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FiMfiction Thread: Now with 12.1% more refugees! Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 17:41:17 No. 19687

Come one and all to the meta-writefag and help raise the quality of MLP fanfiction! Featuring: An Exodus to (or away from) the promised land! ITT: Terry Pratchett is deep inside anon's "writing", the proper use of footnotes is to make ridiculous metaphors, wholesome futa porn getting featured, Mossad is actually /yandere/, optional foreskin-wound-sucking, yet more degenerate fetishists, semantics of dickmares, Death Note but better, the plague of linguistic descriptivism, self-insert OCs as alternatives to HiE, Cadence: alicorn princess of self-love, and pushing back in the circlejerk (unf)! >/fimfic/ Secret Book Club The one hundred and eighth book is The Luna Cypher: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/175385/the-luna-cypher If (You) want to join in the discussion, read up to chapter 15, Unpleasant Surprises, by Sunday, April 20. >Recommended stories: Tired of authors crossing over a dozen IPs? Fed up with downer shipping? Well, we've compiled the best of the worst in order to bring you our absolute average! New Starter Kit - http://mlpficreviews.org.uk/starter/ Old Starter Kit - http://i.imgur.com/vuTA7EN.png >Common fic abbreviations used by the thread: https://ponepaste.org/7317 >A list of reviews made by the Anons in this thread: http://www.mlpficreviews.org.uk Use the commands ">review <story link>" and ">discuss <story link>" to add reviews to a story. Userscript for extra features: https://ponepaste.org/8619 >An in-depth writing guide for beginners: https://eznguide.neocities.org/ >Can you pre-read my story? Post it on Google Docs or HackMD with comments enabled and give us a link. >Additional material for authors: Rhorse's Horse Behavioral Notes - https://ponepaste.org/932 Politics and the English Language - https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ 1911 Walter Baker's Hot Chocolate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAueNTXpn1E Vhatug's tips for anatomically correct clop - https://poneb.in/g4VpEg4f Setting a story in motion - https://youtu.be/ufO8LbwTdu0 Taking criticism - https://youtu.be/-v4R2ZcxPlA >Various reviews and riffs: Fillyanon's Bookshelf - https://ponepaste.org/5555 Notkickass222urmom's Reviews - https://pastebin.com/u/notkickass222urmom IHeartShinzakura's Reviews - https://ponepaste.org/user/IHeartShinzakura Appleanon reads fics - https://poneb.in/wmGX7FPm Deluxe Big Master Review List - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z9Bz7UnEbxo-svlXa2tV49PJkP-yFuR7pRXiBUn-IeU A Guide to Rational Fics - https://files.catbox.moe/3jzrfm.png The Royal Canterlot Library's Top 16 Fanfics - https://royalcanterlotlibrary.net/top16/ Previous Thread: >>/mlp/42137739

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 17:42:43 No. 19695

>>42141900 Read "Besides the Will of Evil".

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 17:44:15 No. 19702

>>19695 Sell it to me.

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 17:50:48 No. 19727

>>19702 >he doesn't know

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 18:03:08 No. 19781

>>19702 How much money you got on you?

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 18:04:52 No. 19787

The HIE genre is not for the faint of heart. It’s not just about sending humans into the world of Equestria; it’s about transcending the boundaries of fiction itself. Just as you wouldn't expect to stumble upon a Shakespearean play in a high school drama class, or find the nuances of a Tolstoy novel in a community book club, you simply cannot expect a mere fanfic writer to grasp and master the profound depths and soul-stirring complexities of the HIE genre. It's the apex of storytelling. Too intricate, too delicate, too soulful for most to comprehend, let alone capture in writing. The problem isn’t with the genre. The issue lies in its towering grandeur, which is just too monumental for the average writer. We don't lack good HIE stories; we lack the literary giants to pen them.

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 18:15:26 No. 19817

>>19687 Wow it's like nothing even happened. Is the written word truly eternal?

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 18:20:27 No. 19823

>>19817 >Is the written word truly eternal? Nopony tell him about the inevitable decay of all material things.

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 18:22:16 No. 19827

>>19823 Things don't have to last forever. They just have to outlast the people you hate.

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 18:57:14 No. 19905

How do I learn to write?

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 19:06:31 No. 19929

>>19905 First, you read something other than shitposts for once

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 19:11:20 No. 19932

>>19905 You can't, you have to be born with the innate talent to write.

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 19:14:41 No. 19936

>>19929 >>19932 ok cool

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 19:19:40 No. 19948

>>19905 By writing and reading a lot.

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 19:59:24 No. 20028

Nooooooo, my flag, noooooooo!

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 20:03:11 No. 20036

>>20028 K or J?

