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Media references to fanfic, the week ending 10/29/16
A number of celebrity media sources, including Gabrielle Chung on Celebuzz, discussed What Zayn Malik Thinks of One Direction Fanfiction. Singer Zayn Malik found reading One Direction fan fiction to be "unnerving", but says he enjoys fan art (The New Indian Express).
In a review of '"Six Swans," a clever mixture of Drake’s Six God nickname and Sufjan’s "Seven Swans" album' for Eagle News, Luke Janke wrote Along with the album, the Tumblr user also wrote a 20-part fan fiction series featuring the two artists’ budding romance and has also made a fan video of Stevens and Drake getting married at the Canadian border with Beyoncé and Rihanna in attendance.
In 'Harry’s Magic Touch' for Vanity Fair, Joanna Robinson wrote The first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (known here as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), was released in the U.K. in 1997. This was the height of the chat-room boom, when idealistic strangers connected through AOL, CompuServe, and Yahoo to feel a little less alone with their thoughts. In the process, they built up enthusiastic communities of pop connoisseurship that were only too ready to embrace Harry with a seemingly endless amount of fan art, fan fiction, and fan analysis. And, in 'A Brief History of Wizard Rock' for Smithsonian, Danny Lewis wrote while most fanfiction tends to be written on internet forums and in blog posts, Harry Potter is curious for inspiring an entire genre of music.
Forbes’s Dani Di Placido wrote George Lucas at his unrestrained worst reads like hopeless fan fiction. At his best, he distilled the countless sci-fi and adventure stories that had come before and created new stories that resonated with the public for decades.
Regarding Tom Hanks’ recent suggestion about how he could be involved in the new Splash reboot, Vanity Fair’s Laura Bradley wrote Fan-fiction writers everywhere are weeping.
For Inverse, Tanya Basu wrote that 'Cuffing Season' Is Sociology Fan Fiction.
In a piece about Abbi Jacobson’s Carry This Book for Vogue, Julia Felsenthal wrote When we chatted by phone last week about the project, Jacobson referred to the spreads—colorful in every sense of the word—as kind of like "fan fiction," though that would imply she’s an admirer of everyone she’s included, and it’s not true.
In a piece about Pentatonix for The Columbus Dispatch, Julia Oller wrote that bandmember [Scott] Hoying acknowledges [slash about the band is] a little creepy — and a lot explicit — but he appreciates the dedication behind the drama.
From USA Today’s Brett McGinness: For the Record: Trump's 100-day plan looks increasingly like alternate-timeline fanfic.
From a University News piece about University of Missouri – Kansas City’s zine collection: During the 1920s through the 1960s, fans of sci-fi and cinema created fanzines, celebrating fan fiction and original concepts. With the 1970s came the birth of punk zines, and in the 90s, the RiotGrrrl movement embraced the mode as a primary form of expression.
In a review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back for The Weekender, Mike Sullivan wrote This unwanted sequel is like bad Jack Ryan fan-fiction written by your father’s drinking buddy after he hit his head on the curb.
The Guardian’s Claire Armitstead interviewed Naomi Alderman: After university she briefly worked as a PA at a children’s publisher, then talked her way into a job editing publications for an international law firm, which sent her to its New York office. There she became involved in fan fiction, after receiving "a call from God" to attend a Buffy the Vampire Slayer conference in Nashville, Tennessee, "which changed my life by making me think of this show I loved in new, critical, ways."
McPherson Sentinel’s Patricia Middleton profiled local author Alyson Holman, who gained experience writing one chapter at a time when she wrote stories for Fanfiction.net, focusing on her favorite characters from "Sherlock," "Thor," "Avengers" and "Stargate: Atlantis."
In 'Daisy Ridley responds to Rey being called a 'Mary Sue'' for Entertainment Weekly, Devan Coggan wrote The term has its roots in fan fiction, where it’s usually used to describe a character that’s just thinly-veiled wish fulfillment, or the author inserting a perfect version of themself into a world they love.
