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Fic Intentions Meme - Day 17

2026-04-30T22:21:56Z

17. Do you typically answer all comments/reviews individually? Do you plan to change the way you interact with your readers this year?

Of course I answer them all :) All feedback is a joy.

No plans to change that :)

( The rest of the days )

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Fic Intentions Meme - Day 13

2026-04-13T21:00:06Z

13. Aside from fanfic, are there any other fan works you’d like to try creating? Fanart, or fanvids, gifsets, or podfic?

Inspired by Cleoselene, I am working on a couple of fandom cross-stitches. At the moment, I'm drawing out a John Wick sampler.

( The rest of the days )

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2026 Fic Intentions Meme - Day 9

2026-04-06T21:34:27Z

9. Short term goals… what do you hope to complete this week or in ~~January~~ April?

Finish reading through, feedbacking and adding to the 3 Sentence Ficathon (which given I've got about 5 days where I won't be able to do anything and I'm choosing to pace myself at 5 pages a day does see me pretty much through to the end of April).

Once that's done, post the good 3SF stories to AO3 and post the things I have finished off in the background. I don't expect all of that (or indeed most of that) to be within April.

( The rest of the days )

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2026 Fic Intentions Meme - Day 7

2026-03-31T22:08:24Z

7. Will you change anything about the way you interact with other writers?

This meme is part of my plan to post more interactive(ish) things more often.

( The rest of the days )

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2026 Fic Intentions Meme - Day 2

2026-03-23T19:18:51Z

2. Will you participate in any fandom exchanges or fic challenges, etc?

I'm working my way through 3 Sentence Ficathon, but that's the only one I really do regularly. Most of the exchanges and challenges I did have stopped.

( The rest of the days )

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A Fanfic Writer's Reflections

2026-01-12T19:13:49Z

Last year I only managed to publish 10 fics on AO3, which is less than the 12 I aim for.

But that's okay because I spent most of November and December tidying the fics that had been ported in from WWFSML. (Here's where I say thank you again to bring_me_sugar and Julie from the Open Doors project for all their hard work)

Reviewing fics you wrote 25 years ago is definitely an intriguing torment.

I downloaded and then deleted the ones that couldn't be quickly fixed and fixed the ones that could be fixed.

Things I have noted:

1) I still can't spell occasionally. But I have learnt to use a spellchecker.

2) I have improved.

3) Part of that, I think, is that I'm now more willing to go, "actually, yeah, that's a gen fic."

4) I think I always cared about character voice. I think I'm better at it now.

5) There's one structure of a fic that I am reusing, not deliberately, but because that was always how that fic was going to be structured. That's not changed, I still believe in shape and structure and architecture.

6) I used to be a lot more spontaneous. I think that's partly in ~ 2010 I decided to write the notes for every idea down so I didn't lose ideas anymore. There's several fics that can only be found in notes lost in various house moves. The downside is that I'm now working on fics I had the ideas for in 2013.

7) I used to be obnoxious. Several of you are still around from back in the day - please accept this apology. I didn't notice at the time and I have worked to become less obnoxious over time. If I am still being obnoxious, at any point, please say and I will try to stop it.

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3 Sentence Ficathon dates are up

2026-01-04T14:30:49Z

here - https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/6084.html

Yay!

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Fandom Update

2025-10-28T19:58:59Z

Anyone who had fics on WWFSML, a bunch of them have just gone wild on AO3 (thanks to bring_me_sugar for all her work). I've emailed asking if I'm allowed to tidy them up etc.

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Fandom Data Viz

2025-08-03T21:02:01Z

The fic that reached 1000 was Ideas and Actions, NC-17 Randy/Trish fic written for the 50 Kinky Ways fest (I promise I will try to finish more of those). It was entirely written by the imp of the perverse to the prompt "cross-dressing" because I was bored that all the other fics I'd seen on the theme in the fest were men cross-dressing as women.

