Defining Fanfiction

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    luke1
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    For me, fanfiction has always been a way for the audience to engage themselves even closer to the characters and the story of the original work. Fanfiction serves as the gateway for those who love and enjoy a piece of work to become more invested with the source of their love and immerse themselves in the world created. To me, this takes many different form. Fanfiction can be used to rewrite the established world and allow an audience to imagine what things would look like if things were played out differently. It can also be used to create further depth for established characters and give a different point of view and outlook on how these characters can be viewed. It can also be used to expand the world beyond the confinements that are presented within the source materiel. Fanfiction can also simply serve to allow audiences to experience their characters in a more personal way. Through the many uses for fanfiction, this medium, to me, is a way of strengthening the bond between the work and the audience. This is why I classify fanfiction as any element, piece of work, or art of an original work that has not been outwardly confirmed/approved/or written into the original narrative by the established author of said original work. Due to this definition, I classify adaptations as fanfiction and am curious to see what the distinction between the two are, as I see no difference between adaptations and fanfiction other than the way the general public favors adaptations and discourages fanfiction.

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    Danielle Puccio
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    I really like your idea of fanfiction providing depth both to the original content itself and the relationship between the consumer and producer of media. I really like to read missing-scene and fix-it fic; both of those rely heavily on the idea that there should be something there that isn’t already, whether it’s avoiding a major character death, allowing for emotional exchanges, or exploring different aspects of characters personalities that fic writers put effort into developing further.

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    Grant Glass
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    So nothing the author approves would be considered an adaptation? What do you do with franchises? George Lucas did not approve the plot of the Disney Star Wars, so are those considered fanfictions? I think you hint at the difference between a love for the art and making money, which might be an important distinction for fanfiction.

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