'Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?'
When Twilight Sparkle learns that Barbara, Queen of the Communists, plans to detonate bombs all over the world to turn everyone into communists, she must team up with Tempest Shadow to save both humanity and ponies from Marxism in a gripping, mesmerizing, and utterly bizarre tale written with a predictive text generator.
This story was adapted into an audio reading by Curtis Wildcat, which you can listen to here!
Page generated in 0.034 seconds
Total duration
712 users online
708,095 hits today, 2,280,440 yesterday
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
Anyway random story and i approve
This...is...beautiful!
Harry Potter and the Rest of the Sentence, anybody?
The sun quickly accepted that Twilight was a millenial...
...Okay. I don't have time to look at this now, but judging from the final few paragraphs, it's absurd enough that I know I'm going to like it. Marking this as 'Read Later'.
9523813
Come to think of it, I think some years back someone tried something similar with a Harry Potter fanfic of sorts. It seemed a bit dignified in its absurdity.
Someone definitely had fun making that cover art.
9523861
I believe you are thinking of Harry Potter and the Portrait of what appeared to be a Pile of Ash.
Tempest the Pony, now featuring GUN
9524173
Okay, yeah. That was it. Thanks. >^_^<
9525038
No problem.
Holy shit! That plot twist/ending/cliffhanger is perhaps the most unexpected, impact-full and emotional one that I ever read! I went from laughing my ass of to quietly staring and rereading the last sentence over and over again in disbelief!
9530574
Yeah, that caught me by surprise, too. When the text generator suggested it, I thought, "Huh... well, let's see where this goes."
By Klaus the Forklift Driver?
Wonderful.
Are the movie rights up for sale?
9535298
It'd certainly be a weird movie, but yeah, I'd be up for seeing an adaptation.
Awww, that ending was lovely.
Oh, err, woops!
Hmm, it seems we both started writing around the same time. I guess I got "lucky" getting mine out first.
The funny thing is, I was actually worried someone else might do this exact thing before I got the chance to post mine - especially, after this thread popped up in my feed about an OpenSource text generator that, in fact, had been given some pony training data to work with, able to produce pony-crossover gibberish by itself with little human input other than an initial paragraph. Furthermore, BradyBunch's My Little Bot, a parody of bot-written content, caught my attention about 2 weeks into writing "Botnik Sparkle" - and quite a few people did note the resemblance to Botnik's Harry Potter novel. I wouldn't have been surprised to see others, inspired by the tale of a happily stoned Fluttershy and her friends drinking the Elements of Harmony, to take Botnik for a spin themselves before my story was ready.
Me having this nasty case of "being a really slow writer" and "unable to create unless all the stars magically align perfectly", I feared I might get beaten to the punch. I didn't expect I'd be the one to... err, punch someone else!
Woops!
A subtle jab at Harry Potter for the impracticality of gauging one's eyes in a critical moment.
Aww, will Twilight ever see Springwater Station again?
YIKES. Graphic.
Hmm. I should probably be concerned about that, considering that's where I live.
Was a little weird to read about Twilight and Tempest sneaking their way into Germany.
Well. East Germany. I suppose that makes more sense then.
That... sure is an odd combination of sources.
Then again, for an upcoming chapter in my own Botnik-story, I've combined Friendship Reports with 1000 fanfiction short-descriptions and Wired Product Reviews.
The results are... interesting.
9549326
Oh darn, I had meant to thank you for helping out with this story by providing the Botnik database for all the episodes to date, but I forgot. So... sorry and thanks!
this is fucking amazing and I'm dying XD
I have never seen something more perfectly in-character in one of these stories than this right here.
Things being erased from history is the best running gag. XD
Sequels. And my friends. Never forget.
The bed of migration.
Sun's a fucking badass.
This truly is a weapon to surpass Metal Gear.
In all seriousness, I want to know more about your method here. How much was actually your doing?
9574534
Thanks! And to answer your question, I'd say it's about a 60/40 blend. As I said in the opening chapter, I had a rough idea of the plot before I started, but most of it was made up on the fly based on what the generator put out, including stuff being erased from history. The best way I can describe it is that you're using a gps to guide you as you drive through an unmapped location: sometimes the route you're guided to is interesting and you keep going, sometimes it's not so good and you need to take a detour, and sometimes you have to turn back and try something completely different.
That said, I still had to do a LOT of trimming, revising, and condensing to take this from 'pure gibberish' to 'somewhat coherent.'
9574811
I'm impressed you didn't go full predictive. :)
9574871
Oh, that would have been easier, but the results would have been a lot messier. I think the best predictive text parodies are where it looks like it could kinda pass for the real thing, if it weren't so obvious that it was all gibberish.
The story of how I lost my home.
This is fantastic.
The places you choose to let the predictive generator write, and where you keep the continuity it sets are awesome. I love how so many ridiculous things happen and just have to remain that way because the RNG has spoken.
This was the moment I remembered the pancake recipes being part of this. Glorious.
Some of my favorite moments were these where it's not quite so blatant, but still certain where a phrase came from. The flashlight with fresh batteries being from the Halloween safety guide, that is. This was fantastic, and severely underrated by people who just couldn't appreciate the good subtleties here among the nonsense.
I absolutely loved it.
9577062
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
9577037
It was quite interesting to see what the generator came up with!
...I'm convinced. Someone has to do a dramatic reading of this.
Looking at this from a time when text generating AI are making headlines for being too good, just what generator did you use for this???????????????
11453500
I used the Botnik generator, which you can find at this site.