If you didn’t know (and after over 100 opening blurbs, I’d be surprised if you didn’t 
), I do love fussing over stats where anything of interest is concerned, Fimfic included. Happily, I’m not alone (because duh 
): Recommendsday blogger, fic writer and all-around awesome chap TCC56 does too, and in his latest such dive, something very interesting came up.
Eventually I’ll have to contend with these yearly anniversaries getting a day further off each time (or two, Leap Year and all), as I started on March 7th. Price to pay for committing to a fixed day in the title, eh? But that day isn’t yet (likely next year, where I’ll have it three days after rather than four before, to be closer). Right now, it’s here. Folks, Ghost Mike’s Ponyfic Review Monday MusingsTM has been going on two years now. 
Okay, well, after three weeks of fun year-in-review stats, no real news today. Just moving out of the January doldrums. Not that it’s been a bad month: outside of the royal pain from last week, it’s actually been pretty good, as January tends to go. And I have a weekend with friends coming up centred around a Bank Holiday next Monday (new enough in Ireland, only its 3rd year). But nothing to really say here and now.
Last week was the “serious” side of looking back at 2023 for Ghost Mike’s Ponyfic Review Monday MusingsTM in review, focusing largely on quantifiable stats calculated in the Archive Spreadsheet. Now it’s time for the fun, goofy side of that – quirky takeaways that don’t mean much except being something to chuckle at.
Something a bit unusual this week. I’ve had more and more review stories pile up on my backlog lately from an Ponyfic audiobook reader that isn’t Scribbler, and I figured, why not do an edition of exclusively fics read by them? It gives me the chance to also talk about the quality and quirks of their readings. That reader being StraightToThePointStudio.
As hinted previously, I’ve run out of energy with doing Commentary Corner for Tell Your Tale shorts every week. And while most shorts do have something unique to say, it’s still largely just frustration of the “what are you doing, writers?!?” variety. So, as of this week, I’ve decided to scale them back; rather than a play-by-play commentary, Friendship Is Card Games style, it’s more of a standard recap and impression.
It completely slipped my mind that last week I crossed the coveted mark of having reviewed 100 fics. I can’t say for certain how long I thought I’d be doing this when I started, though I was pretty certain I’d keep it going for the rest of 2022 anyway. The surprise is that I gained decent traction and a not-half-bad following, given I didn’t even have 40 followers before I started this, and now I have double that. Truly, this is a great community, and I love that you folks enjoy my review
Mixed February for this spirit so far; been perpetually under-the-weather for two weeks now, just enough to take regular painkillers. I’ve had it worse, but it’s always gone quicker than this. On the other hand, good experiences with friends lately, what it’s all about, and while I haven’t made much of any progress on the writing front lately, the torch is still burning on the development cycle. So, not much, but not nothing.
I’m by no means well-versed how bank holidays work for the Americans in the crowd, but they’ve always been an anomaly for me: when you’re in school or college, it never feels like a day off, due to pressure, from parents, society or oneself, to keep up with the study, especially in exam-adjacent periods. Only since I became a “normal” employee of society have they felt like an actual day off.
14 shorts in, and I am unsure whether it’s wise to continue much further with Commentary Corner for Tell Your Tale. Already the repeated facepalm “really?” moments of the characterisation are grating to watch, write about, and probably to read. And as I suspected for this series, the largely rigid-formula limits how much new can be said each week. Not unless one has mastered the art of this brand of snarky-and-sincere commentary, or has a larger audience. Certainly, to go all the way to
Hitch: "Mares and stallions, I present to you: McSnips-A-Lot. The true protagonist of Generation Five. Capable of quality cushion plumping, model carnage, and gives a smashing manecut. Truly a fun personality destined to win the hearts of millions."
Today’s blurb is prepped in advance, as I’m taking advantage of a bank holiday weekend here to catch Spider Man: Across the Spider-Verse (film will be over by the time this goes up, ssh 
). Really hoping its masterful precursor and all the hype/word-of-mouth prove true, and that my mild worry on the more standard superhero plot and dialogue in the trailers is unwarranted.
Do… Do I have something genuinely interesting to talk about two weeks in a row? I… I think I do. 
Yes, shocking, I know. You all know how this year is Disney100, celebrating their centennial as a company? Which, being the 2020s, means they are doing the most shameless nostalgia capitalisation possible. But even a stopped clock is right twice a day, as with them re-releasing these films over the next two months:
While I do consider myself an animation connoisseur, I can sometimes be limited in what I watch. I certainly don’t check out as much indie web animation as I should, for a start, and that’s a pity, because a lot of it’s great. I bring this up because just last week, a new show pilot has gone absolutely viral, to the tune of 47+ million views in seventeen days. If you keep even a vague eye on such things, you’ve no doubt already heard of it: it’s The Amazing Digital Circus.
Fluttershy: "Oh, um, today is World Kindness Day. Ghost Mike would give you all a hug of appreciation, but his kind has difficulty doing that with the living. So he asked me to help. Which I was only too happy to, Kindness being my Element and all.
In the early hours of this morning, the total number of public stories on Fimfiction passed 150,000. There have been plenty more than that, of course, excess from delisted and removed stories – though not nearly the 540K you’d guess from the URL IDs, many of which are generated by a user but never have a chapter actually uploaded or published – but it’s an impressive total no matter what way you spin it.
It was bound to happen again before long. After a month and change of blogs where I always had something interesting to wax about in the opening blurb, once again I am stumped for topics. Well, unless I just repeat recent things (latest Disney100 was 101 Dalmatians, great as ever, didn’t expect it’s graphic look to feel boosted much by the big screen, but it was, and the small audience seemed to dig it really well), and even I don’t want to do that. Let alone what you guys would want.
Anything to say this week? Bits and bobs; still a bit off finishing judging and announcing results for the Ancestral Tribute contest, while my blog miniseries on Make Your Mark Chapter 2, and the two-parter of my experience at UK PonyCon 2022, each have one post to go, coming later this week and again next week (but in reverse order). Between that and other obligations, kind of in a headspace of having several tasks ongoing, and all making progress (well, except my own fic writing,
Well, my opening blurb topic got postponed last minute, leaving me high and dry. Bugger. Eh… I guess Ponyville Ciderfest's Charity Auction (which broke the prior Bronycon record and raised over $100K) including anonymously donated scripts (with notes) for nearly the whole series counts? This stuff's been in the wild for four years, but if the pony archive storing it gets more eyeballs on it, now it's
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