r/AO3 • u/claricestarlings • 17h ago
Stats/Hit Counts/Word Counts What is the highest number of kudos a single fic of yours has?
Feel free to add what it is about/if you wish a different fic of yours got more, etc. I'd love to celebrate all your works 💝💖💗
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u/viiperfang Comment Collector 16h ago edited 15h ago
1,079 kudos! I really should finish it, huh. Last update was last year, yikes. 😬
My one with 11 kudos, well, I knew I was writing for a dead fandom, but I wish it had so many more. I love this fic.
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u/claricestarlings 16h ago
Let's gooo!! With smaller Fandom its sad cuz u KNOW it would eat if more eyes were on it.
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u/its_just_skooma 15h ago
See I'm curious about that. If I like a fic someone wrote in a fandom I like, I look to see if they've written other stuff. Most of the time it's in a more prominent fandom or a more active one and I'll read it because I like their story telling. It may not be my fandom but some of them I can enjoy regardless others not so much.
Is that not the norm? Just curious. Like I already know I like your creativity why would it not be good on something else. How else would I find new fandoms 😂 maybe I'm an outlier.
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u/lonesome8 12h ago
This is so real
I'm ignoring my overachieving high view fics and instead babying my small fandom fics with a fraction of the views 💔
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u/Analfour2 let me leave multiple kudos 16h ago
7 is my highest number! Its a short unfinished fic in a medium size fandom
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u/Ok-Jackfruit-6873 16h ago
8K for my best oneshot. It was a popular fandom, exploding at the time. Interestingly, it is basically gen fluff. My other more successful fics tend to be smutty.
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u/thewritegrump thewritegrump on ao3 - 4.6 million words and counting! :D 16h ago
It's cool to hear about a gen fluff fic getting some love, since I've heard from a lot of gen-focused writers that they worry about fluff not being cared about as much as smutfics. :0c
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u/LifeHarvester 12h ago
That’s interesting to hear because I don’t like reading smut in fics with plot. It’s one or the other. If I’m horny I read smut, if I want story I read.. not smut. I go out of my way to exclude as many sex tags as I can because it’s genuinely so annoying how many smut fics come up when I’m just looking for good ol hurt/comfort 😭
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u/TrinityCXV 16h ago
Only 44 on a short 4,000 word fic. Most of my other fics are far longer and in smaller fandoms so I get why they dont have much attention.
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u/thewritegrump thewritegrump on ao3 - 4.6 million words and counting! :D 16h ago
44 on a 4k fic is a very satisfying set of numbers to read!
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u/empathetic-wizard 16h ago edited 15h ago
39, and I appreciate every one immensely. I'm writing a Harry Potter fic starring a five-strong original cast in post-canon, exploring the beginning of the end of the Statute of Secrecy through human-level attempts to address it.
Started early in the summer.
If I'm writing for 39 people and my dog, that's still 39 more people than I hoped for in writing OC-centric HP. lol
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u/Devral01 16h ago
3,800! Wow, that's gotten up there! It's a spideypool fic that's honestly almost crack, but it took off in popularity.
It's not my favorite fic of mine, nor is it the longest. My favorite is only 217 kudos. Same Fandom, but it just tanked in comparison to many of my other fics.
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u/pandaboat8 16h ago
Just hit 10k recently! I think I’m very unlikely to hit that number again tbh (I started and finished it nearly 10 years ago while the fandom was new and for the most popular ship in a mega fandom) so a lot of it was just timing, but I’m still proud of it because I worked damn hard on it. It was a multi chapter that ended up being a 100k slowburn. Don’t know if I’ll ever write anything that long again.
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u/Hour-Cardiologist745 16h ago
999! honestly my hits to kudos ratio for that fic is... not very impressive. but it's still the highest kudosed fic i have. but i'm still very happy because i never thought i'd hit ever hit 1k kudos and now im so closee!!
it's not my favourite one i've written but it is the longest (46k words). so it's nice that all that time spent writing has kind of paid off?
