[ SECRET POST #2285 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2285 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[NCIS]


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[Kirk Cameron]


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[Lindsay Lohan, Sean Penn, Sean Bean]


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[MCU/Marvel movies - NOT the comics]


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10. [SPOILERS for Spartacus War of the Damned]



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11. [SPOILERS for Dangan Ronpa]



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12. [SPOILERS for The Walking Dead]



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13. [SPOILERS for House MD]



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14. [WARNING for rape]



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15. [WARNING for abuse]

[the beatles]





















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think the explanation for this is pretty simple (and it's also something that I would consider pretty much absolutely essential to the nature of fan fiction) - fan fiction is a product of and a medium for a specific subculture. So it's not at all surprising that ideas and tropes and themes move across fandoms because it's the same people involved in all of them - because almost any given fandom is made up of people who are within fandom broadly, therefore in many fandoms. No fandom is an island, is what I'm saying - there's all these social connections and there's all these cases where people are members of multiple fandoms and so it happens naturally that something that comes up organically in one fandom transfers to another. Because it's mostly the same people involved in both. That's mostly what fanfiction is. Something produced by fans. As a form it's produced by people within that subculture and that subculture is a subculture and shares both a community and a style of communication and a lot of ideas and sensibilities.

It's pretty obvious really. I think that social / subcultural element is pretty central to the whole concept of fanfiction as it exists - are you going to address that at all in your paper?

[(Anonymous)]

That's pretty much the basis of my assumptions and arguments, so it is certainly something I will get into with my paper :) I'm in the initial stages at the moment, trying to map the whole thing out, and I'm mainly trying to think of good examples to delve into and explain. It really is quite fascinating, how coherent a subculture fandom is!

[(Anonymous)]

It absolutely is.

You should look up some of Mary Bucholtz' work, particularly "Why Be Normal? Language and Identity Practices In A Community Of Nerd Girls." It's not about fanfiction, and it's linguistics / sociology rather than literary analysis or whatever, but it's still a great body of work in terms of attempting to define nerds as a subculture and get at some of the characteristics and definitional qualities of what we mean when we say something as a nerd. And I would suspect that there's an extremely substantial overlap between the group that she's examining as "nerds" and online fanfiction communities. Should mostly be up JSTOR.

I think most of the other studies that have looked at this kind of thing have been from an education studies / online literacy perspective, which is kind of unfortunate, since that's not particularly useful for this kind of study.

Good luck to you, though - it's a fascinating topic.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the rec! I think I've come across the title before and forgotten about it, but it sounds like it could be very useful.

Yeah, finding materials is an interesting exercise. I'm gathering anything and everything that sounds the slightest bit interesting or relevant.

Thank you :)

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, even if you can't use it, you should still read it, because it's an amazing paper. Just Bucholtz interviewing a bunch of nerdy girls at a high school in California in the early 90s. It's great fun.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like it! And the way my paper looks right now I can use anything relevant to subcultures of any kind, if nothing else than for my own pleasure and background reading.