AO3 Stats Meme

[pedanther]

(via lost_spook)

Because this year, between various Yuletides and the fact that a few months ago I went through my collection of old fic and uploaded (and backdated) everything I was still willing to expose people to, there's actually some chance of being able to provide meaningful answers.


1. Your 3 fanfics with the most comments:

Not counting my replies:

14 comments: C is for Conjuration (Sesame Street, Yuletide 2013)

7 comments: Uncommon Readers (Unusual Dragon Hoards, Yuletide 2014)

5 comments: Sesame Treats (Sesame Street/Sleepy Hollow/Elementary/Agents of SHIELD, Yuletide 2013)
&
5 comments: Bring Out the Lady (Chess, Yuletide 2014)

Most everything I've written for Yuletide, in other words; that does tend to result in more people reading and leaving feedback.


2. Your 3 fanfics with the most kudos:

68 kudos: Sesame Treats (Sesame Street/Sleepy Hollow/Elementary/Agents of SHIELD, Yuletide 2013)

60 kudos: Uncommon Readers (Unusual Dragon Hoards, Yuletide 2014)

50 kudos: C is for Conjuration (Sesame Street, Yuletide 2013)

Yuletide strikes again, in a slightly different order.


3. Your oldest fanfic

12 July 1998: Just a Coincidence (Doctor Who)

2 December 1999: Doctor Boo (Doctor Who/Animaniacs)

21 October 2003: Rather Be Happy Than Right (Doctor Who, sort of)

These are all from the old days on alt.drwho.creative. I wrote a lot more than just two drabbles in 1998/99, but most of them don't really work out of their original context (or, in some cases, at all). Even so, "Just a Coincidence" is actually very nearly the first thing I posted on adwc, and thus nearly the first piece of fanfic I wrote and published after discovering that fanfic was a Thing. (I wrote a lot of terrible fanfic in creative writing periods in school, but I didn't know then that that was what it was.)


4. Your latest fanfic:

19 July 2015: A set of 50-word ficlets for a writing challenge meme:

A Solemn Warning (Batman via James Whitcomb Riley - I really should get around to finishing the full-length version of this one)

No Longer (Doctor Who)

Trails (The Avengers)

Quiet (The Muppet Show)


5. The fanfic you're most proud of:

C is for Conjuration is one of the longest things I've ever finished, and it took work, and I did the work, and it shows in the result. It does everything I wanted it to, and all the characters sound like themselves, and it still makes me laugh even though I know all the jokes.


6. Your longest fanfic:

I have three on the Archive that are over 1000 words:

1824 words: In the Café of Reasonable Comfort (Doctor Who/surprise crossover)

1741 words: C is for Conjuration (Sesame Street, Yuletide 2013)

1245 words: Elementary Particles: reprinted from the reminiscences of Professor Bernice S. Summerfield (Doctor Who/various versions of Sherlock Holmes)


7. There is no... Question 7!


8. Your 3 fanfics with the most bookmarks:

8 bookmarks: C is for Conjuration (Sesame Street, Yuletide 2013)
&
8 bookmarks: Uncommon Readers (Unusual Dragon Hoards, Yuletide 2014)

5 bookmarks: Bring Out the Lady (Chess, Yuletide 2014)

The return of the Yuletide.


9. Your Top 3 Crossover fics:

According to what metric? Well, anyway, it looks like Sesame Treats makes it onto the list whichever one you choose.

And then again, what counts as a crossover? (Is C is for Conjuration, which incorporates Sesame Street's habit of riffing on other works, a crossover? What about Elementary Particles, arguably a Sherlock Holmes crossover without any actual Sherlock Holmes?)

Having thoroughly confused the issue, I'm going to finish off by cheating and mentioning Fool Me Thrice, Shame on Who (Doctor Who/Monkey Island), which hasn't got the most hits or the most kudos or the most comments, but I happen to like it, so there.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Even so, "Just a Coincidence" is actually very nearly the first thing I posted on adwc, and thus nearly the first piece of fanfic I wrote and published after discovering that fanfic was a Thing.

You must have arrived pretty much the moment I left! (On adwc, I mean - I had left uni by the beginning of June 1998 & was off to be internet-less (and later dial-up only) until about 2005 or something. (Sad times!)

[pedanther]

We might have overlapped a little bit: I got on Usenet when I started uni at the beginning of the year, and I'm pretty sure I found adwc not long after. I don't have any detailed records from that far back, though, apart from the stories I kept.

I do remember you from adwc, but on reflection I suppose that must be mainly if not entirely from your later triumphant return.

[thisbluespirit]

Ah, I think that seems likely, and I was probably pretty active in those last few months, because I'd got into the IAs and everything. I think I vaguely recognised your name on returning, although that's long enough ago now that I can't swear to it - but I think so. (And, LOL, not triumphant! Just a bit belated and clueless but happy to find at least people who could point me to where everyone else had gone.)

[oonaseckar.livejournal.com]

It hadn't even occurred to me that Sesame Street/Muppets fic might be a thing. I adore Jim Henson! *goes to read*