The April AO3 Hits Meme, 2015 Edition
Top 10:
- The Pornography Is For Science. (Les Miserables) - 12,273
- You Get Me Closer To God. (Les Miserables) - 11,297
- Handjobs and Hand Grenades. (Les Miserables) - 10,609
- Polish Your Boots. (Les Miserables) - 9,866
- Make You Come Undone. (Les Miserables) - 9,717
- Let Them Eat Pancakes. (Les Miserables) - 8,781
- Scenes From An Inconvenient Espionage Love Story. (Les Miserables/Bond) - 7,926
- Dance Me Through The Panic. (Les Miserables) - 6,585
- I'm In The Details With The Devil. (Les Miserables) - 6,522
- Barrayar Expects That Every Fan Will Do Their Duty: Excerpts From A Fandom (Vorkosigan) - 6,276
Honorary mention from last year's list:
11. You Put The Spike In My Heart. (Les Miserables) - 6,246
12. This Is Not An Epistolary Romance. (Les Miserables) - 6,076
As expected, not much change from last year. The Les Mis/Bond continues to climb, but it's mostly Les Mis porn. However, the Vorkosigan fandom fic is back in the top 10 by the skin of its teeth, after being #12 last year.
In terms of staying power:
2011 meme: no fics on this year's list.
2012 meme: one fic on this year's list.
2013 meme: four fics on this year's list.
2014 meme: eight fics on this year's list.
The currently highest fic from the 2011 list is An Incomplete History Of History, As Written For Yuletide, In Five Acts And An Epilogue. in 30th place with 2,531 hits, staying just ahead of Lord Piotr. Interestingly, three fics written before 2011 but not appearing on that list have now beaten out all fics from the 2011 list:
21st: The Slashers' Guide to Return of the King - 3,123 (please stop reading this fic, it is terrible)
26th: Five Things Matt Smith Didn't Do. - 2,840
28th: And All Shall Be Well. - 2,794
The most recent posting date of a fic on this list was June, 2013. Per the AO3 stats page, the highest hit count for a fic posted in 2014 was Here You Come With Your Open Hands. at 3,184 hits. This is likely a factor of when I grabbed the stats, though, as right behind it is Things To Do In New York City When You're No Longer Brainwashed. at 3,167, which will likely beat the asexual BDSM fic soon due to the new Avengers movie. It also gets consistent kudos, so I'm picking it as a dark horse for next year's hits meme, even though it would have to double its hit count to do it. Those fics are #18 and #19 in hits overall.
Speaking of kudos, Les Bond still far and away beats every other fic on kudos and bookmarks. There are currently 769 kudos and 258 bookmarks (204 public), which I have to say is extremely flattering and also frankly absurd. Seriously, roughly 1 in 10 hits results in a kudos on a fic posted over a year and a half ago. o.O Thank you, you are all very kind.
But it has some competition from the Clint fic, which despite only being 18th in hit count, is second in both kudos and bookmarks with 556 kudos (o.O) and 109 bookmarks (95 public). It also has the most hopeful readership, with 14 subscriptions, 10 more than the second place there: the abandoned Riddick WIP. I'm not sure, what with it being so high on the comment count due to all the "write moar" comments, and the 14 subscribers, that everyone realizes it's written as a one-shot... um.)
Hit count table (cutting off 2012 since only Barrayar was on it):
Rank (2015)Fic Post DateHits (2015)Rank (2014)Hits (2014)Rank (2013)Hits (2013)Hit Count Difference (2014 to 2015)
1The Pornography Is For Science.February 18, 2013 (2 years, 1 months, 25 days ago)12,27319,68214,0162,591
2You Get Me Closer To God.May 1, 2013 (1 years, 11 months, 11 days ago)11,29728,501N/AN/A2,796
3Handjobs and Hand Grenades.February 28, 2013 (2 years, 1 months, 15 days ago)10,60938,30623,2212,303
4Polish Your Boots.May 14, 2013 (1 years, 10 months, 29 days ago)9,86657,141N/AN/A2,725
5Make You Come Undone.April 10, 2013 (2 years, 0 months, 2 days ago)9,71747,466N/AN/A2,251
6Let Them Eat Pancakes.March 17, 2013 (2 years, 0 months, 26 days ago)8,78166,84442,3611,937
7Scenes From An Inconvenient Espionage Love Story.June 17, 2013 (1 years, 9 months, 26 days ago)7,92694,736N/AN/A3,190
8Dance Me Through The Panic.May 8, 2013 (1 years, 11 months, 4 days ago)6,585Not RecordedNot Recorded N/AN/AN/A
9I'm In The Details With The Devil.June 30, 2013 (1 years, 9 months, 13 days ago)6,52274,838N/AN/A1,684
10Barrayar Expects That Every Fan Will Do Their Duty: Excerpts From A FandomDecember 23, 2011 (3 years, 3 months, 20 days ago)6,276124,40632,9821,870
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