2021 in Review
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extrapenguinUsing a splattering of isis's freeform questions, as usual.
* published. WIPs are counted as belonging to the year the last chapter was published in, and redating stuff for exchanges moves it as well. I wrote 23k for We Die Like Fen that was redated to 1.1.2022 despite being written in December and is not included in these statistics.
In general, I wrote fewer words and fewer works (40 vs 105), so there's less for people to kudos. Also I skipped Yuletide this year due to just not feeling it (a good decision, too, given WDLF and Heart Attack + Fic in a Box) so I didn't get the standard Yuletide kudos and comments burst. I also transitioned completely from Guardian into Star Wars, where my little niche of weird-ish Prequels/TCW gen isn't as popular as the Guardian shipfic I was churning out.
Most popular
The Will of the Force (Mayday, Mayday), (2.1k of Star Wars PT gen comedy)
This is a quick read, funny, and thus the most clicked on, most kudosed, most bookmarked, and most commented-upon fic of the year. Despite being a oneshot, it also has the second-most subscriptions (because people use those as private bookmarks apparently). Since this dominated everything so thoroughly, I decided to look at the runners-up.
Runner-up: hits & comments
Sing Dead the Dark (24.5k of Star Wars PT gen fixit)
I liked this one! It's perhaps the one whose title I most like, and my long WIP of the year. As my only multichapter work, this one also handily won on subscriptions. The multichapterness also gave it a leg up on hits and comment threads.
Runner-up: kudos
Break Free (3.5k of Star Wars PT Obimaul time loop)
Runner-up: bookmarks
Running from the Half-Truth (3.2k of Star Wars TCW Obimaul)
This is moderately hilarious, since these fics both have the exact same ship, are similar lengths, and I wrote them for the same exchange! (We Die Like Fen: Time Loop) They were also originally bore each other's titles. Then I realized they'd work much better switched around so I did that. I guess Obimaul fandom likes
Favorite title
Sing Dead the Dark
Author's choice
Lightbringer (5.1k of SWPT Shmi Skywalker/OFC fixit)
I like what I did here! Please go look.
I am too brain dead to go through everything and try to find a favorite line, so if you have any favorite lines from my fics, or some work of mine that stuck in your mind somehow, the comments are yours! NYRs come tomorrow.
isis's freeform questions, as usual.AO3 Stats
| Stat | 2021 | 2020 then | 2020 now | total | All years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| User Subscriptions: | 180 | 144 | - | - | - |
| Kudos: | 2276 | 4825 | 6675 | 20518 | 27912 |
| Comment Threads: | 228 | 487 | 548 | 1963 | 2342 |
| Bookmarks: | 470 | 720 | 1009 | 3920 | 5408 |
| Subscriptions: | 83 | 115 | 144 | 628 | 799 |
| Word Count:* | 101347 | 258666 | 245905 | 675669 | 787680 |
| Hits: | 13784 | 33986 | 49995 | 236776 | 309631 |
* published. WIPs are counted as belonging to the year the last chapter was published in, and redating stuff for exchanges moves it as well. I wrote 23k for We Die Like Fen that was redated to 1.1.2022 despite being written in December and is not included in these statistics.
In general, I wrote fewer words and fewer works (40 vs 105), so there's less for people to kudos. Also I skipped Yuletide this year due to just not feeling it (a good decision, too, given WDLF and Heart Attack + Fic in a Box) so I didn't get the standard Yuletide kudos and comments burst. I also transitioned completely from Guardian into Star Wars, where my little niche of weird-ish Prequels/TCW gen isn't as popular as the Guardian shipfic I was churning out.
Specific Stories
Most popular
The Will of the Force (Mayday, Mayday), (2.1k of Star Wars PT gen comedy)
This is a quick read, funny, and thus the most clicked on, most kudosed, most bookmarked, and most commented-upon fic of the year. Despite being a oneshot, it also has the second-most subscriptions (because people use those as private bookmarks apparently). Since this dominated everything so thoroughly, I decided to look at the runners-up.
Runner-up: hits & comments
Sing Dead the Dark (24.5k of Star Wars PT gen fixit)
I liked this one! It's perhaps the one whose title I most like, and my long WIP of the year. As my only multichapter work, this one also handily won on subscriptions. The multichapterness also gave it a leg up on hits and comment threads.
Runner-up: kudos
Break Free (3.5k of Star Wars PT Obimaul time loop)
Runner-up: bookmarks
Running from the Half-Truth (3.2k of Star Wars TCW Obimaul)
This is moderately hilarious, since these fics both have the exact same ship, are similar lengths, and I wrote them for the same exchange! (We Die Like Fen: Time Loop) They were also originally bore each other's titles. Then I realized they'd work much better switched around so I did that. I guess Obimaul fandom likes
Favorite title
Sing Dead the Dark
Author's choice
Lightbringer (5.1k of SWPT Shmi Skywalker/OFC fixit)
I like what I did here! Please go look.
I am too brain dead to go through everything and try to find a favorite line, so if you have any favorite lines from my fics, or some work of mine that stuck in your mind somehow, the comments are yours! NYRs come tomorrow.