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>>43667249

First for best duo!
Enjoy this conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/459048/natural-ones

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>>43667214
>tfw no intelligent responsible mares

>>43667207
I'm very close to finishing the last chapter of my fic.
Wish me the best, Anons!

>>43667369
Hope you stick the landing!

The ITT section is so pitifully tiny this time...

>>43667369
Don't fuck it up.

>>43667430
Had to compromise since there were so many stories for the club this week.

>>43667508
You know you don't have to include the story name in the URL, right?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/551920

>>43667655
Considering that we are doing multiple stories this week and including the story name in the URL is tradition at this point there's no good reason not to.

>>43667655
Is this one of those Literary Giants we were promised?

>>43668200
>story claims to be about BBC
>has no British telly

I hate myself for not finishing this stupid horror fic sooner. Now I'm scrambling to get it done and won't have enough time to let things properly stew for editing.

>review https://www.fimfiction.net/story/407380/a-matter-of-provenance

6.5/10. Daring tries to get an ancient artifact from the Flim Flam brothers. I nearly skipped this one because Flim and Flam are no where on the list of characters I want to read a fic about, but it was short enough I opted to. It wasn't terrible and I thought it'd be a lot worse, but the comedy tag seemed to be nonexistent. I'm not even sure there was an actual punchline in the story. Still, I'd rather have a comedy fic without much humor than one that tries and fails to do jokes.

>end

>review https://www.fimfiction.net/story/424493/what-makes-you-special

6/10. The author's self insert is sad and mopey she'll never be horseword famous like Daring is. Another distinctive "author is the character" fic, at least this time it's a full self insert instead of Daring getting possessed. The premise feels a little strained and forced, as if one can compare horseword famous authors to characters with writing cutie marks, but it's not that terrible. Might be the best self insert OC fic I've read, in fact.

>>43666187
>it's what I'd do
It's weird they have a form for it for you to fill out. It'd be better if you pretended you were a tourist or something and asked for some sightseeing brochures or business pamphlets. A visitor center would typically have those, but I doubt Ponyville's either big enough or a popular enough of a destination to have built one of those. You could have them all set up in the Town Hall already and just have the guy walk in and grab a couple without even needing to talk to anyone.

>>43666223
>link to the Daring Do fic you wrote?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/589615/daring-do-and-the-curse-of-avarice (the aforementioned 80k flattening/cartoon physics fetish fic)
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/594974/daring-do-and-the-grimoire-of-gamaltijan ([Comedy][SoL] oneshot featurebait that's technically a sequel to the above. I was able to trick normies into reading a melting fetish fic by forcing the narrator not to dwell on Daring's slowly dissolving athletic body for too long.)

>>43666312
The "Evil Overlord" thing feels too tongue-in-cheek for me and gives the impression this is going to be some kind of comedy about a guy fumbling and bumbling his way along, when the rest of the synopsis feels like its trying to be serious about the plot. Gives me mixed signals about the tone.

>>43669495
does scitwi remain jailbait when she goes to equestria?

>>43669506
No, Equestria is too civilized to send anypony to jail for that.

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>>43669577
This, so much this.

>>43669584
I can see what anons mean when they say this thread is the Xitter of the board.

>>43669588
>he doesn't know about /jdb/

>>43669506
She did go there so you can judge for yourself.

>>43669596
I regularly clock /fimfic/ posters in there.

>>43669809
It's a shame there aren't consistent older mare threads.

>>43669819
Youth is desirable. "Aging gracefully" is an oxymoron.

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>>43669828
I may have peculiar preferences, but I am not a moron!

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>>43669819
This is the best Luna thread on the board, and it's always up!

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>>43669860
Don't you dare disrespect my wife with such an incorrect claim, you heathen.

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>>43669862
I'm talking about Luna, though.

>>43669506
she aged into a 30 year old mare.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/595801/taken-in

Decided to give this story a shot anyway. I'm enjoying it a lot. Changeling fics are fun and this is a creative setup.

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>>43670035
Have you read this guy's work?
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/49263/Phoenix_Dragon
I have not seen anyone come close with infiltrator stories.

>>43670203
>FOE
No thanks

Okay, so I sat down and read them all this evening because why not.
Ditch your roots if you want to fit in.

