My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan fiction

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' fan fiction}} {{Short description|Fan fiction of My Little Pony}} {{Use American English|date=November 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2025}} [[File:Fallout Equestria PH; Glory BlackJack moment by zouyugi dbv9v2x.png|thumb|upright=1.3|''Fallout: Equestria'', one of the most influential and acclaimed works of the ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' fan fiction community, has inspired a large amount of fan art.]] {{My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic sidebar}} The ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' fandom (also known as the ''brony fandom'') has generated a vast body of fan work, including fan fiction. The fandom's literary output spans diverse genres like romance, adventure, horror, sci-fi, crossovers, and slice of life stories. Fimfiction, the largest repository of ''My Little Pony'' fan fiction, contains over 150,000 published stories.<ref name="stats"/><ref name="Yin-2017"/><ref name="Edwards-2019">{{cite book |last1=Edwards |first1=Patrick |last2=Chadborn |first2=Daniel P. |last3=Plante |first3=Courtney N. |last4=Reysen |first4=Stephen |last5=Redden |first5=Marsha Howze |title=Meet the Bronies: The Psychology of the Adult My Little Pony Fandom |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers |location=United States |isbn=9781476663715 |page=76 |date=September 11, 2019}}</ref> Particularly influential and acclaimed works, such as ''Fallout: Equestria'' and ''Background Pony'', have gained mainstream critical attention and have inspired fan dubs, fan art, and fan translations.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=2012-10-08|title=Behind 'Fallout: Equestria,' the ultimate 'My Little Pony' tribute|work=The Daily Dot|url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/fallout-equestria-fim-kkat-interview/|access-date=2021-07-09|last1=Orsini|first1=Lauren Rae}}</ref> According to a 2018 study, 8.6% of bronies reported that they frequently wrote fan fiction; 39% reported that they read fan fiction almost daily.<ref name="Edwards-2019"/>

Despite the original show concluding in 2019, the ''My Little Pony'' fan fiction community has remained consistently active. Fan-created works experienced an uptick in popularity in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns.<ref name="Moran-2023"/>

== History == Fans began creating fan fiction of ''Friendship Is Magic'' shortly after the show's premiere. The character of Derpy Hooves was created by the brony fandom after fans spotted her in the background of the first episode and collectively gave her a name and an agreed-upon backstory (a clumsy but good-natured mail carrier pony who loves muffins) through fan fiction.<ref name="Meyers-2014">{{cite thesis|last=Meyers|first=Rachel Elizabeth|title=In Search of an Author: From Participatory Culture to Participatory Authorship|year=2014|publisher=Brigham Young University|location=Provo, Utah|pages=30–31}}</ref><ref>{{harvp|Connelly|2017|p=126}}</ref>

== Platforms == === Fimfiction === {{Main|Fimfiction}} Launched in July 2011,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fimfiction.net/faq/questions/172/when-was-fimfictionnet-started|title=When was Fimfiction.net started?|access-date=2025-04-12|date=2011-07-22|website=Fimfiction}}</ref> Fimfiction is the largest repository of ''Friendship Is Magic'' fan fiction.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Domoney-Lyttle |first1=Zanne |last2=Welton |first2=Rebekah |title=Bibles in Popular Cultures |series=The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |year=2024 |publisher=T&T Clark |isbn=9780567702210 |url=http://digital.casalini.it/9780567702210}}</ref> By July 2015, Fimfiction had 185,014 users and 86,009 published stories.<ref name="Yin-2017">{{cite book |last1=Yin |first1=Kodlee |last2=Aragon |first2=Cecilia |last3=Evans |first3=Sarah |last4=Davis |first4=Katie |title=Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |chapter=Where No One Has Gone Before: A Meta-Dataset of the World's Largest Fanfiction Repository |year=2017 |pages=6106–6110|doi=10.1145/3025453.3025720 |isbn=978-1-4503-4655-9 }}</ref> {{As of|September 2025}}, the website has over 600,000 registered users and over 150,000 approved stories.<ref name="stats">{{cite web|url=https://www.fimfiction.net/statistics|title=Site Statistics|website=Fimfiction|access-date=2025-09-27}}</ref>

