6-Star Reviews Part 32: The Purple Menace(s)

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Chris 1, minor illness 0.  Go me!

Unfortunately, the fact that I'm now playing catchup after being useless for a few days means I haven't had time to watch the latest episode yet, so I've got nothing to say about it.  I do, however, have plenty to say about uSea's The Purple Menace(s).  Look after the break to find out if that's a good thing.

Sorry guys...

...but there's no new post today.  Well, unless you count this, I guess.  I've been sick the last few days--nothing serious or life-threatening or any such, but it feels like somebody keeps tapping my temples with balpin hammers 24/7, and looking at a computer screen just makes it worse.  Obviously, not a situation conducive to reading/reviewing fanfiction.  I'll be back to my normal schedule on Monday.

To help you pass the weekend, here's a conversation topic: what character or characters did you hate when you first saw them in an episode, but came to appreciate (or at least, hate less) later on?  For full credit, explain what caused the shift: was it further in-show development, a fanfic, a comic, fan art, or just the passage of time that made him or her more palatable to you?

Now I'm going back to bed.

6-Star Reviews Part 31: Beyond Forever

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I'm in a really good mood right now, because I just found a box of thin mints in the back of the freezer.  I thought I'd eaten the last of them months ago.  Score!

Will Bobcat's Beyond Forever complement their chocolate-minty goodness, or will it leave a sour taste in my mouth?  Find out after the break.

Episode Talk: S2E14, The Last Roundup

So... Derpy.  

Now that the furor over the latest episode has died down somewhat, let's take a look at it, shall we?  Anyway, here are a few things that stuck out to me, all after the break.

6-Star Reviews Part 31: Luna's Excellent Adventure

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Because it's important that one have something to complain about at all times, I did a little math this morning.  Assuming that the average weight of the snow I've shoveled this winter was about 10 lbs per cubic foot (which is just a guess, but it sounds reasonable enough), I've shoveled more than 12,000 lbs of snow off my driveway and sidewalk so far this year.  Every year I tell myself I should just get a snowblower, but my masculine pride insists that to do so would be an intolerable admission of weakness.

Strangely, that same sense of masculine pride has no trouble with the fact that I have a blog dedicated to My Little Pony fanfiction.

Below, my review of Luna's Excellent Adventure, by Blueshift.

More Stories You Haven't Read (But Should Have)

Back by popular demand, it's little-known short stories!  A number of people have asked me to do this again, and I would have made another post sooner if it hadn't been for one tiny detail: putting this together is a lot of work.  There are only so many diamonds in the rough, after all, and I just don't have the time to go digging for them.  If this post goes over well, maybe someday I'll manage to find some more stories and make a third entry in the series--just don't expect it to be anytime soon.

As before, I've assembled three very different short stories.  While I don't necessarily claim that any of them are the best works ever to grace a digital page, I think all of them deserve more attention than they've received to date.  Check them out below the break.