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Fan fiction

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Fan fiction (also spelled fanfiction and commonly abbreviated to fanfic) is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other media work, using the characters and situations developed in it and developing new plots in which to use these characters. Characters and props from more than one media work may also be incorporated into a single fanfiction (known as crossovers). It should be noted that in the pre-1965 era, the term fan fiction was used in science fiction fandom to designate science fiction written by members of fandom and published in fanzines, as opposed to fiction that was professionally published. This usage is now obsolete.

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History

Fan fiction traces its modern roots back to Star Trek fandom which in turn inherited many of its practices from science fiction fandom. The first known published fanzine in modern fan fiction is Spockanalia, published in 1967. This community gave us many traditions that are still in place today, including the concept of Mary Sues, crossovers, zine culture and public feedback.

Other fandoms were active in the same period as Star Trek. One such fandom was Man from U.N.C.L.E. However, these fandoms did not have a heavy influence on the global fan fiction community until later when there was a more widespread distribution of such fan fiction; early on, most of it was distributed as individual stories to friends and family. These fandoms did not really expand into a more recognized fan fiction community until they published their first fanzines. In the case of Man from U.N.C.L.E., this did not happen until 1976 with the publication of a Man from U.N.C.L.E. story in Warped Space.

Fan fiction has come to the fore especially since the rise of the Internet, where it flourishes despite the possibility that it infringes the copyright of the film, book, TV show, or other media on which it is based.

Major genres of fanfic include those based on: Japanese anime/manga series; the book series Animorphs by K. A. Applegate, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series; J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; science fiction serials (both on television and in film); other serial television (dramatic and even comedic); and American cartoon series. Popular television series which have inspired fanfic include Star Trek, The X-Files, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Even video games, such as the Final Fantasy and Street Fighter series, have become sources. It is also relevant to consider the formalised shared universe where the originating author actively encourages others to contribute to the development of the whole. The most consistent and long-running has been H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos which has seen both professional and fan contributions for more than fifty years.

Legal aspects

According to current copyright laws in most countries, copyright owners have the right to control or restrict the publishing of "derivative works" of the story on which it is based, though they do not receive ownership of those works. The owner of the original work (film, TV show, etc.) therefore has some legal power over fanfics.

However, it is sometimes a matter of argument whether a given piece of fan fiction is a derivative work, and it is also sometimes questionable the extent of which a plaintiff can actually recover damages even if it is. In this area, there are a number of considerations that extend beyond the already complex legal issues. For instance, the power of a cease and desist letter from an entity with deep pockets on a single person who can scarcely afford legal representation is great. Conversely, the bad publicity and ill will generated by attacking one's own fan base can give even a large corporation second thoughts about conducting a legal campaign against fan fiction.

It must also be noted that separate from copyright issues, many characters in American television and film productions are also registered trademarks of the producing company. However, this only requires that fan fiction producers make certain that their work cannot be confused as being endorsed by or produced by the trademark holder; it does not ban the mention of such a phrase any more than the registered trademark status of Coca-Cola prohibits its mention here. Most authors get around this by including short disclaimers at the beginnings of stories or chapters.

It is also usually the case that fanfic does not reduce the income which the original authors can extract for their work, and the authors of the fanfic receive little or no income from it. Although under the law copyright (and trademark) infringement still technically can occur even when the infringer does not profit from it, this fact is important legally because it limits or eliminates the damages that a court could find, and also makes possible some defenses to infringement under copyright fair use.

Thus far, the major studios have generally tolerated fan fiction.

Paramount for example has allowed the production of two series of Star Trek fan fiction antholgies, Star Trek:Strange New Worlds, a series of seven anthologies of fan fiction selected by contest, and Bantam's Star Trek: The New Voyages which followed Bantam's Star Trek Lives by reprinting stories from various fanzines.

A noted exception is Lucasfilm which has threatened or sued many sites precisely because of their non-commercial nature. Strangely, though, the company encourages fan-produced films, and once made available a small library of sound effects. Some studios, besides turning a blind eye to fanfic, even surreptitiously encourage it because they believe it helps them by maintaining fans' (customers') interest. J. K. Rowling for instance says she loves fan fiction of all kinds (though the more obscene ones were a bit moot), as long as the writings were credited to the author and not her (i.e. lying to get more people to read them or for her not to get in trouble from explicit stories). Douglas Adams also reportedly appreciated fan fiction based on his works, to the extent that some would say that there are scenes in So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish that seem to be inspired by fanfiction.

