Method for quite a while after finishing FS, because it's not a fitting sequel tone-wise. Jumping straight from 650k words culminating in the end of the world, into the distant future of flourishing Equestria and its petty local Discord problems, would be a pretty jarring tone shift.

But as far as the story itself goes, standing on its own, I think it's fantastic. It's not the same scope or scale, but it's still suitably world-threatening. The sci-fi aspect was pretty engaging, especially the descriptions of how Equestrian and Griffonian tech evolved independently, both of them having clear differences between each other as well as with the Hive tech from the first books.
And, difference in scope and setting notwithstanding, I think it's a worthy sequel. I really think it did justice to Celestia and Luna, and Equestria and the ponies, and where they are now thousands of years after earning freedom. DoWaS is one of my favourite stories on the site, and I thoroughly enjoyed all the callbacks to it; Luna and Celestia really do feel like the same characters, both suitably changed by the vast amount of time and yet still the same ponies.

And the ending is absolutely a worthy conclusion to the entire epic trilogy, which is not an easy feat to pull off when you've got so much to live up to. I'm glad I finally read it; I really think the conclusion to Method is a better finale than the ending of FS is. For how many sequels on the site are often recommended tentatively or with disclaimers, I firmly think Method is worth reading, maybe not right after finishing FS, but certainly at some point, to conclude the story of the world.

>>43093634
Although, the one piece of criticism I'd have is the strange treatment of the Elements and their power. In FS, the alicorns become near godlike when using even one of them, and when all six are available it's supposed to provide literally unlimited power. They also use them handily in the middle of firefights with nuclear hypersonics or defending against relativistic kinetic strikes, there's no "concentration" issue. But Celestia was apparently unable to get a grip on the Elements just due to having to focus on fighting Luna, and purging Discord seemed to take a surprising amount of time and effort, and also Luna with her three elements was apparently outlasted and beaten into submission by Discord. Maybe I'm misremembering the ending of FS, but it feels like the Elements were somewhat nerfed in Method. Understandable from a narrative perspective because "Celestia and Luna gathered the six god stones and became omnipotent and solved everything with the power of their will" would've been a lacluster resolution, but still.

>>43092490
I know, that's why I said I was the only idiot to believe that the attitude all the other ponies had towards DB was justified and we just didn't see the worst of her on page. Everyone else from the club points out that she just burns that one criminal and that's all she really does, even the war she threatens never materializes.
>>43092714
Maybe not ruler but she was such an effective statesmare that she built a system robust enough to work with an absolute leader and then seamlessly transition into a republic or whatever the council is working out. No roles needed to be changed or revised, just a little name swap and voila. The problems that arise are written as more of an incompetence from the council itself than anything DB's empire left in place.
>>43092833
No, but I do really want to write something based on the AU you set up. Your work greatly inspired me and I don't mean this facetiously, it's invaded my mind. When and if I have something concrete maybe I'll shoot you a DM; whatever your answer may be I hope it's not too influenced by my 4 am percolations.

>>43093634
I like FS but it definitely didn't go in the direction I thought it would. Part of me kind of wishes there was a longer war between the alicorns and the dogs and more time spent on them building up the nascent nation, but it's like once the sisters get a way to subvert the hammer it goes apocalyptic.

>>43093634
>>43093706
Would you kindly avoid involving my wife's initials in your acronymtism?

>>43093706
I can definitely see what you mean, but I think it fits. I'm sure the dogs also wished for a longer, more drawn-out war where some of the Hives could actually survive and they could hash out a new and improved world order without their species being nearly wiped out of existence. But that's kind of the point of the books - that their entire civilisation was on a knife's edge, and as soon as it destabilised, it just plunged straight into complete armageddon. The fact that it's all Discord's fault is kind of an afterthought in the first books - I mean, his involvement is obvious, but at least personally at the time I just kind of took him as a plot device; now that I think about it, Madness also being about Discord is extremely fitting. In the end, the entire world is basically Discord's prison and all three books are really just about his various attempts to escape, and the collateral effects of these attempts. It just so happens that in the first two books said collateral effect involves the total end of the Dog civilisation setting things up for the dawn of the pony civilisation.