=== /mlp/ === {{Main|/mlp/}} The /mlp/ board of 4chan has spawned genres of fan fiction, such as the "Anon in Equestria" format, where the anonymous human character "Anon" is a self-insert for the reader.<ref name="bailey"/>

=== FanFiction.Net === {{Main|FanFiction.Net}} FanFiction.Net hosted many early works in the fandom before Fimfiction's launch in July 2011. ''Cupcakes'', an infamous fan fiction in which Pinkie Pie is depicted as a serial killer, was originally published on FanFiction.Net.<ref name="Palmer-2019"/>

== Adaptations == === In other media formats === Various works of ''Friendship Is Magic'' fan fiction have been adapted as dramatic readings and fully cast audio plays; some have also been published as physical novels.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-01-31|title=What's real anymore? My Little Pony / Fallout novels|url=https://www.destructoid.com/whats-real-anymore-my-little-pony-fallout-novels/|access-date=2021-07-09|website=Destructoid|last1=Ponce|first1=Tony}}</ref>

The animated web series ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' parodies several of the most popular fan fictions to come from the fandom.<ref name="Calpain">{{cite web|url=https://www.equestriadaily.com/2016/01/pony-history-of-day-rainbow-dash.html|title= Pony History of the Day - Rainbow Dash Presents, DinkySharkFighter and Mentally Advanced |author=Calpain|date=2016-01-17|access-date=2025-09-11|website=Equestria Daily}}</ref> Set in an alternate universe of ''Friendship Is Magic'', each episode of ''Rainbow Dash Presents'' retells the events of a fan fiction from the narration of a whimsical and naive Rainbow Dash.<ref name="Calpain"/><ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.equestriadaily.com/2016/07/the-best-of-brony-animation-archive-top.html |title=The Best of Brony Animation Archive - Top My Little Pony Fan Animations of All Time |website=Equestria Daily|first=Shaun|last=Scotellaro |date=2016-07-31}}</ref>

=== Fan translations === According to a 2021 study, fan translation spaces of the brony community tend to be more comprehensive and methodical than those of other fandoms. Studies of Russian-speaking bronies translating fan fiction into English have shown that writers naturally form roles based on their expertise.<ref name="Shafirova-2021">{{cite journal |last1=Shafirova |first1=Liudmila |last2=Kumpulainen |first2=Kristiina |title=Online collaboration and identity work in a brony fandom: Constructing a dialogic space in a fan translation project |journal=E-Learning and Digital Media |volume=18 |issue=3 |year=2021 |pages=269–289 |doi=10.1177/2042753020988920|hdl=10138/340259 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

=== Fandubbing === {{See also|Fandub}} Fandubbing is another creative practice that complements the fan fiction of the brony fandom. Similar to the experiences of the Russian brony interviewed by Shafirova and Cassany in their study of language acquisition, ''My Little Pony'' fandubbers often engage in meticulous translation and voice acting work that not only strengthens their fan identity, but also develops their language skills.<ref name="Shafirova-2019"/> One fan noted that fandubbing was an opportunity to learn English, but in doing so, wanted to apply their acting skills as well as be part of the community by producing new content for the international brony audience.<ref>{{cite book |last=Baños |first=Rocío |chapter=Young Audiences and the Phenomenon of Fandubbing |editor1-last=Dore |editor1-first=Margherita |title=The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences |publisher=Routledge |year=2025 |pages=466–478 |isbn=9781003291169 |doi=10.4324/9781003291169-39}}</ref> ''Friendship Is Witchcraft'', created by Jenny Nicholson and Griffin Lewis under the pseudonym "Sherclop Pones",<ref>{{cite book |last=Jamison |first=Anne |title=Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World |publisher=BenBella Books |date=November 26, 2013 |isbn=978-1-939529-19-0 |page=337}}</ref> is a reimagination of ''Friendship Is Magic'' with darker, more satirical themes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-abridged-series-an-em_b_3789012|title=The Abridged Series: An Emergence of a New Genre|first=Malcolm|last=Collins|date=2013-08-22|access-date=2025-05-28|website=HuffPost}}</ref><ref>{{harvp |Blue |2016 |pp=141-147 }}</ref> The fan-made ''My Little Pony'' episode ''The Tax Breaks'', released in May 2022, used the text-to-speech platform 15.ai to fan dub a work of fan fiction with AI voice synthesis technology.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Abisola |first=Shojobi |date=January 3, 2025 |title=The MIT Project That Paved Way For Modern Voice AI | url=https://independent.ng/the-mit-project-that-paved-way-for-modern-voice-ai/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|url-status=live | access-date=February 27, 2025|newspaper=Independent|archive-date=February 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227050616/https://independent.ng/the-mit-project-that-paved-way-for-modern-voice-ai/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Scotellaro |first=Shaun |date=2020d<!--March 4, 2020--> |title=Full Simple Animated Episode - The Tax Breaks (Twilight) |url=https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/05/full-simple-animated-episode-tax-breaks.html |access-date=January 1, 2025 |website=Equestria Daily}}</ref>

