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Come one and all to the meta-writefag and help raise the quality of MLP fanfiction! Featuring: First for HIE!
ITT: Communal Molestation, High IQ in South America, abandoning your mare after pregnancy is over, bots, magical girls, unlikeable mommylestia, disregard women, acquire currency, Archetypist more like archeshittist, your best writing, do ponies eat?, Homestuck, jorking it to messed up shit, ignoring Spike, food fics, pigs, what makes a pony fic feel pony?, the degradation of the site, gay space communism, and the secreter club will rise again!
>/fimfic/ Secret Book Club
The one hundred and seventy first book is Spike's Dragon Code for Cuddling!
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/330387/spikes-dragon-code-for-cuddlin g
If (You) want to participate, read the whole story by Sunday, April 12th.
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First for best duo!
Enjoy this conveniently packaged Tuna: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/247622/twilight-good-night
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It isn't.
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Post a picture you have took
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>>43156166
The operator said it's too expensive to run Chrome in a Docker container every so often to get story info off FiMfic through Cloudflare and dropped it.
I want to remind him that he can get story info out of the fimfarchive index.json, and for people >reviewing flavor of the week stories that aren't in it, fuck 'em. It's not like doing that would be worse than it is now.
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>>43156219
I think someone's making a Firefox in a Docker container competitor, but yes. Flaresolverr is the name of it. The script stopped working when FiMFic went behind Cloudflare many years ago. There was always a way around it, but it costs compute. Now, I'm not offering to host it either, because my VPS only has 1GB of RAM and I also don't want to pay for more when it already does everything else I need it to do, so I halfway get it. But also it is just a Docker container that needs to run for two minutes at a time, come on. I even gave him the example code to shim it.
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>>43156443
Oh, now you don't like it when someone chooses which community to support?
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>the feitsh fic will be a oneshot
>it'll be a short multichapter
>okay, ten chapters
>30k long, max
>there's no way it'll go beyond 50k <-- I am here
>75k is the absolute limit
>I've always wanted to write another 100k fetish fic
>>43155321
Isn't it just because it's a site post contest? I don't recall the zebra dom contest getting a Wanderer post. Those will always have the normie rules on them because Knighty doesn't want the site to seem completely degenerate.
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>Mussolini wrote erotic fiction!
He's just like me, for real.
>>43156847
Very nice. I've realized I'm staring down the barrel of a fucking commissioned novel about Fluttershy with a dragon egg in her belly. Which fetish is it?
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>fic looks somewhat interesting
>rgre
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Why Fimfarchive magnet not work 4 me?
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Feeling the holiday cheer in,
>/FSBC/
It occurred to me last week that we've been doing this for over three years, and with no signs of dying yet! I suppose we'll have to see if Heart of the Author kills us when we get to it eventually. So thanks for participating everyone and I wish you all a happy Easter!
Due to its popularity last week, the next fic should be Kaidan, but I'm not sure another anthology in a row is a great idea.
I think that's about it, yeah?
Oh, right, there was also a fic for this week.
Sigh… Well, it's not even bad. I don't think so, at least? I didn't manage to read all of this week's chapters, but I think I have a good sense of how it'll go. To be honest, I did smile while reading it, despite the [Comedy]! But the whole fic is many thousand words of “the joke is sex”. There is nothing more and nothing less, so it all depends on the joke landing.
To the author's credit, he really went all-in on the E-rated “cuddling”. We're seeing incest+filly jokes about AJ&AB as soon as chapter 1, and then go straight to zoophilia (you know what I mean) and NTR-ish vibes in ch.2. That's good—for the absurd humor to work, the author couldn't afford being a coward. Those totally-not-sex scenes also stick very close to the characterizations you'd expect to see. If anything, you might argue they're taken too far, too archetypical—but for a comedy fic like this one, I think it's appropriate.
I'm disappointed by the prose. It's fine. Functional. But it's also oppressively bland and devoid of character. And for a comedy fic? That's inexcusable. The fact that grammar and punctuation look okay at a glance almost makes it worse.
The fic lives and dies by the sex allusions. Well, they are not even that! They are far more than “allusions”. It's good that the story is focused. I'm not really convinced that reading it was worth the time it took, and I'm even less sure that the second half of the fic still adds much, but I also can't find too much wrong with the execution of this idea. If this is your kind of humor, it's probably a very good fic for you.
Sorry for posting early and/or no picture; my posting circumstances are suboptimal at the moment.
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>>43157346
We're so back!
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The actual fic starts at the second chapter, and the formula is then repeated over the next several ones. The first chapter is just a pretty crude way to get the world to the state that the fic requires. It's not really similar to the fic's "story", which is "Spike goes through his M6 harem having not!sex".
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>>43157505
Good God ponies in bunny suits are attractive
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>>43157346
>club at 6:40am
There was no way I was trying to get up early for this one. This shit feels like E rated clop. It's actually ridiculous kek. That guy earlier who said it's all fluff is delusional. Harry and Fuzzy Legs are the only good scenes until Starlight's chapter
>aj fucking in the barn, wanting to hurry up and get it on and keep it quiet to not make Apple Bloom jealous
>shy is a cuddle virgin (except animals ofc)
>some weird cuck concern with angel
>spike and angel fistbump while double-cuddling fluttershy
>both aj and shy get ready before meeting spike in the bedroom
>rainbow 'you can't handle me' dash making sure he doesn't tell anypony
>rd literally cums then hits the leg lock
>pinkie is loud when she cuddles
>pinkie thinks prone bone cuddling is boring
>"I see... And is there anything else you plan to do with me while you're here?"
What the fuck kind of question is that, is she expecting to get raped?
>rarity offers herself to spike before he leaves to show her appreciation
At least there's an actual story reason for it
>offers to sleep together
>Dr D. Sico
Actual kek
The worst part is I don't even think the fic even tries in these chapters. Nopony even says Spike is warm or anything like you might expect of a dragon
Then Starlight gets the first reasonable chapter that actually just feels like a cuddle and has some actual lead up. And Twilight's chapter right after is also good and not horny like the first 5. But next week we have the cuddle puddle orgy and who the fuck even knows why the fic hasn't already ended and what the other 50% is about after the party
>>43157346
>It occurred to me last week that we've been doing this for over three years, and with no signs of dying yet!
Based, probably the only hiccup was Lyrafag
>But the whole fic is many thousand words of “the joke is sex”
>To the author's credit, he really went all-in on the E-rated “cuddling”
Yeah, this fic was not the comfy that some people made it sound like it was gonna be
>We're seeing incest+filly jokes about AJ&AB as soon as chapter 1, and then go straight to zoophilia (you know what I mean) and NTR-ish vibes in ch.2
I'm glad someone else agrees, I feel like I usually have to argue points like this
>I'm not really convinced that reading it was worth the time it took, and I'm even less sure that the second half of the fic still adds much
yup, truly no idea what happens in the 2nd half of the wordcount to warrant it existing
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>>43157346
I read through part of this story and desu I didn't mind how wierdly sexual it was, but it was strange how the writer didn't want to commit to full on sex even though he seemed really horny. The story was too samey and every chapter felt the same like it was just Spike asking a new girl to do some (heavy) cuddling. I don't know what they see in Spike to agree to cuddle so easily but maybe these are slut things that I don't understand. I read until the chapter with Rainbow Dash, and even though she was full on leg locking Spike it wasn't gripping enough to make me finish before this club started. It didn't even rub me the wrong way, it only wasn't stimulating enough. I don't know, I'll probably finish before next week and I'm looking forward to the chapter with the princesses.
