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A study of Sherlock fandom
Nov. 25th, 2010 12:21 amI've been incubating this idea since forever. I thought about it a lot, w/r/t AOS!Trek - not least because ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ayalesca was coming up with all these charts and things XD - but AOS!Trek was and is way too distributed, and contains too many characters and randomosity. (Never mind the super-gnarliness of Doctor Who.) BBC!Sherlock, however, is not only the perfect size, it's the perfect shape.** And although the main comm doesn't contain all the fic, it comes close enough. With 80% more effort, one can track the additional 20% at the old and new kink memes, plus AO3, but the kink memes feature massive reduplication versus the main LJ comm, and no content tags.
It's just a matter of paging back and filling in an Excel sheet, then doing scatter graphs. Frequency over time. XD I'm thinking:
* wordcount
* pairing(s)
* rating
* seme/uke, bawling this would require readthroughs but I feel like there wouldn't be any punch if I couldn't give the characters an indexed rating over time (even though, at the end of the day, my thumb-and-squint approximation will be borne out I bet)
* checkbox major categories, settings, and fandom tropes (here I'm interested in the way memes filter through a community. Asexuality, obviously, but also stuff like: there is proportionately way more animal transformation / animal familiar fic than I would have heuristically modelled. AOS!Trek contains tons of genderswitch)
** There's a major OTP and popular alternate pairings. There's extended!canon het and slash [EDIT -- and f/f, cannot forget], these-ppl-never-met crack, incest... the whole shebang, but no more than one or two combinatorial examples of each, because there aren't that many characters. XD; At the same time, no pairing is rare enough that there aren't a few stories, as long as ppl have bothered to come up with the idea to begin. And, of course, someone's posting fic every single day.
ayalesca was coming up with all these charts and things XD - but AOS!Trek was and is way too distributed, and contains too many characters and randomosity. (Never mind the super-gnarliness of Doctor Who.) BBC!Sherlock, however, is not only the perfect size, it's the perfect shape.** And although the main comm doesn't contain all the fic, it comes close enough. With 80% more effort, one can track the additional 20% at the old and new kink memes, plus AO3, but the kink memes feature massive reduplication versus the main LJ comm, and no content tags.It's just a matter of paging back and filling in an Excel sheet, then doing scatter graphs. Frequency over time. XD I'm thinking:
* wordcount
* pairing(s)
* rating
* seme/uke, bawling this would require readthroughs but I feel like there wouldn't be any punch if I couldn't give the characters an indexed rating over time (even though, at the end of the day, my thumb-and-squint approximation will be borne out I bet)
* checkbox major categories, settings, and fandom tropes (here I'm interested in the way memes filter through a community. Asexuality, obviously, but also stuff like: there is proportionately way more animal transformation / animal familiar fic than I would have heuristically modelled. AOS!Trek contains tons of genderswitch)
** There's a major OTP and popular alternate pairings. There's extended!canon het and slash [EDIT -- and f/f, cannot forget], these-ppl-never-met crack, incest... the whole shebang, but no more than one or two combinatorial examples of each, because there aren't that many characters. XD; At the same time, no pairing is rare enough that there aren't a few stories, as long as ppl have bothered to come up with the idea to begin. And, of course, someone's posting fic every single day.
