For years now, a persistent bit of fandom folklore has floated around the internet: that Outlander—the sweeping, ...

Actors Emma Watson (L) Maggie Smith (M) and Daniel Radcliffe (R) on the set of the film "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Harry Potter is one of the most popular subjects of fanfiction. The ...

Writers are threatening to pull their stories from Archive of Our Own (AO3), one of the world’s largest fanfiction websites, after staff posted that they will not prohibit the publication of ...

If you’re a parent of a teenager who loves to read, there’s a good chance they have probably come across fanfiction. They can’t get it at the library or the bookstore, but these sometimes book-length ...

Fanfiction is hardly a new phenomenon, but that doesn’t always mean it was safe to write. For a time, in certain fandoms, writing fanfiction could get you a letter from a lawyer. Now, however, the ...

Is there any subject out there more divisive than fanfiction? Yes, but writing fanfiction is still pretty polarizing. On one side, you've got people who enjoy writing and reading about characters they ...

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Fanfiction is among one of the most hotly debated subjects in the world of books, with just as many readers and writers praising it as condemning it. As polarizing as it may be, it's hard to deny that ...

If you had told me in 2019 that Reylo fanfiction would keep me sane during a global pandemic, I would have had several questions. The first hundred or so would have been about the pandemic of it all, ...

If you were to say that Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James almost ruined fanfiction for everyone, you wouldn't be entirely wrong. By now, the British author's origin story is notorious: a ...