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Jul
29th
2015

Read It Later Reviews #23 – Friendly Correspondence, Wither, To Drown a Butterfly, Happy Hearts Warming, Pinkie Pie’s Glamorous Giggle Gas · 10:00pm Jul 29th, 2015

Between reading and reviewing entries for the latest writeoff, I managed to get another set of stories reviewed for you folks as well, mostly courtesy of the Royal Guard’s queue. I go into a fair bit of detail about prose in the review for To Drown a Butterfly, as well as talk a bit about meter in poetry in my review of Happy Hearts Warming, so there’s a few things which are a bit different in today’s reviews.

Today’s stories:

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Dec
19th
2015

Read It Later Reviews #40 – The Djinni’s Tale, Mortality, From Dat Place to Dis Place, How Sunset Rose, The Stars Will Aid in Her Escape · 4:52pm Dec 19th, 2015

Unbeknownst to me, BronyWriter has long been a member of the Royal Guard. Yesterday, he jumped back in in a major way, and began reading stories left and right. I had to join in, as did a number of other folks, and between the lot of us we managed to process a whopping 15 stories in a single day, and put at least one decision (a consensus of at least two votes in the same direction are necessary to approve or disapprove of a story) on a bunch more.

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Sep
21st
2015

Read It Later Reviews #31 – Hello, My Name Is; The Great and Showerful Trixie; Living Forever; Aftershock; Splinter Cell; Something Like Laughter · 9:50pm Sep 21st, 2015

One other interesting aspect of the Royal Guard queue is that it encourages me to read stories I’d been putting off reading; if a story I’ve been putting off reading ends up on the list, I’ll frequently end up checking it out to see what I’ve been missing. A number of today’s stories came up in this very way.

Today’s stories:

Hello, My Name Is by LoyalLiar
The Great and Showerful Trixie by Pascoite
Living Forever by Whateverdudezb

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Mar
11th
2017

Read It Later Reviews #70 – Lies and Lyres; So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish; Orange Is The New Blue; Time To Talk; Observatory Hill · 9:41pm Mar 11th, 2017

This about sums up how I’ve been feeling these last few days:

Today’s stories:

Lies and Lyres by King of Beggars
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish by Blueshift
Orange Is The New Blue by Estee
Time to Talk by Jay-The-Brony
Observatory Hill by Skywriter

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Jun
8th
2016

Read It Later Reviews #51 – Plainswalker; The Brief, Torrid Love-Affair of Fernando the Straw and Madame le Flour; “So… what IS your call sign, anyway?”; The Gentle People; The Element of Audacity; The Mechanical Donkey · 7:03pm Jun 8th, 2016

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

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Mar
24th
2016

Read It Later Reviews #44 – Hope; Give A Like – Feed A Changeling; Sweat, Tears, and a Video; Marble’s Horizon; The Sex Shop · 3:39am Mar 24th, 2016

As with yesterday’s Read It Later reviews, four of the five stories in this set came from Scribblefest. As was the case yesterday, please note that my opinion on these stories is not the final word for that contest; we are merely in the preliminary round of judging, and three judges read each of these stories. I am but one of nine judges involved in this, so… yeah.

Anyway! Onto the reviews!

Today’s stories:

Hope by Dark Avenger

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Dec
15th
2015

Read It Later Reviews #39 – There’s A First Time for Everything; Cutie Mark Crusader Magicians, Yay!; On the Application of Time and Motion Efficiency Studies to Initial Relationship Formation; Gilda Has the Floor; Rainbownomicon · 2:21am Dec 15th, 2015

Reviews, reviews, who’s got the reviews?

TD, apparently.

In an attempt to simultaneously get something done, clear out the Royal Guard queue a bit, and to procrastinate, I’ve got five more stories read and reviewed for you folks.

Today’s stories:

There’s a First Time for Everything by Dubs Rewatcher
Cutie Mark Crusader Magicians, Yay! by DrakeyC
On the Application of Time and Motion Efficiency Studies to Initial Relationship Formation by Estee

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Apr
11th
2016

Read It Later Reviews #45 – Kaleidoscope, Idols, Inadequecy, Spike’s Slightly Dangerous New Hobby, Weatherpony · 12:49am Apr 11th, 2016

Scribblefest judging is winding down, and I’m working on getting the last few stories judged. Expect some more review posts early next week on the rest of the stories, but I’ll be getting all the rest of them read and judged this evening.

Reminder to those who are participating - I'm but one judge of nine, so my opinions are not the final word on these stories.

Today’s stories:

Kaleidoscope by Winston
Idols by BlazzingInferno
Inadequecy by Regidar

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Jan
31st
2017

Read It Later Reviews #66 – On Forensic Accounting & Choral Singing, Friendship is Physics, Sunny Skies All Day Long, Hyperportentia, Not In Bluff Nor Bravado Nor Loneliness · 1:27pm Jan 31st, 2017

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.

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Mar
23rd
2016

Read It Later Reviews #43 – My Flight, The Kidnapping of Twilight Velvet, Check Yourself Before You Tirek Yourself, Twilight Tries Not to Think, A Spoiled Diamond · 12:39am Mar 23rd, 2016

Today’s set of reviews is courtesy of Scribblefest and (in one case) the Royal Guard. I haven’t written reviews for every story I’ve read for Scribblefest, but I ended up writing reviews for several of them; note that if you are a Scribblefest competitor, my word on your story is not the final word. We’re presently doing the prelim-round judging, wherein three judges read each entry and nominate them for a category, and I am but one of nine judges involved.

Anyway, onto the reviews!

