Jul. 30th, 2017

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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*)

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And that is that. :)

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