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for the "end of the year content meme" !

📝 a line or paragraph i’m really happy with 😡 a paragraph/section that gave me a lot of trouble

thought i'd give you both ends of the spectrum there XD ♥

I just answered the first one for @bnessz <3. But it's okay. I've got more than one story! Hope you're having a good holiday season, Gen!

📝 a line or paragraph i’m really happy with:

From the same fic, valuta:

Law's mother folded his fingers around the coin—a piece of copper, not worth much, except for the fortuitous square hole in the middle. "Keep hold of that," she said. He'd unfurled his fingers and she turned the coin in his palm. Streaks like whitebait flitting upstream hadn't marred his skin yet. "It'll help you focus." Lifting the coin and peering through the square, she blinked against the room's light.

I like the whitebait line. I debated including or cutting it so many times. I'm glad I kept it. That whole Law section isn't in the zine, btw, and maybe for the better. I dunno, story might be a bit busy with his scenes, but I like it.

😡 a paragraph/section that gave me a lot of trouble Also from the same fic (to tell the truth, I don't think I wrote so much last year! [that I can remember]):

Maybe all of this, but especially entering the hovel (although the image of extract the pouch with the coin in it from a splintered, rotted door frame was strong in my mind):

A beetle scuttled across the greenery away from the shadow of the small body falling to the lawn. Granules of dirt and blades of grass pushed into Rosinante's mouth as a human smashed a staff across his back. He needed one of those bubble helmets to help with breathing more than anything, but they'd left them all at home. They'd never used them anyway. But maybe if they had, his throat wouldn't be a mess of snot and bile and salt. A bone cracked, arm or skull, not his own. Doflamingo's howls and curses punctuated the dull lift and fall of a body kicked for sport. After they'd paid the price for stealing bread, the brothers limped home, Doflamingo's good arm slung around Rosinante's shoulder. Rosinante's hand slipped on the doorknob. Rancid air rushed to meet Doflamingo's angry breath, wet against his brother's neck, as they stepped inside their hovel. Shaking, Rosinante paused by the entrance to pull a moth-eaten pouch from a splintered recess. Sleep would ease his brother's bruises and tremors; turning the coin, would ease his own.

It still needs some work. Ahahahaha.

After sales for the zine still open, for anyone interested!

And anyone interested in the meme, here's the link!

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Hoho! I'm getting there with the ppt, btw. Had to pop out for dinner. Those icons look positively buggytastic in big size!

🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

Oh, man. I've got quite a few.

1. I don't want to give away the punchline, but Chopper and Bepo are striking for higher bounties, and the recurring raccoon joke comes in to play in Overlooked and Underpaid (with a twist!). I forgot I wrote that joke, and when I reread it, it made me laugh, so I think it's okay! 2. I have a long fic. MarLaw is the main couple, but Frobin are a side pairing. Law and Robin are also besties. There's a recurring joke in that fic where folks think Robin and Law are getting too close, and someone (EG: Shachi) asks, "What would Franky say?" and Law, or Franky, (or eventually an outsider) answers: "It's okay, Franky and I are in an open relationship." It's a dark fic, so it lightens it up a bit. 3. Aokiji, Law and Bleat the goat cycling along on Aokiji's bicycle (Bleat in the basket), along a river the ex-admiral freezes, Law pleading for him to do loop-de-loops! 4. Kid and Law hooking up while Law is simultaneously attending an online conference, and guess whose ass unmutes the audio and camera? 5. Bepo's Beptober. 6. That one time that Marco turned into a blue flying elephant.

There's more, but I don't want to bore you 😊

🍆 Do you write the spicy stuffs? If so, what's your most popular nsfw fic?

Yeah, but it's usually pretty dark. However, in the non-dark stuff, and fairly tame smut, probably ZoLaw, The tibia, the fibula, the regions in between is the most popular by hits.

In dark fic, and it's extremely dark, Interdisciplinary. It's my most popular fic off-anon (by hits) [heed the tags if you seek that one out. Strictly 18+].