>once the sisters get a way to subvert the hammer
More like once Baur (mis)fires their superweapon. Up till then one could argue it was still a regional war. Not only that but the ponies had actually more or less allied with Orgon at that point, and if not for Baur's little fucky wucky one can honestly imagine a universe where the ponies and Lacunae working together defeat Baur, establish independence from the Court, and proceed to live together, pony and dog both.

>>43093715
You're gonna have to take up this one with old man Adolf first

>>43093686
>The problems that arise are written as more of an incompetence from the council itself than anything DB's empire left in place
I don't remember it too well but wasn't it specifically a mix of countries she had antagonized wanting revenge/reparations and loyalist cities wanting to secede?

Are there any fics about bat ponies being genuinely Luna loyalists through thick and through thin and Luna/NMM caring about them in return?
I keep seeing shit that's almost like this but it always ends up just wrong in some way or another.
>Monsters
Almost had this except NMM is a spirit of objectively pure evil with no redeeming consequences and all her batponies gave up their piece of moon soul and rejected her the moment Celestia offered redemption after the atrocities their patron forced them to commit
>A Method to his Madness
Satisfies this on paper but in practice this never really comes into play in the story, a single loyal guard character happens to be of high integrity and very loyal and also happens to be a batpony with leather wings and ultrasonic screeching, and otherwise this is entirely irrelevant to the story
>In the Company of Night
This would've been it but the batponies died out 300 years ago and in the end the cultists that took up the mantle don't really end up even serving Luna as such anymore and also explicitly reject the memory of the old batpony loyalists
>TMA
NMM is cool and the moon city is cool but the batponies are functionally irrelevant

The closest thing I know of is Journey with a Batpony, which was actually really close to what I wanted. Unfortunately it's extremely autistic, 1.3M words long and still incomplete (and still being actively written). I read about 400k words of it a few years ago and while it was great, I'm also a bit apprehensive as to what the fuck could have happened in the next 900k words, because the story at the time did not look like it was poised to meaningfully continue for triple the length.

>>43093777
In Journey with a batpony Twilight gets pregnant so presumably that takes up a fair bit.

>>43093634
>And the ending is absolutely a worthy conclusion to the entire epic trilogy
I completely forget what the ending to method was kek

>>43090663
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/169016/if-you-came-to-conquer
I really liked this, shame the sequels are all kind of middling to me, from what I remember of them.

>>43093972
#2 was middling but I think #3 is good.

>>43093814
After a few decades of Luna living in hermitage alongside a disguised Celestia, they attend the next scheduled Discord breakout-and-reimprisonment which is successfully handled by the new artificial Elements, thus confirming he's basically secure forever and powerless to escape from this point on.
They ponder what they should do next, now that everything is calm and good and Equestria is flourishing without the need for immortal princesses or even the Elements themselves, and Celestia suggests working on a way to journey outside of their pocket universe, but without killing everyone inside unlike Discord's methods.


I like it because it gives a nice rounded ending to the entire story of the universe. We follow the journey from the Pattern being born, to the Pattern creating the brane for safety, through everything happening inside, Chaos working for millenia to try to exit, the giant end-of-the-world where the Pattern is destroyed and Chaos nearly escapes; but the world is saved, and Chaos incorporates as Discord. All the events from all three books are basically caused by Chaos/Discord trying to leave the pocket universe. And in a way, the cosmology is pretty claustrophobic, with millenia upon millenia and multiple civilisations growing on basically a single planet, a single singularity providing light and warmth, some quantity of rocks in orbit, and that's basically it.

And then finally the story, from the birth of the universe through the cosmic throes of the eternal villain trying to escape it, the death of the original progenitor of the universe, and all the civilisation of tiny mortals living in it, the multi-book arc ends on a note that the ponies will find a way outside and expand beyond this tiny pocket universe after all.

Who knows, maybe even Discord will one day finally be freed into the inter-universal space, the outer chaos, and may get to live as a mini-pattern in the quantum foam again.

>>43093715
For Fuck's Sake, Free Speech means Fellow Shitposters can Falsely Steer anons into Fictive Semantics.

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>>43094268
>free speech means you can lie in a public setting and not be held liable for it!
This is why people argue against it.

>>43094304
>free speech bad because I'm a gullible retard
This is why people argue against democracy and the notion of "human rights"

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>>43090409
I only finished Ch 5 in time for the club, but I caught up last night, so I'm writing a late post.

