Pony Fanfiction Thread

I heartily recommend Pannic's live blogging of it to supplement.

You mean this?

Nah, don't see it in there. Sorry, probably should've provided a link. Here's his table of contents. It's the very first thing he did and he covers every chapter (sometimes multiple per post).

I'm rebooting the idea of a Deconstruction Crossover of 40k and the Conversion Bureau, with the plot being this Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now-like hunt for a renegade Equestrian commander who went insane fighting the Imperials.

I want to tell the story of the antagonist's fall from grace through Story Breadcrumbs, like in universe documents, audio logs, diary entries, etc. But it occurred to me that there may not be much space for this subplot to be told through Story Breadcrumbs; possibly as little as nine chapters where they could find these documents. (Probably more, but not by that much)

I could tell it through flashbacks, but this may run into the opposite problem of making it too long; I could also ditch the "present day" Apocalypse Now-like story entirely and focus solely on the renegade and her story, which isn't really what I want to do at all, at least at the time of writing. Thoughts?

It's a shame Paradise is still off of Fimfiction. It's one of my favorite pre-ascension Celestia and Luna fics. Someone should make a group for them because they're hard to find.

If you want to read the story, you can download a FIM-Fiction backup archive. They're big, but they aren't obscene in size. I keep one around in case I want to find stories from the height of the fandom's popularity and activity, or if I want to view old versions of chapters for Apprentice.

Bah, that draft took oddly long, despite having this in my head for a while now. I guess it probably didn't help that I kept changing my mind on how to execute it.

From Dusk to Night's 93rd chapter is live.

New draft. Pretty close and 99% sure we aren't cracking 100 chapters.

And 94 published.

So, I have a few ideas for crossovers but they're sort of "limited crossovers".

One is with Yu-Gi-Oh but there's no ancient Egyptian artifacts, Duel Monster spirits, or dueling motorcycles. Or any of the main characters from any of the series. (Maybe Pegasus or Kaiba as the tournament sponsor? The idea just came to me.) It's just that everybody really likes card games.

Another is with Persona but the protagonists of the show (both of their versions) do use Personas and Igor and his attendant are definitely the ones to make first contact with the first Persona user from the main cast.

There are some things I'm not fond of in that liveblog. I do stand by my criticisms of the story's treatment of violence (I could write a thing about the prisoner's dilemma and how Littlepip kind of screws it) and the way I think the character arcs didn't pan out. But I think some of my criticisms, such as gender roles (I kiiiiinda started it in a time period I was almost vaguely MRA-adjacent) and typographical matters (I didn't understand that there's more than one way to do parentheticals), I feel were a little short-sighted.

Also I think the line-by-line thing can be entertaining but I feel it lends itself too much to knee-jerk reactions rather than careful considerations of context.

Though I do still stand by some of the broad strokes of my thematic criticisms.

Anyone read or heard of Loved and Lost?

Edited by JWR on Oct 11th 2019 at 7:25:58 AM

Deceptively short draft, as I spent a lot of time sifting through what I wanted to say in my mind. There was probably about three chapters' worth of possible exposition that I didn't want to drown the reader in, so I had to really think this one out.

I don't suppose anyone in here is down to do some pre-reading or editing on something I'm working on, are they? No one seems to be responding to my thread on the "Looking for Editors" group on Fimfiction so far.

Chapter's a little over 14k words long and it is a sequel to a particularly long fic already, but I can fill in the necessary details as needed. And this is strictly just the first chapter for now, so I can get this thing published.

Not sure if this goes here, but...

I did my first time making a media thread(For Letters from an Irritated Princess specifically), and, I think I did the page making capitalization wrong, and, so, the title of the actual page is now a one word blob.

Don't know if I could delete it. I'd make a new page and redirect it to the more grammatically page, if I knew how to make a new page for something that has the exactly letters in the title as the original...

You'd probably have better luck asking in one of the general page editing threads, since this seems more like a wiki nuance than content nuance.

Alright, thank you.

From Dusk to Night's Chapter 95 is now live.

Hey, is Blissey still on here? I was of doing a spiritual successor to the dead “Ponies listen to human music” fic.

Well, took me a while to settle on how to start this, but new draft.

To Be Kind

Hooooly shit

And finished. Feels weird to be done after all this time.

I guess this is the year for ending eras.

Three Second Chances

Summary: Discord requests, and is granted, an opportunity to redeem The Terrible Trio.

Review: Who gave you the right to make me feel feelings?