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Beth (the 'Mac' is silent) ([personal profile] lolmac) wrote2011-04-14 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] lolmac 2011-04-16 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
AO3 traffic is accumulative and increases due to the long tail effect, whereas FFN's plateaus fairly quickly. (My personal observation.) Because you're one of the few MacGyver authors on AO3, you'll notice that your 54-76 hits will increase over time as more readers discover the archive.
I think the experience is very different in a "rare" fandom such as MacGyver, versus a high-traffic fandom such as Stargate. In the Pit, a given Stargate story gets buried very quickly, and can only be found if one is looking (and knows what to look for, etc.). Certainly my few small Stargate items vanished swiftly.

But the rate of new posting in the MacGyver archive is very slow; as a result, I've picked up a lot of readers there, simply because when the average person goes looking for MacGyver fic, they have a good chance of finding mine (especially if they filter out everything that has a neon MARY SUE OMG sign on it). Google "MacGyver fanfic" and you won't find AO3 (although you will find a lot of pretty scary stuff).

Since I goit the crossover posted, I've had a gratifying jump in Pit traffic, and even a few comments, which has been lovely. I guess the Stargate crossover slice of that archive doesn't bury new material quite as quickly. And, from what I can tell, the Gate fans have been finding the crossover, reading and enjoying, and then following the links back to my profile and 'shopping' from there.

BTW, I'm sorry I missed out on the X-Files crossover you had hoped to do. Maybe another time? I don't think I've actually watched an entire episode of X-Files, but with a good crossover, one can often deal with that. *g*
ext_391411: Scully/Invisigoth from XF "Killswitch". (tongue)

[identity profile] campylobacter.livejournal.com 2011-04-16 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Alas, all my plotbunnies for the Alphabet Soup crossover were *ahem* PORNOGRAPHIC. So I asked if I could make a picspam instead. Fig said that would fit in for a "related works" post, so when I finish my [livejournal.com profile] stargate_summer Big Bang, I'll work on my backlog. The picspam would be a character-for-character body-swap, which wouldn't require any cross-canon knowledge.
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[personal profile] lolmac 2011-04-16 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
You had porny fic ideas? I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Ooo yeah.
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