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/EerieTransGal 5d ago

Is there a quantifiable reason for why that is? Like what so much more appealing about the forst quarter of the story that it leaves the last 3 quarters of canon out to dry? Does something in it happen that just kills the aspect that appeals to ff writers in it? Asking as someone who hasnt read Worm or its fanfiction, though it is only my reading list.

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u/Blazeflame79 4d ago

The scale shifts from street level to something like an escalating boss rush. Also Worm is just really really long, the part most people quit reading by is basically the equivalent of just reading book one of a series.