Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 3/7/15
In a New York Times piece about Leonard Nimoy’s legacy, Alessandra Stanley wrote The original “Star Trek” that was created by Gene Roddenberry and went on the air in 1966 lasted only three seasons, but it has never really left the picture: It lives on and on in reruns, remakes, movie adaptations, comedy skits, Halloween costumes, conventions, memorabilia, fan fiction and endless campy parodies on YouTube.
Susanna Khoo reviewed the Power/Rangers debacle for The Malaysian Star.
In “With fan fiction, is publishing following in Hollywood's unoriginal footsteps?” for Deseret News, Chandra Johnson explained that Fan fiction is fiction written by fans of established franchises - like Harry Potter or Star Trek- that uses characters, settings or plotlines of established fiction franchises.
Kimberly Anne Tan wrote a rather bizarre into to fanfic, Fiction, Rewritten, for The Urban Wire.
James Matthews wrote Orangeville lad pens Minecraft fan fiction for Orangeville Banner.
From The Daily Californian’s Rosemarie Alejandrino: Friends, the time has come for us to end the stigma surrounding the “F”-word. Fan fiction.
In “What is Mincraft Anyway” for Forbes, David M. Ewait wrote Amazon.com lists 490 different books in its “Minecraft” category, including strategy guides, joke books, fan fiction, teachers’ guides and programming manuals.
On the DVD release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I, The Boston Globe’s Tom Russo quoted Elizabeth Banks from a supplement tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman: “When he came into ‘Catching Fire’... I don’t think he was, like, writing fan fiction of ‘The Hunger Games.’ ” But soon enough, she says, he was family.
Edy Ganem told The Miami Herald that her Ana Maria in Novela Land character is pretty obsessed with writing fan fiction and tweeting about her favorite telenovela.
From ABC News’s website: Taking R2-D2, the beloved droid from the Star Wars series, and drawing him in iconic superhero costumes, [artist Steve] Berrington has produced some lovable fan fiction that brings everyone’s favorite worlds together. With pics!
In a piece about furries for The Tufts Daily, Jake Taber wrote Furries share an interest in anthropomorphic animals - i.e. animals that share human characteristics, like speech or upright walking. They draw them, they create fan fiction and music about them, and most importantly, they take them on as their “alternate identities,” called “fursonas.”
For Cosmopolitan UK, Ellen Scott wrote Confirming pretty much everyone on Tumblr's fanfiction fantasies, it's been revealed that Catwoman is, indeed, bisexual.
In a recap for The Los Angeles Times, Meredith Blake wrote In Sunday's season finale of "Downton Abbey," Carson fulfills the dreams of millions of viewers and more than a few fan-fiction writers by proposing marriage to Mrs. Hughes.
In a celebration of The Sound of Music for The Guardian, Noo Saro-Wiwa noted that With a narrative as soft as this, some darker fan-fiction beckons: I’m thinking a Maria v Baroness smackdown by the lake, perhaps, or Uncle Max getting caught in flagrante with the butler.
ABC.NET.AU’s Robert Virtue interviewed ‘fandom’ expert Melanie James: She says with regards to films and novels, fan-fiction has been used by production companies to further develop their stories, as a way of appeasing fans.
For a piece for The Asian Age on reports that Blogger may soon ban “mature” content, Nandini D. Tripathy wrote Adult fanfiction writer Khyati Gupta, who has been writing an ongoing work-in-progess of erotica for almost six months now, shares, “From where I’m looking, this is the saddest development till date for writers like me."
Finally, The Globe and Mail published a Bloomberg News piece by Gerrit De Vynck, Genies, vampires and fan fiction give Wattpad a lead against Amazon, a now-familiar overview of the Wonder that is Wattpad /sarcasm (sorry, I’ve got 0 reads on the 2-3 stories I’ve posted there).
Susanna Khoo reviewed the Power/Rangers debacle for The Malaysian Star.
In “With fan fiction, is publishing following in Hollywood's unoriginal footsteps?” for Deseret News, Chandra Johnson explained that Fan fiction is fiction written by fans of established franchises - like Harry Potter or Star Trek- that uses characters, settings or plotlines of established fiction franchises.
Kimberly Anne Tan wrote a rather bizarre into to fanfic, Fiction, Rewritten, for The Urban Wire.
James Matthews wrote Orangeville lad pens Minecraft fan fiction for Orangeville Banner.
From The Daily Californian’s Rosemarie Alejandrino: Friends, the time has come for us to end the stigma surrounding the “F”-word. Fan fiction.
In “What is Mincraft Anyway” for Forbes, David M. Ewait wrote Amazon.com lists 490 different books in its “Minecraft” category, including strategy guides, joke books, fan fiction, teachers’ guides and programming manuals.
On the DVD release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I, The Boston Globe’s Tom Russo quoted Elizabeth Banks from a supplement tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman: “When he came into ‘Catching Fire’... I don’t think he was, like, writing fan fiction of ‘The Hunger Games.’ ” But soon enough, she says, he was family.
Edy Ganem told The Miami Herald that her Ana Maria in Novela Land character is pretty obsessed with writing fan fiction and tweeting about her favorite telenovela.
From ABC News’s website: Taking R2-D2, the beloved droid from the Star Wars series, and drawing him in iconic superhero costumes, [artist Steve] Berrington has produced some lovable fan fiction that brings everyone’s favorite worlds together. With pics!
In a piece about furries for The Tufts Daily, Jake Taber wrote Furries share an interest in anthropomorphic animals - i.e. animals that share human characteristics, like speech or upright walking. They draw them, they create fan fiction and music about them, and most importantly, they take them on as their “alternate identities,” called “fursonas.”
For Cosmopolitan UK, Ellen Scott wrote Confirming pretty much everyone on Tumblr's fanfiction fantasies, it's been revealed that Catwoman is, indeed, bisexual.
In a recap for The Los Angeles Times, Meredith Blake wrote In Sunday's season finale of "Downton Abbey," Carson fulfills the dreams of millions of viewers and more than a few fan-fiction writers by proposing marriage to Mrs. Hughes.
In a celebration of The Sound of Music for The Guardian, Noo Saro-Wiwa noted that With a narrative as soft as this, some darker fan-fiction beckons: I’m thinking a Maria v Baroness smackdown by the lake, perhaps, or Uncle Max getting caught in flagrante with the butler.
ABC.NET.AU’s Robert Virtue interviewed ‘fandom’ expert Melanie James: She says with regards to films and novels, fan-fiction has been used by production companies to further develop their stories, as a way of appeasing fans.
For a piece for The Asian Age on reports that Blogger may soon ban “mature” content, Nandini D. Tripathy wrote Adult fanfiction writer Khyati Gupta, who has been writing an ongoing work-in-progess of erotica for almost six months now, shares, “From where I’m looking, this is the saddest development till date for writers like me."
Finally, The Globe and Mail published a Bloomberg News piece by Gerrit De Vynck, Genies, vampires and fan fiction give Wattpad a lead against Amazon, a now-familiar overview of the Wonder that is Wattpad /sarcasm (sorry, I’ve got 0 reads on the 2-3 stories I’ve posted there).