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brightknightie) wrote2025-01-06 08:37 am
brightknightie) wrote2025-01-06 08:37 am
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D&DC feels oddly outnumbered in its own fandom tag
A few times a year, I check in on Dungeons & Dragons (Cartoon) fanfic on the AO3, hoping to find a new story to enjoy in this dear fandom that is so small at this end of history. I almost always find something added. Yet I much more rarely find something I, personally, want to dip into, and I've been pondering how much of that is for a curious fandom-specific reason and not just my own idiosyncratic pickiness.
I find that in the modest haul of new D&DC fanfic each year, there's consistently what feels to me like a disproportionate need for pre-screening for the fandom itself.
That is, there are frequently authors who seem to accidentally misapply this fandom tag altogether; I hypothesize that they're unaware of the 1983-85 cartoon and think they're tagging something else; perhaps the years should be added into the canonical fandom tag. More authors apply it to documentation for their D&D campaigns or fic about their original D&D characters, in which they used one or more of the cartoon's cast as NPCs, or used a concept or location from the show, or something like that. And many wholly legitimately include this fandom's tag on massive multi-fandom crossover sagas in which one or more of this cast cameos briefly at some point in a mega-long pan-universes romp starring characters from fandoms I'm unfamiliar with.
There are so few total "D&DC only"/"pure D&DC" stories each year that they often seem, to me, outnumbered by these more marginal appearances within the fandom tag. As in every fandom, of course, ratings, content, genres, completion/WIP, writing skill, etc. all thin the herd for picking what to read! Yet I'm not personally familiar with any other fandoms that inhabit what feels like such a comparatively small percentage of the content under their own fandom tags.
No, on reflection, that last is not true. I do know one fandom even more poorly represented within its own tag, though it is crowded out entirely by one rival. The tag for Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876) is more than 2:1 for the TV show Hannibal versus the actual classic Victorian novel or even the BBC TV series (2002) based on the novel. With ten works total, the math is easy. Perhaps that is a concentrated version of the same phenomenon, rather than a different one.
I find that in the modest haul of new D&DC fanfic each year, there's consistently what feels to me like a disproportionate need for pre-screening for the fandom itself.
That is, there are frequently authors who seem to accidentally misapply this fandom tag altogether; I hypothesize that they're unaware of the 1983-85 cartoon and think they're tagging something else; perhaps the years should be added into the canonical fandom tag. More authors apply it to documentation for their D&D campaigns or fic about their original D&D characters, in which they used one or more of the cartoon's cast as NPCs, or used a concept or location from the show, or something like that. And many wholly legitimately include this fandom's tag on massive multi-fandom crossover sagas in which one or more of this cast cameos briefly at some point in a mega-long pan-universes romp starring characters from fandoms I'm unfamiliar with.
There are so few total "D&DC only"/"pure D&DC" stories each year that they often seem, to me, outnumbered by these more marginal appearances within the fandom tag. As in every fandom, of course, ratings, content, genres, completion/WIP, writing skill, etc. all thin the herd for picking what to read! Yet I'm not personally familiar with any other fandoms that inhabit what feels like such a comparatively small percentage of the content under their own fandom tags.
No, on reflection, that last is not true. I do know one fandom even more poorly represented within its own tag, though it is crowded out entirely by one rival. The tag for Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876) is more than 2:1 for the TV show Hannibal versus the actual classic Victorian novel or even the BBC TV series (2002) based on the novel. With ten works total, the math is easy. Perhaps that is a concentrated version of the same phenomenon, rather than a different one.
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I'm pretty sure that I first learned about Esperanto in a PBS documentary, but it's also possible that it was at school. Or the PBS documentary was shown to us at school, hmmm.
May I ask -- if it's not impolite; just curious -- did you grow up with Esperanto, or find it as an adult?
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ETA: I'm also the reason why the Esperanto language tag exists in the first place! So I'm very proud of its existence.