Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 1/19/13 http://fanthropology.livejournal.com/513276.html
Oakland Tribune’s Angela Hill put forth a pretty decent Fanfic 101,
Fan fiction: A world where Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes could meet, and followed up with
Top five most popular fan fiction genres (by which she means fandoms).
Regarding the final season of
Spartacus,
Boston Herald’s Mark Perigard wrote
The popularity of the pairing of Agron (Daniel Feuerriegel) and Nasir (Pana Hema-Taylor) has surprised everyone associated with the show. Dedicated fans have crafted YouTube tribute videos, fan fiction and art. [Quoting executive producer and writer Steven S. DeKnight,] “We’ve had same-sex relationships before on this show, but with Agron and Nasir, I wanted to show the relationship from the very beginning to the blossoming of feelings to being together. I’m overjoyed they are not only accepted as a couple but that they have a huge fan base. I get inundated with pleas not to kill them.”In
New University (UC – Irvine), in ‘The Art of Fangirling,’ Sarah Menendez and Taylor Weik define fan fiction as
when fangirls are frustrated with everything that is canon and take it upon themselves to rewrite the stories with different plot lines (be warned that most of them are ridiculous, pornographic and poorly written).For reasons I didn’t bother trying to understand (i.e., I didn’t bother reading past the fanfic mention),
Sports Illustrated opined
We’re still really hoping this Clancy Pendergast thing pans out for USC, because a name like that following “Monte Kiffin” makes writing Trojans football/The Thorn Birds fan fiction that much easier.TIME’s Lily Rothman wrote that James
Erwin has expressed excitement about returning to [his version of a story about Marines in ancient Rome, soon to be a Major Motion Picture] when it finally qualifies as fanfiction.
Huffington Post’s Zoë Triska asked
The Fault in Our Stars author John Green, “You are pretty involved with your fans (YouTube videos, this event, etc). You give a lot more than the typical author. Why is that?” His response:
I don't really think of it as giving, because I also receive a lot: Readers make music and art and fan fiction and t-shirts inspired by my books, which is tremendously fulfilling. One of the most important things art can do is inspire more art.There were two fanfic references in this week’s
Ask Polly on
The Awl.
An article by Nick McCrea for
Bangor Daily News about a woman who is the subject of “an in-the-works documentary film exploring what it means to find beauty without vision” begins
Michelle Smith hunches over, nose nearly touching the glowing laptop screen in front of her. With the text blown up and her eyes inches from the screen, she can make out letters well enough to catch up on her favorite online fan fiction forum, which is based on a former MTV show, “Daria.”Over on
Daily Dot, Aja Romano argued that
fandom shouldn’t hide anymore and wrote about
When celebrities discover fanficion… about themselves. She’s also been reviewing fanfic, including
electrumqueen's I am the hero of this story (Inception),
projectcyborg's Habeas Corpus (West Wing/BSG), and
trinityofone’s DADT, Damyata, Dayadhvam (SGA).
Also on
Daily Dot, Mike Fenn wrote about
leadership changes at the Organization for Transformative Works.
Finally,
Entertainment Weekly’s Jeff Jensen, on an
American Horror Story plot development (or lack thereof):
You’ll always have fan fiction, AHS watchers.