Nov. 8th, 2013

the_deep_magic: A nightmare inexplicably torn from the pages of Kafka! (Wish I had wings)
My fic Cherrybomb has over 63,000 hits.  Pack Up; Don't Stray has over 61,000.

I never went digging for hit counts on LJ, and I wouldn't really care if AO3 didn't automatically post them.  On LJ, of course, I measured readership by comments, and while I knew there were plenty of lurkers about (I was one of them for a long, long time), I never stopped to wonder how many.  And I try not to compare my hit counts to the kudos or to other authors' hit counts/kudos and am mostly successful, but it just now sort of hit me what the numbers mean.  Obviously, not every hit represents a unique person who has read the fic all the way through, but let's say half of them are.

That's 30,000 people who have read something I wrote.  Even if only a third of the hits represent individual readers, that's still over 20,000 people.  That's a stadium full of people.

I wrote gay werewolf sex and a stadium full of people read it.

I should cross-stitch that on something so I can remember it on my bad days.

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