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FordPrefect


A geeky farmer.

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  • 217 weeks
    When doing stories set in the past... please do your research.

    Not knowing what you are writing about can... cause issues.

    Example:
    My dad read a book set in London and he was a bit annoyed that the author had characters riding bikes... 200 years before they were invented.

    Extreme example.

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  • 347 weeks
    Feature I wish Fimfiction had

    I wish fimfiction would clean up the in-progress list.

    What do I mean?
    Currently, if you go searching in the in-progress stories... you will find allot of dead/hiatus fics that the author never bothered to label as being dead/on hiatus.

    What I wish would happen.
    * Mark any story where the author hasn't logged onto the website in a year as dead.

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  • 367 weeks
    Why harems are hard to do well

    There are 3 types of harem stories.
    1. Porn -> This is done for exotic scenarios. The goal is to be erotic, not deep story telling.
    2. Wish fulfillment/Mary Sue -> Everyone loves my character! Everyone I fantasize about will mary him/her! And get along, even with wildly different and clashing personalities!
    3. Attempting to write a romance.

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  • 406 weeks
    Methods of getting to Equestria

    There are many methods for getting to Equestria in FIM fiction. Thought I would make a list of them all.
    If I missed any, please tell me.

    WIP

    1. Natural/supernatural event - A random portal sucks the human and/or his surroundings into Equestria. The advantage of this is that it is short and to the point.
    Examples:

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  • 410 weeks
    Your house in Equestria...

    ...and why it shouldn't magically have utilities hooked up.

    I can't believe I'm actually having to post this... but... I just came across yet another story that does this.

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Your house in Equestria... · 5:09am Jun 16th, 2016

...and why it shouldn't magically have utilities hooked up.

I can't believe I'm actually having to post this... but... I just came across yet another story that does this.
If you have your human get to Equestria by having their house magically appear there.... don't have all the electronic devices/plumbing still work. It makes no logical sense at all. It's a major plot hole! Don't do it!

You can have electricians and plumbers hook up the electricity and plumbing after the fact. But having it somehow just work is bad writing.

PS:
I did read one story where magic electricity crystals appeared on all the devices. Which brought up the plot hole of "Why they hell crystals that produce 124 hrtz AC and various DC attached themselves to the appropriate electrical devices and nothing else..." Gah!

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