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Fimfiction

Fimfiction
Fimfiction logo
Type of site
My Little Pony fan fiction repository
URLfimfiction.net
RegistrationOptional; no longer available
LaunchedJuly 10, 2011; 14 years ago (2011-07-10)
Current statusActive

Fimfiction,[Note 1] known as Fimfic for short is a fan site for the collection, sharing, and discussion of fan fiction based on the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.[1] Launched on July 10, 2011,[‡ 2] it is the largest hub for the My Little Pony fandom's literary community.[2][page needed] By July 2015, Fimfiction had 185,014 registered users and 86,009 published stories.[3]

Fimfiction features thousands of user groups that cover topics from proofreading to character discussions that serve as a "writing school".[4] Academic studies have identified a system of "distributed mentoring" (in which writers receive feedback from various members across different channels) within the My Little Pony fan fiction community.[5][6]

Unlike many fan fiction communities that tend to mostly be female, Fimfiction has a predominantly male audience.[4]

In June 2025, facing significant abuse from spam accounts, user registration was disabled.[‡ 3] As of February 2026, accounts can only be created by staff, with prospective users instructed to request account creation on the platform's official Discord server.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Officially capitalized as Fimfiction despite logo and site footer using FIMFiction.[‡ 1]

References

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  1. ^ Antonelli, William (August 28, 2018). "Friendship was magic: How Bronies are preparing for the end of My Little Pony". Polygon. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  2. ^ Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne; Welton, Rebekah (2024). Bibles in Popular Cultures. The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. T&T Clark. ISBN 9780567702210.
  3. ^ Yin, Kodlee; Aragon, Cecilia; Evans, Sarah; Davis, Katie (2017). "Where No One Has Gone Before: A Meta-Dataset of the World's Largest Fanfiction Repository". Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp. 6106–6110. doi:10.1145/3025453.3025720. ISBN 978-1-4503-4655-9.
  4. ^ a b Campbell, Julie Ann; Aragon, Cecilia; Davis, Katie; Evans, Sarah; Evans, Abigail; Randall, David P. (2016). "Thousands of Positive Reviews: Distributed Mentoring in Online Fan Communities". Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. pp. 691–704. arXiv:1510.01425. doi:10.1145/2818048.2819934. ISBN 978-1-4503-3592-8.
  5. ^ Evans, Sarah; Davis, Katie; Evans, Abigail; Campbell, Julie Ann; Randall, David P.; Yin, Kodlee; Aragon, Cecilia (2017). "More Than Peer Production: Fanfiction Communities as Sites of Distributed Mentoring". Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. pp. 259–272. arXiv:1611.01549. doi:10.1145/2998181.2998342. ISBN 978-1-4503-4335-0.
  6. ^ Aragon, Cecilia Rodriguez; Davis, Katie (2019). Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring. The MIT Press. pp. 107–108.

Primary sources

In the text, these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):

  1. ^ "FIMFiction, FimFiction or Fimfiction? - FAQ - Fimfiction". Fimfiction. Retrieved January 31, 2026.
  2. ^ "When was Fimfiction.net started?". Fimfiction. July 22, 2011. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  3. ^ "Registration page". Fimfiction. Archived from the original on June 17, 2025. Retrieved January 31, 2026.
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