So, I’ve been hitting the ponyfic pretty hard lately. Here’s the pick of the bunch.
Note: I’m assuming no-one here needs to be told about either the Optimalverse or Mortal.
Contraptionology!: Complete, Dark comedy. Everyone in Ponyville simultaneously becomes a mad scientist and steampunk apocalypse is initiated. Somehow manages to be deeply moving given this premise. Has the best Applejack. Read the prequel “Infernal Machines” first (in appendix C of the main fic).
Whom The Princesses Would Destroy… Complete, Comedy. Bickering and politics in the Equestrian Civil Service. Tastes like early Pratchett; has footnotes. No real Mane6 presence.
Naked Singularity Comedy. Twilight attempts to write a sensual romance novel. This goes about as well as one would expect. Edit to add: Warning, cringe comedy.
I Forgot I Was There Incomplete, Dark. Twilight accidentally creates a duplicate of herself. And then they both slowly go mad. Warning: Incomplete and stops in a sad place.
Parting Words, complete, and The Great Alicorn Hunt, incomplete. Munchkining and anti-deathism; not very good, narratively (not clear where the author’s going to get any real conflict, and it’s ranty) but the themes are unusual enough in FiM fic to point out.
Melt Complete, WAFF. Celestia looks after filly!Twilight, who has caught the most overcomplicated form of flu possible. Much d’aww.
Twice as Bright Complete, Romance, Pinkie Pie/Celestia. Yes, Celestia and Pinkie Pie can be successfully shipped. No, I didn’t believe it was possible either.
The Games We Play Complete, Romance, Rainbow Dash/Mare-Do-Well. One of Rainbow’s friends is stalking her. Set after S2E08.
Twilight Discovers Literary Analysis Complete. Twilight loses her perception of free will. Very meta; almost 500 milliNewsomes of meta. Warning: the author thinks it’s a comedy, but I found especially the third part to be viscerally horrifying. Edit to add: On reflection, I’m upping my warning on this. Leaving it here because it is still very good and my reaction seems atypical based on the reader comments.
MLP Loops Incomplete/Anachronic/Multiple Authors. The ultimate expression of the Peggy Sue lifestyle. Probably bad Fun Theory. Makes my model of Eliezer flee screaming into the night. Still kinda want it.
So, I’ve been hitting the ponyfic pretty hard lately. Here’s the pick of the bunch.
Note: I’m assuming no-one here needs to be told about either the Optimalverse or Mortal.
Contraptionology!: Complete, Dark comedy. Everyone in Ponyville simultaneously becomes a mad scientist and steampunk apocalypse is initiated. Somehow manages to be deeply moving given this premise. Has the best Applejack. Read the prequel “Infernal Machines” first (in appendix C of the main fic).
Whom The Princesses Would Destroy… Complete, Comedy. Bickering and politics in the Equestrian Civil Service. Tastes like early Pratchett; has footnotes. No real Mane6 presence.
Naked Singularity Comedy. Twilight attempts to write a sensual romance novel. This goes about as well as one would expect.
Edit to add: Warning, cringe comedy.
I Forgot I Was There Incomplete, Dark. Twilight accidentally creates a duplicate of herself. And then they both slowly go mad. Warning: Incomplete and stops in a sad place.
Parting Words, complete, and The Great Alicorn Hunt, incomplete. Munchkining and anti-deathism; not very good, narratively (not clear where the author’s going to get any real conflict, and it’s ranty) but the themes are unusual enough in FiM fic to point out.
Melt Complete, WAFF. Celestia looks after filly!Twilight, who has caught the most overcomplicated form of flu possible. Much d’aww.
Twice as Bright Complete, Romance, Pinkie Pie/Celestia. Yes, Celestia and Pinkie Pie can be successfully shipped. No, I didn’t believe it was possible either.
The Games We Play Complete, Romance, Rainbow Dash/Mare-Do-Well. One of Rainbow’s friends is stalking her. Set after S2E08.
Twilight Discovers Literary Analysis Complete. Twilight loses her perception of free will. Very meta; almost 500 milliNewsomes of meta. Warning: the author thinks it’s a comedy, but I found especially the third part to be viscerally horrifying.
Edit to add: On reflection, I’m upping my warning on this. Leaving it here because it is still very good and my reaction seems atypical based on the reader comments.
MLP Loops Incomplete/Anachronic/Multiple Authors. The ultimate expression of the Peggy Sue lifestyle. Probably bad Fun Theory. Makes my model of Eliezer flee screaming into the night. Still kinda want it.
Oh, this one. So much cringing. This is perfect if you enjoy the “so awkward it hurts” genre of comedy, but will be painful if you don’t.