Ghost Mike's Ponyfic Review Monday Musings #113 · 5:00pm May 13th
If you didn’t know (and after over 100 opening blurbs, I’d be surprised if you didn’t 
), I do love fussing over stats where anything of interest is concerned, Fimfic included. Happily, I’m not alone (because duh 
): Recommendsday blogger, fic writer and all-around awesome chap TCC56 does too, and in his latest such dive, something very interesting came up.
Like me, TCC56 is interested in Fimfic stats mostly out of curiosity, regardless of whether they provide definitive conclusions. That said, the blogs are certainly more interesting when they do provide definitive takeaways, like his last update on character tag trends in January, which is a real corker: among other things, foals have slowed hugely in usage in the site’s second half (so too have background ponies, though that’s more expected), EqG characters have levelled off a lot less than mainline FiM (Sunset is getting really close to Discord and the lower Mane 6 in lifetime stories) and Starlight was mere stories off passing out Derpy Hooves (she has since then, and is currently 20 ahead). And other fun, quirky observations, like Zipp Storm and Star Swirl, to pick two random characters, being at identical lifetime results.
Compared to that, this blog of his measuring followers against account age, his second one, has a much harder time providing definitive takeaways beyond the broadstrokes of general site activity in new stories and accounts. Sure, the several years we have of the site’s “late period” (202o-on, basically once FiM concluded) has allowed a decent bit more people not from the fandom’s heyday in traffic (up to 2014) to cross the coveted 500+ follower mark, but for the most part, that boils down to those who were big one-hit wonder, a consistent deliverer of easily-approachable and well-liked fics that aren’t challenging and thus work for more people (the “Lets Do This” kind of users), or, sadly, a constant outputter of clop.
The problem, then as now, with trying to measure a given user’s popularity off their follower numbers is there is no reliable way of telling how many of those followers are actually “active”. Sure, you can guess someone who registered in 2012 will have a lot more dead followers than someone in 2018, but not in terms of actual numbers. And you may instinctively know that of two accounts from the classic era which have similar follower numbers, the one who was a big one-hit wonder will have far less active followers now than the one who’s been a consistent outputter since, simply because the former had a huge spike in that era but many of those followers left Fimfic long ago. But that’s about it.
For a long time, this was a desire of mine: a way to quickly check for any given user how many of their followers were “active”, ideally by seeing how many were online in the last x period of time. Apart from all the obvious advantages, that would also account for an author who didn’t start writing and picking up notable followers until years later. Alas, it didn’t seem possible: my good friend hawthornbunny has done a decent few blogs analysing Fimfic stats, but when I asked him, he said he couldn’t, as he works off of data from the archives of Fimfic, and they don’t have data like that for users anyway. In TCC56’s latest blog, I bemoaned this pipe dream.
Enter Rambling Writer. He’s already helped smooth out some of TCC56’s grabbing of stats manually in the past with some Python scripts, and in this blog, he did the same after the fact, to smooth over the list of top five people by followers each year to account for their first story rather than when they joined. When he saw my offhand wish in the comments, what did the mad lad do? Only slap together a 100-line script that will take any given user’s ID and return their follower count, and how many followers of theirs were online in the last day, week, month and year, plus percentages!
Needless to say, I was very grateful, and after some private correspondence, he gladly refined it to also thereafter allow the user to input a manual date range they want to check for a user, while retaining the default results (I felt these were crucial, for reasons I’ll get into shortly). This is absolutely huge, though, a way for anyone to know exactly what their “true” follower count is, plus for any user. Here’s the script to try out yourself: just enter the user ID (go to your Fimfic profile and check the URL to see it) and press enter for the initial results, and for the manual range thereafter (if you use that), follow the given ranges allowed. It can be a little finicky on mobile, so just refresh the page or hit the Play button in the toolbar if it gives you trouble.
I’m aware this intro has gone on quite a bit, so I won’t look at too many authors. Just enough to show some very interesting points. Let’s start with your favourite spirit, shall we?
Selected user: Ghost Mike
Total followers: 151
--Online within last day: 104 (69%)
--Online within last week: 122 (81%)
--Online within last month: 131 (87%)
--Online within last year: 144 (95%)
Not too surprising that I have lost very few followers: I may have joined in August 2018, but until I started Monday Musings in March 2022, I only had 35 followers. And only 13 before my first story. Further proof comes when I used the manual range to check how many followers were online in the last 2 years, 2 months and 6 days (since March 7th 2022, when Monday Musings started): 148 of 151. That figure rises to 150 if looking at those since December 22nd 2020, when I published my first story.
