How 9/11 Became Fan Fiction Canon
We have spent 20 years trying to process the events of 9/11 and its fallout. For some, that meant trying to figure out how Buffy Summers would have reacted.https://t.co/jAC3tGfNeL
- VICE (@VICE) September 10, 2021
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yes, this is a thing and not as weird as it sounds at first
In the months following the attacks young fanfic writers turned to fanfiction to cope with the trauma
It's also not surprisng that the topic entered the fanfiction realm bc culture was saturated with the topic on every level (the article links to a bizarre video of a young Shia Labeouf reading a patriotic poem on the Disney Channel)
The fanfiction written in the immediate years after 9/11 focuses on the tragedy, after it it got weirder
Like the the war on terror being a popular background for m/m fics
Or extra weird What If fics, like Jedi masters with lightsabers saving United Flight 93