Just like last year, 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.

Hmm. April 24th was my fourth anniversary of my first time pub'ing fimfic to this site.

'Really makes a person think.'

Judging a story contest can be really hard! Especially when we consider that different stories are good in different ways, in an 'apples vs. oranges' kind of problem.

Even so, results are finally available!

To read the results, you need to be logged in to your fimfiction.net account, and use the password:
portal

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Someone made this reasonable request in the official fimfiction.net discord server, #site-help-and-dev channel.

In related note, please like or dislike comments as apropriate below.

...even though the majority of chess stories I see in this world are NOT really my bag.

As I commented on gapty's latest chess story:

I love how this story is both about chess AND about life, and the protagonist's realizations about how to live it. She makes meaningful progress in personal growth during a chess game against Twilight Sparkle.

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A fimfic user recently put out a call for experimental fics (using the term BROADLY.) They even said

Self promotions encouraged!

But what do people think an experimental fic is, anyway? What does that mean to them?

Most of my stories are experiments in how people might react to them...but that isn't really the stereotype that people apply that ~word~ phrase 'experimental fiction' to.

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FULL CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT AND RULES HERE: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/217156/portal-transformations/thread/529551/portal-transformations-contest-announcement-and-rules

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There's a long tradition of quips along the lines of
"Some people don't want to write, but want to have written, and to call themselves 'writers.'"

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/10/18/on-writing/

"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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TRequiem for a Friend

• MLP: FiM
• Sad
• Slice of Life

Octavia Melody struggles after Vinyl Scratch's untimely death.

• Death
• DJ P0N-3
• Octavia

Math Spook · 13k words  ·  31  2 · 300 views

imho, this story does some lovely things with music, friendship, realizations, and personal growth.