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It frames fanfiction as socially meaningful, enabling readers and communities with limited representation to recontextualize stories around their own needs and identities. The talk addresses common misconceptions about fanfiction being trivial, teen-only, poorly written, or purely pornographic, and uses audience and platform examples alongside references to illustrate its growing cultural and economic impact. It also explains why libraries should engage with it knowledgeably.","Fanfiction 101: A quick and dirty introduction  \nFanfiction is increasingly in the news, but is it—or does it belong—in our libraries? There is infact more to fanfiction than porn, more in its relationship to commercial fiction than Kindle Worlds, and the line between literary heritage and transformative work has never been more blurred. Fanfiction isn't safe, but it's a part of the changes in the publishing world that we in libraries increasingly need to be prepared to navigate knowledgeably.  \nAbout me: I'm Savannah Lewis and about a year and a half ago I retired from a position as the library director for the Seldovia Public Library after working there and in the Seldovia school library for more than a decade.  \nAudience survey: I like your shoelaces. (ref)  \nWhat is fanfiction?  \nFanfiction is what happens when we think critically about the media we consume. For some of us, this process begins and ends in our heads, with \"why did he do that\" and \"what would have happened if she'd done that?\" It continues with \"and if instead of ending they'd gone on to\"until it finally ends up with \"if this were that and they were not, how would it look, then?\" It begins with critical thought and it ends in a full-scale new work.  \nAuthors are less in control of the story than they may imagine.  \nWhy do fans engage beyond what is simply in the story as given?  \n• continue the story's pleasure longer  \n• change the story's plot  \nFanfic as fixit: makes a story better by allowing groups who are not wellrepresented by the male-dominated commercial marketplace torecontextualize works in ways that reempower them to their own  \nsocial/sexual/gendered/racial needs.  \nWhich meets the needs of the patron? Giving a biracial queer girl a copy of Hunger Games and telling her to use her imagination to enjoy it, or giving the book along with a mention that after she reads it, she might enjoy some of the fanfiction that reinterprets the story in a context closer to her own?  \nFanfiction can even reach beyond one work and combine elements of multiple works into a single production.  \n(for a number of video examples of these, please see the YouTube playlist in the references)  \nThis is all very fine, you may be saying, but that still doesn't make a case for why libraries need to pay attention to it. So let's look at some of the misconceptions that exist about fanfic.  \nMisconception \\#1: Fanfiction is trivial and personal; it doesn't warrant much time spent on it  \nEvery work has a hidden reservoir of fans, especially today where audiences can be worldwide.  \nThe Archive of Our Own (AO3), run by the Organization for Transformative Works, is one relatively new but large archive that has just last week posted some impressive stats:  \nWattpad:  \n• Every minute Wattpad connects more than 10,000 readers with a new story from some of the thousands that are being added to our library each day.  \n• Writers use Wattpad to connect and engage with our monthly audience of over 10 million readers to share their work, build a fan base, and receive instant feedback on their stories.  \n• More than 500 writers have published pieces that have been read more than a million times.  \nAnd this doesn't count works on:  \n• [Dreamwidth.org](Dreamwidth.org)  \n• LiveJournal  \n• [Fanfiction.net](Fanfiction.net)  \n• or any of the many single-fandom archives.  \nMore than numbers, however, let's look at financial impact.  \nThis, more than any other fanwork, is emblematic of the new importance of fanfiction to commercial publishing: Master of the Universe by SnowQueen's Icedragon, a work in the Twilight fandom but written not as a member of the fandom but as a test marketing project for an original novel the author wanted to take commercial.  \nRe-released (with \"the serial numbers filed off\") as this published book, it has had two notable effects upon commercial publishing:  \n• publishing companies are looking through fanfiction archives to recruit new authors  \n• female-oriented erotica","cbCaihx9gvpclR0y","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihx9gvpclR0y","pdf",1001096,4,1,15,"English","en",105,"# Fanfiction 101: A quick and dirty introduction\n## What is fanfiction?\n## Why fans engage beyond the original story\n## Fanfic as fixit\n## Misconceptions about fanfic\n### Misconception #1\n### Misconception #2\n### Misconception #3\n### Misconception #4","[{\"question\":\"What is fanfiction, according to the document?\",\"answer\":\"Fanfiction is presented as critical thinking about media, asking “why,” “what if,” and “how would it look,” then turning those questions into a full-scale new work.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do fans engage with stories beyond what is in the original text?\",\"answer\":\"Fans extend the pleasure of the story, change its plot, and reimagine it in ways that better reflect their social, sexual, gendered, and racial needs.\"},{\"question\":\"Which misconceptions does the document address about fanfiction?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses misconceptions that fanfiction is trivial and personal, written only by and for squealy teenaged girls, poorly written unless illiterate, and “all just porn.”\"}]","Fanfiction 101 - 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