Ever see a whole bunch of idiocy and just want to punch people in the face for how moronic they're being on fimfiction, be it in writing or in comments or anything in general?
Well here's where you can post your little bits of advice for the group to see. The ranting part is reserved for the admins, though, and I'm not above deleting posts if they're irrelevant and such.
and try not to post repeats, or at the very least say things in completely different ways to further understanding or what say you.
Until next time, farewell my friends

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People seem to underestimate the completely devastating power that death itself holds. From what I've noticed since I've joined this fandom is that writers in particular seem to not understand the weight that death has. Grim dark in particular focuses on the ability to instill fear and confusion in readers due to this.

People write death as an everyday occurrence, where sometimes it is, but how often they do it destroys the credibility and quality of the darker fan fics. I've spoken to people who do everything in their power to avoid the dark tag because they either associate it with unnecessary gore and sex, or negligence of death.

I enjoy dark stories, but I too run into the problem that some people can't grasp that death and other mature subjects must be handled with experience and knowledge. Death such as suicide has driven close family members of people who have committed suicide to depression and other mental illnesses.

I dislike the stories out there that feature mass murdering with no motivation or reasoning. Writers claim insanity or crazed characters will murder for fun, and yes sometimes they will, but it is fucking overused. Be original. You call yourselves authors when really you are selfish people struggling for attention, be it positive or negative for derive only pleasure at the expense of the name of grimdark and writing itself.

Characters can be villains without use of murder. They may drive others to insanityor tear down society through the use of corruption or drive people apart from one another or bring about devastation through horror and illusions or try to correct the wrongs of others through unethical and irrational ways.

DEATH is a part of the natural order and is, in most eyes, terrible thing. However it is not a tool or shortcut to better writing, in fact if anything it is the opposite. Incompetent use of death and murder shows a writer's inexperience, insecurity, and inability to use other tools at their disposal.

My stories feature death. Yet, surprisingly to most of you, it does not occur in every chapter, as I have seen done in some fics. If you excessively use death as a shortcut to better writing and attention you will not only disgrace yourself and taint your image, you will ruin the image of those you are associated with. Such as the dark tag. I've seen dark stories that contain nary a single drop of blood. How do they do this? By being writers who know what they want. Knowing their story can be great without gore or sex or death.

I will be coming out with a trilogy reeking with death and darkness, yes. But not once will I neglect their power. The catalyst is my story, death and darkness is the result. NOT the other way around. Death and darkness does not make my story, my story makes death and darkness. There is method to the malice, there is reason to my usage of these tools. But amongst the death and darkness, there is hope, light, and victory.

A story deserves the dark tag. You coming up with a pointless plot as an excuse to use death does not. Death is money. The more of it there is, the less important it becomes. If you have the perfect mix of economy (plot), government (characters), and money (death), you have a successful society. If there is too much of any of these and neglect of another, the society (story) will crash and burn.

Ponder this, and before you write that next awesome story about a serial killer, look back and see how you could do something for yourself. Don't fade with the crowd. Don't give in to the ignorance. Be yourself, write what you want.

And for the love of all things dead,
USE FUCKING COMMON SENSE!

That is all. Equestria is ours.

EDIT: Reposted from original thread post

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I can vouch at least for myself: Both my parents died before I was 13 and my baby niece died back in January. I know life can be a bitch and there's usually nothing you can do about it

1653584 my two thoughts on death, blood and gore.
as jenkins said, don't overuse death. Don't nullify the impact it has. If that evil guy slaughters innocents like a guy with bug spray in a swarm of flies then it gets boring. and more importantly he's not going to burst into tears and mourn the death of that other evil person he was fond of.
Now I can't really say don't use blood and gore all the time because anyone who knows my work knows I love maiming my characters.
There's a reason for this, though. Sure Twilight can watch her family get slaughtered in front of her eyes and experience mental scarring, but but while that's not only cliche as hell it's not exactly foolproof. Watching the pain of others, no matter how close they are to you, will almost never be as powerful as the pain you experience yourself.
When your character is in excruciating pain and actually loses body parts and still lives, it not only shows just how strong they are to live through that with some semblance of sanity, but it also yields intense amounts of suffering. You shred Twilight's wings and chop them off with a dull axe and cut up nearly every part of her entire body and then she lives, Id say that's a perfectly reasonable buildup to her going badass mode on some mother fuckers. Then that can lead to a whole tree of possibilities in terms of storyline, story building and character development.
But, again as jenkins said, these things don't mean Dark. you can have pinkie pie happily slaughtering her friends with a big ol' smile on her face and guess what? It's dark only in title, it's not really dark. It's a happy little beat down. Truly dark stories, you can just feel the power behind the words. When you brain turns the words and scenes into images in your head, it leaves you at the very least very creeped out. You'd be sitting there thinking 'Fuuuuuuuuuuuck...' after you're done reading, things like that.
well Jenkins, you've got me beat on size of the post that's for sure
Until next time, farewell my friends

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I don’t write grim dark because I’ve never tried, and I probably shouldn’t judging by how people react to my other stories.

But I do want to write something about Discord taking over Equestria after he got released from his stone prison by the CMC.