AO3 memeish
In an effort to keep my journal from simply being Wednesday media posts, I thought I'd do a meme. I did the aggregate statistics meme about 14 months ago, mid-November 2017. Not much has changed other than the numbers going up a little (by 30 fics), except that The Witcher (Video Game) is now tied with Raven Cycle for my #4 fandom by numbers - which is the only one of these five that I'm still writing in. Also, because a lot of those 30 fics were newly-archived older stories that had been only on LJ, and many of them were from remixthedrabble, my top character tags shifted such that Severus Snape and Benton Fraser are now tied, followed by Ray Kowalski and then a 3-way tie of John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, and Harry Potter; and my top two tags are now Remix and Humor, rather than Humor and Post-Canon. Everything else, including my opinion that this is pretty meaningless since it represents mostly fandoms I'm not into any more, is pretty much the same..
So, just for fun I reset the clock, so to speak, and filtered out all works posted before Jan 1, 2015. (This date was chosen because by November 2014 I had reposted my older works to AO3, and even though I backdated, filtering is by update date and so it catches backdated fics.) Here is the meme for the 86 fics of Isis v.2015-present:
1. What’s your first and second most common work ratings? Any surprises?
General Audiences followed by Teen and Up, which is the same as overall and thus no surprise!
2. What’s your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?
Overwhelmingly it's NAWA, followed by CNTW, which is the same as overall. However, my previously most-used actual warning, Major Character Death, is now my least-used one - not counting Underage, which I haven't used at all in the past 4+ years. As I said in a comment on
sjnt's recent post, I consider myself an adventurous writer, because I feel that I have a lot of tools in my metaphorical toolbox, and use them to write a wide variety of genres in different styles.
3. How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
This is where things start to seriously diverge from the overall, which is dominated by M/M, followed by Gen; F/M is about twice F/F, and the two added together is still less than Gen:
Gen (39)
M/M (17)
F/F (15)
F/M (13)
Multi (3)
Other (2)
This more accurately reflects my preferences, in that I am more of a gen fan these days, though I also love particular pairings in my fandoms, which are more about the specific characters than the type of relationship.
4. What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers? Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?
Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game) (12)
Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater (7)
Original Work (4)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley (3)
As I mentioned above, I'm still active in The Witcher. I'm not into Raven Cycle any more. Original Work probably ranks so high because I haven't written that much in most of my other new fandoms, though if you combine my Dragon Age fics I've written for Origins, Awakening, and DA2, there are 5 and it becomes #3 on the list. (My Witcher fics include stories set in both the second and the third game, so this is a reasonable approach.) I am not particularly fannish about Watchmaker, but I'll still read exchange fic for it, and might write it for exchanges.
I'm not sure it's that I migrate a lot as that I don't really have a primary fandom (even The Witcher is perhaps not really a primary fandom for me), just a lot of secondary fandoms. Looking at my most recent page of works (20 works) there are 13 different fandoms represented (not counting individual Witcher or Dragon Age games), and of these, I am actively interested in 7 of them.
5. What are your top character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia (8)
Blue Sargent (4)
Ronan Lynch (4)
Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon (4)
Hah, well, that's telling. (It's also telling that out of 86 works, the most any one character appears in is 8!) Blue and Ronan were my favorite characters in TRC, so that's reasonable. Ciri's my fave in The Witcher, but I like Geralt too, and he's just such an easy character to write about (for me) since he's the central character of the games. I think it's interesting that although I've written shipfic for all these characters, I haven't written shipfic for the pairs which share fandoms (though now my crossover brain is ticking away!)
There isn't a shipping question in the version of the meme I did in 2017, but I see there's one in the most recent, so:
6. What are your top 4 relationship tags?
Richard Gansey III/Blue Sargent (3)
Locke Lamora/Jean Tannen (2)
Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish (2)
Keita Mori/Thaniel Steepleton (2)
Lirael/Nicholas Sayre (2)
Thyon Nero/Ruza (2)
I've gone past 4 because of the 5-way tie, and yeah, every other relationship I've written in the past 4+ years has been a one-off (though I've got an unposted Ciri/Cerys in the works that will be the second). All but one of these are canon pairings; two are F/M, the rest M/M. This surprises me a little because I feel like I've been writing a lot of F/F these days, but they're all different pairings.
7. What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2? What would happen if you combined all 4 of these into a fic?
Top two: Post-Canon (18) and Drabble (15).
Bottom two in the top 10: Humor (5) and Backstory (5).
Not sure I can get both post-canon and backstory into a drabble, that's for sure!
