A different AO3 meme...

[thisbluespirit]

I was going to post about other things, but here, have a meme I prepared earlier (before it gets any more out of date) - ganked from various people:


I have 230 works on AO3. (I know, I know. In my defence, I put most of my drabbles on it individually, but it is frightening. How much?!)

So, this is a top ten tags meme (although given that I can see obviously incorrect counts in the relationship tags, possibly a really unreliable top ten tags meme).


Categories
Gen (159)
F/M (61)
Other (7)
M/M (7)
Multi (6)
F/F (3)

(Yes, gosh. Could I be just a bit vanilla and inclined to gen and mild het? I think I could. Or I was until I met Sapphire & Steel, because that's where probably the majority of the non-het fics come from, I think. Or maybe they're just related to AI-shipping and David Collings.)

Fandoms
Doctor Who (1963) (89)
Press Gang (34)
Sapphire and Steel (34)
Blake's 7 (25)
Doctor Who (2005) (24)
Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio) (11)
Spooks | MI-5 (10)
Red Dwarf (5)
Miss Marple - Agatha Christie (4)
New Tricks (3)

(I'm multi-fannish these days, but you can still see which fandom wins there, I think.)

Characters
Kenny Phillips (31)
Silver (Sapphire and Steel) (27)
Lynda Day (26)
Steel (Sapphire and Steel) (22)
Sapphire (Sapphire and Steel) (22)
Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (12)
Third Doctor (11)
Elizabeth Shaw (8)
Sixth Doctor (8)
Kerr Avon (8)

This isn't really because I had an obsession with Kenny, I just needed to claim a specific character or pairing for 50ficlets, and then I wrote over 30 of them, most of which I posted on AO3 individually. They were mainly Kenny and Lynda focused, though. Obviously, I do have a Silver obsession, but that's perfectly natural, or at least, I'm sure Silver would think so...

Relationships
Sapphire/Silver/Steel (6)
Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart/Liz Shaw (5)
Lynda Day/Spike Thomson (3)
Sapphire/Steel (3)
Liz Shaw/Silver (2)
Sam Black/Kenny Phillips (2)
Ben Jackson/Polly Wright (2)
Silver/Steel (2)
Fourth Doctor/Romana I (2)
Demelza Carne/Ross Poldark (1)

And here's where I question the validity of the stats, because I actually have 5 Silver/Steel fics and 3 Silver/Liz fics, but I'm not sure why it's not including all of them. (My only guess I haven't yet disproved is that it's fics which are labelled Gen + Pairing?)

Okay, checking and what I get by filtering is:

Sapphire/Silver/Steel (6)
Brigadier/Liz (5)
Silver/Steel (5)
Lynda Day/Spike Thomson (4)
Sapphire/Steel (3)
Liz Shaw/Silver (3)
Sam Black/Kenny Phillips (3)
Ben Jackson/Polly Wright (3)
Fourth Doctor/Romana I (3)
Sarah Jane Smith/Harry Sullivan (2)

Hmm...

Additional Tags
Crossover (54)
Humor (29)
Women Being Awesome (28)
Drabble (28)
Community: 50ficlets (26)
Alternate Universe (19)
Community: dw100 (13)
Community: whoniverse1000 (5)
Classic Who companions are awesome (4)
Awesome Jenna Stannis (3)

(I'm not going to argue with my additional tags, though. I like them. And, oh - I invented "Classic Who companions are awesome" and it seems to be canonical. Hey. :-D Mind, I still need to carry on going through and retagging my fics with helpful things. There should probably be more Angst in there, really. I have written very little Jenna, but apparently I thought she was awesome each time or something.)

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I've got 87 works on AO3 - then again, I've not bothered to upload my DW fics (only the x-over fics are up there). Otherwise I suspect it'd be several hundred!

Unsurprisingly most of my fics are in the James Bond 'verse. Next most popular is LOUK.

Commonest pairings are James Bond/M, James Steel/Alesha Phillips, Helen Magnus/James Watson (apparently I have a thing about men called James??!!), Lionel/Jean, Foyle/Sam.

And as for my tags - well, there are far too numerous to mention (or bore you with) - though some are of my own invention... I mostly write M/F Explicit, but occasionally I write F/F and very, very rarely M/M.

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

Well, James is a good name!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

It is...

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Classic Who companions are awesome. That's definitely a canonical tag. :) And yes, Jenna is awesome too. I should probably look out more B7 stuff, because the giant chasm between her potential brilliance, and what the writers actually allowed her to do, is one of the show's big failings.

Fear not about your possible vanilla-y-ness, though. If it's any consolation, my stuff (which doesn't have tags, but if it did), would be 100% gen. And probably also devoid of any shippiness whatsoever outside of Captain Jack. I win at vanilla. ;)

Well done for having so many humour stories, btw. Humour's a tough thing to write.

[thisbluespirit]

It is a canonical tag, or it wouldn't show up in the filters on the side-bar. :-)

Well done for having so many humour stories, btw. Humour's a tough thing to write.

Humour is, isn't it? I mean, not so much some of my daft things, but it really annoys me how everyone always makes such a fuss in every type of writing about angst and bleakness, when, actually, a farce that really works is about twenty times harder to do. And that's ignoring, too, how serious many humorous works can be in essence. The world is just all wrong. ;-)

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Angst is just about the easiest thing to write. That's why it's so beloved of dour teens sitting alone in their bedrooms! But yes, a complicated farce must be hellishly tough; and as you say, a lot of comedy (the best kind maybe?) has a serious foundation. One of my favourite sitcoms, Steven Moffat's "Joking Apart" is about a collapsing marriage. Hell, look at "Rentaghost"! It's about a man who lived a miserable life, then fell off a ferry and drowned!

(Not a very serious example, granted, but still).

[liadt]

Larks 230! And you've got 500 prompts to do! I've reached 10, big clap me(!). I would've thought there would have been more S&S with the elements series? Or doesn't it count with OC elements? Or just one story cos it's in a big block? Yeah, I'm not going to be offered a job on AO3!

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I've been posting the Element prompts in one story, so it doesn't count separately. :-)

And, hey, 10 is pretty amazing for someone who, at the beginning of the year was never going to write fanfic!!

AO3 doesn't offer people jobs. You have to volunteer and number of fics written isn't a qualification. ;-)

[liadt]

Ah, that's a shame.

Thanks! And I've got 4.5 to type up and frown at.

[honeynoir.livejournal.com]

Yay, stats! :D 230 works! *claps*

Also, I like your use of "awesome" in your tagging...

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! :-)

I started following wrangletangle and they were writing about AO3 tags and encouraging people to use the Women Being Awesome tag (obviously where appropriate), so I did, among other things.

[pedanther]

I don't think there's much point me doing this myself, with only seven works on AO3.

It did make me go and see what my top tens would be, though - which is how I discovered that my Top Ten Additional Tags includes a completely unexpected episode title from (it turns out) Star Trek: Voyager. It turns out that "New Earth" is synned to something I didn't expect.

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: Well, that's one way to pick up an unwonted syn. (The perils of being a wrangler...?)

[john_amend_all]

I upgraded my AO3 scraper to include word count, and consequently can say that your 231 fics total some 411734 words :-)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I should have a go at this... mind you, those years on the B7 mailing list make it even more dominant on mine than Who is on yours...

[thisbluespirit]

Well, there's nothing wrong with being loyal to a fandom. :-)

[elen_nare]

I'll have a go at it, but I agree that the tag counts aren't accurate - I spotted a couple of additionals in mine that are wrong.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, there does seem to be some sort of bug in the works there. :-/