Rules: give us the links to your fics with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most subscriptions, most words, and least words.
(I've only been on ao3 since May 2023)
Most hits: To Love is to Hurt -- 816 hits. (Fantastic Beasts story)
Most Kudos: Tie! I Drive Your Truck and Two Kinds of Sparks -- 33 kudos. (Both SG-1 stories. Sparks was a tumblr story first)
Most Comments: What Makes a Mother -- 23 reader comments. (SG-1 story)
Most Bookmarks: Mind Over Matter -- 4 bookmarks. (SG-1 story)
Most Subscriptions: Mind Over Matter -- 9 subscriptions.
Most Words: To Love is to Hurt -- 38, 681 words. (This is ongoing, not finished on ao3)
Least Words: Master of the Elder Wand -- 561 words. (First fic. Fantastic Beasts)
Passively tagging: @amphytrionwrites , @electricrogue , @lanistas, @tinknevertalks , @tina-mairin-goldstein and anyone else who sees this and feels like it. Feel free to tag as having tagged you, even if I didn't. :)
Thank you so much @captain-aralias for tagging me in this. This was such a lovely trip down memory lane.
Like you, when asked for averages, I went with the mean (total kudos divided by number of fics for example), it brought back wonderful nostalgia of the few Statistics classes I had to take in college.
ANYWAY, here are my stats!
Total works: 37
Average Word Count: 7072 words
Average hits count: 991 Hits
Average Kudos count: 107 Kudos
Average no. of comment threads: 10 Threads
Average no. of Bookmarks: 18 Bookmarks
Like Aralias, I decided to write down some thoughts and recollections with the fics that came closest to each average. You can find my thoughts, and links to the fics under the page break! 👇
Closest to Average word count: Life is Short; Have Dessert First (6990 Words)
Ahh yes… The one DeNiall smut fic I wrote. I wrote this fic for @f-ing-ruthless-baz’s birthday two years ago. Their fics got me into DeNiall in the first place, so I felt it was appropriate to write them a lovely DeNiall fic. The fic is about Dev wanting to give Niall a special day for his birthday, by making him a plate of gnocchi with tomato sauce. Unfortunately for Dev, not only do the gnocchi take longer to make than he thought, but Niall has other ideas in mind.
I liked writing this fic. I was still getting my toes wet when it came to Explicit-rated fics, but overall this wasn’t a terrible fic. And it’s nice to see how my smut-writing has improved since writing this fic.
Closest to average hit count: Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat! AKA Bat-Baz II: Electric Bazaloo (1032 hits)
Oh my God… The epic Bat-Baz saga. Honestly, I don’t give this fic as much credit as I should. It is a FUNNY fic. For those new to the Fandom, or who don’t know where Bat-Baz came from. One of the prompts for The Carry On Countdown 2019 was CRACK. The amazing and super talented @parijpg made this ADORABLE art of a tiny angry bat held gently in two freckled hands. No explanation was needed, we all knew who the bat was. I wrote a fic to accompany that art piece and Bat-Baz was born. This fic here is the sequel to the original, that I wrote after getting bombarded with adorable bat gifs.
I wonder if I should write a third installment. The Bat-Baz Trilogy to match the Simon Snow Trilogy? Maybe next year.
Closest to Average Kudos count: If I Fell In Love With You (108 Kudos)
This fic holds a very special place in my heart. This was the second fic I ever wrote. Before I had any fandom friends, before I knew what a Beta was (yes, my first two fics are not beta-ed. No I will not re-read them because I fear the grammar and coherence cringe). It had been 8 years since I wrote anything, and I was excited to even get a few Kudos on the first fic I posted. I wrote this fic around my anniversary, and I was feeling especially sappy, so I wrote happy fluff (considering this was written after Wayward Son, I feel it was needed).
Little did I know that this fic would be Remixed by @captain-aralias, which brought even more readership to the fic. That was so lovely to see, and their REMIX is simply WONDERFUL.
Closest to average no. of comment threads: If I fell In Love With You, Try A Little Tenderness, That’s a Spicy Meat-A-Ball! (All at 10 threads each).
I’ve already written about If I Fell In Love With You, so I’m going to focus on the other two.
So BOTH of these fics are gifts. The first was written for one of my oldest fandom friends, @giishu. They reached out to me when I was still essentially a nobody (I mean I still am, but more so back then), and decided that we would be friends. And I’m really glad they did, because their friendship has been amazing, and they’re responsible for me writing my most popular fic, I Just Want Your Extra Time. Try A Little Tenderness is actually the sequel that fic. It’s (once again) a text fic, because I had so much fun writing the second one. It’s also a “partner is stressed, other partner helps them loosen up” kind of fic. I had a ton of fun writing it.
Will there be a third fic next year? Who knows? I do have ideas…
I honestly have no idea how I banged out That’s A Spicy Meat-A-Ball! I was fried beyond fried when I wrote it. And it’s probably why this fic borders on CRACK. The innuendos were super fun for me to write (and I might have even tested them out on my husband to see how scandalized he’d be).
He was sufficiently scandalized.
Closest to average Bookmarks: With a Little Help From My (Sorta) Friends, Try A Little Tenderness. (18 Bookmarks each)
I’ve already written about Try A Little Tenderness, so I’m going to focus on the first fic. I wrote this fic after a year of writing birthday fics and event fics. I wanted to write a fic for myself. A fic of something I needed to see. I wanted to see a fic where someone was acting like a good friend to Baz. I think the idea came out of a Discord discussion or a discussion with friends (maybe giishu?)
ANYWAY, the basic idea was, if I was Baz’s best friend, I’d be pissed at how Simon was treating him at the end of Wayward Son. Barring any knowledge of what Simon was going through, if I saw my friend following a guy across the ocean, after giving them the emotional cold shoulder for little more than a year, I’d be furious. So, I put those feelings into Dev and had him give Simon a talking to.
The fic also came from my frustrations that (before Any Way The Wind Blows) came out, we didn’t really see many people stand up for Baz. Yeah Simon has Penny, but who does Baz have?
It’s my firm belief that Baz has Dev and Niall. He’s been best friends with them for years. They are more than just his minions.
Also, I liked the tag GiveBazFriends2020.
This was so lovely! Gonna tag a few people to join in on the fun! @f-ing-ruthless-baz @fight-surrender @carryonsimoncarryonbaz @amywaterwings @ninemagicks @mostlymaudlin @martsonmars @sillyunicorn @im-gettingby @prettylightsbigcity @phoxphyre @angelsfalling16 @snowybank @palimpsessed @tea-brigade @aristocratic-otter @carryonvisinata @knitbelove @wellbelesbian