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/304458/entry-649 + https://www.fimfiction.net/story/452073/dear-diary
In #649 I don't think the author intrigues hard enough for the reader to yearn to decypher that second meaning. It also suffers from being written from a more passive position, from within the haze, from "I don't know what went wrong, but here are some clues I guess".
Dear Diary works much better as the author is much more straighforward with the direction. This gets it out of eldritch horror category and more into something like Faith. We know what is happening, the second layer is in what exactly is happening and figuring it out reveals additional terrible details.
I'm not sure how both fics stand outside of fimfic confines, the back-and-forth with the commenters. Like an ARG to a 2019 game, I guess.

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/536211/1/rain-party/rain-party
A solid, quite effective end-of-the-world story with an appropriate ending.

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/587791/probably-not
The premise is strong and the disassociation is shown in an effective way that can be interpreted in a multitude of distressing ways.
However, none of the unique qualities of the story were addressed, instead the author opted for a seemingly rushed otherworldly resolution.

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/509734/written-in-synthetic-blood
Is okay, but works only because of the identity chosen for the perfect patient.
Replace her by, say, Doctor Caballeron and things fall apart.

>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/418430/after-i-looked-up-the-stars-had-gone-away
There is a decent attempt at suffocation, at isolation. I know that feel when someone's eyes are piercing you with hate, despite nobody being there (especially in a forest).
Underdeveloped though.

Best out of the bunch: Rain Party.
Should've skipped: Probably Not.

>>43670235
It's not Sunday yet, reee!

>>43670262
Fugg, was I supposed to keep these in until Sunday?
Sorry, back from a (checks notes) ten years hiatus.

>>43670268
Yeah on Sunday (always club day) a Rariflag will make an /fsbc/ post and the club posts should reply to that post and then discuss amongst each other

When do you reckon Granny Pie died?

>>43633745
As spoiler-free as possible, I could suggest
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/87224/all-about-rarity as an example of failing to adequately make a character sympathetic. There are more issues with this fic, but I think it's a good example of that specific writing issue.

>>43670203
I have read Fragments. Quite good, actually.

>>43670411
I apologize, I will lurk more for a bit.

Kassaz and the club Rariflag, I hope you didn't forget to vote for Rarity in Miss /mlp/

>>43670864
I don't have a Google account, so I can't.

>>43670864
I am not campaigning in the thread this year (too busy!), but I have done my part.
It'll feel weird when she wins, though, whether in two days or a decade from now. As much as I hate this "meme" and I'm glad that people got better taste, the completely misguided Rarity hate was a small part of /mlp/ culture.

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>>43671076

Is there anything where the Cakes are distant relations of the Pies (like second cousins or so) or am I the first one to load this headcanon?

whatcha writing

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>>43670957
I've seen fanart and AUs that depicts Pinkie as the daughter of the Cakes, either adoptive or biological. I don't know about second cousins, but the idea of making Pinkie related to the Cakes is not a new concept.
However, I do think that making her related to the Cakes, even if it isn't immediate, is super fucking lame. In the show, Pinkie effectively has two family units. With the Pies, even thought they love her, she's still the oddball out. Conversely, she looks more appropriate with the Cakes at first glance, even thought there is no blood relation. I can totally see some rando assuming Pinkie is their daughter and being confused why they named her Pie instead of Cake. I think adding a blood relation takes away from their dynamic.

>>43671076
It definitely seems like she's related to them though, just as a distant relation. She was living with them as a filly and that suggests that her parents, realizing that she was going to be Pinkie, were like "Well why don't we apprentice her to your cousin in that other town?"

>>43671054
I was worried about the front page's rules for submitting an update and a new, separate story back-to-back. Fortunately, I only finished one new chapter of an anthology for Nightmare Night, so I don't need to worry about that anymore.

It's about Tempest Shadow and has accompanying artwork again, nicely.

>>43671085
>It definitely seems like she's related to them though
Why? Because she likes baking? Because of her coloration? That's so surface level.
>realizing that she was going to be Pinkie, were like "Well why don't we apprentice her to your cousin in that other town?"
I still don't see why we need a blood relation for this to happen. It's feels like we're trying to sand down character traits to fit into a tidier box. The way you describe it sounds so cold, even if you didn't intend for it to sound that way. "She clearly gets all that party shit from YOUR side of the family, so let's dump her off at Ponyville."
"Of course Pinkie gels with the Cakes. They're family, why wouldn't it work like that? Of course the families with Cake and Pie as their name are related. Isn't that obvious. Of course fate didn't bless Pinkie with two different families she could express herself around in two different ways. She was just at the perfect spot on a family tree"
It's all so convenient. So demystified. We're sucking away whimsy just to make the story telling easier.

