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AO3 Hits Meme, redux
One year ago today there was a meme going around and I posted about my top ten stories on the AO3 by hits. I was sort of curious to see how it changed over time, so now I will do it again!
1. A Little Mental Yoga (Southland, Cooper/Sherman, NC-17, Telepathy). 17,000 words, posted January 2010. The winner and still the champ. Over six thousand hits, which is a long lead for anything else to catch up, but....
2. You Just Brace and You Breathe (Generation Kill, Colbert/Fick, NC-17, dub-con wolf-bonded sex). 22,000 words, posted November 2011. ...In five months, this one has gained more than half the hits of "A Little Mental Yoga", so... I guess people are really digging the wolf-verse.
3. Get Loved, Make More, Try to Stay Alive (Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, less than 19% mpreg by volume). 68,000 words, posted to AO3 December 2009. This moved up from #5 last year. Still one of the most popular things I've ever written, and I guess now people know where to find it. *g*
4. The Shadow That You're Standing On (Generation Kill, Colbert/Fick, NC-17, non-major violence, hints of incest). 19,000 words, posted September 2011. I don't know if GK is a bigger fandom than I think it is, or if we're over-represented on AO3, or if I am just fantastically lucky.
5. Turn Up the Signal (Wipe Out the Noise) (Sherlock, Sherlock/John, NC-17, Sherlock's near-telepathy). 2,000 words, posted November 2010. Down from #2 last year, displaced by longer fic. Which seems totally logical to me, but I'm a little bit sizeist about fic?
6. What to Do After Firing (Generation Kill, Colbert/Person, Person/others, NC-17, dub-con wolf-bonded gangbang offscreen, comfort sex onscreen). 14,000 words, posted August 2011. People really like the wolf-verse even when it's Brad/Ray!
7. Which in Your Case You Have Not Got (Generation Kill, Evan, Brad, Ray, Poke, Rudy, Pappy, Trombley, Nate, plus wolves). 9,000 words, posted July 2011. People really like the wolf-verse even when it's gen! Er. Sort of. Gen-ish.
8. Jigsaw (Stargate SG-1, Jack/Sam/Daniel/Teal'c and pretty much every sub-pairing within the OT4, major character deaths). 67,000 words, posted June 2011. People will come back to SG-1 for bigbang OT4 fic in 2011-12, even with death warnings. This one topped out at #4 or so in the couple of months after I wrote it, before it got pushed back down the list by Generation Kill fic.
9. Everything That You Can Keep (Vorkosigan Saga, Aral/Cordelia, Aral/Jole, NC-17). Down from #4 last year. I need to write more of this series or it will fall out of the top ten entirely, and we can't have that.
10. When We Used to Sing (Generation Kill, Nate, Mike, Ray, Brad, plus wolves). 1300 words, posted August 2011. People really like the wolf-verse even when it's gen flashfic about singing. I need to write more of this series or the wolves will eat me.
So six stories fell completely out of my top ten in the past year to be replaced by six new stories I wrote this year. That means I'm writing stuff people really like lately, or the AO3 is getting a lot more traffic to new fic this year than it did before, or, more likely, some analysis-defying combination of both.
And now I will go back to pretending I don't stare at my AO3 hits all the time. Until next year. *g*
1. A Little Mental Yoga (Southland, Cooper/Sherman, NC-17, Telepathy). 17,000 words, posted January 2010. The winner and still the champ. Over six thousand hits, which is a long lead for anything else to catch up, but....
2. You Just Brace and You Breathe (Generation Kill, Colbert/Fick, NC-17, dub-con wolf-bonded sex). 22,000 words, posted November 2011. ...In five months, this one has gained more than half the hits of "A Little Mental Yoga", so... I guess people are really digging the wolf-verse.
3. Get Loved, Make More, Try to Stay Alive (Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, less than 19% mpreg by volume). 68,000 words, posted to AO3 December 2009. This moved up from #5 last year. Still one of the most popular things I've ever written, and I guess now people know where to find it. *g*
4. The Shadow That You're Standing On (Generation Kill, Colbert/Fick, NC-17, non-major violence, hints of incest). 19,000 words, posted September 2011. I don't know if GK is a bigger fandom than I think it is, or if we're over-represented on AO3, or if I am just fantastically lucky.
5. Turn Up the Signal (Wipe Out the Noise) (Sherlock, Sherlock/John, NC-17, Sherlock's near-telepathy). 2,000 words, posted November 2010. Down from #2 last year, displaced by longer fic. Which seems totally logical to me, but I'm a little bit sizeist about fic?
6. What to Do After Firing (Generation Kill, Colbert/Person, Person/others, NC-17, dub-con wolf-bonded gangbang offscreen, comfort sex onscreen). 14,000 words, posted August 2011. People really like the wolf-verse even when it's Brad/Ray!
7. Which in Your Case You Have Not Got (Generation Kill, Evan, Brad, Ray, Poke, Rudy, Pappy, Trombley, Nate, plus wolves). 9,000 words, posted July 2011. People really like the wolf-verse even when it's gen! Er. Sort of. Gen-ish.
8. Jigsaw (Stargate SG-1, Jack/Sam/Daniel/Teal'c and pretty much every sub-pairing within the OT4, major character deaths). 67,000 words, posted June 2011. People will come back to SG-1 for bigbang OT4 fic in 2011-12, even with death warnings. This one topped out at #4 or so in the couple of months after I wrote it, before it got pushed back down the list by Generation Kill fic.
9. Everything That You Can Keep (Vorkosigan Saga, Aral/Cordelia, Aral/Jole, NC-17). Down from #4 last year. I need to write more of this series or it will fall out of the top ten entirely, and we can't have that.
10. When We Used to Sing (Generation Kill, Nate, Mike, Ray, Brad, plus wolves). 1300 words, posted August 2011. People really like the wolf-verse even when it's gen flashfic about singing. I need to write more of this series or the wolves will eat me.
So six stories fell completely out of my top ten in the past year to be replaced by six new stories I wrote this year. That means I'm writing stuff people really like lately, or the AO3 is getting a lot more traffic to new fic this year than it did before, or, more likely, some analysis-defying combination of both.
And now I will go back to pretending I don't stare at my AO3 hits all the time. Until next year. *g*
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evenespecially when it's Brad/RayThere, fixed that for you. *g* (Although I regularly re-read all of your wolf-verse and wave my hands in glee.)
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Thanks! I can't imagine how I got that wrong.
(Also, the pairings label for the one currently in progress is going to be AWESOME.)
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*goes to add another count to the hit total*
If you include the pack sense, almost all of these fic have telepathy.
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I searched AO3 but couldn't find it.
After the
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We knew this already, but I figured it was worth saying again!
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Yeah, I do just keep chugging along.
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On a long fic, I'm also more likely to stop in ao3 once, download to my mobile, and re-read there. A brief fic I'm more likely to head back and read "just one more time".
#9: You are entirely right that we can't have that. More Jole, please!