Grimdark MLP Fanfics and Creepypasta

[Buttonmash1973 1,024]

I am a writing horror fanfics on Fimfiction and I used to be on Fanfiction.net. Like many others here are sying My Little Dashie are a recommended fic.

[Freewave 1,145]

Twilight's Experiments was too one-dimensional, predictable, over the top, and sadly just unsatisfying. Sigh. Guess i gotta check the other contenders.

Edited September 8, 2013 by Freewave

[Cuhpcakes 15]

Am I the only one who found Pegasus Device's ending rather... anti-climatic?

 

I thought of much better endings in just minutes of reading it.

 

Of course, the story was entertaining and divine.

 

I found myself reading this great work of art for hours on end, on at least 3 separate occasions.

 

Haven't been this intrigued from reading a story in a while, I'm loving these Fan Fictions!

 

My Little Dashie was, ehh to put it lightly; boring. It's really the only MLP fiction I wasn't quite fond of.

 

I highly recommend you read Rainbow Factory, then Pegasus Device. They are absolutely riveting!

[dedacct6 2,591]

cupcakes! I'm so original!!!!

No screw that fanfic!!!! The fanfic that was my fave was cheerilee a garden, mainly because it just made me shake and I wanted to puke at scootaloos death! Blech I still have the images in my head but the sequel sucked, it just...SUCKED anyways, yea the first one was frightening and disgusting. And well written, but it kinda got boring by the end.

Edited September 8, 2013 by PelateOvercast

[Misty Shadow 7,257]

Ooh...I really like me some grimdark MLP fics. My favorites other than Cupcakes are actually the ones that are really lulzy, like Sweet Apple Massacre, Rarity's New Dress, and Trixie's Funhouse.

[Freewave 1,145]

cupcakes! I'm so original!!!!

No screw that fanfic!!!! The fanfic that was my fave was cheerilee a garden, mainly because it just made me shake and I wanted to puke at scootaloos death! Blech I still have the images in my head but the sequel sucked, it just...SUCKED anyways, yea the first one was frightening and disgusting. And well written, but it kinda got boring by the end.

what didnt you like about the sequel?  it was too grandiose to a degree and it could have ended in several different places but i thought it was still quite good. Feel free to use spoilers of course.

Edited September 8, 2013 by Freewave

[Moaning Myrtle 196]

Rainbow Factory was,without a doubt, the best for me. It had emotional value as well as the gore so it seemed more well balanced out for me.

[Abstract 831]

 

 

 

 

Because I'm a sick, twisted individual; I absolutely love "Cheerilee's Garden". Beautifully written with just the right amount of heart-wrenching and stomach-twisting moments. It isn't a complete bloodbath, but thankfully the gore and heartlessness is still very much on the heavy side.

 

I was unimpressed with "Rainbow Factory", to be honest. It was decently written, I suppose; just seemed to leading up to what was a disappointment of an ending.

 

But man, if you want cruel, senseless and tear-inducing; make sure to check out "A Fun Day." But don't say I didn't warn you. 

Edited September 8, 2013 by Abstract

[MegaBrony37 0]

I love grimdark, but Rarity's New Dress was just NO. It is bad enough with the gore, but sexuality and such? NOPE.

 

Sweet Apple Massacre was HORRIBLE. Cupcakes was spine-chilling. My Little Dashie... don't get me started. It smacked me in the feels harder than Pokemon: The First Movie. Muffins was AWESOME.

 

You guys say the fanfics listed above weren't bad? Check out Rarity's Generous Plan! Unless you have a sensitive anus, for the brick you shat shall be painful.

[Gadgetphile 11]

*sigh* Once again it's SM*. Stay far away from that story (especially if you're a Scootaloo fan.)

* This is the third time I mention it. Anyone that can recommend a more disturbing story? (Yes, I've finished  "Cupcakes", "SAM", "RF", "MLS"...)

[Ianpiersonjdavis 512]

The Pages of Harmony

 

I could totally see Twilight doing something like that after 'Lesson Zero'.

[speedyblupi 75]

Sweet apple massacre was more a torture porn trollfic than a genuine attempt at grimdark. It can just be summed up as "Big Mac rapes the CMCs to death".

 

Cupcakes was also a trollfic, and as such it had little to no storlyine or emotional impact. It can be summed up as "Pinkie tortures Rainbow Dash to death".

 

I've not read Cheerilee's garden, but I intend to do so, considering how popular it is.

 

Rainbow factory was an interesting premise, and a good storyline, a wonderfully symbolic ending, but it also had a few errors and contradictions. Its plot can't really be summed up in a single sentence, but the premise of it is effectively "Cloudsdale are Nazis, The Rainbow Factory is a death camp for pegasi who can't fly, Scootaloo goes there along with some OCs". There's a lot of horrific death. Many people complained about the ending, but it makes sense when you think about the symbolism and read the explanation/resolution in the sequel.

 

Glaze and H8_Seed's music about it is pretty good. It's pretty impressive seeing how Rainbow Factory went from a single song inspired by a B movie to having its own film coming out, tens of remixes and derivative songs, tens of derivative fanfictions and thousands of images. The brony fandom is so big it creates its own daughter fandoms!

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5U34RCgAWg

 

The sequel, Pegasus Device was extremely well written, used lots of intelligent and creative language, went into a lot more of the psychology of the ponies involved, and was a genuinely engaging story. It's quite underrated in my opinion, generally because people are turned off by the problems with Rainbow Factory so don't read further. It's also quite a bit longer than Rainbow Factory, and as such there is even more horrific death. Its premise can be summed up as "Two more flightless pegasi go to the Rainbow Factory and try to escape and destroy it". SlyphStorm's song inspired by it is also very good, but to fully understand it you really need to read the fanfic.

 

Though I would say that the final chapter should probably have been omitted. The story works better with less of a simplistic ending, and the quality of writing plummets in the last chapter too. Aurora Dawn is great at writing psychological horror, but not so good at writing about political resolutions to problems.

 

 

There's another grimdark fanfic I like that most people probably haven't heard of: "After that fateful night" by Peppy Greyskull. It's very long (a little over half as long as Fallout: Equestria), but what I've read of it has been quite good. It's an alternate-universe fic where the elements of harmony failed to revert Nightmare Moon back to Princess Luna. NM basically takes Twilight Sparkle as a sex slave, and various things happen as a result. It's a clopfic, but it's not incredibly clop-heavy, and there are non-pornographic versions of the chapters which do have sex in them.

 

It's mostly about politics and interactions and relationships between different ponies, but there's a lot of extreme violence. I think It's similar to Game of Thrones in a few ways: a bit pornographic, everyone's trying to compete for rule of the kingdom, relationships between characters are important, but flexible, and many characters die horrific deaths. The full version is not available on FimFiction because Peppy got banned for making a sarcastic death threat (a lot of people complained about this decision, because it was obvious sarcasm rather than an actual threat), but you can find ATFN on google drive.

Edited March 1, 2015 by speedyblupi