Moving is tough. Especially so when you want to be a superhero and do it all by yourself. Well, I had one person helping me at the end, but now I'm really sore. You really should lift with your legs.
Dear Bronies and Pegasisters,
It has officially been a week since I started to ask you what ghost story I will be writing for the season of the spooky, the creepy, and the scary. I have posted three ideas in which has attracted a handful of voters. But even then, it would seem that a decision has been made. It was a close one, but here are the results:
From a total of 13 votes, it has been decided:
A Silent Film: Cold Case - 6 votes.
In The Credible Threat, the shield spell over Canterlot shatters and interrupts Flopsy Mopsy’s event. With ten thousand ponies awaiting the end of the Royal Canterlot Wedding, she acts—with Ghost Zapper’s help—to prevent a stampede... Read chapter four of:
I'm so easily distracted... I'll release the 7th chapter later tonight if I remember. I also have the 8th chapter ready to go a few days later. That is all.
Edit: And I almost forgot! I swear, one of these days I'm just going to take an old style typewriter with me on a deserted island. I can't even have a pen because I might start drawing something for Celestia's sake! 
Figure I may as well whip up profiles for the rest of Gray and Ebony's family while I'm on today. Here's some background music while you read this. >^_^<
Devil Rarity: "Now that we’ve got an audience hook, line and sinker with these Ponyfic reviews, it’s time for Phase 2 of the Grand Master Plan: Influencer Imprintation!"
Pinkie Pie: "Really?"
You know, after a holiday season where I let a lot that had happened throughout the year get to me, and keep me not quite as relaxed and joyous as I could or should have been, I think I’m feeling more at ease with things. Deliberately taking a week off not just from the more high-maintenance hobbies (fic writing, etc.), but from even thinking about them, did me some good.
End of the month, author spotlight time. We got us another new-ish* author that’s amassed a decent following in their time here with a body of work that’s been acclaimed by quite a large handful of folks as largely reliable and consistent, with a chunk of reasonable yet disposable stories, yet when there’s a knockout, there’s really a knockout. That being mushroompone. Don’t worry, they’re not the toxic variety of fungi.
Fifteen weeks strikes me as a reasonable break between Author Spotlights. And with the end of the year upon us, let’s look at an author whose work nearly always makes me laugh and/or smile. Not that this guy needs the promotion, with nearly 2,800 followers to his name (it’d be even more were it not for that immortal enemy Real Life™ – more on that later), but round here, what the ghost says goes. Thus, I give you Aragon.
Yes, I have seen Make Your Mark. No, I won’t be discussing it here – I learnt my lesson from my review of A New Generation on rushing out clunky reviews that I end up largely revising and redoing later. A lesson you’d think I’d have learnt from years of animation YouTubing… Expect something on it round the week’s end, or on the weekend.
Got some opening blurbs planned for the next while. Let’s lead off with a big one: 2023 for Monday Musings in review! A more sensible soul would probably make a separate blog for this, but I can’t always be sensible, can I? 
And sure, if there are souls reading this who can’t stand statistical quirks, well, there’s always scrolling until the first cover art to bypass the blurb. Which some may do already, come to think. 
One major advantage of having a hefty backlog of publishable reviews (if obviously nothing like the several months and million-odd words that PaulAsaran stockpiles), is that it gives me the bandwidth to do other Fimfiction things. Ideally writing my own stuff, though there’s no accounting for having the optimal drive all the time. More obviously, it also means I can pitch with others. The odd bout of pre-reading or editing, for sure. But also contest judging. Evidently FoME has a screw loose,
Very much a throwback this week, which feels appropriate for the first set in Year 2 of these Ponyfic reviews; not only is this a week of just short one-shots akin to when I started out, but I’m finally back to doing Author Spotlights again (the Ninjadeabeard one being a special and timed feature). This week, it’s Tinybit92.
And so the catchup of missed Author Spotlights concludes on the same month that marks a full year’s worth of them. Which is a good time to put them on ice, least as far as being regular features goes. Enough of them were strains to assemble that it’s better to do them when they come going forward. But if they are to finish now, I could hardly think of a better author to do so with than Impossible Numbers.
Giving the themed week thing another whirl today. This one has been in the planning for much longer than Cadance’s outing, mind, all the way back to January, if you can believe it. Which feels fitting for background pony Berry Punch, more often than not portrayed as a barpony, that it would gestate until the time is right.
Due to the eternal conundrum that is air travel, next week’s Monday Musings will go up late, as I will still be airborne on the way back from UK PonyCon at the usual time of 18:00 BST. It’ll still go up before midnight, as I’ll have it ready to go before departing on Friday, give or take a one-paragrapher on how it went to add before hitting Post; you can’t get me to miss a day that easily! 👻
Hopefully you’re not tiring of these Author Spotlights yet, because today's an absolute doozy. After a few weeks of picking authors I just happened to have some stockpiled reviews of and picking others to fill up a week, we’re back to specifically selecting someone and their stories for this from the get-go. My friends, today we're spotlighting the one and only Chris.
And finally, time for the last batch of entries for the Ancestral Tribute contest. Been quite a ride, and in a sense, the best came last; the winner is in this last batch, and these eight have the highest overall rating of the four weeks, with all fics getting a positive rating. Not to say there weren’t great entries along the way in the prior weeks, there were for sure, but it’s still somewhat telling, no? When in
Alright, I’m spent. It’s Sunday night as I’m writing this, I’m more knackered than Big Mac after the turkey call competition, and I have literally nothing to mention as a forward to this Ponyfic Review Monday Musings that’s springing to mind, except a pointless two-paragraph ramble on what I’ve been watching lately. I won’t blame you for skipping it.
This being Ireland, and not the Western/Southern United States as it is for a hefty chunk of the audience, only now are the effects of Summer starting to make themselves known. And still in a limbo where sometimes it’s warm enough to only wear a t-shirt outside, other times it’s not, and there’s no rhyme or reason. Plus the unpredictable rain, of course.
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