The term originally applied to sports fans in the nineteenth century, and since science fiction enthusiasts adopted the label in the 1920s, the term has stuck for any enthusiast. (2) A community of fans allied by their love for a particular source can be about anything from cats to a ...
This genre is named by the **/** character used to indicate the couples, and begin in the 1970s with Kirk/Spock fan fiction written mostly by women. –Harry Potter fan fiction isn’t a genre of its own, but is by far the most popular fandom that people have written fan fiction ...
I usually don’t participate to WIT Month (Women In Translation) but this year I’ll share about three novellas written by French women authors. Only the first one,The Braid, has been translated into English, the other two are available in French or in other translations than English. Let...
For instance, in the Star Trek fanfiction circle, stories are written about Kirk and Spock because fans felt that canon lore served the two short. The genre name comes from the practice of putting a slash between the names of two characters that are “shipped.” This often involves romantic...
Set against the vibrant backdrop of the Gilded Age, an era when old money traditions collided with modern ideas, Tanabe has written an unputdownable and emotionally compelling story of hope, sacrifice, and betrayal—and a gripping account of how one woman dared to risk everything for the ...
t fans of YA. (Though I suspect that SFF folk have particularly painful memories of being a teen and being oppressed by other teens.) I heard the following a lot: “Teens are awful. Being a teen was awful. Why on Earth would you write about them?” Often accompanied by visible ...
Doki Doki Literature Club!: Regie: Dan Salvato Mit Jillian Ashcraft The Character is a member of the literature club, along with four girls. In each chapter, the protagonist will create a poem based around twenty words selected by the player, which the g
” can also be noticed. As Miriam Margoyles, the actor who played Pomona Sprout in theHarry Potterseries concerningly stated, “I worry about Harry Potter fans because they should be over that by now” (Margoyles Miriam, “Miriam Margolyes jokingly tells Harry Potter fans to grow up | ...
He was the first important jazz soloist to emerge and is still loved by fans, who fondly refer to him by his nickname " Satchmo". Jazz's brass instruments are often played alongside drums and stringed instruments. However, the two key elements of jazz are swing and improvisation. Sw...
Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than five hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple ...