by the numbers
I've been thinking about the Slayage con that sisabet and sockkpuppett and tzikeh were at this past weekend, and thinking about the intersection of fandom and academia.
And just now I checked the site stats for paper cup and discovered that the Donnie Darko vid has been downloaded a tidy 300 times since I posted it - 200 for the large size and 100 for the small. And that's just one vid in one month; "Superstar" has been posting steady numbers for a full year now, got seen by a bunch of people at VividCon last year, got shown to a bunch of academics at Slayage, etc.
It occurs to me that it's extremely unlikely that any "serious" writing I ever do - any poem, any creative non-fiction, any critical article (even on BtVS), let alone the dissertation - will be read 300 times. And let's not even get into the rewatching of vids vs. the re-reading of academic articles and unexceptional poetry.
I really like fandom.
And just now I checked the site stats for paper cup and discovered that the Donnie Darko vid has been downloaded a tidy 300 times since I posted it - 200 for the large size and 100 for the small. And that's just one vid in one month; "Superstar" has been posting steady numbers for a full year now, got seen by a bunch of people at VividCon last year, got shown to a bunch of academics at Slayage, etc.
It occurs to me that it's extremely unlikely that any "serious" writing I ever do - any poem, any creative non-fiction, any critical article (even on BtVS), let alone the dissertation - will be read 300 times. And let's not even get into the rewatching of vids vs. the re-reading of academic articles and unexceptional poetry.
I really like fandom.