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kangeikoStolen shamelessly from corvidology -
This is not a surprise, as porn isn't really my strong suit and I tend to prefer missing scenes or gen fics. I've also written a lot of gen drabbles and ficlets which pad out these numbers.
How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
Well, now, this IS interesting. Clearly my early love of Alias is still showing in my fixation on Jack Bristow. I wrote for a 500 word ficlet community and the whole Jack/&Arvin dynamic was fascinating to me. I also wrote a lot of gen and backstory, so I'm not surprised by these two tags. The Irina tag also makes sense, as I loved her relationship with Jack and Arvin. The Snape tag is very surprising to me as I don't really think I wrote that much HP fanfic, and what I wrote tended to be lengthy and florid and rambling - and I certainly don't recall writing almost 20 Snape fics! I was part of an HP drabble comm back in the old days so possibly that's where some of these are from?
Spike... well, I have a feeling that's from writing Buffy fic, but I would have pegged it at about 7-8 fics at most. So this is very surprising.
... wait, no, Spike was in AtS as well, it all makes sense now - two series' worth of fics!
Top five relationships:
These aren't surprising at all to be honest. The first two are the two ships I wrote in F1, and I wrote a lot of fic, almost all of it shippy, so it's possible I tagged the ship rather than the individual characters. G'Kar/Londo are a bit more recent than my first time writing in B5 but I think I wrote a fair amount for them. Jack/Irina I've covered above, and what I wrote for Top Gear tended to almost always be J/J.
Your best story title and why:
... In a few cases, I'm the only entry under the entire fandom. There are only 2 fics in the archive for the 'Bent - Sherman' fandom, I wrote one in 2000, and the next one was written in 2017. So the Max/Rudy would qualify, I think. I also wrote for the 'itbreaksmybrain' crossover challenge which gave me pairings such as The Devil (Brimstone)/Warrick Brown (CSI). But if we're picking non-crossover options, well, I wrote Will Hunting/Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting, and it's still the only fic in the archive for it. Make of that what you will.
... what. I stared at this in bewilderment for a hot minute before I realised what had happened - when Yuletide imported the old archive, they also imported the old comments. And because years ago Yuletide didn't have kudos (only comments), everyone commented more. Hence there being FOUR Yuletide fics in the top 10 (The Gift Trap, do zla boga, Red Ribbon and Fable). 'The Fire Sermon...' seemed to be popular with a few people who cheered me through a painful writing process, and it was posted as a WIP, so it's the same people commenting on different chapters. Same principle for 'till human voices wake us' to be honest - it's the same readers coming back to comment/encourage as I post updates, which is great.
But, yeah, MCU has seriously skewed all my stats, my current WIP especially.
corvidology -Which fandoms have you written in?
I've tidied up the list a little bit because some fandoms (e.g. MCU) show up under multiple tags. It's worth bearing in mind that several of the below are crossovers - e.g. the Brimstone fic is a crossover with CSI (of all things) for a challenge many years ago. I was also doing a 100 fandoms challenge at one point, which required fics across - yup - 100 fandoms.
What are your most common ratings?
Alias (TV) (69)
Formula 1 RPF (58)
Babylon 5 (45)
Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (37)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) (33)
Angel: the Series (27)
Top Gear (UK) RPF (16) / The Grand Tour (TV) RPF (1) / Oz and James Drink to Britain RPF (1)
Marvel Cinematic Universe (12) / Captain America (Movies) (11) / The Avengers (Marvel Movies) (11) / Agent Carter (TV) (1) / Black Panther (2018) (1) / Doctor Strange (2016) (1) / Iron Man (Movies) (1)
X-Men (Comicverse) (10)
Firefly (10)
Carnivale (8)
Carnivale (8)
The West Wing (7)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (6)
Battlestar Galactica (2003) (5)
Deadwood (5)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (4)
Transmetropolitan (4)
Greek and Roman Mythology (4)
Star Trek: The Original Series (4) / Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies) (2) / Star Trek - Various Authors (2) / Star Trek (1)
Doctor Who (2005) (4)
Formula E RPF (3)
Sherlock (TV) (3)
Life on Mars (UK) (3)
Watchmen - All Media Types (3)
House M.D. (3)
Nip/Tuck (2)
Mad Men (2)
28 Days Later (2002) (2)
Stargate SG-1 (2)
Lost (2)
Seafort Saga - David Feintuch (2)
Coupling (UK) (2)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2)
Indiana Jones Series (2)
Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente (2)
Fables - Willingham (2)
Blake's 7 (2)
Frankenstein - Nick Dear (2)
Scrubs (TV) (2)
Rome (TV 2005) (2)
X-Men (Movieverse) (2)
Marvel 1602 (2)
Veronica Mars (TV) (2)
The Matrix (Movies) (2)
Heroes (TV) (2)
Låt den rätte komma in | Let the Right One In (2008) (1)
Red Dwarf (1)
Third Watch (1)
Generation X (Comic) (1)
Brimstone (TV) (1)