I don't write smut so much any more, but sometimes the lizard brain takes over. I can write sweet and funny smut too, but seem to have been cruising along in a mostly G-T zone lately.

Thank you so much for the ask! ! ✅ 🍦😈🤭 🎉 🤡🍆 answered. And 🧐❌🥰 about to be answered.

I better leave it there. The night is drawing to a close and tomorrow is...very soon.

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for when you have time 💜

✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

🍦 What's the sweetest fic you've created so far?

😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?

Hello!

I have to make my slides, so, y'know, let's answer some asks instead 😁 I hope you're having a fab day.

✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

The word 'just' 🤪. I'm actually much better at it now, but I do a CTRL+F on the whole long document to (just) find out how many times I've used it. I've got better. BUT, if I'm a bit more serious, how about Law? I've got a few fics that don't feature him, but not many. Otherwise, I don't really know. I am a bit of a one trick pony in some themes, and I do reuse ideas at times, so I'm sure folks who read a lot of my work see them.

🍦 What's the sweetest fic you've created so far?

Oh, that's a nice ask. Maybe Softening the Fall of Snow, where Chopper and Law talk about Jolly Rogers, courage and cherry blossoms. It's a bit of a gut-punch too though. Or maybe "screen / shiki-e" where Law makes cherry blossom viewing happen for Chopper, or maybe even the latest excerpt, Riding along on my pushbike, Honey, where Law takes care of himself, and Sengoku's goat, Bleat, and requests (with Ninja starry eyes) that Aokiji do aerial loop-de-loops, or the 2017 fic that that excerpt comes from, with another excerpt, Musicians of Bremen, which discusses Rosi and Bleat. I've got a Zoro and Chopper fic too!

😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?

Noo! Not that I recall. But I did traumatise them with a cliffhanger on a dark fic once. It was just as covid hit, so I was debating whether to post the resolution in the same chapter or not. I didn't. If I were braver, I would've left that chapter sit for a week, but, ahhh. It wasn't my intention to traumatise anyone, but I knew that the scene would pack a punch.

Thank you for the ask! ✅ 🍦😈 answered. And 🤭 🎉 to be answered.

If you want to ask, the list is here, and I might even let Bepo do a bit of fic ask answers moonlighting!

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤

OKAY! This was the 3rd one I got, and I thought of making it non-anon when I sent this out to other writers so that it didn't kinda circulate amongst the same circles continuously, but eh!

I'm a lot less tired than I was when I answered number 2, and here's a link to number 1, so

I've got a lot of fics, and I'm gonna do my next fave 5, because it's very hard to decide on faves. And @flyiing-giraffe left a fantastic review on

Taxi, which is very dear to my heart. It's meant to be AceLaw, but it's missing a chapter, and that was the most AceLaw part, but it's still there (the ship). The main idea is that Law drives a taxi and he meets people, and those people are your One Piece faves. Modern AU: summary:

Doflamingo's dementia, Ace's narcolepsy, Cora's death. Law collects vinyl with warps and scratches, and drives a taxi.

Chapters can mostly be read stand alone, and I wouldn't call it a ship fic.

Rated T, 14,392 words.

2. the tibia, the fibula, the regions in between

ZoLaw on the submarine, on the way to Wano. Rated a very soft M, I think, originally T.

Zoro and Law explore the unconformities of personal geography. Practice, distraction, quiet and unquiet minds.

This one is a ship fic on a ship.

3. softening the fall of snow

Law and Chopper in Wano talking about Jolly Rogers and Courage (prompt from @afterdeck-ace)

4. Father Figure

Smoker and Law having that conversation in Punk Hazard! Platonic. The father figure ain't Smoker. (G5 regarded Vergo as a father figure. Law did not).

5. Macrobiotics and Marathons

"Do you always cook like that? Flying scalpels, stabbing daggers, projectiles of fire...?" "Disrespected cabbages," the teacher yelled out, trying to get her body parts together, reordered. "We don't always disrespect the cabbage," Marco said.

Only for the summary. The first story still makes me laugh. The second story is just a bit throwaway!

