The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is a now-famous tradition from ancient times that has been a huge part of Mexican Culture through the centuries. Like so many things in Mexico, it's influenced strongly by certain aspects of the Aztec people.
It has shaped the way those of us with that heritage look at life and death in many ways, and most importantly on the remembrance of, and honoring the deceased. We traditionally decorate little altars dedicated to the memories of those that passed away… but it's not a somber occasion.
Jinglemas is the annual tradition on Fimfiction to exchange stories around the holidays with users on the site. This single event allows all Fimfiction users to come together and celebrate the reason for the season. Ponies!
Enroll in this Secret-Santa-style gift exchange to request a holiday themed story, to be written secretly by another participant during the month of December. And in turn, you will be tasked with writing someone else's request. Then all the stories will be exchanged at Christmas! Simplicity itself! Thanks to the hard work of the Breezies, everyone will be ensured to get their gift!
You only have until November 24th to Sign up!
Hello everyone, this is a PSA (Public Service Announcement, for those of ESL) to put to rest consistent questions about using AI to 'write' stories and publish them here. This is not intended as a poll or a request for feedback. It is exclusively a clarification on an already-existing rule.
People ask: "Can I, oh great and powerful D, post a story or chapter that I got ChatGPT to write for me?!"
And the answer, my friend, is... No.
Absolutely not. Not in a thousand years!
Because you didn't write it.
It is not your creation. You are NOT the author. In fact, you are the opposite.
There seems to be some confusion when interpreting the following rule:
Don’t Post (Content)
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Jinglemas is the annual tradition on Fimfiction to exchange stories around the holidays with users on the site. This single event allows all Fimfiction users to come together and celebrate the reason for the season. Ponies!
Enroll in this Secret-Santa-style gift exchange to request a holiday themed story, to be written secretly by another participant during the month of December. And in turn, you will be tasked with writing someone else's request. Then all the stories will be exchanged at Christmas! Simplicity itself! Thanks to the hard work of the Breezies, everyone will be ensured to get their gift!
Have you ever found yourself in a situation like this?
And then you magically find yourself in a suspiciously familiar site, except that you're not logged in, and it requires you to do so?
Well. Don't log in. This is a scam, and a cheap one at that.
There've been recent attempts to obtain Fimfiction users’ personal data, like passwords and/or emails through links like the one I'm making fun of above. And a distressing amount of people don't seem to know what phishing attempts are.
If you HAVE entered a site like this and put in your data, make sure to follow these basic steps at least.
As should be obvious from 15 months without a feature, life has taken the Royal Canterlot Library curators in different directions. While there’s still plenty of awesome stories being written in the My Little Pony fandom, we’re no longer actively working to spotlight them, and it’s time to officially draw the project to a close.
Thank you for all of your support, suggestions, and comments over the years. We’re grateful to have been able to share seven years of exemplary stories with you, and give more insight into the minds behind them. In the spirit of the project, please keep reading and recommending fantastic fics to friends—the community is enriched when we all share what we love.
Jinglemas had 114 stories written and exchanged this year!
You can read them all here, in the Jinglemas 2021 folder!
Jhoira wrote The Hearths Warming Eve Guest for EngageBook
GaPJaxie wrote Twilight and Spike Hide a Body for Telly Vision
SnowOriole wrote The Armor Hypothesis for BaeroRemedy
snappleu wrote Words Said So Often That They Lack Any Meaning for Trick Question
NeirdaE wrote Starlight and Trixie Direct a Play for Moosetasm
Ninjadeadbeard wrote Garland Graveyard Shift for NeirdaE
Roundabout Recluse wrote Apples to Apples for Ninjadeadbeard
MistyShadowz wrote The Times We Shared for NaiadSagaIotaOar
Petrichord wrote A Gentle Nudge for Angel Midnight
Jade Ring wrote Past, Future, and Present for Frazzle2Dazzle
Jake The Army Guy wrote The Big Talk for Dreadnought
The Red Parade wrote Heart Strings for Franso
Greatazuredragon wrote A Hearth’s Warming Question for GaPJaxie
Okay guys here's something fun presented by Nitro Indigo.
Presented by me, I guess, but I digress.
Swapped Roles Contest
Last year, I (Nitro Indigo) noticed that there was a surprising lack of roleswap fanfics on this site. To fix that, I decided to run a roleswap contest over the summer themed around secrets. While it didn’t get many entries, it nevertheless attracted the attention of some big authors and was the origin of two of my favourite fics. Overall, I think it was a success, so I’ve decided to run another one!
