As we close out 2019 and head into 2020, it's time to look back at all the wonderful things that happened at Elysian Fields this past year. We held 2 site events, Challenge Month in April and the Big Bads Challenge in October. Combined, the events resulted in 74 brand new stories! 2019 also brought Elysian Fields our 20,000th registered member. The fact that we're still so active after over 13 years online, and almost 23 years after Buffy the Vampire Slayer first premiered continues to amaze us.

We celebrated the holidays with our lovely seasonal skin, but January means it's time to put the decorations away until next December. If you had the holiday skin as your site default, it will be changed to the standard site default, the time in between. However, if you'd prefer another skin for your default, you just need to set it on your preferences page.

We thought it would be nice to start the new decade with some new awards, and thanks to OffYourBird we have some amazing artwork to gift our most prolific members. We're thinking that competition will be fierce to get on the most prolific lists in 2020 since everyone will want these stunning creations displayed their profile pages:

We're so grateful to everyone who makes Elysian Fields such a special corner of the internet. Thank you to the authors, the commenters, the readers, the lurkers, and everyone in between. Here's to a fabulous 2019, and an even better 2020!

2019 by the numbers:
Total number of words added: 7,334,890
Total number of stories added: 262
Total number of chapters added: 1,985
Number of new members: 1,386
Number of active members: 5,936
Number of likes left: 68,671
Number of comments written: 40,079
Number of words written in comments: 1,991,060

Ten Most Prolific Authors of 2019:
1. sweetprincipale (547,864 words)
2. Axell (410,678 words)
3. Twinkles (389,594 words)
4. Cryptwarmer (357,272 words)
5. Holly (302,949 words)
6. Soulburnt (279,268 words)
7. Touchstoneaf (252,591 words)
8. Iamblichus (234,248 words)
9. All4Spike (225,545 words)
10. bewildered (215,506 words)  

Ten Most Prolific Commenters of 2019:
1. pfeifferpack (290,886 words)
2. magnus374 (180,792 words)
3. Chosenname (119,245 words)
4. OffYourBird (75,692 words)
5. All4Spike (53,790 words)
6. The Danish Bird (48,667 words)
7. Touchstoneaf (47,906 words)
8. MaggieLaFey (47,233 words)
9. thenewbuzwuzz (45,216 words)
10. Joyce (40,434 words)