Features
Shipping Survey: Methodology and Tools
Commas, smushed ship names, and one long-suffering data professional.
Fanfiction
Features
Shippers on Shipping
What is shipping? Our survey’s 16,513 self-identified shippers...did not agree.
Special Episodes
Special Episode 9: No Edith, No Peace
Javier Grillo-Marxuach returns to discuss his Indiana Jones/Downton Abbey crossover fic.
Special Episodes
Special Episode 8: The Lurker
Flourish interviews Elizabeth about her fanfic habits and the paradoxical position of the lurker.
Special Episodes
Special Episode 7: The Serial Numbers
Elizabeth interviews Flourish about their fanfic habits and pull-to-publish practices.
Episodes
Episode 72: Alternate Universes
A conversation on AU fic with culture writer and “Overinvested” co-host Morgan Leigh Davies.
Episodes
Episode 66: The Humanizing Turn
A conversation on tropes, characterization, and what we want from stories, in canon and in fanfic.
Features
Fic, Interrupted
The unfinished history of works in progress.
Episodes
Episode 53: Stealth Fandom
From “adventure lunch” to stealth cosplay, the ways people engage with fandom that are harder to see.
Episodes
Episode 52: Fanfic v. FANtasies
On Wattpad’s FANtasies webseries and the changing pathways for fan-to-pro writing.
Episodes
Episode 49: Defining Fanfiction: The Results
Digging into the results of the fanfiction definitions survey, which was taken by more than 3,500 people.
Surveys
Towards a Definition of “Fanfiction”
3,564 people took our survey. Here’s what we learned.