sweeperbravo posted:

It's okay, no one really cares


And if they do they should relax and go outside for a while, take a nice walk around the block or something


edit: That rule is basically there to stop people from deliberately going over there to stir up new poop as if there isn't already easily accessible poop just waiting to be ladled into our mouths

Writer Cath posted:

That is absolutely nothing compared to a wrestling story that's been going on for a decade and still updated weekly. It's over a million words long.

A Bystander posted:

No, "oval office" is not a well-used word in the Fallout series. I'd probably go far enough to say it's never been said, but it's been years since I've played 1 and 2, I quit 3, and never got around to NV.

Hammurabi posted:

I love Fallout and I'm pretty sure no one ever once said oval office in any Fallout game. Like, ever.

Honestly, it's a bit too British for Fallout.

Nintendo Kid posted:

Remember that it's easy to poo poo out a million words when you have 100 lovely fanfic writers, none of whom do more than skim either their own contributions or anyone else's.

Nintendo Kid posted:

Remember that it's easy to poo poo out a million words when you have 100 lovely fanfic writers, none of whom do more than skim either their own contributions or anyone else's.

ungulateman posted:

I read (past tense) a lot of MLP fanfiction, but I absolutely refused to read FO:E. It's an abomination on an entirely different level from the rest of the chaff bronies produce.

ungulateman posted:

No, it's better than that. The original work itself is a million words long. Then there's the many, many spinoffs written in the same universe.

I read (past tense) a lot of MLP fanfiction, but I absolutely refused to read FO:E. It's an abomination on an entirely different level from the rest of the chaff bronies produce.

Zestar Apple Flambe posted:

A My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Fanfic by Zyxx, found here.

Set a few years after (the current point in) the series, the story follows the relationship of Spike and Apple Bloom. Their young love takes a serious turn when she finds herself pregnant with a half-dragon, half-pony foal. How will their family and friends react, and what will this halfbreed child mean for them and Equestrian society as a whole?

Project Sunflower posted:

Project: Sunflower is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction by Hoopy McGee and can be found here.

It is the year 2038, and the Earth is slowly being consumed by a space-borne monstrosity dubbed the Black Tide, which is using nanotechnology to remake the planet into something hideously alien.

Erin Olsen works for Project Harmonics, humanity's last-ditch effort to find a new world before the Tide can wipe them out. But when that world is found, and it turns out to be occupied, Erin will need to find the courage to face the unknown in order to save the inhabitants of both worlds.

When you finish the story, a group has been started for authors to contribute stories set in the same universe, as it exists at the end of the story. Hoopy has started a side story that happens at the same time as "Project: Sunflower."

Ponies One Half posted:

Ponies One Half is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic crossover with Ranma ½ by Emma Iveli, and only the second ever Ranma/My Little Pony Friendship is Magic crossover.

The premise is simple: Twilight screws up a teleportation spell, and ends up teleporting her and the rest of the Mane Six right above the Drowned Girl spring, so they all fall in and are cursed to change into human women on contact with cold water. Ranma and Genma arrive the same day, and get cursed as per canon. They soon meet the Mane Six, and Twilight agrees to help them cure the curse in exchange for helping them adjust to this new world.

Naturally, Hilarity Ensues.

The fic's original cut in Fanfiction.net is here, and the FIMFiction.Net "director's cut" is here.

Bittersweet posted:

"Diabetes is a terrible thing."

A rather infamous My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic where Pinkie Pie dies of diabetes. The story revolves around everyone's reactions to her death, as each of her friends handle the loss differently. Unfortunately, they aren't left to their grieving; a new crisis threatens another one of their friends... but can they face it without Pinkie Pie?

Pages of Harmony posted:

The Elements of Harmony. For generations these ancient artifacts have served as the physical manifestations of Equestria's most important principles: Loyalty, honesty, generosity, kindness, laughter, and the magic of friendship itself. However, only specific ponies are capable of harnessing the Elements' power and little information on them exists in Equestrian literature. And many questions remain unanswered, but there is one above all else: what qualities, spiritual or biological, are needed to allow a pony to control the artifacts representing the Elements that protect the world, and thus assure that the world is not destroyed by the seeds of chaos? What does it take to keep harmony secure?