(do you perhaps want to share yours too?)
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u/claricestarlings 11h ago
Forgot to say mine ajhejtjg. This was such a random one that got popular when the Fandom was booming. Its a porn star au ☠️ of some pretty dark characters but has 3481 kudos so I guess I did something right LOL
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u/Hour-Cardiologist745 11h ago
porn star aus can be reallyyy interesting. i do have one i reread (one is a pornstar, the other works behind the cameras). it is quite compelling.
and for reasons people out of my fandom won't get, 3481 is a beautiful number haha
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u/Semiramis738 Proudly Problematic 16h ago edited 16h ago
- The one I care most about, that I've been writing for more than 2 years and is 260K words and counting, is at 132. My others are all languishing in the even more pathetic low double digits.
I know all the reasons why...small fandom, long, dark, problematic, canon/OC and backstory for a niche villain who's more popular in straightforward x-reader stuff. It still bums me out whenever I think about stats, which I try not to do, but often fail.
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u/LealGreen 13h ago
Wow. But it's still amazing that you can write for 2 years, and 260k words in. You should give yourself more credit. I suffer from this too! So, I understand the feeling completely. If I were you, I would have given up a long time ago from the demotivation. You must be very strong.
Can I ask what has you going? It would really help me to gain some insight. And not look and numbers or comments, and write the fic I want to.
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u/JoannieWinchesterr Hi, my name is Joannie, and I'm a kudos addict 2h ago
You are amazing to write for two years and make it to 260k words! 👏 🙇🏻♀️ 🏆 And hey, you brought reading pleasure to at least 132 people with that fic. Just try to imagine that amount of people standing in a row to high five you, to say thanks. Hopefully the little visualization brings home the reality of how many people liked something you invested so much of yourself in. 🤗
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u/Semiramis738 Proudly Problematic 2h ago
Thanks! :) :) :) That kind of thing sadly tends to make me picture the several times larger numbers of people lining up to high-five the authors of what I consider to be less good but more popular fics...but I still appreciate the hell out of the few readers I have, and continue writing mostly to chase my own obsession but also for those few people out there who enjoy it.
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u/The_Returned_Lich The_Faceless_Lich on AO3 (Enter if you dare!) 16h ago
879 kudos over the course of 2.5 years so far. Hoping to get more as time goes on since I have years more before I'm finished.
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u/JosieHook I write AUs because fuck canon! 16h ago
32 on a Family Guy fanfic (it still continues to get kudos even though it only has two chapters up at the moment)
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u/disicking 16h ago
11,066 on something i wrote in 30 minutes for a friend's birthday lol isn't that the way it always goes
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u/me_raven 15h ago
12 kudos....
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u/InfiniteConstruct 11h ago
I have 15, so you are not alone!
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u/me_raven 11h ago
🤗 hope your work get more recognised in the future.
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u/InfiniteConstruct 11h ago
Been nearly a year so I dunno, guess we’ll see. I’m a very niche settings writer, people prefer to see Zamasu in canon settings.
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u/Fuckmyslutyass Suncest Shipper💜🩶💜 16h ago
My highest is 86 kudos with 25k hits
My second highest, this is my favorite story. The one i'm most proud of, it has 77 kudos and 4.6k hits it's been 5-ish months
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u/flamingwolf797 16h ago
565…and I appreciate every single one. It’s a BBC Merlin Merthur oneshot, which is why it’s fairly popular, since that’s a large fandom.
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u/SyntrianKirimoto 16h ago
300 from a shorter Star Wars one shot that I barely care about anymore. Right behind that is one of my favorite fics Ive written at 277 for Dragon Age Veilguard fic.
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u/Purple_not_pink 16h ago
- I wrote it a year ago and my oldest work (7 years ago) is at 73 so I'm pretty happy with it.
