#also to make the data look prettier both graphs technically start the day before posting so they can both begin at 0

[adara-writer]

For anyone who's a numbers nerd like me, I've been keeping track of the kudos on my fic Silver Shackles (data via the daily emails from ao3). I plotted both overall kudos vs time, as well as the amount of kudos gained on each day.

I think it's interesting (but not surprising) how clearly you can see when I post a new chapter, as well as the diminishing returns on each new chapter being posted. I expect that this trend will continue due to the fact that although I gain more readers over time, each reader can only leave 1 kudos and the amount of new readers will likely go down. However, I do expect that whenever I finish this, I will get another large spike because of all of the readers who only read completed fics.