Brittany Luce

But I was really interested, Eli, in your material analysis on why fanfic has risen.

How are economic forces pushing fanfic to the fore?

Yeah, the comment sections, like people provide feedback or in the notes, they'll thank someone else for editing what they wrote.

The writing community aspect of it is so much bigger than I think I initially understood.

Indeed.

And apparently literary agents have said they've been doing the same thing I've done, like lurk on AO3 and see what's hot.

But they're looking for clients, like wild stuff.

Yeah.

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I want to talk about like the ways we see fan fiction permeate through the culture or show up in unexpected ways.

Where have you seen that come through?

I know that there's like a metadata tagging system online.

on ao3 at least which allows like for writers and this is me describing it as like somebody who's really not native to this um they use different hashtags to index their work so you can like maybe tag a specific kind of relationship or certain dynamic but now tropes have become this huge thing in marketing all kinds of media like can you say what you mean like for people who might be thinking of tropes in like a literary or film sense what are some examples of fan fiction tropes that people might not realize sort of originated from that space