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I am presently attempting to write a paper about fan fiction.

Since Fan fiction seems to be very much a social phenomenon - So much an inseparable part of the fandom subculture –  It would be a very incomplete picture of the fan fiction phenomenon you would get by just reading the fan fictions without talking to the actual fans. 

( So here be surveys. . . )

Feel free to. . .

• Post anonymous answers.
• Send your answers as personal messages if you would feel more comfortable doing so.
• Skip questions you are not comfortable with.
• Re-post these surveys were ever you please.
• Send any of these surveys in orbit in meme-form.
• Comment on my somewhat alternative take on the English language. English is not my first language and I am happy to learn:)

Are you hesitating to answer these surveys? 

About the paper: It is mainly going to focus on the literary aspects of the fan fiction phenomenon. Especially the idea of fan fiction as an open sources kind of literature (not legally so unfortunately of cause) Where the reading is colored by the readers knowledge that she has the same "right" as the author to claim the pen for herself and thereby take the fiction in other directions than what the present text is attempting. Thereby making the roles as reader and writer considerable closer and more equal than what you see in the more official literature. Read More. . .

The library: Lists of links and titles - Fan fiction, Essays, Fan art etc. - Basically a collection of all kind of fannish things I have found useful and interesting. I made it for my own benefit, because I find it easier to navigate than my original collection of browser-bookmarks – but I do have the vain hope that someone else out there might find them interesting too . . 
 

This video is so awesome that I had to recommend it even though it Doesn’t have any connection to the supernatural fandom.
I like the way the song and the footage work together and how the song in this context becomes - like the national anthem of all of fandom.

 The Video Us by Lim - The song Is Us by Regina spektor and the footage is from numerous fannish sources.  Here is Regina Spektors own video for the song - it is really impressive too

And then there is this old film - that inspired the music video above. . .

Super Women: Supernatural's Executive Story Editor Sera Gamble December 1, 2006
By Mary Borsellino

 WinchesterBros.com Exclusive - Q&A with Supernatural Writer, Sera Gamble Wednesday, 23 May 2007

Supernatural Exec: "We Won't Be One Tree Hill with Monsters!" Jul 21, 2007 06:33 PM ET
By Michael Ausiello

Supernatural Series Creator Eric Kripke Discusses the Third Season October 01, 2007
By M R Reed  

Exclusive Interview: 'Supernatural' Executive Producer Robert Singer From Buddy TV. - Thursday, October 04, 2007

TV.com Q&A: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke  01/10/08 2:54 PM
By Tim Surette

Interview: Sera Gamble, Producer and Writer for "Supernatural" Published 03/1/2008
By CP Cochran

Supernatural Creator Eric Kripke Answers Fan Questions – Part I April 23rd, 2008 ·
Posted by: Anna Beck
 
Supernatural at Comic Con: Jared Padalecki July 30th, 2008
By Cynthia

Sam & Ruby, Dean & Castiel & 7-Foot Teddy Bears: What's In Store on 'Supernatural'  November 06, 2008
By Korbi Ghosh

A Very Special Message From SUPERNATURAL Showrunner Eric Kripke: (The official “Dean is not a dick” statement)

Video - interviews:

Comic-Con: Eric Kripke Answers Fan Questions!

Questions about the Characters. . . 

Questions about the Lore. . .

Questions about The Powers That Be. . . 

Questions about the Ethics/ideology of the show. . .

 

1:How would you characterize the supernatural  fandom in just 7 words?

2: How would you describe Supernatural fandom this time with all the words of the world to your disposal? 
 
3:In case you have been involved in other fandoms - were they different/similar to Supernatural?

4:Has the supernatural fandom got fractions. and if so, do you consider yourself to be member of any of them?
  
5:How big would you say your fan based social circle is?

6: How big would you think the Supernatural fandom is ( It does not have to be a number it can also be for example suggesting that it is say larger than the smalville-fandom but smaller than the Harry Potter-fandom).

7: How big a part does the "culture" and mentality in the Fandom play when you choose to become involved , more or less than your devotion to the show?

