#fic statistics

[orime-stories]

Rules: give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and finally the fic with the least words.

Tagged by @sayonaramidnight, thank you! <3

Most hits: Seluna - 1696 - the adventures of my Watcher from Pillars of Eternity

Second most kudos: Impossible Dreams - 41 - my Final Fantasy XIV Warrior of Light Aurelle's first kiss with Aymeric

Third most comments: FFxivWrite2021: Aurelle Silmontier - 37 (about half of which are my responses) - snippets of Aurelle's experiences before and during A Realm Reborn

Fourth most bookmarks: A Fancy Dinner, Camaraderie, A Secret to Keep, The Vault, Expressions of Grief - 4 - various parts of Aurelle's story, including her first date that she doesn't realise is a date with Aymeric, her adventures with team Heavensward in the Churning Mists, the aftermath of her first kiss, coming to Aymeric's rescue, and struggling to deal with the loss of a friend

Fifth most words: The Arrival of the Burning Legion - 3326 - the origin story of my old World of Warcaft main, Lumariae

Fic with the fewest words: A Knight's Calling - 518 - the moment Aurelle loses that friend

Tagging @adraveins, @adozentothedawn, @dragonologist-phd, @serenbach86, @starlightcleric and @starswornoaths for if any of yous fancy it! I know that rootling around in AO3 stats is something some prefer to avoid though, so no pressure at all. And if anyone else wants to give this a go, go for it and tag me in it so I can see!

[screaming-universe]

Bashing Fics in the 9-1-1 Fandom

Inspired by @beforeastorm‘s very neat look at 9-1-1 bashing fics in August and in September 2024, I took another look at the numbers yesterday (23rd January 2025) and… it’s been interesting.

Methods and materials:

For that I selected the 9-1-1 (TV) tag on ao3 while logged into my account and thereby ensuring I would see both public and locked fics; beforeastorm only considered public fics so by god I hope that some of the increases can be explained by that. Then I used the Include filter function to search for [Character Name] Bashing. Where this returned nothing I employed the Search within result function to search for “[character name] bashing”, trying out variations (last or first or nickname). To double-check I also did this search for characters with established bashing tags, using the Exclude filter to ensure that I would not count any fic twice.

Some characters have a bashing tag for themselves and a couple bashing tag. For example: if you search for Margaret Buckley Bashing, you will be offered two tag: Margaret Buckley Bashing and Margaret Buckley and Phillip Buckley Bashing. As far as I could tell, searching for the individual bashing tag also always counts the couple bashing tag, so the couple bashing tags could be disregarded. A list of the characters I looked at is under the cut.

The numbers were collected in an excel file and assigned the characters categories: main (meaning main adult character), family, love interest and other. I also took note of the gender. I did some analysis in excel before having the smart idea that I might as well use this as a training exercise for R (and I am very bad at R).

Disclaimer: this will not include all bashing fics because sadly some people are not familiar with tagging or love letting people run into a fic they will not enjoy. Also while I much prefer it when people tag bashing, some are overly careful and may use bashing tags when not really needed. Still, I much prefer that to people not tagging.

Results:

Disappointing but hardly surprising at this point: the extremely dubious honour of being the most bashed character goes to Tommy Kinard with 660 bashing fics to his name. That obviously makes him the most bashed character of the love interest category, followed by Ana Flores (241) and then Taylor Kelly (118 ^^). The most bashed characters of the family category are the Buckley parents (347 and 325) followed by the Diaz parents (238 and 176), with the mothers being given more bashing fics than the fathers. In the other category, Vincent Gerrard leads with the 66 times his bashing tag was used. Chase Mackey is in third place with 26 fics, and in second place is the Firehouse 118 Crew (45) which probably could be rather counted to the main character category.

Which brings us to that category. Chimney has been bashed in 317 fics, making him the most bashed main character. Followed by Maddie with 223 fics and Bobby with 163. Out of all the main adult characters, Buck is the only one without an established bashing tag. There are 7 fics out there that you can find if you employ a variation of queries with his name + bashing; that is if I have made no mistake. Because honestly? Finding Buck bashing fics is hard. Athena and Buck are the only main characters with less than 10 bashing fics to their name.

