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Naomi Novik has mentioned writing fanfic for television series and movies, [60] and says she'd be thrilled to know that fans were writing fanfic for her series (though she also said she'd be careful not to read any of it); Anne McCaffrey allowed fan fiction, but had a page of rules [61] she expected her fans to follow; Anne Harris has said, "I ...
An original character (OC) typically refers to a type of fictional character that is created by a member of a fandom. They are a non- canonical character created by the author of fan fiction , a fan artist , or creator of another fan work, who exists within a certain fictional universe and may interact with existing characters or locations.
Max is a young trans male character, with gender being only "one piece of hir personality puzzle" in this play. [225] Vicky Nicola Bland and Stacey Bland Call Me Vicky: 2019 This play tells the story of their mother, [231] Vicky, her trials and tribulations in transiting from male to female, [232] with Vicky ultimately transitioning by the end ...
Boys' love (BL), a genre of male-male homoerotic media originating in Japan that is created primarily by and for women, has a robust global fandom. Individuals in the BL fandom may attend conventions, maintain/post to fansites, create fanfiction/fanart, etc. In the mid-1990s, estimates of the size of the Japanese BL fandom were at 100,000 to ...
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009 and continues to be in beta. [2]
The Organization for Transformative Works offers the following services and platforms to fans in a myriad of fandoms: . Archive of Our Own (AO3): An open-source, non-commercial, non-profit, multi-fandom web archive built by fans for hosting fan fiction and for embedding other fanwork, including fan art, fan videos, and podfic.
The term fan fiction has been used in print as early as 1938; in the earliest known citations, it refers to amateur-written science fiction, as opposed to "pro fiction". [3] [4] The term also appears in the 1944 Fancyclopedia, an encyclopaedia of fandom jargon, in which it is defined as "fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from ...
Femslash or femmeslash is a subgenre of slash fiction which focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female fictional characters. [47] Typically, characters featured in femslash are heterosexual in the canonical universe; however, similar fan fiction about lesbian characters are commonly labeled as femslash for convenience. [48]