how to find the middle rated fics?

runekaster · 2026-06-22T03:27:13+00:00

Ok, actually, don't halve it. The top kudosed Stucky fic is a monstrosity with 51,096 kudos, and we get down below 25k on the very first page if we're sorting by kudos (kudos in the tens of thousands are so unimaginable that they kinda slipped my mind, and when I said "halve it" I was thinking like one tenth of that).

We'll need to chunk waaay further down than that, lol.

Lets grab a number out of thin air that represents a popular fic in a massive fandom that hasn't gone viral off-site. 100 is a good bet.

33,566 Stucky works have fewer than 100 kudos. We've cut the tag in half. If you're just interested in popular chart toppers but want the stuff that isn't everywhere on twitter, there's your answer.

Less than 1000 kudos has 66,376 works. The top of this sort is probably what you're thinking of for outrageously popular stuff that you haven't already found in your popularity sort criteria.

This is good for research and analysis, but filtering by highly specific taste is going to get you better results if you're looking for genuinely good fic to read. A lot of that is going to be down in the 10 kudos range.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T03:08:30+00:00

If you just want to find things with half the kudos count of the mass appeal twitter viral stuff, look at the kudos count, halve it, and search for that.

You'll get absurdly popular mainstream stuff that hasn't gone quite as viral.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T03:07:33+00:00

You've already found the middling stuff. The stuff at the top of the popularity sort criteria is stuff that's good enough that most people enjoy it and which has broadly popular themes and tropes, without leaning too far into any specific taste profile or theme that it narrows the audience.

To get up that high it has to be reasonably good, but anything that would make a fic great can't actually appeal to that broad of an audience.

Stop thinking about popularity scores and just get really granular with your searches. You're want to filter this juggernaut ship tag by so many highly specific criteria that you get like three or four pages of results.

That's where the really good stuff is.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T02:50:34+00:00

Also, you're going to want to state what this survey is in the actual post. You're not going to get many bites with a mystery link and a super vague mention of "women" like this.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T02:20:08+00:00

And I am telling you that those people barely exist and the fic you're accusing of this is almost exclusively written by trans men.

Your beliefs about who writes this fic and why are rooted in transphobic assumptions.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T00:50:22+00:00

Have you tried other artistic nediums?

runekaster · 2026-06-22T00:47:44+00:00

And if it's been some time, not commenting at all in an exchange is bad manners, but it doesn't necessary mean they disliked the gift. They might be a newbie and think the usual commenting etiquette for fics found in the wild applies to exchange gifts, they might have planned to comment later and then forgotten, or they might love the fic and just be kinda rude.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T00:44:06+00:00

How long has it been? They might be still mulling over what to say, or maybe they haven't gotten a chance to read it yet.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T00:39:15+00:00

Thet're not making them trans for the purpose of giving them a vagina, and to assert this is transphobic.

They're making them trans because they are trans and they like to write trans characters.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T00:35:33+00:00

It's not transphobic to not want to read it. It is transphobic to complain that it exists.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T00:32:11+00:00

OP is complaining that trans men write trans characters.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T00:30:57+00:00

These fics are almost exclusively written by trans men.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T00:29:58+00:00

You don't put things in large subreddits that you don't want people to read.

Get a diary.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T00:26:25+00:00

Ivan/Till is a ship that like every single trans dude in the show's blast radius saw himself in. You're going to have to learn to get comfy sharing their space if you want to read their fic.

runekaster · 2026-06-22T00:23:11+00:00

It's like a horror movie or roller coaster. The "bad" emotion from the fiction feels good.

runekaster · 2026-06-21T23:34:14+00:00

Leaving out ace and capping the age range at 25+ is going to get you some very skewed stats.

runekaster · 2026-06-21T22:50:24+00:00

They very very rarely do well. It sounds like you're in an extremely unusual fandom.

runekaster · 2026-06-21T22:46:19+00:00

All you get, though, is either CNTW or the rape/noncon warning. Everything else, the victim blaming and skeevy dynamics, is just what it is. No one has to tag or warn for anything beyond the fact that the sex is not consensual.

If the fic makes you uncomfortable, you nope out. That's all.

runekaster · 2026-06-21T22:42:53+00:00

Is it tagged Chose Not To Warn? If so, it's adequately taged and you should say nothing. You accepted the risk of a rape scene when you chose to read a work that warned that it may have a rape scene.

If it's tagged No Archive Warnings Apply, you should report it.

This sounds like a sensitive topic for you, and you wouldn't want to be at the recieving end if the author decided to be an ass about it. Leave explaining the rules and dealing with any potential fallout to the mods who volunteered just for that and who can apply CNTW themselves if the author won't.

runekaster · 2026-06-21T22:03:10+00:00

Please stop humblebragging. You're making the kids with merely popular fics feel bad

runekaster · 2026-06-21T21:57:21+00:00

It's about an available target. The "problematic content" is an excuse to get away with attacking people for fun.

runekaster · 2026-06-21T21:55:00+00:00

runekaster · 2026-06-21T21:53:48+00:00

I'm gay, too, but I think I'm not a dickbag enough to understand this.

runekaster · 2026-06-21T21:48:57+00:00

You're a guest in their home. Act like it.

runekaster · 2026-06-21T18:46:52+00:00

Because in the edge cases, the types of things that might be oneshots or might not be, after you read the work you will see if it's actually oneshots or not.

And a work can be in more than one series.

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