The chart it affected is the fudge factor one, unfortunately, rather than the proper one, so the two charts (all fics and split into shippy and non-shippy) now look like this:

( Under the cut )

Shippy fic is clearly more likely to reach 1000 hits at this point.

(Unless something very unexpected happens, I would not expect an update on this figure for some time. Unexpected is reboots [or Batista appearing in films].)

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Fandom Data Viz

2025-05-06T21:11:21Z

Handball in a Soft Court - entirely NC17 fic written for the 50 Kinky Ways fest (and I promise I will get round to finishing more of those fics eventually, at some point, in the future etc), has reach 1000.

It is old enough it's only on the "not done right" Kaplan Meier, but in that, it's now clear that it is more likely that 'shippy fic will hit 1000 hit, and there is a slow downward trend in the "all fics" chart.

( Kaplan Meier curves under the cut )

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3 Sentence Fics 2025 - Fills to my prompts

2025-04-06T21:23:26Z

Prompt: Any fandom, any character, "same time next year?"
Fills:
Sandman, Dream & Hob by wingedflight
Meeting Adjourned (original) by kalira
Transformers G1, Hot Rod & OC by apprentice_lurk
All Elite Wrestling, Nigel McGuinness & Zack Sabre Jr. by d_generate_girl

Prompt: any, any, we found love in a hopeless place (with apologies if this has already been prompted)
Fills: Mad Max: Fury Road, Furiosa+Max (Furiosa/Max maybe) by last_haven

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Fandom Data Viz

2025-02-05T23:56:21Z

Unexpectedly, two more fics have reached 1000 hits. They are

Curiosity Killed The Cat - https://archiveofourown.org/works/11103684 50KinkyWays Batista/Orton fic. Like all Batista fic, it gets a bump every time he's in anything.

and

The Time Between - https://archiveofourown.org/works/259060 which is X-Men: First Class gen, written thanks to an excellent prompt from lilacsigil. And I admit it's one of my favourites but I was expecting it to hit any time soon because it was in the 990s for months and months.

They're both older fics so not on the "done properly" version of the figures.

( Under here )

The difference between the shippy and non-shippy fics is only going to get starker, because most of the next nearest are shippy and most of what I'm writing is not so the lines are likely to drift further apart.

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Fandom Data Viz

2024-12-13T21:04:39Z

Unexpectedly, in November, two fics crossed the 1000 hits threshold.

The two are Today When", which is squooshy, guooshy Adam Ward Batman Bruce/Dick and Man, Indivisible which is Nolan-verse Bruce/Rachel, Rachel/Harvey, Bruce/Harvey, with a couple of touches from the comics and the Animated Series.

Mostly I'm learning that being Batman fic makes it more likely that a fic hits that (no really 3 out of 4 Batman fics have).

More sensibly, it's a really nice visual for "small numbers make for poor conclusions".

Behold the "properly" done graph now.

What's actually happened is that "Man, Indivisible" was the first fic posted once I ironed out how to do Kaplan-Meiers properly and because it's the oldest, there's a sudden drop now it has crossed over. Now, that's likely to go, quite quickly, as time progresses and more fics move past that time point, but it does make the figure look silly.

Splitting it into 'shippy and not 'shippy ( Behind the cut )

You still get the sudden drop but it's less steep. I do like how much more it looks like a "proper" Kaplan Meier now.

One other change is that 'shippy fics are now statistically more likely to cross the threshold, with p = 0.003.

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Fandom data viz

2024-11-04T21:05:49Z

I always liked "Cradle of our Renaissance" (https://archiveofourown.org/works/26618860), and right now I like it because it's the first gen fic to cross the 1000 hit boundary since I started doing the Kaplan Meier figures properly.

( The not proper one looks like this )

The proper one meanwhile looks like a proper K-M diagram.

The other thing is that this means I can finally do some number crunching on the properly done one.

Done properly, and covering fic I've posted in the past 7 years, there is no statistical difference in the chance of shippy and non-shippy fics reaching 1000 hits (p = 0.090833).