Fig. 1: This fucking barplot was a pain to make but here we are! Characters on the y-axis and number of fics that use respective bashing tag on the x-axis. The total number of respective fics are shown next to the bars; colour indicates the category the characters have been placed in. Top: continuous x-axis to allow for an easier overview of the proportions of the bars, bottom: x-axis with a break to allow a closer look.

Dishonourable mention: why the fuck would anybody write a fic with Christopher bashing?

Honourable mentions: Boeing and dolphin bashing. It did make the otherwise pretty depression task of data collection much better.

Gender-wise there are more bashing fics about men (54.3%) than there about women (44.3%) (of course I did not look at every character so I will have missed a few bashing fics). If nobody was writing Tommy bashing fics, that would be flipped (male: 43.0%, female: 55.3%).

Fig. 2: A lovely pie-chart showing the bashing fics per gender, with male subdivided into Tommy, and the other male characters.

Which brings us to the tragedy that is the hate this fandom has for Tommy Kinard. If you add up all the bashing tags I found (which does not equal fics, some people are happily bashing away in their fics), then his account for about 20%. Which is insane, wtf.

Discussion:

This was really depressing tbh. I showed the bar plot to my sister and she asked me what bashing is. She’s been in fandom for years; she was in the supernatural fandom and has read fics and somehow I still had to explain bashing to her. So really: yay for us, this fandom really is something.

 If you look at beforeastorm’s tally from August, you’ll see that Tommy bashing fics began popping up in April 2024 and since then he has become the most bashed character (out of those I looked at, I’m pretty sure that this holds true).

Now you may be wondering why these characters are being bashed. Warning: the following part is based on my opinions. I did not read the fics of all 3291 bashing tag instances that I found.

In some cases it seems pretty straight forward: Vincent Gerrard, Chase Mackey, Doug Kendall and Olivia Ortiz need no further explanation. Other “villains” such as Jeffrey Hudson and Jonah Greenway have no bashing fics that I could find though.

The Buckley and Diaz parents getting bashed is also not surprising. Can’t say that I’m wild about it since my experience with reading fics that tag bashing was usually “here’s a random evil person I made up and then gave the name of an existing character”, but I understand where people are coming from.

Now the main characters… I’m just gonna say it: it’s people who have wronged Buck – according to some of the fandom at least. Chimney’s crime: the punch (no, I’m not defending it, but some people really have run with this). Maddie’s crime: not telling Buck about Daniel and then wanting to talk to him about it when he didn’t want to. Bobby’s crime: not allowing Buck back to work. Hen’s crime: idk, being Chimney’s bestie?

As for Eddie: I guess he’s a misogynist now, if you ask some people? Idk, it’s not like I read the summaries of all the fics because there are too many and also just no.

The love interests – which yes, in this case all happen to be Buck and Eddie’s love interests, imagine my surprise – happen to be “in the way” of shipping I guess. I did look at other love interest or ex-relationships and could find nothing.

Tommy’s crime: loving Evan.

Conclusion:

If you write bashing please keep tagging it.

Appendix:

All the characters I looked at: characters with no bashing fics I could find, characters with an established bashing tag, characters with no established bashing tag but bashing fics can be found

Main adult characters:

Athena Grant, Bobby Nash, Hen Wilson, Chimney Han, Evan Buckley, Eddie Diaz, Maddie Buckley.

Recurring characters, family:

Michael Grant, David Hale, May Grant, Harry Grant, Beatrice and Samuel Carter, Emmett Washington;

Marcy Nash, Tim Nash;

Karen Wilson, Denny Wilson, Antonia Wilson, Nia and Mara;

Albert Han, Chimney’s father/Sang Han, The Lees, Jee-Yun Buckley-Han;

Margaret Buckley, Phillip Buckley, Daniel Buckley, Doug Kendall;

Christopher Diaz, Isabel Diaz, Helena Diaz, Ramon Diaz.

