onehitwanda
Venatrix Lacrimosal
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I think you are my spirit animal.
What happened to the lesbians?
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StillStunned
Mr Sticky
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Jackie.Hikaru
See you space cowboy
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ah so you're the one that got the short straw
Jackie.Hikaru
See you space cowboy
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Oh god
onehitwanda
Venatrix Lacrimosal
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Here. Here's the absinthe, here's the mallet. If the one doesn't work, try the other.
StillStunned
Mr Sticky
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Bramblethorn
Sleep-deprived
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That's probably spam screening. I think when Lit is getting too much spam the process is to hold comments for some hours, check within the new comments to see if there are a whole bunch with the same content, and then if there is, kill that spam before it ever becomes publicly visible, releasing the other comments.
astuffedshirt_perv
Literotica Guru
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Zero stories over the last 2 days. 20 or so for other categories. What's going on?
Blame those slacker lesbians
EmilyMiller
Perv of the Impverse
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Part I of my novel goes live tomorrow. It’s in Novels & Novellas, not least as it has some hetero sex as well. But its general vibe is lesbian.
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JordynRose
Fun chic!!!
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I have started so many times but the delete button wins, and masturbation is too easy.
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THBGato
Litaddict
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I know of a few writers (e.g. @BeneathHerBraid and @SugarStorm ) who submitted stories ages ago but are still waiting for them to be published.
AwkwardlySet
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I suspect many are pending. Mine has been for six days now, at least.
And despite some wishful thinking in a different thread, the number of daily stories is still significantly lower than what it used to be. The website isn't picking up the slack at all. Whatever their issue is, it hasn't been resolved yet.
And despite some wishful thinking in a different thread, the number of daily stories is still significantly lower than what it used to be. The website isn't picking up the slack at all. Whatever their issue is, it hasn't been resolved yet.
WaxPhilosophic
Really Experienced
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Personally, I've been splitting my time between giving stories away on Lit and selling them at JMSBooks. If it's a romance, it'll sell well, so it gets published at JMS. If it's me rambling on about Lesbian Space Pirate adventures, it gets published here. I'm not deluding myself thinking I'll make a crap ton of money with ebooks, just going for a wider audience. And damn if it isn't a hoot seeing my work available for checkout at the public library, because it's got an ISBN.
SugarStorm
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At this point I'll have my next piece published before my current one gets up.
That is weird. Mine's been pending since mid October.
@AwkwardlySet, what used to be the average? I can see they've managed 170 per day the past week.
AwkwardlySet
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I've done the overall numbers for the last week, too.
Going backwards, it's been 169 171 152 126 155 214 200 for the past seven days. So yeah, that's about 170 stories on average for this week.
In April, Manu boasted about the number of daily stories going above 400 several times in a couple of weeks. We did some estimates back then, and I think the rough number was around 250 stories daily on average. So it's like a 30% drop from then, and it was even worse just a couple of weeks ago.
On the other hand, there's no reason to think that the number of submissions is lower than what it used to be. Judging by these threads at least, the queues are just abysmally long. Many people here report cases of going over a month, yet until like half a year ago, even the AI rejections happened much faster.
I'm not an optimist, to be honest. I don't see Laurel making radical changes that would lead to an improved situation. What I see is the queue becoming increasingly longer for many, while whitelisted/privileged/whatever you wanna call them authors will likely enjoy relatively normal publishing times.
Challenging times indeed to become a new writer here.
GemmaGemmaGemma
Experienced
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I'm writing my first lesbian story at the moment. I'm about 5k words in, so hopefully it will be finished fairly soon and published at some point in the next 6 months
caleb35
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Okay, somewhat on topic (I hope) -- been thinking about this for a while and wanted to see if anyone had feedback. I primarily submit stories to either the NonCon, Mind Control, or Lesbian categories. Ratings are by and large average across those three categories. But readership (views) and favorites are much higher in NonCon and Mind Control than in Lesbian. Anyone have any thoughts or insights? Are there that fewer readers in the Lesbian category?
iwatchus
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Time for a periodic posting of @8letters work from a few years ago.
https://forum.literotica.com/thread...on-your-erotica.1635339/page-3#post-101127924
Hopefully this is what @FrancesScott wants. I pulled story statistics in 2018 and in 2023, and this is for all stories:
Looking at the statistics for all stories is both informative and not very informative. Chapters have much lower views than stand-alone stories. When looking at all stories, Incest/Taboo doesn't have average all that much more than Loving Wives. But I/T has far percentage of its stories that are chapter stories than LW. If you look at just stand-alone stories, I/T averages far more views than any other category. This is 2018 data:
I had never noticed how much drop off in readership Lesbian had from 2018 to 2023. I wonder if it has dropped off further. But yes, LS stories had fewer views on average than either HC/R or MC had two years ago.
caleb35
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Thank you very much for this; I had been wondering if something like this existed on the forum (I probably should've looked harder for it). I wonder if the decline in readership in the Lesbian category was just indicative of a general overall decline in readership on the site post-2020 (which seems likely based on the numbers) or if there were changes in trends specific to readership of sapphic literature/smut.
Baztrachian
Ars est celare artem
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Not if a bunch of them discovered good men, got married, had kids, and made sandwiches.
OralAllOver
Bi, mostly oral bttm
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Literotica
Where the men are men,
The women are men and
Sheep run scared
Where the men are men,
The women are men and
Sheep run scared
SimonDoom
Kink Lord
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Not if a bunch of them discovered good men, got married, had kids, and made sandwiches.
Well, it depends on the kind of sandwiches, doesn't it?
redgarters
Hopeless romantic
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That's hardcore lesbian dystopia right there...Not if a bunch of them discovered good men, got married, had kids, and made sandwiches.
