The End

Hello.

If you are reading this, you have probably been linked here expecting proof-reading or some other form of help with regards to your fanfiction.

I am afraid that we can no longer provide this service. Most of SALT's reviewing core has moved over to WRITE, and so I would suggest contacting them for help first. Alternatively, /fic/ and TTG over on MLPChan and Ponychan provide an excellent reviewing service. Contact both or either.

As it is, SALT is considered to have ended from this day forwards. I will be closing off the submissions spreadsheet and replacing it with a link to this post.

Thank you, however, for your interest. Whether you're planing to get on to EQD or just want help to improve as a writer, I wish you all the best.

And good luck.

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SALT is ending today, though it's been dead for a good while now.

Asking "why" and "why now" are both acceptable questions that I'll attempt to answer as briefly as possible. The first is because both reviewing and the Monthly Contests, the two integral parts of it, have been either inactive or unentered for a fair amount of time now. I dislike on principle letting things end with a whimper; I dislike even more not letting things end and just leaving a once occupied space to devolve into a ghost town without even ghosts.

SALT deserves an end over abandonment. I alone owe it that much.

The second question, the "why now", has an answer mildly more poetic. The Vault, regularly touted as one of the "to be" places in pony fanfiction, is currently set to post, in series, a spin-off from a SALT competition fic, an-almost-but-not-quite SALT competition fic, and a story by one of our own reviewers.

Or in other words, we get to end on some strange form of a bang, and do so before any interest from this coincidence, as unlikely as it may be, settles on a SALT unable to handle it.

Moving onwards, I'd like to thank certain people for helping out with SALT over its time in existence. I have not compiled a tally of every single review ever given, so forgive me if any names were missed. Additionally, I was not present during the formation of SALT from BROHOOF, and so I may have missed even more.

I apologise for any accidental omissions now, and ask that you contact me through FimFiction in order to rectify them. Or in the comments below. Either is fine.

And in a particular order without ranking or significance, thanks go to Ravensdagger, Cheezesauce, Burraku_Pansa, OtterMatt, Aquillo, Firebirdbtops, Fredick the Saiyan, Nagagon, Puppo530, DGDDavidson, NobleQuickSilver, Blazewing, Bombedrumbum, Millennial Dan, Dublio, MyBoyJ, TheWattsMan, ZeroHero, Chromosome, Arcainum, AugieDog, and Melon Hunter.

Thank you for helping make SALT a possibility, both through reviewing and participating in the contests. I know it's helped me grow as a writer in ways that would not have been possible without, and I'm certain it has helped others similarly.

It's been an honour, guys. Feel free to use the comments below to tell me how sappy I'm being.

Yours,

          Aquillo