Fanlore's Journal

I feel very strongly in favor of using "fanfiction" as a single word. I feel that this raises the question of who defines our identity; either fandom defines its identity for itself, or fandom allows external "authorities" to define it for us. I was under the impression that Fanlore and OTW were spaces where fandom defines itself, and that includes recording and defining (and spelling) our own terms.

Fandom tends to use "fanfic" as one word. Let's let fandom define itself and go with that.