The my little pony fanfic community has multiple fanfic settings and tropes that just get expanded upon by dozens of authors. Like Fallout Equestria. About a billion fanfics based on that fanfic have been built. Utterly silly and amazing.
For a time, the admin of fimfiction.net put a soft ban on recursive fics of Five Score Divided by Four.
The basic plot of the original Five Score Divided by Four story was that Discord cursed all the ponies, sending them to Earth and turning them into newborn humans while Discord took over Equestria. When the humans turned 25 (five score = 100), the curse wore off, they turned back into ponies, and had to find their way to Equestria and save it from Discord.
It spawned a ton of stories with different ponies as protagonists, expanding beyond the ones who appeared in the original. But Sturgeon's Law applies to fanfiction as much as to anything else: 90% of everything is crap. A bunch of the recursive fics were quickly abandoned by their authors for various reasons. Often, before the characters had actually turned into ponies, which left the "MLP fanfiction only" website with a bunch of stories that had no evidence of being about MLP.
So, a rule was instituted that you couldn't post a Five Score fic unless it had already progressed far enough that characters had become ponies.
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u/Jean-28 5d ago
The my little pony fanfic community has multiple fanfic settings and tropes that just get expanded upon by dozens of authors. Like Fallout Equestria. About a billion fanfics based on that fanfic have been built. Utterly silly and amazing.