Right, sooo... story updates! A bit delayed this time around. Have a few.
As always, send broken stuff to [email protected], though so far I've only received a number fix. Yay~
Story: Blazing Glory (Update Part 18!)
4 Star
Author: The Lord Of Dust
Description: Foreign missionary ponies: an old preacher, a scarred Pegasus, a cocky Earth pony, and a cybernetic mare come to Equestria. Threatened, Celestia is taken over by her inner demons. The land is plummeted into a chaos. Can these ponies bring the light back into this darkened nightmare?
Blazing Glory
Labels: Adventure, Author: The Lord of Dust, Celestia, Everypony, Grimdark, Incomplete, Luna, Lyra, OC Ponies, Sci-Fi, Spike, Star-4, Story, The Great and Powerful TRIXIE
Story: The Monster Mash (Update Chapter 3!)
5 Star
[Sad][Comedy][Crossover][Random]
Author: Fred M. Sloniker
Description: Six ponies. Six encounters with the supernatural.
Each of the chapters of this fic is an independent story featuring one of the Mane Six having an encounter with the supernatural. They are presented as one story because of their common theme. The stories written so far are:
Fluttershy: The Curse of the Night When Angel falls sick, Fluttershy ventures into the Everfree Forest at night to find a remedy. Though she faces danger, she escapes... but not unchanged.
Rarity: Blood and Water You know the story. Rarity gets seduced by a creature of the night, and her friends don't realize what's happening until it's too late. They find the vampire who turned her and destroy him. But then what happens?
Rainbow Dash: The Big Battle Discord's defeat didn't erase every trace of his influence on Equestria. Fortunately, hard-working ponies are already gathering the remnants of his power into Manehattan for easy disposal. What could possibly go wrong?The Monster Mash
Labels: Author: Fred M. Sloniker, Celestia, comedy, Everypony, Incomplete, Luna, OC Ponies, Sad, Spike, Star-Needed, Story
Story: Heavenly Turmoil (Update Part 3!)
5 Star
[Grimdark]
Author: TheManWithTwoNames
Description: Princess Celestia struggles to distinguish reality from illusion as Discord begins to seep into her brain. But... isn't Discord still imprisoned in stone?Heavenly Turmoil
Labels: Author: TheManWithTwoNames, Celestia, Discord, Incomplete, Luna, Star-Needed, Story, Twilight Sparkle
Story: Sunset (Update Story 2 Chapter 8!)
5 Star
Author: Ciroton
Description: Some things in this world happen by chance. Others do not. Twilight Sparkle is about to learn a disturbing truth that will turn her world upside down.Sunset
Labels: Author: Ciroton, Celestia, Complete, Everypony, Grimdark, Luna, Sad, Star-5, Story, Twilight Sparkle
Story: A Broken Bond (Update Part 6!)
5 Star
Author: Rated-R PonyStar
Description: Apple Bloom wants to try out Scootaloo's scooter, but Scootaloo refuses without giving a reason. Apple Bloom decides to try it out in secret, but an accident happens that breaks not only the scooter, but also a friendship as Apple Bloom learns the truth about the scooter and resolves to make it right.A Broken Bond
Labels: Applejack, Author: Rated-R PonyStar, Big Mac, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Incomplete, Normal, OC Ponies, Sad, Star-5, Story
Story: Elements of Discord (Updated Chapter 11!)
5 Star
[Normal] This idea has been floating around for a while now. It was inevitable that we would get a story about it.
Author: Midnight Shadow
Description: A strange storm leaves destruction in it's wake, stirring up an ancient evil best left in the dark. The six ponies bearing the elements of harmony may just have met their match as evil, twisted versions of them appear in town causing havoc and mischief. There are rumours of Nightmare Moon's return, but Luna is still Luna - what can it mean? Who is behind this? Is this the end of Equestria? Who is the empress who rules these new nega-ponies with an iron hoof? Stay tuned and find out.Elements of Discord
Labels: Author: Midnight Shadow, Everypony, Incomplete, Normal, Star-5, Story
Story: The Ballad of Gordon Freemane (Update Part 4!)
4 Star
[Grimdark][Crossover][Sci-Fi]
Author: R10t Pol1ce
Description: Gordon Freemane had always dreamed of one day working at the prestigious Black Mane Research Facility in southwestern Equestria. What he didn't dream of was the unending nightmare that would follow a catastrophic accident during an experiment in the Anomalous Materials division, Sector C.
