Annual AO3 Stats Meme

[thisbluespirit]

It's that time of the year again! Last year's post is here.



Hits
(Still minus the two which can only have been hit by a bug many moons ago.)

1. Not Bad For a First Attempt (Heyer, Rule/Horry, 200 words), 3550 hits.
2. Century's End (Poldark, Ross/Demelza, 2692 words) 3245 hits.
3. Rewards of Battle (15th C Hist/Shadow of the Tower, Henry VII/Elizabeth of York, 669 words), 2589 hits
4. i love the rose both red and white (Shadow of the Tower/15th C RPF, Henry VII/Elizabeth of York, 8072 words) Yuletide 2018, 2489 hits
5. something in the heart (15th C Hist/Shadow of the Tower, Henry VII/Elizabeth of York, 730 words), Trope Bingo, 2409 hits
6. So We Meet at Last (Miss Marple/Dracula crossover, 758 words) Fan Flashworks, 2378 hits.
7. Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (and One Time They Got Along Just Fine) (DW/ST: Voyager crossover, 5260 words), 2169 hits.
8. Truth & Compromise (Discworld, William de Worde/Sacharissa Cripslock, 4404 words), NYR 2011 2167 hits.
9. The Spirit of St Mary Mead (Miss Marple, 4005 words), Yuletide 2016, 2108 hits.
10. A Minute's Peace (April Lady - Georgette Heyer, Nell Irvine/Giles Cardross, 632 words) Fandom Stocking 2015, 1984 hits.

The same ten in a slightly different order, i love the rose both red and white having jumped up a place, and Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway also continues to move upwards. In general, it's things that are actual ships dominating here. And a bit of Miss Marple, of course.

What is quite interesting is that the next fic lurking below these is not anything I'd have expected at all, but Night Falls, a pre-canon Dracula 1968 NYR 2017 work (for calliopes_pen), which has somehow sneaked upwards in the last year for reasons unknown. Presumably it's because it has Dracula pairings attached, so is working by the same rules as the above fic - the right ships but not quite the right fandoms! (It has Jonathan/Dracula in one section, which I think is what did it: it also has at least 7 bookmarks & 2 subs, making it freakishly popular for a Drac 1968 fic, heh.)


Kudos
1. The Spirit of St Mary Mead (Miss Marple, 4005 words), Yuletide 2016, 308 kudos
2. So We Meet at Last (Miss Marple/Dracula crossover, 758 words) Fan Flashworks, 281 kudos
3. it's the rain that will strengthen your soul (Star Wars, Padme Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi, 10,926 words) Space Swap 2020, 221 kudos
4. Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (and One Time They Got Along Just Fine) (DW/ST: Voyager crossover, 5260 words), 175 kudos
5. By the Book (Original Works, Male Demon/Female Librarian, 5863 words), Hetswap 2018, 161 kudos
6. We'll Burn That Barn When We Come To It (11th Century RPF, William the Conqueror/Harold Godwinson, 3511 words), Yuletide 2018, 151 kudos.
7. Observation (Miss Marple/Harry Potter crossover, Miss Marple & Luna, 357 words), 149 kudos
8. Not Bad For a First Attempt (Heyer, Rule/Horry, 200 words), 145 kudos
9. Space Married (DW, Twelve/Clara, 940 words), prompt ficlet, 141 kudos
10. Century's End (Poldark, Ross/Demelza, 2692 words), 137 kudos

Again, the same ten works have just shifted about again. I do need to get back into exchanges! It's the only way to get some variety in my top tens. Miss Marple still reigns supreme, though, so actually, perhaps all I really need to do is use Miss Marple for intoabar this year. It is kind of tempting... XD

By the Book has jumped up again! I am really rather touched and pleased by that. I don't know how or why it still continues to do that, as an origfic from a very small exchange from a few years ago. But i think it is probably one of the best things I've written, so I'm happy. (Someone's got it on a recs list? Or it's just the most kudosed thing in the Librarians freeform tag or something??? idk. It is a mystery. A nice mystery.)

Some of the other SW works I wrote when I had my actually productive Prequel feels stage the other year are lurking ominously just below this top ten.


Comments
(Comments, not comment threads & excluding multi-chapter works.)

1. The Spirit of St Mary Mead (Miss Marple, 4005 words), Yuletide 2016, 99 comments
2. We'll Burn That Barn When We Come To It (11th Century RPF, William the Conqueror/Harold Godwinson, 3511 words), Yuletide 2018, 80 comments
3. So We Meet at Last (Miss Marple/Dracula crossover, 758 words) Fan Flashworks, 58 comments
4. By the Book (Original Works, Male Demon/Female Librarian, 5863 words), Hetswap 2018, 54 comments
5. I Do, I Do, I Do (The Month of Sundays Remix) (DW, Thirteen/all her previous selves, 4031 words) Remix Revival 2019, 41 comments
6. Persistence in Porcelain (Jonathan Creek, 4090 words), Yuletide 2013, 38 comments
7. movements of the mind (Twelfth Night, Feste & Olivia, 1891 words), Yuletide 2016, 36 comments
8. We'll Be Dating to the End of Time (DW, Thirteen/Yasmin Khan, 1934 words), Chocolate Box 2019, 35 comments
9. it's the rain that will strengthen your soul (Star Wars, Padme Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi, 10,926 words) Space Swap 2020, 34 comments
10. Extract from the Memoirs of a Credit Snake (I Claudius RPF (ish), Snake in the opening credits, 693 words) Yuletide 2014, 32 comments.