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>>43157346
>To the author's credit, he really went all-in on the E-rated “cuddling”. We're seeing incest+filly jokes about AJ&AB as soon as chapter 1, and then go straight to zoophilia (you know what I mean) and NTR-ish vibes in ch.2.
The stuff with Apple Bloom or Angel didn't read as heavy cuddling to me, only regular cuddling. The only time it seems sexual is when Spike is involved.
>but I also can't find too much wrong with the execution of this idea.
To be honest it seems too long for the idea that it has. The premise seems like it is more suited to a short story of maybe 10k words and not 57k. I agree that the regular prose is bland and not enough to keep a reader interested.
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>aj fucking in the barn, wanting to hurry up and get it on and keep it quiet to not make Apple Bloom jealous
But Apple Bloom will get involved later won't she?
>pinkie thinks prone bone cuddling is boring
Lmao haven't gotten there yet but this is super fair.
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>>43157513
Yeah, they're nice.
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>>club at 6:40am
It's a minor miracle that I managed to post it today.
>This shit feels like E rated clop. It's actually ridiculous kek.
Well yeah, the whole fic exists to do the "E-rated clop" joke.
>Twilight's chapter right after is also good and not horny like the first 5
Huh? I only read up to Pinkie, but I'm moderately interested in what the fic will do after running its main prompt into the ground and deciding to keep going. But yes, looking at this fic, it's just so big for what it is. We'll see if it has the endurance to match it.
>I usually have to argue points like this
I'd say the difference is that here it's done intentionally as a joke. For what it's worth, I don't mind the fic going there since it's clearly comedic about the """fetishes""". Even the weird NTR bit with Angel got only a shrug and a smile from me. And besides, we're in Spike POV (I struggle to imagine a worse hell) so it's 'only' the netori version of NTR.
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>the writer didn't want to commit to full on sex
Do you think he could've gone further without going to T? I think this probably should've been T-rated for such heavy innuendo anyway, but clearly the fic would not work if it wasn't posted as E.
>I don't know what they see in Spike to agree to cuddle so easily
Spike is living his harem anime protag arc, so of course they are all willing. That, or maybe the M6 are just souls acting as Mane6 in an artificial world for the sole reason of cuddling with him ad infinitum.
That's also likely.
>it only wasn't stimulating enough
Yeah, I found myself wanting to skim the actual cuddling scenes for the setup, and I think the prose is to blame for that.
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>didn't read as heavy cuddling to me, only regular cuddling
I think the implication was there. Like, obviously they didn't do anything, but just like with Spike, the fic hinges on making you think it's like that.
>it seems too long
Yeah, you need good writing technique to make use of such length.
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>Well yeah, the whole fic exists to do the "E-rated clop" joke.
>I'd say the difference is that here it's done intentionally as a joke.
My problem was going in not expecting it to be a joke. Then getting actually '''''decent''''' chapters once getting to Starlight and Twilight where it seems to stop being about the joke and actually starts being about cuddling
also how tf was I the only one who read it all, who voted for this?
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No, there were more than half a dozen replies to the voting post; it looks like all or all but one of the club participants wanted to read one of the two horror fics, but also wanted to read it in October.
The peanut gallery "voted" for the Spike fic against the several yuri fics on the spread, and Rariflag overweighted the sentiment against reading horror fics now.
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>>43158229
If you are seething over fact that we took away an excuse for you to read even more yuri just tell us directly.
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>>43158233
I already go read yuri whenever the club reads badfics, so that implication doesn't make any sense. The actual veiled suggestion in that post was that the club should go back to only taking votes from participants because there is almost no overlap in fics the peanut gallery wants posters to read and fics that are worth reading. And, by extension, y'all should drop this Spike fic and jump to Kaidan, which is what I think actually got most of the votes.
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I would have said no nose knows but that’s a dead series that slowly got worse and bean is written to be kind or a normalfag and not super interesting as an individual.
I uhhh, can’t think of any other OCxCanon fics that are possibly worth reading.
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>stallion beans
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>egg
>Which fetish is it?
Ovipositor, I'd assume. But doesn't canon explicitly have a "nesting ground" the dragons lay their eggs in and the volcanoes' heat incubates them?
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>sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a power rangers crossover
I believe you found the autism fic. I don't even think the railfags can compete with that.
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>”far worse? What do you mean by far worse?”
>*opens random chapter*
>”oh.”
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>man I haven't read any mlp fanfiction in like a decade I'm gonna dive back in
>last updated 2016
>last updated 2014
>last updated 2020
>last updated 2021
>last updated 2018
yeah you know what now I remember why I stopped reading fan fiction and started reading actual books and novels
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>>43158597
>Ovipositor, I'd assume.
No, I was asking him, and no, no ovipositor involved.
>But doesn't canon explicitly have a "nesting ground" the dragons lay their eggs in and the volcanoes' heat incubates them?
I don't care about any of the schizophrenic dragon lore in the show. Anyway, it's a long story, as I mentioned. Besides, this story with Fluttershy and a dragon egg was a bit of a compromise I worked out with my commissioner. He originally wanted it to be the egg of a queen muto from Godzilla, but that was something I couldn't write. I've been looking at some of his other, similar story commissions from other writers, and the one I read was "interesting" to put it one way.
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The Chrysalis Gambit finished, but I don't see anyone posting about it. How did you all find it?
It's the first Alicorn Adventures book that I read as it was being released so it's difficult for me to judge it. I certainly enjoyed the read and it has all of the fun that usually comes with this series (wacky pirate adventures, character interacting in fun ways, and Twilight being overpowered), but the actual story seems messy. The ending comes abruptly and the solution to the mystery was little more thanBlueblood is a dick. The explanation for the "MOTHER. NOT MOTHER" thing was welcome but everyone agrees that it's inconsequential within two chapters of the reveal.
I just want iisaw to progress the fucking myth arc. It'll never happen.
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Sex with Chrysalis
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>>43158854
I'm going to start interpreting posts as checks to see if someone's written the concept from the perspective of someone who's too afraid to write something if anyone else has ever written it:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/294875/velvet-plush
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>>43159576
I mean it's the next book in the series. I'll at least get to remember what the state of the world is. I'm sure Chryssi moving in with Blueblood or something is relevant I I've completely forgotten why that happened
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>>43159588
Twilight told Chrysalis that she's seen all the futures in which Chrysalis betrays the ponies and that Chrysalis loses in every one (one way or another), and that she knows the signs to look for to predict a betrayal from Chryssi Prime, so she's on a short leash. Chrysalis responds.by marrying Blueblood and I think ceding her hive to another queen.
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>>43159576
You could get away with skipping the first one, at the small cost of not knowing the changeling OCs. I think Luna Cypher does reiterate relevant Edge Crystal lore. If you started with Twilight Enigma, though, you'd be quite lost as to the M6 motivations and the identities of the other half of Twilight's crew. The rest are all much too far along in the story to start at: what on Equus is Twilight Town? Who is Ao?
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>>43159250
Also, what myth arc? The only time anypony says myth in the stories is a throwaway line about orcas.
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>>43160373
Not that anon but Man and His Symbols by Jung and Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 5 Volume 2 by Kazuki. The former was pretty good and don’t read the latter it is not worth the time.
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>>43160827
People praise the Avatar books?
