Dragonjek's Recommendations #3 · 11:48pm Sep 28th, 2015
Music!
The Sword of Promised Victory, Fate/Zero rendition by Kajiura Yuki; originating from the Fate/stay night visual novel, where it was composed by NUMBER201.
Music!
The Sword of Promised Victory, Fate/Zero rendition by Kajiura Yuki; originating from the Fate/stay night visual novel, where it was composed by NUMBER201.
I’ve been a bit lax of late on reading new stories as they go up on FIMFiction; the first story in this set went up on my birthday, more than two weeks ago, and I think the latest was up several days ago. Still, better late than never, right?
Though maybe not in something called read it now. Apparently this is more read it nowish.
Still, this started out as such, so a Read It Now it shall remain!
Today’s stories:
Songs Like Snow by Ghost of Heraclitus
Happy Saturday, everyone!
If you haven’t heard, Obselescence is stepping down as a FIMFiction moderator, so feel free to go over there and thank him for his time spent here.
Then, perhaps, do some reading?
Today’s stories:
Oh My… Did I Misread the Signs? by Blue Dragon
That Awkward Moment When… by Hyzaku
Obiter Dicta by Ghost of Heraclitus
Two days of reviews in a row? When was the last time that happened?
Today’s stories:
A Lovely Apology by PresentPerfect
And Yet, What Riches Still Await by PatchworkPoltergeist
Otherworldly Advice by Bookish Delight
If I Gave You Diamonds and Pearls by Estee
True Bowmance by Ceffyl Dwr
So, it turns out that Sunday was a really good day for new stories. I read five new stories, and I liked them all.
How did this happen?
How is this even possible?
Who knows.
But I’m liking it.
Today’s stories:
Red Apples by Billymorph
Sometimes Maps are Dumb by HoofBitingActionOverload
Would It Matter If I Was by GaPJaxie
The Last Dreams of Pony Island by Horizon
One Heck of a Case by iisaw
This about sums up how I’ve been feeling these last few days:
Today’s stories:
Lies and Lyres by King of Beggars
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish by Blueshift
Orange Is The New Blue by Estee
Time to Talk by Jay-The-Brony
Observatory Hill by Skywriter
Procrastination on writing creates a surprising amount of motivation to review stories.
Today’s stories:
Plainswalker by Burraku Pansa
The Brief, Torrid Love-Affair of Fernando the Straw and Madame le Flour by CoffeeMinion
“So… what IS your call sign, anyway?” by Vivid Syntax
The Swap by Monochromatic
The Twilight Zone by Bad Horse
- The Gentle People
-The Element of Audacity
-The Mechanical Donkey
Howdy folks!
With BronyCon in the rearview mirror, I’ve been feeling productive of late. While waiting on Thursday night for my roommates to arrive at the hotel, I started editing an old writeoff story of mine, and managed to finish it off and post it yesterday afternoon:
Howdy folks! It’s been a few weeks since I last did one of these. My last set of Read It Later reviews was published on May 8th, so it’s been almost two weeks since then!
Yes, 13 days. Only 13 days. It’s crazy though, because it feels like it’s been more than a year!
Sorry for the dearth of reviews lately; I’ve been busy at work not revising Mistletrapped so I can get the last few chapters posted. Alas, it is very easy to let such a thing displace other things that are more easily achieved, but I’ve been trying to avoid doing easy things instead of buckling down and chewing on hard tasks.
But the release of several new stories by people I follow removed the option of putting this off any further.
Today’s stories:
Those Who Live Forever is a very obscure story that was recommended to me by Cerulean Voice.
I have written reviews of video games I have played for a long time. I realized that it was kind of silly that I only ever posted them on Steam and Metacritic, and not here. So I thought I'd start out with something of a doozy - The Talos Principle, a game which was widely regarded as the game of the year of 2014 (and not just because the cover art has a robot petting a kitten).
Yesterday, I said I’d maybe take a break from recent story reviews to work on my own stuff.
Then my feed exploded with stories.
You monsters. It’s almost like you want me to keep reading!
But for all your work, I am grateful – today was a very good day for pony fiction.
Today’s stories:
Comma Comma by Soufriere
Princess Cadance’s Official Princess Harem of Imported Humans from Another World by Skywriter
The Road Goes On Forever by Augie Dog
Been a bit remiss in doing reviews since the last writeoff, so I figured I’d climb back on the wagon today and catch up on some of the stories I’d missed.
Decided to try and be useful and get some stuff done.
Did a bunch more reviews, and rewrote chapter six of Mistletrapped.
The season 5 finale train never ends, with three more stories tied closely to The Cutie Re-mark, along with a story that was recently featured and an excellent story which won second place in the November write-off that all of you should read.
Which is which? You’ll have to read the reviews to know.
Today’s stories:
Six to Eight Weeks Dungeon by ocalhoun
Spark Visions of Twilight by Tangerine Blast
Apologies for my laxity in posting this week; I spent a great deal of time twisting myself in knots over what to work on next, and thus ended up not accomplishing much of anything until yesterday, when I simply decided to go ahead with whatever struck me next.
Consequently, I polished up and published a writeoff story:
As He Lay Dying
by Titanium Dragon
The funny thing about procrastination is that sometimes it ends up wrapping back around into productivity.
It’d be nice if I could be productive in the directions that I aimed, but at least I’m getting something done.
Today includes a few stories from the RCL, as well as a couple stories that I previously read that didn’t quite merit a recommendation, along with a final story – one that I’ve put off reading since the Outside Insight contest all the way back in 2014.
Two days until the start of Everfree Northwest, but I leave for the Emerald City tomorrow. If any of you are going to be there and want to meet up, send me a PM and I’ll give you some contact information; I don’t have a smart phone, so the most reliable way of contacting me while I’m wandering around the convention is likely to be an actual, honest-to-god phone call.
I know, shocking.
I’m just about done reading the stories for the last Writeoff competition, but in the meanwhile, I thought I’d throw another batch of new stories at you folks, especially in the light of commenting to someone else about how this helps improve feature box quality. You know how much power we reviewers wield!
Not very much.
Still, some of these were indeed worth reading.
The stories I read today:
Misunderstanding by Sapidus3
Wassail, Wassail! by Skywriter