I do think, as a subjective impression, there may be quite a number of female characters among the OCs.
Yes, I think so too. I would even guess that there have been more female OCs than male ones, but I wouldn't venture to state the exact proportions.
And I think people may have become a bit less prone to using type of pairing as a genre category than they used to, especially as the header specifies pairing anyway.
Hmm, that may be true. It is true that the header specifies pairings and so tagging for pairing type isn't necessary to convey that information. I'd guess that it also depends on when and where people started in fandom and the habits they developed. My first fandom archive was AO3, which has pairing type prominently listed in the posting form, so I just got used to adding that info to all my fics, and now I do it out of habit even when I'm not on AO3. But not everyone does that.
In case it's not clear, I wasn't trying to suggest that people should tag for pairing type -- I have no opinion on whether they do or don't. I was just looking at the numbers.
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Date: 2017-03-22 04:49 pm (UTC)Yes, I think so too. I would even guess that there have been more female OCs than male ones, but I wouldn't venture to state the exact proportions.
And I think people may have become a bit less prone to using type of pairing as a genre category than they used to, especially as the header specifies pairing anyway.
Hmm, that may be true. It is true that the header specifies pairings and so tagging for pairing type isn't necessary to convey that information. I'd guess that it also depends on when and where people started in fandom and the habits they developed. My first fandom archive was AO3, which has pairing type prominently listed in the posting form, so I just got used to adding that info to all my fics, and now I do it out of habit even when I'm not on AO3. But not everyone does that.
In case it's not clear, I wasn't trying to suggest that people should tag for pairing type -- I have no opinion on whether they do or don't. I was just looking at the numbers.