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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?

The Strange Case of Starship Iris (25 works)

Yu Yu Hakusho (11 works)

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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In honour of Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I wanted to share some blogging prompts I came up with over on Pillowfort, where they're called "blanket boxes" (a play on furnishing/building a pillow fort with blankets). They usually have a theme tying them together - previously I shared a nostalgia-themed set, and this set is themed around webcomics!

I'd love to encourage more discussion of webcomics, so hopefully these reach some interested people. Fancomics count for this prompt set! Daily gag strips, Webtoons, long-running slice of life comics; it's all included.

It's traditional to have a set of opening guidelines, so first:

The first rule of Blanket Box is that there are no rules :D
Feel free to interpret the prompts however you see fit. Any kind of comic that's posted online counts for this Box, including fancomics and doujinshi if you'd like to count those!
Take as many "blankets" from the box as you need - it doesn't have to be all of them. Or in other words, skip any of the prompts you don't fancy answering!
If you use these prompts, it would be lovely if you could link back to this post. 💜

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Do I have any fellow webcomic fans in the house? Even if you don't fancy doing the prompts, I'd love to know!

One Pillowfort creation that I really like is called a 'Blanket Box', which is a play on the site's name being Pillowfort (many PF terms are plays on 'Pillowfort' xD). You use blankets to build (or furnish; some people say furnish) your fort, and so a box of blankets allows people to build up their Pillowfort blog! In other words, it's a set of blogging prompts (usually geared around a certain theme, like music, a fandom, or just what you're doing that moment).

I've been thinking of sharing some over here on DW, as they're very versatile prompts, and Three Weeks for Dreamwidth (which starts today and runs for the next 3 weeks) is a great time to share prompts that people might like to use! I wouldn't want to share any written by other people without permission, but I've created two blanket boxes myself that I can share: one themed around nostalgia/childhood, and one themed around webcomics. I'm sharing the nostalgia one first, as it was my first blanket box!

Blanket boxes are traditionally accompanied by a set of guidelines, which are along the lines of:

The first rule is that there are no rules :D
Feel free to interpret the prompts however you like. For the nostalgia prompts, I'd add: You can interpret "childhood" however it makes sense to you to interpret. It's not a fixed or static thing (and I won't pin anyone down to a particular age, that would be very unfair), so go with what you instinctively think of as your childhood/younger years. Also, everyone's past/childhood is different, and not everyone had the same people, places and things when they were younger! So, please amend or skip prompts if you don't feel that they fit.
Feel free to link this elsewhere so other people can use it! It's also usually encouraged to use a set tag, such as "Nostalgia Blanket Box", to help people find the fills. I'd love to know if anyone uses these!

And now for the prompts...

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It's almost Three Weeks for Dreamwidth again! Here I was so focused on Archive April that I didn't even think about another blogging event that's coming up this month. I'm grateful that I saw

bluedreaming's Mastodon post about it or I wouldn't even have realised that it starts tomorrow.

After the event had finished last year, I came up with a blogging prompt idea that I really liked, but it was too late to use it myself, so I waited until now to share it xD (I know I could have posted it any time, but I thought it would have less chance of getting lost in the shuffle this way). It's a prompt for anyone who fancies writing about fanworks (though it can apply to original works, too!)

Here's the idea:

Make a list of all of your fanworks (or original works) - up to you what counts as a fanwork, it can be anything you'd like to write about! These don't have to be in a particular order.
Give each work a number.
Every day (or every other day or however often you'd like to do it), roll some dice* or generate a random number, and then look for the work that corresponds to that number.
Write a post about that work - sort of a DVD commentary, maybe talking about how you came up with it, what it means to you, why you created it, how it came together, etc. Anything you feel like!

*Probably several dice depending on how many works you have. It's probably an advantage if you're a D&D player who has lots of dice with different numbers of faces xD

This could be done with any type of list, so you could do it with a list of recs, too, if you'd like to write about other people's creations. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to share this idea for anyone who's looking for 3W4D inspiration (or general blogging inspiration!). For other ideas,

ysabetwordsmith has created a really extensive list of prompts and questionnaires. I might also share some 'Blanket Boxes' from Pillowfort - lists of prompts to build your blog (known as a fort :D).

Is anyone looking to take part in 3W4D, and do you have a theme/set of prompts in mind?

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