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thisbluespirit) wrote2021-08-20 12:48 pm
thisbluespirit) wrote2021-08-20 12:48 pm
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Writing Meme
A variation of several AO3 memes I haven't seen before, ganked from various people on my flist. Not that I've actually finished the Frankenstein meme yet, but I'll get back to that presently:
1) How many works do you have on AO3?
619 (but I've been writing a lot of short things since around 2006-7, and there might even still be a couple of the 1994-98 fic from the newsgroups up).
2) What’s your total AO3 word count?
1,472,746 (but this does include about 300,000 words of origfic for RaTs and![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
rainbowfic that are collected into three giant works, so it doesn't affect the works no too much, but it does affect the wordcount.)
3) How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?
Too many to list here! A lot. *nods*
4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
People, it's still Miss Marple. Maybe one day it won't be Miss Marple, but today is not that day.
Miss Marple:
The Spirit of St Mary Mead
So We Meet at Last
Not Miss Marple:
it's the rain that will strengthen your soul (SW Prequels)
Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (and One Time They Got Along Just Fine) (DW/ST)
By the Book (Origfic)
(Oh, wow, By the Book keeps moving up. It must get recced sometimes, somewhere, mustn't it? 0_o ♥)
5) Do you respond to comments, why or why not?
Yes. Fanfic is a lot my way of being social, which is why I don't get along with the new push-button web much. Like, kudos is fine, ok, but I just wanted to talk to people, and via fic always seems to be one of the nicest ways to do it.
6) What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?
Oh, I don't know. I like being bleak sometimes when I feel like it. It might be the EatD one with the two Generals, but honestly there were a few in my mid-illness old bleak telly watching years, and the Level 7 one or the one from Children of the Damned might be even more so? Or some S&S stuff, too? I mean, I wrote S&S plane crash fic and weird drabbles. (I blame my fandoms! It's not my fault! *innocent*)
Also I keep doing Clara splinter fic, so I keep killing Clara and it's always sadder than I expect when I get there. You'd think I'd learn by now, or just not kill this splinter, but, nooo, hey, how about MORE Clara splinter death, self? /o\
Oh, no, wait: it's probably Spooks! Spooks is also bleak and how about my tiny ficlet of death, Litany of the Fallen?
Oh, actually, if I listen to people who aren't me, it's that B7 Avon/Servalan one, which I was always a bit: BUT I WROTE ONE WHERE THEY WON about it and everyone else was all THIS IS THE WORST in the comments. Sorry? The Quality of Mercy (Is Most Definitely Strained) (I still think the ending of Compendium is more angsty! It has double death!)
(Ok, it's me. I like being bleak and angsty when I'm doing it. I'm less sure when someone else is doing it at me, of course. ;-p)
7) What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?
I honestly don't know. I'm usually kind of gen and happy and sometimes even humorous, and keep canon's tone, and DW is fairly light most of the time.
I tried searching on Happy, but I have never tagged anything as happy. But probably it is an AAL! thing, because AAL! is happiness in b&w TV form basically. Maybe of Of Human Bondage (or Five Times Adam and His Friends Found Themselves All Tied Up)? But I like all the AAL! ones I wrote for Yuletide, because they were the ones where I tried to be closest to an episode, and that makes them the most fun to re-read now the writing-assignments-while-feeling-ill feelings have subsided with time.
8) Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?
I have a crossover in my top 5, so yes. I'm a DW fan; crossovers are just far too obvious a temptation when you've got a TARDIS. What DW fic writer hasn't managed at least one once somewhere? And I might have, um, written a lot of them. (AO3 says 126).
I did once, way back in newsnet times, when we were having a debate over what you could and couldn't cross DW over with (and I was on Team You Can Cross It With Anything You Cowards), write a DW/Rainbow drabble. But I don't think I put that on AO3. I think it might be on Teaspoon.
In AO3 works, I think by far the silliest is the Baldrick/Steed one, whichastrogirl said I couldn't write. (It was an Unconventional Courtship summary, not that astrogirl randomly dared me to write Baldrick/Steed. I mean, some of my flist totally would have done if they'd thought of it, but not in this case.)
9) Have you ever received hate on a fic?
Not really. I've had some weird comments, but the nearest I've come to hate was one of the comments that time I tried to write Swan Queen fic and it wasn't happy enough for people.
10) Do you write smut? If so what kind?
Alas, no. Although, ish, if we count my experimental elemental shipping phase, which included The Cornfield (Silver/Steel/(Sapphire)), which is the only time anyone called any of my fic sexy. I would totally have that comment made into a medal or something.
11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Other than the random scraping things that have gone round over the years, no.
