The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is a now-famous tradition from ancient times that has been a huge part of Mexican Culture through the centuries. Like so many things in Mexico, it's influenced strongly by certain aspects of the Aztec people.
It has shaped the way those of us with that heritage look at life and death in many ways, and most importantly on the remembrance of, and honoring the deceased. We traditionally decorate little altars dedicated to the memories of those that passed away… but it's not a somber occasion.
Jinglemas is the annual tradition on Fimfiction to exchange stories around the holidays with users on the site. This single event allows all Fimfiction users to come together and celebrate the reason for the season. Ponies!
Enroll in this Secret-Santa-style gift exchange to request a holiday themed story, to be written secretly by another participant during the month of December. And in turn, you will be tasked with writing someone else's request. Then all the stories will be exchanged at Christmas! Simplicity itself! Thanks to the hard work of the Breezies, everyone will be ensured to get their gift!
You only have until November 24th to Sign up!
Hello everyone, this is a PSA (Public Service Announcement, for those of ESL) to put to rest consistent questions about using AI to 'write' stories and publish them here. This is not intended as a poll or a request for feedback. It is exclusively a clarification on an already-existing rule.
People ask: "Can I, oh great and powerful D, post a story or chapter that I got ChatGPT to write for me?!"
And the answer, my friend, is... No.
Absolutely not. Not in a thousand years!
Because you didn't write it.
It is not your creation. You are NOT the author. In fact, you are the opposite.
There seems to be some confusion when interpreting the following rule:
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Jinglemas is the annual tradition on Fimfiction to exchange stories around the holidays with users on the site. This single event allows all Fimfiction users to come together and celebrate the reason for the season. Ponies!
Enroll in this Secret-Santa-style gift exchange to request a holiday themed story, to be written secretly by another participant during the month of December. And in turn, you will be tasked with writing someone else's request. Then all the stories will be exchanged at Christmas! Simplicity itself! Thanks to the hard work of the Breezies, everyone will be ensured to get their gift!
Have you ever found yourself in a situation like this?
And then you magically find yourself in a suspiciously familiar site, except that you're not logged in, and it requires you to do so?
Well. Don't log in. This is a scam, and a cheap one at that.
There've been recent attempts to obtain Fimfiction users’ personal data, like passwords and/or emails through links like the one I'm making fun of above. And a distressing amount of people don't seem to know what phishing attempts are.
If you HAVE entered a site like this and put in your data, make sure to follow these basic steps at least.
As should be obvious from 15 months without a feature, life has taken the Royal Canterlot Library curators in different directions. While there’s still plenty of awesome stories being written in the My Little Pony fandom, we’re no longer actively working to spotlight them, and it’s time to officially draw the project to a close.
Thank you for all of your support, suggestions, and comments over the years. We’re grateful to have been able to share seven years of exemplary stories with you, and give more insight into the minds behind them. In the spirit of the project, please keep reading and recommending fantastic fics to friends—the community is enriched when we all share what we love.
Jinglemas had 114 stories written and exchanged this year!
You can read them all here, in the Jinglemas 2021 folder!
Jhoira wrote The Hearths Warming Eve Guest for EngageBook
GaPJaxie wrote Twilight and Spike Hide a Body for Telly Vision
SnowOriole wrote The Armor Hypothesis for BaeroRemedy
snappleu wrote Words Said So Often That They Lack Any Meaning for Trick Question
NeirdaE wrote Starlight and Trixie Direct a Play for Moosetasm
Ninjadeadbeard wrote Garland Graveyard Shift for NeirdaE
Roundabout Recluse wrote Apples to Apples for Ninjadeadbeard
MistyShadowz wrote The Times We Shared for NaiadSagaIotaOar
Petrichord wrote A Gentle Nudge for Angel Midnight
Jade Ring wrote Past, Future, and Present for Frazzle2Dazzle
Jake The Army Guy wrote The Big Talk for Dreadnought
The Red Parade wrote Heart Strings for Franso
Greatazuredragon wrote A Hearth’s Warming Question for GaPJaxie
Okay guys here's something fun presented by Nitro Indigo.
Presented by me, I guess, but I digress.
Swapped Roles Contest
Last year, I (Nitro Indigo) noticed that there was a surprising lack of roleswap fanfics on this site. To fix that, I decided to run a roleswap contest over the summer themed around secrets. While it didn’t get many entries, it nevertheless attracted the attention of some big authors and was the origin of two of my favourite fics. Overall, I think it was a success, so I’ve decided to run another one!
Hope everyone is enjoying the new year.
Some small changes have been made to our rules as well as to the reporting process.
"No attacks directed at individuals or groups due to race, gender, gender identity, religion or sexual identity."
This better clarifies our previously ill-defined hate speech rule and includes groups as well as individual attacks.
"No celebration, glorification or encouragement of real life criminal activity."
This includes past, present and potential future crimes.
There's truly no time like the holidays. What's better than copious amounts of food, quality time with family and friends, hearing the sweet sound of Trans-Siberian Orchestra on repeat, and unmanagble financial stress from our capitalist overlords?
