Fan fiction is having a moment.

The fans are shipping Buccanetti and Draco and Hermione,

and the other man and the other man.

They're getting Shane Holland are pregnant.

When I learned that about the fan fiction,

I was like, whatever floats your boat.

As soon as I began to read fan fiction,

I realized how much it is in the ether

of so much of pop culture and the book industry and film and television.

And I think that we've seen fan fiction really reach, I don't want to say it's reached the zenith

because who knows, it could keep going higher.

But there is a kind of

mass understanding of an interest in fan fiction that I don't think was there before. And I think

that because of that, people just want to talk about it more and more.

Fanfiction breaks containment.

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Aliens, tractor beams. Wow. Rachel Kersey is freelance reporter covers books, writes about

fan fiction. What is fan fiction? This is such a fun question because there are a couple of

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