ao3 tag meme game
Nov. 6th, 2025 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
svgurlI snagged this from maevedarcy. :)
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, I don’t know if FFnet or Wattpad does)
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svgurl410 on AO3 and most of my fics are on there so I'll go with that. :D
1. What rating do you write most fics under?
General Audiences (157 out of 277)
2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
1. Smallville (176 out of 277 works on AO3)
2. Marvel Cinematic Universe (58 out of 277)
3. Gilmore Girls (23 out of 277)
3. What is your top character you write about?
Clark Kent (138 works)
4. What are the 3 top pairings?
1. Clark Kent/Oliver Queen (81 out of 277 works)
2. Clark Kent/Lois Lane (45 out of 277 works)
3. James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson (18 out of 277 works)
5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
1. Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (111)
2. Established Relationship (81)
3. Getting Together (57)
6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. what turned out to be your top tag.
Most of it was what I expected - the ratings, the top ships, since I was very mono fandom for a long time, etc. I was surprised I've written more established relationship than getting together, since I thought I wrote more the latter, but I think that some of my older fics haven't been tagged properly so if I went back and updated, that might change. Then again, I also used to write a lot of flashbacks in my fics so technically the fic would have them established but I would want to write how they got together in the first place so I'd throw it in.
The code if you want to do it:
maevedarcy. :)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, I don’t know if FFnet or Wattpad does)
I'm
1. What rating do you write most fics under?
General Audiences (157 out of 277)
2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
1. Smallville (176 out of 277 works on AO3)
2. Marvel Cinematic Universe (58 out of 277)
3. Gilmore Girls (23 out of 277)
3. What is your top character you write about?
Clark Kent (138 works)
4. What are the 3 top pairings?
1. Clark Kent/Oliver Queen (81 out of 277 works)
2. Clark Kent/Lois Lane (45 out of 277 works)
3. James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson (18 out of 277 works)
5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
1. Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (111)
2. Established Relationship (81)
3. Getting Together (57)
6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. what turned out to be your top tag.
Most of it was what I expected - the ratings, the top ships, since I was very mono fandom for a long time, etc. I was surprised I've written more established relationship than getting together, since I thought I wrote more the latter, but I think that some of my older fics haven't been tagged properly so if I went back and updated, that might change. Then again, I also used to write a lot of flashbacks in my fics so technically the fic would have them established but I would want to write how they got together in the first place so I'd throw it in.
The code if you want to do it:
Today's productivity
Nov. 6th, 2025 12:08 amruricHaving found I'm not away this weekend but next weekend I decided to make use of a free afternoon to be productive.
The refuse guys emptied my bin this morning (which they're not obliged to do as I'd not put it on the pavement) but they kindly flipped the lid and grabbed the two bags in there. Which meant my tip run was a little lighter than anticipate. But I removed 3 bags of rubbish and recycling and then popped into the garden centre on the way home. I'd bought more bulbs than I have pots so came up with a plan to have a couple more small window boxes at the base of the rose in the front garden. I may also have bought a few more mini houseplants and viola's while I was there and compost.
By the time I got home I had just about enough light left to finish planting the remaining large window box and the new ones. So the tiny front garden is now planted.
I still have the 2 window boxes and 5 pots on the porch roof, 1 hanging basket and the 3 living room window boxes to plant. That's a task for Friday afternoon/evening and possibly Saturday afternoon. Tomorrow night I'll plan what bulbs go where and what need to go down to the allotment.
The weather looks set to be warm and sunny on Saturday and Sunday so I need to sand and paint the front gate (one coat Saturday and one Sunday) and get two coats of varnish on the back door before the weather turns. I forsee early mornings this weekend. And there's now the allotment AGM Sunday afternoon so I need to get a wiggle on with jobs around home and garden.
To finish the front garden I need to weed the path, sort out the area around the bins and put some membrane and chippings around the base of the climbing rose to stop whatever is digging there from digging.
The refuse guys emptied my bin this morning (which they're not obliged to do as I'd not put it on the pavement) but they kindly flipped the lid and grabbed the two bags in there. Which meant my tip run was a little lighter than anticipate. But I removed 3 bags of rubbish and recycling and then popped into the garden centre on the way home. I'd bought more bulbs than I have pots so came up with a plan to have a couple more small window boxes at the base of the rose in the front garden. I may also have bought a few more mini houseplants and viola's while I was there and compost.
By the time I got home I had just about enough light left to finish planting the remaining large window box and the new ones. So the tiny front garden is now planted.
I still have the 2 window boxes and 5 pots on the porch roof, 1 hanging basket and the 3 living room window boxes to plant. That's a task for Friday afternoon/evening and possibly Saturday afternoon. Tomorrow night I'll plan what bulbs go where and what need to go down to the allotment.
The weather looks set to be warm and sunny on Saturday and Sunday so I need to sand and paint the front gate (one coat Saturday and one Sunday) and get two coats of varnish on the back door before the weather turns. I forsee early mornings this weekend. And there's now the allotment AGM Sunday afternoon so I need to get a wiggle on with jobs around home and garden.
To finish the front garden I need to weed the path, sort out the area around the bins and put some membrane and chippings around the base of the climbing rose to stop whatever is digging there from digging.
Lolz whoops!
Nov. 5th, 2025 02:08 pmruricAs many of you know I've been going away with a bunch of friends for an annual long weekend since 2005. We originally met through Buffy/Angel fandom and if you't told us that first year we'd still be going 20 years later we'd certainly not have believed you.
We settled on the weekend of or after Bonfire Night as being the most convenient for everyone. We still go to the same place - a fab 17thC farmhouse in Horbling, Lincs that can sleep up to about 12-16 people. The owner charges us "mates rates" as a regular booking who leaves the place tidy and strip all the beds before we go. When we are up there we confirm our booking for the next 2 years so we can get dates in our diaries.
You can see where this is heading can't you?
Since 2024 I've had the dates in my dairy for 2025 as 6th-10th Nov and for 2026 as 5th-9th November.
As usual I leave everything to the last minute so I've been scrambling around trying to get work and home stuff sorted so I can leave early on Thursday. Texted my mate last night to say I'd be on the road between 7-8am Thursday so should be with her by 9-10am only to get a confused face icon back and a "Horbling is next weekend" message.
Yes I had somehow anaged tonout the wrong dates in my diary, and overlooked the group Whatsapp message confirming the date change late last year and the recent WhatsApp about food cutoff ordering being 12 November!
So yesterday evening I moved my leave back a weekend, reorganised my day job work, replanned personal tasks around clearing up the flat and gardening, let my allotment society know I xan attend the AGM on Sunday and confirmed the ex is free for cat feeding duties next weekend.
For the first time in years I'll be approaching this getaway in planned rather than chaotic fashion.
Today I've taken an extended lunchbreak to finish potting up some of my winter windowboxes and plants and I'll be able to get the rest done on Saturday.
We settled on the weekend of or after Bonfire Night as being the most convenient for everyone. We still go to the same place - a fab 17thC farmhouse in Horbling, Lincs that can sleep up to about 12-16 people. The owner charges us "mates rates" as a regular booking who leaves the place tidy and strip all the beds before we go. When we are up there we confirm our booking for the next 2 years so we can get dates in our diaries.
You can see where this is heading can't you?
Since 2024 I've had the dates in my dairy for 2025 as 6th-10th Nov and for 2026 as 5th-9th November.
As usual I leave everything to the last minute so I've been scrambling around trying to get work and home stuff sorted so I can leave early on Thursday. Texted my mate last night to say I'd be on the road between 7-8am Thursday so should be with her by 9-10am only to get a confused face icon back and a "Horbling is next weekend" message.
Yes I had somehow anaged tonout the wrong dates in my diary, and overlooked the group Whatsapp message confirming the date change late last year and the recent WhatsApp about food cutoff ordering being 12 November!
So yesterday evening I moved my leave back a weekend, reorganised my day job work, replanned personal tasks around clearing up the flat and gardening, let my allotment society know I xan attend the AGM on Sunday and confirmed the ex is free for cat feeding duties next weekend.
For the first time in years I'll be approaching this getaway in planned rather than chaotic fashion.
Today I've taken an extended lunchbreak to finish potting up some of my winter windowboxes and plants and I'll be able to get the rest done on Saturday.
good enough for me
Nov. 4th, 2025 10:40 pmursamajor![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
sandboxdiva pinged me this weekend wanting to ensure that I'd seen the latest Binging with Babish episode since it focused on chocolate chip cookies, so of course I promptly had to sit down and watch it.( Binging with Babish: 10 Levels of Chocolate Chip Cookies (embed) )
1. Did I pause the video to take note of exactly how fancy the ingredients were for the Level 8 cookies, ( yes I did. )
2. Did I also factcheck Babish on his assertion that "regular old homemade chocolate chip cookies probably cost like $6/batch to make," why yes I did. Come on, buddy, you're based in Brooklyn, groceries aren't cheaper there than in the Bay Area.
( How much does it cost to make a batch of Toll House cookies in November 2025? )
3. Am I doing all this to distract myself from all of the elections going down today? Of bloody course I am.
4. Is my version of the Guittard Super Chip cookie recipe still my go-to? Yes, because 72 hours is a long time to wait for cookies. Also, converted to weights, a higher ratio of brown sugar to white sugar, and no nuts.
