[ **up: [[Fandom]]** ] > [!tip] Note: includes potentially NSFW content --- # Fanfiction [[2025-0309. 'Fanfiction is amateur-produced fiction based on existing media properties.'|'Fanfiction is amateur-produced fiction based on existing media properties.']][^1] - [[Boyslove]] --- > idk about you but I find it enjoyable to see how people interpret a character and what facets they may pick up on that I might not have or traits they may emphasize that highlight different parts of their personality. all these nuances and outlooks broaden my perspective. > > it’d be boring if everyone saw a character the exact same way, and if there were no creative deviations from canon. I can appreciate the variations and adopt what I want. deeper character exploration should be fun and freeing.[^2] --- - [Women/Writing 1: How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor, by cupidsbow](https://cupidsbow.livejournal.com/239587.html) (meta from 2007) --- ## Trope Use [[2025-0309. The use of tropes in fanfiction is both frequent and conscious.|'The use of tropes is both frequent and conscious. Favourites range from coffee shop settings to arranged marriages, and fan writers are highly skilled at using the features of a trope to the greatest effect, but also inverting, subverting and deconstructing them in a variety of ways.']][^3] --- ### Mpreg > Despite its reputation as a controversial fan fiction trope, mpreg (short for male pregnancy) provides new opportunities for narratives centered around reproduction and family-making, especially queer family-making.[^4] --- ### “Always a Different Sex or Gender” AU A question from 2008: > Hey, why do we call that kind of story “genderswaps”? They aren’t swapping gender -- they’re swapping biological sex. Admittedly, in most cases, they then make some sort of half-assed effort to acquire new gender habits and reflexes…maybe that’s why? We’re more interested in the part of the story where they’re trying to acquire the new gender than we are in the part where they’re suddenly a new sex, and that’s why we call them genderswaps rather than sexswaps?[^5] [^1]: Milena Popova, ‘[[Popova. ‘“Dogfuck Rapeworld”_ Omegaverse Fanfiction as a Critical Tool in Analyzing the Impact of Social Power Structures on Intimate Relationships and Sexual Consent’, 2018.|"Dogfuck Rapeworld": Omegaverse Fanfiction as a Critical Tool in Analyzing the Impact of Social Power Structures on Intimate Relationships and Sexual Consent]]’, *Porn Studies* 5, no. 2 (3 April 2018), p. 8. [^2]: black-quadrant \[pseud.], ‘idk about you but I find it enjoyable to see how people interpret a character …’, *breathe you’ll pull through* (Tumblr blog), 12 September 2023, 4:33 PM, https://www.tumblr.com/black-quadrant/728236479827116032/idk-about-you-but-i-find-it-enjoyable-to-see-how. [^3]: Milena Popova, ‘[[Popova. ‘“Dogfuck Rapeworld”_ Omegaverse Fanfiction as a Critical Tool in Analyzing the Impact of Social Power Structures on Intimate Relationships and Sexual Consent’, 2018.|"Dogfuck Rapeworld": Omegaverse Fanfiction as a Critical Tool in Analyzing the Impact of Social Power Structures on Intimate Relationships and Sexual Consent]]’, *Porn Studies* 5, no. 2 (3 April 2018), p. 12. [^4]: Jon Heggestad, ‘Pregnant Teen Wolf: The Border Wars of Mpreg Fics’, *Transformative Works and Cultures*, vol. 39, n.p., https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2193. [^5]: sherrold \[pseud.], ‘why ask why?’, *sherrold* (Livejournal Blog), 26 August 2008, https://sherrold.livejournal.com/127691.html.