A fanworks tag game

kitarella_imagines came up with a fun game that involves looking at your most-used fanwork tags of certain types (this works best on a site like AO3 or SquidgeWorld that provide tags in a handy sorting menu, but you can probably do it on any site with tagging, or adapt it to your preferred fanwork hosting site).

I decided to give it a go, so here are my answers to the prompts:

1. What rating do you write most fics under?

General Audiences by a long way! (82 out of 111 works currently on AO3). Most of my fanworks don't have much by the way of higher-rated content. Next highest is Teen and Up with 26; for Mature I only have 2, and Explicit, a lone 1.

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?

1. The Strange Case of Starship Iris (25 works)


2. Yu Yu Hakusho (11 works)


3. A tie between Harry Potter (8 works) and SK8 the Infinity (8 works)

For a long time, Yu Yu Hakusho was my top fandom, after I separated out my Dabbling in Drabbling series into separate works (as opposed to a multichapter fic, which was a hold-over from Fanfiction.net). This used to bother me, because I didn't feel like I'd done "enough" in the fandom to justify YYH being at the top. (Actually, though, I have more works for the fandom that could be archived there and currently aren't).

However, I came around to enjoying the fact that an anime fandom was near the top, since it's reflective of my fandom origins - my early fics aren't generally archived on AO3, so most of my early anime fandoms don't appear, but I was still into Yu Yu Hakusho when I discovered AO3 in 2011, so, those fics got cross-posted. xD SK8's number is also high thanks to drabbles, and that drabble series was directly inspired by my YYH one. Long live drabbles!
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