who loves you pretty baby?

[pensnest]

I spotted an AO3 meme/list thingy and thought, why not? although I did regret that part-way through. Hope I remembered how to do this.

1. Most Hits: Of Duty, and A Path Not Ridden 3,274 This was written for Yuletide 2022, so not surprisingly it continues to get occasional hits and comments. Which is very nice.

2. Second Most Kudos: The Preparation of a Gentleman's Nursery Another Yuletide fic, the first of my Wimsey stories. 255 Kudos.

3. Third Most Comments: The Company of Women, the other Wimsey fic, written for Yuletide 2024

4. Fourth Most Bookmarks: By Invitation Only. This is a ST:TNG story, and was written in the 1990s, but I put my Trek stories up for completeness. It's nice to see them get a bit more love, and that the fandom is still not entirely dead.

5. Fifth Most Words: Wanna Tell Me About It? the original version, which clocks in at 33,275 words. I rewrote and expanded this story in 2020-2021, and the expanded version stands at 63,625. I must admit I was surprised at just how much extra I wrote. Wonder whether it was, overall, an improvement.

6. Fic With Second Fewest Words (That's Not a Drabble): Well, hmm. By word count, that is A Brief and Necessarily Incomplete But Nonetheless Heartfelt Tribute To My Beloved Fandom. 172 words, but it's not precisely a story: it is a collection of limericks. Not that that is a bad thing.

7. Seventh Most Common Relationship: I have no idea. How does one even count that? On reflection, I checked on my website, where there is an alternative index by relationship, and it looks like JuC and Lance/Nick tie at four stories each. I would not have guessed that. I wrote *four* JuC stories?

8. Eighth Drabble Posted: I haven't done that many drabbles. I speak, of course, of actual drabbles.

9. Ninth Most Common Character: oh, I cannot be arsed.

10. Tenth Mature and/or Explicit Fic: I don't rate my fics, by and large, so this is a non-starter.

11. Eleventh Most Recent Completed Fic: Looks like the rewrite of Wanna Tell Me About It? (ie the Extended version), which went up on AO3 on 21 Jan 2021.

12. Twelfth Most Recent Story in Your Sixth Most Common Tag: oh, I really cannot be arsed. I guess my most common tag might be Alternate Universe, but—seriously?

3. Favorite Title That Isn't from a Poem or Song or Shakespeare or The West Wing: Ah. Hard choice, even though I have borrowed no titles from Shakespeare or The West Wing. I'll have to present a bunch.

in porco, veritas
Show You The Shape of My What?
The Educated Pig
can't see the wood for the 42Ds
The Pussycat and the Porcupine
Sparrowhawk and Beeswax

All of which, I am happy to say, appear to be unique.

Comments

[jacieleigh]

I always love seeing the writing memes! (especially when I can ID the Fandom!)

[pensnest]

This one is at least a bit different, though how I am going to determine which is my sixth most popular tag (or whatever) I don't know. I think with my popslash background I simply don't use a lot of tags anyway.

[jacieleigh]

The same place you find relationship and characters, you can also sort by "additional tags". So if you click that, it will expand and give you your top 10 tags... supposedly. I guess it's right, but mine just seems a little... odd.

[pensnest]

Thanks! I suspected there must somewhere be further stats available but was too lazy to hunt them out. Although in truth, I never really got into the habit of tagging, so my tags are generally sparse. I'm not a writer who tends to traumatise her readers (I don't think I am, tho' I do recall a couple of fics that did, heh) and I expect them to be grownups. This tends to work out fine without having to tag anything and everything that occurs within a story. Harrumph.

[turlough]

You have written JuC??!! I'm shocked and appalled ;-D

I blame popslash for me never even thinking of checking the rating on a fic. It's so completely irrelevant!

[pensnest]

One was the SeSa request that had me shrieking with woe and another was a Remix!

[turps]

I have to admit, I was surprised at the four JuCs! *g*

[pensnest]

Heh. Yes. Well, there are more than thirty Trickyfishes, plus the Chronicles, which puts it into perspective.