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The History of Fandom, 1700-1900 (Live)

You're Dead to Me

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Fan Fiction

Fan fiction is a thing where fans don't want a story to end. They take it upon themselves to write alternative endings, extra episodes. You're being part of a community. So the i de o yeur belonging to something corin. There's this debate raging at the moment in mediaeval studies about whether chaucer was essentially writing virgil and ovid fan fiction. But my favourite was a guy called john lydgate, who re wrote the curtibury tales with himself as a character,. hoping that no one had read the originalwas i'm the star of the canterbury tales.

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