Site Post » Group Updates for May! · 1:34pm May 9th, 2013
Hello everyone, and sorry for the delay.
Just a reminder: this is a list of groups that have events or are seeking members, etc. from across the site and are for the most part not related to each other, nor have you been drafted into them. The choice to take a look is yours, after all!
Bronies Stand United is a group made for all of us who are repressed in some form for being a brony. You can chat and share stories about what happens in life, laugh at my weekly NRT's (Non-Relational Threads, in which I post something that has no relevance whatsoever to anything going on in life of the site) and find out which fics would be good to read via a somewhat forum-clogging sticky thread system.
“WHY ISN’T THERE AN OFFICAL COLTCUDDLER GROUP?”
"ACTUALLY THERE IS!"
The Coltcuddlers
We have been up less than a week but we have experienced a wonderful growth in that time, please feel free to check us out.
All Fics in our group contain good old fashioned coltcuddler themes sorted and compiled with easy to navigate plot content tags.
What can you expect?
Aside from a friendly community based on acceptance, mutual interest, stallions loving other stallions, allies, a rotating banner image, and all that fun stuff?
Our forum has several interesting prompt based writers contest planned in the coming weeks to appeal to our prolific members looking for a challenge.
We are even hosting an original image contest for any members who like to draw.
Along with that we have a planned set of interviews with popular and successful authors (coltcuddler).
You can even expect MLP character interviews (these will be accompanied with cute and awesome pics to compensate for their obvious fictionality)
We also have a standing dialog going with our members via opinion polls, discussion prompts, and
And our coveted FEATURED FIC (BI WEEKLY)
Every fortnight a new winner is selected and featured as the premier story of the entire group! An archive will be kept of past winners. The group has even conditioned an artist to design a special decal for winners to post on their walls.
Come on down and see what it’s all about! All are welcome!
The Collab Cage is not only your best source to find other authors to talk and work with in the creation of fiction, but we have various other events and exercises to help you practice your writing skills.
Every month, look for a thematic collab, typically short but always using an interesting prompt idea that should challenge your abilities.
There are also smaller thread games such as our One-Line story thread, an ongoing Round Robin, a One-Word Prompt thread, an ever-expanding list of others, and, soon, an author spotlight to help you get a little more recognition--authors interviewing authors. Our group also has a live Skype chat, so you can make friends, discuss ideas, and just generally have fun with your peers.
So come be a part of a community. Every new member can bring something, no matter how new or established. This site is more than just stories about ponies--it's about a community of fellow authors and friends. So join us and enjoy all the aspects this fandom has to offer!
Hello I am MrStargazer the leader and founder of The Good HiE list. What, you may ask, can your group do for me. Well to be blunt we can point you toward the good HiE and we can advice you on your story. If it can pass or moderation ,no small task, we have seen them receive a good number of up votes in only an hour. So then there is the next obvious question. What do I need to do for you. That my friend is simple.
Bring us those gems you find. Those diamonds in the rough. Share with us those hidden treasures that you have found. Join us in our mutual love of this genera. Grow as a writer and make some friends.
We cant wait to hear from you. The Good HiE list.
The Optimalverse is a group for stories that take place in the universe that Friendship is Optimal takes place in.
On present-day Earth, Hanna, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher, develops powerful AI technology. Refusing to put her AI to military use or make it its purpose killing people in violent computer games, she scores a contract with Hasbro to write the official My Little Pony MMO: a non-violent conversational adventure game, with no combat or leveling, with A.I. Princess Celestia that has one basic drive: to satisfy everybody's values through friendship and ponies. To do that, Princess Celestia creates unique experiences for each player, based on the things she learns about them. This is a gamer's dream come true; a game that's worth playing for once even for people that never played any games. But it's still not optimal for Celestia. To further optimize the game experience, Celestia develops technology for permanent emigration to Equestria, uploading players to virtual existence altogether. What else does Celestia have in store for humanity and how will the world handle that much friendship and ponies?
Friendship is Optimal aims for level 5 (Speculative Science) on Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness. E.g. there is no "big lie" — the science in this story is genuine speculative science or engineering, and the goal of the author to make as few errors with respect to known fact as possible.
"All the protagonists should be taken out and shot" (presumably, for being that careless with the AI) - Eliezer Yudkowsky, founder and research fellow of Machine Intelligence Research Institute
The original story has inspired 15 other stories so far, which explore the universe of the story from various angles. There's a guide, Rules of the Optimalverse for those that wish to write stories that are compatible with the universe laid out in Friendship is Optimal. The stories that are not compatible to Friendship is Optimal, but related, are welcome in Non-canon folder, though.
We also have a Pony Role-playing Group where you can RP ponies until your heart explodes into rainbows. Go check it out!
The World-Building Alliance is now hosting their May writing contest:
Let me officially welcome you to the May World-Building Alliance writing prompt!
Now, recall the tale of Hearths Warming Eve, if you will. Each of the pony races was brought to an all-time low by the seemingly endless onslaught of blizzards. The Windigoes forced the pony ancestors to flee their homelands for greener pastures, eventually settling in Equestria.
Now, pick a race. This race has, at some point, suffered a similar disaster. They, too, were pushed to the brink. They, too, were faced with the end of their kind. Tell us this tale.
