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Pairings and archiving
Nov. 6th, 2011 07:16 pmI have been reading John/Rodney SGA fic for some time now. So I idly clicked around trying to find fic with a different character. Carson and Rodney are friends too, so, *clicky*...
my search for John/Rodney m/m with No Archive Warnings has found... well, more than 1000 fics, and having arranged them by decreasing size I'm up to 300 (having skipped a TON of AUs) and the word count is down to about 12000.
Carson/Rodney m/m No Archive Warnings? There are thirteen fics longer than 10,000 words on AO3. And almost all of them are by the same person.
*blinks*
Then I tried Sam Carter f/f No Archive Warnings: 133 fics, total, all pairings, including ones where Sam isn't actually in the f/f in question. 44 are Sam/Janet, 27 Sam/Vala, 8 Sam/Teyla and 5 Sam/Kara Thrace (really? ... *clicks*...), and the rest involving Sam either one offs or actually m/f. Huh, something in that search process could be optimised.
Reading the popular pairings I kind of forget how one doesn't have to step far outside them to get, like, total fic desert.
Of course, AO3 does not have All The Fic. Just so much of the fic that thus far whenever I've run out of particular fic I think of a different fandom/pairing to search for and read that, rather than wandering off.
Now I'm wondering how many people do that on how many fragments of fic archive.
my search for John/Rodney m/m with No Archive Warnings has found... well, more than 1000 fics, and having arranged them by decreasing size I'm up to 300 (having skipped a TON of AUs) and the word count is down to about 12000.
Carson/Rodney m/m No Archive Warnings? There are thirteen fics longer than 10,000 words on AO3. And almost all of them are by the same person.
*blinks*
Then I tried Sam Carter f/f No Archive Warnings: 133 fics, total, all pairings, including ones where Sam isn't actually in the f/f in question. 44 are Sam/Janet, 27 Sam/Vala, 8 Sam/Teyla and 5 Sam/Kara Thrace (really? ... *clicks*...), and the rest involving Sam either one offs or actually m/f. Huh, something in that search process could be optimised.
Reading the popular pairings I kind of forget how one doesn't have to step far outside them to get, like, total fic desert.
Of course, AO3 does not have All The Fic. Just so much of the fic that thus far whenever I've run out of particular fic I think of a different fandom/pairing to search for and read that, rather than wandering off.
Now I'm wondering how many people do that on how many fragments of fic archive.