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

[g_uava]

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

[cuddyclothes]

In 2017 my brain was taken over by the movie "Swiss Army Man", made by the directors of "Everything Everywhere All At Once". It stars Paul Dano as a suicidal man marooned on an island, and Daniel Radcliffe as a dead body who washes ashore. It becomes an incredibly bizarre but sweet love story as Paul teaches the gradually awakening Daniel about life and love. Paul plays both himself and a female alter ego he creates for Daniel. Basically this movie broke me in half, and there was no fandom save for some folks on Tumblr.

I wrote 10 fics in a series, starting with a fix-it, called "After Verse" which totaled 21K.They were an enormous amount of work, in part because I found the script online and was able to match the rhythm of the dialogue. Plus watching YouTube videos about subjects including how to winterize a lean-to. The response has been marvelous, but there are only a few other fics.

[g_uava]

Paul Dano! Daniel Radcliffe! A female alter ego played by a man! I've taken note of this movie post-haste and am glad to see it's also under 2 hours.

Great also to hear that even with the extensive research you've done, you managed to have the fics in your series have an average of ~2k words. That's an accessible length, short but meaty enough for readers curious about fanworks for a more obscure canon and just happened to randomly look it up on AO3.

[cuddyclothes]

Thank you! Even though when it came out it was a New York Times Critic's Pick, it kind of flew under the radar.