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dragonlady7) wrote2015-09-05 03:32 pm
dragonlady7) wrote2015-09-05 03:32 pm
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My Shit Wrecked Someone’s Entire Day: Analysis
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Haaa I woke up to one of those emails from AO3 that I love so much, with the list of kudos and some people’s names recurring. Here, let me share my glee, anonymized in case I am one of these people’s guilty pleasures. Note that more than one name recurs.
[Name1] and a guest left kudos on Truth In Potatoes.
[Name2], [Name1], and a guest left kudos on Let’s Stay In Tonight.[Name1] and [Name3] left kudos on The Night Has Seen Your Mind.[Name2] and [Name1] left kudos on You Ain’t Never Caught A Rabbit.[Name2], [Name1], and [Name3] left kudos on Guts.[Name4], [Name2], [Name1], [Name5], [Name6], [Name7], [Name8], [Name9], [name10], and 4 guests left kudos on Full Of Grace.[Name2], [Name1], and [Name3] left kudos on Straight To The Hard Stuff.[Name2] and [Name1] left kudos on Ora Pro Nobis.[Name2] and [Name1] left kudos on Gettin’ Outta The Killin’ Business.[Name1] left kudos on Nobody’s Business But Yours.[Name11], [Name1], and a guest left kudos on The Space Between.[Name1] left kudos on Put On Earth With That Sole Purpose.[Name2], [Name1], [Name3], and a guest left kudos on Perfectly Adequate.[Name1] left kudos on Cyborgs and Cigarettes.[Name2] and [Name1] left kudos on Even More So.[Name1] and a guest left kudos on Dumb Questions.[Name2], [Name12], [Name1], and 2 guests left kudos on A Face Built For Gettin’ Punched.
This is, primarily, awesome because that’s twelve different people (as well as difficult-to-count conclusively anonymous people!) who spent varying lengths of time, some of them very long, reading my shit in the last 24ish hours. (Again, I don’t know exactly when/how AO3 generates these notifications.)
I don’t recognize any of the handles as people who have left comments, or anyone I’ve seen before, so this is the sum total of my engagement with them– but in case anyone feels like kudos don’t count at all, they totally do. Even if most days I just sort of skim these emails, I usually do look through them more intensely. This is the most analysis I’ve ever really devoted to one, but look– you can get a lot out of it!
Especially if you know how long those various stories are, and which of them are linked. Name1 clearly went to my author page and looked to see everything I’d written in that fandom, and read them all; some of those works are very short, rather old, and not part of any series. But they still were interested enough to read them. Name2 probably was looking for something more specific, or didn’t click through to the next page of listings. The ones with more kudos are the ones I’ve most recently updated, and thus have recently been linked to.
Name3 much more clearly is here for one of my main pairings and not the other.
And all of these are great and I am excited about all of them and it is okay if none of these people ever leaves a comment or recs me to others (of course I’d love them to but that’s not my point here)– the fact that the one-offs read WIPs, as the ones with more numerous notes are, is pretty significant, and the fact that the recurring names spent literally hours sucking down most or all of my output is really really really significant.
Even if they didn’t love it, it sucked them in, and that’s gotta mean something! :)
(Keep in mind: The Night Has Seen Your Mind is 105,000 words long, A Face Built For Gettin’ Punched is 189,000 words, convoluted as fuck, and incomplete, Straight To The Hard Stuff is 11,000 words of pure smut, Guts is 6200 words and totally gen, You Ain’t Never Caught A Rabbit is 2300 words about a black female OC – it goes on from there, and almost none of it is under 5k. I’m not a concise writer. This shit is in direct violation of just about everything they ever teach you and anything your common sense would tell you should appeal to audiences, at least in theory. So maybe for all y’all with the nice tight literary shit this doesn’t mean as much, but me– hell, I know that stats like that mean that my shit wrecked someone’s entire day. And that’s a glorious feeling.)
Haaa I woke up to one of those emails from AO3 that I love so much, with the list of kudos and some people’s names recurring. Here, let me share my glee, anonymized in case I am one of these people’s guilty pleasures. Note that more than one name recurs.
[Name1] and a guest left kudos on Truth In Potatoes.
[Name2], [Name1], and a guest left kudos on Let’s Stay In Tonight.[Name1] and [Name3] left kudos on The Night Has Seen Your Mind.[Name2] and [Name1] left kudos on You Ain’t Never Caught A Rabbit.[Name2], [Name1], and [Name3] left kudos on Guts.[Name4], [Name2], [Name1], [Name5], [Name6], [Name7], [Name8], [Name9], [name10], and 4 guests left kudos on Full Of Grace.[Name2], [Name1], and [Name3] left kudos on Straight To The Hard Stuff.[Name2] and [Name1] left kudos on Ora Pro Nobis.[Name2] and [Name1] left kudos on Gettin’ Outta The Killin’ Business.[Name1] left kudos on Nobody’s Business But Yours.[Name11], [Name1], and a guest left kudos on The Space Between.[Name1] left kudos on Put On Earth With That Sole Purpose.[Name2], [Name1], [Name3], and a guest left kudos on Perfectly Adequate.[Name1] left kudos on Cyborgs and Cigarettes.[Name2] and [Name1] left kudos on Even More So.[Name1] and a guest left kudos on Dumb Questions.[Name2], [Name12], [Name1], and 2 guests left kudos on A Face Built For Gettin’ Punched.
This is, primarily, awesome because that’s twelve different people (as well as difficult-to-count conclusively anonymous people!) who spent varying lengths of time, some of them very long, reading my shit in the last 24ish hours. (Again, I don’t know exactly when/how AO3 generates these notifications.)
I don’t recognize any of the handles as people who have left comments, or anyone I’ve seen before, so this is the sum total of my engagement with them– but in case anyone feels like kudos don’t count at all, they totally do. Even if most days I just sort of skim these emails, I usually do look through them more intensely. This is the most analysis I’ve ever really devoted to one, but look– you can get a lot out of it!
Especially if you know how long those various stories are, and which of them are linked. Name1 clearly went to my author page and looked to see everything I’d written in that fandom, and read them all; some of those works are very short, rather old, and not part of any series. But they still were interested enough to read them. Name2 probably was looking for something more specific, or didn’t click through to the next page of listings. The ones with more kudos are the ones I’ve most recently updated, and thus have recently been linked to.
Name3 much more clearly is here for one of my main pairings and not the other.
And all of these are great and I am excited about all of them and it is okay if none of these people ever leaves a comment or recs me to others (of course I’d love them to but that’s not my point here)– the fact that the one-offs read WIPs, as the ones with more numerous notes are, is pretty significant, and the fact that the recurring names spent literally hours sucking down most or all of my output is really really really significant.
Even if they didn’t love it, it sucked them in, and that’s gotta mean something! :)
(Keep in mind: The Night Has Seen Your Mind is 105,000 words long, A Face Built For Gettin’ Punched is 189,000 words, convoluted as fuck, and incomplete, Straight To The Hard Stuff is 11,000 words of pure smut, Guts is 6200 words and totally gen, You Ain’t Never Caught A Rabbit is 2300 words about a black female OC – it goes on from there, and almost none of it is under 5k. I’m not a concise writer. This shit is in direct violation of just about everything they ever teach you and anything your common sense would tell you should appeal to audiences, at least in theory. So maybe for all y’all with the nice tight literary shit this doesn’t mean as much, but me– hell, I know that stats like that mean that my shit wrecked someone’s entire day. And that’s a glorious feeling.)