So I've just posted 800 fics to AO3 according to my Works page. However, the number is probably closer to 805 - I have a handful of fics in Anonymous comms, and a few which are as yet unrevealed.
1. What’s your first and second most common work ratings? Any surprises?
General Audiences (317)
Teen And Up Audiences (291)
Nope. No surprises there. I write a reasonable amount of smut (comparative to my output) - Explicit rating has 95 fics, and Mature hs 92, although I suspect 'Mature' is mostly for torture and edgy situations. Weirdly, 5 fics aren't rated at all. Now I'm curious about those...
2. What’s your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?
No Archive Warnings Apply (677) is the highest while Rape/Non-Con (13) and Major Character Death (13) are tied for the lowest.
I don't think 'adventurous' is defined by the ability to write things with warnings on it. I mean, anyone can be a shock jock if they just want to push boundaries. Writing things that challenge characterisation, that make people think of situations in new ways, that add new perspectives to situations that might not have otherwise been done before - that's my idea of 'adventurous'.
3. How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
F/M (433)
Gen (402)
M/M (13)
Multi (12)
F/F (10)
I'm het and gen pretty much all the way. It's both a preference, and a deliberate choice to write respectful relationships between men and women as a model - to pave the way forward, so to speak.
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?
Stargate Atlantis (266)
Marvel Cinematic Universe (222)
The Avengers (Marvel Movies) (88)
Pacific Rim (Movies) (65)
Still active in MCU/Avengers, but that's about it.
I started tagging things with 'The Avengers' before the MCU tag really got on. If I merge The Avengers and the fandom in fifth position (Captain America movies) into the MCU tag, then the next fandom down is Stargate SG1 with 47 fics on AO3. I'm sure I have more elsehwere as yet unposted, though.
5. What are your top character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
Teyla Emmagan (223)
John Sheppard (207)
Maria Hill (206)
Steve Rogers (167)
Yeah, that's pretty much par for the course, I think. The only reason Maria slowed down was because she wasn't in Civil War and doesn't seem to be in the next Avengers movies, so I haven't had quite as much impetus to write her. Mostly AUs at this point. Ah well, a couple more fics, and she'll have surpassed John.
6. 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 2:
Friendship (173)
Angst (121)
Bottom 2:
Love (37)
Vignette (36)
And combining all four together is pretty much like shooting fish in a barrel. Then again, the Vignette tag (which I use for something short - usually <1000 words) could prove challenging.
7. How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?
According to the AO3 count, I have 18 incomplete works (Complete count = 782, Total works count = 800). However a search for 'Work In Progress' as an additional tag only nets 5 stories - all of them big MCU epics. *sigh*
downright complicated: or the MCU sedoretu fic. I'm waiting on the next chapter to come back from the beta and kind of dreading it, TBH.
Always On Your Side: or the one where Maria and Pepper make off with Bucky from the CIA facility in Berlin.
A Practical Acquaintance With Bees: or the story of Maria and the Winter Soldier where the next, unwritten, unplanned chapter goes seriously off-canon...
Sokovia, Suburbia, and the Senate: or the one where Steve comes to stay with Maria's family and learns a lot about himself and Maria at the same time.
The Right Hand Knows Not: or the original idea for a Practical Acquaintance With Bees, which, again, got too epic to handle (and got seriously derailed by TWS).
1. What’s your first and second most common work ratings? Any surprises?
General Audiences (317)
Teen And Up Audiences (291)
Nope. No surprises there. I write a reasonable amount of smut (comparative to my output) - Explicit rating has 95 fics, and Mature hs 92, although I suspect 'Mature' is mostly for torture and edgy situations. Weirdly, 5 fics aren't rated at all. Now I'm curious about those...
2. What’s your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?
No Archive Warnings Apply (677) is the highest while Rape/Non-Con (13) and Major Character Death (13) are tied for the lowest.
I don't think 'adventurous' is defined by the ability to write things with warnings on it. I mean, anyone can be a shock jock if they just want to push boundaries. Writing things that challenge characterisation, that make people think of situations in new ways, that add new perspectives to situations that might not have otherwise been done before - that's my idea of 'adventurous'.
3. How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
F/M (433)
Gen (402)
M/M (13)
Multi (12)
F/F (10)
I'm het and gen pretty much all the way. It's both a preference, and a deliberate choice to write respectful relationships between men and women as a model - to pave the way forward, so to speak.
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?
Stargate Atlantis (266)
Marvel Cinematic Universe (222)
The Avengers (Marvel Movies) (88)
Pacific Rim (Movies) (65)
Still active in MCU/Avengers, but that's about it.
I started tagging things with 'The Avengers' before the MCU tag really got on. If I merge The Avengers and the fandom in fifth position (Captain America movies) into the MCU tag, then the next fandom down is Stargate SG1 with 47 fics on AO3. I'm sure I have more elsehwere as yet unposted, though.
5. What are your top character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
Teyla Emmagan (223)
John Sheppard (207)
Maria Hill (206)
Steve Rogers (167)
Yeah, that's pretty much par for the course, I think. The only reason Maria slowed down was because she wasn't in Civil War and doesn't seem to be in the next Avengers movies, so I haven't had quite as much impetus to write her. Mostly AUs at this point. Ah well, a couple more fics, and she'll have surpassed John.
6. 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 2:
Friendship (173)
Angst (121)
Bottom 2:
Love (37)
Vignette (36)
And combining all four together is pretty much like shooting fish in a barrel. Then again, the Vignette tag (which I use for something short - usually <1000 words) could prove challenging.
7. How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?
According to the AO3 count, I have 18 incomplete works (Complete count = 782, Total works count = 800). However a search for 'Work In Progress' as an additional tag only nets 5 stories - all of them big MCU epics. *sigh*
downright complicated: or the MCU sedoretu fic. I'm waiting on the next chapter to come back from the beta and kind of dreading it, TBH.
Always On Your Side: or the one where Maria and Pepper make off with Bucky from the CIA facility in Berlin.
A Practical Acquaintance With Bees: or the story of Maria and the Winter Soldier where the next, unwritten, unplanned chapter goes seriously off-canon...
Sokovia, Suburbia, and the Senate: or the one where Steve comes to stay with Maria's family and learns a lot about himself and Maria at the same time.
The Right Hand Knows Not: or the original idea for a Practical Acquaintance With Bees, which, again, got too epic to handle (and got seriously derailed by TWS).