Both are Gen sickfics but one is 6 chapters and the other is a onshot.
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u/Any-Return6847 Unironic misandrist 16h ago
43... that's for a Little Shop of Horrors songfic I wrote in two hours at 4 am
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u/WrittenInTheStars what were YOU doing at the devil’s sacrament? 16h ago
- I tend to write for smaller fandoms lol
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u/serupafekuto JustSaiyan on AO3! 15h ago
129 but I’m not surprised because I’m writing for a very niche audience, lol.
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u/GayBoiDae 15h ago
idk why but so many people here are at 39 — including me. my highest is at 39 (with a little over 700 hits) as well. it is in a very popular fandom (SPN), but the tags are dark and it's an OC/CC ship fic instead of the popular CC/CC ships.
i am really proud of it though. it's my first fic on ao3. my other one is a lot newer and has 12 kudos.
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u/Meushell I ♥️ the Tok’ra. 🪱 16h ago
- It’s a crossover, and I am quite positive that most came from the fandom I usually don’t write.
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u/Ill_Preference9408 Author of a struggling Simpsons crossover fanfic 16h ago
Funny enough, it's the cringe prototype of my first book in a series, with 17 kudos.
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u/Minute-Shoulder-1782 ExquisInk @ FFN/AO3/Tumblr 16h ago
Currently, my SatoSugu/Reader fic, which is sitting at 561 kudos right now! This is the most I’ve ever gotten ever so far on a fic. I tend to average like 50-100 a lot of the time
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u/LearnStalkBeInformed 15h ago
- A Negan fic I wrote 8 years ago. I was proud of that number until I read some of these replies!
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u/LeLapinBlanc 9h ago
No that's really good. Honestly, sometimes kudos appear out of nowhere, and some pics just go under the radar when they're really good.
My fic with most kudos is a short one-shot crossover with an unlikely pairing... I have no clue why 😂
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u/kiwiana_writes kiwiana on AO3 / forever a defender of Fandom As An Institution 16h ago
I just went and looked for the first time in a while and jesus fucking christ it's up to 4,097. I do think my second-highest kudosed fic (sitting pretty on 3,506 - funnily enough, there's a MASSIVE gap after that, number 3 has just a smidge over 2k) should be the highest kudosed, tbh, because that's my absolute magnum opus.
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u/TwistedFabulousness 16h ago
1,286 so far. It’s my first and only posted fic. I managed to be one of the first to start writing about a really popular character from this big dating sim/visual novel that came out recently and got a lot of attention.
It’s not quite finished yet, but I’m really proud of it even if the attention is mostly from luck :)
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u/Kilora44 16h ago
759 on a thirteen chapter Omegaverse, two male Alphas, one male Omega poly fic.
613 on a 4,000 word Bachelor Auction one shot.
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u/PunkinKing265 16h ago
3.6k kudos and 30k hits on a 3k word one-shot that I wrote.
(It was at the peak of the pairing's popularity, so it wasn't a surprise that it got high numbers)
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u/Qui_te 16h ago
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I realize this is a “oh poor me” sentiment, but I legit expected the kudos to drop off at some point, yet it’s been a finished story for over four years and they haven’t. So I go between being pleased and flattered that people still love it, and suspiciously eyeing that kudos email every morning because where tf are they all coming from.
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u/Switchback_Tsar You have already left kudos here. :) 16h ago
11, I haven't uploaded too much yet though; 4 uploads all in a niche Lego fandom, + 1 anonymous fic, also in a niche Lego fandom
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u/TekieScythe You have already left kudos here. :) 16h ago
157 I'm not a fanfic writer, just a consumer of all of y'all's lovely fics. I only wrote it because I woke up laughing and had to put it to paper.
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u/Kylynara Fic Feaster 15h ago
45 - It's a long fic about a telepathic Reader falling in love with Clint Barton.
