Huzzah, Indeed!

[przed]

I've been poking away at it for a few months now, but tonight I managed to get the last of my online stories uploaded on AO3. I polished off the last of my LJ stories a week or so ago, and have been working on the zine stories from my website, most of which needed formatting clean up. (Thanks to sineala for recommending TextWrangler. That program saved my life and/or sanity.)

The final count?
162 stories in 23 fandoms.

Crikey!

You can find the whole gory mess of them here.

There are still a few stories outstanding.

There's the LotR drabbles that were lost when the mod deleted the lotr100 comm. (Thus teaching me to always post stories to my own LJ, even when I'm also posting to a comm.) I'm hoping these are lurking about on my vidding machine, but I have to wait until I get it back from the shop. (Stupid video card.)

There is an ongoing UNCLE series that's only ever been in zines, owing to the fact that only half the stories are done. I had a mad idea about finishing the five outstanding stories and posting them in order some time soon. I doubt I'll get every story done, but I may just go ahead and post the stories that actually exist.

And there's my Pros novel, Exile. I do plan on posting that, hopefully soon, but I'd like to do one last copy edit on the bastard before I put it up.

But in the meantime, just because I can, I thought I'd finally do this meme:

List your ten fics at AO3 that have had the most hits.


This is a motley mix, mostly Pros, because that's what I first put up at AO3, mixed with my Yuletide stories.

1. Firsts
Pros. A series of vignettes of firsts in Bodie & Doyle's lives. Given how much trouble this was to write, I have to say I'm rather pleased it's on the top. Originally a zine story.

2. Happy Endings.
Pros. Bodie's just returned from Africa and trying to go legit; Doyle's a young copper trying to make his mark. They get mixed up in a murder plot and with each other. I'm always interested in seeing younger versions of these two, so this was a fun story to write. Another zine story.

3. Down a Dark Desert Highway.
A Knight's Tale/Hotel California crossover. Yeah, you read that right. Needless to say, this was my Yuletide offering for this year. Wacky though the fandoms are, I have to say, I'm rather proud of it.

4. And the Sky to Sleep Under.
Tombstone. Wyatt Earp/Doc Holliday slash. Another Yuletide story, and another one I'm rather fond of.

5. Phoenix Rising.
Pros. Only the second Pros story I wrote, and the sex in it is goofy rather than smutty, but it's not bad.

6. A Moment of Clarity.
Buckaroo Banzai. Buckaroo/Rawhide slash. A Yuletide stocking stuffer I wrote for gwyn_r, mostly because I've always wanted to write this pairing. This is a wee triple drabble, but some day I'd love to write a long, meaty story with Buckaroo and Rawhide.

7. Vigil.
Pros. The most recent story in the Comfort and Joy series, and a bit darker than the series started out. Not as dark as the next one, though.

8. Home for the Holidays.
Pros. The second last story in the Comfort and Joy series, and by far the darkest. I killed off Bodie's bastard of a father in it, and I did a good enough job with the death scene that after my own (most definitely not a bastard) dad died I couldn't read it for over a year. I had to put the series on hold for a bit after that.

9. Do You Know What I Know.
Pros. Story 4 in the Comfort and Joy series, and a much lighter offering. Doyle's mum susses out what's going on between her son and Bodie.

10. Substitute.
Pros. Another longish one. There is angst and pining and a touching reunion.

Comments

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

23 fandoms? I don't think I'm anywhere close to that. *admires*

[przed.livejournal.com]

I counted. You're at 25. 24, if you count both incarnations of Who as one. ::bows down before the master::

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Really? Erm... forget the bowing, it's a mere technicality of my willingness to cross just about anything with one of my fandoms in a cracky way to amuse a mate/by request for a challenge. If you eliminate the single count for a cracky crossover ones I think I probably only have maybe five fandoms where I've written more than one story so I think your number is FAR more significant. *bows down before the true master*

One cock ring to rule them all. :D

[przed.livejournal.com]

I've got a whole lot of one shots in their too. (Though I have to admit, many of those involve Viggo and/or the Bean and can therefore probably be consider VigBean.) I'd say we're about even.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Two cock rings?

This is beginning to sound like a party...

