Bookshelf shenanigans, and important fic rec updates! · 4:56pm Oct 19th, 2014
I at last decided to make an Incompletes Bookshelf to differentiate from my RIL. This way, I can check it every week, or even once a month, for new completes to add to RIL and not have to worry about what’s on it not being complete. The final counts are 2982 RIL, 1032 Incomplete, and 19 Tracking. Tracking I use for incompletes I want to read the moment they’re done. Go ahead and check out that link to the shelf above; if you see one of your stories on there that you haven’t worked on in a while, maybe it’ll give you a kick in the butt to keep going! :V
So, after going through all four-fucking-thousand stories on my RIL, I said to myself, “Hey, now those 1400 stories you reviewed don’t seem so bad, huh?” So yes, I’ve also made a Reviewed shelf, which is public. This means lots of spamming folks, but the important thing is, people will know I reviewed their stuff. I’ve changed up my userpage to reflect this, so that anyone coming looking will (hopefully) know what to do. (The upshot, though, is that apparently the new bookshelf system is set up to prevent said spamming, and I can't do them all at once. Tune in for more spam tomorrow!)
I also ended up finding some interesting stuff in the older journals!
Laugh as I whine about having 100 whole stories on my RIL. :V
I actually rec’d The Descendant’s A Cup of Joe. It is Highly Recommended, for the record. This is good, because it was on my “Old Favorites” list to re-review, and I don’t want to read it again because I will cry. ;_; Going back through all my old journals, not just the ones that sound like fic recs, has also made me realize I never reviewed Silent Ponyville, so I’m gonna do that sometime, as it’s a pretty popular fic.
Ah, Blueshift’s The Last Stand of King Sombra will now be Recommended. It was p. hilar. Martial Bliss by Skywriter is also Recommended. It was also hilar.
It should really get its own journal, but I mentioned it here already: Pipsqueak the Valiant’s Adventure Journal by Casca is one of my all-time favorite stories, an imaginative piece written from Pipsqueak’s POV as he’s dragged off on a quest to find his ship’s captain father… by Mayor Mare. It won whatever writeoff it was part of, and I put the reason squarely on the perfect child’s voice Casca crafted. It doesn’t go anywhere you’d expect, and the reason I never gave it a proper writeup is that, well, I didn’t realize it was marked complete until now. :B It is Highly Recommended.
Ah, here’s a good one! My journal talking about fiendofthet’s story Fallout Equestria: Lesbians was apparently removed in the big NSFW journal purge. (Which is weird, because I can still see it in the listings.) Here’s the original text, since I went ahead and deleted the blog on my end, as no one can read it now:
If you haven't, I highly recommend reading Fallout Equestria: Lesbians. It's quite short, and hilariously brilliant. It reminds me of what I was trying to do with My Full-Sized Goddess Horse. :D There's even an "Applejack is a background pony" joke!
Even though the words “highly recommended” show up in there, I’m going to officially call this Recommended If You Like Mocking FoE, because if you don’t, and you're not at least somewhat familiar with the original, you’re not gonna get anything out of it. It’s still officially my favorite FoE sidefic, though. :V
Ooh, and not to end on a sour note, but it looks like I almost gave up fic recs before I started. The journal immediately following that one was the very first "official" recommendations blog, however. (My first structured review was actually the vs. Rainbow Factory blog, solely because I used the 5-point rating system.) And now look how far we've come. :D
So I'm calling it: THE SPREADSHEET IS FINISHED. EVERYTHING PRE-2014 IS RECORDED. THAT’S IT, NO MORE GOING BACK TO SEARCH FOR THINGS. Yeesh. Here's to being organized! 
Dayum, son.
I think it's remarkable what this little quip can say about the fandom. Also aww yiss Pipsqueak bump
The rate limit is 1,000 every 24 hours.
I have almost that number... I don't even have time to read and criticize any of them...
2543386 Yeah, seriously... I just pared my RIL list down from 1k to 315, and it still feels like a lot.
I only have 20 stories in my Tracking folder now, and a good 400 or so in my Favorites. I also didn't realize how many mature-rated fics I'd faved, as the total amounts to 73, and I'm pretty picky about getting a story good for its story as well as its unmentionables.
I'm still paring down my folders, trying to get the stories all sorted by what they are (Favorite Human stories, Favorite War stories, etc), and it's a right pain.
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1000 moved, or 1000 added? Because if it's the former, then my incompletes moving this morning is probably cutting into it. Otherwise, I dunno. :B
2543425 "Moving" is creating a new one so...yeah.
2543425 to be fair there is no distinction between "add" and "move," it all involves adding a story to a new bookshelf.
Look on the bright side: when we made "Free Twilight Sparkle," the limit was 200.
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That explains it! Well, it doesn't explain why it stopped me, let me do 15 more a little later, and then stopped me again. <.< I'll just wait for tomorrow I guess.
An incomplete's bookshelf! Brilliant. That'll keep my real later shelf from breaking the 1k barrier. Since about 1/3rd of it was incomplete.
You also reviewed Twilight Discovers Literary Analysis in this fic rec. Oooh! I also missed your review of Cup Of Joe when I scoured your blog for reviews to link in the big master review list. Nom.
I'll have to check the pre-2014 stuff to make sure I got it all. Eventually.
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Oh snap! Thank you for pointing that out, I'll leave that review as the "real" one in my records.
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One of the many uses of the list! Okay, like one of the two uses of the list.
When making new bookshelves, do you get really excited about picking out which icon to use? Because I think that's my favorite part.
FYI, both your Incompletes and your Tracking shelves are private, so the link in the post is broken, and I can't see Tracking in your library either.
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No, I get anxious about the colors. D:
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I thought they were just unlisted. :|Disregard, I'm just dumb.2543603 It does explain why. As I said, it's 1,000 every 24 hours. So if you did 100 in one hour, 900 12 hours later, and then came back after another 12 hours, you've only gained back 100 of your quota.
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Well then!