because i like to torture myself

[thalialunacy2]

an AO3 meme, as seen on sunnyrea's journal

AO3 Works Stats, now in handy top 5 form

Categories:
M/M (90)
F/M (15)
Gen (5)
F/F (3)
Multi (1)

I'm guessing multi means actually ships that are more than two people, not multiple ships, which, yeah, I don't write threesomes very often because they're a logistical nightmare. XB I'm honestly surprised there's ANY gen on there, and I have ~thoughts on femmeslash but the end result is that it's def on the list to write more, along with more het. Wanna spread the love!


Fandoms:
Star Trek RPF (50)
Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling (21)
Merlin (TV) (20)
Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) (12)
Supernatural RPF (3)

This is still somewhat shocking to me, how vastly STRPF outnumbers all the others. First of all, I used to think people who wrote RPF were clinically insane, and second, like, in my head I expect it to be somewhat the same number as the HP and the Merlin. NOPE. NUH-UH. Apparently I have a ~thing.


Characters:
Chris Pine (47)
Karl Urban (46)
Zachary Quinto (20)
Merlin (Merlin) (16)
Leonard McCoy (11)

#6 was Arthur Pendragon, which I find weird because in my head he's number 2 after CP. (I think some of it has to do with tagging, but I can't be arsed to figure it out right now.)


Pairings:
Chris Pine/Karl Urban (47)
Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (15)
James T Kirk/Leonard McCoy (12)
Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley (4)
John Cho/Zachary Quinto (3)

lolol you can tell where my heart is, yet again. And YAY HERMIONE/RON. Baby's first fandom OTP. <3333


Additional Tags:
PWP (13)
Summer Pornathon (15)
Romantic Comedy (7)
Polyamory (7)
Angst (5)

Well, that is very telling. XB Except the angst thing shocks me. IMO, I don't write angst. WTH am I doing tagging it? Being overzealous so people don't say I didn't warn them? Probably, yes. o.O


Most Hits:
Quitters Never Win (Merlin)

Most Kudos:
Quitters Never Win (Merlin)

Most Bookmarks:
Quitters Never Win (Merlin)

Most Comment Threads:
Always the Last Place You Look (Merlin)


Quitters Never Win's popularity is proof that getting rec'd on dirtybookshelves gets your story an actual audience, lol. The other one is my PL and people have been very interested in critiquing it in comments, because apparently it's not as great as I thought it was.

So that's a pretty good segue into a thing I've been figuring out -- I'm taking a break from writing. I think I'm going to finish reel_merlin but I'm honestly not sure. It's stressing me out, and if I'm not doing it for money then it's not worth the stress. I need to not let my sense of self-worth be based on the response to my fanfiction, which it largely is right now. Trek fandom built it up, bless them, and now I am falling hard flat on my face. And that sucks. And the rest of my self-esteem is not helped by reading other people's amazing romantic fiction, while I sit here alone and unwanted.

Plus, reality calls. You would not believe the amount of knitting I have to do. XB

Comments

[thalialunacy.livejournal.com]

Oh lovey <3333 I appreciate this a lot, I really do. I shall come back and read it when I feel down.

yesssss and we'll both be well-fed and well-kitted-out. ;)

♥