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Fandom data viz

2022-08-29T18:36:34Z

An update from here.

You and Your Gucci Belt, kinky Batista/Orton fic, has reached 1000 hits.

( Large diagram beneath the cut )

The shippy fic is now definitely more likely to hit 1000 hits. The next two fics most likely to reach 1000 are both gen fic, but I doubt that will change the overall numbers because I write a lot more gen fic.

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AU Meme - Day 3 - Medieval

2022-04-23T23:54:18Z

See, I'm finally writing fic for this meme

Fandom:Wrestling
Characters: HHH
Rating/Warning: gen fic

( Medieval AU )

( Other days )

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AU Meme - Day 2 - Zombies

2022-04-15T23:34:06Z

Okay, so I'm chickening out of this one because zombies give me the screamers so I'm not going to write about them. I think it's the total loss of self - gah.

I've also recently had a proper wake-up-screaming nightmare about contagious zombie Aliens from Alien invading an alien (small a) planet I was on. Thank you, subconscious for that one! (Gah!)

( Other days )

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AU Meme - Day 1 - Hogwarts

2022-04-09T00:16:30Z

I understand the draw of Hogwarts AUs, and indeed, AUs into other fandoms where characters are split by some sort of personality feature into separate and distinct units. Because it allows you to play with "what's the most important facet of this character", "what's a hidden facet of this character that I want to explore", "what if half of them makes them a perfect fit for group 1 but the other half into group 2, how does that work?", "if I split this character away from the characters they are usually with, do they still become friends because destiny says so" etc.

Although it does lead to some odd moments, like sports fans trying to pretend most people aren't the Slytheriniest Slytherins that ever slithered. Seriously, sports fans, your favourites are Slytherins, just accept it. In F1 in particular, with the exception of Hamilton (Gryffindor) and Vettel (originally Slytherin, now mysteriously Hufflepuff), anyone driving now is a Slytherin. Particularly Max Verstappen. Who would happily sell his grandmother to win, and both his grandmothers would be fine with it.

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Fic Meme - 30 Days of AUs

2022-04-03T00:42:11Z

Because I find meme's a good way of keeping me posting regularly, I am going to be doing a variant on a 30 days of AU meme. A variant, because the original asked for a post a day for the 30 days which, yeah. And because I have no interest in some of the topics in the original version.

Where I've got an idea, I'll add a note in this post. If anyone has any ideas please leave a comment.

Day 1 - Hogwarts - Meta
Day 2 - Zombies
Day 3 - Medieval
Day 4 - Spies
Day 5 - School
Day 6 - Mythical Creature
Day 7 - Fairy Tale
Day 8 - Futuristic
Day 9 - Aliens
Day 10 - Fusion with another fandom
Day 11 - Slice-of-life
Day 12 - Deserted Island
Day 13 - Buddy Cops/Detective
Day 14 - Allegiance-Swap Original instructions say bad guys are good guys and vice versa
Day 15 - Sex-Swap
Day 16 - Superheroes
Day 17 - Animal Transformation
Day 18 - Wild West
Day 19 - Idols/Bands
Day 20 - Trading Places
Day 21 - Fantasy
Day 22 - Horror
Day 23 - Pre-21st Century
Day 24 - Apocalypse/Dystopia
Day 25 - Time travel
Day 26 - Dopplegangers
Day 27 - Twins
Day 28 - Cross Over
Day 29 - Pirates A bit more of the Jericho/Regal with Barrett lurking fic for Opera
Day 30 - Crossover

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Fandom

2022-02-24T18:42:34Z

In the present circumstances, this is the smallest of small potato problems, but one of my fics has been hit by the A03 kudos-spam bot. It changes nothing, but it is disturbing my stats analysis.

