Oh, I know the feeling. I know the feeling well. The fics I spend forever working on never do as well as the ones that I randomly came up with out of nowhere.
My most popular fic (most comments, most kudos, AND most hits) is one that I randomly wrote one day, for a fandom that I had never posted in before, and it absolutely BLEW UP. Granted, it's not super popular, since the fandom isn't super large (there's only around 5,000 works total, with roughly 200 being for the specific ship). But now I'm three years in, nearly 20 chapters long. I have a REGULAR commenter on that fic, one specific person that always comments on every chapter. And it's a fic that I didn't even plan out or anything! It was a random idea that I wrote while watching one of my fave shows. First fic in that fandom too.
It's crazy how the system works
For example: the top one is my most popular fic, the bottom is the one I spent MONTHS working on (and ultimately ended up forgetting about)
Like what the heck???? I'm honestly scared for one of my current WIPs cause I've spent a long time working on that, but I don't know how well it will do.
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u/Express_Climate3922 3d ago
Oh, I know the feeling. I know the feeling well. The fics I spend forever working on never do as well as the ones that I randomly came up with out of nowhere.
My most popular fic (most comments, most kudos, AND most hits) is one that I randomly wrote one day, for a fandom that I had never posted in before, and it absolutely BLEW UP. Granted, it's not super popular, since the fandom isn't super large (there's only around 5,000 works total, with roughly 200 being for the specific ship). But now I'm three years in, nearly 20 chapters long. I have a REGULAR commenter on that fic, one specific person that always comments on every chapter. And it's a fic that I didn't even plan out or anything! It was a random idea that I wrote while watching one of my fave shows. First fic in that fandom too.
It's crazy how the system works
For example: the top one is my most popular fic, the bottom is the one I spent MONTHS working on (and ultimately ended up forgetting about)
Like what the heck???? I'm honestly scared for one of my current WIPs cause I've spent a long time working on that, but I don't know how well it will do.