Hyperdiegesis
Term coined by Matt Hills, meaning the creation of wider richer worlds than a piece of media creates - the media being the tip of the iceberg.
(Hills 2002, p. 137
Article written by someone as part of the fandom. Am I less interested actually in the act of fanfiction (in a general sense interested, but actually more interested in trope and genre, plot conventions?)
Tropes.com
While popular Alternate Universes, such as Coffee Shop AUs,
I’m interested in how this becomes established. Why was there such a convergence on coffee shops that it became a particular type of setting, rather than similar places like a diner or a pub. Is it because it’s a place people can easily be contrived to visit frequently and for extended periods, which is familiar to those across ages? What other popular AUs are there? (A quick search on A03 tells me the top 5 are: Modern, Soulmate, College, Human and High School). I followed the link for Human AU obviously to see what we’re anthropomorphising. Sorted by Kudos, the top 5 properties with the Human AU tag are: Teen Wolf, Good Omens, Captain America, A Goofy Movie and The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series).
- Inter-Fan Poaching The ability to poach encourages a new form of fannish intertextuality where fanfiction and fanart can interact with, reference, and borrow from each other. Just as Jenkins suggests, fans can borrow “only what is pleasurable” from the media, so can they from each other. Texts do not exist in isolation from each other. [!PDF|yellow] Examining_Collaborative_Fanfiction_New_Practices_i, p.6
- Inter-Fan Poaching The ability to poach encourages a new form of fannish intertextuality where fanfiction and fanart can interact with, reference, and borrow from each other. Just as Jenkins suggests, fans can borrow “only what is pleasurable” from the media, so can they from each other. Texts do not exist in isolation from each other.
(Examining_Collaborative_Fanfiction_New_Practices_i, p.6) There is no limitation that textual poaching can only be performed on a commercialized text but rather is an act that allows access to the means of cultural production: any and all culture is available for poaching
This article addresses how fan communities build expansive, canon-divergent worlds around a particular piece of media. The article describes how this community practices, focusing on the idea of ‘poaching’ as a negotiated and accepted practice:
. Everything within the community is meant to be shared. It is a narrative that steals from itself.
There is a code of politeness, and what can be extended or contentious discussions over what is canon, which legitimise certain recurring themes and characters, but there is also room for contradiction and “squishy”ness.