=== Fan music === {{See also|Music of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom}} Brony music has both been written about and directly inspired some of the most influential fan fictions. Since its release in 2011, Fallout: Equestria has become the subject of countless songs ranging drastically in tone. In many cases, musicians have embraced the dark themes of the story in somber rock or metal music such as The Living Tombstone's song "Run, Shoot, Kill... and Cry" based on the fan made spinoff called ''Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/06/spotlight-vocal-music-run-shoot-kill.html|title= Spotlight Music: Spotlight Vocal Music: Run, Shoot, Kill... and Cry / Silent Night - Paradise |first=Shaun|last=Scotellaro|date=2016-04-20|access-date=2013-06-07|website=Equestria Daily}}</ref> In contrast, other musicians in the fandom such as the band The Wasteland Wailers have embraced the influence of 1950s American on the fan fiction's setting with jazz and electroswing music.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.equestriadaily.com/2019/07/rainbow-factory-spiritual-successor.html|title= Spotlight Music: The Wasteland Wailers – When The Sun Comes Back / Vortex |first=Shaun|last=Scotellaro|date=2016-04-20|access-date=2025-08-30|website=Equestria Daily}}</ref>

The relationship between fan music and fan fiction in the brony community is one that is uniquely symbiotic. This is best exemplified by ''The Rainbow Factory'', a fan fiction by AuroraDawn inspired by song by WoodenToaster of the same name. While the original song focuses on the Rainbow Factory shown in the episode "Sonic Rainboom" and the idea that pegasi are killed in the production of rainbows, an idea expanded on in the fan fiction.<ref name="Miller-2024"/> In the years after the fan fiction's release, WoodenToaster produced two more songs focusing on the Rainbow Factory. Meanwhile, AuroraDawn released four more fan fictions that followed this same story and made direct references to WoodenToaster's songs. The popularity of the fan fiction and its relationship with music would also inspire several works from other fandom musicians such as Slyphstorm's "Pegasus Device" and Koa's "Broken Wings".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.equestriadaily.com/2019/07/rainbow-factory-spiritual-successor.html|title= Rainbow Factory Spiritual Successor Music: Koa - Broken Wings [Drumstep] |author=Makenshi|date=2019-07-21|access-date=2025-08-30|website=Equestria Daily}}</ref>

== Genres == === Alternate universe (AU) === {{See also|Parallel universes in fiction}}

Alternate universe (AU) stories reimagine the ''My Little Pony'' universe or characters in different settings, timelines, or circumstances than those presented in the show.<ref name="Crome-2014"/><ref name="Davis-2024">{{cite web|title=Animation with Alesha: Horror-ifying children's media is going too far|url=https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2024/02/horror-tiktok-childrens-media-trauma|first=Alesha|last=Davis|website=The Post|date=2024-02-11|access-date=2025-04-12}}</ref>

In the 2020s, a horror-themed subgenre of AU stories known as "Infection AUs" gained popularity on TikTok. These alternate universes involve zombie outbreaks in Equestria that transform the ponies into disturbing, hostile entities.<ref name="Miller-2024">{{cite web|url=https://www.trillmag.com/entertainment/infection-spreads-across-my-little-pony/|title=Infection Spreads Across My Little Pony|date=2024-04-20|access-date=2025-04-12|website=Trill Mag|first=Riley|last=Miller}}</ref> By 2024, the trend had expanded beyond ''My Little Pony'' to other family-friendly animated shows, including ''Bluey'', ''Miraculous Ladybug'', and ''Pokémon''.<ref name="Miller-2024"/>

