I list my fandoms.

[melannen]

If anybody's been wondering what exactly my fandoms are... I've been wondering that too. So I did an experiment. Ever since I got this computer, I've been bookmarking all the fic that I thought was really, really good, in a 'torec' folder. I finally exported it to del.icio.us and got it all tagged by fandom.

# 65 spn
# 43 sga
# 32 crossover
# 19 dw
# 19 hp
# 19 potc
# 18 dcu
# 18 sg1
# 14 ds
# 14 eroica
# 12 yuletide
# 9 hl
# 7 lovecraft
# 7 marvel
# 6 anthropomorfic
# 6 btvs
# 6 metafic
# 6 rpf
# 6 xf
# 5 barrayar
# 5 casablanca
# 5 pundits
# 5 tds
# 4 batman
# 4 bones
# 4 house
# 4 sw
# 4 tmnt
# 3 austen
# 3 firefly
# 3 good omens
# 3 lordpeter
# 3 lotr
# 3 meta
# 3 torchwood
# 3 wk
# 3 yafic

...yes, that's over 36 fandoms. And there's at least that many more that only have one or two bookmarks. And yes, "crossover" is my third most common fandom tag. :D

However, while that's probably a pretty good representation of the breadth of my reading, the proportions probably aren't that accurate. Particularly SPN, which is in the lead because it was my new fandom when I started doing this, so I zoomed through it bookmarking everything good. Most of the others are a combination of new fics with just old fics I particularly wanted to re-read, because I did my zooming-through phase already. Also there's some on there where I read all I can find, but that's not much, and even fewer good ones, so the numbers look low.

Comments

[b_jellybean [journalfen.net]]

You certainly beat me-- I went through my magnolia bookmarks (delicious seems to think I'm an evil person or something and periodically blocks me from their site) and only counted 21 fandoms. I do see where you're coming from regarding proportions-- HP is the best represented, but this is because I have more individual fics marked there whereas with fandoms I'm more familar with, I have author sites bookmarked instead.

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

I had trouble getting delicious to work on my computer because it didn't like cookie security. Which is annoying, but I decided it was worth it.

And yeah, some authors I hesitate to bookmark any of theirs because I know that all their fic is good, and I figure everyone else knows it, too. I'm trying to get out of that habit, since part of the idea was to categorize with tags, but that's still why some fandoms (like HL) are so low.