No.282778 [Last50 Posts]
What fanfiction are you currently readan you autistic fuck?
Any recommendations?
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No.282783
>>282778
DIARIES
I started reading some a few weeks ago but I couldnt read anything since. I'll check what I had later
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No.282800
>>282778
My favorite fanfic is Bloom Together. It's a lewd romance about Spike and Applebloom
http://pastebin.com/kNegb673
I also like this one which is I guess some autistic tribute to Last Unicorn. I'm pretty sure it's exceptionally written but that may just be my nostalgia glasses. It was one of the first fics I read when I got on the ride.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/54950/1/the-last-human-a-tale-of-the-pre-classical-era/iron-mortar
These two are book length, so I hope you like books. If you want something shorter with significantly more autism, might I recommend you Daring Do Does Daring Deeds: An Unhealthy Obsession with the Letter D
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/191649/1/daring-do-does-daring-deeds/do-you-dare-to-do
This is all shit I read a year or more ago. I really need to get back into fanfiction
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No.282823
I've been reading Gentleman for Mares
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/60371/gentleman-for-mares
It's a HiE story where a guy becomes a male prostitute in equestria helping mares cope in a world with a 5:1 mare to stallion ratio. I like the worldbuilding in it and the lewds
Also some of the stuff PussPuss has been writing pics related. I've been reading alot of romance stuff lately I blame tavifag.
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No.282824
I think it has been a few months since I've actually read fanfiction, after reading almost every day.
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No.282833
I have been picking through the archives. My god, the tone of stories written before Season Five was incredibly different. It is curious to see how differently fans regarded the universe in different years. You can just feel the soon-to-be-dashed hope that authors wrote with in 2013.
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No.282836
A story about Sweetie Belle having the ability to give ponies orgasms by saying their name:
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/275038/sweetie-belles-new-ability
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No.282845
>>282823
Puss puss needs to finish his lighting dust story, it's been my favorite so far.
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No.282846
>>282778
I finally finished reading Project Horizons while I was sick over Christmas. After that I tried reading Heroes but the writing, spelling, and grammar were so subpar compared to Horizons that I basically stopped reading fanfiction altogether.
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No.282920
>>282778
I already made a huge list of fics I recommended somewhere on this board, go find that if you want
>>282824
>needs a name
When you open the cumjar after 3 months.jpeg.exe
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No.282993
>>282778
Recently read End of the Universe, it left me sad but content. Would dearly recommend.
Currently burning through Murky Number Seven.
I might go back and reread and old fic called Human for nostalgia's sake.
>>282846
What did you think of it? I finished it about a year ago, had fun reading it even if the ending sucked.
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No.282996
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No.283017
>>282836
I just finished reading that, your image is very accurate, I was expecting it to be funny, which a couple of parts were (but were probably not suppose to be) but what I got were many fuks, cringing at most of the fuks (spoiler) mostly the fuk with twilight , happiness, sadness, just an all around feels kinda feel.
Idk if its just me, I might just be a sappy person but I always get worked up over these kind of stories, even if they are young, only because it would have been nice to have some kinda interaction like such when I myself was younger. Having any kind of loving interaction between another person would have been great… freesbadman_hatesymbol.svg.blend
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No.283022
There's still a bunch of TCB fics I need to finish reading. I dont think I want to, though.
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No.283035
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No.283036
>>283035
*Also, fimfiction is cancer.
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No.283051
/r/ comfy adventure stories. With ponies fighting monsters and exploring old ruins and shit.
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No.283138
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No.283172
>>282823
>Gentlemen for Mares
Mah nigga. IIRC the writefag wrote some spinoff shit to that story which I never got around to reading.
Also, I really like that story that PussPuss wrote about Octavia but the whole part where she's performing really triggered my autism. Here's why:
>It didn't take long for the lights to dim and the sound of stomping hooves to fill the air as the show started. Then… you saw her.
…Were they applauding before she went onstage? Why? The show doesn't start until she appears.
>A beautiful grey mare walked up to the only stool on the stage, her cello case strapped to her side, then took a seat before setting her case down.
Two things: 1) cellists use chairs, stools are too high; and 2) the only things she should've brought onstage with her are her instrument and her music.
>Keeping her eyes closed, she reached down for her instrument before getting into position with her cello resting on her chest.
Okay, this ties in with what I mentioned before. The reason you're supposed to have your shit ready before going on is because nobody wants to see you fumbling around with your shit while you're onstage, and
SHE DIDN'T FUCKING TUNE HER INSTRUMENT. HOW DID SHE NOT SOUND LIKE SHIT?
Also, I'm pretty sure it's really difficult to take out your instrument with your eyes closed :^)
Anyway,
>Once she was ready, she lifted her bow into the air, silencing the stomping cheers in an instant.
No, string players would lift their bows and place them on the string when they are ready to play. Also, the audience would've stopped applauding moments after she bowed towards them and sat down.
>Then, after a short moment of silence, she started to play.
This is probably the only thing in the entire paragraph that is actually correct.
Well, there you have it. I don't expect everyone to acknowledge proper performing etiquette, or to even be aware that it's a thing, so I can't really blame the writefag. But that doesn't stop me from sharing my autism with you guys.
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No.283182
>>283138
>>Exchange
>started reading that some 3 years ago and only got half way through it
One day.
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No.283187
I don't know how well this one will play to folks who have never been married before, but this is a damn good sob story. I usually don't go for the sad stuff, but I love how much meaning the author is able to pack in between the lines. I also like that it is not just back-and-forth dialogue like most serious stories are.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/343016/1/you-and-her/you-and-her
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No.283189
>>283172
It's reviews like this that drive "serious" writers to libraries so they can research. Every time you write, somebody is going to say "No, because I was there…"
>>283187
>sad stuff
I'm not drawn to it, so I seldom actually read it. But I'll consider any well written piece.
So, I just logged into my FiMfiction account after a year long hiatus of reading, and found I'd put perquisition on my todo shelf. I recall now reading a few people's glowing reviews, but couldn't remember much else about why I pointed it out to myself.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/5345
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No.283190
>>283022
Checked. I guess that means I'm double posting.
Since my NaNoWriMo piece last November was set in the TCB AU, I feel I really need to ask … what were you going to read?
I can't find them now, but when I was talking before (probably on /mlp/, in the FoE thread of all places) about this, they recommended a few TCB stories where the humans won.
Since my piece was inspired by the blurb on the back, front, whatever of Code Majeste, trying to explain why Celestia in this AU was evil and would murder any competition, it seems like reading some of the more out-there TCB stories would benefit my writing.
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No.283196
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/297619/little-bundle-of-purity
This one was good for a few laughs. I also was looking for another comedy about a poetic love letter from Twilight to Celestia asking the princess to sit on her horn and fart on her head, but I could not find it. That one was almost as funny as "Rainbow Dash's Sausage Fest."
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No.283252
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/87607/twisting-between-the-sheets
I loved his attention to the emotions of the characters, especially Rarity. The ending wasn't exactly what I was hoping for, but still very well done.
Also I really enjoy RarityxAJ stories.
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No.283258
>>283182
It's fucking worth it fam. So is I dream of luna, honestly. I don't remember who wrote it by now, but fuck he was a good one
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No.283269
>>283258
I guess I'll go back to it when I have the time.
I also remember reading Friendship is optimal, but again, did not finish it. That one also receives a lot of praise often, I think.
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No.283272
>>283252
The ending to chapter one is a riot. I am not sure that this is supposed to be a comedy, but my god that reveal was hilarious.
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No.283282
>>283252
Huh. In every instance an OC romancing a canon character is irredeemable autistic trash. This must be the exception that proves the rule.
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No.283696
>>283138
>Quantum Castaways.
Thanks for this one. I've been reading furiously late at night after work for an hour or more before bed. It's very good and I'm at the part where they're planning to blow up the force field.
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No.283810
>>283696
Yeah it's a fun one. I remember reading the whole story in one night, sun-down to sun-up, listening to album related. Just couldn't put it down. Good thing the author is finally adding more chapters, if slowly.
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No.283813
>>283190
Other Side of the Spectrum is the only one I can remember by name. I stopped reading it awhile ago since it completely devolved into a wall of virtue signalling and the authors patting themselves on the back. Then again, pretty much every fic in the genre was like that from what I remember.
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No.283857
>>283051
This one is a great adventure story. It's similar to The Lord of the rings, with Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash, going off on an adventure.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/182859/its-a-dangerous-business-going-out-your-door
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No.283858
I just finished Project Sunflower, a comfy human as pony explores equestria, with some extra story.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/5170/project-sunflower
I'm now rereading Stardust, one of my favorites. Twilight sparkle makes a wager to reform discord by proving the friendship is the strongest force. Discord throws her on to earth during a terror mission in XCOM. She has to deal with it from there. Great story, love the characters, got me into XCOM.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/100455/stardust
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No.283879
I honestly do not know what inspires you faggots to read all these punishingly long, boring-ass adventure epics written by amature authors with severe autism.
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No.283880
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No.283891
I really, really like this blog post:
I find it fitting to elaborate on a few things which have been raised with me for some time. Notably, these are my depictions of characters in my FiMfics. I do not need to defend myself to anyone, yet I will explain myself so that people may understand.
It was suggested that I characterise two characters falsely - Prince Blueblood is the first, and the Setting is the second. Before I elaborate on this, I must define my own ideas regarding such. To begin with, Equestria (as in the Setting, the over-arching World within which takes place my story) must be certainly a character. It is no person, perhaps, but it is a character. Wherefore must it be? Because it contains how characters are responded to. To use an example, actions taken in Ponyville differ in response to actions taken in the Everfree Forest. So Equestria matters.
I do not write a peaceful Equestria. Never have I, and I doubt I ever will. Why? In a sense, because of my interests and inspirations in the craft of writing. I look to Warhammer 40 000, to the Drenai Chronicles, and to other works besides, all where the battle between good and evil is not merely spiritual, but physical as well. They mislead you, who cry 'Peace!' when there is no peace.
So this is the first reason. I do not, as some falsely claim, merely act from ignorance - such presumption! - I rather act from what I see in the world, what the truth is. In fact it is they who act from ignorance. You who say in the evening that the weather will be fair, for the sky is red, and who say in the morning that it will storm, for the sky is red, can you not read the signs of the times?
The next reason lies in the sheer foolishness of some people, and in their hypocrisy. Fools! You who say that peace is the only condition of Equestria, and that war is unacceptable, do you not also write in your own stories that the only apparent romantic relationships are homosexual? You pack of wild dogs! You howling hyenas! Well it was said of you that where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather! Do you not see that if you declare one and yet the other is impossible, that you have lied to yourself?
Neither one is impossible - indeed, if any were considered more possible, it would be that Equestria is not at peace. Explain to me, if you can, why Equestria would have fully trained guards if not against enemies. Explain to me why they are trusted to guard Canterlot if they are merely ceremonial. Come, let us reason together, for this is an important question.
Who would stand against this is refusing the truth and prefers falsehood.
It is in response to this that I have characterised Blueblood as I have, and not only this but to a great condition that I have noticed both in MLP and in other media. This condition says that the only way that female characters can be 'strong' (this in itself could be rewarded with a full post…) is by male characters being weak or evil, or both. If you want another example of this, look at Frozen, or Maleficent. When was the last time you saw a good effective male character in a movie or TV show? When the only male characters in MLP are a toss-up between a glorified errand-boy, a farm-boy who does nothing, a pathetic simpering fool, and someone who can't tell his wife apart from a fairly unconvincing impersonator, something has to change. And so change it does.
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No.283892
>>283891
cont:
Prince Blueblood has had a fairly changing history in my own stories. He started off in my first real FiMfic as the sole royal commanding Equestria in the face of a returning Nightmare Moon, who is set to destroy ponykind. Revisions changed him from leading a valiant but ultimately doomed last stand in an attempt to activate the still inert Elements of Harmony to defending Canterlot personally, and crossing swords with Nightmare Moon herself. This led into Not Worth A Bit, where he ultimately died in mourning of Octavia.
This was in truth a reaction to the 'idea' of shipping Octavia and Vinyl. Words can not describe my scorn for this idea.
Then we get into my next story, which is called The Truth. This is my first real response to that shipping confusion aforementioned. Then we get to Words, The Bright Lady, Non Nobis Domine and beyond. My second 'mischaracterisation' occurs in these.
It is useless, really, to talk about these without understanding my context.
I have already explained my context with regard to the broken peace of Equestria. But the rest of my context - my personal context, mind you! - is hidden. Well, nothing is hidden that will not be revealed. I am a Catholic - a papist, as some would call me. This matters so much to my writing that it is almost crucial, because it talks about my metaphysics. Good exists. Evil exists. Good will triumph, though for now we face the long defeat.
Well, that's more than enough disjointed rambling for one fool to write in a night. I will leave you with these words.
Sometimes there is a way that seems right, but in the end it is the way to death.
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No.283894
>>283891
>>283892
Please tell me you didn't make that blogpost and that you're just copypasting from some autist's fimfic.
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No.283906
>>283891
>>283892
Looks like someone decided he was one of the authors his teacher praised in high school English.
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No.283929
Also 120 Days of Blueblood is best clopfic tbh.
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No.283931
>>283891
>>283892
Mother of god. This is one of those guys you see on videos of cringy people at pony conventions.
>>283929
It's porn?! He wrote this insane diatribe defending the characterization of the hero of his grimdark My Little Pony action/adventure porno? Holy fucking shit!
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No.283945
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/68260/certain-advantages
Top Cunt dupes a certain poor sucker into betting on the winner of the Sisterhooves Social. Her ringers may not be the shoe-ins that she expected them to be.
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No.283979
>>283894
Nigga, did you read the first line?
>>283906
I don't know why, but something is seriously irritating about your post.
>>283931
>Mother of god. This is one of those guys you see on videos of cringy people at pony conventions.
You mean like this? I hardly think so tbqh famalam.
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No.283980
>>283931
*hold on
>It's porn?! He wrote this insane diatribe defending the characterization of the hero of his grimdark My Little Pony action/adventure porno? Holy fucking shit!
