Fictional Fans

I've only been in one fandom where this is the case (my current main fandom, Monkey Island). 10 out of the 132 works on AO3 are mine (and 4 out of the 17 that have been created or updated in the past year), and I think I am the first user of some of then character tags. I also have one WIP that technically I've been working on since late 2021, one fragment that isn't really a WIP yet, and some pretty lengthy drawer-fic. I don't know if I can rightly say that I am "self-sustaining", though, because it's so hard to find motivation to work when I feel like I don't belong in the fandom in the first place and am "doin it rong". Nobody really is interested in fanfic in MI fandom; "it's like fanfic" is often used as an insult against people's personal least favorite game in the series, and generally fanfic is thought of as "low". (Certainly almost nobody is interested in Monkey Island smutfic, which I'm sure I would be regarded as very freakish for writing by most people in the fandom.) There's some interest in fanart (a lot of which is not very transformative) and the thing that really gets people's attention is meta videos, which is not something I have ability or inclination to make.