Competition » M/M Shipping Contest II: 2022 Oct 09 - Dec 11 · 11:13pm Oct 19th, 2022
commissioned from: daOtterGuy
Guess who's back?
It's us! About a year ago, we had an site contest for stories about stallions (species-neutral term) kissing other stallions (species-neutral term). And it was a great success! We received so many amazing stories that, winner or not, all contributed to the wonderful experience of reading them.
So of course we're doing it again this year!
The contest begins once you, whoever you are, reads this post, and lasts until 2022 Dec 11. You have until then to write and publish a story centered on a male/male ship. The story does not have to be a romance, or a happy one, as long as we can see the dynamics and chemistry that the stallions have or have once had!
Prizes!
Separate from any prizes, for every entry in the contest, $5 will be donated to OutRight International, an organization aiming to eradicate the persecution, inequality and violence lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) people face around the world.
Note that all prize amounts will be sent by PayPal. If you are unable or unwilling to receive money by PayPal, please contact me, Bicyclette, to try to arrange an alternative. (In the past they have included donations to mutually agreed-upon charities, and money being sent to other writers.)
The base prize pool will be $250, tentatively split this way:
- First Place: $100
- Second Place: $65
- Third Place: $40
- Judge Prizes: $15 (x3)
However, this is just the minimum! Depending on the turnout, more prize money and prizes will likely be added.
And in recognition of the special reaction M/M stories tend to receive on this site, every comment downvote on anything related to the contest (stories, posts) will add $1 to the prize pool, as well as donate an additional $1 to OutRight International.
Judges!
Here we are!
Please keep in mind that judges are not allowed to preread, edit, or discuss any entries with the author before the contest results are released! In addition, judges are asked to withhold commenting on entries until after the release of contest results.
Rules!
- All entries must have their main/primary ship be an M/M pairing (or M/M/M polyship, or M/M/M love triangle, or what have you).
- Stories can be of any rating or content, though we ask you to stay away from extreme content (fetishes, extreme gore, etc.) and porn without plot.
- R63 of canon female characters, AUs, crossovers, and OCs are all allowed. But judges are not guaranteed to know anything outside of G4 and G5 canon material, so please keep this in mind!
- Stories must be published and complete between 2022 Oct 09 8PM ET and 2022 Dec 11 7PM EST to qualify.
- Authors may submit as many stories as they wish, though each author may only win one prize.
- There is a hard cap of 50kw total between all entries by a single author. However, we officially encourage quality over quantity!
- Submissions will be collected in the M/M Shipping Contest 2022 Submissions folder. Feel free to join the group and place it in yourself!
- If you have any questions about the contest not covered in this post, please feel free to PM me, Bicyclette.
- As I, Bicyclette, must interact with all entrants, please keep in mind my DNI policy.
That's it!
Please make sure to join the group if you are interested, since any updates to the contest, as well as the eventual results, will be posted there.
And if you crave more contests to enter, here are some that are currently running as of this writing:
- Nailah's SPOOK Contest, ending 2022 Oct 31.
- Reactception's Sunset Shimmer x Villains Unseen Contest, ending 2022 Nov 10.
- Nitro Indigo's Choices: A Species Change Contest ending 2022 Nov 30.
Best of luck, and good shipping!
Note: Questions and clarifications should be directed to the organizers, not the staff of Fimfiction.
Doodl3s is considering on joining
To daOtterGuy: very nice work you did there, keep it up.
Aw yeah.
looks like we already have a
$3$10$17$31$59$84 donation to OutRight International and as much addition to the prize pool just from this post so far!5693402
very excited!
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yes, it was amazing work! love his art
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hell yeah
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Indeed.
This isnt really important, but, I find it very funny that Weird Al cannonically voices Cheese sandwich
Oooh ill def take a shot! Now what M/M pair... Also, would a poly m/m/f ship work? Like its m/f, and in the story they add another male? The focus would be on M/m ofc
Very excited to write for this! I loved the last contest I joined so Iâm definitely joining this one!
