The End is Nigh. Near? Neigh? Nah.

The theme of recent days around the 'web has been, "the fandom is dying."

No it's not. It's changing.

But that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.

I have to say I was doing good until about a day ago when Twitter suddenly filled up with "it's the last BronyCon" tweets and I also --for reasons I have no idea why I did this-- looked at the FimFic site stats and saw the declining new accounts and story submissions over the last few years.

Now, I have a sad. I kinda let my guard down for that moment and, it hurt. A lot.

No, we're not going all spontaneously go away, but I do know that what was is coming to an end and what will be is just beginning. It's scary. I'm not gonna lie, the last few years have been great for me - after a few decades of being bored with fandoms in general, I found one that made me happy to be part of the "herd" again. I'm really gonna miss the flood of new stories after each new episode aired, but we're not going anywhere, we'll still be right here. But know that I'll be here, and that a lot of my friends that I've made over the last few years will still be around.

And I know that the stories will keep on coming.

Go us.