AO3 Statistics Meme
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selenak...because it's been years since I've done it the last time, and it seems to be making the rounds again. Checking out my statistics, I couldn't help but notice there is a significant difference between the hits and the kudos results.
Top Five Stories by hits
1.) Messenger (The Earl Grey Remix)
I find it utterly baffling that this is my most read story (7217 hits so far). It's a little thing I dashed off during Remix Madness week, gen, with no pairing in sight. My only explanation is the fandom, i.e. it's a Star Trek tale with Spock in it.
2.) Backstage Management (The Machiavellian Remix)
Another remix tale, Torchwood this time, but the point of view is of a character who never shows up in the show proper, Yvonne Hartman, the leader of Torchwood 1 who appears in the Doctor Who two partner which introduces the organisation and gets killed off in same. While there is a lot of conversation about Jack Harkness, he doesn't actually show up, whereas Suzie Costello (from the TW pilot) and John Frobisher (from Children of Earth) do, as well as a surprise guest, and again, it's gen, so again, I'm surprised this is so well read. (4016 hits.)
3.) Spinning Fate
This was a Yuletide tell, which generally heightens the chances of it being read, and it's something based on Greek mythology (in its Roman interpretation by Ovid). Arachne, changed into a spider when last we saw her, strikes back at the Gods. Used to show up on the kudos list as well but got overtaken by other stories.
4.) Into the Woods
The first one where I'm not surprised it shows up in the hits count, because this is the only one of my fifteen Merlin stories that's actually focused on the most popular pairing of the fandom, i.e. Merlin and Arthur, which means it could show up if you use the tag.
5.) Let it Be
Star Trek again, Deep Space Nine this time, also a Yuletide story with not much of a plot because it's basically an assembly of scenes focused on Ezri, Worf, Bashir and Quark about the fallout from Jadzia's death. My grief, choices and connections tale, and the only one to appear on the kudos list as well, which means it must have resonated with people. Which brings me to...
Top Five Stories by kudos
1.) Anatomy of a Marriage
Okay, colour me stunned. Not only was this Breaking Bad story not written for any type of ficathon but it's about Skyler White and her relationship with her husband. (Also about her relationship with her sister, because it's part of who Skyler is.) Skyler is a, to put it mildly, controversial character in the fandom, and most BB fanfiction is focused on the Walt and Jesse relationship (understandably, since that is the core of the show). So it being my most popular story in terms of kudos (61) is really against the odds. Go, scrappy little outsider story!
2.) Let it Be
See above. The only one to show up in both lists. (48 kudos)
3.) Collaborators
More DS9 for Yuletide. This one is about Odo, set during his early days working for Dukat during the first occupation; among other things, it's my attempt to come up with an explanation as to why Dukat kept Odo given that Odo didn't solve the murder he orginally had told him to solve, and why Odo remained on the station despite being free to do anywhere he wanted and not having loyalties to either Bajorans or Cardassians; but who am I kidding, most of all it's about his relationship with Quark forming. If you noticed Quark as a common denominator in my DS9 tales, you're not wrong. Apparantly readers approve.
4.) Lebenswerk
Aka the backstory for Norma Desmond and Max von Mayerling from Sunset Boulevard. Sunset Boulevard being the deserved classic it is, writing fanfic worthy of it (for the last but one Yuletide) was a huuuuge challenge as well as a labour of love (for SB itself, for the silent film era, and for the characters), and I'm tickled pink the result found favour.
5.) Fuit Quondam
The newest story on these lists, barely a few months old, since it was one of my two 2013 Yuletide contributions - about Connie Corleone from The Godfather movies. The Godfather, both the films and the book, are an incredibly masculine narrative (which btw I don't mean as a condemnation, just a statement: the way women are treated in this world says a lot about the characters and is part of their story), so making Connie central (and while I was at it, also giving her mother, Sonny's wife Sandra and Fredo's wife Deanna voices) was a deliberate counterpoint. But it was also caused by my fondness for messed up sibling relationships. As third of the Godfather movie shows, Connie and Michael end up spending most of their lives together, which you certainly wouldn't have guessed in the first. How they got there is part of the tale I tried to tell.
Possible lessons: Star Trek is still the granddaddy and boss of all fandoms, but stories about women in male centric fandoms inspire kudos givers?