Hope everyone is enjoying the new year.
Some small changes have been made to our rules as well as to the reporting process.
"No attacks directed at individuals or groups due to race, gender, gender identity, religion or sexual identity."
This better clarifies our previously ill-defined hate speech rule and includes groups as well as individual attacks.
"No celebration, glorification or encouragement of real life criminal activity."
This includes past, present and potential future crimes.
There's truly no time like the holidays. What's better than copious amounts of food, quality time with family and friends, hearing the sweet sound of Trans-Siberian Orchestra on repeat, and unmanagble financial stress from our capitalist overlords?
Gift exchanges of course!
I've added a short bio field in the edit account page. This bio will show up at the bottom of your user box on your stories, blog posts and favourite lists like so:
btw: This uses the old user bio from WAY back so if you've been around for a while, you'll probably have stuff in it!
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Neat
Knighty you broke story pages.
y
Aaand now I can't read any stories. I assume this is related somehow.
1229857
Fixed. Cache messed up.
Way to go knight.
I like the new feature, but it's borked us over boss man.
And now I can't get to my stories...herpu me
1229857 Oh thank all, I thought I was the only one
damn, you work fast
Thanks!
I'd like to complain about your unclear wording causing me to waste several minutes searching for a nonexistant button.
I thought you mean it was on the part for editing my user page. Turns out, it's actually on under the account tab in settings.
1229867 Fixed.
This is a really neat feature.
AWESOME
This is so cool! I've already got mine filled out from a while back but it was too long.
So, time to put in a better bio!
I think I worked really hard on mine.
i.imgur.com/4Du1cFq.png
Awesome! You've been hard at work recently dude, and it's appreciated!
1229864 GO TO SLEEP IDIOT
i.imgur.com/wE7ttCQ.jpg
I LOVE THIS!
Edit: Knighty! Why?! D:
1229886
You can add pictures?
Time for some revamping.
1229885
i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/2541661696/hA376E682/
1229887 you forgot to put it in [img] /img]
Just fill in that bracket and there you go
And jesus christ that was an old description, between jan 2011 and may 2011
1229896
The little bar that you click on to show images in the comment section of stories appeared instead.
I disabled images and youtube embeds for obvious reasons
1229898
Edit: You didn't disable spoilers.
1229898
why knighty
Ooh, another shiny feature!
(Uh, knighty, can you put a period at the end of yours? It's bothering me.
)
1229898 youtube I understand, but why images? They're already auto-enabled on blog posts and what not
1229904
Because it's supposed to be a snappy quick bio. If I allow images people will just dump wallpapers in there because they're stupid. Think of it like the short description for stories.
1229915 can you size limit them? You killed my pop-up Lyra
i.imgur.com/KiiLn.gif
She's small, inoffensive and startles the hell out of people when they're reading my profile.
1229915 I guess it's for the best...
But, Fluttershy's beautiful flank... It was gonna be next to all my stories and blog posts... And now it's not.
1229903 it has an exclamation, check on the side
What horrors of my past have you unleashed upon me?!
This is awesome. I got kind of concerned when the sequence of updates was about Internet politics, something showing up at your door, then a link to your blog. Lol
I dig the new setup
I am such user from way back :D
Yay, technological updating!
I already had one in there... can I call myself an oldfag now?
Cool, I'm old.
1230189 no
Knighty, who does your profile pics?
1230458
What does even you mean?
1230458 The Internet does them.
(also this is a neat feature)
1229928 Well, now it does. Thank you, knighty! I feel much better.
1230632
What?
1231190 I think he dislikes your grammar.
yey
I'd like the "Mark all notifications as read" for mobile sites to not be ineffectual, if that can be kindly arranged. I don't really want to manually tap "Mark as Read" on 493 group discussions.
Bios imported from the old system ignore the character limit.
I saw one "short" bio that was 782 characters long
1230457 then you can't either.
Looks like there may be some spacing/placement issues. May just be my setup (it only does this on my smaller, secondary screen), but this is what I see.
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18906569/Capture.JPG
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18906569/Capture2.JPG
1231194
What's wrong with my grammar?
1231940 I never called myself an oldfag. I never have, ever. I am newfag all the way.