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

[randomstasis.livejournal.com]

LOL- Your bookshelves have the same *ahem* "personal organization system" mine do! (i.e., I've given up trying to sort by subject, and now they're pretty much size-graded, although I do try to keep non-fiction out of the fiction)
And I should have known you were a Gene Wolfe fan, just by the fascinations your writing displays.

FB- Haven't commented on the latest yet, just because I didn't realize it was posted- busy summer, so I didn't see it pop up on the flist, and I'm not sure I expected more in the 'verse.
The original was presented as a finished one-shot, and was great, so a lot of people came to read and comment, just because it was very timely too. The second and third were less so, (right now there are a lot of post finale fics- I think yours kicked off a whole lot of PTSD fics, in fact, so the sequels are tending to get lost in the crowd) & required reading the first, so it's a WIP, and that puts people off- most will wait and comment at the end. Besides, As I recall, you weren't committed to anymore than the one sequel, and at first even insisted it was only a one-shot.

And yeah, sequels, meh- you know!
And Wincest does scare many off- it's just kind of "eeuw" that this fandom's OTP is incest.
Many prefer case fics & gen to porn, slash and especially incest. (I'll never understand how females manage to consider M/M slash the hottest sort of sex, myself- never thought sex was a purely spectator sport before fanfic!;)
Thanks to folks like you and Astolat, I've been forced to reconsider my kneejerk rejection, though..hate to miss good fic because of prejudice! Even so, it's not something I go looking for.
And yeah, the people hoping for porn might have felt cheated.:) too bad!
Double whammy on the wincest warning there though!

[tabaqui]

Heee!
I have a sort of organization. I've got things grouped by umm...dunno how you'd call it...theme?

So i've got things like 'The Town and the City' with 'Shogun' and 'The Last Temptation of Christ' because that's modern lit, then things like 'Robin Hood', Keats, and 'My Antonia' together because....it's not? Hee.
Not *terribly* thematic but maybe it's more the feel than the actual content.

I wasn't really sure, as i finished the first one, that i *was* going to write more. But then it just seemed to cruel to leave Dean hanging, and i felt like i wanted to tell more - hopefully get him to a better place. So, a 'verse is born! :) I haven't seen *too* many PTSD fics, but i'll take your word for it. I imagine it's a pretty common 'bunny' right now.

Sequels, meh? You don't like sequels? :)

It's funny, but incest as far as in a movie/book/play has never bothered me. Or - let me qualify. Sibling incest doesn't bother me. Parent/child *does*, and i don't touch that, or read it, but some of the very first 'grown up' characters i ever wrote were brother and sister - usually twins - and always involved in some way. Either 'too close' or actually physically involved. I dunno why - it's just always been part of my writing. So Supernatural is like...nothing new, heh. And even if i write a story that's gen, in my head, they're together.

I cheat people on the pr0n a lot these days! Heeee.

[randomstasis.livejournal.com]

Sequels- notorious for failing to live up to the original experience.
but yeah, I like 'em.
and I'd like to see Dean in a better place. Will go read.
and comment:)
I usually comment if I like something, even if all I can think of to say is "Ditto" after everybody and their dog said it!
Harder to comment on something you want to critique instead!
I think I understand your organization- and that worries me.
Maybe there's a bar somewhere and 'Robin Hood', Keats, and 'My Antonia' are hanging out together because....they're not?

[tabaqui]

It's true, many sequels don't hold up. I guess i don't see the next parts as 'sequels' so much as a continuation of the first part.

Yeah, i hate reading something, loving it, but not being able to come up with anything more than guppy noises, heh. I try, though! I *spell out* my guppy noises!
Heeeee.

Yes! A bar! And Zappa and the chick who wrote 'Fried Green Tomatoes' are in the kitchen, cooking. Pancakes and tomatoes...
*snickers*