Sooo... we did a thing.

Hopefully you’ve already seen the frontpage post, but if you haven’t, I’ll explain what’s gone down.

It’s pretty neat.

Long story short, a bunch of us (people who write stories about ponies, that is) got together and did a story swap - we paired up, wrote a story each and then posted them as each other to see who noticed. The most well-known authors were paired with the least (with follower count as the basis, which wasn’t entirely accurate but eh), and we went to work.

The basic rules were pretty simple. Each pair got together, hashed out an idea and then wrote a fic each. The fic had to be something the other author was comfortable posting, and they had to use a certain phrase, which you can work out for yourself.

In my case, the result of that was Twi Hard 2: Twi Harder, which AestheticB of The Immortal Game/Sparkle's Law fame posted. Twilight Sparkle Gets A Free Salad was written by him and posted by me. We didn’t actually come up with a shared prompt, because we are apparently exactly the same person. Both of us independently came up with a joke action fic in which Twilight became an action hero by reading a book, go figure!

Anyway, the main reason we did this was for the lulz, and to get a little inspiration going. If you came here from the main post, I just want to reinforce that point. The big League Of Mediocre Everycolts thing is a joke that got a little out of hand and I, as one of what you could call the “founding members” (me, Wanderer D and Obselescence), want to make it absolutely clear that this was all just for the funsies. The main blog is written “in-character,” as it were, and it comes across as a little... well, you read it. Some of us have made it srs bsns, some of us kept it for larks. But, as a whole, we was jus’ havin’ a friendly trololol.

But yes, it became apparent that we also wanted to make some kind of nebulous point. We realised that our “throw out invites and see what sticks” approach had landed us some rather big names, so we decided to see just far “fame begets fame” was true in FimFiction’s case. In me and B's case, it was super-weird. Turns out if you post two similar stories by similar authors at exactly the same time, they do exactly the same. Both nearly got featured, but we just missed out.

Lastly, we just wanted to get some people exposure. There are great authors out there in FimFic that have far less attention than they deserve, and this was one way of getting them that attention. The upshot of this for you guys is that you get sweet stories! And some of them really are sweet. I recommend... well, pretty much everything we produced. Some are fun, some are dark, some are cute, all are good.

So... I guess that’s it. I’ll just end by saying that everyone involved has had a blast (to greater or lesser extents - some of us weren’t quite prepared for just how screwed we were going to collectively get), and that you should go and read all of their stories. And... thanks for being patient with us.

PS: Go and read all of AestheticB's stuff. It's dark, it's bloody, and it's great. And both Sparkle's Law and Twilight Sparkle Gets A Free Salad made me laugh out loud. So gogogo.