Twilight Sparkle doesn't know, but she intends to find out by creating her own research on the Elements and their bearers in order to achieve her own Well-Intentioned Extremist goals. But how far will she go to preserve harmony and protect the future, and how will the fate of her friends play into it?

Research, procedures from the pits of Tartarus, and a "harmonious plan" that promises to bring about a new world, that's what.

Started on July 25, 2012, by Shadowed Rainbow, Pages of Harmony is a grimdark My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic and contains extremely graphic content. The story itself can be read here , a reading is here, and a short movie trailer can also be found here . But BE WARNED you'd better know what you're getting into.

• Gorn: Quite a bit of the ENTIRE fanfic up to its current point (Chapter 12 currently, ending the Extraction Arc) - in a very scientific matter. The gore always has a purpose in context however, and the meticulousness of it just makes things worse.
  
• Shown Their Work: The amount of research put into this fic is astonishing. To elaborate it describes actual scientific procedures and forms of torture, among other things.
  
• The Voiceless: Pinkie forcibly becomes this when she has her larynx ripped out.
  

Xenophilia posted:

Xenophilia, written by AnonAuthor and published on Fimfiction.Net by AnonponyDASHIE, opens several months after Bellerophon "Lero" Michaelides' unexplained arrival in Equestria. Despite missing his home and family, Lero has adjusted well — he has multiple paying jobs, a nice house, and a close friendship with Rainbow Dash. Said friendship gradually grows into love, but Lero fails to pick up on it until Rainbow impulsively kisses him in the opening chapter. The relationship soon escalates into explicit human on pony sex scenes.

From here, the story follows Lero and Rainbow Dash's relationship through Rainbow's eyes as they both attempt to understand and adjust to each other's cultural and social norms. Particular focus is given to Equestria's tradition of polygamy, (a necessity given the male-to-female ratio) where the lead mare of a herd will set her stallion up with unattached mares.

This story has since spawned a large amount of Recursive Fanfiction, (though some have partially involved the original author): a Scrapbook Story sequel — written in-universe by Twilight Sparkle — numerous collections of side stories, and a spinoff saga, all in progress and set at various points in the timeline, and several one-shots. The series has had a large influence on Friendship is Magic fan fiction due to its popularity, with elements from the story increasingly being referenced or borrowed in other works.

The following Recursive Fanfiction also have their own pages:

Divided Rainbow
Into The Hedge
Xenophoolia

ungulateman posted:

I read (past tense) a lot of MLP fanfiction, but I absolutely refused to read FO:E. It's an abomination on an entirely different level from the rest of the chaff bronies produce.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

What's your favorite fanfiction written by grown men about cartoon ponies?

Could it be Zestar Apple Flambe?


Or maybe it's Project Sunflower?


I bet a discerning gentleman like yourself would be instantly drawn to the 100+ chapter masterpiece known as Ponies One Half.


Or perhaps you'd prefer a socially conscious Deconstruction that deeply explores an important real-world issue, like Bittersweet?


Is your favorite is something more mature, like Pages of Harmony?


No... your favorite, it... it couldn't be... the Xenophilia-verse... could it?

Lottery of Babylon posted:

I bet a discerning gentleman like yourself would be instantly drawn to the 100+ chapter masterpiece known as Ponies One Half.

Darth TNT posted:

Come one dude, this is the TVtropes mockthread. If you want to discuss your favorite MLP fanficion with ungulateman do it somewhere else.

ungulateman posted:

(although SA has a weird anti-fanfic culture which I still don't understand even after all this time. What happened to judging stories on their own merits rather than their medium? )

ungulateman posted:

Are terrible bronies actually more common than terrible people in other fandoms, or are they just more visible / easier targets?

