Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 5/14/16
According to Jeremy D. Goodwin in Boston Globe, [the play] “RoosevElvis” aims to playfully reclaim elements of American myth and masculinity. But it’s more like fan fiction (make that, fan historical fiction) for history and pop culture nerds - Teddy Roosevelt donning boxing gloves to obsessively punch at projected images of buffalo, Elvis Presley karate-chopping pizza boxes in half.
For Bloomberg View (as reprinted by Chicago Tribune), Stephen Carter wrote A good way to decide whether a work based on another should truly be called creative is to borrow Abigail Derecho's term "archontic." Derecho, writing about Internet fan fiction, uses the word to describe a new creation that enlarges a source text without violating its boundaries. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" would be archontic in this sense. So would "The Wind Done Gone."
For CNN Philippines, Carina Santos reported on Slash and subversion through #RP69FanFic.
From Alexandra Svokos on Elite Daily: We Wrote Fan Fiction Based On Donald Trump’s Nicknames For Everyone.
From Sun Jing in Global Times: Though BL [(Boys’ Love)] is a relatively new phenomenon, it dates back to the slash fiction of the early 1970s, a kind of fan fiction that depicted love scenes between sci-fi heroes, such as Kirk and Spock in Star Trek.
For Esquire, Matt Miller wrote Rose Leslie played Ygritte on Game of Thrones, who during 17 episodes became Jon Snow's love interest before she was killed by a child with a bow and arrow. During the time, Leslie and Kit Harington developed an off-camera love interest and began dating, because their lives are Game of Thrones fan fiction.
Citizen-Times’s Casey Blake referred to a speed bump program as the world’s dullest Game of Thrones fan fiction, “Game of Public Facilities and Traffic Calming Measures.”
Regarding Bucky/Steve For News Talk Florida, Dan Maduri wrote I say leave fan fiction to the internet.
Forbes’ Parmy Olson wrote [Wattpad’s Harry Styles] bot is now having thousands of conversations with teens on Kik each day, according to Ivan Yuen, Wattpad’s co-founder, and driving more traffic to Harry Styles fan-fiction on Wattpad (which is quite another world in itself).
In a piece on Colton Haynes for TV Guide, Megan Vick wrote Fans have shown fervent love for this fictional homosexual relationship through GIF sets, fan fiction and more.
In a piece on Sing Street for News-Herald, Micah Mertes wrote Reportedly, we’re the biggest winners of this childhood fan fiction. “Sing Street” has a 97 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, out of 105 reviews, with critics pretty much uniformly calling it a charming and clever paean to youth, the creative process and ’80s rock.
From Joshua Preston for the Georgia Tech News Center: In a new study, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have found one group of fan fiction writers that has created a successful online community, which might serve as a model to help make the future social web markedly different from today’s landscape.
Finally, Elspeth Reeve had an interesting piece on RPF in New Republic: Rule 34 of the internet holds: If you can imagine it, there is porn of it online. It’s slightly different for the famous: If you can imagine it, there’s porn of you doing it..
For Bloomberg View (as reprinted by Chicago Tribune), Stephen Carter wrote A good way to decide whether a work based on another should truly be called creative is to borrow Abigail Derecho's term "archontic." Derecho, writing about Internet fan fiction, uses the word to describe a new creation that enlarges a source text without violating its boundaries. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" would be archontic in this sense. So would "The Wind Done Gone."
For CNN Philippines, Carina Santos reported on Slash and subversion through #RP69FanFic.
From Alexandra Svokos on Elite Daily: We Wrote Fan Fiction Based On Donald Trump’s Nicknames For Everyone.
From Sun Jing in Global Times: Though BL [(Boys’ Love)] is a relatively new phenomenon, it dates back to the slash fiction of the early 1970s, a kind of fan fiction that depicted love scenes between sci-fi heroes, such as Kirk and Spock in Star Trek.
For Esquire, Matt Miller wrote Rose Leslie played Ygritte on Game of Thrones, who during 17 episodes became Jon Snow's love interest before she was killed by a child with a bow and arrow. During the time, Leslie and Kit Harington developed an off-camera love interest and began dating, because their lives are Game of Thrones fan fiction.
Citizen-Times’s Casey Blake referred to a speed bump program as the world’s dullest Game of Thrones fan fiction, “Game of Public Facilities and Traffic Calming Measures.”
Regarding Bucky/Steve For News Talk Florida, Dan Maduri wrote I say leave fan fiction to the internet.
Forbes’ Parmy Olson wrote [Wattpad’s Harry Styles] bot is now having thousands of conversations with teens on Kik each day, according to Ivan Yuen, Wattpad’s co-founder, and driving more traffic to Harry Styles fan-fiction on Wattpad (which is quite another world in itself).
In a piece on Colton Haynes for TV Guide, Megan Vick wrote Fans have shown fervent love for this fictional homosexual relationship through GIF sets, fan fiction and more.
In a piece on Sing Street for News-Herald, Micah Mertes wrote Reportedly, we’re the biggest winners of this childhood fan fiction. “Sing Street” has a 97 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, out of 105 reviews, with critics pretty much uniformly calling it a charming and clever paean to youth, the creative process and ’80s rock.
From Joshua Preston for the Georgia Tech News Center: In a new study, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have found one group of fan fiction writers that has created a successful online community, which might serve as a model to help make the future social web markedly different from today’s landscape.
Finally, Elspeth Reeve had an interesting piece on RPF in New Republic: Rule 34 of the internet holds: If you can imagine it, there is porn of it online. It’s slightly different for the famous: If you can imagine it, there’s porn of you doing it..