rionaleonhart | Perhaps Unsurprisingly, It Backfires.

Here is an enjoyably ridiculous (if perhaps slightly cringe-inducing) scene from episode 6.07 of Waterloo Road, in which Ronan, having collected money from people betting on him to win, deliberately tries to throw a debating contest (the topic under debate is school uniforms). Sadly, nobody has yet uploaded my other favourite scene from this episode, in which Finn gets a well-deserved punch in the face and Tom's reaction, after punishing the puncher, is 'Though I can't say I didn't enjoy that.'

I have now posted almost all my fanfiction to date on

riona_archivic! There are still some commentfics and such that I haven't yet gathered together, but all my main works of fanfiction are up there.

Number of separate fandoms for which I have had to create a tag on the fic archive: sixty-six.

Do I really have sixty-six different fandoms? Even if I count only the fandoms for which I've actually written full pieces of fanfiction, rather than just snippets or responses to prompts, the number comes to forty (that's including fandoms for which I have only written crossovers). The number of separate pairing tags, meanwhile, is eighty-five; twenty-six of those pairings are het and fifty slash.

More statistics, because I like statistics!

- The 'het' tag has been used 59 times, the 'slash' tag 104. The 'gen' tag has been used 134 times and is the most-used tag in the entire archive. Before beginning the archiving process, I hadn't realised just how much gen I'd written. (Or how much femmeslash I hadn't. Maybe I should have a crack at that.)
- The fandom tag that has seen the most use is easily 'fandom: silent hill' (sixty uses). This is perhaps unsurprising, given my FIVE MILLION FICS ABOUT JAMES SUNDERLAND phase when I was seventeen and the fact that Silent Hill crosses beautifully over with everything. (The second-most-used is 'fandom: top gear' (forty-six). I'd estimate that Top Gear is the fandom for which I have written the most by wordcount.)
- The pairing for which I have written the most by number of fics is James Sunderland/Mary Shepherd-Sunderland (Silent Hill 2). Those of you familiar with the game will know that that's... pretty screwed up. 'Jeremy Clarkson/car' comes in in sixth place but clearly should be higher.
- The character who features in the largest number of pairing tags, unsurprisingly, is Jack Harkness (fourteen).

I started writing for fun about a decade ago, when I was twelve or thirteen, and since then I have written approximately 410,000 words. There are people on my flist who could bang that out in an evening, of course, but I'm quite pleased. Let's keep writing! (Although my output is nothing compared to this Super Smash Brothers fic upon which I have just stumbled, which is almost three million words long. Three million. And it was started in 2008. It can't have been started much earlier than its first posting, because Brawl was only released in that year. That's an average of over three thousand words a day, maintained for two and a half years. How is that even possible? If I were an evil scientist, I'd definitely want to kidnap the guy writing this.)

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Have you also looked at your yearly output? 'Cause I did that, and was surprised at how I'd written the most fic in 2007, although I didn't take wordcount into account.

Also, 3,000,000 words is AMAZING. Good on that guy for sticking with it, but how do you end that?

My most prolific year in terms of number of fics was easily 2005 (tag usage: 81), but that's not hugely surprising, as I signed up to

fanfic100 twice in that year.

but how do you end that?

A good question! I have to wonder how many people have read the entire thing. That's almost six times the length of The Lord of the Rings.

"Cut for those who do not like statistics."

Are you telling me that people like this really exist? God. They're missing out.

They really are! Statistics are great. I've got Notepad files lying around in which I rank fictional characters by the number of times I've mentioned their names in my journal. SOME MAY SAY IT'S A WASTE OF TIME, BUT I SAY 'WELL, ALL RIGHT, YOU MAY HAVE A POINT THERE, BUT - BUT I FIND IT INTERESTING.'

That wasn't quite the stirring speech I intended it to be.

It's not a waste of time. It's for science.

*raises hand* People should be allowed to hate statistics if and only if they've ever been forced to do them with Microsoft Excel. I feel strongly about this issue.

HOW DO THREE MILLION WORDS EVEN EXIST.

Thank you again for calling me yesterday <3 It really cheered me up.

I'm glad! It was lovely to talk to you.

Speaking of long fics...

I used to follow Lightning's (http://www.fanfiction.net/~lightningonthewave) fics. It's an entire Harry Potter AU of seven books - I was caught up to date early-mid fourth book. Lightning used to post at chapter a day (occasionally more, but that was the general schedule)... that was written that same day, not pre-archived.

