A Happy: I Has It

Can I just say how absolutely blissed out I am on reader comments?  (Yes, of course I can.  What a dumb question.)  I try to reply to all of them, but I'm not sure I get across how absolutely awesome it is when people say nice things about my writing.  This is compounded by the fact that the nicest feedback I get from my thesis advisor is "change this."  So, yeah, a BIG thank you to everyone who comments on my fic.  Hell, even if you read it and don't comment on it, it makes me stupidly happy to entertain you.

I'm also usually surprised at which fics get the most response.  Like Our Thing.  I like it quite a bit and I spent a good deal of time on it; I just wasn't expecting the magnitude of the response to it.  And of my two pintofest fics, I thought for sure that Time to Go would get the stronger reaction -- it's the more romantic one with the more complicated structure and appearances of other characters.  I guess people like slut!Chris much more than I thought. ;o)

I can't even predict which lines are going to get quoted back to me the most -- like in You Had Me At Pon Farr where I threw in this quip about a Mexican brothel on the last readthrough and it got pointed out more than anything else.  Same with Eleven Conversations and the bit about Zach holding his pinky up -- not a late addition, but something I barely thought about when I wrote it.

So for you fic writers -- which fics and/or lines have surprised you in terms of reader response?