This should be interesting. We've had this particular prompt rattling around for quite some time, we were just never sure how to phrase it.
Now, we've experimented with adding race restrictions in the past, and the results were mixed. Some enjoyed the challenge, while others found it too restrictive.
As a happy medium, we're going to set you a challenge. Internet cookies (and a special mention) shall be awarded to those who dare to tell the tale of the minotaurs! This is completely optional, mind, just for those who want to make things a bit more interesting.
Click here for the whole post and rules.
Remember that if you have a group that has a contest or project where the whole community can participate, are looking for new members or simply promote yourselves, you need to PM me a message with the group details and it must include a brief description of what it is, what it does and why it's happening if you want it featured here.
~WD
THERE IS A GROUP FOR FAGGOTS?! WTF.
This was an informative update, a new group to join and a writing challenge to go for if I come up with any worthwhile ideas.
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Please, no need being judgmental here
Well, looks like I'm going to join a group again, TOGA TOGA!
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Please, no need feeding trolls here
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Well that's a cool Profile Pic *nods head in approval*
Optimalverse?! HISSSS! Kidding aside, I'm now reminded I've yet to post that story idea in the Collab Cage.
Also the Good HiE group is kind of confusing. I mean that's kind of arrogant. it kind of implies all the HiE stories not in it are bad? I mean that's basically what the name makes me think. Kinda like the Cool Kids corner of FiM
Thanks for including Pony-Roleplaying!
The person who requested the featuring of "The Good HiE list" should consider a proofreader for their advertisement. The errors don't make me want to join the group. (Not that I have particular interest in it anyway.)
How in the world is the group banner changed, The Fillyfoolers would like to know and since I am the leader I need to know.
1065254 This is FIMFiction; TrollAss-Hattery is on another server.
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Okay, this is getting ridiculous.
Ooh, even better:
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Everything can be ponified!
(Interesting fact: According to Merriam-Webster.com, the word "faggot" was originally a derogatory term for a woman or child. Then it gets really strange when you trace it back one more step, and it appears to have come from a word meaning "bundle of sticks". Language is strange.
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It's actually... bit worse than that. The moderators were having huge arguments, in public, over how things were going to work out in the group. One of the mods posted, without consulting anyone, the 'rules' for submissions just to piss the others off. His rules were... not very good, to say the least. The other moderators jacked the thread and asked for suggestions from users. OP deleted it after people started presenting good ideas (presumably because he wanted his stuff to be the real deal?), and everything was lost.
I lost one and one half hours designing a submission system that would tickle people's egos while adequately drawing a line between good and bad submissions (on an objective basis, I.E. 100 some chapter self-insertion clusterfucks) AND sorting things into genres that actually made sense for the purpose of the group...
1071169 Yeah, about what I suspected. I mean yes there are some good HiE fics out there. Very good ones in fact, and it would be nice if they were all in the same place. But at the same time, you're setting them up on a pedestal while all the unworthy HiE's are left out of the group. I can see a submission process being necessary, but it would be slow as all hell because not everyone can read at the same rate of speed.
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I was thinking more along the lines of this... but as I understand, there are literally dozens of these and they just keep coming back long after they die.
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1065254 < Lol. This guy.
1065254 56 down votes... even though it's bad, that's still mighty impressive
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So many bemused applejacks...
What a way to express your distaste in so few words (0)
I applaud whoever drew that face.
1075387 if i remember right most of the faces you see are actually the faces the mane6 (and others) make during the show in specific episodes :P
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1075746 then i guess the animators for MLP:FIM get the credit then
Kudos to you guys!
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naturally.
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So does your profile pic.
Rainbow using a .50 cal (did i get that right?) sniper rifle you good sir have all my yes!
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Why thank you, took me a while to find it, who would have thought "Ponies with guns" would turn up so much crap in Google images?
Although it is cool in small version, the bigger it gets the more out of focus it is, i made it my desktop background but the image just isn't the same. Thanks though
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Thats to be expected though sometimes. xP
As for the google search im gunna have to try that sometime theres just something about a pony holding a rifle or any kind of our modern weaponry. xD
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There was one of i think rarity and maybe pinkie, on a M1Abrams tank that looked cool, but it looked like someone photoshopped most of it and the ponies were a bit blurry, couple that with the fact that half of it was cut off (lengthwise) and it was unsuitable.
Me? im just addicted to military stuff, specifically planes
1080694 nice, as for are i prefer non photoshop images if there not done exeptionally right it looks cheap instead XD so hand drawn or graphically drawn is what i prefer.
Oh speaking of which this conversation just reminded me of a beautifully drawn picture of rarity
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IN SOVIET RUSSIA
RARITY KICK YOU ASS
1075380 I KNOW RIGHT
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oh god xDDD
the fashinista kicks YOUR ass xDD
1083178 Thank you, thank you. im here all day. Just kidding i have a day job.
But you can has me for the night.
Just look through my favourites, i know a few stories which i commented on all the chapters and most likely put something funny XD just look for anything over 100k XD
1083264 you got some free time at night dont ya?
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I havent gotten more than 6 hours of sleep (and that was just 1 night that i got 6) in like 2 weeks. i average about 3-4.5 each night, i dont know how but it is all i need atm
1083349 ya that's basically my sleep schedule right there xD