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[Stats from my third PhD exam on Jan 2nd, 2021, reading Page 6 of 22; 6613 words]

when will I be freeeee

Tagged: #i'm supposed to have endnotes but also they don't count #T_T

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fINISHED IT

Tagged: #i might have to do some more... stuff on the middle exam depending on Things #but #third one is done and in!!!!

heckofabecca said:

WOOOO

cosmonauthill said:

Congrats!!

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Silliness over AO3 stats:

The first part of my Lucy Skywalker series (a linked series of genderbent f!Luke fics) has always been the most popular of the main series. It's less so in kudos, but definitely leads in bookmarks (the first, The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker, has 48 bookmarks [ETA 3/24/2024: now 53], while the second, The Imperial Menace, has 20 [ETA: now 24]), and The Imperial Menace has way fewer hits, too.

I guess it’s a positive that The Imperial Menace has nearly as many kudos as Adventures does: 242 for The Imperial Menace [ETA: now 288] to Adventures’s 260 [ETA: now 323]) despite significantly fewer people reading it at all. But still. And I do think Adventures is much more flawed in some ways (The Imperial Menace has its problems, but different ones that bother me less). So I’ve been low-grade HMPH even though I hated writing 85% of The Imperial Menace.

BUUUUT

After years and years, I got a burst of inspiration to go back to working on the third fic in the main series, The Jedi and the Sith Lord, in early 2020 (which feels like a lifetime ago and, also, yesterday). And I’m a lot happier with it than with any of the other Lucy fics, and wrote a ton of it all at once (I think it had two chapters when I went back and it now has 20).

AND!!!! It has way more hits than The Imperial Menace even though it’s also a sequel (maybe because it has a clearer if very short summary—“Lucy emerges from carbon-freeze as the captive of Darth Vader”—and also splits off from canon in a much more significant way). But it has a bunch more kudos than Adventures (325 [ETA: now 405]), more bookmarks, probably three times as many comments [ETA: now 289 to 51, though both are affected by my responses], and it’s like … FOR ONCE the thing that I personally like best and worked hardest on is also the one that readers like the most! Yay! :D

…like I said, silliness, but it is nice to get that alignment happening on a fic that I care a lot about.

Tagged: #also the collective lucyverse fics are now over 100k thanks to 'the jedi and the sith lord's 67k(!) #which i'm ridiculously happy about

Meme: Spotify On Repeat

elperian tagged me on Tumblr! For this meme, you show your top five songs on your current On Repeat Spotify list, if you use Spotify. I didn't bother snipping numbers 6&7, so they're included for no particular reason, but:



[A screenshot of a Spotify On Repeat list, with the top seven songs visible:

1 - Nevertheless, She Persisted | Audiomachine
2 - Pompeii MMXXIII | Bastille & Hans Zimmer
3 - Who Wants To Live Forever | Queen
4 - Luke and Leia | John Williams
5 - Dauntless | Audiomachine
6 - Mass Effect Theme | Jack Wall & Sam Hulick
7 - Radio Ga Ga | Queen]

No surprises here, lol.

Tagging anyone who sees this, uses Spotify, and wants to do it!