>>43671054
myself being an asshole in a SI
taking a look back through my past experiences in life and cringing as I write

>>43671054
Last chapter of my fic.
For some reason I started thinking of a way it could be better, so now I'm 4,5k words deep into a rewrite. Still about halfway done.
I'm supposed to update tomorrow.

>>43671146
>I still don't see why we need a blood relation for this to happen.
How else are a bunch of amish rock farmers going to know a bunch of bakers well enough to send their pinkest daughter out when she's like middle school age?

>>43671054
A fic where instead of Spike Twilight hatches a young Chrysalis out of an egg.

>>43671264
Now there's a teenage mother I would excuse for going all Lindsay Clancy.

Always wanted something like this and finally someone did it: https://huggingface.co/spaces/OVAWARE/fimfiction-galaxy

Is it just me or is fimfic insanely low-traffic these days?
I drift in and out of this thread so I'm sorry if this has been brought up before.

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>>43671278
How accurate is it?

>>43671278
I can't believe SI made the tunigger become obsolete.

>>43671283
They effectively turned off signups like five years ago and it's been dying anyway

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>>43671263
If you are trying to make this sound any less lazy or hack, it isn't working. You make it sound like the Cakes and Pie HAVE to have been glued to their current locations for their entire lives and could not have formed a bond outside of family ties. You're really saying about a show that has friendship in the title? "Oh, no, our daughter came out all pink and weird and energetic. Luckily I have a cousin the next town over who is into that shit that we can dump her on."
You are swapping out a found family for nepotism. Think about Pinkie from a conception level, focus on season one and two. Think about Baby Cakes and Cutie Mark Chronicles. It would have been so fucking easy to just Pinkie be the Cake's daughter, but there was deliberate choice not to. "Pinkie bonds with the Cakes because they are family" says way less "Pinkie bonds with the Cakes despite not being family."

>>43671272
I'm reworking Chryslertits' personality, as most AUs would. So she's a vain little pervert that likes taking pictures of ponies instead of a succubus spawn of evil.

>>43671297
>Luckily I have a cousin the next town over who is into that shit that we can dump her on
I mean that is precisely what happens with Applejack in her backstory.

This is yesterday's news, but I guess I'm not signing up for AO3 anytime soon:
https://www.otwstatus.org

>Earlier today, we detected evidence of a security incident on AO3. We are still in the early stages of response to this security incident and determining its scope. AO3 will remain down while we continue investigating and addressing what has been found so far. However, we want to make some things clear:

>First, no AO3 data has been deleted. All your works, bookmarks, kudos, etc., are safe.

>Second, while we currently don't believe that the user database was stolen, we are also unable to rule it out. The AO3 database contains account information that may include your username, email address, IP address, and a hashed version of your password.

>We use industry-standard techniques for storing passwords in a scrambled form that cannot easily be reversed. Even so, no hashing method can fully protect a weak or reused password from being cracked. As a precaution, we recommend that you change your passwords on any other sites where you use the same password as on AO3.

>AO3 does not collect real names, so none could be exposed. Additionally, our donor information is held in an entirely separate system and is never linked to AO3, so that data has also not been exposed.

>We will update everyone as our investigation continues; we may be unable to respond to individual inquiries from users. Please keep an eye on our official outlets for updates. Our next update will be posted when we have further information available.

>Our current expectation is that AO3 will be down for a minimum of two weeks; however, it could take up to four weeks. During that time, we may be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state, meaning that not all features will be available and/or the site may be read-only. If we are able to do that, please be aware that we might have to bring the site back down unexpectedly as part of our recovery efforts. We will keep you in the loop for any developments.

>>43671297
Blinkie is so fucking cute bros

>>43671299
>only a hatchling and already a pervert
I see bookhorse's Special Lessons from the Princess were passed on expeditiously.

>>43671308
It's a pervert like bodice rippers and written smut. The taking pictures part is just because she's a weirdo.

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>>43671304
Well Pinkie and Applejack are two completely different characters that say different things about family, so that isn't relevant at all.
But also, if you are referring to Cutie Mark Chronicles, that's not what happened. AJ thought she wanted to live fancy but realized she loved her home life after all when she saw got got homesick and saw that rainbow. What your saying would only be true of Aunt and Uncle Orange were her parents, or if Granny dumped her off on them when she didn't like apple farming and ended up with an orange cutie mark. You somehow managed to miss the mark twice in one sentence.