Noteworthy regard to acceptance of fan fiction is Eric Flint who has set up a formal site for the submission of fan fiction into his canon in the 1632 series at [Baen's Bar] and has to date published five issues of the Grantville Gazette featuring fan fiction and fan-non-fiction alongside his original work. Flint contends that this allows the explansion of the alternate history universe into something approaching the complexity of reality.

Also noteworthy is the series of Darkover anthologies published by Marion Zimmer Bradley beginning in 1980 consisting largely of fan fiction extended into her canon.

In contrast, Anne Rice however is at the other end of the scale, preventing any fan fiction of any of her characters (mostly those from her famous Interview with the Vampire book) or anything to do with any of her books. Other authors also do this in order to protect their intellectual copyright, and prevent any dilution, saturation and distortion of the universes and people portrayed in their works.

One curious case is that of Larry Niven's Known Space universe. In an author's note in The Ringworld Engineers, Niven stated that he was finished writing stories in this universe, and that "[i]f you want more Known Space stories, you'll have to write them yourself." Internet writer Elf Sternberg took him up on that offer, penning a parody in which members of Niven's hyper-masculine Kzin species engage in gay sex and BDSM. [1] Niven responded by denouncing Sternberg's story in the introduction to a later volume and issuing a cease-and-desist for copyright violation. To date, Sternberg holds that the story is constitutionally protected parody [2], while Niven maintains that it is a copyright violation (but has not legally pursued the matter further). [3]

In Russia, where copyright laws have been lax at best, it is not uncommon to see fanfiction based on the work of popular authors published in book form. Sergey Lukyanenko, a popular science fiction author, went as far as to incorporate some fanfiction based on his stories into official canon (with permission of the writers of the said fanfiction).

In the United States, officially sponsored books are sometimes considered to be fan fiction. Series like Star Trek have official books that can be regarded as nothing more than fan fiction, just with the profits of the company in mind as well, although this definition is a matter of debate, as being licenced and authorized publications the Star Trek novels are not fan fiction in the traditional sense of the word. However the refusal by Paramount Pictures (owners of the Trek franchise) to allow printed adventures to be considered part of the canon has led many fans to consider the books to be fanfic despite their legal and licensed status. The official Star Wars book series is part of the continuity of the Star Wars universe and cannot strictly be considered fanfiction, either.

In Japan the writing and indeed even sale of Fan Fiction (especially in the form of doujinshi) is totally legal, and indeed in many cases encouraged: it is looked on more often than not simply as a form of advertising, a similiar attitude to that developed by many sectors of the recording industry toward tape trading.

The attitude of copyright holders toward incorporating fan fiction into the canon varies. It is generally the case that the writers hired for a television or movie are under strict orders not to read fan fiction out of fear that doing so will cause the copyright holder to be sued later for infringement. However, some copyright holders such as the case of the BBC and Doctor Who have mechanisms to allow for unsolicited submissions of stories into the official canon, and it is also the case that the writers of canon stories have sometimes been recruited from fan fiction writers.

Types of Fanfiction

Dōjinshi

Japanese manga fan fiction, an entire class unto themselves, are known as dōjinshi (or doujinshi).

Mary Sue

Some fanfiction falls into the category of Mary Sue fantasies, in which a new "flawless" character enters the story and goes on to upstage the established characters. Often the Mary Sue represents an idealized author character. A Mary Sue can also be a character who, as well as being idealised, also becomes the character upon whom the central character in canon becomes dependent. While the Mary Sue style of writing has some fans, it's generally frowned upon. The male form is 'Gary Stu', 'Larry Stu', or 'Marty Stu'.

Self-Insert

A subgenre of fanfiction is one in which an author pens himself or herself into the fanfiction as an author character. Generally, the author becomes a Mary Sue: flawless, omnipotent, and unable to make mistakes. Ocassionally, an author will make himself or herself more subject to human flaw.

Crossover

Another fan fiction subgenre is the crossover story where characters of different media franchises interact. An example would be the human refugee fleet led by the Battlestar Galactica finding and entering the territory of Star Trek's United Federation of Planets and learning that not only does Earth exist, but it is a charter member of this interstellar political entity and so is potentially a more formidable enemy of the Cylons than they ever hoped. In fan fiction of animated series, one of the more popular crossover situations is a combination of Pokémon and Digimon. This is common because both series are anime cartoons, and their main characters are groups of children.

