#35 We Ship It! Fanfiction and Romance Novels

<p>Are you, like Jackie, completely baffled and intimidated by the world of A03, Wattpad, and all other things fanfiction? Don't worry! Jen's taking down the twisty turn-y path that leads us to all thing fandom, canon, and full of ships...not the three-masted schooner kind, though.</p><p>Questions/comments/concerns/suggestions? Email us at <a href="mailto:ragingromantics@nopl.org">ragingromantics@nopl.org</a>!</p><p></p><p><u>Terms:</u></p><ul><li>fanfiction - fictional writing written in an amateur capacity by fans, unauthorized by, but based on an existing work of fiction</li><li>Fandom - the fans of a particular person, team, fictional series, etc. regarded collectively as a community or subculture.</li><li>'Ships -Shipping (derived from the word relationship) is the desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters (in film, literature, television series, etc.) to be in a romantic and/or sexual relationship.</li><li>Superwholock - ship that involves Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock crossover</li><li>Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) - Amazon's direction publication service</li><li><a href="https://archiveofourown.org/">A03 - Archive of Our Own</a> - a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users</li><li><a href="https://www.wattpad.com/">Wattpad </a>- an online social reading platform intended for users to read and write original stories. </li><li>OTP - One True Pair</li><li>NSFW/SFW - Not Safe For Work / Safe For Work based on content</li><li>Canon - the source material; in fiction-based fandoms, "canon" is simply the source narrative you're referring to when you talk about that thing you like</li><li>Spiritualism - a system of belief or religious practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, especially through mediums.</li><li>Fanart -artwork created by fans of a work of fiction and derived from a series character or other aspect of that work</li><li>Genderbent -When a character's gen