"Fan fiction is democracy in its purest, most chaotic form. It's the people seizing the means of production. Every what if? is a tiny revolution. What if the side character got a backstory? What if the finale didn't end in heartbreak? What if Harry Styles and Zayn Malik kissed just once, for morale? Of course, many would argue that fan fiction isn't real literature."
"It borrows worlds and characters that someone else created. It's often unedited, published online for free and written by people with no verified experience. To the purists, it lacks originality, polish and commercial value, the hallmarks of what they believe serious writing should be. But this is to misunderstand the purpose of fan fiction. Fan fiction starts with the itch of dissatisfaction, it is the art of emotional correction."
Fan fiction emerges from readers' dissatisfaction with canonical outcomes and operates as a form of emotional correction that rewrites endings and backstories to provide closure. It reclaims characters, imagines alternate relationships and resolves unmet emotional needs outside commercial publishing. Fan fiction often appears unedited and free, created by non-professionals, which critics see as lacking originality and polish. Fan writers view their work as repair, rebellion against gatekeeping and prestige, and a democratic seizure of creative production. Fan communities fuel cultural resurgences and occasionally produce commercially successful works that originate in fandom.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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