Recurring characters, love interests:

Tommy Kinard, Natalia Dollenmeyer, Taylor Kelly, Lucy Donato, Ali Martin, Abby Clark;

Kim, Marisol, Ana Flores, Shannon Diaz;

Eva Mathis;

Tatiana.

Recurring characters, others:

Firehouse 118 Crew Bashing;

Chase Mackey, Vincent Gerrard, Jonah Greenway, Jeffrey Hudson, Councilwoman Olivia Ortiz;

Josh Russo, Lena Bosko, Ravi Panikkar, Claudette Collins, Brad Torrance;

Boeing, Dolphin.

[borealing]

Question for fic writers!

[osterby]

So the flavour of the day is Bad Fandom Stats, and it turns out that not only is centreoftheselights using a wildly inaccurate method of counting ship popularity during a given year for the Year In Review fandom stats, but also that nearly every column on the chart is a lie. @5ummit exploded the whole methodology issue last year, so I'll just link their post and dive into other stuff.

One would think, looking at a list of popular ships with their fandoms listed next to them, that the named fandom is simply the one within which the ship exists.

The ship at the top of that list is "Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV)" and the fandom is listed as "9-1-1 (TV)"; that's pretty straightforward, there's only the one TV show and those characters are from that show.

But then we get down to ships with characters that exist in multiple versions or subsections of a canon which have their own fandom tags on AO3, and things start getting janky

One of the first things I noticed was weird about this year's chart (aside from the numbers themselves being just straight up wrong) was that the fandom for Kirk/Spock was listed as "Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)", the AO3 tag for the reboot movies. That felt wrong, because while I know the reboot movies are big on AO3, most of the K/S stuff I've seen recently has either been expressly original cast or not specific to any one cast or iteration of canon.

I thought that the list might have been saying that Reboot Kirk/Spock alone was big enough to make the list while Generic and Original Kirk/Spock were separate fandoms that hadn't gotten onto the list. That would be absurd for new fic count, but there are stranger things on this list and the methodology favours newer ships, so I went digging.

A search for Kirk/Spock fic posted in 2024 and a glance at the sidebar gives us this, out of 2,255 total fics

Searching for Kirk/Spock fics updated, rather than newly posted, in 2024 also puts the All Media Types and Original Series tags above the Reboot Movies.

But searching the entire unfiltered ship tag gets us this, out of 22,426 fics

This means two things.

1.) Despite the listed fandom on the year end chart, Kirk/Spock (and by extension, all the other ships from fandoms with more than one iteration of canon [and some Batman ships are on there, so we've got far more complex things than simply reboot movies and TV/anime adaptions of novels/manga]) is a generic ship tag.

2.) the fandom listed was taken from the unfiltered tag, not from this year's data.

And centreoftheselights confirms that this is indeed her methodology.

The fandoms are, quite simply, wrong.

--

Since we do not have access to her data and her methods are not replicable, we can't check how many of the ships might have been struck with a mismatch between which version of their canon is most popular overall vs this year.

I can't even be certain that there is a mismatch for Kirk/Spock. It's possible that the fics that actually make up her numbers have more reboot movie fic than otherwise. No one will ever know.

--

It is interesting to dig into the differences. I find it utterly fascinating that Kirk/Spock had a period that pushed the reboot movies to the top of the list overall and has since settled into Original Cast being more popular, all while the ships remained consistently popular enough to regularily end up on Top Ship Lists.

Centreoftheselights' data does not allow us to dig into those differences, or even to meaningfully speculate about them.

--

And yet more! As I explained in this reblog, the "type" column is not harvested from the data itself, but is a subjective interpretation of what centreoftheselights believes the characters' genders is or could or might be. So not only are all the columns wrong, they aren't even wrong in the same ways.

Over the whole sheet, the columns are: ⚠️Rank: Well, it accurately lists the order of the inaccurate counts, so I guess the column technically isn't inaccurate ⚠️Change: This is indeed the change in rank from last year's chart. It accurately lists the difference between two different inaccurate ranks ✔️ Relationship: accurate! This is the ship tag on AO3 ❌ Fandom: Inaccurate. Actually a top tag within the ship tag, not the fandom the ship is from ❌Works Gained: Inaccurate. see @5ummit's debunk ✔️Total Works: accurate! this is indeed the size of the tag on AO3 ❌Type: Inaccurate. OP's best guess, subjective interpretation, or headcanon ❌Race: Inaccurate. Same as above.

