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Part 1 of [Meta] Japanese Fanfic Culture Explorations
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2024-10-21
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[Meta] Exploring Ships: Marauding the Japan Sea of Pixiv Pairings

Summary:

Exploring the Japanese site Pixiv and ranking the Top 15 most popular pairings (which includes "rare pairs" for us English speakers!). My first look into Japanese Harry Potter fanfic culture! Series to be expanded upon soon.

Notes:

  • In response to a prompt by Anonymous in the META collection.

This was created for the HP Rare Pair Discord's Meta Flash Comp in October 2024. It was so much fun, ty very much to the mods!

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: Table of Contents

Chapter Text

Part 1: [Meta] Exploring Ships: Marauding the Japan Sea of Pixiv Pairings

Chapter 1: Series Table of Contents
Part 1 - Exploring Ships: Marauding the Japan Sea of Pixiv Pairings
Part 2 - HP Fanfiction in Japanese: Translation Tools and Site Recs

Chapter 2: Introduction, Etiquette & Access
● Self-introduction & background
● Scope
● First impressions of Japanese HP fan communities
● Etiquette for sharing Japanese fics
● Accessing Japanese fics isn’t straightforward

Chapter 3: Terminology
● Terminology: Basic
● Terminology: More resources
● About pairing names/tags

Chapter 4: Exploring pairings on Pixiv
● Pairing names searched for
● Pixiv search parameters
● Main issues/flaws
● General observations of Japanese fanfics on Pixiv
● Pixiv’s Top 15 Pairings Tagged in Japanese October 2024
● Some observations on the pairing data collected

Chapter 5: Outro
● This is a WIP: Friendly feedback welcome!
● Awards
● Introduction to part 2 of the series


Part 2: [Meta] HP Fanfiction in Japanese: Translation Tools and Site Recs

Chapter 1: Sites that post Japanese HP fanfics
● Japanese-language sites
● Some other Japanese-language sites and suggestions
● Primarily English sites

Chapter 2: Translation tool suggestions
● Immersive Translate browser extension
● Translate with ChatGPT (or other similar Generative AI services)
● Hover and get dictionary entries with browser extensions
● A handy OCR tool such as Microsoft Snipping Tool

Chapter 3: Pairing names
● Finding pairing names or character names in Japanese

Chapter 4: Omake! (Extras) Links and interesting things
● Omake! (Extras) Links and interesting things
● Questions remain