Good grief how actually big is XM:FC fandom

[petronia]

Because this 1K-word giftfic about Magneto being a dubstep DJ got 200 hits on AO3 in less than 3 hours.

Bass Frequencies by Petronia for lazulisong
Fandom: X-Men: First Class (modern-day AU, powers are involved, not relevant to my actual thoughts re: canon, characterization, logic, etc.)
Characters: Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Rating: PG-13 (it's meant to be pr0nier but I could only fit one extra sheet of paper in the card envelope ahaha orz. If I ever finish it I'll just... add a part 2 I guess)
Wordcount: 1152

Igloofest hadn't yet started when I wrote this, so I, uh, played this Skrillex radio set very loudly on headphones at 2AM. (I have thoughts about that set: I think it may be best-of-year, if only because so many of the individual songs on it are kind of terrible, so one can credit only canny mixing.) The dumbass who lost three beers in succession to a dubstep set was me, obviously.

Comments

[lazulisong]

well, the awful one I wrote about Charles being Erik's manny is reaching for 14K hits, which boggles my mind constantly. More hits than both the ST big bangs combined!

[petronia]

Well, it's over 600 hits in less than 24 hours, which really is mind-boggling. XD Usually my fics take something like two years to get to that point.