=== Self-insert === {{See also|Self-insertion}} Self-insert fan fiction involves authors inserting themselves into the story as a participant and describes themselves interacting with the ponies and Equestria directly. One common variation involves the '''Anon in Equestria''' format, in which a generic anonymous human character (representing either the author or the reader) finds themselves transported to Equestria.<ref name="bailey">{{cite journal |last1=Bailey |first1=John |last2=Harvey |first2=Brenna |title='That pony is real sexy': My Little Pony fans, sexual abjection, and the politics of masculinity online |journal=Sexualities |date=2017 |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=325–342 |doi=10.1177/1363460717731932 }}</ref>

=== Slashfics === {{See also|Slash fiction}} ''Slashfics'' (or ''shipfics'') in the ''My Little Pony'' fandom refer to slash and femslash (also referred to as yuri) stories focusing on romantic relationships between characters of the same gender. Within the brony fandom, these relationships are colloquially termed "fillyfooling" for mare-to-mare relationships and "coltcuddling" for stallion-to-stallion relationships. As ''Friendship Is Magic'' mostly consists of female characters, lesbian stories make up a large portion of romantic fan fiction on Fimfiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/story-social-standards.html|title=Story: Social Standards (Update Part 10!)|first=Shaun|last=Scotellaro|website=Equestria Daily|date=2012-02-02|access-date=2025-06-01}}</ref><ref name="Rose-2012">{{cite web|title=My Little Pony: Lesbianism is Magic|url=https://www.autostraddle.com/my-little-pony-lesbianism-is-magic-138465/|author=Rose|website=Autostraddle|date=2012-05-30|access-date=2025-06-01}}</ref>

=== Clopfics === {{Main article|Clop (erotic fan art)#Clopfics}}

''Clopfics'' are explicit or pornographic ''My Little Pony'' fan fiction.<ref name="Bajor-2015">{{cite thesis |last=Bajor |first=Jan |title=Między bajką a perwersją – pornografia i erotyka fanowska w środowisku internetowym na przykładzie fandomu My Little Pony: Przyjaźń to Magia |trans-title=Between fairy tale and perversion - fan pornography and erotica in the internet environment using the example of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom |type=Master's thesis |publisher=University of Warsaw |location=Warsaw |date=June 2015 |department=Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology |language=pl}}</ref> On Fimfiction, such stories are labeled with the "sex" or "porn" tag.<ref name="Aragon-2019">{{cite book |last1=Aragon |first1=Cecilia Rodriguez |last2=Davis |first2=Katie |title=Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring |publisher=The MIT Press |year=2019}}</ref>

== Analysis == === Hybrid masculinity === Unlike many fan fiction communities that tend to mostly be female, Fimfiction has a predominantly male audience.<ref name="Campbell-2016">{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Julie Ann |last2=Aragon |first2=Cecilia |last3=Davis |first3=Katie |last4=Evans |first4=Sarah |last5=Evans |first5=Abigail |last6=Randall |first6=David P. |title=Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing |chapter=Thousands of Positive Reviews: Distributed Mentoring in Online Fan Communities |year=2016 |pages=691–704|doi=10.1145/2818048.2819934 |arxiv=1510.01425 |isbn=978-1-4503-3592-8 }}</ref> In a 2022 study, researchers identified two approaches to masculinity among bronies. ''Emotive interpreters'' engaged with the show and its fan fiction primarily for emotional expression and described finding the show during a period of emotional need. They valued the community as a space where they could express emotions more freely than in traditional masculine spaces, and their fan fiction often emphasizes themes of friendship and emotional growth. In contrast, ''aggrieved remixers'' (which, according to the study, was the dominant group) transformed the show by frequently introducing violent themes and sexual content that reinterpreted the show's feminine elements through a traditionally masculine lens.<ref name="Palmer-2019"/><ref name="Palmer-2022">{{cite journal |last1=Palmer |first1=Zachary D. |date=April 2022 |title="I'm Going to Love and Tolerate the Shit Out of You": Hybrid Masculinities in the Brony Community |journal=Men and Masculinities |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=87–105 |doi=10.1177/1097184X211031969}}</ref>

