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1. Jonathan Harker (Dracula 1968)
2. Lucy Weston (Dracula 1968)
3. Angelique (original Dark Shadows)
4. Alfred (Tanz Der Vampire)
5. Der Tod (Death from Elisabeth musical)
6. Professor Abronsius (Tanz Der Vampire)
7. Petyr (What We Do In the Shadows)
8. Londo Mollari (Babylon 5)
9. Vanessa Ives (Penny Dreadful)
10. Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
11. Peter Vincent (Fright Night 1985)
12. G’Kar (Babylon 5)
13. Methos (Highlander: The Series)
14. Martha Jones (Doctor Who)
15. Edith Cushing (Crimson Peak)

( Beneath the cut, I answer the questions put forth. )

Here, have a meme that’s been taken from so very many people around the reading list.

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

Fanfic:34 works

What’re your first and second most common work ratings?
Teen And Up Audiences (20)
General Audiences (11)

What’s your most common archive warning?
No Archive Warnings Apply (31)

Least common?
Major Character Death (2). And I’m pretty sure both of those were Jonathan Harker getting a temporary death while a vampire.

Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?

I’m not certain. However, I was adventurous enough to actually tackle something over 100,000 words, so I’ll have to go with probably. In terms of content, it would really depend on the fandom and plot.

How many stories have you made in each pairing category?

Gen (27)
F/M (6)
M/M (4)
F/F (2)

Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?

Mostly accidental. I’m not actively looking to write any particular kind of pairing, and it simply happens whenever it does. I suspect that much gen comes about through having imported the Doctor Who fanfics, and a couple Firefly fanfics that I wrote so very long ago.

What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers?

Doctor Who is apparently in there twice through a small glitch, but I’m counting it as once for this: Doctor Who (11) and Doctor Who (2005) (5)
Firefly (2)
Dracula - Bram Stoker (2)
Dracula (TV 1968) (2)

Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?

I’m no longer active in Doctor Who, and have not been for many years. I moved on from Firefly a long time ago, and never looked back. For the last two, still hang out there no matter how quiet it is.

What are your top 4 relationship tags?
Count Dracula/Jonathan Harker (3)
Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker (2)
Mina Harker/Lucy Westenra (2)
Mina Harker/John Seward (2)

Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?

It’s pretty much exactly as I expected.

What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2? I went with top 3 since the top 2 overlap.
Most Used:
Fluff and Humor (8)
Friendship (6)

Bottom Two
Crossover (3)
Drabble (3)

What would happen if you combined all 4 of these into an fic?

I sort of did with the crossover and friendship, with that crossover between Dark Shadows and Dracula. Granted, it wasn’t a drabble. Nor was it fluff, since Jonathan’s brain fever induced hallucinations during his escape from the castle didn’t exactly have him veering towards imaginings of fluffy bunnies (perhaps with fangs, though that leads to either Bunnicula or Monty Python and given how distraught he was, he certainly didn’t see that).

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

When there is a WIP, I wait until it’s finished prior to uploading it to Ao3. If I drifted away from something or real life went after me, I wouldn’t want to leave anyone hanging if someone had chosen to read it. It took 2 years to finish The Soft Whispers of the Dead, so that would have been cruel to leave it open ended at any point in time when I was still rewriting huge chunks of story at any given time.

1. Amanda (Highlander: The Series)
2. Londo Mollari (Babylon 5)
3. Jonathan Harker (Dracula 1968)
4. Lucy Weston (Dracula 1968)
5. Peter Vincent (Fright Night 1985)
6. Elizabeth (Curse of Frankenstein)
7. Mr. Morden (Babylon 5)
8. Victoria Winters (Dark Shadows 1991)
9. The Tenth Doctor (Doctor Who)
10. Willow Rosenberg (Buffy)
11. Angelique (original Dark Shadows)
12. Methos (Highlander: The Series)
13. Dana (Ghostbusters)
14. Vanessa Ives (Penny Dreadful)
15. Edith Cushing (Crimson Peak)

( Beneath the cut, I answer the many questions that everyone threw out there for the meme. )

I saw this meme going around the reading list, and finally borrowed it from littlestclouds.

1. Of the fics you’ve written, which is your favorite and why?
2. Which scene was your favorite to write in [title of fic]?
3. Which part of [title] was hardest to write?
4. If you could change anything in [title], what would it be?
5. Did you make an outline for [title]? Did you stick to it?
6. Which scenes did you cut, and which were added in [title]?
7. Who was your favorite character to write in [title]?
8. Which came first, the title or the fic?
9. Which idea came to you first in [title]?
10. What are some facts readers may not know about [title]?

