I love ffr. And AO3 fans.

[kannaophelia]

On Tolkien: But is [JRR Tolkien's written works] a massive fandom? I'm not saying the book isn't popular, of course it is, but there aren't that many fics on AO3

OP is simultaneously saying she read The Hobbit 15 years ago and hated it and that she's been traumatised by spoilers in a fanfic, and that she never would have expected that ending.

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[akashasheiress]

I've had people insist that classic Doctor Who didn't have a lot of fans because there wasn't a lot of online fic and stuff for it pre-2005 (when the new series started). I mean, it's not like it was an iconic BBC flagship for 26 years or anything...

[kannaophelia]

Izzy got into fandom through real life DW fan clubs.

[daysofseptember]

I hang around in the periphery of a smallish anime fandom with regular efforts to bump up the number of fic on AO3. The next goal is to pass Inuyasha or Yu-Gi-Oh, I think *snrk*

[kannaophelia]

Izzy successfully nominated and requested Pokemon for yuletide one year. Because anything outside the little incestuous world of AO3 didn't exist.

(AO3 itself I like just fine. It's just the "fandom begins and ends with A03 and Tumblr" attitude that they completely unironically hold.)

[kannaophelia]

I knew fw would pick it up.

I read every comment on ffr and laughed my way down. Especially when the OP and someone else were bonding over their shared belief that no one dies in children's literature, and then admitted that all they basically read as kids was the Babysitter's Club.

[lilacsigil]

Ah ha ha that's excellent. I remember similar complaints over Lord of the Rings.

[kannaophelia]

But it was, apparently, quite obscure. I mean, she even asked British people, and none of THEM had ever read the Hobbit!