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>>43160834
only really the kyoshi ones because who the fuck cares about the other avatars, and it's more like the second you find out about avatar books is when you hear the kyoshi ones are good. I don't think anybody who isn't into avatar is ever thinking about the avatar books
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There's that one where an assassin decapitates Celestia in her sleep and the body grows a new head while the head grows a new, tiny body. I think that technically counts as fission.
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Is it "not a vore story" in the same way Twilight's Dollhouse is "not an inanimate TF story"?
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>I was asking him
Sorry, I misread it. It's the cartoon physics fetish, centering on flattening. Daring Do goes to an ancient temple to get the plot device and has to fight with a villainous thief to get it. Cartoon traps ensue. I just finished a 2k scene where the villain gets mind controlled by some dark magic gem into fixing a wringer trap, then flattening herself out.
It's at 48k now. I honestly thought 50k was the limit but the thief fetish scenes are really bloating it out, which I explicitly wanted to avoid when I started it. Oh well. It's hot and that's all that matters in a story like this.
>I don't care about any of the schizophrenic dragon lore in the show
I figured there'd be some throwaway thing like she found it in the woods somewhere and there wasn't time to get it back there in time so in it went.
>>43160373
Last ones I read were those TNG books and I'm 100% certain there's fanfics that are way better. The one where the Federation intentionally starts a planetary race war to breed a Jem'Hadar-esque supersoldier race was probably the best one but even it was kind of boring, as crazy as that is to say given that plot.
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>>43161027
>Is it "not a vore story" in the same way Twilight's Dollhouse is "not an inanimate TF story"?
I mean it's not a vore story where you're pretty sure it's not the person's fetish but it's definitely fucking weird.
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>>43158818
If you want an actually good vorefic-but-not-really, this is the Reading Rainbow of the genre: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/157618/rainbowNOMicon
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Do anons know good homoerotic (romance or porn) with manly stallions ? Preferably guard topic but that's not a requirement
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>>43161101
This was a funny little fic.Now what the reading rainbow of inflation?
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>>43161027
>There's that one where an assassin decapitates Celestia in her sleep and the body grows a new head while the head grows a new, tiny body. I think that technically counts as fission.
That type of reproduction is fragmentation.
Do you know what fic it was I cannot find it.
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>>43161683
Mad, With Power.
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>>43161311
You can have some R63 Twilunestia,
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/358267/what-comes-between-day-and-nig ht
Or a pair of stories about some hypermasculine princes, an alternate interpretation of On a Cross and Arrow, with lots of militaristic elements
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/102135/Lord_Artemis/stories
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>>43161688
Thanks. Found the relevant chapter and am reading the others. The egg chapter reminded me of this very short fic by Georg
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/350807/twilight-sparkle-lays-an-egg
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All the background shit like there being a lot of Twilights competing to figure out the best way to run a civilisation.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MythArc
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>>43161027
>those TNG books and I'm 100% certain there's fanfics that are way better.
This is exactly what puts me off from engaging with any Star Trek beyond the TV shows... but I might do it anyway. Some of the video games look alright?
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/432414/night-of-day
Anon most readers don’t comment anyways. It’s just a possibility that the 130 people that have seen the new chapter so far won’t feel inclined to post a comment or critique it.
Also scrolling through the updated section is a good way to discover fics that are outside of the bounds of anything you would usually search for or imagine.
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>>43162231
I almost put in my post that I hope you're not talking about the Bright/Dark game, but I could not see any connection between it and the word "myth."
Fuck that arc, I'm glad iisaw dropped it and I hope it stays dropped. The hyper powerscaling and stakes scaling was killing any enjoyability the story had. It does not need or benefit from DBZ multiversal catastrophizing. And the order/chaos dichotomy is easily one of the most played out tropes ever.
I would love it if there was another dejuiced Twilight story, like Skyla Pseudonym, but was some combination of Twilight, her crew, Ao, and maybe Luna if iisaw could figure out how to write her, but probably not. Like she has to execute a royal contract inside Equestria, Celestia forbids dark magic, and she struggles with not indulging her habit of turning opponents into red mist because she's not sure that they're totally villainous.
That sounds infinitely better than "Twilight fights a bunch of boring Twilights and rediscovers that only a Sith deals in absolutes"
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/146805/daleks-have-no-concept-of-frie ndship
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>>43162362
>he order/chaos dichotomy is easily one of the most played out tropes ever.
That's the good part of it though. Twilight's struggle to pick a side is legitimate. It's not your usual "but chaos makes me horny!" crap.
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It isn't, though. She doesn't even have any such struggle. It was in Twilight Enigma that she accepted that she splits the middle according to her own judgement for any given situation, and that alienates her from her fellow pricesses, and excludes her from the role of sovereign. She long since decided she's happy with that.
If there was any struggle, it would be her beating the snot out of all the other Twilights that everyone already knows are wrong in a boring way, which is a bad story.
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I don't really post on /mlp/ regularly but my favourite book is Nostromo by Joesoph Conrad and I'm currently reading through Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo.
I treat fanfiction as the literary equivalent of fast food.
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>Pony version
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>Sorry, I misread it. It's the cartoon physics fetish, centering on flattening.
Damn, does it feel like a novel at that point?
>Daring Do goes to an ancient temple to get the plot device and has to fight with a villainous thief to get it. Cartoon traps ensue. I just finished a 2k scene where the villain gets mind controlled by some dark magic gem into fixing a wringer trap, then flattening herself out.
Nice, kek.
>It's at 48k now. I honestly thought 50k was the limit but the thief fetish scenes are really bloating it out, which I explicitly wanted to avoid when I started it. Oh well. It's hot and that's all that matters in a story like this.
I'm growing to think that fetish stuff doesn't actually diminish the literary value of a story, per se. Ancient mythology is full of all manner of weird shit that reads like someone's DeviantArt account (rip, I guess) and then respectable fiction like Dante's trilogy is self-insert fanfiction where people he doesn't like are tortured in Hell forever while his heroes are nice to him.
I was just yesterday seeing people talking about how we view history through a primarily Christian lens that attributes sin to healthy behaviour and finds unnecessary alternative explanations for things that are clearly sexual in nature; puritans ruin everything, basically.
>I figured there'd be some throwaway thing like she found it in the woods somewhere and there wasn't time to get it back there in time so in it went.
Oh, it involves book horse. It's been fun to write an inconsiderate Twilight Sparkle oblivious to her behaviour when she's focussed on fixing equipment and things like that, a side of her I've not fondled previously.
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>The egg chapter reminded me of this very short fic by Georg
>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/350807/twilight-sparkle-lays-an-egg
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>I might do it anyway.
Don't forget to consult the autism chart if you get into the books.
>Some of the video games look alright?
I have no idea about the "story" ones, but Bridge Commander and Armada 2 are great, provided you install the mods (Kobayashi Maru and Ghost's Compilation respectively). They both work on the GOG versions of the games. There's also the Armada 3 mod for Sins of Solar Empire but I was never able to punch through the learning curve wall to get into it.
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Kek. I checked to see if Rise of Firefly's author ever started the third story in the trilogy only to see he's been busy writing an 800k HiE Gilda clopfic instead.
Pony POV is finished, I believe, but I'm not sure you want to touch that mess.
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>does it feel like a novel at that point?
