Average stats meme 2021

aralias resurrected this one over on tumblr, and it's been 3 years and when can I ever resist a pointless AO3 stats meme? Especially when I made this one up myself. (I think partly based on something ruuger did first, and something paranoidangel said; you know how it is.)

The idea was, as far as I recall, that most of these stats memes highlight the best and the worst and therefore are not really representative and also the same 10 stories come up over and over. But are these results any more so? They were last time; let's find out if they are again...

Average word count: 1841
Average hits count: 388
Average Kudos count: 23
Average no. of comment threads: 3
Average no. of Bookmarks: 3

(I think there was intense discussion last time about whether this was actually the average or mean or median, but it is an average-y thing of some kind and I did minor maths, I'm not getting into that right now.)

Work(s) closest to the average word count:

Unconsidered Trifles at 1835 words is pretty close. (DW, Eight/Charley, written for hetswap 2017) That is pretty average-me, I have to say: Doctor Who, Big Finish, written for an exchange. The only non-average thing is I think this is the only pinch-hit I have ever claimed.


Work(s) closest to the average hit count:

Unrelated (The Loop the Loop to Affinity Remix) (DW, River Song/Delgado Master, for scripsi in Remix 2015). This has 389 hits, which is pretty close, and is very me. My fave Remix title! I had fun with messing with the original to get this as well. And I do love Remix, so also fair.


Work(s) closest to the average no of comments (/+ kudos if too many):

I have lots with 3 comment threads - only 3 that also have 23 kudos: Devil in the Details again, Bargaining (BtVS/X-Files, Spike & Scully, written for daibhid_c in a meme), & Castles in the Sky(B7, Blake, written for aralias in the 500 Prompts meme). Bargaining on the face of it is atypical, but as a random meme ficlet prompted by my flist it absolutely is.


Work(s) closest to the average no of comments (/+ bookmarks):

Again, masses, but 6 with 3 bookmarks - Devil in the Details (Fun Jago & Litefoot ficlet for Liadtbunny O&B commentfest 2013)

New Hero, Now Here (DW/Fire & Hemlock, Eleventh Doctor & Polly Whittaker, which I think I wrote when DWJ died, although I probably posted it a while after.)

Dance of a Lifetime (DW, Five/Clara, tiny Clara-splinter ficlet written for Azar in fandom_stocking 2013, which actually I liked quite a bit at the time, size notwithstanding.)

Tell the Truth (and Shame the Devil) (OUaT/Lucifer crossover, written for crossoverbingo, which I thought was funny, but apparently the Lucifer/OUaT crossover audience is small/I wasn't that funny, delete as applicable.)

Mission of Mercy (SW, AU, Obi-Wan, Padme, Qui-Gon, written for halfamoon & allbingo - the first of my random SW outpourings last year, so representative of 2020 if nothing else. It was very slow to get much feedback and would have ended said efforts before they began if I hadn't already signed up to write it for Chocolate Box.)

Winged Shadows (DW/Angel crossover, Six & Peri, from way back in Teaspoon days. I had no idea it had progressed to an average amount of feedback somehow. I expect it needs overhauling, but I was pleased with it back then whenever that was.)


Work(s) closest to the average no of kudos (/+ bookmarks):

I have 17 works with 23 kudos, but only 3 that also have 3 bookmarks - A Row or Two (DW, Six & Evelyn, woo, actually another randomly popular fic featuring an older lady knitting in a crisis. I had forgot I had form in that genre already before Miss Marple.)

Devil in the Details again! It isn't average on word count & hits, but it is by other methods. Most average fic(let) here.

Spiritual Awakening (Dracula 1968, John Seward & Abraham Van Helsing, for trope_bingo. The meme would definitely have failed at representation of me if it hadn't had some James Maxwell being hopeless in fic for an old telly Dracula.)

Those are pretty random, probably more so than last time I tried this, but actually pretty representative - lots of small-time challenges and meme fic, crossovers, Doctor Who, 1968 Dracula (& therefore some James Maxwell).

S&S is very under-represented, though, which is a major omission. You're not going to understand me and my works without a little bit of S&S in the mix, I'm sorry. And I am also a person who writes deeply obscure things that sit largely unloved for a long time, and a person who sometimes writes Miss Marple for fame and glory in exchanges. Plus, complete lack of yuletide is not representative, either, although not quite as much so as all the Yuletide in the popular lists. XD

To which I conclude, obv I must still do every kind of navel-gazing stats meme that crosses my path. *nods*

Because I invented this meme (sort of), I even have a text box for ease of snaffling:

<b>Average word count:</b> <b>Average hits count:</b> <b>Average Kudos count:</b> <b>Average no. of comment threads:</b> <b>Average no. of Bookmarks:</b> <b>Work(s) closest to the average word count:</b> <b>Work(s) closest to the average hit count:</b> <b>Work(s) closest to the average no of comments (/+ kudos if too many):</b> <b>Work(s) closest to the average no of bookmark (/+ bookmarks):</b> <b>Work(s) closest to the average no of kudos (/+ bookmarks):</b>