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!
Yes, we changed the search bar to redirect to Google.
EDIT: I'm amazed that any of you could possibly prefer the old search, but if you absolutely must use the almost unusable old search function, simply hit browse. This will also allow you to use all the old browse features as well, those were never gone.
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May I ask why?
And it works better that way. Much appreciation.
I have no opinion.
Please, no. I have a virus that redirects me to this annoying website whenever I click on a Google link.
Err, I must ask: why?
uhh...no words...except...why?
ehhhh kinda annoying, but understandable.
...WHY?!
Yes, I do overuse this.
[youtube=NlpRBLkgcBo]
Also, if anyone is annoyed with this, (like me) just click browse then search and bravo, old search engine. pls dnt kil me
276149
Likely to help reduce server load.
276157
That's your fault. Clean your machine and stop blaming Google for your woes.
Why?
Because Google is best search engine, that's why.
i.imgur.com/LX967.png
No seriously, now you can search for text within a fic. For example: try searching for "you are a truly beautiful soul". You should find chapter 8 of Eternal.
And that's just the beginning! Go forth and read, my brethren!
276157
I can help with that if you wish.
I like this. The server load really does go down a bit, though the 502s are still ripe. I am wondering though how that will effect the usefulness of tags. TVTropes uses a customized google search. I don't know much about it, but would that be workable here?
Did Wanderer get what he wanted? I am quite entrigued to be honest
...browsing by tags and characters still works though, right? x.x
276179
What he has said is true.
276187 Nah. Building a new computer, wiping the HDD on this one, it won't be a problem.
I noticed this on my phone when I was searching for something. I thought something was wrong.
Nevermind then :P
Ya because that's not annoying at all
Despite the loading improvement, I still like the old system. It felt more clean, rather than using directly bringing us to google for searches. Why are all of these changes not appealing to me?! First the banners, then that email thing. And before that was the feature box! Well, I'm starting to get accustomed to the 10-slot feature box, but the addition of blue-boxed names makes it very difficult to not rant about knighty.
Great! The old search was annoyingly unforgiving if you weren't sure of a story's exact title and it didn't always produce the cleverest results.
It feels a bit awkward to me due to color difference between Google and FIMFiction, but text search is nice.
...Am I the only one who has to wait about half a minute to get either a loaded page or (much more frequently) a 502?
276263
Sometimes. Right now it's doing pretty good.
Why?
If I want to search stories using google, I'll type [Story name] Fimfiction into google.
276179
I was going to us that.
276229
^That.
So yeah, what:
276149 276161>>276174>>276177>>276178>>276222 said.
i had gotten use to the previous way
and so shall i get use to the new way
Well at least the Browse search engine still works, I guess. As long as it keeps out the 502s.
Otherwise this is okay, but I think it kind of 'breaks' the experience and design of the entire site.
276157
Browse=> Click anything=> Change view to search=> Profit
I have a feeling its going to be like this for now on.
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bad Poultron
imma hit u with a stick
Unless you completely remove FiMFiction's search option, a future update of my script will have an option to change this
Why aren't you directing to Bing?
276369
I threw up a little.
276332 This. The instant that goes, this site turns unusable, but as long as the browse search function isn't messed with, I'm Pinkie keen.
276301 Absolutely agree, but this won't change everything, as it probably has its reasons. Still, I found the old search engine much more convenient, as Google often lists stories multiple times, and it also doesn't display the character/category tags or the cover image in the results, as did the old search engine. At least you can still use the old search engine if you search for specific tags. Though it doesn't search for text in the descriptions any more, which is a pity.
Yeah. Preferred the old search a bit more. Oh well.
276405
A great shame indeed.
Don't reinvent the wheel. Google does search, feel free to outsource it. Doubly so if it helps with the 502 errors.
Though Integrating a custom search would be better, with ratings and tags and the cover image and such. Even without that I like the change.
Add both! Problem solved.
Changes = Cringes
Addition = Appreciation.
Edit: Server Bandwidth? Erm...well... was there a problem earlier?
Meh, I only search by character and genre tags anyway, so nothing's changed for me.
I know someone above has a quick fix for this to get the old search back, but would there be a way to make it so you can search using either or? (just a checkbox beside the search bar or something?)
I ask this because:
1. I liked the old one better, kind of.
2. So do some other people, however the results are varied; some do prefer the google search.
3. The people who don't like it and don't find the fix are going to be angry and it would be an easy (I would think so, anyways) way to make them shut up. (So would just saying "DealWithIt.gif" but that doesn't make you seem as nice.)
I think it was you, Poultron, who made a blog not too long ago about the UI being a pain to work with at times but I believe this would be a decent fix, no? (Keep in mind, I know absolutely nothing about programming or running a website or anything, so forgive me if that's actually like... ridiculously annoying to do or something.)
Either way, I don't use the Search that much anyways... so... those are just my two cents...
276372
Agreed...
/
While I miss the look of the layout when you searched stories, it does help in finding stories. Take 'Equestria: Total War', you can't find it in the old system if you type 'Equestria Total War' but you have to be exact and make it 'Equestria: Total War" with the :
Good idea. The old system is still available if you really need it, and the quick and dirty searches are best left to Google who will almost certainly do a better job anyway. It's hard to beat the search algorithms of the search leader of the entire planet.
I think it works fine...
Goddamnit, I liked the old one too much to use this. Besides, now I can't read the description of the story without doing the browse search thing. Fudge.
I don't like it. Change I demand. CHANGE FOR CELESTIA'S SAKE!
Meh, if you were gonna use the search bar you knew what you were looking for anyways, this just speeds things up.
Why do you people love the old way so much? I couldn't find ANYTHING because I was terrible with remembering the title of a fic, but I remembered some text.
This new one reduces bandwith and allows people (Like me) who have quite a bit of trouble spelling and remembering names. And who the heck uses that feature to actually browse new stories via that feature? Moreso, who actually successfully used that feature?
Because I would really like to know how to use it. I couldn't even search my own fics right with that.
Blue-boxed feature titles are hideous.
Oh, and I prefer old search too
276186
Google Pony is so adorable!
Searchlight?
What's her name?