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[green-socks]

2024 fic reading stats / AO3 Wrapped - Reader Edition

Last April I got the idea that I wanted to, in some form, get a better understanding of how much and how often I read fic, and some other stats as well. Obviously I knew the answer was a lot and often. But you know the urge to make lists and sort things when you're stressed? Yeah, that hit, so I started up a spreadsheet starting May 1st. In my spreadsheet I logged the date I had read the fic, the fic's title, author, fandom, ship, rating, and word count. I also added the AO3 link to the fic which has proven handy in looking up recs and stuff like that!

I just wanted to share some of those stats now that I've made lil graphs to go with them and everything lol

Starting with the totals:

Last year, from 1 May to 31 Dec, I read about 3,928,191 words of fanfic. (Now, that's the logged amount, but it's not... perfect. I won't go into detail but let's just state that that amount is still very telling!)

Total of different fics I read during the logged time was 478. (There are 479 logged entries but one of them was a reread, so.)

The most amount of entries for a single day was 8, and it happened three times lol. Two of those I know I was sick but idk what that third day was, probably a wonderfully lazy sunday.

Authors:

I logged at least 141 different AO3 authors. (Some people using several pseuds may have confused my count a little but give or take a couple!)

Here I have to shout out @fuddlewuddle because if I read 478 fics, 93 of those were hers. I don't even know what to say except that I'm glad our freaks match each other <3

A fun thing to note was that I myself made it on my top 10 list of "favorite" writers based on the amount of fics logged because I reread my own stuff frequently enough! That's kind of uplifting to think about. If sorted by word count, however, I am farrr from the top, because I tend to write shorter fics :D But I'm happy to keep it that way!

Fandom:

Showing off some percentages based on the 478 logged fics. Ahem, as you can see, Top Gun continues as the ruling fandom in my life, but there were some new smaller fandoms coming in as well! And that strange, two movie fandom fusion is, of course, courtesy of Fuddle...

If I were to sort these by word count instead, the percentages would stay pretty much the same, except Other fandoms would give a tiny bit of its slice over to Ted Lasso.

Ship:

Again, this is based on the total of 478 logged fics. Quelle surprise, I'm a hangster girl and there's a lot of that on the market, so 183 out of those 478 were hangster fics. Other ships here entails multi-ship fics (where the ships are equal instead of clear main ship & background ship type of thing), poly ships with a number of varying character combinations, and ships that had less than 5 logged fics with it as the main ship.

(The tiny red dot says roykeeleyjamie and it had 6 logs in total. The purple dot with the name not fully showing is macheresin with 10 fics.)

Rating:

This is again based on the total of 478 fics.

My own writing stats:

I posted 18,687 words' worth of fic last year (though some thousands of words haven't made it to AO3 yet, but were still written last year). As you can see, I am still very much a reader rather than a writer, but it's the best of both worlds, getting to do both!

Overall, I thought this was a fun experiment, and I'm going to keep up with my spreadsheet for the new year – because what is life without spreadsheets, really.

Guess if I realized I had forgotten to log at least one longer fic after finishing up the last of those graphs!!!! Sighhh

[lilvampirepet]

i hope you all 🫵 are prepared for daily kinktober drawings

[s0ckh3adstudios]

WE'RE GETTING THAT SEASON BABYYYY

[peterpauldoodkorte]

Pratende sokken | Talking Socks | Chaussettes parlantes

Vrolijke magie Juul Halfwas probeert Opa Pieter – die een beetje mopperig is – op te monteren. “Kijk Opa, mijn voeten kunnen praten en mijn handen kunnen zingen,” roept hij. “Zo leer ik ook beter praten, en Opa, voor mensen die de kinderleeftijd ruimschoots zijn gepasseerd – mensen als u dus – is dat niet veel anders. U kunt bijvoorbeeld een kort boodschappenlijstje beter onthouden. Opa Pieter,…

[maxipad33]

catboy max verstappen because uhhhhhhhhh yeah!! anyways enjoy

[beausbugbiome]

Significantly increased my sock-game today 🪲🐌

From Earthbound Tranding Co.

[linrinkuarts]

Caught me by surprise.

[theoldkyokodied]

Uploading all my Tomgreg art at once from the past few week before season 4 hits, who knows in what kind of mental state i'm gonna be once it does :')

[apnourry]

it was hot at work, i was hot at work, i forget the rest

[symeona]

Nobody asked, might be a hot take, but I was thinking of Mace Windu as one does...

And how Yoda's character was flipped from the og episodes to the prequels, and that was kinda fun honestly. (They low key did that to Anakin too, he went from the most intimidating person in the room to that quivering crusty tiny white dog energy)

And thinking of Mace... I originally diagnosed him with My Mom character, like he had one fucking hairstyle since he was born and that was it for him. And it makes sense TO ME. But, it's not fun... It's not dynamic...

But. I now see the potential there.

What if Mace was the most laid back, chill lil guy in the temple back in the day????? Imagine baby Mace with freeform dreads or a lil fro... Sitting with T'ra Saa just sipping tea... Not sure if he wants to become a knight or not.. he'll figure it out maybe... Cyslin trying to explain to the council why her student didn't feel like boots that day....

[aduckwithears]

Aziraphale and his slightly too big, very convincing Reporter disguise.

Little things to love about Good Omens S2 (27/?) - Masterpost

[lilvampirepet]

since i probably wont be done this piece (or any other art) before halloween, you guys can have a sneak peek of my next power/strahd piece!! >:3c

[s0ckh3adstudios]

flaming hot cheetos

[nikonuee]

Yes, I *could* block the singular sock I just made OR I could put it on my foot to show it off after weaving in the ends and end up falling asleep wearing it instead.

It's practically the same thing!

[leelubell]

Every time I finish a season of Taskmaster I’m like “noooooo I don’t want to go to the next season this is my emotional support group of British comedians”

Then I move on to the next season and find a new batch of emotional support British comedians

[sock-to-the-third]

Deep Space Discounts

By DeepBlueInk

I love their animated comedy sketches of Drawfee and Make Some Noise so it was a real treat seeing this. Stories about hellish other worldy retail shows just got a special place in my heart. Gives the good vibes like that fast food episode from The Amazing Digital Circus.