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This is really interesting, and made me think about my feelings on fic stats! https://twitter.com/localshabba/status/1361212586004418561
i'm lucky to have near-unshakable confidence in my fic writing. i believe i write decent stuff, and if i put in the effort i can write (and have written) some genuinely good shit.
i also don't think that good stats are a great measure of good fic. tons of super popular fic is vapid garbage (sorry) and plenty with barely any hits are fucking gems. there's stuff that deserves all the attention that it gets obviously!!! i'm not a fic hipster 
what goes viral/gains traction is super fickle (looking at you, vibrator malfunction fic, why do you have so many hits)
ages and ages and ages ago i made a harry potter comic that got like a quarter of a million notes and it was just boring eventually
ages and ages and ages ago i made a harry potter comic that got like a quarter of a million notes and it was just boring eventually
sometimes i think about how i've probably already made the artwork that the most people will look at in my whole life and it's a 4 page comic about sirius black i drew in 2012. it's sort of a weird feeling!
of course i'm not sad or ungrateful to anyone who likes or shares what i do! it's so cool to have people read my silly little words! i love attention :3
but i never feel like i'm owed more hits or kudos or comments than i get.
but i never feel like i'm owed more hits or kudos or comments than i get.
over 10% engagement on anything online (hits to button clicks, so hits:kudos ration) is INSANELY high outside of fandom. 8000 sales is a pretty good run for your average sff book. by comparison i'm doing really good with my hyper-niche kinky porn
no shade on people who have stronger feelings than i do about the engagement level they get! this is just me and i know i'm a bit outside the norm! i know i get more attention than a lot of people, so it's easier for me to be like "hell yeah life is great!"
to be completely fair i do sulk a bit until a fic gets at least 100 hits and 5-ish comments. i'm not inhumanly zen. and i'm cranky that anything m/f or f/f gets fewer hits than m/m - but that's just how things are.
aaaaand that's enough navel-gazing for today! love u all lots
aaaaand that's enough navel-gazing for today! love u all lots
