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

[barefacedbandit.livejournal.com]

Shirtbatch is deffo some of the best Batch there is to be had. That neck ♥
You going to see him in Hamlet?

[birdsofshore]

Yup. *shrugs nonchalantly* Once or twice.

You?

(He had better be good, I have had to arrange a repayment plan with Mr Birds for the tickets that extends well into 2015 O_o)

[barefacedbandit.livejournal.com]

Meeeep! You lucky thing! I am so excited for you XD

Lol, I dunno if I'm going yet. Depends if I can get any tomorrow when they go on general release. If not I shall be looking forward to the live link up and I won't be sulking at all.

[birdsofshore]

*nose tap* Try phoning them. Who_la was 4000th in the queue (I shit you not) and then she phoned them up and got through in 2 minutes.

No need to sulk, you'll probably get a better view at the live link up, and you can spend the £100 you saved on gin and chocolate ;-)

[barefacedbandit.livejournal.com]

Woah! 4000th?! Lol. Yeah, I know, and I have had more than my fair share of excitement in the past couple of years (Ben Whishaw was the highlight of my life. Thrice)

Gin and chocolate - oh, you know me so well XD

[birdsofshore]

Yup, 4000th. Seriously, just try phoning!

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

[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 ♥

[birdsofshore]

Aw, fangirling is such a happy pastime.

[birdsofshore]

Did you have any luck on Monday? A friend logged on just to look, and said she was 27,000th in the queue O_o o_O

good LORD, Mr Cumberbatch had better be phenomenal!

[barefacedbandit.livejournal.com]

God, I know! It was utterly bonkers. But I managed to get two front row seats from ATG for me and the Monster Boy \o/\o/\o/ I can't flippin wait to tell him :D

I'm always amazed at the people who will fly over for these things when I think it's a lot of effort driving a couple of hours into London, but Mr C will be sooooooooo worth it. Can't wait!!

[birdsofshore]

Oh that is fabulous! Gosh, nice work! You'll be the envy of the theatre sitting there. \o/ I don't really understand the Atg thing... it's all v mysterious. All I know is people booking that way seemed to get nicer tickets than ours (and we paid for membership on top). ;)

I'm still O_O about the 27000 strong queue!

[barefacedbandit.livejournal.com]

The ATG thing sucks, tbh. They add on a fee, I'm not entirely sure how much extra it was per ticket (I had total tunnel vision once I got on there), but a lot less than membership cost. Anyway, they seemed to have a good proportion of the stalls seats, which had been listed as sold out on the Barbican website. The link to ATG and the other ticketing agents they'd given tickets to wasn't advertised, I only found out because my reclusive little soul reads Twitter rather than tweeting and word went up pretty quickly from the Cumberbatch tweeters. But imo it's scamming the public, the way they did it.

It sucks and I would be *livid* if I'd paid out for membership. I couldn't afford that at the time and I was quite prepared to be up in the gods or wherever or even to miss out altogether, because that is the way it should work imo, and I think it's pretty nasty to allocate most of the tickets to other agents without saying a word, when people are shelling out for membership specifically to get stalls seats.

[birdsofshore]

Ahhh... I see. That was a little sneaky of them. I definitely got the impression that no seats would be available from ticket companies, because of the photo id thing that they had imposed. That's interesting that ATG seemed to have a lot of the stalls seats. Well, really a) I am pleased we have seats at all - and they are nice seats, just not in the front row (I think we're 9 back or something) and b) I'm delighted you're getting to go, because, 27000 people in a queue, ugh.

But if I'd paid the full price membership (we went for the orange membership, and split it between us) and had my heart set on front row tickets, as I know a lot of people had, then I'd be feeling pretty sick about it, I suppose.

I think the whole paying for membership thing is a bit controversial to begin with, really. But I was prepared to jump through a certain amount of hoops for this...

I'm excited we're both going! \o/ DaneBatch FTW!

[barefacedbandit.livejournal.com]

To all those who persevered and got tickets, Cumberdork salutes you...


I mean, look at that, who wouldn't want to queue for 13hrs and remortgage their house to swoon at his feet?

And there are obvious dvantages of being in the front row:

Even if we get a crick in the neck and can't see anyone from the knee down XD