_{I just want to watch my cartoon for little girls without creepy spergs ruining it}

Lottery of Babylon posted:

I'm afraid ungulateman's love of ponies and fanfictions has been grandfathered in as a thread theme.

vaguely posted:

hell it's right there in his username
it's so funny when people helldump themselves

The Infinite Loops: MLP Loops posted:

Crapsack World: Some of the worst loops. But the worst of the worst is "Slavequestria," a loop where Celestia legalized slavery and allied with Sombra, turning the whole world into a totalitarian hell and her battle with Nightmare Moon into Evil Versus Evil. All the Loopers involved are left traumatized afterwards.

Scratch that, the (mercifully) largely undescribed Loop caused by a massive collection of porn and viruses bleeding into the Equestria Loop. (The loop wherein it's described starts with Twilight and Sleipnir, the administrator of Equestria, walking into Mac's bar to drown their memories of it.)

"Not only was she [Molestia] in charge but she was the pinnacle of what every pony strove to be, the ideal pony in the eyes of her subjects! And Twilight was the only one Awake, the only sane mare in this mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad world. And then this corrupted world painted a target on her by making her the most desirable mare alive to everyone in said world."

To underline just how horrible this loop was, upon Awakening both Sleipnir and Twilight immediately ran for the gates of Tartarus, fought their way to the lowest levels of Hell, and then locked the door to Hell from the inside. And then Sleipnir called down the Apocalypse and prematurely ended the world. Let me underline that some more. A Yggdrasil System Administrator — who is consistently portrayed as one of the most responsible and level-headed of the sysadmins, at that — chose to deliberately crash a Loop. How desperate are you when risking further multiverse instability is preferable to actually trying to live in that loop world even for a single day?^{note Although its actually Justified: Twilight Sparkle is an Anchor. If she psychologically breaks, her home Loop risks total metaphysical destruction. If Sleipnir judges that trying to live through this Loop has a high probability of destroying Twilight's sanity, then the multiversal damage from a premature Loop crash is necessary cosmic triage.}

The Infinite Loops: MLP Loops posted:

Interrupted Intimacy: Loop 44.4 ("...I walked in on Spike and Rarity."): Reactions vary from Squick (Twilight and Sweetie Belle) to confused indifference (Chrysalis) to enthusiastic support (Cadance).

Porn Stash: Zeus hid one of these in Sleipnir's Yggdrasil terminal, creating a Loop featuring an Equestria embodying clopfic and noted above under Crapsack World.

In one case, Celestia was as kind, caring as loving as usual, but also a slaver who set her mark on all ponies to keep them in control, with the side effect of not allowing them to get their own cutie marks. Even if she and her Awake friends had to banish Celestia and Nightmare Moon to the moon Twilight some loops after still feels she failed Awake!Celestia that loop.
In the "Molestia" loop, Twilight was the target of rape of all many ponies including the non-looping versions of her family and friends. It was enough to give her an Heroic BSOD.

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In my story, I have an upright walking reptilian species. Was wondering how plausible it is for them to have breasts. At first I thought no, that's stupid. But then I thought a second and realized that any being that has humanoid appearance with functioning arms would need pecs. If they have pecs, shouldn't far also accumulate there?

So far I haven't portrayed a female yet. My character is just an obese male who may or may not have lizard-man boobs.

So how plausible are lizard titties, female or otherwise? Nipples are right out though.

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In the late 90s the Ninja turtles had a live action series on Fox Kids called the Next Mutation. It introduced a new female turtle by the name of Venus De Milo. I personally didn't mind her at the time because I was 8 or 9, but apparently most fans hated the very idea of her, for many reasons. Admittedly many of them are good reasons, however regardless of any quality of the arguments against her the one reason I hear most is because she had turtle breasts in her shell and how a turtle should not have breast, as it's not a mammal. I don't know if this helps you but it's the one thing that came to mind when reading your post.

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Twenty-five years ago, the Kaiju Tyrant Redscream fell in love with the Humongous Mecha Lazerbot 9001, the two of them eventually conceiving the monster known as Robotyrant (Can you tell how ridiculous this is?). Now taking form as humans in order to avoid any more attacks for Robotyrant's sake, the two former monsters and their teenage (monsters age slower) child must interact with both other former monsters, their offspring and various humans. In a world where monsters masquerade as humans, isn't a little hard to tell what others really are?

