#22.05.25

22/5/25

"There is no place for abuse, particularly racial abuse. I think it's, we just got to continue to work on standing firm, standing up against those things.

"I hope that Yuki and, I hope they're both okay because I know it affects not only you, but it affects your family. It's, I don't know, I think people need, we need more empathy in the world today. It's such a cruel space, you know, there's so much negativity around."

Tagged (ish) by @purlturtle, thanks for pilfering this tag meme and letting me use it as well :D

rules: give us the links to your fics with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and with the least words (feel free to interpret however you would like; if not on AO3, can be on Tumblr or FFNET!).

Most hits

As It Should Be, a James Bond 00Q meets BBC Johnlock ficlet of the Q Is A Holmes variety, 4.6k words, rated T, humor, has 14,086 hits!

I also made a Podfic of As It Should Be, it's got 2372 hits of its own! So that's a total of 16,458 :D

Second most kudos

Fascinatingly enough, at 746 kudos, What I Will Take has almost half the kudos than my number one here, which is the part two of the same series! Why do people kudos part one less? Is it because part one is rated E and people don't click kudos on that, or did they just read them in one go and then only kudosed the second one, or did people actually just read part 2 on its own for some reason, or is there some other reason I can't think of? I'd love a whole academic survey on this topic xDxD

The Incubus Jaskier series both fics are from is 11k words long, rated M-E, Geraskier (The Witcher).

Third most comments

My podfic of @aeternumregina's Leo Inter Serpentes part 1! Sucks that jkr is such a bigot (I mean, also obviously for the bigotry reasons), because I love the fic series and I'd love to continue my podfic, but I'm just obviously not going to do that and post anything HP related now. The podfic has 110 comments (50 comment threads - checking on my stats page, the order for comment threads is the same as for comments). The three parts of the podfic series combined have a total of 262 comments, which would put it on rank number two, surpassing...

I Can't Think Straight, a The Old Guard college AU! As it's completely AU, you don't need any fandom knowledge to read this. It's a mix of my experience at different universities were actually like, and what I wished my experiences would have been like... The fic is 55k long, femslash, rated T, 124 comments.

Fourth most bookmarks

Also Andromaquynh but more The Old Guard canon compliant, my still all time favorite longfic In Your Stead has 110 bookmarks!

Not even a year old, my Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi Time Travel fic visions of a future past has already gotten 64 bookmarks! Of course, the fandom is just gigantic, but it's still super cute that my rambling little fic got so much attention :D it's 10k words, rated G. (Edit: checking my stats page, where it shows the total amount of public+private bookmarks, it actually has 117 bookmarks, making it my third most kudosed fic! Still gonna leave it here, but I added the AQ fic above)

Fifth most words

Ignoring translations and draft piles with several different works, my fifth longest fanfic is Endgame at precisely 20k words! It's part 4 of A Heistwives Kinda Job, my Lou x Debbie retelling of Ocean's 8 from 2018! I know I have older fics than that, but this series feels really ancient to me xD

Least words

I thought for sure it was going to be a long list of all of my drabbles (100 words exactly), but apart from podfics and manips/artworks, my shortest work is actually a Good Omens ficlet of 66 words! Unfinished Business, a Crowley x Aziraphale Wing fic :) there's also a longer 666 words long version of the story, like most of my fics in the fandom I always tried to get that exact demonic number :D

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This was a fun tagging meme, looking not just at the top runners that often haven't changed in ages but letting some other stories shine! :D

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