AO3 meme

[dragonyphoenix]

 Rules: Go to your AO3 works page, expand all the filters, & answer the following questions!

 

I have 242 works on AO3.

 

 

What're your 1st & 2nd most common work ratings?

Teen and Up Audiences (102)
General Audiences (96)

What's your most common archive warning?

 

No Archive Warnings Apply (213)

 

Least common archive warning?

 

Underage (1)

 

Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?

 

When I had more free time I would experiment with form and, I think, I wrote my more interesting stories then,

 

How many works have you made in each pairing category?

 

Gen (149)
F/M (60)
M/M (33)
F/F (10)

Multi (3)

Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?

 

I'm not as focused on relationships so I write mostly Gen. I'm a bit surprised F/M outnumbers M/M since I'm a huge fan of Giles/Ethan and wrote quite a bit of Xander/Spike back in the day, although I'm not sure how much of my Spander made it to AO3.

 

What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers?

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) (227)
Leverage (6)
Original Works (5)
Harvey, 1950 movie (3)

I got heavily into Buffy while grieving after my Mother died and the tv series led me to fanfic hence my major focus on writing for Buffy.

 

Are you still active in any of them, & do you tend to migrate a lot?

 

Mostly focused on Buffy in fanfiction but I'd like to write original stories.

 

 

What are your top 4 relationship tags?

 

Drusilla / Spike (17)
Xander Harris / Spike (16)
Spike / Buffy Summers (15)
Willow Rosenberg / Spike (9)

Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?

 

Other than the Xander / Spike, these all surprise me. However, I'm entranced by the moment Dru realizes Spike no longer loves her but Spike doesn't have a clue. OK, and I had to go look; a number of Buffy / Spike were written for SB Fag Ends. Most of the Willow / Spike and a good number of the Dru / Spike are from Lily Out of Water which is the first series I wrote. I primarily wrote Willow when I started but then I posted a sequel to someone's story and I thought the original author knew I was writing it but it turns out that she didn't (as far as I could tell Yahoo Mail and LIveJournal mail didn't talk well so she never got my message). I didn't feel welcome in the Willow community after all the brouhaha although that lack of welcome may have been all in my head. That's when I switched to Xander / Spike.

 

What are your top 2 most used additional tags, & your bottom 2?

 

Humor (19)
Alternate Universe Crack (17) - this has to be from early stories

and

 

Male Slash (7)

Friendship (6)

 

What would happen if you combined all 4 of these into a fic?

 

I totally don't see myself writing something like that right now.

 

How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don't plan on finishing?

 

Three. The first, an attempt at deliberate practice, had me writing 12 drafts of the same short story set in a 'verse an author in my writing group created. I wrote seven drafts and forgot it, but now that I've found it, I'd sort of like to pick it up again.

The second is In a Corner of My Soul, my Giles as the big bad story. I haven't written since I last posted in October but am planning to continue. I've just been super stressed and not writing.

The third was another writing exercise. I wanted to write a short-story draft each week and AO3 gave me a place to keep them together. I stopped at 44 shorts. I don't know if I'll pick this up again.