The most up to date version of this contest's rules is at https://www.fimfiction.net/group/217156/portal-transformations/thread/529551/portal-transformations-contest-announcement-and-rules. Please ask your questions there.

Welcome to the Contest

"When Spike goes through the Mirror Portal from Equestria to CHS, he turns into a dog. What does X turn into when X goes through the Mirror Portal (or a similar portal)? You can pick X and the direction."

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I think it's 95% hilarious when someone in a fimfiction.net group or a discord or other social media asks for story recommendations and they say nothing or almost nothing about what kinds of stories they even like, or what they think makes a story good or bad.

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Because I know some fimfic writers read this blog, I have a question about contest scheduling.

Do you think for you personally, and for people in general, a contest that starts roughly now, and ends in early to mid February, is good timing or not?

In your answer, please say whether you write fimfics. 🙂 (I might peek at your fimfic user page to see them.)

Thank you!

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Sometimes fimfic writers receive messages like

Do you do story requests?

If you hope someone might write the story you want, you have a lot of options.
- You can post the story idea in a forum of a relevant, appropriate fimfic group, and hope some writer falls in love with it.
- You can blog the idea.
- You can describe the idea in an appropriate discord server, and invite people to write a story around it.
- You can CREATE a group for the idea.

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EThe Piper at the Gated Lawn

• MLP: FiM
• Comedy
• Slice of Life

Snails has a secret: a secret power only he can wield, a secret batch of knowledge only he can grasp, a whole secret world over which he rules as an absolute monarch. Secret except, y'know, it's right there on his flanks...

• Snips
• Snails

AugieDog · 6.1k words  ·  54  2 · 510 views

This story provides Snips and Snails a great backstory, interesting personalities, an entertaining and very convincing first person narrator character voice, and quite a fun and often funny plot.

For reference, a contest I ran earlier this year:

Arboreal Yearnings ("I'd LIKE to be a tree," Fluttershy said.)

Mockingbirb

33Stories54Members2023February

and the contest's winners...
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/216891/arboreal-yearnings-id-like-to-be-a-tree-fluttershy-said/thread/516327/arboreal-yearnings-contest-i-results

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So I wrote two replacements for the story's main two chapters, hit 'publish' on them, and then unpublished the former chapters.

I mean, even if you were partway through reading the story I guess the story would still largely make sense, once you allow for the fact that I changed the 'giant cockroach' to a 'giant ladybug' so I could put that major character into the cover image...

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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 · 366 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 · 330 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  ·  12  2 · 262 views