You surely aren't talking about the blog post I copy pasta'd, are you? Holy shit, did you even fucking read it you stupid faggot?
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/393653/unexpurgated-rambling-perpendat-itaque-lector-cave
This is what it's from. He was putting in Bible verses without quoting them, but of course you Plebeians wouldn't know that.
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No.283981
>>283980
*In case it wasn't clear, no, the guy who is obviously disgusted with the sick lusts brownies have would not write a fucking CLOPfiction.
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No.283984
>>283980
Well, no shit. I'm sure even someone who has read the entire Bible wouldn't recognize a generic verse if it were presented without quotes and outside of a religious context.
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No.283992
>>283980
>He was putting in Bible verses without quoting them
I didn't read it when I first saw it, since i'm averse to walls of text, but I am seeing them clearly. For example, that part 'Come, let us reason together' is from the OT (Isaiah I think) and God is exhorting Israel to repent.
>>283984
I quote bible verses without citing them all the time. Christians can spot it instantly.
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No.284035
>>283931
The clopfic I mentioned has nothing to do with that blogpost.
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No.284038
>>284035
Too bad. That would have been hilarious.
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No.287036
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No.287148
>>283810
You know what pure pain is?
Having so many stories in your tracking library when only 10 of them update regularly, and some haven't updated in years.
You haven't felt true pain until your favorite stories have been sitting on your shelves for years without updating or even a sign of the author being alive.
As for the topic, here's a few I like. Keep in mind I like darker stuff, so if that's not your cup of tea don't check these out.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/332433/student-of-the-night
Twilight as an orphan in a world where Luna is a queen. So far it has had some fights, some love interests, and some political stuff. I don't know if I love it or not but it's better than a lot of the stuff out there in general quality, and the author updates semi-often.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/322328/all-glory-to-the-overgoat
This one is rather humor focused. It's a bit of villain reform, with "human in a body he's not used to due to soul swapping". I enjoyed the interactions between characters mostly, but the plot is shaping up to be interesting as well. Author hasnt updated since nov of last year.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/147183/iron-hearts-book-1---planetfall
If you like WH40K, and you like Chaos, i'd give this one a try. Ponies have to get used to the reality that a Chaos and the Tau have ended up on their planet, and they end up allies with Chaos. So far there's 5 "chapters" with a few side stories by the same author. The current "main" part of the story updating is https://www.fimfiction.net/story/289995/entrenchment
Stays very true to the WH40K universe without sacrificing wiggle room due to the chapter of Chaos Marines present being of little enough important to introduce OCs that aren't jarring. It's pretty decent quality, and I'd recommend this even if you don't know much about WH40K – It got me to check the WH40K universe out with greater detail than I had before, and now I'm a fan. Author updates not very regularly, but often enough that It doesn't suck too much to enjoy his work.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/249782/magical-mystery-oops
For something a bit more lighthearted, and with what i'd consider really good writing and pacing, i'd recommend this. Twilight gets turned into another Draconequus by accident, and Discord ends up mentoring her in how to be more chaotic. Discord and Twilight start to show romantic interest in each other, and Discord also shows off that despite the fact that's he's chaotic, he also cares a great deal more than he lets on especially Twilight.
Great humor, great dialogue, good story so far, i'd just straight up have to recommend this one to everyone who isn't a corpse. The only snag is that there's a big gap in time since the current update and the one before it. To me this says it might not update as fast as it used to anymore.
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No.287150
>>287148
cont.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/292640/chronicles-of-an-evil-overlord
Takes the evil overlord's checklist of things to never do to avoid the common and not so common mistakes and evil overlord could make, and tries to put a pony spin on things. "Chapters" update completely randomly depending on the rule number that the author feels like working on at any given point. This one is just a bit of harmless fun.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/214170/sweeties-shadow
I really like this one because I like how Sweetie Belle and Sombra are paired as a kind-of father-daughter relationship. Sombra gets ressurected after being destroyed by the power of love in the Crystal Kingdom, and is somehow attatched through some sort of soul shennanigans to Sweetie Belle. As previously mentioned he ends up being a bit of a father figure towards Sweetie Belle, and protects and teaches her about things. I really want to see where it goes, which is a damn shame because it hasnt updated in over a year. I would not recommend this one if you hate stories that are good then just never update again, otherwise try it and then let it sit in your "waiting for an update" pile forever.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/45860/diaries-of-a-madman
I have a few more I could recommend, but I'll end off with this one. It's well known enough that I wouldnt be surprised if it's already recommended or at least talked about in the thread (I haven't read through it all before I started writing this), but I'll give my own take on it either way.
Imagine Discord as an all-powerful god that has existed for a long time. Easy enough, that's pretty close to how he's portrayed in FiM lore. The twist is he's bored as fuck, and the only reason he ever "lost" to Celestia is because he thought it would be fun. Starting at the season 2 opener and being continually written since then, this one is a whopper at 2mil words and counting. Discord gives Celestia a choice; play this game with me and I wont just destroy everything out of boredom. Through the deal (which wasnt really a choice) Discord introduces the human protagonist, Navarone, whose life has been horribily depressing and has a very dim outlook on life. He's basically pessimistic nihilist at the start, and some of the shit that happens to him in the story doesnt make him want to change his mind that much. As edgy and emo as he sounds, he's not a whiny emo bitch about it, he just really wants to be left alone. Of course that's not going to happen.
I like this one just for the sheer breadth of stuff that has happened since the start, and it's written in a way that I can't stop enjoying. The protag is just such an unsufferable dick that everyone around him eventually gets used to it to the point where they can expose the emotions under the surface enough to understand him. The ultimate goal at this point of Discord doing this is still not entirely clear even after 2mil words, but I suspect it's either just entertainment, or he's trying to create the only being in existence that can destroy him permanently because he's tired of living. If I say any more theories i'd be spoiling.
If you want to read something that just doesnt seem to end with great dialogue, some sex here and there, casual nyphomania, heartwarming moments, narcisistic pessimism, and so on, this basically has it all. If you end up enjoying it don't blame me for the blue balls you'll get waiting for updates. Author doesnt update regularly, but when he does there's enough words in every chapter that you're jonesing for more by the end followed by a long pause while he gets around to writing more.
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No.288094
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/370804/rarity-reads-a-trashy-romance-novel
I read this yesterday. It is getting no readers, because the author failed to put the "comedy" tag on it for some reason. Maybe he wanted to have the humor surprise the reader. In any case, it's funny as hell, especially toward the end.
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No.288229
>>282846
Shame, Heroes is what got me on the ride. Read it before any of the other side fics. The writing does get better, but I'm so grammatically and thematically impaired that I wouldn't of noticed.
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No.288231
>>283858
I liked Sunflower too, but I always felt like everything went too well. Like the military was actually competent, and the bad guy didn't back stab when it seemed like he would. I liked that because it makes sense, but it also made the story feel kinda resolved after the halfway mark.
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No.288232
>>283879
People gotta start writing somewhere, and I want to read stories about ponies. Its a fair trade.
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No.288829
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No.289282
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/238368/friendship-is-mind-control
Friendship is Mind Control by Wintermist
[anthro] [f/f] [harem] [hypnosis/mind control (duh)]
One sentence: Came for the clop, stayed for the story.
More detail: Twilight accidentally discovered a spell that allowed her to control and 'reprogram' anyone she cast it on. And things naturally escalated from there.
The first half consists mostly of your run of the mill clop scenes involving Twilight giving in to the temptation of using her new found power on each of her friends, and includes things like domination, bondage, and pet play. I was a somewhat disappointed by the fact that the author didn't take the fetishes much further than that, but I guess it's consistent with Twilight's character.
The story aspect picked up around half way through, when Twilight inadvertently revealed the spell to [REDACTED] and promptly had the table turned on her. The rest of the story details her struggle to wrestle back control.
It's the second part that made the story stood out among all the other clopfics. Whereas in most other clopfics the 'plot' merely acts as a flimsy glue that carries the story from one clop scene to the next, often through contrived means that stretches beyond disbelieve (a lot of bad stories in general falls victim to this, only there's no sex to distract the readers), the author here had clearly put more through into the story progression than most other fanfiction 'writers' out there.
The result is that the escalation of events felt natural, and at no point did I feel that the characters were deliberately dumbed down to coerce the story down a certain path. The author had not let Twilight's intelligence gone to waste. Indeed, Twilight's story would have ended in Chapter 16 were it not for the various contingencies she had put in place beforehand, and her continued careful planning afterwards. From that point on until the end, while Twilight was still susceptible to [REDACTED]'s control even as she's secretly planning to fight back without giving herself away, made for some genuinely suspenseful moments. And the several scenes of herself being played with while under the effect of the spell was just a sexy, sexy bonus.
Read this if the fetishes listed hits all the right spots for you, and you also want a good story to go with the porn.
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No.289581
Anyone know about this one clopfic with a batpony Lunar guard that fucks another guard? Luna busts in on them at the end.
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No.289582
>>289581
nvm
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/301891/de-stressing
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No.289921
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/220689/k-i-s-s-i-n-g
K-I-S-S-I-N-G! by Pav Feira
First half: [shipping]
Second half: [absurdist humour]
Description:
A day together on the farm with Applejack is all that Rarity could ask for, and more. But good-natured teasing can go too far, and words can bring painful memories to the surface. Rarity struggles not only to console Applejack, but to help the broken mare overcome a past full of shame and regret.
Well, sorta.
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No.290111
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/373486/squirm
Twilight and Rarity are stuck to the ceiling of a cave like Luke Skywalker, and they are slowly having their magic devoured by wriggling candy tentacles. It is less sexy–and more funny–than it sounds.
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No.290112
>>289921
Oh my god, I remember that one. I am not even going to hint at what happens in it. Just read it. Holy shit.
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No.291370
Fimfiction just underwent a major redesign.
While I'm indifferent towards most of the changes, I feel that removing the genre colors and character icons from the tags is a major "fuck you" towards site usability.
So, for those of you seeking to have some of the old styles back, I recommend following the updates on this thread, where the author is working on reverting the changes through custom stylesheets: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/198799/fimfiction-userscripts/thread/321891/swan-songs-classic-fimfiction-style-emporium-green-userbars-square-avatars-and-other-seditious-supplies
Classic genre tags are still a work in progress as of now, so I suggest using the styles from this thread for the moment: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/198799/fimfiction-userscripts/thread/321883/classic-navbar-and-genre-tags
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No.291402
>>291370
They can change the entire thing as far as im concerned, I dont browse the site anymore. I just read the ones I've been following for years, trying to find a new one on the ocean of 'what if sunset shimmer and applejack had sex???1?? 8)' just reminds me I'm reading motherfucking my little pony fanftiction and kills my reading mood
>>287148
>Ponies have to get used to the reality that a Chaos and the Tau have ended up on their planet, and they end up allies with Chaos
And I bet the author is pic related
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No.291406
>>291402
Even shitty porn (nearly always written by virgins) is better than the super cereal grimdark shit in >>287148. Nothing screams "autism" louder than a mash-up of a cutsie little world of happy horses and a nightmare world of guys in ridiculous armor killing each other for little to no reason.
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No.292006
I'm in one of those weird moods and looking for decently written (in b4 "ha ha ha oh wow") hurt/comfort fic, preferably with Princess Celestia, as I regard her as Best Pony.
Or, barring that, cute feel-good fluff and/or humor, hopefully without shipping, because "muh lesbian hoerses" screams "autism" to me.
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No.292017
>>292006
I have no idea what a hurt/confort fic is, but this is pretty fun
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/189744/the-council-of-friendship
I think I got it from some other fic thread on but whatever
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No.292018
>>292017
…oh.
I guess it's a particular narrowly focused kind of autism.
The character of main interest gets ill, or injured, and another character is responsible for taking care of the first. These fics are often though not always set in hospitals. A romantic aspect may or may not develop.
I know, it's horrible and cringey but sometimes nothing short of that will scratch the itch.
Thanks for the fic. It looks like fun.
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No.292025
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No.292027
>>292006
>because "muh lesbian hoerses" screams "autism" to me.
Strangely enough, the straight ships are worse. Sparity in particular is raw, malignant cancer. Flashlight is occasionally funny, but that is because guys primarily do it to piss autistic faggots off. Otherwise straight ships are always irredeemable trash.
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No.292030
>>292027
>Sparity in particular is raw, malignant cancer
It's the only one that had any prominence within the show itself, until they fired Larson
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No.292167
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No.292190
>>292030
Larson was no shipper. Larson was on that panel with Amy Keating Rogers, Meghan McCarthy, and a couple other writers when they laughed that one sparityfag out of the room. I think it was McCarthy who said, "You see, Spike is a child, and Rarity is an adult" in a condescending voice while trying not to crack up, and the rest of the panel (Larson included) snickered and occasionally threw their own verbal jabs. That happend a few weeks before "Inspiration Manifestation" aired with the word "friend" liberally applied to it. They terminated that ship with extreme prejudice. The shippers mourned its passing loudly on old /mlp/ for a week, much the joy of everyone else.
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No.292225
>>292027
>Strangely enough, the straight ships are worse.
To be entirely fair, in six and a half seasons we've seen so far, how many male characters have we seen, total? Of that number, how many have been of adult age? And of that number, how many have had enough screentime to say more than "eeyup" or "cryssssssssstals?"
Remember the Primary Demographic. We were never going to get a lot of male characters getting face time onscreen. And without that, we're at "I think that background character might be a guy"/"is Blaise Zabini supposed to be a male or female name?" levels of autism that we see in other fandoms.
For that matter, how many times have we ever seen any of the Mane 6 acting like grown-up adult women onscreen? Treekicker runs a farm. Squiggletail runs a business. Otherwise? Not a lot. Purplesmart in particular acts like a bright and precocious eight-year-old girl most of the time. Buttersqueak, Skittles, and Ponka? Subtract "bright" and "precocious" from that.
The Princesses act like grown-ups–when they get more than a single spoken line once every 4-5 seasons.
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No.292228
The one where Anon breaks his knee and gets his dick sucked.
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No.292232
>>292225
>And of that number, how many have had enough screentime to say more than "eeyup" or "cryssssssssstals?"
