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My Reviews · 3:41am Nov 24th, 2016

So, yeah, I've stopped reviewing outside of Seattle's Angels, but this is still here as an archive.

It auto cropped part of this page, I actually have a table of contents down there.

Winter only: Reviews will typically be 2-3 stories per blog. No schedule, cause I'm too lazy to follow one, but they will come sometime.
Summer only: I basically take summer off. I might blog about something, but don't expect content.


If anything in here does not work, please inform me.


And now, included in this blog:
*How I arrive at my recommendations.
*How I choose which fics to review and when.
*Table of contents for my Seattle's Angels reviews.
*Table of contents for my novel reviews
*Table of contents for my reviews.


Alright, time to talk about how I arrive at recommendations:
**Back in the early days of Reviews #1-53, I had a score and a recommendation. The score worked as 2.5 points per category I talked about, so the maximum a fic could normally get would be a 10/10. The score only looked at those four categories. And the recommendation looked at the things I typically talk about in my current reviews (see below for more), but they were not affected by the score so much. Don't read these, kay?
**And now for the current style/ #54+. For these, I got rid of the score and only have the recommendation. The recommendation looks at characterization, their interactions with one another, the point of the fic, the weakness, how characters are used, themes and thematic ideas, complexity of the plot, and one or two more. Most of these I will talk about in each review.


**For choosing fics, I have this shelf called Need to Review, and I browse the stories in it until I find one to review. I pick them based on how much time left before midnight, how I'm feeling at the time, who the author is (I don't want to focus on only one for too long), and their content/ how well I remember them. However, if a story is requested of me, then I will get said story done as soon as I possibly can.


SA Reviews #104 (1st for me)
SA Reviews #109 (2nd for me)
SA Reviews #110 (3rd for me) {PS. I know it says #104 on the blog, that’s a mistake that no one has gotten around to fixing. And probably never will.}
SA Reviews #118 (4th for me)
SA Reviews #120 (5th for me)
Ya know what, just check here... it's kept up to date in the comments.


Novel Review #1 - The A.B.C. Murders
Novel Review #2 - Sad Cypress


Warning: #1-53 are oddly formatted, #54 is where it changes to a new format, and #58 is my revised and current version of said new format.

Reviews #1 - A Light in the Dark
Review #2 - To Guard the Light, Burn Stuff
Review #3 - The Keepers of Discord, Solar Wind
Review #4 - Crusader's Quest in Cloudsdale, Colt Like Behavior, Equestrian Expedition, Biting Buddies, Hexirit's Curse, Wrath of Rarity,
The Isolated Incident, Birthday Bro

Review #5 - Tantabus, Mk. II , Aunthood Issues, On the Natural Rise and Fall of Celestial Bodies
Review #6 - No Place Like Nowhere, Rest in Chaos
Review #7 - The Wrong Fork, The Return of the Dark Legion
Review #8 - Records of an Academy Disaster, How Many Princesses Does it Take
Review #9 - Celestia, Fires of the Sun, A Changeling's Test
Review #10 - Wrong Address Bright Eyes, The Winding Northward Road
Review #11 - No Longer the Greatest, The Numbers Don't Lie
Review #12 - Cant, Abandoned, Starlight's Failed Dramatic Entrance
Review #13 - Constants, He did what?! , The Pink Little Hatchling
Review #14 - What am I Doing?, A Traveler of the Realm of Chaos, Luna's Turn
Review #15 - Buggy Vanity, My Brother-The Tooth, Twilight Sparkle Lays An Egg
Review # 16 - Just a Normal Meeting, Accidental Banishment
Review #17 - Let's Play a Game, Trixie And Her Amazing Pet Changeling
Review #18 - So You Wanna Take Over Equestria? , Big Ponies Cry Too, The Choice is Yours
Review #19 - Spot That Changeling, My Other Self
Review #20 - Hearth Warming's Trappings, Overcoming the Past, Palimpsest
Review #21 / Hearth's Warming #1 - Hearth's Warming Eve, Say Goodbye to the Hollandaise: A Hearth's War(ming) Tail, Luna Just
Learned About the Play "A Hearth's Warming Carol" , A White Hearth's Warming

