This is your one-stop shop for greentexts.Feel free to share some of your favorite greens, some of your most hated greens, or even some of your greens! You could post greens that don't have anywhere else to go. Writeniggers shilled so farhttps://ponepaste.org/user/KodiaKowboyhttps://ponepaste.org/user/BlondieAnonhttps://ponepaste.org/11138 (Glimbrain story index)/green/ rentryThis rentry's goal is to link and regroup all green archives from several /mlp/ generals.They may be old, outdated, or incomplete. If you have suggestions for entry, please share them in the /green/ thread.https://rentry.org/GreenArchiveWant a green but can't be bothered to write? /R/equest one! Just reply with your prompt and include an /r/ anywhere in your post. Some writefag will surely take a crack at it.Greens written in last threadAnon gets kidnapped by bandits>>43435149Anon goes to the dentist>>43439365The Greenfag Condition>>43443634Suggestions for changes to the OP welcome.
>>43452531Recent green anchorLink greentexts from other threads into here and write a short synopsis of what the green is about.Greens linked in last threadHorsequestria>43430549 Twismoochhttps://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/43274481/#43278308Rarismoochhttps://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/43281096/#43282847FOE CYOAhttps://ponepaste.org/12078Applejack notices your new stetson>43435405Dirty Pie>43419459Trixie offers to blow Glimmer's hung human boyfriend>43432055meat eating Applejack>43436636Beach fun with Luna>43419382Dash Mom and Anon Sonhttps://ponepaste.org/11727https://ponepaste.org/11841https://ponepaste.org/11949https://ponepaste.org/12063
>>43452537Communal Green Wishlist [Formatting WIP]Everyday Life With Guardsmares [https://ponepaste.org/5778] by TheManFromAnotherTimeAnon kills everyone, everything and everywhen [https://poneb.in/QDbJLy08] by PeteQThis Heart That Fears [https://ponepaste.org/1102] by EphemeralA Noble Heart [https://ponepaste.org/4471] by TightVerity [https://poneb.in/V6XHRnkV] by CloudrulerMonkey Business [https://poneb.in/P23JWXP3] by JazzTeethWork Hard, Play Hard, Die Hard [https://poneb.in/wzNQAYsh] by handsome_jewManos the hands of fate [https://poneb.in/QBMRbrPv] by HumanSuperiorityBakery Slave [https://ponepaste.org/852] by sophosmorosDemon Anon [https://ponepaste.org/1292] by Defiant>Twilight Sparkle is addicted to Anon's cum.https://poneb.in/search?query=Twilight+Sparkle+is+addicted+to+Anon%27s+cum.&searchType=PasteTitle&searchSource=Pastebin>Shiny and Coronahttps://poneb.in/9d5xtBD5>Captain Anonymoushttps://poneb.in/search?query=Captain%20Anonymous&page=2&searchType=PasteTitle&searchSource=Pastebin>Equestrian Rehabhttps://poneb.in/search?query=Equestrian+rehab&searchType=PasteTitle&searchSource=PonePaste>Violet memoryhttps://poneb.in/3184>Changeling Lifestylehttps://poneb.in/search?query=Changeling+Lifestyle&searchType=PasteTitle&searchSource=All>Twilight's Secrethttps://poneb.in/search?query=Twilight%27s+Secret&searchType=PasteTitle&searchSource=All>Prince Anonymous & Young Celestiahttps://poneb.in/Frkd19Lf>A Journal Between Two Worldshttps://poneb.in/DzKW8ZdE
>>43452531>no previous thread>>43452537>not linking to the posts
>>43452650>>no previous threadfuckPREVIOUS THREAD HERE: >>43432639>not linking to the posts4chan thinks mass replies are spam :/
>>43452541>>Twilight Sparkle is addicted to Anon's cum.>https://poneb.in/search?query=Twilight+Sparkle+is+addicted+to+Anon%27s+cum.&searchType=PasteTitle&searchSource=Pastebin>200k wordcount what the fuck?
>>43452653>4chan thinks mass replies are spamyou /could/ just drop a desuarchive link instead of the double bracket.
>>43452537> Dash Mom and Anon SonWhere did the day go? This is a great one. Have to force myself to take a break to eat.
>>43453228writefag's postin parts of it in the anonstallion fred as he writes them, come join us in enjoying the kino
>>43453395>in the anonstallion fredAnswered the question before I could even ask. Guess I know where I'll be hanging out now.
Like 10+ years ago there was a robot pony thread which went on for like 2-3 threads. One story was a robocop style thing where Anon died but his brain was transplanted into a new body: Rainbow Dash.Besides the basic setup it was abandoned after a few tens of posts sadly.
>>43452753A lot of smut. And actual story besides smut.
>>43453552Try asking PTFG.
>>43453782Nah, it's not that valuable. I just wish that it was continued.
>>43453848Was it ever binned or is it only in desu?
>>43453855I don't remember it being binned. And it's maybe 20 posts total.
>>43453906Find it and share with the thread :)
>>43453914Nah. I'm busy scraping the webarchive for lost greens.I'm missing about ~3200 pastes which was ever posted here.
>>43453982Oh, dang. Let us know what you find, friend.
>>43453990It will be on ponebin. So far out of 175 pastes 10 were found. It's not much, but it's something.Some more could maybe be restored from desu, but that's a lot of manual work. And I doubt AI is good enough to detangle the mess from the early high traffic threads, and collect contents. Even when I try to do it manually it's hard or impossible. In the early days people just posted anonymously without even tagging the previous parts of their story or posting a pastebin link. They maybe posted it in the middle of the story, etc. Or in a separate post.I posted a few times how to submit lost&found stuff, but only got two submission in 6 years, one with the correct format, the other is unusable.I have a few more archives which could hold some pastes which is not on the site but none of them are processable (missing paste IDs).
>>43454035On a younger 4chan, you could've crowdsourced anons to scour the archives. Now you need machines to do it. Grim.
>>43454381I assume there is at most 300 active posters on the board currently. And all of them are pretty toxic so noting really gets done.
>>43454622Sad if true
>>43454622>And all of them are pretty toxicBut nonny, I love (You)!
>>43454622I'm not toxic anon! I love ponies, and I think if you love ponies too then you're pretty neat.
>>43455593seconded. maybe half the anons are toxic, the other half (at least) are cool.
>>43452753It's not finished. The first chapter is still worth it imo. It peaks early.
>>43454622I am toxic, yeah. Suck it up, nerd.
>>43454622Vast majority of anons aren't toxic at all. It's just the few terminally online ones who post the most. They're full of anger because there's nothing else in their lives and they also have mental issues.Most people lurk a few threads and rarely leave those and also rarely post.
>>43454622To reinforce my point see the replies for >>43455821 and the >>43436556 post.
>>43456654Grim. Grim post, grim thread, grim reality. Grim.
>>43454035>So far out of 175 pastes, 10 were found. It's not much, but it's something.Do you have a list somewhere of all the missing pastes?I'm busy with some other projects, but I can try to look for them starting next week.
>>43454622Name one thing wrong with being toxic.
>>43457319It's easy
>>43457326And?
>>43457330You said one thing. Now you ask for two? I guess the green thread is where you should stay to up your reading comprehension
>>43457332That isn't what "and?" means in this context you retard.
>>43457334>That isn't what "And?" means in this context, you retard.FTFY. Your grammar needs work as well. Next OP will have to include basic English writing principles as well.
>>43457340I accept your concession. Perchance.
>>43457341Anon, it seems you can't differentiate between an argument, in which concessions are made, and a casual conversation. Unfortunately, I fear this may not be remedied with simple language instruction.
>>43457347Nah, I'm right.
>>43457347
>>43457340>Next OP will have to include basic English writing principles as well.Oh hey, that's a good idea. I'll add https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37134/37134-h/37134-h.htm to next thread.>inb4 IP grabberIt's the link to Elements of Style on the Project Gutenberg site. I think it's a good resource for all the run-of-the-mill writing advice you find on the internet.
>>43457299I do have one, will post it when it's finalized. I now have 2986 paste IDs missing which can't be found on IA.I'm currently trying to scrape all the userpages to discover even more, then do another round of paste scraping. This won't reduce the number of missing pastes (it will actually increase it...) but I will be able to potentially provide some metadata for some (author, title), and potentially recover some more which was never posted here (eg if something was split into chapters).Scraping is complicated as pastebin changed format quite a few times and all needs custom code to process them. Plus IA limits you to one request every 3 sec, so a scraping run takes a day or two sometimes.I don't want to publish it currently because the mirror/development DB is a mess (deduplication failed spectacularly and many pastes show up 4+ times with the same title and content, thanks windows/unix line endings and mojibake). Some pastes could be recovered from the site itself (eg some other Anon already archived it, there are quite a few cases of this, I know about 75 such cases).I will make a submission page, so it will be easier to send stuff. It will definitely not be ready by next week, sorry.Btw, the end result was 214 pastes recovered from the first run. Not all of them are pony related, but the majority is.
