ruuger: Londo from Babylon 5 and the text: "And now for something completely different - a Centauri with seven tentacles" (B5: Something completely different)
Ruuger ([personal profile] ruuger) wrote in [community profile] ao3some 2011-08-21 03:01 pm (UTC)

Ultimately, I think what works best is how people interested in your works are going to be looking for it, and I think using 'filk' as fandom is the best is the best solution at least for now - I'd say it's the equivalent of using RPF as a fandom tag.

From a reader's perspective, I think using the original song as fandom would be just confusing because IMO the filks aren't really about the song.

For example, I've written a filk about Babylon 5 to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", and I think that it would be of more interest to fans of babylon 5 than to fans of Queen, and might even irritate people who click on the link expecting to find works about the characters in "Bohemian Rhapsody". Does that make sense?

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