Review #22 / Hearth's Warming #2 - A Heart's Warming Eve, Luna's Hearth's Warming Eve, Hearth's Warming Cookies, The Night
Before Hearth's Warming

Review #23 / Hearth's Warming #3 - Hearth's Warming Cookies, Merry Hearth's Warming Luna! , The Final Hearth's Warming Eve, A
Royal Hearth's Warming

Review #24 / Hearth's Warming #4 - Hearth Swarming Eve, One Hearth's Warming Eve, The Changelings Try To Celebrate Hearts
Warming, A Lonely Hearth's Warming Eve

Review #25 / Hearth's Warming #5 - Hearth's Warming Dream, Three Nights, A Heart's Warming Carol, The Meaning of Hearth's
Warming

Review #26 - A World Without a Rainboom, Beneath The Sun's Surface, 1000 Years
Review #27 - The Universal, A Unforeseen Fate, A call for Agent Gummy
Review #28 Cliche, Tantabus Do Your Worst, Of Maids Memories & Mayflies
Review #29 - Making an Old Lady Cry (and other hazards of espionage), The Most Successful Assassination of Princess Celestia
Review #30 - Alicornication, Reading Rainbow, Pillow Talk
State of Reviewer --- and Review #31 - A Chat Between a King and a Prince, The Birth of Equestria
Review #32 - Somewhere Only We Know, Nightmare's End, Breaking Peeved
Review #33 - Balanced Light, Best Worst Power
Review #34 - That Changeling's a Pony!, Top Edge, If You Can't Beat 'Em
Review #35 - Just Dodge!, Fluttershy Gets Replaced by a Sherman Tank, Princess Celestia is Replaced by an Ohio-class Submarine
Review #36 - Goddammit Pinkie Pie, WWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOO, Sunset Shimmer is Replaced by a Screaming Man
who's on Fire and Nobody Notices

Review #37 - Princess Celestia Hates Tea, A Short Story by Twilight Sparkle, Most of the Cast is Replaced by Inanimate Objects
Review #38 - Mortality Report, Family, In Celestia We Trust All Others Pay Cash
Review #39 - "Chrysalis I've come to bargain!" , Variables, Starlight Repeatedly Teleports into Custard
Review #40 - Conscientious Objector, The Joy of Being Pranked, A War of Words - The Opening of the Guard
Review #41 - My Only Sunshine
Review #42 - Twilight Plays a Strategy Game, Twilight Plays a Horror Game, Celestia vs. Garble
Review #43 - Princesses! Princesses Everywhere! , The Day of the Terrible Puns, Paranoia
Review #44 - Sick Day, Sleeping In With the Sun, The Things Ponies Do For Their Cutie Marks
Review #45 - Sillen, Supermoon, What's Wrong With the Cutie Map?
Review #46 - The Big Red Button, What's In The Box? , The Glass Blower
Review #47 - Who We Are, The Storm, Shadow Over Ponyville
Review #48 - Thrown Abroad, Cruel Beauty, An Infinite Number of Pinkies
Review #49 - Rainbow Splash, Reverse Chronometry, Celestia's Teeth
Review #50 - The Application of Unified Harmony Magics, Princess Celestia: A Brief History, The Cloudsdale Report
Review #51 - My Little Changeling: Friendship is Weird, Rainbow's Bad Fanfic, Fluttershy's Nice Fanfic
Review #52 - Blood is Thicker, Sunset, The Reluctant Reunion of the Redoubtable Rabble-Rouser, For Want of a Dawn
Review #53 - Spike's Script, The Broken Wing, The Mystery of the Disappearing Siblings

Major Format Change

Review #54 - Too Villainy
Review #55 - Goodnight Moon, Sounds of Lunacy
Review #56 - Discord Goes On Vacation, Fluttershy Builds An Ark, Pinkie Almighty
Review #57 - Causality, Tantabus Communication Protocol, Doubts of Silence

