Fanfic meme

[dolorosa_12]

I know it's due to frustrating and for some, upsetting circumstances, but I have to say I'm really pleased to see so much activity on Dreamwidth. People are returning after a long time away, people are trying it out for the first time, comms are active for the first time in years, and, above all, people are interacting with one another! Threaded comments: I love them so much.

I've seen this meme floating around all over my reading page, but I think naye was the first to post it. Ask me any of these questions, and I'll answer it in the comments.

1. What made you start writing fanfic? Asked by naye, answered here.

2. Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?

3. Describe the differences between your first fanfic and your most recent fanfic.
Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?

4. You’ve posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you’d written it?

5. Name three stories you found easy to write.

6. Name three stories you found difficult to write.

7. What’s your ratio of hits to kudos?

8. What do your fic bookmarks say about you? Asked by geckoholic, answered here.

9. What’s a theme that keeps coming up in your writing? Asked by merit, answered here.

10. What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing? Asked by schneefink, answered here.

11. For E-rated fic, what are some things your characters keep doing?

12. Name three favorite characters to write.

13. You’re applying for the fanfic writer of the year award. What five fanfics do you put in your portfolio?

14. Question of your choice!

My Tumblr import to Wordpress finished yesterday. I had to disable the importing of large media files, or else I would have exceeded the media storage allowance, and, quite frankly, I was not prepared to pay Wordpress in order to back up other people's gif sets. My Tumblr tags imported, but because Wordpress lists them alphabetically, any tag-essays are now completely incoherent. It was a weird exercise in fannish nostalgia; my Tumblr goes back to 2010, and it's bizarre to think there was a time when I was reblogging SPN, Teen Wolf, and MCU content, since I'm so resolutely fandom-of-one-ish these days. I can also see so many disntinct periods of fannish focus: the Pretty Little Liars phase, the Orphan Black phase, the ATLA period, that brief moment I tried to engage with Sleepy Hollow fandom before backing away slowly. It's like peeling back layers of personal history. In any case, now that the import is done, the whole lot is just sitting there on Wordpress. I'm going to put up a message on Tumblr telling people where to find me, possibly fiddle around with the settings on the Wordpress backup, and then draw a line under my time on the blue hellsite for good. I know some people will miss the place, but for me it feels almost like relief to leave it behind.

Comments

[geckoholic]

8. What do your fic bookmarks say about you?

[dolorosa_12]

My public bookmarks probably say that I only read fic at Yuletide! I've got a lot of private bookmarks, and these tend to be of 'comfortable old blanket' types of fic that I go back to and reread again and again. The public ones, while this may not be obvious to anyone but me, are my way of saving things for later to rec, and so that any person assigned to me in fic exchanges has some idea of what I like to read. I doubt anyone uses them in this way, but that's their intention.

[geckoholic]

Oh I don't think you're so alone in that; I too have private bookmarks as well and only put a selection of them on AO3 as well. XD

[dolorosa_12]

Yeah, I imagine most people only have a small subset of their bookmarks publicly viewable.