Fandom has historically been dominated by the weird.Perhaps other folks can think of more diplomatic ways to frame these thoughts. If you’re coming into fanfic new, here is what you need to know. While I’m not entirely sure how, here are a few what ideas. The better we can guide people into our space, the better they’ll fit in when they join it.
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If those were your tags, please let me know so I can credit you with the ideas at the core of this post.Īnd if you have any ideas for how we as fans can better introduce the newbies to the culture and expectations in fandom, I’d love to hear it. I’m still thinking my way through this, but it really does make a lot of sense to me. It’s been going on since the beginning of course, but it’s getting louder every year. The clash between the expectations of people new to fanfic and accustomed to popular media and the realities of what fanfic is and what it’s being written for - that’s part of this struggle that fandom is going through right now. Fanfic authors aren’t being edited and filtered and polished - and nor are their works. When they encounter the messy, controversial, ugly, radical, difficult things that people write in fanfic, they’re unprepared.įanfic isn’t big media. But that also makes that audience expect all media to be curated and sanitized in the same way. The tags on that post that I can’t find made the point that popular media is curated and sanitized and stripped of most of its controversy in order to appeal to the widest possible audience. People who think the status quo is fine are getting upset when they enter a place where the status quo is constantly being upended.
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People who aren’t looking for transgressive works are finding them where they always were. So now there’s a spotlight starting to shine on fanfic. But it’s becoming something that more and more people are becoming more and more aware of. People still do hide the fact that they read or write it. The kinds of stories that don’t get published or end up on the New York Times bestseller list.įanfic used to be written and shared in secret.
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To this day, fanfic is a place where people write the kinds of stories that don’t get made into movies and TV shows. It was born out of marginalized groups such as women, people of colour, and members of the queer community deciding to take the stories that had been aimed at a largely male, white, heterosexual audience and inverting them into something they could enjoy and relate to. On the other hand, you have the roots of fanfic. This makes it incredibly easy for anyone at all to find and read fanfic. On the one hand, you have sites like AO3 and realities like widespread high speed internet access being more and more accessible to larger and larger groups of people.
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It’s such an interesting dichotomy to think about! They were talking about how fanfic is becoming more and more mainstream while still remaining largely transgressive. I wish I could find them again (or that I’d just saved their post at the time) because I think they made a lot of sense. Somewhere in my notes in the last few days I saw someone add some tags that I’ve been thinking about ever since.