AO3 wrapped
Dec. 10th, 2022 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sidewaysAn "AO3 Wrapped" ask game was floating around on Tumblr, and I have decided to ask it of myself (cutting out questions with particularly boring answers) because why not! Answers are limited to works published in 2022, as seems to be the spirit of a Wrapped.
How many words have you written this year?
Oh, that's difficult to count, everything's always spread over a bunch of disorganised documents, but 21,725 of them were published to AO3 at least. Significantly more than 2021!
How many works did you publish this year?
13. A couple of those were uploads of older works, though, so the tally is 10 new works published to AO3, which I'm still very pleased with.
What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?
I quite like Celestial Objects. Nice atmosphere. Nice musings.
What work of yours has the most hits / what work of yours got more feedback than you expected?
[points at Two Weeks] Do you know when I last got 20+ comments on a fic? I think the answer might be 'never'.
Favorite title you used
Tie between A Planet, Overflowing, which I just think sounds cool, and The Gold Man Problem, which was a play on the title of the first Moon Knight episode (The Goldfish Problem).
If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most?
Surprisingly no song lyrics this year, just various cliche statements.
Pairing you wrote the most for this year? Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?
Congratulations, Marc/Layla, you win on the grounds of me having written [checks notes] exactly one fic. That said I did very much enjoy them - there are such tantalising hints about their relationship in the show proper, and so much potential catharsis to be had if they can navigate the rocky ground to it.
What work was the quickest to write?
A Planet, Overflowing was for the 3 sentence ficathon and appropriately took about fifteen minutes.
What work took you the longest to write?
I have been 'working on' Noblesse Oblige since 2015.
How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?
TOO MANY. At least three I'd really love to finish (a Moon Knight, a Widdershins, and a TMNT of all things).
What’s your longest work of the year?
Two Weeks at 5,092, which also currently has the privilege of being the longest oneshot on my AO3 overall.
What’s your shortest work of the year?
Care & Grooming is exactly 100 words.
What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?
'Post-Canon', I suppose? I'm honestly not very good at coming up with additional tags outside really obvious ones. Doesn't seem to have been an issue for anyone yet, though, and personally I prefer it when the taglist isn't five lines longer than the summary.
Your favorite character to write this year?
I really enjoyed writing from Layla's perspective - I felt her a bit hard done by in canon, so there was an element of satisfying that frustration in the experience, but also just in writing a character who's assertive and wry while still being capable of self-reflection.
The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?
Bleak staring at Noblesse Oblige and two characters I was honestly half making up. The important thing is it's done now and I don't have to look at it anymore.
What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?
Hm, I'd love to finish the sequel to Two Weeks, which would include both Marc/Layla and more explicit Steven/Layla!
Which work of yours have you reread the most?
Probably Two Weeks. If not that then definitely There's Something Waiting For You.
How many kudos in total did you get this year?
622, apparently? That's kind of wild. Though about 50 of those were spambots, lol.
What’s your most common category?
Gen by a mile.
Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?
Ironically, many of my favourite passages come from fics I think are weaker overall. I like the atmospheric introduction to Neus in A Millstone Hung, for example:
'Thumbing gritty sleep out of one eye, Sagani slips a hand under the canvas flap of the tent and lifts it overhead, bringing the moonlight with her in a soft spilling past her shoulders.
It falls unmercifully across the shapeless wraith bent low over the cradle like a spider descending, its face a charcoal etching half-smeared into twisted dark above the mewling infant. Rymrgand's frozen breath skips Sagani's heart out of rhythm, all the old tales clotting instantly in her veins: death's doorway, and the dark usher come to see souls through it.
Pox and plague, starving bellies, a babe gone still and blue-lipped in the night-
At her side, Itumaak stretches his jaws wide around a yawn that ends on a soft, unconcerned yip.
Right. Sagani breathes out hard through her nose, shaking off twilight phantasms, and looses her hold on her knife to set her hands on her hips instead.
"Watcher," she says. "Pretty sure you're meant to be sleeping."'
I will also indulgently give a shoutout to this passage from Two Weeks because it was popular with the audience:
'Marc looks up at her through his lashes, and it is a look so intense and miserable that the years fold back like paper, falling in a near-silent rustle past her ears: a shower of wedding invitations, forged border passes, grubby restaurant napkins, fragile parchment from darkest tombs. A Desbordes-Valmore first edition, his handwriting (a simple happy anniversary baby - no poet, Marc Spector) pressed so deeply into the first page she could feel the indents on the next ten. A filing for divorce, crisp and unmarked.'
Biggest surprise while writing this year?
Probably the variety of fandoms - in one year I've nearly doubled the number of fandoms I have a published work under on AO3. Some of that is down to 3SF prompts, but I branched out in some other unexpected places too. Would not have called myself as writing for an MCU property, that's for sure.
It's not a very useful habit if trying to build a readership of any description, but it's been enjoyable roaming around where inspiration takes me and a stretch of my technique to try a variety of character voices, so no regrets.
