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6/15/2025, 4:26:00 PM
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I read *almost* the whole thing, but the last chapter + the two epilogues are still unread. ~75k words in a week was just too much for me. I would just delay posting by a couple hours to catch up, but unfortunately I have familial obligations today and can only stick around for about the first hour of club. It's a very disappointing ending to clubbing a fic I really enjoyed.
So this is going to be a sloppy and ad hoc writeup, but I thought the fic was witty in a way that was really entertaining. Sure it was cheap and kind of trite a lot of the time, but it still managed to put a smile on my face. Something I appreciated was also that the fic didn't feel the need to insist upon its own jokes and harp on them to the audience. If a joke didn't land, no matter, we've already moved on to the next thing, and the jokes that did land benefitted from a certain dryness in the delivery that saved them from being obnoxious. There was plenty that never even got a punchline, like the CMC-Star Swirls from week 2. I also like all the little references to stuff like the "Coltyssey" or the "Epic of Gilgamane". It's cheap, but it made me feel clever for understanding very surface-level cultural knowledge. At least, I got the sense that the author was fairly knowledgeable or educated, more than you'd expect from the kind of person who'd write comedy-random. It would be very easy to dismiss the fic on the basis of its genre or the apparent tone, but it's really well put together if you get to know it. In fact, I think it the fic as a whole was elevated to about the best you could do with those two tags, low bar that that is.
Clover was great, I really liked her, a bit of a Mary Sue but she was sympathetic enough. I got the strong sense that the author was a woman during several parts, or at least on the effeminate-fruity side. It's hard to put into words, but I'm sure somebody knows what I mean. Clover struck a good enough balance between being the straight-mare and being odd enough on her own to contribute to the absurd setting/humour. Uh, .............asdf and I liked Star Swirl, too. He was cool by the end of the fic, and I enjoyed how we slowly got to know him better and better. The chapter where we take his first-person perspective was great; the fact that we "replayed" the events of the previous chapter through his lens rather than merely seeing new events did a great job at shedding light on his thought process.
I read *almost* the whole thing, but the last chapter + the two epilogues are still unread. ~75k words in a week was just too much for me. I would just delay posting by a couple hours to catch up, but unfortunately I have familial obligations today and can only stick around for about the first hour of club. It's a very disappointing ending to clubbing a fic I really enjoyed.
So this is going to be a sloppy and ad hoc writeup, but I thought the fic was witty in a way that was really entertaining. Sure it was cheap and kind of trite a lot of the time, but it still managed to put a smile on my face. Something I appreciated was also that the fic didn't feel the need to insist upon its own jokes and harp on them to the audience. If a joke didn't land, no matter, we've already moved on to the next thing, and the jokes that did land benefitted from a certain dryness in the delivery that saved them from being obnoxious. There was plenty that never even got a punchline, like the CMC-Star Swirls from week 2. I also like all the little references to stuff like the "Coltyssey" or the "Epic of Gilgamane". It's cheap, but it made me feel clever for understanding very surface-level cultural knowledge. At least, I got the sense that the author was fairly knowledgeable or educated, more than you'd expect from the kind of person who'd write comedy-random. It would be very easy to dismiss the fic on the basis of its genre or the apparent tone, but it's really well put together if you get to know it. In fact, I think it the fic as a whole was elevated to about the best you could do with those two tags, low bar that that is.
Clover was great, I really liked her, a bit of a Mary Sue but she was sympathetic enough. I got the strong sense that the author was a woman during several parts, or at least on the effeminate-fruity side. It's hard to put into words, but I'm sure somebody knows what I mean. Clover struck a good enough balance between being the straight-mare and being odd enough on her own to contribute to the absurd setting/humour. Uh, .............asdf and I liked Star Swirl, too. He was cool by the end of the fic, and I enjoyed how we slowly got to know him better and better. The chapter where we take his first-person perspective was great; the fact that we "replayed" the events of the previous chapter through his lens rather than merely seeing new events did a great job at shedding light on his thought process.
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