Trixie! What happened to your coat? It's turned pink! It's--huh? Ahhhh.

This sounds interesting! Also, I have a question!

>The contest begins now, and you have until 00:00 EST on November 1st to send your emails.

Is this basically-the-same-thing as 11:59:59 PM EST, November 1 or as 12:00:01 AM EST?




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>>123222
Theoretically, Trixie could have asked Roger to hosted on his stuff. I mean, the engine is pretty much independent of Roger or his events (or any event) and it provides a far netter organization.

Just food for thought.

Well, I don't normally enter contests, but since I was planning on writing a fic for nightmare night anyways, I might as well enter this.

>>116042
Not really (though I did love that film as a kid!)

After way too long, I've updated The Legend of Star Swirl the Bearded with another chapter, chapter 7!

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13230/The-Legend-Of-Star-Swirl-The-Bearded

Comedy time!

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/59869/The-Last-Stand-of-King-Sombra

King Sombra has a problem. A Twilight Sparkle shaped problem. The evil ruler of the Crystal Kingdom is about to be overthrown unless he can hold out until reinforcements arrive.

Seven days of keeping Twilight at bay. What's the worst that can happen?

All he has to lose is his self-respect and dignity...

NOTE: Yes, this is about the season 3 villain. No, there are no spoilers, I'm just making it all up!

>>122529
Weird o_o

Autosaged in case of further bot shenanigans.

>>123243
Alright, thank you.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/10624/Reading-Rainbow

TAKE A LOOK! IT’S IN A BOOK! SERIOUSLY, DON’T ASK ME!

No presumptions, a good sense of humor, and an easy-going charm that wraps around you like a comfortable pair of thermal socks—for me, these three points were what originally got me into the show, and they are three points that I find well-represented in this fic.

On the surface, Reading Rainbow has a fairly basic premise: Twilight is hospitalized, and Rainbow Dash steps in to help her through her recovery. The “member of the Mane Six needs to be cared for by another” fic is so common you could throw a metaphorical rock into Fimfiction and hit twenty of them—and that’s not even counting those which focus on Rainbow Dash herself getting hurt. So, what sets this one apart?

Well, for one, it isn’t focused on shipping there’s actually very little focus on the deeds of our favorite equines. Once the fic gets rolling, the action is limited to Rainbow’s reading of a story to Twilight—and that’s it. Apart from the occasional break for some commentary by the two of them, everything that happens is just a part of said story’s rhyming fable. Essentially, the entire plot is nothing more than a framing device for the author’s little fairy tale.

Here’s the thing, though: it works. A lot of times, when a fanfic writer uses a setting simply as something to shoehorn their own drabbles into, the canon quickly becomes overshadowed. In this fic’s case, the parable seems like it really could have been penned by a pony poet. Its moral lesson—to never betray oneself in seeking another’s attention—fits right in with the show’s overall tone and themes. That’s what sells it for me.
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Language Barriers by Silver Tongue
[Sad] [Slice of Life]
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/10/story-language-barriers.html

Luna struggles to adapt to the way modern ponies speak and talks to Celestia about that for a quick 2.7k words.

I didn't like it. For one, the story of Luna struggling to adapt to life a thousand years after she last hung around Equestria is one that's been told many, many times before, and I feel like I've read this exact story at least once or twice already. To its credit, it tries to focus on the language differences and Luna's feelings about them in particular, but I feel it would have been a stronger story if it had stuck to those guns still further. Every extra word about Luna needing to recover her magic or about Luna needing to prove to ponies that she's not scary feels like a word wasted on well-trodden ground.

And speaking of wasted words, the writing on display here, while competent, is not compelling or particularly well-crafted. The author attempts to make the narration sound old fashioned by substituting short words for strings of long ones that add neither meaning nor flow, which quite undermines Luna's longing for the artistry and deliberateness of her old language.

This premise might have made for an interesting story, but the execution falls flat. The story is tired and the prose overly wordy. I don't recommend it.

Copy/pasta of my latest review for FOB Equestria.

The Youth in the Garden
Tags: Sad
Author: The Descendant
Synopsis: September 17th, 1862 became the single bloodiest day in American history when a battle was fought along the Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Yesterday, Fluttershy hummed happily as she watered her garden.

The two events are not unrelated.

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>>123107
...Rather than be pissed that you're replicating that headache-inducing talking style, I'm suddenly curious as to how many people here would get the reference. An impasse, without question...

>>123107

>>123107
... why is it that this post is more of a spoiler for the present act in Homestuck than an adequate explanation of... trigger issues?

>>122867
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>>122877
After reading about MoD, I'd say that this idea is similar, except with maybe a... lighter subject matter. I guess if no one wants to try collecting money then we don't have to. But I feel like we could at least collect for a charity or something.

Huh.

I really... this idea just kind of... You know. It's not ambitious, it has an air of romantic wishful thinking to it.

Regardless, I've love to participate and help create what's sure to be a really nice product, regardless of my cynicism as to its goals.

If this goes down, I'd want to contribute.

