lucymonster: (kylo)
Nabbed from [personal profile] snickfic on a bored, slightly drunk Saturday evening.

Go to your Works page on AO3, look at the tags, and see what the answers to these questions are. (Or any other site that has tags)

1. What rating do you write most fics under?

Explicit. I wanted to say that this number was skewed by how easy it is to write tiny ficlets about [recip's favourite kink] for exchanges, but then I sorted my fics by wordcount and saw that the longest ones are mostly E-rated too. So I guess I just like writing smut?

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?

1. Star Wars Sequel Trilogy by an absurd margin - 144 fics. Then 2. Bleach (28) and 3. Captain America (20).

Out of curiosity, I also tried filtering for Star Wars and MCU as umbrella fandoms. In that case, the numbers work out as 1. Star Wars (161), 2. MCU (34) and 3. Bleach (28).

3. What is your top character you write about?

Kylo Ren. I have written 129 fics about Kylo Ren since 2018. God help me.

4. What are the 3 top pairings?

1. Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (64), 2. Abarai Renji/Kuchiki Byakuya (15), 3. Finn/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (11).

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?

1. Ben Solo Lives (28), 2. Post-Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (22), 3. Established Relationship (11).

6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. what turned out to be your top tag.

I'm not at all surprised that Star Wars dominates so hard, because it has been my primary fandom since I saw The Last Jedi at the end of 2017; prior to that, I don't think I ever lasted longer than two years in any one fandom.

(Kylo, represented in >50% of all fics I've ever posted to AO3, gets his well-deserved icon rep for this post.)
lucymonster: (books)
Snagged from [personal profile] osprey_archer, because who can resist a good book meme?

1. Lust, books I want to read for their cover.

Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire has a badass cover. I assume it'll prove to be yet another tedious canon-rehashing moneygrab, but that very Star Wars typical style of unsubtle symbolism always gets me somehow.

2. Pride, challenging books I've finished.

Oh, this one has me stumped! I've read plenty of books that I guess could be considered challenging in terms of length/prose/vocab - Dostoevsky, Joyce (though I've never attempted Finnegan's Wake or Ulysses) and some of the earlier Gothic literature all spring to mind - but I only ever really read for pleasure; if I'm enjoying something then it doesn't feel hard, and if I'm not enjoying it, I just give it up and pick something else. I did read a bunch of untranslated Latin and Greek during undergrad, including the whole first book of the Iliad, which definitely qualified as a challenge. But I didn't read the whole Iliad in Greek, so that feels like a cheat answer.

I also wouldn't call The Lord of the Rings unduly challenging for an adult reader, but it probably counted as a pretty big challenge when I finished it (and memorised big chunks of the poetry, and forced my parents and grandparents to attend tedious recitations thereof) at age eight. I was a weird kid.

3. Gluttony, books I've read more than once.

SO MANY. I go through long, regular phases where new stories feel too hard and I just want to wallow in things I already know I'll enjoy because I've enjoyed them before. Just the other day I finished a reread of Star Wars: Bloodline, and a bit before that I did Pride and Prejudice. I tend to revisit my favourite SFF series a lot in dribs and drabs: Murderbot, the Imperial Radch, Tolkien, Narnia and Harry Potter (the latter not so much these days) are a few I've reread often enough to have largely committed to memory.

I also read Spot Bakes A Cake roughly ten times a day at the moment, but that's not by preference and probably not what the creator of this meme had in mind.

4. Sloth, books on my to-read list the longest.

...also SO MANY. I think the award probably has to go to Madame Bovary, which was assigned reading back in one of my Year Eleven English classes and the only book in my whole educational career for which I ever resorted to Cliffnotes. Fuck, I hated that book. But ever since then I've been meaning to go back and finish it, to wipe the red stain of that youthful defeat (and semi-fraudulent essay) off my ledger.

5. Greed, books I own multiple editions of.

I have three editions of Shakespeare's collected works. My favourite is quite delicate, won as a prize by my mum in school and printed on Bible-thin paper; the second, not too much less nice, belonged to my father-in-law I believe; the third is a rather tatty lump of a book that I picked up cheap at a secondhand store for the sake of owning a Shakespeare I actually feel safe reading. Speaking of Bibles, I also own three of those: my pretty little clothbound NRSV for regular reading, my big chunky NIV Study Bible, and a copy of the New Testament in the original Koine Greek.

