Read It Later · 4:45am Nov 9th, 2017
Read It Later
It came to me that I have a lot of stories I put in my read it later list. So I decided to look and see just how many words are there all together.
150 million words.
The estimated time to read it if I read literally nonstop?
60 weeks.
Help.
A million words knocked off my Read For Later list in a month. It's actually more than that, since I keep adding more and more every time I see something to read
A couple of One-Shots I have planned and partially worked on:
What if, upon hearing about the events of Lesson Zero, Trixie decided for a more subtle revenge upon Twilight Sparkle and her friends?
and
Two Thursdays ago, I read Eternal.
Last Thursday, I finished my latest story, A Thousand Roses, and got it ready for editing.
Today, I decide to tackle another longfic, this time one I had not previously read – Estee’s A Mark of Appeal.
I’m gonna hold a little competition based on my read it later shelf
I’m gonna make it public, and you guys need to make an unlisted shelf of the ones on it you’d think I’m still interested in and send it to me.
I will be doing the same. The person with the closest to mine will get a request of their choice (meaning a story request, art request, something for me to change my pfp to, etc) (no nsfw tho)
Is that... light?
I apologize for my long absence; for the last few months I wandered out into dark caves and buried myself there. I had no reason for doing so; I simply did. It is not that I lost interest, or found something more interesting to do; indeed, there was little to do in the dark.
I just hid. From what?
Myself, perhaps?
While I was working on some new reviews, I went through my old files and realized I’d started a bunch of review sets that I’d never finished. These were all destined for various different review sets, but I never ended up publishing any of them because they were all in sets of 1-3 stories. I wrote some of these as far back as 2018.
But hey, better late than never, right?
Today’s stories:
Bangception by Estee
Now Hiring by Miss-Cyan
Ninety is a nice, round number, and the nineties were a rather nice decade.
In this set, I started reading GaP Jaxie’s The Third Wheel, a series of five AU fics set in the same world, plus I read a smattering of other stories.
Today’s stories:
The Land of the Dead by GaPJaxie
The Third Wheel by GaPJaxie
Courtesans by GaPJaxie
The Trixie Clause by TCC56
The Sum of Our Parts by Aquaman
Seems like a good day for some reviews!
Today’s stories:
Sharing the Night by Cast-Iron Caryatid
Counting Crows by VashTheStampede
Proof of Concept by Estee
Applejack’s Hearts and Hooves Day Hullabaloo by Tumbleweed
Of Orchards and Obituaries by Tumbleweed
I actually wrote this the same day as I finished up Read It Later Reviews #88. It’s been a long time since I actually got ahead on review sets. It’s crazy! What’s next, me actually publishing another story?
Today’s stories:
All Good Things by Coronet the Lesser
Simulations by Monochromatic
The Banach-Tarski Dragon by CCC
Foreign Thoughts by GAPJaxie
Ponies All The Way Down by ObabScribbler
A Diamond and a Tether has been on my to-read list for a long time now, and I finally got around to reading it and wondered why I hadn’t done so before.
So many things are so easy to do in retrospect, and yet, we let months elapse before we do them.
In totally unrelated news, I’ve been working on editing Mistletrapped, sprucing up the last couple chapters before I ship them off to my editors.
Today’s stories:
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!
Those Who Live Forever is a very obscure story that was recommended to me by Cerulean Voice.
Howdy folks! It has been far too long since I did one of these. Sort of been avoiding a lot of blog posts because spoilers, like an idiot. I just need to catch up on stuff.
And generally being useless.
Sometimes, when I’m feeling like I’m being a useless lump, I just decide to do something.
According to my computer, I finished this review set all the way back on September 10th. I had thought I had posted it for some reason, but apparently, I never did.
Whoops.
Today’s stories:
Salting Snails by Bats
Philomeanie by Skywriter
Dictated, Not Read by Device Heretic
Veneer by Trick Question
The Prisoner of Zebra by Tumbleweed
I’ve been on a roll lately. I feel increasingly reinvigorated as I do more actually productive things that result in actually meaningful results. Going through pony stories again on a regular basis is nice, and I’m looking forward to watching the rest of the season 6 episodes I’ve been missing.
But first, more reviews!
Today’s stories:
The Color of Promises by Deathscar
Somepony’s Daughter by bookplayer
If You Came to Conquer by cleverpun
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