#imaginator1d

[otrtbs]

WHY IS LIAM PAYNE TALKING ABOUT AFTER IN THE YEAR 2024? WHAT IN THE FUCK

[finepairingsfanblog]

Episode 01 Notes

After - Part 1

August 14th, 2019

"A podcast about fanfiction. The inaugural episode of the Fine Pairings podcast! Join Grace and Claire as they dive into the wildly popular fanfiction that's been all across the news. A Harry Styles fanfic written by Anna Todd. Drinks will be mixed and understandings of anatomy will be lost. What they know for sure is that from now on there will only be... After."

🐢 { Hello everyone and welcome to The Inaugural Post! I am currently working on the episode's transcript so stay tuned (warning: I type slowly). These extended "show note" style posts are where I'll share additional information on the fic and my less-than-alcoholic paring recommendations. I'm open to ideas of what to add, so please send me an ask! }

Fic

After by Anna Todd Published to Wattpad in April 2013.

Rating: PG-13 Fandom: One Direction // Harry Styles Pairing: Harry Styles x OC Notes: While this fic originally used the names of 1D members for much of the main cast, it's been edited to reflect the published edition. This seems to be a recent change since the release of the film, if you have a copy of the original please DM me! Also, this fic contains alcohol/drug use and addiction as well as sexual themes. Proceed as is comfortable for you.

The history of the fic, from Wattpad to the screen, can be read here

The Author: Anna Todd (imaginator1D on Wattpad) started as a fanfic writer with the After series being her flagship work. She is now the author of multiple published romance novel series and has started her own publishing group Frayed Pages. Her information can be found here.

"Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans."

Pairings

🍸 Our boozy pairing is Miller High Life. This drink is the champagne of cheap college beers much like After is the champagne of bad fanfics. This paring is best served at room temperature in a slightly dusty solo cup left over from a party that was "just okay".

☕️ Our coffee pairing is an iced pumpkin spice latte. The quintessential "white girl in the 2010's" drink, which is what you'd have to be to read this fic. It is best served left in your fridge overnight. Warm enough for the ice to melt but not enough to give you food poisoning.

🍟 This fic's snack pairing is yellow mustard Doritos, a chip almost as toxic as our protagonists' romance.

{I promise my pairing recommendations won't always be this goofy, but my goal is to match the tone of Grace and Claire's pairings.}

Recs

Sold to One Direction - Last updated 2014 November 9 - by Coleen Hoover

Fine Pairings Pod Links

[fic-history]

Filing Off the Serial Numbers: Professionally Published FIcs

While texts that we might call fanfiction in the most basic sense of the term have been published in the past (think Wide Sargasso Sea), modern fanfictions have only started to go pro in the past few decades. Fanfiction authors will pull all their fic from the internet, change the character names and other ties to the source media, and publish their works as original fiction. This is a process known in the fannish community as “filing off the serial numbers,” and it’s generated a lot of controversy as more and more fan writers take their work to the professional publishing stage. In this iteration of Fic History, we’re going to explore three of the most well known professionally published fanfictions.

The Mortal Instruments

Cassandra Clare is a household name to any fantasy or YA fiction lover, but you may not know that she also used to be a household name in the Harry Potter fandom. Then writing as Cassandra Claire (peep the i), Clare was a Big Name Fan who was revered in fandom circles for writing The Draco Trilogy, among other fics, which helped to shape how the fandom characterized Draco. She pulled all of her fics from the internet prior to the publishing of City of Bones, but the name of the series that City of Bones belongs to, The Mortal Instruments, shares a name with a Ron/Ginny (yes, incest) fic Clare penned in 2004. 

I want to clarify that The Mortal Instruments is not officially a published fanfiction, but fans have noticed similarities between main characters Clary and Jace and Clare’s characterizations of Ginny and Draco, and a passage from one of her Draco fics appears verbatim in City of Bones, save for a few name edits. Due to the popularity of the series and Clare’s past as a fan writer, I chose to include the series here.

Fifty Shades of Grey

Starting in 2009, an author going by the screen name Snowqueens Icedragon began publishing a Twilight BDSM AU fic titled Master of the Universe. It was deleted from the internet in 2011, and in early 2012, Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James was published to international acclaim and revilement. These two texts are the same story by the same author. While Fifty Shades generated a lot of stir in the media for being a doctored fanfiction (something many people had never heard of before), it generated a lot of stir in fandom spaces for a few reasons. One, many beta readers had worked on the story when it was a fanfiction, and those readers received none of the profit (Jamison 2013). Two, the book was now essentially mainstream media’s only perception of fanfiction, and given that it was being heavily criticized for being a poorly written inaccurate (in terms of the BDSM stuff) smut-fest, it gave fanfiction a bad name. 

The After Series

The most notable and recent example of filing off the serial numbers I can think of is the After series by Anna Todd, known to the internet originally as Imaginator1D. You may know the series now as a best-selling set of novels featuring college students Tessa Young and Hardin Scott that received a set of movie adaptations starting in 2019, but the original iteration of After was a college AU that starred characters Tessa Young and Harry Styles of One Direction fame. Harry’s then bandmates were featured as friends and stepbrothers of Styles, while Tessa is an original character. The After series also received/receives a lot of flak from fannish communities for not being a very high quality example of fanfiction, as well as glorifying what many viewed as an abusive relationship between the two leads.

Publishing your fanfic is forever going to be a touchy subject in fannish communities. Some are completely fine with it, and some fans see it as the ultimate fan sin. As Anne Jamison wrote in Fic (see Bibliography page),

“The fan culture tenet that ‘thou shalt not profit from fanworks’ has been, depending on who you talk to, an almost sacred and inviolate, wholly necessary founding principle of fandom. To others within the same community, it’s only been a necessary evil.”

She also notes that the fact that the term fanfiction doesn’t have one solid definition, and doesn’t actually clarify how close the story is to the material it was based off of. This doesn’t even bring into question the ethical dilemma surrounding profiting off of a fic that beta readers worked on for no cost. All in all, filing off the serial numbers will always be hot button issue in fandom, and I’d love to hear what thoughts y’all might have on it!

Happy reading,

KP

Further Reading:

[hopespeak-hostclub]

This is such a long shot but I’m looking for After by Anna Todd (imaginator1d) but like

The original

The fan fiction unedited version with harry

I can’t find it ANYWHERE I’m so mad

[hardinhero]

my parents 🥺

after watching the teaser, i can only say i’m impressed and speechless like wow, the awc is really something compared to the first movie. the first movie was great, in awc, we have our book hessa guys!!! like damn, anna gaves us afternators the best Valentine’s Day gift. thank you 🤍

[the-golden-dragoness]

I’m watching the Harry styles college au fanfic-turned-movie After and it’s so bad but I think my expectations have gone so low from watching The Kissing Booth 2 that I actually enjoy this movie it’s honestly so funny

[wk-adams-blog]

SNOWFLAKES (A NEW STORY) (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/T5CjY2kSF8 ¿Que pasaría si llegara una persona y cambiara tu mundo? Scarlet, tal vez la chica mas orgullosa que pueda existir, sabe que no existe nadie que pueda cambiar su posición frente al amor; pero también sabe que se siente sola, luego de que sus padres y hermanos murieran. Liam, un actor divorciado de la chica con la cual llevaba 10 años, ahora esta devuelta a Australia para refugiarse con su familia; sin saber que la vida le dispone alguien que cambiara su vida. el amor no elige momento ni lugar, tan solo unas palabras remueven el mundo.

[afterhesssa]

— Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine - are the same...

— Hardin Scott.

[stormbornanastasia-blog]

[debunkingafter]

┏┓

┃┃╱╲ in this

┃╱╱╲╲ house,

╱╱╭╮╲╲ we

▔▏┗┛▕▔ do not

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support and defend

romanticizing abusive

relationships

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[otrtbs]

if anyone here has the original after series by imaginator1D aka anna todd

like the original. no scene cuts. no hardin scott bullshit. the og 2013 version ,,,,, please send it to me i will venmo u $5 maybe even

[ultimatebadussy]

Probably an unpolular opinion about the cast of “After”

But the cast of “After” ? Some things are so off. Some of the cast are actually good and i can imagine them as their character but....

First of all Hardin (I like Harry better). where is his hair that he pushes away. After all it is literally Harry Styles from about 2014. But Hero Fiennes Tiffin has kinda grown on me. He’s lucky that he looks like an absolute bad boy.

Second of all Jace definitely wasn’t a dude that was so much older then others.

Lets keep in mind that “After” is actually a wattpad fanfic about Harry Styles and 1D. Which is very inspirational and funny at the same time

[lightningdesire-blog]

NEWWW VIDEOOO:)

[sorandomlaur]

After (2019) - Artwork // Photoshop CS6 - 2019

[hardinhero]

It’s you. You’re the person I love most in the world.

Hardin Scott [ After, Anna Todd ]

[thewinchestergirlblog]

😍😍😍 can’t wait!!! #after #aftermovie #imaginator1d #herofiennestiffin #josephinelangford #hardinscott #tessayoung #annatodd #teaser #omg #wattpad #repost #follow #followme #like #comment https://www.instagram.com/p/BqduZ4OFGS2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ii1y2np7krr0