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AO3 Stats Meme
It has been literally years since I've done one of these. Let's see if anything has changed!
Delicious statistics! With thoughts on the stuff that keeps showing up over and over at the end.
HITS
1. Passed Away (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
2. Charm Offensive (X-Men movieverse, Charles/Erik and also Charles/Everyone because he's a slut.)
3. Visible Scars (Trigun, Vash/Wolfwood)
4. Chimera (Ultimate X-Men, Charles/Erik)
5. Close Enemies (X-Men: The Animated series, Charles/Erik)
6. Ad Hoc (Ace Attorney, Miles/Phoenix)
7. Time Limit (Tiger & Bunny, Kotetsu/Barnaby)
8. Our Better Angels (Doctor Who, gen Daemonverse AU about the Doctor and eleven of the things their daemon settles as.)
9. Holding Pattern (Transformers, Starscream/Megatron and Starscream/Skyfire but mostly Starscream/Angst On the Moon.)
10. Incident Report (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
To the surprise of exactly nobody, AO3 likes slash a whooooole lot. And also porn. But also gen Daemonverse AUs! So that's nice.
KUDOS
1. Passed Away (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
2. Visible Scars (Trigun, Vash/Wolfwood)
3. Charm Offensive (X-Men movieverse, Charles/Erik and also Charles/Everyone)
4. Incident Report (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
5. Carnal Pleasures (Star Trek TNG, Picard/Q)
6. Girl of My Dreams (Singin' in the Rain, Don/Cosmo and Don/Kathy and most importantly Cosmo & Kathy. They're going to work it all out.)
7. Time Limit (Tiger & Bunny, Kotetsu/Barnaby)
8. Our Better Angels (Doctor Who, gen Daemonverse AU)
9. Documentation (Dollhouse, gen about Topher)
10. Ad Hoc (Ace Attorney, Miles/Phoenix)
The things that lots of people clicked on because of the pairing only to find they weren't quite what they were looking for disappear out of the top ten, replaced by two Yuletide stories that did really well and also Carnal Pleasures, which is a nice surprise.
COMMENTS
1. Passed Away (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
2. Bodies (X-Men movieverse ensemble vid)
3. Documentation (Dollhouse, gen about Topher)
4. Let Yourself Go (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysterise vid about how great Phryne is.)
5. Charm Offensive (X-Men movieverse, Charles/Erik)
6. Incident Report (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
7. Girl of My Dreams (Singin' in the Rain, Don/Cosmo and Don/Kathy and most importantly Cosmo & Kathy)
8. Five Ways of Looking at a Cherry Tree (Saiyuki Gaiden gen, by which I mean Everyone/Horrible Tragedy like most Gaiden stories)
9. Close Enemies (X-Men: The Animated series, Charles/Erik)
10. Our Better Angels (Doctor Who, gen Daemonverse AU)
Vids might get fewer hits and kudos on AO3 than stories do, but vid fans are enthusiastic commenters! Also extremely pleased to see another Yuletide story here - I have a real soft spot for Five Ways of Looking at a Cherry Tree. On the day of the deadline, I put up a complete but also absolutely awful version of it on the archive. I spent the time between deadline and reveals frantically trying to turn it into something that was actually worth reading, and I always glow with joy when I remember that I actually pulled it off. (There is no rule about posting a BAD story to the Yuletide archive, as long as it's over 1000 words and complete, which it was. I'm just really relieved I had time to make it good as well.)
BOOKMARKS
1. Passed Away (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
2. Charm Offensive (X-Men movieverse, Charles/Erik)
3. Our Better Angels (Doctor Who, gen Daemonverse AU)
4. Visible Scars (Trigun, Vash/Wolfwood)
5. Time Limit (Tiger & Bunny, Kotetsu/Barnaby)
6. Girl of My Dreams (Singin' in the Rain, Don/Cosmo and Don/Kathy and most importantly Cosmo & Kathy)
7. Carnal Pleasures (Star Trek TNG, Picard/Q)
8. Documentation (Dollhouse, gen about Topher)
9. Five Ways of Looking at a Cherry Tree (Saiyuki Gaiden, gen)
10. Close Enemies (X-Men: The Animated series, Charles/Erik)
SUBSCRIPTIONS
I don't post unfinished stories, so I don't have any! (This is a good thing for everyone involved.)
Anyway, further thoughts on my most popular AO3 stories ...