Now, the magical land of Equestria is ruled with a synthetic, bio-mechanical fist by an alien race known as the Combine who show no compassion, no mercy, and no limits to what they will do to achieve... whatever it is they're here to achieve.The Ballad of Gordon Freemane
Celestia help us all.
Labels: Author: R10t Pol1ce, Crossover, Grimdark, Incomplete, OC Ponies, Sci-Fi, Star-4, Story
47 comments:
There's a Half-Life fan fiction crossover?
ReplyDelete...may read that. <_<
why... so much... sad/grimdark?!
ReplyDeletealso, this is the highest I've ever been in the comments. 2nd?
When are we gonna get PhoeSeth Shipping! :(
ReplyDeleteYes! My story is on the top of the list.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see the sad/grimdark getting some attention.
ReplyDeleteI may ask, though, what's up with the site banners being so bondage related lately? :I
Don't take that last sentence too seriously.
How can a story about Discord be at chapter 11?! wow they write fast!
ReplyDeleteOr small chapters...
Four out of seven of these are grimdark.
ReplyDeleteThis is NOT acceptable.
@LaverniousIt has nothing to do with discord. It was written way before season 2
ReplyDelete@Lavernious it was actually started in June. Just a coincidence with the "Discord" name.
ReplyDelete*Snorts* Figures... None of the five that Trevor reads. Just one's luck...
ReplyDelete~ Magical Trevor, Minstrel of Equestria
@Lazuras L.
ReplyDeleteThe sad/grimdark has been primarily whats updating for awhile now really.
Still nothing i'm reading though.
)= no in the eyes of another pony
ReplyDeletei want more firewall stupidity
@LunasFineFlank
ReplyDeleteOh dear...
New Sunset, New Heavenly Turmoil FTW
ReplyDeleteIs there an Evil Dead crossover? If not, I might give it a shot.
ReplyDeleteEvery update I'm hopeful that Newsworthy is finally updated, only to find that it still isn't. Ah, such is life.
ReplyDeleteBut hey, more Broken Bond? Sweet!
hurray more fluttershy
ReplyDeleteI'm catching up on so many different stories, but I think Heavenly Turmoil may top the list this time around.
ReplyDelete#3 . yes... just yes....
ReplyDeletesigh more and more fucking Grimdark, all that is ever written now.
ReplyDeleteIT'S A SHOW ABOUT CARTOON PONIES PEOPLE
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ReplyDeleteThere are so many great fanfic's out there, keep up the good work, guys!
ReplyDeleteI hope my fanfic will one day be on Equestria Daily.
WTF_HIW: Any news on Luna's Goodwill Tour? Hiatus? Problems? Abandoned? Jossed? Need help, even?
ReplyDelete@Magnanimous
ReplyDeleteI actually tried that once, it was gonna be about a pony who went exploring in the ever free forest, found the neighcronomicon, I couldn't think of how to make the chainsaw hoof thing work, but I thought of a way to do it with a shotgun, I outlined the story too, but in the end I just said forget it.
@Mojo
ReplyDeleteI think it's that they're ashamed of liking a "children's" TV show, so they write these GRIMDARKBLOODDEATHHATE fics to try and be seen as "mature" again.
It all seems kind of immature to me.
Huzzah for the Freemane!
ReplyDeleteIf I may ask, what determines whether a story updates under the Story Updates list or has a block of its own on the main page?
ReplyDeleteIn other news, if I see one more remark about how there are too many grimdark fanfics, I think I'll go ahead and submit some of my work for EqD to check; I love typical fantasy adventures with fun twists and (generally) happy endings. XD
and A Broken Bond updates too. That now makes three stories for me to read tonight. I'm okay with this.
ReplyDelete-Moonlight Ballad, Bard of Equestria
@Flutterfan Damn... Oh well, thanks for letting me know. I was thinking perhaps that Ash could have been a unicorn, that way he could wield the chainsaw when he needed to, and fashioned himself an iron or steel hoof, kinda like in Army of Darkness... but, never mind.
ReplyDelete@Celestia
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how most fandoms have shipping going on for their fan fics, or some crossover or Mary-Sues, but in this fandom, due to its size and the group interested in it, goes in the complete opposite direction and feels the need to make fan fics as dark and dreadful as possible when possible. Don't get me wrong, I find it to all be absolutely wonderful, but I can't help but wonder why this is such an overwhelming direction, aside from the obvious 'let's blame Cupcakes' answer.
