Warning: Tentacles

I haven't posted in a few days, which is odd for me who generally can’t shut up. I've been writing a lot and I suppose I've been feeling a bit introverted. I do have a few recs saved up from the past week's reading which I hope to post tomorrow.

In the meantime, I saw vaysh11 and a few others do this A03 meme and I thought it was interesting. I haven't been on A03 long, so it's odd to look at this a try to gain any perspective on stuff that's only been up for a handful of weeks but w/e. I'm bored.

My top ten fics on A03 ranked by hit count.


Protecting the Pendragon Lineage (Merlin/Arthur)
All in the Quest for Knowledge (Merlin/Arthur)
In the Service of the King (Merlin/Arthur)
Let me be your canvas (Merlin/Arthur)
Not Gold or Riches (Merlin/Arthur/Gwaine)
The Thorn Bush Incident (Merlin/Arthur/Gwaine)
The Sample (Merlin/Arthur)
Pack Instinct (Merlin/Arthur)
Return from the Isle (Merlin/Arthur)
The Pet Party (Merlin/Arthur)
link to the list


My deep thoughts
Not an HP fic in the bunch. LOL. Not by a long shot. So. Easy conclusion there. Lots of Merlin readers on A03, not so much with HP. Also HP that is a rare pair? *crickets* LOL Though the reply I have received on my HP fics is awesome, so this meme fails by only looking at hit count where there is no comparison but the hit to kudos ratio is better (I think, I haven't done the math).
Other easy conclusion: TAGS MATTER. While I quite liked my fic Protecting the Pendragon Lineage, I would never claim it was my best piece of writing. It was smut written for a round of kinkspiration which had a ton of warnings. However that ton of warnings translated to a ton of tags on A03. tags like knotting and Master/slave and object insertion which I know attract people who search for a particular kink and don't care which fandom it’s in. That fic has almost three times the number of hits of any other fic I have posted.

So…
1) Knotting == hits.
2) Tags draw people you don't expect to your fic.
3) And Merlin folks should be grateful for their hit counts because not all fandoms get so much love



btw - I still have an a03 code, if anyone wants to start posting there.

So... after years of saying I would someday, I finally got an AO3 account.

Basically an old Buffy archive (Angel Book of Days) was moving to AO3 and it was a good excuse to move my fics that were there archive with ABoD over to A03.

I'm slowly uploading my fics. But eventually, any fic over 2k should be archived there.

After deleting my IJ account it is nice to think I will have a backup somewhere. :)