Song-Fic

Yet another subgenre is commonly known as the song-fic. This is a story, often a one-shot (a fanfic with only one chapter), where the lyrics to a song, or sometimes a poem, are included in the body of the writing, and in someway are connected to the story. For example, characters may be performing the actions described in the song, or going through the emotions described in the song. The lyrics may be used to reveal a depth to the character, or explain complex emotions. Other times it is used merely to set the general mood for the fanfiction story.

HetFictions

A het fiction is a story which has as its main focus a relationship ("ship") between characters of opposite sex. The expression derives from the word "heterosexual" and is used in contrast to slash fiction and gen. Het fiction varies from innocent romance to explicit erotica.

Slash Fictions

A slash fiction is a story which has as main focus a relationship ("ship") between characters of the same sex. The expression comes from the use of the slash symbol"/" to designate Kirk and Spock romance from friendship fic (which used an ampersand "&") in the very early days of Star Trek fanzines. Fictions with male/male parings are the most common, "femslash" designates more specially stories centered on a lesbian relationship, though some female fanficcers now prefer the name "Saffic" (from 'Sapphic' and 'Fiction') for their romantic or erotic fiction. Slash fiction varies from innocent romance to explicit erotica.

In anime and manga slash fictions, there are specialized terminologies in common use, often brought into English from Japanese language. The terms shōnen-ai and yaoi refer to male/male slash fictions, and shōjo-ai and yuri refer to femslash fiction, Shonen-ai/Shojo-ai referring properly to romantic relationships and yaoi/yuri referring to more sexual relationships.

Lemons/Lime

Explicit sex stories are known as lemons. Lime is a moderated version of the lemon, sexual but not necessarily explicit.

Virtual Seasons

Since television is responsible for a large part of fanfiction, it's no surprise that people have also written virtual seasons on their favorite shows. In this instance, multiple fanfiction writers will usually come together to produce a compilation of original fanfiction stories. Often, these writers and enthusiasts will elect among themselves producers, head writers, editors, and other traditional roles to aid in the coordination of the virtual season's material, direction, and continuity.

Alternative Universe

If a fanfiction story at some point completely changes the original's canonical storyline or premise (such as killing-off the main character, changing characters' motives or alliances, changing the setting, and so forth), it is known as an alternative universe fan fiction, or 'AU' for short. "Minor changes" to character personalities are not considered an alternate universe; instead these changes are called out of character fanfiction. Generally, to be considered an alternative universe story, the change must be extremely improbable to ever happen within the canon.

Continuation

Continuation is when fanfiction is created after a series has finished, with the series being a television series (series finale), a cinematic trilogy, a series novel, and so forth (although the series' spin-off(s) and other franchises may continue). The continuation fanfiction then creates tangential storylines with the characters, or may elaborate on perceived incomplete storylines from the dincontinued canon of the series.

Real Person Fiction

Real person fiction is a type of fanfiction written about real people such as actors, politicians, athletes and musicians. fanfiction.net was once the largest archive of this subgenre on the Internet. On September 12, 2002, they enacted a policy change which eliminated most Real person fiction from the site. The site still accepts Real person fiction in several categories including the Christian Bible, Diary of Anne Frank and Celebrity Deathmatch. As a result of fanfiction.net's policy changes, several different tools were used by the fannish community to archive Real person fiction. These sites include FanDomination.Net, LiveJournal, Soup Fiction, AdultFanFiction.Net, EFanFiction.Net and FanWorks.Org.

'Original' Fanfiction

It is worth noting that there is no such thing as an "original fanfic." The term is a misnomer that is sometimes applied to completely original works published online. It is inaccurate, however, because the work is not intentionally based on any previously existing story and is therefore not fanfiction. Not all amateur fiction is fan fiction, regardless of the fact that the popular site Fanfiction.net once had a section of original works (which has since been moved to Fictionpress.com). Among anime/manga fans, "original fanfic" is used to refer to an original work that borrows heavily from anime/manga themes and plot devices, and is often set in Japan, with the characters having Japanese names.

Fanfic as pastiche

Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Rice Burroughs both have fan fiction pastiche communities. This tradition comes from the establishment of literary societies, dating back to the 1930s and 1940s. These societies attracted both professional and fan writers. They practice a semi-professional level of publication of fan fiction of a higher literary nature, both in print quality, community expectations and orientation.

