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Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Based on least hits: In A Flash of Light by Anonymous for sweet_and_sour_candy_77, シャイニング | Shining Series (Video Games)

Least kudos: Forgiveness by Anonymous for AvandraTheMarySueSlayer, Baldur's Gate

Least comments: Comforts and Distractions by Anonymous for Serie11, Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)

Don’t agree? Go give some love.

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

For Yuletide, none of those are reliable metrics, especially least hits. It tends to just mean "fandoms virtually nobody is familiar with".

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Two of those are games I want to finish, so I’ll try to come back once I do! (And see what Shining Series is about.)

Video game fics have it rough in Yuletide, both due to the smaller audience and the time commitment/difficulty of consuming the canon—this definitely isn’t a good metric for worst fic.

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, obscure ones in particular. You can find a no-commentary playthrough video of any Squeenix game, but if you get out into the woods with obscure Sega RPGs...

Though there is a Shining Force longplay on Youtube, I see! Wasn't expecting that.

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Sega have been rereleasing older games for current consoles as well, not speedily or anything, but Shining Resonance Refrain got a current-gen upgrade, the earlier Valkyria games got redone, and there's a few others that I can't remember but I know I bought them because they were Sega rereleases.

I wish I'd seen the Shining series request early enough to write for it.

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, if you through the collection by hits, it looks like the least hits contain a lot of video games. Also a lot of presumably more esoteric Japanese and Korean canons.

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Um, question: what about fics with no comments, why are they better than this one?

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Current worst by ratio - by a pretty long distance - is Crazyhead (TV) "Yuletide Fic", at a .7% kudos rate. That one's locked to archive, though, so I kinda wonder if there was something going on with an out-of-fandom rec or something.

Next up is the The Witch (2016) fic "The Feathers of Your Wings"
with a .1% kudos:hits ratio.

And third is the current lowest-by-kudos fic, which is at 1.4%

(Those are the three lowest total kudos atm too, but reverse order. They're all low enough that getting one more kudos would change the rankings, although the Crazyhead one could double its kudos and still be third-worst. Everything else with hits showing is at at least 2.5%, nearly all over 3%.)

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

IDK why the Crazyhead fic has so many hits (maybe it got linked on lolmeme or someplace?), but if you click it, it's evident pretty quickly why so few hits turned into kudos.

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Can't someone check where it got linked?

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, coalie, please do that and report back.

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

It got linked on here because someone was complaining about the shitty formatting, which *is* pretty terrible. Don’t know if it got linked elsewhere.

Re: Worst fic in the collection

[(Anonymous)]

It's stupid to be obsessed with ratios rather than calling something bad by reading it.