Still no WIPs, so I'll leave out the last question. I think this version reflects the current state of my fic-writing much better than the overall meme, though honestly it still includes things I'm not into anymore. It's also such a tiny dip into my wide-ranging output that it misses a lot - or maybe it's an accurate reflection of the fact that even when I'm in a fandom, I like to write about a wide variety of characters and pairings, so nothing really stands out.
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So, just for fun I reset the clock, so to speak, and filtered out all works posted before Jan 1, 2015. (This date was chosen because by November 2014 I had reposted my older works to AO3, and even though I backdated, filtering is by update date and so it catches backdated fics.) Here is the meme for the 86 fics of Isis v.2015-present:
1. What’s your first and second most common work ratings? Any surprises?
General Audiences followed by Teen and Up, which is the same as overall and thus no surprise!
2. What’s your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?
Overwhelmingly it's NAWA, followed by CNTW, which is the same as overall. However, my previously most-used actual warning, Major Character Death, is now my least-used one - not counting Underage, which I haven't used at all in the past 4+ years. As I said in a comment on
sjnt's recent post, I consider myself an adventurous writer, because I feel that I have a lot of tools in my metaphorical toolbox, and use them to write a wide variety of genres in different styles.
3. How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
This is where things start to seriously diverge from the overall, which is dominated by M/M, followed by Gen; F/M is about twice F/F, and the two added together is still less than Gen:
Gen (39)
M/M (17)
F/F (15)
F/M (13)
Multi (3)
Other (2)
This more accurately reflects my preferences, in that I am more of a gen fan these days, though I also love particular pairings in my fandoms, which are more about the specific characters than the type of relationship.
4. What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers? Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?
Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game) (12)
Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater (7)
Original Work (4)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley (3)
As I mentioned above, I'm still active in The Witcher. I'm not into Raven Cycle any more. Original Work probably ranks so high because I haven't written that much in most of my other new fandoms, though if you combine my Dragon Age fics I've written for Origins, Awakening, and DA2, there are 5 and it becomes #3 on the list. (My Witcher fics include stories set in both the second and the third game, so this is a reasonable approach.) I am not particularly fannish about Watchmaker, but I'll still read exchange fic for it, and might write it for exchanges.
I'm not sure it's that I migrate a lot as that I don't really have a primary fandom (even The Witcher is perhaps not really a primary fandom for me), just a lot of secondary fandoms. Looking at my most recent page of works (20 works) there are 13 different fandoms represented (not counting individual Witcher or Dragon Age games), and of these, I am actively interested in 7 of them.
5. What are your top character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia (8)
Blue Sargent (4)
Ronan Lynch (4)
Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon (4)
Hah, well, that's telling. (It's also telling that out of 86 works, the most any one character appears in is 8!) Blue and Ronan were my favorite characters in TRC, so that's reasonable. Ciri's my fave in The Witcher, but I like Geralt too, and he's just such an easy character to write about (for me) since he's the central character of the games. I think it's interesting that although I've written shipfic for all these characters, I haven't written shipfic for the pairs which share fandoms (though now my crossover brain is ticking away!)
There isn't a shipping question in the version of the meme I did in 2017, but I see there's one in the most recent, so:
6. What are your top 4 relationship tags?
Richard Gansey III/Blue Sargent (3)
Locke Lamora/Jean Tannen (2)
Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish (2)
Keita Mori/Thaniel Steepleton (2)
Lirael/Nicholas Sayre (2)
Thyon Nero/Ruza (2)
I've gone past 4 because of the 5-way tie, and yeah, every other relationship I've written in the past 4+ years has been a one-off (though I've got an unposted Ciri/Cerys in the works that will be the second). All but one of these are canon pairings; two are F/M, the rest M/M. This surprises me a little because I feel like I've been writing a lot of F/F these days, but they're all different pairings.
7. What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2? What would happen if you combined all 4 of these into a fic?
Top two: Post-Canon (18) and Drabble (15).
Bottom two in the top 10: Humor (5) and Backstory (5).
Not sure I can get both post-canon and backstory into a drabble, that's for sure!
Still no WIPs, so I'll leave out the last question. I think this version reflects the current state of my fic-writing much better than the overall meme, though honestly it still includes things I'm not into anymore. It's also such a tiny dip into my wide-ranging output that it misses a lot - or maybe it's an accurate reflection of the fact that even when I'm in a fandom, I like to write about a wide variety of characters and pairings, so nothing really stands out.
Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
comments. | Comment at Dreamwidth