Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Gene Roddenberry in 1975, from Joan Winston’s 1977 book The Making of the Trek Conventions.

When Emma Kidwell started working on new content for Marvel’s Midnight Suns, she turned to her fanfic roots. She isn’t the only one following the rules of fan-written stories to develop fresh ideas.

When Fifty Shades Darker debuts in February, audiences will again enter the world of an innocent young woman and the charismatic, sexually dominant billionaire who has stolen her heart. Few may ...

Today, fan fiction exists in legal spirtual grey areas. But was it always like this? Let's look at a very brief history of ...

It’s been a month since Netflix’s K-Pop Demon Hunters took the internet by storm, thrusting us into a world of, well, demon-hunting K-Pop music. The fever is not subsiding; at the time of writing, the ...

Fan fiction has never been hotter, and celebrities know that. Your favorite stars sound off on how they really feel about ...

Have you ever puked and had diarrhea at the same time? I have, and when it happened, I was listening to a fan-made audiobook version of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HPMOR), a fan ...

Until recently, depression and anxiety extinguished any motivation in me to write creatively. Other than some poems written sporadically, every time I made an attempt to write I was filled with dread ...

Party games are one of the go-to gaming options when it comes to groups of friends looking to play together — especially during the last year of the COVID-19 pandemic. From titles like Super Mario ...

But after episode three, named "Hunter", fans started piecing together a wild theory: that one of the show’s couples — Scott Hunter (François Arnaud) and Kip Grady (Robbie G. K.)— originally started ...