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Happy Halloween! Today’s recs will feature family, fluff, ghosts, pumpkins, costumes, and other themes associated with the holiday. No trick-or-treating necessary here; just sit back, relax, and enjoy!

To view previously-recced fics that include this tag, please click here.

All of the remaining personalized thank you cards for Author Appreciation Day have been emailed to their recipients! Keep an eye out for them AlxSteele, Astoria Gracewell, astudyinfic, beatperfume, Evil_Keshi, fictionalrobin, gracie_the_shadow_writer, @hourglassmermaid, @ketzwrites, Mere, Neve, @ninwrites, @ragnorfellintomyheart, @thesorrowoflizards, Tomfoolery14, and Volunteer_of_hufflepuff! If you check your inbox and do not see it, please do not hesitate to contact me. I’d be more than happy to re-send it. 

Stay tuned for Author Appreciation Day, beginning tomorrow at 4AM EST!

Personal Announcement

I hinted a few weeks ago that I was getting a new job and, now that everything is official, I feel like I can talk about it publicly. After nearly six months of talking it over, I am joining the family business. I start training on Monday morning and will be helping out part-time with the bookkeeping and building/managing our online presence. It has the potential to turn into a full-time position in the next few years, but until then I’ll also continue to work part-time at the office I’ve been with for 5 years. I’m really, really excited about the opportunities to learn and grow, both through diverse experiences and continued education courses, as well as the opportunity to help continue the legacy of the oldest business in my hometown.

What does that mean for this blog and the affiliated Twitter account? My work schedule is going to be pretty touch and go for a while until we get everything dialed in, so my presence online will operate in the same way for a while. At this point, I have recs for the blog created through the middle of November and just have to queue them up. I’ll be on Twitter, continuing to fight to #SaveShadowhunters, as much as I possibly can but my time is going to become more limited as I adjust to this major change. I’m not leaving, I just won’t be here as often as I have been. Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding as I begin and adjust to a new chapter in my life! 😊

Monthly Analytics: September 2018

Analytical Highlights

1,424 total fics recs have been posted in the 19 months since this blog’s creation. 56 of them were posted in the last 30 days. To view this month’s recs, please click here.

THIS MONTH’S BREAKDOWN*:

Total Followers: 1,510
By Chapters: 8 Chaptered Fics and 48 One-Shots
By Length: 10 fics Under 1K, 24 fics 1K to 5K, 9 fics 5K – 10K, 6 fic 10K – 25K, 4 fics 25K – 50K, 2 fics 50K – 75K, and 1 fic Over 100K
By Rating: 2 fics Not Rated, 19 fics rated General Audience, 22 fics rated Teen & Up, 11 fics rated Mature, and 2 fics rated Explicit
By Genre: 33 Canon AU fics, 5 Crossover / Fusion fics, 18 Human AU fics, and 2 Other AU fic
By Point of View: 47 fics that feature Alec’s POV, 22 fics that feature Magnus’ POV, and 4 fics that features an Outside POV

* – Note that some fics fall into more than one option per category

other highlights

NEW AUTHORS:

247malec
CryptidBane
ErykahChanel
kaeg
Lenjamin
midnightninja14

NEW FAVORITES:

A Birthday Wish by

ninwrites
All We Spend is Time by magnusbicon
Blue Jeans and Blue Sky by Evil_Keshi
Of Splendour in the Grass by

Lecrit
In Search of Silver Linings, We Discovered Gold by ninwrites
Seventeen Thousand…and One by

247malec
Spiralling Ivy by kaeg
The Children of Merlin by Lecrit
The Many Shades of You by Bohemian
Vodka Cannot Kill a Dragon by

Lecrit
What’s Life Without a Few Dragons by

Lecrit
You’re My Golden Snitch by theloverneverleaves

NEW SERIES:

Alec Lightwood’s Drunken Adventures series by Lecrit
No Capes! series by theloverneverleaves

NEW TAGS:

Farm / Ranch Life
Pandemonium
Secret Agent / Spy
Supernatural AU

THIS MONTH’S MOST POPULAR FICS

All My Friends Are Wasted by hourglassmermaid
Anything For the Birthday Boy by skywire
Blue Jeans and Blue Sky by Evil_Keshi
Call it Luck (Call it Fate) by the_crownless_queen
For Better or For Worse by Lenjamin
Home At Last by magnusbicon
In Search of Silver Linings, We Discovered Gold by ninwrites
It’s Electric! by Fatale
Love is a Gamble by la_muerta
People Like Us by happilyy
Private Eyes by ohfreckle
Suspended in Motion by Pameluke
Take My Hand and Close Your Eyes by Pameluke
The Hunter’s Moon Hustle by Pameluke
The Rhythm of the Night by the_crownless_queen
The Space Between by KouriArashi

EVENTS

The blog returned from a 3-month #SaveShadowhunters hiatus on September 1st by kicking off the Back to Hogwarts Event, during which Wizarding World crossovers celebrated the day that students return to Hogwarts. It resulted in the posting of 4 fic recs.

The first three installations of the You Pick the Tag Event took place on Fridays throughout the month. As decided by votes submitted by the blog’s followers, they included fic recs that featured Arranged Marriage, Crime, and Enemies to Lovers. It has resulted in the posting of 10 fic recs of varying genre and length so far.

Alec’s Birthday Celebration took place on September 12th and resulted in the posting of 5 fic recs.

The first day of fall on September 22nd was celebrated with the Autumn in New York Event and resulted in the posting of 2 fic recs.

MISCELLANEOUS

The blog surpassed 1,500 followers this month. Thank you all so much for your continued support!

Thanks for another great month!

Blog Update

I know that I’ve been MIA for the past week and I apologize for that. I’m still very much heavily involved in the #SaveShadowhunters campaign and have a few time-sensitive projects that I’m working on and, as I have a few things going on behind-the-scenes professionally, I need to finish those as soon as possible.

It looks like I’ll be starting another part-time job in the near future and that is going to limit the amount of time I’m able to post. I’m not going anywhere, I’m not giving up on the blog (or #SaveShadowhunters), but the amount of time I’ll be spending online will have to decrease in order to focus on my professional success. I’ll talk more about that here once I get the all-clear, but I’m really excited about this new chapter.

That being said, things are going to still be touch and go for while longer, at least until I get everything sorted out, get settled in, and find a revised balance between my personal and professional lives. I can only ask for your understanding as I work all of this out.  

In the immediate future:

  • The September Analytics will be posted as soon as I can finish them, hopefully by the end of this coming weekend at the very latest.
  • Last Friday’s installation of the You Pick the Tag Event will be posted today in order to keep the event on schedule. The next installation will still be this Friday.

Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.