And we forge forward into the future!

To begin a new year's worth of recommends, I'm gonna pull out one of the more fun themes I've enjoyed - simulations.

Our first is a play on a classic Star Trek concept: The Kathiawari Mare, by AShadowOfCygnus.

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Well now. This marks a full year of this blog series. I'll admit, it's been a fun ride so far. Having the chance to bring a little light on to some deserving stories and authors has been great, as has the excuse to re-read some of my favorites before putting them up. It's been a blast, and thank you all for joining me along the way.

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Sometimes, this blog practically writes itself: I stumble on to a fic that just leaps out at me and gets easily paired with something already on my to-do list. And that's the cases this week, though I won't tell on which one is which - I don't want to do either a disservice.

I'll lead today with the older of the two: Cut by MetaSkipper.

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As I've said in previous blogs, sometimes the topic to just falls into my lap.

This week's might on the surface seem to be war fics - that would be incorrect. It's more the consequences of war fics. Too damn many of the warfic crowd only care about the blind HOORAH cinematic bull, or if they do look at the consequences? The looks tend to be rather shallow and the literary equivalent of "I'm sad :( :( :(" without embracing what that means.

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February is the month of love, but this week is the week of wub.

...Okay, look, work with me on this. It's been a long day.

Starring this week is our favorite DJ, Vinyl Scratch. And by extension her counterpart Octavia. They're a pair I've always had a soft spot for - can't really say why, I just generally enjoy them both as a pair and individually.

Anyway! On with the show!

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'Tis the season for romance - unsurprisingly. With Valentine's just two days past, the theme for today's pretty obvious. And fortunately, I've got Best Pony to lean into with plenty of stories!

I'm gonna lead with 'adorable' today: Tethered-Angel and Down the Laundry Chute.

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You know, I missed this fandom's early days. I was around very briefly, but missed almost all of the excitement and creativity that were spawned out of those first moments when all anybody had to go on was an episode or two and forty billion headcanons. While the launch of G5 hasn't gotten quite the same uncontrollable burst, it's still brought a lot of new characters, ideas, and situations to the table. And while these aren't the first G5 fics I've offered up (I did that the first week

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It's February. We all know the big holiday for this month. Half of us are sick of it already and half are trying to make fancy dinner plans. Fortunately, it also provides an easy out for theming story picks!

Top of the card today is one that has a fascinating backstory to it: Kaleidoscope by TheDriderPony.

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With the Seattle's Angels announcement earlier today - one of the sources that inspired me to start this series - I'm feeling a little melancholy. Fortunately, I've had a pair of stories sitting on my docket that fit this sort of mood. The theme is one I summarized in my notes as 'The end of the rainboom'.

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When I recommend stories that go into M territory, I prefer to give a heads up for folks that things are going to be Not Safe For Work. 

This is me giving that warning now, because there's a lot of profanity coming up. 

Because this week's connecting theme is profanity.

Oh, and Rarity.

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