AO3 stats meme, August 2024

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Was reminded recently that I did this AO3 stats meme 12 months ago. Let’s run through it again and see what’s changed!

…spoiler alert, by now it’s a Cover of Knight sweep.

Most hits: Cover of Knight (125,454). First installment in the “what if the Moon Knights accidentally made friends with everyone?” AU, which has been occupying the biggest part of my brain for the past year. I’ve posted some kind of update for that series almost once a week this whole time.

Cover of Knight was the runner-up last year, and as predicted, it’s swapped places into the lead…though He Says He Is An Experimental Theologian (120,412) is still a closer second-place than I expected.

Most kudos: Cover of Knight (6,562). Same winner as last year, almost 2K more kudos. The runner-up is still Persephone’s Waltz (2,976), which last year was just 13 kudos ahead of the 3rd-place spot, but now has a 300+ lead over Experimental Theologian (2,649).

Persephone’s Waltz got a noticeable uptick of new kudos + comments this past April/May. I figure it must have gotten recced somewhere! No idea where.

Most comment threads: Cover of Knight (1,474). Last year’s winner is now the runner-up: A Blinking Light Up On The Clouded Mountain (1,315), the less-read but more-discussed sequel to Experimental Theologian (down at 981). Reveals by Knight, the less-read sequel to Cover of Knight, isn’t on track to overtake it any time soon…but since last year, it’s shot up to 4th place (960).

The 5th-place spot is Here’s What You Missed (513), another longfic in the Cover of Knight ‘verse, which didn’t exist this time last year. It’s nowhere near cracking the top ranks for hits or kudos, but it’s got the readers talking.

Most bookmarks: Cover of Knight (1,640). Same as last year. There’s a new runner-up, though: Persephone’s Waltz (1,147), bumping Experimental Theologian (1,129) down to a close third place.

Most words: Clouded Mountain (313,788). The longest new fic I’ve written since last year is Here’s What You Missed (60,761), and it’s only 8th place on the list. Heck, the whole Cover of Knight universe currently sits at 321,803 words, just barely over the wordcount of Clouded Mountain alone. (The whole Republic of Heaven Community Radio series comes to 568,074 words.)

Fewest words: Same four-way tie as last year.

Final observation: Moon Knight is now my second-most-written AO3 fandom, with 38 works! (The latest fic I posted edged it up over WTNV, still at 37.)

That means I posted exactly 10 new MK works since last year…which feels low, but it includes the 21-chapter longfic Here’s What You Missed, and most of the 36 chapters of the already-started Reveals. (Speaking of which: gonna go post the last of those now.)