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[heidi]

Well, this is an interesting context for the use of the word "fanfic".

I think this officially means the concept is 100% mainstreamed, and there is nothing edgy or antiestablishment or underground about it any more, at least as a general concept. But I'd love to hear arguments to the contrary.

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[rabidfangurl.livejournal.com]

Well, in that particular context I get the feeling that the blogger was speaking more of fiction written about real people by their fans for a specific purpose (in this case, cheerleading) than fiction written by fans of a fictional character/universe for the purpose of expanding on the story. So I'm not sure if that use makes fanfic as we, the fanfic writers know it, mainstream, or if it is the co-opting of a term the blogger had some awareness of, but did not know the definition from the primary context of fanfic.

Honestly, what the blogger is talking about sounds a lot like RPF to me.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

....fanfic was edgy once?

When??

[greyandgrey.livejournal.com]

I think geeky better suits, personally -

But then, geeks are love ^_^

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

The use of the term without context implies the writer's expectation that no context is needed, yeah.

On the other hand, he's also using the term rather contemptuously to mean a contrived, tatty variation on the authentic story, written to achieve dubious ends which are neither aesthetically satisfying nor factually accurate. So I'm guessing you'd rather his concept of fanfic not be the mainstream concept.

[paragraphlost.livejournal.com]

Considering my Media Studies class is spending two weeks studying fandom, specifically Star Trek filking (o.O), I'd have to agree.

[cadetsandkings.livejournal.com]

Well, I think it depends where you live and who you hang out with, because here it's DEFINITELY still safely buried.