Hateful "fanfic"

Occasionally one may see stories in fanfic sites that do not fit the normal definition of fan fiction because they are not written by people who are fans of their subject matter; rather, they are written to ridicule the subject by somebody who dislikes the characters featured in the story. The act of ridiculing or mocking the a story's characters is often called "bashing". There does not seem to be an established term for such stories. An example would be a Lizzie McGuire fanfic story that has as its description "Why Lizzie is a Dumb Blonde".

A variant on this is the “Anti-Fic”, where the character(s) that the author dislikes are killed and/or maimed. While character death is often a part or of Fanfic, in an Anti-Fic the deaths exist only so the author can express their dislike of the characters.

Webseries

There are also fan-made webseries such as Red Vs Blue. Based on the Halo and Halo 2 video game series, it chronicles the encounters of two groups of soldiers, the Reds and the Blues. This series has won several awards and is popular on the Internet.

Extending the canon

Some invented facts or situations are used so frequently in fan fiction, that despite not being part of the original product, they are seen by fans as part of the canon. This is sometimes described as fanon.


Fan Fiction Timelines

FanFiction.Net Timeline

  • 1998: Fan fiction archives are founded and existing ones face a number of issues. On October 15 of this year, FanFiction.Net was founded by Xing Li. This repercussions of the founding of this archive will be felt for years to come as a certain amount of fannish terminology and discussion, posting habits, centralization of small fan fiction communities revolve around the site.
  • 1998: On September 4, Harry Potter and the Man of Unknown by Gypsy became the first Harry Potter fan fiction posted to FanFiction.Net, what was to become the largest archive of Harry Potter fan fiction on the net.
  • 1998: The Blink 182’s primary fan fiction archive was FanFiction.Net. source
  • 1998: From October 15, 1998 till September 12, 2002, FanFiction.Net had an active policy forbidding ActorSlash while they have Musicians and other real person fic categories. source
  • 1999: The Blink 182’s primary fan fiction archive was FanFiction.Net. source
  • 1999: From October 15, 1998 till September 12, 2002, FanFiction.Net had an active policy forbidding ActorSlash while they have Musicians and other real person fic categories. source
  • 2000: 2000 is the year of FanFiction.Net. The site reaches a point where it is an archive utilized by many fan fiction archives as their primary source. People begin the referring to feedback as reviews. Discussion about quantity of feedback turns to number of reviews. Some fan fiction communities seem to be populated by fan fiction novices obsessed with the quantity of reviews.
  • 2000: The Blink 182’s primary fan fiction archive was FanFiction.Net. source
  • 2000: From October 15, 1998 till September 12, 2002, FanFiction.Net had an active policy forbidding ActorSlash while they have Musicians and other real person fic categories. source
  • 2001: FanFiction.Net Cease & Desisted by Anne Rice.
  • 2001: In March, Harry Potter Author Fic category removed from FanFiction.Net.
  • 2001: On June 22, Cassandra Claire was blacklisted from FanFiction.Net for plagiarism. Among the sources she inserted uncredited material from in her stories were Red Dwarf, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, and Pamela Dean's novels.
  • 2001: On June 23, Cassandra Claire's supporters react with a certain degree of rage on various mailing lists and message boards. Other fan fiction communities go "Huh? What's going on?“
  • 2001: On June 24, FF.Net Admins on FFN-Writers-Mailing list tell Cassandra Claire's fans that the Cassandra Claire case was investigated. Then asks them to move on.
  • 2001: The Blink 182’s primary fan fiction archive was FanFiction.Net. source
  • 2001: FFrom October 15, 1998 till September 12, 2002, FanFiction.Net had an active policy forbidding ActorSlash while they have Musicians and other real person fic categories. source
  • 2001: The Blink 182 slash fan fiction community based at FanFiction.Net was producing early and influential works in the community. Among these works are Advantages of Alcohol, Letters After Death, In my Room, Defying Gravity, and Deafening. source
  • 2002: The Blink 182’s primary fan fiction archive was FanFiction.Net. source
  • 2002: From October 15, 1998 till September 12, 2002, FanFiction.Net had an active policy forbidding ActorSlash while they have Musicians and other real person fic categories. source
  • 2002: The Blink 182 slash fan fiction community based at FanFiction.Net was producing early and influential works in the community. Among these works are Advantages of Alcohol, Letters After Death, In my Room, Defying Gravity, and Deafening. source
  • 2002: On September 12, FanFiction.Net removes all Real Person Fic from the site.
  • 2005: Two legal situations sent a number of archives running to implement policy changes. These issues involved Cease and Desist letters sent by the MPAA, alleging trademark infringement on the part of sites for using their ratings system. The other issue involved German record labels sending Cease and Desist letters to sites containing lyrics. These letters requested remuneration for every song which had the lyrics listed. While no fan fiction sites were targeted, a number of archives, including FanFiction.Net, pulled all songfics in order to ensure they would not be subjected to fines.

