#sapphicteafiles

[sapphictealeaf]

yeah sorry, your boyfriend fell in love in a war. nobody told him it ended. yeah, no, it left a pearl in his head. he rolls it around every night. yeah, just to watch it glow. sorry.

[sapphictealeaf]

AO3 Fic Meme, tagged by @girlonthelasttrain :DDD

1. What rating do you write most of your fics under?

General Audiences (22)

2. What are your top three fandoms?

....Dream SMP (15), the numbers are every so slightly inflated because that was the fandom i happened to post/finish the most fics for, but i also was just reeeeally into DSMP during 2021/2022

3. What is the top character you write about?

Unsurprisingly, TommyInnit (13), the next non-DSMP character is Poe Dameron with 5 so i guess i found something truly captivating in the concept of tommy as a character

4. What are the top three pairings you write about?

......TommyInnit & Wilbur Soot (9) the curse of having been really active in a fandom that became fucking radioactive

5. What are the top three additional tags?

Canon Compliant (16), with Angst (13) and Hurt/Comfort (12) very close behind

6. Did any of this surprise you?

Not really, but mostly because I've looked at my statistics every so often when I get bored. It's really weird with the whole DSMP stuff because I can only talk about it with others who were in the trenches with me and who I know did not have freak ass opinions, as well as the fact that half of the content creators that were part of it I can't even think about without feeling about a bajillion volts zapping my brain. I don't want to be ashamed of it, but I know how weird it often looks to outsiders.

BUT at the same time it was such a big time for me writing-wise. I'm still so incredibly proud of some of the writing I did back then, I improved so much from the sheer frequency at which I was writing and rereading my stuff and just, well, also just growing up as a person a little bit, but also I never felt so inspired as with the dynamics both between characters but also the concept of the characters as individuals. I think this was largely due to the improvisational nature and inconsistent lore from the dozens of conflicting content creators, so it was kind of up to each individual fan/viewer to imply or add elements onto the existing material.

Admittedly, I was trying to stick to what we were given as much as possible, but I mean there was so much room for interpretation that it couldn't possibly have remained "true" to the source material entirely. Hence the 16 tags of canon compliance (most of them were for DSMP), that was always important to me. So many people would write AUs and rewrites and canon divergences that it like... basically became RPF and that wasn't really my vibe. (Ironically, a lot of my fics are still tagged RPF in the fandom because I didn't understand AO3 tagging and was trying to make my works easily searchable, I really should remove the tags)

Anyway who gives a fuck about DSMP! Not me! *hides the massive folders upon folders in my google drive under the big folder labelled MCYT*

Here's to hoping for more lesbians in my statistics soon, maybe next year I'll have racked up some more, who knows!

I wouldn't know who to tag so if this Somehow comes across your dash then feel free to do it and tag me! I'd love to see others perhaps having slightly less haunted and cursed answers LMAO