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>>43671263
>How else are a bunch of amish rock farmers going to know a bunch of bakers well enough to send their pinkest daughter out when she's like middle school age?
Through ponies like Pinkie?
(if nothing else, since there's no reason why Igneous and Cloudy can't just know other ponies)

Pinkie literally got her life philosophy from an older relative.

>>43671286
A brief skim of the code seems to suggest that it's purely semantic search on embeddings: https://huggingface.co/spaces/OVAWARE/fimfiction-galaxy/blob/main/app/engine.py#L733

That means don't expect keyword search to work. It may appear to work on common phrases like "Derpy" but that's probably because the concepts associated with "Derpy" tend to be similar anyway.

>>43671299
She should get along with Cadance because they're both perverts and Cadance is basically a walking buffet for her.

>>43671278
two of the first clusters i randomly clicked on were the daring do cluster and the tuna cluster. i'm taking that as a sign this general is cosmically significant.

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>mfw AO3 fucking dies

>>43671306
As someone who jumps between ao3 and fimfiction FUCK! Guess ill wait 2 weeks for fic updates...

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>>43672764 >>43672810

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FsoIn9z3f2wftj2SjdMaDrKd42wPWkxGr3U08BF2jFU/edit?usp=sharing

Daring horror fic's done. Pic relate's going to be the over art since I couldn't get my act together in time to make my own. It's called Daring Do and the Trinket of Time

>Long Description:
Ever since Daring Do’s first adventure, she’d heard about Star Swirl’s Trinket of Time, a magical astrolabe said to be able to time travel—but even more than that, said to be able to alter time itself. None of those time loops or alternate divergent timelines. It warped the very timestream—your timestream. Any mistake you made could be fixed. Any regret undone. Any glory day revisited.
Who wouldn’t get obsessed over such an artifact?

But one must be very cautious. Obsession is a dangerous word when spoken in the same breath as artifact. Just ask her old mentor, Professor Torchlight. His obsession with the ancient Tome of Violare—a dangerous dark magic book from the bloody history of the unicorns—destroyed their friendship a decade ago.

But Daring Do knows all that. She’s careful. She’s cautious. She’s knowledgeable. She knows how to avoid a horror story. It’s easy when dark magic just can’t shut up about it. Now, most of all though, she’s bored. Ever since the Talisman of Truth, adventuring has dried up. There’s been no artifacts for her to find and no days for her to save.

Until her old mentor returns one day with the promise of the grand adventure she’s been wanting her whole life: finding the Trinket of Time. It’s an adventure like any other. What could possibly go wrong? Like with any obsession, quite a bit, it turns out.

>Short Description:
Daring Do has had a long obsession with the ancient Trinket of Time. Who wouldn’t want to be the discoverer of an ancient artifact like that? So when her old mentor offers her the chance, of course she’d take it. If only she hadn’t.

I'll be posting it tomorrow morning when I wake up, so edit now or forever hold your peace.

>review https://www.fimfiction.net/story/105771/the-debt-left-behind

5/10. Daring has a panic attack and spends four months wandering the jungle. Another entry in the "author wears Daring's skin" collection, I knew right from the synopsis I wouldn't like this one. If there's one version of Daring that has never come to mind, even in the wild west era, it's her suffering crippling anxiety attacks, then whinging about it in the jungle. It was surprisingly better written than I'd been expecting, but that OOCness was just a bridge too far for me.

>>43671054
See above. I kicked 4k into this fucking thing today to get over the finish line. Most I've written in a single day in a non-fetish fic.

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>>43671054
I'm pleased with this short story I wrote for Nightmare Night tonight:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/574592/15/short-stories-about-fizzle-before-she-pops/costumes-and-frights-sweet-and-fun

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>>43672325
>Daring Do’s just not the same since you wrapped up her main reoccurring villains.”
>Not my fault they’re not villains anymore.
How could you do this?

>>43672325
Edgy
3/10 but the dissolving scene is alright at least

I feel like using wizen as an adjective is archaic and it felt kind of jarring but that's a personal preference

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/596158/daring-do-and-the-trinket-of-time
Horror fic's up. Shill time.

>>43670035
Last chapter of this is out. Feels kind of anticlimactic, but also very horror-esq. I enjoyed it overall.

>>43657910
Is Lego Ninjago good? I caught the end of a few episodes years ago.

>>43671306
>Our current expectation is that AO3 will be down for a minimum of two weeks; however, it could take up to four weeks.
Blows my mind. AO3 is a very simple website.

>>43674401
All those porn tags take a lot of work.

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>>43674624

Ponyfics for this feel?