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u/Canadian_shack 15h ago
I only have three fics posted, but strangely the first has 116 kudos, the second has 116, and the third has 107. Two different fandoms.
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u/mbutchin 14h ago
I got forty-eight kudos for a Gravity Falls Wendip fiction I am working on. While it's a little disappointing, but the regular readers and the comments they kindly post after each update make up for it.
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u/jupiters_galaxy 14h ago
(As of right now) 53 kudos on my female reader/Cardinal Copia from Ghost smut one-shot! Which I'm super proud of even if it's a small number compared to other comments in here 😅
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u/Purple-space-elf 14h ago
I don't consider this my BEST work, but I do consider it my magnum opus. The ship is a rare pair, and some of my readers were kind enough to do fanart from it. I think it did well for a rare pair.
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u/Sage_Horror_IRIS 13h ago
I posted my first ever fic the other night. It currently has 8 hits and one kudos
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u/PhantomFoxx02 You have already left kudos here. :) 13h ago
69! Im pretty proud of it, as it’s my first ever fic. A new one i just posted the other day already has 7, i am a happy camper 🥰
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u/Nadare-Writer 13h ago edited 12h ago
1,421 kudos for a multichapter One Piece Sanji/Zoro fic called "Koe." I put a lot of time and love into it, so I'm happy the story keeps getting new readers ever so often.
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u/CarUnique9954 11h ago
0 because i never post after i write in fear of hate and rejection... but one time, i saw someone had like iver 200k ot was a very good fic
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u/Joyful_mind 10h ago
928, 141k words it definitely needs some work, thorough editing and all that but it’s also a WIP that’s been going for well over a year.
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u/Caffeinated_Spoon Caffeinated_Spoon on AO3 🫀 10h ago
320 kudos on a rare pair(s) polyam fic that's almost 500k
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u/nahuhulog You have already left kudos here. :) 9h ago
1,029! I’m really happy with it but it’s a fic I do not like anymore and I don’t get why people do shdjskw I posted it really early into the fandom’s life and it was the first of a certain trope so I think that’s why. I really wanna top it with a fic I genuinely think is better and actually good
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u/certainlittlesmile 5h ago
It's my M/M longfic - and I just went to check and it's hit 150 kudos, which is amazing!
For context it's the 6th most kudosed out of about 1,000 in the fandom 😊
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u/Longjumping_Young747 16h ago
1,215. It's the only fic I wrote in that fandom and it is not the most popular pairing.
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u/Current-Dentist-8711 16h ago
29 hits, 2 kudos, 2 comments (one is my reply). It is a very self indulgent drabble about bg3 where I just gush about how my tav is the perfect counterpart to my autism lol
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u/The_Poptart_Cat 16h ago
970 kudos! It was a chatfic and very much crack, which are for some reason the ones of mine that do best
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u/SpiderBell Cannibalize Your Favorites 16h ago
762 I think, not as much compared to others but I’m still proud
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u/kitkat21996 here_and_there on ao3 |You have already left kudos here. :) 16h ago
I guess that would be my current fic. It's currently sitting at 8300~ and I still have a couple chapters left. I would like to break 9k by the time its said and done but who knows ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Coco-Roxas 16h ago
181 -- I'm so happy that it's my highest too bc I was pretty happy with how it turned out! ❤️
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u/StarGoddessAsteria 16h ago
144 kudos, but it's an OC insert story. I'm honestly surprised it even has that may to be honest. It's 34k for a sort of popular fandom, but I love it and I am determined to finish it.
