That AO3 meme
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ariadnes_stringI wrote this up last night in an attempt to get myself to stop tinkering obsessively with my remix. Some things about this list make sense to me, and some just crack me up.
My 10 stories with the most hits on AO3:
1. Nothing Between Us and the New World : Holmes/Watson, R. An auction fic for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
help_haiti. This is a Ritchie ‘verse case fic that takes place after Mary’s (ACD canon) death, but it can best be described as the one where Holmes and Watson make out on the beach.
2. Catching Waves on Dry Land : Steve/Danny, NC-17. Gun kink PWP. My first H50 fic; I wrote it in early October 2010—ie, after only two or three episodes had aired. I still think it could happen—tho’ now it would be all deep and meaningful and angsty….
3. I Get By With…: John, Sherlock, Lestrade, gen h/c. “John is ill. Sherlock is perplexed. And Lestrade is in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Lestrade POV—the first of a bunch of fics I’ve written now about the three of them.
4. Like Death and Taxes : Steve/Danny, NC-17. PWP. Blindfolds and semi-public car sex.
5. And the heat goes on (where the hand has been) : John/Sherlock. PWP (are you sensing a trend yet?). Written for a prompt on the kinkmeme: Sherlock likes orgasms, but doesn’t like being touched (aka, the fic which convinced me there actually was a pairing I could write porn for).
6. You give me... : John, Sherlock, gen h/c. Sherlock is ill; luckily, John is a doctor. The first bit of Sherlock fic I wrote—again for the kinkmeme.
7. The Khyber Knife : John/Sherlock, NC-17. PWP (yes, you can start laughing now). Knifeplay, bloodplay, painplay. This was also for a kinkmeme prompt, and I think it’s still my favorite of my Sherlock stories.
8. Your voice along my spine . Benedict, Martin (Sherlock RPF). The one where Ben describes Sherlock’s sexual practices to Martin. You’ve met my voice!kink, right?
9. Sometimes a Blue Macaw : Steve, Danny, gen h/c. The malaria fic.
10. Island Comforts : Steve, Danny, gen h/c. “Steve is caring. It’s a little scary.”
So, some things that make sense:
It makes sense that “New World” is at the top of this list. It’s far easier to read on AO3 than LJ or DW, where it’s broken up into smaller pieces. And all the recs I know of for the fic link to AO3. It’s also one of the very few “first time” stories I’ve ever been able to write, so it has romance going for it. I struggled a lot when I was writing it (askcalamitycrow!), but now I like it.
It also makes sense that “Your Voice along my Spine” is up there. This one is only up on AO3, due to my initial anxiety about posting Sherlock RPF. It’s also true, though, that all of my Sherlock RPF stories are in the top 20 stories with the most number of hits on AO3. Which means…that people go to AO3 for obscure RPF? (I should say, though, that they are easier to find on the archive—to find them on LJ you’d either have to be a member of the locked Sherlock RPF com, or be wandering randomly around my journal).
It makes sense that all of these are H50 or some kind of Holmesiana—these are all fandoms with heavy readership/participation on AO3. It’s a little more instructive to note that while the fandom I have the most number of stories posted from is SPN, they are by far the least read. You’d have scroll through all my H50 fic, all my Sherlock/Holmes/Sherlock RPF fic, all my White Collar fic, and most of my Eagle/Eagle of the Ninth/Eagle RPF fic before you got to an SPN story that wasn’t a crossover. And then it would be Dean/Cas PWP. I think I burned hot for SPN for a while, but it wasn’t a great writer/fandom match-up for whatever reason….
The thing that cracks me up:
That there are some many PWPs up there! If you count h/c as a kink, and I usually do, the whole list is practically kinky PWPs. I mean, seriously? I think of myself as a gen writer, and really, the greater proportion of stuff that I write is gen. And I think most of my better writing is gen. But there you go…
The placement of “Catching Waves…” particularly makes me lol, because even though it has the second most hits, it has many fewer comments/kudos/AO3 bookmarks than fics that have few hits. So I always imagine people going “oo, goody, gun porn!” and then finishing it and saying, “Huh. Sure hope that girl has a day job.”
Anyway, navel-gazing aside, I quite like AO3 as a place to post fic. It has its idiosyncrasies, but it feels safe and satisfying.
In other news: Ways you can tell you live in a house full of boys? (seriously, the friggin’ bird is a boy, for all he goes on about how pretty he is).
Me, this morning: Okay, guys, I can’t take you to school until I google a picture of Kate’s dress.
