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i'm rewatching lost and i checked out the fics on AO3, and i was disappointed at the size of the fandom. it's so tiny! come on guys, this show was huge when it was on, where are you hiding? i want coffee shop AUs and fix-fit h/c and crack ships and woobie antagonists! don't let me down like this :(

I'm really surprised, because yeah that fandom was huge! I would have just assumed your choices would be wide and varied. But maybe it's a matter of all the fic being on LJ or other places since it's a slightly older fandom?

yeah you're right, i should check out lj, but it's a real pain in the ass to find fic there so i was really hoping there was some elsewhere. damn it, i'm too used to huge fandoms that have 99% of their fic on ao3.

Oh man, tell me about it. I didn't watch Lost til 2011, and the fandom was mostly dead even then. I was so bummed! I generally write for small fandoms though, so I'm used to writing fic into the void - it's still the fandom I've written the most for at AO3.

well i'd like to thank you for contributing, at least. feels good to know there's still someone who cares.
i'm not used to small fandoms and it hurts because i love this show so much :(

It does suck when there's no-one around :( I get most of my fic-related fulfilment from individuals? Like, I'm really lucky to have a fandom friend with similar likes who will beta Lost fic and squee with me, but if I didn't have that I probably wouldn't bother writing any at all. Dead fandoms and small fandoms can be very different, my main small fandom is active, but there just aren't that many of us. A dead fandom is just a massive bummer :(

i think it's my main problem right here: i don't have anyone to talk about it. everyone i know either didn't watch it or has moved on :(
dead fandoms are just depressing and also a little bit creepy. it's like walking through an abandoned amusement park or something like that.

YES, the abandoned amusement park vibe is what makes it so depressing. Small fandoms can be quiet, but they don't generally have that air of overgrown abandonment.

Also, PM sent :)

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all of the ships. like, all of them. i just have favorite characters who i prefer to read about, but really the other half of the ship could be anyone.

(although what i really want to read is cutesy or really smutty ben/sayid or ben/locke, i'm not even ashamed)

I didn't see a huge amount of fic when the show was going on, at least not where I was hanging around on LJ, and it was pretty easy to be the only one writing a pairing, or the only one doing it in a certain way. I've ended up writing the only Ben/Locke longfic there is. I remember tons of people saying after the finale that they were going to write this or that fixit or AU, but the vast majority never ended up doing it. The finale was so divisive that a lot of them just didn't want to stick around, and the rest of canon can be obnoxiously difficult to deal with in fic no matter how non-plotty you do it, especially if you came down on the nope side of that debate. Lots of dead LJ communities, but lost_fanfic, ficinabottle and lost_slash are still around.

wait wait wait

a ben/locke longfic? oh man, would you be willing to rec it to me? if you don't want to do it in a comment you can send me a pm. i'd just really like to read it.

yeah the canon can be tricky, but idk i thought fandom would like the challenge? and if not whatever, i like AUs just fine.

i'll check out the comms, thanks for giving me the names so i don't have to google it :'

It's two shorts and a multi-chapter conclusion, therefore a trendy trilogy: http://archiveofourown.org/series/51839
I've been working on it for thousands of years but absolutely will finish it, hopefully this year, but that's my yearly saying. There's cuteness and smut, but not for a while. I hated their last scene in the finale so much that I wanted to really show a process of reconciliation. A lot of the writers just weren't plot-oriented enough to do the kinds of AUs they really wanted to do, I guess. I explain what I can in there in semi-plausible ways, but all my fic is character study with varying portions of sex, so there was no way I was going to go for a non-afterlife fixit.

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