The reason those initial date ranges of the last day, week, month and year are so useful? They provide clear ranges of what you're doing that followers will see. The last day range is basically the barometer for how many followers will "see" any blog you post, given that unless they follow very few people, after a day, your blog will be buried too deep in their feed (excepting those that tag stories, which will thus reach those following the story but not you). Last week is a good middle ground that allows for covering stories too and also the few stragglers, but also showing properly active followers that are reliable. A month is the cutoff for "active", as anyone past there can be considered dormant, effectively no longer a participator on Fimfic. And after a year, the rest are dead accounts: while not unheard of, even people who leave will still typically poke back in semi-frequently just out of curiosity. If they haven't logged on in a year, they're gone until the small chance of them returning.
I'd mentioned above about comparing users from the site’s early years to now, so why not do that? Loganberry and hawthornbunny are great examples to compare to myself, beyond being two good friends (plus, they’re the only active Fimfic folk I know in person). They’ve been around since 2012, have around double the followers I do, and have been consistently active in that time, if in blogs more than stories: Logan has 34 stories to his name (overwhelmingly short one-shots, not even 100K in words between them all) but is mostly known for his offsite blog LouderYay, and Hawthorn mostly for maintaining some communities and projects (the repository of fan-made Pony MtG cards, for one) over his 13 stories. So, like me, they are known as community contributors that occasionally write a fic. How would they fare?
Selected user: Loganberry
Total followers: 278
--Online within last day: 100 (36%)
--Online within last week: 119 (43%)
--Online within last month: 139 (50%)
--Online within last year: 184 (66%)Selected user: hawthornbunny
Total followers: 315
--Online within last day: 106 (34%)
--Online within last week: 132 (42%)
--Online within last month: 155 (49%)
--Online within last year: 190 (60%)
Very close to me, no? Despite only 54.3% or 47.9% of their followers, I'm between the two for Daily and Weekly Followers, and nipping at their heels for Monthly. Within a year is where their follower counts pull too far ahead. Though there, we see that LouderYay, despite being offsite (were it on here, Logan would surely be a more well-known Ponyfic reviewer: he recently passed ten years of doing it 
) has nearly closed the gap between these two guys where yearly is concerned, with Logan’s 66% to Hawthorn’s 60%. Indeed, one trend that proved very consistent at many of the others I looked at was that, if someone who joined in the fandom’s early period has been consistently active since, unless their follower count was 2000+ (meaning you picked up far too many people in the early days that didn’t stick), you generally will have close to two-thirds of your lifetime followers active in the last year.
I could easily look at all manner of authors to determine a bunch of trends, but this opening is already overlong – can you tell I’m still so excited to have something like this available? 
So one last comparison to wrap this up. Here’s two heavy hitters with some of the site's highest follower counts (fifth and third overall), something you can’t get if you weren’t big in 2012/13. WandererD (key site admin as well as consistent writer, joined first day in July 2011) and kkat (author of Fallout: Equestria, though not publishing it here until July 2013, after many months of being the fandom fic elsewhere). Who do you think will do better?
Selected user: Wanderer D
Total followers: 5512
--Online within last day: 1371 (25%)
--Online within last week: 1799 (33%)
--Online within last month: 2200 (40%)
--Online within last year: 3082 (56%)Selected user: Kkat
Total followers: 6531
--Online within last day: 1185 (18%)
--Online within last week: 1661 (25%)
--Online within last month: 2172 (33%)
--Online within last year: 3345 (51%)
Despite having 1K less followers and “hitting” big earlier, WandererD has not just a better retention of followers, but more in the last day, week and month. While Kkat never “left” the site (they were online yesterday), they are proportionally a one-hit wonder, as while their other two stories do have over 4K views, it’s not a patch on the 110K+ and massive influence of F:E.
I’ll pluck out more interesting options on this again in the future. But more than individual examples, being able to check true follower stats for any user remains the main celebration here. Use the tool Rambling Writer gifted to the world if it strikes you. Otherwise, here’s five fics for the week. All short, for once. Thematic opposite to this topic! 
