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Yeah, I dunno. And mostly follow fics where I have some knowledge. But:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6255031/1/Ready_Sette_Go is a Nanoha fic that multiple people have enjoyed without knowing anything about Nanoha. Not sure why, I'd guess just the right amount of in-cluing, plus being really funny from the start.

I read one volume of Naruto and vaguely know the premise. I've also been following this Naruto fanfic https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12431866/1/Sanitize But I think that works because it barely depends on Naruto at all, it's some modern person reincarnated in Naruto-Japan and trying to improve medicine. That there are ninjas and they have powers becomes obvious in the fic.

I think I've read more Sailor Moon fanfic than consumed canon Sailor Moon, and I haven't consumed that much SM fanfic. But I have done some, so know the basic characters and premise, and a lot of the 'fic' was stuff like Shadowjack's WIW thread, so I have much of the plot secondhand.

Hmm, that reminds me, I think I got into Nanoha fics and WIW threads before full consuming all the canon.

Oh! So, I basically view tie-in novels as authorized fanfic, especially in the older Star Trek days when they definitely weren't canon or particularly supervised (I don't think any are canon now, for that matter.) All of my childhood Star Trek exposure was novels, plus a coloring book.