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⌈ Secret Post #2934 ⌋

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Comments

[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.

[kallanda_lee]

Well,as everyone says, you're SUPPOSED to write it for yourself. Which, technically is true. But then if you have zero response you really do start to doubt yourself. But the reverse is also true. I know I could write absolute drivel for Stuck and still get kudos. In the end, fanfic isn't always about ability.

[lb_lee]

Pft. I haven't written fanfiction for myself since 2009. The fanfiction I write is based entirely on getting paid. (Well, okay, the Pacific Rim crossover was my mental junk food for 2014, but it still got started by me getting paid. Not my fault it hatched plot bunnies and took over.)

Thankfully, people generally pay me to write things they can't find otherwise, which means I get to write happy endings for random henchmonsters and Persona 4 Kate Bornstein. So usually it's at least something more interesting than, "Male A pines for Male B, Male B confesses undying love, there is humping."

[kallanda_lee]

You actually get paid for fanfic? Teach me your magical ways.

[lb_lee]

Enh, not much. I try to discourage it, just because fanfiction is really difficult for me, plus all the legal bits of it.

But (health allowing) I generally run a writeathon every month, where for one week, I take prompts on a theme, and crank out stories based on them, which people pay for me to post. There's also bonuses and perks when folks are extra-generous.

When I'm feeling well, I can crank out as much as fourteen stories in a go, so every once in a while, someone will ask for fanfiction. They have to make sure I know the fandom first, because hell if I'm shotgunning a whole show for thirty bucks, even if it's one I want to see.

(Unfortunately, the past few months have not been good, health-wise, so I've had to slow down. But I'll be cranking up again in February.)

[kallanda_lee]

Sounds like a sweet deal, really. (Hope our health gets better!)

[lb_lee]

I love doing it! I was surprised at just how well it did; I've been doing it for almost two years now. I am just dismayed that the heart is willing but alas, the mind is weak.

The low period will pass. It always does. Till then, Patreon is kind enough to give some income so I can continue selling and posting stories leftover from writeathons past.

[(Anonymous)]

that's a pretty cool system. I hope your health improves so you can benefit again!

[lb_lee]

I'm sure it will. And when it does, I will write my ass off! :D

[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.

[herpymcderp]

Fair enough. Non-con anything really does seem to reverse the rare status drop of any fic, though, was my point.

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.