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takaraphoenix · 5 years

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So, @kimmycup tagged me in this game. Let’s do this. Alternately titled:

Let me rant about the difference in receiving feedback on FFN vs AO3

Because I am really getting lost in the math behind “most popular” fic. And it’s most definitely more than just “reaching a different audience” when the feedback for one and the same fic differs between over 1k comments on one site vs not even reaching 100 comments on another site.

Author Name: Takara_Phoenix

Fandoms You Write For: Okay so let‘s only involve the ones I am still actively involved with, not the ones that are like... eight years old and I haven’t thought of them once, yeah? That’d be: Percy Jackson, Shadowhunters, Marvel, Rise of the Guardians/How to Train Your Dragon, Detective Conan/Magic Kaito, Vampire Academy, Jungle Book, DC Comics/the Arrowverse, Descendants

Where You Post: AO3 and FFN, but occasionally also on tumblr - when it’s prompts or drabbles

Most Popular One-Shot: Depends on where you ask. And what you define as popular. Personally, the only value I see are in comments - kudos are literally just the press of one button, they mean nothing, and hits aren’t an indicator of much either considering it counts as a hit even when you opt out after a paragraph.

I’ve only had my AO3 for five years now, meaning that the fics on FFN still had four more years to simmer on there and gather attention, I suppose. Meaning, a fic posted for the first time obviously gets more attention than a four years later mass repost on another site.

On AO3, the oneshit with most comment threads would be How to Court the Prettiest Omega Ever in Five Years or Less, my first PJO ABOverse fic, featuring Nicercy. Which, you know, is only 37 comments on there. Seriously I genuinely blame the existence of the kudo function for the overall lackluster comment-response on AO3 because “press one button vs actually writing words”... but that’s a different conversation to be had. (I mean, seriously, in comparison, this fic has 51 comments on FFN... and it is by far not the one with most comments I have over there).

The clear winner if you look at FFN is Something Went Wrong, my first Minotaur/Percy smut fest with a whooping 116 comments. And yes. Positive. Genuinely did not expect that when after weeks of debating, I decided to post this story. *chuckles* (Again, for comparison, this fic got a total of 8 comments on AO3... eight... the difference there is staggering... Which, I’d like to tag on that, on top of the kudo-nonsense, the fact that AO3 displays total amount of comments to the readers and not comment threads is also misleading and I don’t think it helps, because I think you’re more inclined if you see it’s only 8 comment-threads in total on a fic you like vs it showing you 16 comments as the total comment-count.)

Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story: THIS IS TOO HARD TO ANSWER. I’d have to consult my chart, but that hasn’t been updated in ages. Because overall amount of comments means little if you don’t also take into account the amount of chapters - 50 comments on a oneshot are a lot, 50 comments on a 5 chapter fic, not so much, and 50 comments on a 50 chapter is frustrating to receive.

Okay, let me go full nerd on this one. Y’all know I love charts. There was a time where I was interested enough in finding this out that I had a chart going of all my multiple chapter fics. With a collumn on how many chapters the story had at that point in time, how many total comments on AO3, how many total comments on FFN and what, by combining those two numbers and dividing them through the chapter-count, was the average amount of comments per chapter.

However, that chart had last been updated on December 31st 2016. There’s been a lot of influx, lot of new stories and other stories gaining/losing popularity, so when I now say Meet the di Angelos with a 2016 average of 57,25 comments/chapter, that is completely exclusing ten fics I wrote since then.

Damn now I really wanna update the charts...

Also if you can’t tell by now how much actual feedback and comments mean to me, I genuinely don’t know how else to convey it... xD”

If you go by total comment-count - which, again, is misleading because you gotta keep the chapter-count in mind - it’d be Chasing Fireflies on FFN with 1749 comments (on 102 chapters. And, again, for comparison, 88 comment-threads on AO3. 88 vs 1749 is insane) and Percy and the Ghost King of Summers High on AO3 with 749 comments (on 50 chapters. On FFN that’s actually on 990 comments. Far smaller difference here compared to other stories).

Though I dunno, if you measure popular by fanart received, Summers High comes in with five, while my Chasingverse is in with 6... and multiple fanfictions written for it.

