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Fanfiction Is a Valid Literary Genre, and Here’s Why

Cat Webling

Feb 27
5 min

Fanfiction Is a Valid Literary Genre, and Here’s Why

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Cat Webling

Feb 20
4 min

The Fandom Dictionary

As with any subculture, fandoms have their own language for referring to the things that their community interacts with or creates. Fans ...

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The Most Controversial Character in Fanfiction

Cat Webling

Feb 13
8 min

The Most Controversial Character in Fanfiction

When Rey was introduced as the protagonist of the new Star Wars trilogy in December of 2015, the internet’s reactions were, predictably, ...

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Cat Webling

Feb 6
5 min

The Channel That Lived To Die

On November 15, 2019, YouTube was introduced to something very strange. On a brand-new channel, popular YouTubers Mark Fischbach and Etha...

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Why We Love to Hate The “Worst Fanfiction Ever Written”

Cat Webling

Jan 30
4 min

Why We Love to Hate The “Worst Fanfiction Ever Written”

Ask any fan older than about 18 what the worst piece of fanfiction ever written was, and almost invariably, they will answer with a shudd...

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Cat Webling

Jan 23
2 min

The Game’s Afoot

There’s some debate over what the first “official” fandom was in the modern sense of there being a community cropping up around a specifi...

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Taking a Guided Tour of the Fangirl Universe

Cat Webling

Dec 20, 2020
2 min

Taking a Guided Tour of the Fangirl Universe

Having been active in fandoms for nearly a decade now, I'm always interested in learning more about the weird, fun subculture that is fan...

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Cat Webling

Aug 18, 2020
4 min

The Who, What, and Why of Fandoms.

How Fans Identify Themselves and Their Communities. In the early part of 2020, I posted a survey on all of my social media accounts (Twit...

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