Originally posted to the Vault on 3/22/13.

Everypony grows old eventually, and it can be a trying time for their loved ones.

[Slice-of-Life] • 7,100 words

Dear Princess Celestia,

I'm sorry I haven't written in a while. Things seem to be falling through the cracks lately. Spike thinks I should go see the doctor, but...

Hit the break for a chat with Obselescence, and links to In Memory Of out on the ponynet. Don't forget to grab your own copy over on the Downloads page!

And here we go! Time to explore!

The group, Crack Ship's Inc, has initiated it's first prompt contest!

At Crack Ships Inc, we believe that anyone and anything can fall in love. After all, Friendship is Magic is all about making friends, and it's not a huge leap from friendship to romance.

And if anyone can become friends, then anyone can fall in love.

For the prompt contest, six arbitrarily chosen ponies are presented, and contestants must write a ship fic about two or more of those ponies.

Closing date is the 23rd of April, after which a community vote opens up to decide the winner.

Good day fellow FIM FANS,

Recently our group, Fan Fiction Documentary, launched on this site announcing a FIM Fan Fiction Documentary in the works. We hope to bring a quality 40-45 minute documentary to the Brony community sometime this summer. We are aiming for 7-8 guests with a variety of backgrounds, but if you want to find out more just take the link to our faq which will be updated this weekend with a list of guests and a more defined focus based on feedback gained in the past week.

We will also be opening a discussion board where we can keep track of talent including those interested in contributing works of art including music, pictures of all sorts, video, and of course listing their stories for consideration. We won't be able to use even half the authors we have, but we have something in the works to show just how many quality fics we have in this community.

I would also like to take this time to congratulate FIMFICTION.net for being the second most popular fan fiction site on the web, second only to http://archiveofourown.org which has 11700 fandoms as of today. FIMFICTION.net is also about tied for most hits as a Brony site, and is in the process of passing EQD for hits as we speak.

Shower knighty and his staff with praise below. They have all accomplished a lot in the past few years and brought us a lot of joy including making this project possible with tools like the group function.

So thank you Fimfiction, we hope to honor you and and the rest of the community soon.

Tropers is a new group dedicated to the TVTropes wiki; the internet's favorite trope catalogue and life-ruiner.

Our group may not be large right now, but we have folders for both troper-written and troper-recommended works, and we have already done a Fic Secret Santa. The more members the more discussion we can have, and the more events we can arrange!

Don't be afraid to stop by, whether you're familiar with the site or not. A valid TVTropes handle is required to add fics to folders, but trust us when we say those aren't hard to get.

The World-Building Alliance has announced the April Story Prompt!

Now, I bet some of you were wondering why we decided to delay this month’s idea until the second of the month.  The simple answer being what happened yesterday, with gold memberships, retirements, promotions, and all manner of general silliness.  We decided it would be best to wait for a day than get caught up in the middle of all that

Now, onto the fun part.  For this month, the idea is a simple one:  Take a trait of your main character, and crank it up to eleven.  An extremely friendly minotaur, maybe?  Or a dragon with insatiable curiosity, perhaps.  Go nuts, we want to see some wacky combinations out there.

If you’re after some pony examples, we could give Twilight as a super-smarty pants.  Or maybe Fluttershy, with her maxed out shyness stat.

Now, seeing as this is a more character-driven prompt, we'll be fiddling with the weighting of the categories to represent that.  For this month, World Building will be less important than your ability to create and convincingly flesh out this OC.

For more information follow THIS LINK

American Bronies

Are you from the country that kicks the most ass, while simultaneously maintaining a below par public education system? Then this group is for you!

Come here to celebrate all things uniquely American, from the artery clogging, early death sentence inducing deliciousness that is american cuisine, to the vast and unequaled power of our military, via one of the largest budgets in the world!

It is as you might expect, it's for those who live in territory claimed by US and A to join and exercise those free speech rights. We don't really do anything special other than talk ponies and news concerning 'Merica.

Polyamory (Contains NSFW/Mature Fics)

Because Pony x Pony x Ponies is best ship.

A group for everyone that likes to see more than two ponies getting together.  Accepts both clean and clop stories, simply place them in the relevant folders.  

A prime example of what we are looking for is The Teacher, The Sorceress, and The Wonderbolt.  

This group is not meant to overshadow other groups dedicated to specific polyamorous relationships, and as such will not have folders dividing every possible shipping combination of three ponies or more.  I believe that the whole point of polyamorous shipping is the open, convention-breaking feel, so adding regimented groups seems odd.  These shippings are allowed, but they will not be segregated.  

If you happen to be interested in specific poly ships, RariJackDash, AppleDashLight, Twilunestia, and Twilunestiance are at your disposal.

We encourage any and all members to search for stories with polyamory or even polyamorous elements.  There isn't much out there, and of course we would all like it if the idea was spread out even more.  

Hopefully, more groups will be founded (maybe even by you, yes YOU) in order to spread the message of free love and swinging across FimFic and Bronydom.

