Reminder that deadline tonight is midnight, Central Daylight Time

I've still got like, 2 scenes to write in my own, vanity contest entry. I can beat my own deadline, I swear.

If you're a first time author and have to submit your story through the approval queue, as long as it's submitted before the deadline than it'll still count, regardless of when it makes it onto the site. I've got friends on the mod team who can check.

The story submission folder has been closed.

If you submitted the story to the site and forgot to add it to the folder, pm me.

If you're one of the new authors who's stories still need manual approval, don't worry, we'll get it taken care of in the morning.

Go read my vanity entry to the contest.
And also everyone else's, I guess.

I have a lot of judging to do.

This is it, folks, final weekend to get your stories in. I hope you made good use of the extra time, because there won't be any more after this.

I'm really excited to finally start reading all these wonderful stories, and so are the rest of the judges.

Hello folks. I guess I haven't posted here in awhile, and that's not likely to change past this. But still, I have good news.

The print copy of Chasing the Sunset, a collection of all 13 winners for the three Sunset Shipping contests is now available on Lulu.

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We're halfway through the Sunset shipping contest, and we have 7 entries so far. You should absolutely go check them out!

How are your own stories coming along?

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66 entries. Jesus. You people are insane.

Also insane enough to post at the literal last minute, get everything stuck in the posting queue for the site and make me stay up late.

Whatever. I'm looking forward to all of this. There's over 450k worth of words here to read. I'm pretty sure by story count and by prize money, this is easily the biggest contest in Fimfiction history.

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Heya folks! Remember that time, two years ago, when I ran a Sunset Shipping Contest that received about 54 entries?

Remember that time last year, when I did another Sunset Shipping Contest that received a whopping 66 entries, and was one of the biggest contests in the sites history? (At the time, anyway.)

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Sorry for taking so long! Life gets in the way sometimes, and this particular batch of stories was rather heavy.

But it’s over and done with, and ready to give you what you’ve been waiting for. We’ve read through 57 different stories about relationships ending, and now here are the best of them.

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Two weeks remain for the deadline to the Sunset Shipping Contest. We're at 13 entries so far, and I know a lot of people are still hard at work.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone has to offer, and wish you all the best of luck on getting your entry in.

Also, I've been working on a vanity entry to the contest myself, which should be ready shortly for your reading perusal.

The deadline for entering the Changing Seasons Sunset Shipping Contest has passed, and as I'm feeling a bit bored and hyper I've decided to go through and get some numbers on the different ships.

Total fics: 50 (it seems one was added by mistake?)
Total ships: 27 (Counting the two Twilights as one ship, and disregarding DrakeyC unknown ship)

Ship Distribution
Sunset/Rarity: 7

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Hey folks. The time has arrived. You wrote more stories than ever, we read them all, and took our sweet time about it.

But we’re done! All 66 stories have been read, and we have selected from them 5 winners, alongside 5 honorable mentions.

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Changing Seasons: 54 stories. 360,049 words
Journeys: 66 stories. 465721 words.

Sunset x... Changing Seasons Journeys
Sci-Twi 2 10
Wallflower Blush 0 8
Adagio 2 6
Princess Twilight 1 4
Rarity 7 4
Applejack 1 3
Starlight Glimmer 3 2
Pinkie Pie 4 2
Rainbow Dash 1 2
Fluttershy 4 1
Juniper Montage 2 1
Lemon Zest 1 1
The Smooze 1 1
Cheerilee 1 1
Big Mac 1 1
Trixie 1 1
Somnambula 0 1

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I am cutting it close with the word count on my Sunset Shipping contest entry - I finally uploaded the first four chapters to Fimfiction, and they come out at 8,331 words! That leaves a mere 1,669 words left for the final (and incredibly necessary!) part if I don't wanna go over the word count.

This is gonna be tricky. I expect some painful trimming down in my future

Yay!

It's currently sitting at 10,955 words pre-editing, which might not be as bad as i was expecting? The word max seems to be more lenient than I thought, but I'm gonna ask Oroboro just to be sure.

Either way, I'm really happy with how it's turned out I don't know if it'll win, but I'm proud of it either way.

Hello, everyone. I'm hosting a shipping contest!

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Nothing big, just wanted to let my followers know that I'm entering the new Sunset Shipping Contest. I started work on the story yesterday and managed to get a quarter of the way done on my idea (though I will need to shave a few hundred words off of it at some point, probably...). It was...the most productive writing day I've had in a while, to be honest. But since I'm still working on Synchrony (and

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Well, Imposing Sovereigns II just wrapped up submissions, so I thought it might be a good time to power through the last half-dozen Sunset shipfics even though there are more important things I need to be doing today. <.< I'm so glad I'm done.

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It's been a trip, but here we are again, my friends. The Sunset Shipping Contest returns, with a new focus on journeys and established relationships. 66 entries were written, totalling 476k words. (And 25 pages of review. c.c) 476k! That's longer than Background Pony! D: Which I still haven't started reading…

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Thank you all so much for all of the amazing stories! We have 26 entries, between 17 authors, spanning a diverse array of genres, all about these colorful mares/human women/stallions one time, and Maud Pie. A longer post about the timeline for contest results is forthcoming! But until then, I leave you with a list of all the entries sorted by category. Go forth and sink into a pile of wonderful shipping!

StarTrixMaud

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Hey there, fabulous friends and festive fillies!

I hope this message finds you surrounded by twinkling lights, cozy sweaters, and enough holiday spirit to make even Pinkie Pie jealous! 🎄✨ Guess what? I've already decked the halls with boughs of holly! I know, I know, scandalous, right? But when the holiday cheer strikes, who am I to resist? Anyway, grab a cup of cocoa, snuggle up in your favorite blanket, and let's dive into some updates and general silliness!

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