I have to confess that most of my load order is half-completed mods of my own, that got hung up on some problem and got shelved while I work on something else.
The Bear Riders are waiting for me to figure out the AI packages to reunite rider and bear when they get separated.
Elf Children is waiting on the successful generation of the normal maps from the low- and hi-res heads that I made. Plus some more elven clothing - I'm trying to adapt the Dragonborn Dunmer outfit to a kids' one.
And now my latest Orc character is telling me that he's not satisfied with the Hearthfire home he's building at Lakeview, and would much prefer a proper Orcish longhouse on the Heljarchen site. So I'm looking at the possibilities of new "under construction" meshes and an alternate Orc-only set of options on the drafting table. Since the longhouse is a bit smaller than the Hearthfire homes, it would have several outbuildings to compensate.
But I do have some preferred mods from other folk. The
Female Mannequins mod (plus the related ones for homes and Hearthfire) is getting a lot of use, as most of my characters are Bear Riders who can't sell of the uniforms they "grew out of" and want to put them on display. Their stuff doesn't fit male ones.
I tried "
Amazing Follower Tweaks" hoping it would tell me how to manage mounts for multiple characters. It didn't, but the ability to have multiple followers was fun. The problem with that is that your main character gets less experience, because the entourage does all the killing. On the other hand, smithing all those outfits...
I put in Princess_stomper's
Better Raven Rock but didn't keep it long. It's very well made, and does what it says on the can, but having so many vacant homes in the one small town made it too unrealistic. Since there's already a player home available, it didn't really add anything for me.
I've downloaded several armor mods to steal from, but I'm not running any of them as is, and in most cases, I've taken parts of meshes and merged and modified them in Blender, so the original pieces have lost their identities, especially as they were mainly reworking the vanilla contents in the first place. It's going to make it hard to give credit to the mod authors when I release anything!