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Hello everyone! I'm Fireraven23, I'm sure some of you recognize me. I have been brimming with ideas for pony fanfics, and recently, I have decided to enter the wide wide world of fanfics as a writer. I am hoping for some suggestions. About anything related to writing really. Whether it's about how to get it popular, helpful things to know, things people want to hear, or some ways that help you guys in writing. I'm open for trying about any suggestion, as I want my first fanfic to go over well. Thank you for reading this, and thank you for your suggestions!
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I feel like making an RP, but I'm unsure of what genre of RP I should use. It's not anything complex, just something simple that everypony can enjoy. No application required, please. Any suggestions to make the RP enjoyable, so that I don't have to wait a week (or longer, Celestia forbid! ) for anypony to join in?
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Hello again everypony! I am dropping by here to talk about one of my favorite subjects "how do I get out of a tricky situation or plot without doing things the RP staff will shake their collective heads sadly at", and offer helpful suggestions. Now, it is tempting (and natural) to be rational and tackle problems or challenges in RP the most efficient way possible, but sometimes that not only skirts on the edges of being a little too much for the tone of the WoE forum, but solves the problems too easily and might make for a less-rich RP experience. This is Equestria, after all, a land of whimsy and colourful ponies who can break the laws of physics and common sense. So, if you you need to ask someone if something might be considered a little too advanced or overly powerful to be allowed in in the World Of Equestria Slice of Life forum, the best solution is to just change your approach and do something goofy. A few examples (more to be added) Getting Characters who can not fly naturally to be up in the clouds. After all, one of the greatest visual gags ever is a Rube Goldberg device! So have fun, and remember that the most entertaining way from point A to Point B is definitely not a straight line. When in doubt, a silly means to an end is probably going to be more acceptable and true to the show than a magically powerful or technologically advanced one, especially if you keep it as a one-time event in your RPs.
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Hello everyone! Your friendly neighborhood Flutterscotch, who had many classes in colour theory and several jobs being a printer's lackey, is here to talk to you about the subject of colours! We see a lot of different ways that people describe their ponies, colour-wise, some precise and easily understandable, and some...well, some not so much, especially when you get into names cooked up by marketing people, much like what might be listed on the MLP wiki. Sometimes they're just straightforward, like this description of Celestia: [/colour][colour=#000000]And that is all well and good, most of us know those colours from our Crayola days, but just seems to lack a little pizzazz, so people sometimes seek to spice up those colour descriptions a bit. [/colour] I am not here to say what is right and what is wrong...But when you tell us your gardener pony's mane is PMS 292 (uncoated), Columbia Blue (the Pantone marketing name of the same colour) or Chateau (a close Plochere equivalent), or even just #75B2DD, reader might look at you a little funny. While these are precise and 100% acceptable ways to describe a colour, (and if you are working in the printing or design industry, the way you SHOULD be referring to these colours) they leave the reader a little flat. This is especially so if the colour names don't seem to be thematically linked or the colour name is insider jargon that is not commonly used that people have to look up, but they don't even know what colour naming system you are using! An extreme example of this is describing Celestia like this: [/colour][colour=#000000]If you did not know what Celestia looked like, or didn't have a picture at hand, or weren't involved in the industries that use those colours, would you know what that means?[/colour] However, if you tell us that same pony's mane is the colour of a forget-me-not, or a crisp September sky, it not only evokes the feelings of the colour, and ties your character to that emotion, and leaves it open to the other readers to describe your pony without having to look up a marketing-based colour name. If you post the hex code 75B2DD in parenthesis after a descriptive colour, it also tells us exactly what colour we would need to digitally create that character. To pull from Dio's application for Princess Celestia because I think it's a good example of theme naming that tells us what colours are used, but also thematically ties them together with the colours of precious and semi-precious gems that not only serve as descriptive words of those colours, but evoke grandeur and sparkle befitting our princess. [/colour]You could do this thematically with nearly anything. I could describe Celestia using flowers as a base of description [/colour][colour=#000000]Even if you don't know what all those words mean, they evokes a certain kind of palette. It evokes pale spring colours, pastels.[/colour] [colour=#000000]Yet if I was describing Pinkie Pie, I MIGHT go into candies and confections ([/colour][colour=#000000]Because is she colour of Wintergreen mints, bubble gum and Cotton Candy or WHAT?[/colour][colour=#000000], or even fun marketing not based on nature or historical context words like Charissma and Radiant + their Hex equivalents to describe her colouring, if I could find applicable ones. [/colour] There are a whole lot of different standardized colour-naming systems out there, many of those colour-naming systems pull from a combination of the two big ones (Pantone and Plochere), with the addition of the standardized web colour names and some other sources. Pantone Matching System(for the printing and manufacturing of standardized inks. Not all colours match up from ink to CMYK or RGB, and even beyond that you have coated and uncoated, plastics, etc, etc, etc and even custom colours (like Coca-Cola red) A Pantone 292 from all those systems, and even the Hex code equivalent is slightly different. Plochere colour System - based heavily in the interior design industry. I have not worked with this one much beyond picking out a colour to match a Pantone colour. Web colour names Name that colour (a web utility) Chose your colour names wisely I will, however, give HUGE nerd bonus points for anyone who apps a graphic designer pony and does lay out their exact PMS specifications. Because Pantone jokes are hilarious.- 11 replies
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Alright, so ever since the way in which signature length was calculated changed, there've been a lot of people going 'I can't have links to each of my characters in my signature anymore'. Well, no, you probably can't if you're using the rather bloated HTML tags the board sees fit to make the default. So, we need to do a little more work! STEP ONE! Get all your application links handy. You know where they are, right? STEP TWO Open up a URL-shortener. http://tinyurl.com/ is a good one, but for now, http://c0lt.co/ is better because there are still lots of two-character links available, and the website name is a little shorter. NUMBER-ONE ASSISTANT SEZ : For the time being, you might be able to get custom c0lt.co URLs by using the custom URL - I suggest using your characters initials. BUT! c0lt.co for some reason doesn't like upper-case letters, and will ignore them in your custom URL. Why? I dunno! STEP THREE Using your URL shortener, shorten that application URL you want to link in your signature! STEP FOUR Start editing your signature. STEP FIVE Now here's where we start having fun. See that little lightswitch icon, the one that says 'toggle editing mode'? Hit that. STEP SIX Now we start using BCC code, which is far more character-efficient than HTML. You want a link of your character's name? Here's what you gotta type ; [url="http://tinyURL.com/Example"]Example[/url] that'd get you Example STEP SEVEN Repeat with the shortening URLs and putting them in your signature. You can even colour them if you think you can spare the extra characters! To do that, just surround the URL with [color=#RRGGBB] and [/color] where RR, GG, and BB are the red, green, and blue values of your colour in hexadecimal. I'll let you figure that out on your own, though. Hope this was useful!
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I think this is a good idea, and I've brought it up to the staff. However, I think it would be better to set the tags as location rather than the topic status—although that's not a bad idea either.