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Tagging @olderthannetfic and @5ummit since you two have kind of been doing the heavy lifting on this one :)

Also plugging the more accurate chart by Randomist1031, which, in addition to having accurate fic counts, also lists fandoms by generic names rather than top tag, which increaes both accuracy and readability. https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/158271001

[horrorfilmlesbian]

Continuing to pick away at the Garashir fic. I'm in deep and maybe one EMH is too

(this might end up being far longer than I thought dhkfkhfhk)

edit: link to the completed work

[coolnonsenseworld]

(to know more about the story and the calendar on pre-order check out previous posts! LESS THAN 2 WEEKS LEFT)

In September they don't feel like going anywhere or doing any bucket lists - no getting out of the comfort zone this time around. All they need is a little comfort of one another - they take breaks for a movie night when they wouldn't, buy extra cakes they haven't tried previously, go on date-walks and take bubble baths with new scents.

Enjoying simple things in life and appreciating your own presence here feels like it should be a basic part of any bucket list.

How is your September going? Do you have any plans or achievements this month?

[freakylover]

Batboys and Batgirls A/B/O Assignments

Omega: 969 fics.

1.-Dick Grayson:

Beta: 80 fics.

Alpha: 1004 fics.

Alpha: 829 fics.

2.-Jason Todd:

Omega: 1444 fics.

Beta: 22 fics.

Omega: 681 fics.

3.-Tim Drake:

Beta: 132 fics.

Alfa: 352 fics.

Omega: 257 fics.

4.-Damian Wayne:

Beta: 18 fics.

Alfa: 349 fics.

Omega: 5 fics.

5.-Duke Thomas:

Beta: 17 fics.

Alpha: 13 fics.

Omega: 14 fics.

6.-Cassandra Cain:

Beta: 21 fics.

Alfa: 57 fics.

7.-Stephanie Brown:

Omega: 37 fics.

Omega: 9 fics.

Beta: 35 fics.

Alfa: 20 fics.

8.-Barbara Gordon:

Beta: 28 fics.

I would have liked to include Harper in the list, but she doesn't have enough tags :c

Alfa: 27 fics.

Please, no hate/mean comments. This post is purely informative.

[spotsandsocks]

I’ve been tagged quite a bit for this and wasn’t sure I’d do it cos frankly statistics can make me a bit unmotivated sometimes 😂 but I did it in the end and here we are I found tags from @hippolotamus @exhuastedpigeon @diazsdimples @theotherbuckley @dangerpronebuddie @eddiebabygirldiaz @lonelychicago @thelikesofus @tizniz

The Write Way to Love 📚 link if anyone out there interested

And now I’ve started I’m interested in the stats so a quick comparison- only 14 fics this year which is much less than last year’s 22, but more words altogether. Significantly less hits and sooo much less kudos 😔 but people do still come chat to me in the comments which is nice.

My favourite that I’ve written How can we dance when I've silenced the song 💜🖤🩶🤍is particularly special to me because Demi!eddie is special to me and I put a lot of my own heart and experiences into it.

I think most people been tagged but I’ll tag @daffi-990 @bi-buckrights @bekkachaos @thekristen999

Template by @spicedrobot | Blank version under the cut

[lostlavenderer]

Can statistics give me a fucking BREAK I just want to write and publish some dyhard fics on my beloved ao3. statistics hates lesbians confirmed.

[cacodaemonia]

Fic Game

rules: give us the links to your fics with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the fewest words.

Thanks for the tag, @crystalshard! :D This will require some sifting on my part, as a lot of my images will probably be high on this list, so I need to exclude those, haha.

1. Most hits Will You Walk With Me? - No surprise here since it's one of my oldest fics, and written when TCW fandom was more active. Not my best fic, but it's my baby. 🥺 Waxer's pov, following him and Boil through the war. 🧡

2. Second most kudos Orbital Decay - 4th highest number of kudos, but two image works came in 1st and 3rd place. Old Codywan.

