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Descending-order writing-stats meme

Seen from

thisbluespirit and others:
Meme: Share links to your fics with the most hits, second-most kudos, third-most comment threads, fourth-most bookmarks, fifth-most words, and fewest words.

Most hits:
BSG78: "We Also Serve" (1,913 hits) (2012, ~4K words, T, gen; Cassiopeia & Athena, Starbuck/Cassiopeia)

2^nd-most kudos:
HL: "Legend Has It" (68 kudos) (2021, ~3K words, G, gen; Richie & Darius)

3^rd-most comment threads:
HL: "Inside the Lines" (14 comment threads) (2019, ~3K words, G, gen; Ceirdwyn & Methos)

4^th-most bookmarks:
D&DC: "The Wand of Siora the Wise" (8 bookmarks) (2016, ~7K words, G, gen; Sheila & the whole gang)

5^th-most words:
FK: "True to Life" (~14K words) (2010, ~14K words, T, gen; Nick/Janette)

Fewest words:
I have 20 100-words drabbles, 19 FK (these + this) and 1 D&DC. A little bigger, I have 6 poems (2 TLOZ & 4 FK) and 1 prose ficlet (FK) at 101-200 words.

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Snowflake Challenge 2025 #7 (Wishlist)

snowflake_challenge '25: Create a list of at least three [fannish] things you'd love to receive.

Dungeons & Dragons (Cartoon, 1983):

Fellow fans: I would love for the fandom to receive, and me to enjoy, a fantastic, character-driven, plot-rich, Diana-centric fanfiction. The ultimate would be for this story to come from an author who shares Diana's background and can weave that in seamlessly and meaningfully (though of course all authors can research and imagine and strive).
TPTB: I would like Super7 to start pre-orders for the second set of action figures. They're doing one set per year (the first was two good guys, Sheila and Hank, and two bad guys, Shadow Demon and Dekion), so, at this rate, I feel I can afford to treat myself.

The Legend of Zelda (all games):

Fellow fans: I'd love to find a couple of thoughtful folks interested in reciprocal fanfic beta-reading, who know some canon and "the sense of the fandom" so it's not "the blind leading the blind" (I've read and watched much more than I've played, but I'm a canon nut, so: ZeldaUniverse and Zeldawiki.wiki) -- and, most of all, who have the time and space and spoons and interest.
TPTB: I'd like a superb remaster of Twilight Princess for the upcoming Switch 2, with some gameplay mechanics re-optimized but the story, of course, untouched (unless they want to please spiff up the Twilight Realm a la Lucas's second go at Cloud City and implement some intended but cut interactions with ordinary Twili there, as shown in the art, for which I am very much on board).

Assorted:

I hope that everywoman, the exchange featuring female characters, runs again this year. Counting its direct reincarnations from Rarelywritten and Rarewomen, and its relation to its cousin femme_fic, it's the biggest, most venerable fanfic game I participate in -- my Yuletide, if you will.
I hope that we see an exchange in the spirit of 90s_channel_tv_exchange, myoldfandom, retrotvexchange, and their relatives this year. (I suspect that these are extremely difficult to run, given how many fizzle out after just one round.)
I'd like The Fantastic Four: First Steps to be awesome in every way, smart and emotional and exciting, character-driven and clear-plotted, accessible to mass audiences and satisfying to fan audiences, and to just knock everyone's socks off and show decisively that the MCU is back and better than ever. Please.
I hope that Hasbro re-examines its numbers, re-trains its marketing department, and gives Transformers One and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves the outstanding sequels they deserve. Especially Transformers One.
A new Penric & Desdemona installment, or otherwise any richly themed new tale in "The World of the Five Gods," from Lois McMaster Bujold by the end of the year would be lovely, if she feels like it.

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A different angle on the typical fanfic stats meme

Adapted from

used_songs, who got it from

shipperslist:

Of 128 fanfiction works...

