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Guava ([personal profile] g_uava) wrote in [community profile] fictional_fans2024-03-24 10:27 am
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Maximum number of self-created fanworks for an unpopular fandom/ship

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.
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[personal profile] bluedreaming 2024-04-10 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
it's like you're everywhere in the fandom
Hopefully people who stumble across it don't find me annoying!

To be fair, some of them are podfics of previous stories I'd written, so as fair as unique narratives there are fewer fanworks (alas). I do often come to GOTH as a fandom for drabbles, ficlets, and writing games, so those just usually pop up, though I have one wip for [community profile] intoabar and a percolating crossover for GOTH & Hyouka so it's probably a case of both! (Pre-existing ideas and coming up with new ones.)

In many ways, it's nice to have a little fandom like that.