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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 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 ...
Christopher Street was an American gay-oriented magazine published in New York City, New York, by Charles Ortleb. It was founded in 1976 by Ortleb and Michael Denneny, an openly gay editor in book publishing. [1] Two years later, the magazine had a circulation of 20,000 and annual revenues of $250,000. [2]
Chuck Tingle is a pseudonymous author, primarily of niche gay erotica. [1] [2] His stories mainly take the form of monster erotica, featuring romantic and sexual encounters with dinosaurs, imaginary creatures, anthropomorphized inanimate objects, and even abstract concepts.
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.
Slash fiction has created and appropriated words to denote peculiarities found within the fandom. "Gayfic" is sometimes used to refer to stories focusing on gay male relationships, [citation needed] and "femslash" or "f/f" used to indicate that a work features female characters in slash relationships. [citation needed]
All the Young Dudes is the most viewed piece of fan fiction on AO3, with over 16,000,000 hits. [18] The story has been listed at number one on AO3's "Top of all Fics". [19] In addition, the story is the top Harry Potter fan-fiction on the site and has become an influence for other "Wolfstar" stories. [19]
Bending the Landscape is the title of an award-winning series of LGBT-themed anthologies of short speculative fiction edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel. [1] [2] Three books were produced between 1997 and 2002, subtitled Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. [3]