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 20:20:40 No. 20055

>>20036

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 20:36:09 No. 20083

I've had an AU story I wanted to do for ages but I spent all that time thinking about the setting and not the plot, how do you defeat Worldbuilder's Disease? All I've done til now is single-chapter shorts.

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 20:44:11 No. 20106

>>19932 Okay how do I learn that

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 20:45:21 No. 20109

>>20083 You start writing and keep writing until you have a finished thing you can show others, so they can tell you how it sucks. The you repeat that a few times over. Ideally you eventually reach the understanding that worldbuilding is secondary to having a good story and learn to focus on the right things.

Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 22:48:02 No. 20341

This UI fucking sucks.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:23:13 No. 20418

>>20341 There are some convenient features, but I hate the fact that refresh is auto-checked.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:26:48 No. 20423

I remember there being a shitpost fic on Fimfiction about a certain mustached individual stealing Scootaloo's scooter, but I can't seem to find it anymore.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 00:30:38 No. 20430

>>20418 You can uncheck it. What I hate is the lack of feedback if there are no updates when you refresh.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 02:41:52 No. 20577

I'm gonna miss that shithole like you wouldn't believe.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 03:55:59 No. 20669

>>20577 >tfw I have been immortalized in a screencap

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 09:04:47 No. 21040

Has anyone here read any books that they think might have improved their writing, if so can you drop some recommendations? Here's some random fics I enjoyed so I'm not just begging. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/403424/feline-equine-relations-or-how-to-kidnap-a-princess-of-equestria https://www.fimfiction.net/story/249782/magical-mystery-oops https://www.fimfiction.net/story/496259/towed-tempestuous

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 09:36:35 No. 21064

>>21040 CiG always has excellent prose. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/3228/the-glass-blower

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 10:40:04 No. 21103

>>21040 In terms of ponyfics, unironically FiMC

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 13:38:23 No. 21224

>>21064 He said books, not fics. CiG might have better prose than the average fanfiction writer, but he's not excellent in an absolute sense. Really good stylists are writers like Austen, Flaubert, Dickens, Joyce, Conrad, Proust, Faulkner, Hemingway, Nabokov, Baldwin, Marquez, and McCarthy. I'm not going to write their first names because if you don't already know who they are, then you're an illiterate cretin.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 13:53:03 No. 21238

>>21224 Thanks for clarifying to them about the book thing, I've already seen a few recommendations elsewhere such as: >Bird by Bird >The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller Creating Character Arcs: The >Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure (Helping Writers Become Authors) Part of me thinks I don't even need these as I can come up with great stories, arcs, and conversations in my head already, but I'm not really sure I know how to start a story or do filler all that well.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 14:02:34 No. 21245

>>21224 Go back. >>21040 Yes but most weren't in English and a translation wouldn't work. However one of the strongest pieces of advice I've ever found was learning to understand the rhythm of sentences. In general though all reading of a certain quality is good reading because it always teaches you something. But for some actual non-pony recommendations, >Watchmen Yeah, it's a comic, but it'll teach you some stuff about writing in general and about comic books specifically, and about playing to a medium's strengths. Subsequently watching the movie and understanding why it's a bad adaptation is also a good exercise. And no, it's not the squid. >The Rats in the Walls >The Colour Out of Space Lovecraft is always good but he has his problems, but for a certain kind of horror and for learning to invoke dread in the reader he's a good source. The former story isn't all too great and it's mostly remember for being the cat one, but the ending is one of the best thing he wrote. Meanwhile, Colour is universally recognised as the best thing he ever made. >A Christmas Carol I know it sounds stupid but once you read him you realise Dickens really was that guy, and he got away with bloating his novels because he really was that good at writing, and this one's a classic for a reason that's both a very simple story as a whole but an extremely strongly written one at each moment, and one you can read a lot deeper in if you want to. >A Farewell to Arms (or most things Hemingway) OMatS might be the better book and you should read that too but this one specifically has a precise approach towards the ending of aligning the reader's and protagonist's feelings that I find is something you should familiarise yourself with as a writer.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 17:27:30 No. 21359

Place your bets. Will the club be held here or not?

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 17:29:54 No. 21361

>>21359 Depends if any of the participants are here. Guess we'll just have to talk about other fics if not

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 20:24:16 No. 21613

>>21359 Depends on if hiro gets his shit together

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 21:35:34 No. 21733

>>21613 Not like he's given a shit for the past 10 years. I guess his (relative) negligence is better than malice if the way he was ousted from 2chan and fucked 2channel is any indication.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 22:50:35 No. 21807

>>21359 We could post the discussion anchor here and 4k character limit is sweet, but at least two of last week's posters are literal generalfags so I doubt they came here when the walls of Jericho collapsed. Maybe the site will be back up by then. While >>21733 is right that Hiro has a history of being evil, 4chan being down loses him a lot of money.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 23:11:15 No. 21827

>>21819 We'd also have sound on regular 4chan if more people used the 4chan External Sounds script. It's common on many other boards but not /mlp/, and for sound webms to be worth the effort, it needs reasonable user adoption.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 23:26:17 No. 21849

>>21827 Careful, you'll get Fae's attention.

