Count Numberatu: Return of the Statistics · 1:07pm Jan 16th, 2021
Blog Number 128: The Statistical Comeback Edition
(No, this isn't about mathematical vampires: given how my blogs are going, I just wondered if I should start calling myself something like that). 
Couple of things. First of all, following up from Blog Number 125 (Incomplete or Cancelled?), I will reassign my incomplete fics to the "on hiatus" category.
It strikes the best balance between "this is definitely going nowhere anytime soon" and "I might come back to it one day", so it seems the best status update to go for.
Secondly, Now The Wind Has Changed Forever made it onto Equestria Daily! 
After a two-and-a-half-month wait. 
The fic itself proved seemingly controversial upon its release on FIMFiction two-and-a-half years back, though I gather that was mostly because of the more general issues surrounding Spitfire herself as a character. Which is understandable, because I've been wondering about that myself. Heck, it's half of what motivated the fic.
Speaking of which: its acceptance on Equestria Daily has been... 
OK, I guess.
Well, to be frank, I mostly submit there for the "bragging rights" these days, as opposed to any kind of numerically significant reception anymore.
Used to be an EqD feature would be like publishing the fic all over again. Is EqD in general just not getting the traffic it used to, or are my fics specifically the problem? Like, I dunno, a marketing problem, or something?*
* I almost suspect it's no coincidence that my particular "Underappreciated Author Spotlight" got the most tepid comment reception of the bunch. And that's discouting... whatever the hell that most recent irrelevant exchange in the comments was supposed to be. 
And lastly, bringing back from the dead my old "statistics" section, which I haven't tackled since... Tuesday 24th December 2019? Whoa.
Whew. A lot has happened since then. My word, hasn't it just? 
Statistics
List of Reviews
Paul's Thursday Reviews CXCIV (The King and the Changeling)
SA: Round 171 (Quenchless Fire)
[TOP 10] Dynamic Duo: Rarity and Pinkie! (Transient)
Ponyfic Roundup 303 (Beyond the Herd)
Paul's Thursday Reviews CCXVIII (Limestone Pie Meets Petunia Paleo)
Some More Fanfic Recommendations (Mothering, Someday)
Fics Accepted By Equestria Daily
In a Hole in the Ground
Business Bubble
The Literary Hypothesis
Plugged In
The Scootaloo Switcheroo
Rarity's Genesis
Now The Wind Has Changed Forever
New Stories
Awe
Haiku Sensei
Mothering, Someday
Queen of Assassins
Beyond the Herd
The Dream World Record
Stormwalker
Too La Roo La Roo Lar (That's a Skyrish Lullaby)
Post of Honour
Dinky and the Sisterhooves
Heartbreak Hotel
Still Waters Run Deep
The Sister Sidestep: Sweetie Belle
The Sister Sidestep: Scootaloo
The Sister Sidestep: Apple Bloom
My Princess, My Fool
New Updates
N/A
Story Count: 120.
16 in 2020.
11 in 2019.
29 in 2018.
26 in 2017.
16 in 2016.
2 in 2015.
0 in 2014.
8 in 2013.
9 in 2012.
3 in 2011.
Age: 3,323 days, or
474 weeks and 5 days, or
109 months and 4/5 days**, or
9 years and 35 days.
Working: 19 days in December 2011, 3x366 days for 2012 and 2016 and 2020 leap years, 6x365 days for 2013 and 2014 and 2015 and 2017 and 2018 and 2019, and 16 days for 2021 so far combined (today inclusive).
** Depends on whether the final month counts as 30 days or 31 days.
My Follower Count: 341.
My Followed Count: 343.
That's all for now. Impossible Numbers, out.
It's definitely the former. No worries!
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I suppose it makes sense, given the observed decrease in fanfic output over the last few years, and the general decrease in fandom buzz. Still kind of a shame, though.
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"One! That's one appropriate pop culture reference! Eh, eh, eh!"
I think EqD, and maybe Pony as a whole, is facing a multiple-whammy. The show ended just before 2020, 2020 was a global crapstorm of pain and distraction, there were painfully few cons last year, and instead of gathering as one the fandom waged a few mini-civil-wars. There’s been a lot on people’s minds, and an idyllic world of friendship has never seemed less relatable. I don’t think the broader Pony-sphere is done for, but that’s going to have an effect.
As for marketing more broadly: it’s far more art than science. I’d be happy to look things over, compose a cover, etc., if you’re ever interested. But one never knows where lightning’s going to strike.
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I was thinking more the last few years in general. Look at the site statistics and you'll see what I mean. Output appears to have reached a certain plateau.