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Those with an itch to stretch their creative muscles, with a little too much knowledge about a particular franchise, and with enough get-go to put their fingers to the keyboard have all that it takes to be a fanfiction author.

Fanfiction听is writing that expands on an author or creator’s existing story, characters, or fictional universe (called canon) with original situations and settings.

And if you like it, you can fanfic it. The band One Direction, the 1990s sitcom Frasier, the animated My Little Pony, and all things Harry Potter have all inspired fanfiction, to name a few mere examples.

Fanfiction 颈苍听Harry Potter-dom, for instance, might imagine a steamy romance between Draco and Hermione; imagined relationships are a common topic of fanfiction known as shipping. Other fanfiction mashes up entire intellectual properties, such as Harry Potter听补苍诲听Star Wars. Awesome, right?

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The phrase fan fiction听is from as early as the 1940s, initially used to poke fun at wannabe sci-fi authors published in fan magazines, or fanzines.

The word may be relatively young, but the concept is ancient. People have been writing stories about existing characters forever. The Christian Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are all fanfiction, guys, based on the life of the Jesus and written for different audiences. William Shakespeare based most of his plays off myths, legends, and histories he read extensively about鈥�蹿补苍蹿颈肠听101.

Star Trek fans, or听Trekkies, spawned much of contemporary fanfiction as we know it.听Wanting more of the original 1966鈥�69 TV series, Trekkies put out their own fanzines, such as Spockanalia,听and sold them at a small cost at conventions, a major event of fandoms and their听fanfiction.听

Even from its start, Star Trek fanfiction听highlighted two major themes of 蹿补苍蹿颈肠迟颈辞苍听as a genre.

1. A vast majority of authors appear to be women.
2. A great deal of fanfiction revolves around sexual content, notably featuring same-sex relationships involving characters who aren’t romantically involved in the original work. This prominent subgenre is called slash fiction, as early stories were called Kirk/Spock stories. Why these themes? Perhaps due to the patriarchy of traditional publishing and storytelling as well as the underrepresentation of marginalized groups in mainstream media?

Meanwhile, Japan was also developing its own fanfiction, called doujinshi, based on manga in the 1960鈥�70s, also self-publishing them and selling them at big meet-ups.

The internet ushered in a golden age of fanfiction, creating forums such FanFiction, LiveJournal, and Archive of Our Own for authors to post, share, read, and review fanfiction.听E.L. James first published online her 50 Shades of Grey as fanfiction based on the听Twilight听fantasy series before its formal publication in 2011 became an absolutely massive sensation (and later film series).

Reaction to fanfiction is mixed. Some original creators like J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter feel flattered by their offshoots, while others such as Game of Thrones听author George R. R. Martin snub it. Star Wars听allows fanzines鈥攁s long as no content is pornographic …

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