This Week’s Spectral Stories:
The Good Art by TCC56
Crowns and Mimosas by CoffeeMinion
Rainbow Dash Digs Herself Into A Hole by Thanqol
Open To All by Casketbase77
Empty Nest by The Descendant
Weekly Word Count: 15,929 Words
The Good Art by TCC56
Genre: Comedy
Celestia, OC, Discord
1,000 Words
June 2013
With some reluctance, Celestia has brought an art critic to Canterlot Castle ahead of a major renovation. Alas, his opinions prove just as distasteful as she’d expected. Then they reach one particular work that requires a new adjective from her.
Thankfully, I know TCC56 well enough to know that this fic, and Celestia’s thought that she’s never met a non-infuriating critic, doesn’t apply to good-natured reviewer spirits like myself, meaning I can get down to the fic. 👻 Like many a solid comedy squeezed into 1,000 words, it knows how to have more than just a punchline, which is good given the cover art makes it quite easy to guess. Primarily that’s through having sub-punchlines after it (writers, you can make a lot out of distracting people with knowing something that isn’t a red herring and turns out to be true if there’s more to it after the fact). But the buildup to that point is no slouch either, between finding unique ways to describe Celestia’s silence at the critic’s statements, having fun with the pony takes on classic art pieces, and the particular ways in which he rips apart the classics he comes to.
As a light job at snobbish art criticism, this nails the balance between being simple and effective. It’s almost a bonus that it’s quite funny too. No complaints from me on this nabbing an Honourable Mention in the second Thousand Words contest!
Rating: Pretty Good
Crowns and Mimosas by CoffeeMinion
Genre: Slice of Life (w/Narcotics)
Twilight, Celestia
1,475 Words
March 2021Reread
Celestia has kept regular correspondence up with Twilight since she retired. And she’s truly relaxed, knowing Twilight has things in hoof. Nonetheless, she is quick to journey to Canterlot when Twilight requests to see her in person, to discuss some worries her former student is having. In doing so, she will impart not just her wisdom, but what kept herself going through similar inner crises of confidence.
The worries Twilight’s having stem from how easily ponies wavered in their tribal unity when the Legion of Doom struck, and you all know how I feel about all but the best attempts to try and address terrible writing at the show’s end – not worth it. That said, the story isn’t totally about that, even if the short length can make it seem like it is. It’s not even afraid to let Twilight get a little argumentative with Celestia, and for the latter to say some less-than-idealised things about ponies. Which is enough to make this more than just a bog-standard morale booster scene, what it ultimately is.
At the end, it does flip it back around for a standard message about courage and perseverance (with a little wit in the dialogue to make it not totally sleepy). The end result has some good bits and interestings insights along the way, even if they’re not quite enough to make it more than a mild diversion.
Oh, and don’t worry about the Narcotics tag, it’s just for this happening when Celestia and Luna were about to have a Mimosa week.
Rating: Passable
Rainbow Dash Digs Herself Into A Hole by Thanqol
Genre: Comedy/Slice of Life
Rainbow Dash, Applejack
3,551 Words
January 2015
Now she’s passed her Drill Sergeant elective at the Wonderbolts Academy with ease, Rainbow Dash takes it upon herself to inspect the combat readiness of Ponyville’s Earth Pony Auxiliaries. Tone-deaf to their puzzlement, she finds their efforts rather lacking, and the one thing they did do, a hole in the ground Applejack insists on calling a trench, is a joke. A week for four ponies to make a hole not even two ponies could fit in? Dash takes it on herself to prove how pitiful an effort that is.
Thanqol wrote one of my favourite stories in Yours Truly, and is reportedly an excellent writer all round. I can see that a bit here too. There’s certainly a lot of good craftsmanship for what is a dumb joke fic, between quick, snappy and witty dialogue and well-managed pacing for most of the fic. Certainly, after the opening scene setter of Dash running off at the mouth and Applejack being so readily done with it, the fic is wise to jump between snapshots of Dash’s efforts on each of her days. By the end, there’s an out-of-nowhere yet not-dated-by-time riff on some aspects of canon that, frankly, could have justified a random tag, but certainly keeps the fic surprising.
That’s all well and good, but frankly I found myself closer to Titanium Dragon on this one than Present Perfect's praise. Certainly, I’m not really the audience for dumb joke fics bordering on randomness, and I can see why Dash being a dumb pegasus appeals so much to PP who half-jokingly finds Dash a terrible pony anyway (plus, there does end up being durable logic to the small hole size). But that doesn’t change that, mostly, I just found the barbs and bits rarely more than fitfully amusing, and whenever they subsided, the fic straight-up lost my interest altogether. Which certainly contributed to the late parts not really making an impression when they should have, and the fic kind of dragging despite largely-magnificent pacing.
