A person · · Contemporary
The one who writes back
The person who answers a canon in the register it was written in, and posts it where the original audience can find it.
The only configuration in which the one-sidedness becomes two-sided without either party noticing that it has stopped being a parasocial bond. Fanfic is the largest sustained creative movement in the history of a medium, and nobody in it is the original audience's intended recipient.
Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- needs-sourceFanfic is documented as a long-running, quantitatively large practice from the 1970s onward across several media.Standard fan-studies literature on fan production.
INSTITUTION The fandom as institution
Connected · 3 out, 1 in
It sits in