I have two collected Blinky Bills floating around, one paperback sized and one larger with bigger pictures for the kids. As a household we also have a few duplicated marital assets: both my husband and I were gifted copies of (the exact same edition of) The Lord of the Rings by our respective fathers, and we both have our childhood copies of Harry Potter. I think husband also has a second copy of The Silmarillion floating around in his office somewhere, though I'm not sure why, because he hasn't read it any wouldn't like it.

6. Wrath, books I despised.

[personal profile] osprey_archer reminded me that I hate His Dark Materials. Not for any handwringing religious reasons - I just found the whole thing about children being severed from their daemons too upsetting, even as a kid without the massive child cruelty squick I nurse today. And I think I've always been a hard sell on multiverses; from memory, the characters were going through some kind of portal into modern England around the time I gave up. It all felt like a disappointing mirror version of C.S. Lewis.

7. Envy, books I want to live in.

I'd love to live in the Tolkienverse, provided I could be incarnated as a Hobbit and stay put in the Shire eating cheese while my biggers and betters did all the adventuring.

Having just finished The Incandescent by Emily Tesh, I kind of wouldn't mind living in her magical reality. I loved how structured and academic the system of magic was, and that anyone could in theory learn it regardless of natural aptitude.
lucymonster: (rukia hnn)
I am currently back in bed again with a virus that just WILL NOT QUIT, so here's a meme yoinked from [personal profile] fiachairecht that is pretty much all I have brainpower for.

I have 238 works currently posted on my main AO3 account and obviously a lot of alphabetical overlap, so I've chosen which titles to link with the ulterior motive of making myself look like a diverse writer and not like someone who's spent the past decade writing enormous volumes of Reylo and very little else. (That said, there are some fics on my account that based on title alone I truly could not tell you what fandom they're even for. No memory! Not even a vague sense of deja vu!)

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A — After the World Ends (Star Wars Sequels, Poe/Finn/Rey/Ben)
B — beauty is power; a smile is its sword (Chronicles of Narnia movies, Susan/Caspian)
C — Chateau d'Yquem (Marriage Story, Charlie/Nicole)
D — Desert Flower (The Hurricane Wars, Talasyn/Alaric)
E — Every Item Has a Soul (MCU/Tidying Up with Marie Kondo RPF, Bucky & KonMari)
F — Friends Don't Know the Way You Taste (Descendents, Evie/Mal)
G — got no heroes 'cause our heroes are dead (The Rise of Kylo Ren, Ren Prime/Kylo)
H — have to live before you die young (Star Wars Sequels/Solo, Qi'ra/Kylo
I — It's Not Rocket Science (Bleach, Ichigo/Rukia & Renji
J — Jacen Syndulla and the Bendu's Word (Star Wars Sequels/Rebels, Hogwarts AU)
K — Kalikori (Star Wars Rebels, Hera/Kanan & Jacen)
L — Limited-Edition Space Invader Barbie(TM) from Mattel (Captain Marvel, Maria Rambeau/Minn-Erva)
M — Mind the Gap (Venom, Eddie/Symbiote)
N — Need a Teacher (Star Wars Sequels, Finnreylo & Poe)
O — Outgunned and Outclassed (Bleach, Byakuya/Renji/Shutara Senjumaru)
P — Playing the Long Game (Star Wars Sequels, Kylo & Baby Yoda)
Q —
R — Rose Tico's Charity Home for Wayward First Order Scum (SW Sequels, Phasma/Rose & Reylo & Finnpoe)
S — shall I compare thee (The Love Hypothesis, Adam/Olive)
T — time will be the judge of what you deserve (Star Wars Sequels, Finnlo)
U — Unless Acted Upon (Star Wars Sequels, Reylo)
V — Victory Day (Star Wars Sequels, Hux/Leia)
W — Welcome Home (The Love Hypothesis, Adam/Olive)
X — XXX (Bleach, Byakuya/Renji)
Y — Yeah, Nah (Star Wars Sequels, Australian AU)
Z —

Only two letters - Q and Z - unaccounted for! I'm kind of tempted to write two ficlets specifically to fill in those last gaps in the alphabet. I've fallen behind on my [community profile] fandom_empire bingo card recently, so maybe I can tie the new vanity project in with a couple of fills for that.

