Back in the 1990s into about 2000-2001, I wrote a lot of reference-loaded, deliberately absurd media parodies on alt.religion.kibology. I didn't think of myself as a fanfic writer at the time and in fact found fanfic culture peculiar.
But I've since come to realize that, in aims and in aesthetics, there's no sharp divide between what I was doing then and fanfic--in fact, one piece I wrote in the mid-Nineties got linked from a Space: 1999 fanfic page. The critical impulse and the urge for gap-filling and weird crossovers are the same, even if I was feigning less affection for the source material.
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But I've since come to realize that, in aims and in aesthetics, there's no sharp divide between what I was doing then and fanfic--in fact, one piece I wrote in the mid-Nineties got linked from a Space: 1999 fanfic page. The critical impulse and the urge for gap-filling and weird crossovers are the same, even if I was feigning less affection for the source material.