Let's see. There is the king of the gay rainbow deer, but… yeah… gay rainbow deer. There is Shining Armor who was good for nothing but a "happily ever after" for his alicorn OC wife. Cranky Doodle got up with Mathilde before his first episode was over. Filthy Rich is married. So is Mr. Cake. Steven Magnet and Hoity Toity are fabulously gay. What's-his-name who Starlight Glimmer used to crush on exists for some reason. Of course Discord is boning Fluttershy.
Fancy Pants is pretty fucking based at least, and he is eligible as far as we know. Then there are the Flim Flam Brothers, but they are con artists. Wow, that really is just about it for significant eligible male adults, isn't it?
>For that matter, how many times have we ever seen any of the Mane 6 acting like grown-up adult women onscreen?
Applejack and Rarity do when they are trying to keep their destructive little sisters in line, and Rarity seems very adult when she is doing her fashion business thing. Now that I think about it, Applejack sells apples like she is a little kid with a lemonade stand. Twilight can act like an adult occasionally–an obsessive and unhinged adult. In light of that, it makes sense that Applejack, Rarity, and Twilight seem to be at the heart of a lot of ships.
>The Princesses act like grown-ups–when they get more than a single spoken line once every 4-5 seasons.
Celestia does anyway. Luna is a different character in every subsequent episode, and Cadence is practically a non-character.
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No.292239
>>292190
>I think it was McCarthy who said, "You see, Spike is a child, and Rarity is an adult" in a condescending voice while trying not to crack up
Was this during her Hasbro PR mouthpiece phase?
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No.292240
>>292232
>Applejack sells apples like she is a little kid with a lemonade stand.
I wonder about that too. The cartoon shows a freakin' enormous orchard–hills covered in apple trees that just go on and on. That's the kind of thing that, in our world, would require hundreds of laborers at harvest time, and you wouldn't be selling those apples a few at a time at a local farmer's market. Well, maybe you'd sell a handful of them that way–but that size business, you're making telephone calls to buyers at nationwide supermarket chains and that big cannery down in Baltimare that makes applesauce and apple jelly. And time spent on the phone negotiating with cutthroat grocery store chain buyers is time not spent kicking trees to make the apples fall out.
And I think the Apples have other stuff to sell too–they've got everything from a dairy operation with a non-trivial number of cows. Let's say a dozen cows at eight gallons of milk a day each, which is what a big Holstein cow is capable of if she's in good health and getting a good diet–call it a hundred gallons of milk. every day. the cows have to be milked, the milk has to be at the very least put into sterile containers for transport to somebody who's gonna buy it, some's gonna be set aside to be made into butter and cheese, and on and on.
AJ, Big Mac, and AB do all this by themselves? Every single day? With Granny Smith cooking for them and keeping house, I guess? I'm starting to find this a little hard to believe. Even if the cows are sentient and can milk themselves.
Yeah, I know. Cartoon. We're still looking at an ENORMOUS farm business with a yuge orchard attached to it. But maybe they do hire help from time to time, and we just don't see it happening onscreen.
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No.292243
>>292239
She has always done that. It was during Season Four, and like I said it was the entire panel laughing at the sperg.
>>292240
>Well, maybe you'd sell a handful of them that way–but that size business, you're making telephone calls to buyers at nationwide supermarket chains and that big cannery down in Baltimare that makes applesauce and apple jelly.
Right? And it is even worse than that. Apparently they personally haul carts full of pies that Granny Smith baked to isolated villiages on the other side of swamps while Sugar Cube Corner in town makes all of their own pies. Their cider business is supposedly profitable, but they consistently leave half a town full of paying customers wanting due to their lack of sufficient labor power. The Apples are the biggest landowners in Ponyville, and their business practices are so bad, even in-universe, that they are barely solvent.
Meanwhile, Rarity has made herself bourgeois by selling designer dresses in a nudist colony. That is one of the potentially fun aspects of the Rarijack ship–Mrs. Rarity Apple decides one day that she wants to look at the books and find out where all of Sweet Apple Acres' profits are going only to discover that they are just a log of how many apple trees Applejack and Big Macintosh kicked each day. Because this is a farm. We don't need no fancy mathematics.
>And I think the Apples have other stuff to sell too–they've got everything from a dairy operation with a non-trivial number of cows.
They also have pigs, chickens, and sheep; yet you never hear about Apple Family ham, eggs, or wool. It's not like there would not be a market in town for eggs and wool either. We have seen Rarity and Sweetie Belle eating eggs, and Sugar Cube Corner must buy eggs like they are going out of style. Locally produced and woven wool would be a selling point for a fashion boutique that makes custom suits, the kind of thing that someone like Rarity would pay through the nose for. We have also seen bologna sandwiches, but I doubt that was intentional.
Oh, and let us not forget that orchards are absolute cash cows IRL. Have you ever met an orchard owner? They live like the planter aristocracy of old. The Apples must be doing a lot of things spectacularly wrong (as "Applejack's Day Off" heavily implied) for them to not be very well off.
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No.292244
>>292243
>We have also seen bologna sandwiches, but I doubt that was intentional.
Or whoever added that didn't think ponies were vegetarians
>>292243
>She has always done that. It was during Season Four, and like I said it was the entire panel laughing at the sperg.
I was under the impression she wasn't like that when Faust bought her on, and only really took it to overdrive during the Twilicorn/EqG era
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No.292245
>>292244
>Or whoever added that didn't think ponies were vegetarians
Maybe, but Ponka sang that they were strictly vegetarian. The animators do not seem to always be in the loop.
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No.292246
>>292240
Well, to be fair, our farmers can't exactly punch apple trees and have the apples fall neatly into baskets and still have them in good enough condition to sell as anything but applesauce or cider.
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No.292247
>>292246
For that matter, in our world apple trees don't uniformly produce 100% textbook-perfect fruit. Apples get nibbled on by worms and insects, gnawed by worms. They grow lopsided. They get a rotten place on one side that a farm housewife IRL would slice off with a paring knife and then put what's left in the bucket to be made into apple butter. IRL visually inspecting and sorting the fruit–only the prettiest and most perfect will bring a high enough price to make shipment by truck worthwhile, the rest become canned food or are eaten by the family (this is why you can't find good lobsters in grocery stores in Maine–the goodlooking ones get put on ice and shipped to New York and Chicago and Miami, leaving the deformed and ugly ones for local consumption). Anyway, my point is, all of this takes lots of eyes and lots of hands (or hooves, I guess) and it still seems implausible to me that three ponies, one of whom is a young kid, are able to do this on a freakin' enormous farm that must have at least half a square miles that's just apples, PLUS hogs, PLUS cows, PLUS chickens, PLUS Big Mac pulling that plow back and forth across ginormous-looking fields for–what, carrots? corn? tomatoes? soybeans? some other vegetables they grow too. I know, it's a world where magic exists. I know, it's a cartoon. But still.
>>292245
>The animators do not seem to always be in the loop.
I've heard the claim that the writers haven't necessarily ever watched a single episode of the show, and there's no one in charge with an overarching vision. It's a free-for-all with little or no continuity, and once they can hammer out a script, every single line of dialogue, every note of every song, every single joke, has to be approved in a dozen meetings with Hasbro bigwigs.
I've been accused of trolling for saying it, but despite the technically superior animation we saw later on, I prefer Season 1's episodes. Hasbro caught lightning in a bottle when they had Faust and Larson working together. Ever since they left they've been trying to recapture that, but for five and a half seasons since then it just hasn't been the same. In my opinion.
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No.292251
>>292247
Is Stephen Davis the only one to retain the same title throughout the entire series? It sure seems like it.
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No.292267
>>292247
>For that matter, in our world apple trees don't uniformly produce 100% textbook-perfect fruit.
Granny would have to spend a ridiculous lot of her time doing the "good 'un, bad 'un, bad 'un, good 'un… " thing. No wonder she naps so much.
>Hasbro caught lightning in a bottle when they had Faust and Larson working together.
I strongly suspect that it was a combination of Faust's Dio-like vision, Renzetti's focus, and McCarthy's talent for writing comic subtlty that made the early show as extraordinary as it was. What do you think of this season so far? It seems to me like Lewis and Songco have recaptured what Renzetti had been doing before he left.
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No.292268
>>292267
> Faust's Dio-like vision,
oh god.
"You thought it was a tiny talking pastel horse, but it was I, Lauren Faust!"
>What do you think of this season so far?
Seriously? I love Celestia and Luna and I especially love seeing Celestia get a line or two beyond "Yo, Purpledrank. 'sup? This week's episode is about you going to Appleoosa and negotiating with the Buffalos. Here's your train ticket. Get going, you're gonna be late. Bye!"
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No.292278
>>283858
I just finished that one too, liked it a lot.
>>288231
I noticed that too, but honestly just having people behave competently throughout a story was so refreshing that I gave it a complete pass.
Well that and Malachite actually being kept consistent and being a super understandable villain.
But yeah, there were several things I was hoping would show up and addressed later. Particularly the Earth First movement, I'd love to see anti-pony extremists develop, even if they were kept from ever crossing the boarder.
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No.292284
>>292268
>Equestria Girls
Mudada!
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No.292908
>>292284
Ora ora ora ora ora ora!
…also, because I was thinking it anyway, Sunbutt doesn't get enough love, either in the show, or in fanfiction.
I am currently reading "Biker Princess from Equestria," which is absolutely charming, what little there is of it (less than 10,000 words, and apparently abandoned in 2014). Can anyone else recommend something with a similar feel? I'd like to see something character-driven with light comedy and some emotional moments, perhaps?
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No.292930
the autists at writeoff.me consistently churn out stuff that's worth reading. big plus is that you can download an epub anthology of each prompt at the end for easy reading.
i've been on a massive rational fiction bend lately, and i've binge read through as many optimalverse stories as i could find.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/363503/friendship-is-optimal-heavens-not-enough
is a fairly new one that was a great read. it completed recently (a few days ago).
outside of that, nothing much. the mlp setting stopped being interesting to me a long time ago, and the majority of the shit i read and see on fimfiction nowadays is fucking trash.
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No.292931
>>292930
I agree that writeoff.me is a source of good stuff.
I have to ask, though, when you say "rational fiction," what do you mean, exactly?
And yes, the setting could have been done better. Early on I had such high hopes that we were going to see worldbuilding and lore, and nope nope nope–but I don't want to get started about that. I find the characters fascinating, though, and some of the alternate settings, especially some created early on, are still interesting to me.
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No.292960
My favs thus far:
Steel Sanctuary:
https://pastebin.com/3Mt5iYBQ
(anon goes full factorio mode in equestria)
Obsession:
https://pastebin.com/5ECNnjxF
(anon goes crazy and apples dark/evil runes to his body to perform powerful magic)
Reading "anon in pony prison generals" atm. They be comedy gold lel
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No.293004
>>292960
>apples dark/evil runes
>banjo starts playing
<wot in darnation
I dont have a single applejack picture on my pc atm
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No.293005
>>293004
><wot in darnation
OBVSLY good sir this is some kind of dark applemancy. He'll turn you into an apple tree, or sic the killer toma–I mean, killer apples on you.
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No.294099
What if your interaction with horsewords is mainly writing greentext rather than reading stuff other people wrote?
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No.294901
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/382781/queen-chrysalis-loves-tea
How the fuck does this reach Fimfic's feature box?
I started reading because I thought it's some clever spinoff of Princess Celestia Hates Tea, but trudging through the unpalatable wording and awkward grammar slows everything down like molass.
I gave up after about 1/3 of the way in, and was surprised to realize that the story is only 11k words in total, for I frequently went though longer chapters without feeling as mentally fatigued.
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No.294995
So, anons. Lets say I let my autism fully consume me and I started writing a fic. Not only that, a fic based on another fic, would any anons here be interested in helping edit it to non-lethal levels of bad on a google document?
Just asking to see if anyone would be interested. Feel free to say no and call me a faggot
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No.294996
>>294995
There are days I can do that. Not sure I'll have any this week, but as I write fan-fiction based on fan-fiction*, and have taken said fiction to my local writer's critique groups and gotten good input, and good encouragement, I might be an okay choice to respond to you.
* both Fo:E, and TCB, in case you're interested.
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No.294998
>>294996
Have you by any chance read Project: Sunflower by Hoopy McGee?
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No.294999
>>294998
Sorry, no. Haven't even heard of it.
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No.295000
>>294999
I got trips, for that?
Also, top comment: the black tide is actually the Smooze, isn't it?
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No.295001
>>295000
You double dripping tripps motherfucker.
Apparently the black tide is and is not the smooze. The writer based it on a sci-fi idea he had involving a typical Grey Goo scenario, not knowing at all what the Smooze was. After he found out he kind of said it could be considered that.
It reminds me of how pissed I was the fallen star thingy from FoE: Project Horizons wasn't a part of Unicron in the end.
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No.295005
Well, anyways.
The only relevant details from the source you need to know is.
Humans look for world to escape the smooze
Humans find equestria
Humans send scout to equestria
Humans plan on building city to house humanity in equestria
and finally black tide is destroyed
The fic focuses on a detail that was kind of glanced over in the source. Mainly building a city capable of handling the human population in 203X. So the story is focused on the person who is in charge of creating the city that can do it. Originally as a last ditch effort that's a cramped hellscape barely keeping the population alive that turns into a legitimate city of the future on equestrian soil. With a heavy focus on cross species relationships and political maneuvering.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QgzUsM6g3WoPGcwC2KYQ0LTB3sNih6eOh6nASyyq3to/edit?usp=sharing
Google document allows comments for now, we'll see how many shitposters fuck around with it and go from there.
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No.295006
>>294995
>>295005
Sounds interesting, I might read the source material before starting on your fic when I find the time, though my backlogs are a little full right now.
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No.295007
oh for f- did the user ID reset again? I was f79861 by the way.
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No.295008
>>295006
In the unlikely event you have access to headphones at work or something, there's an audiobook style recording of the whole thing, with an updated version with better audio coming out now on youtube.
The guy who does it is some kind of foreign, cause his accent can make for some terrible parts but its what I listened to while working on few thousand strips of wood through a bandsaw so I can say it's better than that.
