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hoursgoneby) wrote2019-12-21 09:31 am
hoursgoneby) wrote2019-12-21 09:31 am
AO3 Fanfic Blanket Box
What's a Blanket Box?
A blanket box is a set of prompts and questions to help you build your fort! Each one has its own unique theme, and this one is focused on your own AO3 fanfics, and comes via anxiousgeek. (And I found it via pipermca.)
You can find other blanket boxes at the BlanketBoxBox community.
The Rules
- The first rule is that there are no rules.
- Go to your AO3 works page, expand all the filters, and answer the questions below!
- Interpret and respond to the questions however you'd like.
- Feel free to add or remove prompts.
The Blankets
What’re your first and second most common work ratings?
General Audiences (32 fics) and Teen and Up Audiences (25 fics).
What’s your most common archive warning? Least common?
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings (50 fics) and No Archive Warnings Apply (37 fics). These are the only two I have listed under Warnings.
Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?
A little more than I used to be. You would not believe the spate of nerves I had around this time last year before I posted Second Act for instance and now I'm quite a bit more comfortable writing porn and publishing it. Then there are kinda experimental pieces like Liminality in which nothing is definite and whatever you think is going on is probably a viable explanation.
How many stories have you made in each pairing category?
- M/M (52)
- Gen (30)
- F/M (5)
- Multi (3)
- Other (1)
What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers?
Excluding the umbrella category of Transformers - All Media Types, they are:
- Transformers Generation One
- The Transformers (Cartoon Generation One)
- Transformers: Prime
- The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
Which 4 characters do you write about the most?
(This one wasn't in the original blanket box but I wanted to add it.)
- Jazz (52)
- Prowl (48)
- Bluestreak (25)
- Optimus Prime (10)
Got to admit, I'm kind of surprised to see Optimus Prime there. I knew I used him as a side character with regularity but I didn't know it'd put him in the top 5.
What are your top 4 relationship tags?
- Jazz/Prowl (39)
- Bluestreak & Prowl (12)
- Jazz & Prowl (7)
- Bluestreak/Hound (Transformers) (5)
None of this is a surprise to anyone who's so much as skimmed my Works page, I'm sure. :)
Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
Nope, seems pretty clear to me. :) Although, when I was lurking in TF fandom way back when Jazz/Prowl became a thing I remember being puzzled because 'do they even have dialogue together?' and I just didn't see it. I wasn't going to complain at other people for writing it because you ship what you want, but I didn't expect to ever write them if I ever picked up writing fic again. So, congratulations, fandom, you converted me. :)
What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2?
(I excluded the Trope Bingo Round 12 tag and the AU Yeah AUgust tag since they're not really topics.)
Top 2: Alternate Universe (21), Fluff (15)
Bottom 2: Established Relationship (10), Family (8)
What would happen if you combined all 4 of these into a fic?
Pretty sure that's The Adventures of Student!Jazz and Wizard!Prowl part 8 (working title: The Mentor) and it's a current WiP.
How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?
I haven't published the last chapter of Interconnected References yet and it might be delayed because I'm finishing up my second Secret Solenoid fic. Overloaded is just a catch-all for random shameless porn scenes and ficlets so it'd technically be an ongoing WiP with no definite ending. AU Yeah AUgust 2019 - Drabbles is another collection with no definite ending and no updates waiting in the wings but I do plan on finishing it, or marking it complete if I don't wind up with more drabbles to finish it off.