Law and Marco try out a macrobiotics cooking class. Modern AU-ish

MarLaw

Special shoutout to a ton of others. It's really hard to choose. If anyone has a particular theme, or type of writing of mine they'd like me to pinpoint some stories for, drop me an ask! My works.

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AO3 wrapped!: 9, 19, 29, please!

Thank you!

9. Favorite pairing you wrote for this year? I'd love to say it's my initial favourite of Marco/Law and I have been reading a great fanfic about them, but my writing for them was also drabbles/ficlets, and not so well developed, so I'll say LawZo, although that's a WIP and will be in the LawZo zine out next year. I had fun writing the (very) irregular limerick for LawBin for the polls this year, AND there is KidLaw in the works, AND, I tightened it this year, but didn't write it this year, but reuploaded a chapter to an AceLaw fic

Guess my answer is all of them. Also, plenty of platonic Trafalgar Law & the Heart Pirates. One Cora & Law fic for the Corazine too.

19. What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?

Maybe get some LawBin on paper. I've written it romantically a few times, but more often platonically, but usually in longfic. Wouldn't mind getting a one shot or two out.

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year? My current fave is in a WIP for the LawZo zine, so I can't share it for a while, so take the following from Bioluminescent Hearts. Not amazing, but I quite like the imagery. Spoilers for chapter 1081 (manga spoilers)

Orange and white striped tentacles rippled past Hakugan—the head of a sea anemone flexing its bright body backwards and forwards through the water. There was so much water, and the pressure. He couldn’t tell if he was cold, if he was uncomfortable. He tried to shake the vegetation from his hands, but to even budge a finger took effort.

Thank you for the ask!

Questions 9, 19, 29 (I like the symmetry) answered! Also 6, 16 and 22. 1, 10 & 27 about to be answered. You can find the asks here!

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I see a lot of people saying that doflamingo would eventually get out of jail for the final war or join the cross guild or just cuz crocodile did 

But it would really make me mad if he did ? Oda made a whole drama about law having to wait 13 years and to end what cora couldn’t  and he almost died doing it 

i see no point of him coming back but im sure if oda wanted him he will make up a point

But What do you think?

Ah, I'm in two minds about this. If I dive deeply into the angst and what Law is worth, then yes, Doflamingo should stay behind bars. I thought the other day that a final reflection of how Law is not the same as Doflamingo is that he didn't kill him (although he tried, dammit! Haha). Part of growth in One Piece is being strong enough to face your (potential) adversaries too though, maybe?

Shanks vs Kaidou, Garp vs Roger (or Rocks?), Big Mom vs Kaidou, Whitebeard vs Oden, etc. Law and Kid just took down Big Mom, and Law fortunately escaped Blackbeard. Maybe he's strong enough to face Doflamingo now, but also maybe he doesn't want to (and maybe he's not).

Doflamingo still has a role to play, given his prison cameos, his pithy quotes, and the seraphim! He's often acted as the One Piece chorus in a Greek drama sense. I also like batshit crazy Doflamingo from a humorous perspective (like, following that other thread looping through One Piece), so part of me would like to see the chaos that he & the Cross Guild could try an make, especially given Doflamingo's words with Croc at Marineford, and the way the shichibukai were far from sane.

For him to get a government release would be some seriously evil shit. But for him to somehow escape would make things interesting. Oda redeemed Buggy, and Croc to a degree. So I don't see him beyond having a role for Doflamingo to play in the future. Sorry, nonny, I'd love to see him come back into the fray, but also definitely do not want a replay of Dressrosa or the events (Including 13 years before) leading up to it. If he's totally redeemed though, I'd be disappointed, but Oda can usually pull off semi-redemptions.

I haven't thought it through 100%, so my thoughts aren't set in stone!

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7, 19, 52 for the fic writing ask thing 😊

Hi Nonnie, Let me track down that link again, heh-heh!

7. Post a snippet from a wip.

Nearly everything's under zine "NDAs"! 😁 But here's something that probably won't make it into an upcoming story: (This is an idea of Law and Kid having a detective agency, for some reason, and Kid needing to rid around on an old clunker of a bicycle, replete with a front and back basket).

