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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 )

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 )

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.

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.

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 )

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.

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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.

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).

See, I'm finally writing fic for this meme

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

( Medieval AU )

( Other days )

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.

( Other Days )

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.