#iasip stats

[margle]

Always Sunny Fan Survey

Hello, this post is coming to you from the Bureau of Always Sunny Statistics.

We, at the bureau, are dedicated to delivering the answers to your burning Always Sunny questions. Have you ever wondered who the silent Charlie majority are that sweep every poll? Do you want to know who the public think the funniest/most attractive/most pathetic member of the gang is? Would you like to know what the most loathed and loved ships and episodes are? Would you like to pretend to be surprised when Charlie turns out to be the most popular character and macdennis the most popular ship?

Most importantly, would you like to spend way too much time (around 30-40 minutes) filling out a survey?

When I have received enough data I'll make a post going over all of the Bureau's findings. There are probably too many questions but it should autosave and so you can take breaks and complete it over a few days. Please reblog and share among IASIP fans so the Bureau can obtain lots of data.

#iasip #it's always sunny in philadelphia #iasip stats #dee reynolds #dennis reynolds #mac mcdonald #frank reynolds #charlie kelly #sunnyblr #always sunny #stats #survey #it's all anonymous btw #and google forms doesnt collect your email address so dont worry about that

[bixshits]

im sorry but charlie surviving an abortion being listed as a skill is extremely funny to me

#bro maxed out his resistance stat from the womb #iasip #its always sunny in philadelphia #charlie kelly #iasip charlie

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

I usually don’t actually interact much with fandom of certain things, but second resurrection in hyperfixation kicked my ass and made me join Sunnyblr and it’s been fun reblogging things, reading meta, started out normal enough, but it also seems I slipped in the door right before everyone started collectively losing their minds and descending further into hiatus madness and now the doors are locked and there’s no turning back, the polls are closing in, I—I can feel the glirst in the room with me right now, and the windows only open from the outside, but horrifyingly, I don’t know if I want to open them. I don’t know. With trembling fingers, I click on the poll.

#sunnyblr #iasip #glirst #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #anmmbposts #there was some sudden turning point where the hinges became un #I think it was when they didn’t do *that* podcast ep #I love and fear the sunnyblr blogs I follow 😭 #it’s so funny the duality of the posts it’s like smartest analysis ever followed by a post thirsty enough to drink the ocean #I’m scared (/j) #it’s been a ride 👍 #i admire the dedication to scientific poll stats 😭😂

[charlieism]

GUYS I HAD A MACDENNIS CANON DREAM

#i cannot even begin.. my jaw is on the floor ot just randomly flooded back to ne 40 mins after waking up... IT WAS SO ROMANTIC AND TENDER #AND KIND OF SAD?? #licherally perfect for them my subconscious brain is a genius and i need to be hired as a writer for this show STAT #jay rambles #macdennis #iasip

[jacktorrancekinny]

iasip + swap au (works in canon too tbh but i thought of it in the context of your au first haha)

kim: "this is crazy, but i'm having feelings again. Like some kind of 14-year-old kid or something. you remember feelings, right?"

harry: "yeah, i have feelings every single day of my life."

kim: "do you?"

harry: "are you saying you don't have feelings??"

this was fun! had to resist the urge to color it when this is just a silly thing.. but canon context is kim is trying out his expressions in the mirror for stat bonuses

#disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #kim kitsuragi #de swap au #disco elysium au #disco elysium swap au #harrier du bois #harry du bois #swap kim kitsuragi #disco elysium swap #iasip memes

[sunriseverse]

tagged by @lucientelrunya to do a “twenty questions for fic writers” tag meme (thank you!!!!)

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

376. about 200 or so of those are pacrim promptfics though, which inflates the number.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

1,234,900. i unfortunately suffer from a chronic inability to shut up, and fanfic is basically my only non-academic hobby.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

as of march 2023, various adaptations and canons falling under the dmbj umbrella.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

strike it through (start again) (922)

do you feel the hunger (does it howl inside?) (616)

a love that echoes through the distance (472)

strokes of love (441)

chart a course for a better tomorrow (390)

(honestly i’m kind of annoyed my ofmd fics are so popular, since i got in at just the right time (a lot of fandom interest but comparatively few fanfics in comparison to demand) to get a decent amount of attention to them, but i don’t really care about the show anymore so seeing it skew my stats miffs me a bit. also, i think my recent works are just far better written because i’ve improved at my craft.)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

probably 95% of the time, yeah! even if it’s just a “thanks for commenting, glad you liked the fic!” i think it’s important readers know that i’m not just some faceless set of hands posting—i am a real person, as much a part of whatever fandom i’m in as any lurkers.

