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.

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TWe Are the Everfree

• MLP: FiM
• Sad
• Tragedy

Everfree's Trees are not like other trees.

• OC
• Other

Loganberry · 1.3k words  ·  21  0 · 277 views

Smol review

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Overall.
We speak,
Tree-speak,
Are meek,
Life bleak,
Bird beaks,
Sap weeps,
Boughs creak,
Bugs eat,
Roots deep.

Best lines:

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

TMagica Ex Dolori

• Equestria Girls
• Dark
• Drama
• Tragedy

A wave of suicides sweeps through Canterville. Sunset and the girls can't stop it. But maybe Wallflower Blush can. She just needs someone to show her how. A crossover with Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

• Violence
• Suicide / Self Harm
• Death
• Crossover
• Human
• OC
• Sunset Shimmer
• Wallflower Blush

Posh · 81k words  ·  70  9 · 1.5k views

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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.

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(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.)

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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!

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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.

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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.

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It is almost Christmas, and that means that it is time for me to get off my butt and get people stuff to read for the holidays. I have been remiss in getting review sets posted; hopefully the rapidly approaching end of the year will encourage me to get more done.

This is a rather eclectic set of stories in some ways, but in another way, all but one of them manages to capture a lovely little sentiment. I wonder if you can guess which one that is from the titles?

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I was going to post another set of “Read It Now” reviews today, but the stories I was reading weren’t agreeing with me. So I figured I’d finish up this set of recommended story reviews, as I haven’t done one of these in a while.

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Apparently “D&D got cancelled” is a codeword for “TD writes reviews”.

And experiences some strange feeling, deep down in his chest.

Is this that thing they call joy?

Today’s stories:

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It has been a while since I wrote one of these. I had been planning to put this out before Christmas, but I ended up procrastinating too much on it, and didn’t get the last two stories reviewed until last night, when I was, ironically, procrastinating on doing something else.

Clearly, the real secret to productivity is to make it so that you loop your procrastination around to the point where you are always getting stuff done.

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In an attempt to re-energize my writing, I re-read a bunch of excellent stories in the last few days. But of course, it would be terrible for me to keep these to myself; while many of these are fandom classics, and others should be, if you somehow haven’t read them, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Hoofprints is perhaps one of my favorite pieces of writing on the site, and it is a pity it is hidden away in a short story collection; much like

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At one point, I was hoping to get at least one set of recommended story reviews done per month, meaning it would only take me, oh, a couple years to finish reviewing all the stories I would recommend or highly recommend but read before I started writing reviews.

It has been a bit slower than that. Still, I do hope you folks enjoy these.

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