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So I’ve been doing the very enjoyable Fanfic Reading Challenge and, because of that, I have for the first time ever stats on what I read, and therefore, because I love a stat, I’m laying my half year’s reading out for posterity (what do you mean, 2 months late?).
In relation the the reading challenge by the end of June I had completed 211 of the 250 tasks and 7 out of 15 of the categories. 🥳 That means I’ve already completed Hard Mode (150 tasks) and will definitely get to Extreme Mode (220 tasks) for certain. Obviously I have picked the low hanging fruit here and completing tasks is becoming harder. Whether I’ll actually do the 250 to complete I’m not sure (although I rather suspect my love of ticking off lists might compel me to…)
Words
I read 10,088,759 words over 633 fics meaning an average length of 15,938 words per fic.
Fandoms
I read in 129 different fandoms! That stat shocked me, although I knew I’d read in more fandoms than I ever had before as one of the Fanfic Reading Challenge tasks is to read in 60 different fandoms (still got four to go because of the number of words requirement for the task, despite having read 129 fandoms!!).
I got into The Untamed/CQL/MDZS Fandom earlier this year and that dominated my reading. I read 3,850,762 words in The Untamed. Second was DC at less than a quarter of that at 815,559 words. Top 5 rounded out with Star Wars, Inception and Les Miserables, although a few really long fics in Les Mis doing a lot of the heavy lifting there.
If you go with numbers of fics instead of words, therefore, the change to the top five is only Les Mis swapped out for Stargate SGA. I read 154 The Untamed fics, 80 DCU, 69 Star Wars, 31 Inception and 23 Stargate
Caveat I suppose – the 129 fandoms looks impressive, but a lot of fandoms I just glanced over to get my Reading Challenge tick. Truthfully of the 129 fandoms, I only read more than 5 fics in 16 of them, and there’s a loooong tail of 79 (over half of the) fandoms I only read one fic in.
Pairing
By number of fics, I read 135 fics with Lan Zhan/Wei Ying as the main pairing, which is more than double the amount of Gen fics I read (63) and more than four times the amount of the next actual pairing of Arthur/Eames (31 fics).
Authors
I’ve only done Authors by number of fics rather than words because I think the words are meaningless, it’s whether I looked at a fic and went, ‘yes! that one!’ that really counts. I read 486 different authors this year, but very few I read more than 1 fic of (71). The authors I read most fics of were:
Petra (15), astolat (9), Icannotthinkofapenname (7), Helenish (6), Graciously (5), Rosey_peach, Resonant, Shanastoryteller, and iliaquer (all 4)
Ratings
In news to no one, I read more explicit fics than any other rating. What can I say?
Fannish 50: #12
In relation the the reading challenge by the end of June I had completed 211 of the 250 tasks and 7 out of 15 of the categories. 🥳 That means I’ve already completed Hard Mode (150 tasks) and will definitely get to Extreme Mode (220 tasks) for certain. Obviously I have picked the low hanging fruit here and completing tasks is becoming harder. Whether I’ll actually do the 250 to complete I’m not sure (although I rather suspect my love of ticking off lists might compel me to…)
Words
I read 10,088,759 words over 633 fics meaning an average length of 15,938 words per fic.
Fandoms
I read in 129 different fandoms! That stat shocked me, although I knew I’d read in more fandoms than I ever had before as one of the Fanfic Reading Challenge tasks is to read in 60 different fandoms (still got four to go because of the number of words requirement for the task, despite having read 129 fandoms!!).
I got into The Untamed/CQL/MDZS Fandom earlier this year and that dominated my reading. I read 3,850,762 words in The Untamed. Second was DC at less than a quarter of that at 815,559 words. Top 5 rounded out with Star Wars, Inception and Les Miserables, although a few really long fics in Les Mis doing a lot of the heavy lifting there.
If you go with numbers of fics instead of words, therefore, the change to the top five is only Les Mis swapped out for Stargate SGA. I read 154 The Untamed fics, 80 DCU, 69 Star Wars, 31 Inception and 23 Stargate
Caveat I suppose – the 129 fandoms looks impressive, but a lot of fandoms I just glanced over to get my Reading Challenge tick. Truthfully of the 129 fandoms, I only read more than 5 fics in 16 of them, and there’s a loooong tail of 79 (over half of the) fandoms I only read one fic in.
Pairing
As an OTP kind of a gal, you’d expect my pairings to pretty much mirror my fandoms, as I usually only really read one pairing in a fandom BUT! DCU has thrown in a curve ball because I primarily read in Batfam fics so the focus is spread out over a lot of different relationships and includes a lot of gen.
I read 212 different pairings. The challenge has a ‘100 Pairings’ task, which I totally smashed! 😉
So I read 3,288,915 words of Lan Zhan/Wei Ying, Obi-Wan/Anakin next at only 12% of that at 399,882 words. Third was Gen at 391,223 words (mostly thanks to DCU), fourth Arthur/Eames (380,896), fifth Enjrolas/Grantaire (313,037) and sixth MacKay/Sheppard (273,135).By number of fics, I read 135 fics with Lan Zhan/Wei Ying as the main pairing, which is more than double the amount of Gen fics I read (63) and more than four times the amount of the next actual pairing of Arthur/Eames (31 fics).
Authors
I’ve only done Authors by number of fics rather than words because I think the words are meaningless, it’s whether I looked at a fic and went, ‘yes! that one!’ that really counts. I read 486 different authors this year, but very few I read more than 1 fic of (71). The authors I read most fics of were:
Petra (15), astolat (9), Icannotthinkofapenname (7), Helenish (6), Graciously (5), Rosey_peach, Resonant, Shanastoryteller, and iliaquer (all 4)
Ratings
In news to no one, I read more explicit fics than any other rating. What can I say?
Fannish 50: #12
