02 November 2025 @ 11:07 pm
Snagged this from [personal profile] 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)
 
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).
 
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)
 
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.
 
5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Drabble (70 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] sv100 and [community profile] svpromptstables plus several ran other Smallville or DC related communities. Same thing with the X-Men - participated in the xmenbigbang challenge and started [community profile] xmen15 and [community profile] xmen100. Besides I tended to write a lot of crossovers years ago and ran several crossover challenges including [community profile] 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.
 
I will probably do this again, but with my dreamwidth fic community [community profile] 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!). 
 
 
31 October 2025 @ 10:06 pm
Another fic meme that's going around.... Not all my work is on AO3 & not all of my work is fixed to the dates they were actually written on/in since I joined AO3 in 2010. I don't think I thought to backdate them early on so honestly the dates might be a bit skrewed.


 
If you’ve written fics for more than one year on AO3, go to your statistics page. Click on the different years at the top to see the categories of statistics for each year.

2005 (14 kudos, 416 words, 3 bookmarks, 412 hits, 0 subscriptions) | 2006 (69 kudos, 11 bookmarks, 6491 words, 1 subscriptions) |
2007 (98 kudos, 17 bookmarks, 1468 words, 1 subscriptions) | 2008 (524 kudos, 87 bookmarks, 18278 words, 18 subscriptions) | 2009 (516 kudos, 83 bookmarks, 14355 words, 18 subscriptions) | 2010 (1133 kudos, 140 bookmarks, 15948 words, 29  subscriptions) | 2011 (221 kudos, 57 bookmarks, 20123 words, 3 subscriptions) | 2012 (1138 kudos, 110 bookmarks, 30018 words, 67 subscriptions) | 2013 (293 kudos, 31 bookmarks, 2836 words, 18 subscriptions) | 2014 (1287 kudos, 215 bookmarks, 7326 words, 25 subscriptions) | 2015 (233 kudos, 23 bookmarks, 1435 words, 14 subscriptions) | 2016 (1521 kudos, 208 bookmarks, 17293 words, 194 subscriptions) | 2018 (63 kudos, 8 bookmarks, 2473 words, 4 subscriptions) | 2019 (68 kudos, 7 bookmarks, 3607 words, 7 subscriptions) | 2020 (113 kudos, 14 bookmarks, 12006 words, 16 subscriptions) | 2025 (42 kudos, 6 bookmarks, 5034 words, 9 subscriptions)


1. Which year did you write the most words? Do you know why? e.g. you had more time; you were caught up in an exciting new fandom or pairing; you got a rush of ideas etc.
2012 has the most words - I definitely had more time/energy/muse during that period of time from 2008-2012 - between the last year of high school and first year of college and then a year of tech school instead and working part-time at my first official job so before I started working full time only. I think I was just more apart of fandoms on LJ during that period of time as well - joined several Big Bang (including xmenbigbang, zombiebang) challenges, 'Land communities, team drabble challenges, table challenges, and fic challenges. I think I also started posting my work to AO3 from LJ and/or FFN around this time & I may not have used the original publishing date for the different works.  For 2012 according to AO3 I had a lot of Harry Potter, X-Men, Supernatural & Glee fics - most were also crossovers between the fandoms. 
 
2. Which year did you write the least words? Why was this? e.g. lack of time, too busy, no inspiration etc.
Well looks 2017 & from 2021-2024 were all 0. I can't remember 2017 honestly, so I'm guessing that's probably when I started having two full time jobs at a time which has mostly continued since, although now it's more of a one full time job+overtime & one part-time job. Lack of inspiration has definitely played a part - depression may have definitely played a part as well.

I think start of the LJ migration back after or around 2012 also played a part - there was just so much less activity on LJ & dreamwidth during that time and everyone seemed to migrate to Tumblr or wherever which was nice for the pretty pictures and instantly reblogging-ness but it also just kinda seems to have become just another way doomscroll through the years.
 
3. Which years did you get most hits, kudos, bookmarks and fic subscriptions? Do you know why? (e.g. popular fandoms, lots of words written.) Are there years where you have the same amount of bookmarks and subscriptions?
2010-2014 & 2016 seems to be highest for all of those. Well probably because I participated in a few of the popular fandoms including MCU, Supernatural & Arrowverse. Daughter of Iron Man (MCU, Darcy & Tony) was published in 2014 which seems to be my most popular fic which honestly - I'm pretty proud of. Also not so simple (broken smile) (MCU, Darcy/Bucky) was published in 2016. What can I say? Darcyland is the best ;)
 
4. Which years did you get least hits, kudos, bookmarks and fic subscriptions? Do you know why? (e.g. niche fandoms, not many fics written.) Do you have any other conclusions? 
Again, 2017 & from 2021-2024 were all 0. But otherwise 2018-2025 not a lot of fics were written during this time due to lack of time/energy/depression/muse/covid (again I mostly worked two jobs, mostly both jobs at full-time until I couldn't keep up anymore). I was also mostly just reading fic during or after breaks of work when I wasn't sleeping or watching TV. I also experienced carpal tunnel really badly in my right wrist (yay right handed) during that period of time which I think is what made me pull back from online.

