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meridian_rose Go to your Works page on AO3, look at the tags, and see what the answers to these questions are. (Or any other site that has tags, I don’t know if FFnet or Wattpad does)
Haven't seen Smallville since it's ending, so I haven't really been writing about Chloe lately... Plus the whole actress thing makes me feel slightly guilty? (or something) But like I still love Chloe though. I'll have to eventually rewatch the series or hope Chloe appears in another adaption sometime.
Scott is still a character I want to write, besides him and Rogue have been my favorite X-Men characters since the 90s & I watched the Animated Series for the first time. Still hoping they'll make an appearance in the MCU eventually.
I will probably do this again, but with my dreamwidth fic community 1. What rating do you write most fics under?
General Audiences (109 of 162 fics at AO3)
Not really a surprise honestly, I don't normally write adult/mature scenes so that would be a super rare thing to appear. Teen would mostly be for violence or implied mature scenes (which again rare).
Not really a surprise honestly, I don't normally write adult/mature scenes so that would be a super rare thing to appear. Teen would mostly be for violence or implied mature scenes (which again rare).
2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
Smallville (41 at AO3)
X-Men Evolution (20 at AO3)
X-Men (Original Timeline Movies) (18 at AO3)
X-Men (comicsverse) (16 at AO3) and X-Men - All Media Types (16 at AO3) are right below the list. I kinda tend to do an amalgamation of Evolution, Movieverse & comics when I do anything X-Men related. Probably because I absorbed so much various canon stuff when I was younger.
Besides X-Men, Harry Potter (15 at AO3) and Marvel Cinematic Universe (11 at AO3)
Besides X-Men, Harry Potter (15 at AO3) and Marvel Cinematic Universe (11 at AO3)
3. What is your top character you write about?
Chloe Sullivan (Smallville) is at 38 at AO3.
Scott Summers (X-Men) is at 20 at AO3.
Haven't seen Smallville since it's ending, so I haven't really been writing about Chloe lately... Plus the whole actress thing makes me feel slightly guilty? (or something) But like I still love Chloe though. I'll have to eventually rewatch the series or hope Chloe appears in another adaption sometime.
Scott is still a character I want to write, besides him and Rogue have been my favorite X-Men characters since the 90s & I watched the Animated Series for the first time. Still hoping they'll make an appearance in the MCU eventually.
4. What are the 3 top pairings?
Rogue/Scott Summers (X-Men) is at 8 at AO3.
James Potter/Lily Evans Potter (Harry Potter) & James Potter/Mystique (HP/X-Men) are tied with 7 at AO3 due to the crossover series where Mystique takes Lily's place after the real Lily died as a child. It's a series that was supposed to have more parts to it, but probably won't honestly. Johnny Storm/Chloe Sullivan (Fantastic Four/Smallville) is also tied with 7 at AO3.
Clark Kent/Chloe Sullivan (Smallville) and Kara Danvers/Maxwell Lord (Supergirl TV series) are tied with 6 at AO3.
James Potter/Lily Evans Potter (Harry Potter) & James Potter/Mystique (HP/X-Men) are tied with 7 at AO3 due to the crossover series where Mystique takes Lily's place after the real Lily died as a child. It's a series that was supposed to have more parts to it, but probably won't honestly. Johnny Storm/Chloe Sullivan (Fantastic Four/Smallville) is also tied with 7 at AO3.
Clark Kent/Chloe Sullivan (Smallville) and Kara Danvers/Maxwell Lord (Supergirl TV series) are tied with 6 at AO3.
5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Drabble (70 at AO3)
Crossover (50 at AO3)
Community: galorechallenge (29 at AO3)
Crossover (50 at AO3)
Community: galorechallenge (29 at AO3)
6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. what turned out to be your top tag.
The rating and fandoms didn't, I participated in a lot of various Smallville challenges - even started several of my own, including ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sv100 and svpromptstables plus several ran other Smallville or DC related communities. Same thing with the X-Men - participated in the xmenbigbang challenge and started xmen15 and xmen100. Besides I tended to write a lot of crossovers years ago and ran several crossover challenges including galorechallenge (which is also not a surprise at one of my top tags) and xoverland at livejournal plus started several crossover communities.
Like I've stated before in various memes - not all my work are actually at AO3. And I combined some of my drabbles under one piece ("drabble collections") so the numbers are actually skewed. Just means I'll have to try and finish adding my older work.
But anyway, my top tag is not a surprise. I mostly write drabbles or ficlets or one shots. Honestly larger fics & multi-chaptered works are rare. Drabbles were mostly inspired by various prompt challenges at livejournal that were only 100 words allowed so when you participate in a lot of those, it's not really a surprise tag.