From September 2005 to January 2007, she archived nearly three million words (and of a very good quality too). I have no idea how people do that sort of thing, I really don't!

I liked your five million fics about James Sunderland phase! I wouldn't mind five million more. I tried to write Silent Hill fic (though Silent Hill 4 fic...) and I just fail hard at it.

From September 2005 to January 2007, she archived nearly three million words

Wait, what? That's 6,500 words a day for a year and a quarter. I - I can't even comprehend that.

It probably wasn't healthy to spend that much time in James Sunderland's head, really.

Yep! It was crazy. It was great to wake up one day to a guaranteed 6000 words or so, but honestly, it must have been crazy to write (not counting the fact the outline kept changing... lemme find an example.

She used to post a chapter title outline and a bit of babble at the beginning of her stories. It would always change near the end, for instance: First outline (http://lightningwave.livejournal.com/104244.html?page=2#comments) of the sixth book compared to the last outline (http://lightningwave.livejournal.com/146138.html#cutid1). They were always fun to read and to see what chapter titles changed etc.

YES YES RIONA MUST RIGHT FEMSLASH NAO.

I shall be most disappointed if she doesn't.

Morgana/Gwen! Yuna/Utena! LadyHunter/LadySmoker! All these wonderful potential pairings; why don't I ever write any of them? I really must rectify this.

Or, depending on how strong your stomach is, Bellatrix/Hermione? Or possibly Gwen/Tosh?

I love that Gwen/Tosh is a squick pairing.

Ooooh, I love statistics! These are fascinating. I may have to do my own, actually...

I think this is a good idea! I love seeing writing statistics.

Story statistics are fascinating, I feel. A friend who I used to do NaNoWriMo with (REMEMBER THOSE DAYS RIONA?) and I would sometimes make fun of how often we would use certain words. "I've used the word 'never' 48 times!" "Blood 72 times." "Uh, the phrase 'raised an eyebrow' 35 times." "Agony, 83 times!"

...we wrote very different sorts of things.

Mm, the thing about fic with ridiculous wordcounts is that those are not necessarily wordcounts of quality. That Smash Brothers thing you found, for instance? This is an excerpt from the first chapter;
...The next day, I found myself in the bed instead of Lucario. I thought it was a dream...but it wasn't, because Lucario was to my right looking outside. He saw me in the bed and approached to me, he knelt and told me: "I'm grateful to be fine because of you...master."

I have no problem imagining it reaching a wordcount that high, if it is made of the above.

Besides, even if it was quality work, that's just what some people do with their time. That's they're hobby, or what they do for a couple of hours instead of watching TV or playing games or whatnot. I have a friend who does that--just. Writes. And I am astonished at the pure amount she churns out. I'm going to have to ask her for a wordcount estimation of the year so far. I wonder if she's topped a million. Honestly wouldn't put it past her xD

There is not enough Jeremy/car fic in the world. You should write lots more.

I wish I could write that much. I just get bored with it. I've only ever written fic for like 5 different fandoms, but most of that will never see the internet.

I need to get that Top Gear/Animorphs AU posted...

I just want to let you know that I watched the whole "Josh's coming out story" sequence of clips after your recent post, even though I know nothing about the show and had no previous desire to watch it. And I found myself extremely disappointed that Josh/Finn was not actually canon.

...it's semi-canon, at least?

I was totally 'shipping Josh/Finn at first, but now, having now seen more of Finn (particularly his relationship with his girlfriend in the last series, in which he forced her to deface a painting in a gallery in order to prove her love for him and almost roped her into a suicide pact), I'm actually quite glad that it wasn't requited. It wouldn't have been good for Josh. Their friendship is damaging enough for him as it is. Find a nicer boyfriend, Josh.

I was trying to think of someone in one of my fandoms for Josh to date, but I've got mostly Phineas & Ferb and Resident Evil on the brain at the moment, and just. No. There is so much wrong in anything I could come up with for either.

I APPROVE OF THESE STATISTICS.

Also I would do something similar but I don't actually HAVE a lot of my old fic, this LJ only goes back to... 2007, I think? And my old, deleted journal only went back to about 2004 or 2005. I used to write some terrible stuff though.

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