Edit/Update: The search by 'heat' doesn't treat story length in quite the same way as the Featured Box's full algorithm does, so the results are NOT entirely comparable. When I tested this initially, the Box had such a large proportion of Anon stories in it that any discrepancy in NON-ANON story results wasn't initially obvious.
Sorry!

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Blog Post's Rating: T for Teen

In the official fimfiction.net discord, I saw an interesting question in #site-dev-and-help.

"Recon" asked:

If I have a long story (over 100k words) that is rated T and I have a small portion late in the story where some very M rated events take place, what's the best way to handle that?

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For stories like...

TDante's Inferno, Canto Thirteen

• Equestria Girls
• Dark
• Drama
• Sci-Fi

Like all the other high schools in the country, Canterlot High has a new Mandatory Moral Education program. The VR technology is very advanced! The morals...maybe not so much.

• Suicide / Self Harm
• Sunset Shimmer
• Fluttershy (EqG)
• Wallflower Blush

Mockingbirb · 1.2k words  ·  9  2 · 308 views

TThe Town Without a Mirror

• MLP: FiM
• Sad
• Slice of Life

A traveling salespony stumbles into a mystery: a town where there are no mirrors. Eventually, he finds out why.

• Death
• Alt. Universe
• Pinkie
• Other
• Mrs. Cake
• Starlight Glimmer

Mockingbirb · 1.5k words  ·  14  1 · 278 views

...and another story soon to be posted, or maybe already posted when you see this:

TNo Hiding Place Down Here

• Equestria Girls
• Dark
• Sad

In the Everfree Forest, Wallflower and Fluttershy try to become trees.

• Violence
• Death
• Profanity
• Other
• Fluttershy (EqG)
• Wallflower Blush

Mockingbirb · 1.6k words  ·  11  2 · 195 views

This also applies if you're a 'boring' cisgender heterosexual person. The right to be all those things is important, if that's what's right for you!

Anyone who tells you otherwise is not really supporting Pride.

https://www.fimfiction.net/group/216891/arboreal-yearnings-id-like-to-be-a-tree-fluttershy-said/thread/512229/arboreal-yearnings-contest-i-id-like-to-be-a-tree

(This is a change from the "Pacific Standard Time" listed in the original contest rules, which caused some confusion. PST would have ended the contest an hour earlier than Pacific Time, because PST doesn't include daylight savings time.)

https://time.is/PT

I mean...in THEORY, a shipfic could be...

(1) Positive. Some people write shipfics because (1) they fervently believe a set of characters (say, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash) should be in a serious romantic relationship, or at least that the relationship would be a good thing.

(2) Neutral? Some people might write a shipfic because (2) they think a relationship between the characters would be ENTERTAINING, but maybe not an entirely GOOD thing for the characters in it.

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https://www.fimfiction.net/group/216891/arboreal-yearnings-id-like-to-be-a-tree-fluttershy-said/thread/513147/arboreal-yearning-story-contest-i-how-to-enter-stories-shorter-than-1000-words-script-format-and-similar-special-cases gives the details.

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Author's Note

"This script is an entry for the 'Arboreal Yearnings Story Contest I' (this text is a link.)" But that isn't true! This is just a FORMAT EXAMPLE, NOT a real contest entry!

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Would you like to write a story about a pony wanting to be a tree, or maybe even becoming or already being a tree?

I'm running a story contest, and a new group.

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In a discord, I just remarked:

But how do you feel about crediting ideas somewhere, in Author's Note or LD?
I am in favor of crediting inspirations, that is ALL OVER my back catalog.
I also know at least one person who is like 'eh, ideas are not for crediting, they belong to everyone.'
And it is true that some ideas are available to everyone. Like..."I want to write Rainbow x Gilda." That might not require a VAST amount of creativity until you actually write it.

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