alias_sqbr: the symbol pi on a pretty background (genius!)
[personal profile] caramarie posted a graph of their word count over the years and I got curious, because I was pretty sure I wrote more than normal last year. And BOY DID I.

A pie chart of years vs words.  20097185 201077831 201180548 201298929 201332614 201424955 201571801 201619135 201746234 2018226406

I have no idea if this was a fluke and I'll go back to my much lower 2017ish levels. I guess we'll see!

And I am also stealing the associated AO3 meme, and including Fanfic.net and deviantArt where I can, because I find it interesting to compare!
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alias_sqbr: Darkwing Duck (dw!)
[personal profile] sqbr, [deviantart.com profile] sqbr, [tumblr.com profile] sqbr, [journalfen.net profile] sqbr, [archiveofourown.org profile] sqbr, [insanejournal.com profile] sqbr, [twitter.com profile] sqbr and of course [livejournal.com profile] alias_sqbr.

(I'm actually alias_sqbr a few places, plus a few other names, but this looked cooler :))

Still not working: [fanfiction.net profile] sqbr
alias_sqbr: the symbol pi on a pretty background (genius!)
DeviantArt appear to have gotten rid of their nice little premade thumbnails :( I'm not sure how I'm going to deal with that long term, but for now here's the Tumblr links, with embedded DeviantArt images under the cut. People who actually use these links/thumbnails: what would you prefer?

Original Art: Thorns
Original: Cat cleaning itself with a hairbrush
Original: Cat with Hair Brush: Take Two
Homestuck: Kim Possible FLARP
Homestuck: Tree Pirate!
Puella Magi Madoka Magicka: The Triumph of Love over Despair

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alias_sqbr: the symbol pi on a pretty background (genius!)
Since DeviantArt are bigoted jerks and the site sometimes has malware I have spent the last day playing around with Artician as an alternative.

I have to say, it's pretty annoying and buggy, the uploader refuses to work properly and the stuff I uploaded individually is refusing to show up in my portfolio. But! Here is the art anyway.

Homestuck: John (colour meme) by sqbr on Artician

Mass Effect: Young Tali by sqbr on Artician

Razzer's colour meme.
alias_sqbr: me in a graduation outfit (doctor!)
There's been a bunch of discussion amongst fanfic writers about what they write, how popular it is and how many comments it gets. Apart from the fact that I also tend to get around 100 hits per comment my experience is VERY different to the general consensus (which doesn't make everyone else wrong, it just makes me weird), and since I was bored I looked at various patterns and crunched some numbers. If text bores you scroll to the end, there's graphs :D

It's important to note that I mainly make comics and art, but they seem to get similar general responses to my prose.

So, the general trends people have mentioned:

  • Stories about white cis able-bodied men are more popular
  • femslash is much less popular
  • Nobody likes stories about original characters

Plus various theories about hits and comments.
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alias_sqbr: the symbol pi on a pretty background (I like pi!)
I always try and add alt tags, descriptions, and (when relevant) transcripts to my images. But I thought it was worth checking to see if anyone who uses these things (because of visual impairments, text-only browsing, speaking English as a second language etc) has any preferences for me doing them differently (and thus I ask here, where I post my art, rather than at my Serious Business journal). If I'm going to do them I might as well make them as useful as possible.

I guess my main questions are:

1)do you find the posts consisting of just a thumbnail which acts as a link confusing or otherwise annoying? I'd add descriptions but they get LONG sometimes and there's always a description at the DeviantArt page. Still, I'm not sure that's clear. Annoyingly, the DA template I use to make the thumbnail link doesn't come with alt tags so I have to remember them myself and sometimes I forget. I may complain.

2)Are the very short alt tags clear? I tend to just use the name of the piece assuming that's enough in context. For the previous type of post, would "Title of piece. Click for description" or something be better?

3)Do you find the descriptions and transcripts useable? It's hard to have them not get all mixed up with the notes etc on DeviantArt since there's just the one text box for everything (here's an example DeviantArt comic with transcript) I tend to put all my comics on AO3 eventually but it's a hassle so DeviantArt is my default.

I've googled, but couldn't find any specific advice.

I can't guarantee I'll put all suggestions into effect (or at least not right away, I have trouble changing a behaviour pattern once I'm used to it) but I will definitely keep them all in mind and appreciate anything you guys have to suggest.
alias_sqbr: exploding train (train)
Of course. I realise the comic I just uploaded contradicts canon just after Cam starts doing a backup which will make our internet so slow for the next few hours that it is impossible to edit or comment on DeviantArt.

I am trying to remain unaffected by the idea of all(*) the Dragon Age fans on DeviantArt thinking I'm an idiot. *takes a deep breath* *goes to kill time offline until surfing the web becomes less painful*

EDIT: Fixed! Yay.

(*)Which is to say, maybe 30 of them, if previous hit counts are any indication :)

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