Kid pedalled along the road, the gears of this thing sure needed some grease, but he had to give it to Bepo—it sure was sturdy. Kid had lost his licence, of course he had  and Law was out meeting a client, and Kid had needed eggs for the cake he was baking // had to deliver a document, Killers 10 speed was on the road with Killer, so the Mama chari it was.

19. Do you enjoy creating OCs or do you prefer to stick solely to canon characters? I've created a few for the purposes of the story. Before I deeply knew canon, I've got 3 side characters who would be determined as OC in Repossession, and a psychologist who would be considered OC in Teaspoons. I just thought they were needed to make the story work. Nowadays, i tend to throw those characteristics on a pre-existing character, because I know canon better, and readers mostly seem to prefer it. I have an outsider's pov (marine and reporter) in a few stories, so I'm guessing they could be determined as OC too. 52. What’s the average word count of your fics?

I write long, medium, short and very short. Longest fic is 150,792 and shortest fic is 349 words (and I have a series of strict drabbles, too, so really 100 words). Total word count is 711,595 with 78 fics (that is not counting the one shots in a collection). Average is 9.123 words, but cos' I've been writing a lot of zine pieces lately, the one shots are probably about 1.5-6K words, depending on the word count and story. I don't have many fics that are actually 9K long. Heh-heh!

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4 and 23 for the fic writing asks.

Thank you! Now I have to find the ask post. Haha. Kinda very haphazard at these things. Okay! Thank god I remembered I had an archive function!

How do you choose which fics to write? If I'm writing for myself, whatever tickles my fancy. It it's for a zine, event, or something similar, whatever the theme or prompt is.

Is writing the beginning, middle, or end of the story easiest? Hardest? All pretty much of a muchness. Sometimes the middle presents, sometimes the beginning, sometimes the end. Whichever gets the pen moving. Thing is, it might be the middle, but I might not know that until the story's got a bit more shape. Or I might know, and might not know why that scene is important, but it eventually shows where it slots in. Sometimes those early drafts are not the finished product at all! Thank you for the ask! I have a link in this post now, so easier for me to find. If anyone else wants to drop an ask or two, go for it! Am a bit busy, though, so might take a bit of time to answer.

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Thanks @hergan416 and @leviathiane

RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

I'm not really working on anything too much, and I'm gonna cheat and pop in a short exchange, cos I don't want to tag too many /too few people!

“Cartload of corpses.” “Rotting?” “Yes indeedy.”

From a LawZo I'm intermittently working on. @fablecore , @ninhaoma-ya , @flyiing-giraffe , @gendervapor14 , @sneakend , @dandunn and anyone else who wants to do it! ( @ensignsenna , @crowbarsolo , @rosiinantes , @cyborg-franky ) <--- That's four word sequel. ( @afterdeck-ace @purplehairedwonder )

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in a vergo mood, i see 👀

Haha! I land on an artist’s page and reblog what I see / like. Vergo is a fascinating character!

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Last Line Challenge

tagged by @afterdeck-ace Thank you!

Rules: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

Black Maria did not suit a mini, or perhaps she was very suited to a mini—Morris Minor, that is.

Okay, I won't tag that many people, cos I can't think of them at the moment, but how about @cyborg-franky @anarchycox @purplehairedwonder, @escapaldi

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for the ao3 writers wrapped, 6, 16, and 22!

Thank you!

End of year wrap up for writers.

6. Favorite title you used: Maybe Forty-Two Superior Teeth. It's a piece I did for the free (and still available) Growing Pains Zine (the one piece characters when they were kids). Polar bears have 42 teeth, and Bepo knows it! (That was a piece about Law, Bepo, Penguin and Shachi on Swallow Island).

16. What's your most common "additional tags" tag?

I didn't write so much this year, but maybe always some variation of 'canon divergence'. I do have a 'national geographic hearts' or equivalent tag.

22. Which work has the most comments?

I'll take this as comment threads. That way it excludes my replies. It seems that I updated a one shot collection: Bepo's Drabble and One Shot Collection, and that has 15 chapters and 16 comment threads, but none on the drabble I posted (all the other chapters were posted 2019).