[przed.livejournal.com]

And just the sort of party we're likely to enjoy. ::snicker::

[squeeful.livejournal.com]

*downloads the gory lot of them*

Hello, goodbye, you're not going to see me for a few weeks now. :-P

[przed.livejournal.com]

Um, good luck?

Hope you enjoy 'em. *g*

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a lot of fandoms and stories. I don't think I even have 23 stories. Also I have observed that Yuletide stories get a lot of hits.

I am glad TextWrangler helped you.

[przed.livejournal.com]

It probably helps that I've been doing this fandom lark for nearly 20 years now. (TWenty years next year, in fact.) Yikes!

TextWrangler is brilliant. I wish I'd had it last year when I was fighting to convert those ereader files.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

That Yuletide Hotel California one is glorious :)

I don't even need to look to know that my Sherlock fics will have the most hits - it's the only megafandom I've written in.

[przed.livejournal.com]

When I first got that Yuletide assignment, I thought "no way can I write anything using Hotel California." How wrong I was. ;-)

I'll have to take a look at your Sherlock fic sometime. (After briefly dipping my toe into Sherlock Holmes after the movie, I ran away fearing I would be washed away by the crazy amount of fic out there. I've never seen a show produce so much slash. But then, I usually avoid the big fandoms like the plague.)

[sarren.livejournal.com]

I was never interested in reading in the RDJ SH fandom. I loved the movie for the actors and the action and the fun, but it wasn't Sherlock Holmes and the fic to me was just not quite SH, but without the visual shiny to distract me.

If you are interested in reading a few Sherlock fics, I can rec some awesome ones.

[przed.livejournal.com]

RDJ is not quite my Holmes, but Jude Law, surprisingly, is now my gold standard Watson.

Sherlock, however, is just all 'round awesome. I'd love a few recs. Including your own stories.

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Congrats on all the work! I've only gotten as far as getting an account. Thankfully, I don't have anywhere near as many stories as you do!

And speaking of stories, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you manage a new UNCLE story or two. :-)

[przed.livejournal.com]

I've probably had the account for a year, and I sort of put up the Comfort and Joy stories and then stalled out. But having LJ under attack last month showed me the wisdom of making sure things were backed up somewhere else, so I just started plugging away, doing a few stories every night. It can be a bit daunting, but the interface is easy to work with, and I got to the point that I could get a story up in a few minutes, even if it needed a formatting tweak.

I do have a new UNCLE story on the go, but it's one with need for a very tight, complex structure so it's going to be slow slogging. But I will get it done. If it kills me!

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

I'm honored that I got to beta two of those!

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm honoured that you were kind enough to beta them!

BTW, expect an email. I've stalled on your WWW not-really-a-drabble and want some advice/clarification.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Wow. Well done, mate! That is a whole bunch of scribbling to be proud of. I am waaaaaay nehind on AO3 - just updating a bit at a time.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Some might say I just got diligent with the updating. Others might say I was doing it to avoid working on my BB story. Who knows who has it right? ;-)

Working a bit at a time is probably the sane way to go.

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's an impressive collection of stories and fandoms, and it must be nice to be able to keep them all together!
I didn't know Phoenix Rising was only your second Pros fic, I particularly love that story!

[przed.livejournal.com]

I am literally years behind on updating my own website, so it's nice to get everything together in one spot.

As for Phoenix Rising, it was all downhill from there. *g*

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

What a great thing to do, it must have taken you ages. I'm a huge fan of Phoenix Rising, that scene when Cowley brings Bodie back to Doyle melts my spine every time, no matter how often I read it. xx

[przed.livejournal.com]

It was a definite slog to get them all up. Now I'm determined to never get that far behind on archiving again.

Thanks for your incredibly kind words about Phoenix Rising. That means a lot.

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

Just another thought. I did a bit more reading yesterday, and I think that one of the things I really like about your stories is the way we get to see Bodie and Doyle through other characters eyes, like Cowley of course, but you also use Murphy a lot, and I love that. You help us see inside their heads, watch scenes play out from their POVs, and that gives us a different perspective on the lads. And I couldn't resist, I read Phoenix Rising again last night, it still made me shiver...

[przed.livejournal.com]

You've just officially made my day. One thing I really like about Pros is that there is that whole group of other agents to play with. Not just Murphy, but Anson and Ruth and Susan. It somehow makes their world that much more real, and it's nice to see the lads from the outside once in a while.