3. Third most comments Kinktober 2022 - Ah, I'm pleased with this one! It's actually one of my favorite fics I've written, haha. The epitome of 'character develop portrayed through smut.' 😂 Waxer/Boil, of course.

4. Fourth most bookmarks Modulation - 4th was actually Orbital Decay again, so I went to the 5th most bookmarked fic. This is another old one. Echo/Fives.

5. Fifth most words My Heart's Red Muscle - My best longfic, I'd say :) Waxer/Boil but Waxer is a cyborg. (I swear, I wrote this like a year before I even knew what The Murderbot Diaries were, but there are a shocking number of similarities XD)

6. Fewest words Hm, idk how to answer this one since my images don't have words aside from some image descriptions here and there. Then I just have a bunch of drabbles, which are of course 100 words. I guess I'll just go with the first drabble I see that catches my eye 😂 Sooo, how about Burden. Waxer & Boil. Summary: Waxer doesn't want to be one. (a burden)

No-pressure tags: @flowerparrish (gimme those sweet, sweet podfics) @bilbosmom-belladonna @petrifiedforests @kartaylirnaak @lizardberries

@aerjnn

[petrifiedforests]

Fic Game

rules: give us the links to your fics with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the fewest words.

Thank you for the tag @cacodaemonia! This is always a fun one

Most hits Drabble Kinktober 2024 - That one is no surprise, it has a whopping 31 chapters that were released daily, so even if the same number of people read it, the hit count would automatically be a lot higher. And it's a lot of different ships, so maybe it reached different people? Might be that it's smut? Regardless, it has 4.5 times more hits than number two. Loads of ships, drabbles of smut

Second most kudos It's all in the hands - An all time favorite of mine. Dogma and his very specific speech and thought patterns were loads of fun. Dogma learns to knit.

3. Third most comments Hey Brother - Another Dogma fic. That's my first multi-chapter fic I think. Tup and Dogma join the Wolfpack after Umbara.

4. Fourth most bookmarks A Most Important Question - I am sensing a pattern here. Dogma has really taken over this game, hasn't he. This one is very sweet and I like how cozy it is. Dogma has a question for Tup.

5. Fifth most words Zero Unread Messages - I like this one. For as much as it fought me while writing it, I think it was worth the pay off. Boil goes to Umbara for clean up.

6. Fewest words Feather for Feather - Ohhh, that's a sad one. Hics, my precious boy. I really should write him and Pillar again. OC Wing AU

No pressure tagging whoever wants to play, I know some peeps don't like to look at their statistics.

[froggywentaprincin]

There are currently around 1386 fics on fanfiction.net for Ever After High. Of these, 1004 are tagged with at least one EAH character (the others not being tagged at all or only being tagged OC).

Above are the Top 15 tagged EAH characters!

Below are all the Ever After High characters that have been tagged on fanfiction.net in order of how much they are tagged:

This data taken on May 1st, 2024.

[statistically-spencer]

Fortunate Dream PT. 2

Summary: Your dream of joining the BAU was becoming more and more real. How will you handle sharing a private jet with your favorite characters?

Pairing: Spencer Reid x fem!reader (eventual), BAU members x reader(platonic)

A/N: Sorry for the long wait on this one! I finished Calculus 1 in 4-weeks while also being in a musical so I ran out of time there for a bit. Enjoy!

w/c; 783

Part 1 here

As confused as you were, you were having a great time experiencing the relationship that dream-you had with the members of the BAU. Everyone seemed to like you just fine.

On the jet, you found a place to sit in the window seat on the opposite side of the isle, where Derek sat, leaving an empty seat next to yourself. Derek gave you an assuring smile. You wondered how many traits that you, and this version of you had that overlapped. Did the team know about your fear of flying? Did they know about your raging crush on Dr. Spencer Reid? Did they know that you had absolutely no idea what you were doing and that you totally should not be there right now?? 

Glancing up, you made eye contact with Spencer, who seemed to be walking suspiciously close to your row.

Oh.

You tried to act natural as he took a seat next to you. 

