Fic recs, September 29th: MelancholyIguana edition! · 1:05pm Sep 29th, 2020
Yeap, we're doing this again. :B
With our next fic reader, who is MelancholyIguana, active as of last year but apparently moving away from ponies to do creepypastas. It happens. The List:
AbsoluteAnonymous's Pinkie Watches Paint Dry
Akumokagetsu's Twilight Is Doomed
ocalhoun's Princess Celestia Is Still in Your Bed
GhostOfHeraclitus's Twilight Sparkle Makes a Cup of Tea
Stratocaster's Twilight Hears the Narrator
DannyJ's Rest in Chaos
Which leaves just barely five stories left for me to review! <:B And they were all so short, I just sat down and listened to 'em!
H: 0 R: 0 C: 3 V: 0 N: 2
Shit Happens by Bjornfot
Reading
Mature: Gore
Genre: Trollfic
Rarity is dead, and Spike isn't dealing with it well.
Holy crap, it's story #62! O.o This was posted on the site post-season one, but I have to wonder if either it was written prior to Cutie Mark Chronicles, or if the author just hadn't seen it yet, considering some of the things said within. More likely, the author just didn't care and was writing whatever came to them with no actual plan. If the troll at the end had been funny, or if there had been more silly asides, this might have been enjoyable, but really, it's just a big waste of time, the kind of trolling that's only fun for the troll.
Not Recommended
A Trip to See My Brother, by Twilight Sparkle by MelancholyIguana
Reading
Genre: Limerick
I wish he'd said where his blog is located, because there's no text version of this. That's all right, I suppose; this probably works best in spoken form, for all that you get to hear exactly where the meter and rhyme go wrong. Still, I'll give him credit for writing a long-form limerick about goofy stuff. The form isn't perfect, but it does fit the action.
Recommended If You Like Silly Poetry
Discord Meets Discord and Discord by Fizzy Orange
Reading (part 1)
Genre: Random Comedy
Discord meets a few friends who just so happen to be him.
Okay, so it's obvious the reader had a field day with this one, producing a fun production but not so much reading a fanfic. Ergo, I can't really say where the fic ends and the production begins. Taken at face value, this is exceedingly random, but I've also seen Discord written considerably less chaotic, so it's an honest kind of random. Still really bizarre either way.
Recommended If You Like Random Stuff
Lyric Story do not steal by Protopony350
Reading by MelancholyIguana and The Wandering Bard
Genre: Trollfic
Looks like another one that doesn't exist in text format. So this is apparently based on stories written by the second reader (more on her later), which I am currently unfamiliar with. But trust Protopony to take a concept and make it fun regardless of what context might otherwise be required to understand what's going on. I mean, an instrument constantly changing every time it's mentioned is funny on its own, right? Right? There's your answer.
Troll Recommended
Luna's Breakfast by DouglasTrotter
Reading (part 1) by MelancholyIguana, The Wandering Bard and Will-Owl-the-Wisp
Genre: Slice of Life
Luna is having some issues acclimating to modern life.
Okay, so, first point of order: "Luna vs. the Microwave" suggests Progress. Which I've already read. And while it was a story that didn't really hold up to time, at least Progress wasn't boring. This is seriously the dullest, most straightforward way to approach this topic, nevermind the fact that Andrew Joshua Talon had already done it three years prior. Also, I took some umbrage at "saddlebag pouches" as a ponification of "Hot Pockets". Like... how? Why? This was also a waste of time, and not even trying to be funny.
DNF: 1/3
Protopony350 blocking me for being an edgie commie hurt :(((