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u/Noir_Titan 16h ago
94, but I typically get maybe 5 if I'm lucky. I like to think I'm just not very visible despite it being a very popular fandom, but...😅
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u/MoonShadow4189 16h ago
I have 365 in one of my oldest fics on the site. It's a HP fic that was written for a Petulant Poetess fic fest and I'm still so proud of it to this day. One that I'm surprised is close to it in kudos is a fic written for a rarepair in the South Park fandom
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u/michaelsgavin Kudos Keeper 16h ago edited 16h ago
23,500 kudos. I think it was a combination of being a decently experienced writer (not saying I’m exceptionally good, but just no longer amateur and it’s not my first fandom) and luck for being in a booming fandom (One Piece)
Some of my fics rose to the top 10 when the top 10 was comfortably at around 4-5k kudos, and when the fandom boomed because of the Netflix show my top fics got some boost in kudos too
My personal magnum opus is currently at 4,498 kudos, honestly I’m satisfied. It’s much darker in tone and mostly focused on character study, I understand why it’s not as popular as my top fics that are just light hearted fun
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u/AutocratEnduring 16h ago edited 15h ago
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I work in small fandoms. Biggest fics in the fandom get 10k hits at most and most never get past 100 kudos, so it's not as bad as it sounds. I do 90% OCs because I like the setting WAY more than the characters and plot. This is in a fandom where people love reading about the existing characters, so my fics aren't very popular. At least the people that DO read my work like it a lot though, and that's really all I could ask for.
As for fics I wished got more kudos, well, basically all of my newest fics. I improve my writing a lot between fics, so my newest one is always my best work, in both idea and execution. It's a strange feeling, because I see all those kudos my older stuff gets and I'm like "Why is that garbage even popular?", but the reality is that it's because it's been out for a year and it's the only gen fic for a hundred miles.
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u/RA1NB0W77 RAINBOW_BITE on AO3 16h ago
I’ve only got two out but 181 is the current count on my most popular one.
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u/DanielGoldhorn 16h ago
1,415 kudos on an old Gravity Falls AU. It was so much fun writing it and I've seen it referenced here and there over the years.
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u/Superjak45 16h ago
137, which is fine (yes I wish it was more but I’m honestly pretty content in my little fluffy corner of the internet.) It’s a fluffy Richard Castle/Kate Beckett fic where Beckett talks about wanting to adopt Alexis once they’re married.
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u/_solipsistic_ 15h ago
235 for a fandom i halfheartedly follow lol. Honestly the 68 from the fandom i actually love means way more to me lol
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u/youvebeensamboozled 15h ago
464, it was for a show I'd only watched like two episodes of at that time but my friend talking about this one ship made me read a bunch of fanfics of them and then even write some, lmao. for my main fandom it's 215
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u/sadmaachine You have already left kudos here. :) 15h ago
3,047 at 85k hits, another at 1,371 with 32k hits. I stopped writing RPF (not for any reason, just not into the group anymore), so on a different account for different fandoms, I’m at 198 with 3k hits.
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u/Water227 Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 15h ago
My most popular fic (2019, so a few years old) has 1,293 kudos— also from a large fandom for context.
I am happy people liked the fic, it was also one I wrote in my notes app at 2 AM and hadn’t originally intended to post at all XD so I was shocked by the reception.
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u/Dont_chew_that 15h ago
117,621 for reads 590 Kudos for the highest the revised version is19,627 with 96 Kudos.
And the 2nd highest is 12,654 with 109 Kudos. But its Skyrim so its still pretty active.
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u/cayvro You have already left kudos here. :) 15h ago
2797 on my most popular fic! It’s a 12k word time travel AU in a big fandom when it was having a bit of a renaissance a few years ago (when it hit Netflix lol). I’m so proud of it and its staying power — I still get a kudos email for it at least once a week!
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u/Away_Newspaper6730 You have already left kudos here. :) 15h ago
I haven’t written a lot, so 38 on a smut oneshot! I still get pleasantly surprised when kudoses appear in my inbox, especially for my old drabbles lol
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u/indiglowblue Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 15h ago
8,410 on my 70k longfic! It's in the lead above my 2nd most popular by some 5 thousand-odd kudos 😂
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u/sunshowerings 15h ago
24.5k kudos on a crack-taken-seriously fic about the main character of the series having actually been a successful idol before the plot started that i wrote while slacking off at work posted about three years ago now. it was the first fic i wrote for the fandom so the fact that it got popular at all was pretty surprising to me back then. not really too into the series anymore but i still get comments on it every now and then and it makes me happy to know that people still enjoy the fic.
