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I see my nemesis getting a fic that I love
And I'm like, "Fuck you"
I guess my 10k letter wasn't enough
I'm like, "Fuck you and fuck morbane, too"
Said, "If I was a long commenter, they woulda gamed for me"
Ha, now ain't that some shit?
(Ain't that some shit?)
And although there's pain in my chest
I still comment it's the best
And runs to coal to shout "Fuck you"

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I guess it depends on what you mean by obscure. I've written for short videos where my work was the first and still only fic in the fandom, but they are available online, so not really obscure in that sense.

My most obscure gift (a Madness treat) was in the most obscure canon I've nominated and requested, RPF for a character from ancient Persia whose name is probably not familiar to anyone who hasn't specifically studied that era.

I regularly nominate Chinese dramas with no available subtitles, so probably those.

A post-apocalyptic YA series I read in middle school in the 2000s. Only 8 works on ao3 and absolutely no fandom or fanbase to speak of (the first book has over 100k ratings on goodreads, but the rest of the series is in the low thousands). Offered it on a whim, not expecting to match on it, but as far as I can tell they were the only person who requested it, and I was the only person who offered it. Really enjoyed working on it and tbh it's one of my favorite fics I've written to this day.

A fifty-year-old academic monograph. (It's been pretty much continuously in print since then, though, so not very obscure as academic monographs go.)

Japanese dramas and films from the 70s through early 2000s that usually have 0 English subs, but may have subs in other East Asian languages like Chinese and Vietnamese. I have had only one time that someone wrote one of my requests for these fandoms, and it was a fan who'd watched it in Chinese! I stopped requesting these for the most part because no one has ever shown interest since.

A film from the 1930s. I'd out myself if I told you any more.

Songs, mostly; I've written and received gifts for some random album tracks. Maybe some tabletop RPGs? I feel like most of mine are not conventionally obscure so much as just stuff without transformative fandoms.

A 40 year old movie I watched once as part of a bad movie night.

I saw that someone had nominated one of my childhood favorite books this year, an obscure out-of-print novel. It's the kind of book where I was just thrilled to know that another human being had even read it, let alone wanted fic for it!

An immersive theatre piece (no, not that one).

I am very proud that it had one work and now has double digits single-handedly thanks to me. :)

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