Why You Should Read … The War on Normal People · 9:22pm Dec 5th, 2019
Yes, I realize this is somewhat of a weird post. After all, Jungle came out just two weeks ago. If anything, I should be pushing you to read that.
Yes, I realize this is somewhat of a weird post. After all, Jungle came out just two weeks ago. If anything, I should be pushing you to read that.
Hello again folks. Because the story here is a bit longer than what my tragically stunted reading speed can allow for, I'm only going through the one story today, by Horizon. It's called Fang and Flame, and initially came to my attention when the author pointed out that it was the only other Ember related story. What amused me especially was that it was in the War category.
Well, I've gone two months into 2022 without posting anything here. Let's change that!
…So, yeah. January was a surprisingly busy month for me IRL, so I wasn't all that productive on the writing side of things. I was planning to get something done during the month's tail end, but the one-two punch of Seattle's Angels and the Royal Canterlot Library closing their doors knocked that wind right back out of my sails. It's been billowing on and off ever since, I'm afraid.
Potatoes and Space Travel. Two things that very few people would associate with each other. At least that is until a few years ago when published an interesting book about a marooned astronaut that wound up becoming a best seller and later, a highly popular film.
I speak, of course, about The Martian starring Matt Damon with the story written by Andy Weir.
Copy pasted from my comment on BronyWriter's blog post https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/995303/underrated-musicals-not-musicals
I've got two for you. Shout out to my cuddle buddy for turning me on to the equal parts hilarious, legitimately moving (I cried I admit), and incredibly cleverly and elegantly constructed musical Twisted.
Hello again. Trying to get back into the swing of regular reading and stuff, since I'm out of practice. Last time I had finished two short stories, both okay and worth a look if they were of the sort that tickles your fancy. Today we have two more, also hopefully good. First up is the highest rated story in the Peace category of the contest, so that's pretty exciting, and then a story about Luna, and everybody likes Luna.
Overall.
We speak,
Tree-speak,
Are meek,
Life bleak,
Bird beaks,
Sap weeps,
Boughs creak,
Bugs eat,
Roots deep.
Best lines:
Since I very rarely actually take any time to read things outside of TGB stuff, I always like doing brief reviews and/or recommendations of other stories that appear in contests, particularly the EFNW contests, since they often have nice convenient word limits I can easily digest. So, that's what I'll be doing now: taking a look at some of the contest entries and giving a few thoughts on them, as well try and recommend them to anyone who might be interested. So, let's dive right in! See below
The competition has finally come to its conclusion. The final results are in!
In third place was Baal Bunny's charming mouse world tale, To Drive the Cold Winter Away.
Now look here. I am going to tell you all about my very favorite comedy podcast, whether you like it or not. It's called Wooden Overcoats, and it's about undertakers. The storyline is fairly simple.
Rudyard Funn runs a funeral home in the village of Piffling Vale. It used to be the only one. It isn't anymore.
Hoo boy. If you haven't heard of the McElroy family by now, then let me tell you straight up front that you have an excellent journey ahead of you, full of goofs and chicanery. These guys have just so many podcasts, and if you don't like podcasts, they also do some great YouTube work (scroll to the end for that). It's great, and there's probably at least one that you'll like. I even got my mother to listen to one, and it's more or less the only piece of media that we both enjoy. But we are not
Alright y'all, listen up. I'm slow as fuck and haven't been writing for reasons I'll explain in another blog, but for right now? I don't care what you were planning to do today. Whatever it is isn't as important as reading these amazing stories. I may have mentioned a few of these before but dang it they're all super incredible in their own unique ways and Deserve More Attention Gosh Dang It.
So I know I said that I wasn't going to do these anymore. However, I feel that to not make any mention of one of my very favorite cartoonists would just be morally wrong, given how much joy she's given me over the years.
Her cartoons: Ozy and Millie, I Drew This, Raine Dog, and her current project, Phoebe and Her Unicorn. The last one has the most unicorns, so feel free to skip ahead to that section if you like.
(Not an essay this time, I swear)
Well, school has started for me - virtually. That means I get to stay home and sit at my desk waiting for class to start. That also means I am in a unique position where I can read stories during class and not get caught!
(Don't do that, kids. I don't even do that. It was a joke. I make those. Sometimes. Heh.)
Howdy hoo. Today I'm going to wrap up the entries for the 'Peace' category with Fit for a King, and then move onto a story which struck me as a promising competitor story, The Seneschal. Both I thought were pretty good, and both for different reasons!
Hiya!
I like stories and music (this is the point when you roll your eyes and think to yourself, ‘No shit, Sherlock!’. So, while I’m not nearly as widely experienced as some people, I have still encountered a wealth of wonders that I’d like to recommend to you. There isn’t really a limit to what I’ll bring up—a song, a fanfic, a videogame, a novel, and anime… anything that pops into my mind as something I’d like to recommend that day.
[CUTE]
Overall. This is how a unicorn writes.
Best lines:
She painted her colours with vivid and bright hues and shades, unlike the dull and subdued shades of Bridlewood. Instead of gloomy faces, joyful smiles were painted onto ponies.
While I haven’t posted a Recommended Story Review set every month, I have been trying to do so, and this set brings me up to #15. This is starting to have an interesting consequence, though. Because these sets are composed entirely of stories that I enjoyed enough to recommend before I started doing reviews, the number of stories I can include in these sets shrinks every blog post.