Here's the textbox for anyone else who'd like to play:

lucymonster: (meesa back)
[personal profile] dr_zook gave me the letter B. Drop me a comment to get a letter of your own!

Something I hate: Bad breath. I can only enjoy reading sleepy morning sex scenes if I pretend that both characters separately woke up to pee about an hour before and brushed their teeth while they were at it.

Something I love: Bookshops. Take me to the bookshop, I can be trusted at the bookshop, ignore the pile of unread books on my shelf that’s not important I need more books I need to go to the bookshop. My pre-baby career was in editing and publishing, but the year’s “break” I took to work as a bookseller was the only job I’ve ever truly enjoyed and the only one I can stand the thought of going back to.

Somewhere I have been: Um...Bowral, NSW. (I’m not particularly well travelled tbh lol.) I stayed with some friends in the converted stable of a magnificent Victorian manor, and we played croquet on the back lawn and took walks in the sprawling grounds and it was like something out of a novel.

Somewhere I would like to go: Berlin! But it is a very long and expensive flight from here. :(

Someone I know: My sister-in-law’s partner’s name starts with a ‘B’. He is something like twenty years older than her and has made her a grandma in her forties, which is a little unusual, but I honestly really like the guy. He’s very kind to my kids and has been a huge stabilising influence in SIL’s life. They’re both super into fitness and their life seems to mostly revolve around parkruns.

Best movie: Oh, easy. Backstroke of the West! How many other films can claim such a profound and lasting impact on our modern cultural landscape? :D
lucymonster: (yoda whee)
Snagged from, like, everybody at this point: The last five fics I wrote with song lyric titles. Are they all going to be Iron Maiden? There's a chance they're all going to be Iron Maiden.

1. the earth will turn to a funeral pyre, The Acolyte, Osha/Qimir, <1k. Title is from Deadlock's The Arsonist, because the song is about fire and the ficlet is full of heavy-handed fire imagery and, well, yeah. This one doesn't really go any deeper than that. But hey! It's not Iron Maiden!

2. say a prayer on the book of the dead, Star Wars, Poe/Finn/Rey/Ben/Jacen, 13.5k. From Blood Brothers by Iron Maiden (theeeeere we go!), pretty much every single lyric of which is perfect 'redeemed Ben Solo searches for new purpose in life while trying to make sense of his hideous past and leaning heavily on his new friends/lovers/allies for support' material.

3. a cross to bear, a heavy faith, Star Wars, Reylo, 1.1k. From Stratego by (wait for it) Iron Maiden, which is about a warrior who can't stop fighting. The warrior seems less enthusiastic about the endless violence than Ben/Kylo, but I liked the vibe of it, and the suggestion of deep existential misery that Ben (ever the unreliable narrator) mistakenly thinks he has put behind him now that he's a Good Guy (TM).

4. we fly just like birds of a feather, I won't tell no lie, Star Wars, Reylo and Han/Leia/Luke, 3.9k. A clumsy misquote (I'm literally just now noticing - should be flock, not fly) from We Are Family by Sister Sledge. This fic is a riff on The Birdcage, in which this song features prominently - link goes to a scene from the film, instead of the official music video. I wanted a title that nodded at the song without being completely on the nose, and I liked that lyric in particular for its adjacency to the two related themes of Rey finding her people and Ben learning to fully accept the ones he's got.

5. self-loathing before you awoke me, Star Wars, Finn/Kylo, 1.5k. From This World Can't Tear Us Apart by Trivium, which Kylo (again, not always the most reliable of narrators) might well pick for his and Finn's theme song: he was alone in a miasma of violent hatred towards himself and everyone else, until Finn broke through like a sunbeam and showed him the way, the truth and the light. (Poor Finn has an awful lot on his plate in this fic.)

Look at that - only two-fifths were Iron Maiden songs! I am the very model of lyrical diversity.

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