Exercises in WTF

[drakyndra]

Doctor Who - there is barely any new DW fic. Doomsday has broken it's mojo!!!!! There's not even bad fic to tide me over - just no fic.

What the what? Well, that's one person obviously trapped in an alternate universe.

And you know that fictional character hatememe? Guess what's got it's own LJ now.

Updated as I find more interesting WTFness

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[livii.livejournal.com]

All the badfic I've seen has been post-Doomsday fic - fixits and "oh Rose was really pregnant with his baybee" and such, so I've been skipping it. If there's true badfic out there - some of the stuff I've seen has just been on the low end of mediocre, for the genre - then I've missed it, in the stuff I was skipping.

I dunno, not meaning to argue, I just think I can see where the girl was coming from.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I'm just a bit confused by the apparent logic behind it - if you are skipping post-Doomsday stuff, you are skipping the majority of the badfic, so why complain about lack of badfic if you are skipping it?

Either she isn't skipping the post-Doomsday stuff, which makes her comments about the lack of fic bewildering, or she is skipping it, and thus ignoring all the badfic it brings, so why complain? It'd be like complaining there's no slash in fandom, whilst ignoring all the links to a slash archive.

[debs7.livejournal.com]

Ouch - nothing quite like being lamb-blasted to make you feel all warm and fuzzy.

It was simply a case of me slightly over-exagerating and also the complete inability to to actually say what I want to say.

What I meant to say was the a) I was incredibly bored and I usually ease boredom by reading fic and usually T&C can be relied upon to give me fic on a semi regular occurance and b) in fact there had been quite a slump in posted fic. It all seemed to be about the fan mixes for a while. Not sure why they took off but they did.

Oh and trust me - I read the bad fic. My eyes are still bleeding from the pain.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Well, it might feel like there is less fic, but the numbers don't hold. Really.

Doomsday screened on the 8th of July. You made your post I linked on the 27th. In the time period of the Doomsday screening until the 27th - 20 days - there were 248 posts containing fanfic at time_and_chips, and average of 12.4 ficposts per day. To narrow it down a bit, in the week leading up to your post (21st to 27th July), there were 59 ficposts, or 8.4 per day.

To compare this during the series's airing, I picked two random weeks, namely 1st - 7th June, and 1st - 7th May. And, just as a comparison, I also checked 1st - 7th April, which was pre-S2 (but during the publicity kick). For June, that week had 53 ficposts - 7.6 per day. Which is less than the post-Doomsday rush by almost 5 ficposts per day, and also less than the week up to your post - which is the exact opposite of what your claiming.

May showed 67 ficposts during that week, which gives 9.6 per day. Which is more than the run-up to the post, but still far less than the entire post-Doomsday period, which you claimed was a "slump." The fact that GitF screened in the middle of this week, and the amount of fics per-day doubled overnight might explain this weeks high numbers, though.

In contrast, in our pre-S2 week, there were 37 fic-posts, or 5.3 per day.

So, despite your claims, no, there was not a slump in fics posted after Doomsday, there was in fact a boom, and at the lowest point, you were still getting more fics than at certain periods during the series' airing.

Feel free to check the numbers yourself, of course.

[debs7.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's amazing.

It just really felt like less fic.

Although saying that I think most of them were drabbles or what I would consider to be small/short fics and they're like cookies for me. Easily devoured and I never really count them :)

Ah well. I was wrong. Wasn't the first time and definitely won't be the last :)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Well, one could find statistics on word counts, and chaptered fics versus one-shots, and all that sort of thing, but one, quite frankly, cannot be stuffed right now.

And what can I say, except I like debates. And I don't like being told I am wrong when I am not.

[debs7.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to imply that you were wrong. I'm sorry that I did.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I was just a bit bewildered that anyone could possibly say there was a lack of fic being posted. It was like someone was telling me I had three eyes or something - I couldn't understand how anyone could come to that conclusion.

[debs7.livejournal.com]

or someone exagerating just slightly. Which I happen to do on occasion :/

by no fic I possibly meant very little good fic I could sink my teeth into. It got somewhat lost in translation

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Clarity is a wonderful thing, is it not?

[debs7.livejournal.com]

Clarity is a beaultiful thing. As is hindsight and the ability to form coherent sentences that actually convey what you are thinking. Something I apparently lack at this point in time :)