Desiderius Price
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It’s the age old question, whether people are enjoying the story. True, I’m writing for personal enjoyment, but there’s an extra level of effort required for polishing & posting (or publishing) a story; thus, some positive feedback is appreciated (& constructive criticism). TV producers have the Nielsen Ratings, publishers have sales numbers, and we have dragon prints (other archives have hit-counter equivalents). Discerning whether a dragon print is a hit-through, a random check, or a devoted reader is tough to do; similarly, book publishers don’t know from the sales figures, how many physical books are actually read vs those that are shelved away for “later” vs those that are burned or used to level furniture. Now, AO3 also has kudos (likes), bookmark counts, & subscriptions – this tells a bit more to the general enjoyment. FFN does have that per-chapter hit numbers, and they do show that there’s a lot who’ll click because it’s on the “updated” list but don’t click through to the freshly posted chapter. (However, FFN’s numbers are now getting drowned out by bots...another topic for another time.) In the end, for AFF, the best metric is recording the dragon prints, and relish when that occasional review comes through.
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That’s the million dollar question, as your only metrics you have are dragon prints & reviews. (There used to be “ratings” but that got abused by trolls.) What I do is I record my dragon prints, daily, and plot them in a spreadsheet; I do this with all my AFF & AO3 stories, and it lets me know which stories gain X number of hits after a chapter post, that’s about the only way to measure interest. Now, the other thing you can do is to read stories, drop reviews, and hope the karma comes back to you. After all, a review is golden.
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When the youtube video is “HOW TO MAKE YOUR BOOBS LOOK BIGGER | How To Contour Your Boobs”, I definitely had to watch that in full for research to make sure my character is properly accenting out hers in my story.
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Today I learned that apparently it’s legal to marry one’s first cousin in the UK (per a google search).
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Hence the aristocracy’s similarity of appearance!
I kinda like how complex it is across the USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_law_in_the_United_States
Like, Utah “ Only if both parties are 65 or older, or both are 55 or older with a district court finding of infertility of either party “
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And today, my main potter fanfic turns 18 years old since the first chapter post, it’s an adult. I swear I’ll finish it!
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Sometimes, the title writes the story itself (from an advice column): “I’ve Been Having Hot Sex With My Boyfriend and His Brother--I don’t want it to end after lockdown.”
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There wasn’t too much more to the column itself, from the poster. Started off with the brother of the boyfriend moving in to the couple due to the pandemic, liaison started off in secret before cluing the boyfriend in, became double and she obviously enjoyed it. Now that lockdown’s ending, the brother was going to move out, and the boyfriend didn’t want it to continue, downgrading the sex back to monogamy. But there’s definitely a lot of material for a good short for anybody who wants that plot bunny.
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pervy curiouseducational purposes only, I swear: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/05/boyfriend-brother-sex-advice.html
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