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  • 31 weeks
    The Day of the Dead Anthology

    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.

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  • 31 weeks
    Jinglemas 2023!

    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!

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    30 comments · 5,924 views
  • 55 weeks
    PSA: Using AIs to Write and Publish Stories in Fimfiction

    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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  • 83 weeks
    Jinglemas 2022!

    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!

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    62 comments · 12,542 views
  • 110 weeks
    Phishing Awareness

    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.

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    167 comments · 15,514 views
  • 122 weeks
    All Our Best [Royal Canterlot Library]

    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.

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  • 126 weeks
    Jinglemas 2021 has come to a close!

    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

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  • 157 weeks
    Reunions: A Swapped Roles Contest!

    Okay guys here's something fun presented by Nitro Indigo.

    Presented by me, I guess, but I digress.

    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!

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  • 230 weeks
    Minor Rules and Reporting Update

    Hope everyone is enjoying the new year.

    Some small changes have been made to our rules as well as to the reporting process.

    Rules

    "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.

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    747 comments · 16,000 views
  • 232 weeks
    Jinglemas 2019

    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!


    Our Own Little Way of bringing Hearth's Warming to Fimfiction

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Jan
28th
2014

Site Post » Social Site Posts · 2:34am Jan 28th, 2014

Some site posts are not essential and so I've decided to create a new subcategory for site posts: "Social site posts". These are more community related posts and we'll be using them a lot more I think. Consequently, I've made it so you can block these posts from appearing in your feed. There's a checkbox for it on the feed page.

You can expect these kinds of posts to be used for more fun stuff like episode discussion posts and such.

Have some disgustingly cute art








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Comments ( 150 )
Arwhale #1 · Jan 28th, 2014 · · 1 ·

Have some disgustingly cute art

Just filthy.

Hell yeah.

I LOVE IT!:pinkiehappy::yay::twilightsmile:

Oh, those are so CUTE!!!:rainbowkiss:

Comment posted by Deadder deleted Jan 28th, 2014

Alright.

That should be interesting to see happen.

~Skeeter The Lurker

Thank you for the pretty pictures. :rainbowkiss:

Diabetus.
And Meeester...
i.imgur.com/Sbf2GSb.gif
It wants Sweetie Belle.

Cuteness overload!
:yay:

Thank fucking christ.

How disgusting

*dies of a heart attack*

As one of the contributors for these "social site posts", I approve wholeheartedly.

As someone who finds Fluttershy painfully adorable, I approve wholeheartedly.

Let's get disgusting.

You disgust me with your Fluttershy art.



The Twilight one was cute, though.

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BUT I DEMAND TO BE HEARD BY THE MASSES

OH MY GOD! THANK YOU!

Finally, I'll be free from these goddam story reviews and entitled circlejerks.

knighty
Site Owner

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Calm yer tits

A nice change.

Disgustingly cute, eh?

*Views every picture*

knighty, I will file manslaughter charges against you, because I almost died of cuteness overload just now.

You owe me a new heart, knighty. Mine just exploded.:trollestia:

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"entitled circlejerks"
That's rather harsh. Do explain yourself.

Almost as cute as whisper. Almost.

So, I heard you like Fluttershy...

Those pictures have made fighting with my stupid computer the last three hours worthwhile.

I thank thee.

Have some disgustingly cute art

i.imgur.com/qi13fc4.jpg

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(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

1766922
Your rustle seems to be in a jimmy, amigo.

Hooray, blogs I can actually be a part of.
Good change
That art was revolting. :pinkiesick: I'm going to be sick.

1766839 100%Thisdudeknowwhathe'stalkingabout

1766922 Damn, man, you have balls.

Huh, a lot of worst pony, but at least there was one best pony.

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a lot of worst pony

Them's fightin' words.

1766964 u wont 2 go m8

So how long before we can expect the updating/refining/fixing of the tag system?

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1v1
Fox only
Final Destination
No items

il rek u

Had to get a heart transplant because of this, medical bills shot THROUGH THE ROOF!

All fun and games aside, prepare for lawsuits the likes of which mortals have never seen.

~have a good one

Quick question: where's my feed page at?:applejackconfused:

Thankies in advance.

EDIT: Ugh. Never mind; I'm an idiot, but I figured it out.

I don't think I'll be un-checking that box, though...........

So knighty.

Do you like Fluttershy?

I don't mind the site social posts, but this is a good change. It costs me nothing to ignore it, and lets the folks whose jimmies are rustled start using the site in a way they appreciate more. :twilightsmile:

Also: may I suggest that next time you include a picture of Alicorn Fluttershy so that we can derail the comments section with an argument about best princess.

1766887 I call a bunch of people of people going "OH MAH GURD!" over something a circle jerk. Otherwise, i dont like big review groups, especially when they take up space on my feed. If I want to hear about someone's opinnion, I'd rather use a smaller and newer group. I feel a little bit of inexperience brings a degree of freshness and honesty.

Other than that, I'm happy that there will be less spam on unnecessary things that are not site updates.

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Otherwise, i dont like big review groups, especially when they take up space on my feed. If I want to hear about someone's opinnion, I'd rather use a smaller and newer group. I feel a little bit of inexperience brings a degree of freshness and honesty.

Well, up until now, only two "review groups" have ever gotten front page posting. One, the RCL, has only five members. The second, SA, has only twelve. I'm not sure what you mean by "big" since it certainly can't be referring to size. If you mean popular, I'm really not sure I understand your point. Are you saying anything (or anyone, in the case of Chris and RBDash47) that gets a lot of recognition is by default not worth listening to? If so, you're making absolutely zero sense.

I call a bunch of people of people going "OH MAH GURD!" over something a circle jerk.

I've yet to see anything of this sort happen on a site blog to date.

fun stuff like episode discussion posts and such

One of the features I've felt the site has been missing ever since I first joined, is a general forums page of some sort for discussing non story or blog specific things in a public space. I'm hoping that the plan is to give us something to fill that niche - reading opinions on personal blogs is good and all, but discussions tend to be kinda limited.

As to letting people hide it; yeah, I can see why you're doing this, but I still can't see how anyone can get really rustled over a dozen or so unwanted feed updates a month. If it took me a single, solid two minutes to glance through the entire last six month's worth of site updates (not counting time to read one's I actually wanted to read), I'd be very surprised.

I'm seriously the only one who thought this?

See you, space cowboy

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We apologize for offending your sensibilities with our community service.

1767051 Someone telling him about a thing he doesn't care about is an infringement on his God given freedoms of ignoring everything he doesn't like, and misusing phrases is a cultural tradition in most English speaking countries. Besides, 20 posts in the last five weeks is kinda unreasonable, you have to admit; taking time to point out how he doesn't like wasting time is a hassle that no one should be put through.

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