Reset Password
Resend Verification Email
18
336
154
Joined July 2011
How to know if your “Human Universe” Equestria is actually related to FIM. 
I am Wanderer D, and like many other mods and admins, I have better things to do than this, but alas, it is not to be.
So, class, pay attention.
"Upon my word," said Fancy Pants, "I believe you are perfectly right. My father certainly could mean nothing more by his request to me than what you say. I clearly understand it now, and I will strictly fulfil my engagement by such acts of assistance and kindness to them as you have described. When my mother removes into another house my services shall be readily given to accommodate her as far as I can. Some little present of furniture too may be acceptable then.""Certainly," returned Rarity. "But, however, one thing must be considered. When your father and mother moved to Ponyville, though the furniture of Canterlot was sold, all the china, plate, and linen was saved, and is now left to your mother. Her house will therefore be almost completely fitted up as soon as she takes it."
What else did you do?
Here! Take a look!
Let’s see...“No really, they bounce! They don’t feel pain like us!”Fluttershy hefted the rabbit in her hands and threw it against the wall. It rebounded with a squeak and thumped onto the floor, thrashing it’s little paws about. With a kick of her heel, Fluttershy rolled the rabbit back into its hutch and slammed the door. “Far out,” Applejack mumbled, munching on an apple. “I’m going to make a tweet about that.” “Whatever Applejerk.” Fluttershy stumbled back into her kitchen, wiping her dirty hands over her dress and began to rummage amongst stacks of filthy Tupperware containers before pulling out a small blue plastic box. “Aha!” she cried. “Fun times are here again! “Fluttershy!” Applejack’s eyes went wide and she held onto her cowboy hat out of shock. “You can’t have that stuff here, drugs are illegal! What if someone finds it?” “Pff you worry too much!” Fluttershy hooked up her iPod to some speakers and began to play some thrash metal as she tipped the contents of the box onto the kitchen worktop. “Anyway, cocaine isn’t a drug, it’s a medicine!”
This...
By the gods above, below and sideways, OW, what the hell is that?
Ponies
Friendship
Dragons
Castles
Fantasy
Mane 6 
Would that be accurate?
Let me make it clear:
There is no element that really connects the characters to the show. And this site is about the show.
It’s not about kids with hippie names going to school with other kids with hippie names.
Why name your characters like ponies when they are humans? MLP has always been about anthropomorphic ponies: they have some human-like qualities, like the ability to talk, and how they react to certain things, but they are not humans given pony form.
In other words, fimfiction.net is about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It’s not about your Detroit: Metal City fanfic with the group manager being the same character, only renamed Fluttershy.
When you submit a story and the F.A.Q. says that it has to have something to do with FIM, we really mean it.
The setting and characters have to be at the very least recognizable. And that goes beyond the names.
Just look at a dictionary for the definition of archetype:
the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
and of character as is relevant to us:
(of a part or role) representing a personality type, especially by emphasizing distinctive traits, as language, mannerisms, physical makeup, etc.
So, when you make Fluttershy act like a- whatever it is that she’s acting like, you are making her act out of character. What you have there is NOT Fluttershy; it’s a wreck that happens to share the name.
And even if there is a reason for her to be acting that way, it’s not going to relate to FIM because the whole setting... no, the whole world has nothing to do with FIM.
Does FIM take place on Earth? No. No it doesn’t.
Does FIM try to be realistic? No. It doesn’t.
Are the FIM characters American/British/Chinese? No. They aren’t.
It’s one thing to write a story where a pony finds herself in a human body in the middle of Hong Kong, and another thing to have a girl in Hong Kong be named Cheerilee. If that girl acts like and is a genuinely human version of the pony, it’s fine, but if it’s just the name? It isn’t.
~thanks for the help, Blue, Arc, lam.
Cancel
Send
Comments ( 212 )
What a great story, I would like to read more of that talented prose
Only you makes these hilarious.
Yay! New Wanderer class!
yesyesyesyesyesyes
*grabs a seat and starts taking notes*
Well, I have to admit...
I was surprised CU was actually intelligent back there...
but OW made me cringe.
How do people like that even exist?!
anyways, I agree whole-heartedly. If it's just a names moved over, then it's not the same.
It's true all things is true, wait what?
I take it then that this doesn't constitute a FIM fanfiction.
that was coo! i think it was pretty neat, kinda gives instructions while makin u laugh
good one as always. This will help me big time in my story. Anyway, great work.
Well said. I bet it felt good to get that out .
