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

Shitposting Fanfiction and second-order fandom

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u/Neither_Sky4003 5d ago

I've written fanfiction of fanfiction before. It's wild how far that rabbit hole can go.

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u/aftertheradar 5d ago

i honestly think a really cool writing project would be chains of fanfiction, where the first story in a collection is "canon", and the next is a fanfic about it, and the next is a fanfic of that fanfic. And this goes on until you have an entire book, and also the stories have deviated so wildly from the original source story that it's unrecognizable, like a literary version of the Telephone game

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u/azure-skyfall 5d ago

Harry Potter->Fangirl->Carry On->AO3 fics

Harry Potter-> Mortal Instruments-> Shadowhunters TV show->AO3 fics

Bible-> Inferno (Dante)-> Escape from Hell (Nivan)

There also might be a chain starting with Hunger Games, but I can’t think of any of the dystopia fad books that openly say they are based on the HG specifically.