=== Identity === Studies have indicated that writing and reading fan fiction can be a form of identity negotiation. In one ethnographic study, researchers described a 15-year-old brony's participation in writing fan fiction as a form of "transgressive humor, and resistance to conformity" that connected his childhood interest in books with more mature creative expressions.<ref>{{cite book |title=Reading for Pleasure: International Perspectives |last1=Cremin|first1=Teresa|last2=McGeown|first2=Sarah |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781040326473 |date=2025-03-19 |doi=10.4324/9781003519003 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003519003/reading-pleasure-international-perspectives-teresa-cremin-sarah-mcgeown}}</ref>

=== As an educational tool === {{Quote box |quote="If not for this fanfiction, I would have never begun writing and would likely never have ended up at the school or place in life where I am now. By picking up fanfiction—which led to a major in Creative Writing—I’ve likely made a significant impact on the rest of my life." |author=An anonymous fan fiction writer |source=''Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring''<ref name="Aragon-2019"/> |align=right |width=300px }} Non-native English speaking bronies have reported using the fandom's fan fiction community as a way to improve their English by developing learning strategies when consuming and producing fan content.<ref name="Shafirova-2019">{{cite journal |last1=Shafirova |first1=Liudmila |last2=Cassany |first2=Daniel |title=Bronies learning English in the digital wild |journal=Language Learning & Technology |volume=23 |issue=1 |year=2019 |pages=127–144 |doi=10.64152/10125/44676 |url=https://doi.org/10125/44676|doi-access=free |hdl=10230/37119 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Bronies interviewed in studies have reported marked improvements in their writing skills.<ref name="Evans-2017">{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=Sarah |last2=Davis |first2=Katie |last3=Evans |first3=Abigail |last4=Campbell |first4=Julie Ann |last5=Randall |first5=David P. |last6=Yin |first6=Kodlee |last7=Aragon |first7=Cecilia |title=Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing |chapter=More Than Peer Production: Fanfiction Communities as Sites of Distributed Mentoring |year=2017 |pages=259–272|doi=10.1145/2998181.2998342 |arxiv=1611.01549 |isbn=978-1-4503-4335-0 }}</ref><ref name="Aragon-2019"/> One fan fiction writer wrote: "Writing fan fiction and getting instant feedback over the past couple of years has improved my writing significantly."<ref name="Campbell-2016"/>

=== Religion === {{See also|Analysis of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom#Religion and spirituality}} Academics have studied how Christian bronies use fan fiction to explore Christianity and their fandom.<ref name="Crome-2014">{{cite journal |last=Crome |first=Andrew |title=Reconsidering Religion and Fandom: Christian fan works in My Little Pony Fandom |journal=Culture and Religion |volume=15 |issue=4 |year=2014|doi=10.1080/14755610.2014.984234|pages=399–418 |url=https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/619586/1/Reconsidering%20Religion%20and%20Fandom%20submission%208%20September%20NOT%20FOR%20REVIEW%20.pdf }}</ref><ref name="Crome-2019">{{cite journal |last=Crome |first=Andrew |title=Cosplay in the Pulpit and Ponies at Prayer: Christian Faith and Lived Religion in Wider Fan Culture |journal=Culture and Religion |volume=20 |issue=2 |year=2019|doi=10.1080/14755610.2019.1624268|pages=129–150}}</ref><ref name="Bruin-2024">{{cite book |last=de Bruin |first=Tom |chapter=The Bible and My Little Pony |title=Bibles in Popular Cultures |editor1-last=Welton |editor1-first=Rebekah |editor2-last=Domoney-Lyttle |editor2-first=Zanne |publisher=Bloomsbury T&T Clark |location=London |year=2024 |pages=85–102 |doi=10.5040/9780567702227.ch-006 |isbn=978-0-567-70222-7 }}</ref>

