Oh, it's totally boggling. Which is why I want to know how they found it! I'm not well-known - this was not because I did something good or have a lot of followers/subscribers/whatever they're called. I do not understand at all, and I want to know. *wry*
And I can't ask on tumblr - I'm still scared of tumblr. You guys are my nice, familiar friends over here. *g*
Yeah. Were you in HP back in the day? I don't remember where we picked each other up along the way, oops. I remember the first time painless-j rec'd a fic of mine - it was like being hit over the head with a hammer at the sudden influx of people. And this was judging from the comments, back before the days of easy hit counters and such. Man.
I think a lot of people DO read by tag - you can feed those using RSS to LJ/DW so plenty of people at least skim the summaries for all the fic in popular pairings. I only do it for a few rare pairings but I know that it's a common thing.
See, that's the thing - you do it for rarepairs, which makes sense, but I can't imagine doing that for Teen Wolf. Maybe there's some specific tag people are watching to narrow it down. I don't watch by tag at all. I just use tags, for the most part, as summaries. Except like when I get a craving for ABO fic or something and go on a hunt. *facepalm*
Oh. OH. Fascinating. Now, is this something you can set up and then get notifications about? Or do you just perform this search from time to time? (yes, I'm totally illiterate when it comes these things!) I could see this potentially resulting in a large amount of fic.
hahah, I managed to get down to 26 open tabs at the moment. I was at 153 a few weeks ago and had to go cold turkey on shutting the whole thing down and starting over. Because I spent months without being able to get it below 140.
I might have to play with your method. Once I clear out those open fic tabs...
I don't subscribe at all, I search by pairing. It sorts by date as a default (newest to oldest), so I can always see what the latest is by looking at what's been uploaded after the last title I read. I'm guessing this probably only works well if you belong to a really tiny fandom/ship though.
I'm kind of anti-subscriptions to everything :P I basically like to get comment notifications and that's it. Life is an endless cycle of saying yes to shopkeepers asking if I have email (because I'm sick of telling them no constantly) and then unsubscribing from the stuff they send. And as you say, for small fandoms, tags work well. I've found a lot of the fics I like are by writers like me, who do one or two fics per fandom and are content to lurk for the rest of the time.
Oh, no, I like to smile my sweetest smile and refuse to give the stores any information. Except that somehow they get it anyway! Scary - I think they mine credit card info. Like today. I got a coupon in the mail, addressed me at my address, from a store. Yes, they do have my email but I've never given them anything else. But I shop there. I can only think they got it from my debit card info. Ack.
Criminy. 8000 hits? I've had stuff on A03 for four years, and I think maybe one of my stories has gotten as many as 400 hits total in that time. The rest are under 200, with several under 50. Obviously popularity of fandom and pairing would have something to do with it, but that can't account for all. So the tumblr thing must be huge, that's all I can think of. (I've looked around on tumblr a couple of times, but I have no idea how it all works.)
I'm pretty old-school when it comes to searching -- I just click on character and/or pairing. I rarely bother with the tags, since so many of them are so idiosyncratic. So I'm of no help to you at all /g/.
8000 hits, though, wow -- impressive, no matter how they found you!
Exactly - I have stuff up there with fewer than 50 hits. And I do have things with more hits than 50 but they've accumulated slowly. Then got boosted by the recent Star Trek movie. And tumblr - at least one of the fic
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And I can't ask on tumblr - I'm still scared of tumblr. You guys are my nice, familiar friends over here. *g*
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I might have to play with your method. Once I clear out those open fic tabs...
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I love the subscription thing. I get stuff I don't want, other fandoms by a writer, but it works well as a whole.
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I'm pretty old-school when it comes to searching -- I just click on character and/or pairing. I rarely bother with the tags, since so many of them are so idiosyncratic. So I'm of no help to you at all /g/.
8000 hits, though, wow -- impressive, no matter how they found you!
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Yes! I didn't realize you were one of the company. Cool. Looking forward to it.
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