Talkin‘ Fanfic
Aug 3, 2021
Fanfiction History with The Fanfic Maverick Podcast!! PART ONE
A-TEAM, ASSEMBLE!! Sara joins forces with Beth from The Fanfic Maverick Podcast to take a DEEP DIVE into the history of fanfiction as we know it. From Ancient Greece to Ao3, we try and cover it all.
* How are fanfic authors protected by US Copyright Law? (Fair Use!)
* If George Lucas gets squicked out by your Luke/Han lemon, can his team of lawyers punt your PWP? (Not if you’re non-commercial, young padawan!)
* How much do you know about the speakeasy of fanfiction, that seedy backroom of the internet obscurely known as WWOMB? (Beth will regale you!)
* How many items on astolat's original Ao3 wishlist came true (ALL OF THEM! pretty much!)
AFTER LISTENING, subscribe to the Fanfic Maverick Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or whatever-- and stay tuned for PART 2: The exciting panel-style conclusion, where Sara and Beth round up a couple of fandom OGs who will tell you how is was-- and is!
Contact and Credits:
* Music: Kyle Laurin "In the Air Tonight" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)
* Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com
* Instagram: @talkinfanfic
* Email: talkinfanfic@gmail.com
Biblio/Articles to Read
* The Fanfic Maverick Podcast: SUBSCRIBE on your podcast platform, or find next week's episode HERE! https://www.fanficmaverickpodcast.com/
* The Fanfiction Studies Reader (Univ of Iowa Press-- you can purchase direct from here, or please contact your local independent bookstore!)
* https://fanlore.org/wiki/Main_Page
* VICE, “The Forgotten Early History of Fanfiction”
* The Surprising 18th Century Origins of Fanfiction (The Atlantic)
* Fanart in the 18th Century - "The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver" by William Hogarth
* Medium: "Fanfiction and Copyright"
* Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law (R. Tushnet, Georgetown Law article, 1997)
* "The Promise and Potential of Fanfiction" (The New Yorker)
* Alexander Pope wrote a series of “touching if bawdy” poems about Gulliver’s barely mentioned wife, Mary Gulliver,
* History of Media Fanzines (fanlore)
* 2021 article on Star Trek Prodigy Group ATF
* https://fanlore.org/wiki/Supernatural_Roundtable (Didn’t get to it, but I just thought this was cool)
* https://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Chronology
* https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fandom_1994-2000-ish/Part_One
* https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fandom_1994-2000-ish/Part_Two
* Webrings (fanlore)
* Gossamer Archive
* Trek Fiction (dot com)
* Due South Archive / Hexwood (1994)
* Jedi Apprentice Fan Dimension (2000) (Sara’s first!)
* http://www.lcfanfic.com/ Lois & Clark Fanfic Archive (1996 TO PRESENT)
* A Brief History of Modern Fanfiction, the migration of online communities (cached article)
* Announcing Fanfic.net: The Definitive Xfiles Source (fanlore)
* LJ 2007 (there was also a second strikethrough purge later in 2008)
* Fandom, Inc
* Fanlore - cupidsbow "How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor" (April 26, 2007)
* Cesperanza - “Dear Fandom: Could You Please Stop Saying That?” LJ (May 17, 2007)
* Fanlore - Astolat’s “An Archive of One's Own” (LJ, May 17 2007) (see more below)
* Wattpad sold (techcrunch article)