Mind boggled · 4:46am Mar 14th, 2017
So, glanced over at the Big Master Review List in the vain hope that proximity will help pull my brain up out of the morass (that's a good word in general, it doesn't get used enough) that is my current emotional/mental state. So, glanced at it and saw that I got it up to a big round number when I last updated it. 14,500 total reviews.
I... I think we might be reading too much ponyfic, peoples. That's an absurd number of reviews about pony words. 8,316 different stories.
I can't help but remember that my rule of thumb is that I probably only actually keep track of like half or maybe 2/3rds of all the reviews done. I don't touch rage reviews, or reviews in comments, and I know I don't follow all group reviews because so many of the groups just have one review thread instead of putting each review by itself. Seriously, come on guys! That makes linking the reviews to the list annoying and frustrating. It's like the majority of pony fan fiction fans don't even consider the effects of their actions on my hobby spreadsheet! The fact that at least two of those groups existed before the spreadsheet is the cowards argument.
Anyway, jeeze. I'm reminded again how I get a bit overwhelmed when I can add 100 reviews to the list and it's barely a bump up in the overall number. Point? None, it's just late and I'm avoiding bed and I managed to be in a mood enough to actually post something and so this is what came out. At least I can comfort myself in that it might not be as insightful as an Aragon post (one of which I just read a little bit ago) but certainly more coherent!
Ye, gads.
I mean, I've posted five reviews in the last five days, consisting of 21 stories. I've got another review set ready for tomorrow, which will put it at 26...
I just crossed 1000 reviews posted with Eternal. I'm already up to 1020.
That's not nearly enough reviews.
I mean, I've got over 6k stories on my RIL alone! :B
Of which I've contributed a little over 5% in... quite a long time. That really does bring home the sheer scale of the BMRL. What a resource that thing is.
Party at 15k!
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Welcome to the four digit club!
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Hey, you could have cut that in half I bet. You decided to read Project Horizons instead.
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Thanks!
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Yeah, but then you'd have to add even more stories to your list.
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The first five stories of my RIS, plus everything I need to read for the RCL, amounts to over 2.2 million words of fanfiction.
I was boned the minute I got on this train.