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Also re Yuletide funniness: both my recips loved their treats -- one left a lovely comment that took up TWO reply boxes, I have never had that happen before ever -- and apparently the few other non-recip people who read them, liked them, but the fics weren't getting attention even in the anon period and just never gained any traction. No idea why, unless I just really suck that bad at summaries/titles -- but I thought "The Ship Who Vidded" was one of the best I'd ever come up with, and that story was getting no love! Now people are telling me they like the title. But for all I could tell it was actively putting readers off. -- Or I redated to the 25th and wound up at the top of the pile sorted by date, but other people redated too? And if you sort logged in, someone else is second by date, not me. Oh well.

Neither story appeared on any recs list -- not on DW, not on Tumblr from what I can tell, not on Discord. One recip did do a very nice "these are the fics I got" post. But there were 14 stories in the fandom, and even for people who went out of their way to rec 4 or 5 fics, I was never mentioned. And that was in the anon period! So, it's weird. Of course what matters is the people that I treated like their fics, and the people who did read the fics liked them too. But I felt (not to sound like MELODRAMATIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ME or something) very on the outside? It was weird.


tl;dr you aren't the only one who feels like they have neon cooties even in the anon period

Like srsly this is what EVERY recs post for my fandom I have seen looks like. All of them: http://unofficialyuletide.tumblr.com/post/169211309429/last-minute-yuletide-recs-murderbot-palooza
Oh well.