#mlp fim fic

[mushroompone]

Hello! I really love your writing and with all the hype going with the mlp infection/zombie I was wondering how do you approach writing horror/gore? I mostly like to write slice of life, romantic, fluffy stories, so whenever I try to write something darker, a zombie apocalypse for example, the violence feels juvenile and the horror falls flat. Your stuff is absolutely terrifying and amazing, so I'm just sitting here wondering how?? I know that's a broad question, but I would appreciate a peek into your thought process for writing horror. Thank you and have a good day!!

Oh my gosh you're so kind!! First off, thank you! I have really enjoyed writing horror for this community for many years now, and it's been sorry cool to see this massive interest during of of nowhere for MLP horror content!

Second, definitely a broad question, but I can offer some broad tips in response:

(1) Work with what scares you. Horror actually comes naturally to most of us, you just have to be willing to explore some of the darker corners of yourself. Consume horror as much as possible and try not to shy away from what scares you. Most importantly, though, understand why you find it scary. This leads to step 2...

(2) Drill down to the core fear. There's a lot of creatures and things that pop up in horror again and again: ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and certainly zombies. But to work with these effectively we have to understand why they scare us. The answer is different for everyone! Let's take zombies as an example: for me, zombies are scary because they are infectious. I find plagues and diseases to be really really scary, even pre-covid lol. For others, it's more about loss of control - becoming a zombie means becoming an animal, or something else inhuman. Dig until you find the why. Then...

(3) Give someone the worst day possible. Picking your protagonist is critical. The monster has to be difficult for them to face! So think about what will play well off your core fear. If you've found zombies as your monster and distilled that to loss of control .. well, Luna would be a great choice! She's all about loss of control. That's super scary and very real for her. If you're going in more of an infectious disease direction, Twilight would make more sense - she would make a very believable germaphobe, yet still be driven to help those around her and find a cure. If you do it right, all you have to do is...

(4) Sit back and let it happen. It helps to have a destination in mind (even if it's as simple as "happy ending" or "real downer"), but if you've set yourself up this way you've got a concept and you're ready to let it rip. Start writing. Be gross. Scare yourself. Look over your shoulder and wonder who might be watching you. If you get stuck, ask yourself this: how could this possibly get any worse? Then do that. With pizzazz.

The details of writing prose that is gooey, gory, and chilling come from reading. You'll start to get a feel for where to linger, where to hold back, where to describe, and what to leave up to your reader's imagination. The hardest part is the balancing act - keep some things obscured. Leave some mystery while making it clear what is scary and why. However, once your audience knows the precise size and shape of what they're dealing with, it becomes a lot less scary! My rule of thumb is that I never want my audience to be able to plan a way around the danger. They should never be able to devise their own means of escape - something should always be left uncertain or shrouded in darkness.

I hope this helps!! If you'd ever like someone to look at what you're working on, I love beta-reading pony horror :) actually, come to think of it, I love beta-reading all horror!

Again, thank you! Your an earned my heart ❤️ I love hearing that my sacred are still scaring!

[dapper-lil-arts]

You should read The Princess and the Peasant it's really good lol

[ms-tv-art]

Currently reading @zoeyhorse s Twilight x Trixie fic "Twilights New Moon" and this line made me laugh so hard I had to pause for about ten minutes and compose myself

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Everypony enjoys myths and ponytales, even if they know such things aren't real. Alicorns fighting against a spirit of chaos? An ancient princess trapped in a library under a tree, waiting to be found? Quite enchanting and fantastic tales yes, but nonetheless as fictional as Daring Do and other such stories. At least, that's what Rarity used to think. She doesn't anymore.

Author: @rarilight

Submitter: @Unitybringer

Note from submitter: Heck yeah.

[mushroompone]

Real talk for one sec

If you're active in the MLP community and you're looking for fic / wanting to get into fic writing, I am on my knees BEGGING for you to make a fimfiction account. It's been the hub for MLP fic since 2011 and it's been dying a slow weird death. Like any other site, it takes some curating, but there's a lot of amazing, wonderful people on there and some truly incredible sub-communities that are well worth joining.

If anyone following me is curious about the site, please feel free to ask! I've been a member since 2013 and I know the ins and outs. I'm more than happy to help some new blood get involved!!

[dapper-lil-arts]

It's finaly ready to begin-- My biggest fic yet, Across the Shimmerverse! Drawing this poster took more time than it took to write 5 chapters lmao. And I actually got some friends to help out with it too! @frogkimmy My gf drew three, Magician Shimmer (Near top left!) Fluttershy druid (right next to her) and Pirate Shimmer (top right) @zoeyhorse drew Starlight glimmer (Top left)

@yaspup9000 drew plenty, Princess Moondancer (Bottom left) Starswirl (top) and Alicorn of Chaos and joy Pinkie Pie (bottom right) And even Zecora (Center) @prrplefungi drew nightmare moon, (top right gorgeous!) LunaSnow drew Vampire Queen Rarity (left) And Sunset and Tempest (top right) And the rest, comically, was all me, lmao. Here's some zoom ins under the cut!

