[ SECRET POST #2934 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2934 ⌋

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Notes:

Sorry about that, working late again.

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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://oi57.tinypic.com/1z5qgea.jpg

[kallanda_lee]

I think part of it is always a) how popular the kink is and b) how popular the potential pairing is. Uncommon kink+rarepair will not get much reaction, no matter how good our writing style is.

[lb_lee]

This is true. I get WAY more love for that one Labyrinth fic I wrote than basically all the rest of my (meagre) fics put together.

(Which is hilarious because I've maybe seen Labyrinth like, three times and don't actually like it much.)

Fear not, OP! The random number goddess giveth, and the random number goddess taketh away!

[kallanda_lee]

Same for my Stucky fics versus, well, everything else.

[lb_lee]

Oh wow, yeah, I can only imagine.

I mean, I'm pretty bad at fic anyway, and the most popular fandom I ever wrote anything for seems to be Labyrinth or Justice League International. (I did write a Persona 4 fic once, but it was trans ten-years-later slice of life fic, not exactly what most folks are into.) If I actually wrote... fuck, I don't know, Stucky, my inbox might spontaneously combust.

It's probably just as well I'm bad at fanfic. It seems a really fickle beast, as far as taste or popularity goes.

[herpymcderp]

This is true UNLESS you write rarepair + uncommon kink + rape/noncon/whatever

Then it will be your most popular fic.

[kallanda_lee]

This is true, but then I'd argue that noncon in itself is one of the most popular kinks in fandom, which then no longer makes it fall under the definition of rare kink.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I wrote for one of the most popular pairings, so I don't think that's the issue. >_>;;

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

OP, please don't worry. The amount of comments I get for my fics seems to be almost random.

I think it's based on timing more than anything else. If I post a fic when there's a lull between games and not many people on the meme, it's easy to get zero comments. Conversely, if I post a fic a few weeks after a new game is released, I'll get many more than otherwise.

For a long time my most popular fic was a het comedy rarepair fic with hardly any sex and a sappy ending on a kink meme that's mostly explicit slash. I think there was a lot of dark rape fic on the meme at the time. Sometimes people crave what there's not enough of right then.

Perhaps there were a lot of fics right then of the popular pairing when you posted?

It's so unpredictable. It is horrible not to get any comments at all, I know! It feels a lot worse than it should.

If you really want any kind of recognition, de-anon, clean it up and post it to AO3. At least you'll get some kudos. In future people will be happy to find your fic, especially if you tag it well to help them find it.

[(Anonymous)]

That's happened to me too. I've written some things on kink memes that were really popular, and others that got no comments.

[(Anonymous)]

Was it on an older post, perhaps? Sometimes fewer people see fills left for old prompts, and the people that do see it may be coming to it a little late and feel weird commenting.

It's also possibly just a matter of the pairing or kink or scenario not being the most popular. I got more comments there when I filled prompts that had a lot of interest (at least 3-4 "omg i need this!"/"didn't know i wanted this"/"yes plz" comments) in them.

[(Anonymous)]

It was an older post, but I would have thought people would be looking at the index, which gets updated fairly regularly. Maybe someone will read it eventually...

OP

[(Anonymous)]

comment above was OP, btw

[(Anonymous)]

IME, people are more talkative on current prompt posts, and less likely to comment on fills they find via the index/archive. Not sure why that is.

[(Anonymous)]

very few people look at indexes, from what i've seen at other memes

[silverr]

Don't assume it's you: in many fandoms it seems that readers don't comment as much as they used to.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who lurked deeply within her fandom's kink meme, filling out many a request- it depends on so many things. Paring, kink, characters, circumstance, how old the request was, blah blah blah.

I've had fills get tons of comments and fills with zero. It all depends.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not you. I've had a horrible fill that I didn't even post in the right order get a ton of comments and a really well-written fill that people loved once I moved it over to FF get nothing. The former was a slightly more popular pairing, but what really made the difference (I think) was that the latter got buried by a bunch of new requests before anyone could even see it.

[beverlykatz]

Heyyyy, Dragon Age KM secret! :D If it helps, sometimes things just slip under the radar. The archivers are pretty backed up atm, so new fills don't always show up promptly on the pinboard. It's also easy to overlook a fill if people aren't checking the specific prompt regularly, esp if it's a less popular ship/kink/etc. And of course, sometimes people just don't comment. I think it's an AO3 thing; you get used to leaving kudos or even just the view to show your appreciation. tl;dr: Don't get discouraged!

[(Anonymous)]

A while back I was lucky enough to stumble on a kink meme with a few prompts that came quite close to my own kinks, and it was active enough at the time that I actually got a few nice complements on them, and that was a great feeling. On the other hand, some actual, effortful plotty stories I wrote non-anonymously have gone virtually unnoticed even on AO3. There's a heck of a lot of variables going into what becomes popular, and it's hard to control all of them. Just keep trying -- someday, I'm sure you'll grab just the right moment and get recognized.

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[(Anonymous)]

Image: the header from the Dragon Age Kink meme, with the quote “There’s power in stories, though. The ones that last. Might as well be mine.”

Text: I wrote something for the first time in a few years, but I didn’t get a single comment. (In the past I’d get a few comments for kink meme fills.)

I wonder if I’ve lost it.

[(Anonymous)]

Are kinkmemes in general as big as they were a couple of years ago?

I know it depends on the fandom, and on how the mods structure the meme, but the ones in my fandoms have tapered off to a whimper over the past year or so. The ratio of prompts to fills is way out of whack despite open/closed prompting and filling windows, and what fills there are don't get the same amount of comments as they used to.

IDK, ever since the rise of Tumblr and the instant gratification of notes (for writers - it's the ease of clicking 'like' vs the effort of leaving a comment for readers), I've seen participation in kinkmemes overall decline.

[i_paint_the_sky]

With the release of the new game, the DA kinkmeme is going really strong. Not sure if it's been as crazy with previous releases, since I wasn't in the fandom then, but there's been a good 100+ pages of comments in the last two months.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's a reflection on your writing. I write in a large, relatively active kinkmeme, but comment responses are few and far beween

[i_paint_the_sky]

I've found the comment rate to be pretty low on the DA kinkmeme recently. The reception I've had for my fills on AO3 has been a lot stronger, so I think more of fandom is over there these days.