Also Almost Famous

It's been over a year, and I finally have new stuff in the pipeline, so I thought it would be a good time to establish a new baseline.

Famous Track 20k+

Her Cut to the Chase 27971 -> 29548

Selfie Stuck 26036 -> 28728

Good Will 25554 -> 26651

Three Alarm 25716 -> 26621

Kitty in the Cream 24592 ->25720

Hard Times 24203 -> 25332

Summer's Heat 23868 -> 25057

Sunny Daze 23075 -> 24527

Jerk 23427 ->24392

You Serious? 24387

Souvenir 22819 -> 24208

Taste the Rainbow 22254 ->23580

Double Booked 21505 ->22549

Pole Skills 22393

Vicki Cleans Up 20907 -> 22200

And I'll Get a Pole 20246 -> 21959

Heart-Shaped Box 20959 -> 21656

A Sale of Two Titties 20602 -> 21445

Got Me Pegged 21019

Divorcing My Vibe 19704 -> 20555

About to join the 20k club

Clean Up - Aisle Eight 19131 -> 19818

Son Stroke 19908

Beholding Dawn 19462

Her Flock 19337

Trade In 19261

Legendary Track ( 40k+ )

Nude Holly Day 89902 -> 97188

Dip in the Lake 63562 -> 66550

A Fine Substitute 60614 -> 64147

Mom's Second Chance 49577 -> 56492

Mom's Stocking Stuffer 49914

Like Riding a Bike 45980 -> 48475

Bet Your Bottom 47347

Double Dip 45519

Quite Neighborly 42546

Her Own Skin 41368

A couple of newer stories debut on the Famous Track list. One actually never saw the list, because "Overheard" came out and became my 21st Famous Story between tracks. One story graduated to the Famous Track. Four stories reached the 19k threshold, including a recent one.

I finally did a full search and established a criteria for the Legendary Track at 40k+, so several stories joined those ranks. Most of them would have actually qualified for a while, but I was just winging that section with fast moving stories previously.

A little jockeying for position in the Famous Track. "Her Cut to the Chase" is less than 500 away from my 22nd Famous Story. "Nude Holly Day" is less than 3k from becoming my second Legendary Story.

As usual, this is as much for my own records as anything, but I certainly won't discourage anyone from clicking the links and pushing them one read closer. It's been a while, so here are some plugs for the two that are closest.

Nude Holly Day: Alan's assistant Holly is good at her job, and he couldn't be happier to have helped her when she was just a desperate runaway. When he takes a long weekend at his favorite retreat at the nudist camp after finishing a major new campaign, a very unexpected surprise awaits him. ( Mature, older man and young woman )

Her Cut to the Chase: It started by accident, but once Kimberly caught the young stud who mows her lawn checking her out, it turned into a naughty little game of wearing provocative clothing to catch his eye. It was harmless fantasy fuel, but an overheard conversation at the county fair makes her wonder if it couldn't be more. A stop at the Bingo tent may be the key to more than one jackpot. ( Milf, older woman and young man )

I'm going to make this an all in one promo thread for my stuff. My forum ad banners sometimes only see 24 hours of service, and I enjoy making them, so I'm going to start putting them here.

If only I could make them clickable links, or even format posts so they could have adjacent links...

::cough:: Not so subtle hint ::cough::

ETA: And it automatically blows up the images to fill the post width? ::facepalm & sigh:: Oh well...

Side Hustle Catbird Seat and Eat Something

Now, let us see if I've figured out some things while adding the two newest banners.

Obviously not. There are external images above, but I tried the highlight and paste trick to make them clickable images, and nothing showed up. Can't add media in an edit, so I'll have to try again to see if I can at least display the banners.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/quickie-sex/getting-her-sausage

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/quickie-sex/all-full

ETA: Well, they're centered, but at least they're not distorted. Progress. LOL

Looking at the displayed one here on the forum vs. the raw banner for SitRD demonstrates the troublesome distortion uploaded images face. ETA: Just tried uploading an alternate banner that approximated as best I could the size it's blowing the banners up to, and it still distorts them. Downsizing overly large images I can understand. Why on earth 2.0 blows up smaller images — making them look terrible — makes no sense to me.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/milf/stuffed-basted

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/mature/curl-figure

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/taboo/step-in-the-right-direction

Her Cut to the Chase just passed 30K to become #21 in my famous story list Five months since the last update. As always, this is as much for my records as anything else.