Sunshine (2007) (1)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies) (1)
Alias (TV) RPF (1)
Game of Thrones (TV) (1)
Sahara (2005) (1)
Political RPF - Russian 21st c. (1)
1984 - George Orwell (1)
Rush (2013) (1)
Galaxy Quest (1999) (1)
The Laundry Files - Charles Stross (1)
Supernatural (1)
Batman (Movies - Nolan) (1)
American Gods - Neil Gaiman (1)
Coriolanus - Shakespeare (1)
The Sandman (Comics) (1)
Bent - Sherman (1)
Ballad of Halo Jones (1)
Ancient History RPF (1)
תנ"ך | Tanakh (1)
Pretty Woman (1990) (1)
Christian Bible (Old Testament) (1)
Borgias - Ambiguous Fandom (1)
The Addams Family (Movies) (1)
Clerks II (2006) (1)
Gone With the Wind - All Media Types (1)
Fantastic Four (Movies 2005-2007) (1)
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin (1)
Dexter (TV) (1)
A Knight's Tale (2001) (1)
Literary RPF (1)
Boston Legal (1)
The Authority (1)
Gentleman Bastard Sequence - Scott Lynch (1)
Mars Trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson (1)
The Big Bang Theory (TV) (1)
Top Gun (1986) (1)
Good Will Hunting (1997) (1)
The World's End (2013) (1)
American Pie (Movies) (1)
3:10 to Yuma (2007) (1)
Star Trek: Enterprise (1)
Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms (1)
ER (TV 1994) (1)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1)
Nextwave (Comic) (1)
Dead Like Me (1)
Nochnoy Dozor | Night Watch (Movies) (1)
The Bourne Legacy (2012) (1)
Richard II - Shakespeare (1)
Fast and the Furious Series (1)
Star Trek: Voyager (1)
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch (1)
Dogma (1999) (1)
Haven (TV) (1)
Battle Royale (2000) (1)
What are your most common ratings?
General Audiences (188)
Teen And Up Audiences (167)
Mature (74)
Explicit (16)
Not Rated (1)
This is not a surprise, as porn isn't really my strong suit and I tend to prefer missing scenes or gen fics. I've also written a lot of gen drabbles and ficlets which pad out these numbers.
How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
M/M (149)
F/M (108)
Multi (16)
F/F (14)
*points* see above re: my love of gen. The M/M category would be mainly F1 RPF (all guys), Top Gear (all guys) and MCU (Steve/Tony). The M/F (I'm guessing) is mainly Alias and Babylon 5. The gen is... well, I mainly write gen. I've written very few F/F fics across a smattering of different fandoms.
*points* see above re: my love of gen. The M/M category would be mainly F1 RPF (all guys), Top Gear (all guys) and MCU (Steve/Tony). The M/F (I'm guessing) is mainly Alias and Babylon 5. The gen is... well, I mainly write gen. I've written very few F/F fics across a smattering of different fandoms.
What are your top five character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
Arvin Sloane (30)
Severus Snape (19)
Spike (16)
Irina Derevko (15)
Well, now, this IS interesting. Clearly my early love of Alias is still showing in my fixation on Jack Bristow. I wrote for a 500 word ficlet community and the whole Jack/&Arvin dynamic was fascinating to me. I also wrote a lot of gen and backstory, so I'm not surprised by these two tags. The Irina tag also makes sense, as I loved her relationship with Jack and Arvin. The Snape tag is very surprising to me as I don't really think I wrote that much HP fanfic, and what I wrote tended to be lengthy and florid and rambling - and I certainly don't recall writing almost 20 Snape fics! I was part of an HP drabble comm back in the old days so possibly that's where some of these are from?
Spike... well, I have a feeling that's from writing Buffy fic, but I would have pegged it at about 7-8 fics at most. So this is very surprising.
... wait, no, Spike was in AtS as well, it all makes sense now - two series' worth of fics!
Top five relationships:
Kimi Räikkönen/Sebastian Vettel (14)
G'Kar/Londo Mollari (13)
Jack Bristow/Irina Derevko (12)
Jeremy Clarkson/James May (9)
These aren't surprising at all to be honest. The first two are the two ships I wrote in F1, and I wrote a lot of fic, almost all of it shippy, so it's possible I tagged the ship rather than the individual characters. G'Kar/Londo are a bit more recent than my first time writing in B5 but I think I wrote a fair amount for them. Jack/Irina I've covered above, and what I wrote for Top Gear tended to almost always be J/J.
Your best story title and why:
I've always been fond of 'spilt milk' as a story title. It's mostly because I like the sound of it, and a lot of the chapter / story headings within that fic were also chosen both because of the meaning but also because of the cadence of the words. For some reason, that was a fic which required a lot of reading stuff aloud to see if it 'sounded' right.
I'm also pretty fond of 'pirate superheroes (explode things and steal stuff)'.
I'm also pretty fond of 'pirate superheroes (explode things and steal stuff)'.
Your worst story title and why:
I've written a LOT of fics, and most of them have terrible titles. This is an impossible question. I think possibly everything written before 2001 can be safely put under the 'I was young, and learning' banner.
The most popular pairing you've written for (by the standard of how many stories exist for that pairing written by everyone on AO3)
Steve/Tony, by a country mile. I'm not going to check how many fics exist for it, but it's... a lot.
