Top Ten AO3

This has been a super-up-and-down weekend--a nice semi-mindless meme seems to be the ticket for distraction (w/o running the risk of AoU spoilage--I am almost totally off tumblr, and I probably will only be cautiously skimming lj/dw for the next bit, because boyhowdy did I get slammed here a couple of summers ago.)

My top ten on AO3...

10. in deep with you darlin' , MCU, Darcy/Clint (5873) === Again with the loving on the oddball pairings in the MCU, because this is still just a WiP that I swear I'm going to finish. Soon. Swear. (Part 3 is about to break 10K words and there might even be sexytimes before we're done.) (New in 2014)

9. The Physicist and the Assassin , MCU, Clint/Bruce (8219) === I have a sneaking fondness for Hulkeye, so this was fun to write. (New in 2013)

8. Takin' Care of Business , MI4: Ghost Protocol, gen with background Hunt/Brandt (8685) === More from the ghotocol_kink prompts. (#6 in 2013)

7. all kinds of guns, MCU, Darcy/Clint (10,771) === The first sequel to you need a rock not a rolling stone, where everybody finds out they can deal with the reality of Hawkeye being the regular guy that he is. (New in 2013)

6. Love and Other Mission Anomalies, MI4: Ghost Protocol, Hunt/Brandt (13,175) === There was this one page of prompts on ghotocol_kink that sent my brain into a crazy tailspin of writing; this was the longest fic that came out of it all. (#5 in 2013)

5. ask ourselves what road to take, MCU, Clint/Coulson (18,250) === Have I mentioned how much I love the Clint/Coulson mini-fandom? They read and kudo and comment and generally rally around stories, no matter that the pairing has less than a minute of a scene together. (New in 2014)

4. End-Around, H5-0, Steve/Danny (21,701) === Never underestimate the staying power of a slightly kinky PWP in a juggernaut pairing. (#3 in 2013)

3. Four Times Nobody Noticed It Was A Date, and One Time There Wasn't Any Doubt, H5-0, Steve/Danny (35,923) === Still the fastest I have ever started writing in a fandom (I think I started posting after the third episode.) I'm pretty excited that it still mostly holds up (and that people just now finding the show on Netflix are finding fic for it, too.) (#2 in 2013)

2. doesn't matter if I bleed, MCU, Clint/Coulson (38,835) === It was pretty much obligatory in the C/C fandom to write a post-Avengers fix-it fic. My brain certainly wasn't going to let go of the idea. (#3 in 2013)

1. you need a rock not a rolling stone, MCU, Darcy/Clint (46,774) === My pre-Avengers, let's-play-with-the-fun-fanon-pairing snarkfest of a romance novel. I remain gobsmacked (but utterly delighted) that so many people seem to love it as much as I do. (#1 in 2013)


Kudos are almost exactly the same--a little variation in rankings, but the same ten stories, which is the first year that's happened.