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WDC25, Day 6

Well, today's "Blog Week Birthday Bastion 2025"  [E] prompt is a bit different from what I'm used to. But I've always said I can write about anything. However, I never promised it'd be good.

The full prompt is below, in the dropnote, but it's basically: do two reviews.

This doesn't give me much room, so today, I'll just share the reviews I did, which are both for entries related to yesterday's prompt. The reviews are public anyway, so I'm not sharing some sort of secret information or anything like that.


"Birthday Bastion 2025 | Day Five"  from "\\ Exurgency // "  [18+] by LdyPhoenix

A great illustration of the tension between what we want and what we want. That is, to give up (or mostly give up, in this case) something we love to achieve better health or some other desired outcome: it’s a real trade-off.

The song in the video prompt is a humorous ode to coffee, and this entry is mostly about the subject matter of the song rather than the video itself. This is not a criticism; it’s an acknowledgement that we can take prompts in all kinds of different directions.

While I’ve never developed a taste for coffee myself, I do understand missing something that you used to enjoy. Could I give up something I love in exchange for the possibility (not the guarantee) of better health and/or a few more days of life? Probably not, but I enjoyed reading this entry anyway.

The only thing I might suggest is to go into more detail about “coffee might disappear” and “environmental impact,” but I realize that this could end up in controversy, and I probably wouldn’t go there, either.


"Those Little Things"  from "Racing Through Life"  [18+] by Kit

We all have our favorite things, and other things we don’t enjoy. You say this is “an interesting challenge” because the prompt is about things that you don’t partake in, but in this entry, you rose to the challenge very well.

Like you, I prefer tea to coffee, which probably made this video prompt less relatable. But turning it into an entry about the things you do enjoy is a good way to address the prompt. One might say it goes off on a tangent, but there’s absolutely no reason not to.

One thing I appreciated about this entry was the organization, with bolded section headers. This helps make it easy to follow. And while not everyone is going to share your preferences, you do well in explaining what it is about these things that you enjoy. Not that we’re owed such an explanation, but it makes things more relatable: while everyone likes different things, we mostly like those different things for similar reasons.

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Written for "Blog Week Birthday Bastion 2025"  [E]

Prompt: Look at the entries of this week by two members of this blogging group and do TWO reviews (more than 150 WORDS each, not characters). Post the reviews here {review:XXX}.

438 words, excluding dropnote