Sep
26th
2024
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Editing and Critique Commissions
Public Notices
People keep asking, “Hey, I see you added my story to a bookshelf! Are you going to review it?”
I book it, I review it.
No exceptions.
Reading Progress
Goldenwing ·
341k words
· 595
11 ·
6.5k views
90.55% (308,554 / 340,744)
Czar_Yoshi ·
2m words
· 405
20 ·
8.8k views
62.37% (1,260,254 / 2,020,718)
Featured Stories
These stories did well enough to hit the feature box!
Bulletproof Heart: The Great, The Powerful, and the Bulletproof
Bulletproof Heart: The Pony on the Roof
Bulletproof Heart: Sunset at Little Longhorn
Cutie Mark Chronicles: Limestone Pie
Lyra Heartstrings and the Bench of Doom
No Heroes: Hot Chocolate at the Isekai
The Gentle Nights: Audience of One
Accolades
Anthropomorphic
2nd Place
The Barcast's Halloween in April Contest
Study of Generosity
2nd Place
The Barcast's Make Rarity Not Garbage Contest
The Fourth Season
Honorable Mention
Oroboro's Sunset Shipping Contest: Changing Seasons
What is Missing, What is Lost
1st Place
Rage Reviews! seventh F*** THIS PROMPT contest
One Night at Fluttershy's
3rd Place
Skeeter the Lurker's Switcheroo! contest
Ordinary World
Overall Winner
Transformations group's Body Swap Contest
Twilight's Inferno
1st Place
Badass Twilight = Total Domination group's Banished, Exiled, Forgotten contest
Latest Stories
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- PaulAsaran · 12k words · 18 0 · 147 views
- PaulAsaran · 18k words · 23 0 · 214 views
- PaulAsaran · 8.9k words · 40 2 · 508 views
- PaulAsaran · 6.5k words · 24 1 · 271 views
Review Blog Rules
Want to request a review? Want to know when they release and how? Then follow the link below to see how they work!
As of September 21, there are 7 request slots open! Reviews are currently booked through January 9.
As of May 30, the 2025 Long Schedule is closed! The 2026 Long Schedule will open January 1, 2025.
Review Schedule and Other Spreadsheets
My Long Story schedule is completely booked for 2025. This means that if you want to request a story longer than 70,000 words, you will be waiting until sometime in 2026 for that review. I cannot guarantee it'll be "early" 2026, either. Just something to keep in mind.
This schedule lists the stories that are set to be reviewed every week. The next six weeks are always included. I may have more than six scheduled, but only the nearest six will actually be visible at any time.
The day-to-day reading schedule, which dictates what I will read and when. Mostly meant for my own use in limiting how much I read every day, but kept available to the public for the sake of transparency.
The archive. Contains a list of every story I've ever reviewed with links to both the story and the review.
A Brief Look Into The Insanely Detailed World That Is Paul's Mind
Read this if you want to see what I go through every Saturday to deliver to you folks a weekly review blog. Be warned, this thing is overbearingly detailed.
Favorites
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The Silver Standard Once upon a time, Silver Spoon's life made sense. Now she lives in Ponyville. 296,450 words · 537 · 10
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Five Hundred Little Murders Flitter thinks Fluttershy is the weakest pony in the world. Flitter has never confronted what Fluttershy's job really means. Nopony ever wants to or should. Now Flitter has to. And 'weak' will turn out to be exactly the wrong word. 10,523 words · 1,142 · 25
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The Flight of the Alicorn Rarity finds herself forced into an unlikely alliance when her airship crashes far from home. 227,108 words · 1,445 · 28
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Sucker for a Cute Face Adagio finds Fluttershy alone one morning, and many to follow. 276,133 words · 1,239 · 29
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Nine Days Down A routine rescue from a no-name villain goes wildly awry as Celestia is flung into the lethal, living nightmare that is Tartarus. No great problem for an immortal, but to Celestia's absolute horror, Twilight has followed her in. 143,009 words · 308 · 5
Concepts & Creations Index
A while back I started posting blogs detailing stories that I conceived but don't expect to ever write. The link below is to an index of all these blogs.
Best Stories
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Time for Tea As far as everyone who isn't Fluttershy knows, Rainbow Dash is not a 'tea' type of girl. Really. 1,000 words · 110 · 4
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No Heroes Part III - For Dreams Luna's team takes on its first task, working together with the Element Bearers. But with Fine Crime out of action, can Luna keep the team going in their dreams? 92,694 words · 122 · 1
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Of Angels What makes an angel? Is it wings and a halo? Is it good deeds, a gentle touch, beauty? I’ve thought on that long and hard. 4,023 words · 355 · 3
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Friendship = Evil Filly Twilight has come upon a groundbreaking truth. Now she just has to convince Celestia. 2,393 words · 959 · 11
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Lessons in Generosity Scootaloo is the last pony Rarity ever thought would want to be more 'Rarity', but that's exactly what the filly claims. Sadly, Scootaloo's understanding of generosity is disastrously flawed. 4,887 words · 314 · 4
Personal Best
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Bulletproof Heart In a hot desert Equestria, Rarity Belle makes her living as a clothier in the small town of Spurhoof. But when a posse of Bad Apples arrive in town, she finds her life turned upside down. Now she fights for only one thing: survival. 314,571 words · 337 · 13
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Cutie Mark Chronicles: Limestone Pie Everything was fine until Great Uncle Holder showed up with his stupid boulder. 11,902 words · 69 · 2
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Forgive Me, Friend Rainbow comes home to find her wife waiting for her. She hasn't seen Rarity in seven years. 8,521 words · 93 · 5
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Of Angels What makes an angel? Is it wings and a halo? Is it good deeds, a gentle touch, beauty? I’ve thought on that long and hard. 4,023 words · 355 · 3
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I hate it when authors try to dissuade me from reading something. If anything, it makes me want to read it even more. You tempt me, summer. You tempt me.
Buuuuuuuut as loath as I am to admit it, as of this time I have no reason to ignore your trying to push me in another direction. If the story were hard-scheduled, I'd download it, save the cover art and read it regardless, because there is zero chance I'm screwing with my painstakingly developed hard schedule because an author got cold feet. But it's not hard-scheduled yet, and that means I can switch it out with something else with exactly zero pain on my part. Well, except for authors trying to dissuade me from reading something in the first place (You tempt me.).
TL:DR – I'll switch to the Trixie one, but I don't like it.
Hi Paul, saw you'd added one of my Jinglemas stories to your Stalked Authors bookshelf, thanks for the interest.
Truthfully, though, I think you might be disappointed by that story. It had some good moments, but it just didn't pull together right in the end. This, I think, is the better Jinglemas one, from the year before. It's still flawed (that December was a bad month for medical reasons), but I think it's got some more interesting ideas and follows a better arc. No Sunset or Celestia, though, so may not appeal in the same way the one you listed does.
For what it's worth, I think this one is better than either of them, though only two acts of three are complete, so I doubt that's to your taste. Also there's the one currently on your reserve list, I don't know if that counts.
Whichever sounds best to you. I just don't want to get your hopes up for a story I wasn't too happy with
Also, very exciting to see Adagio on the long story list! And The Maretian too!
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My god I need to get glasses.
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I think I'm going to keep that image on standby from now on, I've already had to use something like it twice.
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I believe my first ever review was from this January 2015 post. Be warned, I was not so organized at the time and the posts didn't start getting linked together for a long while. As such, your only real option would be to go into my blog list and manually hunt down the individual blogs.
The good news is that I started actively marking them as review blogs in the title shortly afterwards, so it shouldn't be hard to follow along once you find that first one.