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Jun
29th
2016

Read It Now Reviews #85 – Pan Flash, The Unexpected Date, All That Jazz, Where Parallel Lines Converge, Somepony Tries to Sell Twilight Insurance · 3:04am Jun 29th, 2016

My goal for this week is to get at least one set of Read it Now Reviews done, one set of Read It Later Reviews done, one new story posted, one piece of original fiction sent off to a publisher, and one video game to be played.

So far, I’m at one for five.

Today’s stories:

Pan Flash by GAPJaxie
The Unexpected Date by Monochromatic
All That Jazz by ObabScribbler
Where Parallel Lines Converge by FanOfMostEverything

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Aug
29th
2016

Read It Later Reviews #55 – The Late Twilight Sparkle, Twilight Sparkle Writes a “Dear Seabiscuit” Letter, Private Study Sessions, Keeping Your Hooves on the Ground, Rarity Gets Drunk and Talks to an Apple · 12:03am Aug 29th, 2016

I’ve been spending far too much time playing video games that aren’t actually all that fun, and far too little time reading pony fanfiction. So today, for at least a few hours, I decided to change that.

Today’s stories:

The Late Twilight Sparkle by InsufferableUnicorn
Twilight Sparkle Writes a “Dear Seabiscuit” Letter by InsufferableUnicorn
Private Study Sessions by Steel Resolve
Keeping Your Hooves on the Ground by InsertAuthorHere

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Oct
7th
2015

Read It Later Reviews #33 – Friday Night Twilight, Blessing, Daring Do and the Weapon of the Ancients, Dance ’Til We’re High, K-I-S-S-I-N-G · 11:05pm Oct 7th, 2015

Oct
30th
2015

Read It Later Reviews #35 – Luna’s Lottery Lunacy, Fractured Sunlight, The Lost Place, Monsters, Trial by Flower · 10:20pm Oct 30th, 2015

I always feel as though I waste far too much of my time on frivolous things – primarily, watching the news. I think, this weekend, I will try to avoid the news – try to avoid stupid, frivolous, wasteful things, and actually try and do things that make me feel good in the long term, instead of fritter away my time.

We’ll see if I can succeed.

Today’s stories:

Luna’s Lottery Lunacy by Estee
Fractured Sunlight by Oroboro
The Lost Place by Martian

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Jul
17th
2015

Read It Later Reviews #21 – Forever and Again, Where the Heart Is, Happily Ever After, The Day of the Million Billion Octavias, Swan Lake · 6:19pm Jul 17th, 2015

Apologies for my laxity in posting this week; I spent a great deal of time twisting myself in knots over what to work on next, and thus ended up not accomplishing much of anything until yesterday, when I simply decided to go ahead with whatever struck me next.

Consequently, I polished up and published a writeoff story:

As He Lay Dying
by Titanium Dragon

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Jun
2nd
2017

Read It Later Reviews #77 – Where Your Heart Is, The Tail End of It, “Why do all our new adversaries rhyme with each other?”, Scootalift, Starry Night · 3:58pm Jun 2nd, 2017

They say that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

In the end, though, I generally find it more like rolling a rock down a hill – once you get started, it is a lot easier to keep going.

Today’s stories:

Where Your Heart Is by Cloudy Skies
The Tail End of It by ShortSkirtsAndExplosions
”Why do all our new adversaries rhyme with each other?” by Estee
Scootalift by Estee
Starry Night by AShadowOfCygnus

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Feb
7th
2016

Read It Later Reviews #41 – Hypothetical, Good Ponies Don’t… Do They?, All Our Villains Are Horny, A Wind in the Petunias, A Puzzle Unsolved · 12:01am Feb 7th, 2016

I always feel a little bit guilty doing non-writeoff reviews during the writeoffs, but given how frequently the writeoffs happen these days, if I didn’t, I’d hardly do any at all.

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May
25th
2016

Read It Later Reviews #50 – Pinkie Pie Has Infiltrated the Changelings’ Secret Base, The Rainbow Pony, Under the Mistletoe, Good Thing She’s So Disorganized, Small-Town Charm · 10:54pm May 25th, 2016

It is amazing how long a couple weeks can feel like.

At the time of writing, less than a week ago I was at Everfree Northwest.

It feels like it was forever ago already.

I was feeling like I haven’t recommended a story in a long time… but the last story I read that got added to my Recommended list was read on May 11th, only 11 days before I wrote this introduction (which I then took four days to post).

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Jan
29th
2017

Read It Later Reviews #65 – Oh My… Did I Misread the Signs?, That Awkward Moment When…, The Game the Princesses Play, On the Inaccuracy of Proverbs, The Nature of War, Gotta Get Down on Friday, The Nightmare’s Night · 12:25am Jan 29th, 2017

Happy Saturday, everyone!

If you haven’t heard, Obselescence is stepping down as a FIMFiction moderator, so feel free to go over there and thank him for his time spent here.

Then, perhaps, do some reading?

Today’s stories:

Oh My… Did I Misread the Signs? by Blue Dragon
That Awkward Moment When… by Hyzaku
Obiter Dicta by Ghost of Heraclitus

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Sep
21st
2016

Read It Later Reviews #57 – Passing the Torch, Ponies Are Squishy, Magical Pony Ultrasounds, The Immortal’s Burden, Born That Way · 9:36pm Sep 21st, 2016

I was going to devote this post to stories about Dragon Lord Torch, in honor of me writing a story about him, as well as an excuse to populate my new group with stories about him.

I then learned that there are four stories on FIMFiction which appear to be about Dragon Lord Torch, or at least feature him heavily.

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