Reading Rainbow by Corejo.

For future reference, please use the Recommendations and Requests General. It's the thread we use for questions like these. You can find a link to it in the sticky post at the top of /fic/.

Thread lock because: >>122985

Sorry about the harsh introduction – he's been given a short time-out. I hope it doesn't leave you with a negative taste of our site – most of us are quite a bit friendlier than that around here. I went ahead and swapped out the #Author tag for you. Good luck with your story!

>>122897

>Or you can just start writing clop, say it is clop with plot and then go on ignoring the latter for the former while still making intelligent sounding metaphors. Or write a shit ton of it, just write more and more. That one works better than I think it has any right to work, but what can you do.

I've never seen this happen, but now I want to: I want to see an author write hardcore clop, lie through his teeth about writing it for the plot (actual plot), then get lost in love for his own story so that it actually becomes something nice. Then it gets continued and becomes Field Notes, then it turns into Romance Reports, and finally the author just kind of cracks and turns it into TMB.

I have just recently gotten into writing Fanfics. I'm not really striving for greatness, just putting my ideas out there. If, one day, I do achieve Fiction Greatness, that means i'm doing something right and just improve on it.

I would argue that there is a difference between "greatness" and "popularity" and we should clearly define them before we set out to create and then decide which is the more important to us. While neither goal is, in and of itself, necessarily wrong, the methods used to achieve each of them can be wildly different.

Popularity is about knowing how to reach the greatest number of people in the most effective method possible. Some stories achieve great popularity, simply by shock value. (Cupcakes, etc.) Others get it by being the first to explore a great idea (Fallout Equestria, etc.)

Shoot, this whole show became popular because it achieved something none of the other seasons had: it was written by adults and could be appreciated by adults. They said to themselves, "Just because it's for little kids, doesn't mean we should shut out the rest of the audience. Let the parents have some fun, too."

It’s also a matter of timing. Imagine, again, if this show had been released before 3.5. or after 1. The results would have been different, because the times would have had less to reflect on and decide how to place this show.

True greatness, on the other hand, is achieved in a slightly different manner, often through the desire for a single goal. Whether that be the creation of an epic, the discovery of a tremendous truth, or even the betterment of a single soul, it is the definition of true passion. The struggle for greatness is what often separates true artists from the dime-a-dozens, because those who struggle for greatness don’t care about fame. They want to make something of themselves, or find something that will better the world, and they will work hard for that goal and bleed continually for it.

It’s rare that an act of greatness becomes popular with any amount of haste, but those who wish for greatness will hold fast in their dream and strive to make sure that their creation is all it can be. Artists have often died, never popular, but their vision was so great and their willingness to stand by that vision so great, that their fame grew as the years passed and people said, “They put so much of themselves…

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...Basement?

It puts the lotion on it's skin or it gets the hose again.

Oh, it's cabal.

>Fearing that their quiet lives would be disrupted
Apparently, having your child claimed by the authority is only on par with loud music and inconvenient inclement weather during picnic days.

>>122851
Absolutely beautiful.

>>122855

...Okay

<This one shall enter.>

I already started a Nightmare Night story... but it's more of a comedy, and probably will end up just over 10K words.

It's hard to scare me with regular horror, let alone anything involving our favorite colorful talking ponies. I'll see what people end up doing.

Pfft, horror. That's just what they'll be expecting.

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Hello again, fillies and gentlecolts, and welcome to the sixteenth installment of the “Ask An Equestria Daily Pre-Reader Anything Thread”! Feel free to ask us anything* and we’ll do our best to answer.

*Anything that has to do with Equestria Daily, the pre-reading process, fanfiction, alcohol, regrets, or Nicolas Cage. Keep questions on other subjects to a minimum.

We’d also like to include a brief FAQ in this initial post, since we seem to hear a lot of the same questions:

Q: How long does the pre-reading process take?
A: Depends entirely on how many pre-readers have free time and how interesting the story looks. Could be an hour, could be a week or more.

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>>122965
I have a feeling this has gone wrong somehow.

>>122965

Vimbert, clearly you were drunk. Go to bed 3 hours ago.

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>>122725
http://fim.413chan.net/ -> left bar -> Fanfic? The latest post looks like it's from... twenty minutes ago. They use a YY/MM/DD format there for dating posts. The thread at the top of the page is from two months ago, but the latest post in that thread:
>12/10/20(Sat)02:47

>>122726
okey doke, made a post there

sorry for being a bother

Clopfics can't be found on Ponychan: this is a work-safe environment. Thread locked.

Welp, "This Nearly Was Mine" is now complete.

Also, chapter 2 of "The Ballad of the White Rose" is now up on fimfiction.

And chapter 21 of The Book of Friendship is now up.

On to stuff, then. This week is gonna be hectic for me, though. Hopefully I can slog through it.

Well, this uncompleted chapter has been sitting around in my GDocs since last August, so I decided to post it.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/20099/AAAAAAAAAAAAArientation

And hoooooly crap all those faves...