>>43674620
Paul reviewed one where Sunset was Dante and Twilight was Vergil and Flash was Chris Redfield some months ago, look through his 10 or so most recent reviews

>>43674401
Security was breached. You want them to put it up faster without taking the time to make sure it won't be breached just as fast?

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>>43674880 >>43674931

>read about how a historian named Fernand Braudel drafted a 2000 page book in his head while in a nazi work camp
>think about how I can barely even write a one shot short fic

>>43674875
If you are really desperate do hard drugs and you will come up with ideas at the small cost of destroying a few years of your life

>>43674875
I've written thousands of pages in my head, too.
The problem is putting them into actual text.

>>43674931
>Phone
>Google Docs
Just talk.
Just talk and ramble and go back and edit it later
It's what I do when I get stuck.
I just set my phone down and pace around and dictate what's in my mind

I saw this one on the front page, looked at the author, and it was genuinely unskippable.
>review
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/595707/mockery
Snap and Mane investigate a creepy forest, while also trying not to miss Scootaloo's birthday. It goes about as well as you would expect. With AnOrdinaryWriter, I can usually tell what movie we are copying. "Still" copying the movie "Circle" was kinda obvious looking back. There's a bunch of movies about hikers or travelers get stuck somewhere and running into a monster, so I can't call out any specific one. But damn, this one was really good. If you liked the first chapter of "Still" then you will like this one. It's all the good parts from that fic plus more, without all the majors flaws. The pacing here is still solid, as is the character writing. I also really like the monster in this one, serving as a natural counter to our explorers who bite of more than they can chew, as if all their pasts hunts have amalgamated to overwhelm them.
Take it from someone who has The Last Crusade as his bottom 1 episode, endearing an audience to Snap and Mane can be uphill battle. AnOrdinaryWriter somehow won over a hater like me to point where I am actually rooting for these absentee parents. Snap and Mane's dynamic is so good here. They have a strong banter, clear things they agree and disagree on, and you get a very clear idea of their relationship. They aren't saints, and the fic doesn't make easy excuses for them. They are fleshed out character who make decisions and mistakes and fucked up their priorities along the way. Because the character writing is so strong here, it is elevated above being "23k words to torture the two worst parents in Equestria." I am mad this left me wanting for more Snap and Mane. How the fuck did you do that? I'm never gonna get that again.
The violence from "Still" is present here as well, and I feel like it fits better here thematically. It's straight up gut-wrenching. I always feel like horror hits harder when I have a genuine emotional attachment to the lead. Doing that with leads I start off not liking is doubly impressively.
Really glad I read this one. Could not stop once I started.
>end

>tfw a reader misinterprets a scene and you realize it actually might work better than what you were going for
Damn it.

>review https://www.fimfiction.net/story/128395/legacy

4.7/10. Daring and Twilight explore the ruins of a human city destroyed in 1999 by WW3. This one was pretty disappointing. I was hoping for either a Yucca Mountain-type thing or some kind of mystery over what destroyed humanity, but it was all pretty plain and kind of boring. There's no real excitement to the plot or anything to keep you invested in reading it. The writing also seemed a tad amateurish.

>end

>review https://www.fimfiction.net/story/129695/daring-do-in-deepest-peru

6.5/10. Daring treks through the jungle, trying to find her way out after her airship explodes. By Rainbow Dash. I'll admit, this one successfully baited me. All it took was the narrator not telegraphing the whole thing right from the start like all the other fics in the "Dash writes Daring fanfic" genre do. Amazing how much better these kinds of fics are when there's a little subtlety in them. It even had some Twidash at the end to round things off.

>end

>review https://www.fimfiction.net/story/151486/i-daring-do

5.5/10. Ahuizotl falls in love with Daring after she destroys his temple in Daring Don't. By Rainbow Dash. This might be one of the last "Dash writes Daring fanfic" stories done. The whole genre died out after Daring Don't and it is kind of creepy she'd write a shipping story about a friend. The plot is a traditional absurdist comedy but like a lot of these, I feel like the comedy needed to really be ramped up. Felt weirdly restrained for such a cracky premise. Then the ending just makes the whole thing feel like a waste of time, like the author was using the Dash thing as an excuse for the whole story.

>>43672764
>How could you do this?
I hate Daring Doubt, too, but I wanted to give things a post-canon feel.

>>43671306
Yeah this really fucking sucks. I don't write and barely even read mlp fanfiction anymore after many years of being into it. Got into a new fanfic scene. So this is miserable right now.

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>>43675286
>Perú
Woo!
I shall read and check how it goes.