I've been honoured and humbled yet again · 9:02am Nov 28th, 2022
Two things to announce today!
The emojis were clues btw
First, I'd like to thank Loganberry for his review of Essenza di Amore on his personal blog, Louder Yay! Because I'm terrible, I didn't notice that he'd even done it for about three weeks, but I gave it a read and it gave me the fuzzie wuzzies all over again. Logan has been doing these reviews since 2014 and is one of the rare remaining people still going from that time period, so give him some love for that in the quite-unlikely scenario that he needs inspiration to keep going.
Fun little aside: while it is unfortunate (but quite reasonable) that Griffin aka Singularity Dream is no longer updating his Big Master Review List, in the alternate universe where he was, I would be sitting on 14 reviews of Essenza di Amore across the fandom, finally breaking the tie between myself and iisaw's pony cult classic, The Celestia Code, to take the title of "most reviewed pony fanfic in history". Yes, even more than Fallout: Equestria (12 reviews) and Past Sins (11 reviews). Somehow.
Second, I only recently stumbled upon a most welcome surprise: For the Halloween Month of Macabre pony fanfic reading event (I believe hosted or organised by Scribbler?), Agent Fluffy held casting auditions for, and then directed and produced, a quite high quality collaborative reading of The Ultimate Alicorn.
Wow. I finally listened to it a month late (gotta love how fimfic tells you and also doesn't tell you that you have notifications if you take too long to view them lol) and I'm floored. There's cleverly added music from many sources, custom artwork, multiple VAs playing different characters; this was clearly a labour of love and I am still shook that out of all the spooky, scary, bloody, gory stories out there to pick from, Agent Fluffy chose one of mine.
Please go and give the video a watch if you liked the original story (unless grimdark isn't your thing of course) and if you're someone who prefers to listen to your horse words rather than read them, go and follow Agent Fluffy's channel for far more where this came from. Amazing.
Pretty sick, yo
Yoo congrats!
I didn't know the Master Review list wasn't updating anymore. Explains a few things, though. When did it stop?
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Thanks, you two!
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I'm not entirely sure tbh. Close to the start of 2021 I'm guessing, just going by Griffin's blog. Still the most exhaustive list of ponyfic review we have (and may ever have).
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It will be missed.