2021 in fic posts
Dec. 30th, 2021 07:09 amI took a big, long break from fandom, and came back this year with a lot of activity. My stats are a bit fucky, because of the way AO3 handles updates etc, so rather than looking at just 2021, I'm looking at my account as a whole. I have two accounts (one for polished fic, and one for WIPs that live in purgatory), and between them I have 241 fics, and have written 1,845,003 words.
Anyway, here we go.
For the LokiOfSassgaard account:
- By all metrics, How to Train Your Norse Trickster God was my most popular and successful. It survived a long hiatus only to become this massive beast that took over my account.
- Of my top ten fics:
- three are pretty heavy kink.
- four were part of LATMU, which later became God of Outcasts
- six were multi-chapter
- nine were in some way AU
- all were Marvel
- Discounting Trickster God, these were my most popular:
- Definitely Not Human, by hits and kudos
- Midgard Legends, by comments, bookmarks, and subscriptions
- My least popular fics were:
- Everything Changes (17 hits)
- Tequila Sunrise, Banana Daiquiri, and At Any Cost (0 kudos)
- More than half of my fics (out of 199) have zero comments and/or bookmarks
- 33 fics have zero bookmarks
- Top five fics by hits:
- Top five fics by kudos:
- How to Train Your Norse Trickster God
- Definitely Not Human
- Midgard Legends
- Isla Nublar
- Those Who Hunt Monsters
- Top five fics by comments:
- How to Train Your Norse Trickster God
- Midgard Legends
- Isla Nublar
- Tarbell Course in Magic, vol 1
- Those Who Hunt Monsters
- Top five fics by bookmarks:
- How to Train Your Norse Trickster God
- Midgard Legends
- Isla Nublar
- Definitely Not Human
- Those Who Hunt Monsters
- Top five fics by subscriptions:
- How to Train Your Norse Trickster God
- Midgard Legends
- Isla Nublar
- Superhero RPF
- Those Who Hunt Monsters
- Top five fics by word count:
- How to Train Your Norse Trickster God
- Midgard Legends
- Isla Nublar
- Tarbell Course in Magic, vol 1: The History of Magic
- Tarbell Course in Magic, vol 1
- My personal top five fics:
- Superhero RPF
- Skullgaffer's Crown
- Only Two Middle-Aged Men in the Room
- Isla Nublar
- Tarbell Course in Magic, vol 1: The History of Magic
In the end, even though it's nowhere near my favourite, I'm very glad I exhumed Trickster God from the grave. I thought real hard about putting Midgard Legends in my top five, but it lost out entirely on the fact that by the end, I'd lost interest to the point that I forgot to post the final chapter for several years. For Tarbell, the rewrite definitely wins out over the original. They're not too much different, but enough got changed that I like the slightly slower pace of the new one a little better. I have a feeling that next year, the Isla Nublar rewrite might usurp its original version as well.
For the Sassgaardian account:
- There is no overall favourite for this account. It's a lot less consistent in terms of what's done well, probably because it's full of all the trash I never did anything with, while also having a few gems that just never got finished.
- Of my top ten fics:
- five were oneshots that never resolved into anything beyond a vague idea
- five are Marvel
- three involve Sherlock in some capacity
- three are on my completion candidate list
- These were the most popular fics:
- When I am King, by hits
- Key Largo, by kudos, bookmarks, and subscriptions
- Hot Fuzz Milliways Collection, by comments
- My least popular fics were:
- A Really Good Conman (3 hits)
- Perfectly Safe, Fool, and A Really Good Conman (0 kudos)
- Most fics have zero comments
- Roughly half have zero bookmarks
- 43 out of 50 have zero subscriptions
- Top five fics by hits:
- Top five fics by kudos:
- Key Largo
- When I am King
- Manhattan, etc
- Loki-Sif Rematch
- The Greatest Evil Plan that Almost Didn't Fail
- Top five fics by comments:
- Hot Fuzz Milliways Collection
- Key Largo
- When I am King
- Perfectly Safe
- Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Game
- Top five fics by bookmarks:
- Key Largo
- Trial and Error
- Manhattan, etc
- High-Stakes, No Limit
- Completely Normal
- Top five fics by subscriptions:
- Key Largo
- When I am King
- Completely Normal
- Manhattan, etc
- Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Game
- Top five fics by word count:
- My personal top five fics:
- When I am King
- High-Stakes, No Limit
- Perfectly Safe
- Key Largo
- WKM Milliways Collection
This was kind of a tough one to pick favourites, because the ones I would have picked aren't on this account. There are a few I've moved and hidden in an unrevealed collection while I rework them (When the Dust Settles is one, which would have dominated had it still been listed on this account). I waffled on including Key Largo, because while the experience behind it turned really sour, I do love the idea and would like to try to finish it next year. And the WKM collection gets a mention, because it's actually what Little Beirut used to be. I'm not terribly coy about admitting that, because it's become so common these days that there's little point in hiding it.
I did find it really funny how the same fics kept coming up on my main account, while my purgatory account is a lot more random in the types of attention different things got. I know some people are going to take the "least popular" metrics and try to tell me not to focus on that, but I don't care. A lot of my fic pre-dates AO3, and is for tiny fandoms that were already dead by the time the archive was founded. The exception is anything I'd written for Sherlock, but that fandom got so fucking toxic I deleted every single fic I'd ever written for it, and only recently re-uploaded all of it. Frankly, I'm always surprised whenever something that isn't Marvel gets attention.
And I'm very curious to see how these stats will change next year, after I've gone insane from posting so many new stories.