Pony fanfic (not just FiM)

[lalalei2001]

And Here's chapter 5!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9341708/5/

[lalalei2001]

Chapter 6 is up!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9341708/6/

[hathorcat]

Thanks for sharing

[lalalei2001]

And now here's chapter 7 ^^

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9341708/7/

[Firehooves]

Awesome new chapter, lalalei!

It's just disheartening sometimes that most older gen fans are collectors only, with not much intrest in the fiction. I'm glad there are people here who are into fanfic, I just sometimes feel like a pony fiction fan/fanfiction author and reader lost in a sea of collectors. *Sigh*

[hathorcat]

Awesome new chapter, lalalei!

It's just disheartening sometimes that most older gen fans are collectors only, with not much intrest in the fiction. I'm glad there are people here who are into fanfic, I just sometimes feel like a pony fiction fan/fanfiction author and reader lost in a sea of collectors. *Sigh*

There are lots of people who are interested in fan fiction as well as the toy lines.

However, yes MLP collectors do tend to be exactly that toy collectors. That's not to say there is not a small and select group who read fan fiction with interest. We are also a much smaller community than the current FiM fandom so a small group within a small community is not going to have the same level of impact. In addition, unlike FiM when people come to a fandom because of a "story" and cartoon, therefore fan fiction is a natural lead on from this, most MLP collectors will come to the community because of toys and therefore fan fiction is not a natural link.

You can see from the number of people who have clicked on and read this thread that I am sure there is plenty of interest.

[Firehooves]

Awesome new chapter, lalalei!

It's just disheartening sometimes that most older gen fans are collectors only, with not much intrest in the fiction. I'm glad there are people here who are into fanfic, I just sometimes feel like a pony fiction fan/fanfiction author and reader lost in a sea of collectors. *Sigh*

There are lots of people who are interested in fan fiction as well as the toy lines.

However, yes MLP collectors do tend to be exactly that toy collectors. That's not to say there is not a small and select group who read fan fiction with interest. We are also a much smaller community than the current FiM fandom so a small group within a small community is not going to have the same level of impact. In addition, unlike FiM when people come to a fandom because of a "story" and cartoon, therefore fan fiction is a natural lead on from this, most MLP collectors will come to the community because of toys and therefore fan fiction is not a natural link.

You can see from the number of people who have clicked on and read this thread that I am sure there is plenty of interest.

Yes, you're right. Sorry, I didn't mean to be dissing the collectors- I understand the fanbase is diffrent, it just feels like a fanfic fan's only choices are the mlp collector crowd, or the regualr FiM fanbse, who can be... not-positive about earlier generations of mlp. And I will admit I am into some aspects of the collecting, and do have a few mlp items in my collection. 

[LadyMoondancer]

A lot more older collectors were into fanfic before G3 came along.  I think it was because there was a more limited number of ponies to collect.

Also, the fandom was younger at the time (mostly teens and college aged, just due to the age most people who had played with MLPs as a kid and then gotten nostalgic tended to be), and I think that demographic has more free time to write in.

I do get nostalgic for the days when everyone had their own minute website and their own little fanfic going on!

[Firehooves]

A lot more older collectors were into fanfic before G3 came along.  I think it was because there was a more limited number of ponies to collect.

Also, the fandom was younger at the time (mostly teens and college aged, just due to the age most people who had played with MLPs as a kid and then gotten nostalgic tended to be), and I think that demographic has more free time to write in.

I do get nostalgic for the days when everyone had their own minute website and their own little fanfic going on!

Again, I wish I had come back to pony in those days... ah well. T_T

[Violet CLM]

Chapter 3 of A Very Minty Hearth's Warming Eve is up!

[lalalei2001]

Chapter 8 is up

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9341708/8/

[Aienhime]

It's most definately true that collectors do seem to be less interested in fiction than the bronies (in general), but i guess that has to do with the fact that they aren't necessarily into collecting toys, they like the show which in itself is already a story. I remember how awesome it was to have a fanfiction subforum here on the arena with RP's and such, but there was just too little interest in the end... a shame.

RD will update with 3 chapters this week and the final three on August 25th, my birthday

[FlitterRose]

I don't read much fanfiction of any series, mostly because I seem to wind up finding the ones with the  storyline that is essentially about a poorly developed FC/OC who falls in love with the author's favorite character 

Mary Sues... 

Chapter 8 is up

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9341708/8/

Just read you fanfiction and it's awesome 

[Firehooves]

Oh, and here's another new series of short stories I started- G3 this time! 

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9613403/1/Memiors-of-a-Mane-Stylist-The-Ponyville-diaries

Hope everybody enjoys! ^^

Oh, and for anyone who wants to see thier favorite ponies from the toys, who never got any media appearences in the cartoons, books, or comics... I do take requests! 

[lalalei2001]

Wintertide chapter 9 is up! http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9341708/9/