Favorite Story You Wrote: Favorite to write, or favorite to reread? There’s a difference there. I’m insanely proud of Chasing Fireflies and the plot and world I created there, the character development. I... don’t really reread it it’s over 500k long I don’t have that time.

Currently, I am really loving The Primal Instinct, it is sooo much fun to write, I get to put basically all my favorite headcanons in there, I’ll get to write Aline and Helen more and Jace’s interactions with others, it features both my favorite OT3s at once. (And it is faaar from my most popular one. Just, feel like mentioning this because my numbers-obsession may read as only writing for comments, which I don’t, I mainly write for myself. The comments are just... very, very nice treats to receive. Also, I love numbers and charts and were curious to see if there is a kind of trend there in what does receive most attention sooo...)

Story You Were Nervous to Post: Uuuh every new thing. Every time I step outta my comfort zone. Trying out a new pairing for the first time. Venturing into a new fandom for the first time. Experimenting with a new kink and wondering if this would be too much. Literally every single time, still.

How Do You Choose Your Titles: On a whim. I suck at titles. Mostly I try to force alliterations because I am a sucker for alliterations, but otherwise I do try to go with “as it says on the tin”, or I try a pun/being clever. Aside from my Triton/Percy fics. Every single fic I’ve written for them is named after a song from Disney’s The Little Mermaid franchise and I have yet to run out of songtitles to use for fics and hey, by then they’ll probably have included a new song in the live-action remake so there’s that! :D

Do You Outline: Depends. Oneshots? No. I just write those. Multiple-chapter fics? ...Depends. xD

If I have a clear vision for where it’s going to go, I do tend to divide into chapters and make myself small notes on what goes into said chapters. Mostly, it’s just a rambled “and x happens and then y” at the end though and then I see how I can make it fit into chapters.

Complete: 795 stories on AO3! Damn, I’ve been busy.

In-Progress: As of right now, 4. Because this week features my Ace Awareness 7-parter, though technically we’re right now down to 3 multi-chapter fics because the next one is only due to be released and join the rotation!

Coming Soon/Not Yet Started: Well, that is two entirely different things now.

Coming Soon:

Shadowhunters, Asmodeus/Jace, “The Royal Consort of Edom” oneshot on the 23rd

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Alec/Jace, “Nesting 101″ oneshot on my birthday this Saturday

Percy Jackson, Nico/Percy, “Something Borrowed, Something Green” oneshot on the 30th

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Jace, “Dancing with the Monsters in the Night” an out-side-of-schedule oneshot for Halloween

And I do think that that is what constitutes “soon”.

Not Yet Started:

HTTYD/RotG, Hiccup/Jack, “The Origin of the Blue Hoodie”, planned for November 27th

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Jace, “Set-Up by the Guard-Cats”, planned for December 4th

Descendants/PJO, Nico/Percy, Ben/Carlos, Uma/Audrey, “Demigod Defenders of Auradon”, planned for December 11th

A-and that is as far as I have planned my schedule ahead. Those three are the only fics on my personal schedule that I haven’t started working on yet. I don’t like to plan ahead too much, because then you just completely lose interest in the story by the time you get around to actually writing it.

Do You Accept Prompts: Prompts, not so much. Requests, yeah. For one, prompts always seem so demanding, while requests are more polite - and also more structured. Prompts are always like “here have one quick trope thrown at your head” and like... I do have a well-enough planned-out schedule with more than enough fics of my own set, I don’t need to try and turn one random prompt into an actual story. But if someone has a specific request, a pairing and an actual plot, that they really wanna see, I do always hear them out, I may not always like the pitch and thus not accept them all, but on the overall I do accept requests.

More inclined to accept birthday requests than random requests, because random requests would be put into the rotation of my schedule and, well come on that shouldn’t be a surprise, they tend to be pushed off then in favor of fic ideas I came up with myself because there’s nearly always more enthusiasm about writing an idea that you came up with yourself than the idea of someone else. Whereas birthday requests have a set date that doesn’t disturb my schedule and I am a big softie who has a weakness for getting gifts myself so I do like to do something nice for someone so they get something special for their birthday.

Upcoming Story You Are Most Excited to Write: Most excited to write? Well, that’d be the Descendant/PJO crossover atm, because that is something very new and shiny and I do love shiny, new things to experiment on. But also The Prince of Pluto, my next multiple-chapter fic that I have already started writing.

