Top Ten AO3

[topaz119]

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.

Comments

[jenab]

Clint/Coulson reminds me of my first slash pairing I fell for. Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, who also had limited screen time together.

I just love what fandom can do with so little.

[topaz119]

It's always fun to see what catches on -- I live for the odd pairings, even when I love the juggernauts, so I'm eternally grateful for those pairings.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Oooooh - there's a couple of here I don't think I've read - fun!

Darcy/Clint is the oddest phenom - for how many hits and love it gets whenever I post something for such an obscure pairing - there's not many of us who write it!

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I love when people do this--I always find something I've missed!

There really should be more ppl writing D/C, because you're right, there certainly are a lot of people ready to read it!

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I know! There's always a little resurgence around the movies being released too. I've had a little uptick in my older Steve/Tony fics because we all crave fic after having the pretties in our eyeballs. :D

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

::flails at your icon::

um. yes. right. words.

I can tell I'm going to get jossed so hard on this Darcy/Clint WiP w/AoU (hah, literally jossed--I remember when that got coined back in the 90s and then filtered out to all the fandoms and now here we are again, back at the beginning. zoinks, I'm old.) but I was just happy everybody I needed made it through Thor 2.

My biggest bump came on my lone Trek fic, after the second movie, because I am allll about the crazy pairings in every fandom, so that was a Kirk/Pike and I think more people read it after the 2nd movie than when I originally wrote it--everybody wanting to re-write canon, koff.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Heh - you know, after watching the movie - I have the craziest hankering for Clint/Pietro fic. :D

[brighton-girl.livejournal.com]

Good for you to have that kind of audience, though sad at the low numbers for your popslash stories which were brilliant. Do you know about Interlude Press? They are publishing fan fiction writers, who turn their works into original stories...and you clearly have an audience. They are having a lot of success I follow them on Tumblr, I can send you the information, but they are always looking for authors.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

ooo, a new Clint pairing. I'm always up for that!

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Avengers/Marvel fandom is just crazy big. Those are good numbers, but they don't hold a candle to the really big pairings.

I have heard of Interlude but haven't really investigated them in any depth (just no time! My home-schooled kid is in his last semester though, so maybe by the end of the summer I'll have some time free up.) I'll have to look into them a little bit more--I keep messing around with an original novel, but it's moving slowly, too.