AO3 Stats Meme

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, look, it's that time of the year again...

Last year's results


[Last year's results in brackets.]

Hits

1. Truth & Compromise (Discworld, NY 2011) 1088 hits [1]
2. Ten Times the Doctor (Almost) Got Hitched (DW) 968 hits [2]
3. Observation (Miss Marple/Harry Potter) 797 hits [3]
4. Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (and One Time They Got Along Just Fine) (DW/ST: Voyager) 669 hits [5]
5.So We Meet At Last (Miss Marple/Dracula) 666 hits [New]
6. Police Boxes Don't Just Vanish, Do They? (Public Eye/Doctor Who) 603 hits [New]
7. Compendium (Blake's 7, Yuletide 2011) 597 hits [6]
8. something in the heart (Shadow of the Tower) 536 hits [New]
9. Seeking Dragons (Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Yuletide 2010) 518 hits [4]
10. Of Elements and Existence (S&S/Discworld, Yuletide 2012) 452 hits [9]


It's mostly fairly similar to last year (unsurprisingly) but a few new things made it in. "So We Meet At Last" I wrote just after this meme last year, and it's going to be the fic I'm known for, it seems. The White Queen TV series unexpectedly boosted the little Henry VII/Elizabeth of York ficlet upwards, which was fun. And what really surprised me was "Police Boxes Don't Just Vanish, Do They?" because maybe the world did need Public Eye fanfic, after all? Or just a DW outsider POV, I suppose. Either way, I'd no idea it had got that many hits in a short time. (I think long/odd titles catch people's attention. And multi-era Doctor Who fics.)


Kudos
(Or, as I think of it, the best test of what people actually like on AO3. After all, what does a hit tell you, but that someone arrived by accident and then ran away in horror at your first sentence? And not everybody leaves comments, but usually people will at least press the kudos button if they cared at all.)

1. So We Meet At Last - 72 kudos [New]
2. Observation - 48 kudos [1]
3. Of Elements and Existence - 40 kudos [2]
4. Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (and One Time They Got Along Just Fine) - 35 [5]
5. The Time Traveller's Guide: Important Additional Information (The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, Yuletide 2013) 34 kudos [New]
6. Truth & Compromise - 32 kudos [3]
7. New Tricks for Old Dogs (or Five Alternate Universes Where Sandra Pullman Was Always Awesome) (New Tricks, Yuletide 2012) - 27 kudos [8]
8. Persistence in Porcelain (Jonathan Creek, Yuletide 2013) - 26 kudos [New]
9. Ten Times the Doctor... - 25 kudos [7]
10. Vigil (Measure for Measure, Yuletide 2012) - 23 kudos [6]
(11. Seeking Dragons - 23 Kudos [4])


Yuletide wins as ever, and, of course, Miss Marple. Clearly, I need to aim for a Miss Marple pwns somebody ficlet once a year now if I want to retain any sort of popularity. (It's funny, though, I felt that I pretty much "failed" at Yuletide this year, whereas I liked last year's fic, but actually the two fics from the main collection are in there and above the others already, so... feelings are, as ever, unreliable.)


Comments

1. So We Meet At Last - 32 comments [New]
2. Of Elements and Existence - 23 comments [1]
3. Hit and Run (Blake's 7, Yuletide 2010) 22 comments [5]
4. Seeking Dragons - 22 comments [2]
5. Compendium - 22 comments [3]
6. Persistence in Porcelain - 22 comments [New]
7. New Tricks for Old Dogs... - 19 comments [6]
8. Striking A Balance (Sapphire & Steel, Yuletide 2013) - 17 comments [New]
9. Confessions (DW 2005, Fandom Stocking) - 16 comments [10]
10. Vigil - 16 comments [4]
(11. Cul-de-Sac (No hawkers, traders, cold callers, canvassers or purveyors of religious knowledge) (Sapphire & Steel) - also 16 comments [New]

What can I say? Miss Marple beating Dracula is what AO3 was lacking. *amused* Also, 8 out of these are Yuletide fics. If you want actual comments, Yuletide wins. (Yuletide is ♥)


Bookmarks

1. So We Meet at Last - 8
2. Five Times the Doctor... - 7
3. Observation - 6
4. Vigil - 5
5. Truth & Compromise - 5
6. Ego Clash (DW/Poirot) - 4
7. Compendium - 4
8. Ten Times the Doctor... - 4
9. Persistence in Porcelain - 4
10. something in the heart - 4

Mistaken (Doctor Who) also has 4.

(Yes, I don't know about the random Poirot suddenly in there, either. Hello, M. Poirot, nice moustache, no matter what the Doctor thinks!)


I looked at the fics lurking at the bottom, but to be honest, they're mainly drabbles, fairly recently archived (and backdated) and a Public Eye drabble. Human Development has also been pretty solidly ignored (Children of the Damned, 26 hits, 0 comments, kudos etc.) but I expected that when I wrote it, so fair enough. I can't complain about any of those being unfairly neglected.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Every now and again, I look at my AO3 stats - just out of curiosity.

[thisbluespirit]

Well, it is interesting, every now and then, isn't it? :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Yes it is...

[liadt]

Well done, for all the Public Eye hits. All you need to do is write a Miss Marple crossover and AO3 domination is yours!

[thisbluespirit]

I was very surprised about the Public Eye hits, but since the amount of kudos doesn't match up, presumably most people landed on it and were scared off by my obscurity. But still, I was surprised. :-)

I should work on the Miss Marple thing, because past experience shows that she is my key to being even half popular. :lol:

[liadt]

Perhaps there is an arcane secret society of PE fans?

We'll all be bunging in random Miss Marples to artificially inflate our hit rate;p

[thisbluespirit]

I suspect it's just Doctor Who fans, drawn by multi-era and then running away again in horror at the Public Eye. :-)

More Miss Marple can't be a bad thing, though.

[oonaseckar.livejournal.com]

Clearly, I need to aim for a Miss Marple pwns somebody ficlet once a year now if I want to retain any sort of popularity.
So is this, like, Miss Marple does ju-jitsu? Miss Marple kicks arse and takes names? *absolutely has to go and investigate*

[thisbluespirit]

Well, not so much. She just casually defeats Dracula and does knitting. (He reminded her of someone she knew, obviously.)

:-)

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Excellent statistics. Well done! And of course the world needed "Public Eye" fanfic! Quite honestly, given the seemingly character-driven nature of it, it's perfect for fic. What you need is for it to be re-made for a modern audience. *quickly runs and hides* ;)

As for Miss Marple vs Dracula, that is absolutely what the internet has been crying out for. I'm half tempted to suggest that she take on the Daleks next.

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! :-)

What you need is for it to be re-made for a modern audience. *quickly runs and hides*

No, no, I think that, too, quite passionately, but then I have reservations. A show that's an outsider POV, a way of telling ordinary stories that don't get told elsewhere - every decade and place could use one, and wouldn't it be wonderful? And keeping with the honesty that's both hard and compassionate at the same time.

But i fear if someone remade it, they'd just remake it & it'd be a series about Frank Marker (which, I know, technically it is, but it also isn't). Though, on the other hand, if they wanted to straight refilm S4 without changing anything, they could go ahead. I'd have issues with it, but hey, they really could.

And then I wonder how much it works because of Alfred Burke and Frank, and that maybe even if you got the first bit and the right kind of new outsider character to do that odd job and want to help people, maybe it still wouldn't work, because it was just one of those things that come down to the magic of TV chemistry and you couldn't do it again?

(I might have thought about this a lot.)

And Miss Marple against the Daleks is an awesome thought. More difficult than Dracula, though.