I clicked on that Detroit: Metal City link with the near soul crushing fear that it would lead me to a story on this site.
this is practically a fanfic itself, ha
That writer is going to be the next Tolkein.
Ooh, this one was actually relevant to my interests! Neato!
Oh, you.
I love these.
Make more, please.
funny but what about lets say one of the mane 6 is stranded on earth becomes human but remembers and finds a way back home and shit will that work?
>"My Little Human: No Friendship"
I can actually see myself trying to read this and that makes me feel somewhat dirty.
>>284717 CU is learning.
Maybe someday, he'll write great stories....
I actually find these posts useful, but, YE GODS! You may have just single-handedly doomed that site!
Wanderer D, you win the internet for writing the best how-to guides second only the Donkey Kong Country manuals. Just one question what does UC (or CU) stand for?
I really wish these people didn't exist.
At the same time, I'm so glad they exist so that I can read stuff like this. I love your blog posts Wanderer D.
>>284739
or at least not make stupid comments on other's stories.
Do people actually submit stories like the ones in the examples you use? If so my mind is boggled.
Ya know, I found one of these fics only yesterday, and I could just FEEL this post coming.
Gods dammit, I hate being right.
Somepony should make a story all about ponies tweeting each other and facebook liking each tweet. It will be ponies therefore a completely legit and good story everypony would love to read.
>>284747 Yeah, that would be good too...
New Wanderer class is in session!
DROP EVERYTHING AND READ!!!!!!
>>284750
Hell yeah these exist.
Wanna seriously think about killing yourself and everyone around you?
HERE. Don't say I didn't warn you.
>>284756
It looks like he's on his way though, who knows, one day, he might even be considered a normal person by the other bronies.
If a little odd for his looks, but more or less normal.
>>284743 CU = Clueless User
At least until Obnoxious Writer came back for the sequel.
Agree 100%.
I wish character and setting didn't validate a story as FiM necessarily, though. I have seen plenty of stories where the characters are ponies and in Equestria, but completely irrelevant to anything related to FiM in any way other than "ponies" and "Equestria".
This is the same reason I tend to dislike adaptations/ponifications. The more removed a story is from the core characters, setting and themes of the show, the less interest I have.
I would rather honestly read a story where the characters are themselves, but not ponies and not in Equestria, than a story where they are ponies in Equestria but not themselves.
OOC is OK when there is a reasonable premise or setting to account for it, but completely changing the personality for no apparent reason is sacrilege.
Selling not so common sense, 2 bits!
>>284758 I can't even read the whole story. How do people write things like that?
Wanderer D when ever i read your text it is always in the voice of Patrick Stewart
>>284781
My head has WandererD sounding like Eric Idle just so that it's that much more funny and soothing.
Obnoxious Writer sounds like the the Bum from TGWTG.
>>284776
Dude, don't ask me. My mom didn't let me drink paint solvent when I was a kid, so I can't even comprehend that level of stupidity.
Great as always, Wanderer!
I take it you don't like fanfiction.net that much?
No, don't answer that
I smiled at the line "There’s nothing in the rules (so far) against having a human pony.". That "(so far)" fills my heart with hope for a better tomorrow. You know like "no hunger, no war, no human ponies". I'll go and listen to "Imagine" now.
I had to do it! I had to play Sephiroth's theme, when OW posted his.... thing he calls writing. It was like the boss troll descending to earth, shrugging his shoulders, using lines like: "umad,umad?", "jelly?", "come at me bro"
and yes I was mad!
>>284737
I actually have a story on the go that is fairly close to that concept.
Great class Wanderer! This was relavent to my interests.
The fact that you actually had to write this up makes me want to machete my heart out.
WHY would ANYONE NEEEEED A GUIDE LIKE THIS? This stuff? It should be OBVIOUS.
I for one think there should be less HiE/humanized stories period. But that is my opinion.
Wait.
So you are saying I should write a fic where House fights Discord for pills?
Well... if you say so...
>>284737 yes. he actually said
This blog post was hilarious!
that was practically a fanfic on its own! You should do more of these!
>>284721
Are they in character?
>>284861 ........Nope. Well...sort of.
>>284863
Sort of?
50/50?
30/70 ?
Changeling/cat ?
My little human, no friendship... I"mm looking forward to that stary.
I feel your pain.