Tagging: Whoever wants to do it! <3

#Fanfiction #Comments #Tumblr Tag Game #this turned out long #xDDD #About Me

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pawsimses · 7 years

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(stupid thing isn’t letting me properly tag people OTL)

So I watched Game of Thrones clips and got the idea to give Barriss three baby dragons because who doesn't love crossovers? And tiny fire breathing spawns of Satan?

And then an AU was born. And then I doodled Barriss and her new precious sons. Anddddd then I got thinking on my AU for Dragon!Anakin. And then I combined the two. Because I can. But then I realized that Anakin's being a dragon sort of conflicts with Barriss's dragon, so I changed it up a little (because technically speaking, the dragons in GoT are Wyverns if you want to be that person). And made a little comparison chart to show the differences and the fact that I have WAY too many headcanons.

Which then spawned a doodle of the one and only time Ahsoka let her giant fire breathing Master anywhere near Barriss's children. For obvious reasons. Alternative Title to this is now "Anakin and Barriss's relationship in a nutshell".

Factoids no one wants but you gonna get anyways Barriss's Dragons/Wyverns:

· Acquired/born sometime between the start of the Clone Wars and Weapons Factory

· First one was based off of Drogon from GoT. Then I got bored and based the second off a ram… thing, and the third off a Carnotaurus.

· The Drogon-based one is the bravest; the Carnotaurus the most temperamental and snappish; the Ram is docile and calmest of the three.

· The Ram is blind; he's babied a bit more than his brothers and can't properly hunt on his own.

· They hiss and growl rather than roar.

· They react in accordance to Barriss's emotions and mental state, along with her own personal feelings towards certain people. AKA if she hates you, you're going to get hissed at and probably set on fire.

· Love their Mama; Mama is everything, Mama is their world.

· Warm fire babies that torch EVERYTHING

· DO NOT SEPARATE FROM MAMA

· THINGS WILL BURN

· THE GALAXY WILL BURN

· But mostly Palps

· So win-win tbh

Dragon!Anakin

· Part of an old semi-extinct species of shapeshifters from an unknown region (be it from this galaxy or another); the type of dragon he's called is a "Peacock-Swan" because I suck at decisions. Snow white with an elegant long neck, and peacock tail feathers. Very luxurious dragon. Doesn't make him less of a chrome trashcan though.

· Human form-dragon form; can shift interchangeably; dragon form does not occur until the age of 21 UNLESS the dragon in question has been taught/conditioned to shift between forms since birth (Shmi did not do so for Anakin/was most likely unaware or not even part of the species because ISTG if the Force can father Anakin, it can make him a dragon).

· As such, Anakin did not experience the change between his forms/even the awareness of being a dragon until he was 21. He was on a mission off-Coruscant with Ahsoka at the time, luckily. Though not for her - scared the ever loving s*** out of her.

· First transformation - akin to the werewolf. Very painful and unsettling, mind may not be intact (instinct takes over rationality and consciousness). After the first initial shift, the body grows used to the change and the pain fades in time.

· Larger but not than life - I drew Anakin HUGE but he's actually only a bit bigger than a Shire Horse.

· Featherbutt - unlike the Wyverns, Anakin is covered in fur and feathers (see Floof, another Dragon!Anakin variant (I need a life))

· Ahsoka totally takes advantage of Anakin's new form - I mean, come on, her master is now a huge fire breathing flying dragon, you don't think she isn't going to have fun with that?

· Learning to fly - Anakin actually sucked at it and crashed. A lot.

· Dragon Rider - Ahsoka learned to ride Anakin as a mount; HTTYD and Eragon style

· Giant Dog, Vain Cat - Anakin, despite being a massive avian creature, is like a giant dog (at least around Ahsoka; to everyone else, he's literally Satan)

· Protective - Force Forbid ANYONE have a go at Ahsoka now.

· Hoarding problems - Anakin hoards droid parts from victorious battles he's won and ship pieces. The Temple is a mess. RIP the Order.

· Snow White and the Three Trashcans - Anakin does not like Barriss's Wyverns. At all.

#Anakin Skywalker #Barriss Offee #Ahsoka Tano #RIP ME #Aus up the wazoo #Dragon!Anakin #Baby Dragons #Wyverns #Star Wars

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