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You'll have to excuse me, I've been a bit busy. My baaaaaby brother just turned 18. This is distressing to me, as he is clearly 12 and ought to remain so for the rest of my life.

Anyway,

scribbulus_ink was posting pairing stats about her fic, as well as top/bottom frequency, which reminded me that I had counted some similar things for my own fic.

If you're only counting fics where explicit sex is had, I've written about 20 different pairings or threesomes in HP. (It really depends on how you count, though.) There are only two, though, that I've written more than once: Peter/Ron and Sirius/James, both of which I've written twice.

scribbulus_ink says she's written 52 Snape/Lupin stories! I guess I don't see the appeal, as a writer. Usually once I've written a pairing, I'm not that interested in exploring it any further. Peter/Ron is the only one I've written in two completely separate scenarios, not the same universe. Question for the OTP-type people: Do you mostly write in the same universe, or do you like to come up with totally new scenarios for each fic?

Top five characters I've written most often, including non-slash and ficlets:

1. Peter (15 times)
2. Remus (12)
3. Harry (10)
4. Snape (7)
5. Sirius (6)

I'm surprised Remus is so high up there; I didn't realize I'd written him so much.

I've also written Draco and Ron 5 times each. James 4 times. Lucius, Tom/Voldemort, and Neville thrice. Filch, Slughorn, and Cedric twice. And tons of others only once.

McKay tallied how often her characters topped/bottomed. I decided not to take the question literally for my fic, since the physical bit doesn't interest me as much as who's figuratively "on top". Who's dominant.

She tallied for her most frequent pairing, so I'll do it for my most frequent character. I've written Peter dominating his partner three times (Remus, Ron, Harry), and submitting to them four times (James, Sirius, Ron again, Filch).

To some extent, this reflects two different variations on his characterization that I use as they suit the story at hand. I would say that the Peter who practically forces himself on Remus in Pale Fever is a younger version of the Peter who keeps Ron as a pet in Cut With Diamonds. Likewise, the young Peter who allows himself to be seduced by Filch in To The Letter would grow up to be the older Peter who really just wants to be Ron's pet again in Force of Habit.

I was also curious how often I wrote from dominant and submissive POVs.

This isn't always a clear-cut attribute of a story, but I can count 12 times that I've written primarily from the perspective of someone who is submitting, and 5 from the perspective of someone who is dominating. That doesn't really surprise me, since my personal experience is more on the submissive side. (I also notice that I tend to enjoy writing subs more, whereas writing dominant characters can feel tiring and even upsetting.)

If you want to look for yourself, all my HP fic (even the crap) is in memories.

ETA: And if you don't like any of that, how about The Picard Song with accompanying video? It ate my brain, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

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Hmmm randomly

I see Peter being being bottom to anyone he feels is stronger than him but top the instant he feels he can dominate because I would think the chance to be dominant would be appealing to him in the way it is with the ummm shoot I think it's the Power-Ressurance rapist type (which I think is basically what you wrote in "Pale Fever").

So not so much two different variation on the character, but the smae character reacting to different sexual situations and balances of power. Which would explain why he's sub to Ron I the story where he would logically see Ron as the dominant figure (what's more dominant than an owner after all) as oppossed to how he treats Ron when Peter is the one with power. Even when Peter is dominant, there was still a sense of Peter wanting to be wanted that was consistent with the characterization in "Force of Habit."

And yay, I paid god knows how much for a sociology clas sinc ollege so I can assign rape types to a ficitonal character. MONEY WELL SPENT! Joy! *head desk*

As is so often the case, I think your reader interpretation is superior to my authorial intent, or at least more interesting. :D

He is totally not allowed to be 18.

P.S. Mine will soon be 20.

Well, now that's just silly. He should stop getting older this instant!

Do you mostly write in the same universe, or do you like to come up with totally new scenarios for each fic?

Out of the 52 Snape/Lupin stories I've written, less than 10 are connected. The rest are new and different scenarios. The challenge for me is to see how the characters react under different circumstances and how I can get them together this time. I enjoy writing those characters and that dynamic, so I keep coming back to it again and again, and it doesn't get old.

Cool stats - thanks for sharing. :D

I don't know why I'm constantly switching pairings. I don't stop liking or reading a pairing after I've written it, I just... don't have any more to say, and the initiative isn't there.

That's a cool thing to know--odd, but cool.:-) ITA with being more interested in who's the top metaphorically than just what the mechanics are. I've read some seriously hilarious essays on how characters can not every take a certain sexual position because of the strangest moments in canon.

This now has got me thinking about all the Marauders and how for the three we've met you really could go with interesting characterizations both ways for all of them.

I've read some seriously hilarious essays on how characters can not every take a certain sexual position because of the strangest moments in canon.

Oh god, me too. It doesn't bother me if people want to use the fucking=dominant convention, but it's so boggling when people think it A) reflects reality and B) is The Only Way.

the three we've met

Which one haven't we met? Are you not counting us as having "met" James?

Err...*scratches head and remembers vividly "meeting" James in OotP*

Yes, I suppose I meant James! I guess because I was thinking of the characters in the present and we only see James in a memory. But with James you could certainly go both ways as well even just using the Pensieve scene, especially if you're playing with the James/Sirius dynamic.

my only problem -- and i mean my ONLY problem -- with the whole equating 'top/bottom' with 'aggressive/submissive' is that they are not directly related, despite the obvious tendency to directly link them.

as a het boy, i, obviously 'top' women. but i'm usually submissive. i go for aggressive women.

my current gf, when we fuck... I feel like i've been fucked... get my meaning? i imagine the same is with gay/bi boys, no? topping doesn't necessarily mean being the 'aggressor' or 'aggressive'

or am i just missing out on something?

I don't know, are you? There are two possible meanings for "top and bottom". One is literal: "penetrative and receptive". The other is figurative: "dominant and submissive". Obviously, they don't have to correspond in real life, but frequently people creating fiction use the convention that they do. I don't really care for that convention, so it would be meaningless to count how often a character was fucking as opposed to getting fucked in my writing.

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I think, for me, it depends on the context of the story. I've sritten stories and then gone back later and realized they really fit together (like Saving Harry (http://dramaphile.livejournal.com/24364.html) is an unintentional prequel to Early to Bed (http://dramaphile.livejournal.com/15496.html)) and most of my Sirius/Remus stories are pretty much in the same context, but my two Remus/Draco stories are completely different because one was established relationship and the other was a random fuck in a nightclub. I suppose the latter could lead to the former, but in my mind, they're very different.

Same with my Remus/James stories. Friends in High Places (http://dramaphile.livejournal.com/16817.html) and Explaining Different (http://dramaphile.livejournal.com/10263.html) are more or less the same universe, but Take James, For Instance (http://dramaphile.livejournal.com/14151.html) isn't the same, and New Moon () is AU, so it's got its own category.

Hm, it's interesting to think about it, and honestly, I think I write a lot of my characters pretty similarly in each fic because I have such a clear idea in my head of who they are (which is why I probably have so much trouble sometimes putting them in certain situations!

I always love reading authors' stats - I should do it myself, someday, when my website is finally caught up with my livejournal. If that ever happens. :-P

On the matter of universes, unless a story is a direct sequel, all my same-pairinng fics tend to be self-contained. Even when it's an established relationship fic, I tend to have an original backstory already in mind. I once had someone write me, confused because I had given Snape's mother two different names in two different stories - and I remember being equally confused because it just seemed obvious to me that two separate stories would entail two separate worlds. I think I do it that way because I like portraying different dynamics between the characters, taking different tones, and having the freedom to reflect that through different timelines and origins.

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