Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 3/14/15
For The Washington Post, Will Baude shared that In addition to being Pi Day, today also marks the official finale of one of my favorite books written this millennium: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It’s a fan-fiction version of Harry Potter (hear me out!) in which Harry is raised by an Oxford scientist and therefore trained in the scientific method and various other elements of rational thinking. He applies these critical thinking skills to his newly-discovered magical powers, and amazing things ensue.
Fanfic features prominently in Vulture's It’s a Fanmade World.
In ‘Spock has died, but Trekker culture now rules the world’ for The Guardian, Jason Wilson noted that The subculture around Star Trek has been famously productive for a long time. There are fan-produced shows, lexicons of Klingon, detailed technical diagrams of the show’s fictional technologies, voluminous Wikipedia entries, and terabytes of fan fiction.
In an Otega Daily Times piece about the Dunedin Fringe Festival, David Loughrey wrote [Benedict Cumberbatch Must Die] takes a control-freak actor, a sex-crazed celebrity obsessive and a fan fiction writer who writes ''wildly unpopular'' prose about the English actor who seems to have struck a chord with the female sector.
In a piece arguing for a The Walking Dead shooter game for Forbes, Paul Tassi wrote Licensed games have a bad rap in the industry because most of them are terrible. This needs to be overcome if media properties want to become truly all-encompassing multimedia franchises. I think Star Wars has done a good job of this, as that series has many great games to its name in a half dozen different genres, and in recent years, The Lord of the Rings has done pretty well between games based on the original trilogy, and now Shadow of Mordor, even if it mostly exists lore-wise as fan-fiction.
David Amann told DNA India’s Meryl Sebastian that I've seen some [Castle fanfic]. I do admire the creativity and the effort. I appreciate that fans devote time and energy to that.
For CNN, Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich wrote You type "eye twitch" into Google and come up with a really rad website that explains that this newfound spasm is actually an indication that your third eye is fixing to open, revealing to you wonders untold. You are the chosen one. Too bad that this trove of "medical information" is actually some dude's fan-fiction site. Huh?
Finally, reason #549 why you shouldn’t gift your favorite celebrity with your RPS: James Van Der Beek caught with [Dawson’s Creek] porn by airport security (North Bay Nipissing News).
Fanfic features prominently in Vulture's It’s a Fanmade World.
In ‘Spock has died, but Trekker culture now rules the world’ for The Guardian, Jason Wilson noted that The subculture around Star Trek has been famously productive for a long time. There are fan-produced shows, lexicons of Klingon, detailed technical diagrams of the show’s fictional technologies, voluminous Wikipedia entries, and terabytes of fan fiction.
In an Otega Daily Times piece about the Dunedin Fringe Festival, David Loughrey wrote [Benedict Cumberbatch Must Die] takes a control-freak actor, a sex-crazed celebrity obsessive and a fan fiction writer who writes ''wildly unpopular'' prose about the English actor who seems to have struck a chord with the female sector.
In a piece arguing for a The Walking Dead shooter game for Forbes, Paul Tassi wrote Licensed games have a bad rap in the industry because most of them are terrible. This needs to be overcome if media properties want to become truly all-encompassing multimedia franchises. I think Star Wars has done a good job of this, as that series has many great games to its name in a half dozen different genres, and in recent years, The Lord of the Rings has done pretty well between games based on the original trilogy, and now Shadow of Mordor, even if it mostly exists lore-wise as fan-fiction.
David Amann told DNA India’s Meryl Sebastian that I've seen some [Castle fanfic]. I do admire the creativity and the effort. I appreciate that fans devote time and energy to that.
For CNN, Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich wrote You type "eye twitch" into Google and come up with a really rad website that explains that this newfound spasm is actually an indication that your third eye is fixing to open, revealing to you wonders untold. You are the chosen one. Too bad that this trove of "medical information" is actually some dude's fan-fiction site. Huh?
Finally, reason #549 why you shouldn’t gift your favorite celebrity with your RPS: James Van Der Beek caught with [Dawson’s Creek] porn by airport security (North Bay Nipissing News).