Top Kudos By Year Stats
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smilebackwardsI keep seeing this on my reading list and I love stats so here's mine.
List your top fanworks on AO3 for every year, sorted by kudos.
2009
Four ways Dave Sheppard didn't find out about the Stargate Program, and one way he did - Stargate Atlantis, John & Dave Sheppard | Kudos: 583
The phase where I almost exclusively wrote five things fic.
2010
A Little Help From My Friends - Inception, Arthur/Eames | Kudos: 1204
I can't believe how little Inception fic I actually posted. Somewhere on my hard drive there must be so many half written wips. This was probably almost one of them. I distinctly remember writing it while dog-sitting for an adorable but extremely needy puppy.
2011
Humane Society - X-Men: First Class, Erik/Charles | Kudos: 5414
The Kitten Erik fic. The first and only fic I posted in installments where I was just writing it on the fly. This got an incredible response on the kink meme that kept me going when the rest of my life was a bit of a shambles. I thought it would be like my fandom legacy and nothing would ever eclipse this kudos count but the saga continues.
2012
645 Riverside Drive - X-Men: First Class, Erik/Charles | Kudos: 4222
More XMFC. Coffee shop AU this time. Continued smitten Erik.
2013
Flanking Maneuver - DCU/Young Justice, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd | Kudos: 3592
I'm kind of shocked to see the response this ended up with. I guess we're all in for the Bat Family Feels. A pretty short fic that I think I wrote straight through in an hour or two unlike my usual months of agonizing over 1000 words.
2014
дорогой - Captain America/MCU, Steve/Bucky | Kudos: 4948
Venturing into the juggernaut Steve/Bucky pairing. I probably shouldn't have attempted to title this in Russian. I changed the original 'sweetheart' translation I got from Google Translate to дорогой based on a comment but there was continued speculation in further comments about whether this instead means or has connotations for 'expensive' lol.
2015
Double Blind - Daredevil/MCU, Matt/Foggy & Avengers | Kudos: 12476
Okay, this truly is the fic that I believe the kudos count can never be eclipsed. Presumably this was recced somewhere. And Daredevil/MCU are large fandoms. I feel a little bad about it because I hope people realize like half of it is based on prompt thread comments. Commenters loved the 'justice is blind' last line which I thought was basically THE Daredevil fandom pun (there is no way I can be the first person to have made that joke! has Matt himself not made that joke??) but I think no one commented on the pun in the title so maybe that only made sense to me. For the record, double blind is literal because Matt is blinded for a second time in this fic but it was also intended to be a play on blinding in studies to avoid bias (the Avengers holding Matt back from fighting because he's blind, although technically the situation is probably more of a single blind than double blind because Matt of course knows what's going on). This is what happens when I don't have good song lyrics available for a title.
2016
Disarm - Daredevil, Frank & Matt/Foggy | Kudos: 2486
Basically Daredevil season 2 if Frank's family didn't die and he didn't become Punisher. I think I wrote fluffy humor where Daredevil fandom was skewed a bit more dark so people appreciated the lighter fic.
2017
welcome to the human race - Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter & Yondu | Kudos: 920
Daemon AU. I like daemons and space and I remixed this off of Less Than Zero by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
Tyranno which I really enjoyed.
2018
with a name like mine - Harry Potter, Regulus Black & Sirus/Remus | Kudos: 1163
I wrote Harry Potter fic in 2018. Fandom never dies. Also, everyone has a secondary Harry Potter character that is their favorite and Regulus Black is mine so when I saw this prompt on tumblr I was like yes.
2019
The Most Beautiful Man in Atlantis - Stargate Atlantis, John/Rodney | Kudos: 287
We begin and end with SGA. Although there's plenty of time left in the year and the Star Wars fics are not far behind.
Trends:
- Started on an upward trend in kudos, now on a downward trend but it always depends on what the current popular fandoms are
- 90% of things I write are based on prompts I find
- Puns or a few words that encapsulate the fic for titles, then song lyrics
- About half gen focus, half ship focus
- Default writing is present tense, occasional swap to past tense for no known reason
List your top fanworks on AO3 for every year, sorted by kudos.
