#it's so weird to think about how i only have five published newsies fics

[to-be-a-dreamer]

I was tagged by @we-are-inevitable

Rules: Share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway!

I only have 5 published Newsies fics and there's no way I'm looking back at my old fandom stuff, so we'll do the published ones and then I'll throw a few WIPs in there. Also, I'm doing the first few sentences on a few because I want to so I will.

It was nearing nine o’clock at night by the time Jack and Katherine had finalized their master plan and she went on her way to do her part, leaving Jack to rouse the other boys.

Jack didn’t know why he was so nervous. What did he have to be nervous about?

David Jacobs was already sick of this day and it wasn’t even 8:00 am yet.

Dying was easy, Race had discovered.

“Hey, this is Racetrack, sorry I missed your call. Leave a message or just text me if it’s important, I’ll get back to you soon. If your name is Jack and you’re looking for your keys again, check your pockets, idiot.”

Five Most Recent WIPs except they're probably not because my WIPs are not organized even a little bit.

On the morning after the strike, when half the boys were bloodied and the other half were bruised, when Jack was still hiding away in whatever little hole in the wall he’d found himself, when Specs had come back from the Refuge reporting that Crutchie wasn’t doing well at all, Race had felt the most defeated he had ever felt in his life.

Buttons didn’t like walking home alone. 

The studio was quiet when Jack checked it for wayward ghosts early the next morning.

Les Jacobs was ten years old the last time he saw his big brother.

Family is a funny word when you’re a street kid. Or an orphan. The two weren’t often separated, not in the world that Ike grew up in.

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AO3 Stats meme

Copy and pasted from @icouldwritebooks

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

1. What’s your first and second most common work ratings?

Teen And Up Audiences (34)

General Audiences (10)

2. What’s your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?

No Archive Warnings Apply (24)

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings (18)

Major Character Death (6)

Graphic Depictions Of Violence (1)

I only have 4 that I’ve used, so have ‘em all. I think all the Major Character Death ones are canon character death - I can get really affected by unexpected character death in fic so I don’t tend to write it. Honestly, my AO3 stuff is pretty mild as fic goes. My weird shit tends to stick to tumblr or not get published at all.

3. How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?

M/M (33)

Gen (11)

Multi (7)

F/M (6)

Other (4)

F/F (2)

The order is not surprising, although I honestly thought I had more F/F on there. Especially considering my original works generally skew towards F/F. I guess I tend to get more attached to male characters in fandom though.

4. What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers? Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?

Newsies (1992) (8)

Les Misérables - All Media Types (8)

Teen Titans (Comics) (5)

Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken (5)

I’m sort of active in one of those. I’ve managed to successfully keep DC comics as a background fandom for many years. The rest, not so much. I tend to hyperfixate for several months/years and then get distracted by the next hyperfixation.

5. What are your top 4 character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?

Tim Drake (8)

Kon-El | Conner Kent (8)

Jack Kelly (7)

Bart Allen (6) 

David Jacobs (6)

Yeah, that’s about right. I’m a bit surprised Jack comes in before David though.

7. What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2? What would happen if you combined all 4 of these into a fic?

Top 2:

Asexual Character (6)

Canon-Typical Violence (5) / Trans Male Character (5)

Bottom 2:

Pre-Slash (2)

Post-Canon (2)

Honestly, all five of those could have come from the same fic. It would probably be a Newsies fic. 

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

Incredibly, only one. It was last updated 6 years ago. The chances of me finishing it are not looking good.

9. Total stories and wordcount hosted on AO3?

49 works, 122,754 words