1. Passed Away: yeah, it's the top of every list, head and shoulders above every other fannish thing I have ever made and probably all of the ones I'll make in future. (That said, I used to think Charm Offensive would always be my greatest hit, so I might be wrong about that part.) And you know what? I'll take it. I cannot believe I spent the two weeks I was struggling with what was meant to be a nice simple kinkmeme fill worrying that the fandom might be bored with sad old French virgins pining for each other.
2. Charm Offensive: People like it when I am funny. And when Charles is a slut. (As they should.)
3. Our Better Angels: I find it very satisfying that all the work I put into this universe has borne some fruit even though the amount of it I have actually finished and posted is a very small iceberg tip compared to the effort I have expended on thinking about it. (Ask me about a Whoniverse character who has appeared more than once in any medium and I probably have thoughts about what their daemon is. No, really, ask me. Maybe I will actually manage to write a story about it some time.)
4. Visible Scars: the high placement of this one used to baffle me. I don't regard it as one of my better stories, and there were so many better Vash/Wolfwood fics out there when I posted it. Only then it occurred to me to go and check the Vash/Wolfwood tag on AO3 and it turns out that almost none of the better stories were ever posted on the archive. So if you go looking for that pairing (and it seems that plenty of people still do) this probably is one of the better things that you will actually be able to find! At least it's nice to be providing some kind of service?
5. Close Enemies: It warms my heart to see this on three our of four of these lists. I don't think it's the best thing I've written, but in some ways this will always be the story of my heart because it's the one fourteen-year-old me came up with when she did not know what fanfiction or slash were but was suddenly very into Charles and Erik running around the Savage Land together.
6. Incident Report: People like it when I'm funny, part the second. And I guess Monsieur Chabouillet is not the only one who enjoys hearing about Jean Valjean's enormous ... presence.
7. Time Limit: AO3 likes porn, AO3 likes slash, AO3 likes Tiger/Bunny. And I think this is probably the most successful pornography I have written, so it's instincts have not lead it wrong here.
8. Girl of My Dreams: One of those delightful stories that was incredibly easy to write because the characters absolutely insisted, even if I wish Cosmo Brown had not kept me up until four in the morning on Christmas day. Totally worth it, though.
9. Documentation: I still don't know why this one became as Yuletide popular as it did! But it's nice, I guess.
While this isn't the list I would make if asked to choose my own Top Ten Fanworks I Have Made (there would definitely be some Babylon 5 on that list!) I'd have to say that on the whole AO3 has pretty good taste.
Delicious statistics! With thoughts on the stuff that keeps showing up over and over at the end.
HITS
1. Passed Away (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
2. Charm Offensive (X-Men movieverse, Charles/Erik and also Charles/Everyone because he's a slut.)
3. Visible Scars (Trigun, Vash/Wolfwood)
4. Chimera (Ultimate X-Men, Charles/Erik)
5. Close Enemies (X-Men: The Animated series, Charles/Erik)
6. Ad Hoc (Ace Attorney, Miles/Phoenix)
7. Time Limit (Tiger & Bunny, Kotetsu/Barnaby)
8. Our Better Angels (Doctor Who, gen Daemonverse AU about the Doctor and eleven of the things their daemon settles as.)
9. Holding Pattern (Transformers, Starscream/Megatron and Starscream/Skyfire but mostly Starscream/Angst On the Moon.)
10. Incident Report (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
To the surprise of exactly nobody, AO3 likes slash a whooooole lot. And also porn. But also gen Daemonverse AUs! So that's nice.
KUDOS
1. Passed Away (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
2. Visible Scars (Trigun, Vash/Wolfwood)
3. Charm Offensive (X-Men movieverse, Charles/Erik and also Charles/Everyone)
4. Incident Report (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
5. Carnal Pleasures (Star Trek TNG, Picard/Q)
6. Girl of My Dreams (Singin' in the Rain, Don/Cosmo and Don/Kathy and most importantly Cosmo & Kathy. They're going to work it all out.)
7. Time Limit (Tiger & Bunny, Kotetsu/Barnaby)
8. Our Better Angels (Doctor Who, gen Daemonverse AU)
9. Documentation (Dollhouse, gen about Topher)
10. Ad Hoc (Ace Attorney, Miles/Phoenix)
The things that lots of people clicked on because of the pairing only to find they weren't quite what they were looking for disappear out of the top ten, replaced by two Yuletide stories that did really well and also Carnal Pleasures, which is a nice surprise.