Honestly the only thing that really surprised me were the ship tags - but I think that just means I need to actually add my older works to AO3. I still think Scott/Rogue and Clark/Chloe would be one of the top ones, but I think the others would be lower.
sv100 and svpromptstables plus several ran other Smallville or DC related communities. Same thing with the X-Men - participated in the xmenbigbang challenge and started xmen15 and xmen100. Besides I tended to write a lot of crossovers years ago and ran several crossover challenges including galorechallenge (which is also not a surprise at one of my top tags) and xoverland at livejournal plus started several crossover communities.Like I've stated before in various memes - not all my work are actually at AO3. And I combined some of my drabbles under one piece ("drabble collections") so the numbers are actually skewed. Just means I'll have to try and finish adding my older work.
But anyway, my top tag is not a surprise. I mostly write drabbles or ficlets or one shots. Honestly larger fics & multi-chaptered works are rare. Drabbles were mostly inspired by various prompt challenges at livejournal that were only 100 words allowed so when you participate in a lot of those, it's not really a surprise tag.
Honestly the only thing that really surprised me were the ship tags - but I think that just means I need to actually add my older works to AO3. I still think Scott/Rogue and Clark/Chloe would be one of the top ones, but I think the others would be lower.
harpiewriting which I feel like would have a better fandom/character/pairing representation. Since I only use fandom/character/pairings tags there, I can't say for sure the "additional tags" situation would be different, especially since we (or I at least) definitely didn't start using tags the AO3 way until sometime after joining AO3. Numbers would be skewed higher for ratings, but General Audiences would still be the top rating at least. And now I'm limited to 1000 tags so we'll see (I'm at 932!). Edit 11/3/2025: The below stats are using my fic community
harpiewriting - [TAGS page]1. What rating do you write most fics under?
General Audiences (496 of 655 fics) with Teen at 126/655. Originally the community was separated by "G/PG or K/K+" but once I realized there was only a 1000 tag limit for communities here at dreamwidth, I combined the two ratings - they were basically the same thing anyway - at least in my eyes.
2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
Smallville (167)
X-Men (91)
Harry Potter (67)
Twilight (61)
Supernatural (54)
Heroes (53)
X-Men (91)
Harry Potter (67)
Twilight (61)
Supernatural (54)
Heroes (53)
So Smallville (Crossover tag 86) and X-Men (Crossover tag 54) are still the top fandoms, as is Harry Potter (Crossovers tag 55) still technically in third place, just numbers are a little higher. Twilight (Crossover tag 6) is close behind, which honestly I forgot how much I wrote for that fandom - granted it's mostly drabbles written for twilight100 and various other prompt tables. Supernatural (Crossover tag 47) is next but unlike the others is mostly crossovers and Heroes (Crossover tag 24) fandom rounds out with the next closest and only about half are crossovers.
3. What is your top character you write about?
Chloe Sullivan (Smallville) is at 128 tags.
Scott Summers (X-Men) has 50 tags.
Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) has 50 tags.
Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) has 50 tags.
Again same characters, although Hermione basically joins the team. What can I say? I connect a lot and love those characters. Honestly I'm surprised Rogue from X-Men (33 tags) wasn't part of it or even the next one. It's actually Leah from Twilight (45 tags) again thanks to twilight100.
4. What are the 3 top pairings?
AC/Chloe (Smallville) is at 24 tags
Chloe/Clark (Smallville) is at 16 tags
Rogue/Scott Summers (X-Men) is at 13 tags.
Emmett/Leah (Twilight) is at 13 tags
I'm glad I was at least right about Chloe/Clark & Rogue/Scott up above, although I forgot I signed up a table or two for Chloe/AC ship. The fact that it's beating Chloe/Clark & Chloe/Oliver was shocking - I guess in my head, I more works of them.
Chloe/Clark (Smallville) is at 16 tags
Rogue/Scott Summers (X-Men) is at 13 tags.
Emmett/Leah (Twilight) is at 13 tags
I'm glad I was at least right about Chloe/Clark & Rogue/Scott up above, although I forgot I signed up a table or two for Chloe/AC ship. The fact that it's beating Chloe/Clark & Chloe/Oliver was shocking - I guess in my head, I more works of them.
5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Drabbles
Crossovers
Crossovers
Canon Divergence
So basically the same thing as the AO3 but I switched out community:galorechallenge so something is fairly common in my works besides crossovers and say fluff or fluff adjacent? Again I use only fandom / year published / rating / characters / ships tags so you'd have to go through all of my work to catch the "additional tags" options but I think Canon Divergence would be a great option, or at least close enough.
So basically the same thing as the AO3 but I switched out community:
galorechallenge so something is fairly common in my works besides crossovers and say fluff or fluff adjacent? Again I use only fandom / year published / rating / characters / ships tags so you'd have to go through all of my work to catch the "additional tags" options but I think Canon Divergence would be a great option, or at least close enough.6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. what turned out to be your top tag.
Honestly I think the Twilight and Heroes fandoms being so close surprised me. It's been ages since I looked at those works or hell even watched the fandoms (or read in the case of Twilight). The Top 3 Pairings option also surprised me. This is mainly due to the Chloe/AC (Smallville) ship.
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