Anonymous 04/16/2025 (Wed) 23:29:24 No. 21855

>>21359 I'm here if we do. I was the random bugflag.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 00:17:34 No. 21899

>>21849 I would never adopt a user.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 00:44:37 No. 21909

42nd for best duo! Enjoy this conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/175385/the-luna-cypher

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 00:46:35 No. 21912

Wanna move to poner?

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 00:46:51 No. 21913

>>42112376 I finished The Rariad, or at least the portion of it I enjoyed. The plan to skim Gaia fell apart pretty quickly, partly because of how it's written, but mostly because of how much more fun the story became once Trixie started the rescue mission. I read up to the part where Crysis was saved, and I don't have much more to say about the story besides that. The various adventures that the crew got up to on their way to Sparta were pretty engaging, especially Apollo's forsaken village. It had good vibes from 9DD. Alnyxandria was terribly named, but the diversion was a lot of fun, especially exploring the consequences of Trixie being undead besides just the constantly repeated descriptions of her being sliced to ribbons for edge. >>21359 Betting here.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 01:13:47 No. 21935

>>21359 Will we namefag in lieu of flags, or will we go truly Anonymous(tm)? I will cum inside Rarity at 2:48 a.m.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 01:25:55 No. 21943

>>21912 >take a look >Stripped >EQG No. Also, the homos here would be allowed to post anthros and futas. So double no.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 01:35:44 No. 21949

>>21943 A price worth paying to stave off the tunafag.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 01:36:01 No. 21950

>>21912 Very firm no from me. It's as if they looked at all the possible decision points (content and design) just to make the wrong choices on purpose.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 01:38:30 No. 21952

>>21935 >Will we namefag yes we can

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 01:38:42 No. 21953

>>21245 >Go back. That phrase feels very different now that we're all refugees. Also, fuck you. >rhythm This is very good advice. >Watchmen Anon didn't say whether he wants to write traditional prose or write comics, but if it's the former, I feel like a comic book is an inefficient way for Anon to educate himself. Watchmen isn't a bad suggestion, but I'd have to make a pretty long list before I thought it was worth putting on (assuming I'm right about Anon's goals). >Lovecraft Solid horror, but if Anon isn't interested in the horror genre then I don't think he'll get much out of Lovecraft. >Dickens >Hemingway Can't go wrong with either of them.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 01:50:07 No. 21960

>>21912 No. NHNB has its downsides, but it seems to be the best available. I looked at 8chan.moe, but they have two actual hardcore zoophile threads right now (one straight, one gay) with nothing even spoilered. I'm not usually paranoid about glowies, but that's too much for me.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 01:52:13 No. 21962

>>21953 Maybe "anon" should say what he wants instead of vagueposting. Also, he asked for stuff that influenced us specifically, not just general recommendations.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 01:54:47 No. 21964

>>21960 I'm pretty sure this thread is currently more active than the entirety of 8chan's mlp was yesterday.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 03:38:00 No. 22034

>>19687 I just want to say I've written more since 4chan went down than in the rest of April. And March. And ..

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 03:57:26 No. 22046

>>22034 Uh huh. And how much is "more" in this case?

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 04:46:02 No. 22096

>>22046 About a page, so far.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 05:06:07 No. 22106

>>19687 >fimfic general survived Thank God, for a second there I thought I'd have to actually write something.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 05:32:52 No. 22127

>>21960 >"8chan.moe has what?" >check it out due to morbid curiosity >see a man stick a lollipop into a ponut Never again

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 06:43:00 No. 22190

>>22127 Did he lick it afterwrds, or did he let the onut have it?

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 10:19:30 No. 22443

Kassaz, why are you such an EQGfag?

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 10:25:34 No. 22447

>>22443 He loves his fetish more than he loves ponies.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 12:07:42 No. 22487

>>21935 Flags were always the most cancerous, circlejerkly and useless part of the bookclub. It's good they are gone for now.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 12:13:02 No. 22488

>>22443 I've only written two humanized stories, with plans for two or three more, and I commission some artwork about them. Writing about humans is different, and artwork about them is also delightfully different. My first humanized story about Pinkie Pie was based on artwork by an old acquaintance, Forfun41/Funble, which inspired me. I didn't develop a taste for the Dazzlings until I kept seeing his artwork with them, and decided they did in fact have nice designs. I usually say it feels like most of the effort in the second EqG film went into their designs. I haven't watched anything past the first two films, and don't give a shit about any of the later characters. My second humanized or EqG story involved a fantasy I paid someone to realize, and I decided to write about it. That's usually how it goes: I have some scenes in mind and then write a story to include them, but this is obvious. The overwhelming majority of my stories are purely pony pregnancy, without a green human named Anonymous either, and that won't change.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 12:33:04 No. 22496