Top Five Stories by hits
1.) Messenger (The Earl Grey Remix)
I find it utterly baffling that this is my most read story (7217 hits so far). It's a little thing I dashed off during Remix Madness week, gen, with no pairing in sight. My only explanation is the fandom, i.e. it's a Star Trek tale with Spock in it.
2.) Backstage Management (The Machiavellian Remix)
Another remix tale, Torchwood this time, but the point of view is of a character who never shows up in the show proper, Yvonne Hartman, the leader of Torchwood 1 who appears in the Doctor Who two partner which introduces the organisation and gets killed off in same. While there is a lot of conversation about Jack Harkness, he doesn't actually show up, whereas Suzie Costello (from the TW pilot) and John Frobisher (from Children of Earth) do, as well as a surprise guest, and again, it's gen, so again, I'm surprised this is so well read. (4016 hits.)
3.) Spinning Fate
This was a Yuletide tell, which generally heightens the chances of it being read, and it's something based on Greek mythology (in its Roman interpretation by Ovid). Arachne, changed into a spider when last we saw her, strikes back at the Gods. Used to show up on the kudos list as well but got overtaken by other stories.
4.) Into the Woods
The first one where I'm not surprised it shows up in the hits count, because this is the only one of my fifteen Merlin stories that's actually focused on the most popular pairing of the fandom, i.e. Merlin and Arthur, which means it could show up if you use the tag.
5.) Let it Be
Star Trek again, Deep Space Nine this time, also a Yuletide story with not much of a plot because it's basically an assembly of scenes focused on Ezri, Worf, Bashir and Quark about the fallout from Jadzia's death. My grief, choices and connections tale, and the only one to appear on the kudos list as well, which means it must have resonated with people. Which brings me to...
Top Five Stories by kudos
1.) Anatomy of a Marriage
Okay, colour me stunned. Not only was this Breaking Bad story not written for any type of ficathon but it's about Skyler White and her relationship with her husband. (Also about her relationship with her sister, because it's part of who Skyler is.) Skyler is a, to put it mildly, controversial character in the fandom, and most BB fanfiction is focused on the Walt and Jesse relationship (understandably, since that is the core of the show). So it being my most popular story in terms of kudos (61) is really against the odds. Go, scrappy little outsider story!
2.) Let it Be
See above. The only one to show up in both lists. (48 kudos)
3.) Collaborators
More DS9 for Yuletide. This one is about Odo, set during his early days working for Dukat during the first occupation; among other things, it's my attempt to come up with an explanation as to why Dukat kept Odo given that Odo didn't solve the murder he orginally had told him to solve, and why Odo remained on the station despite being free to do anywhere he wanted and not having loyalties to either Bajorans or Cardassians; but who am I kidding, most of all it's about his relationship with Quark forming. If you noticed Quark as a common denominator in my DS9 tales, you're not wrong. Apparantly readers approve.
4.) Lebenswerk
Aka the backstory for Norma Desmond and Max von Mayerling from Sunset Boulevard. Sunset Boulevard being the deserved classic it is, writing fanfic worthy of it (for the last but one Yuletide) was a huuuuge challenge as well as a labour of love (for SB itself, for the silent film era, and for the characters), and I'm tickled pink the result found favour.
5.) Fuit Quondam
The newest story on these lists, barely a few months old, since it was one of my two 2013 Yuletide contributions - about Connie Corleone from The Godfather movies. The Godfather, both the films and the book, are an incredibly masculine narrative (which btw I don't mean as a condemnation, just a statement: the way women are treated in this world says a lot about the characters and is part of their story), so making Connie central (and while I was at it, also giving her mother, Sonny's wife Sandra and Fredo's wife Deanna voices) was a deliberate counterpoint. But it was also caused by my fondness for messed up sibling relationships. As third of the Godfather movie shows, Connie and Michael end up spending most of their lives together, which you certainly wouldn't have guessed in the first. How they got there is part of the tale I tried to tell.
Possible lessons: Star Trek is still the granddaddy and boss of all fandoms, but stories about women in male centric fandoms inspire kudos givers?
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Date: 2014-05-01 05:37 pm (UTC)Likely! I also think hits tend to go with the things that people find by searching tags, and kudos tend to go with things that get recced (dunno if that's because different people are finding them or because people are more likely to actually read and finish a story they find by recs). Probably your Skyler fic is on the top of somebody's rec list somewhere (which reminds me I should read it now that I've finished the show!)