How Big Are Your Fandoms?
Mar. 20th, 2022 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ermingardenA 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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Date: 2022-03-27 10:00 pm (UTC)"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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