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i-will-physically-fight-you · 2 years

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What fanfic do you wish you got more response on?

Hmm, there's a few one-shots I'm surprised didn't receive more reception than I expected but I'm not too bothered by it.

I would name Heard No More as one I'd love to receive more response on but in my experience, 1-5k one-shots tend to gain a lot of traction on tumblr over multi-chapter/10k+ fics.

Like I was happily surprised at the response Gibbous got on AO3 when I posted the most recent chapter, but then like. It's tumblr version only received like 5 notes. Part of that is because I didn't reblog it as much/add it to my pinned fic list, but even so.

My plans, however, with Heard No More is to finish the overall AU (By The Pricking of My Thumbs), edit it and then release it onto AO3 serially

#kat answers #anon #I've shared it before but i simply think oneshots work better on tumblr #because it's short form content that is easily consumable #long form fic content that isnt a comic tends to suffer on tumblr #i think due to the horrible navigation of this site for content like that #plus people are most likely to go to ao3 wanting long fic content #additionally on ao3 people can specifically subscribe to receive updates/alerts for a specific fic #the tumblr version of that is tag lists but its a massive pain on the author to manage it #then you also have the awkwardness if a person wants to stop being on a tag list #but doesnt want to hurt the author's feelings by telling them #when on ao3 i have no idea who is on my ao3 subscribe list other than the number of people #btw heard no more is technically a 15k oneshot but ehhhh it was for a big bang #and i didnt want to put up with multiple posts #and i havent released it onto ao3 because i want to edit it #and also decide if i want it in a series or as one big fic

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