Contest results are now available: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/216891/arboreal-yearnings-id-like-to-be-a-tree-fluttershy-said/thread/516327/arboreal-yearnings-contest-i-results

The most up to date version of this contest's rules is at https://www.fimfiction.net/group/216891/arboreal-yearnings-id-like-to-be-a-tree-fluttershy-said/forum. Please ask your questions there.

Welcome to the Contest

In my extremely UNscientific survey, stories about Fluttershy wanting to be a tree receive more than a hundred likes each, 'on average.' (I took the average over all the stories in the "Arboreal Yearnings" group.)

Don't you want to harvest this enormous Fluttertree/treepony/'firry' fanbase for yourself? You should write a story for the new "Arboreal Yearnings" group and contest!

Stories should be about a pony or other creature wanting to be a tree, becoming a tree, pretending to be a tree, or actually being a tree. A few example stories are in the group already.

Timberwolf stories go in their own special Dishonorable Creatures contest folder, where they can compete for their own Dishonorable Mention award.

Please show off your ability to write a meaningful, funny, thought-provoking, or even just startlingly original story.

May the chlorophyll be with you!

Details

Put your contest entries in THE APPROPRIATE CONTEST FOLDERS: Arboreal Yearnings Contest I (Trees) or Dishonorable Creatures Contest I (Timberwolves.) You'll have to join the group for at least long enough to do that.

There is no limit to how many stories you can enter, or how long your story can be...but if a story bores me (or any other judge), your judge might not finish reading it.

Contest closes on April 22, 2023, at midnight Pacific Standard Time (US).

If this is your first story ever on fimfiction.net and you can't get it to pass fimfiction moderation before the contest deadline, you can send me (Mockingbirb) a link and password to read your story. It would help if you can do that a bit before the contest deadline, though.

I have no idea how many prizes will be awarded, or if there will be any judges other than myself.

So far as I know, the only things given to the winners might be 'honor and glory' and a bit of promotion, like being featured in the group and in my fimfiction.net blog.

No porn, please. Writing a story to NOT be M rated is its own art, and will make judging easier.

Please have fun, and good luck!

Edit 1: It would be nice if your story's "long description" links to the group's contest announcement / rules.

Edit 2: The story's first publication, whether on fimfiction.net or elsewhere, should be during the contest period beginning 22 February 2023 and ending at the 'contest closes' date and time listed above. (We have not so far made arrangements to accept entries not posted as stories on fimfiction.net.)

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There's actually an easy and canonical way for Fluttershy to become a tree, and she knows of it too. The swamp fever.

How she deals with that information now that she realizes, though, is the question. May not be pretty.

Just throw the idea out there for anyone who wants it.

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That is indeed a relevant possibility, but I don't want to pressure people to pick that one.

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I've had an idea vaguely connected with that (though not the example you give) kicking around in my head since before FiM ended. I've never got beyond a few sentences, but now? Now it's time to do some actual writing! Thanks, without this contest it might never have come to anything. It still might not, but at least there's a chance now.

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Ah, the old glorious days.