Ashley Reese

I was a preteen when I stumbled upon fanfiction.net.

Like, they were talking early 2000s here.

You know, that whole contraption where, like, the family desktop is, like, in that room and, you know, and I'm, like, looking over my shoulder.

But it was kind of convenient that my parents are both older, so they had no idea what I was doing or reading.

So Eli, you are a fandom hopper.

Hi, thanks for having me.

Yeah.

I had to block Omegaverse.

I had to block the phrase.

Obviously, as we're seeing, fanfic is now becoming quite profitable.

I mean, we've always called it filing off the serial numbers when you turn a fanfic into another piece of writing that doesn't belong to an IP already.

For example, what happened with Alchemized, that was Draco Hermione fanfiction called Manacled.

I know that Love Hypothesis was a Reylo fanfiction, which is... Which is like a Star Wars, Kylo Ren.

Yeah, exactly.

We've slowly seen the success of filing off the serial numbers.

While it's becoming profitable and more mainstreamed, there's still something about it where I don't feel comfortable talking about it with, as I call it, civilians.

Back in the day, fanfiction...

felt a little more coistered a little more secretive over time of course now there's only like what three apps that we use on a regular basis forums aren't really a thing anymore and now we have the new generation of fandom girlies putting their whole government names and faces attached to videos about fandom activity and stuff like that that used to be a little bit more oh like

we do this, but we don't really talk about it for like the whole world.

It's not even like a shame thing as much as like, there's too much to explain here.