=== Activity === According to a 2018 study, 8.6% of bronies reported that they frequently wrote fan fiction; 39% reported that they read fan fiction almost daily.<ref name="Edwards-2019"/> The fandom continues to produce new content even after the conclusion of the television series in 2019. Fan-created works experienced an uptick in popularity in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns.<ref name="Moran-2023">{{cite journal |last=Moran |first=Joe |title=Their little pony: The weird world of fandom |journal=TLS. Times Literary Supplement |issue=6266 |date=May 5, 2023 |pages=7 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A749302577/LitRC |access-date=April 12, 2025}}</ref> {{multiple image|perrow=2 | align = center | direction = horizontal | total_width =900px | image1 = Annual FIMFiction Story Approvals and New User Registrations (2011-2024).png | image2 = Total FIMFiction Stories and Users (2011-2024).png | footer = New Fimfiction story approvals and user registrations from 2011 to 2024 per year (left). Cumulative Fimfiction stories and users from 2011 to 2024 (right).<ref name="stats"/> A noticeable uptick in newly registered users can be seen from 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns. }}

== List of notable ''My Little Pony'' fan fiction == {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Title ! Author ! Year ! Word Count ! Description ! Notes |- | ''Fallout: Equestria''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Palmer |first=Zachary D. |date=April 2022 |title="I'm Going to Love and Tolerate the Shit Out of You": Hybrid Masculinities in the Brony Community |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1097184X211031969 |journal=Men and Masculinities |language=en |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=87–105 |doi=10.1177/1097184X211031969 |s2cid=237771912 |issn=1097-184X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> | Kkat | 2011 | 600,000+ | Crossover between ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' and the ''Fallout'' video game series | * Has inspired adaptations including spinoffs, audio productions, fan art, and translations into multiple languages * Gained attention beyond fandom circles * One of the most influential and popular works in the ''My Little Pony'' fan fiction community |- | ''My Little Dashie''<ref>https://www.fimfiction.net/story/1888/my-little-dashie</ref> | ROBCakeran53 | 2011 | 10,000+ | A reverse isekai about a human who finds and raises a filly Rainbow Dash, detailing the joys and struggles they share as she grows up. | * Has inspired multiple adaptations including comics, audio productions, fan art, fan films and was featured in an episode of Rainbow Dash Presents. * Inspired similiar works involving one of the characters being raised by a human on Earth, as well as many unofficial sequels |- | ''Past Sins''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fimfiction.net/story/41596/past-sins|title=Past Sins|website=Fimfiction|access-date=2025-04-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Stroke |first=Pen |title=Past Sins |publisher=MLPfiction |date=2015-06-26 |format=eBook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBP_CQAAQBAJ |language=English}}</ref> | Pen Stroke | 2012 | 201,810 | | |- | ''Austraeoh''<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Ask|first1=Krstine|last2=Søraa|first2=Roger Andre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QyHnEAAAQBAJ|title=Digitalization and Social Change: A Guide in Critical Thinking|date=2023-12-20|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-0038-2127-4|language=en|quote=For example, the series Austraeok (Imploding Colon, 2012), a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fan fiction, is 212,744 words long.|page=220}}</ref> | Imploding Colon | 2012 | 212,744 | An adventure story featuring Rainbow Dash | |- | ''Cupcakes''<ref name="Palmer-2019">{{cite thesis|last=Palmer|first=Zachary|title=Gender in Equestria: an examination of reconstituted forms of masculinity and their consequences for gender relations in the brony community|year=2019|publisher=Purdue University|type=PhD thesis|page=35|quote=For instance, it was common for people to reference a notorious, dark fanfiction called "Cupcakes" in which Pinkie Pie is a serial killer who murders Rainbow Dash. Convention attendees occasionally dressed up as the characters from that story (for example, Pinkie Pie in a bloody apron) or made jokes about Pinkie Pie offering someone a cupcake (the story begins with Pinkie Pie giving Rainbow Dash a drugged cupcake). }}</ref> | Sgt. Sprinkles | 2011 | 4,230 | An infamous fan fiction in which Pinkie Pie is depicted as a serial killer who murders