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birdsofshore) wrote2014-08-10 08:11 pm
birdsofshore) wrote2014-08-10 08:11 pm
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Oh man, 20,000 hits for Hungry \o/
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 outreally 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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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! ♥ ♥ ♥
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
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. O
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! ♥ ♥ ♥
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