Famous Track 20k+

Selfie Stuck 26036 -> 28728 -> 29136

Good Will 25554 -> 26651 -> 26915

Three Alarm 25716 -> 26621 -> 26812

You Serious? 24387 -> 26184

Kitty in the Cream 24592 ->25720 -> 26003

Hard Times 24203 -> 25332 -> 25649

Summer's Heat 23868 -> 25057 -> 25326

Sunny Daze 23075 -> 24527 -> 24870

Jerk 23427 ->24392 -> 24773

Souvenir 22819 -> 24208 -> 24498

Taste the Rainbow 22254 ->23580 -> 23863

Pole Skills 22393 -> 23832

Double Booked 21505 ->22549 -> 22808

Got Me Pegged 21019 -> 23550

Vicki Cleans Up 20907 -> 22200 -> 22520

And I'll Get a Pole 20246 -> 21959 -> 22193

Heart-Shaped Box 20959 -> 21656 -> 21810

A Sale of Two Titties 20602 -> 21445 -> 21646

Son Stroke 19908 -> 21119

Divorcing My Vibe 19704 -> 20555 _> 20784

About to join the 20k club

Clean Up - Aisle Eight 19131 -> 19818 -> 19990

Her Flock 19337 -> 19701

Trade In 19261 -> 19693

Beholding Dawn 19462 -> 19685

Pick Up the Spare 19099

Legendary Track ( 40k+ )

Nude Holly Day 89902 -> 97188 -> 98828

Dip in the Lake 63562 -> 66550 -> 67423

A Fine Substitute 60614 -> 64147

Mom's Stocking Stuffer 49914 -> 57589

Mom's Second Chance 49577 -> 56492

Bet Your Bottom 47347 -> 49044

Like Riding a Bike 45980 -> 48475

Double Dip 45519 -> 46848

Quite Neighborly 42546 -> 43212

Her Own Skin 41368 -> 42174

"You Serious" took a big hop in the rankings because it's in decent position on the threesome toplist. "Pole Skills" did a leapfrog because it's decently positioned on the Milf list. "Got Me Pegged" hopped a couple of places because it's well placed in the strap-on list. ( Noticing a pattern here? ) "Son Stroke" just got a little extra juice from being to leapfrog.

"Her Flock" jumped two places, but still hasn't graduated to the 20k club. "Pick Up the Spare" made it into the 19k club.

No change in the Legendary rankings, but "Nude Holly Day" is down to less than 200 views away.

Thankfully, searching by title has improved greatly, and I was easily able to put the next famous candidate "Selfie Stuck" in a highlight position on my profile. Synopsis: When his hot young student manages to get hold of his phone number and sends him nude selfies, she puts herself in a position to blackmail him, so he's truly stuck — and fucked.

Selfie Stuck finally crosses the threshold to become my 22nd Famous story. The next one in line needs a little over 1500 reads, and that's about twice as much as Selfie Stuck needed a year ago. LOL The views now are so low that these awards probably seem utterly unattainable to anyone who doesn't have stories that have been here for years.

Replacing Selfie Stuck and joining Nude Holly Day ( which is slowly creeping toward Legendary ) as a highlighted story on my profile is "You Serious?" His girlfriend wants him to bang her bestie in this naughty little tale. Give it a read and one more step toward Famous.

Congratulations on your continued success as a Lush contributor.
I just had a story get to 10k. It took seven years. Honestly, it was quite a thrill. Miss Pixel bought me a cupcake.