Under which 3 ratings have you written most?
63 Teen and up audiences
60 General audiences
05 Mature

In which 3 fandoms have you written most?
87 Forever Knight (TV 1992)
17 Highlander: The Series (TV 1992)
06 Dungeons and Dragons (Cartoon 1983)

Which 3 characters have you tagged the most often?
57 Nick Knight
43 Natalie Lambert
40 Lucien LaCroix

What are your top 3 additional/free-form tags?
24 Post-canon
24 Historical
16 Flashbacks

Did any of these surprise you? If so, which?
I had genuinely forgotten that I'd written all of 5 "Mature"-rated stories, and had to check. Yep. 5. Huh. I did indeed write those and rate them as such.

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"Which AO3 tag are you?" quiz meme

Picked up from

havocthecat (post), there's a "personality quiz" meme-ing around for "Which AO3 tag are you?"

If you like, take the quiz.

I got "fix-it." Well-played, quiz! I tip my hat to your deep insight. ;-)

(The quiz doesn't include a gen answer option for its "favorite type of ship" question, though. Those of us who love gen best are few, I know, but I'd hope there are enough of us to merit a multiple-choice option? No? Just me, then. ~grin~)

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Snowflake challenge #10 (2024): "Make a list"

Challenge #10: Five things... or, you know, whatever you want.

The movies I saw in a theater in the past calendar year, in reverse order:

December: The Boy and the Heron
November: The Marvels
August: Blue Beetle
July: Barbie
June: The Flash
June: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
June: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
May: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
April: Suzume
March: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
February: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Crowded June!

(I do still wear an N95 in theaters. It could be overkill, but I don't eat theater food, anyway, so it's no trouble -- at least, not since I found the fantastic 3M style that doesn't fog glasses.)

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Snowflake challenge #9 (2024): "Rec your newest thing"

Challenge #9: Rec your newest thing -- enthusiasm, obsession, fandom, earworm, etc.

Yesterday, I read an impressive Journey to the West AU fanfic, told from the dragon-horse's perspective, in which Monkey is mute. (This is a sober re-imagining, not the bonkers humor I often go for in JttW.) This change makes humanity (and Heaven) take him even less seriously (though Buddha treats him exactly the same). Removing his voice swallows his patter and boasts and exposes his foundational motivations in new, evocative ways. Killer final line. "Spring Unheard" by

Idonquixote (T, gen, ~8K words).

A few days ago, I finished watching the five episodes of Echo, the latest MCU show on Disney+, the first officially under the "Marvel Spotlight" imprint for standalone, don't-need-to-know-canon, adult-aimed productions (Werewolf by Night belongs there, too, imo, if they're willing to relabel it). The title sequence -- theme song and graphics -- is absolutely fantastic, ten out of ten. ( Further opinion is a high-level spoiler )

I'm presently spacing out the final few episodes of season one of My Adventures with Superman because I don't want it to be over. This is my kind of Superman! A very good guy being good! This is a show that deeply understands why Superman must rescue the cat. The story is so clearly told by people who love the characters, and who change them only in ways that make them more essentially themselves for today's audience. I adore how they addressed and subverted certain tropes, like Lois finding out Clark is Superman. Fundamentally, this is a story where he is Clark to the bone, and Superman is just his work clothes, his "customer service voice," and I am there for that. (I think that the "my" in the title is Clark's.)

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Snowflake challenge #7 (2024): "Fannish creative resource(s)"

Challenge #7: Share a fannish creative resource.

Journey to the West Research is an archive for Jim McClanahan's research into the historical, religious, and folklore origins of the classic Chinese sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West.

( If you're into JttW, read on... )

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Snowflake challenge #3 (2024): "Fannish wish list"

Challenge #3: Create a wish list of fandom things that you'd like to receive.

If you know where I can legitimately purchase a set of the fabled limited-edition Young Blades (TV, 2005) DVDs, please do let me know! I believe these exist because, first, there was a rumor soon after cancellation, and, second, Euro-length versions of the episodes were once loaded to YouTube. (They haven't been there in years; sorry.) I imagine that copies were given to people who had worked on the show and not actually sold to the public, or that there was a canceled run and the DVDs manufactured were mostly junked, but I don't know. I do have a copy of the Polish DVD squishing several episodes into a "movie" (which has a lovely Photoshopped cover photo, of a period army in front of a castle in bright sunshine, irreconcilable with the show's canon/budget ~grin~) (I do have an old region-unlocked DVD player because of the German FK season-one DVDs).