It feels like an okay story, but it doesn't hit nearly the same way the archmage fic has, in terms of feeling like a complete novel. The fetishes just taint the plot. If it were a true normal Daring fic, there'd be way more lore stuff about the ancient kingdom and the chaos magic it was trying to master, as dread steadily builds that the "abandoned" temple is actually alive with dark magic that's going to keep her trapped forever, the magic not even letting her die. Instead, it's just window dressing to explain how Daring can be trapped in ruins constantly running into wacky traps. It becomes formulaic in order to fit all the fetish scenes in.
That's always a problem I've had. Plot and fetish just do not go together and they constantly fight each other for control. I've yet to find an idea that seamlessly blends the two. The Daring adventure plot wants a clean lore fic with some dark magic horror while the fetish plot just wants an excuse for Daring to be modulated by a room full of spinning blades with as little horror as possible since that sucks the cartoon horniess out of the air.
>Ancient mythology is full of all manner of weird shit
People like to cope with this, but Ovid didn't go on for ten stanzas about how hot the naked woman statues Medusa made were. The difference between a mythological snake monster eating women whole and a vore fic is in how much the narrator spends on the action.
That's what really drags fetish fics down, narratively. I break off the ancient kingdom lore that really helps the plot because the narrator has to spend four paragraphs describing how hot the cute tribal mare who got flattened by the wall trap is. It kills the pacing for something that doesn't even boost the plot.
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>autism chart
Surely you can just read in release order?
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>Bridge Commander and Armada 2 are great,
Really, but I heard...
>provided you install the mods
Oh. Yeah. That's expected. I hear Armada 2 breaks hard if you play it normally.
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>Trixie and Starlight
Personally, I find their relationship one-note, boring, and just another friend group forced together by late season writers. But there are lots of antisocial trannies and lesbians who self-insert as one of them, so they would probably enjoy your premise.
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>>43163668
I do not understand the appeal of dragon ball. Though maybe that’s just because I exhausted my interest in shonen consuming other shonen when I was younger.
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No one cares /dbs/.
Also multiverse is not even bad by itself. No one complained about it back when the show started. People only started pretending to hate multiverses as a concept because of bad MCU movies in the last 5 years. Just like how 20 years before that, people started pretending to hate time travel as a conceptbbecause of bad Terminator movies.
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>people he doesn't like are tortured in Hell forever
This take always makes me laugh because Inferno has a lot of people Dante likes in it even beyond Limbo. The dude is fangirling when he learns he gets to talk to Ulysses and sad about a few of the people he interacts with being stuck there.
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>t. Hasn't read Frankenstein
The amount of plot contrivances Mary shoves in that book just so she can write a proper copefic about her dead child and retard husband is insane. Granted it was written in a rush by a depressed teenager but tf do you mean the random poorfag family the creature starts living with just happens to have a complete ESL baddie come live with them so he can also learn English as they teach her? Not to mention the multiple instances of people wasting time and space in their letters writing shit the other already knows just for the benefit of the reader. Her prose is pretty great though, probably one of the few good things hanging around that piece of shit Percy got her.
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Different anon, but Frankenstein is one of the few books I was supposed to read for a class that I just couldn't finish. It was awful. I don't think anyone anywhere believes it's a literary masterpiece; its strength is that she had a good idea for a monster, an idea that caught on and continues to be influential. If the monster hadn't been popular enough to spawn lots of movies (none of which portray him as he is in the book), nobody would remember the book today.
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>That's always a problem I've had. Plot and fetish just do not go together and they constantly fight each other for control.
Why not pick one over the other, then? My first thought is to suggest writing fetishistic horror that won't necessarily be recognized as a fetish.
I still think back to one comment I got:
>this suits Halloween as i am horrified beyond belief
>People like to cope with this, but Ovid didn't go on for ten stanzas about how hot the naked woman statues Medusa made were.
I was thinking more like that one guy who turns himself into a worm—funniest shit I've ever read—and dives into the vagina of some goddess to gain immortality, only for the many teeth therein to kill him and cause his mutilated corpse to dribble out.
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I like when he talks to one pope, who confuses him for the current pope ready to be tortured forever, the equivalent to killing Donald Trump or some other disliked politician in fiction today.
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>Ghost's Compilation
Does this mod fix anything in the game engine? Like fleets failing to path through asteroid fields and that hateful bug where clicking on a ship will cause the previous ship your mouse cursor was over to be selected instead? It says physics engine overhaul, so I doubt it.
I've played the campaign a couple times and the Fleet Ops conversion mod for Armada II and it seemed to just be an early '00s minor, unpolished RTS. I remember multiplayer gameplay is just "how long until it desyncs" even on LAN
This mod looks like it slows down the (already very, very slow) gameplay and adds a longer tech tree and higher resolution ship models. There has to be a better game to stage Star Trek space battles in from the last two and a half decades.
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>>43163718
Responding to your retarded post with a serious reply is beneath my honor. Go be a whinny little bitch somewhere else.
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>>43164117
No, but a gameplay video of Beyond All Reason reminded me about the disappointment that was Warzone 2100.
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I'll admit most fanfiction is better than most YA fiction but that's not a high bar.
>>43162878
Lord Jim is on my list to read but I've got a lot of stuff to get to it. My father has read it and liked it and he isn't the literary type so it's probably more laconic than Nostromo though Nostromo is dense in terms of descriptions and themes so anything else would be lighter anyway.
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Just read it. The anime is genuinely not worth watching sadly, and the "fixed" version is even worse. A couple of the movies and OVAs are nice but that's about it.
>>43164494
Not only is this a bad take, it's extra bad when you state it on a fanfiction thread for a show aimed at little girls. You should be the first to know quality can be found in anything regardless of genre or target.
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Don't you wanna be poked and pierced?
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Cartography of War, Bug on a Stick sans epilogue, and RaF.
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Which of the Lunas I posted did you make?
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Numbers aren't English, silly.
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>>43165121
https://www.fimfiction.net/stories?q=%23fluttershy+%23narcotics+-%23an thro+-%23anon+-%23human+-human+-%23 equestria-girls+&order=latest
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>start an Eris story
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>guy really likes my portrayal of her
>get commissioned for an Eris story
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/545440/singles-combat
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>description
>This is obviously a love story about the inherent eroticism of a land based tax system.
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>tfw you only have two chapters left to finish
Next, I get to fight Inkscape for three hours trying to put together the cover art.
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>release order
You can do that, but then you're skipping around a hundred years in the timeline shifting from a TOS book to a Stargazer to a DS9 then back to TNG. Unless you have insane memory, you'll probably forget what was going on in the TOS series the next time you get around to it.
>>43163668
>was never a thing in DB(Z)
Technically, it was canon in the Cell Saga, as Trunks uses the many worlds version of time travel. The "original" timeline of Dragonball has everyone but Trunks dying horribly from the Androidsthen in DBS the entire original timeline is destroyed. The one we follow from the androids on is an AU Trunks created when he went back in time.
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>Why not pick one over the other, then?
I typically do, which is why my normal fics never have fetish content in them. I dislike PWP, though. As many issues as combining them causes, I feel like it's still worth it in the end to have that added context
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>Does this mod fix anything in the game engine?
No, it's just a combination mod that throws together a bunch of different Federation ship/station additions. I think the Fleet Ops one does screw with the engine but I've never played it because they got rid of warp for "balancing" and it's a total conversion. Armada 3 might be better but I could never get into the game loop for Sins of a Solar Empire.
>from the last two and a half decades
There is nothing. I desperately wish someone competent would buy the license and make a good modern RTS but there can't even be a non-licensed good modern RTS so it's just a faint hope.