If this kind of fic appeals, it’ll work. Otherwise, it won’t win over the sceptical, whatever its strengths in execution.
Rating: Passable
Open To All by Casketbase77
Genre: Comedy/Slice of Life
Fleetfoot, Breezies
1,189 Words
August 2020Reread
With Spitfire retired, it falls to Fleetfoot now on deciding which applicants make the cut as cadets to the Wonderbolts. Mostly a simple job: either the cadets meet the requirements or they don’t. Of course, now that non-ponies are joining the ‘Bolts, it was only a matter of time before a species whose flight skills are… complicated, would give it a go.
Casketbase77 is nothing if not a pro at the Flashfic, and this shows it. It absolutely is what it seems, Fleetfoot hemming and hawing around telling an enthusiastic Breezie that he won’t be accepted as a cadet into the Wonderbolts because his results on the flight tests were well, well outside the minimum requirements. But there’s a lot of little flourishes and cute details that just make the joke fix excel. The gusto of the Breezie, the particular way he speaks Ponish as a PSL creature, and the eventual reason why he tried the application in the first place, those all rank highly.
That said, this doing well by Fleetfoot may be even better: there’s some joking and embarrassment played at regarding her lisp, but otherwise this not only gets at a more mature mindset for her in the future, but also how going through a situation like this humbles her further. The epilogue in the Author’s Notes, while something that really should have been an extra scene or chapter, heightens this further. This may well be only the second story I’ve read that made Fleetfoot properly likeable (as opposed to entertaining, which many others have), after PatchworkPoltergeist’s With Your Shield Or On It. No small feat!
Rating: Pretty Good
Empty Nest by The Descendant
Genre: Sad/Slice of Life
Mr. Cake, Mrs. Cake, Pinkie, Cake Twins
8,714 Words
August 2014Reread
After twenty years, the Cakes are no longer parents. Or, at least, they’re no longer raising parents. Yesterday bore witness to a goodbye party for their grown children Pound and Pumpkin en route to sending them off to college. It was a very hard experience for them. Today, the house is quite alone and empty, and it will be even harder.
This is The Descendant’s final published fic, and it’s almost a decade old. I often get nostalgic about things I came to after the fact more than those I was present for, weirdly enough. I don’t know if this was intended to be his final fic at the time, but it’s quite fitting as one, given the in-hindsight overlap between this fic being about Mr. Cake coping with all the flash memories of a long-present source of joy being suddenly gone, and his role as parent no longer being needed (Mrs. Cake too, he’s just the perspective character), and us as readers without his work and him as an author.
Stepping past that to the fic itself, it’s characteristically strong in the clear-eyed yet fuzzy fragments and ways of expression between the handful of (short) flashbacks and the present. This elliptical-ness is well balanced by the more straightforward parts where feelings are discussed openly, primarily from Pinkie (who still works for the Cakes, but moved out when she started her own family – this is a 2014 fic, when futures of the character having normal, long-lasting lives were still reasonably common), but also from another player with wise insight towards the end.
While the fic is undeniably sad and heartbreaking at times (though no doubt it will resonate strongest with parents who have had their own kids fly the nest), it shows the kind of restraint in depicting such feelings that make them feel that much more realistic. The uncertain physical fumbling, the spacing out, the way the desire for catarsis takes over once it’s clear that’s what needed, it lends a realistic, bittersweet feel to the affair.
Bit of a bare review, I concede, but even by the standards of The Descendant, it’s a hard one to capture the vibes for, especially as regards how he makes this feel different yet effective from most tonal takes on this kind of material. Personally, it didn’t blow me away – even apart from not being able to personally relate to it for obvious reasons, there’s enough times when the intended tone feels a bit muddled – but it’s every bit as fitting a capstone on his work as it seemed from the outside.
Rating: Pretty Good
Spooky Summary of Scores:
Excellent: 0
Really Good: 0
Pretty Good: 3
Decent: 0
Passable: 2
Weak: 0
Bad: 0
Alas, I've only read one of these, and the review for it hasn't been released yet so I shall keep mum on my opinion for now. In the meantime, I'm surprised to see a The Descendant story I've not yet read. May have to fix that. I'm also interested in that Discord 'critic' fic, but it's a TCC56 so I'll get to it eventually.
