(This continues to be much more fun than the TPS reports)
But it would also include a lot of people writing original stuff as a fandom hobby, which I'm also ok with, but they may not be.
I really love Original [Fan]Fic in exchanges, etc, because while it may not be based in a specific canon it usually plays with tropes, concepts, etc. For instance I'm thinking of a pair of original fics, once I wrote and one I received, both about superheroes and supervillains. Both stories played with the tropes of superheroics/villainy and were written in a fanfic context which assumed audience knowledge of these tropes. Either could have been expanded into a novel and submitted for publication, and if so, they would leave the fanfic context to become professional works.
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But it would also include a lot of people writing original stuff as a fandom hobby, which I'm also ok with, but they may not be.
I really love Original [Fan]Fic in exchanges, etc, because while it may not be based in a specific canon it usually plays with tropes, concepts, etc. For instance I'm thinking of a pair of original fics, once I wrote and one I received, both about superheroes and supervillains. Both stories played with the tropes of superheroics/villainy and were written in a fanfic context which assumed audience knowledge of these tropes. Either could have been expanded into a novel and submitted for publication, and if so, they would leave the fanfic context to become professional works.