Here, have a couple fanfic focused memes that I've seen floating around. I'm posting them both, since they're almost the same sort of thing.

The first one:

If you were asked to pick one scene, one shot, one detail, one moment of some kind out of all the things I've written and say "This, this, for whatever reason, I remember, this is something that struck home with me, that I wanted to keep," what would it be?

And the second:

Quote a bit of my writing at me. Find that one story of mine that you really like, and find a sentence or a paragraph that presses your prose-buttons in the right way, and comment here with it.

For those that might have used it, Imzy is shutting down. I never made a single post or comment, but I had registered at some point. I just never went back after that.

Rosario Dawson is reportedly in talks to play Cecilia Reyes in the New Mutants film; also, that film will apparently go full on horror. I'm not sure what to think about that.

Edit: Correction, it's three things of note. It turns out the Icelandic version of Dracula--Powers of Darkness--is really Swedish.

From the article: "First he assumed that Makt myrkranna would be a straight translation of the Swedish publication, but then he found out that the Swedish text is more complete and contains scenes neither described in Dracula nor in Makt myrkranna. And the madman Renfield is still in the story, among others."

So there's that! And on World Dracula Day, no less.

And here’s a meme that I thought it might be fun to try.

meme: If you were to remix one of my stories, 1.) what would it be and 2.) what would you do. TELL ME.

For all of my stories, it’s sort of spread out across Ao3 and the ‘fanfic I’ve written tag’.

Have a meme, taken from moetushie, and edited just a tad:

Repost if it’s okay for your followers/circle to leave you a comment telling you what the one thing is they remember you for as a writer. Is it a scene or a detail or a specific line? Is it something like style or characterization? Is it that one weird kink or trope they never thought they’d be into, but oh my god wow self-discovery time?

Taken from many people, here’s a fanfic focused meme.

Choose a fic and 1 (or more) question(s) from the list below:

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?
2: What scene did you first put down?
3: What’s your favorite line of narration?
4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?
5: What part was hardest to write?
6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
7: Where did the title come from?
8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?
11: What do you like best about this fic?
12: What do you like least about this fic?
13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

My fanfic (from Yuletides past, mainly) can be found here at Ao3. Or here at Teaspoon, where I last added anything from Doctor Who seven years ago.

Or you can peer into the depths of a tag called ‘fanfic I’ve written.’ There’s one Firefly fanfic down there somewhere, and quite a few drabbles for that and Buffy from back when I was starting to dabble in fanfic for the first time.

Taken from lost_spook:

Comment to this post with a fic title (a word, phrase or quotation), a fandom and, if desired, a character or pairing. I'll reply with a summary of the fic I won't write for that title, in this way generating plot-bunnies, gaiety of nations and perhaps even actual fic by other people.

1. Jonathan Harker (Dracula 1968)
2. Methos (Highlander: The Series)
3. Edith Cushing (Crimson Peak)
4. Jack Harkness (Torchwood)
5. Peter Vincent (Fright Night 1985)
6. Vanessa Ives (Penny Dreadful)
7. Sherlock Holmes (the Conan Doyle version)
8. Endora (Bewitched)
9. Angelique (original Dark Shadows)
10. Dr. John Seward (Dracula 1968)
11. Lili (Legend 1985)
12. Abraham Van Helsing (Dracula 1968)
13. Barry Allen (The current Flash tv series)
14. Lucille Sharpe (Crimson Peak)
15. Alan McMichael (Crimson Peak)

( Beneath the cut, I answer the questions from the following: lost_spook, schneefink, sallymn, lynndyre, graycardinal, dolimir_k, highlander_ii, and SeanDC. )

Two older memes are making the rounds again, so here you go. First up, it’s the Fifteen Characters Meme. It seems to be becoming a yearly thing.

1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.

2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?"

3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.

And the Time Stamp Meme is going around again, too:

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll try to write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

A meme, taken from senmut:

Five Things You'd Put in a Pentagram to Summon Me

(Since it seemed interesting.)

A couple of older memes are making the rounds again. So because we all need a break from the week, I'm posting them. First:

1) Make a list of 10-15 characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.

2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?"

3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.

The other one is the time stamp meme:

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll try to write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.