A03 meme

[byslantedlight]

Seen most recently by tinturtle and gilda_elise but also various other people before then, when I was still at the no-I-must-get-this-work-done-first stage, and didn't... either really... *headdesk*

The more I think about it too, the less representative this is if I stick to what I've got around to posting on A03... A03 ≠ My Fandom Writing.

1) How many stories have

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[gilda_elise]

1) How many stories have you posted?
99 - ha, I need to get another one up there, don't I? *g*

Wow, I l knew you'd written a lot, but I didn't know it was that many! And, yes, another one is in order. *g*

10) How many megafandoms (over 50,000 stories posted for the fandom at AO3)?
None - I can't even imagine what those fandoms are...

Yeah, I wondered about that, too. Twilight, maybe? Though if you count all its incarnations, and the stories in every archive and zine, Star Trek might be one of them.

[byslantedlight]

l knew you'd written a lot, but I didn't know it was that many!
Counting drabbles, according to my own list on my lj I've written 197 - but someone else told me they have over 200 of my stories, so I've clearly missed a few from my own list! *g*

Twilight, maybe? Though if you count all its incarnations, and the stories in every archive and zine, Star Trek might be one of them.
Yes, Twilight's probably one - and I wondered about Sherlock too. And Harry Potter. There's probably loads now that fandom is globally-internet-based! I was surprised that Pros didn't have more stories actually, than my rough count suggests, but then it takes alot longer to spread news about things via pen and paper than via a quick google!

[sc_fossil]

If we strictly stick to AO3, I believe in a random search that "Marvel" has the most at just under 500,000. That includes anything labelled Marvel, of course. Sherlock has about 150,000 and Star Trek lags at 85,000. I can't right off find another "fandom" with more than Marvel, which technically includes dozens and dozens of separate films, books, comics, etc. Whatever 'I Am Groot' is, it has over 800,000 hits, 94,000 kudos and almost 3000 comments. Useless info for the day! LOL!

[byslantedlight]

Oh, but Marvel is just cheating, because that's now an enormous franchise that has drawn in multiple original stories and grouped them all together under one publisher. It's like saying "Penguin Books" is a single fandom!

I was far too lazy to go and look up numbers (plus feeling guilty, because I'm just entirely distractable from work today...), so thanks!

[tinturtle]

And what teen is not going to think they're "mature", or want to explore the "mature" or "explicit" rating anyway?
People always say this, but it's not true. I had no interest in sex as either a child or a teenager, and I was uncomfortable with depictions of it. I was quite happy to follow posted signs.

I can't even imagine what those fandoms are...
Well, the MCU is the fandom that ate Cincinnati. There are plenty of others that have reached well over 50,000 fics on AO3, though.

Lots and lots and lots...!
Save the drabbles!

[byslantedlight]

Lol - I have no clue what "MCU" stands for! And yeah, I wasn't saying there aren't alot of fandoms with over 50,000, just that they aren't really on my radar. I would have guessed Harry Potter and Sherlock maybe, and wondered about anime fandoms that I know next-to-nothing about, and Gilda reminded me of Twilight up above. I was too lazy to go and look, so thanks for the easy link. Yup, lots!

I apparently have over 100 more fics and drabbles that I haven't posted to A03 yet...!

but it's not true. I had no interest in sex as either a child or a teenager, and I was uncomfortable with depictions of it. I was quite happy to follow posted signs.
Yes, "what teen is not going to think they're mature" was both a generalised and vague phrase. It didn't necessarily refer just to the idea of wanting to read fic with sex or "mature" themes in it, but also there are of course teenagers who don't feel ready/interested etc., so I should have said "there probably aren't many..." which I do think is true.

[sc_fossil]

MCU is Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you look here, it's broken down somewhat. https://archiveofourown.org/media

Of course, that is all dependent on what tags a person used so that could be wonky as well.

[byslantedlight]

I didn't reply to this yesterday - sorry, got caught up in all the other things we were talking about!

But thanks! *g*

[heliophile_oxon]

" before anyone says "but the lads aren't having sex in canon" - yes they are, they just don't show it onscreen.
Exactly and incontrovertibly so! ::nods sagely::

From 99 to 100 sounds like a deed to be encouraged, go on do - you absolutely should! :-) Or even ... do you think you might ever put your other stuff up on AO3 too, just for the security of the archive? (of course no archive is truly forever, I suppose, but with the resources it now has and the range of people involved I imagine that AO3 is about as stable as anything these days and more so than most).

Has/ve any particular one(s) of those WIPs been calling to you lately ... ? *g* (now I can't find that pic of Doyle looking sultry (yes, I know that doesn't narrow it down much *g*) with a sort of electric green cast, maybe it was by cloudless???? argh how annoying - anyway I mean that pic you wrote some ideas around ... and then there's wartime aviators, and age-of-sail tall ships, and ... happy thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[byslantedlight]

Or even ... do you think you might ever put your other stuff up on AO3 too
Oh I will - I'm mid-archiving, not stopped-cos-that's-all-I'm-going-to-do. *g* My original plan was just to archive one at a time, because it bugged me when everyone archived all their fic at once, and my lj was crowded out with those fics from the feed, but of course that relies on me getting around to archiving them regularly. *g*

I'm not convinced A03 is any more stable than any other website/platform on the internet, but I do generally believe that the more places we archive our fics, the longer they might live for people to discover one day... so even though I much prefer our dedicated Pros archives, like ProsLib, I'll archive to A03 too...

Has/ve any particular one(s) of those WIPs been calling to you lately ... ?Oh, they're all calling me - although actually the Age of Sail one has been nudging at me most, recently. I guess I've been thinking about my long-lost Phd... :( I should make it worthwhile by writing that fic, shouldn't I...? *g* And I haven

[mab_browne]

It's always interesting to see what people focus on in their themes and such. I sneaked in one lonely megafandom story by writing a ficlet for Sherlock BBC back in the day.