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This entirely hearsay from a /trash/ post from two years ago but they only post their pornography in a patron only discord server and deletes the images from the server after about a month. The only art from them on the internet from the past few years has been from leaks.
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>>43166724
You could just read and talk about things you actually like instead though?
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There's https://www.fimfiction.net/story/266009/revanchism but it's FOE levels of grimderp full of gore and rape and techno-autism
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>No no I mean like
>Sci-fi and it's 1000+ years in the future.
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/385770/equestria-485000
You could try this one. It's pretty good in some ways, but expect a lot of typos in homonyms.
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Well for example like consider mare x filly romance stories. If it's written like a normal thing, then the casual acceptance of such a thing in the Equestria of the fic is reinforced by the author's impression that it's a normal thing, which makes it hot in a way. Especially if somehow it's fine from the author's perspective but fucked up from the point of view of other characters, like in that Applejack/Midnight Sparkle thing. Honestly now that I write that though it may just be because when authors try to make it explicitly a fucked up thing they go way overboard and make it comically awkward and distracting from the mare x filly romance, like "ugh oh my Celestia I like looky at filly plot I'm so bad for 10k words" and then there's not even any talking with fillies.
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>tfw you rewrite the ending for the fourth time and are still unhappy with it
Fifth time's the charm.At least the deleted scenes blog post is getting more content.
>>43165606
>it's not multiverse shit
It's not crazy mutliverse shit like you see in DBS and other settings where things are wildly different, but it is still a form of muliverse. Each timeline is a different universe that coexists with the others.
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/104440/transistance
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He's completely wasting his time if that's the case. I just checked Kenomo and he's got over 500 posts archived there.
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>He's completely wasting his time if that's the case. I just checked Kenomo and he's got over 500 posts archived there.
Almost all of that is old art. You can find all of the same images on other furry porn websites. There is almost nothing from the past several years. There was a mega file with a bunch of them posted in the same /trash/ thread but it’s dead. Along with a few copies from other threads. Maybe it exists elsewhere and I just don’t know about it.
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/71501/mother-of-invention
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>>43168309
What part of Element of Magic are you struggling to understand? It comes and goes.
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Reading Rainbow, Queen of Queens, The Book of Might Have Beens, Circles, Spark, Five Hundred Little Murders, Dear Princess, Forever and Again and Again, Life is a Lemon, and After I Looked Up The Stars Had Gone Away (in no particular order) are my top 10.
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/182679/minding-the-gap
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/578488/the-unrequited-thespian
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/402160/every-day-is-sun-day
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/400082/guilty-pleasure
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>Derpibooru has no stone block vectors
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That's terrible advice. There are lots of potential readers out there who look at an AI cover, get turned off, and never even read the description. Finding a better picture that's not AI is almost never difficult:
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No, it’s Wall Street bullshit.
Cloudflare’s traditional business is Internet infrastructure; CDN stuff, DDoS protection. In the past couple of years, they’ve expanded into LLM infrastructure: They now offer a service where you can run LLMs in their sandboxes. The reason for the stock price drop is that Anthropic just announced they are going to compete in that market. Previously, Anthropic has only provided models and inference services. This puts them in the infrastructure market, and it directly competes with Cloudflare in that market—but only in that market. It doesn’t affect Cloudflare’s core business at all, only a small segment with future growth opportunity. Plus, Cloudflare’s offering is model-neutral, while Anthropic is tied to Claude. Even if Anthropic wanted to offer other LLMs, they’d never get permission. So there’s a big segment of this market that Anthropic can simply never compete in.
Tbdesu, if I had the money right now, I’d buy some Cloudflare stock and sell it in a month or so when the market has come back to its senses.
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A sex romp involves a lot of rolling around, but generally not getting very far from where it started. A sex venture is about bravely experimenting with a potentially risky combination of sexes that might or might not also involve a lot of rolling around.
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I fired up Stable Diffusion and it was absolute dogshit at show-style vector art. And that was with the pony model. I might try the Google or Microsoft Botnets and see how they fair, but I am slogging my way through Inkscape. I used to actually be okay at Illustrator shit a decade ago. But you either use it or lose it.
>get a quarter of the views
This doesn't matter. It's a niche fetish fic in a fandom with 10% of the fans it once had. I'll be extremely lucky if I clear the 25 upvotes I got on my last fetish fic. It'll probably do better on DeviantArt than on Fimfic, just like the last one did.
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Last I checked, the latest Pony model was a disaster. They did a bad job of training, making it not worth using. Other models plus a good Lora will produce better results. But generated images are never going to have SOVL, and like >>43170679 said, there are going to be potential readers who see a generated cover and don't even bother reading your descriptions.
>It's a niche fetish fic
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>Look up for Big Mac x Strawberry Surprise fics
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Huh, wut? I mean, sure I was not expecting the popularity of Mac x Cheerilee/Marble but hot damn, it's straight up nothing out there, not even a "Strawberry ironically dates Mac to mess with AJ only to fall in love for BRC" tier of fics.
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E-rated cuddleclop in,
>/FSBC/
I find it amusing that the explanation for the events of the fic is that a bored god decided to make Spike his champion and a shota harem hentai protag in an E-rated setting. I was actually thinking that it was written by a future!Spike and sent back to him with Starlight's help, but I guess this plays, too. I suppose it was only a matter of time until Spike got to the gods and fillies. Nothing can escape from the reach of his apparently mind-melting dragon c- claws. But also, this really did not need to be nearly 60k words. That said, it wasn't bad. The writing, though very plain and even bland, remained pretty polished even in week 2. A handful of typos, a misplaced word, and missed paragraph breaks+spaces in the last chapter are all that I saw. The bat chapter made me hopeful for the fic, but then it has the shortest and most nothingburger scene in the fic, which sucks. As for the April Fools one, well, I did not expect the fic to go there after the Harry joke. I guess Spike doesn't mind. Slimegirls (slimeboys?) are not my explicit area of expertise, but I suppose it helps when they're not corrosive.
One thing that's kind of tough is that the joke works better with this at E, but I really think this should have a T. Possibly a sex tag, too, since it is like 40k words of sex scenes with just the thinnest layer of substitution for 'cuddling'. Mainly, though, I find myself without much to say about the fic. Oh, right! The implication that Starlight thinks trying to ruin Twilight's life is bad only because Twi is an important pony and that it would be OK if she were just a background character is peak sociopath behavior. And while the fic's show references and portrayals are a bit too direct, imo, in the vein of "guys, guys, do you remember this?", I did like some details, like the 'ponyquins' at Rarara's place. Always nice to see the authors use ponified words like that. But yeah, I've got nothing to add. I think this is decent enough to get an updoot, but I don't think I'll think about the story much, if at all, for the rest of my life.
Next week, Kaidan.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/478767/kaidan
The first 8 candles (chapters) this week, and the rest the week after.
I should say that I might not be able to make it to the bookclub all Sunday next week, but at worst I'll pester someone to post the anchor for me.
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>>43172510
I'm shit at visual arts, but even I can see the difference between slop and something a human made. It's actually a lot like LLM writing versus human writing: Both LLMs and image diffusion models get lots of minor technical things correct (grammar, shading) while getting important things that are obvious to humans incorrect (forgetting the story so far, numbers of limbs) and lacking any emotion. Slop is only tailor-made to your needs if you shop for clothes at Walmart.