I don't know how put up with these sorts. I'd have been sorely tempted to use copious amounts of violence to solve the problem long ago, and I HATE VIOLENCE!
tssk tssk. OW, the only thing worse than your stories are *shudder* clop *shudder* fics
At least in OW's story, there was propper grammer as opposed to CU's first story.
I want...
I want revenge...
must kill OW for posting non-pony-like character fics...
>>284737 yes. he actually said
>>284784 really? to me he sounded like douchy mcnitpick.
>>284814 I don't really mind humanized ponies as a concept, just as long as you keep everything else that makes them who they are (personality more than anything)
I have to give you credit, Wanderderpaderp (lol) I literally laughed out loud on this on one
>>284864 Just read the bloody thing'n you tell me.
These always make my day. Good show, Wanderer D. Good show.
>>284877
You are no fun when you are like this.
But fine, I'll read it.
These blogs are one the reasons why I spend so much time on this site. I'm always like "yay, new blog!" I get all sad and stuff when it's an interview, but then I get a good old-fashioned Pinkie Pie smile when it's one of these.
>>284885 No fun to be around? Maybe. Funny to see in action? Also yes.
>>284889
See, there is still a bit of the good old you in there.
Would I be allowed to write a fanfic about bronies writing a fanfic about MLP?
>>284874
Well, I do. I know there are exceptions, like the "Helping Hands" story from the Lunaverse and I have some Ponyfall stories in my "read later-list as well, but the whole idea of ponies-turning-human just does rubs me the wrong way.
Cheerilee could hide behind her blackboard, compared to your classes.
Ye gods, this is so spot-on.
Actually, what will Clueless User's name be when he finally gets a clue? Will he still be Clueless User?
>>284905 useless clueler
>>284891
I remember some class like that, and I think no, you can't.
You can't write fics about 'meta' (for example, Roboshi from Ponibooru) or any person that is not directly related to FiM (except crossovers).
I can't imagine what could come out of that, but by all means, write it! XD
Is it strange that this post made me want to read a fic about Fluttershy managing DMC?
"The Earth is round. There is no up or down."
--Pinkie Pie, as Chancellor Puddinghead
ARRGH!! Wanderer D, don't send them to the Ranma section
, send them to the Twilight section if you have to put them anywhere. 
>>284905
He will become Clue. His amount of clue, much like his personal status, could be described as single.
I saw the link, and actually skipped the rest just to post this:
Detroit Metal City x MLP:FiM crossover fic NAO pl0x. That is all.
Oh, I'm going to go back and read the rest. It amazes me how someone who isn't Wanderer D actually makes a shred of sense in this scenario. Based on the previous...encounters, shall we say...that he's had, I thought literally everyonepony except Wanderer D himself was utterly stupid. On the entire site. And off the site, too. Even me. And his evil twin. And let's not forget his not-as-schizophrenic other personality.
Shows what I know.
Absolutely hilarious. People really have trouble with these concepts? That makes me all sorts of sad.
Maybe someday you'll post a story exemplar that Clueless User wrote on these blogs. Not anytime soon, though, Clueless User isn't a professional writer yet.
I avoid using humans entirely in my FIM stories, so no worries about me breaking any rules
I always enjoy these
Wow, the fact that you had to actually go out of your way to do this... It is just sad... I would have thought that people would have already know that... But what the hay, what ever
Hey he finally got used!
Should I change the name to OW now? Either way, another great blog post that was both hilarious and informative.
Edit for fun: http://fav.me/d54ylzs I already changed the name of the pic!
Hilarious and informative as always, but having three characters all in the same font colour does make this a lot harder to read than the other "user manual" blogs you've done. The indentation helps a little, but it's still a bit of work figuring out who is supposed to be who in some places.
*Updates story about humanized ponies and then see's this*
Oh shit is this meant for me?!
NOOOOOO Ranma 1/2 is too epic to be disgraced like that...
thank you very much, though I have a slight disagreement. Their personalities don't really have to match perfectly, if stuff happened in the past to modify the personality slightly then i think it's still valid, as long as that part is explained and the basic and most important characteristics remain the same. Otherwise I'd be out of fimfiction to write completely because I rely on dark, shipping and combat/war in my fics. None of that is really cannon lol.
What an epic shit^^
I agree.
On reading "Anyway, cocaine isn’t a drug, it’s a medicine!" I heard a TV off click in my head.
That... All of my NO!
I hope Griffin the Griffin has some mind bleach left. I am going to ask for some.
Oh... Wait... Re-reading...
I think Clueless User is right!
