Fanfiction: Books

[mothwing]

Around 1 a.m. everything is a good idea, including making graphs of the most popular books used as an inspiration by fanfic-writers based on the number of fanfics written for those books on FF.net.

Here are the (fairly unsurprising) results:

I can't express how thankful I am that Discworld fics came in last, nor how appalled I am by the fact that there are so many DW ficcers in the first place. I don't know why, but for me, there is something extremely wrong and sacrilegious about the thought of people sitting down to write Vimes/Detritus cross-overs or whatever.
Although, considering how many fanfics there are for the Bible, I probably should not be surprised at the fact that they do exist.

Especially considering that there are 80 Minesweeper fics out there.

Anyway. Good night!

Comments

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

What surprises me is that Shakespeare ranks higher than Forgotten Realms. I totally expected reams of Wulfgar/Drizzt slash.

[krakelwok.livejournal.com]

Bah, fanfics. They're like the pigeons of the internet. Not bad per se but more likely than not filthy and loaded with crap.

Minesweeper, though - I can see that work.

[lordhellebore]

What's so wrong about Discworld fanfic? (Other than nobody could possibly ever come even remotely close to the original genius of the books?)

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was wondering about that, too. But then, I also would have thought that there'd be more Silmarillion than Bible fanfics.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Oooh, is that from the same guys who brought us this great blockbuster?

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

That surprises me less, because the bible is so pervasive and is full of fanficcable situations.

[krakelwok.livejournal.com]

Oh my, this will be released in less than a week? Watch out Dark Knight!

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Well, that's basically it.

Also, a fanfic could never capture the complex and intricate way the books combine original storyline, satire and jokes. The DW fanfics I did look at out of morbid curiosity rip out the original storyline and disregard all else to have their poorly characterised fanfic Sues fall for each other. The DW novels have done nothing to deserve such a fate.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a Willow icon! Shiny!

True. Still, with the exception of the Blake fans who write about fallen angels and the like, I would have expected that the majority of people who have read the bible are believers and would not write fic on their holy writ, and the rest not to care enough to do so.

What is striking, fascinating and scary at the same time is how many of the people I scrolled through yesterday who write Bible fic also write Twilight fic. o.O

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's a bit odd.