We're taking a quick break from our year of companions to provide you with a discussion (and explanation of) fanworks. Join Deb, Erika, Katrina, Liz, and guests Anna Livingston (of A Teaspoon And An Open Mind), and Janita Burgess (of the Organization for Transformative Works), as we discuss what fanworks are, what they mean, how they've evolved, where to find them, and much more!

Have you created some fanworks and want to share? Please do so in the comments! Have some favorites you'd like to point us to, be sure to let us know! And we welcome your thoughts on fanworks in general.

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Related links [on our site]:

• Anna
  • A Teaspoon And An Open Mind
  • Calufrax, Teaspoon's recommendations community, is on LiveJournal and Tumblr
  • Anna's recs:
    • A Partial Map of Your TARDIS (Subject to Change), by Levendis
    • Notes on the Domestication of Birds, by Nostalgia. (This story includes a Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler relationship, and is rated for teen audiences.)
    • All of my fanfic recommendations on Calufrax (many characters, eras, and ratings)
    • Steven Moffat wrote Delgado!Master/Missy fanfic in a recent issue of DWM, and it's hilarious. (Suitable for all ages, too.)
• Janita
  • International Fanworks Day
  • The Organization for Transformative Works
    • Explanatory video
    • OTW on Tumblr for Fandom First Friday and random fannish goodness
    • OTW projects:
      • Archive of Our Own (AO3), a fanworks archive
      • Fanhackers, a place for non-academic meta discussion of fandom. Very good for quotations about fandom
      • Fanlore, a wiki about all things fandom, written by everyone
      • Transformative Works and Cultures, an academic journal on fandom
      • And more
  • Janita's recs:
    • Blood of Angels by LoneGunGuy (X-Files) (part 2, part 3, part 4)
    • Hide of a Life War by Etharei (Teen Wolf)
    • Dice by levitatethis (Heroes)
    • Unsingable Name by cerebel (Heroes)
    • Like Bad Wallpaper by flawedamythyst (Sherlock)
    • The Republic of Heaven by Blind_Author (Sherlock and His Dark Materials)
    • Beacon Hills Mystery series by miss_aphelion (Teen Wolf)
  • Janita can't share her dissertation, but she can share some of the survey data
• Kat's recs:
  • Walking Dead 100,000 word fic
  • Bookmarks by Xanister
  • Kat's own work!
• Liz
  • ahem
• Deb's crackvid recs:
  • Doctor Who
    • Handlebars
    • Tenth Doctor: The Musical
  • Torchwood
    • Papa Don't Preach
  • Wholock
    • Sherlock meets the Doctor!
  • Sherlock
    • Last Friday Night
    • You Belong With Me
• Erika's recs:
  • The Ten Doctors comic, by Rich
  • "Alive Day" Torchwood fanvid, by Sunspot
  • Doctor Noise TROCK ("Captain Jack Harkness", "The Doctor & the Master", "Gallifrey")

Bonus links [also on our site]:

Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love ThemUna McCormack's Lord of the Rings fanficadult-fanfiction.org (Note the ADULT part there.)FanFiction.netVerity! on Tumblr (Submit stuff so we may share it!)