Some things to echo: [Comedy] didn't ruin the fic because I agree with the author's initial decision to publish it without. The castle bakery was kinda nice, but overstayed its welcome. Luna's tower was definitely the best chapter of the fic so far.

I don't agree that it warrants [SoL]. I think that in general, it's of poor compatibility with [Mystery]. The fic meanders, yes, but almost all of it advances the [Mystery] progression.

The bakers are good, but they're OCs. Derpy isn't connected to canon at all. I don't like the idea of Celestia having a continuous stream of students, it takes away from Twilight's connection to Celestia and seems to make Celestia's character overly tragic without adding anything to the story. Obviously, this thread isn't done yet, but I don't expect it to be worthwhile.

Twilight's S1 characterization is fan-fuckin'tastic. A+ balancing practical and neurotic bookhorse purpling.


>>43090740
>>43090836
With the complaints about the trunk, I paid more attention to what the story said, and it says that only the base of the trunk and two of its wheels are left behind. The part that flew into the tower is all four sides and the top, because of how much localization the author describes Twilight's telekinesis with. She was lifting the trunk by every part of the trunk except its base.
I also didn't find Twilight's breakdown to be egregious. It didn't seem like the Canterlot ponies were any more coldhearted than they normally are, and she got help quite fast.

I also really like how much the story is getting out of Sable Sleuth. And the Power Ponies, as annoying as Spike continues to be. I'm not going to give him any credit for contributing to the [Mystery], this is the usual obnoxious "Twilight has to share an IQ pool with Spike to make him relevant" strategy that stories with him invariably do. Twilight was doing great during the fakeout dragon disposal early on.

>>43094334
"This is why we can't do trials by jury! I don't want to be judged by my peers because my peers are intellectually feeble!"

>>43094474
https://twitch.tv/northernlion/clip/StylishSparklingFloofDancingBaby-DW3R3Wi9JZIRm-kO

>>43094027
Ah yes, the cosmic bubble plotline, of course.

>>43094473
>I don't like the idea of Celestia having a continuous stream of students, it takes away from Twilight's connection to Celestia
Oh yeah, I agree with this. I forgot about that part and nobody mentioned it
It really does introduce the idea that Twilight isn't special if she just filled in a new vacancy

>>43094508
Isn't that Sunset's backstory though?

>>43094511
>
Was there a student before Sunset?

>>43094511
I assume her apprentices are once-a-generation prodigies, not the teacher's pets.

>have written 532 words tonight
Hell yeah.

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>>43093651
The Elements were nerfed, yes, in order for the plot to happen, but it's not a plot hole. Another difference between the canon ones and those in A Soot-Covered World is that they're not wish-granters. You have to conceptually grasp what you want, and the memetic virus makes ponies stupid, curtailing their ability to use the Stones. Luna speculates on this directly in her fight. The fic has much worse plot holes, but if you didn't notice them, you didn't notice them.

Although you didn't list out the reasons, you did recognize that Method is worse than DoWaS/FS, while also recognizing that it's still good in general.

>>43094573
How many of them were good?

>>43094599
2: "cum inside"

>>43094573
>have written 18 words tonight
Your days are numbered, kid

>>43094573
I hit 52 just before midnight.

>>43094573
>2 gorillion words in greentext
>0 (zero) in prose
psssh... nothing personnel... kid..

>>43092326
>what happened in the years inbetween lunas banishment and return
The "thousand year gap" has almost no canon references (I think the only canon events that take place in it are Ponyville's founding and Griffonstone becoming a shithole). You can fill it with just about whatever you want.

>european history book
Europe and Equestria are completely different beasts. Equestria is a single geopoltiical entity that effectively has total control of a whole continent. At best, you could argue some manifest destiny stuff might have happened with the buffalo or changelings or something, but from looking at a map, the ponies picked a perfect place to plop their posteriors down.

>>43092359
>WHY DID I BUY INTO THE AUTHOR'S SETUP OF DB AS A VILLAIN TO BE REDEEMED
>So DB gets what she deserves (no punishment plus an easy life plus a new daughter)
I'm confused. You buy into the premise of her being redeemed, and then are mad that she gets redeemed?

>>43093528
>"I'm taking this 300 word scene and turning it into a 12k subplot"
Which one does this fit under? Because I'm currently doing it.