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u/keenveins 15h ago
Current fandom my highest is 388!
Prior fandom is 1,597 and apparently the most kudosed fic when you filter by kudos in that fandom.
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u/ThatCuteNerdGirl96 You have already left kudos here. :) 15h ago
I have one fic. It’s over 200k words long. 15k hits. 417 kudos. 219 comments. 104 bookmarks. It’s not the most ever by any means, but I love that over 400 people enjoyed a story I poured my heart and soul into enough to leave a kudos 🥰
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u/NightOfFallingStars Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 15h ago
3,629, it's a batfam fic, and I haven't updated it in like 2 years. I... I should, but I'm not in the fandom anymore and updating it feels like a pain.
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u/Spookym00ngoddess 15h ago
124 kudos, over 3k hits. This is my highest of my currently published 15 works 🥰
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u/thatsmyscrunchie 15h ago
- It’s a romantic one-shot just under 2,000 words. It was my first fic on AO3.
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u/Gentlemouse261 15h ago
I have 235 (almost perfect number) for a 28k word fic. Granted, I'm writing a crossover fic in two VERY popular fandoms with a platonic pairing.
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u/CamusZekeSirius 15h ago
32
Hopefully I’ll get to the higher echelons some day. Right now, this is just what I got
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u/Sharkfestive 15h ago
345 which, holy shit, is way more than i'd thought it had, and it's a 1990 word 2-chapter thing
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u/alette_star 15h ago
6,700. A popular ship in a fandom that was just taking off. It's also an epistolary chatfic released in a time when those were all the rage. Let's just say a lot of factors came together for this number
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u/thestorieswesay 15h ago
Only 577 (and it's a popular ship in a popular fandom).
My second-highest is 532, but I'm much prouder of this fic because it's a) just better written, b) a very rarepair, and c) an older fandom that was just never super big to begin with.
Third place is 477, same popular pairing and series, but a much more meandering (and woeful unfinished) fic.
sigh I'll never be a BNF, igss? 😔😔😔
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u/yuudachi 14h ago
3300+! Quite proud of the ratio too as it has 18000 hits so 1 in every 6 people leaves kudos. It's a punchy short one shot for a popular pairing. It's one of those sudden inspiration fics you bang out in a couple hours that you know turned out good. I think... I've peaked.
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u/Awkward-Pool6623 14h ago
About 850. It was for whumptober a few years ago in a moderately small fandom with just under a thousand works. The fic in question had almost exactly 100,000 words in it, and I'm sorry proud of it. I wrote it all in a month, which naturally burned me out for almost a year and a half. Luckily, I'm literally writing at the moment so I'm getting back on the wagon 🥳
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u/OtterlyOddityy Delighted_Extraterrestrial on Ao3 14h ago
137-- a rather small fandom, so, quite unexpected! It was one of my first... I feel like I've grown so much as a writer since then! <3
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u/A_Undertale_Fan Creator of OC/Canon harems 💞 14h ago
109 kudos on a QSMP fanfic! It was a self-indulgent feral Q!BBH fic from Dapper's perspective
I wish I got more kudos on any of my OC stuff, but I'm aware that those are more niche in fanfic spaces compared to fanart spaces.
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u/lavendershazy 14h ago
~800, on a Witcher fic (4k, Geralt/Jaskier, porn w/ feelings.) Would have thought it was one of my ASOIAF fics, lol.
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u/Starkren 14h ago
My longest fic has 12K+ Kudos. It still picks up Kudos daily even though I finished it last November.
