My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan fiction
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Since the 2010 debut of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, the series' adult fandom (commonly known as bronies) has generated an extensive collection of fan fiction. The fandom's literary output is one of its principal creative endeavors, spanning diverse genres like romance, adventure, horror, sci-fi, crossovers, and slice of life stories. By 2025, FIMFiction—a website dedicated to My Little Pony fan fiction and the community's largest repository—contains 155,375 published stories and 624,034 registered users. Particularly influential and acclaimed works such as Fallout: Equestria (a fan novel of over 600,000 words) have garnered attention beyond fandom circles, inspiring adaptations in forms ranging from audio productions to fan art and translations into multiple languages. According to a 2018 study on the brony fandom, 8.6% of respondents reported that they frequently created fan fiction of My Little Pony; 39% of the same respondents reported that they read brony fan fiction almost daily.
My Little Pony fan fiction span diverse genres, such as alternate universes and self-insert narratives. Some stories have been adapted into audio productions, physical books, and AI-voiced fan episodes. Academic analysis has examined how the predominantly male community (unlike most fan fiction communities, which tend to have a female majority) negotiates masculinity through these works, with researchers identifying both those who embrace the show's emotional themes and those who incorporate more conventionally masculine elements. The community has also fostered an educational environment, where writers receive feedback from multiple members, and acts as a space for language acquisition for non-native English speakers engaged in collaborative translation projects of My Little Pony fan fiction.
Despite the original show concluding in 2019, the My Little Pony fan fiction community has remained consistently active. Fan-created works experienced a noticeable uptick in popularity in 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns.