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

[g_uava]

'I’m responsible for 13 of the 19 works' -- Awesome, from posting in multiple tags related to the canon, it's like you're everywhere in the fandom! When you come back to it, do you create fanworks from pre-existing ideas you haven't got around to working on or do you come up with fanwork ideas for the canon as time goes by?

[bluedreaming]

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 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.