Fic recs, January 9th! · 5:04pm Jan 9th, 2017
Crystal Moose is calling it quits. :C
In happier news, kits has edited and improved his story On a Moonless Night, with some help from yours truly. I gave it a Highly Recommended rating rather a while ago. If you've never read it, now's the time, for the rating remains!
Also, and this was literally delivered to my inbox the minute I posted this blog, Scribbler has done a reading of GhostOfHeraclitus's Twilight Sparkle Makes a Cup of Tea!
Today's reviews are a little wonky because I took out one of the readings for an edition. Something to look forward to!
H: 0 R: 3 C: 1 V: 0 N: 1
Rainbow Dash Watches Clouds by Ezn
Reading by ShadowOfCygnus
Genre: Slice of Life
There's a lot more to this story than its title or opening might suggest. I hope I can be forgiven for not being hooked by that opening — ShadowOfCygnus has been reading a lot of old slice of life fics about Rainbow Dash, and they start blending together after a while — but once she starts comparing the clouds to herself and her friends (well, Fluttershy), that by itself was enough to make this worth reading. But then it keeps going, and while hardly subtle, presents an idea for the reader to tousle out of what's happened. Definitely transcendent of the slice of life tag.
Recommended
For Science by Waffen Pony
Reading by Scarlett Blade
Mature: Sex
Genre: EQG Clop
Twilight invites Sunset over to talk about Equestria.Speaking of fic premises certain readers read a lot of. <.< I definitely went into this with the wrong mindset, because I was disappointed by things like the questions about Equestria not turning up anything new or interesting. Of course, I was disappointed in the rest of the story, but I definitely got off on the wrong foot here. The main letdown is word choice, which frequently distracts from what's going on (I couldn't get over "girlhood", and any story that uses the phrase "sloppy tongue-filled oral mess" is doing something wrong). The bad shipping doesn't help, either; it's rushed through just as much as the sex. Which is to say, if you only care about the sex, you will definitely find some here, but if not…
Not Recommended Upgrade to Conditionally Recommended 7/21/17
Omnomnipotent by All of the Above and Doom Trot
Reading by Astro-Brony
Genre: Crackfic
Things get bad in Humania when the sun turns into a giant cookie.
And I thought the TMNT/EQG crossover in the popular box was gonna be the weirdest thing I saw all morning. :V This is a splendid piece of absurdity, the sort where I ask a question like "Why are Sonata and Aria there?" and then don't care that I never get an answer. It's ridiculous in all the right ways and includes some good skewering of characters the authors don't like. This will please anyone who enjoys a little trolling in their life.
Recommended
A Mistake in Identity by JapaneseTeeth
Reading by Scarlett Blade
Genre: What Happened Last Night
Princess Cadence wakes up with a hangover and no idea what she did at the party.
To give away nothing more than what the character tags do, I need more stories where the similarities between Shining Armor and Vinyl Scratch are played with. I can think of one other, and I really liked it, too. Anyway, this is a fast-paced comedy that makes good use of POV switching between scenes as Celestia and Vinyl tell their sides of the story of what happened. Vinyl and Octavia's banter is great, and I really appreciate that Celestia is having a lot of fun at Cadence's expense, while still having done a lot on her part to keep the full details secret from the public. I mean, that's just good PR there. The story is full of metaphorical descriptions that… the words that come to mind to describe them are "egregious" and "convoluted". But this is still a solid comedy, and should have wide appeal.
Recommended
Primp and Pamper by Waffen Pony
Reading (part 1) by Scarlett Blade
Mature: Sex
Genre: Anthro Clop
Seeing that Twilight has been stressed lately, she arranges for her friend to get a treatment at the spa she'll never forget.
With written sex, it either works or it doesn't; this doesn't. Through and through, this is very much a "standard" clopfic, whatever that means. Nothing surprised me, or was particularly interesting. It has too many fluids and too much "the purple mare" for my sensibilities. If you just want to read something sexy it's perfectly workable, but given how it ends, I had no interest in continuing on to the second chapter.
Not Recommended: DNF 1/2
Sad to ear moosey's taking off, but yay for new PP reviews n_n