#is mindblowing

I will watch all the episodes just for this one (1) delightful gremlin man with a fan

apparently I have adopted a villain

I have adopted two villains

I have adopted a dozen villains and you can pry them from my cold dead hands

I have gotten several asks about note count over the last few months as if that’s the only deciding factor into who is watching and where the interest is. And yes, note count is important (I’m an edit maker, afterall - I of course watch the notes on things). But you have to take them with a grain of salt and understanding of how your fandom works…

And the truth is - fandom is fickle. There really is no guarantee, from one set to the next, where a gifset will go. Sometimes a gifset hits right away and takes off. Sometimes it never takes off, no matter how much work and love the edit maker put into it. Sometimes, it’ll sit dormant for months or years and then suddenly everyone is reblogging it. While it can give some indication of fandom interest, it isn’t all of it.

I made a gifset of Rogers from 7.03 with a cheeky caption about his badge - now this was the episode AFTER the ‘last’ Captain Swan one. It hit 2k after a couple weeks. Look at that. A post-CS, Detective Rogers set, making notes in the thousands. 

My ‘when nobody picks up on your wit’ gif post has over 500. As does this one about Rogers’ sobriety. And that moment when I realized I had fallen just as hard for this version of Hook as I had the last.

Yet this one, that focused on the second half of Killian centrics from the show, didn’t even clear 200. This one I was really happy with, made during 6A, didn’t make 200 either. And let’s be honest, when I’m making gifsets of Colin in pretty much ANYTHING that’s older than Once, odds are there aren’t gonna be too many notes there (I have gotten lucky with a couple gifsets of The Rite, but otherwise, most stay below 500).