It's a pretty basic paper, outlining how writing stories in the context of the fan community produces a totally different type of writing. I get to throw the word hypertext around.
!!! First of all, good luck with it! Second of all, do you plan on making this paper available to the internet? Because I would read that paper SO HARD.
I actually think the new successor to serial mailing-list fic is commentfic, especially on kinkmemes. It's that same open-ended feeling.
Well-spotted! Also: stalkerpin, ahahha.
And that's really interesting, because one of the books I'm reading for this research paper talks about how soap operas are about telling the same story over and over, with lots of repetition and never a real ending, and that's actually a pretty good description for fandom.
It totally IS, that's so cool! Fandom's ENTIRE PREMISE is that there is no real ending. I would also add that fandom is comprised of not only lots of repetition, but multiple concurrent iterations. That is, there are not just many copies, but many versions, developed both in parallel and in succession as responses or a progression (see: fanon); we can hold many contradictory ideas in our heads and believe them all to be true. More than a single story, for fandom it's the storytelling that has no real ending. Fandom by definition has a multitude of storytellers, all writing variations on a theme.
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!!! First of all, good luck with it! Second of all, do you plan on making this paper available to the internet? Because I would read that paper SO HARD.
I actually think the new successor to serial mailing-list fic is commentfic, especially on kinkmemes. It's that same open-ended feeling.
Well-spotted! Also: stalkerpin, ahahha.
And that's really interesting, because one of the books I'm reading for this research paper talks about how soap operas are about telling the same story over and over, with lots of repetition and never a real ending, and that's actually a pretty good description for fandom.
It totally IS, that's so cool! Fandom's ENTIRE PREMISE is that there is no real ending. I would also add that fandom is comprised of not only lots of repetition, but multiple concurrent iterations. That is, there are not just many copies, but many versions, developed both in parallel and in succession as responses or a progression (see: fanon); we can hold many contradictory ideas in our heads and believe them all to be true. More than a single story, for fandom it's the storytelling that has no real ending. Fandom by definition has a multitude of storytellers, all writing variations on a theme.