Contest Theme

I've seen people in this group's previous Sunset Shimmer x Villain contests commenting that they were working on a story, or they had a great idea for a story, but they hadn't finished in time.

"Second Chances" is an opportunity for people who didn't finish (or didn't start, ha) a story for any of this group's previous contests to use any of those contest themes.

(If there's a difference in rules between that contest and this round, this round's rules take precedence.)

No clop or foalcon or human foalcon equivalent, please! We have to look at these stories! Story should be SFW.

Please have fun, and try to be nice!

Story Length

The Easy Way

1000 to 5000 words is ok.

Other Options, For Silly People

Mimimum length: long enough to publish on fimfiction.net. The 'EASY' way to is to write a story at least 1000 words long, and publish it as a story.

(A DIFFERENT way is to write MULTIPLE stories for the contest theme that TOGETHER total at least 1000 words, and publish them as one 'anthology' story. An 'easier' way that counts if your story is 'good enough' is to publish your story of fewer than 1000 words as a blog post, we guess.)

Maximum length is either 5000 words, OR you can go longer if your story holds the judges' interest very well. (A judge who gives up on your story before finishing might rate your story unfavorably.)

Additional Rules

Stories should be first posted/published between today (March 4th, 2022) and 11:59pm on April 8th, 2022. Time zone: United States, Eastern.

We have created a group folder for you to put your stories in BEFORE THE DEADLINE. (You'll have to join the group to add a story to it.)

If this is your first story ever on fimfiction.net and you're having trouble publishing it on this website, please send a link with view password to both Mockingbirb and to Reactception. Email us if you have questions about this.

Please include a link to the contest in your story description.

(If you publish your very short story as a blog post, you'll have to send both judges links to it, and link to your story from a reply to the contest announcement in the group's forum, and link to this contest from your blog post. All that by the contest deadline! It's easier to do a regular story instead.)

Please don't change your story during the judging, because that could confuse the judges, and it might be cheating?

The Prizes, Such As They Are

1st: First place receives multiple prizes.

An extra prize, as described in a section below this one.

The story will be on the page description for 2 weeks, and the winner gets to choose the next Sunset x EG Villain competition (can’t be the same one.) If they want to, they can co-judge for that competition. But if they don’t want to co-judge, they can of course compete again.

2nd: story review of one of their stories (their choice) by Reactception, and an honorable mention on the group description.

3rd: the story submitted will be reviewed by Reactception.

Extra Prize

If you win a first place award, you can choose the following extra prize!

Did you ever wish you could get a custom commission without paying money for it? Mockingbirb or Reactception (whoever thinks they can do it) will write a story at least as long as a a haiku, but probably longer.

Seriously, the last time we did this, we were given a three word prompt of "fluffy SunFlower cuddlefic," and the result was a 2000 word Sunflower cuddlefic that hit the featured box, but it's also possible you might get something shorter than that, such as a mini-story within a multi-story anthology, or a blog post.

Your custom story author reserves the right to ask for a different custom commission theme/topic/prompt if they don't think they can do your request justice. The commission story author will make a reasonable effort to help find something we can agree on.

Additional bonus prizes may be awarded at judges' discretion, depending on total number of entries and how much we like or love your story.

Any Mistakes, Errors, and Changes in Contest Rules

If we've made a terrible mistake in these rules and conditions, we reserve the right to fix them in a reasonable way.

The official contest post and latest news are at https://www.fimfiction.net/group/215660/sunset-shimmer-x-eg-villains-shippers-group-competitions/thread/490995/march-2022-sunset-shimmer-x-villain-contest-second-chances-march-4th-to-april-8th .