Got some opening blurbs planned for the next while. Let’s lead off with a big one: 2023 for Monday Musings in review! A more sensible soul would probably make a separate blog for this, but I can’t always be sensible, can I? And sure, if there are souls reading this who can’t stand statistical quirks, well, there’s always scrolling until the first cover art to bypass the blurb. Which some may do already, come to think.

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This was discovered last night. I'm hopeful, but I don't quit. I won't be going to the expo, but hopefully I'll be able to catch a stream or something

One major advantage of having a hefty backlog of publishable reviews (if obviously nothing like the several months and million-odd words that PaulAsaran stockpiles), is that it gives me the bandwidth to do other Fimfiction things. Ideally writing my own stuff, though there’s no accounting for having the optimal drive all the time. More obviously, it also means I can pitch with others. The odd bout of pre-reading or editing, for sure. But also contest judging. Evidently FoME has a screw loose,

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I debated whether or not to split this up like my previous countdowns. Finally I decided to keep with the theme, so this is the first half of my write-up.

Part Two will be forthcoming on Monday, most likely.

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Very much a throwback this week, which feels appropriate for the first set in Year 2 of these Ponyfic reviews; not only is this a week of just short one-shots akin to when I started out, but I’m finally back to doing Author Spotlights again (the Ninjadeabeard one being a special and timed feature). This week, it’s Tinybit92.

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And so the catchup of missed Author Spotlights concludes on the same month that marks a full year’s worth of them. Which is a good time to put them on ice, least as far as being regular features goes. Enough of them were strains to assemble that it’s better to do them when they come going forward. But if they are to finish now, I could hardly think of a better author to do so with than Impossible Numbers.

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Giving the themed week thing another whirl today. This one has been in the planning for much longer than Cadance’s outing, mind, all the way back to January, if you can believe it. Which feels fitting for background pony Berry Punch, more often than not portrayed as a barpony, that it would gestate until the time is right.

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Due to the eternal conundrum that is air travel, next week’s Monday Musings will go up late, as I will still be airborne on the way back from UK PonyCon at the usual time of 18:00 BST. It’ll still go up before midnight, as I’ll have it ready to go before departing on Friday, give or take a one-paragrapher on how it went to add before hitting Post; you can’t get me to miss a day that easily! 👻

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Hopefully you’re not tiring of these Author Spotlights yet, because today's an absolute doozy. After a few weeks of picking authors I just happened to have some stockpiled reviews of and picking others to fill up a week, we’re back to specifically selecting someone and their stories for this from the get-go. My friends, today we're spotlighting the one and only Chris.

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And finally, time for the last batch of entries for the Ancestral Tribute contest. Been quite a ride, and in a sense, the best came last; the winner is in this last batch, and these eight have the highest overall rating of the four weeks, with all fics getting a positive rating. Not to say there weren’t great entries along the way in the prior weeks, there were for sure, but it’s still somewhat telling, no? When in

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Alright, I’m spent. It’s Sunday night as I’m writing this, I’m more knackered than Big Mac after the turkey call competition, and I have literally nothing to mention as a forward to this Ponyfic Review Monday Musings that’s springing to mind, except a pointless two-paragraph ramble on what I’ve been watching lately. I won’t blame you for skipping it.

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This being Ireland, and not the Western/Southern United States as it is for a hefty chunk of the audience, only now are the effects of Summer starting to make themselves known. And still in a limbo where sometimes it’s warm enough to only wear a t-shirt outside, other times it’s not, and there’s no rhyme or reason. Plus the unpredictable rain, of course.

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Another mild milestone this week! First story reviewed to be over 35,000 words long, if not quite a novel (apart from having fewer conflicts than one, it doesn’t hit the loose 40K cutoff threshold), and also the longest review week yet, with 50K worth of writing across these five stories.

And also the shortest story, at less than a thousand words. Yeah, I don’t know how that’s a thing either.

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We’re already starting to see dividends of my efforts on reading more longer stories, albeit small dividends: this is not the week with the longest word count (that still belongs to my first G5-fics only week, right before Tell Your Tale debuted), but it is only the second week to break 40,000 words. Moreso, it includes the first story over 30,000 words long.

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Well, I had a bit of a crummy week. Ended up taking my first sick day off work since… since ever, I think (I’ve taken chunks of days off before). Had no choice, as a particular problem I’ve had twice in the last year reared its head on Tuesday, got more intense than ever before on Wednesday, and on Thursday, left me unable to sit without proper pain. With all the fever symptoms and regular ibuprofen painkillers that implies by proxy.

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Been several themed weeks lately, between my handmittpicked quintet for Monday Musings’ second anniversary, a Scootaloo week, and a spotlight on SockPuppet. Probably too soon for another. But sod it,

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Anniversaries of media or pieces of tech abound all over the place these days to the point they can often mean less if you yourself don’t have an association with it. That said, what with me casually checking in to Nintendo Life semi-frequently, I couldn’t have missed that yesterday was the 35^th anniversary of a certain Game Boy. A family of gaming devices that’s a forerunner for the most personally influential gaming system for me.

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Action And Superhero Cartoons Worth Checking Out

In this blog I will list all of the superhero and action cartoons that are worth checking out. I will divide the listed cartoons into three categories; the best cartoons, fun cartoons that are still worth checking out, and cartoons to avoid.

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Cartoon Series Worth Checking Out:

In this blog post I will list all of the cartoon series that I have watched over the years and highlight the series that are worth checking out. You don't have to watch them all, of course. But this is just a handy list for anyone who is looking for a great cartoon series to get into.

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