Over the last week, we received many responses to the question how RPF can operate without a canon text, the majority of them among the lines of much the same way non-RPF fandoms do: by constantly negotiating fanon interpretations. It
Why is RPF different?
When writing about RPF, there is one crucial question that makes it different from other parts of fandom (generally accepted as media fandoms). How does it work without a clearly-defined centralcanon text to play with? MARTIN, Anna (2014). Writing the
A comparison of trends in the same fandom, but on different platforms
Separate fandoms and even separate platforms will have their own trends when it comes to the type of content they create. The above quote compares fanfiction from the same fandom but on different platforms. A survey of the ‘Sherlock/John’ tag
Fanfiction’s doppelgänger (from the market universe)
Porn parodies occupy an interesting space in the United States regarding copyright. While fandom is overtly familiar with the careful way fanfilms are made, porn parodies face a different treatment. However, Brain’s films – including a Star Wars parody that
Call for participants for a research survey
Fanhackers has received a request from a Ph.D. student in Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies – Popular Culture Studies, at The University of Zurich. Fabienne Saurer is seeking help to find fan participants for a survey. Her research is on
Instagram novels
In honour of the recent launch of our Instagram page, I’m sharing a piece from a Hungarian paper that compares YA-novels and fanfiction posted on Instagram and Wattpad. Recently, the trend of writing serial stories and fictional diaries has been spreading
The language of danmei forums
Like users of other Chinese websites, Jinjiang readers and authors share among themselves an unique „Web language” (Zhou 2000). They often use initials of pinyin spellings, Arabic numbers, emoticons, words from other languagesl or Chinese characters of similar pronouncitation to
Information science in a feminist universe
(At) the fan fiction archive, the Archive of Our Own (AO3), writers are required either to warn for rape or nonconsensual or explicitly choose not to warn for those things, and through the wonder of the AO3’s curated folksonomy a
Fannish guanxi
Affective communication and guanxi, seems to lie at the heart of fan practices, as both politics and ethics. Ling Yang&Hongwei Bao. 2012. ’Queerly intimate: Friends, fans and affective communication in a Super Girl fan fiction community’ Cultural Studies, 26 (6)
Incest tropes in danmei stories
Incest stories (including so-called selfcest) appear significantly in danmei circles. Recent research has highlighted some recurring motives in these stories. In these fan-made webisodes, it is much more desirable for the new DFFB to experience love among the subcharacters (brothers