AO3 Hits meme

[beatrice_otter]

Out of curiosity, I checked my stats at AO3, and looked at my top ten hit-counts for fic. Well, first I mistakenly told it so sort by word count and got really confused, but then I hit the right button and it made more sense. I am not counting my "fic" which is just a collection of TTH drabbles.

In Order:

1. Lieutenant Bennet's Visit by Beatrice_Otter for pentapus. Temeraire - Naomi Novik, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

   24 Dec 2010.  Summary: Elizabeth’s reality is far different from her sisters’. 3,172 words Comments:144 Kudos:251 Bookmarks:52 Hits: 6445

2. Darcy's Surprise by Beatrice_Otter. Temeraire - Naomi Novik, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen  

   1 Jun 2011 Summary While investigating Mrs Bingley’s secret, Mr Darcy receives an unwelcome shock. Words: 4,432 Comments: 22 Kudos:55 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 1658

3. A League Of Their Own by Beatrice_Otter for starlady.  Disney Princesses Superheroes - kruegan, Disney Princesses, Mulan (1998)  

   22 Dec 2010.  Summary: Just another day at the castle for the Princess Superheroines. Words:3,092 Comments: 8 Kudos: 27 Bookmarks: 5 Hits: 1216

4. A Change in the Wind by Beatrice_Otter for afterism. Mary Poppins (1964), Doctor Who (2005)  

   21 Dec 2011.  Summary: Why does Mary Poppins have a bag that's bigger on the inside? Why, because she's a Time Lady, of course! Words: 2,481 Comments: 70 Kudos:177 Bookmarks:34 Hits: 1191

5. Eudaimonia by Beatrice_Otter for bofoddity. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles  

   23 Dec 2009.  Summary: We are not studying in order to know what virtue is, but to become good, for otherwise there would be no profit in it.—Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.2.  Words: 1,203. Comments:43 Kudos: 2 Bookmarks:7 Hits: 986

6. Family Values by Beatrice_Otter for Trobadora.  Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold  

   22 Dec 2011. Summary: How does one make polite conversation with someone one's father tortured, physically, mentally, and emotionally, their entire childhood and adolescence?  Words: 2,210 Comments: 45 Kudos: 83 Bookmarks: 5 Hits: 861

7. A Collection of E-mails from the SGC Archives (the Wanky Wormhole Remix) by Beatrice_Otter for amaresu.  Stargate SG-1, Wormhole X-treme  

   8 Oct 2010.  Summary: When highly intelligent and dedicated people get bored, things happen.  Words: 3,072 Comments:25 Kudos: 25 Bookmarks: 6 Hits: 859

8. Reflections in Moving Water by Beatrice_Otter for liliaeth. Criminal Minds, X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men (Movies)  

   15 Dec 2011. Summary: When the BAU is ordered to update the profiles on the Brotherhood of Mutants, Rossi must revisit a past he doesn't talk about. Words: 17,559. Kudos:33 Bookmarks: 5 Hits: 812

9. A Comfortable Life by Beatrice_Otter. Pride and Prejudice - Austen  

   1 Jul 2010.  Summary: Charlotte appreciated a handsome man, but not as other girls did.  Words: 568 Comments: 6 Kudos:20 Bookmarks: 4 Hits:790

10. True Colors by Beatrice_Otter.  Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold  

    7 Sep 2011. Summary: Aral was doing math problems and grumbling about it when they got the word. Da later told people that Aral had been studying military strategy, and Aral didn’t contradict him, but really, it was math. Mad Yuri's Civil War takes an unexpected turn.  Words:5,514 Comments:32 Kudos:49 Bookmarks: 2 Hits: 748

Huh. Some things jump out at me.

4 fics from 2010, 5 from 2011, 1 from 2009. Is this because my recent stuff is better, because more people read on AO3 now than they used to, what?

4 fics are crossovers, and only two (Wanky Wormhole, Reflections in Moving Water) are in large fandoms, though several are in good-sized fandoms where lots of people know the source material even if they don't generally write much. (Pride and Prejudice, Disney Princesses, Mary Poppins, probably even Temeraire and Vorkosigan Saga fit here.) This is probably because I love crossovers, and since SG-1 ended I have been fannish in general but not consumed by any one fandom, certainly not any one large fandom.

4 are Yuletide fics, and all but one are from a ficathon of some sort--and that one is a sequel to one of the others.  I'm not sure if that says more about the fact that most of my writing (well, posted writing) this last couple of years is ficathon-based, or that ficathons tend to have a built-in audience.

I wish AO3 had something like ff.net's statistics page, because it's fascinating to see things like when the hits come, and where they come from.