The subject is to be placed in a standard containment unit capable of restraining docile life forms and equipped with all amenities to prevent the subject from accidentally harming itself. Due to its mental deficiency, constant vigilance is a necessity in order to prevent accidental self harm. A trauma team is to be placed on standby at all times should any accidents occur, or for unforeseen complications during testing. (Rescinded on ██/██/████)

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they sing the story

This... is going to be a hard review to do if the last one is any indication.

There's no getting around this, I'm reviewing Project Horizons once again, its divisive and people take issue with it. I admit, its far from perfect but its not actually that bad a story, sometimes.

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I made my account here exactly 10 years ago today. A whole decade of occasionally posting words about silly little talking horses and birds. I wish I had something planned but this kinda just snuck up on me. All I have is my thoughts, and I've only got one of those right now.

I'm getting old.

Anyway to mark the occasion here's a picture of a bird because she still makes me happy after all these years :)

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I was going to write a blog post about the finale, but having gotten about halfway through it, I’m not really sure what it was going to add to the discussion – to a great extent, it felt like a rehash of the episode, rather than adding anything of value.

But I do have things I want to say about it, so I will have to reformulate my thoughts.

In the meanwhile, I actually started reading stories again. And, well, as long as I was reminiscing… what about another review set?

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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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