9-year-old son, with great seriousness: Mama, why does the dress matter so much?
Why is the dress important?? *sputter, sputter*
My 10 stories with the most hits on AO3:
1. Nothing Between Us and the New World : Holmes/Watson, R. An auction fic for
help_haiti. This is a Ritchie ‘verse case fic that takes place after Mary’s (ACD canon) death, but it can best be described as the one where Holmes and Watson make out on the beach.2. Catching Waves on Dry Land : Steve/Danny, NC-17. Gun kink PWP. My first H50 fic; I wrote it in early October 2010—ie, after only two or three episodes had aired. I still think it could happen—tho’ now it would be all deep and meaningful and angsty….
3. I Get By With…: John, Sherlock, Lestrade, gen h/c. “John is ill. Sherlock is perplexed. And Lestrade is in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Lestrade POV—the first of a bunch of fics I’ve written now about the three of them.
4. Like Death and Taxes : Steve/Danny, NC-17. PWP. Blindfolds and semi-public car sex.
5. And the heat goes on (where the hand has been) : John/Sherlock. PWP (are you sensing a trend yet?). Written for a prompt on the kinkmeme: Sherlock likes orgasms, but doesn’t like being touched (aka, the fic which convinced me there actually was a pairing I could write porn for).
6. You give me... : John, Sherlock, gen h/c. Sherlock is ill; luckily, John is a doctor. The first bit of Sherlock fic I wrote—again for the kinkmeme.
7. The Khyber Knife : John/Sherlock, NC-17. PWP (yes, you can start laughing now). Knifeplay, bloodplay, painplay. This was also for a kinkmeme prompt, and I think it’s still my favorite of my Sherlock stories.
8. Your voice along my spine . Benedict, Martin (Sherlock RPF). The one where Ben describes Sherlock’s sexual practices to Martin. You’ve met my voice!kink, right?
9. Sometimes a Blue Macaw : Steve, Danny, gen h/c. The malaria fic.
10. Island Comforts : Steve, Danny, gen h/c. “Steve is caring. It’s a little scary.”
So, some things that make sense:
It makes sense that “New World” is at the top of this list. It’s far easier to read on AO3 than LJ or DW, where it’s broken up into smaller pieces. And all the recs I know of for the fic link to AO3. It’s also one of the very few “first time” stories I’ve ever been able to write, so it has romance going for it. I struggled a lot when I was writing it (ask
calamitycrow!), but now I like it.It also makes sense that “Your Voice along my Spine” is up there. This one is only up on AO3, due to my initial anxiety about posting Sherlock RPF. It’s also true, though, that all of my Sherlock RPF stories are in the top 20 stories with the most number of hits on AO3. Which means…that people go to AO3 for obscure RPF? (I should say, though, that they are easier to find on the archive—to find them on LJ you’d either have to be a member of the locked Sherlock RPF com, or be wandering randomly around my journal).
It makes sense that all of these are H50 or some kind of Holmesiana—these are all fandoms with heavy readership/participation on AO3. It’s a little more instructive to note that while the fandom I have the most number of stories posted from is SPN, they are by far the least read. You’d have scroll through all my H50 fic, all my Sherlock/Holmes/Sherlock RPF fic, all my White Collar fic, and most of my Eagle/Eagle of the Ninth/Eagle RPF fic before you got to an SPN story that wasn’t a crossover. And then it would be Dean/Cas PWP. I think I burned hot for SPN for a while, but it wasn’t a great writer/fandom match-up for whatever reason….
The thing that cracks me up:
That there are some many PWPs up there! If you count h/c as a kink, and I usually do, the whole list is practically kinky PWPs. I mean, seriously? I think of myself as a gen writer, and really, the greater proportion of stuff that I write is gen. And I think most of my better writing is gen. But there you go…
The placement of “Catching Waves…” particularly makes me lol, because even though it has the second most hits, it has many fewer comments/kudos/AO3 bookmarks than fics that have few hits. So I always imagine people going “oo, goody, gun porn!” and then finishing it and saying, “Huh. Sure hope that girl has a day job.”
Anyway, navel-gazing aside, I quite like AO3 as a place to post fic. It has its idiosyncrasies, but it feels safe and satisfying.
In other news: Ways you can tell you live in a house full of boys? (seriously, the friggin’ bird is a boy, for all he goes on about how pretty he is).
Me, this morning: Okay, guys, I can’t take you to school until I google a picture of Kate’s dress.
9-year-old son, with great seriousness: Mama, why does the dress matter so much?
Why is the dress important?? *sputter, sputter*