Congratulations on your 22nd famous story. That is quite an accomplishment. I have 3, with a 4th one under 500 views to cross that line. I've been here since 2008, but most of my stories were written in 2019 and beyond. Although one of the older stories is past 50K, I doubt I will make legendary any time soon.

Congrats to Kistin too!

Thanks 😊

Looking back at my old tracking, there's such a stark difference in the speed at which views accumulate now. The numbers I get now when I'm active are about what I used to get when I'd been absent for a year or so. Anything that wasn't already in the 20k+ range prior to the switch to 2.0 will probably never get to famous. Even the stuff that's there is going to take a decade. LOL

My suspicion is that they've improved the bot filtering. It's a good thing to have the number better represent human readers if that's the case, but it makes the old standards for famous and legendary wildly out of step with the current reality. It's all a mater of "are you on the top of a top stories list for a significant portion of a month and/or a medalist from the previous month?" now. If the answer is no, those views ain't going nowhere.

"Nude Holly Day" has just passed the 100k mark to become my 2nd Legendary story. 🍺 So now "Good Will" takes its place in my signature and on my profile page as the next closest submission to Famous status.

When the computer at the thrift shop catches a virus and goes down, Renee is blessed to have her neighbor's son Will dispatched to set things right again. As it so happens, the computer isn't the only thing going down when her handsome and hung young neighbor arrives.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/milf/good-will

Wow, incredible to have that many stories in the Famous category, and now one Legendary. Fantastic work.

I have very, very far to go, with just two ... er, "half-famous?" stories above 15k, and two more now past 10k ("local celebrity," maybe?). Several more approaching 10k, including one at 9997 right now ... anyone wanna give Handy Men a nudge?

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Wow, incredible to have that many stories in the Famous category, and now one Legendary. Fantastic work.

I have very, very far to go, with just two ... er, "half-famous?" stories above 15k, and two more now past 10k ("local celebrity," maybe?). Several more approaching 10k, including one at 9997 right now ... anyone wanna give Handy Men a nudge?

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I only have one story in the "Famous" category.

Bill and Vicki

I waited a long time before I began writing on a regular basis, and I hope that more of my stories reach that level. (Alas, they have a long way to go.)

Most of them are around a decade old when they cross the line. I've had a couple that were lightning in a bottle from prior to the transition to Lush 2.0, but for most it's a combination of looooong periods of time and the higher view counts prior to 2.0.

They're almost all Milf stories as well. That's constantly on the popular category list on the front page for a reason.

My fantasy stuff might hit Famous in the year 2300. LOL

You Serious? just crossed the threshold to become my 23rd famous story. Since the last time I checked, the new addition has really jumped the queue, and is even ahead of Good Will, which was already in my signature and featured on my profile. Next up in the climb toward famous is:

Got Me Pegged.

Give it a read and push it one view closer!

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Congratulations on your 22nd famous story. That is quite an accomplishment. I have 3, with a 4th one under 500 views to cross that line. I've been here since 2008, but most of my stories were written in 2019 and beyond. Although one of the older stories is past 50K, I doubt I will make legendary any time soon.

Congrats to Kistin too!

That 4th story crossed over the famous line when I wasn't looking.

Now, I have two more that are "almost famous," and seeing them make the mark would be a thrill!

The Office Whore - Part 2 from 2019 and Training the MILF from 2020 are two stories I really enjoyed writing. I'm hoping to see either or both with that coveted star soon!

It's been almost two years since I ran my numbers, so I thought I'd see where things stand. As always, this is more or less for my own tracking purposes, though it could be a demonstration/warning for some of what happens if your production wanes into a feast and famine cycle like mine does. LOL

