Fanfic Meme
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meridian_roseI've seen a few people doing this and I wanted to play :)
Rules: Go to your AO3 works page (mine is here), expand all the filters, and answer the following questions!
FANFIC
587 works. Some of those are collections of ficlets, a few (12 or so) are non-fic (graphics, vids)
What’re your first and second most common work ratings?
Teen and up audience (494)
Mature (40)
The next is 'general audience'; a lot of the teen stuff is probably gen but I tend to go with teen for safety and most of the canon I write in is PG-13 or above so it feels right to go with that.
What’s your most common archive warning?
No Archive Warnings Apply (460)
Least common?
Rape/Non-con (2)
Of those 2, one contains " past attempted non-con" and the other is non-con foreplay/abuse, no actual rape.
Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?
No. Although, I play in a lot of fandoms with a lot of pairings and for the sake of various bingo challenges I've written things that are out of the ordinary for me. I lean heavy on hurt/comfort (whump) and focus on emotional rather sexual intimacy. I guess it depends on how you define adventurous!
How many stories have you made in each pairing category?
Gen (402)
F/M (143)
M/M (81)
Multi (28)
F/F (18)
Other (5)
Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
The number of gen fic surprises even me! But then there are a lot of ficlets that aren't shippy.
I think it's interesting to note that relationships has a m/m pairing highest and I'd have maybe thought that was the highest, but I've written a lot of Cesare/Lucrezia amongst other m/f. The f/f is higher than I thought, and I think that's mostly from The Shannara Chronicles. I've dabbled in OT3 and moresomes than I thought and I'm pleased by that. It's more about my love of characters than overall preferences.
What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers?
Legend of the Seeker (114) There's a ficlet collection for that one too or it would be higher
Da Vinci's Demons (68) There's a ficlet collection and a non-fic fanworks collection for this one
The Borgias [showtime] (42) I thought that one would have been higher.
Black Sails (40) This one's higher than I thought, finally overtaking Firefly (30 fics).
Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?
Not so much in Legend of the Seeker these days, still fairly active in the DvD fandom, still dabble in The Borgias and still regularly writing Black Sails.
I tend to add fandoms rather than outright drop things unless canon or something/someone pisses me off so much I fall out of love with the show entirely, the rest like LotS are ones I've drifted from but will still sometimes write in and still read fic for.
What are your top 4 relationship tags?
Leonardo da Vinci/Girolamo Riario (22) from Da Vinci's Demons
Cesare Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia (17) from The Borgias
Max & John Silver (17) from Black Sails (Max is female!)
Kahlan Amnell/Richard Cypher (12)
Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
It took me a while to feel the Leario love but once I did I wrote a lot of fic for Leo/Riario including some ficlets that aren't showing up individually as they're in the collection. However I got a little burnt out and only rekindled my love for the fandom by switching to Riario/Zoroaster.
Ces/Lu are my OTP of OTPs. I'm a little surprised the number of fics isn't higher. Maybe I count the fics that only ever existed in my head ;)
Max & John Silver – I also have 3 Max/Silver if we're talking about how much I love them together in some form. I've written them as friends, as nonsexual romantic partners, as something complicated. Like others during the first season I hoped she might be the future 'wife' mentioned in Treasure Island.
However the fandom for this very queer show is a shitshow on tumblr about bi-erasure and screaming 'lesbian' and 'gay' at characters, but I am not sorry about my choices because this is a historical show and no-one's using the lesbian label (and jfc every time I see a "Lesbian Anne Bonny" post I go reblog something about historical Anne Bonny because she was probably straight, bisexual at most, especially given she was only spared the noose because she was pregnant when captured. Canonwise they're erasing the very important Anne/Rackham relationship.) I have a lot of angry feelings about this fandom for many reasons. (I also have a lot of angry feelings for other fandoms where canon bisexuals are labelled lesbians by fans who hate on heterosexuality, bisexuality, and usually for the trifecta, asexuality.)
And yet I deeply love certain aspects, characters, and relationships and so I keep writing fic in this fandom that never gets comments because damn it why shouldn't I write where my passions are? (Same as I write asexual characters both in this fandom and others, and it's a coin toss if people read ace characters)
Kahlan/Richard – LOL, not at all but it was canon and canon was super obsessed with pushing them as a couple who couldn't be together yet but had to be endgame. I write it so much only because I tend to write more canon-compliant fics in this fandom than in most, so the relationship is there in some form. I have many other preferences for characters and relationships in this fandom.
What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2?
Top Two:
Hurt/Comfort (52) I'm only amazed that isn't higher!
Merry Month of Masturbation Challenge (46) I've done the May MMOM challenge for a few years, where the aim is to write at least 100 words that somehow involves masturbation, for 1-31 days.
Bottom two (that I can actually see):
Friendship (29) me and my gen fic ;)
3 sentence ficathon (29) that will go up when I finally get round to posting the December fills from last year to AO3.
What would happen if you combined all 4 of these into a fic?
I think it's a lot to have a 3 sentence fic involving friendship, masturbation, and hurt/comfort but the ficathon lets you write more if you're inspired! I'd probably go with modern AU Black Sails, the friendshippy Odd Trio series with asexual!Billy Bones upset that someone said he's not 'asexual/asexual enough' because he masturbates and Silver having no time for that shit and saying 'fuck them...well not literally, obviously.' (could be a good MMOM fic?!)
How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?
None. All 9 of my incomplete/wips are actually collections of fanworks (1 non-fic, 2 poetry, the rest are drabbles and ficlets)
I don't post WiPs to AO3 though I have a couple on my LJ/DW. I do write short fics within the same 'verse.
