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fictional_fansWhat'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.
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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Date: 2024-04-01 12:30 pm (UTC)So there was this very popular fic from the time of Soviet Union called "Black book of Arda" (except in Russian of course), about the Silmarillion from the PoV of the villains, and... I never read it, automatic translations were not that good at the time, and I'm bad at Russian, but it has the reputation to 1) use the change of PoV to explore themes like "history is written by the victors" and propaganda, in a way that talked to the Russian readers, and have cold war references too, and also being quite good? And it led to a fashion of fic presenting them as sympathetic, which led to shipping? I don't know, most of this happened, obviously, in Russian :D