can I go where you go?
can we always be this close?
forever & ever
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Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Fruits Basket, Fruits Basket - Takaya Natsuki (Manga), Fruits Basket (Anime 2019)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Manabe Kakeru/Sohma Yuki, Honda Tohru & Sohma Yuki, Sohma Kyou & Sohma Yuki, Sohma Akito & Sohma Yuki
Characters: Sohma Yuki
Additional Tags: Poetry, Coming of Age, Character Study, Self-Reflection, Gay Panic, Childhood Trauma, tagged for relationships featured within the poems, Mentions of abuse and trauma, Yuki Week 2021
day 7: the rat
though i always was one,
i never knew much about them.
a testament to my lack of
self-reflection, a desire to remain
a stranger to broken mirrors,
avoiding a better look at my face
through downcast gray eyes.
A series of poems, written by a gay little rat boy.
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So, I keep thinking the Furuba fandom has died out, by which I mean, reverting to its pre-2019 levels, but I keep getting proven wrong. Sort of.
I looked at the number of single-chapter, non-crossover stories first posted in the first quarter of each of the last 7 years.
2017 - 6
2018 - 13
2019 - 27
2020 - 52
2021 - 107
2022 - 135
2023 - 83
So, it's definitely past its peak, which one would expect, but still far ahead of pre-remake levels.
However, I suspect the number of readers has decreased more than the number of writers. It's not possible to do a one-to-one comparison because previous years have obviously had more time to get more hits, but the dropoff is pretty glaring.
This is the average number of hits of the five stories with the most hits from those years.
2017 - 805
2018 - 2619
2019 - 4582
2020 - 5107
2021 - 6300
2022 - 2535
2023 - 861
I should also point out that all five of the top 5 stories from both 2022 and 2023 are rated E.
I think it's fair to say that the readers are disappearing and those that remain are here mostly for the smut.
I'm going to continue writing--I've written Furuba stories for over twenty years and I'm not stopping now, so I'll just have to get used to less engagement then before.
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Wrap me in the softest love I have ever known, show me that I am not alone.
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i really love you my baby💖
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CONGRATS, FURUBA!
Fruits Basket The Final won Anime Trending's Anime of the Year award!!
It also won Drama Anime of the Year and Kyoru won Couple of the Year!
And Kyo (2nd Place), Tohru (3rd Place), and Momiji (5th Place), all made it to the Top 5 for their respective categories (Best Boy, Best Girl, and Best Supporting Character).
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