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edenfalling) wrote2017-07-30 03:09 pm
edenfalling) wrote2017-07-30 03:09 pm
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[Meme] AO3 fic filters (redux)
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I actually did this a year ago, but what the heck, let's see if the answers have changed much since then. For reference, I currently have 486 fics on AO3.
Go to your AO3 works page, expand all the filters, and answer the following questions!
1. What's your first and second most common work ratings? Any surprises?
General Audiences (359) / Teen And Up Audiences (97) / Not Rated (14) / Mature (10) / Explicit (6)
No surprises here! I write a lot of gen, and I am skeptical of movie-style ratings' applicability to prose (plus I dislike issuing implicit judgments about what material is ~appropriate~ for people I know nothing about), so I mostly rate things in a spirit of "read the tags and decide for yourself" ('General Audiences'), with an occasional detour into "well, I guess this is a little heavier; maybe I should up the rating so people who care about ratings don't yell at me even though I have accurately tagged for the heavy stuff so what is even the point" ('Teen And Up Audiences').
I love tags. Tags are specific and therefore useful! Ratings, not so much.
The six 'Explicit' stories include actual porn, and the 'Mature' ones include sex that isn't quite porn and/or some heavy stuff. (Mostly sex, though. People get weird about sex in ways they don't tend to get weird about violence, so I usually deploy those ratings based on the presence of sex and stuff that's tangential to sex and stick to tags for everything else.) The 'Not Rated' stories are all from the same Angel Sanctuary fic series, which I CAN'T rate usefully for reasons that are probably obvious if you have any familiarity with the source manga.
(I used to have other unrated stories, but I decided this past year that I wanted to reserve that category for the Angel Sanctuary fics and slapped the others with either 'General Audiences' or 'Teen And Up' based on the ~highly scientific~ system of how I felt when I did a quick-skim reread of each story. *wry*)
2. What's your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?
No Archive Warnings Apply (291) / Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings (196) / Graphic Depictions Of Violence (12) / Major Character Death (9) / Rape/Non-Con (4) / Underage (2)
You may note that this adds up to 514 warnings, which is more than the number of fics I have on the archive. This is because I think using 'No Archive Warnings Apply' can give readers a false sense that the fic in question is light and harmless, which is, shall we say, not always a justified assumption. So I sometimes use 'No Archive Warnings Apply' AND 'Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings' as a shorthand for saying, yeah, none of the highly specific warning tags apply, but there are still dragons in these waters and seriously READ THE TAGS BEFORE YOU CLICK.
Also, no, I don't consider myself a particularly adventurous writer.
3. How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
Gen (407) / F/M (99) / F/F (39) / Multi (34) / M/M (17) / Other (3)
These are not accidental in the slightest. I am at heart a gen writer, and I am big on female characters, so the bias toward no ships at all, and secondarily toward ships that include women and girls, is completely deliberate.
As with the archive warnings, you will note that these numbers add up to more than 486. That is because A) some of my attempts at shipfic come out more as ambiguous gen, so I will label the resulting fic as both gen and whatever ship category is relevant, and B) I occasionally label for the relevant subcategories of poly ships.
And to quote myself from last year: The three 'Other' fics include an instance of attempted parental rape (because it's a would-be sexual relationship but holy shit I would not call that a 'ship' in the usual sense), one genderswap (thus turning an M/M couple into an F/F couple, and how do you even categorize that?), and one character of canonically ambiguous gender.
4. What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers? Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis (106) / Homestuck (105) / Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (68) / Naruto (64)
I am currently active in Narnia and Homestuck (as a writer, not much as a reader), and I still have a handful of WIPs in HP and Naruto that I swear to god I will finish someday. (I am also game to write prompt!fics there, but I don't really have independent inspiration for those fandoms anymore.)
5. What are your top 4 character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
Dave Strider (40) / Jade Harley (34) / Susan Pevensie (33) / Harry Potter (29)
Oh gosh, popular characters from three of my four most productive fandoms! How utterly shocking. *wry*
6. What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2? What would happen if you combined the two into a fic?
Prompt Fic (182) / Fifteen Minute Fic (101) / Friendship (95) / Backstory (79) / Fluff (59) / Slice of Life (50) / 3 Sentence Ficathon (46) / Worldbuilding (46) / Family (44) / Character Study (38)
Note: these are not actually my least-used additional tags; they are simply the least-used of my ten most-used additional tags.
Setting aside the ones that describe a type of fic (prompt fic, fifteen minute fic, 3 sentence ficathon), that leaves me with 'Friendship,' 'Backstory,' 'Family,' and 'Character Study'. I have not yet written any fics with all four of those tags, but every combination of three has at least two fics.
7. How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don't plan on finishing?
5 on AO3: "The Guardian in Spite of Herself," "Four by Four," "Trollstuck: Make Her Pay," "Weregild," and "Edmund and Ginny Go to Harfang." There are a few others I haven't crossposted. I do intend to finish all of the ones on AO3, and most of the ones posted elsewhere as well.