Done by the same psychopath that did a full reading of Fallout Equestria and FoE: Project Horizons. So if nothing else you have to admire his tenacity.
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No.295009
>>295005
You mention gray twice. Also, did the IDs reset? Testing, testing testing…
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No.295066
So to the anons that have already helped in editing my work, thank you. I've been going over some of this text so often that my brain no longer recognizes it. As you may be able to tell by some really stupid mistakes. (Also I suck at proper punctuation, it's a serious problem.)
Most of the notes were simply implemented with some unneeded sentences cut out entirely.
One note, however, as removed by correction that brought up a good point. It takes quite a while for ponies to show up in the story, or even be hinted at. There is in fact a pony character that the POV switches to a few times throughout the story and I was wondering if it would make for a better second chapter and moving the current one down.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H0kxuZDLx4qwrUmjOLuaMsx55xI9L82tl3s977da1X0/edit?usp=sharing
I hadn't considered it before, but it would provide a valuable break that would strengthen the concept that a lot of time has passed and get ponies into the story a bit earlier rather than simply hinting at them.
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No.295072
>>295066
Nice dubs; just finished going over this chapter. I like it.
And yes, having this before the other one should help put the whole story in perspective, and keep readers thinking of the timing of the two storylines, here and in Equestria.
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No.295074
>>295072
I only have one real direct question for this chapter in particular. The references to cannon characters wasn't to offputting or forced was it?
In general I don't ever find a problem with writing 'these two characters meet' in a story, but I always get anxious over 'this character knew this other one years ago' even if it was more coincidental than anything.
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No.295075
>>295074
I thought it was fine on that front.
I wondered if you meant 'moon dancer' rather than 'moonlight glimmer'; I thought that line could have been the perma-student and still been okay.
As you say, they met, they knew each other's names. Not much more…
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No.295076
>>295075
Moonlight Glimmer is the name of a character from the original piece. An albino unicorn professor that makes a brief appearance.
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No.295125
>>295076
So I assume the stallion Colostrum is also from the original piece…?
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No.295151
>>295125
Yup. Hearts Bloom as well. All minor roles with only 1 or 2 scenes total. Cherry Blossom is mine though.
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No.295269
Aight, so here's a question. Does everyone want me to just update the one google doc, or create multiple smaller ones?
Problem with the big single one is making it harder to find particular things to fix, the problem with multiple smaller is spamming the board a little bit.
Also, please note any odd word choices or sentences that were difficult to understand. Places that kill the pacing or any little thing actually. I don't just want the story to get better but I also want to improve as a writer (aside from getting my head out of my ass with possessive 's and the spelling of Houston)
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No.295298
>>295269
I for one, am going to be unavailable through the weekend.
But when taking physical paper to critique groups, I find it much easier to deal with short segments than trying to highlight the upper mostly-two-thirds of a full page, or something.
IE, I vote for more links to smaller documents.
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No.295926
So I have a bit more up on google for the megacity story.
First is a short one, but the last before direct human/pony relations.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_fDdqxU12tChde0sFLgSjL49XWP7sHXBf2DR0e88RQg/edit
And then the grand welcoming meet and greet between VIPs. Fun fact this is where I originally started the story, but I felt that there was a lot of exposition that would have to be woven in to clunkily. As such this is where I expect things to start getting a little weird. Info might be re-stated, or other small inconsistencies. I went over it a few times to try and get it all fixed but probably missed at least a few based on the number of smaller errors everyone caught.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WkEGgOmMOYW_U29Yiu37M9h_YgKYl331PaTk9C-OEhs/edit
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No.295930
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/217428/yhay-the-ballad-of-nasty-jack
>Oh great, a Yhayverse spinoff. This is gonna be terrible.
>Oh look, another fic with some Gary Stu fuckin' human super-soldier in Equestria. Wait till he tells us all about his traumatic past.
>Oh. Oh shit. That's actually pretty traumatic.
This one has me on the edge of my fucking seat. It kinda reminds me of the old Eric Nylund Halo books, only better. Hella dark, and there are a couple parts where it's clear the author had a messy breakup or two IRL, because except for Flitter, most of the ladies in this towards the beginning are incredibly horrible people.
There's some angst here and there, but the main protag seriously knows how to get shit done, and he's not invincible. He gets more and more fucked up and maimed as the story goes on. The battles are fairly realistic and packed with white-knuckle action. The characters fight tooth and nail for every inch of terrain. These fight scenes are not glamorous affairs. No sir. This is knock-down, drag-out brutality. No limb is safe.
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No.295933
>>295930
>The battles are fairly realistic and packed with white-knuckle action. The characters fight tooth and nail for every inch of terrain. These fight scenes are not glamorous affairs. No sir. This is knock-down, drag-out brutality.
It sounds like he should have written an actual action novel without plastic pastel horses in it.
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No.295941
>>292960
Thanks a lot for posting Steel Sanctuary. It was a bit needlessly dark, but it still kept me completely locked to the screen. 9.5/10
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No.295953
>>295930
>YHaY-verse
Welp, thanks for introducing me to one more HiE fic, at least the premise looks unique enough. Nevertheless, I'm perplexed by the sheer number of spin-offs this ongoing fic had spawned.
>670k words
Jesus that's slightly longer than Fallout Equestria. Is the ending anywhere in sight?
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No.299723
This short comedy is wildly underrated. Rarity goes insane while pretending to be a film noir detective and ropes Rainbow Dash into playing along with her.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/290793/the-big-wake-up
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No.300814
>>283269
I read Friendship is Optimal a few months back, and it was AWESOME!
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No.301028
I know it's a popular fic, but I'd like to recommend 'The Changeling of the Guard by vdrake77', if it's not something already on your radar.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/174129/the-changeling-of-the-guard
[adventure][comedy][changeling]
It's about the journey of Idol Hooves, an exiled changeling drone, Forrest Gump-ing his way through life outside of the hive that eventually found him joining the ranks of the Royal Guard.
A lot of the humor in it arises from Idol's unfamiliarity of the outside world, and big and minor misunderstandings due to his changeling literal mindedness. You can think of him as a calmer, more collected version of Drax, from Guardians of the Galaxy.
And for those of us already caught up with the chapters, you'd be amused to know that at least two separate authors had gotten tired of waiting, and wrote their own recursive fanfiction centered around Idol at the time of the Canterlot Wedding/Invasion, years down the line from where the main fic is currently at.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/347207/idol-hooves-at-a-canterlot-wedding
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/392648/idol-hooves-after-a-canterlot-wedding
>>300814
I agree, have you tried any of the sidefics?
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No.301084
>>292931
Ever heard of hard science fiction? Rational fiction is basically hard fantasy. If a character has an accelerated aging spell, he is not just going to age his enemies to death in combat, he is also going to grow crops quickly and get rich revolutionizing agriculture. If a character wants to communicate with another character securely over text, he is not going to write his message in riddles, he is going to use a one-time pad. If a character wants to hide something where no one will ever find it, he is not going to put it in a cave near his childhood home and protect it with an army of zombies, he is going to sneak into NASA and stuff the McGuffin into a space probe.
If a character has an information source that can only provide true-or-false answers, he is going to use binary search and quickly tear through the search space to arrive at the answer. If a character can erase memories, he is going to realize that he can get people to do whatever he wants by mindwiping them over and over again until he finds a sequence of words that is persuasive. If a character has irrefutable evidence that an afterlife exists, he is going to stop treating death as this horrible thing which must be avoided at all costs and is going to think of it more as a forced 80-x year vacation to Australia (where x is the age of the dead character).
Basically, imagine you are in the middle of World War II. Imagine someone proves beyond a shadow of doubt, that ghosts or spells or souls or dragons or whatever exist. Forget about tropes and cliches and evil bad guys in skull thrones. Think about how realistic, ruthless, opportunistic, cold, pragmatic people on both sides would exploit these magical discoveries to help them win the war. That's the mindset a rationalist applies when he finds himself living in a fantasy world.
Try The Moon's Apprentice for a great example of pony rational fiction.
https://fimfetch.net/story/196256/the-moons-apprentice
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No.301095
>>301084
>Basically, imagine you are in the middle of World War II. Imagine someone proves beyond a shadow of doubt, that ghosts or spells or souls or dragons or whatever exist. Forget about tropes and cliches and evil bad guys in skull thrones. Think about how realistic, ruthless, opportunistic, cold, pragmatic people on both sides would exploit these magical discoveries to help them win the war. That's the mindset a rationalist applies when he finds himself living in a fantasy world.
You more or less described what actually happened with radar and nuclear fission.
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No.301191
>>301095
That's exactly why I mentioned the Second World War; it was a time of great innovation and ingenuity. Jet engines, kamikaze airplanes, anti-tank dogs, pigeon-guided bombs, firebombing bats… nothing was off the table if it had the slightest chance of leading to victory. That munchkiny drive to exploit and win is something that rationalist characters embody pretty well.
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No.301192
>>301191
The First World War embodies that idea even better. Dirigibles dropping bombs, guys flying around in powered wood-and-canvas gliders, rifles that fired numerous rounds with one pull of the trigger, toxic gasses that kill people in terrifying ways, warships that fight while underwater, small iron ships that roll across the land–this stuff was all new.
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No.301212
The Witch of the Everfree
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/252269/the-witch-of-the-everfree
Alternate Universe: What if Sunset Shimmer hadn't gone through the mirror?
What's this? Character growth and redemption without getting blasted by harmonia de machina? Inconceivable!
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No.301231
>>301084
I highly recommend Moon's Apprentice, probably a better intro to the genre than HPMOR. The story makes sense and it put what would really happen above narrative tropes.
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No.301232
>>292930
I've been desperately trying to get through pokemon:origin of species, any pony ratinalfics besides FiO, the one with the cow, and Moon's Apprentice I can dip into when I need a break from entire chapters of animal training?
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No.301286
>>301231
>>301084
I'm currently reading through Chapter 4, and I'm just wondering when does the rational part actually comes into play? The impression I got from reading HPMOR is that a large part it involves: 1. taking established ruleset and 2.abusing the hell out of it. Don't get me wrong, I still like it and so far haven't found anything makes me want to bang my head against the wall in frustration (unlike so many other fics I could name), but I was kinda hoping for something more akin to Harry Potter and the Natural 20.
Also, there are two minor things that I wish were (or will be) explained. First is how Nightmare/Luna manages to convince Twilight's parents to let Twilight study under her from the get go. No matter how desperate they are for Twilight to realize her talent, surely they have to be a bit wary when a monster from 'an old mare's tale' visits them in their dreams and offers their daught an apprenticeship? There must be a bit more to it then that. Second, when Twilight first moved to Ponyville, she idly wondered if Luna had helped financing the estate. How? How does an entity banished a millennium ago still holds assets? Is it the pony equivalent of a thousand year old Swiss bank account? Ancient cults with deep pockets? Or perhaps she could use her dreamwalking ability to gain insider knowledge and guide the Sparkle family in profiting from the stock market? Again, something else the author could have afforded in going into slightly more detail.
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No.301292
>>301286
Oh wait, Celestia hid the Elements in space.
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No.301395
>>283051
Where are these at?
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No.301396
>>288829
404. Are you sure you didn't forget to publish it?
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No.301492
>>301232
If you are in the mood for a series, try Mortal and its sequel, "Mother of Nations''. They comprise a truly heartwrenching exploration of transhumanist ethics. As the horizon said in his review: "The things that pull at your heart–the memorial in the prologue, the wedding in Chapter 1, the births and deaths and relationships to come–are not the point of the story: they are the stakes, and the story is at its heart about a decision that must be made."
https://fimfetch.net/story/95424/mortal
https://fimfetch.net/story/134664/mother-of-nations
https://fimfetch.net/story/85197/lunar-orbit (Benman's scrap file, contains some deleted scenes)
But if you are in the mood for a one-shot, I recommend "Good Night" instead. It is sad story about how the 4 alicorns dealt with immortality and powerful magic long after the "normal" ponies are all gone.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/212395/7/flashes-of-insight/good-night-572
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No.301512
>>301492
They sound like the fanfic equivalent of those movies that gets made every year in a bid to win a bunch of Oscars even though the producers know that nobody will actually want to see them.
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No.301519
>>301292
>no sound
huh, i didn't know how much this bothers me until now.
don't suppose there's a .webm echo chamber of ponies laughing yet, is there?
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No.301593
>>301512
Not every rationalist fanfic is about maximizing the amount of hedons per second through vicarious awesomeness. Iceman's Friendship is Optimal is closer to these than it is to something like HPMoR or The Moon's Apprentice, but it's still good, right?
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No.301607
>>301593
Good how? Is it good as high art? Hell no. It is derivative and technically weak. I doubt that it was trying to be that. Is it good entertainment? Maybe it is if you enjoy ooing and ahhhing at other people's fantasy realms. That sort of thing plays to a very particular audience: people who think that fanfiction needs critics.
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No.301612
I've recently (like, literally just this minute) come across November 2016's NaNoWriMo attempt that I made.
It was, again literally, based on a dream I was still having as I drove in to work one day the summer before. The MC got stuck between two worlds, and only had sporadic communication with the "real" one, but hadn't fallen far enough to communicate with the denizens of the target world.
It was supposed to be creepy; it ended up being a little directionless, as I suppose most dreams are when you write them all down.
Does anybody want to see the first chapter? It's close to alright, I think.
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No.301637
>>301612
Here's the chapter no pony asked for.
https://pastebin.com/hbQaW33h
Pastebin, incidentally, hates the PDFs that LyX outputs. Had to replace every 'f' with an actual 'f' and not the '?' that had replaced the 'f' and o?en the next letter too.
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No.301757
So! I finally finished The Moon's Apprentice about two nights ago and because I can't word gud, I'm just gonna put down my thoughts on the fic in bullet points as they occur to me.
- One of my speculation from >>301286 turned out to be correct, Luna does have agents working for her in Equestria.
