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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WARNING: You might have to experiment a bit at the target link to get the image shown large enough to easily read. It might even take a right click or two.

http://www.lit-hum.org/2012/04/emily-dickinson-attends-writing.html

Somehow, a friend thought I might find this both amusing and relevant.

Please note, though, that not all of the negative feedback I've ever received on a story was of this type. Not by far!

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Joe Haldeman served a tour of duty in the Vietnam War, before he became well known as a science fiction writer.

I'm vacillating between blogging this story as providing examples partway through of the kind of dark humor, even graveyard humor, that sometimes shows up as a coping mechanism in war...

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Edited to add: In view of the second seven chapters that were added to the story after the first seven, this story still has many good qualities, but some of the additions are not exactly 'fun' in the most direct sense. I still recommend it as an interesting AU, though.

When a story that is imho good and more fun as a story and better written than most fimfiction.net stories just doesn't fit the demographic and gets an amazingly low number of reads...(at least so far)

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