5. What am I baking for choir tomorrow? Um. I should probably figure that out, shouldn't I. Of all the bougie things to have on hand, I actually currently have a glut of hazelnut flour that needs to get used up, and we do have some gluten-intolerant choir members, so I may end up with a flavor variant of these hazelnut chocolate chip cookies, probably converted to bar format, possibly with the spicing and inclusions changed up.
6. Reminder to self: you'll be in rehearsal tomorrow and will have to miss it, but Community Kitchens is doing trainings for home chef volunteers to cook meals for the Town Fridges in Oakland. Ping them to find out when the next training is.
7. Oh thank god, results are coming in for the major races and I don't know of any truly disasterrific results yet.
well, how did i get here? (into the blue again, after the money's gone, once in a lifetime)
Nov. 3rd, 2025 10:53 pmerikaMuch to my amazement, in two hours I turn forty.
Forty. Four zero. 40. 4. 0. I've been telling almost everyone I meet, repeating the facts to strangers and friends and acquaintances, my psychiatrist and my sister and my surrogate aunts. I didn't expect to get here and I find the fact of forty, frankly, jarring. My teeth grit against the absolute insanity of time marching on to this extent—how did I get here?
Some of the people who are reading this potentially have known me since I was 12 and just like me, probably didn't expect me to get here. Mind-boggling as well.
What has changed recently? Not much! To misquote Tolstoy, perhaps happy days are all alike, but each unhappy day is unhappy in its own way. Or maybe it's the opposite, and it's my newfound ability to revel in choice of enjoyable activities with a reliably upbeat mood climate that's truly unlocked this newfound persistence of pleasant presence.
Current psychiatrist has narrowed down my meds and diagnoses to a fine degree, now that she actually believes I'm ill. (Long story but basically she didn't take me seriously until my last attempt. Wait, not a long story.) Who would have guessed that the magic wand would be ~lithium~ and the magic words, bipolar disorder? Doc's not 100% on it yet but I'm pretty convinced.
My intention is to update again tomorrow, but I'll post this now just in case.
Forty. Four zero. 40. 4. 0. I've been telling almost everyone I meet, repeating the facts to strangers and friends and acquaintances, my psychiatrist and my sister and my surrogate aunts. I didn't expect to get here and I find the fact of forty, frankly, jarring. My teeth grit against the absolute insanity of time marching on to this extent—how did I get here?
Some of the people who are reading this potentially have known me since I was 12 and just like me, probably didn't expect me to get here. Mind-boggling as well.
What has changed recently? Not much! To misquote Tolstoy, perhaps happy days are all alike, but each unhappy day is unhappy in its own way. Or maybe it's the opposite, and it's my newfound ability to revel in choice of enjoyable activities with a reliably upbeat mood climate that's truly unlocked this newfound persistence of pleasant presence.
Current psychiatrist has narrowed down my meds and diagnoses to a fine degree, now that she actually believes I'm ill. (Long story but basically she didn't take me seriously until my last attempt. Wait, not a long story.) Who would have guessed that the magic wand would be ~lithium~ and the magic words, bipolar disorder? Doc's not 100% on it yet but I'm pretty convinced.
My intention is to update again tomorrow, but I'll post this now just in case.
gift fic: it happened one night (diana/natasha)
Nov. 3rd, 2025 10:26 amsvgurl![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
trickortreatex opened its collection a few days ago and this is what I got. :DTitle: It Happened One Night
Author: anonymous (for now)
Fandom: DCEU/MCU
Pairing/Characters: Diana/Natasha
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 959
Summary: Natasha meets Natasha. Well, not exactly. But that is how the story starts.
This was cute and fun!
Week 44 - getting back to it
Nov. 3rd, 2025 10:16 amruricAnother relatively quiet week.
#ORJENISE100 no specific prompts last week.
HOME: maintained - had an Oddbox deli ery so deep cleaned the fridge, fruit and veg bowls. Haven't started on the bedroom - yet!
HEALTH: finally back to normal.
LIFE ADMIN: nothing done last week.
DIGITAL DECLUTTER: went on a bit of a deleting spree on my main email account and broke the 12k barrier - now down to 11,888 emails. Things are slowing down because I've run out of the easy to delete stuff and am now entering the 15-20 years of history. Keeping up with archiving things off the tablet to Dropbox. Stalled on sorting 900+ images on my phone.
GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: bought plants/bulbs to finish winter planting of front garden and pots and finished planting the last of the front garden pots. Hoping to get the porch roof ones done before I go away.
COOKING/EATING: had a couple of takeaways on busy days but back to cooking. And the Oddbox delivery led to a meal plan for the next 2 weeks (though I'm away Thursday to Monday). Made a bit pot of balti veg curry and ate a lot of fruit!
READING/LISTENING: nope.
WATCHING: still enjoying Murder Before Evensong.
CREATING/LEARNING: no crocheting this week or classes as teacher is prepping/competing at a cake comp in Rome.
