Don't Stop Coal Now!

[coalcube]

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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Re: Fandoms that did best in YT this year?

[(Anonymous)]

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)]

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)]

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)]

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.