AO3 Meme

[kat_lair]

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In lieu of actual update, here's the AO3 meme I've seen doing the rounds on the flist (I know it's circle on dw but it's always flist to me).

Top 10 most popular by hits

[is not the past all shadow - Lewis, gen - this one doesn't count as the hit count is definitely due to some kind of random download robot malfunction somewhere because there is no way on this godless green earth that 23k people have clicked on a Lewis gen fic with this particular theme]

Five Things JD Doesn't Like About Dr. Cox (No he doesn't, no of course not, why would you say that?) - Scrubs, Cox/JD

Reformation  - Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley

Patrick Stump Emergency Procedure (capitals obligatory) - Fall Out Boy/Bandom, Pete/Patrick

where the streets have no name - Grimm, Nick/Monroe

Check-up - Scrubs, JD/Cox

Ready to Rock, Ready to Roll - Hawaii Five-0, Danny/Steve

Manifold - Harry Potter, Harry/Draco

Cinderella, she seems so easy - My Chemical Romance/Bandom, Gerard/Mikey

things which enclose me - Person of Interest, Finch/Reese

Two-Heart Sound - The Hobbit, Bilbo/Thorin


Top 10 most popular by kudos
(mostly same as above so links only for unique entries)

Reformation  - Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley

where the streets have no name - Grimm, Nick/Monroe

Two-Heart Sound - The Hobbit, Bilbo/Thorin

things which enclose me - Person of Interest, Finch/Reese

Patrick Stump Emergency Procedure (capitals obligatory) - Fall Out Boy/Bandom, Pete/Patrick

Ready to Rock, Ready to Roll - Hawaii Five-0, Danny/Steve

Check-up - Scrubs, JD/Cox

and good, this danger (is danger of love) - Person of Interest, Finch/Reese

Fac Mihi Viam - Harry Potter, Gen

i have my reasons (call it my defense) - Buzzfeed Unsolved, Shane/Ryan


Some observations:

• Proof positive of my slutty, slutty fandom ways
• Reformation is on this list because the moment GO TV adaptation hit, fandom slammed into that tag like a starved possum on Sunday roast. I distinctively remember waking up to a WALL of kudos for about a week in June 2019 when everyone was tearing through the existing book-based fic before the first wave of new fic hit the internet.
• Fac Mihi Viam continues to defy ALL my expectations. I am pleased but baffled.
• Entertained that my two longer Scrubs fics continue to fill a continuous need
• Buzzfeed Unsolved fandom is EASY (that fic is like less than 1k)
• The two Bandom ones are... Well. They sure are something just in opposite directions.
• Manifold is there only because of tentacles and fandom is full of perverts (like me)
• Two-Heart Sound and things which enclose me are on my personal list of 'that's a good phrase, who wrote that, oh me' so pleased about them

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Comments

[wpadmirer]

Some day I ought to do this for my fics, just out of curiosity, but I never seem to find the time. (Too busy reading fics!)

[kat_lair]

I check the AO3 stats every few months for funsies, it's just kind of interesting, like watching a snail race of your snail children.

[sewn]

I also use flist out of reflex. I do like circle but it's hard to shake.

I'm kind of amused a bot would latch onto a gen fic! I always thought that happened to more risque fare.

[kat_lair]

Flist just fits into my mouth better!

Lol yeah, me too. That fic is gen and like angsty one at that, I've no idea what about it triggered some bot's algorithm.

[trobadora]

I always still say flist too. Force of habit. *g*

Great meme! I should do it too, if only to actually post something again ... *pulls blanket over head instead*

[kat_lair]

It's because we're Old and I have come to accept this :D

It was entertaining. I tend to check the stats every now and then for a general head shaking and 'wtf'ness'

[moth2fic]

Interesting and I might steal it! (Often looking for blog post material...)

[pushkin666]

Mmm tentacles...

[kat_lair]

Should've said 'perverts like pushkin666' :D

[kat_lair]

The AO3 stats are entertaining and baffling in equal measure.

[corvidology]

I have one of those stories hit by a bot also. It's hit numbers are so ridiculous it's funny to me. :D

[kat_lair]

You can always tell when the hits and kudos are really out of sync :D

[margaret_r]

Okay, had to go and have a look at my stats, and was quite surprised - I have subscriptions! No bots though.

Circle doesn't do it for me either, it's all f'list.

[kat_lair]

I'm not surprised you have subscriptions :D The stats feature is very entertaining.

Flist forever *nodnod*

[turps]

Your bandom ones are fabulous, especially Cinderella.

I'm another who uses flist, but Grammarly keeps changing it to list automatically so I need to watch out for that.

[kat_lair]

Aww thanks! Cinderella is one of those fics that will always follow me around :D As we say in Finland: honour goes, reputation grows...