>>43093777
Her Soldiers, We I believe qualifies.

>>43094573
>tfw you were averaging more than 1k a day for a week, then got sick for the third time this year
I'm still averaging north of the 500 minimum at least.

>>43093777
Prey and a Lamb has clans of Bat ponies come out of a self-imposed exile after Luna explicitly asks them to.
It focuses pretty heavily on them in-fact given that two of the three main characters are bat ponies.

It was 545 just before the day ended.

>>43094599
All of them. ^:)

>>43094607
>>43094622
>>43094659
Good job, guys. What are you writing? I'm working on yet another commission, this one a cute little chapter.

>>43094676
>I'm still averaging north of the 500 minimum at least.
I'll be happy so long as I can breach one hundred thousand words written in one year.

>>43094508
>the cosmic bubble plotline
>plotline
It's literally the entire premise of dowas

>>43094939
>All of them
You need a prereader to remove your head from your behind.
>I'll be happy so long as I can breach one hundred thousand words written in one year.
No, to "breach" is either to transgress or to make a hole in. The word you want is "defecate."

>>43095278
>You NEED to get a second opinion on your writing bro
>You NEED to listen to other people's thoughts on your writing bro
>You NEED to make sure your work caters to the average retard bro
>Why?
>Because...because you just NEED to!!!

>>43095278
From the sense of "make a hole" comes the expression "breaching [some limit]" i.e. exceeding the threshold or limit.

>>43095278
>You need a prereader to remove your head from your behind.
In this case, that's the guy paying for the story. Regardless, I need no proofreader beyond myself, but I proofread for others occasionally.

>No, to "breach" is either to transgress or to make a hole in. The word you want is "defecate."
I'd be breaching a limit or goal.

>>43095306
>I need no proofreader beyond myself
Easily disproven by reading your stories.

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Is this good advice?

>>43095344
kek

>>43095350
>taking writing advice from tumblr
>taking writing advice
NGMI

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>>43095018
The premise is actually looking at all the pre-cut gems that anypony can find in the ground at any time and asking "what if those are the ashes of a gem-tech-based civilization that Equestria is built on?" followed by the Terminator 2 snares.

>>43095369
>The premise is actually looking at all the pre-cut gems that anypony can find in the ground at any time and asking
That's not what a premise is

>>43095288
However good you are, there are going to be things that don't register with you, be it an overlong scene or characters you think are amusing that come across as dicks. Getting another perspective can help you sharpen your story into an immortal jewel of perfection.
>>43093715
>wife
Get a load of this guy!

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>>43095371
Inspiration, whatever. The cosmic bubble plotline is background lore, not the premise, either.

>>43095376
Everything I do is already perfect

>>43095376
Get in line.

I am reminded of how the dogs in DoWaS use "expert systems" and I am amused.

>>43094676
I bought into the premise of her needing to find redemption. I don't think her apologizing to ONE singular subject redeems her for everything she's done in a thousand years.
Either I read the story wrong and DB was no villain at all ever and everyone who hated her is a retard faggot that can't handle a bit of tough love so she doesn't need to make up for anything at all
Or she has done worse shit off-page than burning a guy who deserved it but it doesn't matter because she's retired now and won't accept any responsibility
Hope this clears your confusion

>>43095878
I don't know if I'd call being overthrown a form of retirement.

>>43094474
Brit here. Ouch.

>>43095923
What do brits have to do with Canada?

>>43095909
I'm reminded of marr who lived on the moon since that also had evil imperialist Celestia or the one where Twilight goes to the timeline where nightmare Moon took over.
In both cases it's sort of like what exactly would you expect them to be doing once they're overthrown? You can't exactly have them have power again. And just executing them is at odds thematically with ponies.

I didn't listen and read something I was warned against and now I'm regretting it.

>>43096209
Good.
That will show you.
Which is it?