And that is that. :)
I actually did this a year ago, but what the heck, let's see if the answers have changed much since then. For reference, I currently have 486 fics on AO3.
Go to your AO3 works page, expand all the filters, and answer the following questions!
1. What's your first and second most common work ratings? Any surprises?
General Audiences (359) / Teen And Up Audiences (97) / Not Rated (14) / Mature (10) / Explicit (6)
No surprises here! I write a lot of gen, and I am skeptical of movie-style ratings' applicability to prose (plus I dislike issuing implicit judgments about what material is ~appropriate~ for people I know nothing about), so I mostly rate things in a spirit of "read the tags and decide for yourself" ('General Audiences'), with an occasional detour into "well, I guess this is a little heavier; maybe I should up the rating so people who care about ratings don't yell at me even though I have accurately tagged for the heavy stuff so what is even the point" ('Teen And Up Audiences').
I love tags. Tags are specific and therefore useful! Ratings, not so much.
The six 'Explicit' stories include actual porn, and the 'Mature' ones include sex that isn't quite porn and/or some heavy stuff. (Mostly sex, though. People get weird about sex in ways they don't tend to get weird about violence, so I usually deploy those ratings based on the presence of sex and stuff that's tangential to sex and stick to tags for everything else.) The 'Not Rated' stories are all from the same Angel Sanctuary fic series, which I CAN'T rate usefully for reasons that are probably obvious if you have any familiarity with the source manga.
(I used to have other unrated stories, but I decided this past year that I wanted to reserve that category for the Angel Sanctuary fics and slapped the others with either 'General Audiences' or 'Teen And Up' based on the ~highly scientific~ system of how I felt when I did a quick-skim reread of each story. *wry*)
2. What's your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?
No Archive Warnings Apply (291) / Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings (196) / Graphic Depictions Of Violence (12) / Major Character Death (9) / Rape/Non-Con (4) / Underage (2)
You may note that this adds up to 514 warnings, which is more than the number of fics I have on the archive. This is because I think using 'No Archive Warnings Apply' can give readers a false sense that the fic in question is light and harmless, which is, shall we say, not always a justified assumption. So I sometimes use 'No Archive Warnings Apply' AND 'Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings' as a shorthand for saying, yeah, none of the highly specific warning tags apply, but there are still dragons in these waters and seriously READ THE TAGS BEFORE YOU CLICK.
Also, no, I don't consider myself a particularly adventurous writer.
3. How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
Gen (407) / F/M (99) / F/F (39) / Multi (34) / M/M (17) / Other (3)
These are not accidental in the slightest. I am at heart a gen writer, and I am big on female characters, so the bias toward no ships at all, and secondarily toward ships that include women and girls, is completely deliberate.
As with the archive warnings, you will note that these numbers add up to more than 486. That is because A) some of my attempts at shipfic come out more as ambiguous gen, so I will label the resulting fic as both gen and whatever ship category is relevant, and B) I occasionally label for the relevant subcategories of poly ships.
And to quote myself from last year: The three 'Other' fics include an instance of attempted parental rape (because it's a would-be sexual relationship but holy shit I would not call that a 'ship' in the usual sense), one genderswap (thus turning an M/M couple into an F/F couple, and how do you even categorize that?), and one character of canonically ambiguous gender.
4. What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers? Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis (106) / Homestuck (105) / Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (68) / Naruto (64)
I am currently active in Narnia and Homestuck (as a writer, not much as a reader), and I still have a handful of WIPs in HP and Naruto that I swear to god I will finish someday. (I am also game to write prompt!fics there, but I don't really have independent inspiration for those fandoms anymore.)
5. What are your top 4 character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
Dave Strider (40) / Jade Harley (34) / Susan Pevensie (33) / Harry Potter (29)
Oh gosh, popular characters from three of my four most productive fandoms! How utterly shocking. *wry*
6. What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2? What would happen if you combined the two into a fic?
Prompt Fic (182) / Fifteen Minute Fic (101) / Friendship (95) / Backstory (79) / Fluff (59) / Slice of Life (50) / 3 Sentence Ficathon (46) / Worldbuilding (46) / Family (44) / Character Study (38)
Note: these are not actually my least-used additional tags; they are simply the least-used of my ten most-used additional tags.
Setting aside the ones that describe a type of fic (prompt fic, fifteen minute fic, 3 sentence ficathon), that leaves me with 'Friendship,' 'Backstory,' 'Family,' and 'Character Study'. I have not yet written any fics with all four of those tags, but every combination of three has at least two fics.
7. How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don't plan on finishing?
5 on AO3: "The Guardian in Spite of Herself," "Four by Four," "Trollstuck: Make Her Pay," "Weregild," and "Edmund and Ginny Go to Harfang." There are a few others I haven't crossposted. I do intend to finish all of the ones on AO3, and most of the ones posted elsewhere as well.
And that is that. :)