Click for better quality! There you go! This poster was waaaaaayy too big. But hey, it looks nice.

[ashleyfableblack]

"Okay… what about this one?" Queen Twilight tapped a hoof on the page. With a soft glow of her horn she drew out the complex symbol in the air as she sounded it out. "Vah… Lahk. Varahk? Varrac!"

Chrysalis smiled. "Perhaps…" She sleepily craned her neck to study her most recent clutch of eggs. A sticky green resin held the precious charges in place, dangling from a nearby rocky overhang. As the wind funneled through the natural arch, they gently swung, rocked as a baby in a crib.

With a puff of her cheeks she blew a gust of glittering pinkish light in their direction. The love energy swirled around the eggs like an octopus ink, clouding the air in a warm soupy fog before it was absorbed into the tiny grey orbs. The as-yet-unborn gobbling up the nourishment from their mother. Chrysalis gave a sleepy yawn and began to slowly drift to laying on her side,. She wondered if they, too would have violet eyes like their little lavender pony other-mother.

"Chryssi?" Twilight gave her wife a gentle prodding with her wingtip. "Honeybug?"

"MRZussaffm…" Chrysalis's eyes struggled open.

Twilight gave an pleading grin at the pitifully adorable sight of the little larvae nuzzled around her bughorse bride as they tucked into the translucent tresses of her cobweb-mane. "Chryssi…?"

Chrysalis chittered to one of the larvae and gave her an affectionate nip, removing a flake of molting chitin. "I'm sorry, beloved. I'm just-" she yawned again . "You know your pony naming conventions are so unnecessary to our changelings. They're hatched knowing their designations through the hive-mind."

Twilight pouted with a pleading smile as she leafed through the pages of the incredibly ancient book. "I know it's a point of cultural confusion between our races, beetlebum. That's why I'm trying to incorporate more of your culture and try some names more familiar to your people and your people's history- while at the same time educating myself on the Ancient Equish language and history." She held the book aloft in her magic with a prideful flourish, still carefully keeping her place in its pages. "THUS, we are using one of your old journals from the pre-Sucrosian Period!"

Chrysalis sighed and gave a playful roll of her eyes in surrender. She had to chuckle. When Twilight was like this, she truly couldn't deny her little wife anything. She watched with interest as Twilight opened her old journal. Two of their larvae quickly skittered from the navy waves of her wife's mane to climb on the millenia-old manuscript. Excited to help their ponymother, they chittered happily, holding the page in place with their forelimbs.

"So…. Varrac?" Twilight asked with a bright, curious smile.

"Well, she was good with snakes."

Twilight looked from the ancient book to one of the tiny changeling larvae cuddled into her crest of alicorn chest-fluff. "Are you a 'Varrac'? Are you going to be good with snakes?"

The tiny face lit up like a Hearthswarming bonfire at her ponymother's excited smile. She hissed out her tiny forked tongue and wiggled her little caterpillar-like rump of a tail segment. Twilight fawned with motherly pride and nosed at the tiny changeling babe. "I'll bet you will be. Of course you will. You look just like a Varrac."

Chrysalis adored moments like these, lazy afternoons together with her wife, watching her excitement and pride as she learned new things. Pouring over old volumes of any sort, Twilight came to life in a whole other way. Knowledge was her passion.

"Let's see here… What about… This one, V….Vaaa….Varghan?"

Chrysalis peered over the tome. "Vabam. As I recall she …was good with secrets…. good at telling them anyways."

Twilight crinkled her nose at that thought. Looking to one of the larvae she shook her head. "That doesn't sound like you, does it?" The tiny changeling babe tilted her head. returning her ponymother's smile and shake of the head. "No. You're not a Vabam. That's an honest little face if I've ever seen one. Hmmmm…."

She continued pouring over the swirling, magical symbols. With Chrysalis tutelage she was learning the art of reading them but still, the practice was FAR more complicated than any language she'd ever encountered. Deciphering the symbols was as much mental wrestling as it was arcane finesse, even compared to the darkest and most ancient of pony magics. "Okay, what about… Sssssurgat? No. I remember you said something once about that one. She liked to pick locks or…. Oo! Suluth! What about that one, Chryssi?"

After a few moments of silence Twilight looked up from the page. "Chrysalis?"

