Oh man, 20,000 hits for Hungry \o/

[birdsofshore]

I've been watching this creeping up, and today, my fic Hungry is just about to reach 20,000 hits on AO3. \o/ \o/ \o/

I'm not going to lie, I'm sort of thrilled about this, for lots of reasons.

1) I really enjoyed writing Hungry, and I am proud of it. It was the first longer fic I wrote, and it just flowed the whole time. I didn't have many problems with it at all, and I *loved* writing Hogwarts H/D and trying my hand at writing some of the boys' classmates and professors, which I hadn't done before.

2) I have no idea why this particular fic is popular, but most days it gets more Kudos than all of my other stuff on AO3 put together. This makes me smile. Each day when I open my little AO3 notifications thingy, I say to myself, "Mmmhm, going to be Hungry at the top there..." and it always is. Someone explained to me once how AO3 works - as soon as Hungry got a decent number of hits, it would rise up in the search results, and more people would click on it, etc. etc. So I realise it's that, rather than any intrinsic brilliance or anything... but it still makes me beam.

3) Fandom is not dead! And it's not a tiny weeny little niche thing, either. Mr Birds maintains that wanting to read stories about Harry bumming Draco is such an eccentric thing to do, that there are actually only 50 of us in the entire world that are doing it. I must admit, sometimes it feels like that on LJ ;-) (I don't mind, personally, I quite like it!) But on average, a few dozen new people are clicking on this one fic of mine every day. That's got to add up to a big fabulous party full of gay wizard fans world wide. \o/

Unless of course it's ONE of you, reading it morning, noon and night, and refreshing every few minutes. O_o This is what Mr Birds suggested, when I told him. The git.

Anyway! Enough of blowing my own soggy trumpet! I want to celebrate with ALL YOU LOVELY PEOPLE, so I am giving out really crap presents. Please comment below, saying whether you would like:

a) a delicious photo of your crush (you had better tell me who it is, Unless it's me, in which case I'll just KNOW.)

b) a fic rec  - this will be for H/D. Give me a subject, e.g. pining, or polyjuice, or spanking. Or, if you are capitu, rimming.

c) an art rec - name any pairing or character. Better give me a maximum rating for this one, as well, up to NC-17,

d) a photo of something you like, e.g. beards, or sunsets, or kittens. No porn requests for this one, please. You might get something suggestive, but not NC-17.

e) A photo of Nicolas Cage! (Well, who_la_hoop might be passing, you never know... :D)

Then just sit back and brace yourself ;-).

Thank you so much for coming to celebrate with me! ♥ ♥ ♥

Comments

[birdsofshore]

Oh, I just have one or two LYING AROUND, you know

[birdsofshore]

Yup, 4000th. Seriously, just try phoning!

I saw Ben W in Mojo, he was creepily great...

[traintracks.livejournal.com]

Oh, THANK YOU! <3

And, dear reader, she means the first over-the-pants one. ;-) To her credit, she's right; it's hotter than the full-on blow job if you ask me.

Birds, I can't believe you rec'd a 24k fic for one blow job! LMAO! <3

Also, I couldn't agree more about Z's! Like, daaaammmnn!

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

Ugh that over-the-pants blowjob was INTENSE as FUCK.

Ugh in a good way, btw.

[barefacedbandit.livejournal.com]

Yes, I saw him in that. 'Twas fab. I saw him in Peter and Alice and squished him, because I have no decorum at all and I adore him forever ♥

[lumosed-quill.livejournal.com]

ACK! GORGEOUS! The chair! Draco's confident slouch! UNF!

[birdsofshore]

Thank you so much!

Is very NFSW ok? If so, the beautiful and hot Reparation by pink_mint

http://hd-holidays.livejournal.com/222391.html

or for something saucy but not explicit, how about the fabulous, witty, Quidditch Players, by raitala?

http://raitala.livejournal.com/106842.html

[birdsofshore]

LOLOL

I'd read a lot more than 24k for one of your blow jobs, believe me.

