There’s an AO3 story stats meme going around (I saw it from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
genarti) “Give us the links to your fics with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and least words.” I admit, I was kinda curious — I rarely check stats after the first few days. So I poked at the sorting function:
Most hits: A Roll of the Dice - Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio - Pu Songling — A wuxia-inflected tale of the uncanny. I’d make a comment about how all my most popular fics are either Chinese source or Greek mythology, but given I’ve posted a bare handful that aren’t those two, it’d be surprising if that wasn’t true. (Not part of the meme, but for my own amusement, least hits is Paul Bunyan and the Photocopier. Sorry, Babe.)
Most kudos: Mother of Wood Deludes the Monk into Binding the Mind-Ape / Guanyin Puts Her Face in Her Hand - Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en — Wukong gets himself in trouble with Sanzang, again, with Pigsy’s help, again. This has two-and-a-half times as many as second place, A Change of Season (Tang Dynasty RPF), and was second place in previous stat. I think, given this and the next two, I can mark this as my most popular overall.
Most comments: Same as previous, with same second place.
Most bookmarks: Same as previous, with same second place.
Most words: The Myrmidon Cycle - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore & Metamorphoses - Ovid — Reader, I am *cackling* with glee. My longest is an epic poem! And a sex farce! That’s unfinished! Admittedly, you could argue that this shouldn’t count, as it was written as separate stories intended as a series, pasted together as chapters. The runner-up is Young Agamemnon Sees It Through, which is prose of a whole piece.
Least words: Kassandra, at the Skiain Gate - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore — Again, you could argue a poem doesn’t count for these purposes. The next several smallest are also poems as well: the shortest prose is Weaving Rumors (The Odyssey - Homer), which since it was written for Yuletide is (just) over 1000 words. Plus I’m not much for flash fiction.
---L.
Subject quote from What’s Up Danger, Blackway & Black Caviar.
genarti) “Give us the links to your fics with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and least words.” I admit, I was kinda curious — I rarely check stats after the first few days. So I poked at the sorting function:Most hits: A Roll of the Dice - Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio - Pu Songling — A wuxia-inflected tale of the uncanny. I’d make a comment about how all my most popular fics are either Chinese source or Greek mythology, but given I’ve posted a bare handful that aren’t those two, it’d be surprising if that wasn’t true. (Not part of the meme, but for my own amusement, least hits is Paul Bunyan and the Photocopier. Sorry, Babe.)
Most kudos: Mother of Wood Deludes the Monk into Binding the Mind-Ape / Guanyin Puts Her Face in Her Hand - Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en — Wukong gets himself in trouble with Sanzang, again, with Pigsy’s help, again. This has two-and-a-half times as many as second place, A Change of Season (Tang Dynasty RPF), and was second place in previous stat. I think, given this and the next two, I can mark this as my most popular overall.
Most comments: Same as previous, with same second place.
Most bookmarks: Same as previous, with same second place.
Most words: The Myrmidon Cycle - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore & Metamorphoses - Ovid — Reader, I am *cackling* with glee. My longest is an epic poem! And a sex farce! That’s unfinished! Admittedly, you could argue that this shouldn’t count, as it was written as separate stories intended as a series, pasted together as chapters. The runner-up is Young Agamemnon Sees It Through, which is prose of a whole piece.
Least words: Kassandra, at the Skiain Gate - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore — Again, you could argue a poem doesn’t count for these purposes. The next several smallest are also poems as well: the shortest prose is Weaving Rumors (The Odyssey - Homer), which since it was written for Yuletide is (just) over 1000 words. Plus I’m not much for flash fiction.
---L.
Subject quote from What’s Up Danger, Blackway & Black Caviar.