Including fanfiction, comics, or fanmade stories like fallout equestria...trying to collect a list of pony books for my library!
I have yet to read the comics but I love reading Fluttercord Fanfiction!
So, because it's No-Pics Thursday (August 16th, 2018) today, you know what that means...
It's time for the Weekly Fanfic Recommendation LINK-SWAP Game thread to continue!
Anyways, THE RULES (read 'em carefully):
Post a link to a fanfiction you like (can be your own as well - it's okay to self-promote), with or without a short blurb.
Important: Reply to someone else's post with a link to a fanfiction you think they might like, based on their choices.
Put each of your choices in a separate post if you want to make sure to get a recommendation based on each one. You may reply to someone else's reply, either to you or to someone else. Please make long discussion threads, they introduce a healthy bit of exploration and can help us find new interests! And that's it!
PLEASE COMPLETE BOTH STEPS 1 and 2. Don't just show up and ask for recommendations if you're not willing to provide any. I'll start the first few threads myself, and reply with a gentle reminder if you forget.
IMPORTANT NOTE. Thanks to /u/BookHorseBot (many thanks to their creator, /u/BitzLeon), you can now use the aforementioned bot to easily post the name, description, views, rating, tags, and a bunch of other information about a fic hosted on Fimfiction.net. All you need to do is include "{NAME OF STORY}" in your comment (without quotes), and the bot will look up the story and respond to your comment with the info. It makes sharing stories really convenient. You can even lookup multiple stories at once.
Ready? Set? LET"S GO! Also, feel free to self-promote in here!
I am working on some designs and looking for inspiration from fellow horse lovers!
I'm really considering selling my mare at this point, but am not 100% convinced yet. I'm not even sure she's marketable. The last thing I want for her is to end up in a kill pen, at auction, or with inexperienced owners who might be hurt by her. However, while she is not my idea of a well rounded beginner horse, she is not a good candidate for a serious rider in any discipline, either.
She is 17, gaited (she's a pretty smooth ride for what little I know of gaited horses), not very well trained in my opinion, has mild heaves in the summer, and is founder prone if kept on grass in the spring and summer. She was a guided trail horse for years and was used for beginner riders, but I personally would not recommend it without putting some better training into her. She is horribly buddy sour and will NOT ride alone without throwing a huge fit. She has horrible separation anxiety, which has resulted in her rearing while away from other horses, but she's only done it on the ground, never under saddle. I feel really stupid for this, but I didn't find this out until recently despite having owned her for several years, because I had always ridden her with friends before and had never taken her out alone, and other horses were never very far before. I have no clue how to fix this and am probably not capable of it, either. I can't afford to spend hundreds in training just to sell her when I've been saving up for months for training for my horse I plan to keep. I'm also not a fan of sweeping issues under the rug and pretending they don't exist, or trying to avoid the cause and ignore the problem. She only knows the bare minimum basics of trail riding and has never received any formal training.
I got her when I was just a recreational trail rider and rebuilding my confidence, but now I've returned to H/J and moved on. I'm not a fan of trail riding anymore, or the feel of most gaited horses. Not having her anymore would also free up some money to spend on my other horse's training.
Do you think she is even marketable? I will NOT do the whole "free to a good home", "companion only", or selling dirt cheap thing, because I don't want anything bad to happen to her. I'm also NOT going to lie or leave out any details about her faults. I'm not even sure how I would go about writing an ad for her. To me, her negatives outweigh her positives, which puts her at risk of going to slaughter or something else bad happening, which I don't want. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Hi there! It's Thursday again and that means another chance to talk about what's been happening around here and how you feel about it!
Same as every other time, feel free to discuss whatever it is you'd like regarding our little subreddit good or bad. If you're unhappy we'll try our best to fix whatever problem you're having!
If you want to talk about the MLP fandom in general, that's fine too!
But some people may not want to talk about comics or anything else that hasn't happened yet, so you should be nice and hide those conversations from those people by using the spoiler tag.
If you don't know how it's as easy as making an emote:
[It has ponies!](/spoiler)
Becomes: It has ponies!
And if you're not wanting to discuss the subreddit or community specifically you can also check out the weekly off-topic thread here!!!!!
(Pretend that G4 will go on until season 13 instead of ending after season 9)
Imagine this alternate universe:
Plainity and Eyepatch (who is a Pegasus rather than an Alicorn in this hypothetical) are actual students who help Twilight and Rarity bring down Flim and Flam.
They also return in the season finale.
In season 9, they make multiple appearances as supporting characters before joining the "Mane Cast" in season 10, a la Starlight Glimmer.
What do you imagine they would be like, given time to flesh them out as characters? What kind of character development would they receive?
Would they still be voiced by Tabitha and Tara, or do you have different casting ideas?
Since they are not secretly Rarity and Twilight, they wouldn't look the same as they do in canon. What different character design choices would you give to them?
What would Plainity episodes be like? What type of lessons would she need to learn?
Same question, but about Eyepatch.
This is a pretty controversial topic, that I don't really know the answer too.
If I needed to pick, I would say Pinkie Pie's family has a lot of room for character development.
I love the sensation of cantering bear-back, but I hate that I have to transition through trot.
I am not skilled enough or maybe it is not possible (rare) to go from walk to canter bear-back. Is this possible? Has anyone done this, and if so, how do you balance?
So my horse is agisted at this place with small paddocks and a herd of 8 horses on a large 20 acre paddock. There are yearlings in the front paddocks, and a great roundyard, but it has a pony stallion in it. He lives in there. Ive had my horse there for about 2 months now, and the fences (electric top tape with tape middle wire on star pickets) have been broken down atleast 5 times so far that I know of. He can't be put in the small paddocks, as they are flooded and I don't trust how much hay gets put out even though I hard feed him daily. He is 4, fresh off the track. I really dont want him to learn to run through fencing. I also don't want him to be injured by the fencing! I talked with the woman about it. She fixed the fence but it was run through again. I really like the community of people, but I am getting pretty over the lack of safety. What would you do?
