I added a few cards to the top of the dashboard for the total number of works, total wordcount, # of ships, and # of challenges. I also added counts for the four different ratings.

Here's the unfiltered version! I can change the date range or filter by ship/challenge to see how the stats and trends change.

If I had more data, I'd be able to report on more things. But I never built in fandom, Archive Warnings, Categories, or tags into the database. So to get those on the dashboard I'd have to make up the gap with a few new tables, most probably. All of those are multi-possible (a single fic can have more than one Fandom, etc.), so I'd have to build bridge tables between Dim_Work and the new tables... it's doable, just something I haven't wanted to take on.



Gosh, it's so pretty.

There are more words hiding in the pre-2023 and post-2026 years -- I have some words slotted into 9999-12-31 because it would take too much time and effort to figure out specifically what chapters of what works they should go into -- so the wordcount total isn't as high as in real life. But it's close enough -- only 10K or so off. In a total of about 1.8 million, that's only half a percent. I'll take it! :)

Today, 2026-02-25, is the three year anniversary of the date I posted my first fanfic!

As of right now, here are my total stats:

User Subscriptions: 117
Kudos: 9,465
Comment Threads: 1,513
Bookmarks: 2,550
Subscriptions: 890
Word Count: 1,814,161
Hits: 178,264

138 works

In 62 fandoms:

( click to expand 62 fandoms )

As for the fanfic I first posted, Mission Failed Successfully, here are its stats after three years!

Hits: 10,153
Kudos: 473
Comments: 46
Bookmarks: 165 (79 are public)
Subscriptions: 15

Not bad!

I updated my relational database fairly recently, including the numbers of words posted over the past few months, and wow, October this year was SO much lower than October 2024! That year, of course, was my Kinktober year, and I posted over 125K that month, which is by far the most I've ever posted in a month.

This October, I only posted 28K. Weak!

Still, if I average October for the past three years, it's 68K each. And if I average out the words posted this year so far by month, it's at 50K a month, even though we're only halfway through November.

A lack of words is not my major problem.

Today I revised my main Smut Wars entry just a bit, improving it (in my opinion!). Could it be better? Certainly, but this is as good as I could get it in the time and energy I had.

I didn't have time to watch anything in preparation for writing Enemies to Lovers. Perhaps tomorrow!

I also posted one of the banked chapters I wrote on Labor Day, for Three and a Half Steps. This chapter had a cameo from one of my Gingerpilot friends; I used her physical appearance, including her glorious hair, to describe this NPC. I can't wait for her to read more about 'her' adventures in future chapters!

With that chapter, I have officially crossed the 1.6 million word mark!

It's not my all time record, but yesterday's writing stint was quite productive. In addition to chapters 16 and 17 of Three and a Half Steps, which I'm saving to post these next two weekends, I wrote chapter 2 of a treat for Smut Wars that I can't talk about yet. All told, it added up to slightly over 13,000 words!

I hope to finish off my Smut Wars treat tonight or tomorrow.

I'm getting close to 1.6 million words posted!

The other day I sat down and outlined my plot idea for Smut Wars, and I'm quite pleased with it!

In other news, my Murderbot fic gathered 62 kudos, 341 hits, and 9 comment threads after slightly more than a day up. What a huge difference from the results when I post for dead / dying fandoms and unknown ships! 😭

This afternoon I posted the first chapter of something new, and in so doing, I finally hit the milestone of 1,500,000 words!

(And yes, I did deliberately ensure that my overall wordcount came out exactly at 1.5 million, by writing a chapter of exactly 4,991 words, haha!)

I'm happy about finally hitting the milestone, of course. It's not quite a month after my 50th birthday, which was my original goal -- but less than a month off is close enough!

However, by posting this chapter, I've put myself in the position of having 5 WIPs on AO3 at the same time. That's too many. I don't like having this many WIPs at once.

I think I'll try to hit Uncage Me seriously over the course of the next week. If I could finish that off, finally, I'd only have WIPs that include Armitage Hux, and that seems nice. 😁

Today is my 50th birthday!

I didn't meet the goal of posting 1.5 million words on AO3 by today. My total is currently 1,477,690, which is 98.5% of the way there.

If I hadn't been away from home for the past 11 days I probably could have done it, but I was, so I couldn't. But that's fine; it was an arbitrary goal in the first place!

Today I'm flying from my vacation to a business conference, so I'm still not home yet. Soon I'll be reunited with my personal laptop and the Scrivener files on it... soon!!!

I queried my database to find the top kudos-leavers on my fics, and here they are!

Coming in at #1 is the amazing Kiayla, who has left kudos on 48 of my 105 works, or 46% of them! I originally found Kiayla's work in the Naruto fandom a couple of years back and left her several kudos and comments on some of her stuff in the KakaIru ship, and I guess she followed me back, haha. But she doesn't kudos only my KakaIru fics -- her taste is more eclectic. That's great, because so is mine!

Two users are currently tied for second place -- Annvian and yongsanhotguy99, each at 28 kudos. They are both primarily interested in my Gingerpilot fics, of which I have written 26, and then they've branched out a bit more. Annvian left kudos on those twenty-six, and also on my silly piece of Poe Dameron 'art,' "Vote Poe Dameron!", and one of my original works, "How the Light Gets In." For their part, yongsanhotguy99 left kudos on those twenty-six, and also on my two Kylux fics, "Sharp as a Knife" and "Upper Hand."

Two users tied for third place -- sfvamp and irrationalgame, at 20 kudos each. I'm Discord friends with irrationalgame, who loves Gingerpilot probably even more than I do (and that's saying something!). Her boundless enthusiasm for generating new ideas has sparked inspiration in me more than once! We're in a Discord server together that seems to have started out as mostly about Kylux, but that also has a dedicated Gingerpilot channel, and other related content. It's extremely active, with multiple posts across multiple channels every day, and I really feel that I have made some friends there!

Next up is UtopiaPlanitia at 18 kudos, and then Saklani and MaudeZbornak, both at 17. All three of those people are friends through a different Discord server that's mostly about Gingerpilot. We have exchanged fics with each other, and sometimes, even physical cards and small gifts mailed to each other's homes for Christmas! It's pretty great to "know" people around the world through fandom. Sadly, that server seems to be winding down. People post less and less frequently. I keep hoping that it will revitalize, but at this point, far more activity happens on the first Discord server.

I deeply appreciate everyone who has left me a kudos, comment, bookmark, and/or subscription. I don't write "for" these tokens of appreciation, but gosh darn it seeing kudos and comments come in is VERY motivational for me to want to write more. If I were in a vacuum, writing just for my own self with no one else's feedback, I don't think I could have produced a fraction of my real-life output.

Kudos and comments (especially comments) really are writing fuel! :)

I'll be turning 50 in about 11 weeks. It just occurred to me that if I focus, I might just be able to hit 1.5 million words posted on AO3 by that deadline.

My current wordcount: 1,381,973

That's a difference of 118,027, or 10,729 words a week over 11 weeks. That's a lot.

I've put out that much in the past, it's true -- although not week after week for 11 weeks in a row.

Since all of these numbers and deadlines are merely arbitrary, I've decided not to attempt this as an overt goal. Of course, if it happens, that would be pretty cool. But no one is forcing me to write almost 11K words a week. That's probably 3 good solid sessions of writing time each and every week, and I can usually only manage 1 or 2, because I have other real life responsibilities to take care of, not just writing!