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Because stats are fun by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fandom - Fandom, Angel: The Series
19 Dec 2022
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Originally posted on March 27, 2006, this was a look at the popularity of pairings in the Buffyverse on LiveJournal as well as a few other fandoms.
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- Part 1 of Fandom History
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Writercon 2006 Topics by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Fandom - Fandom
12 Dec 2022
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After having attended Writercon in July 2006, I posted a few details of one panel and posted a question on my blog to extend the discussion.
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- Part 2 of Fandom History
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Originally posted December 9, 2006
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- Part 3 of Fandom History
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Having written more recently about how fan television habits may be changing fandom itself, this look back suggests it started happening much earlier but for similar reasons.
Originally posted May 4, 2007.
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- Part 4 of Fandom History
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Something that comes up regularly in fanfic discussions is how much fic we read and how often. I took a guess at how frequent it was for me but decided to also start keeping track and see how close I came. So I thought I'd do a survey and ask people how often they think they read fic and what kinds they read.
Originally posted July 25, 2007
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- Part 5 of Fandom History
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Since it's Easter this weekend, some thoughts about eggs by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom
19 Dec 2022
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Originally posted March 20, 2008
I would be glad to see more posts. But to me there is a larger issue, which is not to have all of fandom's eggs in one basket.
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- Part 6 of Fandom History
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Looking over the most popular interests tags on LiveJournal, Insane Journal and Dreamwidth.
Originally posted March 17, 2008 and May 29, 2009
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- Part 7 of Fandom History
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Fanfiction.net's Development And Lessons for LiveJournal by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom
19 Dec 2022
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Originally posted July 20, 2010.
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- Part 8 of Fandom History
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A survey on Reading Format and Time of Day as well as discussion of Empathy and the First Person POV
Originally posted January 14, 2011.
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- Part 9 of Fandom History
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In a good example of why the March Meta Matters Challenge exists, a look at how much content just disappears all the time.
Originally posted November 5 and November 28, 2017
Inspired by Fanwork Migration by yourlibrarian.
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- Part 10 of Fandom History
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Fanwork Migration by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Dollhouse, Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Firefly / Serenity Universe
20 Dec 2022
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This happens to be the 15th anniversary of the Buffyverse Top 5 community, created to share recs in the Buffy and Angel fandoms, and later the other Joss Whedon productions. This timing is particularly fitting because I have spent several months since our 2019 session going through every post in the community (1,846 of them!) as part of an effort to locate recced content on AO3.
This gave me a unique perspective on patterns in the fandom which might be much the same for other fandoms which began in the pre-AO3 online era, and which may also have lost a number of their works over the years.
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- Part 11 of Fandom History
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What Marked Fandom's Departure from LiveJournal? by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom
12 Feb 2023
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I would argue it was marked by the end of the metafandom community, and the concentration of people who wanted to talk about fandom itself.
Originally written on September 24 and October 3, 2017
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- Part 12 of Fandom History
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Name Recognition and Hiatuses by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Supernatural, Stargate [TV & Movie Franchise]
04 Mar 2023
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Is Supernatural a unique sort of fandom?
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- Part 13 of Fandom History
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A few thoughts about whether the exception to the rule can ever be considered normal.
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- Part 14 of Fandom History