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I am presently attempting to write a paper about fan fiction.
Since Fan fiction seems to be very much a social phenomenon - So much an inseparable part of the fandom subculture - It would be a very incomplete picture of the fan fiction phenomenon you would get by just reading the fan fictions without talking to the actual fans.
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Living in a den of thieves, rummaging for answers in the pages. . .
This video is so awesome that I had to recommend it even though it Doesn’t have any connection to the supernatural fandom.
I like the way the song and the footage work together and how the song in this context becomes - like the national anthem of all of fandom.
The Video Us by Lim - The song Is Us by Regina spektor and the footage is from numerous ( Read more... ) -
Link post - Interviews about Supernatural
Super Women: Supernatural's Executive Story Editor Sera Gamble December 1, 2006
By Mary Borsellino WinchesterBros.com Exclusive - Q&A with Supernatural Writer, Sera Gamble Wednesday, 23 May 2007
Supernatural Exec: "We Won't Be One Tree Hill with Monsters!" Jul 21, 2007 06:33 PM ET
By Michael Ausiello
Supernatural Series Creator Eric Kripke Discusses ( Read more... ) -
About the SPN Fandom
1:How would you characterize the supernatural fandom in just 7 words?
2: How would you describe Supernatural fandom this time with all the words of the world to your disposal?
3:In case you have been involved in other fandoms - were they different/similar to Supernatural?
4:Has the supernatural fandom got fractions. and if so, do you consider ( Read more... ) -
Fic preferences
This time around I am not going to ask you what your favorite work of fan fiction is, nor am I going to ask you to make a top 10 of fic. or to make a canon of fic. I will probably be asking you to do all those things in other posts. but this time around we are going about it a bit differently because lists of the above mentioned kind stand in risk ( Read more... ) -
Fandom in general: Interviews, discussions and Essays etc.
Articles And Essays:
- The fangirl's crush By Lisa Gray
- Life After Potter, Bonanza and gunsmoke- TIME
- The Widening Web of Digital Lit The New York Times.
- Whatever happened to Mary Sue By Eshva
Fan Discussions:
- The fangirl's crush By Lisa Gray
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Bibliography
Bibliography
Texts of the paper kind that I have found useful for this project - Some of them - like Todorov and Kerouac - has more to do with Supernatural than with the fandom phenomenon.
Henry Jenkins Textual Poachers is a good place to start if you are new to fandom.
Brooks Peter: Reading for the plot
Cambell Joseph: The hero with a thousand faces
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fan fiction polls
Poll Fan fiction poll -
Ex-Supernatural fan: Breaking up with a TV-Show :(
Sometimes the fannish passion does not last. . .- Maybe the things that made you Squee! in the first season comes further and further apart in the second season. . ?
- Maybe the show turned out not to be what you had expected. . ?
- Maybe the flaws that you could forgive in the beginning ( and secretly thought you could change) started to bother you more ( Read more... )