Now I think I've mostly been writing rarepairs for the last several years - namely Kara/Maxwell (Supergirl TV series), Courtney/Henry Jr. (Stargirl TV series) - and this year (after apparently a five year stretch which damn I didn't even realize) where I've mostly written drabbles mainly for [community profile] xmen100 & [community profile] mcu100 and various of fic tables I had joined recently & years ago. Which people mostly seem to skip drabbles on AO3 which I completely get but meh kinda sucks, but whatever. At least I'm writing again and honestly that is what matters to me the most. Hopefully I'll get more comfortable and more inspired and I'll be to write more.
 
 
27 October 2025 @ 11:31 pm
Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.
 
So I'm going to be lazy and go from backwards on the AO3 list (thus a lot of these will be from 2025), mainly because I should really be heading off to bed right now, but I just ate so I figured I'd give my digestive system some time to digest... {yeah I'm still going to regret that in the morning anyway.}
 
A: The Aftereffects (Roswell/Smallville, Michael/Zatanna, 2009) 
B: Baking Cookies (MCU, Wanda & Billy & Tommy, 2025)
C: Coffee (Doc, Amy/Jake, 2025)
D: Dreams (X-Men, Madelyne & Nathan, 2025)
E: 
F: First Kiss (MCU, Bucky/Mel, 2025)
G: Gloves Off (X-Men Evolution, Cyclops/Rogue, 2025)
H: Her Avengers (MCU, Mel, 2025)
I: Instincts (Buffyverse/Smallville, Angel/Chloe, 2009)
J: James (Harry Potter/X-Men, Mystique!Lily/James, 2012)
K: Kissed by Flames (X-Men Evolution, Jean/Magma, 2025)
L: Love Token (Doc, Amy/Jake, 2025)
M: Mad About You (Supergirl TV, Kara/Maxwell, 2018)
N: New Costumes (X-Men Evolution, Cyclops/Rogue, 2025)
O: Once Upon A Time (X-Men, Madelyne & Nathan, 2025)
P: Parasailing (Life With Derek/Jurassic Park, Casey & Derek & Eric & Ben, 2010)
Q:
R: Right Thing (MCU, Mel, 2025)
S: Stumble (MCU, Kate/Yelena, 2025)
T: time and tide aftermath (MCU, Peggy/Jack, 2015)
U: Underneath the Tree (Harry Potter/X-Men, Mystique & Lily, 2012)
V: Visions of the Future (Harry Potter/X-Men, Mystique/Destiny & Mystique!Lily/James, 2012)
W: Where is he? (Supergirl TV, Kara/Maxwell, 2016)
X:
Y: You're like an angel (X-Men Evolution, Cyclops/Rogue, 2025)
Z: Zombie-Free (Smallville/Zombieland, Chloe/Tallahassee, 2010)

Looks like that is only 3 missing out of 160 works listed at AO3... but according to my fic community [community profile] harpiewriting I really have 654 (sometimes I group my drabbles together at AO3 plus I think of a lot of the older stuff isn't there). Still not shabby at all I think. Can't believe I don't have E or X (I apparently never made the X- pun/titles like The Gifted did their episodes and various comics have done). Q is a little more easier to understand for why I'm missing it not a lot of words are coming to my head with that letter, other than maybe question - LOL.

I also feel like I should get more creative with my titles I think... 

 
 
23 October 2025 @ 10:04 pm
Discovered a ficathon over at [community profile] toothpastejuice which is currently hosting Rarest of Rarepairs Ficathon and looking for prompts for rarepairs with "50 works or under on AO3".

Prompting and Fills open: October 13, 2025
Prompting Closes: January 25, 2026
Fills will remain open after prompting closes.


While there is a wide arrange already, I figured I'd add to the prompts since I have quite a few rarepairs - so I added {so far} some prompts for Doc (Amy/Jake), Supergirl (Kara/Maxwell), Stargirl (Henry Jr/Courtney, Courtney/Cindy, Cindy/Courtney/Henry Jr., Rick/Courtney, Rick/Coutney/Henry Jr.), SkyMed (Hayley/Wheezer), X-Men (Jean/Pyro, Jean/Magma, Rogue/Lance, Rogue/Colossus, Rogue/Wanda, Scott/Wanda), Saved by the Bell (Zack/Jessie), Boy Meets World (Shawn/Topanga/Cory, Shawn/Topanga), Sleepy Hollow TV series (Katrina/Abraham, Katrina/Abraham/Ichabod, Katrina/Abraham/Ichabod/Abbie, Katrina/Abbie/Ichabod), MCU (Ezekiel/Riri), Ghost Whisperer (Melinda/Rick).

Will probably add more if I can think of any others.