Read Only Fandoms?

[krait]

Today I've been reading a lot of fic in a number of my favourite tiny fandoms, and being bunnied for the most ridiculous things (Valdemar fic? Why do I suddenly have a bunny for Valdemar fic?!), and traipsing in and out of Yuletide archives both old and new, and I noticed a trend: These small fandoms are fandoms where I yearn for more fic, but am convinced that I absolutely cannot write it. I need it, but I just can't produce! It seems unfair from both ends -- as a reader, and as a writer. Alas.

Does anyone else have this problem? I propose we call these Read Only Fandoms. :D What are yours? (All mine seem to be both small and book-based; anyone have a large or media-based ROF?)

Comments

[parhelion]

Is it bizarre of me to note I have the exact reverse problem? All my read only fandoms are well-known ones.

I mean, Leverage, for example. I should be well-equipped to write in that fandom (US popular culture! Snappy! Plotty! Capers!) and yet I can't get a word onto paper. Sherlock, and White Collar: the same story. It is to weep.

"It is to weep" is an oddly accurate summary of my reaction!

[krait]

Actually...? I guess Harry Potter sort of counts for me. I produced perhaps three drabbles, now lost to the mists of journal-change and time. I read voraciously in that fandom, and I have reams of fic starts in a document on my hard drive, but none of it ever got finished and I never wrote anything that anyone will remember (I can't even remember how many drabbles there were, just that it was a tiny number)!

Really, Loveless is the only fandom I've produced actual fiction for, and I don't know how "well-known" or large Loveless should really be considered; I hung out in such a small, selective part of it. (Parts where I wouldn't be faced with fics presenting Seimei as a sane and sympathetic human being.)

Re: "It is to weep" is an oddly accurate summary of my reaction!

[parhelion]

Yeah, Nero Wolfe isn't exactly a huge fandom, either. It's almost as if, when a whole bunch of other fans are writing, my subconscious thinks my efforts aren't needed. Sometimes I feel like a bit of a freeloader.