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  • 26 weeks
    The Day of the Dead Anthology

    The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is a now-famous tradition from ancient times that has been a huge part of Mexican Culture through the centuries. Like so many things in Mexico, it's influenced strongly by certain aspects of the Aztec people.

    It has shaped the way those of us with that heritage look at life and death in many ways, and most importantly on the remembrance of, and honoring the deceased. We traditionally decorate little altars dedicated to the memories of those that passed away… but it's not a somber occasion.

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  • 26 weeks
    Jinglemas 2023!

    Jinglemas is the annual tradition on Fimfiction to exchange stories around the holidays with users on the site. This single event allows all Fimfiction users to come together and celebrate the reason for the season. Ponies!

    Enroll in this Secret-Santa-style gift exchange to request a holiday themed story, to be written secretly by another participant during the month of December. And in turn, you will be tasked with writing someone else's request. Then all the stories will be exchanged at Christmas! Simplicity itself! Thanks to the hard work of the Breezies, everyone will be ensured to get their gift!

    You only have until November 24th to Sign up!

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    30 comments · 5,825 views
  • 50 weeks
    PSA: Using AIs to Write and Publish Stories in Fimfiction

    Hello everyone, this is a PSA (Public Service Announcement, for those of ESL) to put to rest consistent questions about using AI to 'write' stories and publish them here. This is not intended as a poll or a request for feedback. It is exclusively a clarification on an already-existing rule.

    People ask: "Can I, oh great and powerful D, post a story or chapter that I got ChatGPT to write for me?!"

    And the answer, my friend, is... No.

    Absolutely not. Not in a thousand years!

    Because you didn't write it.

    It is not your creation. You are NOT the author. In fact, you are the opposite.

    There seems to be some confusion when interpreting the following rule:

    Don’t Post (Content)

    [...]

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    698 comments · 23,893 views
  • 78 weeks
    Jinglemas 2022!

    Jinglemas is the annual tradition on Fimfiction to exchange stories around the holidays with users on the site. This single event allows all Fimfiction users to come together and celebrate the reason for the season. Ponies!

    Enroll in this Secret-Santa-style gift exchange to request a holiday themed story, to be written secretly by another participant during the month of December. And in turn, you will be tasked with writing someone else's request. Then all the stories will be exchanged at Christmas! Simplicity itself! Thanks to the hard work of the Breezies, everyone will be ensured to get their gift!

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    62 comments · 12,460 views
  • 106 weeks
    Phishing Awareness

    Have you ever found yourself in a situation like this?



    And then you magically find yourself in a suspiciously familiar site, except that you're not logged in, and it requires you to do so?

    Well. Don't log in. This is a scam, and a cheap one at that. 

    There've been recent attempts to obtain Fimfiction users’ personal data, like passwords and/or emails through links like the one I'm making fun of above. And a distressing amount of people don't seem to know what phishing attempts are.

    If you HAVE entered a site like this and put in your data, make sure to follow these basic steps at least.

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    167 comments · 15,435 views
  • 118 weeks
    All Our Best [Royal Canterlot Library]

    As should be obvious from 15 months without a feature, life has taken the Royal Canterlot Library curators in different directions. While there’s still plenty of awesome stories being written in the My Little Pony fandom, we’re no longer actively working to spotlight them, and it’s time to officially draw the project to a close.

    Thank you for all of your support, suggestions, and comments over the years. We’re grateful to have been able to share seven years of exemplary stories with you, and give more insight into the minds behind them. In the spirit of the project, please keep reading and recommending fantastic fics to friends—the community is enriched when we all share what we love.

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    115 comments · 18,270 views
  • 122 weeks
    Jinglemas 2021 has come to a close!

    Jinglemas had 114 stories written and exchanged this year!
    You can read them all here, in the Jinglemas 2021 folder!

    Jhoira wrote The Hearths Warming Eve Guest for EngageBook
    GaPJaxie wrote Twilight and Spike Hide a Body for Telly Vision
    SnowOriole wrote The Armor Hypothesis for BaeroRemedy
    snappleu wrote Words Said So Often That They Lack Any Meaning for Trick Question
    NeirdaE wrote Starlight and Trixie Direct a Play for Moosetasm
    Ninjadeadbeard wrote Garland Graveyard Shift for NeirdaE
    Roundabout Recluse wrote Apples to Apples for Ninjadeadbeard
    MistyShadowz wrote The Times We Shared for NaiadSagaIotaOar
    Petrichord wrote A Gentle Nudge for Angel Midnight
    Jade Ring wrote Past, Future, and Present for Frazzle2Dazzle
    Jake The Army Guy wrote The Big Talk for Dreadnought
    The Red Parade wrote Heart Strings for Franso
    Greatazuredragon wrote A Hearth’s Warming Question for GaPJaxie

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  • 152 weeks
    Reunions: A Swapped Roles Contest!

    Okay guys here's something fun presented by Nitro Indigo.

    Presented by me, I guess, but I digress.

    Last year, I (Nitro Indigo) noticed that there was a surprising lack of roleswap fanfics on this site. To fix that, I decided to run a roleswap contest over the summer themed around secrets. While it didn’t get many entries, it nevertheless attracted the attention of some big authors and was the origin of two of my favourite fics. Overall, I think it was a success, so I’ve decided to run another one!

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    57 comments · 16,431 views
  • 225 weeks
    Minor Rules and Reporting Update

    Hope everyone is enjoying the new year.

    Some small changes have been made to our rules as well as to the reporting process.

    Rules

    "No attacks directed at individuals or groups due to race, gender, gender identity, religion or sexual identity."

    This better clarifies our previously ill-defined hate speech rule and includes groups as well as individual attacks.

    "No celebration, glorification or encouragement of real life criminal activity."

    This includes past, present and potential future crimes.

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    747 comments · 15,925 views
  • 228 weeks
    Jinglemas 2019

    There's truly no time like the holidays. What's better than copious amounts of food, quality time with family and friends, hearing the sweet sound of Trans-Siberian Orchestra on repeat, and unmanagble financial stress from our capitalist overlords?

    Gift exchanges of course!


    Our Own Little Way of bringing Hearth's Warming to Fimfiction

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    28 comments · 8,404 views
Oct
31st
2013

Site Post » One-Shotober Challenge · 5:34pm Oct 31st, 2013

Happy Halloween, everyone.

Throughout the past month, the One-Shotober group has been collecting submissions for a highly ambitious and demanding challenge. The goal was for each participant to create and publish 31 separate one-shot stories, one for each day of October. Submissions could be in any genre and of any length, so long as they were one-shots. A grand total of 337 stories were submitted by 35 participants, which means that this challenge alone is responsible for over 10% of all stories approved during the past month. For the die-hard procrastinators among us, that kind of productivity is downright frightening.

Now that the challenge is complete, some congratulations are in order.

Seven tenacious authors completed the challenge in its entirety, posting the full 31 stories apiece. They are:
Degethemighty,
electrexcessive,
Flint Sparks,
TheExhaustedBrony,
The Lunar Samurai,
TheTobacconist, and
Twinkletail.

Additionally, CartsBeforeHorses, Regidar, and Ianpiersonjdavis came close, with 24, 18, and 17 stories, respectively.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the group, whether you finished or not. Please sign up for the challenge next year!

Thank you to the story approvers and mods for putting up with an increased workload for the month. We couldn’t have done it without you, and appreciate your tireless work.

And thank you to all of our readers on Fimfiction!

-CartsBeforeHorses, One-Shotober group founder

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Comments ( 48 )

I do have to say I am impressed, and kinda jelly, wishing I had the ability to write like that right now.

Just too many things goin on in my life when combined with depression causing writer's block...

Cool. I'll have to try for that next year. Congrats to those who did it!

Bravo. That's darned impressive. My hat's off to you all.

That is, if I had a hat...

gratzles

That... I don't know how one could even do that. Bravo to the participants. :rainbowderp:

'Die-hard procrastinators' huh? I'm not one, but if I was, I wouldn't be your friend, even if it were true. :ajbemused: Still, congratulations to those who did it! :yay:

RBDash47
Site Blogger

TheExhaustedBrony

I suspect that handle is even more appropriate now.

