Statistics and a Meme

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I went through my ff.net and AO3 stats today, just out of morbid curiosity.

The most popular fics by hits... well, the stats surprised me a lot.

Comments

[akisawana]

The quickest way to get praise for your fic is to write really bad porn. Bonus points for taking the pairing and squashing it into something that resembles nothing so much as Twilight (though back in the day we called it Tokyo Babylon.) Most popular fic I've ever written is a bit of man-loving I posted solely to test that theory. Not my proudest moment.

I need to go back to my undying love for Starscream. I'm working on a theory that fandom has re-interpreted him as a woman trying to break out of the kitchen and through the glass ceiling, only to be thwarted at every turn by Soundwave (who is, in this, also a woman.) And Megatron is Margaret Thatcher. Or possibly Ronald Regan.

...and then I was dragged in a Chinese food direction and I forgot where I was going with this. But if you want attention, it's all about the schmoopy porn and the happy endings. As to the type of attention, well, it ain't torches and pitchforks, but that's about all I'll say about it.