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lb_leeMore adventures in library cataloging, and I ran across a 2006 copy of Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Chapter titles include: "My Life is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performance" and "Keeping Promises to Queer Children: Making Space (for Mary Sue) at Hogwarts."
Talk about a blast from Internet nostalgia past. This was before the existence of Ao3, before the fandom downfall of Livejournal (but AFTER Fanfiction.net, which far as I know was the only site of its kind, at least with any traction). When this book came out, Facebook had existed for less than two years and its biggest competitor was MySpace. Twitter, tumblr, TikTok, and goodreads didn't exist.
This book is way too academically dense for me to want to read. But if I ever do, it exists in my friendly neighborhood science fiction library.
Talk about a blast from Internet nostalgia past. This was before the existence of Ao3, before the fandom downfall of Livejournal (but AFTER Fanfiction.net, which far as I know was the only site of its kind, at least with any traction). When this book came out, Facebook had existed for less than two years and its biggest competitor was MySpace. Twitter, tumblr, TikTok, and goodreads didn't exist.
This book is way too academically dense for me to want to read. But if I ever do, it exists in my friendly neighborhood science fiction library.
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Date: 2024-09-19 05:56 am (UTC)[Janusz]
Wow the fanfic My Immortal started being published on ff.net in March 2006. Meaning it's likely that when the authors were writing the essays, the fanfic probably didn't exist yet, since it takes time to edit and then publish the work. I think it is fair to say that the influence of My Immortal on fandom is substantial, which makes this volume a relic from a before time in more ways than the obvious.
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Date: 2024-09-19 04:56 pm (UTC)My Immortal is a very famous fic, it’s true, but it’s the exemplar of a genre in existence well before that: badfic. Godawfulfanfiction.net was in existence in 1998, and there were plenty of mockery sites for fanfiction—MSTing, Protectors of the Plot Continuum, stuff like that, all existing before 2006. So while the marvelous cobblestone of My Immortal was not yet placed, its road nonetheless existed!
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Date: 2024-09-19 05:02 pm (UTC)[Janusz]
That's a good point!!
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Date: 2024-10-09 12:27 am (UTC)LOL.
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Date: 2024-10-09 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-09 04:51 pm (UTC)Looks like a certain piracy website has it as well.