May
9th
2024
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Editing and Critique Commissions
Public Notices
People keep asking, “Hey, I see you added my story to a bookshelf! Are you going to review it?”
I book it, I review it.
No exceptions.
Reading Progress
Imploding Colon ·
424k words
· 763
44 ·
7.3k views
98.20% (415,901 / 423,534)
Ponydora Prancypants ·
227k words
· 1,444
28 ·
27k views
44.39% (100,809 / 227,108)
Featured Stories
These stories did well enough to hit the feature box!
Bulletproof Heart: The Great, The Powerful, and the Bulletproof
Bulletproof Heart: The Pony on the Roof
Bulletproof Heart: Sunset at Little Longhorn
Cutie Mark Chronicles: Limestone Pie
Lyra Heartstrings and the Bench of Doom
No Heroes: Hot Chocolate at the Isekai
The Gentle Nights: Audience of One
Accolades
Anthropomorphic
2nd Place
The Barcast's Halloween in April Contest
Study of Generosity
2nd Place
The Barcast's Make Rarity Not Garbage Contest
The Fourth Season
Honorable Mention
Oroboro's Sunset Shipping Contest: Changing Seasons
What is Missing, What is Lost
1st Place
Rage Reviews! seventh F*** THIS PROMPT contest
One Night at Fluttershy's
3rd Place
Skeeter the Lurker's Switcheroo! contest
Ordinary World
Overall Winner
Transformations group's Body Swap Contest
Twilight's Inferno
1st Place
Badass Twilight = Total Domination group's Banished, Exiled, Forgotten contest
Latest Stories
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- PaulAsaran · 8.9k words · 38 3 · 413 views
- PaulAsaran · 6.5k words · 24 1 · 237 views
- PaulAsaran · 22k words · 41 1 · 447 views
- PaulAsaran · 13k words · 18 0 · 173 views
Review Requests
Rules for Requesting Reviews
Want to request a review? There's no 'correct' way to do it. PM me, comment on my blogs, comment on my user page, it's all good. As soon as I've acknowledged the request I'll go into my Review Schedule and add yours to the queue. Just remember: requests are always first come/first serve. There are a few rules:
NOTICE: As of April 12, I am 22 weeks ahead of schedule. Due to me trying to build up room in my schedule for a planned Longfic Only Blog, that number can only go higher. Please be aware that this means any requests made right now will likely have a very long wait time.
Long Stories
As of May 9, I have only 5 slots left for 2025!
A story is considered "long" if it is 70,000 words or more. I have a policy of reviewing one long story per blog post, but that means I have a strictly limited number of slots available and requests are competing with sequels or stories I selected on my own. To keep this from getting out of control, I will only open the schedule for a time period to the end of the next year (so if it's currently 2022, the schedule closes when 2023 is fully booked).
There is no upper limit on the wordcount for requested stories (current record: 2,020,000), but I will not bottleneck my schedule with a lot of huge stories and may reject them if I feel like they're going to cause a scheduling issue.
No Clop
Have I read clop? Yes. Do I review clop? Not often. My reviews are for stories, not blatant fap material. That said, every once in a while one slips through the cracks. If you can convince me that there's actually a story under all the mess, then I will consider it.
Incompletes
As a general rule, I avoid reading incomplete stories. I tend to make an exception to requests, but I reserve the right to decline incompletes.
Review Schedule and Other Spreadsheets
My Long Story schedule is completely booked for 2024. This means that if you want to request a story longer than 70,000 words, you will be waiting until sometime in 2025 for that review. I cannot guarantee it'll be "early" 2025, either. Just something to keep in mind.
This schedule lists the stories that are set to be reviewed every week. The next six weeks are always included. I may have more than six scheduled, but only the nearest six will actually be visible at any time.
The day-to-day reading schedule, which dictates what I will read and when. Mostly meant for my own use in limiting how much I read every day, but kept available to the public for the sake of transparency.
The archive. Contains a list of every story I've ever reviewed with links to both the story and the review.
A Brief Look Into The Insanely Detailed World That Is Paul's Mind
Read this if you want to see what I go through every Saturday to deliver to you folks a weekly review blog. Be warned, this thing is overbearingly detailed.
Favorites
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The Silver Standard Once upon a time, Silver Spoon's life made sense. Now she lives in Ponyville. 296,450 words · 528 · 10
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Five Hundred Little Murders Flitter thinks Fluttershy is the weakest pony in the world. Flitter has never confronted what Fluttershy's job really means. Nopony ever wants to or should. Now Flitter has to. And 'weak' will turn out to be exactly the wrong word. 10,523 words · 1,135 · 25
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The Flight of the Alicorn Rarity finds herself forced into an unlikely alliance when her airship crashes far from home. 227,108 words · 1,444 · 28
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Sucker for a Cute Face Adagio finds Fluttershy alone one morning, and many to follow. 276,133 words · 1,229 · 28
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Daring Do(esn't Need a Special Somepony) A.K. Yearling doesn't write love stories, because Daring Do usually spends Hearts and Hooves Day tearing through Equestria in a no-holds-barred search for candy. There's no room for anypony else in the chase. Especially not some stuck-up stunt flier. 9,335 words · 499 · 10
Concepts & Creations Index
A while back I started posting blogs detailing stories that I conceived but don't expect to ever write. The link below is to an index of all these blogs.
Best Stories
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Time for Tea As far as everyone who isn't Fluttershy knows, Rainbow Dash is not a 'tea' type of girl. Really. 1,000 words · 109 · 4
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No Heroes Part III - For Dreams Luna's team takes on its first task, working together with the Element Bearers. But with Fine Crime out of action, can Luna keep the team going in their dreams? 92,694 words · 120 · 1
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Of Angels What makes an angel? Is it wings and a halo? Is it good deeds, a gentle touch, beauty? I’ve thought on that long and hard. 4,023 words · 353 · 3
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Friendship = Evil Filly Twilight has come upon a groundbreaking truth. Now she just has to convince Celestia. 2,393 words · 945 · 11
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Lessons in Generosity Scootaloo is the last pony Rarity ever thought would want to be more 'Rarity', but that's exactly what the filly claims. Sadly, Scootaloo's understanding of generosity is disastrously flawed. 4,887 words · 312 · 4
Personal Best
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Bulletproof Heart In a hot desert Equestria, Rarity Belle makes her living as a clothier in the small town of Spurhoof. But when a posse of Bad Apples arrive in town, she finds her life turned upside down. Now she fights for only one thing: survival. 314,571 words · 333 · 13
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Cutie Mark Chronicles: Limestone Pie Everything was fine until Great Uncle Holder showed up with his stupid boulder. 11,902 words · 66 · 2
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Forgive Me, Friend Rainbow comes home to find her wife waiting for her. She hasn't seen Rarity in seven years. 8,521 words · 90 · 5
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Of Angels What makes an angel? Is it wings and a halo? Is it good deeds, a gentle touch, beauty? I’ve thought on that long and hard. 4,023 words · 353 · 3
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Oh no, I haven't forgot
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...I take it you forgot you requested I review it ages ago?
Thank you for adding Wings Of Vigor to your reading list
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Well, I'm not reading it yet. I've put it on the Incompletes bookshelf for tracking. As a general rule I don't actually read incomplete stories outside of requests, but I am interested in it, so if you ever do finish it then it's guaranteed to be read/reviewed.
Omg, you have no idea how happy I was today to wake up and see you read something of mine that wasn't something I asked you to review. I'm really glad Entertainers caught your interest. :3