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  • 26 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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  • 26 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 · 5,817 views
  • 50 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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  • 78 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 · 12,458 views
  • 105 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 · 15,431 views
  • 117 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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  • 122 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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  • 152 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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  • 225 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 · 15,922 views
  • 227 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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Jul
21st
2012

Site Post » Rewriting Stories · 2:53pm Jul 21st, 2012

Since this issue has suddenly reared it's head pretty violently in the last couple of days I thought I'd address it because there seems to be a lot of confusion going on.

Typically, we do NOT accept stories that are reposts or rewrites of existing ones. The reason should be obvious, it's not fair to be given prime position on the frontpage and featured opportunies again when the story is the same (a rewrite is still the same story).

Therefore we ask that rewrites go into the existing story you already have. Just edit the new data into the chapters you already have.

However, despite this, as with most of the rules they're flexible. If you believe you have legit reason for reposting a story then please contact us before-hand. Sometimes these stories go through and are reported and deleted later because we can't know whether stories are rewrites up front or not.

Thanks!

(Back to playing far too many new steam games)

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Comments ( 71 )

I was wondering why some people were apparently special.

241682
Everybody is equally unspecial together

241682

Oh, but we're all special, very special indeed.

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I am a pretty snowflake of blandness and lackluster.

241682

We are all equal, but some are more equal than others.

Far too many steam games... pffa like that exists

i was wondering when something like this would show up
oh and to spread the message: STEAM-SALES ARE EVIL!:pinkiecrazy: (they want my money, and i can't stop them!:raritydespair:)

Far too many Steam games? You can't have too many, I say. Well, I do, I have 150.

Knighty, might want to clarify that if people want to rewrite, they should revoke the submission and resubmit when they're done, rather than delete it and create it again.

241697 Truly, truly, truly outrageous?

I see no issue with this.
Carry on good sir. :scootangel:

weee for head rearing!

Nobody is special. Everybody is special. WHY WON'T PEOPLE DECIDE?! :raritydespair:

Finally. It's been getting a tad annoying to watch hidden gems fall further away as the featured slots get taken over again.

How dare Steam offer sales!? The horror! The horror:raritycry:

I'm confused - I thought the matter in question had been sorted out weeks ago.

241715 I'm guessing this blog is because of you.

Maybe consider forcing the FAQ as popup every time you open the site? Once a day maybe?

People seem to dodge that FAQ like it's the plague. :ajbemused:

I have a question: What is the process for stories that are un-published by the author? I have a story that is in sorry need of revision and I think I might take it down until I can rewrite the thing. How does that work?

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Good gosh. It's Pokemon all over again. Eh heh heh.

I wasn't even aware that people would rewrite something of theirs then submit it as a new story. Is that what this blog is referring to? It would make sense just to rewrite the chapters, then delete/replace old chapters with new ones. But I guess people want that coveted space on the front for people to see. (This is what we have watching for, so people that actually care about you will get the memo.)

XiF

241791 This actually isn't a bad idea. You should have to type the FAQ in its entirety in a text-box once a day before you enter the site. (I'm sure that you can stop copy and paste somehow.)

241715 Glad you got the whole FHFH confusion fixed. (Lets hope EqD will hold onto it.)

knighty has a steam? We must get your steam ID!

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That might be overdoing it a bit. :trollestia:

You used the wrong its, shitchin.

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I was honestly expecting Aquaman from Batman the Brave and the Bold....:facehoof:

241692

Animal Farm reference!

Wanderer D
Moderator

Sigh. *Throws gasoline on new guide and sets it on fire.* Damn it knighty, you beat me to it.

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I am pretty sure we still need a guide to make sure everyone understands how this unpublishing thing works. :trollestia:

I blame society. Also Martians and the invisible pirate lobster zombie samurai ninja robots from Planet X.

I hope I'm safe, I revise my stories... Basically I take my shitty old ones that flopped and completely rework them into something else, only the general subject remains, all story elements are changed. Would this still be bad? because I've already done it, my featured story was a major revision of one that flopped...

Knighty this rule is fucking stupid. I demand that you revoke this until you and Poultron have meaningful sitdown to discuss how story rewrites are perfectly accpetable when an author takes a good idea and executes it horrendously.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

One thing that would make rewrites a lot easier, would be the ability to insert chapters instead of just add them at the end. Right now, you can't do that. So that means if you need to insert a new chapter you also have to redo every chapter after that one. Of course, that also screws up the comment threads because the comments no longer correspond to the chapter text.

Of course, depending on how things are designed, I'm not sure how much of a major operation it would be to allow inserting chapters at arbitrary positions.

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242217 If you wrote a novel, and it flopped, got terrible reviews, horrible sales, etc. Do you think the publisher would give you another chance to rewrite it and republish it? Somehow I don't think so.

If you aren't sure something is written well, that's what editors are for. Have some people look at it before you publish it.

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You got to what I wanted to say before I could.

I spent about $200 on steam this past week... so MANY DEALS!!!!!

What drives me crazy is when an author gets halfway through a long story, getting people hooked into reading it, then decides out of the blue to rewrite it all over from scratch. Kind of a slap in the face of the readers if you ask me. >_< I mean, fixing a few details here and there, or rewriting a short story, that's understandable. But a total rehash of a story that's been going for a while and already has a bunch of readers, is kind of jarring.

Hey. Hey, knighty.

"Since this issue has suddenly reared it's head pretty violently in the last couple of days[...]"
>it's

*its

*runs away*

I apologize for rewriting my story. The first time that I wrote it, I was barely comfortable with my own writing style. It will not happen again.

ah man my stories grammar sucked i just finished fixing it an now i have to take out my old one and replace it and now one will know

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I don't quite follow. Staff folks, what should we be doing if we rewrite something?

If my opinion counts for anything, rewrites can mean that an author has put in as much work as would required for a new story, but by no means is that always the case. So I understand making the policy "rewrite counts as an update," even though I think it's unfortunate for those who do put in double effort.

Is that the policy?

I have a question. What about a story that was poor due to inexperience, then a while later you rewrite it with an entirely new style and narrative(going from 3rd person to first). Like, you changed it to be more towards your strengths rather than weaknesses, but you want the old one up for historical purposes(e.g. "Look at how bad I used to be!"). Would that be okay?

241692 Why do I get a Code Geass vibe from that statement?

241700 *cough* torrents *cough*

What...? I didn't say anything about illegal activities... :rainbowderp:

Anyhoof, good to know, knighty... :moustache:

Knighy, sometimes I wonder how you have so much free time... :facehoof:

241685 On this site. Yeah, we're all special.

Special like Pinkie! :pinkiecrazy:

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can you resist the steam-sale?:rainbowhuh: what kind of unnatural creature are you!?:rainbowderp:

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