>>43457370>It will definitely not be ready by next week, sorry.No problem, I have other /mlp/ projects, so I can keep busy.If you can do it, that would be great. I know I can't prove it and it's only the word of an online faggot, but I'm invested in this, so I'll definitely at least try to do my best.
Since we're talking about lost pastes, I might as well share my small /lmt/ victory and say that a lost Moon Dancer green I was looking for, written by Slasher Science, was found recently. He apparently saw my one of my posts in the archive and decided "Yeah, I can repost that green."Here's when Slasher noticed one of my old posts:https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/43275128/#43356594
>>43457503>Slasher SciencePut it up on ponepaste with the title "Slasher Science - Dream Annotation". In the paste link the desu posts.
Midnight Bump, let's pray OP figures out how to write again
Don't die on me now
>>43457408I just noticed after 24+ hours of scraping and 16k downloaded pages that I fucked up the script. Web archive returns every url which starts with the query, not just exact matches. And in the list there was "anon" so every pastebin user starting with "anon" got downloaded. Okay, not that big of an issue. But there is an user named "e". So it started downloading every user starting with "e"... FML. I had to start it over.
Liteeracy is dead
Newfag discovers a good RGRE green, achieves enlightenment>>43459700
it feels like these days i'm lucky if i can force myself to get a few pages out. i think i just need to stop fucking off in my downtime and tunnel hard into writing again, those two longform greens aren't going to finish themselves. any other writefags struggling with the same thing?
>>43460115>i think i just need to stop fucking off in my downtime and tunnel hard into writing again, those two longform greens aren't going to finish themselves.Me to a T
>>43460115Sort of. The reason for my "abandoned" greens are because I just don't have any ideas of what to write next. Like, I get a great idea and then start writing and posting it, and then by the next week I lose interest and I'm /forcing/ myself to write. That's when the green truly dies. Now I've been shitting out shorts every now and then. Such is the life of no outlines and spontaneous ideas.
>>43460115I'm washed and probably won't write anything longer than a few posts ever again.
>>43460115My problem is wanting to do other things, too, that I just end up doing nothing.
>>43460115I can write fine once I'm writing, I just have a ton of resistance in regards to getting myself to start writing. Keep telling myself I have to do something else first and I never get to the writing.
>>43452531Post guides.I can only write prose.
>>43461530Green is like prose, except>No linebreaks>No periods>Second-person is the norm>Can be as choppy as you like>Outline level, evenPOV dialogue is always in plaintext>All other dialogue is greenNeed more info? Lurk moar.
>>43461530>>43461739Just don't do novel-length lines like they do in the anonstallion thread. Proper greentexts' lines are brief like: https://ponepaste.org/3646
>>43461530Make sure it's long enough to give the characters some depth so the readers can relate to them and care about them. And so you can fit in some descriptions.It's a very freeform format with almost no strict rules. Lines are>impliedand that's about it. What the other guy said is mostly true but you can add periods if you want to.
>>43462187You can avoid this advice if you have 0 OCs. Half the appeal of fanfiction is that people already have an emotional connection to the characters.
>>43461530Green is just prose with > and lower standards
>>43460115>any other writefags struggling with the same thingEyup.>>43460553This... whenever I stop it's due to some distraction, and then it gets hard to get back into it again.
>>43461760I don't mind the novel length greens since barely if any are being made so those long greens satisfy the lack of greens being made on the board.
>>43463444Check'd, but I won't read pony prose disguised as greens ever. Sorry, I just won't!
>>43463805you can have your tiktok doomscrolling then I suppose
>>43463805Based literal retard
>>43462756>it gets hard
>>43463808>>43464395If it's not (real) green, I won't read! Can't stop me!
>>43465496>Puts three-syllable word into greenGet filtered
>>43463805How will you know if it's prose?
>>43457408Still working on it. Probably I will be able to finish it by the end of this week.
>>43466600Lil nigga is cooking rn.Cook, lil nigga. Cook.
>>43466405Here's an example: https://ponepaste.org/8625They're easy to spot!
>>43468205you're really gonna diss my boi gumcobbler like that
>>43468390I just found a random one. There's plenty of more out there to ignore!