How many words have you written this year?
Oh, that's difficult to count, everything's always spread over a bunch of disorganised documents, but 21,725 of them were published to AO3 at least. Significantly more than 2021!
How many works did you publish this year?
13. A couple of those were uploads of older works, though, so the tally is 10 new works published to AO3, which I'm still very pleased with.
What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?
I quite like Celestial Objects. Nice atmosphere. Nice musings.
What work of yours has the most hits / what work of yours got more feedback than you expected?
[points at Two Weeks] Do you know when I last got 20+ comments on a fic? I think the answer might be 'never'.
Favorite title you used
Tie between A Planet, Overflowing, which I just think sounds cool, and The Gold Man Problem, which was a play on the title of the first Moon Knight episode (The Goldfish Problem).
If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most?
Surprisingly no song lyrics this year, just various cliche statements.
Pairing you wrote the most for this year? Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?
Congratulations, Marc/Layla, you win on the grounds of me having written [checks notes] exactly one fic. That said I did very much enjoy them - there are such tantalising hints about their relationship in the show proper, and so much potential catharsis to be had if they can navigate the rocky ground to it.
What work was the quickest to write?
A Planet, Overflowing was for the 3 sentence ficathon and appropriately took about fifteen minutes.
What work took you the longest to write?
I have been 'working on' Noblesse Oblige since 2015.
How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?
TOO MANY. At least three I'd really love to finish (a Moon Knight, a Widdershins, and a TMNT of all things).
What’s your longest work of the year?
Two Weeks at 5,092, which also currently has the privilege of being the longest oneshot on my AO3 overall.
What’s your shortest work of the year?
Care & Grooming is exactly 100 words.
What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?
'Post-Canon', I suppose? I'm honestly not very good at coming up with additional tags outside really obvious ones. Doesn't seem to have been an issue for anyone yet, though, and personally I prefer it when the taglist isn't five lines longer than the summary.
Your favorite character to write this year?
I really enjoyed writing from Layla's perspective - I felt her a bit hard done by in canon, so there was an element of satisfying that frustration in the experience, but also just in writing a character who's assertive and wry while still being capable of self-reflection.
The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?
Bleak staring at Noblesse Oblige and two characters I was honestly half making up. The important thing is it's done now and I don't have to look at it anymore.
What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?
Hm, I'd love to finish the sequel to Two Weeks, which would include both Marc/Layla and more explicit Steven/Layla!
Which work of yours have you reread the most?
Probably Two Weeks. If not that then definitely There's Something Waiting For You.
How many kudos in total did you get this year?
622, apparently? That's kind of wild. Though about 50 of those were spambots, lol.
What’s your most common category?
Gen by a mile.
Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?
Ironically, many of my favourite passages come from fics I think are weaker overall. I like the atmospheric introduction to Neus in A Millstone Hung, for example:
'Thumbing gritty sleep out of one eye, Sagani slips a hand under the canvas flap of the tent and lifts it overhead, bringing the moonlight with her in a soft spilling past her shoulders.
It falls unmercifully across the shapeless wraith bent low over the cradle like a spider descending, its face a charcoal etching half-smeared into twisted dark above the mewling infant. Rymrgand's frozen breath skips Sagani's heart out of rhythm, all the old tales clotting instantly in her veins: death's doorway, and the dark usher come to see souls through it.
Pox and plague, starving bellies, a babe gone still and blue-lipped in the night-
At her side, Itumaak stretches his jaws wide around a yawn that ends on a soft, unconcerned yip.
Right. Sagani breathes out hard through her nose, shaking off twilight phantasms, and looses her hold on her knife to set her hands on her hips instead.
"Watcher," she says. "Pretty sure you're meant to be sleeping."'
I will also indulgently give a shoutout to this passage from Two Weeks because it was popular with the audience:
'Marc looks up at her through his lashes, and it is a look so intense and miserable that the years fold back like paper, falling in a near-silent rustle past her ears: a shower of wedding invitations, forged border passes, grubby restaurant napkins, fragile parchment from darkest tombs. A Desbordes-Valmore first edition, his handwriting (a simple happy anniversary baby - no poet, Marc Spector) pressed so deeply into the first page she could feel the indents on the next ten. A filing for divorce, crisp and unmarked.'
Biggest surprise while writing this year?
Probably the variety of fandoms - in one year I've nearly doubled the number of fandoms I have a published work under on AO3. Some of that is down to 3SF prompts, but I branched out in some other unexpected places too. Would not have called myself as writing for an MCU property, that's for sure.
It's not a very useful habit if trying to build a readership of any description, but it's been enjoyable roaming around where inspiration takes me and a stretch of my technique to try a variety of character voices, so no regrets.
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Date: 2022-12-12 09:44 pm (UTC)I do so love that description of Neus. ♥
(Also, congrats on all the words posted!)
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Date: 2022-12-18 09:04 pm (UTC)