Famous Track 20k+

Got Me Pegged 23550->29558

Good Will 26915->28462

Three Alarm 26812->27534

Kitty in the Cream 26003->26910

Hard Times 25649->26518

Summer's Heat 25326->26211

Pole Skills 23832->26420

Sunny Daze 24870->25911

Jerk 24773 ->25816

Souvenir 24498->25508

Taste the Rainbow 23863->24801

Double Booked 22808->23731

Vicki Cleans Up 22520->23506

Son Stroke 21119->23428

And I'll Get a Pole 22193->23152

A Sale of Two Titties 21646->22370

Heart-Shaped Box 21810->22265

Side Hustle 21870

Divorcing My Vibe 20784->21594

Trade In 19693->20772

Her Flock 19701->20495

Hung by the Chimney 20684

Clean Up - Aisle Eight 19990->20462

Beholding Dawn 19685->20318

About to join the 20k club

Peppermint Patty 19944

Pick Up the Spare 19099->19836

Zero Qualms 19728

Adam's Aunt Ch. 02 19771

Bored Out 19726

Coming in Second 19265

Adam's Aunt Ch. 01 19097

Legendary Track ( 50k+ )

Dip in the Lake 67423->69391

A Fine Substitute 64147->66405

Mom's Second Chance 57589->61163

Mom's Stocking Stuffer 56492 -> 57118

Bet Your Bottom 49044->50925

Like Riding a Bike 48475->50742

Double Dip 46848->50260

"Got Me Pegged" took a huge leap because it has such a good position on the toplist, and it's also been featured on my profile now ever since "Nude Holly Day" went Legendary. "Pole Skills" is also well positioned on the toplist. "Son Stroke" simply benefits from the . "A Sale of Two Titties" hopped up one level in the ranking, but otherwise, everything has remained the same in the stories that were in the 20k club last time.

"Side Hustle" and "Hung by the Chimney" both made it above 19k and graduated to 20k since I last tracked. "Side Hustle" is well-positioned on the toplist. I guess "Hung by the Chimney" must have had a good Christmas the last couple of years. LOL Four other stories graduated from 19k to the 20k club.

New to the 19k club are "Peppermint Patty", "Zero Qualms", the first two chapters of "Adam's Aunt", "Bored Out", and "Coming in Second"

I decided to raise the bar on the final category to the halfway point of 50k, because that list might start getting a little bloated after a couple more updates with stories closing in on 40k. I'll probably bump the bar up by 10k every so often until it hits 80k as the lower limit to keep the list manageable, and frankly more useful to me. A couple of stories fell off the list with this change. Second Chance and Stocking Stuffer flip-flopped, but I'm pretty sure that's because I reversed their numbers last time. Assuming that I'm correct, I changed the previous track numbers to reflect that here.

So, a story that doesn't have anything special going for it such as a recommended read, editor's pick, or solid toplist position is picking up somewhere around 400 views a year. Famous/Legendary seems to have a genuine impact on reads, because those manage closer to 1k views a year with my recent publication frequency. I don't know if that's because they show up as recommendations more often, or simply because they have a special list on the front page. Double Dip has an Editor's Pick in addition to the famous badge, and it went up quite a bit more than most others this year, so maybe those front page lists have an impact, and it's taking a double bite.

I'm in the process of attaching covers to all of my stories, so we'll see if that has any effect eventually, when I fall into a famine phase again. Right now, while I'm actively posting in feast mode, there's a lot more activity on old stories than would happen when I'm languishing in famine land.

What to recommend, in keeping true to the forum section... Ah! One of my favorite series!

"Magic of the Wood" is a generational tale of magic, love, and preservation of the world's natural bounty featuring beautiful dryads, naiads, and other nymphs. The story begins in "Steward of the Wood" as we see Daniel grow up and come to own the woods where his imaginary friend once played with him as a child. Now an adult, he learns that his friend is not imaginary, and there's a whole world of magic out there that he was completely unaware of. She's the beautiful dryad Xantina, and from their union will arise generations of their progeny who will forever more be the stewards of the wood.

https://www.lushstories.com/profile/RejectReality/stories/series/magic-of-the-wood

"Got Me Pegged" is officially my 24th famous story now. That means something new is joining it in my signature and as one of the three stories highlighted on my profile. "Good Will" will have been on my profile for a year in July. LOL

The newcomer is "Three Alarm". A handsome young fireman lights a three alarm fire in this Milf, and he has all the right equipment to tame it.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/milf/three-alarm