>>43468205>each line is a full paragraphOh gosh. That's some very nice use of language, but it's not really in the green format. Still nice to read though.
>>43468994how many more
I wrote a couple of small greens a while back (March and April) that I thought were decent, but they got no (You)s.Maybe one of you anons can take pity on me and tell me why they were shit:https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/43173194/#43175861https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/43107278/#43145960Anyone else ITT got any greens, big or small, that they'd like to see get a second chance, a shot at redemption?
>>43470537Nothing necessarily bad about them, both are decent. >>43175861 was cute and humorous which fits for a prompt thread. As for >>43145960 it wasn't really flutterrape, and I couldn't find it being posted in another thread as mentioned. But really, there's no logic to how many (You)s you'll get, it's mostly down to a few anons feeling like reading or not. And don't take it personal, that's just the board being slow. Oh and keep in mind that if you write lewd stuff, there's a likelihood that the anons that DO read it, just bust a nut and move on without needing to comment on it.As for my greens, I've only saved a few on ponepaste but I'm okay with them being looked over, they're pretty niche save for one in particular about a jaded twilight
>>43470537For the first, it's sad, but I believe that prompt threads are so fucked by the usual suspects that most gave up on them after a quick look.
>>43461530Writing green unironically makes you better at prose. You start to focus on the essential bullet points you want to hit in your writing, you get a better sense of tempo, your dialogue gets snappier since it looks dumb when your characters ramble for paragraphs, the only real problem is remembering how to not write in second person.
>>43471201>your dialogue gets snappier since it looks dumb when your characters ramble for paragraphsI still feel like I can't write dialogue to save my life, I just can't imagine a conversation in a way "normal" people would talk so I only ever write about weird interactions between characters
>>43471651Usually better to have interesting dialogue than normal dialogue imo. Especially with pones.The trick to good dialogue imo is to remember to put aside your goals as a writer and focus more on the individual goals of the characters. Pinkie in particular is tricky because the things that she finds important in any discussion are probably not going to be what others find important. The problem with "millennial/marvel dialogue" is mainly that every character sounds exactly the same. They don't bring unique perspectives to anything. This doesn't mean you spam meme phrases, you just try and keep the background and motivations of a character in mind. Well, loosely in mind, you also don't want to have your character remind everyone about their tragic backstory every time they open their mouth. Don't make it explicit, just have them lean slightly one way or another on different topics.Rarity is a good example, she's an easy character to flanderize with "dress, gems, darling, oh no I stained my BLOU-OU-OUUUUSE" obvious types of lines that often feel kind of disconnected from the story. When she's written well she's written from the motivations behind all that. She always wants other ponies to be feeling their best. This is why she pairs well with Pinkie (who has a similar motivation, although wanting people to 'feel happy' isn't the same as 'feel your best') and doesn't pair very well with Rainbow (who is almost always feeling on top of the world). She's also got an interesting combination of traits in that she's always certain that she's right and wants to get her own way, while also preferring to solve problems via "low-status" maneuvering. Rarity vs. Blueblood is the ultimate example of this causing conflict, because whereas most low-status characters like Fluttershy would just tolerate his bullshit, and most confident characters like Rainbow would put their hoof down immediately, Rarity is stuck trying to solve a problem against somepony who is immune to all of her usual tactics. It's almost like a Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, where the problem could be solved instantly by either letting it go or addressing it directly, but unfortunately the protag is simultaneously petty and bound by social convention.But I digress. Dialogue. If you think your dialogue is "weird" it might be because you're focusing too much on characters expositing the information they need in order for the story to progress. Write it so that they're following their own natural motivations to learn more, help others, etc. If you need to get Twilight involved in some hijinks, present an opportunity to learn something new. If you need Rainbow on board, present an opportunity for awesomeness. Don't have them talk unless they have something to say. And it might feel silly but it can help if (You) do voices. Applejack in particular, she's a bitch to write in text but if you say her lines out loud you can find that flow.
>>43457408It is done.https://poneb.in/submithttps://poneb.in/missing-pastesA low hanging fruit is pastes from The_Shermanator because https://poneb.in/u/NotSherm seems to have it, but it is not split by chapter like how it was originally posted.There are a lot of authors on the missing list which don't seem to have any pony pastes. I have deleted quite a few (like half the list already...) but still there are more.In the far future I plan to set up an LLM to go through all pastes and mark those that are most likely not pony related, automatically check desu if it was posted there, then delete dem after manual verification. But going through thousands of them will still be hell.
