Maybe We Should Stop? · 11:53pm Dec 12th, 2014
The unending waves of mediocrity in the community continue to astound me.
Before joining FimFiction, I had never seen a group of people who were as determined to steal each other's already-unoriginal and unpolished ideas, who were as self destructive and confrontational, and who were as ineffective at conveying whatever fucked up messages they wanted to convey... as they are here.
Being a writer on FimFiction is like being a high school student all over again.
Most lack ambition... many go unnoticed... and the few who rise above the sewage are then burdened with having to please countless followers.
I thought about writing a fic or two about what I wanna say, but I think it's best if I tell the few who will read this.
Maybe we should stop hiding behind things to say what we mean to?
Maybe we can be friends?
Maybe we can stop being so foolish, but the waves keep coming, as they have been for years now.
FimFiction is not a new site. It looks new, but it is very, very old... and decrepit, and stagnant.
While I aged, the stuff that happened on this site two years ago is happening again, repeatedly.
I come by every so often, and I keep finding out that I didn't miss a thing.
We've written so much, and yet we didn't learn anything about ourselves.
There has been no self discovery. All of this has meant nothing.
I'm 19 now. I'm not new. I look new, but I'm very, very old...
When I look at the new stories and see that it's the same idea that's been posted a hundred times before, I often find that it's a newer person that doesn't find those ideas old hat yet. It may be very much like high school, in that the younger classes always seem so immature. They'll probably feel how you feel in a year or two.