alixtii: Jerin carrying Odelia, from the cover of A Brother's Price. (Brother's Price)
alixtii ([personal profile] alixtii) wrote2011-04-19 10:57 am

Most Hits on AO3

So, the ten fics of mine on AO3 with the most hits? Seven of them are <user name="yuletide" site="livejournal.com"> fics: Though I Walk Through the Shadow (T:TSCC, John/Savannah), If on a Yuletide morn a slasher (Calvino litfic), Beleza and the B.E.A.S.T.  (fairy tales), The Children's Crusade  (T:TSCC, Sarah & Savannah), The Orphans (Arthurian legend, Arthur/Morgan), Glories Stream  (Dar Williams), and Dancing Lessons (Arcadia, Thomasina/Septimus). Yuletide really gets you eyeballs on your fics.

Perhaps surprisingly, two of the remaining three are also in Yuletide-elligible fandoms: The iPhone of Queen Susan (Narnia, Petrer/Susan) at #4 and Fatherhood (Parent Trap, gen) at #8. I explain the iPhone fic by pointing out it's a kinky fic (spanking) in a fandom that most people have basic knowledge of, but I'm not quite sure how to explan the Parent Trap fic.

#10 is Quartet for Two Voices  (BtVS, Giles/Kennedy). I was even more heavy on the freeform tags than usual with that fic, so I'm thinking people found it while searching for lesbian characters of color and such.

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(Anonymous) 2012-10-04 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has boxes of books stored away. I picaodirelly pull some out to my TBR shelf, rearrange the contents, or add to them. As you say, it is a luxery knowing I will never want for anything to read, ranging from romance to mystery to thriller to the classics. I mostly decide what to read next based on challenges I've committed to this year, or books/authors picked for monthly group reads. This year I joined the "Year of the Historical" challenge, determined to catch up on Johanna Lindsey. I had bought the last dozen or so books by her, but never got round to them. It's been fun catching up on her! I've also been trying to work in a few authors I've not read before and, since most of those I read are female, I've been trying to work in a few more male authors this year. So far, so good!