Meme: Fics with the Mostest

And now, to balance out the last two Highly Serious posts, a meme picked up from senmut:

Rules: Give us the links to your fics with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and least words.

Most Hits: (2569) Why Maine Is Such A Good Idea Castle, Rick & Alexis

This is so not a surprise; it was my first Castle fic, from early in the fandom's life cycle, and I was squarely in the popular corner as far as characterizations were concerned. It still amuses me that the first comment I got on the story, in which Alexis picks Bowdoin as her college of choice, was in fact from a Bowdoin student....

Most Kudos & Bookmarks: (167/32) And I Do Mean Yours Gargoyles, Xanatos & Owen

To quote ArisTGD's bookmark text: "Anti-Stratfordians! The Illuminati! Shakespeare fraud! Theater!" Also a number of Easter eggs and a Producers reference. Writing dialogue for these two is arguably more fun than one should legally be allowed to have....

Most Comments: (36) The Solitary Sorceress of Oz Oz - L. Frank Baum, Trot & Glinda

One of my very first Yuletide stories - not only well-received at the time, but reprinted much later, at the editor's request, in an issue of Oziana. It's also been dropped into "mainstream" Ozian fanon by way of the Royal Timeline of Oz, which I count as a non-trivial honor.

Most Words: (~18.7K) I Suppose This Means They Read the Fanfic Kim Possible/Narbonic, Kim & Shego, Ensemble

This one predates my migration to AO3, dating from the period when I was writing Kim Possible fic and hanging out in a user community on FF.Net. Being an FF.Net fic and one of my very earliest fanworks, I was writing and uploading one chapter at a time, and being me, I was playing the serial-cliffhanger card for all it was worth. On one hand, I think I've improved a good bit since then, but despite being second in an (aborted) series and featuring a relatively obscure crossover fandom, I also think it's still readable at this much later date.

Least Words (93) One Morning at the BBC Prop Warehouse Doctor Who, 4th Doctor

There may have been 100 words in this at one point, but AO3 seems to have the count correct now. Written for a holiday-season prompt challenge in my LiveJournal (format borrowed from Seanan McGuire, who was at the time a really popular fanfic writer & not yet a really popular professional novelist). As I said at the time, the BBC will of course never admit that that series was a documentary....