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I think one of the big strengths of fanfiction as a medium is that it can, on average, assume the reader has a way higher degree of familiarity with canon than likeâŚcanon can. If youâre in the Star Wars AO3 tag you probably like Star Wars enough to remember more things about it than the average Star Wars-enjoying-ten-year-old. Which makes it way easier for fanwriter a to get to the juicy stuff and really engage with the worldbuilding or minor characters without having to spell out like. Who Wedge Antilles is for everyone who forgot or never noticed him in the first place. You could write a book about Wedge in the old EU because EU readers could also be assumed to be serious fans, but you canât make a new canon Disney+ show about him. Those cost money to make and are intended for a broader audience.
And all this means that like. A good fic writer can and often will surpass canon when it comes to like. Thematic resonance and stuff, because they can really dig into something. Star Trek 2009 gave Kirk a new, more generic tragic backstory because it couldnât expect the average moviegoer to be familiar with Kirkâs old, way more interesting tragic backstory. (Frankly, Iâm not sure jj abrams knew about TOS Kirkâs backstory) whereas I have read a LOT of well-written, interesting, deeply resonant fanfic examinations of Tarsus IV, and what it means for Kirkâs character that heâs a genocide survivor. Star Trek 2009 answers the question âwhy did Kirk cheat on the kobayashi maru?â With ââcause his dad crashed a spaceship when he was a baby.â A close examination of TOS canon implies the answer is âbecause he lived through a real-life Kobayashi that did have a win option, but which wasnât taken.â BUTâand this is significantâeven the TOS canon movies canât really assume knowledge of the full TOS tv show, so that implication is never examined or made explicit. Instead itâs fanfic (and maybe spin off novels? Idk Iâve only read 2 trek books, if thereâs one out there that covers this that would be really cool) where we get dives into that thread, where Kirk gets a commendation for original thinking because he can look a testing board in the eye and say âIâve seen what happens when someone is entrenched in this kind of thinking, and I cannot let it happen to me. I understand the lesson, but itâs not hypothetical anymore and it never will be. I did what I had to do.â And thatâs interesting! Thatâs meaningful! That canât happen in a summer blockbuster. But it can happen in fic, easily, and thatâs a strength of fic, I think.
I hope you don't mind me adding to this very good post, but in general i think the financial supremecy of movies and (more recently) tv has lead a lot of people to assume that the best stories can be interchanged between mediums. That every book can be adapted into a movie, every light novel into an anime, every movie into a video game etc etc
and that's the same attitude that underlies all the 'the goal of fanfic is to file of the serial numbers and publish it' or 'fanfic isn't real writing because real writing is novels and fanfic is usually structurally so different from a novel' type of takes come from.
this assumption that the medium is largely coincidental to the story being told
when that's just not true.
the very best adaptations always change things, because mediums are not interchangeable, and they fundamentally shape the stories told in them.
there are things you can do in fanfic that are simply not possible in a traditional novel, because you're starting from that possition of love and knowledge, and because you aren't bound by the need to be canon compliant, so you can ask questions like 'if these characters met in other lives, under different circumstances, what would they be like? how different would they be? how much of what makes them them is tied to the circumstances they found themselves in?' or 'what was it like to not be the heroes, to not be actively involved in the cool exciting bits? what was it like to be a minor character, left behind to deal with the consequences' because your audience is already invested, they'll show up for questions like that in a way a movie or novel or tv audience wouldn't.
there are things you can do in a podcast or radio play that are not possible in visual mediums like film or tv, because you're relying on the audiences imagination. there's a reason the best radio comedy tends to be surreal, and the best podcasts tend to be horror, those are both genres that thrive when the audience's imagination is allowed to fill in blanks.
there are things you can do on TV that are not possible in a novel or a movie. the way WandaVision completely changed its visual style with each episode is something that would not work in any other genre, but it's essential to the story. TV usually exists in very defined seasons, but cannot traditionally be consumed all in one go, which is not true of almost any other medium, and that dictates a specific type of pacing. combine that with the fact that it's a visual medium, and you get something like the overarching stories of the 9th Doctor's season of Doctor Who. No other medium could have delivered the resolution to that storyline as effectively.
Video games can force the audience to consider their own part in events. No movie could do what Spec Ops did, when it gives you a button prompt to commit a war crime, and then turns around and asks you why? why did you do that? was it too easy? do you think it felt like this when the US government committed the exact same war crime within living memory? Was it easy then too? A novel or a movie could show you walker doing this terrible thing, but it could never convey the point with the same effective simplicity, and it could never make you the audience feel culpable. only the author is responsible for the actions of the characters in a novel, but in a game, it's the audience who bears that responsibility, and that allows for moral questions other mediums struggle to effectively convey.
Comics can tell stories that take three decades and ten different writers to tell. Movies can use silence more effectively than any other medium because cinemas give you a captive audience and close-ups means you can reliably assume they can see everything that's happening (unlike theatre, which can use silence, but can't assume everyone has a good view). Theatre provides real time audience interactivity and a very special and unique kind of suspension of disbelief. Professional wrestling can tell ongoing stories in real time over years or decades, and walk the line between fiction and reality. Novels can immerse you more fully in one person's view of the world than any other medium (which also allows for information to be hidden from the reader without it feeling cheap the way it can when a movie does the same thing). Live oral storytelling allows the story to be adapted on the fly to fit audience reactions, allows for infinite variations of the same story, because no two tellings will ever be identical.
