Actually, this is the commission from my birthday. Meant to be a preview for the new season. Since the new season has already started, consider it a bit of a bonus. This piece was completed by Decora-Chan. While they aren't the best with time, they deliver fine work indeed. I have been wanting to show this one off for so long and here it is. This is one of the oldest ships I had hidden away. Back then I didn't have a story for them just an idea.
you'll never guess who ended up moving out of their parent's house, breaking up w both of xeir partners, came out as fully aro ace, got a credit card, and is on its way to a phone number and job in the barely over a year since they last said anything [fingerguns]
I hope you all had a good Labor Day weekend! Sorry for the relative dearth of reviews lately; I’ve been trying to get some stuff written, as well as review stories for the Writeoff. But I’ve been cheating on my writeoff reviews with reading some other stories as well, either recommended to me or written by folks that I follow.
Today’s stories:
The First Rain of Spring by CalmNQuiet
Any Other Business? by Ghost of Heraclitus
The "Chase" arc was one of the earliest parts of the story I had planned for The Iron Horse, and many of the ideas I had made it into the final version around 2 years later when I finally got around to it. For instance (note that I'll be using spoilers before the break for those who haven't read that far yet and none after the break):
Trying to get back on the horse that is writing reviews (and reading pony stories), this particular set contained a surprising number of memetic stories.
Today’s stories:
Jeans and a T-Shirt by Whateverdudezb
Love and Other Acquired Tastes by Ghost of Heraclitus
National Geographic Presents: Big Princess Week by Cold in Gardez
It’s Not Like I’m Deaf by Arreis of Avalon
Unlimited Breadsticks* by Chinchillax
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
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.
I made the fatal mistake this holiday season of overcommitting myself. I tried to get so many things done, I failed to get almost any of them done in time for my online friends.
But it is the holidays. And just as my mother orders things from Amazon and sometimes gets them on December 30th instead of the 24th, it is still part of the 12 days of Christmas, right?
That’s totally how it works, isn’t it?
I was originally planning on posting my TwiDash story today, but then I realized that today was the final day of Fan of Most Everything’s Imposing Sovereigns contest, which contributed several stories to today’s review set and will likely contribute several to the next one as well. As such, I felt like I’m sure a lot of folks’ feeds are full today, so my own story (which is basically done, though I’m still poking at a few edits) will likely go up tomorrow or Tuesday, largely depending on
Greetings, friends of the darkness and followers of the macabre!
The day has finally come..... It is Nightmare Night!
The scariest and darkest day of the year is finally upon us..... And with it the demons, zombies and all the restless souls that couldn't find their way into the afterlife. Have you met one yet? Maybe not, but there is a filly who has.
This as the title says, is going to be short. After getting a good and helpful feedback on the story, I've finally concluded to take down Chapters 3 and Chapter 4. Don't worry, their just getting a [Redux] as I'm gonna call it. When their back up and 'fixed', they'll have that [Redux] at the end of the chapter name.
The funny thing about procrastination is that sometimes it ends up wrapping back around into productivity.
It’d be nice if I could be productive in the directions that I aimed, but at least I’m getting something done.
Today includes a few stories from the RCL, as well as a couple stories that I previously read that didn’t quite merit a recommendation, along with a final story – one that I’ve put off reading since the Outside Insight contest all the way back in 2014.
Kelly Sheriden is nothing if not a method actor. Bereft of a TV-Y rating, Starlight (least, in Season Five) would totally make a cutthroat gesture. And get applause for it.
Ha! Told you AJ would get worn down over the weekend and relent to giving me a ride.
I’m just about done reading the stories for the last Writeoff competition, but in the meanwhile, I thought I’d throw another batch of new stories at you folks, especially in the light of commenting to someone else about how this helps improve feature box quality. You know how much power we reviewers wield!
Not very much.
Still, some of these were indeed worth reading.
The stories I read today:
Misunderstanding by Sapidus3
Wassail, Wassail! by Skywriter
Greetings, my dark souls.
Do you know which month it is now? "It's October!" you will say, but there is more to it than that..... It's the season of darkness. The month of nightmares. The time were the nights are long and the days short and where unspeakable horrors lurk in the darkness and can hide behind every corner..... In short, it is the month leading up to Nightmare Night!