You totally should do the fandom size meme -- it's led to some interesting results on my flist!
Dragaera fandom on the internet is weird! There is a small group of very dedicated people who have maintained amazing resources over the last couple of decades, I think, but the transformative works part of the fandom is very tiny. Some of it predated the creation of AO3 -- I think there were some archives or LJ comms, back in the day, still small but present, but even with a lot of those fics imported to AO3, it is very small. Which is understandable, I guess -- it's a pretty daunting fandom to write in, between very strong narrator voices, complicated worldbuilding, long-running open canon...
I do think more people know it and discuss it in meta ways than the AO3 works count would indicate, though.
Otoh, the idea of GRRM "anything" being yuletide-eligible makes me giggle. Oh how the times change. :D
Yup, it's pretty crazy to think! But at that point, what little fic there was was all in locked comms, because GRRM was one of those authors vocally against fanfic and some of the Big Name Fans who had semi-official capacities would reportedly rat out fanfic authors or something? Or at least those were the rumours going around, and it was enough for people to keep their fic locked down.
Dragaera fandom on the internet is weird! There is a small group of very dedicated people who have maintained amazing resources over the last couple of decades, I think, but the transformative works part of the fandom is very tiny. Some of it predated the creation of AO3 -- I think there were some archives or LJ comms, back in the day, still small but present, but even with a lot of those fics imported to AO3, it is very small. Which is understandable, I guess -- it's a pretty daunting fandom to write in, between very strong narrator voices, complicated worldbuilding, long-running open canon...
I do think more people know it and discuss it in meta ways than the AO3 works count would indicate, though.
Otoh, the idea of GRRM "anything" being yuletide-eligible makes me giggle. Oh how the times change. :D
Yup, it's pretty crazy to think! But at that point, what little fic there was was all in locked comms, because GRRM was one of those authors vocally against fanfic and some of the Big Name Fans who had semi-official capacities would reportedly rat out fanfic authors or something? Or at least those were the rumours going around, and it was enough for people to keep their fic locked down.
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