Fanfiction: I have readers in Guam?

[nebroadwe]

I'm having fun with FF.net's newly introduced "Reader Traffic" widget. It's a little cumbersome yet (figuring out who's reading what involves a lot of back-and-forth with the drop-down menu), but the "Breakdown by Visitor Country" chart is just plain cool, in a "Dude -- people all over the freakin' world are reading my 'fic!" way. Last month, I had hits from Malaysia, Thailand and Bulgaria; only five days into August, and I've already seen traffic from Finland, Mexico, Singapore and Guam. Mind you, that's a drop in the bucket compared to the readers hailing from the US and UK, but still -- people all over the freakin' world are reading my 'fic! Logically, I knew this must be happening, but it's a different experience laid out in blue and orange.

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[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

Ecuador? ICELAND? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

LOL I also have exactly one reader from Guam! Chances it's the same person...?

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

Readers with excellent taste in 'fic. [preens]

(Though I feel bad for anyone who tried to read my drabble sequence "Revolt of the Flesh" while FF.net had its formatting stripped. It does not work as one long connected piece of prose. Why do they even bother to give you an HTML line break if they don't let you keep it? I'm going back to my trusty em-dashes. They haven't been deleted yet.)

I also have exactly one reader from Guam! Chances it's the same person...?

Possible, but English is one of Guam's two official languages. There's likely more than one Anglophone FMA/Avatar fan there ...

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

Readers with excellent taste in 'fic. [preens]

Heh - I almost said something self depreciating until I remembered that would insult you too and decided I should quit while I'm ahead...

Possible, but English is one of Guam's two official languages. There's likely more than one Anglophone FMA/Avatar fan there ...

Damnit, I'm doing that thing where I'm ignorent again. Although to be fair, Guam was never exactly covered in my AP history classes...

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Damnit, I'm doing that thing where I'm ignorent again. Although to be fair, Guam was never exactly covered in my AP history classes...

I had to look it up, myself, though I remembered that it's an American possession. My first thought was that there have to be fans in the U.S. military, right? The second-official-language thing widens the scope further.