So the rules suggest that donations can be increased by downvoting everything, everywhere, as much as possible. I'm not sure that's the desired behavior for the story entries and the comments on them.
I understand the clause is to try and prevent subject-matter based downvotes, but...
Those downvoting based on content won't have read the rules (since they aren't interested in such a contest) so they won't know the side-effect their vote causes. And those who have read the rules and wish to help increase the size of the donation may vote for effect rather than opinion.
The fact that my idea for an entry went straight back to the Daymac-verse.
Edit: Well, âstraightâ.
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yes, that would work great!
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yay, so glad to have you!
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maybe! who knows?
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hehe "straight". and nothing wrong with that! looking forward to reading it if you do!
Any suggestions for this? I got the fic plot and such in place but essentially its Big Mac and Sugar Belle, and adding a stallion to their poly (takes place after TLP) Theres a few stallions that might work but id love to hear anyones suggestions
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Well, I suppose itâs off to The Looney Tunes Show for my Baffy references (one eccentric and the other level-headed⌠besides the mention of them in the comment section of the Daymac fic, I suppose youâd be able to guess the ship based off of what youâve gathered from the âBroverseâ thus far
(Insert evil Daffy cackle here
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I'm tremendously tempted to try my hoof at this. As far as I can tell, there aren't any Sky Beak / General Seaspray stories on FIMfiction (Why? Don't you people like hippogriff DILFs?) so I would be breaking whole new ground.
oh holy shit. I'm not into pony enough anymore to actually create anything of my own, but I do lurk on this site still- and damn. the pettiness in "every downvote gets another dollar added". I love it. cheers, my dude, I hope this is a resounding success
I'm pretty sure I missed out on the last iteration of this contest because of project indecision paralysis. So I might give this another shot!
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I'd hope and assume that most decent folks here would just, I dunno, donate to charity directly instead of trying to game the system by literally spreading negativity. But yeah, risk of shortsighted behavior is always there.
Can the battleship Bismarck be part of the shipping contest? I mean he's a chonky boy but she has good personality!
Okay, 50 clopfics of exactly 1000 words each it is! ^.^
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Be honest... did you foresee the repercussions when you made that donation promise... or the flaw of the pledge's intention?
Stay with me for a moment.
Do you think the individuals that are downvoting everything would even give the time to listen to something they already disagree with, let alone, become aware of their punishment for being a hater? And do you think that those who are actually supporting this topic, wouldn't downvote everything just as a way to increase the donation/prize pool?
I wouldn't be surprised if you'll add over a hundred dollars for each pool by the time this is all over.
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ehehe
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break that new ground! later season characters especially have far too few fics for them
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thanks, and me too!
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would be excited if you do, so please do!
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do it coward
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hell yeah!
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thanks for your concern!
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there might be better places to ask this than the comments of this post! if you want to stay on this site i suggest the contest group or The Coltcuddlers, or if you have Discord i could PM you something
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Alas, I am a coward...
I won't be able to write Bismarck 38-cm gun fire a 45.3 kg of shell into our heart.
I deeply apologize.
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... theres something going on here, isn't there?
5693587 I believe itâs a polite way of saying âshut up.â
I would have just said âshut up,â personally, but Iâve never been good at PR.
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I downvoted a random comment. Where do I send my dollar?
The folder doesn't allow stories to be added. Is this just a glitch or intentional? I know there are two stories for this year's contest in the "Intended" folder, and I was hoping to add my entry but it doesn't work.
Looking forward to seeing everyone's work! I'm nearly done drafting mine.
Oh hey anothercontest I would have really liked to participate in, such a shame I wasn't allowed to. And not because I missed the deadline.
The one with rainbow dashes dad and fluttershy's brother reminds me of danny gonzalazs Homecoming vine, And im all here for it!