Rules: Go to your AO3 works page (mine is here), expand all the filters, and answer the following questions!
FANFIC
587 works. Some of those are collections of ficlets, a few (12 or so) are non-fic (graphics, vids)
What’re your first and second most common work ratings?
Teen and up audience (494)
Mature (40)
The next is 'general audience'; a lot of the teen stuff is probably gen but I tend to go with teen for safety and most of the canon I write in is PG-13 or above so it feels right to go with that.
What’s your most common archive warning?
No Archive Warnings Apply (460)
Least common?
Rape/Non-con (2)
Of those 2, one contains " past attempted non-con" and the other is non-con foreplay/abuse, no actual rape.
Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?
No. Although, I play in a lot of fandoms with a lot of pairings and for the sake of various bingo challenges I've written things that are out of the ordinary for me. I lean heavy on hurt/comfort (whump) and focus on emotional rather sexual intimacy. I guess it depends on how you define adventurous!
How many stories have you made in each pairing category?
Gen (402)
F/M (143)
M/M (81)
Multi (28)
F/F (18)
Other (5)
Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
The number of gen fic surprises even me! But then there are a lot of ficlets that aren't shippy.
I think it's interesting to note that relationships has a m/m pairing highest and I'd have maybe thought that was the highest, but I've written a lot of Cesare/Lucrezia amongst other m/f. The f/f is higher than I thought, and I think that's mostly from The Shannara Chronicles. I've dabbled in OT3 and moresomes than I thought and I'm pleased by that. It's more about my love of characters than overall preferences.
What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers?
Legend of the Seeker (114) There's a ficlet collection for that one too or it would be higher
Da Vinci's Demons (68) There's a ficlet collection and a non-fic fanworks collection for this one
The Borgias [showtime] (42) I thought that one would have been higher.
Black Sails (40) This one's higher than I thought, finally overtaking Firefly (30 fics).
Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?
Not so much in Legend of the Seeker these days, still fairly active in the DvD fandom, still dabble in The Borgias and still regularly writing Black Sails.
I tend to add fandoms rather than outright drop things unless canon or something/someone pisses me off so much I fall out of love with the show entirely, the rest like LotS are ones I've drifted from but will still sometimes write in and still read fic for.
What are your top 4 relationship tags?
Leonardo da Vinci/Girolamo Riario (22) from Da Vinci's Demons
Cesare Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia (17) from The Borgias
Max & John Silver (17) from Black Sails (Max is female!)
Kahlan Amnell/Richard Cypher (12)
Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
It took me a while to feel the Leario love but once I did I wrote a lot of fic for Leo/Riario including some ficlets that aren't showing up individually as they're in the collection. However I got a little burnt out and only rekindled my love for the fandom by switching to Riario/Zoroaster.
Ces/Lu are my OTP of OTPs. I'm a little surprised the number of fics isn't higher. Maybe I count the fics that only ever existed in my head ;)
Max & John Silver – I also have 3 Max/Silver if we're talking about how much I love them together in some form. I've written them as friends, as nonsexual romantic partners, as something complicated. Like others during the first season I hoped she might be the future 'wife' mentioned in Treasure Island.
However the fandom for this very queer show is a shitshow on tumblr about bi-erasure and screaming 'lesbian' and 'gay' at characters, but I am not sorry about my choices because this is a historical show and no-one's using the lesbian label (and jfc every time I see a "Lesbian Anne Bonny" post I go reblog something about historical Anne Bonny because she was probably straight, bisexual at most, especially given she was only spared the noose because she was pregnant when captured. Canonwise they're erasing the very important Anne/Rackham relationship.) I have a lot of angry feelings about this fandom for many reasons. (I also have a lot of angry feelings for other fandoms where canon bisexuals are labelled lesbians by fans who hate on heterosexuality, bisexuality, and usually for the trifecta, asexuality.)
And yet I deeply love certain aspects, characters, and relationships and so I keep writing fic in this fandom that never gets comments because damn it why shouldn't I write where my passions are? (Same as I write asexual characters both in this fandom and others, and it's a coin toss if people read ace characters)
Kahlan/Richard – LOL, not at all but it was canon and canon was super obsessed with pushing them as a couple who couldn't be together yet but had to be endgame. I write it so much only because I tend to write more canon-compliant fics in this fandom than in most, so the relationship is there in some form. I have many other preferences for characters and relationships in this fandom.
What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2?
Top Two:
Hurt/Comfort (52) I'm only amazed that isn't higher!
Merry Month of Masturbation Challenge (46) I've done the May MMOM challenge for a few years, where the aim is to write at least 100 words that somehow involves masturbation, for 1-31 days.
Bottom two (that I can actually see):
Friendship (29) me and my gen fic ;)
3 sentence ficathon (29) that will go up when I finally get round to posting the December fills from last year to AO3.
What would happen if you combined all 4 of these into a fic?
I think it's a lot to have a 3 sentence fic involving friendship, masturbation, and hurt/comfort but the ficathon lets you write more if you're inspired! I'd probably go with modern AU Black Sails, the friendshippy Odd Trio series with asexual!Billy Bones upset that someone said he's not 'asexual/asexual enough' because he masturbates and Silver having no time for that shit and saying 'fuck them...well not literally, obviously.' (could be a good MMOM fic?!)
How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?
None. All 9 of my incomplete/wips are actually collections of fanworks (1 non-fic, 2 poetry, the rest are drabbles and ficlets)
I don't post WiPs to AO3 though I have a couple on my LJ/DW. I do write short fics within the same 'verse.