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

uhhhh well. there’s one i wrote that’s canon-compliant for cql? but i feel like canon-compliant mcd doesn’t count. other than that………i THINK i wrote a “newt dies” fanfic back in ‘19 or ‘20.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

no idea how to go at this question, honestly. with few exceptions, my writing is all either happy endings, or hopeful endings. i don’t have the emotional bandwidth to leave something an open wound, you know? but “the things in this forest have teeth and claws” was probably the most personally-settling things i’ve written.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

yeah, sometimes. i haven’t had this problem since i migrated to ao3, but it did happen on ffnet. before i stopped crossposting to ffnet some time in ‘20/‘21, i got someone calling me a “fat f*g hag”, so. [shrug] i’m pretty used to just deleting comments and not letting them get to me, though, so it’s not a big deal.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

as a rule, no; it’s not really my thing. i prefer to explore interpersonal intimacy in other ways. that’s not to say i won’t imply smut, though—it’s something the characters i write about engage with as part of the course of their lives, and i don’t have any interest in ignoring that, either, even if i don’t explicitly write it out.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

i used to write more crossovers, but now i mainly write fusions (dæmon/hdm fusions and pacrim fusions are some of my favourites). i think probably the wildest fusion i can think of is the tma/iasip fic i wrote one time. i read it the other day, and while it’s a little rough, most of it still holds up, and it’s pretty funny.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not to my knowledge, no. just in case, though, i have a disclaimer in my ao3 bio about any works appearing anywhere besides my ao3 or ffnet (same user) is stolen and i do not authorise it to be there.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

someone asked me years ago (in 2019, i believe) if they could translate one of my pacrim fics into russian. i haven’t heard from them since, though, so effectively the answer here is “no”.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

a couple times! it’s a bit hard because you have to do a lot of coordinating and planning, and that’s assuming the fanfic doesn’t just wind up languishing in the draft/idea phase forever.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

this is going to sound silly, but—ozma of oz/dorothy gale. look, i read all the oz books i could get my hands on as a child, and i was always fascinated with their “close friendship” (i wonder why!)

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

i have a wip that was grandfathered in from my friend emma, who wound up leaving fandom (good for her; as she tells it, her mental health improved because of this), that i sometimes stare longingly at with a deeply bittersweet fondness. it’s hannigram, and will probably never be finished because trying to rewatch the show just makes me incalculably angry at brian fuller.

16. What are your writing strengths?

description! i’ve been told i am able to paint the things i write so vividly they almost feel real. i also enjoy descriptive writing, which probably helps.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

plots that aren’t character-driven. i’m a character writer first and foremost, and my projects generally are emotionally-driven, so i don’t have much chance to try and write action-driven plots. which is fine by me, i’m not terribly interested in them. if there’s action in my writing, it’s almost invariably in service to character.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

depends on how it’s handled. it can either be very good, or very bad.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

to absolutely no one’s surprise, warrior cats. this was back in the days of writing fanfic by hand and hiding it away. my oldest still-published fanfic, though, is a discontinued 2017 warrior cats fanfic that centres a deaf apprentice. it’s a pity i never kept any notes for this fanfic (or, if i did, they at some point got lost), because i think the concept is fascinating.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

self-indulgence is the rule here, so probably “best laid plans”, a very silly concept that accidentally acquired a lot of emotion to it. oops!

tagging…………… @lunarriviera , @butchybats , @fixaidea , and anyone else who sees this and wants to participate!

#tag meme #c.txt

[woollenpharaohs]

woollen_pharaohs’s AO3 rundown So i’ve hit the coveted 1 million wordcount marker on AO3 and on top of that it is coincidentally now over 10 years since i signed up with AO3! No better time to analyse the stats page and talk about my progress as a writer over the last decade. 