COMMENTS
1. Passed Away (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
2. Bodies (X-Men movieverse ensemble vid)
3. Documentation (Dollhouse, gen about Topher)
4. Let Yourself Go (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysterise vid about how great Phryne is.)
5. Charm Offensive (X-Men movieverse, Charles/Erik)
6. Incident Report (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
7. Girl of My Dreams (Singin' in the Rain, Don/Cosmo and Don/Kathy and most importantly Cosmo & Kathy)
8. Five Ways of Looking at a Cherry Tree (Saiyuki Gaiden gen, by which I mean Everyone/Horrible Tragedy like most Gaiden stories)
9. Close Enemies (X-Men: The Animated series, Charles/Erik)
10. Our Better Angels (Doctor Who, gen Daemonverse AU)
Vids might get fewer hits and kudos on AO3 than stories do, but vid fans are enthusiastic commenters! Also extremely pleased to see another Yuletide story here - I have a real soft spot for Five Ways of Looking at a Cherry Tree. On the day of the deadline, I put up a complete but also absolutely awful version of it on the archive. I spent the time between deadline and reveals frantically trying to turn it into something that was actually worth reading, and I always glow with joy when I remember that I actually pulled it off. (There is no rule about posting a BAD story to the Yuletide archive, as long as it's over 1000 words and complete, which it was. I'm just really relieved I had time to make it good as well.)
BOOKMARKS
1. Passed Away (Les Miserables, Javert/Valjean)
2. Charm Offensive (X-Men movieverse, Charles/Erik)
3. Our Better Angels (Doctor Who, gen Daemonverse AU)
4. Visible Scars (Trigun, Vash/Wolfwood)
5. Time Limit (Tiger & Bunny, Kotetsu/Barnaby)
6. Girl of My Dreams (Singin' in the Rain, Don/Cosmo and Don/Kathy and most importantly Cosmo & Kathy)
7. Carnal Pleasures (Star Trek TNG, Picard/Q)
8. Documentation (Dollhouse, gen about Topher)
9. Five Ways of Looking at a Cherry Tree (Saiyuki Gaiden, gen)
10. Close Enemies (X-Men: The Animated series, Charles/Erik)
SUBSCRIPTIONS
I don't post unfinished stories, so I don't have any! (This is a good thing for everyone involved.)
Anyway, further thoughts on my most popular AO3 stories ...
1. Passed Away: yeah, it's the top of every list, head and shoulders above every other fannish thing I have ever made and probably all of the ones I'll make in future. (That said, I used to think Charm Offensive would always be my greatest hit, so I might be wrong about that part.) And you know what? I'll take it. I cannot believe I spent the two weeks I was struggling with what was meant to be a nice simple kinkmeme fill worrying that the fandom might be bored with sad old French virgins pining for each other.
2. Charm Offensive: People like it when I am funny. And when Charles is a slut. (As they should.)
3. Our Better Angels: I find it very satisfying that all the work I put into this universe has borne some fruit even though the amount of it I have actually finished and posted is a very small iceberg tip compared to the effort I have expended on thinking about it. (Ask me about a Whoniverse character who has appeared more than once in any medium and I probably have thoughts about what their daemon is. No, really, ask me. Maybe I will actually manage to write a story about it some time.)
4. Visible Scars: the high placement of this one used to baffle me. I don't regard it as one of my better stories, and there were so many better Vash/Wolfwood fics out there when I posted it. Only then it occurred to me to go and check the Vash/Wolfwood tag on AO3 and it turns out that almost none of the better stories were ever posted on the archive. So if you go looking for that pairing (and it seems that plenty of people still do) this probably is one of the better things that you will actually be able to find! At least it's nice to be providing some kind of service?
5. Close Enemies: It warms my heart to see this on three our of four of these lists. I don't think it's the best thing I've written, but in some ways this will always be the story of my heart because it's the one fourteen-year-old me came up with when she did not know what fanfiction or slash were but was suddenly very into Charles and Erik running around the Savage Land together.
6. Incident Report: People like it when I'm funny, part the second. And I guess Monsieur Chabouillet is not the only one who enjoys hearing about Jean Valjean's enormous ... presence.
7. Time Limit: AO3 likes porn, AO3 likes slash, AO3 likes Tiger/Bunny. And I think this is probably the most successful pornography I have written, so it's instincts have not lead it wrong here.
8. Girl of My Dreams: One of those delightful stories that was incredibly easy to write because the characters absolutely insisted, even if I wish Cosmo Brown had not kept me up until four in the morning on Christmas day. Totally worth it, though.
9. Documentation: I still don't know why this one became as Yuletide popular as it did! But it's nice, I guess.
While this isn't the list I would make if asked to choose my own Top Ten Fanworks I Have Made (there would definitely be some Babylon 5 on that list!) I'd have to say that on the whole AO3 has pretty good taste.