I would positively love to see this sort of thing happen with other fandoms, but I suppose it's too much to ask for since the only big ones aside from us bronies tend to be made up of teenagers who don't know the first thing about writing and instead spam what them and their friends thinks is 'lol awesome'.
I guess it's just a matter of the writers involved. These wonderful creations of Lauren Faust and Hasbro have brought the widest variety of talents to a fandom I've only seen hinted at with the Harry Potter fans (given this as a recent example). I mean really, if the talent, quality, quantity, and utter passion of MLP's bronies were applied to a single political movement, by your beard, we could change the entire world.
I don't see what everyone's complaining about. Most of my favorite stories are labeled grimdark. If you don't like the darker stories, just don't read them. You don't need to go and start insulting the people that do like them.
ReplyDelete*sees Normal tags*
ReplyDeleteToo normal.
*sees Grimdark tags*
Meh. Unoriginal
*sees Sad tags*
How come ponies are always pictured with sad?
*sees Gordon Freeman*
...
Fuck.
@Lazuras L.
ReplyDeletePossibly becuase its so far departed form what the show will ever do, I really don't know.
I don't read grimdark fics myself since they aren't my preference andbecuase I have a feeling I wouldn't be able to remain impartial against a genre I don't really like. Though I can apreciate the ideas behind alot of them.
Come to think of it I try and avoid dark books as well.
And yes we have some amazing talent around, some of the things we have produced and done have really made me feel good.
Why does nopony ever use anything Luna related along the lines of "By Celestia's Beard" though? she needs attention too. (though thats a bad example I suppose)
Sometimes writers just like to make something more serious. Not every grimdark winds up as something like a slasher film - usually it's just about something more serious than the show's usual material (which isn't saying much, though Lesson Zero definitely seemed more like a grimdark fic come true :P).
ReplyDeleteAww, nothing I read at the moment.... :(
ReplyDeleteHey Seth, apparently it was the last chapter of "Broken Bond" shouldn't this story be on the front page?
ReplyDeleteStill no Not Exactly as I Dreamed. D: I'm starting to get impatient.
ReplyDeleteI've got a fever, and the only prescription is MOAR FALLOUT EQUESTRIA!
ReplyDelete@ Texas Almkrona
ReplyDelete> *sees Grimdark tag* meh. Too unoriginal.
Alright. What makes each and every Grimdark story unoriginal?
Where teh feck is Blood is Thicker Than Friendship? Stonershy need to finish the story before I die of suspense.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Sunset/FWOAD so amazing? Why am I compelled to continue it? It...hurts me... I'm so sad reading it...but it's so good.
ReplyDeleteHere's a bet. A thousand bits that at the end of it all, you'll be able to count the number of chapters that end happily on one hand.
@P. Pony Ponyson
ReplyDeleteOK, calling it unoriginal was over the line, but whenever I read a Grimdark tagged story, it always ends up two ways. Slasher style(all of them ending the same way with same plot development, but with dífferent characters) or Everyone-cries-and-has-beautiful-reunion style. And after a while, it gets boring. REALLY boring. It's almost like everyone is part of a group called "Union of Slash n' Cry FanFics: Now with EMOs!".
That's why I almost cringe every time I see a story with Grimdark tag and call it unoriginal, 'cause almost every Grimdark story I read is either Slash or cry.
Maybe I'm just being a asshole or something now and judges a book by it's very small description tag, but I don't feel like taking chances and read the same thing over and over again.
Also, comedy bro. Wrote it like that mostly of comedy value. :P
@Celestia
ReplyDeleteSeriously. Between BronyToons, the Dr. Whooves & Derpy Animatic, all the musicians, and all the writers, we have enough people to probably animate, voice, and create music for our own episodes when the series ends.
Why not "By Luna's beard"? I'd personally blame the Nightmare Moon stigma and reserve that for curse words and the like. "Damn you to the moon!" instead of "damn you to hell" and the like.
@Dustin Coleman
ReplyDeletebecause it's pretty much all that's being written now.
see if there was other stuff to balance things out I wouldn't really care but EQD is going like 80% Grimdark fic and it's fucking pathetic.
more and more I feel like im one of the few sane people in the fandom.
@Mojo
ReplyDeleteFor someone who's tired of grimdark, ya sure are serious.
I'm just running through the backlog of stories, reading what I missed the first time around. There's plenty of extremely awesome non-grim stories out there and I bet you all haven't read them all.
ReplyDeleteWow, the Elements of Discord finally updated.
ReplyDelete