{"id":96226,"date":"2025-06-24T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=96226"},"modified":"2025-06-23T18:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:37:50","slug":"fandom-has-always-been-unhinged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/06\/24\/fandom-has-always-been-unhinged\/","title":{"rendered":"Fandom Has Always Been UNHINGED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QgqlQNW7cZ0?si=fYhG3Y1VdieViIHO\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Jill Bearup<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 23 Jun 2025<\/p>\n<p>Listen, nobody asked for a history of fanfiction but here we are regardless. From Helen of Troy fix-it fic to Holmes fans unsubscribing <em>en masse<\/em> when the detective was killed in <em>The Final Problem<\/em>, fandom has always been this chaotic, and fanfiction has always been with us. In one form or another.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Did you ask for this? Nah.<br \/>\n01:20 Ancient authors ripping off other ancient authors<br \/>\n03:06 Virgil was a Homer fanboy<br \/>\n04:10 Dante was a Virgil fanboy<br \/>\n05:18 Don Quixote and the Case of the Unauthorised Sequel<br \/>\n08:01 The Statute of Anne<br \/>\n12:35 <em>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/em> NSFW fanart<br \/>\n14:40 Geniuses and Originality<br \/>\n16:51 The Berne Convention<br \/>\n17:20 Character Vibes are not Copyrightable<br \/>\n20:46 The First Modern Fandoms (were Genuinely Unhinged)<\/p>\n<p>Link to <em>Der Spiegel<\/em> article on copyright and innovation: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbEFxbXhkRExQclJUQk5naDV0NzQzZDI1SlFOd3xBQ3Jtc0tuRGNERGRWNWVPNHFybDBFQTFmb3J6bG5RcUZmYUtsYVpIdXNrbnBBUzg1bE0tMURMY0ZuVEg3b0dkU29HSVo4eTVMX0VhcXhBbk8zbk1zSVU0V283QzRHY3E3cXh1Q2Zjb0Z5czBNd1FjcXlwejBoRQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Finternational%2Fzeitgeist%2Fno-copyright-law-the-real-reason-for-germany-s-industrial-expansion-a-710976.html&#038;v=QgqlQNW7cZ0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Bearup Published 23 Jun 2025 Listen, nobody asked for a history of fanfiction but here we are regardless. From Helen of Troy fix-it fic to Holmes fans unsubscribing en masse when the detective was killed in The Final Problem, fandom has always been this chaotic, and fanfiction has always been with us. In one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7,9,28],"tags":[135,1384,241,294,166,381,134],"class_list":["post-96226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-law","category-media","tag-copyright","tag-fanfiction","tag-intellectualproperty","tag-literature","tag-sherlockholmes","tag-theatre","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-p22","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96227,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96226\/revisions\/96227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}