She chuckled. Chrysalis had dozed off. Their tiny charges, nestled secure in the tucked chitinous hooves of their armored queen-mother, mirrored her gentle snoring.

"Oh well." Twilight sighed. With a curling of the enchanted waves of her mane she drew the larvae gathered around her into her crest of chest floof. "I guess that can be enough for today."

The alicorn queen softly shut the tome. With a mother's love, she gently carried her little buggy babes with her as she sidled over to the slumbering bughorse. After a few moments of ooching she eventually found her way into the creche of her wife's limbs and In the enchanted air of sweet summer breeze the royal family drifted off together.

[dapper-lil-arts]

Made a new fic cover for The Princess and the Peasant! heheh my favorite. A fun retelling of the shrek story but with rarijack instead.

[mushroompone]

On a chilly morning in early October, Ocellus came to class without a head.

What with all the MLP horror talk flying around, I figured now was a good time to re-share my big horror story from Halloween 2022. It's called The Head and it's a little bit of speculative horror about changeling biology and where we draw the line between life and death. I hope you check it out!!

The cover art (above) was beautifully done by @poggerspie :]

[rainyzzel]

swimming with them ponies (applejack is fine👹 she diving)

[dapper-lil-arts]

It's never too late to love, it's never too late to live.

[mylittlestims]

Okay, choose any of these cause I cannot choose myself

CandyMare Stimboard with candy and spooky stuff

Cupcakes Stimboard with baking gifs

Or a Stimboard about a Grim dark YOU really like!!!

Idc just have fun! I looove Mlp grim darks it’s what motivated me to start the show

— @mountaindook

Candymare | Something Sweet To Bite Pinkie Stimboard with candy & spooky stuff for @mountaindook

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[octodrawn]

Minka and Applejack... in love...

Oh wait since I came up with this I probably get to come up with a ship name, right? I dub thee MinkaJack

I have my reasons (which you can read below)

So basically one day i was thinking about my mlp magical girl au and then i was like yeah it'd be fun if it took place in the same universe as my human lps au. Then i thought hey maybe one of the 7 pets could be like a villain of the week or need to be rescued and somehow these two were the first two that popped into my head. So in this AU of my AUs they have a Clark Kent/Superman and Lois Lane type relationship going on where AJ and Minka have this mutual awkward crush thing in civilian mode. AJ has a dog and Minka works at a pet store so they keep running into each other. Minka keeps on getting into danger so magical girl AJ saves her. So the element of honesty has to keep up a lie to maintain her secret identity.

Their main dynamic is that Minka does her usual yapping (abliet more flustered than usual) and AJ is mostly quiet but is very interested in what she has to say. Sometimes AJ flirts with Minka and Minka gets so flustered she loses the ability to talk (fig. 2).

Also both of their friend groups like to bother them about their girlfriends because neither of them ever talk about people they like. I feel like Zoe and Rainbow Dash would be the most obnoxious about it.

guyssss i like them a lot

[starswirl-the-not-yet-bearded]

"Thank you again for seeing me on such short notice, Miss Fluttershy."

The pegasus across from Starswirl hummed in acknowledgment and shifted her teacup in her hoof, watching the liquid spin around. His eyes kept darting around- From the teacup, to her face, to anywhere but her face. Anxiety bubbled in his chest. By comparison, Fluttershy seemed so... Calm. She was very practiced in the act of keeping a calm head, something her age had granted her. It only make Starswirl more nervous.

"This is about Celestia, I assume?"

Her voice broke Starswirl from his racing thoughts, and he nodded, buying himself a few seconds to get the words in his mind in order as well.

"Well- Yes- She told me you were going to take her to Twilight's School. The next time you were called into a meeting."

"That's true."

"Why?"

He wanted to shoot. What possible reason could she have for putting his daughter in that amount of danger?

"Why not?"

Starswirl felt like he was about to faint.

"Why not-?! It's dangerous- We don't know what Twilight with think if she finds out about her- She'd barely learned that glamour spell- Who knows how long she can keep it up? What if trying maintain it and working on her classes make her crash or-"

"Starswirl." Fluttershy's voice was a calm against his own, making him freeze in his tracks. "Do you trust her?"

"What?"

"Celestia. Do you trust her?"

"Of course I do- She's my daughter-"

"Then... You need to trust that she can handle this. Her magic is going to keep growing. It'll be incredibly helpful for her to have a mentor as experienced as Twilight when her power inevitably surpasses your own, but her skill has not. She knows what she's doing."

"But-"

"But you are a father. And you'll worry. Of course you will. Just... Let her met Twilight, for now. Maybe a smaller session. Let her leave the nest. She'll come back when she's ready."

"...You're really sure this is the best thing for her?"

"I am."

"... Alright."