- The Sunset/Twilight reveal: I habitually read through the comments of each chapter as I finish them, and one of the commenters correctly predicted the twist, so I kind of accidentally spoiled myself there. But from a technical standpoint, I think it is fairly well done. There's enough information and foreshadowing for the astute readers to put all the clues together. Subtle enough to blindside most readers, but not so out of the blue to be regarded as an asspull (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Asspull).
- The pacing felt… off. To elaborate, the story climaxed at the point of Twilight's ascension and the imminent confrontation with Celestia that ensues. After all, it's the culmination of all her hard work, the goal she set out to achieve all those years ago (there's also Luna's safe return, but the story ended with that just on the horizon). But, her ascension happened at a point where there's another half of the fic left to go, so I naturally assumed that after a brief respite, the story would start building towards the final, real, showdown. Instead, it shifted into lower gear and began to lose steam from there on out.
- The ending left me… dissatisfied, by its lack of any real resolution. In the end, nobody really won and nobody was vindicated, everyone was left unhappy and the conflict barely reconciled.
I think I sympathize with Celestia the most, she left Equus believing Luna to be still under the influence of dark magic, and while she may play it off as taking an extended vacation to Twilight, in reality it won't be easy spending the time in solitude and self-imposed exile, away from everyone she knew or cared about for however many years to come.
And as Twilight herself said, their victory felt hollow, as it was all but handed to them by Celestia. Twilight still has all that anger and hatred unresolved, and I see little difference in how she feels towards Celestia between the little filly in the beginning and the Alicorn of Magic at the end of the story. I'm quite disappointed by the lack of character growth on that front.
- As the fic was recommended to me as a rational fic, I couldn't help but unintentionally try to draw parallels between it and Methods of Rationality, the only other rational fic I've read. And for the longest time, I fully expected Nightmare!Luna to pull a Quirrelmort, playing the role of a sociopathic master schemer, manipulator, putting on a 100% convincing mentor figure to Twilight in order to achieve her goals, and Celestia the well intentioned chessmaster that the protagonist unfortunately butt heads with due to their difference in ideology. Well, that didn't happen.
I know it's unfair for me to dive into the fic with these expectations, as not only MoR codified the genre and set a very high bar for me, but also to the best of my knowledge the author never intended for this story to be seen as a rational fic, but I that's what I would've prefered.
- Finally, now that I've finished the fic, if I were to hazard a guess on why it's considered a rational fic by the Lesswrong group on Fimfiction, I would put my money on how Twilight responded to Dash's unexpected ascension. By way of introspection, she identified the root cause that lead to the disaster, and made effort to remedy that. There might be other similar moments, but that's the only one that came to my mind. It's quite possible that there are other rationalist ideals demonstrated in this story, but if so it's not obvious enough for me to spot it.
Well, I think that about wraps it up. Sorry if I rambled on a bit too much.
Next I will be digging into The Rise and Fall of the Dark Lord Sassaflash. I discovered it through the /r/Rational subreddit after this thread rekindled my interest in rational fanfics, and realized that I'm already familiar with the author's other work, Mendacity. Already I got a feeling that this is going to be good, if what OP said proved to be true: "[The Pratchetty-ness] lasts until the trip to Hollow Shades. From there to the tomb, it's Lovecraft, and from the tomb to the end, it's Yudkowsky".
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/93572/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dark-lord-sassaflash
https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/4s1p4g/the_rise_and_fall_of_the_dark_lord_sassaflash/
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No.302129
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No.302132
>>302129
The new search system is going to take some getting used to. I still have not figured out how to filter tags.
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No.302136
>>302129
The big question is have they added Applejack's parents to the list of characters? Cause last I checked I had to tag them as "other"
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No.302164
>>302136
Yes, I just found out that they have a tag page now: https://www.fimfiction.net/tags
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No.302166
>>292278
I saw there is a sequel so maybe it comes into play then. IDK I haven't gotten the time to read it these days.
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No.302857
>>301757
Wanted: Porter, assistant, jack-of-all-trades, minion. Applicants should be strong, loyal, pain tolerant, cold tolerant, unambitious. Must be capable of following simple instructions. Ideal applicant should be of low to average intelligence and mildly deformed, but exceptions will be made for extraordinary candidates, with extraordinariness to be determined by employer. Must be willing to begin work _immediately_.
Remuneration will be in the form of room, board, and insight into the true nature of the cosmos. Extremely generous bonuses up to and including subcontinents _may_ be awarded _if_ merited and _if_ circumstances permit. Interviews for the position to be conducted at 108 Haybale lane at 10:00 AM _sharp_ on 4/7. Applicants are expected to be _*punctual*_.
—The Dark Lord Sassaflash
Alright, I'm done with The Rise and Fall, and I definitely enjoyed it. Really, how could you not get hooked right in with an intro like that? The two predominantly featured protagonists, the self-proclaimed dark lord, Sassaflash, and her minion, Mr. Mule, are both gifted with a wonderfully distinctive character voices and personalities that the author played off of to excellent effect, as shown early on in the story:
>The following hour or two were among the oddest of the Mule’s life. Things began quietly enough; after finishing the herbal tea prepared by the Mule (“Always use worrywort when preparing my tea, Mister Mule, and always use three leaves. And only use it for my tea. It is my tea, not yours. You can’t have any. My tea”), Sassaflash trotted back to her overburdened wooden table and scribbled out a few lines of script, which she rolled up into a little scroll. Turning to the Mule, she said, “There is an amateur veterinarian of sorts who lives on the borders of the Everfree forest. Take the side road on Stirrup Street opposite the haberdashery, and then just keep on going away from town until you reach her hut. I wish you to deliver this there.”
>He leaned forward and gingerly took the scroll in his mouth. “Ysh Mss. Thnn I gvv it too thish vetrinrnn?”
>“What? No.” The teal pegasus frowned. “Of course not, she’s an idiot. Goes around singing to wild animals. She probably writes poetry. No, I want you to deliver this to a small rabbit living with her; she calls him ‘Angel Bunny,’ for some deranged reason. Ask for him at the door, and then give him this and tell him it came from me. You will attempt no further communication with either the milksop or the rabbit, and will return here immediately. Is this understood, Mister Mule?
>He dropped the scroll to the floor and said, “Understood, Miss Sassaflash, but…”
>The mare raised an eyebrow. “What?”
>Gesturing towards a clicking, whirring thing on the wall that he was reasonably sure was either a clock or a device for puréeing cabbage, the Mule asked, “Ain’t it a mite late—or early, as might be said—to go a-knocking on ponies’ doors?”
>“Nonsense. Just knock hard enough, and you’ll eventually get a response. Use fire if absolutely necessary.”
There is a light sense of Pratchett early on in the story where the atmosphere permits, but once the two's adventure began proper, that soon gave way to descriptions of grand vistas and evocative imageries, as well as the foreboding sense of cosmic dread that is the staple of any Lovecraftian setting, though thankfully without the overly purple prose.
The author indicated that this story is set in the same universe as his previous work, Mendacity (that heavily focused on changelings and other creatures of folklore), although names of the Old Ones and a certain location are directly lifted from the mythos, which is just as well because I don't want to see the result of attempts at ponifying a name like Nyarlathotep with bad horse pun.
Highly recommend this if you're looking for an adventure story with some worldbuilding and elements of the occult.
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No.302894
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No.303228
Family Matters
[drama][slice of life]
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/350387/family-matters
Prince Blueblood. Last of his Noble line. Canterlot's most eligible bachelor. Aristocratic, affluent, and arrogant. But, surprisingly enough, a stallion who knows what is truly important in life: Family.
Placed fourth in the January 2016 Write-Off Event: Look, I Can Explain.
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No.304179
Just wanna plug Changeling Space Program and
The Maretian.
The first is a crossover with Kerbal Space Program, the second is a sequel set after the former and is a crossover with The Martian. Updates daily.
Both are really enjoyable reads especially if you're into rocketry.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/327551/changeling-space-program
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/396744/the-maretian
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No.305619
Will posting with mod.php fix the broken images?
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No.305902
Alright, I'm bored, and need a good yarn, and options are becoming thin on the ground.
Which one is less cancerous: Weedverse, or Winningverse?
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No.305903
>>305902
No changelings, no EQG, NO human/anon shit, and no 10 billions words about someone flying in a cardinal direction.
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No.305904
>>305902
I'm not familiar with either of those verses(es), t b h f a m.
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No.305910
>>305902
>>305903
What are you in the mood for?
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No.305935
Project Horizons and it's taking months to read. Really good so far
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No.305942
>>305935
Keyword being "so far", enjoy it while it lasts. It eventually gets kinda repetitive with all the angsty bullshit and tragic villain backstories. Not to mention the increasingly over the top anime-style fight scenes that Somber is so found of…
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No.305943
>>305902
>>305903
Winningverse is better, but it does have changelings.
The thing about the Winningverse is that it is deliberately written to take place at the same time as the second half of season two and remain canon compatible, in the sense that everything in the fics could have happened in the background of what the show shows. So first fic, "The Incredibly Dense Mind of Rainbow Dash", takes place at the same time as S2E17 "Hearts and Hooves Day". Meanwhile, the climax of the main fic The Life and Times of a Winning Pony, happens simultaneously with S2E26 "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2". So of course changelings play a big role. But it is vital to the story's conceit, and it is well integrated into the plot.
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No.305946
Slightly off topic, but could someone reupload the image from the OP? The thumbnail is there but the full size image 404s.
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No.305947
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No.305948
>>305947
Danke, mein freund.
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No.305953
I'm not super against Changelings, I just don't find them (or Chrysalis) nearly as interesting as everyone else does.
Never was into FoE. I also didn't mean to imply that RD Flies East stories were bad, but that's just a seriously huge commitment.
I have read what are actually to Winningverse stories, but these were side stories written by Ponibus, rather than the original author. They were good though.
I'm just leery of OCs and the kind of people that write them.
I did like Tundara's Myths and Birthrights's series, even though I do find myself struggling to actually like the characters, both canon and oc. CVBrony's Rite's Acension is another I used to read. Should get caught up some time.
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No.306032
>>283172
Most of those points can be dismissed as cultural differences. It would be far more weird if performing etiquette was identical in Equestria.
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No.306039
>>306032
>It would be far more weird if performing etiquette was identical in Equestria.
Would it, though? So many other things are identical or nearly so there.
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No.306119
The Keepers of Discord
by Hoopy McGee first published on 9th Dec 2012
[Slice of Life][Bittersweet][Discord][OC][Alt. Universe]
www.fimfiction.net/story/25125/the-keepers-of-discord
>You'd think that being trapped in stone would mean that, if nothing else, I could get some peace and quiet. Unfortunately, it seems that Celestia has other ideas.
>She has appointed these ponies… these 'Keepers', as she calls them, to keep me entertained during my incarceration.
>Honestly? I'd prefer the boredom.
An old fandom classic, and IMO one of the better ways of doing Discord's redemption.
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No.307603
Watch! Watch!
by horizon
[Comedy][Crossover]
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/400525/watch-watch
>There's a crime wave gripping the sleepy town of Apple-Morepone, and nopony on the City Watch seems to care. Corporal "Rainbow" M. Dash naps through her patrols, her partner Dobby is an infamous kleptomaniac, Captain Rhymes is a drunkard, and the entire Watch is a group of burnt-out misfits.
>They're about to meet a batpony (adopted) by the name of Carrot, visiting town to return an overdue library book.
>And none of their lives will ever be the same.
This story is what you would get if you take the characters and settings of My Little Pony, and paired it with the personalities and weirdness of Discworld.
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No.307605
>>306032
>t. someone who's never played an instrument
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No.307607
>>307605
Music is for fags.
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No.307614
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No.310251
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No.310278
>>283172
>Were they applauding before she went onstage?
Maybe it's like a Slayer concert where fans start chanting the name of the band while roadies are just tuning their instruments, because they know that the band can hear them backstage.
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No.311910
The Sun & the Rose
by soulpillar
[human][celestia][adventure][romance]
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/191817/the-sun-the-rose
Fuck, I'm too tired to recommend the story in detail. Suffice to say the non-sucky parts outweighs the sucky parts, and I finished the story feeling content and satisfied.
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No.312099
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/13034/the-age-of-wings-and-steel
The Age of Wings and Steel - this is a fantasy epic adventure set 700 years before FiM. Its pretty good tbh. The writing is very good and the story not too complicated but the characters are compelling and have a personality. There is politics, war, adventuring, emotion etc im currently on chapter 13/64 but this is highly recommended!
Also this guy did some sick 10/10 narration but stopped at chapter 11 due to personal reasons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuBq0jnmyPI&list=PLjhQxIEx0dDEcjiicrO6_AGqf7XZ20I0R
Summary:
" Three hundred years after the fall of Princess Luna, Equestria teeters on the brink of disaster. Bitter political infighting and power-hungry nobles threaten to tear the country apart in a bloody civil war, while in the south old enemies prepare to reclaim their ancient homeland from the ponies.
As Princess Celestia desperately strives to hold together her splintered nation, she sends a young pony on a quest to the northern lands that border Equestria in order to plead for aid against the threat of Grypha. This unlikely messenger is Rye Strudel, the flightless, magicless, half-breed son of a guard and a baker. Rye must do the impossible and unite the thanes of the north… for if he cannot, there may be no home to come back to. "
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No.312872
Part-time Goddess (and the Church of Post)
by HapHazred
[comedy][slice of life][rainbow dash]
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/345780/part-time-goddess-and-the-church-of-post
>In this day and age, who has time to be a God? Prayers come in 24/7 and fancy dress is compulsory. Rainbow Dash certainly doesn't have time. She's got bills to pay and things to do. Besides, she isn't qualified for Godhood, surely.
Another story with the humor partially inspired by Pratchett
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No.312909
Why She Looks So Good
by Aragon
[slice of life][comedy][rarity][sweetie belle]
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/387046/why-she-looks-so-good
>I don't think you can know Rarity without being at least a little bit scared of her. If you're not, then you don't really know Rarity.
>This is the story of how she saved Ponyville one day.
It's a cute story told from Sweetie Belle's perspective of her big sister Rarity, and the moral is something that, on reflection, I really wish more writers would understand: just because Rarity cares about fashion and looking pretty doesn't mean there's more depth to her character.
