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.
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.
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,
Nothing to really announce or discuss, so I’ll make do with a plug. One most reading this will already know, yes, but it’s important, and something to be excited for. PaulAsaran, regular reviewer going on nine years now, was recently offered the privilege of having his reviews get site featuring. And last week, he accepted it for a trial. Meaning that, two years after Seattle’s Angels and the Royal Canterlot Library wrapped, we’ll have site featured Ponyfic reviews again.
For everyone in America and the UK, where there was Memorial Day or a Bank Holiday the prior weekend, just transplant yourself back in a time a week to relate to this better. 
Something I'd certainly noticed, but forgot to mention here until PaulAsaran's recent site-featured blogs called attention to it with links to all active Ponyfic reviewers/recommenders' latest blogs, is there's a new addition to the bunch, in abrony-mouse. Always a welcome sight – no longer just a quintet of us now! 
Back in March, on Monday Musings’ 2nd anniversary, I spoke of being less gung-ho about reading and reviewing Ponyfic lately, and how it had shifted into an obligation kept up more out of habit then pleasure, one that was draining me as well as enthusiasm and energy for other hobbies and projects. I said I would try small things to rejuvenate myself in the near future, and see how it went.
While it didn't quite hit the stratospheric height of last year’s 168 entries, the third Thousand Words Contest eclipsing the 160 benchmark to the tune of 164 stories, despite only being open for five weeks instead of the usual two months (Bicyclette hosts contests on the regular these days, she’s a busy one), is yet another sign of our fandom still going strong.
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 35th anniversary of a certain Game Boy. A family of gaming devices that’s a forerunner for the most personally influential gaming system for me.
Got a surprise today, though not a Halloween-themed one. In Monday Musings’ first review of a novel-length fic since going unscheduled, we also have not only the first Author Spotlight since then, but the first time period those two have been combined. And much like Rune Soldier Dan some time back, it’s that (charmingly) awkward position of being someone who’s also a regular reader and commenter of this space. Folks, I give you iisaw.
Something a bit unusual this week. I’ve had more and more review stories pile up on my backlog lately from an Ponyfic audiobook reader that isn’t Scribbler, and I figured, why not do an edition of exclusively fics read by them? It gives me the chance to also talk about the quality and quirks of their readings. That reader being StraightToThePointStudio.
As hinted previously, I’ve run out of energy with doing Commentary Corner for Tell Your Tale shorts every week. And while most shorts do have something unique to say, it’s still largely just frustration of the “what are you doing, writers?!?” variety. So, as of this week, I’ve decided to scale them back; rather than a play-by-play commentary, Friendship Is Card Games style, it’s more of a standard recap and impression.
It completely slipped my mind that last week I crossed the coveted mark of having reviewed 100 fics. I can’t say for certain how long I thought I’d be doing this when I started, though I was pretty certain I’d keep it going for the rest of 2022 anyway. The surprise is that I gained decent traction and a not-half-bad following, given I didn’t even have 40 followers before I started this, and now I have double that. Truly, this is a great community, and I love that you folks enjoy my review
Mixed February for this spirit so far; been perpetually under-the-weather for two weeks now, just enough to take regular painkillers. I’ve had it worse, but it’s always gone quicker than this. On the other hand, good experiences with friends lately, what it’s all about, and while I haven’t made much of any progress on the writing front lately, the torch is still burning on the development cycle. So, not much, but not nothing.
I’m by no means well-versed how bank holidays work for the Americans in the crowd, but they’ve always been an anomaly for me: when you’re in school or college, it never feels like a day off, due to pressure, from parents, society or oneself, to keep up with the study, especially in exam-adjacent periods. Only since I became a “normal” employee of society have they felt like an actual day off.
14 shorts in, and I am unsure whether it’s wise to continue much further with Commentary Corner for Tell Your Tale. Already the repeated facepalm “really?” moments of the characterisation are grating to watch, write about, and probably to read. And as I suspected for this series, the largely rigid-formula limits how much new can be said each week. Not unless one has mastered the art of this brand of snarky-and-sincere commentary, or has a larger audience. Certainly, to go all the way to
Hitch: "Mares and stallions, I present to you: McSnips-A-Lot. The true protagonist of Generation Five. Capable of quality cushion plumping, model carnage, and gives a smashing manecut. Truly a fun personality destined to win the hearts of millions."
Today’s blurb is prepped in advance, as I’m taking advantage of a bank holiday weekend here to catch Spider Man: Across the Spider-Verse (film will be over by the time this goes up, ssh 
). Really hoping its masterful precursor and all the hype/word-of-mouth prove true, and that my mild worry on the more standard superhero plot and dialogue in the trailers is unwarranted.
Do… Do I have something genuinely interesting to talk about two weeks in a row? I… I think I do. 
Yes, shocking, I know. You all know how this year is Disney100, celebrating their centennial as a company? Which, being the 2020s, means they are doing the most shameless nostalgia capitalisation possible. But even a stopped clock is right twice a day, as with them re-releasing these films over the next two months:
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