Heart PIrates Week, 2023 has 9 chapters (they're drabbles/ficlets. Don't get your hopes up :D!) and so 15 comment threads.

Taxi, which is actually a 2018-2019 story, but I re-uploaded a missing chapter last year, has 14 comment threads, and I actually uploaded that missing chapter due to some lovely comments I received this year.

For one shots, Bioluminescent Hearts is the top with 9 comment threads.

Thank you so much.

ao3 wrapped [writers edition]

ask away!

6, 16 and 22 are finished.

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Holding you responsible if I don't get my PPT finished. Ahahahaha.

🥺 Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?

Safety after scarring, I guess. Recovery after trauma. Understanding your partner's/friend's/captain's trauma so well that you know when to sit quietly (or not) and be there. (Law x fics; especially MarLaw in my case, and a little bit of ZoLaw; my KidLaw is usually pre- to fairly new relationship). Everyone's a survivor. Some bastards die.

OR the support and understanding of shared backgrounds (Robin and Law—including morbid humour), and Zoro and Law have a good Swordbro relationship in longer fics (understanding and respect between friends) or Hard Ass Grumpy Doctor Who Would Die For A Bear And A Tanuki. Self-indulgent shit 😁

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

Misuse of power, fear, resilience, humour, Law, Luffy, Marco and Robin being the worst kind of public transport possible. Robin and Zoro being good Law friends. All members (including Luffy and Zoro) having dogs (Law talked them all into getting rescue dogs). Law having kitschy hobbies beyond coin collecting, and Robin fully being there for him (he collects tea towels and teaspoons as well). If Cora lives in a modern AU he's definitely got some substance abuse problems due to the trauma and injuries. Law not wanting to kill himself? (though he has felt that he has wanted to at times).

🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride? (These emojis are very cute).

All of the dark ones. I definitely should've held back on every single one.

Thank you for the ask! ✅ 🍦😈🤭 🎉 🤡🍆 🧐❌🥰🥺🛒🎢 answered. And I'd love to chat more, but ask box for this meme is currently closed (or you can drop an ask, but I won't answer it until maybe Sunday evening [33 minutes away from Saturday here].

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Thank you so much for putting the hard yards in on inbox asks!

🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?

Yeah, a fair amount. I've got a LawZo I'm writing. A kinda dark hanahaki. Law's flower is the corpse flower, and Zoro's was going to be toxic algae, but then I found out that marimo is actually algae, not moss, even though it's name apparently means moss (and it's not toxic), and then I went down the mythology pathway and, and, and...I'd already done a fair bit on the corpse flower before. But not massively, but quite a bit, y'know? Like, I think that professionals in whatever field I'm trampling over would be able to tell that I was bullshitting!

❌ What's a trope you will never write?

You know, I never thought I'd write hanahaki and what have you 👆 . But it's not published (or even anywhere near finished yet). Once upon a time I said I'd never write Omegaverse, but, well.... I'm not really keen on soulmates, but a friend and writer I admire a lot wrote one from a prompt, and it's great!, and I thought, yeah, you can write whatever trope you want in a way that suits you and the characters, I think. (However, I'm still not great with arranged marriages, or royalty AUs. I don't really write high fantasy, etc. either).

🥰 How do you feel about reader interaction? Are you open to receiving questions about your fics?

I love it! It's fine. Of course, if it was a multi-chap and on the go, answers might be vague to deflect or avoid spoilers. Polite interaction, natch.

Thank you so much for the ask! ! ✅ 🍦😈🤭 🎉 🤡🍆 🧐❌🥰 answered!

Goodnight All! (would love to answer more, but gotta wrap things up for tomorrow!).

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They're so bright and pretty! Hello, lovely giraffe 🦒

🎈describe your style as a writer; is it fixed? does it change?