I joined AO3 on 14th December 2012 and have published 115 works since then. Here are the main stats as of 1/1/23:

Word counts My longest fic, at 179,562 words is Salvation (A Discography), a Daredevil fic in which the characters assume dual roles as their Daredevil components as well as being musicians heavily based on the real lives of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club band members. It was an ambitous, lengthy work which remains unfinished to this day. It was also the first and only fic I’ve ever had beta read - thank you to wtchcool for all your hard work. The best advice i got from her was to keep chapters short which is something i definitely did not do for this fic, but have taken on board since. 

The fandom i wrote the most words for, other than the Daredevil fandom which totalled 257,093 words laregely dominated by the sheer length of Salvation, was It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (IASIAP). I wrote a total of 11 fics for the fandom totalling 242,520 words, including a 2 part vampire epic. Written in a similar vein as Salvation, it was a crossover of the IASIP and Fargo (TV) worlds (because both shows starred the same actors) in an attempt to fill in gaps between both narratives and also because vampires are cool. Finishing Murmurations, at 193,299 words across 2.5 parts (.5 being a primer), was a massive personal feat for me. It proved to me that i could write a multi-chapter novel length fic and bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. It gave me the courage to start writing my original novel not long after. 

Hits The total amount of hits I have as of today are 201,896. 

My top 5 most popular fics are:

Play Your Cards Close To Your Chest (Daredevil) with 13,453 hits 

Stillness In Time (Bob’s Burgers/Teen Wolf crossover WIP) with 12,911 hits

Two Sane Guys Doing Normal Things (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) with 12,118 hits

Heartbeats (Daredevil) with 9,958 hits

Kiss and Tell (Letterkenny) with 7,474 hits

The popularity of Play Your Cards amuses me. I tried to do a 5+1 thing but couldn’t think up of enough pranks. Some of them are based on real things that happened to me and the rest on google lol. I am not too proud of the prose and am consistently surprised when i get kudos for this fic. One thing i did really enjoy about writing and posting this fic was the amount of support i was getting from the Daredevil fandom. It’s got to be one of the best fandoms i’ve ever written for. 

Stillness in Time also cracks me up. I swear the hits must be as high as they are because of the fandom crossover is fucking bonkers. Literally don’t know what I was thinking. I definitely had not end in mind for that fic so it will remain a WIP forever. Sometimes i want to orphan this fic but it’s just too funny not to have attached to my username. 

Two Sane Guys - genuinely proud of this fic. Likewise with Hearbeats. Kiss and Tell though? Don’t even fucken remember what that’s about. 

Most prolific year I’ve published at least one fic every year since 2012 when I made my account. I also back-dated a fic i published on fanfic.net from 2009. 

In 2017 I wrote a total of 25 fics for a total of 126,369 words. I wrote for 12 different fandoms, the most being 6 for IASIP and 5 for Letterkenny. 2017 was probably my best year for writing and creativity. Some of my favourite fics i have ever written are from 2017, such as: 

Television Blues (As You Are (film)) - An alternative, happy ending to the film. 

The Burning House (IASIP) - a short fic where Mrs Mac and Bonnie Kelly are kind of in love but also want to murder each other. 

The Edge of The World Pt. 1 (Pond (band)) - I had just come back from a creative writing workshop at uni and poured all of my creative energy into this piece. I think it’s probably the best thing i’ve ever written though it probably doesn’t make any sense to non-australians. 

2017 also saw me writing for a variety of rarepairs, rare fandoms, new kinks and was the year i started writing Murmurations. That being said, it’s also the year where i wrote a bunch of fics i can’t even remember. Like all those Letterkenny and Rhett & Link ones? Completely wiped from my brain. Looks like my writing but did I write it? who knows. 

2022 follows closely having written 22 fics, 3 less than 2017 but with a slightly higher word count at a total of 129,420 words. During 2022 i was mostly writing music RPF and blutchest. I attribute this to being absolutely deranged. 

