Knowra Fan fiction Fan fiction Fan fiction is fiction created by fans using characters, settings, or other elements from existing works. It is commonly shared outside commercial publishing.
Transformative works : Creative works that adapt, reinterpret, or build on existing cultural material. Fan fiction is a prominent form of creative reuse, often changing a source work’s meaning or emphasis.
Pulps : Inexpensive fiction magazines printed on low-quality paper, especially popular in the early twentieth century. Letters and fan communities around genre magazines helped establish practices later associated with fandom.
Archive of Our Own : A nonprofit online archive for fanworks, launched by the Organization for Transformative Works. Its tagging and posting tools support the discovery and preservation of fan fiction.
Slash fiction : Fan fiction that depicts romantic or sexual relationships between characters of the same gender. It has provided space for fans to explore queer relationships often absent from source material.
Canon (fiction) : The events, characters, and facts officially established within a fictional work or franchise. Fan writers decide whether to follow, extend, or depart from a source’s established story.
Science fiction fandom : Communities of readers and creators organized around science fiction, including conventions, publications, and correspondence. Its amateur publishing networks provided an early infrastructure for fan-written stories.
FanFiction.Net : An online archive for fan fiction founded in 1998. Its large, multi-fandom collection helped make online fan-fiction publishing commonplace.
Fandom : A community of people who share enthusiasm for a person, work, or cultural subject. Fan fiction both expresses and strengthens the communities that produce and circulate it.
Alternate universe : A story setting that changes key facts or circumstances of an established fictional world. This common fan-fiction form relocates familiar characters into substantially different worlds or lives.
Fanzine : An amateur publication produced by and for people sharing an interest or subculture. Fanzines circulated fan stories before online platforms made distribution instantaneous.
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