The Ao3 Stats Meme...

Except I'm doing it for meta, because I'm not a fanfic writer. Also I published all of this on Ao3 between January 20 and March 30 for the March Meta Matters Challenge.

Top 10 Hits

( Top Ten Meta Hits )

[I'm finding this entertaining - in that all of this meta was previously published on fanboards and my journal betwee 2002-2015 respectfully, with few exceptions, and weirdly the most popular stuff that I published at the time is barely read or remarked upon now. Back in the day the most popular stuff I wrote was not listed above.]

( top ten Kudos )

( top ten bookmarks )

Top Subscriptions
I have one and it is mind boggling to me. If I live to be a hundred, I'll never understand other people's taste or what interests them.

From Toy Story to Dollhouse - the vulgarities of trust, identity and self (Dollhouse, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Avatar (2009)) (3644 words)

I mean why? It's short. There's nothing being added. Why subscribe to that one?
Maybe it was by accident? Now that is entirely possible. They accidentally subscribed and forgot.

( top comment threads )

I only have 9. It's notable that all of these essays got far more comments when I originally posted them on fanboards and on my journal years ago or at the time the shows aired. And the essays that were the most popular and got the most comments in other venues, aren't getting comments at all on Ao3, which may have to do with the nature of the audience.

Also often people are more interested in reading and commenting on meta when it is produced while the show is airing or popular not years later.

Note? I only put it on Ao3 - because my stuff is incredibly hard to find on my journal. I spent a lot of time on the essays and felt they should be archived somewhere for posterity and future readers to pour over. Be a shame if they were lost in the deep well of my journal.

New York vs. the Coronavirus

Here's the information from the NY Governor's Office tonight:

1. The state has learned new insights about the patients being hospitalized with COVID-19 from a survey of hospitals. New York received 1,269 survey responses from 113 hospitals over three days. Of the newly hospitalized patients, 66% were at home before they were admitted, compared to 18% who had been in nursing homes, 4% in assisted living and less than one percent from jails or prisons. Only 4% of respondents reported having used public transportation.

2. The number of new COVID hospitalizations continues to fall. Yesterday, the number of new COVID hospitalizations fell to 601, down from 659 the day before. Total hospitalizations fell to 9,179 from 9,600 the day before. Tragically, we lost an additional 232 New Yorkers to COVID-19 yesterday.

3. The Kansan farmer who sent New York an N-95 mask was conferred a bachelor's degree. I recently received a heart-warming letter accompanied by an N-95 mask from retired Kansas farmer Dennis Ruhnke, which touched my heart. Yesterday, Kansas State University President Richard Myers and Kansas Governor Laura Kelly honored him with the bachelor's degree he was two credits shy of earning when he left school in 1971 to take care of the family farm. Congratulations, Dennis. Your kindness and spirit continue to be an inspiration to us all.

4. Schmidt Futures will help integrate New York State practices and systems with the best advanced technology tools to build back better. Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and Executive Chairman and founder of Schmidt Futures, will lead the state's 15-member Blue Ribbon Commission and use what we have learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with new technologies, to improve telehealth and broadband access.

5. Now, through August 12th, sunsets will be 8 p.m. or later. According to National Weather Service, the first sunset after 8 p.m. was on Monday. Still, as the weather gets warmer, we must continue our vigilance and practice social distancing.

6. The call for masks has helped to revive a small business in New York City. Panda International in NYC's Garment District has seen a rush in orders to provide elastic as people across the country began making masks at home for frontline workers.

Tonight's "Deep Breath Moment": When Ireland was in need during the potato famine in 1847, the Choctaw Nation was there to help, digging deep in their pockets to send donations to the stricken country. Now, 173 years later, hundreds of Irish people are repaying the act of kindness by sending donations to help Native American tribes during the Coronavirus pandemic.