That's some really fascinating data, and really insightful. Also kind of a good vibe since it's showing that even the oldest of the old are still cruising at a pretty high readership level - or at least reasonably so. Given the overall site population decline, I'd have expected a much more significant fall off. As it stands, 50% follower activity within the year is way better than expected for 10-12 year old accounts.
Oh right, and I had a story this week too. Pretty Good is solid! I won't complain.
Hay, I know that Loganberry chap! I'd advise being cautious in any dealings with him, though...
I suspect, though I'm not sure there's any particular way to prove this, that the reasonably decent stats for me are at least in part indirect products of my reviews. Although those are off-site, the courtesy notes I leave for authors on the relevant story pages are not. Given how little I've actually written recently, and given that Flashfic 150 doesn't have a huge number of regulars, my guess is that those review notes are the main cause of any Fimfiction visibility I might have at the moment.
It so happens that I've read all but one (Thanqol's story) of your five fics today. The Descendant's was the one I liked the most. We broadly agree on the others, except that I wasn't especially taken by Casketbase77's fic. I gave it a top-end two, though I suspect it might have shaded into the threes had I not been a little irritated by the "Author's Note" being more of a bonus chapter. Casketbase77 is an author I've otherwise had good-to-excellent experiences with, all that said.
Selected user: Viking ZX
Total followers: 916
--Online within last day: 309 (34%)
--Online within last week: 380 (41%)
--Online within last month: 460 (50%)
--Online within last year: 631 (69%)
Heh. That was pretty cool. I'm not too surprised to see the data where it is, which is more or less what I expected, considering that I run my own site. I think a good portion of these users are, where my stuff is considered, just using the site as an RSS feed for my content, since it all ends up on the main site and I can see link click-throughs from Fimfic (though Facebook gets more these days and Reddit is putting up a good fight).
Still, for a fandom that's definitely past its prime, the numbers are pretty solid. Neat tool! Thanks for sharing!
Honestly? More than I expected. Thanks for sharing the tool.
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Don't think I wasn't sharing it primarily to prompt people to check and share either.
And on top of that, don't think you weren't one of the first users I checked either.
I had this whole multi-paragraph analysis on all the still-active Ponyfic reviewers primed and ready to post, sure. But when these blurbs start pushing 2K in word count, I know to let them go.
Might revisit the parts I didn't use next week for any user who doesn't comment this week.
We'll see how it goes.
I really miss The Descendant. He was not only a reliably entertaining author, but a heck of a nice guy as well.
Fun little toy!:
Selected user: iisaw
Total followers: 1417
--Online within last day: 517 (36%)
--Online within last week: 618 (44%)
--Online within last month: 731 (52%)
--Online within last year: 1002 (71%)
It really does boil down to two key factors: when the distribution of a user's gained followers leans in the site's 13 years (the less one's followers are concentrated in that 2011-14 corridor, the better) and whether they're still active. And if not, when they dropped off. Escape that, and you're doing pretty well.
Of course, these numbers can't remotely account for target audience, and the falloff one will get if they post a story well outside what their followers came for. Or, in my case, a story from someone they follow for the blogs. But you can't account for everything, can you?
As for how unexpectedly high retention is, just wait until you see the other data Rambling Writer and I cooked up for next week. It'll blow your mind…!
Likely you were expecting results similar to what The Descendant had when I checked him. For a user who hasn't published any fics since the one I reviewed above, in August 2014, and hasn't logged on since July 2016, his 4.1K followers honestly still held better than most might have guessed, with 16% daily retention and 42% yearly. I looked at enough examples to see that, were he to return and start posting again, he would have about the reach of someone who joined when he did, has been active the site's whole history and has 2.5K followers now.
1K fics are so quick to read and easy to forget that this rating indicates high admiration for what one did with it. No reason to not recommend this one!
As you saw, the enthusiasm level is comparable to what you employ on Recommendsday. 
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They certainly help, if probably not as much as if you did them for every fic like PaulAsaran and myself (though I understand why you don't, it would turn it into less of a hobby). I reckon another element, though, is that you've just picked up a higher percentage of "core", dedicated Fimficers over the years than most people who have been active as long as yourself with similar follower count.
Many of the examples I checked also showed that users followed primarily or at least equally for their blog content, as opposed to their stories, tend to grab more of that dedicated, "lifer" demographic. Look at the results of PaulAsaran and FanOfMostEverything, weekly bloggers for many years now, since 2014/15 with follower counts either side of 2K, yet with yearly retention rates over 70%.
