Fifteen

All the cool authors write blogs to go with their chapter updates, so here's me jumping on that bandwagon.

First off, apologies for the wait between this and the previous chapter. I had some writer's block, some RL obligations, and a few other things keeping me busy, so this chapter was written in short bursts separated by multiple days at a time... not to mention I scrapped the original opening because it was horrible. Even so, there are a number of things I'm quite proud of in this chapter, and I think it all works and hangs together fairly well, so I hope you enjoy it.

Seems my story's liked enough to get on the feature bar when I update, which is amazing (even if it only lasted like an hour). Thanks to all my readers for making that possible. On a related note, knighty introduced these notification stack things just in time. =)

What to do with the rest of this blog... hmm... story recs? Story recs.

The Song of Syhlex by The Descendant
The Descendent's library of stories is something I'm really trying to find time to dig into properly. I've only read this and Tangled Up in Blues, but both were really marvellous stories. They're the kinds of stories you don't expect to see as fanfiction – Blues because it's the very personal story of a background pony (read: prop) with a distinct not-quite-FIM flavour and Song because it's a epic mythology told in verse.

For the Love of Science by Cold in Gardez
As far as dorky Twilight comedy goes, I think Gardez has topped Naked Singularity with this one. That was hilarious, certainly, but I feel that Science has a broader variety of jokes.

Cake Story by Blueshift
Blueshift really is one of my favourite fic authors, because he's not afraid to try different things, and because even his serious stories have this undercurrent of weirdness that shouldn't work but does. This is one of his more serious and longer works, and it was a fantastic read – despite the premise of "what if Mr Cake was actually a cake", this has a very different feel from "what if Twilight was a pea" and "what if Trixie was an airship". Plus the villain's a great reference to something from around when I first got into the fandom (around this time last year or so, now that I think about it).

Beyond the Wall by Filler
It's been described as The Village with ponies, but with a different ending. Funnily enough, the author claims to never have seen that. Given that I've written pony fanfic versions of animes I haven't seen, I know that feel. Give it a read; it won the third Write-Off for a reason.

Comments

[Blueshift]

Oh wow just stumbled across this, thanks for the mini review!