fanfic writing meme
(originally posted on tumblr)
1) How many works do you have on AO3?
24 (though it should probably be counted as 23 because the crossword puzzle solution isn't really a separate work)
2) What is your total ao3 word count?
49,608
3) How many fandoms have you written for, and what are they?
Around 12 or 13 on AO3, depending how you count various interconnected media franchises. But if you collected all the non-AO3 tumblr fic, pre-AO3 fic that I never collected properly outside LJ/DW/mailing lists, old Yuletides, god knows what-all else… It’s certainly in the dozens. Some favorites not found in my AO3 would include X-Files, Pacific Rim, DC Vertigo-verse, due South, M*A*S*H, the Peter Wimsey novels, Law & Order: SVU, and I think LOST at some point
4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
- Derry Days (IT (Movies - Muschietti))
- Binary (Star Wars Original Trilogy)
- Arena (Hannibal (TV))
- # postedbyteamcap (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV))
- Multitudes (Star Wars - All Media Types)
5) Do you respond to comments?
I try! Oh, how I try! And I get so neurotic about it when I don’t get around to them. Especially since people comment so little nowadays! God I miss posting fic on LiveJournal.
(I mean, I still do post fic on LiveJournal, but obviously people don’t comment on fic there, aside from a few very special very sexy people)
6) What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?
Angstiest, I would have to go with hologram/sunset, from beginning to end (which is a pretty short walk). Can’t really beat Alderaanian survivor’s guilt.
The first one that came to mind, though, was the Westworld flashfic Reflection, because it has the look of an angsty romantic vignette and then right at the end gets CREEPY.
7) What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?
Well, there's a lot of get-togethers and hopeful endings on my AO3 but the end of Derry Days is the only one that was described by one commenter as “schmoopy”.
8) Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve ever written?
If I had all the crazy flashfic from all the pseuds of my youth, I think there would be some great ones in there. I do love crossovers. Harder to find an audience for them, though, if you don’t have a significant audience of your own to begin with.
9) Have you ever received hate on a fic?
Not that I can recall.
10) Do you write smut? What kind?
Sigh… I’ve written a lot more of it than I’ve posted, that’s for sure. I get too embarrassed and don’t finish things up. (Special shout-out to the beta readers who gave me such nice feedback on drafts that then faded away unfinished and abandoned, like the kinky novella-length Zeller/Chilton thing or the one with the miniseries Reddie phone sex.)
11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not that I know of.
12) Have you ever had a fic translated?
Not that I can recall. I once had a translation request that I didn’t see until long after the fandom event it would have been for, so these days I’ve made sure to keep a blanket permission statement where it’s easy to find. (Because of this, I did get a story podficced once! So that was cool.)
13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Only with @kumquatweekend when we were about 12!
14) What’s your favorite ship?
My brain says there’s no possible way to even narrow this down to a top 10, but my gut says Newt/Hermann
15) What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?
I’d love to get back to Lovecraft in Brooklyn - I had some fun stuff brewing for Chapter 3 with Endgame Natasha and probably T’Challa - but to complete that story would require so much lore and worldbuilding and it just was not gonna happen.
16) What are your writing strengths?
Banter. Feels. Intertextuality. Plotting. Getting in, saying just what I want to say, and getting out (something I’m ironically terrible at in every other aspect of life).
17) What are your writing weaknesses?
Procrastination. Over-editing. Repeating myself. Being too protective of my precious little ideas to let them actually become a thing other people will look at. And, quite often, failure to figure out how to get in, say just what I want to say, and get out.
18) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in fic?
Not being fluent in any other languages, I avoid this as best I can. Can’t remember the last time it would have come up, though.
19) What was the first fandom you wrote for?
Whoo boy. X-Files? Highlander: The Series? We’re going way back to middle school here. I might have written things that counted as fanfic for ACD Holmes/Watson before any TV fandoms.
20) What’s your favorite fic you’ve ever written?
The one I’m going to do next.
Tagging: cmk418 gamesiplay severina2001 fmajorhell squidgiepdx impala_chick orangerful and anyone else who wants to!