ratcreature | AO3 top-tags meme

Go to your AO3 works page, expand all the filters, and answer the following questions!

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

General Audiences (60)
Not Rated (22)
Teen And Up Audiences (8)

I just don't draw explicit or porny stuff. The "Teen And Up Audiences" are mostly pieces that imply sex (like clothed groping or naked cuddling), in one case I rated "teen" for a visible but non-sexual werewolf dick, and one for explicit drug use. The "Not Rated" is mostly for my drawbles, because they are collections of diverse stuff, and some are a bit weird.

Also I don't rate if I illustrate something, and while my illustration is totally harmless, the original story is really not.

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

No Archive Warnings Apply (68)
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings (22)

Again all the drawble collections are "chose not to warn" for the same reason they are not rated.

I'm not adventurous at all.

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

Gen (57)
Multi (21)
M/M (17)
F/M (3)

Again I rate the drawble collections "Multi" for the convenience of covering all potential and future bases. I also label any pairings and relationships as they appear, and overwhelmingly they are gen in reality, with some m/m and m/f (and the occasional oddity like John Sheppard/Atlantis) thrown in.

This distribution does not match closely with my reading preferences except in the absence of f/f which read very rarely. I do read more m/m than f/m, though when I am in a fandom where my favorite pairing is het (like in Farscape) I will read a lot of it. But I have fewer het than slash centric fandoms. When I filter my AO3 bookmarks it divides to M/M (1519), Gen (467), F/M (253), Multi (149), Other (29) and F/F (23). So there is about three times as much m/m than gen, and only half as much het than gen, with less for the rest.

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?

DCU (Comics) (25)
Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (12)
Batman (Comics) (11)
X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies) (8)
Stargate Atlantis (6)

I included five, because DCU and Batman Comics are completely overlapping, because I labelled all my Batman art also DCU. All the "X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)" ones are actually "X-Men: First Class (2011)" -- no idea why the filtering shows some more generally wrangled thing... None of these are fandoms I currently read a lot (and I just rarely post in general right now), but I don't really leave fandoms, and am always multi-fannish. I don't acquire new major fandoms all that often though.

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

Dick Grayson (9)
Tim Drake (7)
Erik Lehnsherr (5)
John Sheppard (5)
Spock (Star Trek) (4)
Bruce Wayne (3)
Matt Murdock (2)
Cthulhu (2)
Nyota Uhura (2)
Diana (Wonder Woman) (2)

That Dick Grayson leads is not surprising at all, since he is my favorite DCU character. The others are favorites as well (except Cthulhu).

I wonder how this list is generated though, because I have at least four works that I tagged "Severus Snape" yet he doesn't appear on this list at all. Neither does "Harry Potter" as character even though he is in at least three of my works. Also I have at least four tagged Bruce Wayne, so clearly something fishy is going on with this filtering display.

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~~ picture?

Fanart (90)
Traditional Media (38)
Illustrations (12)
Acrylics (10)

Obviously combining these four in theory would be no trouble at all, except that I would need to find my motivation to actually create a painting instead of just doing some random pencil doodle twice a year... BTW, that "Traditional Media" doesn't happen more often is pretty much only and artifact of me tagging inconsistently.

7. How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?

None of my 20 "WIPs" are actually unfinished single drawings they are all collections of multiple drawbles, grouped by fandom or type (like "character roulette"), as to not totally swamp my more elaborate works. They are perpetual WIPs, because I might add new ones to any of them.