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Is fanart ok: Yes! Tag me to get reshared
Is shipping ok: Yes, encouraged
Is kinning ok: In your own head, sure, but don’t tell me about it
Is fanfiction/writing ok: Yes
Can others draw their OC’s with yours: Yes
Is NSFW stuff ok: Yes, but only tag me if you’re sure I’d be into it

(I’m ErinPtah on Bluesky now, if you want to give me a follow! So far I’m mostly crossposting from Mastodon, but there’s new and different content to reblog.)

Was reminded recently that I did this AO3 stats meme 12 months ago. Let’s run through it again and see what’s changed!

…spoiler alert, by now it’s a Cover of Knight sweep.

Most hits: Cover of Knight (125,454). First installment in the “what if the Moon Knights accidentally made friends with everyone?” AU, which has been occupying the biggest part of my brain for the past year. I’ve posted some kind of update for that series almost once a week this whole time.

Cover of Knight was the runner-up last year, and as predicted, it’s swapped places into the lead…though He Says He Is An Experimental Theologian (120,412) is still a closer second-place than I expected.

Most kudos: Cover of Knight (6,562). Same winner as last year, almost 2K more kudos. The runner-up is still Persephone’s Waltz (2,976), which last year was just 13 kudos ahead of the 3rd-place spot, but now has a 300+ lead over Experimental Theologian (2,649).

Persephone’s Waltz got a noticeable uptick of new kudos + comments this past April/May. I figure it must have gotten recced somewhere! No idea where.

Most comment threads: Cover of Knight (1,474). Last year’s winner is now the runner-up: A Blinking Light Up On The Clouded Mountain (1,315), the less-read but more-discussed sequel to Experimental Theologian (down at 981). Reveals by Knight, the less-read sequel to Cover of Knight, isn’t on track to overtake it any time soon…but since last year, it’s shot up to 4th place (960).

The 5th-place spot is Here’s What You Missed (513), another longfic in the Cover of Knight ‘verse, which didn’t exist this time last year. It’s nowhere near cracking the top ranks for hits or kudos, but it’s got the readers talking.

Most bookmarks: Cover of Knight (1,640). Same as last year. There’s a new runner-up, though: Persephone’s Waltz (1,147), bumping Experimental Theologian (1,129) down to a close third place.

Most words: Clouded Mountain (313,788). The longest new fic I’ve written since last year is Here’s What You Missed (60,761), and it’s only 8th place on the list. Heck, the whole Cover of Knight universe currently sits at 321,803 words, just barely over the wordcount of Clouded Mountain alone. (The whole Republic of Heaven Community Radio series comes to 568,074 words.)

Fewest words: Same four-way tie as last year.

Final observation: Moon Knight is now my second-most-written AO3 fandom, with 38 works! (The latest fic I posted edged it up over WTNV, still at 37.)

That means I posted exactly 10 new MK works since last year…which feels low, but it includes the 21-chapter longfic Here’s What You Missed, and most of the 36 chapters of the already-started Reveals. (Speaking of which: gonna go post the last of those now.)

The intro meme at findingfriends looked fun and substantive, so here goes!

Is there an interesting story behind your username?

I was 10 or 11, I was coming up with Sailor Moon OCs, I flipped to the “list of mythology topics” page in what must’ve been the family World Book Encyclopedia, and picked half a dozen names basically at random. One of them ended up being Sailor Ptah.

…you want to see some art, right? Of course you do.

Classic!

(This was drawn on the back of…some kind of school worksheet, I think? I wasn’t getting sketchbooks yet. You can see the backwards text through the scan.)

So I was “SailorPtah” everywhere for a lot of years. Eventually swapped the “sailor” part for my first name, and now I’m “ErinPtah” everywhere.

( Further questions + photo of cats behind the cut )

As seen on my flist, most recently from genarti .

I was going to start this with a link to the last time I did a meme about the stats on my AO3 account…but apparently I have straight-up never done one!

Welp, no time like the present.

Most hits: He Says He Is An Experimental Theologian (114,570). First installment of the “retelling Welcome to Night Vale with daemons, also filling in gaps in the character development” AU, which spent a long time as my most-popular series overall…and wow, it turns 10 years old this November.

The runner-up is Cover of Knight (94,025), first installment in my current most-popular series. The overall series is still ongoing, so it’s racking up the hits more quickly; it’s not a question of if it overtakes Experimental Theologian, but when.