Slash Timeline

  • 1974: "A Fragment Out Of Time" is the first known Star Trek slash to be published in fanzine. The author was Diane Marchant. The vignette was published in Grup #3. The language was highly coded and didn't refer to Spock and Kirk by name but rather referred to them as he and him.
  • 1975: In "Halkan Council," D. Marchant published an essay about Star Trek Kirk/Spock slash. The first public discussion of this essay occurred in the Star Trek letterzine, ""Grup" #4." as a reaction to the essay written by D. Marchant.
  • 1975: Star Trek Lives!, editted and written by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak and Joan Winston, was published. This book contained a chapter at the end of the book which examines Star Trek fan fiction and the Kirk/Spock relationship in fan fiction. This book is important because that last chapter helped formed a lot of the modern thought on slash fan fiction communities. Scholars still cite this source today.
  • 1976: According to the National Library of Australia, the Star Trek Action Committee was formed as a Star Trek Club. This Star Trek Club held its first meeting in April. Members included Susan Clarke, Julie Townsend and Edwina Harvey. This fanclub would publish the Star Trek adult fanzine, containing both het and slash, Beyond Antares.
  • 1976: In June, "Alternative: Epilog to Orion" is written by G. Downes and published in a fanzine. It was the second piece of Kirk/Spock slash to appear.
  • 1980 to 1984: The Professionals community starts up and starts up as a primarily slash based community.
  • 1988 to 1989: Actors and American fans of Blake's 7 began interaction at conventions. This some times led to correspondences, personal phone calls, and general chit chat. In the midst of an unrelated fannish argument, some fans showed the actors slash fanzine based on Blake's 7 as a form of punishment for things in other parts of fandom. The actors were upset because they did not view their characters as homosexuals and they saw slash as a violation of trust with their fans. One of the actors tried to ban slash authors and slash from the Blake's 7 fandom. Eventually, this died down and the Blake 7's fandom went on.
  • 1995: Seven slash stories were posted to alt.tv.x-files.creative.
  • 1996: On April 16, Michael Demcio's "Rhyme and Reason," premieres as the first Rescue Ranger fan fiction on Usenet. It was the first novel-length Ranger story, and the first story to explore the possibilities of the Chip/Gadget relationship, the first to provide real character development for any of the characters.
  • 1997: In December, slash reaches a critical mass in the X-Files fan fiction community.
  • 1997: alt.fan.disney.afternoon discusses the merits of a Chip/Gadget relationship. This discussion leads to bitterness on both sides of the argument.
  • 1998: On March 12, Sofie Werkers founded the Rareslash mailing list.
  • 1998: On Alt.Startrek.Creative.Erotica.Moderated, related dialogue involves the issue of if slash and het need to be rated differently.
  • 1999: In September, Least Expected, the first Lord of the Rings slash archive, was founded.
  • 1999: On May 19, the Master and Apprentice archive was founded at http://www.sockiipress.org/ma/index.html . Currently, this archive is the largest archive of Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon on the Internet with over 2,400 stories archived. This archive was also important in that it seems to have set the trend of writing stories based on media BEFORE the media hits the public.
  • 2001: The Blink 182 slash fan fiction community based at FanFiction.Net was producing early and influential works in the community. Among these works are Advantages of Alcohol, Letters After Death, In my Room, Defying Gravity, and Deafening.
  • 2001: On July 28, the BibleSlash mailing list was created.

