"Calendar Chaos" is Now My Most Viewed Story! · 2:16pm May 26th
Pardon my narcissism, but... Currently sitting at 3,571 views, it's recently surpassed the old record-holder (Cutie Mark Espionage Agency at 3,565*), meaning 2018 stands above my 2011-2012 output.
And can I just say, "Well, it's about time!"?
* N.B. Because of the wonky way views are counted on FIMFiction through some different criterion, Calendar Chaos technically surpassed the other fic a few days earlier. I checked this way. That said, the actual number shown was lower, and since it looks daft to claim a record's been broken when the number shown is so very clearly lower, I'm only reporting it now that the number I actually see is unambiguous and far more evident.
Blog Number 260: "The Subtle Art of Chaos" Edition
More and more these days, I'm coming to the conclusion that chaos is not so much an absence of rules as a surfeit of them. I mean, the universe can basically be summed up as "the four fundamental interactions duke it out over matter and energy". After all, you get no fight with no combatants, but plenty of distributed punches, kicks, and chair-smacks among the many. Then again, that's probably why my more ambitious writing projects (and my output generally) tend to be... chaotic.
Anyway, back to the fic record thing.
True, it's mostly a symbolic, out-of-my-hands victory, very true. Nonetheless, I feel so much better thinking that this represents the New overshadowing the Old. I do not like my juvenilia years at all. I uncritically didn't know what I was doing back then, and it shooooooows. 
In the meantime, over teatime: self-wrestling to get more content out? It continues apace. Curse chaos and all that jazz, but this has not been a good year so far, and I'm hoping tomorrow's Bank Holiday will give me some time to get some things smoothed over. Meaning new fics are gonna be waiting a fair while at this rate.
Anyway, just wanted to stick a pin on something psychologically important to me for the time being. We'll see how the close of the month goes next.
Toodle-oo!
That's all for now. Impossible Numbers, out.
Neato to hear! It's easy to get hung up on newer fics surpassing older ones in stats, as it validates our personal beliefs that we've improves over time. Lord knows I've been victim to such obsessing!
In any case, what with that old fic having so few comments and likes, relative to the newer one, at least you knew it had been passed out in lifetime engagement ages and ages ago. That's not nothing!
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It's a bit misleading, aye, since a fic from 2011 simply has had far more time to accrue numbers than a fic from 2018. But you know, any port in a storm.
Engagement is one reason why I write and publish. Nothing quite like a good comment or criticism to sink one's teeth into.
Actually, it's kinda interesting to see what makes the cut, so briefly, from a sample of 134 fics:
51 of mine currently have over 1,000 views, of which...
More specifically, the actual ranking of fics with 1k+ views (from lowest to highest) based on the About page is:
Overall, a pretty wide spread across my peak years (late 2011 to mid 2013, and early 2016 to late 2020), with 2012, 2017, and 2018 dominating with 9-10 fics each (obviously, 2018 has the 10, the other two have 9 each). None of those three are surprising, as the former one (that's 2012) was basically early and peak pony time, while the latter two (that's 2017 and 2018) coincide with my most productive publishing years, so there are simply more candidates to boost relative to other years.
Still, neato.
Woo-hoo!
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