Competition » Portal Transformations Contest I · 9:19pm January 6th
Announcement and Rules (3 January 2024 to 7 March 2024)
The most up to date version of this contest's rules is at https://www.fimfiction.net/group/217156/portal-transformations/thread/529551/portal-transformations-contest-announcement-and-rules. Please ask your questions there.
Welcome to the Contest
"When Spike goes through the Mirror Portal from Equestria to CHS, he turns into a dog. What does X turn into when X goes through the Mirror Portal (or a similar portal)? You can pick X and the direction."
Myself (Mockingbirb), I'm especially interested in changes that are less usual, not so commonplace (although I suppose very unsual treatments of the 'usual' changes can be interesting too.)
You can see some examples of different portal transformations HERE (group's front page and folders) and HERE.
If you want a new story idea, something that no one has ever written before, 'portal transformations' can provide a practically infinite number of them.
Stories should qualify under the group description on the group's front page, as either an unusual portal transformation, or at least doing something interesting and unusual with a portal transformation.
Please show off your ability to write a meaningful, funny, thought-provoking, or even just startlingly original story.
May the transformation magic be with you!
Details
Put your contest entries in THE APPROPRIATE CONTEST FOLDER: Portal Transformations Contest I. You'll have to join the group for at least long enough to do that.
There is no limit to how many stories you can enter, or how long your story can be...but if a story bores me (or any other judge), your judge might not finish reading it.
Contest closes at the end of March 7, 2024: midnight Pacific Time (US). This time zone is used in California, Oregon, and Washington state.
If this is your first story ever on fimfiction.net and you can't get it to pass fimfiction moderation before the contest deadline, you can send me (Mockingbirb) and my fellow group admin GaPJaxie a link and password to read your story. You should do that significantly BEFORE the contest deadline, though.
I have no idea how many prizes will be awarded, or if there will be any judges other than myself.
So far as I know, the only things given to the winners might be 'honor and glory' and a bit of promotion, like being featured in the group and in my fimfiction.net blog.
No porn, please. Writing a story to NOT be M rated is its own art, and will make judging easier.
Please have fun, and good luck! 
Even More Details
It would be nice if your story's "long description" links to the group's contest announcement / rules.
The story's first publication, whether on fimfiction.net or elsewhere, should be during the contest period beginning 3 January 2024 and ending at the 'contest closes' date and time listed above. (We have not so far made arrangements to accept entries not posted as stories on fimfiction.net.)
Authors may freely edit their stories until the 'contest closes' date and time listed above. At or after that point, any edits should be minor and should be clearly listed in the story's Author's Note or Long Description.
Authors are also welcome to list any edits made during the contest period, in case that helps reduce confusion for anyone such as judges, who might already have read your story and might not know about your improvements.
Example:
Author's Note:
A Note to Contest Judges...
On 23 February 2024, in Chapter 3, I changed "Princess Cardadfkiew flew from the parapet into a clear bluesyhy" to "Princess Cadance flew from the parapet into a clear blue sky".
Clarifications and Edits
Edit 1: Your story should qualify as a story under fimfiction.net rules. For this contest, at least one side of the portal should be an MLP or Equestria Girls world, whether canon or AU or VERY AU.
Edit 2: The only MLP properties that I can pretty much guarantee judges being relatively familiar with are MLP:FiM and Equestria Girls.
Please contact the organizer of the event for any clarifications. Wanderer D is not the person you should ask for details of the contest.
Ooh. How interesting. I've got a background bit of lore that spawned from the comments an older fic that I could spin into a whole narrative for this. We'll see if the muse strikes.
That oddly reminds me of...
Like if you get that reference!
Hmm...I have contemplated a few ideas over the years that could apply for this...might have to review a few of them and see if they seem like good fits for this (time permitting).
Cardadfkiew is my favorite alicorn
You're tea chair, pincers Dyslexia.
I might actually make the deadline for this one.
...I'm very much intrigued, but the premise of the contest is something I never really considered. Gonna have to ponder that one to see if my brain can even come up with an idea. Good thing the deadline seems generous enough...
I'm very much intrigued
Fudge. I need to check the news more frequently. Have a good idea but don't know if I'll make it now.