AO3 meme

[lizbee]

I nicked this from beatrice_otter!

1. What rating do you write most of your fics under?

General Audiences by a long shot ... but I have a second account for anything rated E. Which isn't much, but I split it out a few years ago on account of being An Aspiring Author Of Works For Young Readers, and will at some stage get around to archive-locking those fics.

2. What are your top three fandoms?

1. Doctor Who
2. Legend of Korra
3. Avatar: the Last Airbender

This may come as a surprise to the people who know me as A Star Trek Person, but quite a lot of my Discovery fics are over on the other account. Discovery, at 17 fics, is tied with Harry Potter in fourth place -- and I think I've actually written more HP fics, I just stopped importing them to AO3 because *waves hands at JKR ruining everything*
3. What is the top character you write about?

Super embarrassing, turns out it's the Tenth Doctor. But that's because I tended to ship him with female characters I was obsessed with, so let me note that Lin Beifong and Romana are tied for second place, and then Martha Jones and Katrina Cornwell are tied for third.

(I do not ship Lin or Katrina with the Tenth Doctor, I think they'd both very quickly get fed up with him.)

4. What are the top three pairings you write about?

Okay, this one shocked me.

1. Mai/Zuko (that makes sense! I wrote a lot for those two!)
2. Lin Beifong/Tenzin (sure!)
3. Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russell (this is embarrassing)

Because I tend to fixate on a character and then multiship them, my pairing stats tend to be a bit more diffuse than character stats.
5. What are the top three additional tags?

1. Crack (does anyone else feel like the use of "crack" to denote silly, non-canonical or absurd pairings or fics might be racially insensitive? Or am I wrong in thinking its origins lie in "this is so silly, I may as well have been smoking crack when I wrote it"?)
2. Canon Character of Colour (thank you, Avatarverse)
3. Post-Canon

6. Did any of this surprise you?

Yeah, a male character as my number one most-tagged? Genuinely shocking, and I think I need to write two more Lin Beifong fics so she can take first place.

Actually, if I combined Romanas and included, say, Romana regenerations I made up myself, she's probably safely in the number one spot. BUT NOT OFFICIALLY. So embarrassing.

Comments

[misbegotten]

ROMANA! <33333

I like Russell. Or at least I used to. Haven't read the last umpteen entries in that series so I have no idea where I would stand on her today.

[lizbee]

I have a very, very, very strong suspicion that the Russell books have aged badly -- there's so much exoticism and brownface that I have simply decided not to reread them. Ever. (Also I think the series jumped the shark around Locked Rooms.)

But they were important to me for a good decade, and helped me realise that "what if X Iconic Male Character, But A Woman?" is a character type I really vibe with.

[misbegotten]

Heh. I think I started _Locked Rooms_, never finished it, and never went back.

>>"what if X Iconic Male Character, But A Woman?" is a character type I really vibe with<<

YES!

[kore]

The first Mary Russell book is an evergreen comfort reread, but hoo boy did they go downhill fast.

[beatrice_otter]

Yeah.

[runpunkrun]

You're not wrong about the origins of the term crack, and, yeah, it's not only racially insensitive it can also be seen as trivializing drug addiction: "This fic is like crack. I can't stop reading it."

When fancake voted to have a "crack" round, I felt it was important to acknowledge this in the round announcement even though that's no fun at all. :/