12) Have you ever had a fic translated?
Yes! Several people have been kind enough to do this, usually into Russian, and usually (but not always!) Miss Marple.
13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Yes, and no - in adwc days we all co-authored round robins, which were a blast and highly frustrating. I think it'd be fun, but barring the odd bit of drabble tennis with various flisters back in the day, it's not really something that's worked out. (I'm thinking, I could have all the ideas, they could do all the writing, I could criticise?? XD)
14) What’s your all time favorite ship?
My Relationships count is very misleading here, because I think it actually is (including in terms of things written for it), Sapphire/Silver/Steel, but it's a weird thing, so sometimes I tag it platonically, and sometimes I don't necessarily tag it at all for that reason, and also I think it puts people off unnecessarily. (But it's a Lie when I don't tag it. All my Sapphire & Silver & Steel is inherently OT3 even if no one else can see it.)
15) What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?
None. I have unposted WIPs, but I do hope to finish those, and the only posted WIP is a very old one only on Teaspoon that was begun before I was ill and I can't even really say at this point that I would want to finish it.
16) What are your writing strengths?
Character/dialogue, I think? I am actually not that bad at plot, but currently I lack the stamina for long things. I like to think I can be quite funny when I'm in the mood.
17) What are your writing weaknesses?
Description, action. Argh. Yes, let's just talk some more, okay?
18) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?
I was going to say I would never, but actually I did! I wrote Y Gwyll | Hinterland fic, and it wouldn't be right not to have some Welsh in that. However, while I may be a 1/4 Welsh and know some Welsh words, I don't actually speak it, so I had to turn tollywela who was very kind and translated the sentences I needed for me. (I added the English translation in the footnote.) This was the fic, but basically language is important in canon (ironically maybe even more so in the Eng-lang version I watched than the original Welsh), and so it was also important in the fic.
So, probably if it was a canon where it was required, then I would do what I could to get help to get it right? The good thing about the internet is that you can usually find someone, although usefully for me, I already knew someone.
(If it was a not-very-well-researched canon I suppose might Google translate for Canon Authenticity and lols, with proper apologies, although that's never come up. I kind of want to do it now, but probably best not!)
19) What was the first fandom you wrote for?
Doctor Who!
20) What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?
I'm going to wimp out on this along with everyone else. Although... if any of you have a fave fic of mine, that would be very cool to hear! (But I don't expect anyone to.)
Sometimes I'm pleased enough with the latest to feel it's that, but that's not always the case, and it isn't currently. (No, offence, Latest Works! I like you, it just only happens once in a while, usually when I've managed something I've wanted to do for years.)
1) How many works do you have on AO3?
619 (but I've been writing a lot of short things since around 2006-7, and there might even still be a couple of the 1994-98 fic from the newsgroups up).
2) What’s your total AO3 word count?
1,472,746 (but this does include about 300,000 words of origfic for RaTs and
rainbowfic that are collected into three giant works, so it doesn't affect the works no too much, but it does affect the wordcount.)3) How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?
Too many to list here! A lot. *nods*
4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
People, it's still Miss Marple. Maybe one day it won't be Miss Marple, but today is not that day.
Miss Marple:
The Spirit of St Mary Mead
So We Meet at Last
Not Miss Marple:
it's the rain that will strengthen your soul (SW Prequels)
Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (and One Time They Got Along Just Fine) (DW/ST)
By the Book (Origfic)
(Oh, wow, By the Book keeps moving up. It must get recced sometimes, somewhere, mustn't it? 0_o ♥)
5) Do you respond to comments, why or why not?
Yes. Fanfic is a lot my way of being social, which is why I don't get along with the new push-button web much. Like, kudos is fine, ok, but I just wanted to talk to people, and via fic always seems to be one of the nicest ways to do it.
6) What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?
Oh, I don't know. I like being bleak sometimes when I feel like it. It might be the EatD one with the two Generals, but honestly there were a few in my mid-illness old bleak telly watching years, and the Level 7 one or the one from Children of the Damned might be even more so? Or some S&S stuff, too? I mean, I wrote S&S plane crash fic and weird drabbles. (I blame my fandoms! It's not my fault! *innocent*)
Also I keep doing Clara splinter fic, so I keep killing Clara and it's always sadder than I expect when I get there. You'd think I'd learn by now, or just not kill this splinter, but, nooo, hey, how about MORE Clara splinter death, self? /o\
Oh, no, wait: it's probably Spooks! Spooks is also bleak and how about my tiny ficlet of death, Litany of the Fallen?