Okay, I'll double-barrel here: I think that if you ever came across anything anon that I might have written, you'd pretty quickly know it was me, or have an inkling, because I don't do much to hide my style. Most I write past tense, but there are a few present tense stories among those I've uploaded, and that's always a different way of reading and writing. Gotta stay on your toes, and really keep your tenses all lined up with present tense. Bepo's got his own particular voice (he writes fanfiction), and I've written drabbles in first person before (can't remember whose 1st person though!). Writing Doffy is always a ball of fun, and very different from writing Law, etc. I like the News Coo reports in Overlooked and Underpaid (Chopper and Bepo strike for higher bounties), and I also used both a news report chapter, and an autopsy report in A few drops of holy cuckold (very dark fic, so no link), so it was fun to get the right tone. I've got a few outsider perspectives too, and the outsider is say a marine in G5, in Punk Hazrd, or the reporter in Cuckold, and I think I write them well enough to keep the attention on the canon characters without them seeming to be random narrative devices. I think I can be brutal, sweet, funny, etc. but I don't know that that involves a change in writing style. I hope that it changes to match the premise and people, and that I occasionally shake myself up (had a poem that somehow did okay in terms of interaction! That one was a total surprise).

💥find your least kudos'd fic - say something wonderful about it.

Aw, this is kinda unfair, cos I just uploaded the other day. However, it is an excerpt from a longer piece, and has Law, Aokiji, and Bleat the goat (Sengoku's goat) all going for a bicycle ride along an Aokiji-frozen river, so I don't think it's gonna have the readers charging in with their kudos and hits! So, here it is: Riding Along on my Pushbike, Honey (You Look so Pretty) 79 hits, 5 kudos, 1 bookmark 🐐 🚲 🐯

🎀give yourself a compliment about your own writing

I get the job done.

I like reading what I've written when I have the final, final, final (to infinity) draft.

Thank you for the ask!

I've answered ✨ 💫 📡 , 🤲 , 🌈 , ☯️ , 🎈💥 🎀 The ask is here if anyone else wants to ask!

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✅️🤭& tada (my phone apparently can't make that one???)

✅️ is answered here!

🤭Do you have a favorite tag to use when posting your works?

Not really. Law? Trafalgar D. Water Law? Haha. I do tag chromafic, chromafics, chromalami on tumblr, just in case anyone is searching, or they want to filter out. 'Angst & Humour," "Attempt at Humour," "Hurt & Comfort," and it's poor cousin, "Hurt no comfort." "Mind the tags." etc. "Dead dove do not eat," as in, could traumatise for sure, on some of the dark stuff.

🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success?

That's a good question. I think I can let anxiety rest when I get at least one comment. But having started with long fics, I know there is often chapter after chapter after chapter with no comments, so for self-care, a wider form of gauging success is needed. Like, folks often say a ratio of 10% kudos to hits is good, but if you look at most fanfic, the range is about 3-5%, and on multi-chapters, the kudos ratio rate will generally be lower, even if it looks higher. You have to be aware of what you're writing too (rare pair, gen, smut, no smut, etc.)

So, once I've fought past my self-destructive urge to slash and burn, hits, for one, can gauge success (I know not everyone counts them, but you can have a dark fic with a ton of hits, and not many kudos or comments in proportion, but you know folks are reading due to the private bookmarks and hits), public bookmarks (private ones count too, but you can't really know why someone bookmarked. You can't with public either, unless the book-marker leaves some notes, but you know it means something to someone).

At the same time, I've had fics with 70 hits or so, and 1 or 2 kudos, if that, and I've taken them down, cos they're obviously not vibing with readers. Ultimately, I guess, if I still like it when I come back to read it. And if it meant something to someone it's successful. I have some fics up that I might've pulled down by now because they could do with an overhaul, or maybe they are far too indulgent, but comments, bookmarks, etc. let me know they do mean something to some, so they remain up.

Extrinsic validation can be a successful public reception, but the way I feel about the fic is probably more important in the long run. (Convoluted answer, sorry!)

Thank you for the ask! ✅ 🍦😈 🤭 🎉 answered.

If you want to ask, the list is here, and I might even let Bepo do a bit of fic ask answers moonlighting!