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anghraine
Rules: go to your AO3 account and find the following:
1. What rating do you write most of your fics under?
General audiences! I am not really into sex scenes or graphic violence, and I rarely do stuff with disturbing themes, so that's not a surprise. I have two fics rated "mature", two that aren't rated, and the rest are all Gen or Teen, with Gen having half again as many fics as teen.
2. What are your top three fandoms?
Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica, and DC and Buffy are tied for third. Which is interesting, because I haven't written any SG-1 in years, and I've never been a huge DC or Buffy fan. Buffy in particular, I only did anything in that fandom (reading fics or writing them) because so many of my favorite authors were into Buffy. As for DC, I've watched some of the movies and I watched a large share of the Timmverse cartoons, but I've read a lot of fic. DC is only that big because it's grabbing all the different stuff I've done in different corners of the DC Universe and grouping them as one thing. Which, Superman Returns and Batman Beyond aren't really the same fandom, you know? Also there are a lot of crossovers in that. Which is also true of my Buffy fics! And a bunch of the Buffy fics are ficlets or drabbles, to boot.
3. What is the top character you write about?
AO3 says: Original Female Character! Not because that's who is the most likely to be the primary character in the story (although I have a few of those), but because if I need to make up a character for a story, my default is to make them a woman if possible, and a woman of color to boot. And I do love worldbuilding, which tends to encourage original characters in general. So I end up with a lot of stories which are about a canon character + an OFC.
So I don't think that's actually my top character? Looking at my list of most-tagged characters, I don't have any one who really stands out more than the others. The named character whom I have tagged most often is ... Luke Skywalker, who is in only 11 of my 256 fics. That's, what, about 4% of my fics? Hardly overwhelming. Jack O'Neill is in 10 fics, Nyota Uhura in 9.
The interesting thing that I would not have predicted is that there is only one named female character in the top ten (Nyota Uhura), despite having so many fics that are female focused. Looking over my fics, it's because so many of my fics are about minor characters, in one way or another. Partly because when you're focused on female characters, and canon tends to focus on male characters, you end up writing a lot of stuff where you only have one or two fics about that particular character, instead of "this is My Blorbo and I will write a hundred stories about them in different situations".
So let's take Jean-Luc Picard as an example--he's one of the characters of the top ten, as he is tagged in six fics. But I've written fifteen TNG fics! Three Guinan/Picard fics, three crossovers (two of which feature Picard), two Data/Geordi fics, one ensemble piece (in which Picard is tagged, along with a number of other characters, including OCs and OFCs), one Deanna/Worf, one Worf/Jadzia, one Deanna/Will, one Lwaxana gen, one Ro Laren/Will Riker, one Data & Deanna gen. Picard appears in more fics than any other TNG character, but he's still only in 20% of my TNG fics, and in several of those it's not like it's a Picard Story. There are as many stories that focus on female characters as there are stories in which Picard is tagged, but they're split between several different female characters, so none of them make the Top Ten list.
4. What are the top three pairings you write about?
I am not much of a shipper. My top pairing is Spock/Nyota, and I have written a grand total of (drumroll, please!) six fics about them. Out of 256. At which point, I felt like I'd sort of said everything I had to say about them and turned my attention to other things. I still love reading about them, but who knows when/if I'll write them again.
I have six relationships tied for second place, with three stories each:
Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill (the most recent of which is from 2008, lol)
Teyla Emmagan/John Sheppard (most recently in 2007, even better)
Data/Geordi LaForge (a current pairing)
Sam Anders/Kara Thrace (interesting, because I'm not a huge fan of Kara; I would have thought that Dee/Lee would be the BSG pairing, if there was one, but I guess I've only written two of those)
Guinan/Jean-Luc Picard
Peggy Carter & Angie Minelli
I am really not a shipper, as you can tell.
5. What are the top three additional tags?
Podfic Welcome (unsurprising, because I put it on every fic I write), Bechdel Test Pass (which I've stopped using in recent years, not because my fics have stopped passing the Bechdel Test but because I'm not sure how many people would use that tag to search for fics?), and AU. Also notable is Crossover (25 fics! Almost 10% of my fic output!) and Episode Related. Angst is the surprise, out of the top 10. I did not realize that I had 24 fics tagged with angst! And then I looked at it and I've only used it twice since 2010, lol.