While the story is about Rarity, most of the humor came from the exchanges between Twilight and the CMCs, and one throwaway joke I especially like is Twilight's off handed remark that her only source of income came from selling bits chipped off her castle wall.
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No.312921
>>305943
>Winning
Well, I read some of Ponibus' works, and worked my way backwards and started with Life and Times. Is hasn't been that bad but holy fuck I'm having a hard time overlooking Chengar's apparent disdain for Earth Ponies and Stallions.
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No.314303
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/211932/royal-punisher
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/211934/royal-cuddler
Just read these and found them amusing. First one is about Anon giving Shining Armor spankings as the royal punisher for failing to stop the changling invasion. The second one is the sequel where he cuddles Shining as the royal cuddler. Very light lewds but it's pretty funny especially the ending of the second one.
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No.314417
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No.314418
Okay, help me out here anons.
I remember reading this fic a while back that I can't seem to find. It was a oneshot, maybe a couple chapters long, about a unicorn magician entertaining a rich pony family in an Equestria where no pony believed in magic anymore.
Protagonist is a kid in the family, presumably the one who requested the magic show in the first place. During the magic show, the unicorn chains up a family member in invisible chains, causing the family to kick the unicorn out. Later, the protag finds the unicorn near a river, and she shows him levitation magic with her horn, and then rants about some dumb analogy for not believing in herself or someshit.
Anyway, the fact that I can still remember the story today already makes it better than 95% of the fics I've read, which is why I want to find it again.
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No.314437
>>314418
Do you remember any other details? If you can remember for example some of the character names or exact sentence fragments from the fic, it might be possible to google it.
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No.314458
>>314437
I found it: fimfiction.net/story/334044
Not as good as I remember, which is probably why I kept in the folder for shit stories. Ah well.
It's been long since I've read an actual good ponyfic. Any anon have any recommendations? I was planning on reading To Perytonia (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/383344/to-perytonia) at some point, but it's far too long to binge within a weekend.
>>312909
This story ended up in my shit folder, as well as the one above it (>>312872).
Both of these stories would have ended up in my Good folder at least, if it weren't for the political aspect behind these stories.
I don't know if other anons feel this way, but the motivations and general feel of stories like those have a rather telling leftist subtext in them.
To take Why She Looks So Good as an example, first off, Rarity in this story is a literal Jew. That in and of itself isn't bad, because rarity is a fucking worthless whore. The real problem comes from the fact that Twilight (and eventually the protagonist) praises her for being intelligent due to her Jewishness. Hitler had many non-sequiturs in Mein Kampf about this kind of intelligence…
>The art of shirking was looked upon almost as a proof of superior intelligence, and devotion to duty was considered a sign of weakness and stupidity.
>Another paragraph more on the point that I couldn't find
And I understand that I am seeing ill intent in stories that likely have no such thing. However, that doesn't stop the general disgust and repulsion that I (and likely any other NatSoc anon) feel whenever I see shit like this.
To give another example, The Descendant writes fics that most people (myself included) love to read. Several of his fics are the best I've ever read.
At the same time, leftist influence can be painfully obvious in some of his stories. One which I read pretty recently was Every Little Bit (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/130213/every-little-bit), which, like most TD fics, has nothing but praise from the comments.
I hated this fic's first chapter. It paints the archetypal male as disgusting, while cleanly ignoring the implications of female dominance and extortion against the population. The second chapter makes an attempt to fuck with gender roles, with the theme of "It's okay to be me" on having the behavior of the opposite sex.
The second chapter was actually pretty funny for me, because it incidentally served as a reminder that all trans/homo/lesbian/fagniggers are only that way as a result of having a completely fucked up family history, with spike having been raised by an adopted single mother, and Dash's parents having divorced early on, causing her to be raised by a sole male figure.
But that clearly wasn't the actual intention of the story, with the real intention to spread the idea that it's okay to be gay (and in the case of the story above—that it's intelligent to be Jewish).
I think my shitpost is long enough. Maybe this thread can hit the bump limit within this year. 16 months and barely more than a hundred posts…
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No.314459
Forgot to attach webm related
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No.314460
>>314459
Double fuck. Looks like this proxy can't attach files.
Webm related was just Kill All The Gays anyway
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No.314462
Randomly plucked these two up from my 'Liked' shelf.
There Goes The Neighborhood
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/326877/there-goes-the-neighborhood
This was how Equestria was made.
Solving for Death
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/359983/solving-for-death
Glim Glam accidentally killed Twilight Sparkle, then sets about fixed her mistake, just as any good friend would do.
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No.314471
>>314462
>Solving for Death
What made you like it, anon?
I found it somewhat funny, but "glimmer does fucked up shit and does even more fucked up shit to fix it" stories are a dime a dozen on fimfic, not to mention how overwhelmingly common "what if x ridiculous thing happened" stories are in general there.
Although I guess I am in the minority here, since the Featured Box loves to suck up shit like that every day of the week.
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No.314472
>>314471
Well, I guess it helps that I don't usually set a very high bar for passable fanfics. And yeah, reading through it again, I'm not so sure now if the 'Like' was warranted. I suspect I was going through a series of really bland stories that made this one felt like a breath of fresh air. My tastes are fickle like that.
I think the main enjoyment I got out of this story was derived from the beginning, with Starlight's callous attitude towards Twilight's death and seeing Spike, playing the sensible one, being traumatized.
Besides, short comedies are pretty much just multiple jokes packaged into a coherent narrative anyway. When you're constrained by the word count, there's only so much plot advancement or character development you can squeeze in.
Now that it's evident that your standards and perhaps preferences are vastly different from mine, I'm a lot more hesitant to offer recommendations from my "good-ish" collections without knowing if there's any particular type of story you're looking for. I know I'm a lot more forgiving of a story's shortcomings if the initial premise that drew me in is executed decently enough.
So, if you want something with perhaps a little more depth (that is to say, with a bit more complexity than your typical Skyrim side quest) and don't mind the wordcount, try one of my previous recommendations ( >>302857 ), I think the first one or two chapters is enough to get you acquainted with the author's writing style and let you decide whether it suits your preference.
The Rise and Fall of the Dark Lord Sassaflash
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/93572/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dark-lord-sassaflash
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No.314474
Any good /ss/ or something with two males?
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No.314478
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No.314652
>>292960
>Steel Sanctuary
I've finished reading it. Great stuff for the first half. I wasn't aware of Factorio until very recently. It does sound very much like that fic.
I despised the second half of the story. There's an annoying shift in focus, and a whole lot more angst and suffering than I expected. I could not bring myself to care about the characters because of how unlikable their portrayal had made them. I only kept reading for one of them who was somehow spared from being butchered by characterization.
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No.314654
>>314652
I was going to ask if we even read the same fic, when I realised that we actually didn't—iirc WiK had went on hiatus to edit the gt, meaning that the prior trash-tier introduction and the like are no longer there.
Don't remember much about the characters, which in and of itself should be a clear indicator that they were shit, although I remember Spike being somewhat fun for some reason.
>I wasn't aware of Factorio until very recently
Get the game, it's fun.
I was planning on shilling his other gt, Red Shift, but although they're a part of the same bump general (spits), the Factorio aspect is nowhere, mostly because the gt doesn't show much of the perspective of the ones using/creating the technology.
Characterisation is also not too hot, although it's buffered (I presume) by the fact that some side characters aren't really meant to be taken seriously (i.e. comedic relief).
tbqh the only reason you should read Red Shift is if your pone waifu is Lyly, like mine.
>>314472
I already had that bookmarked, but at least I got to move it to another folder for fics to read soon; the key reason I haven't read the fic being my re-read of EoP+Petra, along with the associated spoilercast.
I wonder if anyone on /pone/ cares about EoP, or if no one here even gives a damn anymore, much like /mlp/'s fimfic thread.
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No.314722
>>292960
>>314652
>>314654
>Steel Sanctuary
I got tired of reading on pastebin on mobile, thus I've compiled all three parts into one epub file. This is for you e-reader niggas out there:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ivshij4sw4uqkFelaWuAdiXPhLM87zVK/view?usp=sharing
https://nofile.io/f/B1wpjQjNe3b/Steel+Sanctuary.epub
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No.314870
Are people still writing Sombra redemption/shipping fics?
'Cause I think I finished most of the good ones and the rest are half-finished.
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No.314873
>>314870
Pretty sure everyone with a lick of sense realized he was a shit character before the episode he first appeared in ever aired, so I'm going to go with a strong yes - someone almost certainly is still doing it.
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No.315293
Sweet Little Lovely: A Gothic Romance
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/50106/sweet-little-lovely-a-gothic-romance
A strange, romantic tale written in the tradition of nineteenth century horror.
Everyone in their sleepy little town knows that Marvelous, the clockmaker, has eyes for only one mare - the beautiful Little Lovely. Despite her mysterious illness and his amusingly obsessive nature, there's no question that they make a perfect couple.
But when the truth of Little Lovely's affliction comes to light, Marvelous begins to realize that her true beauty is … on the inside.
Review for this story: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/818411/mr-vs-sweet-little-lovely-a-gothic-romance-royal-canterlot-library
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No.315651
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No.318220
Does anyone have some good fanfic audiobooks they can recommend?
I occasionally find myself in need of something to listen to while doing some mindless tasks. Right now I'm going through Scorch238's Fallout Equestria narration, I have have one or two more shorter stories lined up once that's done, but I still want to have more prepared.
I've already got The Keepers of Discord by this guy, which I thought is excellent. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD-rTSrPm1s)
The Writing on the Wall is pretty good also. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_aZFjIIFMA)
The only narration I could find of The Glass Blower is great… right up until 1:04:40, you'll see, or rather hear, what I meant. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19-cG4HX5Jo)
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No.318473
Please Open The Door
by naturalbornderpy
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/249737/please-open-the-door
Following a Changeling attack that scatters every resident in Ponyville, Applejack holes up in her family home with only Apple Bloom for support. The doors and windows have been boarded shut. A thick fog covers everything in sight. Soon the first visitor comes to her door.
Now the only question is whether they're actually who they say they are.
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No.319231
After Eternity
by Star Scraper
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/422570/after-eternity
Luna discovers a vast and ancient being approaching Equus. When she and Celestia go to meet it, they see into the early dawn and eternal twilight of their universe.
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No.320727
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No.320728
>>318220
I have to recommend Stardust by Arad. The only audiobook I have found is machine generated, but the story is so good that it's worth it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60jY22b5rKw&list=PL-vT9uPaqMClv1ZN1iId_PZvahVyj6ODL
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No.320729
>>318220
RED TEXT==Its A Dangerous Business, Going Out Your Front Door==RED TEXT
Its a good adventure story of Rares, Applejack and RD going across a couple countries to get a mcguffin from a mountain top. This guy has read everything but the last chapter, which will have to be read old fashioned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcLkUj4kCuM&list=PLeJrzJ97Nqk7i4-XmL0D2G0wNT0StUzxA
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No.320774
>>320728
Hey, thanks for the suggestions! I've already read Stardust and it really is excellent.
I tried reading It's a Dangerous Business years ago, but couldn't really get into it, perhaps I'll give it another shot eventually.
Speaking of, I found this guy 'DeftFunk's audio readings to be rather enjoyable. Here's his rendition of Glass Blower and Naked Singularity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nZF9Y8l7dY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gOLPcW4mCg
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No.323370
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
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No.324525
I'll probably regret this, but this is everything I have in my hidden lewd story folder. Not everything I actually ended up liking (I need to prune it) and not everything is pony.