>>22488 Okay fishfucker.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 12:35:16 No. 22497

this seems like the best place to ask a retarded question, can you search more than one tag at a time on ponepaste

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 12:45:58 No. 22506

>>22497 This is not the Ponepaste general. Also I don't think you can even search properly for a single tag.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 13:20:08 No. 22522

>>22506 >This is not the Ponepaste general. I just remembered that the greentext general was about to be revived on /mlp/. I guess that won't be happening anytime soon, lol.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 13:33:40 No. 22537

>>22522 Good.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 18:03:15 No. 22753

>>22537 >smiling as pony creativity gets quashed Evil.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 18:20:15 No. 22780

>>22753 Learn to write proper horsewords, greenboy.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 18:36:43 No. 22811

>>22780 Propriety is one of the last qualities I'd ascribe to this thread.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 20:37:46 No. 22979

>>22780 I was going to post my prose in it regardless.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 21:28:06 No. 23084

>>22979 I must ask, if you're already writing prose, why not publish on Fimfiction? However tasteless your audience will be there, it'll at least exist.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 21:30:46 No. 23090

>>23084 Pretty sure you're talking to Kassaz. He just posted on both /fimfic/ and /green/.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 21:43:33 No. 23107

>>23090 This is correct.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 22:29:19 No. 23174

>Yet another fucking Celestia morality debate in the fic's comments

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 23:07:10 No. 23228

>>23174 Sometimes I'm happy my fic wasn't more popular.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 23:11:52 No. 23237

>>23090 >my ability to differentiate thread personalities has completely atrophied after relying on flags for so long

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 23:14:25 No. 23242

>>23237 Skissue desu. I reliably clocked four different anons across different boards this April 1st.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 23:42:05 No. 23279

>>23228 I think it's starting to get out of control.

Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 23:48:57 No. 23286

>>23279 Just ignore them.

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 01:42:47 No. 23435

>>23286 I dunno it's gotten pretty funny.

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 01:51:14 No. 23444

>>23435 This is what the workprint cut of the Minecraft movie feels like.

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 02:08:06 No. 23451

what are some good fics dealing with living as a changeling?

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 02:17:01 No. 23460

>>23451 Integration. In Sheep's Clothing. A Bug on a Stick.

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 03:20:37 No. 23514

Is it poor form to avoid crediting your RP partner when writing something inspired by one of your sessions?

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 03:43:18 No. 23533

>>23514 Ask them whether they're comfortable being associated with your clopfic.

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 14:08:00 No. 23887

>>23444 CHICKEN JOCKEY

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 14:09:35 No. 23889

>>23451 Subjunctive https://www.fimfiction.net/story/81260/subjunctive

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 14:25:45 No. 23900

>>23887 Would.

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 15:04:12 No. 23920

Kassaz, how do I get involved with artists and artpacks?

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 15:52:36 No. 23968

>>23920 Follow my wife's example and suck like there's no tomorrow.

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 17:45:48 No. 24034

>>23968 ...kILL YOURSELF!!!

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 18:40:51 No. 24071

>>24034

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 23:20:27 No. 24222

>>23920 I was wondering if someone would ask. I'll explain how I traded with T72B first. I saw his artwork again; decided to look through his gallery for pregnancy, only to find none; and went to his profile to see if he accepted commissions, to see he didn't and neither did he mention trades. Despite this, I sent him a message asking if he'd like to trade with me, showing him my work and telling him I could write about what I figured he would want while also listing what I would want from him. It turned out he was interested, and everything went smoothly from there. I didn't know T72B until I asked him to trade with me, but all I had to do was ask. Art packs are much harder to enter. You need to be very familiar with the organizers, and signal your interest. I've been unable to organize a pregnancy art pack for years now, because the will just isn't there among the artists who focus on it. As an example, I know about the futa art packs, asked T72B to put in a word for me, and now I should be able to enter the next one of those. I know quite a few artists because I commission them regularly, and asking them about upcoming art packs is another way to do it. The easiest art packs for me to join are organized directly on the boards, like "Refuge" here: >>22012 Let me know if this helps, and if you'd like more advice.

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 23:34:25 No. 24229

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/575068/this-has-nothing-to-do-with-video-games Who'd like to claim ownership of this one? I've been following along with the updates, and I'd be surprised if it wasn't written by an anon.

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 23:42:03 No. 24236

>>24222 GPT-ass closing line.

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 23:43:47 No. 24238

>>24229 What makes you say that?

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 23:44:36 No. 24241

>>24236 Excuse me for being polite.

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