Holy frelling dren!

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I just checked my website stats. I'll be honest: I wanted to see if the rec I got at the crack_van recently had resulted in any more recs, and since reccers rarely (I'm tempted to say 'never', as none of mine has ever told me, but there may be the occasional reccer - me, for instance *g* - who sends the authors a mail when they rec something) tell you they've recced your stuff, checking the website visitor stats is pretty much the only way to find out...

Usually I have visitor numbers ranging from 40 hits on a bad day to 200 on a *very* good day.

On Thursday the 2nd of June, the day I got recced, I got 1400 hits.

1400.

One thousand four hundred hits. In one single day.

That's the great part.

Now for the depressing part: from those 1400 hits resulted one, I repeat, *one* bit of feedback. (Not counting feedback from friends, 'cause, you know, that doesn't really count.)

I should probably clarify that that extremely high number of hits does *not* mean 1400 people read my fic. The fic in question is split into 20 pages, and I can follow pretty well how many people actually read all of it by checking how many people read the last page: 75 people endured all of 'Endure'. *g* But still, that's 75 people who read it, and only one new person who gave feedback.

Maybe the other 70 or so didn't like it. But then, why did they keep reading?

Ah well. I'm happy it got recced and happy for the feedback I got. But sometimes, I can't help wondering. :-)

Comments

I don't deny Methos likes/loves/whatever Duncan...

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but I prefer fic that's set either before he meets him or in phases of his life when he's not together with him - even if I don't deny the relationship exists (whether as friendship or slash doesn't really matter) I'm just not very interested in it and don't want to read about it. So I mostly read character exploration fic and fic about Methos' past.

Actually, I almost always prefer character exploration fics to relationship exploration fics, with the near-exclusive exception of Remus/Sirius (oddly for a non-slasher who usually sticks close to canon and isn't particularly fond of Harry Potter, the only couple I really ship is a Harry Potter slash ship. Yeah, I know... I'm weird. I can't explain why they work so well for me.)

Also, one thing I don't like about Methos/Duncan fic...

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is that it often seems to assume Methos is now totally dependent (emotionally) on Duncan, and I just don't see that. Unfortunately it seems to be confirmed by the series' finale episodes in which he's shown to have reverted to his 'evil' self just because he never met Duncan. I mean, excuse me - the man lived a non-evil life for *millennia* after his Horsemen days and before he met Duncan. Why should he suddenly relapse just because he didn't meet a certain noble Scot in 199whatever? I *can* see him relapse - but not that easily. (Yeah, I know it was because the woman he loved had been killed, but even so... something doesn't compute.)

Arrrgh, gotta work.