Gift exchanges of course!
Hey guys,
Held off a bit on posting this as a site post because I didn't want it to get flooded while we were fixing things, but I think the site is now in a fairly good place so I can post this. We now have an issue tracker on Github that you can submit issues to.
You will have to register on Github to post issues.
Please read the frontpage before adding issues.
Many thanks!
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Sure hope people don't abuse this though.
Squee
I've been hoping for this for a while :D
Ohh, I was hoping the source would be there too so we could help with solving the issues as well
Still this is a good step in the right direction.
Derpy for best computer technician.
Derpy IT maintenance, there's your problem!
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The tracker hasn't given me any problems so far... odd, if something is wrong I'm normally the first to find it out.
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https://www.google.ca/search?q=Derpy+++computer+technician.&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIq8npqbPUAhXGy4MKHVxqB2AQ_AUIBigB&biw=1135&bih=618#imgrc=iKTN57lsJGrZRM:
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...and this is why Twilight fireproofed Ponyville Post office.🚒
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= 👸🔥🛑
The question is, do I reveal my real name to submit issues, or do I create a second github account and have to switch between them all the time? Hmmm…
The new mobile (tablet) layout doesn't show what groups a story is in.
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More to the point, don't forget to pay for one of them, too. (Or ignore the terms of service and hope there's no crackdowns, I guess.)
(More seriously: GitHub becoming The Easy Known Place to set up issue trackers for a lot of people isn't the worst thing in the world, but. Yeah. It can be fraught around the edges. Still, I bet it's a lot easier for the operators to manage than a hodgepodge of PMs.)
I don't know if this is an issue on my end or the site's end, so I'll just mention it here. I like to read on my tablet at work, and used to be able to easily read through dozens of chapters without issue. After this recent change though it's started eating up my mobile data like I'm streaming netflix. I read a handful of chapters yesterday and it's already used 10% of my monthly allowance.
Could be my tablet's buggy, or could be strange new code. Just thought I'd mention it.
There are technical derpyculties and we just don't know what went wrong lol
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Hmm, that's true.
Hopefully this helps. On another note, was the g-doc importer taken out with the new site update? Cause I can’t find it anywhere.
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You can just copy/paste into the bbcode editor now from anywhere and it'll (try to) keep formatting.
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Alright. It’ll take a lot of editing, but I think I can manage that. The Importer was a handy tool before and I’m sad to see it gone though
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But the point is pasting into the editor now does the same thing the importer did.
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Yeah, but when I originally did it, the importer I was using already made changes such as bold and italicized text, hr lines, text size and so on. Now to do the process manually... don’t get me wrong, I’m fine with doing it... It’s just something new I need to get adjusted too
Good for doing this extra bit to help out with any issues. :)
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No you're not listening. Pasting into the bbcode editor will keep that formatting
Thanks for listening to my request, knighty. My friend greatly appreciates this feature.
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Oh! Now that makes sense... Stupid me
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Hold on ladies and gentlemen, this is going to get rough.
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I've been having a similar issue, not with bandwidth, but with power. The site seems to have turned into a power virus. It won't scroll properly on my iPhone 6 or my tablet, is frequently force-reloaded because of "a problem" and depletes the battery like crazy.
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I've been having an odd problem recently where no links (to the next chapter or the main story) work when I'm in a chapter. I've had to F5 to get any response and when the reload happens I'm now on the page I wanted to be.
Win10 64 Firefox
4566937 I've been experiencing this problem on both tablet and phone, and I'm pretty sure it's due to the advertisements, which often seem to be autoplay videos (like the WeWork video I found playing on this page on my PC browser) and other bandwidth/process hogs. I can barely use the site anymore on Android devices, wherever ads are inserted. I don't experience this issue to this degree on other sites.
still don't like the blue and the site still looks odd on my Ipad.
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I don't want to Adblock fimfic, but I may have to.
It seems that the site has become a battery gluten since this update launched
4567031 I honestly don't like the thought of it, because running a popular site like this costs money, and Knighty is obviously busting his ass to make this work for everyone, and he needs to be paid for it so we all continue to benefit from his hard work (and don't drive him crazy in the process).
But I also despise intrusive, bandwidth- and process cycle-hogging advertisements. My already-over-bloated Samsung devices don't seem to be able to handle the over-active ads, here. It's a tough call for both sides, no doubt...
Poor derpy
I'll say that I'm not a huge fan of the blue theme either as it makes me think of Facebook, but I can live with it. Does anybody know if there's an option to view 'classic site' if you visit with a mobile device? I didn't see one, but I might have missed it. Would rather see my whole userpage than just a digest of my blog entries.
This is just a suggestion but...consider perhaps adding a tiny 3-6 point lead between paragraphs no matter what reading format is used? I realize that's not a standard in literature - some books do it, some books don't. As it is however, choosing 'indented' without choosing 'double-spaced' results, at least to me, in word-soup. It also seems that the system doesn't indent the first paragraph of a new scene, whether you choose 'indented' or not. I haven't been keeping up with the changes so I don't know if any of the above was mentioned or thought about, or if anybody else is concerned about it. Just thought I would offer an opinion on it.