2009
Four ways Dave Sheppard didn't find out about the Stargate Program, and one way he did - Stargate Atlantis, John & Dave Sheppard | Kudos: 583
The phase where I almost exclusively wrote five things fic.
2010
A Little Help From My Friends - Inception, Arthur/Eames | Kudos: 1204
I can't believe how little Inception fic I actually posted. Somewhere on my hard drive there must be so many half written wips. This was probably almost one of them. I distinctly remember writing it while dog-sitting for an adorable but extremely needy puppy.
2011
Humane Society - X-Men: First Class, Erik/Charles | Kudos: 5414
The Kitten Erik fic. The first and only fic I posted in installments where I was just writing it on the fly. This got an incredible response on the kink meme that kept me going when the rest of my life was a bit of a shambles. I thought it would be like my fandom legacy and nothing would ever eclipse this kudos count but the saga continues.
2012
645 Riverside Drive - X-Men: First Class, Erik/Charles | Kudos: 4222
More XMFC. Coffee shop AU this time. Continued smitten Erik.
2013
Flanking Maneuver - DCU/Young Justice, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd | Kudos: 3592
I'm kind of shocked to see the response this ended up with. I guess we're all in for the Bat Family Feels. A pretty short fic that I think I wrote straight through in an hour or two unlike my usual months of agonizing over 1000 words.
2014
дорогой - Captain America/MCU, Steve/Bucky | Kudos: 4948
Venturing into the juggernaut Steve/Bucky pairing. I probably shouldn't have attempted to title this in Russian. I changed the original 'sweetheart' translation I got from Google Translate to дорогой based on a comment but there was continued speculation in further comments about whether this instead means or has connotations for 'expensive' lol.
2015
Double Blind - Daredevil/MCU, Matt/Foggy & Avengers | Kudos: 12476
Okay, this truly is the fic that I believe the kudos count can never be eclipsed. Presumably this was recced somewhere. And Daredevil/MCU are large fandoms. I feel a little bad about it because I hope people realize like half of it is based on prompt thread comments. Commenters loved the 'justice is blind' last line which I thought was basically THE Daredevil fandom pun (there is no way I can be the first person to have made that joke! has Matt himself not made that joke??) but I think no one commented on the pun in the title so maybe that only made sense to me. For the record, double blind is literal because Matt is blinded for a second time in this fic but it was also intended to be a play on blinding in studies to avoid bias (the Avengers holding Matt back from fighting because he's blind, although technically the situation is probably more of a single blind than double blind because Matt of course knows what's going on). This is what happens when I don't have good song lyrics available for a title.
2016
Disarm - Daredevil, Frank & Matt/Foggy | Kudos: 2486
Basically Daredevil season 2 if Frank's family didn't die and he didn't become Punisher. I think I wrote fluffy humor where Daredevil fandom was skewed a bit more dark so people appreciated the lighter fic.
2017
welcome to the human race - Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter & Yondu | Kudos: 920
Daemon AU. I like daemons and space and I remixed this off of Less Than Zero by
2018
with a name like mine - Harry Potter, Regulus Black & Sirus/Remus | Kudos: 1163
I wrote Harry Potter fic in 2018. Fandom never dies. Also, everyone has a secondary Harry Potter character that is their favorite and Regulus Black is mine so when I saw this prompt on tumblr I was like yes.
2019
The Most Beautiful Man in Atlantis - Stargate Atlantis, John/Rodney | Kudos: 287
We begin and end with SGA. Although there's plenty of time left in the year and the Star Wars fics are not far behind.
Trends:
- Started on an upward trend in kudos, now on a downward trend but it always depends on what the current popular fandoms are
- 90% of things I write are based on prompts I find
- Puns or a few words that encapsulate the fic for titles, then song lyrics
- About half gen focus, half ship focus
- Default writing is present tense, occasional swap to past tense for no known reason
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Date: 2019-07-22 10:06 pm (UTC)You have a lot of big fandoms represented there.
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Date: 2019-07-23 01:51 am (UTC)I always end up in the big fandoms eventually. Five years from now I'll probably write something for Good Omens.