6. Did any of this surprise you?
Yeah, a few things, as I've already noted.
anghraine Rules: go to your AO3 account and find the following:
1. What rating do you write most of your fics under?
General audiences! I am not really into sex scenes or graphic violence, and I rarely do stuff with disturbing themes, so that's not a surprise. I have two fics rated "mature", two that aren't rated, and the rest are all Gen or Teen, with Gen having half again as many fics as teen.
2. What are your top three fandoms?
Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica, and DC and Buffy are tied for third. Which is interesting, because I haven't written any SG-1 in years, and I've never been a huge DC or Buffy fan. Buffy in particular, I only did anything in that fandom (reading fics or writing them) because so many of my favorite authors were into Buffy. As for DC, I've watched some of the movies and I watched a large share of the Timmverse cartoons, but I've read a lot of fic. DC is only that big because it's grabbing all the different stuff I've done in different corners of the DC Universe and grouping them as one thing. Which, Superman Returns and Batman Beyond aren't really the same fandom, you know? Also there are a lot of crossovers in that. Which is also true of my Buffy fics! And a bunch of the Buffy fics are ficlets or drabbles, to boot.
3. What is the top character you write about?
AO3 says: Original Female Character! Not because that's who is the most likely to be the primary character in the story (although I have a few of those), but because if I need to make up a character for a story, my default is to make them a woman if possible, and a woman of color to boot. And I do love worldbuilding, which tends to encourage original characters in general. So I end up with a lot of stories which are about a canon character + an OFC.
So I don't think that's actually my top character? Looking at my list of most-tagged characters, I don't have any one who really stands out more than the others. The named character whom I have tagged most often is ... Luke Skywalker, who is in only 11 of my 256 fics. That's, what, about 4% of my fics? Hardly overwhelming. Jack O'Neill is in 10 fics, Nyota Uhura in 9.
The interesting thing that I would not have predicted is that there is only one named female character in the top ten (Nyota Uhura), despite having so many fics that are female focused. Looking over my fics, it's because so many of my fics are about minor characters, in one way or another. Partly because when you're focused on female characters, and canon tends to focus on male characters, you end up writing a lot of stuff where you only have one or two fics about that particular character, instead of "this is My Blorbo and I will write a hundred stories about them in different situations".
So let's take Jean-Luc Picard as an example--he's one of the characters of the top ten, as he is tagged in six fics. But I've written fifteen TNG fics! Three Guinan/Picard fics, three crossovers (two of which feature Picard), two Data/Geordi fics, one ensemble piece (in which Picard is tagged, along with a number of other characters, including OCs and OFCs), one Deanna/Worf, one Worf/Jadzia, one Deanna/Will, one Lwaxana gen, one Ro Laren/Will Riker, one Data & Deanna gen. Picard appears in more fics than any other TNG character, but he's still only in 20% of my TNG fics, and in several of those it's not like it's a Picard Story. There are as many stories that focus on female characters as there are stories in which Picard is tagged, but they're split between several different female characters, so none of them make the Top Ten list.
4. What are the top three pairings you write about?
I am not much of a shipper. My top pairing is Spock/Nyota, and I have written a grand total of (drumroll, please!) six fics about them. Out of 256. At which point, I felt like I'd sort of said everything I had to say about them and turned my attention to other things. I still love reading about them, but who knows when/if I'll write them again.
I have six relationships tied for second place, with three stories each:
Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill (the most recent of which is from 2008, lol)
Teyla Emmagan/John Sheppard (most recently in 2007, even better)
Data/Geordi LaForge (a current pairing)
Sam Anders/Kara Thrace (interesting, because I'm not a huge fan of Kara; I would have thought that Dee/Lee would be the BSG pairing, if there was one, but I guess I've only written two of those)
Guinan/Jean-Luc Picard
Peggy Carter & Angie Minelli
I am really not a shipper, as you can tell.
5. What are the top three additional tags?
Podfic Welcome (unsurprising, because I put it on every fic I write), Bechdel Test Pass (which I've stopped using in recent years, not because my fics have stopped passing the Bechdel Test but because I'm not sure how many people would use that tag to search for fics?), and AU. Also notable is Crossover (25 fics! Almost 10% of my fic output!) and Episode Related. Angst is the surprise, out of the top 10. I did not realize that I had 24 fics tagged with angst! And then I looked at it and I've only used it twice since 2010, lol.
6. Did any of this surprise you?
Yeah, a few things, as I've already noted.
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