Wow, it's been awhile, huh, and what a post to leave up as my last one. Um, sorry? My laptop is not dead (yet) although the graphics card seems to be failing fast so I do still need a new one. I was really sick for about two weeks right after I posted that though (theoretically not Covid??) and worn out afterward, and had to get a FAPA zine in and behind on everything because of that and then Thanksgiving holiday happened and there was just a lot, mostly not bad. But I've been around! I've been cuddling my cat and writing fic and working on Yuletide along with everything else! I'm even like 80% sure I didn't default on Yuletide!

I'm five days into my winter time off and starting to feel like I am catching up on life again, so as evidence that I've still been around I have done my 2023 AO3 wrapped (reading) stats. ^_^

(I did this using the extremely unfinished AO3.js on Github, which gave me a CSV of my 80 pages of reading history for the past twelve months, and then loaded it into Google Sheets to go wild with UNIQUE() and FLATTEN() and COUNTIF() and SUMIF() to get stats. I don't understand AO3.js or Google Sheets enough to teach other people but in theory you can do it too.)

AO3 History pages have some issues for this - they record every fic you visit while logged in on AO3 whether you read it or not, they remove all data for deleted works, and works only show up the most recent time you read them (so if you read the same fic multiple times in a year it will only count once.) And of course they don't show if you're reading logged out or from downloads. But in terms of total wordcount I'm going to assume those mostly balance out.

So, from Dec. 1 2022 to Dec 1 2023:

• Works: 1593 (Avg. 4.3 per day)
• Total wordcount: 29,975,729 (82,125 per day)
• The equivalent of approx. 300 full-length modern novels, which makes me feel a bit better about my much lower Goodreads stats for the year. (I'll do Goodreads and podcasts at year end, they're a little easier to get.)
• Average wordcount per work: 18,000
• Median wordcount per work: 5,144

( More tag stats, at detailed length )

....and in theory the next step is to go through the list and find stuff to make an all-year recs list but we'll see if that happens.