March Blog: And The Third Time Makes It Tradition

Well, it's been an eventual February. A new review on one of my stories, the launch of a new longfic, my first baffling brush with Equestria Daily...

Launching The Long Eventide when I did, I wasn't expecting to garner that much in the way of readers for my works. I'm pretty much the definition of "late to the party," writing fanfic at series' end, well past the early 2010s and the whirlwind of the fandom at its height. But at the same time, this is a situation I'm most comfortable writing in, as the story would look very different if I'd launched it back when Luna Eclipsed actually aired. I have a full toolbox of show, movie, spinoffs, and comics to blend together in my own take on the universe, instead of grasping around in the dark and getting smacked in the face with the newest episode like a wayward wrench.

I write primarily because these are the stories I want to tell, but watching this Verse come together and slowly find its audience feels good. So all of you, whether it was the bigger stories or the smaller ones, the contests or reviews, or whatever else that brought you all here... thank you. Truly. I hope to keep entertaining you all.

And now, before I get into my plans, it's stats time again.

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Current Ongoing Stories:

• The Long Eventide
• Lightning Rod (new)

Current Completed Stories:

• A Moonlit Storm
• Dawn of the Chiroptera
• Every Dog Has Her Day
• Lesbian Sheep Syndrome
• Flash Memory
• Better To Ask Forgiveness (new)

Current number of followers: 55 (up from 41)
Words I've published so far across all my stories, both completed and ongoing: 95,577 (up from 86,114)

Completed story with the most words: A Moonlit Storm at 16,411
Completed story with the most views: Better To Ask Forgiveness at 1,060 (dethroning Every Dog Has Her Day)
Completed story with the best vote ratio: Better To Ask Forgiveness at 170:3 (dethroning Every Dog Has Her Day)
Completed story on the most bookshelves: Better To Ask Forgiveness at 338 (dethroning Every Dog Has Her Day)

Number of contests I've entered: 4

• Ancestral Tribute: A Moonlit Storm, first place
• SPOOK: Dawn of the Chiroptera, results pending
• Species Change: Every Dog Has Her Day, no placement
• Flash Sentry: Flash Memory, honourable mention (new results)

Number of times I've been reviewed: 2 (up from 1)

• By Mike Cartoon Pony: A Moonlit Storm, Excellent rating
• By PaulAsaran: A Moonlit Storm, Pretty Good rating (new)

Other cool things:

• FanOfMostEverything featured A Moonlit Storm in a card blog
• Equestria Daily scouted Better To Ask Forgiveness (new)

Canon characters tagged in my works so far:

• Mane 6 (The Long Eventide)
• Princess Luna (The Long Eventide)
• Night Light (A Moonlit Storm)
• Fluttershy (Dawn of the Chiroptera and Every Dog Has Her Day)
• Twilight Sparkle (Dawn of the Chiroptera)
• Luster Dawn (Dawn of the Chiroptera)
• Rarity (Every Dog Has Her Day)
• Applejack (Lesbian Sheep Syndrome)
• Rainbow Dash (Lesbian Sheep Syndrome)
• Flash Sentry (Flash Memory)
• Discord (Better To Ask Forgiveness) (new)
• Celestia (Better To Ask Forgiveness) (new)
• Tempest Shadow (Lightning Rod) (new)
• Grubber (Lightning Rod) (new)

Species representation among original characters (counted if they have both been named and given a speaking role) so far:

• Earth Ponies: 5
• Pegasi: 3
• Unicorns: 2
• Bat Pony: 1
• Zony: 1
• Zebra: 1
• Kirin 1
• Sheep: 2
• Griffon: 1
• Hedgebeast: 1
• Abada: 1
• Nyx: 1
• Crocotta: 1

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And now, it looks like today's the Month of Contests, because my upcoming plans for writing are:

• An entry for the Science Fiction Contest
• An entry for the Arboreal Yearnings Contest

Comments

[FanOfMostEverything]

For those following the link to the card blog wanting to see the representative from A Moonlit Storm, look (and possibly Ctrl+F) for "Impisi, Spell Butcher."

For those unfamiliar with Magic: the Gathering, rest assured that it's a cool and perfectly balanced card with no exploits.