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Fanfiction stats June 2019 (private link)

It finally happened. Very, very finally. Two years after the last occurrence, I actually got at least one hit on every story on my account, and in fact it happened about ten days before the end of the month.

(I've only written another ten stories in the intervening period, but it's enough to make a big difference to the odds, apparently!)

I suspect the flush of attention was due to my posting in a new fandom and/or my taking part in a forum challenge, as I also had a noticeable bulge in the number of people visiting my author profile this month, presumably in order to see what else I'd written — and possibly due to a high number of visitors to my Rescue Raoul story collection as well. ( Read more... )

Set yoghurt

This time round I tried putting my yoghurt pot to bed with a hot water bottle, which (and/or higher ambient temperatures overnight) resulted in a crop of set yoghurt similar to that produced by the Thermos method; the 'creamy' yoghurt evidently simply hadn't finished ripening.

This does mean that, as before, once you actually decant it into fridge-sized containers you end up with a lot of curdled-looking solids floating in whey rather than the smooth set disc in which it originally forms; I tried straining the remains at the bottom of the pot through a hair sieve, but it didn't work that well. (It wasn't fine enough to give clear whey, while a lot of the yoghurt got stuck in the sieve and wasted.)