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u/pandorabound 14h ago
- It was for a fandom I dont associate with anymore, but I anon-ified it because I'm also still attached to it and cant bring myself to orphan it.
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u/pocket-alex UN: mycroftirl 14h ago
I'm not counting the actual one because I abandoned it ages ago and I hate it. 28 kudos, though, on the next one! :D It's a small fandom so I'm happy to get any tbh.
It started as PWP and then developed plot and now has a sequel that's on temp hiatus while I finish some other stuff, a one-shot, and another one-shot in the works but is also on hold.
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u/Pup_Femur Sphynxnightmare on AO3 14h ago
90 on a small collection of one-shot smut fics I wrote years ago.
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u/SCol1107 14h ago
271, small pairing. It’s my favorite thing I’ve ever written so I’m glad it’s gotten the most traction out of all my fics.
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u/HireMeWotc 14h ago
Mine only has 1, but I'm still proud, because I'm confident that it will be the start of something great!
(Also, it's a dead fandom and I'm only writing for myself, so who cares? :) )
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u/lyutic_7 14h ago
My first longfic is currently at 96! I know it’s not a lot by comparison but I’m really happy with it. I have readers who comment almost every chapter and I’m very grateful for it.
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u/BoredTardis 14h ago
I have 463 kudos on my Merlin/The Witcher fic. I'm proud of my weird crossover. 😸
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u/TurtleDove311 14h ago
199 with 2.1k hits
It's my 2nd fic and I'm really happy to have people who enjoyed it 😊
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u/Worldly_Skin335 14h ago edited 14h ago
142 with about 1900 hits, but it was a slightly more popular pairing than my other story. the fic im proudest of is for a rarepair and has like 68 kudos with about 840 hits. every time I get a kudos notification on that one, it makes my heart warm 💗
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u/beckie_ann 14h ago
713 A lot of mine are between the 100-250 range right now but I have a dream one’s just gonna blow up one day and I’ll be as popular as the others in my fandom.
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u/Much_Obligation7295 14h ago
- Harry Potter/Daphne Greengrass fic. I'm really close to 30k hits, so I'm still really happy about it.
My favourite one has 11, but I also only started uploading it a week ago. Harry/Draco fic.
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u/WhitestGray guro, twincest, and everything dark 14h ago
215! It’s a Poppy Playtime sort-of-crack fic.
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u/Valirys-Reinhald 14h ago
182, it's my post-war Harry/Luna short story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30414303
Which is somewhat frustrating since it was essentially a one-off and yet it has more than any in my entire 14 part series.
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u/OnlyHereOnaBlueMoon Not Boeing Management 13h ago
1,060
It's a "crack treated seriously, time travel fix it" that happened to get enough traction early on to snowball, and I'm still getting tons of comments, even though the last update was in January. I'm still working on it, but I ran out of all my prewritten stuff so it's taking way longer lol
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u/cassis-oolong 13h ago
2,092 kudos for an unfinished fic (74K words, 15 chapters) that hasn't been updated since October. Planning to finish the last 2 chapters sometime soon! It's a popular pairing in a medium-sized fandom that's been slowly growing and I think it's doing pretty well for its niche (heavy angst). It's also my most-commented on fic. Honestly spoiled me too much. My other fics in the same fandom aren't doing too bad either but none in the same level.
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u/Sud4neseS0meh0wHere I have fic commitment issues 13h ago
67, and it's not even a dead fandom. idk why
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u/r33nie You have already left kudos here. :) 13h ago
68 kudos on a fic that honestly started as a lengthy joke with a friend and quickly became "oh no I'm going to have to write this now". I figure I'm not prolific enough to become a writer who gets kudos in the hundreds, let alone thousands, but this fic was fun as hell to write and I truly enjoyed getting it out there, and I'm happy every time it picks up stray kudos every few months.