And lurking just below the top ten, rather than the two displaced by #9 and #10 there is, Of Elements and Existence. \o/ This category was so unchanged (even down to no. of comments in some cases), but it all suddenly got unexpected at the end there. Also, in stories that have gained comments rather than kept their places, By the Book is one again. <3

(If I do it by the correct method, the main difference is that Once Upon a Dream, a very old NYR fic (my first overenthusiastic, didn't-read-the-prompt-at-all Yuletide effort, ahem ahem), is actually about halfway up the list still. (Which makes sense: it was transferred over from the Yule archive with comments but no replies).


Bookmarks
(Not including private bookmarks, because I started out using the works page, not the stats page years ago.)

1. The Spirit of St Mary Mead (Miss Marple, 4005 words), Yuletide 2016, 64 bookmarks
2. it's the rain that will strengthen your soul (Star Wars, Padme Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi, 10,926 words) Space Swap 2020, 56 bookmarks
3. So We Meet at Last (Miss Marple/Dracula crossover, 758 words) Fan Flashworks, 49 bookmarks
4. By the Book (Original Works, Male Demon/Female Librarian, 5863 words), Hetswap 2018, 45 bookmarks
5. Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (and One Time They Got Along Just Fine) (DW/ST: Voyager crossover, 5260 words), 33 bookmarks
6. i love the rose both red and white (Shadow of the Tower/15th C RPF, Henry VII/Elizabeth of York, 8072 words) Yuletide 2018, 31 bookmarks
7. We'll Burn That Barn When We Come To It (11th Century RPF, William the Conqueror/Harold Godwinson, 3511 words), Yuletide 2018, 24 bookmarks
8. Anomalies (SW, Padme/Obi-Wan, 11,478 words) Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2020, 23 bookmarks
9. I Do, I Do, I Do (The Month of Sundays Remix) (DW, Thirteen/all her previous selves, 4031 words) Remix Revival 2019, 21 bookmarks
10. Home? (DW, multi-era, 7938 words), 20 bookmarks

There's Coffee in That Galaxy (Far Far Away) is still lurking at #11, but another of the SW Obidala exchange works has overtaken Space Married there: Some With Arrows, Some With Traps.

(Going by the stats, it's the rain is actually the most popular, with 80 bookmarks total. Everything else is pretty much the same list.)


Subscriptions
(Actually via the stats page. \o/)

1. Take the Second Path (OUaT, Emma/Regina, 2828 words), 5 subs
=2. Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (and One Time They Got Along Just Fine) (DW/ST: Voyager crossover, 5260 words) 4 subs
=2. Anomalies (Star Wars, Padme Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi, 11,478 words.) Hurt Comfort Exchange 2020 4 subs
=2. Under a Cloud (Star Wars, Padme/Obi-Wan, 4200 words), genprompt_bingo, 100fandoms, 4 subs
3. Ladies in Waiting (The Hardest Part) (15th C RPF, Margaret Beaufort & Elizabeth of York, 668 words), Yuletide Madness 2014, 3 subs
=3. Rewards of Battle (15th C Hist/Shadow of the Tower, Henry VII/Elizabeth of York, 669 words) 3 subs
=3. Thrice Cursed (OUaT, 555 words), halfamoon, genprompt_bingo, 100fandoms, 3 subs
=3 I Do, I Do, I Do (The Month of Sundays Remix) (DW, Thirteen/all her previous selves, 4031 words) Remix Revival 2019, 3 subs
=3. Trees Too Tall To Climb (SW, 1340 words) Halfamoon 2020, 3 subs
=3. it's the rain that will strengthen your soul (Star Wars, Padme Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi, 10,926 words) Space Swap 2020, 3 subs
=3. Home? (DW, multi-era, 7938 words), 2 subs
=3. Thwarted (DW, Thirteen & Delgado Master, 787 words) 3 subs

And, right at the end there, the only appearance of something I've written in this past year, with a random meme ficlet, because of course it is. ;-p

Take the Second Place remains top, which is fair, because other than Under a Cloud (also making its only appearance here), it is the one which is an AU which could be continued. I mean, it isn't going to be now, but. It's clearly a thing that could have been.

Comments

[liadt]

Miss Marple will reign eternally;) Just one more Miss Marple comment to make a nice round 100!

[thisbluespirit]

Miss Marple will reign eternally

Apparently so! XD

[lomelinde_laurea]

Ohh this meme looks like fun. General stats, right? Not just last year.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, that's right!

[astrogirl]

I could have sworn I did this one, I dunno, a couple of months ago, but, nope, it appears to have been more like a couple of years. What is time and what the hell happens to it? Anyway, clearly I must meme-sheep this one from you, too! Again.

Miss Marple's domination notwithstanding, I'm honestly impressed by how many different fandoms pop up on yours. I feel like mine are mostly all the same handful of fandoms, just with maybe a new one added in every few years.

[thisbluespirit]

I think what it was is that we both did the Average Stats Meme then! XD

Meme sheep must always say baa. *nods*

Miss Marple's domination notwithstanding, I'm honestly impressed by how many different fandoms pop up on yours.

I am a fickle butterfly who will write anything given suitable acquaintance with it and a reasonable excuse, what can I say? lol.

[astrogirl]

Yeah, it might actually have been the memory of the Average Stats one triggering that "didn't I just do this one?" response. Mind you, even if that's true, I still don't understand time or where it goes. :)

[a_phoenixdragon]

So awesome! I love looking at your stats - and I thought I saw some of the same favorites bumping around each other up there. :D

*HUGS*

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks!