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  • 24 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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  • 24 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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  • 48 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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  • 76 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 · 12,443 views
  • 104 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 · 15,416 views
  • 116 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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  • 120 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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  • 151 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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  • 223 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 · 15,909 views
  • 226 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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Jan
18th
2017

Site Post » Arrival · 5:19pm Jan 18th, 2017

You know, there comes a moment when you just need to rebrand. To shack off the shackles of previous incarnations of failed ideas. Mozilla have been brave enough to rebrand no longer as a web dinosaur (ugh, how nerdy and obselete) and usher in a new age of sleek, modern, hip, pop visual design with their new logo. You can see their stunning work here https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/arrival/

You'll notice they also include lots of "memes" to show how new and cool the logo is.

Well, we at Fimfiction are not going to be left behind. This is why I am proud to present the new Fimfiction logo!

This new logo will help propel Fimfiction into a new age of technological progress. The low quality image of the image shows that no matter how bad you look, it doesn't stop you from shining like a star. The eggplant shows how the moving of language to emoji is shaping our world, and Fimfiction, as a site all about language and writing will be making more of a move towards emoji based stories. The numbers in "fimfiction" show that our words can be more than they appear, conjuring up visions of numbers beyond compare.

I hope you will enjoy this new movement, and join us in our bid to create an open fanfiction web.

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Comments ( 219 )

*claps*:moustache: bravo and well done:rainbowlaugh:

I am stunned beyond words with the beauty of this creation.

(although I really expected something with peaches in it)

Welp

What could go wrong

Probably everything

Truly beautiful. Amazing work.

*Snrk*:twilightsheepish:

Meh, just meh looking.

*Checks calendar*

Okay, good, I was worried that I forgot ten weeks of my life for a moment.

Majin Syeekoh
Moderator

I for one approve of this bold, new direction.

It's beautiful.

Wow. This is a bold new step. I daresay we're on our way to becoming the number one fanfiction community the web world has ever known!

I thought this was a really dumb joke.

But that's because I hadn't clicked the link first.

Now I think this joke isn't dumb enough holy shit reality.

Satire is a dying art form because reality is becoming too stupid I swear to God.

You should have waited 'till April to just apply this logo to everything

Damn it Knightly, April Fools is still over 2 months aways.

:rainbowlaugh:That's brilliant

Good job, mate.

Nighty pls.

We were going to announce this together with the eggplant update.

Isn't it a little early for April Fools? :trixieshiftright:

I'm kidding; love the satire.

Looks really nice and all, but--

Wait a minute.

...Oh my god. I drew that boop-hoof. That awful, awful boop-hoof.

I want royalties.

4387104 this was my first reaction. What the actual hell, Mozilla?

My name is Skeeter and I approve this bold direction.

~Skeeter The Lurker

knighty
Site Owner

Can't wait to see those emoji based stories come rolling in.

:yay:
Into the future!

Well, then.:rainbowhuh:
It really is unique...and creative..:unsuresweetie::twilightsheepish:


Oh, God! My eyes!:raritydespair:

Here we go. To the future! :rainbowdetermined2:

Change we were deceived in, Wronger Together, Make FIMFiction Boop Again, eggplant lives matter, insert other political gibberish here.

Finally! They all called me crazy, but I knew logos like these would be art! Hahaha...
Please grant me sanctuary

Well, it's certainly an... improvement. (Snerks)

4387105 hahahhahahahahahaha fuck off mate

4387103 what are you talking about this is great

....

I KEEP PRESSING THE WAKE UP BUTTON BUT IM STILL IN THIS NIGHTMARE DANG IT!!!!!

Byootiful. Words cannot truly express my awe...So deep, and yet, so accessible. Truly, this is art.

4387113 That doesn't mean he still can't have fun XD

And thus began the End of the Fourth Age, where the lines began to be drawn between the traditionalists and the new-way thinkers.

....:rainbowderp:

Tsk Tsk knighty, I'm disappointed in you. The new Fimfiction logo is clearly missing about ten or so popsicles; that eggplant is way too softcore for this site. :rainbowwild:

You joke about the new logo, but this is exactly how it feels like seeing a lot of new logos for events, buildings, sports teams, etc.
Like a designer vomits over a page, then comes up with bullshit, asinine 'symbolism' and shit to justify their vomit design.

I like eggplant, :^D

:ajbemused: No ya don't.

... No, I don't, :^(

4387154 "Give in to your autistic nature, boy! Only your aspergers can strike me down!" XD
Seriously though, I liked this post. A little early for April but nice.

No boops?? You monster!:fluttercry:

This makes Fluttershy sad, knighty.

4387161 Probably not as sad as it makes Chrysalis. :pinkiecrazy:

Eggplant.

DONT CHANGE WHAT AINT BROKEN?

This made my day! :rainbowlaugh::rainbowlaugh:

So what are you saying Knightly that we can't post our stories as we as the writer see fit to write them and post them?

4387160 What the hell!? hahahahaha!!!!! :rainbowlaugh: Thank you.

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