Wow!

[andraste]

As of this moment, Charm Offensive has seven hundred hits on the AO3. And forty-five of those people definitely liked it since they left positive comments/kudos. Not to mention the feedback I've had here and over on the livejournal comm I posted it to. (And in RL! Thank you again to my pre-readers of Friday night.) This is the advantage of writing in a fandom that's in the middle of a popularity explosion.

The last time a story of mine was this popular was Ten Thousand Candles. It amuses me that the two stories have the same basic plot line - 'Charles Xavier gets on with his life after having a Very Bad Day' - but it plays out in two very different ways *g*.

I know it's been a long time since I posted much of anything, and this was a real confidence boost. There is a reason why Charles is my One True Character. (Even though, for a change, Charm Offensive wasn't from his POV.)

Now I need to get on with my other, less cracktastic First Class bunnies and my X-Men ficathon story. I'm hoping whoever got my prompts is half as happy with them as I am with mine - I've got a choice of three I could write easily enough. The one that attracts me most would require an actual Plot, but I think I might actually be able to manage it anyway.

Comments

[katta]

I might as well made a kudo there and encourage even more visits, then! What can I say, it was fun... *g*

[andraste]

I might as well made a kudo there and encourage even more visits, then! What can I say, it was fun... *g*

Thank you! I am now up to 727 hits and fifty comments/kudos.

[lilacsigil]

Yay! It's so exciting to see these characters taken out of the box and loved again! (Not that they ever entirely went away!)

[andraste]

Yay! It's so exciting to see these characters taken out of the box and loved again!

The last five weeks have been fantastic for me from a fandom perspective. I've had other fandoms since X-Men quieted down, but as much as I love the source canons for things like Babylon 5 and Doctor Who I've never felt connected to their fandoms in quite the same way. I think having been around since the very beginning of movieverse fandom has always made me feel plugged into it in a unique way - it's no accident that it's the only fandom I ever built an archive for.

[evilfuzzydoom]

So, does this make you famous?

[mutatismutandis]

Heh. Not really - there are plenty of stories in the fandom with way more hits/feeback than that.