I think the only place I ever see that is fanficrants, which somewhat skews to fanfiction.net folks but not exclusively.
My personal opinion is that the fan fiction as aca signifier is in the mind of the reader, because there's over 5 million Google hits on fan fiction against over 9 million for fanfiction. Sure 9 is bigger than 5, but 5 million would be a lot of academics.
Ditto for the theory that it means outsider. One person's outsider is another person's fandom friend of 15 years.
The cool thing about Fanlore is that you can use either term and get to the same page when you click it.
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I think the only place I ever see that is fanficrants, which somewhat skews to fanfiction.net folks but not exclusively.
My personal opinion is that the fan fiction as aca signifier is in the mind of the reader, because there's over 5 million Google hits on fan fiction against over 9 million for fanfiction. Sure 9 is bigger than 5, but 5 million would be a lot of academics.
Ditto for the theory that it means outsider. One person's outsider is another person's fandom friend of 15 years.
The cool thing about Fanlore is that you can use either term and get to the same page when you click it.