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 09:57 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2022-03-27 10:07 pm (UTC)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!)