Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 3/28/15
As reported by, among others, John Wenz in Popular Mechanics, Screenwriter Max Landis Wrote This Crazy Fan Fiction Treatment of 'Ghostbusters 3'.
Apple Watch Fan Fiction Is Magnificent according to Kenzie Bryant on racked.
From Elizabeth Minkel in The Millions: From the Internet to the Ivy League: Fanfiction in the Classroom.
For The Independent, Gillian Orr began a piece There's a popular online fan fiction series among Directioners (the fans of One Direction) called "#Imagine". One such story meme invites you to wonder what it would be like if you were going out with Zayn Malik, the recently departed boyband member with very good hair. You're in hospital because you need a heart transplant. Zayn has accompanied you. (Sssshhh; imagine.) He waves you off into surgery and tells you he'll be in your heart for ever. After the operation you run out only to be told that the heart you received was actually from Zayn. He had died for you.
For The New Zealand Herald, Nicky Pellegrino wrote Bestseller Fifty Shades Of Grey by E.L. James started life as online fan fiction, and there are literally thousands of other people out there writing their own versions of popular stories from Harry Potter to Bridget Jones' Diary. Now Fifty Shades Of Grey has even sparked its own fan fiction. Find far too much of it at fanfiction.net.
National Post’s Lauren Strapegiel wrote that Carmilla’s creators tapped into [the show’s] fan base proactively, interacting with fans on social media and sharing art and fan-fiction made by their viewers.
Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich wrote There’s a sense that we’re seeing Girls fanfiction now, that this is what would happen if J.J. Abrams rebooted Girls forty years from now.
In ‘Can we trust Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Jesus”?’ for IrishCentral, Cahir O’Doherty wrote The book, which has already been dismissed as credulous “fan-fiction” by senior historians and New Testament scholars, has been transformed into an epic miniseries on the National Geographic channel that debuts on March 29.
For The Muhlenberg Weekly, Richardo Negron wrote Some argue that Glee’s failure is a result of Cory Monteith’s unfortunate death, but truthfully, it started to fall flat many seasons before. With a formulaic plotline, it is hard for show creator Ryan Murphy and his team of writers to create a story that we, as viewers, actually care about. The relationships and plot “twists” appear to be largely controlled by the slew of fans; the script almost starts to resemble that of fourteen year old fan fiction.
In a Neil Diamond concert recap for Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield wrote that the performer had a welcome surprise saved up for the end: "Heartlight," his 1983 hit inspired by the movie E.T., from a more innocent time when pop stars could write unauthorized musical fan-fic out of sheer enthusiasm, lawyers be damned.
An Australian furry told Star Observer’s Benjamin Riley “There’s the people who dress up, there’s the artists who draw artwork, which often the characters are designed off of to make the fur suits, and then there’s writers who write fan fiction, and people like myself who appreciate all of this.”
From USA Today’s Hoai-Tran Bui: Sophie Turner (aka Sansa Stark) makes up some steamy 'Game of Thrones' fanfiction for Vanity Fair.
For Grantland, Wesley Morris wrote that, if the characters Cookie [(Empire)] and Olivia [(Scandal)] switched cities, it’d make for fascinating, funny television, but neither world could remain intact for long. Cookie would expose a whole city’s skeletons and be immediately out of a job. Olivia would provide withering scrutiny of the record label’s business plan, then disinfect all the tabletops, desktops, and backseats. That such a hypothetical, fan-fiction switch would fail indicates the diversity of blackness currently on dramatic television. There’s a relative wealth where 30 years ago there was only impoverishment.
For the LA Times, Carolyn Kellogg wrote that among the sessions scheduled for an upcoming conference at CalArts is "Marvelous Trash: Fan Fiction and Conceptualism".
In South-Central PA town-on-town smackdown news, York Daily Record’s Mike Argento wrote that, during a recent visit, he noticed that Lancaster’s coffee shops, which all had pretentious names, were full of hipsters poking at their Mac Books, writing screenplays based on Superman fanfic, or something like that.
Finally, in an interview for Entertainment Weekly, Steven Moffat told James Hibberd that A load of [Sherlock fanfic] has been superb. There’s a tendency to disparage it. I don’t agree. Even the slash fiction, that’s a great way to learn to work. No one really does three-act structure, but just trying to put words that make somebody else turned on, that’s going to teach you more about writing than any writing college you can go to. It’s creative and exciting. I refuse to mock it-because I’m a man who writes Sherlock Holmes fan fiction for a living!
