S5EP18 (October 10, 2015) - Crusaders of the Lost Mark
(Reviewers: Core Team + DuncanR + Manaphy)
I'd just like to point something out:
I may have mentioned, but I don't read much.
Which is weird, because I believe that one of the most important bits of advice a writer can follow is this: read everything. Read what you like. Read what you hate. Read what you're indifferent to. Read the good, the bad, the mediocre. Read every genre, from every publisher, from every writer. The more you read, the more you absorb.
So here we all are. This is it, I think. This is the reason I started this review series. I'm pretty sure it is, anyways. Given the gravitas of the situation, I shall do my best to improve on past mistakes: I hereby solemnly swear to read the entire story to completion before I start jotting down snarky comments. I also hereby swear not to dwell too heavily on technical issues, as that gets pretty boring pretty quickly.
At the risk of turning this into a "Cold in Gardez fan blog", I have to ask...
Recently?
Seriously, is the "View Mature" setting broken on this website? The top-ranked story in the featured box explicitly has the "Sex" flag. Why is this story visible to me? Is sex not a mature subject?
Author: Prane
Featured Story: "Arcane Realms" (Top ranked, 18 May, 2015)
Least viewed story at that time: "Stage Revival"
Completion: Fully read, including prequel
Tags Listed: Slice of Life
Three Word Summary: Trixie Moves On
Ahh... birds are singing, the sun is shining, and all is right with the world! After one of the worst winters I've ever seen (two of them in a row, in fact) it finally looks and feels like summer again. I was starting to believe it would never happen! You know how they intercallate bissextile years to reconcile the Gregorian calender with causal reality? I suspect that one day winter will be so long that it'll just wrap over, becoming a leap season. We'll get six months of winter, and