Features
How Fans Make Fictional Languages Real
Na’vi, Klingon, and other conlangs get more use IRL than they ever have onscreen.
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Reporting, interviews, and more
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Heated Rivalry is at the Center of Fanfic’s AI Reckoning
A controversial anonymous document exposing Claude remnants in fics has collided with a fandom culture of production at hyper-speed.
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The Global Crackdown on Creativity
Governments around the world are censoring—and criminalizing—the currents in which fanworks flow.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dragons
Working in the Game of Thrones content mines killed my fannish feelings for the franchise. Here’s how I got them back.
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The Elation and Anxiety of Reading Fic in Your Native Tongue
For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.
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The Pitt Fandom Phenomenon
The hit medical drama showcases three things you need to build a juggernaut fanfic community: popularity, modularity, and intimacy.
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Can Fandom Make Us Better Tourists?
In an era of overtourism, South Korea’s Jeju Island and international BTS fans are building bridges of mutual respect.
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Alternate Universes
Through text-based roleplaying, I’ve lived so many other lives—and experienced so many other bodies.
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Reclaiming the Mary Sue
My new comic interrogates the continued bias against Mary Sues—and brings one life.
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The Fan, the Pro, and the Spaces In Between
Writing for Star Wars challenges me to interrogate fandom power dynamics—and figure out where I fall in a rapidly shifting landscape.
Panels
The Fandom Advantage: How Fan Creativity Fuels Pro Entertainment Careers
Fansplaining’s panel from San Diego Comic-Con 2025, featuring fannish creators who work on television, comics, novels, and more.
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How Friendships Onscreen and Off Fueled Half a Century of Fandom
For the admins of the Starsky & Hutch Fiction Archive, preserving fanworks and fannish community go hand in hand.