Oh, actually, if I listen to people who aren't me, it's that B7 Avon/Servalan one, which I was always a bit: BUT I WROTE ONE WHERE THEY WON about it and everyone else was all THIS IS THE WORST in the comments. Sorry? The Quality of Mercy (Is Most Definitely Strained) (I still think the ending of Compendium is more angsty! It has double death!)
(Ok, it's me. I like being bleak and angsty when I'm doing it. I'm less sure when someone else is doing it at me, of course. ;-p)
7) What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?
I honestly don't know. I'm usually kind of gen and happy and sometimes even humorous, and keep canon's tone, and DW is fairly light most of the time.
I tried searching on Happy, but I have never tagged anything as happy. But probably it is an AAL! thing, because AAL! is happiness in b&w TV form basically. Maybe of Of Human Bondage (or Five Times Adam and His Friends Found Themselves All Tied Up)? But I like all the AAL! ones I wrote for Yuletide, because they were the ones where I tried to be closest to an episode, and that makes them the most fun to re-read now the writing-assignments-while-feeling-ill feelings have subsided with time.
8) Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?
I have a crossover in my top 5, so yes. I'm a DW fan; crossovers are just far too obvious a temptation when you've got a TARDIS. What DW fic writer hasn't managed at least one once somewhere? And I might have, um, written a lot of them. (AO3 says 126).
I did once, way back in newsnet times, when we were having a debate over what you could and couldn't cross DW over with (and I was on Team You Can Cross It With Anything You Cowards), write a DW/Rainbow drabble. But I don't think I put that on AO3. I think it might be on Teaspoon.
In AO3 works, I think by far the silliest is the Baldrick/Steed one, which
astrogirl said I couldn't write. (It was an Unconventional Courtship summary, not that astrogirl randomly dared me to write Baldrick/Steed. I mean, some of my flist totally would have done if they'd thought of it, but not in this case.)9) Have you ever received hate on a fic?
Not really. I've had some weird comments, but the nearest I've come to hate was one of the comments that time I tried to write Swan Queen fic and it wasn't happy enough for people.
10) Do you write smut? If so what kind?
Alas, no. Although, ish, if we count my experimental elemental shipping phase, which included The Cornfield (Silver/Steel/(Sapphire)), which is the only time anyone called any of my fic sexy. I would totally have that comment made into a medal or something.
11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Other than the random scraping things that have gone round over the years, no.
12) Have you ever had a fic translated?
Yes! Several people have been kind enough to do this, usually into Russian, and usually (but not always!) Miss Marple.
13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Yes, and no - in adwc days we all co-authored round robins, which were a blast and highly frustrating. I think it'd be fun, but barring the odd bit of drabble tennis with various flisters back in the day, it's not really something that's worked out. (I'm thinking, I could have all the ideas, they could do all the writing, I could criticise?? XD)
14) What’s your all time favorite ship?
My Relationships count is very misleading here, because I think it actually is (including in terms of things written for it), Sapphire/Silver/Steel, but it's a weird thing, so sometimes I tag it platonically, and sometimes I don't necessarily tag it at all for that reason, and also I think it puts people off unnecessarily. (But it's a Lie when I don't tag it. All my Sapphire & Silver & Steel is inherently OT3 even if no one else can see it.)
15) What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?
None. I have unposted WIPs, but I do hope to finish those, and the only posted WIP is a very old one only on Teaspoon that was begun before I was ill and I can't even really say at this point that I would want to finish it.
16) What are your writing strengths?
Character/dialogue, I think? I am actually not that bad at plot, but currently I lack the stamina for long things. I like to think I can be quite funny when I'm in the mood.
17) What are your writing weaknesses?
Description, action. Argh. Yes, let's just talk some more, okay?
18) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?
I was going to say I would never, but actually I did! I wrote Y Gwyll | Hinterland fic, and it wouldn't be right not to have some Welsh in that. However, while I may be a 1/4 Welsh and know some Welsh words, I don't actually speak it, so I had to turn to
llywela who was very kind and translated the sentences I needed for me. (I added the English translation in the footnote.) This was the fic, but basically language is important in canon (ironically maybe even more so in the Eng-lang version I watched than the original Welsh), and so it was also important in the fic.So, probably if it was a canon where it was required, then I would do what I could to get help to get it right? The good thing about the internet is that you can usually find someone, although usefully for me, I already knew someone.
(If it was a not-very-well-researched canon I suppose might Google translate for Canon Authenticity and lols, with proper apologies, although that's never come up. I kind of want to do it now, but probably best not!)
19) What was the first fandom you wrote for?
Doctor Who!
20) What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?
I'm going to wimp out on this along with everyone else. Although... if any of you have a fave fic of mine, that would be very cool to hear! (But I don't expect anyone to.)