8: Does Supernatural fangirls really go to special hell?;) And if so do they do so with more frequency than fangirls from other fandoms?

This time around I am not going to ask you what your favorite work of fan fiction is, nor am I going to ask you to make a top 10 of fic. or to make a canon of fic. I will probably be asking you to do all those things in other posts. but this time around we are going about it a bit differently because lists of the above mentioned kind stand in risk of  becoming more about how to define literary quality in a broader sense, or about defining fanfiction as a whole. and thereby less about subjective preferences and  the reading pleasure each individual reader might have had.

In short The point of the Meme-style list below is to approach fic. from a more subjective angle.
I hope some of you will participate 

1.    Fic. that changed my view on the canon work.

2.    Fic. that changed my view on the fan fiction genre.

3.    Fic. that changed my view on the world. (it does´nt have to be something big)

4.    Fic. I have re-read the most times.

5.    Fic. I was surprised to discover I liked. 

6.    Fic. I have revisited most in my mind.

7.    Fic. I would like to see transformed into canon.

8.    Fic. that I liked, but I would´nt like to see transformed into canon.

9.    Fic. that made me happy when I was sad.

10. Fic. that made me sad when I was happy.

11. Fic. that I feel ought to be out there but have not found yet.

Articles And Essays:

• The fangirl's crush By Lisa Gray
  

• Life After Potter, Bonanza and gunsmoke- TIME 
   
   
• The Widening Web of Digital Lit The New York Times.
  

• Whatever happened to Mary Sue By Eshva

Fan Discussions:

• Race fail 09

Interviews:

• Karma Time Twop - The Greg Garcia Inteview

Other things of interest:

• First time at a con? From Easter-Con in England

Bibliography

 

Texts of the paper kind that I have found useful for this project – Some of them – like Todorov and Kerouac - has more to do with Supernatural than with the fandom phenomenon.

Henry Jenkins Textual Poachers is a good place to start if you are new to fandom.

Brooks Peter: Reading for the plot

Cambell Joseph: The hero with a thousand faces

Eco Umberto: The role of the reader

Eco Umberto: The Structure of bad taste

Freud Sigmund: Beyond the pleasure principle

Gaiman Neil:American Gods

Genette Gérard: Palimpsest

Hjorthol Geir: Populær litteratur (Norwegian)

Hodge Robert: Literature as Discourse

Jenkins Henry: Fans, Blogger and Gamers.

Jenkins Henry: Textual Poachers

Kerouac Jack: On the road

Lessig Lawrence: Free Culture

Lévi Strauss Claude: The savage mind

Sue Eugene: The Mysteries of Paris

Todorov Tzvetan:The fantastick: A structural approach to a literary genre.

 
 

Poll #1356109 Fan fiction poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 2

What "genres" of fan fiction do you read on a regular basis?

Did I forget a genre dear to you in the list above? - Please let me know in the box below ?

What genres of fan fiction would you never read?

Did I forget a genre you especially dislike?

What is your absolute favorite fan fiction genre?

Again if the genre isn`t there - Please let me know in the text box below

Has your fan fiction preferences changed over time?

Why do you read fan fiction? (pick as many options as you please)

Why do you read fan fiction? (This time only pick 2)

Why do you read fan fiction? (Now only pick 1 option)

Have you read works of fan fiction that you liked better than the canon?

If so would you mind telling me the titles?;)

Sometimes the fannish passion does not last. . .

• Maybe the things that made you Squee! in the first season comes further and further apart in the second season. . ?
• Maybe the show turned out not to be what you had expected. . ?
• Maybe the flaws that you could forgive in the beginning ( and secretly thought you could change) started to bother you more and more. . ?
• Maybe you and the show just grow apart and when you one day tuned in on Reaper you realized “this is the supernatural show for me:)”. . ?

Are you an Ex-Supernatural fan? Or do you feel you might be heading there? – Go here. . . 

Where you never really a fan of the show, though you tried? – Go here. . .