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Elizabeth Culmer ([personal profile] edenfalling) wrote2013-05-04 04:19 pm

[Meme] AO3 hit counts

I'm a couple weeks behind on this meme, but whatever.

Here are last year's results, for comparison purposes. This year I have 66 stories up on AO3 -- not quite twice as many, but close. The additional fics are almost all new stories, since the furthest I got with crossposting old work was tossing up "Five Years Is an Awful Lot of Later" and "First You Have To Get There," which are, respectively, the first fanfic I ever wrote and its direct sequel.

This means that my AO3 catalogue of works is still disproportionately weighted toward Homestuck, remixes, and tiny Yuletide fandoms, and away from the huge backlog of my Harry Potter, Naruto, and Chronicles of Narnia stories.

With that said, here are my top ten stories on AO3, by hit count:

1. What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed) - 5,109 [Naruto, remix]
2. Trollstuck - 2,289 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
3. I Must Increase My Bust - 2,237 [Homestuck]
4. Weregild - 1,912 [Inception/Anita Blake, chaptered, WIP]
5. Sparkly Rainbow Blood - 1,736 [Homestuck]
6. An Intricate Courtship Process - 1,665 [Homestuck]
7. A History of Handcrafts (Because a Sweater Equals Love) - 1,664 [Star Trek 2009, remix]
8. Ass O'Clock in Dusseldorf - 1,564 [Homestuck]
9. Four by Four - 1,459 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
10. Dreamers of the Day - 1,436 [Inception]

The changes between this year and last year basically reflect my headlong descent into Homestuck fandom, which is not surprising! I am also not surprised that "What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed)" remained far and away my most popular story, for the same reasons I wasn't surprised at its popularity last year.

Anyway, the top ten stories by number of kudos are fairly similar, though there are a few different titles and a reshuffled order:

1. Ass O'Clock in Dusseldorf - 166 [Homestuck]
2. Problems and Solutions (All Things in Time) - 130 [Chronicles of Narnia/Stargate: SG-1, remix] (1,209 hits, 13th by hit count)
3. What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed) - 105 [Naruto, remix]
4. Four by Four - 99 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
5. An Intricate Courtship Process - 91 [Homestuck]
6. Hollywood Shenanigans - 88 [Homestuck, has been remixed] (1,158 hits, 14th by hit count)
7. Trollstuck - 77 [Homestuck, chaptered, WIP]
8. Sparkly Rainbow Blood - 74 [Homestuck]
9. Wherein Two Moirails Make the Best of a Stolen Afternoon - 68 [Homestuck] (1,089 hits, 15th by hit count)
10. A History of Handcrafts (Because a Sweater Equals Love) - 66 [Star Trek 2009, remix]

The stories that fell out of my top ten by hit count -- "The Geographic Cure," "Princess no Go," "Postcards from Naxos (You Don't Have To Go Home, but You Can't Stay Here)," and "More Sins than Condemnation" -- are all still in my top twenty by hit count. I'm not really surprised about the Naruto and Inception fic hanging on there, particularly since "More Sins than Condemnation" is grouped in a series with "What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed)," but I'm impressed that my two little Yuletide 2009 fics still seem to have some staying power -- they have each picked up at least 150 new hits over the past year. Go, tiny fandoms, go! :-D

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And now I am going to take a nap, because I came down with a vicious cold on Thursday and didn't notice until I woke up Friday morning, because my seasonal allergies did a spectacular job of masking the initial symptoms. I managed to get my Friday shift trimmed by two hours, and I slept about twelve hours each Thursday night and Friday night and have been carefully doing nothing today, but I am still tired and stuffy and generally cruddy feeling. So yeah, sleep.

It is the best medicine, after all. Not even laughter works better. *wry*
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[personal profile] branchandroot 2013-05-05 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Rehabbed Sasuke: always popular.

Hope the viruses give you a break soon; you've surely fought off more than your fair share!
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[personal profile] branchandroot 2013-05-05 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the post-skip will involve a /lot/ of "argh, you contract breaker!". And also a good deal of "...wait, what?". Because, seriously, there are a lot of moments when you can see Kishimoto was trying to figure out what the hell to do next and just pulled something out of his butt. And then another. And then another. And then... you're kind of drumming your fingers going "are you /done/ yet?".

(Anonymous) 2013-05-05 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
Also fair amounts of 'uh, no, this flashback you have shoehorned in makes no sense and totally contradicts established canon'.