I sure would enjoy a dedicated fanwork event for D&DC or BSG78, coordinated by someone with reach into those fandoms! I'd also be enthusiastic for a generic event in the line of Oldschoolfic and Myoldfandom.

I hope we have another fanwork event in the line of Everywoman, Rarewomen, and Femme-fic again this year.

I wish that all of us here will find our fandom communities hospitable, joyful, comforting, respectful, inspiring, and safe, and that we uphold and spread that goodness as much as we can. ♥

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Snowflake challenge #2 (2024): "Set some fannish goals"

Challenge #2: Set some [fandom] goals for the coming year.

I would like to fully overhaul my userpic icons. They're almost all quite old (and old-fashioned). More to the point, they're just not what I want anymore. Step one, a new naming system for the icons I have! So that I can smoothly add new ones in an organized, findable, usable way. (If you have a favorite icon community, let me know? I'd like to see what's current and developing.)

I would like to achieve and maintain control of what appears "above the fold" on my AO3 dashboard. As you know, the "collapsed" fandoms list shows the author's 5 most-written fandoms. For me, that's currently FK (85), HL (16), D&DC (5), BSG78 (4), and then a random pull from among several fandoms in which I've written 3 pieces. I don't feel particularly called to write in any of the fandoms for which I currently have 3 stories (though, of them, most likely Pokemon GO); I just don't enjoy the default list appearing differently, often unrepresentatively, each time. To truly stabilize, I'll need a sixth D&DC, fifth BSG78, and fourth something else.

And, of course, again, I would very much like to write some "just because" stories this year -- stories not for any event or exchange, but just because. I have several D&DC WIPs, one HL/MCU WIP, a bunch of little JttW sketches... we'll see!

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Snowflake challenge #1 (2024): "Update your fandom information"

Challenge #1: Update your fandom information.

I'd updated my DW profile last year, but it turns out that I hadn't updated my AO3 profile since I joined it in 2011. Oops. Both are now updated as follows...

My Pseud: My online fannish journey began in email-list days with Forever Knight. I was a "Knightie" (a partisan of the hero) and the "Bright" means that while I love serious and sad stories, I side always with hope and salvation, never despair or destruction (in FK's specific metaphor, that's always humanity, never vampirism).

My Fandoms: My dearest fandoms — Forever Knight (1992-1996), Highlander (1992-1998), Dungeons & Dragons (cartoon, 1983-1985), Battlestar Galactica (original, 1978-1979) — are all long-canceled and in frequent peril of being rebooted by folks whom I worry may not love and understand them as well as I like to imagine I do. Among not-yet-canceled properties, my latest and highest delight is Overly Sarcastic Productions! As a life-long Marvel reader, I'm on the spot for everything MCU and have opinions by the yard that may or may not match anyone else's. In the comics, I am currently all in for the awesome writing of Jed MacKay. I'm on board for Strange New Worlds, the new Quantum Leap, My Adventures with Superman, and most things on PBS's Masterpiece. I love to watch new movies on the big screen, on opening weekend if I can swing it, surrounded by other people to share laughter and gasps in community... still wearing an N95 mask for now, but hopefully not forever. Also, of course, nineteenth-century English-language literature, The Journey to the West, many, many books of many kinds...

My Fanfiction: Mostly, I write canon-aware gen that sides with heroes. I often try to imitate episode structures, explore bereavement themes, or fill canonical gaps.

Writing for me in an exchange? Thank you! I have a "Likes & Dislikes" post and tag here on DW. I hope they can be useful. (I try to be an easy recipient with many options to pick from.)

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Fanfic stats meme

A new version of the "fanfic stats meme" is making the rounds. I saw it most recently from

havocthecat and decided to play.

