Rainbow Dash pleads Twilight to proofread her Daring Do fanfic. However, not all stories are destined for mass success.
This is an entry into my 24-hour fics collection.
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That was somehow very inspiring.
Not every fanfic is a success, but I feel this plucky and sincere little gem should be.
I felt this on a spiritual level. Great job on this one!
This story got way too real. Nice.
Reminded me of THE WORST STORY EVER WRITTEN by Commander202 from back in the day. Improved upon the concept though and flushed out the characters a lot better. Well done!
This...
This is what I needed to hear.
Thank you.
A fanfic about a fanfic. I like this story.
Such great words from Twilight!
This may be the most meta thing I've ever seen.
Props to seemingly writing out the feeling a lot of authors have on this site, and doing so pretty accurately too.
Ah, fan magazines. Sadly I was a bit too late to really get those. Yet in the early days of the internet I was too young to find what fanfiction circles there were.
This was a good read. I always freak out when I post a new story or chapter and this helped me realize what it probably looks like in an outsider perspective. Great job!
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Did those actually exist? I just thought of a logical substitute for Fimfic since ponies don't have computers or internet. I guess I'm not be surprised.
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Huh, surprised you don't know. Heck the term "Mary Sue" originated in a Star Trek fanzine, way back in 1973! https://fanlore.org/wiki/A_Trekkie%27s_Tale That 'story' was itself a parody of bad fanfiction, meaning fanfiction was well enough known in certain circles to be parodied.
There were fanzines for the Tolkien legendarium as well, and I think at least one of those still exists (though I think now it also has a digital version). I thiiiink there were some for Star Wars and Doctor Who at one point, though those had 'official' magazines so there was greater pressure to suppress fan publications.
Anyway, fanzines would at one point publish fanfiction in almost exactly the manner described (minus the magic view count of course!), and letters columns would have other fans react to what was published. In the early internet days, before I was old enough to follow them, usenet groups and mailing lists expanded this practice, compiling fanfiction and routing it to everyone in the group, who could then react to it. These groups were typically single-property. Of course multi-property sites like Fanfiction.net eventually came along, and became popular due to the centralization and the ease of knowing where to put cross-overs without having to multi-post. These followed early, less well-known (I came across this one by accident while trying to find the name of that Tolkien 'zine I heard about) 'aggregate' zines. https://fanlore.org/wiki/Chronicles_(Star_Trek,_Tolkien,_science_fiction,_fantasy_zine)
Incidentally, 'fan published magazines' are frequently called 'zines' for short, distinguishing them from 'official' magazines and publications.
Side-note: Fanzines themselves originated with Sci-fi fans in the 1930s but consisted of non-fiction analysis and original works, the latter often called 'fanfiction', hence the label to stories abou tother people's works.
Of course fan-fiction in the sense of 'works set in another author's setting' have been around for at least as long as novels have existed, and possibly longer. But the first known instance of 'zine' fanfiction was 1960's Star Trek fandom in America and manga fandom in Japan. See here for more info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction
So in a sense, Fimfiction is carrying on a proud tradition dating back over 50 years!
...I should write that into a blog post.
Tl;dr You seem to have captured a significant chapter in the history of fandoms purely by chance. :P
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I knew of the story behind Mary Sue, but I didn't realize it came from a fanzine. I read Fact or Fanfiction by Tumbleweed to get a feel for the Dash-writes-a-fanfic trope and it kinda mentioned a fanzine in passing (vaguely as I'm not sure if it was a physical medium).
When I wrote it into the story, I wondered if they actually existed. I'm aware that certain fandoms date way back, but I didn't know how fanfics circulated back then considering the legal and licensing factors.
Thanks for the history.
Very nice!
With me, it isn't the people total. It's the value of what I write. "Buckball Mania" isn't "War and Peace"; not by a longshot. I want to give the reader something that doesn't waste their time. You, as reader, are trading a finite, precious commodity. Your time. And I don't want to write anything that spends it frivolously, or squanders it.
Very nice!
With me, it isn't the people total. It's the value of what I write. "Buckball Mania" isn't "War and Peace"; not by a longshot. I want to give the reader something that doesn't waste their time. You, as reader, are trading a finite, precious commodity. Your time. And I don't want to write anything that spends it frivolously, or squanders it.
Excellent story! While I am not currently a writer, I do understand the problems and learning curve it take to improve in any artform there is. I happen to sculpt, build movie and TV props, and am a magician. and this story reminds me of my journey in learning and growing. Thank you so very much for writing this story.
Rainbow is me every time I publish a story.
Greetings from the My Little Reviews and Feedback group, have a review!
Does this make FiMFiction it's own little magazine in a way???
Interesting, a good fic with solid advice.
Story of my life...
Good fic about a fanfic writer's toil.