Actors Emma Watson (L) Maggie Smith (M) and Daniel Radcliffe (R) on the set of the film "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Harry Potter is one of the most popular subjects of fanfiction. The ...

Writers are threatening to pull their stories from Archive of Our Own (AO3), one of the world’s largest fanfiction websites, after staff posted that they will not prohibit the publication of ...

Is there any subject out there more divisive than fanfiction? Yes, but writing fanfiction is still pretty polarizing. On one side, you've got people who enjoy writing and reading about characters they ...

Despite its popularity, fanfiction still gets a pretty bad rap in some writing circles. A lot of writers especially hate it when you send them fanfiction based on their work, but usually it has ...

“Bella Swan is drafted in to interview the reclusive enigmatic Edward Cullen, multi-millionaire CEO of his company. It’s an encounter that will change her life irrevocably, leading her to dark realms ...

If you had told me in 2019 that Reylo fanfiction would keep me sane during a global pandemic, I would have had several questions. The first hundred or so would have been about the pandemic of it all, ...

Fanfiction is hardly a new phenomenon, but that doesn’t always mean it was safe to write. For a time, in certain fandoms, writing fanfiction could get you a letter from a lawyer. Now, however, the ...

It is not surprising that debates over using these tools have also been happening in fandom spaces. Excited fans almost immediately turned to them as a new way of exploring their favorite characters.

Consider yourself a stranger to fanfiction? It’s unlikely. If you’ve read E.L. James’ 50 Shades of Grey (2011) then you already have at least one title under your belt. If you caught Robert Downey ...

The Outsiders. Photo: Jed Egan/Photo: Nancy Moran/Sygma/Corbis, Warner Bros. We tend to think of the fanfiction writer as an obsessed amateur, pounding away at the keyboard for sheer love of the ...

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If you were to say that Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James almost ruined fanfiction for everyone, you wouldn't be entirely wrong. By now, the British author's origin story is notorious: a ...