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AO3 meme via musefoool:

1. What’s your first and second most common work ratings? Any surprises?

General Audiences (219)
Explicit (46)

Seems about right. Teen and up is in a close third.

2. What’s your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings (28)
Huh. Though I think some of those are just me forgetting to click a box. This is discounting 'no archive warnings apply', of course, which is a vast majority. Next after that is graphic violence.... which is probably under-tagged, tbh. I *can* be an adventurous writer, but I'm not always.


3. How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?

Gen (177)
F/M (83)
M/M (46)
Multi (16)
F/F (13)
Other (7)

I'm not super surprised... I don't think it is necessarily on purpose, though. As for preferences... More about the dynamics. I really am surprised that Gen is so dominant, though! I would have expected m/m to be up there more.

4. What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers? Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?

Diablotin (85)
Adventure World (game) (45)
Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game) (24)
Inception (2010) (9)

I'm still active in Diablotin, but my focus there has changed a lot wth the different campaigns. I suspect I may write more AW again when the new game starts, too. Some of those D&D tags are on Adventure World or Diablotin fics, so I'm not really sure it should count! The next one after that is NIght Vale. I'm surprised Inception is still so high up there - those are all drabbles from an old LJ comm. I haven't written for it in ages. Other than 'games I'm in,' I'm all over the place for fandoms, though thwre are some that pop up in exchanges and such a lot. I'm also surprised Books of the Raksura aren't hgher up the list by now.

5. What are your top character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?

Original Characters (30)
Vedran Callais (26)
Sanadhìl Órecalo (18)
Original Female Character(s) (8)

Hah. Yet both of those named characters are in canonical m/m and m/m/f relationships, so I am again surprised by the relationshp stats! Maybe's its all the drabbles.

6. What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2? What would happen if you combined all 4 of these into a fic?

Top 2:
Drabble (149)
Family (22)

Bottom 2:
Parenthood (7)
Oral Sex (7)


Uhhh. Awkward! Probably a drabble with parents making sex jokes around their adult children? Or somoene giving sex advice? Or else something terrible ;p

7. How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?
One, that is abandoned and marked as so. I wish I had the energy to sustain it, but I tried ones to pick it back up and I failed. Although I saw it differently than a WiP - I was imagining it more like a serial story. And there is a conceptual difference there, to me, anyway. Like, it was less a 'work in progress' and more 'story so far'. Anyway, it is never getting "finished" or worked on again, which is a shame because I put a lot of thought and work into it. It is still my longest story on AO3.

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In other AO3 news, I posted my Sexus fic for the Haxus Mini Event today, which is over here on the off chance that someone else might want to look at it ;p

I also passed the half way mark on Pulled by the Sunset! Sooooon.... like probably it will be of the needles by next weekend @_@

Today was also the last session for Thirteen. Weh! But a new Adventure World game is going to be starting up soonish, so that will hopefully be fun. I'm going to play a hobgoblin sorta priest of the ancestors who hears voices and practices ritual cannibalism. His name is Corivan and he wears a lot of skulls and fur because aesthetic.

I've not been sleeping super well, so I haven't been letting myself make late night posts if I'm not in bed before midnight.

But it isn't midnight and I'm almost in bed, so!

I've been working on a fic for the Haxus mini-exchange. I've also been watching Star Wars: Rebels. And knitting! I'm almost halfway through the last chart!

I also played some online games of Cards against Humanity with an underworld Ralinwood theme while I was decompressing from trick-or-treating with nephew + sister.

Longpig said my costume was going to get me on some creepypasta website, even though I was a totally innocuous stick figure >.> Oh well, we all know how much I hate being creepy >.>

Next year, if I remember, I want to be a rat gangster :V

IN other stream of consciousness news, I helped-ish rescue a little bird (a junko) that flew into a window at work. Really R did most of the work, but I got her a box with a soft cloth for it while it recuperated. It was very cute :3

I feel like there were other things, but now it *is* midnight, so - bed. Also the 3d printer is still non-functional -_-

I keep forgetting yesterday was Monday :P

And I have a dentist appointment on Thursday. It's a weird week.

