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?

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Today’s stories:

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“So, Biscuit,” said nobody in particular, “how’s 2021 been going so far?”

Source

And we had a whole six days without incident, too.

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“Why do you have to be so annoying?”

“Hey! I’m just trying to explain it to you! The history of the language is-”

“Long and boring. Also, unnecessary to learn.”

“...Fascinating and intriguing.”

“‘Fascinating’ and ‘intriguing’ mean the same thing!”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Okay, so I just discovered a message on my phone's emails that tells me ''Happy YouTube-versary! It's been more than 1,576,000 minutes since your first upload! That's 3 whole years!''

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No, there's no joke this time, no trolling or misleading information; this time I'm serious. Well, as serious as I can possibly be anyway. ;)

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Apparently getting sick means that after I recover, I become more powerful productive.

I knew it was worth picking up the Anime Protagonist perk at level 1.

Today’s stories:

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Happy Easter Everyone! Hope you all have a great day filled with chocolate eating. Unfortunately, I only got one Easter Egg, but oh well.

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Well, it seems folks are pretty happy with My Fluttering Heart on the whole. It was fun coming up with a personality for a seven-and-a-half year old Flurry Heart, as well as packing as much foreshadowing into Flurry Heart’s perspective as I could. Not to mention the dad jokes. Thanks to everyone who has read that story, and thanks especially to you who talked to me about it; I appreciate it.

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REMEMBER HOW TWO YEARS AGO I wrote the outline of a huge RariTwi Parent Trap AU and it was honestly one of the best things i've ever done and i should quit writing everything else to write this?

well now u remember

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Been a while since I've been this consistently productive. I have to admit, it feels good putting out content every day.

Today’s stories:

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WARNING: POTENTIAL HUGE SPOILERS. DON'T READ THE TEXT IF YOU DON'T WANNA BE SPOILED. THIS IS JUST FOR MY OWN CONVENIENCE TO REFERENCE LATER

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Thought I’d get some work done for the Royal Guard and read a few pieces I’d been putting off reading for a long time.

Today’s stories:

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Estee has written a lot of stories, and I’ve ended up reviewing a lot of things they’ve written. As I was writing this, I believed that I was down to the last five (finished) stories in the Triptych verse, and so I decided to devote a review set to finishing out Estee’s stories.

Turns out I miscounted, and there’s still one more left.

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I am only operating at a fraction of my total productivity – I got almost nothing done yesterday – but I did manage to get another review set done (well, apart from Read It Now #100, a very special read it now).

There’s so much more I could do if only I could focus myself better.

Today’s stories:

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As with yesterday’s Read It Later reviews, four of the five stories in this set came from Scribblefest. As was the case yesterday, please note that my opinion on these stories is not the final word for that contest; we are merely in the preliminary round of judging, and three judges read each of these stories. I am but one of nine judges involved in this, so… yeah.

Anyway! Onto the reviews!

Today’s stories:

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