Another AO3 meme that's been going around. I'm sure I've done this one before, but it was probably quite a long time ago. Not sure it's anywhere near as interesting as some of the other such exercises, or, rather, I doubt my results will be as interesting. But lets' see how it shakes out:
From your AO3 Works page, look at the tags and find the answers to these questions. Current number of works on AO3: 363
1. Under what rating do you write most?Ratings break down like this:
General Audiences (165)
Teen And Up Audiences (160)
Mature (23)
Explicit (15)
I'll admit, I often just sort of slap a "teen" on things by default, because there are, or might be, adult themes and situations and swearing and disturbing elements and other things you don't necessarily want to put in front of little kids, even if only in passing. Interesting to see that "general audiences still beats it out, if only just barely.
I'm always kind of surprised when I realize just how little E-rated fic I've written. I guess because it stands out in my mind. But clearly I'm falling down on the smut.
2. What are your top 3 fandoms?Depends on how you count the two main incarnations of Doctor Who. I tag for whether it's Doctor Who (2005) or Doctor Who (1963), of course, but it's all Doctor Who to me, and it all also gets the blanket Doctor Who tag. So, since Who shows up on this list twice, I'm going to give you top four:
Doctor Who (91)
Good Omens (TV) (76)
Doctor Who (2005) (59)
Farscape (55)
That Good Omens tops the list if you remove the general Doctor Who tag isn't surprising, as the height of my GO obsession coincided with the point where I was doing blackout bingos on
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genprompt_bingo, so I wrote a gazillion ficlets for it.
I am more than a little surprised that Farscape is still hanging in there! I wrote a lot of fic for it back in the day (obviously), but it's been a very long time. The next fandom on the list, though -- Disco Elysium -- doesn't even come close.
3. Which character do you write about most?Aziraphale with 60 fics. He is one busy little angel! Crowley is right behind him with 58.
4. What are the 3 top pairings you've written?Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens) (55)
Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi (20)
Claire Finn/Isaac (The Orville) (8)
Like I said, Aziraphale is one busy little angel. Although I think a lot of those A/C fics are just sort of... rather gently shippy. Like much of the show.
5. What are the top 3 additional tags?Angst (38)
Episode Related (37)
Crossover (34)
I feel like I'm not nearly as much of an angst writer these days as I was, say, when I was in Blake's 7 fandom. (Which, let's be honest, was asking for it!) But it seems my angsty legacy is still going strong.
I doubt these tags actually tell you a whole lot, though, because I am admittedly an undertagger. I've been trying to be a bit less minimalist these days, especially in the more recent, younger-skewing fandoms, because people seem to expect more tagging. But I'm never gonna go giant-wall-o'-tags like the Kids These Days. Nor do I want to. Anyway, the point here is that crossovers
will always get tagged as crossovers, because I consider that an important and essential tag, and I do try to remember to use the episode-related tag for fics that relate to a specific episode (missing scenes, etc). But there are plenty of things it's probably not even going to occur to me to tag, no matter how many times they come up.
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alethia) wrote2025-11-12 12:08 am
