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Don't Stop Coal Now!

Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real coal time
I feel alive
And the exchange I'll turn it inside out, yeah
I'm floating around in agony
So, (don't stop me now)
(Don't stop me)
'Cause I'm having a coal time, having a coal time~


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Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-27 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Most fics? Best quality fics? Most popular fic?

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-27 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Shang-Chi! It has a ton of fics (I think second-highest behind Ted Lasso) and the quality is uniformly very high. Both of the main ships got lots of great fic (including some meaty longfic!), and there's humor, romance, porn, canon adventures, gen, bittersweet family feels, you name it!

The feedback isn't as high as other MCU fandoms (there's a reason why it's in Yuletide), but it's still nice and there have been some lovely comments.

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-27 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
The feedback isn't as high as other MCU fandoms (there's a reason why it's in Yuletide)

People have such weird ideas of what feedback is like in the MCU. It's great if you write a mid-tier ship with a thirsty fandom or juggernaut that you manage to stumble your way into getting a following for. It sucks balls if your write a rarepair (and with so many characters these days, there are a LOT of rarepairs) or almost any kind of gen. Unlike for a lot of yuletide fandoms, there isn't even any long tail, because your fic disappears from the tag page in the first five seconds and is never heard from again.

Looking at the Shang-Chi YT tag, this is... normal. This is a normal amount of MCU feedback, especially considering fics have only been revealed for three days.

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-28 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
NC

Yeah, that makes sense. I feel like you really have to be one of those writers who writes the day the movie comes out in order to get a lot of eyes on your fic.

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-28 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
cyrt

Oh yeah, that's definitely true. Write a hot ship in the first week of release and look forward to being buried in kudos for that one fic for the rest of your natural life.

And tbh my original comment was too cranky and didn't really have that much to do with the comment I replied. Sorry, Shang-Chi coalie! I'm glad your fandom had a great Yuletide.

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-28 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
DA

Yeah, that's somewhat unfortunately the case. I've been on both sides of this--write something so so but do it in the first week or so of it's release and I'm still getting kudos years later. I've also written what I think is amazing fic (sometimes in the same fandom) and it barely gets any traction because it wasn't on the first page, sorted by kudos (which are the first week fics).

The exception to this are the people who publish chaptered fic, usually a mundane or soulmark/bond AU. Fandoms seem to eat those up, especially if the author publishes multiple of those types of stories.

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-28 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Not particularly large in terms of raw numbers, but I'm really stoked about how many fics Malevolent got, for as small of a fandom as it is. And a decent variety, too! I'm already looking forward to next year when we can get more characters in the tag set.

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-28 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
BBC Ghosts! 15 fics, more than one absolute brilliant gem amongst them, and all the ones I've read so far have had something to enjoy. A very fortunate fandom.

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-28 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
+1

Really delighted with the quality of the Ghosts fics this year. The year-round fandom seems to skew very young with a lot of baby's first fic energy, so I was crossing my fingers that Yuletide would come through, and there's some great stuff in there.

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-28 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I really enjoyed the one with Robin and Kitty.

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-28 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Murderbot had fifteen fics! Of course that's probably somewhat due to new canon coming out and Wells being nominated for Best Series, but I'm really happy to see it still going.

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-29 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
I'm delighted that Herbert/Dan from Re-Animator is in the top 10 ships in the collection, with five fics. Good job, little 80s horror fandom.

Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-29 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
All the Ted Lasso fics I've read have been great!
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