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The site is also open to certain original, non-fanfiction works, [40] hosting over 250,000 such original works as of 27 January 2024. [41] A chart of some of the largest fandoms (as of March 11, 2024). AO3 reached one million works (including stories, art pieces, and podcast fic recordings, referred to as podfics) in February 2014.
An original character (OC) typically refers to a type of fictional character that is created by a member of a fandom. They are a non- canonical character created by the author of fan fiction , a fan artist , or creator of another fan work, who exists within a certain fictional universe and may interact with existing characters or locations.
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 ...
A Mary Sue is a type of fictional character, usually a young woman, who is portrayed as unrealistically free of weaknesses or character flaws. [1] The term "Mary Sue" is often applied pejoratively to strong female heroines considered to be unrealistically capable, both in fan fiction and in commercially published fiction.
"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 ...
My Immortal is a Harry Potter-based fan fiction serially published on FanFiction.net between 2006 and 2007. Though notable for its convoluted narrative and constant digressions, the story largely centers on a non-canonical female vampire character named "Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way" and her relationships with the characters of the Harry Potter series, particularly her romantic ...
Xing Li, a software developer from Alhambra, California, created FanFiction.Net in 1998. [3] Initially made by Xing Li as a school project, the site was created as a not-for-profit repository for fan-created stories that revolved around characters from popular literature, films, television, anime, and video games. [4]
They may request that fan-fiction archival sites remove and ban any pieces of fan fiction based on their original works. To date, no fan fiction archive has failed to comply with an author's request to remove works, [dubious – discuss] and many archives feature a full list of authors whose work cannot be the source of a fan fiction on their site.