You didn’t have to act natural for long, though, because in an instant the jet began to roll forward, faster and faster.

You swallowed deeply.

“Are you okay, Y/n? I know you never like flying but you seem like something is really off.”

“No, I’m okay.” You lied, “I’m just... I just didn’t sleep much last night and I’m really tired.”

“Oh, well you know, there’s no need to worry about turbulence. If anything, we should really be concerned about-”

“Spencer, no offense, but if you’re about to tell me about how what we should really be concerned about is the onset of a thunderstorm, contributing to the possibility of microbursts, I’d rather not hear it.”

You heard a chuckle and looked up to see Derek standing next to you. 

“Oooh, she’s got you figured out, Reid. Better be careful.”

You blushed. You were only remembering something Spencer had said in an episode of Criminal Minds. Had that episode happened yet in this timeline? 

“Oh no... I was just... I just don’t need to be any more freaked out than I already am right now.” You cleared your throat. 

Spencer smiled at you, “We’ll be fine.”

You were trying to think of something to say to the man. Anything. This was your chance to talk to the love of your life and you were drawing a blank. You couldn’t think of one clever thing to say to him. You just kept looking up at him, and whenever you looked, it seemed like he was looking, too. Which was probably a good sign, right? Instead, it was mostly silent. With you making the occasional attempt to look fine whenever there was turbulence. 

In the midst of everything, you forgot that you were, for the time being at least, a real FBI agent. And, you were in fact, actually dealing with criminals. However, those facts became extremely apparent when Garcia phoned in with details about the case. 

It was hard to focus when Spencer was sitting next to you the entire time. Being so real. So cute. So... Good smelling somehow. 

“-Well, we know hardly anything about the suspect.”

If you had been in a laughing mood after hearing all of the gruesome details of the case, you would’ve laughed at Emily’s statement.

“Male. Thirty-five-”

You froze, realizing that you and Spencer were saying the same thing.

“...Keeps within his inner circle.” You finished, looking Reid up and down slowly.

A quick glance around the jet told you that this was not an uncommon event. In fact, the knowing looks that were being shared by the rest of the team said quite the opposite.

Spencer blinked, trying to come up with more information.

“Also he definitely has children.”

“Obviously.” You blinked, looking around.

“I said that out loud, didn’t I?”

Luckily, the look on Spencer’s face wasn’t disgust like you expected. He looked... Proud? Happy?

Wait a minute. You were so caught up in information about the case that you didn’t stop to wonder how you came to that conclusion. Was that normal for you? Were you also a super genius? Perhaps. It was highly plausible, now that you were thinking about it. You were obviously young like Spencer was. Why else would you be on the team at that age? Huh. You liked being smart. It was cool.

“We’ll need to split up upon arrival-” Hotch interrupted your thoughts, “Prentiss you’ll be with Morgan, you’ll share a room at the hotel as well. And Y/L/N, you and Reid will be staying in the other room.”

Oh.

You stole a quick glance at Spencer. The over-confidence you had both been showing had disappeared in an instant.

“You got it, boss.” You tightened your lips.

Why would you say that?

[horrorfilmlesbian]

Maybe I DO have other things to work on but lower decks finale Garashir canon really uh. Did something to my brain

Anyway....how a hologram fell in love fic coming soon to your door....

edit: link to the completed work

[allergictolife09]

You know a fandom's niche when it has a grand total of 80 fics on ao3.

[freakylover]

Comparison of Style vs Kyman fanfics by language

Additional data:

-Style is much more popular among English writers (69.93%) than among Spanish writers (33.11%).

-Kyman is much more popular among Spanish writers (66.89%) than among English writers (30.07%).

-There are 56.97% fewer Kyman fanfics (2365) compared to Styles (5497) in English.

-There are 50.50% fewer Style fanfics (98) compared to Kyman (198) in Spanish.

-In Spanish, the ratio of Kyman to Style is approximately 2:1.

-In English, the ratio of Style to Kyman is approximately 2.3:1

Please don't comment hate messages, this post is purely informative. I don't want my notifications to be filled with ship wars/hate in general :ccc