Most kudos: Cover of Knight (4,835). First installment of the “Team Moon Knight interacts with other Marvel Cinematic Universe characters, with increasing shenanigans to cover up the fact that they’re a plural system” series. Started in late June 2022, had already taken the crown by late November. Has the advantage of being episodic, so even if you’re mainly a fan of just one MCU sub-franchise, you can read those specific chapter(s), find them satisfying, and maybe get hooked into reading the rest.

I expected Experimental Theologian (2,546) to be the runner-up, but no, Persephone’s Waltz (2,559) has just-barely overtaken it! My longest and most popular Madoka Magica fic, the “what if Homura just locked Madoka in a basement for a month” timeline. These two are both enduringly popular, so I can see them continuing to trade off second place for a while.

Most comment threads: A Blinking Light Up On The Clouded Mountain (1,313), the second major installment of the WTNV-with-daemons AU. It has dramatically fewer hits (65,194) than Experimental Theologian; seems like the more casual readers dropped off, but the ones who were invested enough to comment stuck around, and commented more as the drama and mystery leveled up.

Cover of Knight (1,291) is a close runner-up. Reveals by Knight (224), the major follow-up to CoK, is still way down the list — I’m just noting it here because it gets more comments per chapter than CoK did, and I plan on making it at least as many chapters. Check back in a year.

Most bookmarks: Cover of Knight (1,233). Probably recently surpassed the runner-up, Experimental Theologian (1,058).

Most words: Clouded Mountain (313,788). Dramatically outstripping the runner-up, Experimental Theologian (182,093). Cover of Knight (56,605) is all the way down in 8th place.

The #3 place is taken by State of Grace (108,448), the Colbert Report “what if character!Stephen was plural” fic — which doesn’t even come close to any of the other stat records! It was written before I got an AO3 account and then crossposted, so the bulk of the interaction was back on the Livejournal/Dreamwidth version.

Fewest words: A four-way tie between a series of “exactly 100 words” fics. Three for WTNV: On Schedule (boy, this one turned out way too optimistic), Serenity Prayer (creepy and unsettling by design), and the way you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed (just fluff). One for Jeeves & Wooster: Lemon (a pun on its use to mean “NSFW”).

I know I’ve also done a bunch of “exactly 100 words” fics for the Colbert Report — but these were also pre-AO3, and only got crossposted as part of bigger TCR fic compilations, so you can’t just find them in the stats.

Final observation: Only have to post 10 more Moon Knight fics before it becomes my 2nd-most-written fandom! (By number of works, not by word count. I’m not going to sit around and manually add up word counts.)

It would need 59 works on top of that to take 1st place. Which seems like a less-reachable goal, if only because the energy I would usually put into “standalone one-shots” is mostly going into “mostly-standalone episodic chapters in the Cover of Knight universe.” But 2nd place? Yeah, that’s on the horizon.

Comment with up to 3 of the following and I will answer:

Talk about the first ship you ever had.
Talk about three of the most important ships throughout your life.
What’s your current OTP?
What’s your current NOTP?
Do you have any poly ships?
How do you feel about love triangles?
How do you feel about RPF?
Have you ever shipped yourself with a character?
Do you have many ships that never got together at all?
Do you ship any characters that have never met?
Talk about your favorite first kiss.
Have you ever been disappointed when your ship finally got together?
Has a ship ever broken your heart?
How do you feel about will they/won’t they?
Have you ever "shipped at first sight"?
Talk about a ship you initially disliked.
Talk about a pairing you’ve stopped shipping romantically.
Talk about a moment which made you question an entire ship.
Have you ever shipped something despite yourself?
Talk about a ship you feel alone in shipping.
Is there a ship you just don’t get, but have nothing against?
Which of your ships have the best chemistry?
Which of your ships deserve better writing?
Do you mostly ship canon pairings?
Have you ever shipped a pairing before you even started watching the show/movie simply because of gifs and graphics or similar?
Have you noticed a pattern in your shipping? Is there a romantic dynamic you’re more drawn to?
Is there a ship you’ve shipped for most of your life?
Does shipping come easily to you?
Do you need to ship something to really enjoy a movie/book/tv show/comic?
Name a couple of fandoms in which you have no ships.
Talk about one of your favorite headcanons for a ship you love.
Share five must-read fics.
Name your favorite fanartist(s).
Share your favorite fanmix for your OTP.
Recommend 1-5 shipper blogs.
Do you create fanmixes/gif sets/fanart/fic/fanvids and so on for you ships?
Do you have a favorite trope and/or AU for your OTP?
Do you like and use ship names?
Is there a fictional relationship you’d really want for yourself?
If you could change one thing about your OTP, what would that be?

