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Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009 and continues to be in beta. [2]
Reverend Insanity by Gu Zhen Ren: The story follow the ruthless character Fang Yuan in their pursuit of power in a world full of insect-like monsters named Gu after having been reborn 500 years in the past. This webnovel has been popular for its dark themes and evil main character that veers from the ways of more virtuous Xianxia main characters.
The term fan fiction has been used in print as early as 1938; in the earliest known citations, it refers to amateur-written science fiction, as opposed to "pro fiction". [3] [4] The term also appears in the 1944 Fancyclopedia, an encyclopaedia of fandom jargon, in which it is defined as "fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from ...
It has also become a subgenre of both commercial and non-commercial yaoi (manga featuring male-male couples). [ 21 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Given the positive reception in Japan, South Korea started its own production of Omegaverse manhwas , as well as China, although the censorship applied in this latter country has limited the genre popularity.
It is commonly believed that slash fan fiction originated during the late 1960s, within the Star Trek: The Original Series fan fiction fandom, starting with "Kirk/Spock" stories generally authored by female fans of the series and distributed privately among friends.
Gay pulp fiction or gay pulps, refers to printed works, primarily fiction, that include references to male homosexuality, specifically male gay sex, and that are cheaply produced, typically in paperback books made of wood pulp paper; lesbian pulp fiction is similar work about women.
"Wolfstar" is the paired-ship name between the Harry Potter characters Remus Lupin and Sirius Black. [4] In 2011, David Thewlis, the actor for Lupin on screen, stated in an interview for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 that he was told by, Alfonso Cuarón – the director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – "in the rehearsals, without J.K. Rowling's knowledge, that ...
Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola. [ 1 ] This tale plays off a long tradition of conflict between apprentices and their masters; a common oral folktale is such a conflict, where the master is instructing in either magic or ...