Apple Watch Fan Fiction Is Magnificent according to Kenzie Bryant on racked.
From Elizabeth Minkel in The Millions: From the Internet to the Ivy League: Fanfiction in the Classroom.
For The Independent, Gillian Orr began a piece There's a popular online fan fiction series among Directioners (the fans of One Direction) called "#Imagine". One such story meme invites you to wonder what it would be like if you were going out with Zayn Malik, the recently departed boyband member with very good hair. You're in hospital because you need a heart transplant. Zayn has accompanied you. (Sssshhh; imagine.) He waves you off into surgery and tells you he'll be in your heart for ever. After the operation you run out only to be told that the heart you received was actually from Zayn. He had died for you.
For The New Zealand Herald, Nicky Pellegrino wrote Bestseller Fifty Shades Of Grey by E.L. James started life as online fan fiction, and there are literally thousands of other people out there writing their own versions of popular stories from Harry Potter to Bridget Jones' Diary. Now Fifty Shades Of Grey has even sparked its own fan fiction. Find far too much of it at fanfiction.net.
National Post’s Lauren Strapegiel wrote that Carmilla’s creators tapped into [the show’s] fan base proactively, interacting with fans on social media and sharing art and fan-fiction made by their viewers.
Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich wrote There’s a sense that we’re seeing Girls fanfiction now, that this is what would happen if J.J. Abrams rebooted Girls forty years from now.
In ‘Can we trust Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Jesus”?’ for IrishCentral, Cahir O’Doherty wrote The book, which has already been dismissed as credulous “fan-fiction” by senior historians and New Testament scholars, has been transformed into an epic miniseries on the National Geographic channel that debuts on March 29.
For The Muhlenberg Weekly, Richardo Negron wrote Some argue that Glee’s failure is a result of Cory Monteith’s unfortunate death, but truthfully, it started to fall flat many seasons before. With a formulaic plotline, it is hard for show creator Ryan Murphy and his team of writers to create a story that we, as viewers, actually care about. The relationships and plot “twists” appear to be largely controlled by the slew of fans; the script almost starts to resemble that of fourteen year old fan fiction.
In a Neil Diamond concert recap for Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield wrote that the performer had a welcome surprise saved up for the end: "Heartlight," his 1983 hit inspired by the movie E.T., from a more innocent time when pop stars could write unauthorized musical fan-fic out of sheer enthusiasm, lawyers be damned.
An Australian furry told Star Observer’s Benjamin Riley “There’s the people who dress up, there’s the artists who draw artwork, which often the characters are designed off of to make the fur suits, and then there’s writers who write fan fiction, and people like myself who appreciate all of this.”
From USA Today’s Hoai-Tran Bui: Sophie Turner (aka Sansa Stark) makes up some steamy 'Game of Thrones' fanfiction for Vanity Fair.
For Grantland, Wesley Morris wrote that, if the characters Cookie [(Empire)] and Olivia [(Scandal)] switched cities, it’d make for fascinating, funny television, but neither world could remain intact for long. Cookie would expose a whole city’s skeletons and be immediately out of a job. Olivia would provide withering scrutiny of the record label’s business plan, then disinfect all the tabletops, desktops, and backseats. That such a hypothetical, fan-fiction switch would fail indicates the diversity of blackness currently on dramatic television. There’s a relative wealth where 30 years ago there was only impoverishment.
For the LA Times, Carolyn Kellogg wrote that among the sessions scheduled for an upcoming conference at CalArts is "Marvelous Trash: Fan Fiction and Conceptualism".
In South-Central PA town-on-town smackdown news, York Daily Record’s Mike Argento wrote that, during a recent visit, he noticed that Lancaster’s coffee shops, which all had pretentious names, were full of hipsters poking at their Mac Books, writing screenplays based on Superman fanfic, or something like that.
Finally, in an interview for Entertainment Weekly, Steven Moffat told James Hibberd that A load of [Sherlock fanfic] has been superb. There’s a tendency to disparage it. I don’t agree. Even the slash fiction, that’s a great way to learn to work. No one really does three-act structure, but just trying to put words that make somebody else turned on, that’s going to teach you more about writing than any writing college you can go to. It’s creative and exciting. I refuse to mock it-because I’m a man who writes Sherlock Holmes fan fiction for a living!