I mean, sure, but that's the thing ... I think non-fandom people would respond similarly to the doodling and the headcanon conversations, even without our terminology. And Sherlock Holmes spin-offs or retellings wouldn't register as "weird" or as fanfic in most cases, any more than selling a posed drawing of a superhero might.
It's that middle ground ... stories written for free exploring potential queer desire or alternate endings. Art of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy making out (or pff, Garak and Bashir) or Marvel's Thor and Loki on a Napoleonic sailing ship, on the other hand? That's the weird stuff.
(I will say that I don't think the term "fanart" is really out there so much as its own category. People might know what "fanfic" is and know it = weird, but there's just, well, art. Art that is weird, and art that isn't.)
I don't know, it's certainly interesting. Especially since the social acceptability/awareness of fanfiction and fandoms and shipping and the whole nine yards has just increased exponentially since I first started doing this crap back in the late 90s.
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It's that middle ground ... stories written for free exploring potential queer desire or alternate endings. Art of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy making out (or pff, Garak and Bashir) or Marvel's Thor and Loki on a Napoleonic sailing ship, on the other hand? That's the weird stuff.
(I will say that I don't think the term "fanart" is really out there so much as its own category. People might know what "fanfic" is and know it = weird, but there's just, well, art. Art that is weird, and art that isn't.)
I don't know, it's certainly interesting. Especially since the social acceptability/awareness of fanfiction and fandoms and shipping and the whole nine yards has just increased exponentially since I first started doing this crap back in the late 90s.