Got to that point in my relisten and fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Spoilers??? (I know there are new listeners out there!!!)
"I've got Wilde" delivered so fucking fast without hesitation, with no emotional inflection, just. "this is my job, this is what I'm here for, this is what I know I can do and do well" also Sohra saying "it has to be someone they'll listen to" and Zolf just going "I know he'll listen to me" - he knows. He KNOWS he can do this.
[2023] TOP 20 PODCASTS ON AO3 FOUND IN FANDOMS > OTHER MEDIA
To make this ranking, all series titles in Other Media were copy-pasted to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then manually filtered since not all podcasts were marked as such.
The numbers under each rank indicate how much they rose/fell in the rankings based on last year's (Oct. 24, 2023) rankings, which can be found here. The gray numbers in parenthesis indicate how much fanworks it gained since last year.
The data for this year and last year's rankings were taken while logged in, so lcoked fanworks are included in the count.
A few web series like Critical Role and Dimensions 20 released audio-only versions of their works too, but I left them out since they were listed was a web series on ao3 and more known as one too.
Cabin Pressure has also been left off the list this time since its podcast format was only released in 2019, years after it aired on the radio.
All nonfiction podcasts have also been excluded (Not that there were many), because with RPFs, it’s hard to tell if the fic in question is just based on the podcast or because of the things the person has done outside of it. Last year, I accidentally included The Misfits in the list since I didn't realize from its description that it was nonfiction.
The Two Princes (Podcast) ranks 21st in the rankings this year, and actually ranked 20th last year when the rankings are adjusted to exclude Cabin Pressure and The Misfits.
The College Tapes is actually a spinoff of The Bright Sessions.
Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏
Today's gender is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill and licensed under a creative commons attribution, non-commercial share alike 4.0 international license.
This is a scene I had wanted to draw since I first listened to it back in...what, 2018? During my first listen of RQG. I've started a relisten of it and now that I'm no longer commuting long hours to and from work I can actually sit down and draw when I'm inspired to do so. So here we have a scene from Episode 44: Rock Bottom
The torch light sweeps across the cliff face…and for one horrifying moment, it is outlined in front of you. You are about a foot away from it. It is the most hideous amalgamation of limbs. There are tentacles with eyes, there are legs on the end of tentacles, there are barbs everywhere. There is no part of its misshapen torso that doesn't have a limb coming out of it, apart from a circular mouth, and that mouth and teeth within teeth within teeth. And it is…it has a long snaking tongue that is basically powering out towards you. It gives that raw roar.
Can I just put out there some love for Hamid Saleh Haroun Al-Tahan and his fucking DAMAGE OUTPUT. This little rich boy has so much destruction in him. This is a walking nuclear weapon. This baby boy can kill fifty kobolds with one gesture.
[ID: a digital drawing of Bertie from RQG. He's wearing golden full-plate armor with a falcon on his helmet. He's hovering in mid-air, swinging back his sword, he is wearing boots of levitation which shows as little feathers at his boots. Text above him reads "Silent Knight" and text beneath him reads "Holy Knight". /end ID]
TOP 10 PODCASTS ON AO3 BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS (2013-2022)
YEAR = November 6 (or closest date to it if unavailable) of that year
To make this bar chart race, all series titles in the Other Media Category on November 6 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and manually filtered since not all podcasts were marked as such. Then I inputted all the top 10 data to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.
Some web series like Critical Role and Dimensions 20 released audio-only versions of their works too, but I left them out since they were listed was a web series on ao3 and more known as one too.
Similarly, radio shows which only had podcasts years after they started are not included. That means Cabin Pressure, which I accidentally added in the 2022 Top 20 ranking last week, is not included here because it was only rereleased as a podcast in 2019, and 90% of the fanworks it has now are from before 2019.
All nonfiction podcasts have also been excluded (Not that there were many), because with RPFs, it’s hard to tell if the fic in question is just based on the podcast or because of the things the person has done outside of it.
The bar race starts on 2013 because there were no podcasts in the Other Media category before that year.
The first podcast fandom to post on Ao3 was We’re Alive on January 1, 2013, followed by The Thrilling Adventure Hour on January 27, 2013, and then Welcome to Night Vale at June 2013.
In 2014-2016, Sparks Nevada Marshal on Mars, a segment from The Thrilling Adventure Hour, was also in the top 10, but I didn’t included it since it’s not its own podcast.
TOTAL = the total fanworks of all the top 10 over the years, not the whole podcast fandom itself
Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t miss anything! Apologies for any mistakes, I’m still a podcast noob.🙏
ETA: Locked fanworks aren't included in the count because Wayback Machine can’t view those, only Ao3 users can.