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Reviews for February 2026
Fully Automated Backlog Communism
Mar 1 • Makin
The New and Exciting Record Crash Backlog
Just living in the database, wow wow
Feb 27 • Makin
Reviews for January 2026
There's a hole in the backlog
Feb 1 • Makin
Reviews for December 2025
Blonde is IN
Jan 1 • Makin
Reviews for November 2025
Here the video games
Dec 1, 2025 • Makin
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Book Review: Lord of the Mysteries
Jul 31, 2020 • Makin
Book Review: Mad Investor Chaos and the Woman of Asmodeus
Jan 16, 2022 • Makin
How to Identify AI-Written Web Fiction
Nov 27, 2025 • Makin
8 Tropes of the Webfic Age
Jun 10, 2025 • Makin
How to Identify AI-Written Web Fiction
I'm absolutely right!
Nov 27, 2025 • Makin
Reviews for October 2025
More like Whizzard and Ass
Nov 1, 2025 • Makin
Reviews for September 2025
MS Paint Adventures might count as webfics, actually
Oct 1, 2025 • Makin
Reviews for August 2025
Record Crash's Pinkest Summer
Sep 1, 2025 • Makin
Book Review: Avant-Garde Autopilot Rotogravure Express: System-Go!
Rage Against The Mainstream by the author of Worth the Candle
Aug 2, 2025 • Makin
Reviews for July 2025
Somehow Bam Margera returned
Aug 1, 2025 • Makin
Reviews for June 2025
All the stars are here
Jul 1, 2025 • Makin
Ages of Webfic
This isn't another essay, I made a gimmicky online tool and want to share it with you people
Jun 23, 2025 • Makin
8 Tropes of the Webfic Age
The Internet has democratized fiction publishing, allowed teenage writers to set new standards, and delivered a bunch of cool new failure modes. Here's…
Jun 10, 2025 • Makin
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