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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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16 weeks
State of the Unicorn: Poor

That's poor in both senses, I'm afraid! Though before I say any more, I need to stress that I have a warm, safe home, enough to eat, internet access... the essentials, really. I am not in danger of losing those. However, I won't be doing much beyond those essentials for a while. Without going into boring details, I will very shortly be going in for dental work to be done. Which, as
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20 weeks
Happy Hearth's Warming Eve!

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!
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24 weeks
So then, Doctor Who

Loved it! A few little quibbles, not all the acting from the newcomers was stellar and sadly parts of the gender-related stuff felt awkward and forced, eg "something a male-presenting Time Lord wouldn't understand", but I liked much more than I didn't. Plus one of my worries about the new Disney-cash-infused Who has been dispelled: this definitely did
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30 weeks
Bloody Covid

Fortunately not in the literal sense! But yeah, I'm currently stuck at home, yet not feeling well enough to concentrate on ponyfic. It's a seriously annoying combination.
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Oct

12th

2015

S5E18: Raiders of the Lost Mark · 6:12pm Oct 12th, 2015

I had a wonderful time at UK PonyCon, and it rekindled a lot of the sheer happiness and feeling of, well, family that this fandom has given me.* I'm too tired to write a long review of the episode, and tbh I was thinking of skipping it this time. But I can't really, now, can I? True, there are flaws with the episode's pacing. True, the cutie marks don't look quite "organic" enough. True, there's a question now about what to do with Diamond Tiara's character. True, there's some doubt about whether Starlight Glimmer will mess things up. True, the songs were of variable quality, and (as is Daniel Ingram's wont recently) mostly too complicated to sing. True, Twist needed to be allowed to speak (a different VA would be fine by me).

But I don't care. This was a wonderful episode, and my firm conviction that nothing in S5 could match "Amending Fences" has been proved wrong. I still think that's the best episode, but "Raiders of the Lost Mark" is truly momentous, and I loved it. What the newly-minted Cutie Marked Crusaders will do next remains to be seen. But they've had one of their rare classic episodes here. "Flight to the Finish" almost qualifies, "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" does... and then this one. A fabulous fifth birthday present for/from FiM. ★★★★★

* Before anyone says it, yes I have read xjuggernaughtx's blog, and that comment is in no way related. I'd have made it now anyway.

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