are you a ‘canon divergence’ or ‘au’ kind of person? a ‘one shot’ or a ‘loooooong fic’ kind of person? a ‘canon is canon’ or a ‘fuck canon i’ve got fanon’ kind of person?
Only have 31 fics on AO3, so my answers will be boring.
What’s your first and second most common work ratings?
Almost everything I write I’ve labeled as Gen, though four more recent works I’ve labeled Teen because of slight violence or implied torture or sexual winks- that honestly I’m tempted to go back and label Gen again because I’m not consistent. And frankly, is anything I’ve written and posted to AO3 needing a Teen Rating? (Actually, please answer this. Please)
What’s your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?
No Archive Warnings Apply and Choose Not to Warn – only once have I used the Major Character Death, and that was for Hold Fast Err Night Comes because the deaths were on-screen and of named Silmarillion characters (and the fic’s narrator). You would (I thought) think that I would have used this warning more, considering the Band of the Red Hand series where the focus is the deaths of each OC narrator in the dungeons of Sauron, but those tend to be off-screen and of my minor OCs and IDK if I should be tagging that.
Me and tag warnings are a fuzzy thing, because I imply deaths and torture and suicidal depression and sex, but yeah, not an adventurous writer when it comes to graphically writing smut or going out there in plots or scenarios. (Not even the original fic stuff I admit strays far from my comfort zone)
How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
Most are gen with a background canon het pairing that is rarely the focus. (So far the only pairings where I’ve tagged them for more than one fic is Thingol/Melian, Angrod/Edhellos, and Aegnor/Andreth. And theon/Jeyne, but that’s a weird one) There’s the one Indis/Nerdanel fic that can be read as completely gen, so it doesn’t earn the right of f/f. Of the fics that even mention the canon m/f pairings (or canon character and his textual ghost wife), the only ones that really deserve the label of a relationship fic where the focus or plot is driven by said relationship is … that one Thingol/Melian fluff piece, Ingwë/his wife, the one chapter in YBoC about Imin and Iminyë taking codependency to an art-form, Whatcha Gonna Call It? for on-screen Aegnor/Andreth (it’s technically baby!fic), Release from Bondage as a slow burn and the other AU Theon/Jeyne. And the first two and last ones on this list are the ones that are any bit shippy.
What are your top four fandoms by numbers? Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?
30 Silmarillion fics and one that I put in the ASoIaF category though The Hunter-bold and Maiden-brave is basically original fiction. And if I was a little more honest or bold, Release from Bondage belongs in both and Promise You Won’t Forget and its upcoming companion piece are as close to fanfic for Final Fantasy VII as I can get.
Now stuff I read? some dormant, some very active, drifting in and out. But I write only original universe and Tolkien.
What are your top four character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
My top character tags are Original Characters (6), Original Female Characters (5), Sauron (4), and Easterlings (4). Which is hilarious because it barely reflects just how dominant OCs and mortal OCs at that are in my works – problem with writing full series staring them. And then there’s Sauron, of which he’s only a character in the Ilmarë chapter but he’s tagged in the Tol Sirion fics because I needed at least one canon character tag. And good lawrd he’s no where near my favorite character to write or otherwise except as the villain just off-screen.
What are your top two most used additional tags, and your bottom two? What would happen if you combined all of these into a fic?
Drama in Nargothrond (Which is actually tagged Nargothrond Soap Opera) (6) and War of Wrath (5) versus Threats of Violence and Grief/Mourning at (2) – though i have a bunch of tags I’ve used only once so no fair.
And let’s face it, all of those tags are “Release from Bondage”. I’m writing that fic.
How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?
3 or four. Two are the short story/one shot collections, so I leave them open-ended. Only Of Ingwë Ingweron and Release from Bondage are the real WIP with a definite ending. And tie me to the rack and torture me with corkscrews I swear I’ll finish them.
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