Think I picked this up from
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badfalcon who picked it up from Tumblr.
1. How many works do you have on ao3?As at today: 947. By the end of the year it will be at least 950, since I have two sedoretu exchange fics and a yuletide to write.
2. What's your total ao3 word count?3,067,170 - Three million, sixty-seven thousand, one hundred and seventy words.
3. What fandoms do you write for?I have 91 fandoms on
my dashboard at AO3. Some of those are fandoms with slightly fuzzy edges - eg. the MCU & Avengers, Justice League & Batfam, Cadfael TV & Cadfael Books, etc.
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?And Baby Makes Eight - MCU, Maria Hill & Avengers
a most pitiful business - Bridgerton, Anthony/Kate
wade into the water, learn to live again - Rogue One, Cassian/Jyn
Battle, A Different Kind - Mulan (1998)
A Woman Of Edges - MCU, Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
It's a bit odd, actually - as little as three years ago, that would have been entirely an MCU top five. For the others to catch up so significantly is pretty big. (Probably helps that Bridgerton is a big fandom with lots of A/K shippers, and Rogue One got a second wind after Andor. No idea why Mulan suddenly hit the bigtime, though. Even with the movie, I wouldn't have expected people to come looking, because I don't think Shang (as Shang) is in the live-action movie.
5. Do you respond to comments?Yes. Mostly. I've been through periods where I replied to every single comment, and others where I just couldn't face replying. And sometimes if people went through my fics one by one and commented on a slew of them at once, I didn't reply to all their comments because that felt kinda stupid. I did comment to them at least once, though. And I do read all the comments.
6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?Oof. So it might be '
Every Breaking Wave' which runs under the premise 'Steve is the Time Traveller's Husband', or it might be '
The Worth Of A Woman' which is the Avengers finally comprehending the cost of the power they so casually wield.
In the case of '
the worth of a woman' I didn't even know how it was going to end until I wrote Clint and Wanda's conversation and suddenly I realised this was not going to have a happy ending.
7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?'Happiest' is a misnomer. The most
satisfying ending I wrote was in '
And Baby Makes Eight' - there's a reason it's a favourite.
The fic
I'm most satisfied with is the MCU Endgame "divergent fixit" '
the other side of infinity' fic, which is all the things I hoped for from the MCU, and none of which I got. Which is probably why I'm most satisfied with it.
The other one with an 'all ends tied up' and an added 'facing forth into the future' angle is '
To The End Of Love' but by that time fewer randos in the fandom were willing to read Maria/Steve fic, particularly my stuff.
8. Do you get hate on fics?Not in my comments. I know there's at least one or two people out in fandom who have hateboners for me, and a lot of people who wouldn't piss on my fic if it was burning, etc.
The most memorable - but not necessarily particularly delightful - comment I ever saw about my fic (not on one of my fics, but about one) was "It made me like [pairing]! Now I feel dirty!" Well, it's a tossup for that or, "You ship [pairing]? You must be really shallow!" (That was in a chatroom.)
9. Do you write smut?Yup. All sorts, although only for specific pairings.
10. Do you write crossovers?Yep! I have 50 of them, from assorted fandoms. I regularly write for
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intoabar and the Crossover Exchange, so I have a bunch of stories from those.
I think my favourite crossover is
A Sanctuary For All which is a crossover of Caroline Bingley from 'Pride and Prejudice' with Helen Magnus of the television show 'Sanctuary'.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?Yes. Back in my SG1 days when I was writing Sam/Jack, some tweenie took one of my fics and tried to pass it off as her own.
Since 2006, nobody's bothered. I write rare pairings so that's no inducement, and I guess I write them characterised uniquely enough that copypasta-ing isn't worth the bother.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?Yes. There was someone who was translating several of my fics into Russian a couple of years back.
13. Have you ever co-written a fic?I think a very long time ago. Back in SG1 land, with Denise, whom nobody but me will remember. (No, not that denise. Another Denise, who was known in SG1 Sam/Jack land, although she was more Sam-focused and gen.)
Not since.
14. What's your all time favourite ship?That's tricky. My most consuming one was Maria Hill/Steve Rogers. But that came to a bad canon ending for all involved, and while that doesn't have to stop my love of it, it does make it difficult to play with other fans (most of whom were never invested in the first place).
I've created ship fandoms out of pairings (SGA: Elizabeth/Ronon, anyone?) and built followings from writing characters whom nobody else would touch (because all the character's goods weren't displayed out in the shop window, which seems to be the requirement for the fannish favourite.
Okay, I had a sudden thought
, is the significant incidence of spectrum in fandom the reason that "characters with all their goods in the shop window" are so popular? Because that might explain a metric fuckton of fannish favourites whose obsessive appeal is utterly lost to me. I like them as characters, but in small and measured doses, because they're just waaaaaay too much as characters. Like chillies, a little bit goes a long way.)
15. What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?So many of them. But I guess
A Practical Acquaintance With Bees is probably the one that I'd like to finish most, and...I just don't have it in me anymore.
16. What are your writing strengths?Characterisation extrapolation. a.k.a. "uncanonicity of characterisation". Basically, give me a character (female) who doesn't get much time in canon, or whose subtleties are lost on most, and I can expand on their backstory and characterisation in a way that helps others expand their view of the character.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?A desire to write all the details, particularly in profic.
IDK, maybe my weakness is for minor characters who have great possibility for them which is never elaborated on in canon. To some people, this is apparently a Bad Thing.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?It's usually only a line or two, for emphasis here or there. If I want a conversation in another language to be readable to the main audience, I usually go with italics.
I find a translation/transliteration in the language I want(depending on what's available) and then put a hover-over anchor link with the English translation.
19. First fandom you wrote for?She-Ra: Princess of Power (the 1980s cartoon version) and M.A.S.K (a kind of supertech/moral theme cartoon show of the 80s) with a literal insertion of myself and my friends walking into these universes. I was 10, it was the 80s, I didn't even know fanfic was a thing, and my teacher made a class assignment for us to write a story.
If I don't count that, then...
X-Men: Generation X.
20. Favourite fic you've ever written??I have too many fics to have a favourite. Also, there are things you sometimes want and othertimes you don't, and I write all over the shop. So it depends on my mood and what I want to go back and feel in the moment.
