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ermingarden) wrote2022-03-20 05:59 pm
ermingarden) wrote2022-03-20 05:59 pm
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How Big Are Your Fandoms?
A fun meme borrowed from ysilme:
How big are your fandoms? List them in order of the number of works posted for them on AO3.
I'm doing this for the fandoms I'm currently active (i.e., regularly reading and/or writing fic) in. As of approximately 6 PM Eastern Time on March 20, 2022, the work count is as follows:
1) Star Wars – All Media Types has 192,780;
2) 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù has 54,335,
3) The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth – J. R. R. Tolkien has 21,340,
4) The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien has 21,168, and
5) 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù has 9,221.
I'm totally shocked – MDZS has over twice as many works on AO3 as does the Silm or (bookverse) LotR!
The MDZS novel serialization on JJWXC only began in 2015, and CQL only came out in 2019! (2019 was also the year the fan translation of the novel by Exiled Rebels was completed.) CQL has 38,138 works; 9,883 of those are not also tagged with MDZS, bringing the total for the umbrella fandom across media types up to almost 65k! (There's no "All Media Types" umbrella tag for MDZS; there are 250 works tagged with the donghua but neither the novel or CQL.) TOLKIEN J. R. R. – Works and Related Fandoms, the broadest Tolkien umbrella, beats that with 84,066 – but the oldest of the Tolkien works is (back)dated to 2003, and The Hobbit was published in 1937!
ysilme: How big are your fandoms? List them in order of the number of works posted for them on AO3.
I'm doing this for the fandoms I'm currently active (i.e., regularly reading and/or writing fic) in. As of approximately 6 PM Eastern Time on March 20, 2022, the work count is as follows:
1) Star Wars – All Media Types has 192,780;
2) 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù has 54,335,
3) The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth – J. R. R. Tolkien has 21,340,
4) The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien has 21,168, and
5) 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù has 9,221.
I'm totally shocked – MDZS has over twice as many works on AO3 as does the Silm or (bookverse) LotR!
The MDZS novel serialization on JJWXC only began in 2015, and CQL only came out in 2019! (2019 was also the year the fan translation of the novel by Exiled Rebels was completed.) CQL has 38,138 works; 9,883 of those are not also tagged with MDZS, bringing the total for the umbrella fandom across media types up to almost 65k! (There's no "All Media Types" umbrella tag for MDZS; there are 250 works tagged with the donghua but neither the novel or CQL.) TOLKIEN J. R. R. – Works and Related Fandoms, the broadest Tolkien umbrella, beats that with 84,066 – but the oldest of the Tolkien works is (back)dated to 2003, and The Hobbit was published in 1937!
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A note also on the numbers of works: you've seen in my take on the meme that there are only very little works for Earth's Children. On AO3 there are some really short ones, but others which are beyond epic - the one I'm currently reading has three parts, part one is finished on the AO3 with over 500k words, part 2 is being posted but finished at a fandom-specific forum and not shorter, and part three is in the process of being written. Other fandoms, though, tend to have mostly very short fanworks but a high number of them. And then there are numbskulls like the "author" of one fanfic I've once come across, who stated their only intent about that fanwork was to reach the 1 million word count to be counted among those fics, and they had countless chapters wiht one or two paragraphs each of absolute nonsense, no story whatsoever, just some generic blather about the weather and their slippers or so. LOL
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Honestly, precise numbers aside, I'm just surprised a fandom that was Yuletide-eligible in 2018 now has 50k+ works!!!
And wow, that "fic" sounds awful!
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"It is true that we don't make all media types tags anymore. Part of that is about server strain, part of that is because umbrella tags can get messy pretty quick, part of it is because having an all media types discourages people from tagging what canon they're largely working with and then fans of a specific canon get upset (like if we all just used an all media types [fandom] tag, people specifically looking for fic with [character] characterization from the [adaptation] would be kinda upset). There are pros and cons."
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this year i've been on quite the mxtx kick, so my current fandom (and most of my recently read fic) is mdzs. previously, i read a lot for svsss, which has 10965 fic.
i'm also marginally in genshin impact, which has 64917 fic (though i haven't actually read anything outside of friend recs for genshin in a while)
the fandom i'm most consistently in though is the king's avatar (it's a chinese webnovel about esports that has a donghua & live action adaptation). there's a novel, donghua, and live action tag for this one, but mostly i go through the novel tag which has 13395 total works and 2450 works when you specify english only (which is pretty interesting haha)
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I only got into MDZS and TGCF about six months ago, after well over a year of watching various Silmarillion fandom folks rave about The Untamed. (Still haven't watched all of CQL...I'm always much more of a book person, whatever fandom I'm in.) I bounced off SVSSS, sadly – transmigration just isn't my thing.
(Slightly off-topic, but I should say again that I loved your MDZS fic for
Those language stats for The King's Avatar are really interesting, especially since AO3 tends to be so English-dominated!
(And wow...I did not realize how big Genshin Impact is!)
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I'm not all that surprised that MDZS is so big - it really took off after CQL came out on Netflix and so many people discovered the original novel in its wake.
And with book!LotR I think that a) many people might not have migrated their fic to AO3 at all, and b) it might just be miscategorised under the movies, or people use the movies like an umbrella term. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'd imagine there must be loads of fic for the book, but it's a very old fandom.
I think I'll steal this. Might be interesting XD
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Yeah, as a lot of people have noted, this really isn't "how big are your fandoms" so much as "how big are your fandoms on AO3," and for old and perennially popular fandoms like LotR the latter isn't a good reflection of the former. I'd also imagine it's not a good reflection of fandom size for MDZS or TGCF, either, since Chinese-language fandom mostly isn't on AO3.
I'd love to see you do it! It's a fun meme.
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Exactly. I did the meme now and I've got PotC in there, which is quite small on AO3. That fandom was mostly over when AO3 started, everything happened on Livejournal and on special archives (some of which are still there at least).
And yes, Chinese-language fandom uses different sites, too. So the results will always be skewed, but at least it's an approximation of English fandom I guess. XD