Rainbow Dash | * Regularly referenced in the fandom via jokes and cosplay |- | ''Rainbow Factory''<ref name="Davis-2024"/><ref name="Miller-2024"/><ref>{{harvp|Blue|2016|p=214-219}}</ref> | AuroraDawn | 2011 | 8,266 | An infamous fan fiction that reveals Cloudsdale's Rainbow Factory as a secret facility where pegasi are harvested for their "spectrum" to manufacture rainbows | |- | ''Friendship Is Optimal''<ref>{{cite thesis|last=Lockhart|first=Eleanor Amaranth|title=Nerd/Geek Masculinity: Technocracy, Rationality, and Gender in Nerd Culture's Countermasculine Hegemony|year=2015|publisher=Texas A&M University|type=PhD thesis|page=95|quote=For instance, the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fan fiction series Friendship is Optimal advances a serious argument for directing human activity toward “destructive uploading” – that is, converting biological brains to artificial ones – to maximize human pleasure on the utilitarian level. The series cites arguments commonly found on the LessWrong forums about the inherent incompatibility between male and female desires as encoded by evolution and social conditioning and roles as taught by society. Although the fan fiction itself presents the absurd scenario in which a computer game based on My Little Pony leads to the forcible machine assimilation of humanity, the arguments are earnest and their premises held by many neoreactionary supporters, including Anissimov and likely Tunney. }}</ref> | Iceman | 2012 | 38,609 | A science fiction story where an artificial general intelligence designed to run a ''My Little Pony'' MMO game ends up assimilating humanity into its virtual world to maximize human happiness according to its programming | * Despite its fantastical premise, contains serious arguments that are shared by certain neoreactionary viewpoints |- |''Background Pony''<ref>{{harvp|Blue|2016|p=209-212}}</ref> | shortskirtsandexplosions | 2012 | 432,377 | | * Appeared on the 2018 Boston University Holiday Reading list alongside ''Dune''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.equestriadaily.com/2018/12/my-little-pony-fanfic-background-pony.html?m=1|title=My Little Pony Fanfic "Background Pony" Makes Boston University's 2018 Holiday Reading List|first=Shaun|last=Scotellaro|website=Equestria Daily|date=2018-12-25|access-date=2025-06-05}}</ref> |- |''Time Lords and Terror''<ref>{{harvp|Blue|2016|p=103-113}}</ref> | Hephestus | 2012 | 45,359 | | |- |''My Little Time Lord''<ref>{{harvp|Connelly|2017|p=126}}</ref> | Victorian R. Hellsly | 2011 | | | * One of the earliest stories to depict Derpy Hooves as a mail carrier paired up with "Dr. Whooves", a character the fandom collectively decided was a ponification of the Tenth Doctor |- |''The Lunaverse''<ref>{{harvp|Blue|2016|p=153-158}}</ref> | RainbowDoubleDash | 2012 | | | |- |''Through the Eyes of Another Pony''<ref>{{cite thesis|last = Strmel|first = Melody|title = Magical Me: Self-Insertion Fanfiction as Literary Critique|date = 2014-04-25| publisher = Scripps College| location =Claremont, California|url = http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/486 | access-date = 2025-10-18 }}</ref> | CardsLafter | 2011 | | A self-insert fan fiction of the author waking up in Ponyville and interacting with characters of the show | |}

== See also == * {{Annotated link|List of fan works of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom|List of fan works of the ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' fandoms }} * {{Annotated link|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom|''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' fandom}} * {{Annotated link|Music of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom|Music of the ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' fandom}} * {{Annotated link|Art of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom|Art of the ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' fandom}} * {{Annotated link|Tolkien fan fiction}} * ''{{Annotated link|PONY.MOV}}'' * ''{{Annotated link|Friendship Is Witchcraft}}''

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=== Bibliography === *{{cite book |last=Blue |first=Jen A. |date=2016-01-20 |title=My Little Po-Mo: Unauthorized Critical Essays on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season Three and Derivative Works }} * {{Cite book |last=Connelly |first=Sherilyn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3VPDgAAQBAJ&dq=bridle%20gossip&pg=PA105 |title=Ponyville Confidential: The History and Culture of My Little Pony, 1981-2016 |date=2017-04-01 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-6209-1 |language=en}}

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