What I've been reading in the second quarter of 2026:
Fic wordcount sure is up there xD though, not as crazy as I thought at first - had to subtract a Lot of fics bookmarked 'to read' (or 'didn't reread', bc my browser updated itself or sth and now all the Ao3 works in the Hollanov tag are blue titles again even the ones I've read before and I had gotten So used to just seeing grey titles as indicator of I've been here before lmao), but 3-4mil is pretty normal monthly wordcount for me
679 fics in April, 774 fics in May, only 316 in June, I think it's because I was super single focused onto Hollanov in the first months and read mainly shortfics, then branched out a bit and read a bunch of longfics in mainly Witcher and Star Wars fandoms? Wait, I have the fandom stats in my excel table somewhere lemme check :D
This is out of the 2270 fics I have clicked on without subtracting the To Reads so the numbers are off but I think the percentages are probably on par:
April is just Heated Rivalry. And More Heated Rivalry. five h50 fics in a row So Much More Heated Rivalry xD also very obvious when looking at my fic recs of the month, it's literally just 200+ Hollanov fics <3
May has even less diversity, Heated Rivalry with 1 Star Wars, 1 Merlin and 1 Challengers fic thrown in and I know the latter two are just bc I listened to epf podfics I was part of when they got posted o.o ~170 May recs (which show a couple more fandoms that get counted into June in my excel bc while I started reading them end of May the last visited is June)
And then in June I'm finally branching out and Heated Rivalry has gone down to 68% - not that I've abandoned Hollanov or anything, the obsession is still very much around xD but I spent a couple days here and there reading mainly other fandoms, and by now I've got multiple fandom tabs open that I switch between, as I usually do :) I especially got back into the Accidental Warlord Witcher 'verse by @inexplicifics, catching up on the new releases in the series and reading some really good inspired-by works, especially Jagoda of the Path by @kikanawj about a travelling lycanthrope healer! 40 June recs: Heated Rivalry, Witcher, & more :)
And in all three months 2093 fics (94%(!!!!!))Heated Rivalry, 70 fics (3%) Witcher, 28 fics (1%) Star Wars, 25 (1%) MCU / Captain America (Stucky), 7 (0,%) Hawaii Five-0, and 5 or less in Person of Interest, Holby City, The Old Guard, Gunpowder Milkshake, Good Omens, BtVS, Star Trek, Matilda, Warehouse 13, Challengers, Merlin, and Rizzoli and Isles.
There are a bunch of ao3 authors that show up again and again in my stats these past months, thank you so much for the good work, keeping me supplied with more fic food :D I read 17 fics by goldengalaxies, 12 by gurlsrool @gurlsrool, 11 by jockles @multishipperpirateking, 10 by barbidoo, 9 by uglygreenjacket @uglygreenjacket, 8 fics each by ghosttotheparty @ghosttotheparty and justhockey @everything-i-am and 7 by itsallfine (all of the above Heated Rivalry xD) and many many Holby City drabbles by @absedarian here on tumblr :D (I do my stats by doing an automated to excel thing from Ao3 so only fics I read there or bookmark- external-work saved there, which definitely covers the main chunk of what I read, but the Berena drabble challenge deserves a special mention because of just how many of them I read on tumblr!)
I haven't finished or started any new physical books, but I've made good progress on three of the books I've started in past months :) almost done with the twilight analysis for example!
Apropos twilight - what I didn't count into the wordcount because it's not a full fic and I didn't want to figure out chapter wordcounts, but definitely another big thing for the month: my podfic of Spilt Ink, Spilt Blood by @occams-painting-knife , an original character rework of the twilight series! Some of the chapters are several hours long xD so it's definitely a big part of what I've been reading. I'm mainly recording in the evenings after work (and sometimes just. during homeoffice when I've got nothing better to do and/or colleagues just expect me to be way slower bc my coworker who is doing the same tasks is just So fucking slow at them lmao. I could not be half as slow if I tried) and it's a nice evening ritual for me instead of watching TV! The story is super good I can definitely recommend reading (or listening of course :D) even if you're not a fan of twilight or don't know it at all.
past reading posts • more Hollanov
Tagging everyone to share something about the books or fics you've enjoyed so far this year!