Fanfic isn't a genre, not really. Fanfic has genres, but it isn't a genre in and of itself. Fanfic is a medium, and like all mediums, it offers storytelling tools that are unique to it, that it does better than any other medium. and as OP pointed out, one of the big ones is that it can assume both familiarity and love from the audience to the characters depicted. We can stray far further afield from where we started in fanfic than the original creator ever could, because our anchors are not the narrative, but the characters.
you're mommy's good little printer aren't you? you'll print whatever mommy tells you to because otherwise mommy gets sad and leaves you for one of those free use library printer sluts
mommy needs you to print this document now and if you don't mommy is going to turn you off at the wall
listen to mommy okay? if you don't be a good little printer and fucking print my document and i know you want to okay mommy can see it in your print queue if you don't. print. my fucking document. mommy's going to get the hammer
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Binderary 2026: Week Four
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Hereâs the list of whoâs running the week 4 workshops:
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smooth talkinâ, so rockinâ by writer_in_theory https://archiveofourown.org/works/49428286
Smooth Talkin', So Rockin' by writer_in_theory
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Rating: Mature
60,436 words, 16/16 chapters
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Tags: Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things), Alternate Universe - Celebrity, Minor Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler/Chrissy Cunningham, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Pre-Relationship, Secret Identity, Identity Porn, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends, Chrissy Cunningham & Eddie Munson Friendship, Steve Harrington Needs a Hug, Rockstar!Eddie Munson, Popstar!Steve Harrington, Inspired by Hannah Montana, Team as Family, Romance, Getting Together, Mutual Pining, Happy Ending, Implied Sexual Content, Non-Graphic Smut, Summer Romance, Paparazzi, Famous Eddie Munson
Summary:
Steve Harrington had the best of both worlds. By day he could be a normal person, but by night he got to perform at sold-out stadiums as pop sensation Zayne Maine. One scandal has him sent back to the small town he was supposed to grow up in, however, with the instructions that he's supposed to spend the summer figuring out who he is without the wig and makeup. Eddie Munson is the lead singer of the rock band Corroded Coffin with a reputation that precedes him. When he decided to spend the summer in his old hometown to help finish their next long-awaited album, he never expected to meet someone with close ties to his famous rival. -- AKA a Hannah Montana AU Posted as part of the 2023 Steddie BigBang
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Everyone's all "ohhh 2026 bring back physical media" until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we're not on the same page anymore
Actually we are on the same page. We've been on the same page for a week because these things take forever to make
a reminder that ao3 was created as an archive. not a social media.
ao3 is run on fansâ donations. itâs a nonprofit organization, run by fans, for fans. it has no ads. no capitalism or algorithm bullshit.
ao3 allows works that depict all kind of taboo, morally questionable, disgusting, socially unacceptable subjects, no matter how graphic, how explicit it is being portrayed (thatâs what tags, warnings and ratings are for!).
ao3 does not have censorship, nor does ao3 allow censorship.
The "Our" in "Archive Of Our Own" means us freaks.

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I think we should all fuck off. I think we should all go to the library and just fuck off.
I love getting comments on really old fics. It's like a little tap on the shoulder that says, "hey the art you create is going to last forever even if you don't think it matters anymore"
Have you seen the new movie? It's on library. It's literally on the library. It's on library without ads. It's literally on your local public library. You can probably ask for it on your library. Dude it's on your library. It's in the original case too. It's on library. You can watch it at the library. You can go to your local library and watch it. Register onto your local library right now. Go to your library. Dive into your library. You can watch it. It's on there. Your library has it for you. Your library has it for you.
Letâs talk about Banned Books Week. đÂ
2024 was a pretty intense year for book banning. With 2,452 unique titles challenged over 821 attempts, last year ranks in the top three of most-challenged books since the ALA started tracking book banning stats in 1990. Four of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2024 were on the list due to the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ characters or themes. This week, weâre celebrating and highlighting books that have been challenged, targeted, censored, and banned. Check out our Banned Books Week list in Libby to see the titles in our collection that have had challenges to their names.Â
Censorship has no place in a free, literate, and educated society. Access to literature, information, and resources is that support our communities is vital.  QLL is here for the fight to keep access open.

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The sample issue of FANMADE is out now!
The wait is over.
Fifty pages of fan culture rambling, lovingly curated into a magazine. You might want to grab a drink and get comfortable â it's not a quick flip.
[READ IT HERE]
Inside, we talk about: â the hurt/comfort trope (thanks to @haich-slash-cee for their amazing research on h/c and whump that helped us put the article together) â whump (thanks to @whumptober for chatting with us!) â writing realistic injuries â fanbinding and community ethics (with words from @renegadeguild and @starblightbindery â thank you so much for your time and advice) â an interview with the founders of BookTower, the app that helps you track your fic reading (and everything else).
And lots more!
Like most things in fandom, this issue is a labour of love. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed making it.
Our forms are open if you want to:
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Stay tuned â the next issue theme is found family, and weâve got fic recs coming soon.
Just gonna go ahead and put this here since I have a feeling some folks are gonna need the reminder