Howdy folks!
I’ve been trying to actually be active lately. As some of you might have noticed, I posted a new story yesterday:
Lord of the Dragons
by Titanium Dragon
Drama
2,625 words
This could also be called “four shipfics and a random story”. In my Rarity shipping kick, I read the rather strange Every Mare Needs Her Stallion as well as three RariLight pieces. Then, just to round things off, I read one of the highest rated stories on FIMFiction, Discord Applies for Citizenship Papers, which happens to also be extremely short.
How did they all stack up?
Read on.
Today’s stories:
Every Mare Needs Her Stallion by InquisitorM
Well, trying to be a busy little beaver dragon this week and spend my free time doing productive things instead of browsing the Internet and wasting time procrastinating. It is invigorating to throw myself into things, and I wonder just what it is that keeps trying to pull me back into the petty and frivolous when I could be doing far more enjoyable things.
Is it base human nature?
Is it fear of actually trying?
Is it just the ease of consuming the easily digested?
Ah, well.
À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) is a classic of French literature.
A few nights ago, I finally found it. Lost Time, that is.
I got the rest of the set done on Saturday… and then my laptop had major problems on Sunday which are as yet not fully resolved, but at least I got it working again. This wouldn’t ordinarily be a problem… except for the fact that my house is being remodeled and, at the moment, is full of nasty fumes. Good old VOCs.
The week has come and gone, but how could I let it end without another set of reviews?
Today’s stories:
All the Bitter Remains by Arcelia
Have a Safe Trip, Twilight by Arguing Pizza
Gateway to Happiness by Spacecowboy
Let Them Eat Cake by Ogopogo
The Cancellation of Prince Blueblood by Georg
A common symptom of being on FIMFiction for a while is an ever-growing read later list, composed of a bunch of stories which looked interesting enough to mark “read later”, but which you were too lazy to read at that point in time, either because it wasn’t really that interesting, because you were pressed for time, or because it was simply fairly long and would require some actual commitment.
My Read It Later list is up to 1517 stories at the time of writing.
Welcome to another edition of Read It Later Reviews. Today, I’ve got three stories that I had read previously, plus a story from a writer I had never encountered the works of on previous occasion and a Horse Voice story I hadn’t yet read.
This was originally destined to be Read It Now Reviews #93, and was mostly written all the way back in September.
Then I kept on putting off finishing reading A Confederacy of Dunce Caps for no good reason.
Today, I found the time to finally finish it off… but by this point, now is really later.
Still, that’s no excuse not to post reviews!
Today’s stories:
Stupid Tree by Baal Bunny
A Confederacy of Dunce Caps by Estee
Well, hopefully you all enjoyed these, because you’re going to see more.
The five stories I read today:
Her Blood Ran in Hollows of the Floor by HoofBitingActionOverload
Cards Against Equiniti by Door Matt
Bitter Harvest by Else Ynopemos
Words Failed Her by Nonsanity
Little Apple by Oroboro
This set almost became an Estee story only set. Then I ended up reading one other story, then a second… and then it became a normal review set.
Also, every one of Estee’s stories that I haven’t read yet is 20k+ words long. And I’ve been saying I’d read bookplayer’s Lost Time, Cold in Gardez’s Salvation…
I’m so good at putting off getting stuff read that I’m sure I’ll find fascinating.
Still, there was some good stuff in here.
Today’s stories:
Sometimes, I browse the bookshelves of people who favorite my stories. Sometimes, some of the stories catch my eye and I decide to mark them as “read it later”.
This is the result.
The five stories I read today:
First Kiss by Pony With A Hat
”Best Friends” Anniversary Announcement by Rainbow FlutterDash
Late Fees by MrNumbers
Her Scarf Fluttered in the Absence of Wind by ArgonMatrix
Three Hazards of Ponyville by Rocinante
I spent pretty much all of Sunday reading Scribblefest entries, and this is going to be the last Scribblefest-centric review post. On the whole, the finalists had a number of very decent stories, and while I didn’t end up writing a review of every story, I did manage to write reviews for a good number of them.
As always, note that I am but one of nine Scribblefest judges, so my word is not the last one on these.
Today’s stories:
Pegasus by Grand_Moff_Pony
It seems that the hurricane season is well upon us; between Hurricane Harvey two weeks ago, and Hurricane Irma demolishing several islands in the Caribbean, while two more wend their way around the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, there’s quite a bit of atmospheric excitement. Combined with the terrible fires out west and a big old earthquake off of Florida, we’ve really got all four of the elements well and truly covered.
I wrote a piece of original fiction over the weekend – the first such piece I’ve written since late 2013. I had some fun writing it, and I think I shall be doing more of it and see how it goes.
But don’t think that means I’m giving up on ponies. Original fiction is business. Ponies? Are fun.
Speaking of fun, I reviewed five more stories, including one that really impressed me.
Today’s stories:
Rarity’s Rodeo by Somber
Dangerous by totallynotabrony
Back in December, when I first started this set of reviews, I wrote:
It is very easy to try and write reviews of a lot of short stories. It lets you get through large numbers of works in a short period of time… but it also means you’re avoiding many of the longer works, many of which I added to my Read It Later list because they were supposed to be quite good. What is the point of having such stories on your list if you are always going to put off reading them?
Ah, procrastination, my old foe, returned to bite me with a vengeance today. Annoyed with myself for not getting anything done, I decided to focus on one thing I could do – read stories, and review them, and maybe get my own creative juices flowing.
It only sort of worked. But I did find some stuff I liked, so the day wasn’t a total loss.
Today’s stories:
More Than Dreams by Minds Eye
Love Twiangles by Oroboro
Marble Madness by Twinkletail
Instead of working on a story, I instead spent all evening reviewing stories. I’m not sure if that counts as procrastination or sideways efficiency. But hey, I managed both a set of Read It Now Reviews and a set of Read It Later reviews this week!
Hello to all my new followers!
For those of you who who are new, I periodically review stories and give my own personal recommendations on them. The stories are taken from my voluminous “Read It Later” lists, or alternatively are drawn from various places around the site. I am somewhat notorious for “hating everything”, but I assure you, there are things that I love.
Just not many of them.
Apparently the answer to that first question is me, given that the first two reviews in this set were from a Read It Now set that I let sit for so long it ended up Read It Later. But I felt like reading some stories yesterday evening to round out a set.
Let’s get cracking.
Today’s stories:
Who Has Time for Laziness? by Minds Eye
The Dusty Trail by Unicorncob
A Good Trot, Spoiled by Estee
A “Warm” Distraction by Alchemicgree
Putting off reading stories and then doing lots of stuff less interesting than reading stories is stupid.
I still managed to procrastinate by wasting time on Reddit.
But I did get some stories read!
Today’s stories:
Horsefeathers by Fervidor
Whisk by Present Perfect
Mechanical Aptitude by Estee
by Super Trampoline
The Trouble with Phoenixes by Cold in Gardez
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