2011-12-08

reynardo: (screaming fangirl)
2011-12-08 10:27 am

And my SSHG Exchange fic was...

Time for a Change, which was gifted to [livejournal.com profile] teddyradiator as a pinch-hit thankyou.

For them as doesn't hang around these communities, it means that the person for whom I was originally writing dropped out and didn't write a gift for their participant. So [livejournal.com profile] teddyradiator bravely stepped up and wrote a replacement gift, and my story was given to Teddy, who liked it!

Ahem

A short synopsis and some discussion on the writing process here )

So that's how and why. Or maybe not - the whole "WHY THE HELL DOES SHE DO IT????" may never be answered :-)

On the other hand, [livejournal.com profile] leni_jess wrote the story I requested, Muggle Studies for Mature Students. [livejournal.com profile] leni_jess lives in Canberra, and I wish I'd got to know her when *I* was there! The story is a fascinating wander through Glasgow as Lucius Malfoy tries to learn how Muggles work, supervised by Hermione and Severus. I want to go and see Mackintosh chairs now.
reynardo: (screaming fangirl)
2011-12-08 04:05 pm

I am highly amused.

I posted my SSHG Fic on the Pit of Voles, and of course like the rabid little fangirl I am, I watched the stats explode. (They always do for a Severus Snape/Hermione Granger story).

Amusingly, the stats on the individual chapters start with lots of people trying the first, about half of those making it through most of the rest ... and then suddenly a huge jump back up for the last chapter.

So are a whole bunch of people deliberately skipping the story and checking the last chapter to make sure it's a happy ending?

Or are they all just looking for the smut?

Considering how many have then gone to the second-last chapter where the hot action is, I'd say the latter.