Finally, from Kevin Harley on GamesRadar: Is it just me, or should we stop using 'fan fiction' as a catch-all putdown?
In a review of '"Six Swans," a clever mixture of Drake’s Six God nickname and Sufjan’s "Seven Swans" album' for Eagle News, Luke Janke wrote Along with the album, the Tumblr user also wrote a 20-part fan fiction series featuring the two artists’ budding romance and has also made a fan video of Stevens and Drake getting married at the Canadian border with Beyoncé and Rihanna in attendance.
In 'Harry’s Magic Touch' for Vanity Fair, Joanna Robinson wrote The first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (known here as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), was released in the U.K. in 1997. This was the height of the chat-room boom, when idealistic strangers connected through AOL, CompuServe, and Yahoo to feel a little less alone with their thoughts. In the process, they built up enthusiastic communities of pop connoisseurship that were only too ready to embrace Harry with a seemingly endless amount of fan art, fan fiction, and fan analysis. And, in 'A Brief History of Wizard Rock' for Smithsonian, Danny Lewis wrote while most fanfiction tends to be written on internet forums and in blog posts, Harry Potter is curious for inspiring an entire genre of music.
Forbes’s Dani Di Placido wrote George Lucas at his unrestrained worst reads like hopeless fan fiction. At his best, he distilled the countless sci-fi and adventure stories that had come before and created new stories that resonated with the public for decades.
Regarding Tom Hanks’ recent suggestion about how he could be involved in the new Splash reboot, Vanity Fair’s Laura Bradley wrote Fan-fiction writers everywhere are weeping.
For Inverse, Tanya Basu wrote that 'Cuffing Season' Is Sociology Fan Fiction.
In a piece about Abbi Jacobson’s Carry This Book for Vogue, Julia Felsenthal wrote When we chatted by phone last week about the project, Jacobson referred to the spreads—colorful in every sense of the word—as kind of like "fan fiction," though that would imply she’s an admirer of everyone she’s included, and it’s not true.
In a piece about Pentatonix for The Columbus Dispatch, Julia Oller wrote that bandmember [Scott] Hoying acknowledges [slash about the band is] a little creepy — and a lot explicit — but he appreciates the dedication behind the drama.
From USA Today’s Brett McGinness: For the Record: Trump's 100-day plan looks increasingly like alternate-timeline fanfic.
From a University News piece about University of Missouri – Kansas City’s zine collection: During the 1920s through the 1960s, fans of sci-fi and cinema created fanzines, celebrating fan fiction and original concepts. With the 1970s came the birth of punk zines, and in the 90s, the RiotGrrrl movement embraced the mode as a primary form of expression.
In a review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back for The Weekender, Mike Sullivan wrote This unwanted sequel is like bad Jack Ryan fan-fiction written by your father’s drinking buddy after he hit his head on the curb.
The Guardian’s Claire Armitstead interviewed Naomi Alderman: After university she briefly worked as a PA at a children’s publisher, then talked her way into a job editing publications for an international law firm, which sent her to its New York office. There she became involved in fan fiction, after receiving "a call from God" to attend a Buffy the Vampire Slayer conference in Nashville, Tennessee, "which changed my life by making me think of this show I loved in new, critical, ways."
McPherson Sentinel’s Patricia Middleton profiled local author Alyson Holman, who gained experience writing one chapter at a time when she wrote stories for Fanfiction.net, focusing on her favorite characters from "Sherlock," "Thor," "Avengers" and "Stargate: Atlantis."
In 'Daisy Ridley responds to Rey being called a 'Mary Sue'' for Entertainment Weekly, Devan Coggan wrote The term has its roots in fan fiction, where it’s usually used to describe a character that’s just thinly-veiled wish fulfillment, or the author inserting a perfect version of themself into a world they love.
Finally, from Kevin Harley on GamesRadar: Is it just me, or should we stop using 'fan fiction' as a catch-all putdown?