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Jason, an ordinary ten-year-old kid, is looking forward to the dullest summer vacation ever, when a new neighbor moves in. The neighbor turns out to be a kooky scientist, and one day, after sneaking into the guy's basement lab, Jason finds and grabs a strange watch that, when buttons are pushed, turns into a set of Power Armor that gives him super-strength, speed/flight jet boosters, wrist lasers, and other cool weapons and tools. Since he's a little fella, the suit's 6'2'' build is like piloted armor for Jason, and he and his friends realize this is like the perfect secret identity solution, and decide to create a super-hero identity, which Jason names Awesome-Man. (hey, he's 10.)

No sooner than that, an evil organization sets it's sights on Jason's city, and it's up to Awesome-Man to stop their evil schemes, guard the city, and save the day. Later on, Jason's friend Lori grabs one of the watches for herself and gains her own identity.

Coat Full of Contraband posted:

"Hey, buddy.... You wanna buy a hoofed mammal?" Word of God says it was originally going to be "wanna buy an ungulate?" but he erred on the side of Viewers Are Morons.

Little Blackfly posted:

So what is your favorite fanfic, horsefucker?

Ninjasaurus posted:

Unless of course there are any fanfics you'd care to recommend.

LoonShia posted:

So he's Captain Marvel?

ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO NOT STEAL

ungulateman posted:

Fun fact, my username predates my obsession with tiny technicolor horses; it's a reference to a Gary Larson cartoon. But that's neither here nor there.



I know you're going to dismiss anything I suggest based on the fact that it's A: ponies and B: fanfiction (and hey, as far as baseless generalisations go those are pretty good ones), but sure. The Demesne of the Reluctant Twilight Sparkle are probably the best horsewords I've ever read and the only story I don't feel completely stupid for recommending on its own merits.

<sub>(Yes, I know I'm digging a deeper hole by giving a serious answer. Don't bother trying to discourage me. Unless it's through another redtext avatar, I'd like one of those again.)

(Also, unlike some bronies I'd rather not talk about, I have precisely zero interest in loving horses.)</sub>

FrozenVent posted:

Why. Why would you type that post and hit submit? Why would you unironically use "horseword"? What went wrong during your childhood?

FrozenVent posted:

Why. Why would you type that post and hit submit? Why would you unironically use "horseword"? What went wrong during your childhood?

JosephWongKS posted:

SirPhoebos posted:

Not to white-knight (seriously, I'd hate to know what ungulateman looks like in person), but at least he's up front about his issues and knows that he's the weirdo. If brightly colored cartoon horses bring joy to his life, more power to him. He doesn't act like it's our problem for not 'getting' his niche, and as been pointed out before, goons are barely better than tropers when it comes to

BKPR posted:

I read it as "horseworlds" and started working on a bitchin DnD campaign.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Either there are a lot of brony ungulatemans out there or our ungulateman uses the same name on fimfiction and fanfiction.net as here.

Fimfiction won't show me his 31 favorites for some reason (it might require an account?), but fanfiction is happy to oblige. One of them is some sort of time loop story that is over a million words long. I hope TvTropes can tell me more about it!



I'm sure it's really well-written though, every single one of its 1,117,298 words was masterfully crafted, and

e: It's part of a fanfic multiverse of time-loop stories spanning all of the most important genres: Ranma 1/2, Pokemon, Spyro the Dragon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Doctor Who...

Shadeoses posted:

TvTropes is bad, is what I'm getting from all this.

BlueDude posted:

Amen. Now can we please get back on track?

For starters, let's play a little game: without clicking on the link, can somebody tell me what the trope "Voodoo Shark" refers to?

BlueDude posted:

Amen. Now can we please get back on track?

For starters, let's play a little game: without clicking on the link, can somebody tell me what the trope "Voodoo Shark" refers to?