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2%.html
985965_scribeFeather_14030742.rtf
985967_scribeFeather_14044559.rtf
985969_scribeFeather_14088544.rtf
985975_scribeFeather_14165195.rtf
985987_scribeFeather_14381033.rtf
985993_scribeFeather_14629083.rtf
985998_scribeFeather_14831990.rtf
A Bad Case of Overfeeding.pdf
A Beautiful Behind by Phealgud.pdf
A Blissful Morning.html
A Bountiful Princess.html
A Dash of Ego.html
A DAY AT THE BRONY CONVENTION.html
A Dish Best Served Huge.html
A Dose of Foal: A Collection of Short But Sweet Foalcon Clopfics..html
A Dragon's Nature!.html
A Dreamful Mother's Day..html
A Feast Fit For Heroes.html
After-school Snack.html
A Good Book.html
A Great Blue Sea.html
A Life Changeling Encounter.html
A Little Cream for a Lotta Coco.html
All She Can Do Is Watch.html
Alone Time.html
A Messy Surprise.html
An Aggressive Gain.html
An Alicorn's Harem.html
An Assistant's Assistance.html
A Nightmare of Flesh.html
An Impulsive Temptation.html
Anniversary Week.html
Another Satisfied Customer.html
An Unexpected Trip To Candyland.html
A Royal Decree.html
A Sleipnir Tale - The Food Critic.html
A Spell of Gaining.html
A Twist of Reality.html
A Twist of Reality_ Renewal.html
Babs Seed's Bad Seed.html
Beat Until Soft.html
Belly Buster.pdf
Best in Show by Phealgud.pdf
Big Apple Fashion Show.html
Bigger is Better.html
Big Mac and Caramel: Secret Agents.html
Big Pones and Little Humans.html
Bottle_game.pdf
Brushed Away 2_ By Hoof and Claw.html
Brushed Away 3_ Hearts Entwined.html
Brushed Away.html
Bumbling through my Education.html
butt
Button Mash x Milk Heart (his mother - Buttoncest) - Beginnings.txt
Button's Bedroom Games.html
Button Slash.html
Button's Mind Game.html
Canterlot Academy For Pets.html
Captured.html
Catwalk Catastrophe.html
Changing For Peace.html
Changing Minds.html
Cheerilee's Special Valentine's Day Class.html
Chicken
Chicken Coop by Pheal Gud.txt
Chronicles of a Sluttified Spike.html
Clocktower Society – Your Safe Word is Law.html
Color_climax-Sexual_fantasy_32-(1986).pdf
Corprate Pig.pdf
Cracking an Egghead.html
Cultural Exchange.html
Cum on the Dance Floor.html
DaddyLusive 2: Double the Daddy.html
DaddyLusive.html
Dash of Ego_ part two.html
Daydreamer's Bimbo Harem.html
Dear Bogo - by Troius Clawston.epub
Diaper Bitch by Wells of Fun.pdf
Diaper Dummy.pdf
Dinin' Dash.html
Discord Presents TheVClaw's Sixty-Ninth Story – Starring Big Macintosh and Shining Armor.html
Discord's Dastardly Delectable Dilemma Party.html
Do That Again.html
Downward Spiral by Phealgud.pdf
Dungeons & Diapers.html
Dusk Shine Impregnates Barb the Dragon.html
Easing Tensions.html
Embracing The Blubber.html
Embracing Your Desires.html
Erotic Revolutionaries Operation.html
Estrus For Two.html
Fallout Equestria: Curse of Plenty.html
Fallout_ Equestria - Project Horizons.html
Fattyville.html
Feedbag.html
Filling Up Family.html
Fishing at the Communal Cum Baths.html
Flashing Ponyville.html
Fluttershy Gets Tanked.html
FOAL 9000(1).html
FOAL 9000(2).html
FOAL 9000.html
Fresh from the Tap.html
Friendship Is Gigantictimal.html
Friendship is Mind Control_ Consequences.html
Friendship is Mind Control.html
Friendship is Tragic_ Rise of the New Equestrian Order.html
Futa AJ Roller Derby Sexcapade.html
G Clefs And Heavy Eyelids.html
GGF.pdf
Gluttonous Desires.html
Good Morning, Class.html
Green%20Feathered%20with%20Envy.rtf
Green Feathered with Envy.pdf
Green Feathered with Envy.rtf
Growth and Change.html
guyfry
GuyFry Story by Pheal Gud
Halloween Eat Off by PhealGud.pdf
Healthy Competition.html
Heat Treatment(1).html
Heat Treatment.html
Hiding the Lineage.html
Hippocake Tobiwaz.pdf
Home Sweet Shy.html
Hypno Hotel - Mind Control - Literotica.com.html
If Wishes Were Horses.html
Ignorance is Bliss by Phealgud.pdf
Ignorance Is Bliss.html
immortalsane-452940-Cindy's Truth.doc
immortalsane-458365-Cindy Goes To Camp.doc
immortalsane-458366-Fulfillment.doc
immortalsane-461920-Whirling Onward.doc
immortalsane-467346-Opening Up.doc
immortalsane-467348-Growing Together.doc
immortalsane-489174-Deer Little Girl_Taking a load off.doc
Innocence, Equestria.html
Interface to Face by Phealgud.pdf
Interrogation Tactics, Twilight's Torture!.html
It's a Mad Cupcake World.html
jungle.txt
Just A Little Taste.html
Kinky Time T.V..html
Knowing Their Place.html
Kwa Rushwa.html
Late Night Reading Binge.html
LewdChapter is Pounded in the Butt By His Own Works.html
Life is A Test 2: Test Harder (Quite A Bit Harder).html
Ҽ զ մ ɑ ӏ.html
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No.324526
>>324525
Life is a Test: A Series of Pony Logic Puzzles.html
Like and Reblog by Wells of Fun.pdf
Losing the Shortest Match.html
Lost & Found.html
Lots Of Greedy Dragons.html
Making Piggy Pie a Mommy for Hearth's Warming.html
Manehatten MediTech.html
matheson_the_splendid_source.html
Milky T(it)ea.html
Mother Fluffer.html
Mr. Harshwhinny's Spa Day.html
My little black foal.html
My Little Orgy 2.html
My Little Orgy: Debauchery Is Magic.html
Naughty Nightlife.html
Neon Trance.html
Night Guard Tales_ Complications.html
No Brainer.html
No Sleep 'Till Baltimare.html
Not So Little Red Flutterhood.html
Of Job Interviews and Fattening Food.html
Of Vixens and Vines by Whitekitten.pdf
Of Vixens and Vines by Whitekitten.rtf
Party Animals.html
Pay for all.html
Perilous Premotions.doc
Perilous Premotions.pdf
Personal Pet by PhealGud.pdf
Phealguds halloween special.pdf
Pinkie's Tentacled Panty Portal.html
Pizzacrow Inc by Phealgud
Pizzacrow Inc by Phealgud.pdf
pony1
Pony3.pdf
pony4.pdf
Preposterously Pappered Princess by Phealgud.pdf
Princess Training.html
Promiscuous Princess Promo.html
Rainbow Dash Discovers Erotic Mind Control.html
Rainbow Dash: Greatest Preggo of All Time!.html
Recovering Friendship.html
Resisting Temptations.html
Responsibilities.html
Revenge of the Blank Flanks.html
RitaBaby by Scribe Feather.pdf
RMS Gluteus Titanus by PhealGud.pdf
School of Cellulite.html
Scootaloo Goes Battier.html
Scootaloo Goes Batty.html
Scrambled Egghead.html
Screwed Up.html
Shining's Return to the Brood.html
Showing His Place 2.html
Showing His Place 3_ A Life Anew.html
Showing His Place.html
Shut Up And Dance.html
Shy Wants Rubs 2.html
Shy Wants Rubs.html
Sides.html
Sissy B-Day Story by Wells of Fun.pdf
Sisters of the Divine Rod.html
Sleeping Ari.html
Sleipnir Colony - A Short Story Collection.html
Smoke.html
Sombra's Deal.html
Something More Comfortable.html
Something to Rave About.html
Sorcery and Seduction.html
Spike Becomes A Mascot.html
Spike Gets Bucked.html
Spike.html
Spike's Futa Foursome.html
Spike's Harem.html
Spike Visits the Gryphon Team.html
Spinning Dreams.html
Spitfire's Mid Weight Crisis.html
Spitfire's Retirement.html
Squishy Padding is Relaxing.html
SS DOCTOR VISIT.html
Starlight Glimmer's Career Goes Down the Toilet.html
Starlight's Conversion Bureau.html
Starlight's Conversion Bureau: The Anthropomorphic Edition.html
Starlight's Conversion Bureau: The Sisters' Edition.html
Starswirl's Journal.html
Strange Flesh Manual.pdf
Stretch Mark Crusaders.html
Stuffing Sweetie.html
Submissive Conversion Treatment.html
Sunburst's Special Gift 2: Sharing is Caring.html
Sunburst's Special Gift.html
Sunday Football by Scribefeather.pdf
Supersized School Days.html
Symphony of the Serpent.html
Tales of a Sweaty Rat and the Salty Seagull by Phealgud.pdf
Teaparty by Scribefeather.pdf
The Amazonian Anomaly.html
The Biggest Bottom.html
The Breaking of Celestia by Arcadias.docx
The Breaking of Celestia by Arcadias.pdf
The Consensual Kink Collection.html
The Consensually Lovely and Kinky Collection.html
The Diet Plan.html
The Effects of Obesity on the Pony Body.html
The Elements of Corruption.html
The Equestrian Futa Wrestling League_ Season Two.html
The Fattening Sleep.html
The Grand Equestrian Futa Wrestling League.html
The Hefty Head Mare.html
The Herd Life.html
The Hypnotic Adventures of Blank Sheet.html
The Last Present but Our First Present.html
The Life of Spiral Dream.html
The Milking Chamber.html
The Mirror Chamber.html
The Negotiation.html
The Pits and the Pendulums.html
The Playground Bicycle.html
The Poofy Pad, A Place Where Bonds are Forged in Diapers and Booze.html
The Portly Princess.html
The Princess Problem.html
The Queen Bee's Appetite.html
Therapy Session.html
The Sumo Six, Or Why Never To Tangle With Discord.html
The Sun is not Good.html
The Way to a Mare's Heart.html
The Wonderbolt Tour.html
The Worst Show and Tell Ever.html
Things That Go Slurp in the Night.html
Three Gryphons and a Fashion Pony.html
To change a changeling!.html
To Kill a Bug with Kindness.html
Torch of Forbidden Love.html
Tranquility.html
Twilight, Revised.html
Twilight's Midnight Violations.html
Twilight Sparkle Gets Sent to the Principal's Office.html
Vore in Ponies Art Jam Stories August and September Entries.html
Weekend Jobs and Big Boy Blobs.html
Welcome to the Hive.html
What's on the Menu.html
When A Bro Wants A Daddy.html
Whitekitten - Safer Sex through Online Text.pdf
Worth the Price.html
Wrestling the Sun!.html
Your New Queen.html
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No.324527
>>324525
>>324526
If you're looking to add more MC stuff to your reading list, might I suggest Universal Acceptance, and its sequel?
Link: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/284037/universal-acceptance
And Localized Acceptance, the knockoff brand that never got finished: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/373057/localized-acceptance
And then there's Button's Mind Game, still in progress but slow to update: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/426127/buttons-mind-game
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No.324528
>>324527
That first one's description sounds a lot like The Hypnotic Adventures of Blank Sheet by Lightmask, an author who has been AWOL since 2016. Will read tho, even if it's similar. Love globalization
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No.324888
>>324527
That was a great story, holy hell. I love it when there's a wonderful, emotionally-connected story behind it. Starting the Sequel now
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/364548/universal-acceptance-avatar
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No.324957
Anyone got any recommendations for sad/melancholy fics? Alternatively, an AU fic that's not a crossover would be nice.
Here's my favorite fic that fits both categories:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/25219/the-night-that-never-ended
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No.324960
>>324957
The saddest fic I ever read was "friendship is tragic"
I don't have the heart to go looking for a correct link. If you feel a little like killing yourself because the pony world is so dark, that was probably the one.
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No.324961
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No.324962
>>324957
The classic, written in the pre-twilicorn era of the fandom: Yours Truly
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/22831/yours-truly
This is my go-to recommendation when people ask for melancholy and I probably suggested it in the previous thread, but since that was over two years ago I feel it's acceptable for me to suggest again. You want a melancholy story that could only be described as beautiful throughout and make you want to cry both sad and happy tears at the end? This is the story. None of that anti-saccharin-ness that send you careening into depression like My Little Dashie did.
Now, looking through my Fimfic bookmarks to see if there are more recent additions I could recommend…
Technically a crossover: The City Must Survive
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/423866/the-city-must-survive
In which the characters of MLP are pitted against the unforgiving environments of a frozen, post-apocalyptic world. No prior knowledge of the setting is required for the readers to empathize with the characters and experience the unrelenting despair that permeates this short story.
An Optimalverse story: Heaven's Not Enough
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/363503/friendship-is-optimal-heavens-not-enough
This is a story of a young woman, and the gradual collapse of society seen through her eyes from her rural hometown of Concrete, Skagit County, Washington.
A mirror to the ponies: Queen of Queens
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/206017/queen-of-queens
A rather unique worldbuilding story for the changeling race and the Queen we come to know as Chrysalis.
Library of Babel meets My Little Pony: Twilight's Library
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/205258/twilights-library
Who doesn't like a bout of existential blues coupled with claustrophobic dread every once in a while?
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No.325061
>>282783
Is Diaries still ongoing?
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No.325068
>>324961
>All her friends did retarded shit after the princess's demice and her unicorn mary sue best friend wasn't there to keep them togheter and give them the sense of reason
>Forced melodramatic garbage just at the very end
>Luna is a bad ruler for some reason
I can see this is a post-season 1 fanfic, I might had shed a few tears by reading this thing 5 years ago but now I'll say MEH.
**The ending would had been better if Twilight accepted that time can change ponies and even when she still loves her friends she can't change what have become of them, she would hold true to Celestia's last words and return to Canterlot to assist retarded moonbutt in keeping Equestria in one piece, keeping her fold memories of her friends and knowing that while the old days are long behind she needs go be strong and continue forward with her life.
But nope, Twilight just needed to see her friend passing away to drive her to the edge and jump off a cliff, that was bullshit.**
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No.325092
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No.325424
The Royal Canterlot Library is holding a panel to "determine the greatest MLP fanfic ever written" at this year's BronyCon, and they are looking for nominations.
Thought you guys ought to know.
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/200426/royal-canterlot-library/thread/405391/ponyfic-highlander-voting
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No.325428
So what do you guys think? What stories would you suggest? What sort of criterias do you think is more important when looking for a story to represent the fandom's fanfiction scene?
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No.325465
>>325424
>Downvotes will not factor into the decision.
So it's purely a contest of "how many people have read this fic". Who cares? You can already sort by views on the site.
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No.325664
I'm trying to find these old 2nd person clopfics that I believe were made by someone who I believe went by Metalhooves. I'm pretty sure it was him though, because I vaguely remembered the name of his Dark Sky story, but I cant find any of his stuff as his DA was taken down. Did fic people archive stuff as hard as the music side of the community am I fucked forever?
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No.325670
>>325428
Cupcakes
>well-known
>accurate metaphor for what the writers have done to the show past S4
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No.325674
>>325664
I checked my copy of the fimfarchive but the only story I could find listed under that name is A Dark Sky. My condolences, but I don't know if any other backups exists.
Having already published fanfics disappearing off the face of the internet is also a fear of mine. After somebody take down a story that I had been meaning to read but never got around to, I started the habit of making my own backups of stories I want to preserve.
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No.325706
>>325674
Hey, thanks for looking. It's one of those things where I'd remember these exist every 18 months, have to remember the dudes name, and go reread a couple. They're not particularly good, but there was some weird, cool world building and he did 2nd person somewhat decently, so it was fairly unique. Though this makes me want to make my own backups of a couple things now, namely Xenophilia.
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No.325731
Anyone have any good romance suggestions? Preferably 80k to 300k, and mature, but not pure clop.
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No.325745
>>325731
I found Irrespective's Beanverse, starting with No Nose Knows, to be a enjoyable read.
It's rated teen and thus no explicit scenes though, and it also ships an OC with Celestia so your mileage may vary with that. But I consider the first two stories in the series to be rather sweet, humourous and largely free of any contrived conflicts.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/382335/no-nose-knows
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No.325792
>>325745
Thanks a lot mate!
I’ve never read a Celestia ship, but I’ll be sure to check this one out.
