R4 (Reactions, Reviews, Reference, Redirection) #0091 · 1:16am Mar 28th, 2015
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Five old reviews:
Bitter-Sweetie by InquisitorM
Twilight Sparkle Loses Her Wings by PresentPerfect
Go West, Young Mare by JohnPerry
No Regrets by horizon
The Railway Ponies: Highball by The Descendant
Bitter-Sweetie by InquisitorM
[story link] [my original review]
This author is never boring, and that’s a good thing. This is the third story I’ve read by this guy. First one I really liked, second one I didn’t really understand, and this one is kind of in the middle. Every story is a combination of what the author puts on the page and what’s already in the reader’s mind, but this is one that I feel like my brain is only interacting with like 90% of the author’s part. Anyway, this was quite good. My tastes and this author’s tastes have almost no common ground, from what comments on other sites I’ve seen, but he does know how to write a good story.
Twilight Sparkle Loses Her Wings by PresentPerfect
[story link] [my original review]
That was silly. Which is about the only thing I have to say about it. Very silly. Though Princess Celestia looking at porn magazines is a funny image.
Go West, Young Mare by JohnPerry
[story link] [my original review]
Weird. I somehow missed writing this one down after I read it. Another lost story review discovered by editing the huge list. I remember putting it on the first list, but apparently didn’t get around to writing down what I thought about it. So this one will be mostly from memory. I liked this one. Had good worldbuilding for the buffalo, interesting backstory for Daring Do, and a nice look at modern industrialization of Equestria. I vaguely remember having one or two specific things I wanted to comment about, but I thought I wrote them down so my memory let them go. Oh well. This was a good story and I’ll probably read it again sometime in the future.
No Regrets by horizon
[story link] [my original review]
Cool little what if story. Nice little twist at the end. It is a neat alternate look at how the conflict between the royal sisters could have happened that is different than anything else I’ve seen addressing the topic. The second chapter with the extra bits was also well done. I’m a sucking for a story told through letters like that. Where the events are just a empty space outlined by the letters, but almost never directly referenced. The second chapter wouldn’t be as effective on it’s own, but with the full story in the first chapter it becomes quite a good read.
The Railway Ponies: Highball by The Descendant
[story link] [my original review]
A sad story, but not in a bad way. If we picture depression and hurt sadness as sharp downward lines on a graph, then the sad in this story is a more gentle curve downward. The bottom half of a sine wave of joy above the line and sad below the line, two matched emotions that slowly change from one to the other and back again. This one got me right in the feels. Been a while since a story has managed to do that. Not sure if I sould call it a good feeling, getting a bit sad, but I’ve certainly missed the whole getting emotionally effected by the story thing.
Half of the review.
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