Beep Beep · 12:57am Jan 15th, 2015
So I'm gonna list off some credentials here.
For non-writing stuff:
- Co-founded WRITE
- Member of Seattle's Angels
- Outside Insight and The Most Dangerous Game 2 judge
- Admin for The Royal Guard
- Has edited for people like RavensDagger and CouchCrusader
For writing stuff:
- A top 5 finish in the first World Building Alliance contest. This story was also featured by SA (prior to him joining, obviously)
- A 3rd place finish in the second WBA contest
- A tie for 1st in the third WBA contest
Important intangible:
- He's quite a good friend of mine.
If I told you this guy had a few hundred followers, I bet there'd be no surprise. I mean, he's active on the site, he writes good stories... You'd think he'd have a good following.
What if I told you he only had 85 followers?
That's right. My man Burraku_Pansa only has 85 followers. His stories are great. He does a lot of work around the site. My man deserves more attention.
And it's not like he's a butt like me who sits here with a bunch of followers and doesn't give them things to read. He has some pretty great stories.
His entry for the first WBA contest, A Hyena's Laugh, tells the tale of the origins of the hyenas. To make the world-building even more interesting, it's all told in verse. It does a great job of hinting at the character the hyenas as a culture have. And it definitely earns its [Dark] tag.
On a lighter note, his entry for the second WBA contest, Gout of Flame, stars a young dragon who has no desire to operate within the confines of the dragon kingdom. Naturally, this means stealing from the royal treasury. Naturally.
And finally, tying for first in the third WBA contest, Plainswalker is arguably the best and easily my favorite of the bunch. Zebra world-building galore, and the zebra rhymes are executed wonderfully. The good zebra dialogue should be reason enough to read it, and then once you get in to all the cool shamanistic rituals and magic present in the story.
In short, go read BP's stuff and also follow him. If I can manage to gather up two hundred followers by twiddling my thumbs, BP should have a thousand for writing excellent stories in addition to the thumb twiddling.
Let's see here... no stories featured on the front page of Fimfiction. No stories (saying at least) featured on EQD. "Only" seven (non-mature rated) stories written over his three years on the site. Very few blog posts.
As shallow as what I am saying is, those are probably the reasons. That and he doesn't follow a million people himself (so people don't follow him in turn).
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Let's see here... No stories at all, very few blogs over the course of three years on the site, doesn't follow a million people, sits about and twiddles his thumbs.
Yet I have over 200 followers.
2723949 True, but you also have 4x the amount of stories in your various libraries and the amount of groups you are in (I have no idea how active though) is stupid.
Plus he had bad luck in terms of those "random people" while you apparently hit the jackpot.
Finally, one last question is how many people are ACTIVE on the site? I guess that most of my followers are no longer with us, or at least don't bother to click on anything I do (200+ followers, blog posts get 30-50 views).
2723949 Also I've seen pictures of your dick. Dude, I'm following you for that reason alone.
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I'm convinced the blog view counter is very misleading. I don't think it counts views from people who only open the blog while in their Feed tab. I think it only counts views if you actually go to the blog's page.
I just lurk in 85-95% of them.
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Ew, rude.
2723985 Well I'm pretty sure of that. However, you can't really see the blogs very well by just looking at the feed. Especially considering images don't show up sometimes.
And on your second point...
i.imgur.com/L7CD9.gif
Huh. Talk about your oversights...
Fixed my part of that, at least. I like reading blog posts.
At first I thought this was a list of your own credentials, and I was about to say "well okay then Gary Oak."
(No, but seriously, the way the blog post opens up makes it sound like you're talking about yourself. ROFL)
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But there was writing stuff there. I don't write things
2726877 I have the memory span of a deceased rat. I will likely forget that you don't write things the next time I am presented with something that leads me to assume that you write things.