Another question, O flist...and pictures!

[tabaqui]

Or, rather - links to pictures. Remember when i posted about my books being mostly unpacked and bookshelves up? And i had pictures of said shelves?

Some of you were all 'i can't read the titles!' and i said i'd take pictures that showed the titles. I did! Of a few shelves. But they're *very big*, so i'm only putting the links here, rather than actually putting the images up. So click at your own risk! :)

Shelf one.
Shelf two.
Shelf three.
Shelf four.

And now...and observation. Or, the question. And this is not - let me be clear, *not* - a plea for more comments or a whine about how 'nobody wuvs me!'. It's just something i noticed and thought was interesting.

When i posted the first installment of Aftermath, it ended up with an astonishing 221 comments. Now, take out half of those for my replies, and say another ten for back-and-forth, that's still a *very*, very amazing 100 positive comments. The second and third parts, respectively, earned 133 and 95, or - 60 and say....42. Very, very nice. But why such a drop?

Was it because the second part didn't immediately follow on the first part, and people felt cheated? Was it because even though the header says Sam/Dean, there isn't any actual sex and in fact, only one brief kiss? Is it because it's 'unfinished' in that i don't have a number of parts and they can see how long until the end? It's odd.

And like i said - not begging for more comments, i'm perfectly happy with the amount that i get - my flist is amazing and wonderful and strokes my ego *quite* nicely. But the difference between parts one and three is really just...thought-provoking.

Any thoughts?

:)

Comments

[innie_darling]

In my case, I absolutely loved the first piece - I thought it hit everything just right. I think because the first part felt like a finished story, I didn't think the other parts were necessary - not that they're bad stories, or poorly written, or anything like that. Just didn't have the impact that the first one did, because I thought the first one was all the verse that was needed.

Does that make sense?

(If it helps, my decision to have the Ben/Dean scenes end after scene twelve was based on the same reasoning - there's no more story to be told in this same way, in this same verse. Maybe at some point I'll write Ben and Dean, thirty years later, but it doesn't belong with the rest of the scenes.)

[tabaqui]

Oh, that makes perfect sense. I've felt the same way about many things. And i didn't have any plans for a 'verse when i wrote the first one. But i didn't like leaving the boys hanging, either, heh.

I do agree that the first one is more...something...than the others - i totally recognize that.
*pets the boys*

They really aren't *fixable*, or, Dean isn't, but i can't leave him in such misery, either.
:)