Top Fanfic AO3 Meme

Oh, look another fanfic stats meme! How can I resist?

List your top fanfic on AO3 for every year, sorted by kudos.

2011
I joined AO3 in 2011 and spent most of that year putting my back catalogue onto it, and though I backdated some of it, I left a lot as it was, which skews things. So, the top listed is this:

Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (and One Time They Got Along Just Fine) (Doctor Who/Star Trek Voyager, gen, 5260 words.) (I'm pretty sure this was c. Oct-Nov 2010 but am too lazy to look at Teaspoon for the date just now.)

But topmost of fic written in 2011 is this:

Truth & Compromise (Discworld, William de Worde/Sacharissa Cripslock, 4404 words.) Written for NYR 2011.

My Last Fic before becoming ill. Like, literally: I wrote this and my brain died. Not that it was the fic's fault. It just happened to be what I used my last bit of functional brain on, and I can't say I have any regrets. It was a good use of it, I think.


2012
Of Elements and Existence (S&S/Discworld, gen, 2642 words.) Written for yuletide 2012.

Some of my best fic originated with the statement, "Of course, I couldn't write x/x couldn't be done..." It's fatal.


2013
So We Meet at Last (Dracula/Miss Marple, gen, 758 words.) Written for fan_flashworks

So, sometimes you write lovingly crafted giftfic, and sometimes you just scribble a ficlet in half an hour and it gets weirdly popular. This one is that. I even once been greeted in fandom with, "Oh, you're the person who wrote that Dracula/Miss Marple crossover!"

Yes, I am, it's true. I did. Joan Hickson was woefully under-used in the 1968 TV Dracula and just think where they could have gone with that instead, if they'd only been able to see into her casting future. So I made a ficlet. It also got recced, without which, nothing, I'm sure.


2014
Not Bad For a First Attempt (Heyer - The Convenient Marriage, 200 words.)

In the same category, one time, back in the days when any wrangler who'd done the training could canonise fandoms, I accidentally canonised The Convenient Marriage when it in fact had no works and was just an exchange nomination tag lying about on the archive. (Embarrassing Wrangling Mistakes I Have Made #602)

So, either I could de-canonise it, or I could make it legit by writing a drabble. I wrote a quick double-drabble, because after all, it was a crime not to have fic for Horry. All I can say is, even if it's only a double drabble and not in a fest, Heyer fans are really appreciative of fic for underrepresented books.


2015
A Matter of Common Sense (Heyer - The Reluctant Widow, 445 words.) Treat for yuletide 2015

I was surprised by this one, I have to say. Still, see above. Heyer folks are appreciative of fic for underrepresented books, so it's probably garnered a small but steady couple of kudos a year since or something.


2016
The Spirit of St Mary Mead (Miss Marple, gen, 4005 words). Written for yuletide 2016

So, also good for the popularity stakes: Yuletide fic where Miss Marple is a genius loci. Combining elements of my previous top works clearly paid off. (So... next up, I shall be writing a Miss Marple/Discworld crossover double drabble for Yuletide, and after that I shall be an actual MNF. ;-p)


2017
AU Meme: Sam Vimes (Discworld, gen, 898 words.) Written for the AU Meme.

Random meme ficlet. Discworld fans are also appreciative? (I don't even really write Discworld! At least, not unless it's a blue moon and I'm walking whiddershins round my room. It must be magic.)


2018
We'll Burn That Barn When We Come To It (11th C RPF, Harold/William the Conqueror, 3511 words). Written for yuletide 2018

The Yuletide effect, Historical AU Crack Edition. :-D


2019
(So far anyway. We haven't had Yuletide yet, so it's too early to tell.)

We'll Be Dating to the End of Time (Doctor Who, Thirteen/Yasmin, 1934 words.) Written for Chocolate Box 2019.

Look, a Doctor Who fic!! On my most popular fic list? Less likely than you'd think, apparently.