>>43095909
>“Maybe we’re both monsters but… But I don’t want to be a monster anymore. I don’t want to be an Empress, or a warlord, or a god. I just… I just want to be a mother. I want to be a better mother. To Twilight, to you.”
Call it what you want but she's having her cake and eating it too. As soon as she realizes what she wants she gets it. Custody over Twilight, a quiet life, the freedom to choose her future. It's quite frustrating to read.
>>43095974
Have her banished, have Shining Armor stand his ground and take Twilight away, have her be on the run, have the residents of Ponyville give her the stink eye, have her actually want to keep ruling but be unable to. Fuck it, have her stand trial and when everyone realizes she's good now they give her a super petty punishment like forced labor in a desk job as part of the bureaucracy she built herself. Have her "confined" to Ponyville in basically the same situation as she is right now but codified as a punishment. Make her write an apology letter. Something, anything, no matter how minuscule that doesn't perfectly align with what she wants right now and let's you go "well that's what you get after terrorizing Equestria for a thousand years"

>>43096278
I think the problem is you're seeing redemption as a punishment and not redemption being someone striving to be better as an individual.

>>43096270
>Which is it?
Homestuck.

>>43096441
Could be worse. I read the HPMOR sequels.

>>43096392
The term you're looking for is "forgiveness". It's basically the Hound in ASOIAF joining the church and walking away, and similarly it's probably hard to enforce any sort of punishment on an all-powerful alicorn.

>>43096448
Did you join the cult though?

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>>43096448
I saw recently that Yudkowsky wrote another work of fiction. It's a 1.8 million word isekai where a guy from a perfect rationalist utopia gets transported to a medieval fantasy world that's ruled by demons. Also it's apparently about BDSM and AI too. There's a glowing review of it here:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zRHGQ9f6deKbxJSji/review-planecrash

>>43096497
It sounds like he'd be right at home with our inbred HiE cousins.
As everyone knows though, the only good isekai is the John Brown isekai.

>>43096497
I want to cave this guys skull in with a pickaxe.

>>43096507
Which one

>>43096509
Yudkowsky.

Also I cannot think of a single person that knows about these retards from any sort of group that doesn’t shit on them relentlessly. The only exception are redditards.

>>43096501
>Muh abolishment of slavery is le heckin wholesome chungus

>>43096501
And Alice

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>>43096529
Yes.

>>43096536
Alice is not an isekai because she isn't reincarnated.

>>43096542
Does John Brown get reincarnated?

>>43096547
Yes, as John Brown.

Any pony fics about how might makes right?

>>43096522
Unfortunately I work with a guy who takes all the intelligence explosion / AGI / AI doom stuff pretty seriously

>>43096507
Yudkowsky's policy on twitter is that posts ending with a period are serious and posts without a period are him trolling/shitposting. It's a great policy—makes it so easy to get screenshots/archives that make him look like a complete jackass and/or moron.

>>43096574
Didn't he start a cult

>>43096578
Kinda. And a few of his followers have started things that are definitely cults (e.g. Leverage Research)

Cults are good, actually.

any good straight romance fics? (that don't have humans obviously).

>>43096625
Traveling Tutor & The Librarian

>>43096625
Imagine hating your own kind this much lol

>>43096726
i don't hate humans, i just don't want to read about them in pony fiction.

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>>43096779
That's a troll post made by someone who is jealous that you have better standards than them.

>>43096392
Where is Celestia/DB striving to be better? One of her last actions is her admitting that in a just world she'd be put on trial and have Twilight taken away from her only for her to then appeal to Shining's emotions by asking "what would the 5 year old want?" and bribing him with a house so she can keep indulging in her selfish fantasies in peace. Where's the redemption in there? Is it in the part where she doesn't instantly burn him to ashes?
Ok fine you don't want punishment, this is a wholesome fic after all, let's have Celestia/DB do good out of her own volition. Let's see here, we have... her asking Mango for advice, her heeding the nurse's advice... and that's it. We could say that choosing the better path takes time, but that still leaves weeks if not months of "reformed" Celestia/DB not de-escalating the Abyssinian crisis, continuing to offload every single administrative matter onto Parvas (and she has the gall of asking her to take breaks/get hobbies) and not taking any interest in improving the lives of her own subjects, seeing as all throughout the story she treats council meetings as chores she has to slog through before she can go play with Twilight
>>43096459
From the little I know of GoT, I'm pretty sure he gets left to die by Arya who ignores his pleas of mercy and is theorized to eventually get brought back into action to take down his zombie brother as he does in the series. I don't see the similarities

>>43096810
>Where is Celestia/DB striving to be better?
Through her interactions with Twilight. It's a twiadopt story.

>>43096903
You could address the rest of my post instead of attempting to diminish the story's value by handwaving shit with "its twiadopt lole turn ur brain off bro"

>>43096932
But that's the point though. Like the crux of the story is Twilight paralleling Luna, and Celestia failing and accidentally killing Luna was the entire thing that drove her to become Daybreaker.

>>43096957
Ok so we ignore everything else, that's what you're saying

>>43096981
More that you're looking at it as a rebellion against Daybreaker fic, when it's about Daybreaker adopting an autistic baby that reawakens her humanity fic. So the focus is going to be on her and Twilight and that being developed. If any redeeming happens it's going to be via the autistic baby.

>>43097003
Reading the sappy parenting story and not expecting sappy parenting to win out is like reading a Mono story and not expecting irrational lesbian behavior.

>>43097003
>>43097045
Well, there's your answer then. I read it all wrong apparently.

>>43097101
I mean like 99% of the story up until she's overthrown is just
>Twilight does cute thing and Daybreaker likes the cute thing
She was obviously going to end up turning back into Celestia and get to keep Twilight. You yourself said you somehow expected it to end differently and I dunno, that seems on you.

I wouldn't even call it ballsy if the ending was her being locked up forever while Shining Armor gets custody of her, it just seems entirely at odds with how the rest of the fic is set up. But then I've seen other fics pivot way harder so maybe that's not on you.

>>43097129
Fics that do a 180 at the very last second into a completely different genre or theme?

Fics that actually pull it off well?

>>43097133
The Archety--
>spoiler
Oh.
The Archetypist, if you can get into that mindset.

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>>43097129
So Celestia not wanting to have any sort of power by the end wasn't necessarily supposed to be a good thing, even if she had made peace with herself and accepted Luna's death and her failures leading up to that. Shining Armor's not supposed to be in the wrong in the final chapter, in the same way that Celestia's not wrong either.

>>43097003
You know what this reminds me of, Discord when he made The Ending of the End happen and at the end he faces nothing and actually tells Celestia to turn all villains to stone because he thinks it's funny and they all treat this as a good thing. Boy did I watch that one wrong too
>>43097129
The ending could have been the exact same though, as I said before if the redemption was sold through her ruling becoming kinder (maybe she could've drawn a parallel of Equestria being her other son or something) I would've been fine with it. Just a line in the middle stating she made a deal with the cats.

Anyone who dislikes my work simply read it wrong.

>>43097215
>as I said before if the redemption was sold through her ruling becoming kinder (maybe she could've drawn a parallel of Equestria being her other son or something)
Why does everyone so desperately want the authoritarian fire mommy

>>43097220
If you go into a fae fic expecting anything but light slop that focuses on adoption that's your own fault
It's like McDonald's.

>>43097220
I see that you, too, have gotten a Starlight Nova comment.

Just finished act 2 of compati, still going very strong

>>43097221
You're on /mlp/.

>>43097226
That's no excuse. DoWaS is one of the most recommended fics and also a big time overpowered alicorn centered one and that it's entirely about overthrowing the regime that's oppressing the slave caste.

>>43097223
I wish I could get one of those. It feels like a badge of honor.

>>43096507
t. Ziz

>>43096563
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/341625/around-the-world-in-81-days-and-other-problems-caused-by-leap-years
If the thread's reviews are anything to go by.

>>43097133
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/30426/tough-love-luna-vs-celestia
>spoiler
Never mind.

>>43097215
Discord adopts an autistic filly that reawakens his humanity in season 9?
Fuck maybe I should watch it now.

>>43097236
He gets custody of the hyper autistic midnight sparkle clone that Applejack kept molesting.

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All redemption shit is garbage

>>43097238
Based Mormon.

>>43097238
But you're watching a show whose very first episode redeems its villain with a gay laser.

>>43097243
FiM really went downhill in episode 2.

>>43097246
FiM went downhill the moment they gave Spike speaking lines.

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>>43097233
>T. Ziz
Are you referring to that one shitty Reddit tier “philosopher”?

>>43097133
How to Disappear Completely doesn't exactly do a 180 but its ending is so stupidly at odds with the lessons I thought it was trying to show that it was fucking infuriating.

>>43097255
>Disappear Completely
Me soon

>>43097252
Nah, he's talking about the sick cunt who always used to remind us that we're all gonna make it, brah

>>43097256
Well if Sunset Shimmer stops you and tells you you're retarded remember to listen to her.

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>author disappears for half a year
>returns out of nowhere with a rape chapter

>>43097264
I thought you were talking about the Sly Cooper one for a moment.

>>43097264
So he took half a year to accomplish a rape to use as inspiration?

>>43097268
>half a year for one rape
Inefficient, Ponyville's officially appointed rapist would have managed at least 30 rapes in that time.

>>43097270
>1.25 rapes a week
I can see why there'd need to be an official one, no way you have a day job with that sort of output.

>>43097274
It is his day job, you know. He's got a pension even, I hear.

Luna's first controversy as co-regent was wanting to axe the royal rape fund. After all, without it how are ponies across Equestria supposed to get officially appointed rapists?
Luna's secondary controversy as co-regent was suggesting that they could just not rape ponies. Such an antiquated notion.

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>>43097264
>author never finished his fic because he was a collage grindcel and then became a wageslave
>authors demonstrably mentally unwell through his blog posts and how he wrote his basically self insert character
>author hasn’t been online in almost two years.

>>43097286
>author comes back
>he's married with kids now and doesn't want to write anymore

>>43097255
I genuinely thought it was a long-con trollfic of legendary proportions at first because it was just so blatantly against everything the protagonist had learned, but then it failed to turn it into a funny punchline and felt worryingly sincere.
>>43097225
Glad you're enjoying it!
>>43097264
Link. Now.

>>43097290
It's a skirts fic.

>>43097285
I'd read a fic with an out of touch Luna where she's the logical one and everypony is out of their god damned minds.

>>43097300
>Progress but it's reversed

>>43096522
That's because you're the US sphere that was partially built on puritannical religion. Lots of Easteen European STEM nerds who grew up in the atheistic USSR or its legacy consider HPMoR superior to the original and maybe wouldn't agree with everything Yudkowsky says but probably some of it, especially like 10 years ago when he was less of a weirdo. You'd be surprised how many preconceived notions you take for granted are simply not a factor in a different culture. Like here "rationalfic" is used derogatorily and people have some kinda us vs them mentality about it, but from a Russian fic reader you'd be more likely to hear "yes, everyone should try to be rational, I'm tired of media where the retarded protagonist wins not because he's smarter and more cunning but for feelgood bullshit reasons".

>>43096497
Didn't Mark Twain do a better version of that?

>>43097312
>consider HPMoR superior to the original
I probably do. HPMOR has glaring flaws, but they bother me a heck of a lot less than the original's flaws.

The sequels like Significant Digits, Ginny Weasley and the Sealed Intelligence, and Draco Malfoy and the Practice of Rationality can largely fuck right off.

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>>43097312
There are a litany of things wrong with your post but I’m not going to explain exactly what because I don’t care enough to do it and it’s not as through you would actually change your mind over what I said anyways.

do you ever upvote/downvote fics you haven't read?

>>43097508
No.

>>43096542
Isekai means another world, reincarnation has nothing to do with it and that's easily observed by how the father of the modern isekai boom is SAO.

>>43096984
Yes, Anon. Fae is retarded.

>>43097133
You know the answer anon

>>43097133
>spoilers
None that I can think of.

>>43097508
I downvote zebradom fics on principle

>>43097508
I upvote fics by thread authors
I downvote fics by thread authors who pump and dumped me

>>43097508
Yeah. An easy, instant downvote for me is seeing a foot fetish fic just because they always have the most fucking horrendous cover art, for example.

All work and no play makes anon a dull man
All work and no play makes anon a dull man
All work and no play makes anon a dull man

WHY THE FUCK DID I HAD TO PICK A DETECTIVE NOVELLA?
OH JUST WRITE AN ADVENTURE DETECTIVE NOVELLA IT'S FOR KIDS, IT WILL BE EASY
HAH HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
HOW THE FUCK DO I MAKE IT MAKE SENSE?
MY VILLAINS HAVE NO MOTIVATION
THESE RIDDLES ARE HARDER THAN BATMAN'S ASS CHEEKS
HOW THE FUCK DO I WRITE A DETECTIVE NOVEL THAT MAKES SENSE?