Harry Potter Timeline

  • 1997: The first Harry Potter book is published in the United Kingdom.
  • 1998: The first Harry Potter book is published in the United States.
  • 1999: On September 4, "Harry Potter and the Man of Unknown" by Gypsy became the first Harry Potter fan fiction posted to Fanfiction.net, what was to become the largest archive of Harry Potter fan fiction on the net.
  • 2000: Harry Potter for Grownups, a mailing list which now has over 14,000 members, was founded.
  • 2000: In July, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was released.
  • 2001: On January 5, SugarQuill, one of the most influential sites in the Harry Potter fandom, was opened.
  • 2001: In March, Harry Potter Author Fic category removed from FanFiction.Net.
  • 2001: On June 22, Cassandra Claire was blacklisted from Fanfiction.net for plagiarism. Among the sources she inserted uncredited material from in her stories were Red Dwarf, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, and Pamela Dean's novels.
  • 2001: On June 23, Cassandra Claire's supporters react with a certain degree of rage on various mailing lists and message boards. Other fan fiction communities go "Huh? What's going on?“
  • 2001: On June 24, FanFiction.Net admins on FFN-Writers-Mailing list tell Cassandra Claire's fans that the Cassandra Claire case was investigated. Then asks them to move on.
  • 2001: On July 22, FictionAlley.Org, a fan fiction archive, opened. It would become one of the most influential Harry Potter fan fiction archives.
  • 2002: On January 13, RestrictedSection, a Harry Potter fan fiction site, received a Cease and Desist.
  • 2003: www.psa.shadow-wrapped.net received a Cease and Desist for adult Harry Potter content.
  • 2003: On June 21, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released.

Real Person Fan Fiction Timeline

The following is a timeline of events in the Real Person Fan fiction community:

1970s – 1990s

  • From 1977 to 1983, Led Zeppelin fan fiction begins to circulate in fanzines. The early zines used the names Tris and Alex instead of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.
  • During the 1980s, some ActorFic involving Paul Darrow (of Blake's 7) existed.
  • 1991 – Duran Duran slash and het fic circulated in fanzines. According to Sidewinder, Duran Duran zine people said that Duran Duran were aware of the fan fiction. Sidewinder also notes that the RPF people at the time did not seem to come from the same community as "traditional fan fiction fans" were coming from.
  • March, 1993 – The Nifty Archive came on-line. It is well known in fan fiction fandoms as a repository of boy band and celeb erotica.
  • July 14, 1997 – The first Hanson fan fiction is written and posted to the Internet. It is titled "Hanson & Hugo" and was written by Ghostman 7 productions.
  • October 15, 1998 – FanFiction.Net enacts a policy forbidding ActorSlash. The Musician and other real person fic categories continue.

2000s

2000
  • In January, an influential RPS discussion takes place on Rareslash mailing list, the list run by Sofie Werks. The discussion involved whether or not RPS should be allowed to be posted to the list.
  • April 7 – Bindlestitch, a mailing list on Due South was created as an RPF-friendly location for the following RPS communities: due South, Hard Core Logo and Last Night.
  • Between June and November, FFN-Slashers-Unites discussed the ethical implications of Real Person Slash.
  • In July, alt.fan.david-duchovny debated actorfic, the ethics of it and why people felt compelled to write it.
  • In December, Puppies in a Box, an NSync fan fiction site, went live. This site was apparently very important in the history of the NSync fan fiction community. The site is now defunct.
2001
  • July 28 – BibleSlash mailing list was created.
  • Between December 19 and December 28, the tolkien_slash mailing list on Yahoo! discussed the slashy subtext between the actors in the movie. Subsequently on December 28, LOTR_RPS was created. It was one of the first or the first LotR RPF communities.
2002
  • May 15 – slashpuppets was founded. It was one of the first, possibly the first, LotR RPS role playing community.
  • September 12 – FanFiction.Net removes all Real Person Fic from the site and bans all Real Person Fic that does not tie in to other media directly. They remove Musicians as a top level category. During the same period that they ban Real Person Fic, they still allow for RPF in categories like Diaries of Anne Frank, Survivor and Celebrity Death Match.
2003
  • March, alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative discusses the legalities of actorfic.
  • April 12, idolslash, one of the most influential American Idol fan fiction communities, was founded on LiveJournal.
  • May 5 – current_affairs, a LiveJournal community for political slash, was created.
  • July 23 – AFI_Slash livejournal community was created. It claims to be the first and only community. It should be noted that this community is small and FanDomination.Net has most stories and authors than this community.
2004
  • Between July and November, political slash went mainstream in the RPF community when John Kerry/John Edwards slash becomes all the rage.
  • July 6 – johnxjohn, the Kerry/Edwards RPF LiveJournal community, was created.

Community Demographics

By Year of Birth

The following chart gives a snap shot of the break down of age in three different on-line fan fiction communities: FanDomination.Net, LiveJournal.Com and Yahoo Mailing Lists.


See Also

External links

Fanfiction for several fandoms

Fanfiction for specific fandoms

Anime

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