It was a weird day at work! I was chasing information around and attending impromptu meetings and calling people and stuff and *whew*! Busy.

I posted my galra mini exchange fic, not sure what I'm writing next:

Army of One (1063 words) by Measured_Words
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Haggar/Sendak (Voltron)
Characters: Haggar (Voltron), Sendak (Voltron), Zarkon (Voltron)
Additional Tags: Power Dynamics, Loyalty Kink, Medical Procedures, Implied Torture, Offscreen Dismemberment, Implied Eye Trauma, PG-13 is hard >.>
Summary:

Sendak has failed his emperor, and is prepared to face the consequences. Haggar, however, doesn't want to see such a loyal underling wasted.

It was Sunday!

There was Diablotin, which was great! And then tonight I was Instigated to write a Terrible Voltron Story. It's kind of crack and also kind of not. Probably no one is going to really read it, it's uh, a little niche ;p

You can read it if you want to though! Why would I deny my beloved internet friends ;p

Sex Pollen Cave (1868 words) by Measured_Words
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alfor/Zarkon (Voltron)
Characters: Alfor (Voltron), Zarkon (Voltron)
Additional Tags: Sex Pollen, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Blow Jobs, Power Bottom Zarkon, Choking, Kissing, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Strength Kink, Everything on Altea is Trying to Kill You, Consensual Sex Pollen, maybe crack maybe not
Summary:

There is a cave on Altea. There is something in the cave that Alfor needs to make the Black Lion. He asks Zarkon to help him get it... but there's just one little catch.

Today was not my favourite day, wellnesswise. I had a LARP/Claritin hangover, plus first day bees, and mostly just slept and laid around like a miserable lump :/

That said, I did watch a lot of SW: Rebels, and we're getting close to the end of season 2 (about 4-5 more episodes). I basically know what happens but I want to see it! Hera and Kanan continue to be my favourites. I'm very confused about their relationship though. In some places it seems to be telegraphed pretty hard, but in others not. And tonight I read an old interview with Hera's VA who said as far as she knew they were not a couple - but that it might just not have been something she was told. But, like, clearly they are a couple? At first I thought it was just that they wanted to keep things sanitized for kids, so they never show either of their quarters it means never showing that they share quarters sort of thing, or that they wanted to keep it very in the background? But then there are things where there's *nothing* where there should at least be *something* - Like Hera gets severely injured and they won't show him holding her hand? Like even if they were really close friends and *not* romantically involved.... Really? (Friends, if I'm even injured and in the hospital, even if we are not romantically involved, it is okay for you to hold my hand and offer me comfort. For the record.) Anyway, it's confusing, and aggravating, because I really like how they are there for each other in lots of ways and damnit I want to see more of that!

I also watched a lot of original Voltron on Netflix.... Some of it is really painfully dated (they literally spank Allura when she tried to pilot the blue lion), but it is interesting to see things they drew on for the new show. One of the things I love that they do, and always helped garner some nostalgia feels from me, is the shots with multiple PoVs in the same shot, and the sort of fade-to-line art stuff. That was always something I associated with Voltron, and it makes me smile when I see it in the new show as well.

Anyway, sleepos time!

I should be in bed. I'm pretending I posted this on Saturday.

I finished my gloves! All the ends are woven, and I made the caps for the fingers. I have also started my shawl, which is my next big non-portable project. It has 14 charts with tiny print and my eyes are already rebelling. I'm using the pinky/orange handspun I got for Christmas 2015, at last for art of it, I want the colours to be sunset/sunrise-y, s I have a purple to join on the end of this if I run out.

This was also a good media day! I finished watching Voltron (pls squee/flail with me in the comments!), and went to see Hidden Figures this afternoon, which was very good.

I also went out for dinner, after some running (well, driving) around trying to find a place that didn't have an almost 30 min wait. This is what happens when you go out on a Saturday without making reservations. Do I think we could have been seated and eating at our first choice if we'd just stuck it out there instead of trying to find somewhere else? Probably, yes. Though the place we wound up at was a very nice little diner. I would go there again, but it was definitely not what we'd initially had in mind. I'm still stuffed.

Now I should really go to bed. Tomorrow is going to be a strange day.