fic top threes meme

[fiachairecht]

Stolen from everywhere, as per usual. I did one version for my AO3 fics (320, currently) and one for my Dreamwidth ones (229). There's obviously overlap between the two, Dreamwidth is the only place where my post-June 2023 fics live, and AO3 has exchange stuff and generally older stuff. I've also left out umbrella/category tags, stuff like 'Star Wars - All Media Types' since I tag that for discoverability rather than my own organisation.

AO3 stats (kimaracretak)

1. What rating do you write most fics under?
Teen (123)
Mature (79)
General Audiences (65)

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
Critical Role (Web Series) (47)
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (41)
The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien (18)

3. What are the top 3 characters you’ve written about?
Keyleth (Critical Role) (25)
Rey (Star Wars) (24)
Leia Organa (20)

4. What are your 3 top pairings?
Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (12)
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa (11)
Keyleth/Raishan (Critical Role) (8)

5. What are your top 3 additional tags?
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (28)
Post-Canon (27)
Horror (25)

6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. who your top character turned out to be.
Bit surprised by how high up there General Audiences as a rating still is - rationally I know it's because I adopted my 'I don't rate anything lower than Teen' policy not that long before I stopped posting much to AO3, and a lot of my earlier stuff (which tends to be what's still on AO3) was probably rated G, but it's still a little funny to see. I'm not sure that Reylo ship count is correct because of how the Ben and Kylo tags are split up. A little surprised 'Horror' is that low, but that might be down to what I've crossposted + deleted and/or tag syns. Initially surprised there's no sex-related tags in #5, given the 79 M-rated fics, but I suppose I don't tend to tag individual sex acts unless it's something like femslash_kink where that's what was matched on.

Dreamwidth (thelonelylake)
I've gone through and added capitalisation + last names to these since all of my comm tags are first name only for relationships + in all lowercase because I think it looks nicer and I do what I want.

1. What rating do you write most fics under?
Hah, I don't tag for ratings here. I list them in the post header, because it seems ... expected, I guess? But I don't find ratings super informative overall - and I'm tired of stuff like people complaining that an E-rated fic doesn't have sex in it when there's loads of explicit violence tags and no real indication sex would happen. I sorta wish when I'd started the crosspost project I'd just used a Teen/Explict division but that's ... a lot of posts to go back and edit when I'm not even done the crossposting ...

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
Star Wars Sequels [25]
Critical Role [11] + Overwatch [11]
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina [9]

3. What are the top 3 characters you've written about?
Leia Organa [15]
Ana Amari [9]
Chrissie Read [6]
+ Original Characters [8] is also up there, but that's a category so I'm not technically counting it

4. What are your 3 top pairings?
Amilyn Holdo/Leia Organa [5] + Chrissie Read/Rosa Fallows [5]
Ana Amari/Widowmaker [4] + Elizabeth Weir/Teyla Emmagen [4] + Lilith/Zelda Spellman [4]
+ there are a lot at 3 fics each, but this is probably long enough

5. What are your top 3 additional tags?
Horror [35]
Character Study [29]
Body Horror [28]
+ Nature That Wants To Eat You [23] as a bonus fourth because lbr horror is an umbrella the way i tag things here lololol

6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. who your top character turned out to be.
I do find it a bit hilarious that when left to my own devices I will come up with funny little theme tags (nature that wants to eat you) or use song lyrics (what i do in my dreams to you) but overall the most accurate way to sum up most of what I write is 'horror'. I'd lowkey forgotten I'd written that much CAOS, especially considering I ended up watching less than half the show. It is deeply obvious that I've de-prioritised crossposting Tolkien and Star Trek stuff since I'm on single-fandom archives for both of those.

I was hoping this would help me decide what to crosspost next (I should probably finish either Overwatch or Killing Eve fics, really) but it did not! I shall end with the question that some versions of this added on:

7. Did any of these answers surprise you reading this?

Comments

[luckyzukky]

love your dw comm's theme tags! they're very unique and fun

[fiachairecht]

ahh i'm so glad, i had a lot of fun coming up with them :3 i feel like i probably have a couple more vibesTM that deserve tags but i can always just ... go back and add them later

[elasticella]

I also really enjoy your dw vibes tags! I was aware you write Star Wars, but I didn't realize how much you've done.

[fiachairecht]

Hah, Star Wars was the perfect storm of 'everyone is wrong about my faves' and 'I am procrastinating grad school writing' and 'my two most beloved friends have the exact same brainrot as me' lmao. I do not think that will ever be duplicated but it sure did lead to A Lot of fics!