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Top 5/Bottom 5

(tagged by no one, I do what I want, Thor!)

Rules: tag the person who tagged you, always post the rules, answer the questions, and add the date!  

What are your five most popular works? (starting with the most kudos)

Slow Work (MCU, Steve/Bucky): 4,093 kudos 

Embrace the Fire: The Avenger Games (Hunger Games/Avengers Crossover, gen): 511 kudos

you can take the boy out of the desert (Star Wars original trilogy, gen): 479 kudos

Patience, Friend (Temeraire, Volly fic, gen): 325 kudos

From, and To, and Why (Temeraire, Laurence/Tharkay/Granby OT3): 308 kudos

What are your five least popular works? (starting with the least kudos)

TIE: A Torment to Herself and Honour by Moonlight (both A Deed for Paksenarrion, character study gen-fic): 12 kudos each

Elmer Drimsdale, Flirtation Crustacean (Macdonald Hall, humour/crackfic): 13 kudos

Coping Mechanisms (Hunger Games gen): 23 kudos

‘Tis Strange (King Lear, Multiple AUs): 25 kudos

Where is the Silence (Hunger Games gen) 27 kudos

Are you surprised? Why?

The Highs:

Slow Work: I can’t say I’m surprised that the only fanfic I ever wrote for a popular pairing in a popular fandom is my most popular fanfic, no. ;) 

Embrace the Fire: I am actually still surprised by this. Like, yes ok I wrote this in 2012 when Avengers and Hunger Games were Hot Commodities but like ….. only the first movie in each franchise had come out, half the characters in it I made up (as in, their characterizations) because they hadn’t appeared in the movies yet, there was absolutely no romance or shipping, I killed a whole bunch of people, yet … people still liked it?? And still do??? Hey-o! 

you can take the boy: I am pleasantly surprised by this, yes! I didn’t realize the OT gang were still popular, especially since – again – it was entirely gen, and mostly just character exploration and culture shock and things. Turns out that’s a huge part of the Star Wars fandom nowadays. :D

Patience, Friend: I …… this baffles me. I MEAN I’M NOT SAD, but I wrote this for Yuletide, one of two stories, and this was BY FAR the one I liked the least! This one is Volly’s hatching, the other one was an exhaustively researched battle story with historical and poetic tie-ins; this one I thought was derivative, had nothing special, didn’t bring anything new to the table, I thought for sure everyone would hate it and be disappointed – and everyone loved it. Apparently I’m too hard on myself, who knew. (Everyone. Everyone knew this.)

From, and To…: Not surprised. ;) Temeraire is not the most popular of fandoms, but Laurence/Tharkay/Granby takes the most popular pairings and turns them into an OT3, plus it was almost 35,000 words and had plot and adventure and pining and all kinds of things. It was good stuff, y’all.

The Lows:

A Torment to Herself & Honour by Moonlight: Absolutely unsurprised. Honestly I’m surprised any time I’m surprised someone reads them in the first place! A Torment to Herself is about Barranyi, one of the villains, who if you read is probably the most me-bait character in all of Paksenarrion, but she is at least a compelling villain. I guess what does surprise me is that people actually read/cared about Effa, who … I mean, she has like 5 lines? and her entire character is “annoying, self-righteous fundamentalist who dies immediately”, but honestly, I love her and her death just hit me so hard I couldn't leave her there. 

Elmer Drimsdale…: Listen, that story is hilarious, but given that 90% of the Macdonald Hall tag is Bruno/Boots and 8% is Cathy/Diane and the other 2% is everyone else, I’m not surprised that this silly fic I wrote in 2011 about Elmer’s invention going wrong and broadcasting his flirting efforts all across the GTA went under the radar.

Coping Mechanisms: I’m not really surprised, this one has the dreaded “Original Character POV” tag, and while it does have Brutus and Lyme, you really need to be in on my D2 stuff to be interested in it. This one isn’t going to be a gateway.

‘Tis Strange: OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT, LISTEN, this fic is awesome, it is the greatest, I don’t know why more people didn’t read it. I mean, I know why, because nobody reads fanfic for King Lear, especially not fanfic about King Lear where every single scene takes place in a different AU, but YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD BECAUSE LOOK AT HOW GREAT THIS IS: 

Where is the Silence: Similar to ‘Coping Mechanisms’, this one you need to care about Claudius for it to matter. (I like it though, poor kiddo)

Optional: If you want to calculate this, what are your works’ average number of notes?

OKAY WELL if you remove Slow Work aka kudos georg up there, by the numbers the average fic should get around 80 kudos. If I’m scrolling down the list, it looks like ~20% have over 100 kudos, ~30% have over 50 kudos, and 50% have under 50 kudos. Looking at the actual numbers, most fic get in the 30s and 40s.

This is why I’ve never been a numbers person, though. If I measured success by how many hits/kudos/comments, I’d consider myself a huge fandom failure – I’ve seen people on tumblr upset about how little engagement they got on the latest chapter of a thing, and then it’s more than I’d get on my most popular stuff. It’s all relative! I’m here to enjoy myself. My corner is fun, so I’m happy. :)

Today’s date, so you can see how your results might change if you do this again in a year.

July 30, 2017

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