Minor Format Change

Review #58 - Pinkie Pie's Last Nightmare Night, Pinkie Pie Places Her Tongue on a Polar-temperature Pole, Anyone You Want Me To Be
Review #59 - The Cutie Mark Crusader Boys, Overlooked, Hoardsmiths
Review #60 - Changing Her Mind. Keeping Her Spine, Dead and Loving It
Review #61 - Trixie Discovers She Is A Genius, Page Two, Choose Your Waifu
Review #62 - The Sun Burns Brightly, The Moon Flows Gently, A Million Things to Do
Survey Results, and Review #63 - Pinkie Turns Invisible, PLEASE Sign Here, Piercing The Heavens: Past Mistakes
Review #64 - Lyra Kills a Mare, X Pony does Y and Fluttershy Catches them in the act, Rainbow Dash Visits The Proctologist
Review #65 - Sisters are Awful, No One Goes There
Review #66 - Starvation, Life and Death, Burning Day
Review #67 - Existance, Storm
Review #68 - Daring Do and the Cursed Tome
Review #69 - Spitfire's Nickname, Forensic Punology, A Better World
Review #70 - Blue Cheese, A Different Kind of Party
Review #71 - White In The Snow, The Wrong Side of History, 7 x 13 = 28 DUH!
Review #72 - Fate must be Cruel only to the Kind, Like a Paulownia
Review #73 - Golden Tears, Solving for Death
Review #74 - Worst Princess, Trixie and her wagon will make history!! , Approximately 2000 Words (Mostly!) About Butts
Review #75 - Mothball pranks the ponies, Rainbownomicon
Review #76 - The Writing on the Wall
Review #77 - BBBCF, Breaking News and Weather
Review #78 - Why Heaven??? , Gnosis
Review #79 - The Firework Lotus
Review #80 - Petunia Paleo and the Giant Coprolite, Two of Swirls
Review #81 - Ghost, Goblin, God: A Day in the Life of Sweetie Belle
Review #82 - Petriculture, Inscape
Review #83 - Avocation, π
Review #84 - Glimmer, Can I Ass You a Question? , Pandelirium
Review #85 - Song of Madness / Survey Results
Review #86 - What? , Necessary Evil
Review #87 - The Mystery of The Stars
Review #88 - She should know better, Simply Rarity
Review #89 - Curse of the Yellow Fruit
Review #90 - The Luna Papers
Review #91 - The Ultimate Alicorn, The legend of Lee Roy
Some Commentary About G3 MLP / Review #92 - Glimmerhorn Vale, The Dragon's Riddle
Review #93 - I AM an Adult
Review #94 - Those Who Wield Power
Review #95 - I Want a Throne, Why ___ is a Dumb Dumb
Review #96 - I Am Demon
Review #97 - The Games We Play
Review #98 - I Always Thought They'd Be Cooler
Review #99 - Starlight Gets Shipped, The Mane Six Regret Playing Truth or Dare, Hang
Review #100 - Celebration at Twilight's, OF CORPSE I'M HILARIOUS!
Review #101 - Incorrect Assumptions
Review #102 - Zeno's Paradox, The Paradox of the Ravens
Review #103 - It Doesn't Matter Now, Co-Incidence, Not-so Voiceless, To Guard the Light(again)
Review #104 - The Celestia Code
Review #105 - Crystal Glass Ceilings, Motherly
Review #106 - The Luna Cypher
Review #107 - Areas of Expertise, Rise of the Solar Wind
Review #108 - The Twilight Enigma
Review #109 - The Ones We Love
Review #110 - Twilight Sparkle Is Vexed By Uranus
Review #111 - Poneo and Fillyet

Coverphotos added

Review #112 - Why?
Review #113 - Twilight Sparkles Unhealthy Addiction to Books, Daring-Do and the Leaf in the Wind, Starlight Repeatedly Teleports Into Custard, It's Only a Paper Moon
Review #114 - The Luna Papers, Ever Let the Fancy Roam, Through Ice and Shadow, Rainbow Dash and the Pie Sisters
Review #115 - Bubble Blossoms
Review #116 - Cold Light
Review #117 - Lives' End, Jealousy
Review #118 - Magical Intelligence, I Wish I Had Met You Yesterday

That there hiatus of mine came here

Review #119 - Sunset of Time

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Comments ( 4 )

However, if a story is requested of me, then I will get said story done as soon as I possibly can.

...hey! I have an idea. How about you review a story called Twilight vs Tirek, penned by one RainbowSparkle3. :pinkiehappy:

4566973
Oh, that was a mistake. I meant to say Goku vs Tirek, but that works too.

4567051
Meh. I can get both.

4567250
Thanks, I look forward to the reviews!

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