Now about first piece. Something feels off in it. Though I think that some stories may cross or have cross-references or even have same situations happen (hey, there is a big multiverse), not all of them are simple replacement of names. Copy-paste is not the best way to write a story, it is good only for "no-one-cares-about-science-works" where amount of letters means more than contents.
Sorry, I can hardly express what I think in English.
Thinking again about second piece.
And I thought making characters OOC is bad. And even started re-watching episodes.
Things like this happening... I don't understand. Someone watched Ponies and makes this... Not that I am against grim dark or just gore, I like good written story, but it should be at least GOOD written.
*shakes head* Sorry. I don't know right words for all the wrongs.
P.S. Thanks for another great guide!
I find it entirely apropos that a pony whose cutie mark is a pencil stabbing an eye would have his initials spell out "OW".
The problem with allowing flexibility with canon in fanfiction is that some people overinterpret "flexibility" as "hey, I can snake my clogged drain with this". I suspect that a lot of these people are trying to garner popularity by just sticking the names of popular characters in some sort of already-frameworked story- but unfortunately, the vast majority are just people who don't understand the right and wrong ways to alter canon. (Not to be confused with "altar cannon", which I'm supremely amazed Pinkie didn't pull out in A Canterlot Wedding.
)
No matter what, if you're using already-established characters, you should use that canon characterization as a base- and if you're going to change it, have good reason for doing so. It's okay for given values of "okay"; work with me here to stick Trixie in a human body; it's okay to put her on Earth; it's okay to change her personality. But if you're going to do any of these, you'd better come up with a good reason- and if you're going to do ALL of them, you'd better bend over backwards to connect your Trixie to FiM's Trixie and show us just how she got from point A to point H. Elsewise, all you're just doing is slapping a "pony" label on a completely different character in a completely unrelated story... and if you're going to do that, why not just save your time and ours, drop the label and make your own original story?
Seriously? People need to be told this?
Oh, this makes my story feel so 'not FIM...'
I mean, at least the ponies (people) are completely in character. xD I hope that counts...
Is the weird human fic real?
If so I would like to read it.
Hmmm. We'll need someone who reads a lot to confirm this. Who should we get? I know!
Optimus Prime!
CTK: Optimus! Can you confirm what Wanderer D is saying?
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU? WHAT'S A "WANDERER D?"
CTK: Oh... well I'm an Avatar, so is Wanderer D. Could you read this and confirm if WD is right?
"Let me see... alright he's correct on all accounts. When writing you have to have already existing characters in character."
CTK: Thank you Optimus. Wanderer, well done.
>>285076 This lol, just this.
I absolutely love that every time you address Obnoxious Writer by their initials, it seems as though you are exclaiming in pain.
Does my story fit any of the blog descriptions?
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/12481/Familiar-Faces
It's in Equestria, background characters are used and are the main characters throughout the stories.
No!!!, I've spent more years defending the Ranma 1/2 section against idiots than most of theses writers have been alive! Don't send them there! Give em to Digimon or something. But seriously, I whole heartedly agree.
>>285086
Why wouldn't you scream in pain?
>>284727
I thought meta stories weren't allowed anymore?
>>285189
he is already really close to meta with his sweetite chronicles lol
And once again I am sad that this has to be explained.
Reading this became less funny when I realized "OW" was an abbreviation of "Obnoxious Writer", and not an exclamation of pain.
Wanderer D is so good he writes stories without even meaning to.
I feel for you D!
Could always be worse though!
Also, this lesson had me chuckling with amusement!
As a humanized author, I was seriously sweating out the first 1/2 of this blog post. I honestly thought that I'd have to publish elsewhere/give up altogether.
Then I felt relieved as I read the conclusion. I'm safe... until humanized gets banned altogether.
There really ought to be a FiM-related litmus test. In order to be considered FiM-related (and thus site worthy), the fic must adhere to at least one of the following:
- Takes place in Equestria and adheres to its canon universe.
- Contains at least one main character from FiM in both name and personality.
- Contains at least one side character from FiM OR one well-known character from the FiM fanon in both name and personality.
And finally, the story must make its relation to FiM clear towards the beginning of the story, must center around the FIM-related characteristic(s), and must continue displaying said characteristics throughout the majority of the story.
Hmm. . . so if my character were a yellow pegasus pony who's shy and takes care of animals and has a butterfly cutie mark and once stared down a cockatrice. . . but her NAME was Crackhead Violent-teen, that would, by this logic, be FIM-related, right?
I wonder what prompted this blog post to happen...