Fanlore Featured Article Faceoff!
Which was your favorite Fanlore Featured Article of 2022?
2022 had a number of fandoms face off in brackets and polls (some of which deserve their own wiki page). Are you ready for one more to celebrate another year of fan knowledge?
We found the Featured Articles that garnered the most attention throughout the year on Fanlore's social media. Vote for your favorite Fanlore Featured Article in 2022, from these sixteen finalists:
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If you missed reading any of our contenders, now's your chance to peruse the pages, or you can get right to voting in the poll and help crown the winner!
First up is Sex Pollen, the common trope where a substance causes characters to lose inhibitions and come together carnally, versus the arguments for and against the Unauthorized Sequel, where fans riff on another fanwork without asking first.
The Purple Pages, a collection of over 20 Starsky & Hutch RPF stories printed on purple paper, goes up against iconic Star Trek character Uhura, whose portrayal by trailblazer Nichelle Nichols has had powerful, lasting impact.
KuroKen, the Haikyuu!! best friends ship with a global fanbase faces off against Bunkies, a Star Wars story from '79 where for the first time in fandom history there's, gasp, only one bed. (Unfortunately two winners won't fit in this bracket…)
Listen up, it's Amplificathon, the multifandom podfic challenge which ran annually from 2008-16 versus Manpain, the tragic backstory of many a fictional favorite that may or may not lead to them qualifying as a poor little meow meow.
Reader-Insert is a type of fanfiction written in 2nd person point of view, in which the protagonist is always the reader. Will you vote for it over one of the very first Star Wars fanzines, Against the Sith?
Tunalock, a characteristically unique AU of 2013 Sherlock fandom in which Sherlock Holmes is a tuna fish, is facing Metafic, a label describing fanfic in which characters interact with the story's author or are aware they are fictional characters. Which one will win?
Kraith is a fan-created Star Trek: TOS alternate universe that reimagined Vulcan culture. Will it win over Fandom Ghost: Created Out Of Wholecloth By Fanon, a Tumblr meta discussing fandom's tendency to take a character out of a canon and make them fit a specific archetype?
Slow Show, the beloved and widely popular Good Omens fanfic that was completed in December 2019, goes up against see it all in bloom, a series of futurefic stories in Boku no Hero Academia fandom by aloneintherain.
Vote for your favorite from each bracket and help decide who goes through to the next round!
May the best article win!
