Jun. 28th, 2016

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I was tagged by [tumblr.com profile] klaineharmony:

Go to your works page, expand all the filters, and answer the following questions!

I currently have 445 works on AO3. This tally is therefore missing some stuff I haven't yet crossposted (most notably all my Angel Sanctuary fic) and some things (mostly fragments) that will never exist away from my journal. Additionally, AO3 does not scrape one's entire catalogue once it gets past a certain size -- the sidebar is built from only the first X number of pages (ten? twenty? I don't know the details) -- so these meme results are not completely accurate (most easily demonstrable when it comes to the number of fics in certain categories). That said...

What are your first and second most common work ratings? Any surprises?

General Audiences (335)
Teen And Up Audiences (83)

This does not surprise me. I don't write a lot of porn, and I don't see much point in the Teen And Up rating -- probably because I don't see much point in fic ratings in general. Relatively specific content notes are useful, but ratings are as far from specific as you can get. Seriously, what does an estimated 'appropriate audience' even MEAN? And how do you know whether any given reader will agree with your decision?

I'm also reluctant to issue judgments on who should be reading what content at what age, since I am quite sure that various things I read as a child -- and by 'child' I mean 8-12 years old -- would make moral guardians scream in horror, yet I sailed through unharmed. So I default toward 'whatever, just read it' and only occasionally slap a 'hey, this might be a little heavier' note onto something when my understanding of the public consensus on various issues suggests people might get ticked off at seeing them in the 'General Audiences' category.

(I am even less likely to use 'Mature' or 'Explicit,' because see above in re: not writing much porn. I do occasionally go with 'Not Rated' because there are a few things where I have no clue what the public consensus rating would be and figure it's better to let individual readers decide for themselves.)

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