AO3 stats meme (yet another variant!)

[thisbluespirit]

Picked up from ruuger - an AO3 stats meme I don't seem to have done before. How could I possibly resist?

Account created: 29 Oct 2010
Total stories: 517 (although it's fair to note that most are ficlets and drabbles, and plenty of them were written 2007-2010 and posted to Teaspoon, alt.drwho.creative, LJ and ff.net, and even one or two from adwc back in 95-98).

Total wordcount: 880,040
Average wordcount: 1702
Longest story: 37,901 (a collection of various Sapphire and Steel 'Element' prompts - Assigned) The actual longest fic is The Poison Tree (Dracula TV 1968, written for calliopes_pen in Yuletide 2016).
Shortest story: I have some vids and one podfic up there so for the purposes of these stats: Let Me Inside (Survivors vid) at 6 words. Then I have a whole load of drabbles. Some are listed at 98 or 99 words, but they were all 100 words in Word. (If I remove the handful of non-fic from the equation, the average word count is 1712.)

Total kudos: 7409
Kudos per story: 14.3
Story with most kudos: The Spirit of St Mary Mead (aka the Miss Marple is a genius loci Yuletide fic that got recced by a BNF) - 233 kudos.

Total comments: 1108
Comments per story: 2.14
Story with most comments: That would be the Spirit of St Mary Mead again, surprisingly enough, with 37 comment threads (77 comments in total).

Total author subscriptions: 48
Total story subscriptions: 41 (To be fair, I have very little multi-chapter fic on AO3 anyway - most of what I have written is still only at Teaspoon.)
Story with most subscriptions: Take the Second Path, a one-shot Emma/Regina AU for OUaT, with 5 subscriptions. (It's fair enough; it's a one-shot, but the sort that you could easily continue and it's one of the few really popular pairings I've ever written.)

Total bookmarks: 862
Story with most bookmarks: Do you want to guess? I'll give you a clue - it also has the most kudos and comments! (It has 47 on the stats page, 41 on the works page, so 41 public bookmarks + 6 private bookmarks).

Stories with no comments or kudos: Mostly older/backdated ficlets/drabbles, most of which were previously published on LJ and (for dw100 also on Teaspoon):

Next Contestant Please (or Five Times Lynda Fired People For Not Being Kenny) (Press Gang, one of a whole bunch written for 50ficlets on LJ (where they did get comments!). Ditto the following:)
Cruelty to Dumb Animals
Love, Fate and Destiny
Red Letter Day
Que Sera Sera
Nails and Horseshoes
Sold Out
Heartbreaker
Right or Wrong?
What Friends Are For
How To Be Cool
Don't Say Goodbye

A Foolish Family Secret (DW/The Twenty-Two Letters drabble for dw100, ditto the below)
Faster Than Fairies (Eleven & Amy; it does have a bookmark, though!)
It's an Art (ditto)
Comfort My Enemy (the Doctor)
What You See In Me (Thea Ransome from Image of the Fendahl)
A Cosmic Contest (Seven & Ace; possibly it deserves to languish for the puns)
Conversation Overheard in a Gallifreyan Bar (Andred from Invasion of Time & Damon from Arc of Infinity)

Exercise in Futility (Level 7 - Out of the Unknown = highly obscure and depressing David Collings slash, so I have nobody to blame but myself. And David Collings.)

Let Me Inside (Survivors 1975 vid)

Well, now I feel unpopular. :lol:

(Although, actually, I've always said it would be much more interesting to see what's at the bottom end of people's fic, otherwise you just keep bringing up the top ones in an endlessly self-fulfilling prophecy. And, unlike some I could mention, I don't think there's anything really wrong with any of these in particular.)

Comments

[sovay]

Exercise in Futility (Level 7 - Out of the Unknown = highly obscure and depressing David Collings slash, so I have nobody to blame but myself. And David Collings.)

I'd have left kudos if I'd known it existed before now!

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, thanks! <3

I have perfected the art of writing mild slash so obscure that nobody wants to read it. I like to think of it as an accomplishment!

[sovay]

I like to think of it as an accomplishment!

Totally!

[paranoidangel]

I feel like every time I do one of these it's always the same ones at the top. But the bottom is a lot of stuff that no one's read on AO3 because it's old. Maybe the middle's more interesting?

[astrogirl]

This is an interesting meme! Much more so, I think, than the usual ones. I may have to steal this one from you, too.

[philomytha]

Well, now I've followed the herd off to read the Miss Marple genius loci story too and it is indeed very good :-)

[thisbluespirit]

We need someone to come up with a middle AO3 stats meme!

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I thought so. I think ruuger actually came up with it.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you! I mean, it could certainly be worse as a top story, but it just feels so very random somehow!

[liadt]

Oh no, poor David Collings!

[thisbluespirit]

Well, it wouldn't be David Collings if somebody wasn't angsting about something even if only lack of kudos! Anyway, it has one now.

[aralias]

i've always said it would be much more interesting to see what's at the bottom end of people's fic

this is true! although sometimes it feels just as random ;)

[thisbluespirit]

Just as random, but at least it makes a change from going, "Well, now, there are the same ten stories again!" ;-)

[scripsi]

I haven't done this one either. I'll gakk it- it seems properly mindles to make for me right now. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, good. <3

[dimity_blue]

"I've always said it would be much more interesting to see what's at the bottom end of people's fic, otherwise you just keep bringing up the top ones in an endlessly self-fulfilling prophecy."

It is interesting. And rather intriguing. It'd be interesting to compare an author's popular stories to what they consider to be their best (or better) work.

[thisbluespirit]

It is interesting. And rather intriguing. It'd be interesting to compare an author's popular stories to what they consider to be their best (or better) work.

*nods* Because those two things are not generally the same.

[dimity_blue]

Definitely! My most popular fic is "Sick Days" (Sherlock) and it's out of character.