AO3 Averages Meme

[violsva]

I got my booster shot yesterday, which has knocked me out like all the others. My immune system would like to know wtf I'm playing at.

Current pandemic obsession is embroidery, and at the moment specifically needlelace (modern explanation, Victorian explanation), which is something like embroidery without the cloth. It's also much more manageable than bobbin lace; if I tried to set up a lace pillow covered in pins and things hanging from strings around Pepper terrible things would happen.

I have been throwing myself into that with all the enthusiasm of someone who is avoiding preparing for the new semester and also has a bunch of Agatha Christie audiobooks on Libby, but in the interests of avoiding eyestrain, and also because I just had a shower and am now utterly out of energy, have a meme.


AO3 Averages Meme from sanguinity I think

I like this idea because my most popular works are nearly an order of magnitude above the rest and not likely to change any time soon.

275 total works

Wordcount

Average: 1,500 words almost exactly.

I Have No Time for Trifles, ACD Holmes, Holmes/Watson smut, 1,481 words

Median: 300 words

Gone From the City, ACD Holmes, Sherlock Holmes gen, 300 words

Energy and Nerve Force ACD Holmes, Holmes&Watson gen, 300 words

Both of those, like I suspect the majority of my 101-500 word fics, were written for watsons_woes July Writing Prompts.

Every Claim You Stake, Wandavision, Agatha Harkness/&Wanda Maximoff post-canon, 300 words


Hits

Average: 859 hits

Far to Go, Marvel, Natasha Romanov de-aging WIP, 854 hits

Kind of neat that this came up. Not sure when I'll finish it; I know exactly what happens in the final scene but have half a dozen possibilities for how to get there.

Median: 380 hits

Books and Bees, ACD Holmes, Holmes/&Watson retirement, 380 hits


Kudos

Average: 75 kudos

With This Night's Revels, Shakespeare RPF, Shakespeare/Marlowe modern AU, Yuletide, 75 kudos

Median: 40 kudos

Vroom!, ACD Holmes, Holmes&Watson retirement, 40 kudos

Return, ACD Holmes, Mary Morstan, 40 kudos

Rely, Marvel, Winterhawk kink, 40 kudos


Comment Threads

Average: 5 comment threads

[19 different fics]

Median: 3 comment threads

[43 different fics]

Median number of total comments, rather than threads, is 4.


Bookmarks
These are from the stats page, so count private bookmarks as well. My works have altogether over twice as many bookmarks as comment threads, but I am aware that bookmarks do not serve the same purpose as comments, and god knows I'm not a very frequent commenter myself, so I try not to be bitter about this.

Average: 12 bookmarks

I have three works with 13 bookmarks, and 4 works with 11 bookmarks, and no works with 12 bookmarks.

Median: 3 bookmarks

[a Lot of fics]

Median number of public bookmarks is 2.


So this is a more representative sample than just the top works, but that means there's still a LOT of ACD Holmes.

At some point I might count things up and see if JWP fics actually make up a majority of at least my Holmes works. Right now my ACD fic is just over half of my total on AO3.

Comments

[sanguinity]

Needlelace! Thank you for the links; I've been curious ever since I ran across this shirt detail.


(Also: yay, booster! Boo, getting flattened by it!)

[violsva]

Thank you for reminding me of that very practical bit of decoration!

[oracne]

Hooray booster!

[violsva]

And a few days later I could even lie on my left side again!