Maximum number of self-created fanworks for an unpopular fandom/ship

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What's the upper limit of fanworks you've created as a self-sustaining fan? That means relying on yourself primarily to sustain your own interest to complete your creative projects since your fandom/ship/favourite is so obscure that feedback and other fanworks to inspire you are hard to come by.

Also, would you have wished to have created more for the same unpopular fandom/ship, even if there remains few others who are just as invested?


The most I've created is around 30,000 words of fics and fewer than 10 non-writing fanworks (icons, gifsets, fanvideos) for a rare pair from an old fandom. It's so rare that there were (and still are) no other English language fanworks for the ship aside from what I've created.

I'm satisfied with what I've created and am glad to move on to another canon that involved tackling a new challenge in my fanworks. But if I were to write for the ship again, I'd more deliberately include a larger variety of fun fanfic tropes in my fics.

Comments

[g_uava]

Maybe the fics you wrote had a hand in willing Oliver to become a series regular in the later seasons 😆 I only know of the Green Arrow iteration of the character and it's interesting to imagine him in a ship with Superman!

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LOL It is an unexpected combo! Unlike Clark who was developing his identity, he was already Green Arrow on the show (though his alter ego did get his name in the first few episodes). I think the showrunners wanted Batman, but couldn't get him so they settled for the other billionaire playboy who fights crime! Justin Hartley (actor who played him) was initially cast as Arthur Curry for this Aquaman show by the same showrunners but it wasn't picked up so they brought him in as Oliver. Two of the original cast members (Lex & Lana) left after s7 so they needed to fill a gap and well, it worked out for me. I think Oliver being popular on Smallville was the reason "Arrow" as a show came to be. :D