When I recommend stories that go into M territory, I prefer to give a heads up for folks that things are going to be Not Safe For Work. 

This is me giving that warning now, because there's a lot of profanity coming up. 

Because this week's connecting theme is profanity.

Oh, and Rarity.

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Alright - after a lot of drama yesterday that's psychologically drained me and feeling under the weather from my Covid vax, I'm pulling a mulligan today.

And by 'mulligan' I mean that I'm using my reserve blog which flushes four stories out of my backlog rather than one new and one backlog. So... yeah, deal with twice as much story.

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Let's talk world building. It's a pretty important part of a story - you gotta make the setting work, after all. One of the reasons why this fandom works is that we've got a rich background to work against and to build off of. But just as important is the parts that aren't officially filled in. The stuff that's hinted at but unspoken and that writers dwell in. We can take those - some small like the lives of Twilight's parents, some huge like how pre-Princess Equestria worked - and explore them

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So I've talked a bit before about my queue for this blog: I keep 10-20 weeks of pairs in a reserve shelf and generally pull from there as the mood takes me or as a situation comes up. Sometimes that ends up with sets that sit for quite a while because the right moment just doesn't arrive. It doesn't mean they're not good, it just never seems like the right time - maybe they're serious and I already did several serious ones lately; maybe they're being saved for a special occasion; maybe I'm just

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So today is the Summer Solstice and Celestia Day! So let's do some Princess Celestia stories!

...nah, too easy.

Let's do some Luna stories. For balance and/or spite.

We'll start with the short: Trixie and Luna Go to The Pound by Skijarama.

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When most authors write Purple Edgehorse, they go for action. Maybe romance. A dark path full of pathos and regret. (For a certain subset of authors, they go a bit more steamy because they really want her to step on them.) Comedy is not a first choice for most authors. 

These are not most authors.

They understand that comedy sometimes works best when the madness comes from the mouth of a pony who would murder you at the drop of a hat. Any hat. Or hat-like object. 

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This one's gonna be a bit quick - we're hosting Thanksgiving this year, so I've got roughly a billion things to clean and neaten and cook before tomorrow. But that just makes it a perfectly good excuse to hit the last one of the pairings I promised: Unique Sunset Shimmer Origins.

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So I did have other things planned for this week - but life happens. Or in this case, death. A few days ago our little community lost another member in Level Dasher - the last few blogs kinda tell the story on that one. 

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I'm in a bit of a rush today - the holidays do that - but that just means I have to pick and get on with it rather than spending half an hour mulling over which stories I'm picking and why. (Not that this means they aren't good, just that I do have a historical problem with choice paralysis.) So today I'll give a fairly simple theme: authors who, at this point, are still under ten follows.

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So last week I mentioned in passing the first blog post that got this whole series started back in early 2021. And after looking at it again, I realized that I actually never put those authors properly into the Recommendsday catalogue. (Well, two of the three - I did eventually correct my oversight of TamiyaGuy, the Wizard of JPGs and Tactical Intervention enthusiast. (Speaking of, he's just recently

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Swinging back in purpose again, let's look at another two fairly new/unknown authors.

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Today, it's time to get a bit meta.

And I mean that fairly literally. In fact, the first story today's kind of the key in that.

If you look at the FIMFiction site rules, you'll notice under the Don't Post (Genres) section, there's this:

• Meta stories, defined broadly as any story about the site or its users. What constitutes meta is largely up to staff discretion.

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Well heck. I can't just stop at two alicorns. That would be rude. And I've no desire to have Cadance thrown at me like a javelin.

So we begin this week with a story I've had on my to-feature list for a while and an author I'm excessively biased towards. Namely: Sledge115 and the stunning Rose of Florentina.

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After last week being so heavy and dark, this week I'm going for far more cheery fare. In specific, this week's weird connection is 'stories in which Derpy stares down a demigod to get her daughter the best Hearth's Warming present.'

And the first of those stories would be When We Took Back the Stars by Dubs Rewatcher. 

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To end out a month of "If I had a nickel for every time this happened, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice," I'm going to bring out two real powerhouse authors.

The theme this week? Something I'll have to actually spoiler to preserve the stories themselves. But for those doubling back, it's stories in which characters in a cast gradually disappear.

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Sometimes, this blog practically writes itself: I stumble on to a fic that just leaps out at me and gets easily paired with something already on my to-do list. And that's the cases this week, though I won't tell on which one is which - I don't want to do either a disservice.

I'll lead today with the older of the two: Cut by MetaSkipper.

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So this week's my anniversary - 14 years. And that's a good enough reason to establish a theme! So as my wife and I are both absolute gigantic nerds (which should not be a surprise to anyone), I think I'll have a bit of fun this week with Moondancer. And romances. But not her and Twilight, that's too easy. Let's go with some that are a bit more unique.

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You know, I missed this fandom's early days. I was around very briefly, but missed almost all of the excitement and creativity that were spawned out of those first moments when all anybody had to go on was an episode or two and forty billion headcanons. While the launch of G5 hasn't gotten quite the same uncontrollable burst, it's still brought a lot of new characters, ideas, and situations to the table. And while these aren't the first G5 fics I've offered up (I did that the first week

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This week, I'm going with a youth theme - foals and young children in their own stories. And we've got a pretty good batch. 

I'll lead with the shortest piece: Dawn Comes to Equestria by Evil Fairy. This one's an EQG/G4 crossover that takes place after the finale of both (though not the G4 epilogue.) 

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So I've touched on themes before - this week's is an odd one. 'Equestria Girls romance fics that have two women swing dancing on the cover'.

Look, I just work here. Don't ask me about the rules, I only follow 'em.

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