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1. Are you an essential worker?

...I mean, I'd say Yes for society as a whole. But No for immediate survival needs in the midst of a pandemic.

2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started?

Alcohol, none. Don't enjoy it. Energy drinks and sodas are a different story. In theory I could give up drinking them now that I never need to be awake at any specific time, but I...have not.

3. If you have kids... Are they driving you nuts?

No kids, but my cat keeps coming up to pester me, and then I have to stop whatever I'm doing and brush him for five minutes. (He literally did it while I was typing that sentence.)

And he seems to be experimenting with a strategy of "pat the human lightly with one paw for more attention," but hasn't totally worked out how to do that with his claws in.

4. What new hobby have you taken up during this?

Polyphasic sleep!

(Not totally new, I did it for a while once...all the way back when I was in high school, during summer vacation. Couldn't keep it up for long because RL schedules intruded, but I remember being pretty happy with it.)

Started on April 8th with the regular 30-minute naps every 4 hours. Some of them end up being "30 minutes of lying very still in a dark room and not falling sleep before the timer goes off," and so far one of them has always turned into "spend this whole 4-hour period asleep," but it's still closer to 6 hours of sleep per day than 8-9. We'll see if I can condition myself to get it down to 3.

( How many grocery runs have you done...? )

March 24: "According to the current research, the virus that causes COVID-19 has a low “error rate,” meaning that its pace of mutation remains slow despite its rapid spread. Because it remains more or less stable as it travels through hundreds of thousands of patients, researchers state that it is less likely to become more dangerous (or less) as it spreads."

March 26: "Landon Spradlin, a Virginia pastor who claimed the “mass hysteria” around the coronavirus pandemic was part of a media plot against Trump, has died from the virus."

March 28 (NYT): "In a matter of days, [New York] city’s 911 system has been overwhelmed by calls for medical distress apparently related to the virus. Typically, the system sees about 4,000 Emergency Medical Services calls a day. On [March 27], dispatchers took more than 7,000 calls — a volume not seen since the Sept. 11 attacks. The record for amount of calls in a day was broken three times in the last week."

March 30: "General Electric factory workers launched two separate protests demanding that the company convert its jet engine factories to make ventilators. At GE's Lynn, Massachusetts aviation facility, workers held a silent protest, standing six feet apart. Union members at the company’s Boston headquarters also marched six feet apart, calling on the company to use its factories to help the country close its ventilator shortage amid the coronavirus pandemic."

April 1: "It wasn’t government spending the Tea Party opposed, it was government spending on “losers,” imposed by the party that the “losers” had brought to power. That’s why a less-than-$1 trillion bill meant to stave off a depression garnered enough outrage from those on the right to start a movement, while a piece of legislation more than twice its size prompts celebration by those same people. The CARES Act, the largest spending bill in American history, sparked no Tea Party rebellions, no protesters in tricorne hats, no cries of “take our country back,” and no invocations of “Second Amendment remedies.” The illegitimacy of Democratic Party governance, not the size of the deficit, the reach of the federal government, or the fact of economic stimulus itself, was the problem."

April 2: "The new policy states that the [period of not being eligible to donate blood] for MSM will change from 12 months to 3 months. These guidelines also apply to female donors who would have been deferred for having a sex with a man who has sex with men, as well as individuals who have recently received a tattoo or piercing. The FDA has also revised their policy in regards to people who engage in commercial sex work (CSW) and injection drug use (IDU), changing their indefinite deferrals to 3-month deferrals." ...So now we know what it takes to make that happen, huh.

April 4 (NYT): "As Dr. Rosenberg walked down the corridor,

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First up -- I tweeted when it happened, but in case you missed it, Marshmallow Fluff got to the vet and back. He recovered from the ordeal pretty quickly, and has re-settled into most of his old routines. Most importantly, the one where he eats.

They kept him 2 nights for observation, during which they blood-tested, rehydrated, medicated, and...shaved him.

When he's feeling well he refuses to be touched, let alone brushed...but this'll keep his fur from getting matted again for a while!

He weighed in at 13 pounds. This time last year, when he was originally rescued from a neglect/starvation situation, he weighed 6. This is the good life, all right.

I also finally figured out a birthday present, and got him one of those kitty drinking fountains:

I hope it's encouraging him to drink more. He seems to like it, at least. Doesn't smack at it the way he used to do his water bowl, and he's experimented with drinking from different bits, at various angles.

...so now that you're up-to-date on Cat News, here's that fic meme.

( As borrowed from various DW people... )

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