AO3 tag game

[meridian_rose]

kitarella_imagines posted this tag game:
Go to AO3 and find the following

1. What rating do you write most fics under?

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?

3. What is your top character you write about?

4. What are the 3 top pairings?

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?

6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. what turned out to be your top tag.

My answers are under the cut.


Go to your Works page on AO3, look at the tags, and see what the answers to these questions are.

(Or any other site that has tags, I don’t know if FFnet or Wattpad does)

1. What rating do you write most fics under?
Teen and up audiences (607 of 712 fics)

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
Legend of the Seeker (114; at least one of those is a multi chapter ficlet collection but at least 1 or 2 of those are non-fic fanworks for graphics/vids...)
Da Vinci's Demons (69)
Black Sails (48)

The Borgias (Showtime) is close behind at 47 fics. I mention this also because The Borgias has had multiple variations on the tag for that exact show including Borgias - ambiguous fandom and Borgias (2011) and I haven't got around to ensuring all of the (2011) versions are also tagged with the (Showtime) tag. Matters being further complicated by the other Borgia show airing at the same time, often called Borgia: Faith and Fear.

So there might actually be more Borgias than Black Sails...and there are a few crossovers I've written between Borgias and Da Vinci's Demons (Cesare Borgia historically meeting with Leonardo da Vinci makes for a good excuse for crossover between the shows) and at least one Borgias crossover with Legend of the Seeker.

3. What is your top character you write about?
Richard Cypher (Legend of the Seeker) 53.
Girolamo Riario (Da Vinci's Demons) is at 49.
However I wouldn't say I write these characters/fandoms frequently now.

4. What are the 3 top pairings?
Cesare Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia (22) from The Borgias (Showtime). It's incest but it's canoncial incest. A couple of these were Yuletide gifts/treats.
Leonardo da Vinci/Girolamo Riario (22) from Da Vinci's Demons. My gosh I ship/shipped it hard.
Captain Flint | James McGraw/John Silver (15) from Black Sails. I never shipped this as hard as others but it was an important part of the show so I wrote it a fair bit.
Max & John Silver (Black Sails) (14) on the other hand I have a huge soft spot for.

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Hurt/Comfort (69)
Merry Month of Masturbation Challenge (62)
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting (51)

6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. what turned out to be your top tag.
The rating and fandoms didn't. I was part of the Legend of the Seeker landcomm for a long time and wrote a lot of fic as a result. The Da Vinci's Demons fandom was very active on Tumblr at the time and I felt some sense of community.

The pairings surprised me a little. I'd have expected ships I shipped harder than the third entry in that list to have come higher, Erica Evans/Kyle Hobbes (9) (V: 2009) and Nolan Ross/Emily Thorne (9) (Revenge TV). On the other hand I'm still writing Nolan/Emily so that tag should get used again.

Hurt/Comfort I would have been surprised to find other than my top tag! The Merry Month of Masturbation challenge got used so much because you try to write as many fics for the fest each May and when I wrote regularly for it I did do many fics at a time.

The AU: Modern setting is because 3 of my top 4 fandoms are historical in nature, so AUs tend to be modern setting. If all my fandoms were modern there might be more AUs of a historical nature.

That was a fun game if anyone else wants to try it here or in their own journal!