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A. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

I'd love to say I write pretty broadly, but my guess is it's less broadly than I think.

I think the commonalities of most of my fics are: angst, whether from canon issues or issues I make up (usually that's for AUs) that the characters have to work through (and do, to some degree or another), romance, slash, usually and at least one queer character, even if it's a het story, and generally happy endings.

And now I'm going to do a spreadsheet to see how much of that is statistically true. But that'll take a couple hours, so I'll be coming back later.

ETA: I really did start a spreadsheet (only got to about #80 or so before I petered out), and (thankfully, actually), happy endings are not actually THAT much a part of my M.O. Bittersweet and downright unhappy endings are just as common. I did notice a few other commonalities, though - one is that I tend to write canon-compliant or canon-based things waaaaaaaaaaaay more than AUs (though my AUs are more well known, I think), and I also write a lot of first time fics - if there is romance (and that, too, is not as prevalent as I suspected), then it's likely to be first time.