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Links

2021-02-21T23:01:50Z

Fandom:

10,000 zines and counting: a library's quest to save the history of fandom - https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/4/9257455/university-iowa-fanzine-fan-culture-preservation-project

Miscellaneous:

Why is Houston so vulnerable to devastating floods? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41107049 From 2017

'It was quite a long way down' - George Rankine was 19 when he walked across the Forth Road Bridge before the road was built. The 74-year-old was a student in Edinburgh when his friend, who had a summer job at the bridge, asked his supervisor if they could walk over a mesh catwalk before it was removed. His boss pointed across the walkway and said: "Off you go then". - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41124739

Turning the dead into vinyl records - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40492466

Religion:

Has voodoo been misjudged? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-41048840

Sport:

Football:

Transfer deadline day with the UK's youngest football agent - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-41115609 From 2017. More sound and light than actual information but interesting background stuff.

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Links

2020-03-22T12:04:01Z

Fandom:

Thor: Ragnarok fight scene but Holding Out For A Hero is playing-https://deadcrushing.tumblr.com/post/171842048979/thor-ragnarok-fight-scene-but-holding-out-for-a Exactly what it says on the tin. Because sometimes fandom is silly and awesome.

Food and drink:

How a footballer became Africa's first Cognac maker - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-40587894

Knitting:

The Costume Designer From "Black Panther" Blessed Us With A Pattern - https://www.buzzfeed.com/clairedelouraille/black-panther-costume-designer-released-shawl-pattern

Miscellaneous:

Liu Xiaobo: The man China couldn't erase - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-40585327

Janet Commins: How police caught her killer after 41 years - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-40568522

News:

Grenfell Tower: A shadow over the capital - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40592626

Grenfell planner’s shock at burnt remains - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40571856

Women In Pakistan Dared To March — And Didn't Care What Men Thought - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/03/15/593549219/women-in-pakistan-dared-to-march-and-didnt-care-what-men-thought

Canadian Civil Rights Pioneer Will Appear On Country's $10 Bill - https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/13/593086064/civil-rights-pioneer-will-appear-on-canadas-10-bill

Religion:

Pakistan’s secret atheists - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40580196

Sport:

Athletics:

World Para-athletics: Richard Whitehead - marathon man turned 40-year-old sprint star - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/40574441

Cycling:

Tour de France 2017 - Tom Simpson: The British cyclist who pushed the sport too far - https://www.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/tour-de-france/2017/tour-de-france-2017-tom-simpson-the-british-cyclist-who-pushed-the-sport-too-far_sto6251996/story.shtml

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3 Sentence Ficathon

2020-02-24T23:04:13Z

I'd like to thank st_aurafina for linking to this. I am having far too much fun, both writing for it and reading them.

Now if only I could find a way to make the Miss Marple fic(let) work.

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redfiona99 @ 2019-12-19T20:25:00

2019-12-18T23:36:10Z

Some time ago, I came across this post on the AO3 tags tumblr - https://ao3tags.tumblr.com/post/165415853620/friends-to-almost-lovers-to-enemies-to-friends-to The tag was "Friends to almost-lovers to enemies to friends to lovers", and my ears perked up because, well, if that doesn't describe at least two pairings I enjoy reading (Charles/Erik and Giles/Ethan), what does. And it's not either of those pairings, but still ...

So, in the spirit of fandom and convergent evolution, what is the pairing you think of when you see the tag "Friends to almost-lovers to enemies to friends to lovers"?

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Fandom Data Viz

2019-11-09T17:00:09Z

Since another fic has reached 1000 AO3 hits (Hope, Possibly, which I was expecting to take till Christmas because it always gets a fair few hits around Christmas because it's a Love, Actually fic), I have updated this graph.

(Any opinions on if it looks better with or without the lines on the graph?)

The lines look more separated, because the new fic to hit 1000 is another shippy fic, but the difference is still not significant (at p <0.5).

Hopefully I will soon find the link to how to do it in R, because I want to be able to obtain a few stats that I can't do with this version (link what the median time taken is).

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