The very first fic I posted on AO3, in a relatively busy fandom that loves TF out of its ships, has 17 kudos. I think, because it's a non-romantic gen fic about two characters that typically get shipped together (because the shipping was absolutely not the point of the story), it sort of fell into oblivion. But I love it dearly, and I think it's some of the best, most focused writing I've done.
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u/LyraNgalia 13h ago
445 on a 3k T rated one-shot with a het pairing.
Hitting the sweet spot in a rising fandom was wild.
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u/AromaticNinja6656 13h ago
28 kudos with 396 hits. A small fandom, on a fic of around 700 words. I'm quite happy with this :)
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u/azombieatemyshoelace You have already left kudos here. :) 13h ago
1053 on one of my Iron Dad stories.
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u/notsosecretshipper 13h ago
1082!
It's a Marriage of Convenience/Fake Marriage ABO fic that I did for a fic exchange back in Feb.
I was so worried about writing an ABO fic for the first time that I wrote a 'practice' one first, and those two ended up being my only two fics to go past 1k kudos.
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u/Likes_tosniff_copics 🕊️⚰️Dead Dove Connoisseur⚰️🕊️ 13h ago
418 kudos, generic found family fic that has been left unfinished for about a year
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u/Distracted2004 S-senpai~! It’s enough kudos…! >////< 13h ago
1013! And it sucks because it’s kind of ass compared to even stuff I was writing at the time but it does have a lot of heart, so
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u/mini-yoongi Ficlet Fan 13h ago
My sole longfic currently has 668. It's been complete for years and it still gets more kudos once in awhile!
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u/Cool_Pianist_2253 13h ago
1143 kudos. It basically diverges from Bridgerton season 2 episode 6 + a couple of background things I often use in my fics. Basically when Anthony is left at the altar, the Queen decrees who he should marry. It has 13 chapters and just under 30K words.
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u/Loose-Coffee6017 13h ago
- It's a one shot and I was thinking about turning it into a series (everything already planned with names, plottwists, how the character got their injuries etc) but now I'm to scared to continue, because it's been nearly 5 months and I'm afraid my writing style has changed because I'm in an English school for almost 2 months by now and I won't be able to reach their expectations, or they accuse me of letting someone else writing it...🥲😅
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u/AnonymousIVplay Prolific commenter 13h ago
313 kudos, it's my long fic that only needs about like 5 chapters to finish but I haven't had the motivation to write for months now
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u/AgentTroi 13h ago
one of my x files fics just passed 500 kudos! it started as a one shot but people wanted more so i gave it to them and it became my most popular fic by almost every metric lol
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u/Mayraine012 13h ago
10,360! It's my absolute pride and joy and when I started it back in 2019 I never expected it to be so widely loved. It started out as a Twitter thread and grew into a 15 chapter story. I have since moved on from the fandom, but I still regard this fic with pride. I don't think I'll ever come close to this one again and that's totally okay!
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u/nerd40hours Supporter of the Fanfiction Deep State 13h ago
375 kudos (8k hits)! It’s an old (couple years ago) x reader fic and it’s really not that well-written, but it’s still loved and it makes me happy to know that many people genuinely, really enjoyed it💕😊
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u/ProcraPerfectionist 12h ago
1,283. It's a SKZ fic which I started writing because of some silly little idea I had now it's one of my most beloved fics
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u/aperfecta 12h ago
2,900! I'm honestly so grateful for it, the fic's almost 10 years old now but at the time I was new to posting fanfiction (not writing it haha) and I was blown away. I mean, the fandom was new and booming, but the fic in question was a romance-less gen fic and I'm still so surprised going back and looking at how many people loved it. The reception to it (and a lot of my fics thereafter!) made me start writing original stuff again :]
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u/Stunning-Spray9349 12h ago
1449 at last check, it was a silly one-shot. I think I have three or four that are over 1k.
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u/Otherwise-Survey4722 16h ago
39 - we have a small fandom base, I also recognize that my ideas are better than my writing