fanfiction
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Chatbots Have Stolen Fanfiction From a Gift Culture
First, a confession. I’ve written fanfiction. Like, a lot of fanfic. In my spare time, I still write fic! (I’m currently writing a couple of fics for Interview With the Vampire and Trigun! It’s going great, thank you.) Over the course of the past 15 years I’ve published around 750,000 words of fic, and just to…
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Alexandra Rowland’s Epic Fantasy Romance Is a Love Letter to Fandom
Alexandra Rowland’s A Taste of Gold and Iron required a joyful writing process. They started over six times, across six years. But Rowland never got discouraged; this book was something that they knew was going to take time to get right because they were working on something that embodied many of the tropes, excitement, romance,…
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The Worst Bits From My Harry Potter High School Fan Fiction
23,485 words. That’s how long one the Harry Potter fanfics I wrote in high school was. Written across three years, my magnum opus was a 12-chapter Hermione/Draco love story where I worked out my young teenage hormones on the page and transformed Ron into a hectic villain. It was terribly written and riddled with tropes,…
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How To Find The Best Fanfiction On The Internet
Fanfiction is one of the internet’s most reviled and beloved genres. Its authors write tales set in their favourite pop culture worlds, from Star Trek and X-Files, to Hogwarts and boy band concerts. For every fic that’s embarrassingly bad, there are thousands more that are brilliant and well-written. Here’s how to hunt down the finest…