Stats from My Beloved Collection

[tinturtle]

Tonight I've been playing with my Beloved Collection (which is the name I've given to my archive of all-time favorite fanfics). I counted the number of fics I've collected in each of my two main fandoms, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Professionals. I also made lists of the authors of the fics, with tallies of how many fics in my collection each author had written. Below are some of the results.


My MFU folder contains 149 fics by 73 authors. The most represented authors are:

jantojones (12 stories)
AconitumNapellus (aconitumn) (10 stories)
otherhawk (8 stories)
azdak (6 stories)
jessebee, Lee_the_T (leethet), and spikesgirl58 (5 stories each)
channeld (4 stories)


My Pros folder contains 97 fics by 47 authors. The most represented authors are:

jat_sapphire (12 stories)
PR Zed (przed) (8 stories)
Corvidology (draycevixen) (6 stories)
fiorenza_a (5 stories)
byslantedlight (4 stories)


The authors who have written in both MFU and Pros fandoms are Fiorenza_a, laceymcbain, and PR Zed (who are represented by different works in each folder), as well as Debra Hicks and jj_minerva (who are represented by crossovers located in both folders).

(See the comments for more stats.)

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Addendum: It should go without saying that plenty of factors besides my enjoyment of an author's works can influence how many of their fics appear in my collection. These include how many stories an author has posted and where I've focused my reading, among other things.

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[tinturtle]

I've investigated the numbers of gen, slash, and het* stories in my collection, as well.

My MFU folder contains 83 gen stories, 63 slash stories, and 3 het stories.

My Pros folder contains 25 gen stories, 69 slash stories, and 3 het stories.

Among the others, the Doctor Who folder contains only gen, while the Raffles and Psmith folders contain only slash.

*(In my classification, any story that focuses on a heterosexual relationship is a het story, even if it contains no sex at all.)