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toujours_nigelflicked off gwyn but also seen elsewhere, List your top fanfic on AO3 for every year, sorted by kudos. I'm starting with 2009, because I don't think fanfic I wrote before that is on the Archive.
2009: Dāshrathi; Ramayana: gen. I don't think kudos were a thing yet, and also I suspect these particular kudos drifted in relatively recently. Everything else I wrote that year was for a Bollywood film, had a readership of two, and had originally been posted here or on LJ.
2010: The Mating of Sharks; Harry Potter: Draco Malfoy/Blaize Zabini. (Close runners-up: Moses Among the Bulrushes; also Harry Potter and racebent. to race Thanatos; Alexander trilogy; deathfic)
2011: Vistas of Sun and Smoke; Alexander trilogy: gen and the beginning of my obsession with Hephaistion's family. (Close runners-up: The Son of Monoetius; The Iliad; a death-wail for Patroclus. Nathbati; The Mahabharata and the beginning of my love for writing AU in the epic; the name itself is flicked from the Bengali drama about Draupadi: Nathbati Anathbat [husbanded husbandless].)
2012: Noone here to save; Captain America: Steve/Bucky with Bucky alive post-train. Thoroughly unsurprising, is what I'm saying.
2013: Food of Love; Harry Potter: Marauder-era fic of Sirius/Remus getting together. Possibly my favourite and definitely the lightest and funniest thing I've ever written with these two.
2014: Not a House or Even a Tent; The Charioteer; wedding-night fic for Ralph/Laurie. Shmoopy sentimental sex. Has a lot of kudos for such a small fandom, I must say. (Definitely not the best TC fic I wrote that year, which is almost certainly The Thousandth Man; ofc I wrote a lot of TC fic that year so YMMV clearly.)
2015: Sex while Parents; Pride (2014): has very little sex in it considering the title, but a whole spiel about suddenly landing as unofficial foster-parents while queer and in your late-thirties or older. I love it to bits, so this ranking makes me very happy.
2016: and in the mirror; Harry Potter: gen. Remus and his third-year Slytherin class v. Boggarts. I... think this might have been recced recently because it's got a fair trickle of kudos in the last month or so.
2017: a soft epilogue; Harry Potter: Remus/Sirius post-canon. The only thing I wrote in 2017.
2018: grow; Greek mythology: porny. Look there's a reason this got written December 2018 and is somehow the most kudosed fic for the year, and the reason is Persephone pegging Hades. The internet is for porn, etc.
2019: I'm still writing and plan to do a lot of it in the last quarter of the year, but as of right now the MCU fic is winning because well, MCU.
gwyn but also seen elsewhere, List your top fanfic on AO3 for every year, sorted by kudos. I'm starting with 2009, because I don't think fanfic I wrote before that is on the Archive.2009: Dāshrathi; Ramayana: gen. I don't think kudos were a thing yet, and also I suspect these particular kudos drifted in relatively recently. Everything else I wrote that year was for a Bollywood film, had a readership of two, and had originally been posted here or on LJ.
2010: The Mating of Sharks; Harry Potter: Draco Malfoy/Blaize Zabini. (Close runners-up: Moses Among the Bulrushes; also Harry Potter and racebent. to race Thanatos; Alexander trilogy; deathfic)
2011: Vistas of Sun and Smoke; Alexander trilogy: gen and the beginning of my obsession with Hephaistion's family. (Close runners-up: The Son of Monoetius; The Iliad; a death-wail for Patroclus. Nathbati; The Mahabharata and the beginning of my love for writing AU in the epic; the name itself is flicked from the Bengali drama about Draupadi: Nathbati Anathbat [husbanded husbandless].)
2012: Noone here to save; Captain America: Steve/Bucky with Bucky alive post-train. Thoroughly unsurprising, is what I'm saying.
2013: Food of Love; Harry Potter: Marauder-era fic of Sirius/Remus getting together. Possibly my favourite and definitely the lightest and funniest thing I've ever written with these two.
2014: Not a House or Even a Tent; The Charioteer; wedding-night fic for Ralph/Laurie. Shmoopy sentimental sex. Has a lot of kudos for such a small fandom, I must say. (Definitely not the best TC fic I wrote that year, which is almost certainly The Thousandth Man; ofc I wrote a lot of TC fic that year so YMMV clearly.)
2015: Sex while Parents; Pride (2014): has very little sex in it considering the title, but a whole spiel about suddenly landing as unofficial foster-parents while queer and in your late-thirties or older. I love it to bits, so this ranking makes me very happy.
2016: and in the mirror; Harry Potter: gen. Remus and his third-year Slytherin class v. Boggarts. I... think this might have been recced recently because it's got a fair trickle of kudos in the last month or so.
2017: a soft epilogue; Harry Potter: Remus/Sirius post-canon. The only thing I wrote in 2017.
2018: grow; Greek mythology: porny. Look there's a reason this got written December 2018 and is somehow the most kudosed fic for the year, and the reason is Persephone pegging Hades. The internet is for porn, etc.
2019: I'm still writing and plan to do a lot of it in the last quarter of the year, but as of right now the MCU fic is winning because well, MCU.
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Date: 2019-07-15 05:22 am (UTC)This, of course, is the usual problem with such memes. Rarelit loses, perforce, regardless of the relative quality of the writing.
There are, of course, those who write primarily in megafandoms. And write porn (as you point out). I have some stories that are practically kudos-free. Hit-free, too.
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Date: 2019-07-15 05:37 pm (UTC)ETA: Even within TC, the year I wrote The Thousandth Man emphatically does not have it at the top, despite it being the best thing I've written in the fandom.
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Date: 2019-07-15 06:23 pm (UTC)