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Review Blitz 2025 Kick-Off Thread

Negrek

Five for Silver
Staff
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Review Blitz 2025 Kick-Off

It's the most wonderful time of the year! As the northern hemisphere slides into darkness, one bright spot remains on the horizon: Review Blitz! It's a whole month of feedback frenzy as we catch up on all those fics we meant comment on throughout the rest of the year. It's time to get that chapter ready to post, start a list of fics to hit, and finish those review replies from last year (oops)... Review Blitz is on the way!

This is our seventh year of running Review Blitz, if you can believe it! If you aren't familiar with the event, feel free to check out last year's thread to get an idea of how it works; the general structure will be quite similar this year.

Whether you're a Blitz veteran or joining in for the first time this year, it's time to start thinking about your plans! Here's the run-down for this year's event:

When is Review Blitz happening this year?

This year's Review Blitz will run from midnight UTC December 21st, 2025 - 11:59 PM UTC January 18th, 2026.

Interested in helping out?

We can't have a blitz without all the awesome people who log reviews, work out the scoring, and provide prizes to all our amazing reviewers. If you're interested in helping out with Blitz this year, please reply to this thread with the following:

- Would you like to offer prizes? What kind? In the past we've had people offer art commissions, custom drabbles, reviews, poetry, and more. If there's anything special you can make or write, it would probably be welcome as a prize; just ask if you're unsure. The more the merrier! Even if you only think you can toss in an extra review here or there, we'd love to have you.

- How many of each kind of prize would you like to offer? A drabble and a sketch commission? Three reviews? However many prizes you can offer, it helps the logistics team figure out prize tiers if we know roughly how many of each we'll have available.

- Would you like to help out with Blitz logistics? Whether you can offer prizes or not, we also need people to help coordinate the event. The logistics team does things like figure out the weekly themes and the point structure of the event, helps test the app, approves reviews, and assigns prizes. These are active positions that run throughout the entire Blitz. We are once again looking to add one or two people to the logistics team for this year's Blitz!

If you're interested in helping out this year, please reply to this thread by December 12th so we can get to work designing the prize tiers. One way or another, I hope you'll join us for another round of Review Blitz!
 

Starlight Aurate

Ad Jesum per Mariam | pfp by kintsugi
Location
Route 123
Partners
  1. mightyena
  2. psyduck
Happy to offer up to 5 reviews for this year!
 

canisaries

you should've known the price of evil
Premium
Location
Stovokor
Pronouns
she/her
Partners
  1. inkay-shirlee
  2. houndoom-elliot
  3. yamask-joanna
  4. shuppet
  5. deerling-andre
  6. omanyte
  7. hizzap
I'd like to offer three character art commissions! They would be digital drawings with rough lines and flat colors. Some examples under the spoiler:

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I couldn't find an example of a flat drawing for a human(/humanoid), but I can do both humans and pokémon (or other animalistic creatures).
 

spinaltapdancer3

Lost my cloud pfp pic. :(
Location
US - Central Time Zone
Pronouns
he, they
I offer (2) art pieces as review rewards.

Specs: maximum (3) characters per piece. Will do backgrounds, shading, coloring, and rendering.

I also offer (1) review.

Specs: I will read the entire fic and review chapter by chapter. Unless your chapters roughly average less than 2000 words, then I will start bundling them. Empty chapters will be evaluated as stand alone if they make sense in context. Timeframe depends on how long your fic is, please give me some grace if you have a 3 million word fic with 300 characters. Review can be submitted on AO3 or through discord. I can try to figure out posting it to TR or PMDFF if requested.
 

FanFictioner144

TRio enthusiast
Location
Floaroma Town, setting camp at meadow
Pronouns
him/his/their
Great wonders! I am more than glad to be part of Blitz helping team. Likewise, below is a list of actions I am willing to do.

What kind of prizes am I willing to offer? How many?​

  • One beta-read for a Pokémon story, without restrictions;
  • One collaboration to write a Pokémon fanficton;
  • Two reviews (one for each 5 chapters or 20k words - for instance, if 4 chapters take up more than 20k words, these 4 count as one review), or three reviews (for stories up to 3 chapters and 12k words), or two reviews mixing both;
  • Three to 10 answers to questions about writing, reading, reviewing, and/or miscellaneous - I am willing to answer for multiple participants.

Would I like to help out with logistics?​

Yes. In the eventuality of me being accepted, I ask for a briefing on what I should do.
 

Ambyssin

Gotta go back. Back to the past.
Premium
Location
Residency hell
Pronouns
he/him
Partners
  1. silvally-dragon
  2. necrozma-ultra
  3. milotic
  4. zoroark-soda
  5. dreepy
  6. mewtwo-ambyssin
  7. vulpix-ambyssin
Unfortunately, I've got board exams to study for, so I can't contribute anything. I'm probably just aiming for a custom pixel sprite again, if anyone's willing to offer that.
 
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