Comments and Kudos The total number of comment threads I have are 658 with a total of 13,665 kudos!!! Amazing. Thank you for anyone who has ever commented/kudosed my fics. The most comments I have received is 71 on the first part of Murmurations, followed by 62 on the second part. I received 31 comments on Salvation and 28 on Play Your Cards. 14 of my 115 fics have not received a comment which is pretty good in the grand scheme of things. 

That being said, I usually don’t pay attention to comment counts. I love getting comments don’t get me wrong but i don’t think comments or hits are a genuinely good representation as to whether my readers actually like the work. Kudos is probably the best way to gauge it.

Top kudos count favours the Daredevil fics I’ve written. 

Top Kudosed fics:

Play Your Cards - 790 kudos

Two Sane Guys - 686 kudos

Spin The Bottle (Daredevil) - 638 kudos

Heartbeats - 636 kudos

White Noise (Daredevil) - 481 kudos

Still amused that Play Your Cards is up there at number 1. Spin The Bottle i assume is up there because it was the first shippy matt/foggy fics to be posted to ao3 when the show was airing on netflix. It’s high kudos count i attribute primarily to thirst of readers at a time when the post-comics Daredevil fic content was a wasteland. People still seem to really like my Daredevil fics given i still get kudos notification emails about them. Maybe one day it will be another fandom. 

Ship categories Looks like my most popular ship category was m/m, with a total of 86 works for that type of ship, followed by 15 for femslash. 

The 2 ‘other’ are used specifically for Ragnarok (TV 2020) because one of the shipped characters is a shapeshifter, able to to shift between boy and girl and even have body parts of both at will. I thought that’s probably an appropriate reason to use the ‘other’ category for lol.

Bookmarks Readers have bookmarked my fics 1,511 times. I usually don’t care about bookmarks either because users can remove bookmarked works. It’s not a permanent stat like a hit or a kudos. What i do love are people who leave comments in the bookmark sections. I don’t mind that some of them are rude, they make me laugh. Here are a few of my favourites over time: 

I got bored of going through all the bookmarks, i’m sure there’s more good nuggets in there. i think my favourite thing about bookmarks is sometimes users forget that it’s actually a publicly viewable feature unless they make it a private bookmark. it’s like a second way to get a comment and i love to see what people write when they think i can’t see it. 

Fandom firsts One thing i enjoy is creating fandom tags by being the first person to post a fic to it (looks at the camera like in The Office). Tags i’ve created are usually for music RPF. Some i’m proud of starting include Soulwax/2manydjs (band), Pond (band), Raised By Wolves (TV), Key & Peele (TV), Kidding (TV), Intergalactic (TV). In temrs of ship firsts, I’ve written for a lot of rarepairs who have never been written about before and probably never will be again so no use tooting my horn about those lmao. 

I used to also keep track of fandoms i had written for where my fic was the most popular in the fandom but usually in the case of Daredevil, IASIP or even Dirk Gently, a fic’s popularity was usually helped if the author had a strong tumblr following which i have never been able to achieve lol... nor do i really want for that matter given the insane shit i write. I’ll top the rare fandoms by default given nobody else writes for them lmao. easy award! 

Fic titles sometimes i have originality okay? Very rarely. Exactly... 55 out of 115 fic titles have I thought of an original name for a fic, i.e. not a song title and not a direct quote from the fandom the fic is written for. 

Conclusion Well, that’s it! it’s been fun to go through my stats page and see what’s been happening. I hope to one day see some of my other fics exceed the popularity of my current most popular fics but given i now tend to mostly write for fandoms of one, i don’t see that that will change in 10 years time lmao. 

#long post #weird shit #text post #ao3 stats summary #i also have 127 comments i havent replied to.... #sorry about that

[cheetahpaw-reg]

need more iasip agere stat

[sillyfreaktime]

we need to bring back the 20 episode season STAT. why tf are there only THREE more episodes left in iasip s16??? this is catastrophic for me :(

#sunny s16 #always sunny

[mhaccunoval]

mac in the wedding dress is pretty cute and you can suck my toe if you disagree

#pant rambles #iasip #ok i"m going back to conpiling stats. bye

[actually-richard-speight]

Am I original

#I've been fucking OBSESSED with this show lately #I love Mac #I need a gay rich mac icon stat #specifically in the riot shirt because yes #iasip

[dykerory]

13 + mick & ali?