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>>43172893
I think this is story would've been better appreciated as it came out.
"Ah, yes. My weekly dose of cuddles. Nice."
You read it, you smile. You move on. A little piece of candy you eat while you wait for the bus.
Read as a whole, though. It's kind of a chore. It's enjoyable and somewhat fun, but I think you've hit the head on the only notable points the story has to offer. Sociopath Starlight, bits of cutesy. Somehow keeping the joke for tens of thousands of words.
It had a distinctly "good" Discord. Nothing egregious. Just random enough. A few funny bits.
Damn. This is the most okay fic I've read in a long time.
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If I see an AI cover i just assume you're lazy, and if you're lazy I don't trust you not to be a lazy writer. Simple as.
Also the fact that you're using AI says to me you're probably some sort of idiot tech bro and that also says to me you're probably not writing anything worthwhile.
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>>43172510
>This is just not rational.
Hello, Yudkowsky. I see you're trying to get on the Basilisk's good side.
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>>43172893
>Cuddle party is dogshit
>fic is done after the party
Guess I'm done kek
>skip to somewhere in the royal sisters chapter
>immediate typo
wew. The only chapters worth reading were Starlight and Twilight's, unless you actually like [Comedy] then who the fuck knows what your sick tastes are
>>43172893
>As for the April Fools one, well, I did not expect the fic to go there after the Harry joke.
Yeah not many fics get a smooze chapter
>>43173148
>I think this is story would've been better appreciated as it came out.
This is definitely true. Binging all of these similar chapters is repetitive to say the least
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>>43173158
Using ai is good if it is in a context in which it is being used to create something which either could not be done with other types of art or if the person generating it is under constraint and it’s the best they can do given their context.
If you need an image for your story and one you generated with ai is the best you can get that fits the story the best then that’s fine.
If you are a poorfag and use ai to make something because nobody has drawn it yet and you can’t afford to commission someone that’s fine.
If you’re doing it because you are lazy and don’t want to exercise due diligence to maximize the quality of your work by finding the best image you can that’s not ok. It’s disrespectful to your audience and your own sense of honor. The quality is now inferior to what it could have reasonably been.
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>>43173371
>AI
>improving things
That's like saying deleting the archetypes helped ponies because now they can be whatever they want without any effort on their part.
You're not becoming a better artist. You're delegating any growth to the machine.
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>>43173371
>improve themselves
>and eachother
>and reality
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>>43173148
Yeah, this is definitely not a fic you should binge 40k words in one session. It's fine, though.
>distinctly "good" Discord
Sure, I can co-sign that take. This is a better Discord than what you usually see in fics.
>>43173257
>Guess I'm done kek
Eh, I don't think the orgy chapter was too bad. Some good bits there, but it was a bit too explicit for the fic's overall vibe, imo. The Ember chapter at the end was pretty sweet, even despite the lack of hooves. But you didn't miss out on much. You can imagine 30k more words of what you've read, and you'd be like 90% correct.
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>should
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>>43173539
You're supposed to call them mares, >>43156107
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>>43173371
This is what I meant about idiot tech bros
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>>43173597
So what?
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>>43173619
*marefriend, and I take delight upon *reading it, yes.
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>>43174236
The was actually very easy to make.
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>>43174275
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>>43172359
I'm just sticking with what I'm drawing. The Derpibooru idea's out the window, since I gotta use my own art for the Deviantart version anyway, so I might as well just go with it. It helps I added Daring flattened in the art, so now I can use it in the fetish Discord to properly shill the story. I just wish I was better at vector art so it didn't look so bad. Oh, well.
>latest Pony model was a disaster
Think I'm using the old 2024 version. Whichever one required the nightmare that was installing xformers. It does a good job on pones, but anything else (props, backgrounds, etc.) is just terrible.
>straight to the top of the feature box
I doubt it. Cartoon physics is very niche. Though Daring starring in it might help boost it a little.
>>43172510
>quickly create a tailor-made picture for your exact needs
Proof you don't actually use it. I spent three hours once trying to get Stable Diffusion to generate a painting of a bulk freighter sinking and it never got even close. Had to edit whatever random metal blur it eventually generated in Clip Studio to get the cover art I eventually used.
AI's great for shitposting/general art you don't really care much about but the second you need specificity, it shits the bed hard. Maybe it's different if you buy into one of the botnets, but if I'm paying for shit, I might as well just commission the cover art to begin with and get the exact thing I'm after.
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Broke:
>Paging through image sites to find an image that kinda sorta matches your story
Woke:
>Commissioning an artist to hand-craft the image you want for your story
Bespoke:
>Grabbing a random picture off a site and then writing a story around whatever it is
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>>43174739
I already knew /co/ always outclassed /b/, but the affirmation is nice.
>>43174907
>implying a fics with post warrants a considered reply
It was a shitpost, if you wanted magical girl fics, you could've just gone to the group for them on the site (210242). It's completely fine and even warranted to respond to a shitpost with something better than it "asked" for.
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/356700/how-to-disappear-completely
Read 30 chapters and decided to stop. I just skipped to the ending and it made me double down.
I really like skirts. BGP is my favorite fanfiction written. But this story has all the wrong kinds of angst. I dislike isekais because they just feel so dumbed down. The same goes for this story. Flash talks as if he were in some online forum and ponies around him just shrug it off. It makes no sense. It was alright reading about Goob's sad story in high school, but in equestria? It just doesn't "fit" unless characters are dumbed down.
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>>43175773
Dear diary, was gonna read End of Ponies next but decided against it because it's long as fuck and doesn't have a proper ending. (Has anyone here read it? In all my time here I have never once seen anyone talk about it). Will read Empty Horizons next.
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>>43156106
I read fanfics in the early days. Has anything good been written in the last 10 years? I could use the distraction from the world. Bonus points for long stories, epic fantasy, happy ends, pre alicorn Twilight.
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>>43176003
This is a good place to start, and you can choose from a variety of genres.
http://mlpficreviews.org.uk/starter/
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>>43176003
This one is pretty nice.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/89598/dreams-and-disasters
Comfy, low stakes adventure that's almost like a Euro trip with some small self-contained adventures with a happy ending.
I have no idea what the sequel is about and have had no desire to find out in the decade since I first read this.
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Cover art's done. Turned out better than I was expecting, if I'm honest. At the very least, I can use it to better shill the story. The Fimfic version will have that white space at the bottom cropped out. That's there for the chapter info for Deviantart, since each chapter gets posted individually over there.
>tfw the scene doesn't happen in the story so now you have to go back and write a new chapter for it
>>43175862
>doesn't have a proper ending
>Will read Empty Horizons next
Anon...
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>>43169626
Man, maybe this is a lame grievance but I'm so disappointed that this ended in a forever-torture-pocket-dimension. Having Celestia get cleared of the curse was such a compelling and promising option for the ending that got wasted by the combination of Chrysalis's culpability for the curse being sidelined and sane Celestia being unreasonably held more responsible than she could be.
I know the in-universe reason - that they're all still cursed and doomed to fall to torture-porn behavior.
And I also am aware of the meta reason - that this is a shock-content fic driven by opinion polling that needed the most disturbing thing saved for last.
IDK what it is but the unfairness of it really adds to how badly I feel cheated out of a guilt-driven hurt/comfort resolution after it was wafted under my nose. It's all the more embarrassing because I guess having an emotional reaction at all means my dumb gay bitch ass actually went and got invested in the plot of a gorno. I know none of the other suffering of anyone else was fair, but this was the resolution, and resolutions should speak to themes and lessons.
