It Is Recommendsday, My Dudes #101 · 12:42am Feb 23rd, 2023
Today, it's time to get a bit meta.
And I mean that fairly literally. In fact, the first story today's kind of the key in that.
If you look at the FIMFiction site rules, you'll notice under the Don't Post (Genres) section, there's this:
- Meta stories, defined broadly as any story about the site or its users. What constitutes meta is largely up to staff discretion.
Something I learned a few months ago is that unlike other banned content, there is actually a patient zero for this: a story that caused the rule to come into being. Skywriter's Twilight Sparkle Earns the Feature Box.
The story itself is simple: Twilight Sparkle presents her self-insert Princess Luna fanfiction (And The Stars Shall Aid Her Escape) to the Audience. At their encouragement, she publishes it on FIMFiction.net and is barraged by the feedback of likes, dislikes, favorites, and so on. I'm not sure how I can adequately summarize it because it is extremely meta and more than a little surreal. I mean, you have lines like:
"Yes!" shouted Twilight, as the Audience clicked at her story's fave button over and over again. "Yes! Yes! Fave me! Fave me harder!"
How the hell do I summarize that? (And then in chapter 2, Spike submits his story to the Collective Equestria Daily Pre-Readers.)
I will admit, I have a hard time really bringing this one into focus. It's weird as hell, but it's also hilarious and painfully relatable. Even if it wasn't a really fun read (which it is,) it's status as I believe the only story which has directly caused a site rule to be created to prevent it makes it a significant historical point and a must-read.
Plus, again. It's goddamn funny.
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And really, what could I honestly make a companion piece to that but Twilight Is Awarded For Porn by the oft-underappreciated Thought Prism?
Suffice it to say, while rated Teen, this story is probably Not Particularly Work Safe.
The meta to this is much simpler: a few years ago, an enterprising researcher tried to answer the question: what person, real or fictional, had the most pornography created of them? Given the way that the presence of modern information technology and artistic tools have developed, that number has skyrocketed within the last decade or two. As it turns out, the character with the most porn in human history (at the time) was Twilight Sparkle.
So when a representative for the Guinness Book of Extradimensional Records shows up in the middle of the school day and presents Twilight with the award for Most Porn in front of everypony... well. Slight freakout.
Rainbow Dash also does not help things.
Again, this is just a wonderful meta comedy. The subject's also true (though one commenter says that Twilight did lose the title a few years later to Tifa from Final Fantasy VII) which makes it all the more funny. Really, it isn't deep. It's just hilarious to watch Twilight goddamn Sparkle have a fit as she tries to reconcile her life with a big hovering gold sign over her head that reads MOST PORN.
Like many other things, you either are gonna think that's hilarious or you won't. Not much in between.
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Aww, thanks for the words of praise! Feels a little weird though, considering that when I tried reading some stories you plugged near the start of this blog series, I quickly discovered our tastes in fiction aren't that similar. Kinda stopped reading these since. Still, I have another meta fic in my backlog you may like:
- MLP: FiM
- Thriller
Twilight builds an elite strike team of Displaced humans for a secret mission: stopping the enigmatic Merchant once and for all.5714817
And that's totally valid! We all have our own tastes. I'm just the one who decided to fangasm to the public about 'em.
only Skywriter could have gotten away with something like that :D
...well, and Argembarger... >.>
Although I totally agree with the rule and don't want to read the story, I really do admire the mindset required to get a story through the current rules and cause a new rule to be created.