Rediscovering what I already knew
I haven't been that happy with the reception of my recent Rhett&Link fics, so I decided to write a slash Man From U.N.C.L.E. movieverse story. It's not quite something that could just have easily been written as gen - I think where things are headed is obvious from the beginning - but it's not that far of a departure from what I usually write.
And, yeah. Since posting yesterday morning it's gotten 714 hits and 71 kudos. Only three comments, but that's fine with me, they've been glowing.
In contrast, a gen MFU story I wrote last week has gotten 303 hits and 30 kudos, and my last two R&L stories, which are gen, have gotten ~100 hits each.
I've been going back and forth between kind of hating how shallow this bid for approval was, and being happy that, if I write something people actually want to read, it seems to be pretty well accepted.
If you're curious, the slash MFU story is Antidote, written for H/C bingo (prompt - you guessed it - "Poisoning"). I have one more square to fill to get a linear BINGO; the prompt is "Unwanted Transformation." I'm thinking maybe slash Rhett&Link magic realism, to remove it enough from the canon rifs I've been doing that I'd be comfortable having them living different lives.
ETA - it's now my all-time most kudo'd story, 48 hours after posting.
And, yeah. Since posting yesterday morning it's gotten 714 hits and 71 kudos. Only three comments, but that's fine with me, they've been glowing.
In contrast, a gen MFU story I wrote last week has gotten 303 hits and 30 kudos, and my last two R&L stories, which are gen, have gotten ~100 hits each.
I've been going back and forth between kind of hating how shallow this bid for approval was, and being happy that, if I write something people actually want to read, it seems to be pretty well accepted.
If you're curious, the slash MFU story is Antidote, written for H/C bingo (prompt - you guessed it - "Poisoning"). I have one more square to fill to get a linear BINGO; the prompt is "Unwanted Transformation." I'm thinking maybe slash Rhett&Link magic realism, to remove it enough from the canon rifs I've been doing that I'd be comfortable having them living different lives.
ETA - it's now my all-time most kudo'd story, 48 hours after posting.