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what's big in fandom these days
In all that reminiscing about platforms of old that I did on the survey, I realized the only one I really missed (as opposed to missing the people who were there) was del.icio.us, and specifically del.icio.us 's "recently popular pages with this tag" pages. I had the "popular pages tagged 'slash'" page on del.icio.us bookmarked and basically read everything that appeared on it (unless it was one of my DNW pairings.) It was the zeitgeist of fandom-as-a-whole (or, at least, the parts of lj slash fandom that had adopted del.icio.us) and always full of good fic to read.
There doesn't really seem to be anything that will do that anymore. pinboard.in/popular/fandom tries, but there's really not enough people bookmarking fic there for it to work. And I'm kinda between fandoms right now (or, well, not super-plugged-in to any fandom that is large enough to get me all the fic I want, anyway) so I miss it a lot.
It occurred to me though that AO3 would probably let me filter for recent, popular fic if I massaged its Advanced Search page. And it will! Sort of. You can't filter by *when* a kudos was given, and there doesn't seem to be away to search for works posted in a particular time range - only for works posted *or* updated in that time range, which doesn't give as good of results because it's swamped by long-going WIPs that just finished.
But I kind of got there by searching completed works in English with more than 500 kudos sorted in order of posting, which seems to give a pretty good overview of recently popular fics in recently popular fandoms.
If you're curious as to what those fandoms are right now, here's all the ones with 2 or more works in the first 200 fics on that sort, as of now:
Black Panther (23)
Teen Wolf (22)
Bangtan Boys (21)
Supergirl (20)
Marvel movies, other (17)
Captain America (14)
The 100 (14)
*Naruto (11)
Yuri on Ice!!! (10)
Voltron Legendary Defender (10)
SKAM (7)
My Hero Academia (5)
Harry Potter (5)
Star Wars (2)
Supernatural (2)
Shadowhunters (2)
*Transformers (2)
Final Fantasy XV (2)
...with a long tail of about a dozen more with one each. (Naruto gets an asterisk because all 11 fics were by the same author; Transformers because both fics were by the same author; so it may be an author effect rather than a fandom effect.) And, hey, only about a third of the fics are about two white dudes in love!
So there is the list of current popular/active fandoms. Now, somebody explain to me what SKAM is and why it's on the list (I know all the others, more or less.)
There doesn't really seem to be anything that will do that anymore. pinboard.in/popular/fandom tries, but there's really not enough people bookmarking fic there for it to work. And I'm kinda between fandoms right now (or, well, not super-plugged-in to any fandom that is large enough to get me all the fic I want, anyway) so I miss it a lot.
It occurred to me though that AO3 would probably let me filter for recent, popular fic if I massaged its Advanced Search page. And it will! Sort of. You can't filter by *when* a kudos was given, and there doesn't seem to be away to search for works posted in a particular time range - only for works posted *or* updated in that time range, which doesn't give as good of results because it's swamped by long-going WIPs that just finished.
But I kind of got there by searching completed works in English with more than 500 kudos sorted in order of posting, which seems to give a pretty good overview of recently popular fics in recently popular fandoms.
If you're curious as to what those fandoms are right now, here's all the ones with 2 or more works in the first 200 fics on that sort, as of now:
Black Panther (23)
Teen Wolf (22)
Bangtan Boys (21)
Supergirl (20)
Marvel movies, other (17)
Captain America (14)
The 100 (14)
*Naruto (11)
Yuri on Ice!!! (10)
Voltron Legendary Defender (10)
SKAM (7)
My Hero Academia (5)
Harry Potter (5)
Star Wars (2)
Supernatural (2)
Shadowhunters (2)
*Transformers (2)
Final Fantasy XV (2)
...with a long tail of about a dozen more with one each. (Naruto gets an asterisk because all 11 fics were by the same author; Transformers because both fics were by the same author; so it may be an author effect rather than a fandom effect.) And, hey, only about a third of the fics are about two white dudes in love!
So there is the list of current popular/active fandoms. Now, somebody explain to me what SKAM is and why it's on the list (I know all the others, more or less.)