What a lovely model! Nice work. I just read Michael Chabon's The Final Solution, which reminded me of A Study in Emerald - both Holmesian fanfic! Lisa Dalby's The Tale of Murasaki is another example - an imagining of the life of Murasaki Shikibu. It's sort of Tale of Genji fanfiction crossed with RPF.
And speaking of RPF: for a fandom like J2, for example, the 'text' that people are working with is mainly the behind-the-scenes stuff - blooper reels, interviews, comments at cons, online social media stuff - as well as the text of the show itself. But there's also a lot of rumour at work, and personal speculation based on observation of the actors, knowledge of their careers, and so on. So, all in all, the text which fans are working with is very nebulous. Comments at cons aren't all recorded, people remember them or report them through their journals. The speculative side is, I think, much more important than it would be in the fandom of a TV show (rather than the actors). So Jared might once have said that he likes black coffee, and that would be 'canon', but it doesn't mean that everyone is going to be aware of this or consider it important.
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Date: 2012-03-27 06:43 pm (UTC)And speaking of RPF: for a fandom like J2, for example, the 'text' that people are working with is mainly the behind-the-scenes stuff - blooper reels, interviews, comments at cons, online social media stuff - as well as the text of the show itself. But there's also a lot of rumour at work, and personal speculation based on observation of the actors, knowledge of their careers, and so on. So, all in all, the text which fans are working with is very nebulous. Comments at cons aren't all recorded, people remember them or report them through their journals. The speculative side is, I think, much more important than it would be in the fandom of a TV show (rather than the actors). So Jared might once have said that he likes black coffee, and that would be 'canon', but it doesn't mean that everyone is going to be aware of this or consider it important.
So does that count as a 10?
(Edited to remove a bit of surplus text!)