The
CONVERSION
►Bureau

We are glad you are here.

What is the Conversion Bureau Group? It is a place where fans and writers within the Conversion Bureau genre can meet, discuss, and interact. The Conversion Bureau Group is intended to be a safe, civil, kindly group where we support, encourage and promote each other and our works, as we celebrate the Conversion Bureau genre of storytelling and transformation stories in general.

Here is a group where harassment, bigotry, harsh criticism and attacks are not permitted. Within the Conversion Bureau Group, we explore the most original and exciting genre of fanfiction on Fimfiction - the Conversion Bureau!

Filled with endless potential and possibility, Conversion Bureau stories can venture into any tone, age, milieu or universe. Through the loss of the human form, we can explore what it means to be human, and even what might be better than human.

Within this safe haven, we choose to exemplify the basic values of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - honesty, kindness, laughter, generosity, loyalty, and of course, magic, with regard to each other, and our works.

Please join us and be a pony too!

- Chatoyance, 2013

1. Conversion Bureau stories are transformation fiction. They are stories of ordinary humans offered the most extraordinary of experiences - that of becoming an entirely new species. Bureau stories examine the nature of identity and existence at a fundamental level.

2. Primary to any true Conversion Bureau story is a deep love of ponies, Equestria, Celestia and Luna, and all the most wonderful things about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Conversion Bureau stories expand upon the joy and innocence that My Little Pony represents, and juxtapose the often harsh and cruel real world of Earth beside that of Equestria. Through some means the two realms are brought together, and humans are offered the gift of becoming Equestrian themselves.

3. In a Conversion Bureau story, humans may react to this opportunity in any number of ways. They may embrace it, or fear it, resign themselves to it or even oppose it - but the transformation is usually inevitable, and humankind is forced to confront the issue of what it means to become the Other.