Time for the Spectacle: Ponyville Ciderfest 2018 Con Report! · 3:00am Nov 5th, 2018
Gasp, smile, scream with joy, repeat.
Gasp, smile, scream with joy, repeat.
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If your reading is stale, TRY TODAY'S TALE!
Hi, all!
For anypony that missed it, I was at Nightmare Nights this past weekend, and ooooooh goodness, was it ever a fun time. There's a lot to talk about, so head below the break to check it out!
Evening, all!
IDKNameHere recently asked me about how I plan out a story, and since I thought it was worth talking about to everybody, he was nice enough to allow me to publish my part of our conversation. Let's dig in!
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I always bring a special shirt with me to conventions: the purple shirt with the black cuffs, the shoulder tabs, and the roll-up sleeves. Some might call it a cosplay – it is the shirt that my OC wears, after all – but to me, it's something even more special. It's a way for me to slip into someone that I choose to be, someone who's been a big part of who I am for over a decade, someone who is confident and competent and just wants to spend a weekend making people happy, and somepony who,
Due to unfortunate circumstances, I am now in need of another editor that has proficiency in pointing out and correcting grammatical/syntax-related errors. If you want, you can also be of service to me in giving me tips on plot-development of soon-to-be-uploaded chapters and stories, and little things like that, etc.
If you're interested, contact me via PMing me on here. We can discuss in further detail there.
NOTE: In the course of meeting so many people over a weekend, some names inevitably slip one's mind, no matter how hard one tries to remember. In such cases, names are replaced by question marks. If any owners of those names are reading this, by all means send me a reminder.
For a similar reason, these are presented out of chronological order.
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Day one. Pascoite is giving out free samples.
It has been a while since I did a set of Read It Now reviews. I actually started this one all the way back in March, and then forgot about finishing it out until this weekend, when I decided to get another review set done and actually read some recent stuff.
Today’s set contains a pair of episode reaction stories, a story with an interesting premise about Celestia and her ability to see the future, a story about Chrysalis sending Cadance a letter, and a story about… well, wingboners.
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.
The doors of the Badfic Slaughterhouse have opened once more, and six more stories now stand before their judge, jury, and potential executioner. Which will be found worthy, and which will be thrown into a grinder for your twisted amusement? Read on to find out.
In this edition of Badfic Slaughterhouse:
—Drunken poker shenanigans.
—Abel and Caine, reincarnated as astronauts.
—Sunset Shimmer gets hammered.
—Being gay makes ponies stupid.
Procrastination on writing creates a surprising amount of motivation to review stories.
Today’s stories:
Plainswalker by Burraku Pansa
The Brief, Torrid Love-Affair of Fernando the Straw and Madame le Flour by CoffeeMinion
“So… what IS your call sign, anyway?” by Vivid Syntax
The Swap by Monochromatic
The Twilight Zone by Bad Horse
- The Gentle People
-The Element of Audacity
-The Mechanical Donkey
DATELINE: the American Midwest. An innocent man struggles to find parking in Local Biggish City, child in tow, wife waiting at home--and all feeling desperate. Back home, the fridge is empty, save for leftovers of dubious vintage; and the pantry is that curious mix of stuffed-to-the-gills yet containing absolutely nothing. To make matters worse, he is ill, and has taken to wearing one of those uncomfortable blue mask thingies for the good of his fellow man.
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.