Competition » AppleDash Warm and Fuzzy Feelings Event · 6:59pm Aug 7th, 2020
A lot of us have been stuck inside for the better part of the year, and might need a little bit of a pick-me-up. That's why this event has one, simple mission:
Bring a little warmth and happiness to someone's day!
During the month of August, each person who writes an AppleDash (romance or friendshipping) story full of the warm-and-fuzzies and publishes it to FIMFiction will receive $15! It's that simple! This is not a contest and there’s no judging involved!
Beyond that, there's no prompt, so feel free to write a grand adventure, cute romance, captivating mystery, or whatever else your heart desires!
In a nutshell: someone should be able to read your story and walk away feeling better about their day.
For the full details, discussions, and rules, check out the event announcement on the AppleDash group forums.
Rules:
- Each qualifying entry (one per person) will receive $15. There's a hard limit of 100 entries that may qualify for prizes.
- I (KrazyTheFox) reserve the right to decline to award prizes to insincere entries (trollfics, entries that are not stories, zero-effort entries, etc) if necessary.
- Stories must be published to FIMFiction and marked "complete" during the month of August.
- Stories must have a minimum length of 1500 words. There is no word limit.
- The following tags are forbidden: Dark, Death, Gore, Violence. Mature entries are allowed.
- Stories may contain sad elements, but the story should end on an uplifting note, keeping with the theme of the event.
- No humans in Equestria, ponies on Earth, or Anthro. Humanized and EqG are allowed.
- Romance is not required and other Applejack or Rainbow Dash ships are allowed.
The deadline is 11:59PM at the International Date Line (UTC-12) on August 31st, 2020. (Deadline Countdown)
How to Submit Your Entry and Claim Your Prize:
Add your entry to the group's submissions folder, then message me with a link to your story. From there, I'll work with you to figure out the best way to get your prize to you via PM!
Find the full event details on the AppleDash forums.
What an incredibly generous opportunity! Huge thanks to everyone making this possible.
That kinda brings to mind
Are Rarity/Applejack/Rainbow Dash stories allowed? I have one in the works but it ships all three of them together.
Can one-shot stories count? (Also, no recovery story about Dash getting her wings ripped off, then Applejack helps her recover mentally and physically? That was the story I was going with.)
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Absolutely!
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Since I missed your edit the first time around: If it's heartwarming, that idea would totally count. :)
Damn. I was gonna write a story where Applejack introduces Rainbow Dash to her uncle, Phil Leotardo.
This would be a great excuse for shortskirts to write a new chapter for Appledashery. Except probably not because it's sad as heck.
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Ok.
The thing is, the story will start out extremely dark but then evolve into a warmer story. I would probably have to label it “gore” and “dark” to make it a passable story on Fimfiction. It may not be good for your challenge; but it’ll be the best of both stories. I’ll publish it, send it to you so that you can see what I mean, then you can be the verdict.
Fair enough?
Alright! Two comps to compete in!
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Far be it from me to discourage people from posting AppleDash to the site.
As long as you're okay with the fact that it may not qualify, go for it! I'll gladly look it over when you post it to see if it does.
I gotta join this! Appledash is life!
I'll be happy to contribute! This fandom is grossly oversaturated with dark and gore as is. It's nice to see something pleasant promoted for a change.
I might just have to take up that offer. I'm currently torn between two concepts and might just have to write both out of sheer indecision.