Sometimes I'm pleased enough with the latest to feel it's that, but that's not always the case, and it isn't currently. (No, offence, Latest Works! I like you, it just only happens once in a while, usually when I've managed something I've wanted to do for years.)
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I still want to write a Monk fic sometime. Someone requested Hester/Monk/Rathbone for Yuletide once, and I really wish I'd been up to writing it that year! There should be something for the fandom.
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I like that you have a Miss Marple and Non-Miss Marple sections for kudos. It must be gratifying to have an origfic in the kudos list.
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I like that you have a Miss Marple and Non-Miss Marple sections for kudos. It must be gratifying to have an origfic in the kudos list.
I was taken aback by it! It's been lurking in the top ten for a while, but I think it's gone up again, so people must be reccing it, because it's hard to stumble over origfic, even in exchanges. So, yeah. They love me,
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I agree 10000000000%! <3
My gifts obviously, because I'm very unbiased! <3 And that funny Hammer films one too! XD
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Aww. Thank you!!
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I agree with you about the push-button web! Kudos are nice, but comments are so much more sociable, and sometimes you can build a real friendship that started with fic comments.
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I'm not actually sure I've ever seen a fic in English that was translated from another language?
I have a feeling that I have, but I can't think when or what it was.
but comments are so much more sociable, and sometimes you can build a real friendship that started with fic comments.
*nods* I've found some of my best online friends that way.
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(I know about Fandom K(sigh)ombat because I have this one Russian language fandom where most of the fic originated from FK*, so I had to figure out their esoteric pre-AO3 archives, and Russian fannish terminology, and so on.
*some of it turned out to be written by the author of the canon, participating semi-incognito (the team captain new, nobody else did) as part of the team. Ain't no rule that says a dog can't play basketball, I guess XD)
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so I had to figure out their esoteric pre-AO3 archives, and Russian fannish terminology, and so on.
As I said, they gave me a temporary login one time, for the first translation and it was sweet to see the comments (Google translate may be dodgy, but it could at least give me an idea of what they were saying, and that they liked it), but very much it's own thing, indeed. I just kept to that page!
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Oh yeah, I figured that had to be the case, I'm just not sure why they thought it was necessary -- there's no weird spelling in the Russian (which I'd translate as Fandom Battle anyway). Maybe to distinguish it from some English-language thing that already existed by the time they made the move...
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Yes, it seems pretty likely over the years that something might have already used it!
ETA: There used to be a Fandom Battle, I'm sure - wasn't that what they called it on LJ when you had that thing where people voted for characters and things against each other?
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This is interesting, as always! And, as always, I might have to steal it, if I get a moment to do it.
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And, as always, I might have to steal it, if I get a moment to do it.
Meme sheep must say baaa!!!
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Ah, Yuletide!
-x-
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I totally get the kudos vs comments preference - kudos are very nice, but comments are even nicer. Especially for tiny fandoms of one, come back and
let me love youtalk to me!I've also had a fic or two translated into Russian, interesting.
Hinterland fic? Oooh, must read! We watched the English version very quickly, because we'd just watched episode 1 when Netflix told us it would vanish in a month (The Netflix subtitles did atrociously on Welsh names, they even subtitled Mared as "speaks German" once when she was reading a Welsh poem! *facepalm* "Speaks foreign language" would have been better, at that point...).
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The Netflix subtitles did atrociously on Welsh names, they even subtitled Mared as "speaks German" once when she was reading a Welsh poem! *facepalm*
Oh, no. *head!desks next to your facepalming* I suppose at least Hinterland is technically short, but it's not the sort of thing you really want to rush. Bad Netflix all round!
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that would be my vote, yes!
I'm also very amused at your despair? acceptance? or the popularity of the Miss Marple fics :))
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Oh, actually, if I listen to people who aren't me, it's that B7 Avon/Servalan one,
that would be my vote, yes!
It's not that dark, it's not! :lol:
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May steal this.
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Thanks for doing the meme, it's always interesting to read about other people's writing experiences.
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Yes, it always is, isn't it?
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Haha! I'm not at all surprised.
I love your The Spirit of St Mary Mead fic because it's just so awesome. Miss Marple IS Nemesis! Of course she is. Who could think otherwise?
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It was such a fantastic prompt I practically squeaked when I saw it in the person's letter. I thought they'd probably have about 3 gifts riffing on the same thing, but as it turned out, there was just me took it up. So, yeah. Irresistible prompt, really. XD It's just funny because of the two other Miss Marple ficlet crossovers also in my top ten, although I think the Miss Marple & Luna Lovegood one has sunk down a bit now. But the one with Dracula keeps going!
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*HUGS*
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