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edenfalling) wrote2012-04-20 12:06 am
edenfalling) wrote2012-04-20 12:06 am
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[Meme] AO3 hit counts
The thing you have to realize about this is that mostly I don't post to the AO3, so there are only 37 fics to choose from and the majority of them were written either for Yuletide or Remix Redux. (Also Homestuck, more recently, mostly for chatlog coding reasons.) So the selection is weird compared to the general history of my work. If I did this on ff.net, for instance, I would get a completely different list, and if I had a way to count hits on DW and LJ, I'd probably get a different answer yet again.
But with that caveat, here are my top ten stories on AO3 by hit count:
What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed) - 2,652 [Naruto, remix]
Weregild - 1,493 [Inception/Anita Blake, chaptered, WIP]
A History of Handcrafts (Because a Sweater Equals Love) - 1,062 [Star Trek 2009, remix]
I Must Increase My Bust - 945 [Homestuck]
The Geographic Cure - 797 [American Gods, Yuletide]
Dreamers of the Day - 720 [Inception]
Princess no Go - 681 [Enchanted Forest Chronicles/Hikaru no Go, Yuletide]
Postcards from Naxos (You Don't Have To Go Home, but You Can't Stay Here) - 635 [Inception, remix]
More Sins Than Condemnation - 622 [Naruto, sidefic for "What Isn't Broken"]
Sparkly Rainbow Blood - 594 [Homestuck]
I am not in the least surprised that "What Isn't Broken" is far and away my story with the most hits -- it's in a popular fandom, it was written for a festival with some guaranteed readership, it's long, it's been up for almost two years, and it includes a popular pairing (NaruSasu). On a related note, I am even less surprised that of the two sidefics I wrote, it's the one with Iruka and Kakashi being ambiguous that made it into the top ten rather than the one with Naruto and Sakura being friends. I do not and never have understood the appeal of KakaIru, but it's a big fandom Thing, so. *shrug*
The two Homestuck fics that made it are, respectively, the cute and silly porn fic and the ridiculous humor fic. Again, not surprising. The Inception and Star Trek fics are likewise not surprising.
What does surprise me is how popular "The Geographic Cure" is. "Princess no Go" is an even weirder thing to have on a top ten list. I mean, it's awfully cute, but it's also awfully short, and it's anything but an intuitive set of fandoms to fuse. Those probably benefit from age as much as anything -- they are both Yuletide 2009 fics and therefore have simply had more time to gather hits than more recent stories.
...
I should probably import more of my fics someday.
But with that caveat, here are my top ten stories on AO3 by hit count:
What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed) - 2,652 [Naruto, remix]
Weregild - 1,493 [Inception/Anita Blake, chaptered, WIP]
A History of Handcrafts (Because a Sweater Equals Love) - 1,062 [Star Trek 2009, remix]
I Must Increase My Bust - 945 [Homestuck]
The Geographic Cure - 797 [American Gods, Yuletide]
Dreamers of the Day - 720 [Inception]
Princess no Go - 681 [Enchanted Forest Chronicles/Hikaru no Go, Yuletide]
Postcards from Naxos (You Don't Have To Go Home, but You Can't Stay Here) - 635 [Inception, remix]
More Sins Than Condemnation - 622 [Naruto, sidefic for "What Isn't Broken"]
Sparkly Rainbow Blood - 594 [Homestuck]
I am not in the least surprised that "What Isn't Broken" is far and away my story with the most hits -- it's in a popular fandom, it was written for a festival with some guaranteed readership, it's long, it's been up for almost two years, and it includes a popular pairing (NaruSasu). On a related note, I am even less surprised that of the two sidefics I wrote, it's the one with Iruka and Kakashi being ambiguous that made it into the top ten rather than the one with Naruto and Sakura being friends. I do not and never have understood the appeal of KakaIru, but it's a big fandom Thing, so. *shrug*
The two Homestuck fics that made it are, respectively, the cute and silly porn fic and the ridiculous humor fic. Again, not surprising. The Inception and Star Trek fics are likewise not surprising.
What does surprise me is how popular "The Geographic Cure" is. "Princess no Go" is an even weirder thing to have on a top ten list. I mean, it's awfully cute, but it's also awfully short, and it's anything but an intuitive set of fandoms to fuse. Those probably benefit from age as much as anything -- they are both Yuletide 2009 fics and therefore have simply had more time to gather hits than more recent stories.
...
I should probably import more of my fics someday.
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