MetaFilter posts tagged with fanfiction

"I think I was Ed Wood trying to be Steven Spielberg."

jonp72 — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:19:57 -0800

Art Binninger was a sci-fi buff in the 1970s with the resources of the audiovisual squad at Vandenberg Air Force Base at his disposal. The result was Star Trix, a claymation Star Trek parody, that spawned three short films and Star Trix: The Flick (parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). Art Binninger himself explains the whole saga on his web site.

The Ten Doctors

JHarris — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:57:19 -0800

The geekiest thing you will see this month is this fan-made comic called The Ten Doctors. Unexpectedly awesome, though!

Fan Hub Hub-bub

FunkyHelix — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:27:46 -0800

FanLib's mission is "to bring fan fiction out of the shadows and into the limelight." But mostly FanLib is just a multi-fandom fanfiction archive seeking to make money off of the fans through ad space. Not all fans are happy about this. Does this matter? Henry Jenkins, Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program thinks so.

When the original just isn't enough

Xere — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:50:50 -0800

When the usual fanfiction fare just doesn't cut it ... there's shipping and then there's slash, with coined terms such as squick and mpreg. The usual suspects are Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and the Phantom of the Opera - and then there's Kirk/Spock, Hermione/Ginny, Cloud/Sephiroth, and lots more. And it's not limited to recent works - there's also some Jesus/Judas Biblical action going on. (Mostly text, with the occasional NSFW jpg.)

RPG's, Fanfiction or some mutant hybrid?

FritoKAL — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:58:47 -0800

Journal-Based RPG's. They range from Buffy to X-Men, and everything in between. Some are short lived, some have gone on for years and spawned fan-communities of their very own. This is the Livejournal RPG. Not all of these are on Livejournal, many are on LJ-clone sites, but the name has stuck. Want to find one? There's even sites designed to advertise the games. Want to complain about a really awful one? Or a bad player? Or a bad mod? Or a bad ANYTHING? There's a place for that too. A note of my lack of bias - I play in one of these, but the one I'm in is not represented in this post. That would be Bad.

He Knew His Fanfiction Was All Right

Iridic — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:07:02 -0800

Prepare yourselves, teenaged Trollope fans! You have just four months remaining in which to send your Barchester Towers fanfiction to the Anthony Trollope Society's annual £1000 Short Story Competion. Previous champions have been feted at luxurious club dinners by titans like Andrew Davies and P.D. James. Could you be next to join their august ranks?

"There's a game of water Quidditch going on in the swimming pool." Harry Potter, fandom, and academia.

anjamu — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:24:35 -0800

"... Everyone needs an escape. It just amazes me that for 1,200 people this involves sitting in darkened rooms listening to presentations on Harry Potter and the Sanctity of Everyday Life: JK Rowling's Complex Treatment of the Trope of Normalcy." Carole Cadwalladr covers Lumos 2006 for the Guardian. [via]

McGriddle Fan Fiction

rxrfrx — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:37:51 -0800

McGriddle Fan Fiction [via]

Not just for Trekkies anymore...

FunkyHelix — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:15:35 -0800

Fandom is, at the core, neither good or bad. It simply is. [+]

(Hypothetical) Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin

Swampjazz! — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:18:49 -0800

Steve Perry Fan Fiction "11:30 Halloween night and Steve Perry pulled up to the very dark and deserted pumpkin patch in his Toyota Land Cruiser and when he came to a stop he looked out through the gloom to see if anyone else was here and in his own way he was hoping, hoping that some of his old band mates would show but with the reaction he got he really didn’t expect them to be here but he could hope couldn’t he."