13. When do they realise they should get together?

so mick shows up at their house and learns about lita and, being raised catholic and also a little bit dumb, is like… do i need to marry you now… and ali is like thanks but i’m pretty sure this isn’t 1810 lita can inherit my estate just fine. 

like ali makes it very clear they were fine without him and will continue to be fine (ali is a VERY sought after tattoo artist) so mick goes back to the legends but has this sinking feeling that he should be doing more, that he has to be better than his own dad. 

nate, charlie, and behrad are like they cannot be allowed to fall in love. WE’RE in love with him. 

Sara, ava, zari: mick really needs an age appropriate love interest you guys are SO selfish

so the team zavalance are like we need to lady and the tramp this STAT while the team jealous baby gay is like we need to do everything in our power to sabatoge this. 

zavalance recruit lita to get ali out of the house so they can prepare a romantic date. zari: i can get a professional violin player here in under five minutes. trust me it works. 

team baby gay meanwhile are actively sabotaging the other team because mick CANNOT fall in love and leave us! we kidnapped the violin player. he is in our van.

one things leads to another and by the time mick and ali show up at the house (zari hacked their phones to make it look like they texted each other) ali’s kitchen is in flames. there’s a shady van with a crying violin player in it. 

the legends explain the situation and are like listen we WOULD let you have mick except SOME OF US *pointed glares* can’t handle it so would you be ok with like a time sharing scenario? we’re thinking trade offs every other week. 

mick: do i get a say in this?

legends: no why would you

and ali actually finds their attachment to them very charming and agrees to the timeshare. eventually charlie is like wait she’s gorgeous why am i not sleeping with her. 

*iasip title card* Ali joins the polycule*

#constagreentrash #mali #mick rory #ali lot #legends of tomorrow spoilers #lot spoilers #my writing #creo #force ghost len is actually with lita teaching her how to rob atms #real ghost dad/daughter bonding activity

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

Not you guys making me see the Dennis sex faces on my dash like 10 times in a row, SFW Sasuke, we’re really in it now 😭

#iasip #dennis reynolds #his face haunts me #yet the post and the POLL is so funny I love the dedication to science and stats #hate the psychological torture of witnessing him so many times like that in one day #sunnyblr I love you never change I love Dennis too but him please change his expression while doing that please 😭 #anmmbposts

[lumiereandcogsworth]

7 , 10 , 15 , 26 for fanfic asks!

thanks bro!

7. list your NoTPs from each fandom you’ve been in uhh okay there’s a lot of fandoms i could go through so i’m just gonna name some front runners

andy/erin (the office), charlie/mac (iasip), lumiere/cogsworth (batb), carisi/rollins (svu)

i guess those are like the biggest ones for me? there’s prob more but that’s all you get

10. is there a fandom you read fic from but don’t write in? well i guess just hannibal bc i read your fics and don’t write it. other than that nah, i really just read batb fic and i write that!

15. is there an obscure ship which you love? mmm i don’t think so. i’m really bad at shipping people that aren’t in/definitely going to be in a canon relationship. and canon relationships tend to be in focus and not that obscure so i guess not!

26. how do you come up with your fanfic titles? ah i’m so glad you asked this!! okay i just did a check on my 11 works and here’s the stats:

1 is a line from a poem. i decided to do that bc you always make your titles poem/song lines and i was like hey that’d be fun to try out

6 are based on lines from within the fic, either directly or just the gist of a line. and i guess i just grabbed them bc i felt like they encompassed the fics well?

4 are just made up by me. i don’t know, i guess i’m also able to just come up with eloquent ways of titling the fics? i try and think of a simple or poetic way to say what the fic is about.

send fic/fandom asks!

#thanks!! #answered #andybbernard

[blackblack21]

Bird Law We need Charlie Day, STAT #inktober2017 #day21 #pigeon #lawyer #iasip

#lawyer #pigeon #inktober2017 #iasip #day21