I hate magical torture porn. I know I'm not saying anything new with any of this, but I hate how predictable it always is. I hate torture porn 'lingo' and the insufferable fuck-this and that-slut word compounding. I hate corruption as a fetish, and the way it drags personalities into the easy singularity of the author's one comfort-voice.
Yeah yeah, I'm the retarded faggot who read a 400 thousand word heap of slop, I get it shut the fuck up.
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>>43176700
The hoof looks properly flattened but the mane is angled in a way that implies there's hollow space where the flat bottom of the weight should be. I suggest angling the strands more horizontally, right now it looks like it starts above her head and finishes below it with a total length greater than her flattened self.
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>>43177095
Hold on. You took my recommendation seriously enough to actually read the story? Anon, that was a shitpost. I've never ever opened the story. I think you might have bigger problems than just being disappointed by the ending.
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>>43177255
>Anon was too afraid of getting suckered into reading a longpost that he forgot to check if it was even about his meme link
Only one such case.
>>43177095
>one comfort-voice
That's a neat additional way to describe the trash characterization of corruption fics.
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>Get stuck on a scene
>Spend months pushing through it because the flow of that scene will dictate the events of the rest of the chapter
>Finally finish it
>I can finally move on the rest of the scenes and start having a much easier time
I love writing so much, bros.
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>>43177548
Still working on my horror romance.
Halfway through chapter 6 of a projected 8.
I'm feeling happy about it.
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>>43177548
Disgustingly self-indulgent babyfic humanized flutterdash scootadopt.
Also has anyone else's captcha + posting been insanely slow? The actual site is okay but getting the captcha + sending it takes like 30 seconds.
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>>43176003
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/485500/harry-potter-and-the-prancing- of-ponies
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>>43177655
>Also has anyone else's captcha + posting been insanely slow? The actual site is okay but getting the captcha + sending it takes like 30 seconds.
not only that, but if you get hit with the fake range ban, it's literally impossible to post since you can't verify your email because the captcha expires before it verifies your session.
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>>43177255
So, in my defe-
Well, okay, by way of explanation, I had already started and given up on the fic and forgot about it for like a year because the early sequences were especially boring and repetitive. Your link reminded me it existed and I kind of got sucked back in. Took a lot of skimming.
I know you were shitposting.
>>43177286
>Anon was too afraid of getting suckered into reading a longpost that he forgot to check if it was even about his meme link
I'm pretty sure he's the guy who linked CRV, and CRV is what I was referring to.
>That's a neat additional way to describe the trash characterization of corruption fics.
Thanks I try. I'm a big fan of happy endings and purity so this matters a lot to me.
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>>43177892
Nice, I also use Emacs. I've had long arguments about using proper tools with an artist who's now writing, but I got him to stop using Google Docs at the least, kek. Writing in a browser is like drawing with Microsoft Paint, but he kept disagreeing with me. The value of learning a proper drawing program is clear, but it's easier to tell yourself otherwise with writing tools, I guess. Fuck, Google Docs has fewer features than writing software from the 90s.
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>>43177857
Don't sell it short, that sounds delightful, perfect thing to read while being all cozy. <3
>>43177848
I was using obsidian but now using Ellipsus, the collaboration system is really nice for friends to edit and the themes make me happy. also drafts :p
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>>43177848
I use Scrivener for writing. Sometimes I use Scapple if I need to plan out a longer piece. I also use ProWritingAid for spell checking. If I'm out and on my phone I use Obsidian to make notes for later use.
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>>43177997
Spelling and grammar checking, mostly. Plus allowing access + comments to other users for proofreaders.
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>>43177997
Tbh also just the kind of environment that you are comfortable working in. I'm usually on the move a lot day to day so being able to sync stuff between phone and computer is nice so I can add stuff while I'm doing other things.
I'm really out of practice writing normally :x
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>>43177286
I don't think I've ever been accused of forgetting my own posts before. Is this projection? Is that why you use a flag? Because you can't remember what you said before?
>>43177864
Yes, I am indeed the guy who linked CRV. If you knew I was shitposting, then you have more sense than Tunafag.
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>>43178085
I wrote the first half of the post as if the longpost was a reply to the meme link right above it rather than a much older meme link, oops.
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Damn, words can definitely express how much better Monster Mash is than Kaidan. So far, the "2011jank" has just been a few mannequins, madmen and feet and the first two chapters outclass all the other candles combined. The only thing is that it's more drama than horror so far.
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Having never published something on fimfic before I wasn't aware of the length of the approval proccess but my story is finally up <3
I'm only freaking out a lil bit but its insane seeing people I don't even know reading it
||...idk if self promotion is looked down on but its called "Precious Flesh on Broken Bone"||
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>the cover art stuff is now causing the story to bloat
Damn it.Oh well, it's hot.
>>43177095
>read a 400k snuff porn fic
>I hate magical torture porn.
Wut.
>>43177250
I'm not exactly sure what you mean, so I might be misunderstanding, but the mane is angled like that because its stuck to Daring's face. It tracks down the side of her flattened muzzle before spreading out on the ground. I hate the standard trend of making hair/manes the same thickness as the rest of the body when flattened, since it's hair and doesn't have depth to begin with.
>>43177548
I have spent the last month in a lust-induced haze, writing a Daring Do adventure fic where every single element of my fetish happens to her and the OC villain over the course of the story. It's currently 63k long and will likely settle around 70k by the time I'm done. Since I started writing it on March 20th, I've averaged 2,440 words a day, which is an insane pace I doubt I will ever match again. It makes me kind of discouraged, since I can barely ink out 500 a day on my non-fetish stories.
I didn't even know I was going to write the story on March 19. The idea hadn't even formed. Daring's not even been a huge fetish character for me compared to my bat pony OC. It's crazy.
>>43177848
Word.
>>43178326
>this is set probably in the the last third of the total story
I'm scratching my head about this. Why are you posting a fic that's set near the climax of the plot first? Unless you're doing some kind of in media res thing to set up the opening, the audience is going to be completely confused about what's going on and why.
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>>43178339
Its going to end up being a series of vignettes that could all be read solo but when read together fit together into the overarching story.
As for why this one first, inspiration struck and I wrote the first draft in a single sitting :x
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Fimfiction.net
>>43177928
Ironic that you put such effort into your tools yet only produce garbage with them.
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>>43178339
>It tracks down the side of her flattened muzzle before spreading out on the ground
Yeah but it doesn't look like that at all. It looks like it continues downwards when it should touch the ground which fucks up the perceived depth.
>it's hair and doesn't have depth to begin with
Neither true irl nor in the show.
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Reading booktok romantasy slop and I come across this line
>Something about the way he wore a T-shirt suggested he took it off multiple times a day.
Is there a fimfic equivalent of this? I need to read about Twilight getting horny, but in a way that isn't just pandering to bronies.
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>>43177928
Not >>43177997 but I'm also curious about what's wrong with Google Docs.
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>>43180036
Google docs has one of the worst spell and grammar checkers out there. It's AI powered but more importantly they didn't actually integrate the AI the right way. So it doesn't work or will just outright try to rewrite your shit.