How to play: Link to your fics with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and fewest words. (To get to your AO3 Statistics: from your dashboard, look on the left, in the sidebar, immediately under Inbox and above History.)

Most hits: 1,880.
2012: "We Also Serve" (Battlestar Galactica (1978)) (T, f/m but really gen, ~4K words) (Cassiopeia, Athena, Starbuck)

Most kudos: 68. & Most bookmarks: 15.
2009: "Fortune Prove" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) (T, gen, ~13K words) (Willow, Jenny, Giles, Buffy, others)

Most comment threads: 15.
2020: "The Power That’s Inside (We All Live in a Pokémon World)" (Highlander / Pokémon) (T, gen, ~7K words) (Duncan, Methos, Joe, Giovanni, others)

Most words: 58,987.
1998: "Fireweed" (Forever Knight) (T, f/m but mostly gen, ~59K words) (Nick, Natalie, Fleur, Lacroix, Janette, others)

Fewest words: 100.
Most recent of my drabbles: 2019: "A New Year’s Resolution" (Dungeons & Dragons (1983, cartoon)) (G, gen, 100 words) (Eric)

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Snowflake Challenge 2023 #5: Resources

"Tell us about 3 creative/fannish resources, spaces, or communities you use or enjoy."

Tip-top canon resources:

Bulbapedia, "the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia," is the highest-quality public wiki I've ever seen. It reports and tracks every bit of canon across the entire sprawling IP. ♥

Now available only via the Wayback Machine, the old dungeonsanddragonscartoon.com fansite is still the very best D&DC resource, "from the Alicorn river to the hills of Zorm." Forever respect and gratitude to its fan creator!

It's super ugly and advertisement-ridden now, but it's as accurate and comprehensive as ever: Portal: Battlestar Galactica (TOS). I depend on its Colonial vocabulary lists.

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Snowflake Challenge 2023 #4: Add something to canon

"Add something to your fandom’s canon."

Only "add," not change, fix, override, or redirect, hmmm? Three ideas:

( HL )
( BSG78 )
( D&DC )

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Snowflake Challenge 2023 #2: Promo (Journey to the West)

"Write a promo, manifesto or primer."

Imagine, if you will, an epic crossover between Homer's Odyssey and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, with all the ancient Greek and medieval Christian religious beliefs and holy figures running around, equally, and interacting with each other and the protagonists. Then marinate this crossover in Cervantes's Don Quixote for satire and irony. Finally, generously dust it with shredded Spenser's Faerie Queene for allegory and top off with a slather of gooey melted Dante's Divine Comedy for worldbuilding. And it's funny. So funny.

That wild mash-up would be a western literary approximation of the eastern literary classic The Journey to the West, which is set in 7th-century China, and was published as the hundred-chapter novel we know today circa 1592. It's attributed to Wu Cheng'en (questioning the real authorship is a thing a la Shakespeare, only more so, because the original publication was anonymous). It wasn't translated into English at all until the early 20th-century, and wasn't translated into English in full until the 1980s, but of course it's been available and loved in many other languages for centuries. Like the European works I mention above, the hundred-chapter-novel of JttW draws on previous literature, folklore, and real history and religion to craft a literary achievement that has stood the test of time and been itself endlessly adapted. The way many of us might casually refer to Arthur's sword or Odysseus's journey, folks who grew up with JttW might casually refer to Wukong's rod or Xuanzang's quest.

We need a back-cover blurb here, right? Wikipedia says: "Enduringly popular, the novel is at once a comic adventure story, a humorous satire of Chinese bureaucracy, a source of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory." ( Read more... )

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Snowflake Challenge 2023 #1: Fandom info

"Update your fandom information."

Instead of a pinned post, I like to point folks to my DW profile. It's up to date! And of course please check out my AO3 works.

I try to keep this journal fandom-focused. The fandoms-as-fandoms dearest to my heart are still Forever Knight and Highlander (with BSG78 and D&DC hard on their heels). Scratch that surface, and you'll uncover Marvel, Trek, and the long nineteenth century in English-language literature, among many other things. I'm presently besotted with Overly Sarcastic Productions. I'm watching the Quantum Leap sequel, The Equalizer reboot, everything Marvel, and just about everything on PBS's Masterpiece. And I play way too much Pokemon GO.

