Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto)

Well, that person was SO SMART. Because ABSOLUTELY, EVERY.SINGLE.PERSON who wears glasses acts EXACTLY THE SAME.

I wish you had told them – “HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED EVEN ONE EPISODE OF PHIL DONAHUE?” Because that is EXACTLY how he acted with his glasses every single episode. People used to literally write HIM, the super millionaire with zillions of fans, and complain how he acts with his glasses. He read one of the letters on his show. I remember it well! (See, when you’re super old, you have those memories. Until they disappear.)

So screw ’em, as ALWAYS. People who make ANY comments about fetishizing anything are just – well, I think sick people who are just bullies and trolls. Because they’d be the first to complain about the “thought police” coming around THEIR stuff.

And since when is fetishizing about anything wrong? Who died and made them da judge?
They attend that same school of people who condemn artists or word artists who mention Spock blushing green. Though he has green blood. And HE’S an alien. And yet they NEVER b*^%$% about Orions being green, because, uh, they ARE green, or even Mr. Gorn – yeah, GREEN.

There are many alcoholics and people who use drugs and people with mental issues that lurk all over the internet. They land on us sometimes. We’re probably lucky, as many as there are, that they don’t land on us more. It’s about THEM, not us.

I can think of about a zillion things I’d complain to a writer about before how someone treats their glasses – like promising to complete popular fics and 5 years go by and the promise is still there and they haven’t written another word. And they get mad if anyone asks them about it. THAT is worth commenting about. Yet people usually are very polite in their comments. The writers’ replies just often aren’t.

I knew somebody like that. Made promises to do easy things. Didn’t do them. You ask them about it and their answer is, “Have I died yet? No. I’m still alive. So I’m not lying. I said I’d do it and I will.” (Too bad people don’t come with ‘block’ buttons.)

NOW – back to hits.

Any story with more chapters is going to get more hits. That’s just logic. 6 chapters? Readers following it hit it 6 times each (or more if they reread it more often.) 25 chapters? 25 hits each. And etc.
Your original story had more chapters, thus it required more hits.
Plus, it’s been there longer.

Now obviously that doesn’t account for everything. And I fully see your point. Just, there’s some math involved that doesn’t just show by hit numbers.

Yeah, math, from the person who just this week said there were 2X more days left in April than there really were. I hear ya!

Anyway it’s an awesome story and so is the sequel.. Movie sequels seldom do as well as their originals too. Though we all know a few examples of the opposite.

And there’s no accounting for any of this.

I know on my present fic, there have been 2 distinct times I was there while you were reading and commenting. And both times the hit count didn’t go up. At all. I refreshed several times. And next day, same thing – it didn’t register either of those hits. So – honestly, even today with all the updates, AO3 doesn’t work perfectly. It just doesn’t.

And we know it’s tons better now than it was in 2016.

So. that MIGHT factor into it too some.

And now I know what I’m going to reread today!!!!

I AM captain shatKirk. I WILL do my part for king and country.

Happy Easter! I’m guessing you’re spending it with family and getting to do something special. Stay safe!

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