#ao3 2023

[miaqc1]

As soon as I saw them on AliExpress, I know I had to purchase them. Clippy and I survived Ao3 attack pins! 

[clairel1la]

vegaspete before kinnporsche is crazy (not complaining tho)

[daisiesonafield-blog]

The Top AO3 Ships 2023

Harry and Louis at minute mark 23.

Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, up 16 spots from last year (way to go fic writers!) is tied at #69 with a Minecraft ship. There were 1,712 new fics written in the last year (August 4 2022 - August 7 2023), for a total of 39,028 fics!

For Top Ships Of All Time: Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson is top 9, down one spot from last year.

You can view the spreadsheets yourself here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/491...

[draculastarion]

It's been an insane year for my ao3. After not writing anything for hmm maybe 12 or 13 years, being in fandoms but not really contributing anything of note, I posted over 100k of writing to ao3 just in the latter half of 2023!

I really hope I can continue being creative in 2024. If I write even one more word than I wrote in 2023, I've outdone myself!

Ao3 link if you want to read some!

Blank templates if you want to fill it out yourself!

[bh-bs]

bye to the time when klancers ruled the world

[sam-loves-seb]

i was tagged by the wonderful @energievie yesterday but i never got around to it so i'm doing it today to answer some end of the year questions 💙

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 

171

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 

1,126,901

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

don't act like you don't know

i know they're watching

oh lover boy

take me out (& take me home)

why do you do this to yourself

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

always! if people are kind enough to leave me a little message at the end of my works, i want to be able to take the time to respond to it

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

oh god, i don't know i don't really write anything with angsty endings, i'm a lover of happy endings almost exclusively, so i guess i'll have to go with--

so this is christmas

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

too many to choose from tbh uhh [spins wheel] [flips coin] this one

if it makes you happy

7. Do you write crossovers?

hell yes, i'm a slut for a good crossover, here i have two:

stuck in reverse

made for lovin' you

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

lmao ooooh yeah

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

[sighs] yes, on occasion, but i haven't written any for my current hyperfixation yet (gallavich) but i kinda wanna put some in my bb fic so we'll see if that happens

it also doesn't help that it takes me nine million years to write smut because every time i do i blush like a fucking virgin for literally no reason

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

yeah, a few times

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

i've never co-written a fic before, but i've definitely co-plotted many a fic

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

idk u guys i usually say joshdonna from the west wing, but gallavich game them a run for their money this year tbh like i'm down so bad it might actually be them now

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

probably a place in my heart will always be hers solely because i never came up with an actual ending for it so even if by some chance i update it eventually, i doubt i'll ever really finish it

15. What are your writing strengths?

dialogue and characterization (i think?)

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

pacing and consistency

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

if you can speak/read/write other languages then i say go for it, but me personally i only speak english so you will not see me attempting other languages in a fic bc i know i will butcher it and nobody wants that

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

marvel? like a decade ago? probably clintnat or stevebucky and i orphaned all of them

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

ooo good question, idk i've toyed with the idea of writing feysand (acotar) fics before and even started a couple after my last re-read, but i've never fully pulled the trigger on it. maybe someday i will

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written

what we stay alive for

tagging anyone who wants to play, this was really fun

[niwolah]

I saw @jinkieswouldyoulookatthis' one and thought that it'd be fun to share mine. So here's my AO3 2023 wrap.

Idea from @according2thelore and template (under the cut) from @spicedrobot.

I actually don't care that much about comments, seeing kudos is largely enough for me. Also, I'm not a big writer or anything so I'm very happy with this.

I never thought that Normal sibling behaviors would have that much success honestly. I had a hard time knowing what I wanted to do with it.

As for The game is on, I'm still surprised that I could write this one in less than three hours.

[jinkieswouldyoulookatthis]

My AO3 2023 using the wonderful template by @spicedrobot that I found thanks to the lovely @according2thelore

I try not to care too much about hits and kudos and comments but I do find them fascinating. I figure that any fic with around 10% kudos to hits ratio is doing really well.

Whatever This Is has about 8% while Something Stupid has just shy of 25% which is stellar. And I just think that’s cool.

The blank template is below the cut if you want to do one of these.