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>>43180036
Trying to do everything in a web browser is asinine. They're the #1 kind of software that has lost my work over the years, I'm sure we've all had a comment eaten this way, and you shouldn't need an Internet connection to write. If you use Google Docs, everything you do is being sent straight to Google down to the keystroke. Is it customizable at all? It certainly has nothing on Emacs, or even Vim. If you're going to spend a large chunk of your life using a piece of software, you should be able to tweak it to your needs.
Here's what Neal Stephenson has to say:
>In the GNU/Linux world there are two major text editing programs: the minimalist vi (known in some implementations as elvis) and the maximalist emacs. I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by Richard Stallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devoted to features like mail merge, and the ability to embed feature-length motion pictures in corporate memoranda, were, in the case of emacs, focused with maniacal intensity on the deceptively simple-seeming problem of editing text. If you are a professional writer--i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed--emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish. For page layout and printing you can use TeX: a vast corpus of typesetting lore written in C and also available on the Net for free.
I also know George R. R. Martin has his own special setup:
>I actually have two computers. I have the computer that I browse the internet with, that I get my email on and I do my taxes on. Then I have my writing computer, which is a DOS machine not connected to the internet. Remember DOS? I use WordStar 4.0 as my word-processing system.
He doesn't like distractions, apparently. It's certainly easy to get distracted when the entire Internet's a keystroke away.
So, on one hand, use what you want but, on the other hand, learn how good tools are supposed to work before you form your tastes. There's decades of literature on human-computer interactions, what works and what doesn't.
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>>43180131
>I'm sure we've all had a comment eaten this way
Boy, have I ever. As soon as a post takes more than a minute to write, it's time to switch to a proper text processor, lest you incur the wrath of Connection Error, browser crash, or worst of all,Esc.
Makes me wanna set up some post-from-processor thing so I can enrich this and other threads with impunity.
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>>43180181
>As soon as a post takes more than a minute to write, it's time to switch to a proper text processor, lest you incur the wrath of Connection Error, browser crash, or worst of all,Esc.
i just copy the whole thing to my clipboard every so often.
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>>43180131
>if I buy the best brushes and most expensive paint surely my art will be as good as what professionals make
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Form History Control (II)
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>>43180383
Is there any particular reason you're upset with me right now? I write more than fanfiction you know, and that's also well received. Are you going to show us your writing anytime? Lastly, I'm being paid to write a few different stories right now, which by definition makes me a professional.
professional: (adjective) engaged in a sport or other activity as a paid occupation rather than as an amateur; (noun) a person who is very skilled in a particular activity.
Anyway, I think I gave solid advice, cited even. What do you use, then? What's your advice? Do you have anything of substance to say to me?
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>>43180427
I'd rather not connect my most serious writing to my pornographic pregnant pony prose production, no.
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Twilight's Plan!
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>>43180131
That Neal Stephenson quote is almost 30 years out of date at this point. The world of vi-derivatives has been taken over by vim and more recently neovim; nobody uses elvis anymore. vim is just as scriptable as emacs. However (and this is likely a reflection of the differing philosophies of emacs and vim users) vim does lack some emacs features: It does not have a built-in psychiatrist, Zippy the Pinhead AI, or web browser. (Some of you no doubt think I'm joking, but no, those really were all built-in to Emacs at one point.)
Stephenson wasn't quite accurate about TeX. Knuth originally wrote it in WEB, a "literate programming" (his term) language based on Pascal. Knuth took the idea of code commenting to an extreme, so the goal of WEB is, essentially, to make it easy to turn your program into a book. But Pascal never achieved the same level of popularity of C, so TeX was later reimplemented in CWEB, which brought literate programming to C.
Also, I have heard that writers from the 80s and early 90s loved, loved, loved WordStar. It was a word processor, like its competitor WordPerfect and later Microsoft Word. Unlike those, it was modal the way that vi was. Unlike vi, which was originally designed for programming, WordStar was originally designed for writing. Many of its basic commands are about moving through and editing chunks of language, like words, sentences, and paragraphs. vim has since developed similar capabilities (via text objects iw, is, ip, aw, as, ap), but at the time WordStar was unique. And it's much easier to be productive when you can operate on natural units of language in three keystrokes than when you have to hit arrow keys thirty or forty times to accomplish anything.
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Fancy word processors are probably good for shit like articles and technical writing but writing fiction is about putting your ideas onto the page. There's a reason people used to literally dictate books at times and have someone else typing them. There's a reason literature flourished long before we had PCs. The more slimmed down a piece of software is the better. If I could write my stories on pen and paper and then have the text transferred to a digital copy for editing I honestly would. The less of a barrier there is between my ideas and the page the better for me. Editing and other functions are entirely orthogonal to the actual process of writing fiction and proficiency in them has nothing to do with the quality of your prose or plot. They just feel like bloat for the way I write.
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>>43180527
It sure is!
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Pen and paper would be a bigger barrier than almost any word processor. It's really slow and unwieldy in comparison, not to mention that your hand will get like physically tired. To say nothing of annoying complications like pens running out of ink or smudging ink with your wrist or any of that shit. There's a reason people used fukken typewriters to write even in the period where typewriters were slow as shit and annoying too. I think your romanticism is not based on any real experience.
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I use Sublime Text even though it's primarily a code editor. It's highly minimalist and although it needs a few core setting changes to function properly at all with indentation, once it's set up I really have no issues whatsoever. Extremely lightweight, nice font, nice color scheme, sensical bindings, counters on the bottom for word count and such, a tab system that supports me having like 30 files open at once... I don't think at any point in writing do I ever feel like I wish Sublime Text could do something else or that it's limiting or slowing me down whatsoever. Something I like a lot is how it shows a file in zoomed-out form on the right side of the screen; I never would have asked for or even imagined such a feature in a text editor, but it's quite satisfying to see it slowly fill up over time.
I think practically speaking once set up its main problem (by default, without plugins) is that it has no native support for italics and bold, which subtly disincline me from using them, but using HTML tags instead is only a minor pain. Also, it sometimes pops up a dialog saying the copy is unregistered, but that can probably be modded out and I just ignore it.
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>>43180554
I think it's a troll post or veiled sabotage through aesthetic gatekeeping. An obvious tell is that literature did not flourish until ebooks (the .com boom) and the combined ability to self-publish and reach an audience. You could argue it flourished slightly earlier on BBSes, but I would describe that as still more like a weblog than literature and not accessible because the reading machine was still very expensive.
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There were many things I liked about the story but everything the cons just outweighed the pros for me.
The story is extremely long, 3,000,000+ English words, and it did not keep me invested enough to keep reading. I don’t have the time to read that much fiction anymore. And the story is often a boring ass nothing burger and not satisfying to read. There are long stretches of text where very little that is directly relevant to the core plot happens and which doesn’t build and release narrative tension in a satisfying manner. Events don’t feel like they are solidly connected often. The parts of the story, world building, character development, plot, whatever, often don’t feel like they’re part of a precisely defined whole where all the internal parts properly articulate with eachother. Plot relevant events just manifest and then fade into the background of the setting only to be occasionally touched on again hundreds of thousands of words later. There will be very long stretches hundreds of thousands or a million+ of words before important details resurface in the story. Sometimes interesting details are brought up and then never mentioned again. The characters also aren’t very satisfying to read about even though they had a lot of potential to be interesting. The main character is a women child who doesn’t really take her circumstances seriously and is either going with the flow of what others tell her to do or trying to archive short term wants without much deep thought or long term planning unless it’s related to her reading obsession.
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>>43181089
Well at least they're organized about their autism then...