The rest of the fic is not too bad, either ;-))

[capitu]

Congratulations Mah Birds!!!!!



Did someone said rimming???? :D

Fic and art rec with rimming! Oh yeah, I dare you to find me an art rimming. I bet it's not even going to be hard!

♥ ♥ ♥

[birdsofshore]

I have a little favourite art for that, already C:

Exams soon... (I'll be honest, I think he's going to fail...)

http://tatarnikova.deviantart.com/art/Exams-soon-408619212

♥

[eidheann_writes]

❤❤

[birdsofshore]

Did you read Azoth? How about everything by firethesound? Have you read ignatiustrout? ICMezzo? What about Humbug by Snegurochka_lee?

http://archiveofourown.org/works/321639

It's not particularly long, but it is hot, and in places funny, and I just finished reading it, and I loved it! Oh, and it's Christmassy... er, take it as a Christmas rec several months early ;-)

[birdsofshore]

This one has rimming and just about everything else, LOL

Burning the Ground by traintracks

http://traintracks.livejournal.com/54641.html

And this one has a magical butt plug and, really, just about everything else as well *faints*

Let's Go Outside by barefacedbandit

http://archiveofourown.org/works/1448944

[sara-lakali.livejournal.com]

I so wish I felt comfortable admitting who my crush is, because I can't bring myself to search for photos of him on the internet. I'm so weird to be that embarrassed by the fact that I have a celebrity crush.

That wasn't what I came here to say, though. 20,000 hits! Congratulations! In comparison, I went to my AO3 page to see how many hits my most-read fic had garnered...

...and I found that two of my more recent fics have accrued twice as many hits or more! I almost fell out of my chair. I'm sure I'll be doing one of these bragging posts when one of them gets 1,000 hits. Because, you know, for someone who doesn't write Harry/Draco, 1,000 hits is unthinkable.

Now I'm off to listen to Alan Rickman reciting Sonnet 130, 'cause I don't mind admitting I have a crush on Mr. Rickman for his voice.

[birdsofshore]

Aw, fangirling is such a happy pastime.

[iwao.livejournal.com]

*keels over and dies*

Erm...

Nah, killed me dead, you have.

♥♥

[traintracks.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you! What did I do to deserve these recs today?? (Write rimming, I guess. LOL!)

I do like the rimming in this one a lot. Because of their...circumstances...I think that lends a great deal of urgency to it, which I really enjoyed writing. Plus, it's followed by out-of-control knotting, so \o/

And my goodness, you keep throwing me in with such good company!! Bless your heart. <3

[birdsofshore]

\o/

So happy you like!

[birdsofshore]

*makes a note*

*lumos adores to be insulted*

;-)

[capitu]

I can't see it right now, you know my deviantart woes, it keeps freezing my browser, but I'm going to be sneaky and try again in a bit.

:D

[birdsofshore]

Yes, you wrote super nice rimming. That deserves all of the recs :DD

[birdsofshore]

So sorry, dear, I forgot D:

Here you are:

[iwao.livejournal.com]

Shhhh!! D: D: You can't name me in the same thread as chouette_e!! Or any of the others! D; It shows up the inadequacy! Did you see this one birds gave me?

http://chouette-e.deviantart.com/art/quidditch-440493011

I'm just going to crawl under a large plant pot and die!! D:


But thanks bebé! *snuggles*

[capitu]

Holy shit. God. You see, yeah, I LOVE RIMMING.

How can anyone not to? LOOK AT THAT. God, he's about to do him, like, pull down his trousers and do him. And D's going to be wet and warm and... ohhh!

Happy 20,000 hits!!!!!!! :D

[birdsofshore]

Alan Rickman is so wonderful! His voice and all the rest of him.



I hope you do celebrate when you get 1000 hits. It's a lot of people reading your fic. It's incredible that so many people - complete strangers - could want to click on our stuff, isn't it? LOL! Fandom is a funny place.