A different AO3 meme...

[lost_spook]

I was going to post about other things, but here, have a meme I prepared earlier (before it gets any more out of date) - ganked from various people:

I have 230 works on AO3. (I know, I know. In my defence, I put most of my drabbles on it individually, but it is frightening. How much

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[persiflage_1]

I've got 87 works on AO3 - then again, I've not bothered to upload my DW fics (only the x-over fics are up there). Otherwise I suspect it'd be several hundred!

Unsurprisingly most of my fics are in the James Bond 'verse. Next most popular is LOUK.

Commonest pairings are James Bond/M, James Steel/Alesha Phillips, Helen Magnus/James Watson (apparently I have a thing about men called James??!!), Lionel/Jean, Foyle/Sam.

And as for my tags - well, there are far too numerous to mention (or bore you with) - though some are of my own invention... I mostly write M/F Explicit, but occasionally I write F/F and very, very rarely M/M.

[lost_spook]

:-)

Well, James is a good name!

[persiflage_1]

It is...

[swordznsorcery]

Classic Who companions are awesome. That's definitely a canonical tag. :) And yes, Jenna is awesome too. I should probably look out more B7 stuff, because the giant chasm between her potential brilliance, and what the writers actually allowed her to do, is one of the show's big failings.

Fear not about your possible vanilla-y-ness, though. If it's any consolation, my stuff (which doesn't have tags, but if it did), would be 100% gen. And probably also devoid of any shippiness whatsoever outside of Captain Jack. I win at vanilla. ;)

Well done for having so many humour stories, btw. Humour's a tough thing to write.

[lost_spook]

It is a canonical tag, or it wouldn't show up in the filters on the side-bar. :-)

Well done for having so many humour stories, btw. Humour's a tough thing to write.

Humour is, isn't it? I mean, not so much some of my daft things, but it really annoys me how everyone always makes such a fuss in every type of writing about angst and bleakness, when, actually, a farce that really works is about twenty times harder to do. And that's ignoring, too, how serious many humorous works can be in essence. The world is just all wrong. ;-)

[swordznsorcery]

Angst is just about the easiest thing to write. That's why it's so beloved of dour teens sitting alone in their bedrooms! But yes, a complicated farce must be hellishly tough; and as you say, a lot of comedy (the best kind maybe?) has a serious foundation. One of my favourite sitcoms, Steven Moffat's "Joking Apart" is about a collapsing marriage. Hell, look at "Rentaghost"! It's about a man who lived a miserable life, then fell off a ferry and drowned!

(Not a very serious example, granted, but still).

[liadtbunny]

Larks 230! And you've got 500 prompts to do! I've reached 10, big clap me(!). I would've thought there would have been more S&S with the elements series? Or doesn't it count with OC elements? Or just one story cos it's in a big block? Yeah, I'm not going to be offered a job on AO3!

[lost_spook]

Yes, I've been posting the Element prompts in one story, so it doesn't count separately. :-)

And, hey, 10 is pretty amazing for someone who, at the beginning of the year was never going to write fanfic!!

AO3 doesn't offer people jobs. You have to volunteer and number of fics written isn't a qualification. ;-)

[liadtbunny]

Ah, that's a shame.

Thanks! And I've got 4.5 to type up and frown at.

[honeynoir]

Yay, stats! :D 230 works! *claps*

Also, I like your use of "awesome" in your tagging...

[lost_spook]

Thank you! :-)

I started following wrangletangle and they were writing about AO3 tags and encouraging people to use the Women Being Awesome tag (obviously where appropriate), so I did, among other things.

[lost_spook]

:lol: Well, that's one way to pick up an unwonted syn. (The perils of being a wrangler...?)