One of the buzziest internet stories of the week sounds like a digital-age Mad Libs: Fan fiction website AO3 was taken down by a hacktivist group in a DDoS attack. As they say, sometimes truth is ...

The enormous amount of fan fiction being generated calls into question issues of authorship, ownership, and appropriation.

“Harry Potter” fans are an obsessive bunch, so it should come as no shock that thousands of fan fiction chapters have been dedicated to expanding J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world. Some of the stories ...

Following the SXSW premiere of 'The Idea of You,' PEOPLE dives into what published — and bestselling — novels started out as fan fiction Following the premiere of the Anne Hathaway and Nicholas ...

These days, so-called generative AI can (allegedly) make art, write books, and compose poetry. Systems like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and ChatGPT are seemingly quite good at it. But for some ...

Fan fiction is the term used to describe stories written about characters, whether already defined or completely made up, in the setting of a pre-established world. World of Warcraft is an immense ...

Fan fiction is what happens when people take pre-existing characters from stories that they love and write them into entirely new directions. These authors mix and match character relationships, ...

Fan fiction (the practice of fans writing and reading imagined stories about their favorite characters) is now widely discussed in mainstream media articles. While there is still some stigma around ...

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