CATS: all good.
VOLUNTEERING: nope.
SOCIALISING: monthly catch up call with friends which I tuned into from the car as I was stuck in an epic traffic jam from Twickenham to Kingston on Thursday night.
WORK: almost caught up. Fingers crossed for a quiet November.
It's the annual Horbling weekend this coming weekend so I am scrambling around to do a bit of sorting and tidying before I go.
#ORJENISE100 no specific prompts last week.
HOME: maintained - had an Oddbox deli ery so deep cleaned the fridge, fruit and veg bowls. Haven't started on the bedroom - yet!
HEALTH: finally back to normal.
LIFE ADMIN: nothing done last week.
DIGITAL DECLUTTER: went on a bit of a deleting spree on my main email account and broke the 12k barrier - now down to 11,888 emails. Things are slowing down because I've run out of the easy to delete stuff and am now entering the 15-20 years of history. Keeping up with archiving things off the tablet to Dropbox. Stalled on sorting 900+ images on my phone.
GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: bought plants/bulbs to finish winter planting of front garden and pots and finished planting the last of the front garden pots. Hoping to get the porch roof ones done before I go away.
COOKING/EATING: had a couple of takeaways on busy days but back to cooking. And the Oddbox delivery led to a meal plan for the next 2 weeks (though I'm away Thursday to Monday). Made a bit pot of balti veg curry and ate a lot of fruit!
READING/LISTENING: nope.
WATCHING: still enjoying Murder Before Evensong.
CREATING/LEARNING: no crocheting this week or classes as teacher is prepping/competing at a cake comp in Rome.
CATS: all good.
VOLUNTEERING: nope.
SOCIALISING: monthly catch up call with friends which I tuned into from the car as I was stuck in an epic traffic jam from Twickenham to Kingston on Thursday night.
WORK: almost caught up. Fingers crossed for a quiet November.
It's the annual Horbling weekend this coming weekend so I am scrambling around to do a bit of sorting and tidying before I go.
next year, halloween yard signs
Nov. 3rd, 2025 05:55 pmtielanFor when I have time and energy before the season to put up some 'gravestones' with 'how they died'.
He Killed My Father
Started A Land War In Asia
Went Up Against A Sicilian When Death Was On The Line
Didn't Think ROAS Existed
Didn't Have Fun Storming The Castle
Since Halloween takes place on a Saturday next year, I might try to throw a Halloween Party. And maybe a Big Number Birthday, if I can be arsed. I wasn't planning a Big Number Birthday, but a friend gave me a look like I'd uttered a mortal sin when I mentioned I wasn't really big on a Big Number Birthday.
--
I sent out the 7x7 picnic party invitations, have about 15 going, 5 who can't, 5 maybes.
B1 will not be much help since she has her Christmas Party the night before. I have a Matildas game the night before. The parentals will be out of town. So it's going to be me and maybe B2.
I mean, I'm pretty sure the people I've invited are not going to be particularly fussed that the place isn't spotless. It might just be a bit chaotic in cleanup, is all. But that can be managed, too...
Princess Bride themed
He Killed My Father
Started A Land War In Asia
Went Up Against A Sicilian When Death Was On The Line
Didn't Think ROAS Existed
Didn't Have Fun Storming The Castle
Since Halloween takes place on a Saturday next year, I might try to throw a Halloween Party. And maybe a Big Number Birthday, if I can be arsed. I wasn't planning a Big Number Birthday, but a friend gave me a look like I'd uttered a mortal sin when I mentioned I wasn't really big on a Big Number Birthday.
--
I sent out the 7x7 picnic party invitations, have about 15 going, 5 who can't, 5 maybes.
B1 will not be much help since she has her Christmas Party the night before. I have a Matildas game the night before. The parentals will be out of town. So it's going to be me and maybe B2.
I mean, I'm pretty sure the people I've invited are not going to be particularly fussed that the place isn't spotless. It might just be a bit chaotic in cleanup, is all. But that can be managed, too...
Stats: October 2025
Nov. 2nd, 2025 11:18 amscifirenegadeFilms Watched
Books being read (for leisure)
Books on hold
Arts
Words Written
Total: 561 words
- The Virgin and the Beast (1978)
- Hereditary (2018)
- Just Imagine (1930)
Books being read (for leisure)
- Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
- The Speed of Sound by Scott Eyman
Books on hold
- Terrarium by João Barreiros and Luís Filipe Silva
Arts
- 2 finished pieces (Judex, Karl paperdoll)
- No dumb doodles :(
Words Written
- Barbara's Great Wine Search: 0 words
- Pre-canon AadA fic: 0 words (total 599 words)
- Miscellaneous short fics: zero fics
- Unfinished miscellaneous short fics: one fic (total 561 words)
Total: 561 words