Props to everyone who participated! I can't imagine.

I find it fitting that TheExhaustedBrony completed this challenge. :rainbowlaugh:

Impressive for those that did the full 31. And probably a bit draining as well. Hopefully they aren't feeling too burnt out right now.

One thing though: seems slightly premature to post this, as Oct 31 isn't quite over yet. Could be a few more stories posted from entrants, no?

Eldorado
Moderator

1469219 Carts asked me to post it today, so I assume he talked to everyone and confirmed that all the entries were in that were going to come in.

So many stories to read...

So much fun...

~Skeeter The Lurker

Dang, these ponies be crazy, yo! :pinkiegasp:

1469212
He read one of my stories and couldn't stop yawning! :rainbowlaugh:

1469242 I'm a night owl, what can I say?

I've said it before but I'll say it agian, congrats everyone!
:pinkiehappy::raritywink::yay:

PresentPerfect
Author Interviewer

Gee, I kind of wish I'd done this. :B Could've cleaned up a lot of my workfile.

All those big shots, and I'm just here twiddling my thumbs.

1469191
I know that feel bro

Some of those guys have only thirty stories:trixieshiftright:

Sorry for being that one guy. Still, thirty's impressive all the same.

1469490
Might want to check that mature filter. :trollestia:
(plus collabs. Don't forget collabs)

1469490
Is it november yet? No. I'm working on it XD. Nothing like riding the line.

1469714
He's also forgetting about collaborations. The group has the One-Shotober rules on it, and collaborations between authors are allowed. He was looking at our portfolio, not the group folders.

I could have been on that list but life was like "Nope your using your free time here, at work."

only got up to 13 stories:ajsleepy: But it was a Fun Run:pinkiehappy:

Wow, I'm impressed. I couldn't imagine writing a story a day for 31 days, heck I have enough trouble getting all my homework done.

1469240

Damn, Skeeter. How do you manage to lurk in such a casual manner? That's impressive.

1469943

It's just my talent.

S'all I got, y'know?

~Skeeter The Lurker

1469947

Last I checked; you got the approval badge from Wanderer D, you've been blessed by God, you have a cult dedicated to you, and you have 372 legionnaires.
Keep lurking though.
Edit: 373 now.

1469862
Some sacrifices had to be made.

1469959

you got the approval badge from Wanderer D

Wait what? I never got that...

Not yet at least!

~Skeeter The Lurker

1470018
Sorry, I thought you did.

1470022

Yeah... That's on my 'to do' list...

~Skeeter The Lurker

1470023
On the bright side of things, I actually found a legitimate reason to use strike-through.

1469965
This. So many sacrifices. I hope my neighbours don't get worried about their lost puppy.

1470041
The dark reaches of the abyss didn't even heed me. I know I should have used a full grown bull, but do you know how expensive those are?

...They may have taken offense when I used a teacup poodle. On the bright side, I don't hear that thing yapping anymore.

1470051
I think I would have killed it anyway.

Why do I never hear about these things?

Wow just wow. I've got to admit normally I consider these challenges a waste of time, but this one on the other hand I've got to say my hats off to whomever attempted this I couldn't do it to save my life.

1469226 I like to note that over one hundred stories were added to the group since you made this blog post.

1470106

Wanderer D mentioned it in his site blog post advertising groups. Good stuff in there, sometimes.

Wait, you mean you're not banning it for the future?

Color me pleasantly surprised. That's what I was expecting.

Wow. That's over 7000 words a week for the whole month… and while I do that pretty much every week, that's seven distinct little stories and not a single story arc, or multiple story arcs leading to each other and providing that sort of clear direction.
:applejackconfused:
I can't even imagine doing this sort of challenge, and I'm fairly well known for churning out a book chapter a week like clockwork as if it weren't no thing. CONGRATS one-shotters. Thirty-one distinct short story ideas in a month without a break? Y'all brains must be kaleidoscopes by now!
And Regidar had 1000 words of commenting to do a day on top of that… :rainbowlaugh:

I make 0 stories every day. ujelly?

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