Readers' Choice Awards 2018

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Here are the most popular works I’ve posted on AO3 this year, including a new Hidden Gems category for the best ratio of kudos to hits:

Top Multi-Chapter Fics

Most Kudos — Sherlock in Oz (7k, teen) When Sherlock and John travel to Kansas to help Mrs. Hudson’s niece, the motel has only one room left — with a double bed. So far, everything is predictable. But not for long…

Most Comments — Not Entirely Clueless (130k, teen) Sherlock Holmes, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a gay disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; yet he had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to interest or intrigue him. And then the murders began.

Most Hits — Sherlock of Green Gables (WIP, 50k+, teen) Mycroft Holmes and Greg Lestrade, confirmed bachelors who have recently moved to Avonlea, decide to adopt an orphan girl to help with the housework, rather than hiring someone local, who might be tempted to carry tales back to the village about how many beds were — or were not — slept in. However, the hand of fate steps in to deliver them a boy, instead. Since Sherlock could just as easily be a girl’s name, they decide to keep the child, and pass him off as a girl. Little do they know just how much trouble — and joy — Sherlock will bring into their lives.

Hidden Gem — Sleeping Irene (2.5k, teen) A feminist retelling of Sleeping Beauty, with Molly as the unlikely hero.

Top Ficlets

Most Kudos — The Defenestration of Rosie Watson-Holmes (360 words, rated G) Sherlock deduces that it is sometimes appropriate to throw a crying baby out the window.

Most Comments — Three Continents, No Compliments (643 words, mature) John must have gotten his nickname after having got people on three continents into his bed, Sherlock thinks after their third sexual encounter. But to get someone into bed and to actually provide any sexual satisfaction are two very different things, because while Sherlock might not have had quite so many partners, he does know what constitutes good sex, and this isn’t it (and Sherlock is fairly certain that whoever John bedded before him can testify to that simple fact). A fic in which John earned his nickname because of his charms rather than his (frankly appalling) technique in bed.

Most Hits — The CRUEL of Baskerville (2k, explicit) Something is lurking in the Cephalopod Research Underwater Experimentation Laboratory — something with which Sherlock and John are about to become intimately acquainted…

Hidden Gem — The Elves and the Brew-Maker (1661 words, rated G) Mrs. Hudson is determined to bring Sherlock and John together - with a little help from some ugly Christmas jumpers and a wee bit of magic.

Top Songs

Most Kudos — Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (270 words, mature) A remix of SinceWhenDoYouCallMe_John’s brilliant fic Gimme Shelter

Most Comments — I Bless the Gays Out on Baker Street (278 words, teen) Gonna take some time to read about Johnlock in love.

Most Hits — Baker Street (224 words, teen) A post-case high leads to some realisations…

Hidden Gem — God Shag Ye Merry Gentlemen - ACD Edition (138 words, teen) O tidings of boy upon boy… In Victorian times.

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