7 Works in Fanworks
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Fanwork Migration by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Dollhouse, Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Firefly / Serenity Universe
24 Mar 2023
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This happens to be the 15th anniversary of the Buffyverse Top 5 community, created to share recs in the Buffy and Angel fandoms, and later the other Joss Whedon productions. This timing is particularly fitting because I have spent several months since our 2019 session going through every post in the community (1,846 of them!) as part of an effort to locate recced content on AO3.
This gave me a unique perspective on patterns in the fandom which might be much the same for other fandoms which began in the pre-AO3 online era, and which may also have lost a number of their works over the years.
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- Part 11 of Fandom History
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Pondering the appeal of the Spike/Xander Ship by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
23 Dec 2022
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I was having a discussion with someone about why some ships were heavily written and read in the Buffyverse, and others such as Sparmony were practically non-existent. And it raised a question I’ve had for some time about why Spander became so popular.
Originally posted June 26, 2005
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- Part 1 of Fandom Manifestos
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I also like her phrase "The rise of this sort of critic, who simply writes about art because he or she wants to, has, with an astonishing swiftness, broken the monopoly of the mass media, and I think that is only good: now a diversity of response is beginning to match the diversity of the work that is made."
Originally posted April 28, 2011 and September 15, 2016
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- Part 10 of What Goes Into Our Canon
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,180
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Hits:
- 6
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The gender acafan discussion going on at fandebate recently focused on creativity in visual mediums.
Originally posted June 21, 2007
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- Part 2 of What Goes Into Our Canon
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Fanfiction.net's Development And Lessons for LiveJournal by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom
19 Dec 2022
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Originally posted July 20, 2010.
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- Part 8 of Fandom History
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In a good example of why the March Meta Matters Challenge exists, a look at how much content just disappears all the time.
Originally posted November 5 and November 28, 2017
Inspired by Fanwork Migration by yourlibrarian.
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- Part 10 of Fandom History
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Artificial Scarcity and Disappearing Communities by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom
17 Dec 2022
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The differences between fanworks and high art is mostly one centered on money. Plus, the problem with getting new people involved in one's fandom
Originally posted February 25, 2010 and March 3, 2010
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- Part 22 of Exploring Fandom
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 862
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Hits:
- 2