I think many Fimfic casual readers are only here to read stories, and don't care about analysis, or reviews, or other content beyond the fiction itself (the "lurkers", you might say). So any user not doing that won't get as many of those, but consequently they'll grab far more dedicated people who do like that sort of thing.
Just my observations, though. These things are always open to interpretation.
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That certainly describes me, somehow who is aware you used to write Fimfic but haven't in recent years to focus on original fiction, and has never even glanced at said legacy fics. And given your follower count's distribution throughout the years, doesn't seem to dip or peak in correlation with when a story of your did heavy views, as is often the case with many users when checking their About page, I'd agree with your theory.
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Actually, I do now and have done for a while. I'm a few weeks behind, which is why you're not (yet) seeing them on stories I've reviewed recently, but I'm intending to catch up.
Interesting suggestion about "core" Fimficcers. I suppose the (small, but non-zero) extra effort it takes to comment on Louder Yay rather than a Fimfiction blog -- given that virtually all ponyfic people have a Fimfiction account already -- probably does skew things that way a little bit.
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So I've heard, and seen from all the legacy comments of his on his stories and elsewhere. Makes me nostalgic for someone who left well before I came. But at least we'll always have his fics.
It's probably not surprising that you were one of the users I checked. Down to writing up a cut bit on why you had such a solid retention despite being quasi-inactive for two-and-a-half years up until two months ago, when all but one fic was delisted and you never kept blogs up for more.
The tl;dr is that, on top of you not hitting it until 2014, thus missing most of the initial wave of followers that gave lots of people severe drop-offs, your Alicorn Adventures series was that well liked that many of the "core" Fimfic folk followed you for it, and thus most of them are still around now.
I'm sure you charming, affable and friendly personality played a small role too.
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Hey, you should give them a look someday. It's not for nothing they have the followings they do! And there is some overlap between readers of my fanfic work and my professionally published stuff (and in at least one case, there was the reverse, where a reader of my published works tracked down my fanfiction and devoured it). At some point I'll be able to do another entry for The Dusk Guard, but I've got to eat first, so ...
Yeah, it's a fun little tool. I imagine someone like Bad Horse with their deep dives into site metrics would be able to pull a lot more from it, but it's neat to see the data all the same. It does say at least that the majority of my followers are still active on the site at least once a year, which is cool (and not just mine either, looking at the numbers). That's a lot better than I imagine some other fan sites would be able to claim.
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"Hate" followers count, right? Yeah, I'm the sort of data point that researchers usually label., "Exclude from statistics."
Oh, not to take away from the reviews but that tool is really cool. Let me see...
Selected user: Rune Soldier Dan
Total followers: 1110
--Online within last day: 448 (40%)
--Online within last week: 548 (49%)
--Online within last month: 661 (60%)
--Online within last year: 849 (76%)
Which amusingly looks to be within the margin of error for... actually, most of the others here. Essentially a match for FoME and Paul, while reasonably close to the others. This seems to be a fair norm for longstanding authors who have been active since close to the beginning but weren't as hugely formative as Wanderer, Pen Stroke, and such.
The overall lesson feels fairly optimistic. 550 individuals on my list alone make at least weekly hits to the site, with most of those being daily. Another hundred-odd at least wander in and out. The 'within past year' is a bit too generous for me to count in, but it's interesting that roughly half of a follower base that began in 2012 continues to actively visit the site. These numbers are probably weighted towards relative newcomers, but that itself says something about the fandom's enduring longevity.
As for the stories, Mimosas is the only one I know, and it feels very emblematic of what I've read of Coffee's works: overall a pleasant little story without much to it, and that's fine because sometimes all you want is a brief return to
Sunny's Equestriasunny Equestria.I've got the lowest of these numbers so far. I do have a rather old account—of those who've chimed in, only FoME has a lower user ID.
Selected user: Pascoite
Total followers: 1110
--Online within last day: 348 (31%)
--Online within last week: 431 (39%)
--Online within last month: 506 (46%)
--Online within last year: 685 (62%)
Honestly, this warms my heart. I think for those of us that have been here for a while, there's always the fear that the majority of our beloved followers are nothing more than remnants and abandoned accounts.
Thanks for sharing!
The Good Art seems relatable to the likes of the King and the Ghost.