I always side with heroism and decry villainy. I almost always prefer gen to romance. I usually prefer canon couples to non-canon, and canon continuation, insertion, or divergence to complete AUs.

I love Dreamwidth as a platform and wish more folks would play fannishly here. :-) Thank you very much for being here and playing here!

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2022 Fandom end-of-year meme

Meme picked up from

lightbird...

( main fandom '22 )
( favorite movie '22 )
( favorite book '22 )
( favorite TV '22 )
( new fandom '22 )
( biggest disappointment '22 )
( 'TV boyfriend or girlfriend' '22 )
( biggest squee '22 )
( most missed '22 )
( to try in '23 )
( anticipations '23 )

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"Welcome (back?) to DW!" (friending memes)

Several people have pointed out this friending meme and also a

twitter_refugees community hoping to welcome and orient people coming over from Twitter. (I posted to the meme thread and the community.)

If you're fannish and new to DW, definitely start with a glance over

fandom_on_dw and

fandomcalendar.

I love fandom on DW! I wish only that more fans played here, and that all of us had more time and scope to play fandom here and elsewhere more often. I enjoy that this platform optimizes for complete sentences, short essays, and discussion. I enjoy that this community seems to love both fanfic and canon analysis. I enjoy that the posts I see clearly strive for kindness, fairness, and sharing mutual love of stories and storytelling. ♥

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AO3/fic 33-question meme

On Thursday,

celli shared a 33-question "AO3/fic" meme and said she'd like to read others' responses. Here's my take. (I'm attempting to type without a brace on for the first time in almost 3 months; we'll see how it goes.)

( Read more... )

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'22 Snowflake Challenge #7: Communities & resources

> "tell us about fandom resources, spaces, or communities you use or enjoy"

A community that I follow that you might not know is

fanart_recs. The moderator tries to get folks to commit to a run of one rec per week for a month in a certain fandom, or similar cadences.

For the "Recently in FK" post each month, I always check

fandom_on_dw,

fandomcalendar,

yuletide, and

fancake. (I check others, too, but most of the others have been quiet long and long.)

I get notifications on my DW reading page of new FK stories posted to the AO3. If you didn't know this feature was available, well, it is! Subscribe to this DW feed for AO3 FK posting notifications. (You can of course also check for existing feeds for other fandoms and make a new feed for any that don't exist.)

For perhaps an odd twist on options for consuming meta analysis, I'm going to recommend three YouTube channels that I enjoy: ImplicitlyPretentious, who makes video essays (mostly MCU recently) with lots of citations of monomyth resources; CinemaTherapy, which analyzes films (and some MCU TV) with an eye to the mental and emotional health of the characters as depicted (the best-friend hosts are a professional therapist and a professional filmmaker); and, my current favorite, OverlySarcasticProductions, which I discovered in November and have so far found to be seemingly endlessly awesome about mythology, history, tropes, literature, architecture, video games, and more (I haven't yet watched all their stuff, but oh! so fun).

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AO3 statistics meme (abridged)

Meme lifted from Celli and adapted:

72% of my AO3 works are FK; 13% HL; 15% everything else. Given that, it's interesting that 0 of my "Top 5 by Hits" are either FK or HL. And 0 of my "Top 5 by Kudos" and "Top 5 by Bookmarks" are FK (3 of each are HL).

Synthesizing kudos, bookmarks, and threads (while ignoring hits), I believe that the most popular stories I've been able to share so far are: BtVS "Fortune Prove" from Willow's perspective (Teen, gen, 13K words) (2009: 62 kudos, 13 bookmarks) and HL "To Reason Why" from Methos's perspective (G, gen, 3K words) (2017: 58 kudos, 10 bookmarks).

I do try to play with such numbers only inside the closed, limited habitat of my own stuff. Comparing to others would be apples and oranges! Blackberries and strawberries? Pecans and almonds...