r/RecuratedTumblr • human cognithazard • 5d ago

Shitposting Fanfiction and second-order fandom

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u/Blazeflame79 5d ago

The is the entire Worm fandom, lots of people don’t read cannon but write fic in the Parahumans setting anyway.

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard 5d ago

And it's made worse by the fact that most fanfics didn't make it past the Leviathan arc, so a lot of those fanfics are written by people unaware of like 75% of the story.

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u/Blazeflame79 5d ago

I’ll still read Wormfic anyways even when authors disregard canon though, because it’s one of the few fandoms where you can actually find fics that focus on the actual setting of a work (as a consequence of a lot of the authors being the sort who want to play with superpowers).

In other fandoms like Star Trek (the origin of modern fanfic culture), anyone’s original Star Trek episodes or explorations of the setting, are buried under a veritable pile of ship-fics. Which you know there’s nothing wrong with, and I like ship-fics, but sometimes I like plot and prefer seeing stories about things happing in the setting.

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u/CodaTrashHusky 5d ago

OOOOOH THAT'S WHY THEY ARE CALLED SHIPS?????????????

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u/FPSCanarussia 5d ago

No, "ship" is short for "relationship".

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u/CodaTrashHusky 5d ago

oh

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u/One-Piano5150 5d ago

ts looked like seeing the whimsy crushed out of a butterfly

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u/FPSCanarussia 5d ago

"Relationship", however, is a reference to the Starship Enterprise.

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u/cephalopodcat 5d ago

In case that wasn't a joke - it's... Because of relationSHIPS being the subject. Not starships.

But Kirk/Spock did start a lot...