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needle-rose · 3 years ago

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Why did no one tell me that fairy tales count as their own fandoms on AO3?

I’d always avoided fanfic and fandom culture because seeing other people’s (entirely subjectively) Wrong Opinions on existing IP tend to make me irrationally angry (and that is something I’d like to work on Not Doing—why do I do that?) but!!! Straight-up fairy tale retellings? That aren’t AUs of copyrighted media?? Taking the tools of modern transformative fiction and applying them to traditional tale types and thus creating a hybrid between the very new and the very old???

#this is so so exciting #like this is going to be my access point into online fanfic culture I need for ALL the analysis I want to do #on continuing traditions of what makes a retelling and appropriation of the broadcast into the folk levels #AHHHHH #first person #grad school fodder #but also this just means I have a ton more retelling to read through!#without having to account for the bias of a traditional publishing house and editor #I suspect ao3 itself is going to reveal a stylistic bias of people already inclined to post there for other non fairytale works #but to my outsider understanding it’s not a self contained social media platform the way wattpad was #it’s more of a hosting site? so it’s not uncommon for authors to derive traffic from external vs internal sources?#which would theoretically indicate a lot more stylistic variation #we will see we will see!!! so much to see!!!

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