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Fics I reviewed in May 2024

Thought I'd forgotten these, did you? Not a bit of it! Well, not now anyway. Cough. Of course if you want to see my reviews as they appear -- and, surprising as this may seem, some people do -- then you'll need to keep track of my weekly Ponyfic Roundup reviews over on my off-site blog, Louder Yay. Being off-site means
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3 weeks
British democracy may have its problems, but one thing I am proud of...

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7 weeks
Rainbows, eh?

This is fortunately nothing to do with Zephyr Breeze's... distinctive way of addressing Ms Dash. It's simply that in a (print, hence no link) magazine earlier I found a comment by someone, himself gay, who said he'd stopped trying to work out which letters to include in LGBTIQA+ (or the many variations thereof) and simply referred to people who feel at home under that umbrella as
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9 weeks
The never-ending stor(e)y

For some reason this is one of the points readers of mine (including off-site ones) have mentioned several times, perhaps because it's one of those Transatlantic divides that isn't all that well known. So: when you're talking about the floors of a building:
US English: one story, two stories. The same spelling and the same plural as for the other kind of story.
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10 weeks
Fics I reviewed in April 2024 (and one from late March)

By popular request¹ I'm bringing back this feature. My weekly Ponyfic Roundup reviews are, and will remain, on my off-site blog. It just suits me to do it that way, even if I'd probably have got significantly more of a readership had I written the blogs on Fimfiction as most (all?) other current reviewers do. However, a
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Dec

24th

2023

Happy Hearth's Warming Eve! · 8:50pm Dec 24th, 2023

I keep my online activity to an absolute minimum on Christmas Day, so I'll take this opportunity to wish all of you reading this a Merry Christmas!¹ However life has treated you over the past year, I hope it treats you better over the next. I shall be back to reading Fimfiction on Boxing Day!
¹ By all means substitute another holiday if you like though here in the UK, we tend to say "Merry Christmas" to everyone; "Happy Holidays" is quite rare.

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