Fimfiction Writes Ponies! · 7:23pm Apr 9th, 2014
Hi guys. So probably a lot of you have heard about that shindig at Twitch where a bunch of people get together and engage in some sort of satanic ritual. I hear it's quite a spectacle. Here at Fimfiction, though, we're good honest ponyfolk. None of that devil-worship or catching 'em all with our horsewords, thanks.
"Up!" "A!" "Down!" "B!" "START9!"
That said, the concept of a chaotic mass of people banding together to accomplish great things intrigues me. "If fifty kajillion people can beat Pokemon," I asked myself, "What could a thousand-odd Fimfic users accomplish?" Pokémon is easy, after all. You just, I'unno, catch the little things in balls and you mug people with them. What's not to get? A five-year-old could do it. We did it when we were five.
A story about colorful ponies, though? That's hard. That's like eleven-year-old stuff.
So. Let's try it. Let's try...
Here is a Google Document. Anyone can write in it. Anyone. It will be our job to take this document and produce a coherent story about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It's not just your job. It's not just my job. It's not just Uncle Joe's job. It's going to be our job. And if we pull it off, we'll look at publishing the fruits of our majestic labor.
The world should know.
This is the grand experiment. I cannot promise you it will succeed. I cannot promise that it will not suffer from people intentionally trying to screw it up. What I can promise, though, is that if enough people genuinely shoot to make this work, we will bear witness to something magical. Possibly even as magical as friendship, or actual magic. That's what'll make this worth doing.
Here is a group I've set up for planning and organizational purposes Use it to make the dream real. Organize. Archive stuff that gets written so it won't be lost if people delete it. Discuss where the story should go. Set up a voting bloc. I don't know -- do whatever your heart tells you is right.
Whatever it takes, let's make this happen.
One last thing: If you're interested in seeing this endeavor work to its fullest potential, Spread The Word. Blog about it and tell your friends. Tell your enemies. Tell your grandma. The more people involved, the more of a hoot it'll be. So even if you're just planning to kick back and watch, be sure to let interested parties know it's going on. The more the merrier.
OH MY GOSH.
This sounds awesome.
This is going to be gloriously stupid.
[3:24:08 PM] Obsy-Wobsy-Woo: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/308251/fimfiction-writes-ponies
[3:24:21 PM] Obsy-Wobsy-Woo: This will either end brilliantly or in tears.
I changed the second sentence from "except this day had a giant monster in it" to "except this day had been eaten by a giant monster."
My work here is complete.
I am intrigued. I think this whole thing'll be a frothy mixture of wicked fun and suffocating frustration. Skating along a fine line of greatness and malignancy, defying laws of nature and pet shop regulations as it goes! What's not to love!? WOOHOO!
Obviously I'm going to help! I love the idea. I'm in. Shut up. It'll be okay.
Hooooooo boy.
Strap in, everybody. Shit's gonna go stratospheric.
UP!
And now to wait for the foalcon to arrive...
You know not the horrors you have unleashed. You have made a great mistake.
...
And it is going to be AWESOME!
I'm almost certain that the fic will not be any good, but it should be mighty entertaining to see the changes
On the other hoof, it might be a goldmine for crazy, and perhaps even not so crazy, ideas
This is a spectacularly bad idea.
1995119
I know, right?
My contribution so far:
As you can clearly see, so far this is a masterpiece that would have Miguel De Cervantes (author of the so called greatest novel of all time) weeping in shame.
I actually remember seeing something just like this. Years ago on the now mostly-dead Ponychan, there was an open document for a community made story... for the Conversion Bureau community. I don't even know if it's possible to find that again, but it was the same kind of chaos, just with not nearly this many people. And more turning humans into ponies.
The worst thing that happened to the Conversion Bureau was everyone taking it seriously.
Finally, something that every fimfic author can freely contribute to and, should it (by some fantastical miracle) come out halfway decent, make a claim to fame of having helped with its creation.
~The lizardman shall now add to the mess the greatest idea ever conceived by fimfickind
Holy Crap.
It's gotten so big that I can't even collaborate anymore.
AND JUST WHEN IT WAS GETTING FUN!
And random Big Macintosh, because why not?
In first chapter I tried to explain why Twilight was reluctant to handle the situation herself, but I think the text is not random enough, compared to the rest of the story.
1995129
The order in which this is being produced is great.
Random chapter 5 stuff actually being integrated into earlier chapters. (Like Mecha Trixie).
1995183 Thought we could use some cohesiveness.
Obs you're insane
There's this one wanker that keeps messing it up
1995191
Coming from Blueshift, that's saying something.
I guess the Mad Hatter was right: we're all crazy here.
Chapter three is my favorite, it's the one I contributed the most to.
From what I gather, the story's being built faster than I could ever hope to catch up with. So, if someone could be so kind as to give a summary of the plot thus far, or I won't be able to participate and make my work relevant to the rest of the plot.
Some jerks've been messing with the doc, and I need to step out for a bit, so the doc's currently comment-only. Leave comments where you'd like to add to the story and I'll try to add them when I get back.
Ah, image spam. This is why we can't have nice things.
Well, aside from that, this is proving most entertaining.
1995256 what exactally are you going to do about the spam? you never know who will spam it and who won't. How are we going to keep them out of the google doc so everypony who is MATURE can actually write chapters on it.
1995270 Yes, we need to filter out the bad ones so we can write more glorious chapters, such as chapter three.
This sounds cool, maybe I'll help. Although I warn you, I'm best at dark, depressing stories.
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We'll see. I'm considering the need to resort to the add/change-via-comment system, in which I keep comments only and make changes based on what people comment. If some folks are determined to destroy progress and things really need it, we might have to do that. It would be our Democracy, so to speak...
1995395
Damn shame. It loses a lot of the spontaneity... but on the other hand, I don't see any practical alternative. Not unless Google Docs supports IP bans.
Aaand there's the comment system. It was a great idea obs, hopefully it'll all work out in the end, somehow.
This has potential. For what, I do not know. But it has great potential.
Twitch shall weep at what we have accomplished here this day. With laughter probably Tahoe e bungle on, but still!
Requires permission to enter. U wat m80?
Dang it, I missed the cut-off date!
Can we do this again sometime?
How coincidental. I saw the resulting story on Featured just after I decided to watch Twitch Plays Pokemon.(I tried to get it to change to Democracy the whole time XD)
2000973
I support this Idea. I first heard about this today.