The rarest pairing you've written for (by the standard of how many stories exist for that pairing written by everyone on AO3)
... In a few cases, I'm the only entry under the entire fandom. There are only 2 fics in the archive for the 'Bent - Sherman' fandom, I wrote one in 2000, and the next one was written in 2017. So the Max/Rudy would qualify, I think. I also wrote for the 'itbreaksmybrain' crossover challenge which gave me pairings such as The Devil (Brimstone)/Warrick Brown (CSI). But if we're picking non-crossover options, well, I wrote Will Hunting/Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting, and it's still the only fic in the archive for it. Make of that what you will.
The most popular OT3/moresome you've written for (by the standard of how many stories exist for that pairing written by everyone on AO3)
The rarest OT3/moresome you've written for (by the standard of how many stories exist for that pairing written by everyone on AO3)
... Again, quite a few of them are the only fics for that listing, but... let's go with 'Deeds of War', which is Jack Bristow/Arvin Sloane/Irina Derevko, and is the only fic listed for that OT3, which is a crime.
Top 10 Bookmarks, Kudos and comments
*squints some more* This is really skewed by the fact that I started writing in the MCU fandom, which is enormous. But OK, let's do this.
Bookmarks (including private):
Comments:*squints some more* This is really skewed by the fact that I started writing in the MCU fandom, which is enormous. But OK, let's do this.
Bookmarks (including private):
1) till human voices wake us (MCU)
OK, that's not surprising. Only 3 non-MCU fics make the top 10. Matins was a weirdly successful gen Sherlock fic. #1 and #9 (in italics) are WIPs and people might be bookmarking them to read later / once complete. I am rather surprised that 'contract negotiations...' is in there, and 'Vigil', both of which I wrote and then promptly forgot about, but I guess they resonated. I don't recall seeing a flurry of comments or kudos for them, though, so... maybe people are just bookmarking rather than commenting, or maybe the comment/kudos-to-bookmark ratio is better on those two.
Kudos:
2) the ripple effect (MCU)
3) waves rise to claim you (MCU)
4) Matins (Sherlock)
5) beggars would ride (MCU)
6) pound of flesh (dearly bought) (MCU)
7) Vigil (Firefly)
8) from lilliput to blefuscu (MCU)
9) Memento Mori (MCU)
10) contract negotiations (always open with a 'no') (Pretty Woman)
OK, that's not surprising. Only 3 non-MCU fics make the top 10. Matins was a weirdly successful gen Sherlock fic. #1 and #9 (in italics) are WIPs and people might be bookmarking them to read later / once complete. I am rather surprised that 'contract negotiations...' is in there, and 'Vigil', both of which I wrote and then promptly forgot about, but I guess they resonated. I don't recall seeing a flurry of comments or kudos for them, though, so... maybe people are just bookmarking rather than commenting, or maybe the comment/kudos-to-bookmark ratio is better on those two.
Kudos:
1) till human voices wake us (MCU)
2) the ripple effect (MCU)
3) waves rise to claim you (MCU)
4) pound of flesh (dearly bought) (MCU)
5) Vigil (Firefly)
6) beggars would ride (MCU)
7) bargain (in disguise of a sport) (MCU)
8) Matins (Sherlock)
9) from lilliput to blefuscu (MCU)
10) spilt milk (The World's End)
3 non-MCU fics again, but 'spilt milk' instead of 'contract negotiations'. Unsurprisingly, MCU holds the top 3 spots easily. Not entirely sure how Vigil ended up on there tbh.
3 non-MCU fics again, but 'spilt milk' instead of 'contract negotiations'. Unsurprisingly, MCU holds the top 3 spots easily. Not entirely sure how Vigil ended up on there tbh.
1) till human voices wake us (MCU)
2) The Gift Trap (Coupling)
3) do zla boga (American Gods - Gaiman)
4) waves rise to claim you (MCU)
5) the ripple effect (MCU)
6) beggars would ride (MCU)
7) Red Ribbon (28 Days Later)
8) Memento Mori (MCU)
9) Fable (Fairy Tales and Related Fandoms)
10) The Fire Sermon on Mount Cyllene (Formula 1 RPF)
... what. I stared at this in bewilderment for a hot minute before I realised what had happened - when Yuletide imported the old archive, they also imported the old comments. And because years ago Yuletide didn't have kudos (only comments), everyone commented more. Hence there being FOUR Yuletide fics in the top 10 (The Gift Trap, do zla boga, Red Ribbon and Fable). 'The Fire Sermon...' seemed to be popular with a few people who cheered me through a painful writing process, and it was posted as a WIP, so it's the same people commenting on different chapters. Same principle for 'till human voices wake us' to be honest - it's the same readers coming back to comment/encourage as I post updates, which is great.
But, yeah, MCU has seriously skewed all my stats, my current WIP especially.
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Date: 2019-01-07 01:02 am (UTC)I'm dead impressed by your range of fandoms.
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Date: 2019-01-07 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-08 08:30 am (UTC)If you're up for answering: which is your favourite story (or five stories you're the fondest of), and why?
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Date: 2019-01-09 12:14 am (UTC)