Aaand that's it for now!

Remember, if you have a group that is organizing something for the whole community, or has just been created, or has been around but has a unique concept, you might want to PM me with the details! Be sure to write about 200 words minimum describing what your group or event is around and provide as much detail as you can!

~WD

I decided to throw in some code yesterday to monitor how many people browse the site with the mature toggle on, and how many are logged in.

The results were:

Mature / Non Mature: 425,382 (48%) / 452,128 (52%)

Logged In / Not logged In: 409,824 (47%) / 467,686 (53%)

(those are page views)

Thought they might be interesting to some people.

But seriously though, HiE fics are banned.

NOT REALLY. IT WAS A HILARIOUS RUSE.

YOU ALL CRUISIN' FOR A RUSIN'

Usually this post wouldn't have gone up until Friday, but I've seen a lot of concern over the handoff of control of the site from knighty to Poultron, and I wanted to do my part - no matter how small - to reassure everyone that FIMFiction will still be FIMFiction, and the community-driven interview and poll posts will continue as usual throughout the transition (though FIMFic Gold™ members will gain voting rights over who gets interviewed each week).

Sometimes you run across a piece of fan fiction that just floors you. When you reach the end of the story, you sit and stare at your screen, and then you remember to breathe, and then you read the story again, because you can't quite believe someone could write something so gripping, so wonderful, so real about candy-colored equines.

This is one of those stories.

[Shipping][Comedy][Crossover] • 9,100 words

This is a poni adaptation of the best fanfic ever written except the original was too dark an goffik. So now it's abt sports and MEdal is Miss Harshwhinny's son. He does sports things and inspects cities for the inter Equestrian games. With his friends and sometimes his mom.

Hit the break for a chat with horizon, and a link to My Harshwhinnial for your reading pleasure. Don't forget to grab an ebook copy over at the Downloads page!

Yes, Gold Accounts are real, but right now they're just in the testing phase. That's why they seem to be assigned to random people (although as some have astutely pointed out, they are assigned to all users who have an ID ending in 0). We're just testing out the feature for bugs right now, and while the status doesn't actually do anything at the moment, we're making sure there's no site-breaking bugs with it right now. We'll be ready with a full explanation of all the features Gold Members will be able to enjoy in a few days!

Incidentally, since gold accounts were my idea, they won't be properly introduced until after April Fools day, to avoid confusion like the ownership change.

First of all, I want to clear the air right away. Yes, knighty posted this news on April Fool's Day. Yes, he made the blog post very sarcastic and humorous. All of that was just to sort of cushion the impact, if you will. Some big changes are going to be coming under my banner, and they're going to start as soon as the move is all settled and everybody is up to speed.

Greetings to all my loyal readers! I’m taking a break from my regular update schedule to share—

Yes, my schedule. Stop laughing.

I decided to toss in a little bonus review episode here! Rather than my usual format of “three stories reviewed by three sock-accounts each”, I’m trying something a little different. Here instead, I’m running with as many accounts as I feel inspired to write, each of them picking a different story and a different reviewing style. I figured this would be something new and interesting for you guys!

Because I write all of these. Me, Wanderer D. I write all the reviews in every round, plus I also write all these intros and outros. I mean, from the comments, you guys clearly already know this, but I just wanted to put it in writing, just so we’re clear. I’m the guy who makes this all happen. Just me. By myself.

Latias is such a sexy Pokemon.

Dear Fimfiction,

It is with bittersweet regret that I must speak to you today.

As of today, I, knighty, will no longer run and maintain Fimfiction.net. Instead, I relinquish full control of the site to my best friend and homosexual life partner , Poultron.

I'm making this decision for a number of reasons; chief among them is the fact that I've grown tired of the site. I've been asking for months for a proper sequel to My Little Dashie, and you guys just haven't written enough of them. In addition, after the recent changes to the site went over less than well, a disgruntled Fimfiction user hired a contract killer to bludgeon my fingers. As a result, I have been unable to code for weeks, and am dictating this post through my secretary, Wlah.

I see this as a mostly positive change in the long run. Getting away from ponies will allow me to pursue my true passion of opera singing, and I've heard that Poultron already has some great changes planned for the site - you should be able to see some of his ideas implemented before the end of the day.

To everyone on the site: thank you for years of fanfiction, and for your hours of sanctimonious bitching at the free website I gave you. I know that Poultron will carry the same spirit of passive conflict avoidance I tried to hold myself to, and I wish him and you all the best in Fimfiction's future.

Until the next great fandom,

knig-knog out.

Hey folks! I hope no one missed me too much last week; I was very sick (feeling much better now, thanks for asking) and just couldn't summon up the wherewithal to put one of these together. We had a great turnout for the Favorite Genres poll, and you can check out the summary of results here and grab a copy of the raw data here.

As for this week, we're going back to a simpler format - who is best X, where X is a grouping of various supporting and background characters. I'm quite sure some groupings have been left out; feel free to chastise me, because we can always do more!