I will say that I love the new formatting options for text and background color. Bright colors are hard on the eyes, especially with a backlit screen, so adding those options really extended my viewing time
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Good luck trying to adblock it, ever since 4.0 hit I'm seeing a lot of ads that adblock won't catch. It's getting irritating as hell - especially since a couple of them managed to give me popups just by existing.
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ublock Origin.
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There was an update that introduced "non-intrusive ads" and is by default turned on. Might want to check that.
Please fix the table version. When I go on to my profile all I get is is my bio and comments left by other writers. Can you please bring back all what you can get if you go on a laptop and look at your profile please!
I know you work hard, Knighty. And I thank you for that. I also believe that updating the site is a good thing.
However, getting rid of the character pictures in the tags was, in my opinion, an unquestionably bad decision. It made checking out stories at a glance much easier and gave the website a unique flair. Especially with the character tag update back in January. I had been looking forward to that for quite some time, only to see it get taken away a little less than five months later. Now, all we get is dull, unimaginative lines of text.
I can only hope that you'll consider bringing the feature back in some form or another.
Gonna put this here since I'm on mobile atm:
CERTAIN LINE BREAKS IN STORIES ARE LAYERED ABOVE THE CHAPTER PROGRESS BAR ON MOBILE.
It's one of the hard coded ones (has flowers in the center and is really quite ugly IMO) and the central bit is somehow not on the same layer as text. AFAIK it's only on mobile, and might only be on Android. It actually goes into the blackspace where the progress bar scrolls across and will layer over the red nub on it.
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Does your web browser have a "Request desktop view" option, or something to that effect?
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Thanks that worked
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I turned that off immediately, and last I checked popup ads are pretty damn intrusive.
I see the problem, that's not a metric wrench Derpy! What kind of silly ponies don't use the metric system?
My TF2 knowledge say that Derpy should already have that computer fixed...
Anyways, thanks for adding an issue tracker!
4567394 This is exactly what I've been asking about every day now, and I still haven't seen any word on the matter. Initially, my biggest concern was that a lot of new stories were suddenly lacking any character tags at all, but based on recent comments and how I see that's no longer happening, I'm guessing that particular issue was a technical one that has only recently been fixed.
Even so, I still insist on some kind of answer on bringing back the icons for character tags. Even a basic, "We're working on it, please be patient," response would be enough to satisfy me. The fact that I've seen no response at all on the matter is really starting to frustrate me at this point.
And no, I personally will not be using this tracker, as I'd rather not sign up for something that I would very likely never use again after only a day or two.
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I was more hoping for a 'classic site' link actually on the page itself, as places like ebay do. I'm not sure if the browser I'm using on my mobile device has a desktop setting, but I'd rather not go about it that way, as it will then change every page I view to desktop, including the ones I would rather see mobile.
I'm not upset about it per se, but I did prefer the way it was set up before, where clicking on my user profile on a mobile device would show all of my stories and profile information. Not just blog entries.
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Ah, that would seem to be a fairly decent idea.
Well, I use Google Chrome on my phone, but the "request desktop view" option seems like it only works for the tab it was opened with. Whenever I open a new tab (or multiple ones pretty much every time I go through my feed), that option automatically reverts to the mobile setting on the new tab(s), while the desktop view tab(s) seem to remain in desktop view, so I'm able to switch back and forth between the two if I wanted. I don't know if the same would hold true for other browsers, though...
What do you mean by "just blog entries"?
From the mobile view, I can see your short bio and the comments on your userpage, and I can also see links to your story list, blog list, and your follows, plus a drop-down menu that includes the previous as well as your public library.
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....oooookay that must have changed. I'm seeing all that now too. I swear the last few times I looked at it, I was only seeing my blog entries, as though it were a digest from a blogspot site or something. I think I'd still prefer more profile elements than just a massive section of comments, but this is much better and I can live with it
When pasting text that contains BB code into any text box on FimFic, the BB code is broken if it contains any URLs.
This is a link to a header template I use for my stories every time I change PoV characters (can be up to 6 times in a chapter. i use this A LOT). Notice how it's formatted in the paste bin text. This is proper BB code.
Here is what it looks like pasted to this site.
[img][url=[url=http://orig04.deviantart.net/66b6/f/2017/087/8/1/ark_age_thumbnail_by_meepthechangeling-db3wdd5.png[/img]]http://orig04.deviantart.net/66b6/f/2017/087/8/1/ark_age_thumbnail_by_meepthechangeling-db3wdd5.pnghttp://orig04.deviantart.net/66b6/f/2017/087/8/1/ark_age_thumbnail_by_meepthechangeling-db3wdd5.png[i]Court Station 38 - Corporate Republic
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Please fix this... It makes pasting my stories in from Gdocs a pain in the butt, and the importer tool is total junk. It will drop paragraphs at random, ad in extra random line breaks... It's a non-option.
Please don't also leave simple copy paste functionality broken. At least not in the story editor field itself.