Here’s a cute polygamous ship between Lyra, Bon Bon, and someone’s human OC. As you said, your mileage may vary, I know that many don’t like HIE romance fics, but I this one’s definitely one of the better examples, in my opinion.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/240148/lyras-confession
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/248113/bon-bons-acceptance
Most of Pusspuss’s other works are also excellent.
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/201968/Pusspuss/stories
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No.325793
>>325792
>self-advertising
Draw more human x filly next time you have the opportunity or kindly fuck off.
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No.325806
>>325793
Considering his usage of "mate", and his filename, and his usage of the exclamation mark (which is rarely ever used outside of sarcasm, at least here anyway), and that another post in the style referred to the Queen as his own, suggests that this is not Pusspuss, because Pusspuss' deviantart says he's from the US.
Unless he was paranoid enough (like me :^)) and decided to pretend to be from the US or the UK when he's actually from either/or or even some other country, I don't think that poster is Pusspuss.
I really can't stand the "well, if you're linking to a person, you must be shilling your work!". Just because Quentin and Shadman did it a million years ago doesn't mean everyone who links work is actually the creator of said work, and in fact that is rarely the case, I'd say.
Also I wish he'd finish his Dash incest comic.
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No.325808
>>325793
This, >>325806 (Thank, by the way!)
I just really like a lot of Pusspuss’s fictions. Call that shilling if you want, but I’m not him.
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No.325920
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/435/first-pony-view
This is possibly one of the biggest wastes of time I've ever subjected myself to. I want a refund for the day I spent speedreading this. Between the MC's constant narrative-breaking 20-paragraph lapses into internal crying, strange obsession with gender norms, the intense verbosity so characteristic of cringeworthy modern hipster authors, and metaphors involving planes and cars I do not understand at all, this author has somehow managed to write in 200k words what most people could say in 6k.
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No.325941
>>325920
>first chapter published in 2012
>still incomplete
>update slowed down to one chapter per year
Oooooh boy.
I might take a look at it out of solidarity, just to see it with mine own eyes. Although, if it's really as bad as you say, what could possibly have possessed you to read through all of it?!
Anyway, I have for you guys, you guessed it, another recommendation(!)
I'd like to give exposure to something I'm still binge reading through that I hope y'all will enjoy. I was going to recommend this after I finish the existing chapters, but whatever: The Unique Properties of Dark Magic.
Don't let the weird cover art or small number of likes fool you, the story exceeded my initial expectations by a wide margin.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/439232/the-unique-properties-of-dark-magic
The story is somewhat unconventionally structured, with one plotline following the arrival of the former human, Weiss Noir, outside the Crystal Empire a thousand years in the past. And details his experience in learning dark magic and leading a bunch of rescued crystal ponies outside Sombra's tyrannical reign.
The other plotline is set during Season 1. Weiss Noir, now the expert of the dark arts, escapes from imprisonment and proceeds to meddle with events of the show, annoy Celestia, and prepare for the return of Sombra in order to exact his revenge.
The chapters from the two timelines are interspersed, alone with pages from Weiss Noir's notes on new spells and inventions sandwiched between, detailing their discover and capability.
Now moving onto what I particularly like about the story.
The humor. Weiss possess a snark and wit similar to Mark Watney's from The Martian, and made creative use of metaphors, similes, and wordplays to invoke hilariously absurd mental imageries (read the chapter (Weiss Report) Unlimited Blades Work if you want to see what I'm talking about). There is no shortage of such humorous moments throughout the story.
The inventiveness. Researching dark magic is kind of his special talent, and Weiss made many discoveries and inventions as the story progressed, sometimes aided by the knowledges and insights from the human world. Expect more corny puns, wordplays, and culture references in the naming of his discoveries, he's utterly shameless and unapologetic about it.
tl;dr This is the closest we will ever get to witnessing Mark Watney MacGyver-ing new spells and artifacts out of dark magic.
However, tastes differ, and I would be remiss if I don't also give awareness to a few aspects of the story that might turn some people away from reading, or that requires some suspensions of disbelief on the reader's part.
- Firstly, there is no denying that Weiss Noir possesses qualities that, when viewed in certain light, may seem somewhat Sue-ish. He's able to stumble upon, invent, and master new spells at a rather absurd rate, albeit the pacing and circumstances of the story kind of demands it. On the flip side, despite these qualities, he's still an engaging character to follow, owing to his ability to be as manencing, humorous, well spoke, or crass as the situation demands.
- The rate of progress. Within the span of a few months, Weiss and his fellow ponies managed to eke out an existence in huge underground complexes hidden under the frozen planes outside of the Crystal Empire. While their ability to quickly mine, expand, and build is partially explained by the crystal ponies' natural talent at shaping and manipulating crystals and rocks; what's harder to explain away is the sizable teams of scientists and researchers that Weiss assembled out of the citizenry, and their ability to develop advanced machinery, magical holographic displays, rudimentary computer analogues, and cloning facility in the short period of time. How much of that is owed to novel applications of existing magic and knowledge and how much was taught to them by Weiss was not made clear.
- Absolutely nothing of our protagonist's former human life is touched upon, or how he came to be in Equestria. Personally I'm glad of this omission. My takeaway after reading so many HiE stories, is that most attachments to the previous life only serves to weigh down on the the protag and the reader's heart, or act as a convenient filler for the more emo types to waste words to angst on.
So in conclusion, if you like all the typical tropes of a Isekai story, you might want to give this one a shot.
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No.325944
>>325920
So I tried to give it a go. Keyword: tried. My word does it goes on and on with the most insane inconsequential drivels, you really weren't kidding about its verbosity.
It brings to mind the quote "perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove", something I wish more writers would take to heart.
So, seeing as you already sacrificed your time reading through the story in its entirety. I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind summing up in a couple sentences just what the heck the story is about?
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No.325946
>>325944
One sentence version: Man wakes up as unicorn filly and has trouble coming to terms with own identity as a pony and identity as a female.
The events that occur within the span of 200k words, most of which is really padding:
**
>Man wakes up as unicorn filly
>Thinks he's in a dream
>Figures out how to use magic on chairs and stuff
>Goes outside and yells at some guy; gets physically assaulted in return
>Eats pineapples the guy left and goes bananas
>Ends up stuck in the outdoors
>Finds road and attempts to commit suicide by car
>Gets picked up by some guy and gets care from a pegasus doctor
>Gets airlifted to the hospital
>Initially chalking his predicament up to a psychological problem, he gets a checkup and discovers nothing's wrong
>Deduces at some point he may have been mindswapped across parallel universes
>Does mundane tasks in the hospital like showering, eating carrots, and crying while the multiverse's most patient, caring pegasus nurse puts up with his bullshit
>Reveals this belief to his nurse, who apparently believes him, with the caveat that because he can't come to terms with his new gender identity, he says that he was a woman prior to being mindswapped**
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No.325947
>>325946
well that's embarrassing.
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No.325965
>>325941
I gave this a read; currently on Present Chapter 10; it's much more entertaining than First Pony View. I like the whole Sun Tzu/Kansas City Shuffle thing Weiss has going on. To my knowledge graphene is quite brittle on its own.
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No.325968
Tarnished Silver series
Written years ago, read it as it was coming out.
This is my third time re-reading it
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/33893/tarnished-silver
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No.326135
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No.326209
Mostly a AnonXChangeling OC clopfic, but check out the word counts for each chapter.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/423655/wake-up
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No.326864
OMG Just found out that the site is back onine!
Is anybody else still around? This is me btw: >>326209
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No.326865
>>326864
Yeah pretty much all 20 people that were left at the time of the shoah have made it back
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No.326869
I've been reading the other stories in Arad's XCOM crossover series (beginning with Stardust, already mentioned in this thread at >>320728 ). Not much to say since I don't know that much about the XCOM universe, except that Stardust and Mente Materia are some of the first fics I've read in awhile that could actually get me to tear up at certain scenes.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/174972/fortitude-amicitia
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/186104/broken
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/189185/mente-materia
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No.327000
BACKGROUND PONY
I finally got around to reading Background Pony in a fit of boredom. BP was melancholy but not nearly as tragic as described to me. There were a lot of neat features in this story: how it managed to juggle Lovecraftian elements, psychological horror, and innocuous slice-of-life, how the odd text formatting ended up becoming an element of the story, the stream-of-consciousness style of writing near the end, weaving through paragraphs from previous chapters as Lyra slowly descends into insanity, becoming unable to distinguish the present from memories in the past. The dialogue does tend to get a bit flowery and OOC (compared to the show), and so do the author's descriptions–sometimes it feels like he's just tossing phrases out to attempt to capture the meaning of what he's describing, without regards to precision.
Rant: As a hobbyist musician and an acquaintance of other musicians, I am increasingly annoyed by how authors tend to depict music and the act of creating music, as though it were some kind of arcane sorcery that people just pull out of the aether, with infinite capacity to homogeneously influence people's emotions and cleanly convey exactly what was intended, without a theory or discipline, without imperfections that need to be smoothed out over countless iterations of creative destruction and practice. It's kind of ironic to me that another group of creatives who suffer regularly from "writer's block" and often have to pore over their own work with a fine-toothed comb to make it readable seem to discount the possibility of musicians and composers having to deal with the same issues. I'm also annoyed at how authors depict the process of learning to play music. Yes, it's possible that everyone in Equestria is a musical prodigy, but it does irk me a bit when Trixie can, without any prior knowledge, pick up the keyboard in 30 minutes of practice when the average pianist probably spends something on the order of a thousand pulling their hair out over etudes in front of a metronome to reach an equivalent level of mastery.
To end on a more humorous note, apparently some bumblefuck put Background Pony on Boston University's 2018 Holiday Reading List. Some would object to fanfiction being placed next to "actual books", but frankly, having read some of what passes for literature these days, I'm okay with this.
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2018/12/my-little-pony-fanfic-background-pony.html?m=1
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No.327565
>>292960
Steel Sanctuary kind of disappointed me when the final boss battle was glossed over in a flashback and was just a fucking missile instead of Anon building a super robot to kill the titan and I've resolved to write a greentext that remedies this.
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No.327574
I have to admit something. I've never read Past Sins . Should I give it a try?
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No.327579
>>327574
Having never read it either, I say go for it. The themes presented could certainly inspire. Too, if you write your own spinoff of alternate form, you can include more subtle homages, as opposed to my Conversion Bureau piece that … gets the series fans blood boiling because I "did it wrong" but still pretended I was stuffing it into the TCB universe.
There's a thread for Nyx, and nearly every mare in there says KYS, both for wanting to read it, and for having read it. Opinions, positive or negative, have no effect on your need to KYS over the existence of Passed Since.
I'm not sure if that actually speaks for it, or against, the anti-culture around here being what it is.
On the other hoof, it can't possibly be worse than trying to watch the whack jobs apply for the DNC nominee slot.
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No.327583
>>327579
In the early days I remember Nyx being considered by some one of the only black OC alicorns with any credibity. She had her haters but she was complete trash like every black and red edgy alicorn OC was (or nearly every if we count the immortal game).. I second giving it a shot.
> it can't possibly be worse than trying to watch the whack jobs apply for the DNC nominee slot.
This was my evening too.
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No.327588
>>327579
>The Conversion Bureau Universe
*sip* yep, it was good shit.
Which one would you recommend me?
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No.327592
>>327588
>The Conversion Bureau Universe
None of them.
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No.327593
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No.327601
>>327588
>>327592
The Optimalverse > TCB
But if I were to recommend one, it would be The Conversion Bureau: The First Year
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/13206/the-conversion-bureau-the-first-year
I read it back when I first got into fanfics and honestly couldn't remember any of the details except that it focuses on the initial contact (first year) between the two worlds, or something, I dunno. I found it in my Faves so at the very least it can't be that awful despite how awful the younger me's taste was.
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No.327688
Everyone who recommended Steel Sanctuary: thank you. Best fic I've read in forever, for so many reasons.
Anyway, here's my recs
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/228991/no-comment
Purplesmart and Moonie decide to invade Anon's dreams. They regret it immensely. Short, stupid, nonsensical humor, but hilarious nonetheless.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/366822/where-do-babies-come-from
Hilarious absurdity spiral. Short and sweet
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/247031/the-mare-who-once-lived-on-the-moon
Strange dystopian/steampunk alternate history take on the first two episodes (which, due to the these changes, are spread out for far longer than those). The ending is a bit underwhelming but the character stuff is very on point.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/326560/discourse-on-fillies
My favorite short fic of all time. This is, at once, a character study of Diamond Tiara, a character study of Luna, a bittersweet story about divorce, and an unusual take on the infamous real-life guide to power and leadership The Prince. Hits close to home for me for several reasons.
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No.327724
i just read the fanfic:
big mac goes to therapy
red (a sad roseluck mature fic)
a button mash and cream heart fic where the author explores a little about heritage along with the obvious incest
and i abandoned fallout-equestria:heroes
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No.327740
I've been reading a WIP series of fics with Sunset Shimmer as the MC, making amends with ponies from her past and possibly saving Equestria in the process. I found it pretty interesting because both stories look into the consequences of Sunset's actions in the past and delve a bit further than most into the implications of Sunset suddenly having access to human technology and scientific knowledge beyond "oh I can go on YouTube and look at funny memes" or "oh I can look up what ClF3 is on Wikipedia" or "wow ballpoint pens" (see spoiler for example). Also, it's got a pretty unique take on earth pony magic.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/442962/sunset-shimmer-is-not-an-alicorn
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/447207/sunset-shimmer-is-not-supposed-to-save-equestria
Because Equestria is a pre-computing world, they have a lot of magical conjectures and theorems that have theoretical solutions but can't be solved analytically and would take too long for them to calculate by hoof. Obviously, once Sunset Shimmer gets access to CPUs that can perform billions of calculations per second, this changes things up.
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No.327910
>>292930
oof, damn. this fic was one hell of a soul-cutter to read… a god damn tragedy.
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No.328062
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No.328155
The one I enjoyed the most of stories I've read recently is
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/387629/a-capital-offense
Black humor. Fourth wall not merely broken but vandalized. Not to be taken seriously or internally, but it got a laugh out of me.
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