- Blogger Christopher Olah took a look at some Fanfiction.net statistics. “In the following post, we will visualize the Harry Potter, Naruto and Twilight fandoms on fanfiction.net. We will also use Google’s PageRank algorithm to rank stories, and perform collaborative filtering to make story recommendations to top fanfiction.net users.” The post includes a look at languages, ships, slash and more.
- ParentDish advised parents about fanfic reading and writing. “On the plus side, I am thrilled my daughter, who has never been a fan of books, is suddenly carrying stories with her everywhere – she can even read them on her iPhone – and has an insatiable thirst for words she never had before. She has even let me read a few chapters myself (with the caveat: ‘Don’t worry, Mum, this isn’t actually based on anything I’ve done… yet’) and she is a gifted story teller. And as Wattpad.com has over 1000 story downloads per day and with a whopping 25 million users, she is far from alone.”
- NY Mag decided to look for how fanficcers were responding to the World Cup. “Does all of this have you so intrigued? Yes? Well, brace yourself for another enthusiastic subset of World Cup erotica: the One Direction fan-fic crossover. Here’s a book that imagines two of the band members as rival soccer players at FIFA 2014 as well as lovers in bed. Here’s a shorter one about an abandoned blow job. And fear not — no matter where you turn for your World Cup smut — there will always be ball jokes.”
- Women of China took a broader look at slash in China. “With the rise of Sina Weibo and Wechat, two major instant messaging platforms in China, tanbi is no longer the cult genre it was a decade ago. There has been a growing number of girls, or fojoshi (a Japanese term for girls who endorse male homosexual love), who have started to write fan fiction that moves tanbi into the world of mainstream literature. A recent work pairs two X-men, Magneto and Professor X, powerful opponents who care about each other, at least in the Hollywood megahit X-Men: Days of Future Past. ‘There are so many fojoshi that it’s almost a selling point now,’ Yang, the researcher says.”
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