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[phantomtomato]

I really love that low-context fanworks exist. Like: fanart based on a gifset, trailer fic, etc. I love that people get into canons through the fanworks first and stop there, where the fandom itself becomes the primary canon. Or transference through osmosis—a friend or acquaintance posts so much about this thing that you could create for it too.

It feels so uniquely fannish. It’s possible because other fans enable creativity through their love of a thing, their choice to share stuff related to their canons. My ultimate form of this, honestly, is when it feels like someone else has sifted through the canon to identify the gold bits and presented them directly to me—and now I can clean them up with a bit of research and context and make something from them. There are a lot of canons I’d never consume on my own, but that I’ve enjoyed fanworks for or written in thanks to this.

It’s just so neat. It’s the ultimate in transformation. I love it when we fans make things our own.

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[sweetsorcery]

!!!

I've just this last weekend fallen head first into a fandom I should have been in forever, because it's right up my alley. Instead, I had no idea it existed until I saw 2 fics for it in the recent AU Fest, and because I'd seen the fandom name before, this time I was curious enough to look it up. And I thought... oh yes! I immediately read one of those 2 fics, then went to find what else there was and read another, and I've spent most of my current sleepless nights blearily reading both the fanon and the canon alongside each other and, quite often, there's very little difference, certainly on the slash front! 😃