Could we get a derailed in the comments tag or something like that? Only the first few are even about this awesome picture. I think this pic is awesome, what a saucy, sexy look/face to Littlepip! All like “Yea, I’m awesome!” :D

@redweasel  
Two sidefics I consistently recommend are
 
Wasteland Economics  
A local blacksmith mare turned traveling merchant in the bayou area of St Oreins  

 
Frozen Skies  
A tale of an Enclave recon squad stranded in the frozen north!  

@WatermelonRat
 
gosh, thanks. I’m too flaky to be a professional anything, but I’m glad you like what I had to say.
 
@UTTFISH’S
 
eh, I avoid closed source chats like discord. but I suppose I could look around for fallout: equestria groups or something.

@redweasel  
Myself, I kinda don’t find ‘em. I keep my eyes up for recommendations others make. On a FOE discord I’m on, there’s a little book club for sidefics starting out, for example, where users submit links to fics they would suggest for reading.

@redweasel  
@redweasel
 
You should be a professional reviewer. Both of these comments were a fantastic rundowns of the strengths and weaknesses of those stories. I’d love to see what you have to say about other fanfics.

@UTTFISH’S
 
how do you find those, without spoiling the end, though?

@redweasel  
Not all have to be Murky Number 7-tier depressing. Some uplifting or adventurous fics and short stories here and there!

@Valiant_Effort  
I like stories that are extremely sad and grim, but have good endings, they feel the most wholesome for some reason

@redweasel  
I like depressing stuff make me feel better about my own shitty life.

@Valiant_Effort
 
no, I only read everything to chapter seven. skipped around after that. read about the whole sanguine thing, glory’s little enervation adventure, grepped the text for penis, you know, “skimming.”
 
@UTTFISH’S
 
yeah… hard to find the diamonds though if the rest is all depressing and horrifying.

@redweasel  
You only read to chapter 7?

Plenty of flavors to choose from in sidefics if you find the diamonds in the rough!

@Valiant_Effort
 
well, it’s… better than fallout: equestria?
 
but… that’s not a very high bar. most of project horizons is ponies lecturing each other on stuff that’s complete nonsense to the readers. it does a really poor job of setting the scene, leaving me scratching my head going “what cannons?” it just makes a lot of assumptions based on what the author was imagining, but forgot to describe in the actual story. the constant asides and explanations made me frustrated, wanting to see what would happen next, not hear how the blah blah bomb was blah blah magibabble blah blah in 1492 blah. I don’t like how it demonizes sex at every opportunity, soapboxing and strawmanning to make us think sex is evil. it’s way way too dramatic on the “I’m not worthy” angst blackjack wallows in. it unironically uses the phrase “so, what now?” the story still resorted to memory orbs, then went even further and just started using random hallucinations to avoid the inconvenience of having the characters figure out what happened hundreds of years ago. it was told in first person, like some kind of self-masturbatory self-insert, which it is. it is way too serious, clinging to tragedy like staticky socks. it’s just one gorefest to the next, describing with loving detail splatters, wounds, screams and brains. and it is way too long 1,143,119 words that all boil down to “hoofington is the worst”
 
I read a little bit of it, but started skimming around chapter 7 or so. it was just too long-winded. it should’ve been more concise, with less explaining, and ended in chapter 39 at the absolute most.
 
the prose is very intelligent though. not many people can write fancy stuff like that in a coherent way. if it stuck with a solid narrative, with a beginning, middle and end, it’d be good. the characters were relatively well fleshed out, and I liked some of them. generally the ones who died horribly. it had some interesting shades of grey, even if it dealt with them in a ham-handed manner not even hinting that it wasn’t black and white until the very end. some creative conflicts to overcome besides just “me go fight evil thing.” it wasn’t the worst story I ever looked at, just… not very well paced or vivid, and not much fun to read. I don’t like stories about good ponies losing, anyway. I was really impressed with how long it was, with some coherent narrative throughout it, and how much love the author clearly put into it. if I was a genie I’d totally grant their wish and let them live the life of their oc. …okay maaaaaybe that might not be the author’s wish, but it’d be hilarious.

@Valiant_Effort  
It’s good, so far I’ve only read up to Chapter 20, and I have plans to stop reading when I reach somewhere around Chapter 30 to 35, but it does have my favorite FO:E Character in it.

@redweasel  
How do you feel about Horizons?

@Background Pony #7820  
All the wastelanders wanna cuddle the cute little lady.

That face “You know you want this” lol

@Tazool
 
kkat’s story’s got a really weak plot, poor timing, flat, uninteresting characters, villains being evil for no reason, and a really insecure approach to sexuality. it’s also one of the longest pony stories ever written, with intriguing and lavish descriptions, seamless adaptation of the source material, and fantastic worldbuilding.
 
so it’s the kind of story where everyone’s like, “I could do way better than that!” but as awesome as their stories are, they rarely reach the same level of creativity. not the greatest story, but one of the greatest sources of inspiration I’ve seen.
 
plus littlepip has like the best color scheme ever, even if she is daring do with a rotated palette.

@Tazool  
I’ve read it, Never finished it… But it’s still one of the best Fanfics I’ve ever encountered.

Still best stable-dwelling pone.

Sweet Luna!, why are you so cool lil-pip?

@Tazool  

 
It’s because kkat took two things no one thought would work crossover’d fallout and mlp and inspired many people to explore the great world she created adding to and modifying it in various ways, littlepip and her ability to still be relevant after all this time is constant proof of her powerful symbol.

@Tazool  
her name is Littlepip and the series got big mostly because the ability to make so many new and different OCs in such a versatile environment of an apocalyptic world. people like to embrace dark backstories and stuff, I have found out from experience here

After 7 years in this fandom, I still don’t know who this character is, or why the fallout equestria series got so big.

That look though