FiMFlamFilosophy

FimFlamFilosophy is an American writer, editor and voice-over artist. To differentiate him from the rest of the team that produces his videos, he is sometimes called FimFlamFilosopher; later videos credit him just as "Greg". He publishes fan fiction unrelated to his video series under a variety of pen names.

Video projects
FiMFlamFilosophy is most well-known for his two video projects: The Mentally Advanced Series and Rainbow Dash Presents. The former is an abridged series in which FiMFlamFilosophy dubs over scenes from the show with his own voice, the latter a series of illustrated radio play adaptations of famous fanfics. Both series share a common cast of characters; for instance, Pinkie Pie's personality in one is identical to her characterization in the other.

His YouTube channel also hosts a number of other videos only tangentially related (or not at all) to Friendship is Magic.

Ask a Sadist
This story comments on the emergence of dark and disturbing Ask Pony blogs, explicitly referencing the content of two of them: the now-defunct Ask Pinkamena Diane Pie (called "Ask Pinkamena" in the story), and Ask Sadistic Rarity (here called "Ask a Sadist"). The very first image from the latter is the basis for the first video Rarity uploads in the story.

As the story opens, Pinkie Pie has achieved a certain amount of success and notoriety publishing a "web show" featuring her in creepy and unsettling situations. She has even roped Fluttershy in, and the two have proven convincing actresses. Rarity thinks she can produce a more professional product and monetize it much better than Pinkie has, so she dusts off a webcam she hasn't used in ages and applies off-putting makeup.

In the two days since she set it up, she received no questions that weren't either spam or inappropriate, but some judicious deleting eventually yields a suitable question about where on the planet she would most like to visit. Rarity records a very brief video containing her one-sentence answer: "a place where ponies know what fashion means".

After uploading it, she watches the video a couple of times, quite pleased with how it came out. When she goes to bed, she can't sleep, so she returns to the computer to see if she's gotten any reactions yet. She has not, and that remains unchanged fifteen minutes later. The story's final line repeats a variation of Rarity's post: the internet, apparently, does not know what fashion means.

A Beautiful Day in Equestria
This story is a non-comedic deconstruction of shipfics; it has four stars on Equestria Daily as of May 31, 2012. It opens on a beautiful day. None of the characters can remember when it last rained, and Twilight in particular begins to find the windless, cloudless weather oppressive, but the narrator is insistent that "it was a beautiful day in Equestria".

Twilight and Rainbow Dash are lying down in the Ponyville library. A failed spell by Twilight has crippled the Pegasus' wings, and not for the first time. But Rainbow feels compelled to ask Twilight to perform the spell, and Twilight feels compelled to grant her friend's wish against all reason, time after time. The first time it happened, it precipitated a make-out session between Twilight and Rainbow Dash. The second time, Twilight bonded with Rarity over the ordeal and they had a brief fling. Now another accident has happened, and despite being firmly heterosexual, she once again feels drawn to Rainbow Dash. She kisses her, and the urge drains away.

Her life, and those of her friends, have taken on a strange narrative timing and logic, as opposed to the chaotic coincidences and near-misses typical of reality. Immediately after their kiss, Spike enters the scene with doctors in tow. They take Rainbow to the hospital.

Twilight still has a feeling on wrongness. She goes for a walk, which quickly turns into a run. As she gallops, leaving Ponyville behind, a voice enters her head. It attempts to convince her to turn back, since she loves Dash, after all. When that doesn't work, the voice invokes Rarity, and then Pinkie and Big Mac and a number of other ponies, all in a romantic connection. The voice conjures up scenario after scenario: making her long for another pony, fear for their lives, be jealous of them. Twilight can't help but experience those emotions, but they are hollow, and so she keeps going. The wind she feels is the one she produces herself.

Eventually, she reaches her destination: the Everfree Forest, an unregulated, chaotic, natural place. Twilight stops hearing the voice. And for the first time in a long while, she feels rain dropping down from the sky.

Other stories

 * Administration is Magic (incomplete, last updated 2011-10-20): Political story about the inner workings of the Canterlot court. It has five stars on Equestria Daily.
 * Accessory (incomplete, last updated 2012-04-08): Shipping story with human versions of the Mane 6, intended to be more realistic than typical about romance and seduction. An argument over the degree of connection to Friendship is Magic escalated so much the author was banned from adding new stories to FIMFiction.