AO3 stats

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For months I've wanted to make a post about my AO3 stats but I always told myself to wait until I hit a specific number, and then another one, and then another one, and then I told myself I would wait until 100 fanworks except I'm having a hard time writing recently so now I'm just doing it.


Fanworks: 98, all fanfic. I thought it was 99 but then I realized I was added as co-creator on a podfic, so not quite.
Words total: 238,662 - so a bit over 2.400 words per fic on average. 8 drabbles.
Fandoms: 46. Fandoms with more than one fanwork: 19. Fandoms with more than two: 9. More than ten: 2

Total
Hits: 60,616
Kudos: 6,168
Comment Threads: 403 - my favorite thing to receive, and I got over 400 of them!, very fortunate. (And that of course doesn't count the comments I got back when I posted fic on DW.)
Bookmarks: 946
Author subscriptions: 37 - many of those probably from years ago, it stayed steady around ~35 for a long time even when I was wildly fandom-hopping. A very nice compliment!

(...yes I'm procrastinating.)

Comments

[ambyr]

I do the same thing--tell myself I'll do it at a certain number, and then never do it. But since I've been writing more I've been staring at my stats page more (perfectly normal behavior, right?), so maybe now is time...

[schneefink]

Perfectly normal behavior! Now if it's helpful or not is a different topic...
One of my benchmarks to make a stats post was 5,000 kudos so, uh, it's been a while.

[lannamichaels]

That's a fantastic kudos to hits ratio!

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I remind myself that it's not a good benchmark because e.g. rereads have a negative effect but it still looks nice :) My Hermitcraft/Life series fics definitely helped, compared to many other fandoms the amount of kudos and comments I get there is fantastic.

[flo_nelja]

Yessss your fics are popular!

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Some people like my writing! :D

[melagan]

Oh goodness, I keep forgetting I can check the stats. And then a kind soul like you gently reminds me--It's A THiNG I can do. :)

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I didn't think about it for a long time and then I remembered and now I check them semi-regularly. It's nice to remind myself that hey a few thousand times someone read something I wrote and liked it :)

[scintilla10]

Ooh, that's great! It's cool to see in aggregate how many people read your stuff – and so many giving you kudos/comments.

And congrats on working up to 100 works! So close!

[schneefink]

It's nice to look at :D

So close, just two more works - surely that won't take too long, right? Yeah...

[nonesensed]

That's a lot of words written and a wonderful amount of comment treads and bookmarks, huzzah! 💖💖💖 What's the fandom you're currently most inspired to write in?

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\o/
Definitely the Life series/Hermitcraft. So far I wrote fic for Limited Life (season 4) and Secret Life (season 5) and I really want to write a coda to Real Life (season 5.5) but it's not come together yet.

[nonesensed]

Yay for inspiration! I hope you have a lot of fun getting that coda to come together 🩵

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Thanks :)