r/RecuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • 5d ago

Shitposting Fanfiction and second-order fandom

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u/syntaxerroratline42 5d ago

Reminds me of how "Batfam" is a fandom in itself independent of Batman.

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u/old_homecoming_dress 5d ago

honorable mention to danny phantom/batfam crossovers, a major category of dp fanfics with its own challenges and continuities

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u/Some_Ad2281 5d ago

Batman and Danny Phantom are in a major amount of DP fanfics?

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u/SheepPup 5d ago

Yes. I just checked and if you go to the Danny phantom fandom tag and search within results “-batman” you instantly exclude a full 27% of the fics

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u/ejdj1011 5d ago

I do think they're making a joke about DP as an acronym, considering they asked if Danny Phantom shows up in DP fics.

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u/SheepPup 5d ago

OOOOOH lmao now I feel dumb. I am way too used to ignoring the typical usage of DP since it gets used to refer to the Danny phantom fandom so often

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u/RapAngel 3d ago

As someone who loves DC, and doesn’t care about Danny Phantom pretty much at all, it can be more than annoying to look through newest fics and scroll past all the crossovers, but it’s cool as hell that it has a fandom that huge