>>43472336Thanks for your work, Anon.As I said, I'll start looking into it too.I'll be busy this weekend, but will focus on it from Monday.
>>43472347Thank you in advance.Oh I have another idea: I could add a link to paste IDs which were found in desu, so it makes it easier to track down.This will require like 2 days worth of desu scraping. Plus writing the code. So I probably won't be able to finish it during the weekend.I also skipped deduplicating paste versions to get this out quicker. There a ton of paste versions which only differ by for example the type of newline being used (windows/unix style) or a newline at the end, or character encoding issues. I found a few which have 4 versions when it should only have a single one. It's more complicated to get rid of these than it sounds.
>>43472336/fast/ is for websites that don't do censorshipplease find a different thread
>>43472394>censorshipGood, because I'm not doing any censorship.Also this is not /fast/.
>>43472336Based archival work!
>>43472445>Good, because I'm not doing any censorship.but you do censor users for nonsensical reasons>Also this is not /fast/.oh I mean I eh uh
>>43472493
>>43457355>Elements of StyleI read a lot of "How to write" books when I first started writing greens. This is one of the best ones I ever came across, particularly for newer writers that are looking to avoid making mistakes that clearly mark them as an amateur, like, mixing up your tenses, using incorrect grammar in dialogue tags, or using the wrong version of words that sound similar---like there and their.>That's there pen. Put it over their.The book I have has the extra chapter at the end, written by E.B. White, which also has good advice in it. White was actually a student at Cornell and had attended some of Strunk's creative writing classes.
>>43470537Ok, for the first one I got bored of the dialogue after the second post because it's too much and doesn't really go anywhere. The tone also felt off from the OP and personally I don't like the characterization of ponk, though I hate reading any M6 greens for that very reason.For the second story I agree with >>43470640, it's not /fr/, so you won't get any (You)s because of that. Shoulda posted it in /aie/ and lurk'd moar.
>>43452531I need to know, how some on you guys keep actually having a decent work ethic when writing your greens? I seem to be forever unable to finish one story because I keep trying to jump to the next.
>>43472619
I have way too many ideas about what to write. If only even a few of them were about what needs to happen next instead of being scattered scenes summertime in the future if the story or even totally unrelated.
>>43474540*sometime in the futureFuck autocorrect and phoneposting. But, gotta make do with what you have on the go.
>>43474467I defer to Mandroid. I can't finish a green to save my life.
>>43474467The trick is to write even when you don't want to. If I feel the kick of motivation come in after 10 minutes of writing, then I can write for an hour or two, or until I hit a mental roadblock. If after 10 or so minutes (of NO distractions btw, that includes time spent on your phone) I still don't feel like it, I let it be for the day. Just get yourself to try at least once per day, or whenever you have the time>>43474540Write those scenes, the worst you can do is to just keep them to yourself. You don't have to group them into the actual story, but you should write them to let your brain move on to something else.
>>43473761are you natekiggers?>>43470657that could be. I personally like prompt threads, for the most part; some are definitely shit (like when the "Hi, Anon" meme got spammed.) but sometimes you get a lot of (You)s in prompt threads; the most successful green I ever did was written in one. another successful green, one I didn't write, was jaded actress twilight---i thought that one got a lot of (You)s as well, and that was a prompt thread green.it really feels like a roll of the dice sometimes as to whether something you post gets read or not.>>43470640>it wasn't really flutterrapeYou think so? It has Rarity raping Anon, she's just using a puppet to do it. I guess he does kind of consent to it after a while, but there are a lot of Flutterrape stories where that happens too, and it essentially stops being rape.>t. has written and read a lot of Flutterrape>jaded twilightjaded actress twilight? I remember that threadI wrote the prompt that spawned the green itt; I was so fucking happy someone wrote something based on it
>>43475960>like when the "Hi, Anon" meme got spa-Don't make her say it.
>>43475960>are you natekiggers?No. Why would I?>It has Rarity raping Anon>there are a lot of Flutterrape stories where that happens>>t. has written and read a lot of FlutterrapeThat does not sound like Flutterrape at all. What are you reading?
>>43475960Hi Anon is kino.
>>43475837I'd love to write just those scenes, but they would make almost no sense and have no emotion in them.I'll just have to tough it out and get to writing when I get home and have time. Cons are fun but time consuming.
